When you look at the stories that started with the "poisoning" of Mr. Skripal and his daughter through the alleged "gas attack" you have, on the face of it without even thinking about evidence, a kind of a Lucy and Ethel show, or a Laurel and Hardy routine or, even more, a Three Stooges in charge of the world scenario--the stories are absolutely ridiculous. The more you look into it the worse it appears--hey here's an idea you Ruskies--if you want to kill someone--throw them out of a high building or maybe just shoot them--ever think of that? The utter contempt both the National Security State (the British State is fully owned by Washington) and the mainstream media hold for us is, at this point, astonishing. The State has put out some clearly false stories in the past but they had some surface possibility of being true. But not these stories--only those whose salaries, in the media, depend on them consistently and constantly "believing" these stories have gotten ahead in the mainstream media--those who actually reported the truth, if it varied with State Narratives, lost their careers and credibility and the same hold true today.
You expect the State to lie and craft self-serving Narratives, and I expect the media to echo them faithfully but the amateur quality of these stories broadcasts two possibilities. The first is that the intel people have not even bothered to create a sensible Narrative because they are incompetent or just high on drugs or alcohol. The second, is that they are trying to make ever more outrageous stories to see how far they can go in trumping reality. If they say, for example, that shit is cheese and people start eating shit as a result--that's the final destination of this bullshit.
You expect the State to lie and craft self-serving Narratives, and I expect the media to echo them faithfully but the amateur quality of these stories broadcasts two possibilities. The first is that the intel people have not even bothered to create a sensible Narrative because they are incompetent or just high on drugs or alcohol. The second, is that they are trying to make ever more outrageous stories to see how far they can go in trumping reality. If they say, for example, that shit is cheese and people start eating shit as a result--that's the final destination of this bullshit.
Reader, you ought to feel insulted--you need to take this personally and understand that these Gauleiters of the Ministry of Truth increasingly resemble cartoon Nazis under Herr Goebbels. This is the level we have descended to--we have Donald Trump as POTUS and a Congress filled largely with hacks in the pay of various industries who preside over a State that depends on permanent war to stay in power and we tolerate it--doesn't that say something about us--you and me?
There are a hundred different ways to remedy this in all areas of our lives that would free up resources from what are, essentially, corporate gangsters who care NOTHING WHATEVER about their fellow citizens. They aren't "job-creators" they are oligarchs who use government to enforce their monopolies, eliminate competition, and bribe regulatory agencies. We can do nothing at all unless we start to remove ourselves from the propaganda from the "news" industry and, even more importantly, the entertainment industries that create a largely false view of the world and where we form our mythological framework--we must understand how important myth is particularly the myth of "good guys" vs. "bad guys" this is not only obviously false but deeply toxic--for it creates in our mind a whole series of associations. We think we live in a "dangerous" world but the danger, as far as I can see, only comes from those who try to convince us it is a dangerous world and keep repeating this mantra in the media. Thus we need to spend twelve times what the Russians spend on the military to protect us--really? And we refuse to look at where the money goes--why does it take that much money? Why does every part of our political economy cost so much particularly education, health-care and "defense"? Why do are we among the slowest in internet speeds and highest in costs around the world--we invented the internet didn't we? Why aren't you asking these questions? Not wanting to think about it isn't going to help you when you have a tapeworm in your gut.
Our capitalist corporate sector is no longer fueling innovation--it is resisting it because free money and restricted markets (in most not all sectors) is where it's at. They are now parasites looking for angles, fixes--they are no different from the mafias that live in the underground economy. The NY City mobs made their payoffs through certain fixed races at the various racetracks. This is how many NYC politicians made money for European trips, expensive mistresses and so on back in the day--I don't know if that still goes on but that's the way it was when I was familiar with the scene.
There are a hundred different ways to remedy this in all areas of our lives that would free up resources from what are, essentially, corporate gangsters who care NOTHING WHATEVER about their fellow citizens. They aren't "job-creators" they are oligarchs who use government to enforce their monopolies, eliminate competition, and bribe regulatory agencies. We can do nothing at all unless we start to remove ourselves from the propaganda from the "news" industry and, even more importantly, the entertainment industries that create a largely false view of the world and where we form our mythological framework--we must understand how important myth is particularly the myth of "good guys" vs. "bad guys" this is not only obviously false but deeply toxic--for it creates in our mind a whole series of associations. We think we live in a "dangerous" world but the danger, as far as I can see, only comes from those who try to convince us it is a dangerous world and keep repeating this mantra in the media. Thus we need to spend twelve times what the Russians spend on the military to protect us--really? And we refuse to look at where the money goes--why does it take that much money? Why does every part of our political economy cost so much particularly education, health-care and "defense"? Why do are we among the slowest in internet speeds and highest in costs around the world--we invented the internet didn't we? Why aren't you asking these questions? Not wanting to think about it isn't going to help you when you have a tapeworm in your gut.
Our capitalist corporate sector is no longer fueling innovation--it is resisting it because free money and restricted markets (in most not all sectors) is where it's at. They are now parasites looking for angles, fixes--they are no different from the mafias that live in the underground economy. The NY City mobs made their payoffs through certain fixed races at the various racetracks. This is how many NYC politicians made money for European trips, expensive mistresses and so on back in the day--I don't know if that still goes on but that's the way it was when I was familiar with the scene.
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