Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ April 2022: Zelensky speaks at the Grammy Awards May 2022: Zelensky speaks at Cannes Film Festival June 2022: Zelensky hosts SNL July 2022: Zelensky stars as himself in an action biopic co-starring The Rock August 2022: Zelensky releases his own breakfast cereal and clothing line
Next time someone asks you why you write about the US government instead of about your own government, you could think about this saying in Spanish we use when confronted with comparable questions: "When considering issues about the circus one best talk about its owners, not about the clowns or the animals."
As a former Ivy Leaguer, I can verify that your average Ivy League grad has an automatic umbilicus to the elite establishment, and only those who choose to tie it off and sever it end up with a quasi-realistic view of the empire and its machinations. And the blood poisoned within that cord only detoxifies through numerous subsequent years of stark realizations. Hence, those grads who go to work "for a prominent military industrial complex-funded think tank" are impervious, far-beyond-hopeless servants of empire.
"People ask why I write about the US government instead of my own government. It's because the US is my own government. I just skip the irrelevant middle man. “ Caitlin today
How right you are, Caitlin. And it’s just the beginning. Just as Ukraine is the proxy fighter for the USA in that battle in Europe, (not anywhere near mainland USA), so Australia will be a proxy fighter for the USA in the soon to be seen Asian war Zone with China. It’s in the book.
All the previous (thankfully) government actions showing China how tough we are, then with the Morrison / Payne big finger exercises almost a daily performance, were based on US directions of course. Such bravado was not based on population size as Australia’s population being 20.047,667 on the 11th May 2002 versus China at 1,449,614,558 on the same day, at a rough guess still not be enough to cause any concern to the well disciplined and armed Chinese as they attack all the US military bases on THIS island (not mainland USA you notice, yet again). How many military operations on this island? More than you think and lots more to come.
For the record, the Chinese own the port of Darwin. Makes easy access.
I am sure that our new Prime Minister, yet a day or two old, (already off on a trip to our other funny partnership group called QUAD, another US initiative) will take into consideration our skills using photos of the plans for our new submarines, nuclear-powered, due somewhere around 2032, before he agrees to a date for a battle plan knowing that the USA by this time is probably hiding somewhere in the Philippines or Thailand, but a long way from mainland USA and certainly out of the range of Chinese weapons. They only invade without reason those countries that can’t fight back as we all know, Vietnam, Iraq, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan, Syria, etc. By then every day they'll be safely communicating with their enthusiastic Australian acolytes and their CIA stooges and well paid mercenaries in the north end of Australia armed to the teeth with $40 billion in US armaments,which when added to the “gifts” from all the other NATO countries would make us an army to be reckoned with (equipped with a four-star US General, naturally).
Have we heard all this stuff before?
Targets for China….Pine Gap Spy Station, Sydney, Alice Springs and Darwin, perhaps Melbourne (but not during the AFL season, by arrangement)
Finally. It’s bound to be National Service call-up again, a source of AUSSIE speaking soldiers at little cost to our already depleted revenues since we were USA directed to give China the brush-off, but a great answer for our job situation for 18 year olds, once scheduled for a University course but now unable to pay their University fees or find a place to live because all the students in every University seem to be from China.
We should be in mourning - for democracy, because it's as dead as a doornail. But instead of a decent burial with "dignitaries" from the new regime, solemn music and a few tears, democracy will allowed to moulder above ground until it's just a dim memory and the subject of a docudrama series. Do ordinary (and is that now a pejorative?) Swedes and Finns really want the same fate as Ukraine? When you consider the plight of ordinary Americans, the $5trillion student loan debt like an albatross - or noose- around the necks of youth, the lack of medicare, jobs, the whole shebang, and the same goes for Europe in the very near future, well, what other conclusion is convincing? This isn't democracy, unless we've become a race of masochists.
Next time someone asks you why you write about the US government instead of about your own government, you could think about this saying in Spanish we use when confronted with comparable questions: "When considering issues about the circus one best talk about its owners, not about the clowns or the animals."
Foreign Ministry has sent to the Duma a list of Russia’s agreements with international organizations for their possible denunciation. Exit from the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) will be considered, said State Duma Deputy Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy. According to Mr. Tolstoy, it is necessary to review the treaties, “which bring not benefit but direct harm” to the country. He said: “Russia has withdrawn from the Council of Europe, and now it has a plan turn to withdraw from the WTO and the WHO, which have neglected all their obligations toward our country.”
I don’t think it’s all that funny. Your observations match my own often but bitching about it isn’t getting us anywhere. The message should be don’t re-elect any politician since sorting out who’s totally corrupt and who’s just self serving ignores that everything they say is bullshit. Many are obvious while others fly below the radar but only a fool could look back at the past 20 years and think the whole bunch hasn’t fucked thinks up royally. Throw them all out it couldn’t be any worse.
"But you only see this if you're intellectually honest enough to overcome your own cognitive biases. Otherwise you'll keep doing mental gymnastics to justify the bullshit coming from Bernie, AOC, TYT, Tucker Carlson, Trump, MAGA pundits, wherever your biases are located on the map."
I agree completely though lately have wondered if, the lack of apparent intellectual honesty isn't also tied to a failure of imagination. I see many people out there who can't seem to let go of the structure of government, so constantly look for an answer within it, rather than allow that it all needs to crumble. Too scary perhaps to consider that we need to go around existing structures - and create something new.
Frank Zappa said politics is the entertainment section of the military-industrial complex
October 2022: Zelensky dies of a drug overdose after a bender with Hunter Biden and Amber Heard.
Next time someone asks you why you write about the US government instead of about your own government, you could think about this saying in Spanish we use when confronted with comparable questions: "When considering issues about the circus one best talk about its owners, not about the clowns or the animals."
As a former Ivy Leaguer, I can verify that your average Ivy League grad has an automatic umbilicus to the elite establishment, and only those who choose to tie it off and sever it end up with a quasi-realistic view of the empire and its machinations. And the blood poisoned within that cord only detoxifies through numerous subsequent years of stark realizations. Hence, those grads who go to work "for a prominent military industrial complex-funded think tank" are impervious, far-beyond-hopeless servants of empire.
One of Québec's most beloved singer-songwriters used to sing this in the 70s:
You think I don't notice
That you are nothing but a deputy minister
Our real ministers are in the States
That's where they administer you
That's where they make the big guns
With iron from your country
But you're out hunting
Since you don't see me in those clubs
And we're not classmates
You think I don't notice
November 2024: Zelensky is elected the 47th president of the United States.
"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." Mark Twain
"People ask why I write about the US government instead of my own government. It's because the US is my own government. I just skip the irrelevant middle man. “ Caitlin today
How right you are, Caitlin. And it’s just the beginning. Just as Ukraine is the proxy fighter for the USA in that battle in Europe, (not anywhere near mainland USA), so Australia will be a proxy fighter for the USA in the soon to be seen Asian war Zone with China. It’s in the book.
All the previous (thankfully) government actions showing China how tough we are, then with the Morrison / Payne big finger exercises almost a daily performance, were based on US directions of course. Such bravado was not based on population size as Australia’s population being 20.047,667 on the 11th May 2002 versus China at 1,449,614,558 on the same day, at a rough guess still not be enough to cause any concern to the well disciplined and armed Chinese as they attack all the US military bases on THIS island (not mainland USA you notice, yet again). How many military operations on this island? More than you think and lots more to come.
For the record, the Chinese own the port of Darwin. Makes easy access.
I am sure that our new Prime Minister, yet a day or two old, (already off on a trip to our other funny partnership group called QUAD, another US initiative) will take into consideration our skills using photos of the plans for our new submarines, nuclear-powered, due somewhere around 2032, before he agrees to a date for a battle plan knowing that the USA by this time is probably hiding somewhere in the Philippines or Thailand, but a long way from mainland USA and certainly out of the range of Chinese weapons. They only invade without reason those countries that can’t fight back as we all know, Vietnam, Iraq, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan, Syria, etc. By then every day they'll be safely communicating with their enthusiastic Australian acolytes and their CIA stooges and well paid mercenaries in the north end of Australia armed to the teeth with $40 billion in US armaments,which when added to the “gifts” from all the other NATO countries would make us an army to be reckoned with (equipped with a four-star US General, naturally).
Have we heard all this stuff before?
Targets for China….Pine Gap Spy Station, Sydney, Alice Springs and Darwin, perhaps Melbourne (but not during the AFL season, by arrangement)
Finally. It’s bound to be National Service call-up again, a source of AUSSIE speaking soldiers at little cost to our already depleted revenues since we were USA directed to give China the brush-off, but a great answer for our job situation for 18 year olds, once scheduled for a University course but now unable to pay their University fees or find a place to live because all the students in every University seem to be from China.
What a charade!
We should be in mourning - for democracy, because it's as dead as a doornail. But instead of a decent burial with "dignitaries" from the new regime, solemn music and a few tears, democracy will allowed to moulder above ground until it's just a dim memory and the subject of a docudrama series. Do ordinary (and is that now a pejorative?) Swedes and Finns really want the same fate as Ukraine? When you consider the plight of ordinary Americans, the $5trillion student loan debt like an albatross - or noose- around the necks of youth, the lack of medicare, jobs, the whole shebang, and the same goes for Europe in the very near future, well, what other conclusion is convincing? This isn't democracy, unless we've become a race of masochists.
Next time someone asks you why you write about the US government instead of about your own government, you could think about this saying in Spanish we use when confronted with comparable questions: "When considering issues about the circus one best talk about its owners, not about the clowns or the animals."
Foreign Ministry has sent to the Duma a list of Russia’s agreements with international organizations for their possible denunciation. Exit from the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) will be considered, said State Duma Deputy Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy. According to Mr. Tolstoy, it is necessary to review the treaties, “which bring not benefit but direct harm” to the country. He said: “Russia has withdrawn from the Council of Europe, and now it has a plan turn to withdraw from the WTO and the WHO, which have neglected all their obligations toward our country.”
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/05/22/globalist-influence-on-russia-weakens-russian-parliament-considers-leaving-who-wto/
I don’t think it’s all that funny. Your observations match my own often but bitching about it isn’t getting us anywhere. The message should be don’t re-elect any politician since sorting out who’s totally corrupt and who’s just self serving ignores that everything they say is bullshit. Many are obvious while others fly below the radar but only a fool could look back at the past 20 years and think the whole bunch hasn’t fucked thinks up royally. Throw them all out it couldn’t be any worse.
Picture comedians all over the world thinking "how the fuck do we match that!"
John Pilger is wrong. Australia is not the 51st state. "States" are on some level nominal beneficiaries of the imperial project.
Australia is a vassal. Any benefits it gets are scraps from master's table.
"But you only see this if you're intellectually honest enough to overcome your own cognitive biases. Otherwise you'll keep doing mental gymnastics to justify the bullshit coming from Bernie, AOC, TYT, Tucker Carlson, Trump, MAGA pundits, wherever your biases are located on the map."
I agree completely though lately have wondered if, the lack of apparent intellectual honesty isn't also tied to a failure of imagination. I see many people out there who can't seem to let go of the structure of government, so constantly look for an answer within it, rather than allow that it all needs to crumble. Too scary perhaps to consider that we need to go around existing structures - and create something new.
Since its inception, the United States' own stupidity and hypocrisy have been racing toward the the nation's own destruction.