sábado, 9 de março de 2024

 I want to revive the memory of Mr. Romny and the CNN audience:

"It may be dangerous to be an enemy of America, but to be a friend of America is fatal." Henry Kissinger.

"America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests" Henry Kissinger.

All Europeans should know what NATO's first Secretary General, Lord Ismay, once said: "[NATO's purpose is] to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down."

https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/05/NATOPostColdWarPPT.pdf

When was the last time NATO was a force for good in the world?

The war needs to end because Ukrainians are dying in a proxy war between the US/UK/EU/NATO and Russia. They should not have allowed Victoria Nuland to dictate their fate if they wanted to maintain their sovereignty.

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Apparently, the comment I wrote two days ago didn't go down well.

Summarizing Sikorski's intervention, what remains is delusional arrogance, hatred, and vassalage to American imperialism.

Citizens who demand negotiations are labeled Putin's puppets, but people like Radosław Sikorski are heroes as if using belligerent language makes their narrative true. Interesting logic.

I have a question: When was the last time the US/NATO acted as a force for good in the world?

This is actual US foreign policy.

Overthrowing Other People's Governments: William Blum's Master List

https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

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This is the best description of genuine feminism. Women who understand how class-based society distorts narratives and hijacks movements to divide and atomize citizens in ways that make most of us politically toothless and intellectually delusional.

John Maynard Keynes predicted that by 2030, productivity gains from technological advances would allow his grandchildren to work just 15 hours a week. The essay is titled “Economic possibilities for our grandchildren.” http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf

Was Keynes wrong, as many claim, or were productivity gains channeled to the 1% instead of reaching the masses through reduced working hours and enough money to make a decent living?

If people have access to universal public services and social housing, a lot of money can be saved and we can all enjoy more free time to dedicate ourselves to the things that give meaning and purpose to our lives.

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sábado, 2 de março de 2024

A war that the European leadership intends to escalate, the popular will must put an end to it


Listen carefully to Ursula von der Leyen's 4:25-minute speech.

The invasion should not have occurred but was provoked; this is the crucial point many people do not understand or do not want to understand.

Sooner or later, Russia would have to take drastic measures because the neocons don't negotiate, period. The neoconservative modus operandi is always my way or the highway. The neocons devised a plan to destroy and divide Russia. They were so obsessed with it that they did not even consider the possibility of Russia and China becoming allies, which is precisely the reality Brzezinski warned the US should prevent rather than incite.

The European Parliament elections are approaching, and European citizenry should create a trans-European political movement capable of deconstructing the European Commission's intention to transform the European economy into a war economy based on the assumption that Germany and Europe must prepare for war with Russia.

The current European leadership is not capable of admitting defeat; therefore, it must continue to impose and reconcile contradictory narratives, on the one hand, a victorious Ukraine and, on the other hand, Putin's intention to rebuild the Soviet empire, which explains why Russia is a threat to the security of Europe as a whole.

Suppose Europeans believe that Europe should continue to escalate the war instead of negotiating with Russia, imagining having Putin's head served on a silver platter as a prize. In that case, they better get ready for a nuclear holocaust.

European citizens still living in the real world must take this threat seriously. We cannot expect common sense or goodwill from the current European leadership, driven by the desire for absolute domination rather than a balance of power.

The war in Ukraine showed that, after all, the king is naked and is not as gifted as imagined!

The emerging multipolar order is challenging the rules-based international order, and the frustration of the Western leadership has never reached such a high level, inducing the insane desire for revenge.

In addition to economic, geopolitical, and geostrategic interests, the neoconservative horde is driven by delusional hubris, which can lead to political and military decisions whose consequences may not even allow us to regret it.

It seems to me that it makes little sense to repeat ad nauseam that Putin illegally invaded Ukraine, and it is useless and counterproductive to label Putin a monster, as so many people who call themselves leftists do every time they talk about negotiations or defend the end of the war.

Firstly, it is the European political elite that must be replaced because it is a complete absurdity to turn Russia into a permanent enemy. 

Secondly, 110 million (80%) of the 144 million Russians live in the European part of Russia, the country with the largest population in Europe. 

Thirdly, only delusional hubris, ignorance, bad faith, and intentional vilification can explain the denial of the Russian contribution to science, art, literature, and music of collective European culture.

Russia is part of Europe, and we cannot allow the neocons to impose the single narrative painting the Russians as barbarians to convince us of the need for an arms race and the readiness for war with the evil Putin as the only possible alternative to guarantee European security.

We must be open to discussing whether Europe should have a joint army, strengthen national armies, or a mix of both, or whether Europe should become a federation. There should be no taboo subjects as long as they pass democratic scrutiny.

Humanity must choose the path of demilitarization and create truly democratic international institutions that prevent militarization.

Imperialism and the influence of the MIC and the deep state on politics must end, whether through revolving doors, funding electoral campaigns, corruption, clientelism, etc.

NATO should be dissolved rather than expanded; there are many good reasons to do so. However, it is always possible to convince people of the opposite.

We should be skeptical, to say the least, of allowing the European bureaucracy to implement the militarization of the EU under the pretext of the Russian threat, bypassing democratic scrutiny.

It will be a blessing for the armaments industry and beyond!

Dr. Christian Mölling https://dgap.org/en/user/18346 and Torben Schütz https://dgap.org/en/user/23269 advocate the rearmament of Germany and NATO to avoid the next war https://dgap.org/en/research/publications/preventing-next-war-edina-iii.

Act in Support of Ammunition Production (ASAP) https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/eu-defence-industry/act-support-ammunition-production-asap_en

Perhaps Ursula von der Leyen wants to transform the EU into a world leader in producing environmentally sustainable weapons systems as part of the transition to a green economy?

A warning: we better become aware of the dangers lurking to realize how imperative it is to prevent the militarization of Germany in particular and Europe in general before it becomes an irreversible reality.

Negotiations and peace agreements, economic and strategic cooperation.

Russia is part of Europe, and the neocons won't be able to erase this reality.

If there is true democracy, international justice, and accountability, mistakes can be righted, and intentional manipulation can be exposed and punished.

The responsibility to choose the future we want is ours.

Democracy is much more than delegating responsibilities to third parties; this error is fatal to democracy and collective well-being. 

What is the point of creating a permanent enemy of a nation that should be a vital partner?

And last but not least, follow the money!

terça-feira, 27 de fevereiro de 2024

Most of what Dr. Rees says is correct but misses or omits three fundamental factors:

1- Power structures

2- Class structures

3- Capitalocene

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frédéric Bastiat

We can democratically solve the problem or resort to  authoritarianism, which I think will happen because "Men, well said, think in herds; we shall see how they go mad in herds, while they only slowly come to their senses, one by one." Charles MacKay

The masses will not wake up to reality overnight, which means we will continue to be seduced, hypnotized, and manipulated by the narratives disseminated by the PRIC that works for an elite made up of megalomaniac sociopaths and psychopaths who control society.

Violence and manufactured scarcity, that is, the enclosure of the commons, have been and continue to be used to coerce the masses into accepting jobs, tasks, and roles that, as free men, we would refuse to do.

In complex societies, identity narratives do not emerge out of the blue; they are written by language-framing experts to manage perception for manufacturing consent.

The lack of political agency and the omnipresent cultural wokism also do not arise spontaneously; they are politically and ideologically designed to divert people's attention from serious political issues.

Dr. Rees should recognize Jason Moore's work.

Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and capital accumulation

https://www.versobooks.com/products/74-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life

Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History and the Crisis of Capitalism

https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=779

Class society is an anachronistic anathema, as is human ingenuity and innovation driven by profit.

If these points are not considered, the transition to a steady-state economy will include neo-Malthusian measures so the elites can continue enjoying luxurious and wasteful lifestyles.

A transhumanist techno-fascist system will be implemented, and the useless class will likely be eliminated, eventually transformed into Soylent Green, while a class of servile cyborgs will be normalized.

It's impossible to imagine how all this will fit into a world dominated by AI and a new multipolar geopolitical order, but the prospects for ordinary citizens look bleak.

There would be much more to comment on, but as the text is already long enough, it will be left for the next time.

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domingo, 25 de fevereiro de 2024

Humanity's existential crisis is not due to the "Divided Brain" but instead to the principle of power.

The only thing necessary for a society to become dysfunctional is to allow a minority to accumulate enough power to influence how society is organized.

In time, they will create a legal system to protect them and a moral code to glorify them.

Most people attracted to power have narcissistic, sociopathic, or psychopathic tendencies; some are megalomaniacs who will resort to any means to achieve their ends.

One way or another, through the profit motive and the imposition of manufactured scarcity, the powers that be coerce us into adapting to a reality that we intuitively know to be bad.

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Depression results from the many possible combinations of professional, family, and sociocultural factors that induce a concomitant bio-neuro-psycho-affective response.

The depressive state caused exclusively by chemical imbalances or neurophysiological damage or dysfunction is minimal.

Scientism for profit and social control is just another ideological, political-cultural disorder created by the capitalist order.

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