Source – commondreams.org Once Upon a Time the US Taxed the Rich A little history might just inspire us to try that taxing again. Sam Pizzigati Once upon a time, the United States seriously taxed the nation’s rich. You remember that time? Probably not. To have a personal memory of that tax-the-rich era, you now…
Source – kunstler.com A Light in the Darkness By James Howard Kunstler “Sooner or later, there will be push-back against the Dems attempt to turn the USA into some kind of obese transgender liberal Wakanda run by crooks, freaks and thugs.” —The Vineyard of The Saker The really stunning thing about Elon Musk’s campaign to…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com FTX & The Corruption Of America Authored by Charles Hugh Smith What all the entrenched insiders in America’s parasitic, predatory elites and institutions don’t dare admit is that to protect themselves from consequence, we’ve had to sacrifice everything else. (Also Read: Howls Of Outrage After New York Times Confirms SBF To Speak…
Source – off-guardian.org “JFK and the War on Our Heroes” By Kit Knightly Kit’s personal and political essay to mark the centenary of JFK’s birth. The assassination of JFK has been a deeply personal issue for me since I was very young, only eleven, but it spoke to me on a level I could appreciate…
Source – robertreich.org “… Five of the current justices were put there by presidents who lost the popular vote in their first election. Only 40 percent of the public now approves of the Supreme Court’s performance, a new low. Yet because justices are appointed for life, its members are immune to checks and balances, no matter how unpopular their rulings may…
Source – naomiwolf.substack.com America: Broken By Digital Hallucinogens On An Election-Count Night, A Once-Great Nation is Spun by the Same Digital Tricksters Who Brought Us “The Pandemic” Dr Naomi Wolf This is the eve after a broken election, as broken machines count broken vote tallies, and as broken media “calls” outcomes. Everyone in legacy media…
Source – takimag.com Rise of the Spiteful Mutants The Z Man photo credit: Bigstock Anthropologist Peter Frost and population geneticist Henry Harpending authored a paper in 2015 arguing that the promiscuous use of the death penalty had a eugenic effect on the English population. Specifically, by removing at least 2 percent of the population each…
Source – ronpaulinstitute.org Those searching for an explanation of why there was no “red wave” giving Republicans huge gains in Congress in this year’s midterm election should compare this year’s election with the midterm election of 2010. In 2010, Republicans gained a net 63 House seats. While Republicans then did not gain control of the…
Source – scheerpost.com The Good Priest Father Michael Doyle – by Mr. Fish By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost During the two years the cartoonist Joe Sacco and I spent on our book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, written out of the poorest pockets of America, we invariably encountered heroic men and women who…
Source – oftwominds.com I Used To Be Disgusted, Now I’m Disabused By Charles Hugh Smith It’s certainly possible to be disgusted, but being disabused of the fantasy that the system is self-correcting is the healthier perspective. (Also Read: Another Stolen Election @ https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/11/09/another-stolen-election/) I used to be disgusted, now I’m disabused: beneath all the self-serving…
Source – truthout.org Four States Voted to End Slavery — But Not Louisiana. Here’s Why. By Mike Ludwig Voters in Vermont, Tennessee, Oregon and Alabama amended their state constitutions to abolish slavery and indentured servitude this week — but a similar initiative failed in Louisiana, garnering embarrassing headlines for a former slave state that remains…
Source – oftwominds.com Regardless of Who’s Elected, Imperial Corruption Rules the Nation November 9, 2022 But in the meantime, enjoy the political theatrics down on the sand-strewn floor of the Coliseum. While the much-touted differences between America’s political parties get obsessive, hysterical attention, the sameness of Imperial corruption, waste and squalor regardless of who’s in…
Source – scheerpost.com The Politicians Who Destroyed Our Democracy Want Us to Vote for Them To Save It By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost The bipartisan project of dismantling our democracy, which took place over the last few decades on behalf of corporations and the rich, has left only the outward shell of democracy.…
Source – thesaker.is The Trojan Horse Presidency – By Dmitri Orlov The US midterm elections are nigh and, as I happen to be a good and patriotic Russian national, it behooves me to meddle in them. Election-meddling is an example of Russia’s soft power, which is much nicer than Russia’s hard power, so you should…
Source – jonathanturley.org Constitutional Defamation: Democrats, Not Democracy, Are In Danger This Election – By Jonathan Turley Below is a slightly expanded version of my Hill column on the widespread claims that democracy is in peril if the GOP prevails in the midterm elections. On the eve of the midterm elections, one would think that…
Source – scheerpost.com SM:…Left, Left, Left-Right-Left, Left, Left…I respect both these men (….Nadar & Mahar), but honestly – the Corporate take-down of America happened long, long, ago & we are now only voting for which shade of Fascist brown best highlights our cheekbones – light coffee brown or deep dark ‘oscuro”… The Makings of an…
Source – veteranstoday.com America’s Endgame: Crucible Of Choice – By Alan Ned Sabrosky Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold….The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. -William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” (1919) On the eve of the 2022 mid-term elections here, these words were penned by Yeats as…
Source – ronpaulinstitute.org Political ‘Justice’ In America By Ron Paul, MD Josef Stalin’s top henchman famously said, “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” What it meant was that Soviet justice was about politics, not the rule of law. First decide who, for political reasons, is to be punished, and then the…
Source – lewrockwell.com Deplorables vs. Despicables By Laurence M. Vance At an LGBT campaign fundraising event in New York City on September 9, 2016, Hillary Clinton infamously said: I know there are only 60 days left to make our case — and don’t get complacent, don’t see the latest outrageous, offensive, inappropriate comment and think…
Source – scheerpost.com SH:…The issue at hand here is clearly ‘Black & White’… Chris Hedges: They Crush Our Song for a Reason The powerful keep those they exploit from knowing who they are, where they came from and the crimes of the ruling class. As social inequality mounts, so does the campaign to keep us…
Source – amgreatness.com Hiding Hunter’s Laptop: “Right Out Of The Soviet Playbook” Authored by Jim Hanson This is the tale of the epic conspiracy and effort the political Left and their Trump-hating friends on the Right put into hiding Hunter’s laptop… (Also Read: “He Was Not Arrested”: CNN & MSNBC Ex-Bosses Struggle To Justify Burying…
Source – nationalpost.com SM…The greatest thing about Trump is, he can always be counted on to bring a bazooka to a knife fight…. Conrad Black: Trump-haters gonna hate It is one of the pleasures of writing these columns that friendly readers send me items that are often usable as material for future columns. Such as…
Source – kunstler.com We’re Coming For You By James Howard Kunstler Slip slidin’ away… Slip slidin’ away… You know the nearer your destination… The more you’re slip slidin’ away…. —Paul Simon Have you noticed, as the election looms, the Party of Chaos trips deeper into its own self-created chaos? Turns out that the effort to…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.com Everything’s Fixed… Except What’s Broken Authored by Charles Hugh Smith Everything’s fixed except what’s no longer profitable to plunder. Underfunded, ignored, mismanaged by incompetents, it breaks. Everything’s fixed–except what’s broken. Hmm. Maybe we need to read that again. Everything’s fixed means it’s been “fixed” like a game or match has been fixed–rigged to benefit…
Source – theburningplatform.com – “…When any government becomes almost indistinguishable from the evil it claims to be fighting—whether that evil takes the form of war, terrorism, torture, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, murder, violence, theft, pornography, scientific experimentations or some other diabolical means of inflicting pain, suffering and servitude on humanity—that government has lost its claim…
Source – scheerpost.com Chris Hedges: The Puppets and the Puppet Masters The judicial proceedings against Julian Assange give a faux legality to the state persecution of the most important and courageous journalist of our generation. This is the speech given by Chris Hedges outside the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. on Saturday October 8…
Source – lewrockwell.com Mercola Website Shutdown — Why You May Be Next Suppression and harassment of those who dissent against COVID tyranny has created an awakening. We simply can’t pick and choose approved speech. Many of you are aware the Mercola website disappeared early Friday morning, September 23, 2022. This outage wasn’t scheduled, but we…
Source – lewrockwell.com The End Of Western Civilization – By Doug Casey International Man: The decline of Western Civilization is on a lot of people’s minds. Let’s talk about this trend. Doug Casey: Western Civilization has its origins in ancient Greece. It’s unique among the world’s civilizations in putting the individual—as opposed to the collective—in a central…
Source – scheerpost.com Chris Hedges: The Return of Fascism By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost As in the 1930s, a bankrupt liberalism, grotesque social inequality and declining living standards are empowering fascist movements in Europe and the U.S. (Also Read: Czech Elections Show Steady Rise Of Right-Wing Parties & Populists As Economy Sours @…
Source – yesmagazine.org Can a Third Party Be the Charm for Polarized Politics? Outsider parties can have an effect on electoral outcomes aside from being labeled spoilers. But they almost never change the two-party dynamic. Photo Illustration by Michael Luong/Adobe Stock More than 230 years since the establishment of these somewhat-United States, our system of political…
Source – edwardsnowden.substack.com – “…For 75 years, the American people have been unable to bend the CIA to fit the law, and so the law has been bent to fit the CIA. As Biden stood on the crimson stage, at the site where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were debated and adopted, his words…
Source – amgreatness.com The Numbers, Please By Theodore Roosevelt Malloch The numbers don’t add up. Of course, figures never lie, but liars do figure, as the old saw goes. Have you ever watched TV, streamed Netflix, paged through a magazine or viewed a commercial advertisement and thought something seemed out of whack? Why is everything…
Source – voltairenet.org The EU brought to its knees by the Straussians by Thierry Meyssan A US grouping, constituted around the thought of the philosopher Leo Strauss, controls from now on both the Secretariat of Defense and the Secretariat of State. After having organized many wars since those of Yugoslavia, they imagined the one in…
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