Listen to a reading of this article: Facts: There are Chinese people with real grievances against their government. The US empire's propaganda machine will spin current protests in China to advance imperial agendas. Western intelligence agencies will become more and more involved in these protests the longer they go on.
I would comment more often Caitlin however it would be the same response. How on earth do you keep organising my current thoughts and manage to write them in such an eloquent fashion?
"Find me a capitalist business plan for keeping someone free of illness." As so incisively discussed by Dr. Kheriaty in "The New Abnormal", technocratic Capitalist health care -- as distinguished from the Hippocratic variety is actually quite invested in declaring us ill unless we can prove otherwise; as illustrated of course by vaccine mandates. A genuine Hippocratic physician understands and appreciates that, in the great majority of cases, the human body is equipped by Nature with the integrated computational complexity necessary to self-sustain wellness, such that one cooperates with that potency and above all does no harm. But to the encroaching technocratic trans-humanist, the business plan is very much to assume illness and download "health", such as in the form of mRNA or other nucleic acid modules. And Capitalists like Bill Gates have shown the way to its profitability.
Thoughtful. I have not fleshed this out, so let me brainstorm. I think the solutions to most problems can be met more effectively with systems that reward activities that build community wealth, including those that broaden family wealth and also individual wealth. A commitment and enforcement process towards moral development and true meritocracy would allow quality to flourish, enabling the people who are best at things to build more. Government communitarian models like socialism tend to be just as corrupt as capitalism. I think that taking the profit motive out of essential services is a no brainer. But what you are really getting at is the need for a moral structure be built that makes it almost impossible for sociopaths to wreak havoc. The real issue with the West is that its moral development was stillborn by the development of mechanized industry. What most people on the left and right, so to speak, are clamoring for, is a moral civilization. The mechanisms envisioned are vastly different, but the core need is recognized by both, when you cancel out the sociopath factors on both sides of the equation.
Yeah, China should quit that. Why do countries keep accommodating US imperialism by insisting on burying US resources under their soil? Just asking for the rather unpleasant phenomenon the US refers to as "democratization".
So now it's now the Philippines, eh? After 30 years, the US wants another base to frighten the locals, spread some venereal diseases, dish out some dollars for the easy ladies, lots of financial handouts for the politicians and make yet another S E Asian country a target for someone in the future. Quite a ways from the West Coast of the USA so the American people won't be fussed one bit about a base in the Philippines. The Philippines? Where the hell are they?
The American people are safe. Oh for another Cuban Missile Crisis just to equal it out a little. No JFK around these days though, (the CIA gangsters got rid of that decent impediment to their long range plans) so it would likely end badly in 2022 with the feeble Biden in the Neocon hotseat, with orders coming daily from Tel Aviv via Blinken, Nuland and their Washington stooges in both houses of government.
"We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." Ariel Sharon, in October 3, 2001. Yes, that long ago but better put as far back as 1967 at the time of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. US sailors killed by Israelis in unmarked aircraft, all forgiven and pardoned by the Israeli-captive US President Johnson who, at the time of the cowardly attack, called back US fighter aircraft from protecting a US vessel. Old enough to remember that disgrace?
Israel has never looked back since that date.
Add the Philippines to the peaceful little Australian continent, just blessed with a B-52 Nuclear Armed bomber base in Northern Australia, approved by a new left wing government (the last chance so the people thought for giving the USA and its warmongering the cold shoulder)....but no. More of the same grovelling, bag-carrying, puppet behaviour, compliant foreign policy decisions, as we have see there since WWII.
Just another US controlled base as a target for someone in the future. Who really gives a damn in Washington as is also the case with the other 800 plus bases in strategic locations, all over the globe.
A long way from mainland America. Now that's the objective, fellow readers.
"Capitalism elevates sociopaths, because profit-seeking competition-based systems reward those who are willing to do whatever it takes to get ahead. That's why we are ruled by sociopaths, and it's why looking to "philanthropy" as a solution to our problems is a ridiculous joke."
This explains our screwed-up world in two easily understood sentences. I wish I could get more people to listen to this sentiment, but they keep making excuses that somehow the sociopaths will figure things out and help us all out...eventually. That eventuality is never coming unless we get rid of capitalism and sociopaths, folks!
One point: you say people can't imagine how far reality is from what they're propagandized to believe, BECAUSE it's so far. But it's also true that modern people's imaginative faculties have atrophied from lack of use, because they don't read or listen to oral fiction--they watch screens where the fantasies of other people are projected with full detail. This inability to imagine is a key part of our problems because people can't imagine a better future, which would have to be radically different from the present. They can imagine a dystopia, because that has been presented in so many movies. But a better, post-capitalist, cooperative, ecologically responsible, egalitarian future? Not so much.
The late Glen Ford was a committed journalist who saw the emancipation of the indentured American as the key to ending systemic racism. He reasoned that black Americans were/are the mercury in the thermometer, and the conduct of the American State beyond its borders is the tip of the spear. Racism will only be addressed when the American Empire ceases to be. This relates directly to the current topic, the mounds of propaganda imploring all to hate Putin and fear Xi.
I recently read two journalist works on China. One is reportage on China’s policies and domestic problems:
And the other is a Patrick Lawrence commentary remembering Zhou Enlai, and his 5 principles of of non-aligned statehood. It explains western propaganda without frontally addressing it:
Cait, if it were not for "capitalism", you would not have the means or the luxury of railing against on this newsletter. I presume you know this. And you vaguely refer to equality, but I presume you don't mean you would like to see all be equally destitute? I still don't see your plan for an alternative.
My Dear Caitlin; Find me a capitalist business plan for leaving a forest untouched. Find me a capitalist business plan for keeping someone free of illness, for ensuring that someone with nothing gets what they need, for giving resources to a struggling parent. You can't. Capitalism can't do this. These are the most important things in the world, and no possible iteration of capitalism has any solutions for any of them whatsoever, apart from "Well hopefully rich people will feel very charitable and fix those problems." And how is that solution working out? It's a joke.
yes, what you call Capitalism can do all of those things and more, much, much more (The better names for that economic system is Free Market, Free Enterprise which I shall use furthermore).
The Free Market has given all of us the entire span of prosperity we enjoy today. In thirty years the Free Market has lifted ONE BILLION humans from poverty. That window of Free Enterprise is now closing due to the increasing tide of protectionism and overregulation.
Please show me the many Socialist/Communist successes throughout history. You show me yours, I’ll show you mine.
——————————Ross Faris
Ps. I have deep admiration for the spirit of holding government (mine and yours and all through the world)which you possess your fire, fury, and great intelligence and courage.
I agree with all your criticisms of Empire, but I don't understand why you continually equate corruption and cronyism with capitalism. There ARE capitalist solutions (from Murray Rothbard and others) for environmental protection, public welfare, etc.
The fact is that command-and-control solutions (e.g., environmental protection, poverty reduction) have done the exact OPPOSITE of what they ostensibly intended. It is a rhetorical fallacy to say that capitalism has failed when it worked very well until it was subverted by authoritarianism.
I would comment more often Caitlin however it would be the same response. How on earth do you keep organising my current thoughts and manage to write them in such an eloquent fashion?
"Find me a capitalist business plan for keeping someone free of illness." As so incisively discussed by Dr. Kheriaty in "The New Abnormal", technocratic Capitalist health care -- as distinguished from the Hippocratic variety is actually quite invested in declaring us ill unless we can prove otherwise; as illustrated of course by vaccine mandates. A genuine Hippocratic physician understands and appreciates that, in the great majority of cases, the human body is equipped by Nature with the integrated computational complexity necessary to self-sustain wellness, such that one cooperates with that potency and above all does no harm. But to the encroaching technocratic trans-humanist, the business plan is very much to assume illness and download "health", such as in the form of mRNA or other nucleic acid modules. And Capitalists like Bill Gates have shown the way to its profitability.
Thoughtful. I have not fleshed this out, so let me brainstorm. I think the solutions to most problems can be met more effectively with systems that reward activities that build community wealth, including those that broaden family wealth and also individual wealth. A commitment and enforcement process towards moral development and true meritocracy would allow quality to flourish, enabling the people who are best at things to build more. Government communitarian models like socialism tend to be just as corrupt as capitalism. I think that taking the profit motive out of essential services is a no brainer. But what you are really getting at is the need for a moral structure be built that makes it almost impossible for sociopaths to wreak havoc. The real issue with the West is that its moral development was stillborn by the development of mechanized industry. What most people on the left and right, so to speak, are clamoring for, is a moral civilization. The mechanisms envisioned are vastly different, but the core need is recognized by both, when you cancel out the sociopath factors on both sides of the equation.
Homo suicidian has one major task to complete, based on all objective evidence: Scarf up more Gold Bars on the Global Titanic, before it's too late!
I suspect that's why I feel like a different species, and pleased to hear from others who feel the same, especially those with brighter visions.
The best thing the U.S. government can do to help the protesters in China is to stay out of it.
lol Love the headline.
Yeah, China should quit that. Why do countries keep accommodating US imperialism by insisting on burying US resources under their soil? Just asking for the rather unpleasant phenomenon the US refers to as "democratization".
So now it's now the Philippines, eh? After 30 years, the US wants another base to frighten the locals, spread some venereal diseases, dish out some dollars for the easy ladies, lots of financial handouts for the politicians and make yet another S E Asian country a target for someone in the future. Quite a ways from the West Coast of the USA so the American people won't be fussed one bit about a base in the Philippines. The Philippines? Where the hell are they?
The American people are safe. Oh for another Cuban Missile Crisis just to equal it out a little. No JFK around these days though, (the CIA gangsters got rid of that decent impediment to their long range plans) so it would likely end badly in 2022 with the feeble Biden in the Neocon hotseat, with orders coming daily from Tel Aviv via Blinken, Nuland and their Washington stooges in both houses of government.
"We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." Ariel Sharon, in October 3, 2001. Yes, that long ago but better put as far back as 1967 at the time of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. US sailors killed by Israelis in unmarked aircraft, all forgiven and pardoned by the Israeli-captive US President Johnson who, at the time of the cowardly attack, called back US fighter aircraft from protecting a US vessel. Old enough to remember that disgrace?
Israel has never looked back since that date.
Add the Philippines to the peaceful little Australian continent, just blessed with a B-52 Nuclear Armed bomber base in Northern Australia, approved by a new left wing government (the last chance so the people thought for giving the USA and its warmongering the cold shoulder)....but no. More of the same grovelling, bag-carrying, puppet behaviour, compliant foreign policy decisions, as we have see there since WWII.
Just another US controlled base as a target for someone in the future. Who really gives a damn in Washington as is also the case with the other 800 plus bases in strategic locations, all over the globe.
A long way from mainland America. Now that's the objective, fellow readers.
"Capitalism elevates sociopaths, because profit-seeking competition-based systems reward those who are willing to do whatever it takes to get ahead. That's why we are ruled by sociopaths, and it's why looking to "philanthropy" as a solution to our problems is a ridiculous joke."
This explains our screwed-up world in two easily understood sentences. I wish I could get more people to listen to this sentiment, but they keep making excuses that somehow the sociopaths will figure things out and help us all out...eventually. That eventuality is never coming unless we get rid of capitalism and sociopaths, folks!
One point: you say people can't imagine how far reality is from what they're propagandized to believe, BECAUSE it's so far. But it's also true that modern people's imaginative faculties have atrophied from lack of use, because they don't read or listen to oral fiction--they watch screens where the fantasies of other people are projected with full detail. This inability to imagine is a key part of our problems because people can't imagine a better future, which would have to be radically different from the present. They can imagine a dystopia, because that has been presented in so many movies. But a better, post-capitalist, cooperative, ecologically responsible, egalitarian future? Not so much.
The late Glen Ford was a committed journalist who saw the emancipation of the indentured American as the key to ending systemic racism. He reasoned that black Americans were/are the mercury in the thermometer, and the conduct of the American State beyond its borders is the tip of the spear. Racism will only be addressed when the American Empire ceases to be. This relates directly to the current topic, the mounds of propaganda imploring all to hate Putin and fear Xi.
I recently read two journalist works on China. One is reportage on China’s policies and domestic problems:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/11/20/china-talks-marxism-but-still-walks-capitalism/
And the other is a Patrick Lawrence commentary remembering Zhou Enlai, and his 5 principles of of non-aligned statehood. It explains western propaganda without frontally addressing it:
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/11/28/patrick-lawrence-zhou-enlais-posthumous-triumph/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=d91d45f8-0d54-4fcd-af01-421f2d699e2a
Cait, if it were not for "capitalism", you would not have the means or the luxury of railing against on this newsletter. I presume you know this. And you vaguely refer to equality, but I presume you don't mean you would like to see all be equally destitute? I still don't see your plan for an alternative.
My Dear Caitlin; Find me a capitalist business plan for leaving a forest untouched. Find me a capitalist business plan for keeping someone free of illness, for ensuring that someone with nothing gets what they need, for giving resources to a struggling parent. You can't. Capitalism can't do this. These are the most important things in the world, and no possible iteration of capitalism has any solutions for any of them whatsoever, apart from "Well hopefully rich people will feel very charitable and fix those problems." And how is that solution working out? It's a joke.
yes, what you call Capitalism can do all of those things and more, much, much more (The better names for that economic system is Free Market, Free Enterprise which I shall use furthermore).
The Free Market has given all of us the entire span of prosperity we enjoy today. In thirty years the Free Market has lifted ONE BILLION humans from poverty. That window of Free Enterprise is now closing due to the increasing tide of protectionism and overregulation.
Please show me the many Socialist/Communist successes throughout history. You show me yours, I’ll show you mine.
——————————Ross Faris
Ps. I have deep admiration for the spirit of holding government (mine and yours and all through the world)which you possess your fire, fury, and great intelligence and courage.
I agree with all your criticisms of Empire, but I don't understand why you continually equate corruption and cronyism with capitalism. There ARE capitalist solutions (from Murray Rothbard and others) for environmental protection, public welfare, etc.
The fact is that command-and-control solutions (e.g., environmental protection, poverty reduction) have done the exact OPPOSITE of what they ostensibly intended. It is a rhetorical fallacy to say that capitalism has failed when it worked very well until it was subverted by authoritarianism.
Joe and Hunter Biden have made a fortune off of China and the misery of their people. They want Americans to be as miserable as anyone on earth.
Their "anti-China" talk is just the words of controlled opposition. They are allies with China at best, and pawns at worst.
Mike Tyson (in his prime) vs the drunken blowhard greedbag BSers. It’s not a fair fight but for their weaponry. Go Caitlin.