by Jimmie Moglia for The Saker Blog
The sublime Plato said that the soul has a trinitarian composition – a very coarse soul in the belly, a loving one in the chest and a reasoning third in the head. The soul is immortal, though women have only two souls, for they are missing reason.
But a father attending the Council of Macon (585 AD), from across the banks and shoals of time, answered, “Plato you speak like an idolater.” And the very same council with a majority of votes, assigned to women a trinitarian and equally immortal soul.
Nevertheless neither Plato nor the Council addressed the issue of individuals who lost their souls, or maybe never had one. As an instance, those who plotted, organized and attempted to carry out the current coup in Venezuela are soul-less creatures – or if they have one, it’s a soul of shit.
Their spiritual fiber, if any, could be surmised from their background, antecedents, demeanor and physiognomy. For you have only to look at Trump’s special counsel for Venezuela and say to yourself, “Here comes the devil, in the likeness of Elliot Abrams.”
The bulk of Mike Pompeo suggests a lack of understanding that dainty bits make rich the ribs but bankrupt quite the wits. Bolton is the physical and verbal embodiment of obnoxiousness. With his ridiculous personal threats against the head of a foreign, noble and independent country, – almost as old as the United States – he has confirmed his credentials as an arrogant, vainglorious, diabolic and dangerous imbecil. And completely unaware that it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass. As for Pence, and he is but an auxiliary and complementary purveyor of nonsense.
Looking at them from the outside and listening to their babble, an impartial observer must conclude that the nature of obsessive lies rests in the incomprehension of things. Otherwise, even a modest understanding would prompt them to lay aside their irksome mask of dissimulation.
And by assenting, consenting and authorizing the despicable charade, from a beacon of some kind of hope Trump has transformed himself into a prince of darkness. For it takes an almost immeasurable flexibility of conscience in pretending to make America great by stealing another nation’s oil, minerals and natural resources.
Maybe he was persuaded to believe that conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised by some to keep the strong in awe. Or he shrewdly realized that by promising no involvement in foreign wars or their equivalent, he could open the eyes of expectation. And in the scale of human feelings, emotions and excitement, delivery is definitely duller than hope, hence of lesser impact than promises.
Some may question my qualifications for so unflatteringly describing the Washington quadrumvirate of plotters. To them I’d respond that emperor Caligula made a senator out of his horse. But that did not change the nature of the horse, once he became a senator.
As a humble chronicler of events, I hesitate to tell my twenty-five readers what they already know about Venezuela. But in the instance, the information, or rather the confirmation, comes from a direct source. For I follow a European group, self-explainingly called NO-NATO. Considering the apocalyptic portrait of Venezuela given by NATO’s bosses and acolytes, and the dramatically conflicting information available from other unaffiliated parties, the group decided that the best way to solve the riddle was to listen to an unbiased envoy who traveled on site and reported accordingly.
This “special envoy” travelled to Venezuela as a tourist and visitor.
Even without her report we knew already of the small but vociferous comprador class of Venezuela and their progeny. Namely, those who commute from Venezuela to Miami for the weekend – the idle and sometimes-dangerous nonsense generators, who flourish wherever men and women are tired of the truth.
The chief profession of this class is to do nothing, followed by long periods of rest. Incidentally, when Trump, to berate Venezuela, proclaims that the US will never be a socialist state, he is mistaken. For what better definition of socialism can there be, than that applicable to a class whose only necessary requirement for living in idle luxury is to exist? In this respect, the US holds and cherishes one such class. Therefore the US is indeed a socialist state.
Here are some notes from our envoy’s report.
In Mid-February, she flew and arrived safely at Caracas airport, which – she says – looks no different from any other similar airport, and safely travelled to downtown. Life appeared normal with no war-fever in the air, though the people appear to be “permanently mobilized.” Two million of them have enrolled into the Bolivarian militia, ready to defend their country.
On Feb 23rd 2019 she joined a massive pro-Maduro demonstration. “A sea of red jerseys and red caps. Youth… of every age paraded in a mile long line under a scorching sun. Following and taking-in the length of the procession, it was easy to perceive the peaceful and cheerful firmness of the Bolivarian people. One woman said to me, “Here are the Chavez’ people. He did not die and now he has become millions.” An activist, wearing sun glasses made to resemble Chavez’ eyes, held a placard that said, “The UN must stop the aggression against Venezuela.”
In a long speech from the podium, without apparent or noticeable security measures, president Maduro announced the breaking of diplomatic relations with Colombia. And he added, “Against all this hatred, we want peace, but with independence. Does Trump want to use humanitarian aids to invade us? We are the ones who defend humanitarian rights and the international law, which prohibits interference to disrupt the life of other countries. Yes there is a crisis. But have we perhaps reduced the social missions, have we taken away pensions or eliminated food subsidies? – What if the puppet Guaidò and his ilk were to rule here? Can you imagine?””
“Later, at a conference called “Assembly of the Peoples” I spoke with Ramon, who lives here but is originally from Spain. He said, “The hatred against the poor, here in Venezuela, reminds me of what my grandparents in Spain told me about the civil war: when the Republic introduced a series of rights for the whole population: schools, voting, trade unions. The upper classes developed a deep hatred against the poor who, organized by the trade unions, began to obtain some rights. The middle class saw this as a loss of their standing in society. It’s the same here in Venezuela during the last years.
The hatred does not even come from the most powerful capitalists – they are in Miami. It comes from the middle class itself.
When Chavez became president, for the first time in the history of the country, he gave eight million Venezuelans an identity card. Before that move, those millions officially did not exist. They couldn’t have a bank account, nor the right to a state subsidy nor could they vote. Before Chavez only the rich and the middle class went to university. With Chavez, they had to share schools and universities with people whom they rated as their inferiors. They did not like it one bit.””
Along the streets, market stalls sell food-items, fruits and vegetables. Prices are on par with Europe. But it is not here that Venezuelans on minimum wage do their shopping. Their needs are addressed by a public system called CLAP (Comités Locales de Abastecimiento y Producción = Local Committees of Provisions and Production.) Monthly or bi-weekly, the system supplies packages of food to 6 million households, with distribution entrusted to the condos. The cost for each supply package is minimal though it may not be enough.
Conversation with woman met on a bus.
This is a short exchange with Eliana, who, getting off the enormous and very crowded (but always free) bus, directs herself towards the subway station ‘La Hoyada.’ “We will do everything not to end like Syria or Libya” – she says.
Outside the station, people are gathering. They wear the red Chavist shirt. Among them, Eliana recognizes and waves at one of the founders of the Bank for the Development of Women (Banco de Desarrollo de la Mujer), where Eliana works.
“Inside the metro station Mr. Andrade (of Portuguese family, who grows potatoes at Merida, in the Andean area,) explains to me why in this emergency period, the transport service is free, “to try to help the people, during this crisis.”
Inside the train, I notice the lack of avid smartphone readers. Few have one and exhibiting is considered tasteless.”
I only reported parts of the report. The reader can compare with the official output from the controlled US media and draw his conclusions.
The reader will be equally aware of the nation-wide electrical black-out of Venezuela, occurred on Mar 7, 2019. Mr. Jorge Rodriguez, Venezuelan Vice President for Communications, has given a pretty exhaustive explanation of the three-fold stages of the terrorist act in a video (link at the end of article for those interested).
That it was a CIA planned operation is beyond question. Particularly meaningful, I think, is the relative little care the CIA took, to hide its involvement. Indeed, two minutes and forty seconds after the attack, that cesspit of inhumanity, senator (!) Marco Rubio, – (in)famous for threatening Maduro to resign or ending up like Gheddafi shown dying in a picture – issued the following tweet,
“Alert. Information about a total electrical blackout affecting the whole of #Venezuela. 18 of the 23 (Venezuelan) states and the district of the capital are now affected by total black-out. The main airport has no energy and the reserve generators have failed. The #MaduroRegime is a complete disaster.” (ALERTA: Informes de un apagon completo en todo #Venezuela en este momento. 18 de los 23 estados y el distrito capital se enfrentan actualmente a apagones completos. Aeropuerto principal tambien sin energia y generatores de respaldo han fallado. #MaduroRegime Es un completo desastre.)
How could he know that the reserve generators had failed?
Almost simultaneously broadcast, here is Guaido’s, “Venezuela knows that the light will return with the cessation of the usurpation. Let’s move on. During my tour in the South, we sought support to address this crisis. We will defeat the blockade of progress with mobilization. See you next Saturday in the streets! (Venezuela tiene claro que la luz llega con el cese de la usurpacion. Sigamos adelante. Durante nuestra gira en el sur, buscamos apoyos para atender esta crisis. El bloqueo al progreso lo vencemos com movilizacion. Nos vemos el sabado en la calle!)
Mike Pompeo’s was more laconic, “No food, No medicine. Now no power. Next, no Maduro.”
The electrical “desastre” was to be the 9/11 of Venezuela. It failed. Perhaps we can say Maduro 2 – Abrams 0.
By the way and as we know, efforts at unseating Hugo Chavez while alive have a long history. For example, some may remember Pat Robertson, fundamentalist Christian guru and patron of the “Jews for Jesus” movement. He promoted on national TV the idea that the US military should directly “take out” (sic) Hugo Chavez.
And here is a document produced by an organization called Canvas (Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies), founded in 2004 in Belgrade (Serbia). Financed by the US government, CANVAS trains youth operatives to be deployed in countries where the US plans a regime change. Among CANVAS’ first ‘products’ was a movement called “Generation 2007.” Its objectives were to foment and create disorders against Hugo Chavez and his plans to relieve poverty by re-directing the oil profits to the needs of the nations. Guaido’ was a trainee in that movement. As you can see from the following document, recently released, even then the CIA sought the Venezuelan electrical grid as a target.
“Key to Chavez’s current weakness is the decline in the electricity sector. There is a grave possibility that some 70% of the country’s electricity grid go dark as soon as April 2010. Water levels at the Gurie dam are dropping, and the Chavez has been unable to reduce consumption sufficiently to compensate for the deteriorating industry. This could be the watershed event, as there is little that Chavez can do to protect the poor from the failure of that system. This would likely have the impact of galvanizing public unrest in a way that no opposition group could ever hope to generate. At this point in time, an opposition group would be best served to take advantage of the situation and spin it against Chavez and towards their needs. Alliances with the military could be critical because in such a situation of messy public unrest and rejection of the presidency, malcontent sections of the military will likely decided to intervene, but only if they believe they have sufficient support. This has been the pattern in the past three coup attempts. Where the military thought it had enough support, there was a failure in the public to respond positively (or the public responded in the negative), so the coup failed.”
An old Italian proverb that says “The devil builds the (black) pots, but forgets (to build) the lids.” It means that when someone decides to practice evil (like the devil), plans are made, lies are told, people and facts are manipulated. But something often happens to foil the plan. The truth comes out, or the wrongdoer is punished, or the plans fail.
That seems the case with an event occurred on Mar 14, 2019. When two Russian pranksters, Vladimir Kutznetsov and Alexei Stoliarov, set up a formidably comical telephone call, directly with Guaido’ (youtube link at end of article). In which the caller was supposed to be nonetheless than the president of Switzerland, Mr. Maurer. The call lasts about 13 minutes. A necessarily short summary does not do justice to the irresistibly comical charge of the whole episode.
In the video, the voice in English, speaking from the Switzerland of pretense, is supposed to belong to the Swiss president. But the accent is too Russian, and I do not think it could have deceived even the otherwise gullible Guaido’. In turn, Guaido’ replies and speaks in Spanish (transcribed in the video). That voice is definitely Guaido’s, as is his bare ass, immortalized by a picture taken during an earlier anti-Chavez demonstration (see article “In Praise of Shamelessness.”). I speculate that a Spanish interpreter was involved on the pranksters’ side to translate the words of the simulated Swiss president.
After congratulating Guaido’ on his assumption of the Venezuela presidency, ‘Mr. Maurer’ wants to discuss the Venezuela’s arrangements and forthcoming new relations with the Swiss banking systems. He says to have contacted Marshall Billingslea, US Treasury’s assistant secretary for Terrorist Financing. Mr. Maurer suggests that all Venezuelan accounts in Switzerland are terrorist-linked, hence illegal and should be frozen. Does Guaido’ agree? Yes, Guaido’ replies.
At minute 4.14 ‘Mr Maurer’ discloses that Maduro transfers his money to a company called ‘Tender First’, owned by a Kazak man called Nurlan Baidild. Does Guaido’ know him? No, says Guaido’.
Has Guaido’ appointed a Venezuelan ambassador to Switzerland? Yes, Guaido’ replies, Ms. Marta Alejandra Aristiguieta.
‘Mr. Maurer’ advises Guaido’ that various lengthy procedural steps are involved in freezing international accounts, but the situation is urgent. There is a risk that Maduro’s and Venezuelan funds may be transferred to Russia or China. Would Guaido’ agree to transfer these assets into a temporary personal account, to prevent the funds from disappearing?
Guaido’ agrees. And then comes the dessert of the interview. Does Guaido’ know that the Russian opposition leader is Alexei Navalni, who also studied at Yale? No, sais Guaido’. ‘Mr. Maurer’ probes further. Once officially installed as president, would Guaido’ recognize Navalni as interim president of the Russian Federation?
“We are going to evaluate all the options” – replies Guaido’ – but yours is an interesting proposal.”
Apparently, after the call, Guaido’ immediately made public the information about the freezing of Venezuelan funds in Switzerland. Which prompted the pranksters (always pretending to be Mr. Maurer,) to send an email to John Bolton, suggesting that it was unwise for Guaido’ to go public with this sensitive information. Bolton replies with an email agreeing it was an error and will talk with Guaido’ accordingly. Bolton’s email is shown in the video, but there is no way of confirming its authenticity.
Informed about the prank and asked for his opinion, Evo Morales, authentic president of Bolivia is said to have replied, “Guaido’ es un burrote.” (Guaido’ is an ass).
Apparently, Guaido’ is currently free to roam around in Venezuela. A naive observer may conclude that there is enough material and evidence to arrest him on a charge of treason and promoting terrorism.
Still, Machiavellianly speaking, Guaido’ is now the metaphorical representation of a “dead man walking.” For his killing could be the excuse for a US invasion. The CIA is known for having done worse. We must therefore assume that, by not arresting Guaido’, the Maduro administration knows best.
Time to wrap up and tie together the threads of the story.
The still pending attempt to rape Venezuela is historically meaningful and factually instructive. For the field of battle where the US is (or has been) most successful relies on the bi-dimensional representation of events. That is, a media stage featuring Good versus Bad, where their monopoly of images, and therefore of the imagination, is eminently successful. A splendid confirmation – American style – that nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so. Where thinking is conducted on the people’s behalf by the media monopoly. Hence the miracle of converting victims into allies, however temporarily.
Nevertheless, while taking the above for granted, the quadroika of evil also assumed an impenetrable fog, spread by them and by the fake news generators. But the view is clearing, some new light illuminates palpable and cumbersome realities, which fear and the penumbra of reason have allowed for too long to remain unsaid, unthought, hidden and invisible.
Account of the terrorist act on the Venezuelan electrical system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4c0X53yi0o&t=403s
Pranksters Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h46_nHnS8eQ
Very readable and well expressed article.
” the quadroika of evil also assumed an impenetrable fog, spread by them and by the fake news generators. But the view is clearing, some new light illuminates palpable and cumbersome realities”
Well for 2 reasons does the new light illuminate realities –
1) They have lost the total control of the narrative they once had. The internet is here. Too much truth leaking out.
To say the internet is here must seem like a dumb remark to people under 40 who have always used it but before it arrived the elites had it very easy with their total control over all media.
2) The availability of good and truthful writings especially by people like yourself. There are volumes of rubbish on the internet but it is a unique forum for writers whose daring to tell the truth about elite criminality would have ensured they were never heard pre-internet.
It is shocking to realise that everything we read and were taught about political events back in the years before 1980 was total rubbish.
I sometimes think we have never been told the truth about a damned thing.
I like ‘tetrarchy’ better, because it recalls the famous ‘rocking-horse’ aka The Spotted Wonder, The Tetrarch. I’m a hippophilic pedant.
Too true Tomsk!
Sadly though TPTB are having a good shot at closing down as much of the alternative media as they can.
A few hours after the NZ massacre ZEROHEDGE was shut down…apparently because they had the audacity to publish an article that didn’t parrot the MSM narrative! The official story stunk to high heaven before this shutdown…the stench just got much worse!
The “quadroika of evil” as you so aptly put it operates globally.
Col
Thank you Mr Moglia, I always appreciate your contributions to this blog. You perspectives are always thoughtful, informative, and a great pleasure to read. You really are in a class of your own!
@Tomsk: “It is shocking to realise that everything we read and were taught about political events back in the years before 1980 was total rubbish.”
Those “years before 1980” stretch back nearly 3,000 years, all the way to Ancient Greece. The poet Robert Graves, who was also Classical scholar, historian and investigative novelist gave as his opinion that, the Benefit of a Classical education to the Anglo-American ruling class was, it taught them how to create Official Myths and to Lie Impressively in Public.
Mr.Moglia writes: An old Italian proverb that says “The devil builds the (black) pots, but forgets (to build) the lids.”
Goethe agrees: “A moderate house of cards, the greatest wit / Though he can start it, cannot finish it”. Faust II, tr.Louis MacNeice
MacNeice wrote some wonderfully acute and observant stuff himself, as well as straightforward translations of others work:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91396/meeting-point
http://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-american-blueprint-for-destroying.html?m=1
Info re Canvas and Venezuela ….
I wonder if the creature Popovic realises how ridiculous he is with his “notes” on Venezuela?
The true diabolical brain behind OTPOR/canvas was a man called Gene Sharp:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/02/01/gene-sharp-has-passed-away-but-his-ideas-will-go-on-inspiring-activists-around-the-world/?utm_term=.c5d3a6a85ad0
Otpor methodology is really only applicable to students. The colour revolution in Serbia was spearheaded by university students. But OTPOR has encountered very little success in countries where they have had to mobilise ordinary working folk. They already failed once in Venezuela…
Popovic is now a rector at St. Andrews University. I guess he was “parked” there as gratitude for his services and also due his inability to grasp real world problems outside of a university campus.
Gene Sharp was in Beijing just before the attempted prototype Colour Revolution in China, in 1989. One of the most Evil swine in history, glorified in the West.
Here is Gollum Popovic referring to Gene Sharp as “Master”..LOL!
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/t-magazine/gene-sharp-theorist-of-power.html. 6th paragraph down
People think because these actions by “Albert Einstein Institute”, Canvas, Otpor are non-violent, it’s all fine and legitimate, but these are not true grassroots movements. In fact, they are simply a way for the empire to remotely foment trouble and chaos in the target country.
https://youtu.be/R2riZM6Mheg
Do not forget the pranksters go at Abrams too!
The same pranksters, pretending to be the Swiss president, contacted Guaido just few days after contacting Abrams and he fell for it? Unbelievable!
Just a little point on Caligula for history’s sake:
Caligula never made a senator out of his horse. That’s christian propaganda, fomented by senators, who eventually made this roman Emperor look like an idiotic anti-christian madman. Same destiny of Nero, ridiculed for centuries with blatant lies like that of the burning of Rome.
Nero has been an excellent leader, quite smart, very well educated and generally loved by the population. Caligula has only rightfully told to the senators that they were so lazy and useless that he could have made a senator out of his horse without anyone noting the slightest difference in Senate’s effort for the good of Rome. But he was still young and inexperienced, and they soon managed to get rid of him.
yes, yes! and you forgot Julian the Apostate who was also a wonderful statesman who was smeared by the evil Christian propaganda as a mass murdered while in reality he was a a gentle lamb. And, of course, there is Judas himself, whom the Christians also smeared and accused of all sorts of evil intentions while in reality he was the best and kindest of them all.
what else?
oh yes, Christ was a peace loving hippie and what we called “Christianity” today was invented by Saint Paul who, unlike Christ, was a nasty reactionary.
Right?
The Saker
I don’t understand whether your comment is ironic or not… but that won’t make any difference: I based my statements upon the most recent historical research upon the age of Nero made by Italian historians. The legend of Caligula making a senator out of his horse isn’t supported by any reliable historical document.
Regarding Julian the Apostate, I didn’t gather any info, so I can’t judge.
Regarding Judas, Jesus and their fellowship, those are mostly legends. I never cared (and I won’t care) of giving personal judgements about persons which have become, at this point, no more than fictional characters (and which religions use instrumentally).
Regarding St. Paul, he is indeed the real inventor of christianity. Was he a nasty reactionary? I don’t think so. Nonetheless, he was a cunning guy who, probably thinking of doing something politically relevant for the masses, has greatly helped the monotheistic pestilence to spread all across Europe.
Only the ancient Greek wisdom, which was still (and unfortunately not for long) permeating Athens’ commanders, led them to say “no, thank you” to the ridicule absurdities promoted by Paul, when he visited that city.
Regarding Jesus, I imagine him more like a sincere reformer of Judaism than an ante-litteram hippie. But this is for sure: he didn’t aim at creating a new religion.
(Thank you Saker for the space anyway, and sorry for the OT. I’ll keep on following your great blog.)
If I base my statement upon the Bible, instead of “most recent historical research”(that´s like a changing wind), I would say that your comment about Jesus and Judaism is irony at its best.
“Changing wind” my ass. All documents reporting silly stories about Caligula and Nero have been written long after their death. The main sources for the “horse episode” are Gaius Svetonius, official biographer of the empire, which every serious historian regards as not very reliable for being of course in conflict of interests and for having omitted lots of crucial references, and Dione Cassius, a senator which copied Svetonius’ version a century later, with the aim of praising the Senate.
Svetonius’ claims about the “horse episode” have been crossed with numerous other sources of that time, finding not a single confirmation.
Plots made by senators caused the death both of Caligula and Nero, who wanted both diminish the powers of an utterly corrupted Senate. This is all historically well documented.
On the contrary, the Bible is of no historical value whatsoever, but of course nobody can prevent ignorant people to believe in its utter bullshit.
Gab, Borges’s short story ‘Three Versions of Judas’ sets the felines among the columbines. The first version has Judas as the human mirror of the divine Jesus, with the onerous task of setting him on the path to his Divine redemption. The second has Judas making the greater sacrifice, that of the spirit-‘The ascetic, for the greater glory of God, degrades and mortifies the flesh; Judas did the same with the spirit. He renounced honour, good, peace,the Kingdom of Heaven, as others, less heroically, renounced pleasure…’. And the third Judas becomes the incarnation of God, ‘…made totally man, but man to the point of iniquity’, who accepts a fate of sacrifice, not just on one afternoon, but throughout history, as a symbol of shame and Evil and treachery. ‘God became a man completely, a man to the point of infamy, a man to the point of being reprehensible – all the way to the abyss. In order to save us, He could have chosen any of the destinies which together weave the uncertain web of history; He could have been Alexander, or Pythagoras, or Rurik, or Jesus; He chose an infamous destiny: He was Judas’.
“Regarding Julian the Apostate, I didn’t gather any info, so I can’t judge.”
Julian the Apostate was the last pagan emperor of Rome. He tried to resist growing Christianity and tried to refute it, by similar arguments than you use here. Julians views about the Christianity were much like yours. More irony.
@Prospeller: I know who Flavius Claudius Iulianus was. The reason why I didn’t want to start an answer about him is because I’m not used to judge history without prior thorough documentation. On Caligula and Nero I have studied a lot, so I answered. The “horse episode” was made up. End of story.
Julian addressed ancient greek culture to be way better than christian one. I agree with him on this.
I addressed monotheism (not every possible one, but the ones descending from judaism) as a “pestilence”. Would have Julian agreed? If so, all the better.
Someday someone will maybe explain me why any european should give a damn about the history of a non-european population who wrote a book in a non-european language, praising a non-european guy who couldn’t care less himself of Europe and devoted to a non-european god. Ah, yeah: Paul’s shit & stuff. Oh boy, here we go again…
From where I am standing I don’t know whether there is much truth in the story that Caligula made his favourite horse a State Senator or not. What I do know however is were it to be true, then it would have been a far more sensible appointment than Trump appointing Bolton as his National Security Adviser…I mean you could hardly make this up!
Mind you, Abrams as Envoy to Venezuela runs a pretty close second when it comes to outrageously reckless appointments. Both of these dangerous clowns attaining these positions herald the imminent fall of another great empire. If Bolton stays in his position much longer I predict that the empire and very likely humanity in its entirety will end with both a bang and a whimper.
Dangerous times indeed
Col
Apologies…the above comment was from Col…’the farmer from NZ’
Here again, some modicum of objectivity toward the souls could have painted the facts a tad less biased. But the comedic element is not without merit.
One surely must laugh at a world so insanely immoral that those who do not trade their souls for dollars are doomed.
Jimmie, yet another excellent article. I am proud to be one of the 25 readers you mention.
On the other hand, it is my understanding that some guy, who worked at the central control room of the power grid was arrested for turning off the grid and planting the famous Israeli virus. Needless to say the fellow was paid good money (most likely promised to be paid) to do that, while being stupid for thinking that he can get away with that and enjoy the money he was promised, as I do not think that he actually got paid.
source please…..that would be great information if it can be authenticated. I haven’t seen it, but it’s an obvious vector.
” For it takes an almost immeasurable flexibility of conscience in pretending to make America great by stealing another nation’s oil, minerals and natural resources.”
It cannot be doubted that the USA was able to accrue enormous wealth by helping itself to the resources and land of the native peoples of the continent.
Nevertheless it should be recalled that the earlier settlers found themselves in one of the poorest areas of the continent: New England. They had to use their native ingenuity and inventiveness to make money and create an economy. They were tough and went to sea. They had a high level of literacy. They invented farm implements and all kinds of gadgets. This “native” industry, that is, native to the people’s mentality, naturally had a good environment to develop, one where they were basically free to do what they wanted. They also borrowed some ideas from the Native Americans and magnefied them in ways that benefitted them and their small society. In fact, it is generally acknowledged that the “poverty” of the environment boosted ingenuity and invention.
On the frontier, too, people had to solve their own problems and figure out how to survive. Lauding the self-reliance of frontier settler men and women and children should in no way be seen as an excuse for the eradication of Native American lands. Still, we as a country have more of a tradition than solely thievery and imerialism.
So it is doubly ignoble that Trump seeks to make america great again by thievery and violent takeover, instead of by encouraging American citizens to develop their talents and think creatively about solving their problems.
I do not profess to know the details of the Green New Deal, but the concept sure sounds more promising to me than Grasping Old Deal.
Katherine
There’s a great difference between ordinary Americans and the ruling US elites. Ordinary Americans, in my opinion, are a mixed lot, like all societies, with many fine people who over the generations attempted to build a decent society of amity, comity, humanity and collective sympathy and compassion. They failed, mostly, I believe, because Americans are ruthlessly brainwashed from birth. And then there is the US elite, the most Evil concatenation of the most odious features of Western ‘Civilization’, a gang of genocidal, eugenicist, racist swine with the greatest taste for blood of any ruling elite ever.
Katherine,
The U.S. has been run for the past 30 years (actually since Reagan) by a group of international elites. Since that time they have succeeded in turning the U.S. political system, from at least a partially functioning democracy, into an oligarchic dictatorship, and the U.S. economy, from at least a partially functioning market economy, into a system of serial monopolies. This group of international elites pursues a goal of one world governance, under global institutions that they control, i.e. ‘Globalism’. The entire U.S. military is used as a mercenary force to quash anyone who resists this project,
‘Globalism’ is fascism in its purest sense, and the ‘Globalists’ make Hitler look like an amateur. The mess in the U.S. (as with Europe) is the result of more than 30 years of rule by these fascists.
Trump is the first non-‘Globalist’ president, since before Reagan. He is, rather, an authoritarian nationalist, a nasty piece of work, but at least he tries to work for the U.S. and it’s people, however misguided his actions may be. As such he is an enemy of the ‘Globalists’, who care nothing for the U.S. as a nation, or the welfare of it’s people, which is why Trump got elected
.
However, Trump is virtually alone, surrounded in his own administration by ‘Globalists’. It appears that, in the beginning, he tried to set his own foreign policy. But under constant attacks, and in n attempt to save his own presidency and some domestic and trade policy, he has outsourced foreign policy to the ‘Globalists’ ,
The ‘Venezuela’ project is a ‘Globalist’ project, run by ‘Globalist’ lackeys, who block Trump at every turn. Except in this case, when Trump actually agrees that stealing Venezuelan oil will help him to ‘Make America Great Again’.
Global Warming is a ‘Globalist’ hoax in order to attract the naive and uneducated to support the ‘Globalists’. After all, only the ‘Globalists’ can solve such a Global Problem, and Save the Earth.
The ‘Green New Deal’ is a fairy story that would make even Disney blush. It will never be enacted. It is designed only to attract the votes of the gullible.
If it were ever actually enacted It would set off massive inflation, gut the U.S. economy and destroy its energy and transportation infrastructure. It would set the U.S. back 200 years to a time before the use of energy enabled dramatic improvements to human life. All the while having zero effect on climate.
Good Luck!
Anthropogenic climate destabilisation is an established fact that can be seen in action all about us. Arctic summer sea ice is rapidly melting, as is most of the montane glaciers of the planet, and the Third Pole of the Tibetan ice-sheet. West Antarctica is melting ‘irreversibly’, and Eastern Antarctica is beginning to melt, too, one hundred years or so ahead of predictions. The line of permafrost is moving pole-wards, and the permafrost is melting all across the sub-Arctic north. Phenological studies of plant and animal cyclical and seasonal phenomena show substantial changes, worldwide. Plant diseases and pests are spreading, like the pine beetles devastating boreal forests. Megafires are spreading and intensifying, as are droughts and record deluges and floods. One can go on all day with the evidence, but you prefer straight, paranoid, denial, like refuting the Laws of Gravity. And the accusation that the ‘globalists’ are behind the science and the reality, is so wrong-headed as to be ludicrous. The greatest source of the ruling global parasites’ wealth is the fossil fuel industry, valued in the tens of trillions, which you are defending at the cost of billions of lives, almost certainly all of humanity, now that you denialists and your fossil fuel Thought Controllers have robbed humanity of twenty or thirty years when we could have been saving our children’s lives.
You state that ‘Arctic summer sea ice is rapidly melting’. But this is not so. In 2008 there was a prediction that arctic sea ice would disappear by 2013. This did not happen. In fact the maximum summer retreat of arctic ice extent happened in 2012. Since then the summer retreat has stabilized. When combined with an increasing ice extent in the southern hemisphere, global ice extent is actually increasing.
You provide a whole litany of the effects of changing temperature. I do not question the fact that global temperatures increased over the course of the 20th century. Only the cause.
To the best that I can understand it, this increase in temperature was caused by a confluence of two naturally occuring events: 1. The cyclical rise in Ocean temperatures, characterized by indices such as the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation (AMO), a 70 year cycle, and the most active sun in more than 1000 years. These two drivers of climate are now in retreat, and thus, to the shock of the AGW boosters, so is their theory.
You also seem to want to deny that the development of fossil fuels was at the base of the rapid development of the human condition over the past 200 years. Without the use of widely available and inexpensive energy, the rapid advances in the human progress would never have happened. To deny this is ludicrous.
Finally, you seem to want to attack my integrity, This is typical of the AGW supporters who’s method is to shut down scientific debate, rather than to embrace it. I suggest that if you want a good view of somebody who is ‘paranoid’ and ‘wrong-headed’ that you try any mirror.
@dh-mtl Forget about all the arguments attacking or defending “global warming” and the “supposed” facts pro and con. What can not be disputed it that “civilization itself” is a “heat engine”. Everything! Everything! Everything generates heat. It is unavoidable! Just increasing world population adds 98.6 per person. Why do joggers and athletes sweat? Everything creates more heat. Transportation creates heat, all of it, from horses to jets. Agriculture creates heat, all of it, from chickens to water buffalo and tractors. Households create heat, from toasters to air conditioners. The list of ways civilization generates heat is endless. So you can additionally add in lack of sunspots in the cycle, and geoengineered weather manipulation, but so what! So called “Civilization” generates heat.
“Civilization” is a heat engine. We’re all involved. That’s all anyone needs to know about it.
The best to you.
“You also seem to want to deny that the development of fossil fuels was at the base of the rapid development of the human condition over the past 200 years. ”
I didn’t notic Mulga saying this, or “seeming” to say it.
I doubt that any rational student of history denies that fossil fuels have been at the base of rapid development over the past 200 years (although, as I have already pointed out elsehwhere, environmental degredation by humans to the point of reducing or destroying the habitability of their environment certainly didn’t start with the use of fossil fuels, but be that as it may).
The question is, has this “rapid development” been worth it in the end, since we are going to have to undergo a period of “rapid dedevelopment” if any living things are to survive.
I am surprised at the cavalier approach of the commenter to the rapid extinction of species that alone and together constitute the web of life that is the basis of our own life on Earth, which the commenter seems to want to deny. Or could I be putting words in his/her mouth????? .
Katherine
Katherine,
You say: ‘I didn’t notic Mulga saying this, or “seeming” to say it.
I doubt that any rational student of history denies that fossil fuels have been at the base of rapid development over the past 200 years.’
But Mulga says: ‘The greatest source of the ruling global parasites’ wealth is the fossil fuel industry, valued in the tens of trillions, which you are defending at the cost of billions of lives,’
This to me seems to be a denial of the billions of lives that have been substantially enhanced as a result of the economic and developmental progress that has been made as a result of the use of fossil fuels.
You say: ‘I am surprised at the cavalier approach of the commenter to the rapid extinction of species that alone and together constitute the web of life that is the basis of our own life on Earth, which the commenter seems to want to deny.’
Yes, you are reading something that isn’t there. I did not, and do not, deny that there are real problems with our environment, including the extinction of species, destruction of habitat, etc.
However I don’t see how assigning the cause of natural variations in climate to CO2 helps to address these issues in any way. In fact I would rather submit that the time and effort wasted on this AGW nonsense is taking resources away from addressing real problems, and adding additional problems, including:
– GMO foods
– destruction of tropical forests to grow palm oil, in order to poison us, and ethanol to replace fossil fuels.
– the destruction of habitat and bird species by the rapid expansion of wind farms.
– the conversion of agricultural land for the production of ethanol fuel, not food.
– depriving emerging societies of fossil fuels, forcing them to continue to use, wood, dung and other primitive fuels that cause both direct health problems and environmental problems, while depriving these people of the possibility to develop.
If you really want to save the planet, stop chasing phantoms and address the real issues.
Finally, don’t overlook the fact that there is a great over-lap between the people who are funding the AGW NGOs and those that are funding the Globalist NGOs that are behind the destruction of nation-states around the world, including this current assault on Venezuela.
Yes, I see-you have misrepresented my position. No surprise there. As I’ve said, now, I don’t deny the role of fossil fuel energy in driving industrial production. What I do oppose, and you plainly support, is continuing to burn fossil fuels when the forcing of the greenhouse gases thereby released, will, and already is, drive a rapid and extreme climate destabilisation, that will, at the very least, cause billions of deaths. Indeed, possibly the extinction of humanity (a near certainty if we go on much longer). Such activities are even more diabolical when renewable energy is already cheaper than fossil fuels, and growing ever cheaper.
Thanks Katherine. I can’t remember denying the role of fossil fuels in driving industrialism, so I may have been verballed. But I simply do not think that the price of continuing to use fossil fuels, the extinction of humanity and most Life on Earth, is worth it, particularly when renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels and getting ever cheaper, but some people plainly do. It takes all types to kill a planet.
A number of errors. It is irrelevant what date someone or other put on the total disappearance of Arctic summer sea ice, which is more or less inevitable in the next few decades, but the fall in extent and in particular volume (from 16,000 cubic kilometres forty years ago to less than 4000 now), is irrefutable. As for Antarctic ice, sea ice did increase for a number of years, but was explained by science. It was the result of INCREASED ice melt from the continental ice-cap, which fresh water floats on the surface above the heavier salt water, and freezes more readily. In any case this artifact of climate destabilisation has disappeared in recent years.
On the continent, where it matters, the West Antarctic melting is ‘irreversible’, East Antarctic, the Big One, is melting far, far, faster than predicted, as is Greenland. The cause is well established, but being better and better elaborated by the day. The prime driver or forcing, is increased atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases like CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, water vapour (a positive feed-back mechanism)and various novel man-made gases like CFCs, HCFCs etc. That mechanism is more or less as settled as the Law of Gravity. The global extent of ice is NOT expanding at all, as almost all montane glaciers are in retreat, as are the parameters I just listed.
Your assertion that the Sun is more active than for 1000 years is quite bizarre, and the first time I have seen this novel denialism. In fact the denialists have been crowing for some years that we are heading for an Ice Age based on low solar activity, with new Maunder or Dalton Minima predicted freely. Indeed the phony ‘hiatus’ around the turn of the millennium, when global average temperatures still rose, but far more slowly than in recent years, was the result of decreased solar activity, which has now reversed. Eighteen of the hottest nineteen years recorded have come since 2000, with unambiguous increases in weather disasters and orders of magnitude more hot records in temperatures, maximum, minimum and average than cold records. How those facts show climate science ‘in retreat’ is strange beyond belief. And I nowhere deny the fact that fossil fuels drove the increase in global productivity over the last 200 years, but I rather think that the price of continuing to use them, the extinction of humanity and much of Life on Earth and millions of years of climatic chaos before stability returns, is rather too high a price to pay, particularly when renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels.
”For it takes an almost immeasurable flexibility of conscience in pretending to make America great by stealing another nation’s oil, minerals and natural resources.”
Rather, it takes an almost immeasurable Pindo immorality to base one’s perception of greatness on plain gangsterism, ecocide, and genocide. US ”Christianity” is Satanism in anything but name.
Nussiminen
The hypocrisy in Trump’s team is monumentally obscene. Pompeo and Pence, two of the ringleaders in this disgracefully brazen attempted Coup in Venezuela, consider themselves evangelical Christians!
Regards from the south seas
Col
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/01/trump-venezuela-coup-will-end-badly-for-us/
The US ‘religion’ is Mammonism.
Tragicomedy ,become factual and may even end up being actually fatal, when anyone gives full credit ,faith & honour to ideologies one chooses to identify with., for safety without understanding the bed rock foundation of the chosen ideology.
ok,that maybe a mouth full, but this is my discovery out of my own experience and misery belonging to a group that yours dearly gave full credit and faith to until discovering the truth.Yours truly was indoctrinated into falling in love with this group’s ideologies by flattery and falsh deceit of security,’falling’ is the suitable word here.Since that ‘falling’ had a cloud came over me ,that i could not shake off and had poor sleeping habits and anger at the slightest remarks that would not have bothered me previously.I became myself again only when i had to move away physically thousands of miles away for career sake but this forebading senses returned when i ‘returned’ physically to ‘be’ with the group again,so i started investigating my own ‘investment’ in the ideology and the group practising the ideology that has infected me.MY discoveries about the group and the ideology FREED me ,i set out to ask forgiveness from others who were victimised by this group and finally gathered enough energy to tell the leaders (that word lead is interesting ) of this group to,” ‘feck’ off i aint carrying their grudge for them”.Since then I haven’t looked back but discovering new things about this FREEdom.
some are ”born” into it,some are seduced ,some are seeking security but mostly everyone has become enslaved to ideologies all over the world.
We take ”words” for granted ,saying,”american”,”russian” or ”chinese” and ”indian” or ”christian” or i am a”muslim” what does it actually mean ,how does giving full credit and faith to such ”words” affect our psyche?,when we identify with any group fully we become fragmented psychically .,and suffer the consequences.We become estranged from others and ‘commit’ deeds that were alien to us.
I have friended some veterans who told me,”i did not know that being an american, i had to kill some asshole in the jungle, i never did kill anything in my whole life,now i am just running away from myself i have this strange feeling the guy i killed is with me all the time,this horror is not gonna end for me till i die”…he has enough pension now to screw around in the girly bars in cambodia,thai and vietnam, but i don’t know how he can drown out his sorrow till he asked forgiveness from his victims and told his ”leaders” they misLED him in their face.
A ‘muslim’ hates all ‘christian’ cause they raise doubt in his mind about his ideologies that he has given full faith and credit ,as do the ‘christians”against the ‘muslim’ who raise doubt in their mind about their ‘ticket; to heaven.’End times’ fantasy wet dreams infect their minds.
How can ”america” be MAGA? if they do not ask forgiveness from the ‘natives’?until they do every ‘others’ group is an ‘enemy’,the movement that holocousted the natives is the same movement that wants to bring in the ‘immigrants” cause the psychopaths who did the natives are reborn as the psychopaths who are doing the ‘americans’ now.
What goes around comes around ,don’t belong to any ideological group or give them full credit & faith ,always question violence in any form otherwise we will be sleeping with the ghosts of the past.,and suffer the consequences.
Jimmie,
Once again I must echo what others have said: I so much enjoy the beauty of your essays as well as the truths you present. Thank you.