Saturday, June 6, 2020

The Root of all Evil: The implosion of America is not due to racism it’s the result of imperialism




Face it America, the complete collapse of law and order that is occurring today is not the result of racism it is the result of imperialism.  Imperialism is the root of all evil and it begets racism and class warfare.  On December 12th, 2000 the CIA along with members of congress overthrew the elected government in America and installed Bush/Cheney and a cadre of Zionist imperialists.  Three days later the U.S. Senate passed the Commodities Futures Modernization act that deregulated Wall Street and unleashed central bankers on America. 

Domestically the Bush/Cheney tax cuts along with No Child Left Behind destroyed the public education system and deteriorated the social safety net, ensuring plenty of cannon fodder for the Bush/Cheney wars.  The Bush/Cheney Federal Communications Commission allowed hate speech radio and TV to proliferate and drown out all other voices.  Public radio and TV were forced to become a platforms for hatred in the name of political balance.

The nuclear destruction of the World Trade Center along with the bombing of the Pentagon and biological warfare anthrax attacks gave Bush/Cheney carte blanche to launch endless wars and destruction across the globe. Torture and preemptive warfare were normalized under Bush/Cheney.

The Patriot Act that was passed shortly after the 911 attacks, allowed for militarization of the police and mass surveillance.  That piece of legislation was produced years before the 911 attacks and was just waiting for the right moment to be rushed through congress.  Only Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and 66 House members voted against it.

The American government has been infested with members with dual citizenship whose loyalties lie with the foreign governments who fund their campaigns and generously reward them for looting the US Treasury.  Trillions are spent on military endeavors that are of no benefit to the American people while Americans are homeless, jobless, in poor health, and deeply in debt with nothing to show for it.  Yet the American government is filled with millionaires whose wealth was acquired while in government “service”.

So called journalists and TV news anchors have become filthy rich super stars but in reality are nothing more than propagandists and CIA stenographers.  It is due to those treacherous leaches that global scams like the overthrow of the elected governments of Iraq, Ukraine, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia and many more as well as the attempted overthrow of Syria, Iran and Venezuela are made possible and acceptable. 

It is in this atmosphere that the scam of the Covid-19 lockdown and the destruction of the American economy was launched in order to bail out Wall Street Banks and destroy the presidency of Donald Trump.  Since Donald Trump overruled the “experts” and decided to reopen America, the imperialists have now launched a race war, infiltrating peaceful demonstrations with anarchists much like they did in the form of a “color revolution” in Ukraine. In 2014 I wrote a blog post called “Is it Maidan, Ukraine or is it Ferguson, Missouri?”


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Monday, August 18, 2014

Is it Maidan, Ukraine or is it Ferguson, Missouri?

  
In watching what is happening in Ukraine and in Missouri, I am reminded of the old Memorex commercials, “is it live or is it Memorex”.  Watching TV today I say, “Is it Maidan, Ukraine or is it Ferguson, MO?

What is happening in Missouri and Ukraine have more in common than not, both are victims of Rand Corporation master plans.   In Maidan, Ukraine peaceful anti-government demonstrations became deadly when the protestors were infiltrated with paid thugs.  The upheaval caused by the agitators gave cover for the U.S. State Department and the European Union to oust Ukraine’s government and replace it with billionaire bankers

What is happening in Minnesota and across the American landscape is the result of the blowback from the Bush/Cheney Administration as well as the Obama Administration.  Both administrations were subservient to the Zionist imperialists who pull their strings.  From Miko Peled at Mint Press:

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“Deadly Exchange”: America’s Racist Policing Has Roots in Israel

During training sessions in Israel, American police delegations meet with Israeli military, police, and intelligence agencies and taught what Israel calls counterterrorism, but is in fact no more than “refining methods of racial profiling.”

Racism and violence against people of color in the U.S. is nothing new. In fact, the United States, with its claims to be “the land of the free,” has always been a racist, genocidal and violent state. It was founded on genocide of the native people and on the backs African slaves. The United States committed the most egregious war crimes in the history of mankind, including genocide, the use of nuclear weapons, destruction of democracies and support for murderous dictators around the world, and the list goes on and on from the earliest days of the Union to this very day.

The state of Israel, which historically speaking is a new creation, was also founded on genocide and racism. For close to one hundred years the Zionist movement which created Israel has been engaged in a brutal campaign to rid Palestine of its indegenous population and give the land to Jewish colonizers. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that good relations exist between the United States and Israel.

There are countless areas of life in the U.S. in which Israel and various Zionist organizations influence and interfere. The Jewish Federation, the Anti-Defamation League, and AIPAC are the most commonly recognized but are only three out of countless organizations that operate throughout the fifty states and relentlessly pursue Israeli interests in all facets of American life.

These organizations interfere in U.S. elections by pouring money into the campaigns of  pro-Israeli candidates; they are engaged in heavily influencing the outcome of trials where the defendants are Arabs or Muslims, and they finance campaigns to edit and rewrite curricula in public schools so that the Middle East is always taught in a way that supports the Zionist narrative.

A deadly exchange

As the video clip of a Minnesota police officer slowly and callously choking George Floyd to death went viral, many people, including myself, remembered Palestine. Officer Derek Chauvin, who casually placed his knee on George Floyd’s neck, could have easily been an Israeli soldier or police officer holding down a Palestinian…

American Israeli police

This happens in America just as it happens in Palestine. The similarities are no coincidence and they may well be the result of what has become known as the “Deadly Exchange,” a collaboration between the two racist states who see no problem in executing and watching the slow agonizing death of black and brown people.

Deadly Exchange is the name of a campaign to stop the collaboration between police departments across the United States and the state of Israel. The campaign put out an extensive report that outlines the cooperation between law enforcement in the U.S. and Israel. The report also lists the dangers and threats that this exchange poses to people of color in the United States.

Israeli democracy and security

Israel is wrongly heralded as a democracy facing perpetual threat. In reality, it is an apartheid state and its security apparatus is dedicated neither to safety nor security as it claims, but rather to the subjugation of Palestinians. During training sessions in Israel, U.S. law enforcement delegations meet with Israeli military, police, and intelligence agencies. They are given “opportunities” to learn about what Israel calls counterterrorism, but is in fact no more than “refining methods of racial profiling.”

Cynically taking advantage of the 9/11 attacks, within months of the attacks, American law enforcement representatives set out to Israel for their first official training expeditions. The purpose was to learn from Isreal’s so-called “expertise” in what has become known as counter-terrorism. Counter-Terrorism, it is worth noting here, is a euphemism for the violent means used to subjugate oppressed people…

Media

The training Israel offers also includes methods to control the media. Members of law enforcement who have received the training reported that they “learned about how to intervene and shape media access and coverage of violence committed by the military and police.” The Israeli methods taught include how to use the media as an arm of the government and “reframe coverage of state violence.”

The Israeli government utilizes the office of the military censor to control all reporting on Israel’s use of force. It also reviews all books and other material before it can be made available to the public. The IDF Spokesperson’s office which also yields power over Israeli journalists, acts as Israel’s de facto public relations office, restricting and shaping local coverage of what it considers to be “security affairs.”

It should be noted that in Israel there is very little criticism when it comes to the work of the army and other security agencies and reporters work very closely with the military to present its violence against Palestinians as justified. Palestinian dissent, even when it is expressed in the most peaceful methods, is regularly reported as violence and borderline terrorism.

Israel has “normalized” the use of military force to stamp out popular protests, thus contributing to the undermining of basic civil rights of Palestinians. These violent, forceful methods of controlling dissent are shown to the American police delegations through briefings and even live demonstrations…

Yes for the Israeli government the 911 attacks on America are the gifts that keep on giving.  America has been under unrelenting terror attacks since 2001.  The Covid-19 is another false flag that has been used to enrich the imperialists and impoverish the American people.  From Alan Macleod at Mint Press:

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Media Elite Denounce Looting Even as Billionaires Reap Record Profits from Taxpayer-Funded Bailouts

A mountain of studies on wealth inequality have shown its corrosive effect on social cohesion, with the more unequal a society gets, the less likely people are to see themselves as participants in a community and view others as a threat.

The extrajudicial killing of African-American man George Floyd by Police Officer Derek Chauvin sparked a storm of protests both in Minneapolis and across the country. These have included large peaceful demonstrations, but also arson, destruction of property and looting. Police have abandoned multiple precincts in the face of overwhelming popular rage.

The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. consistently argued that looting is the language of the unheard and oppressed, a physical manifestation of their marginalization. However, many in the establishment, particularly on the right, have not interpreted the events as such, and appear scandalized by them…

Yet a new and updated report from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) reveals that the looting in Minneapolis pales into insignificance compared with the enormous wealth American’s billionaire class has managed to accrue during the pandemic.

In the ten weeks since the nationwide lockdown first began, the group calculates that billionaires have increased their wealth by $485 billion – equal to 16.5 percent. This half-trillion-dollar rise, for Chuck Collins, Director of the IPS’ Program on Inequality and the Common Good, is something close to looting the whole economy.

“The wealthy are economically distancing from the rest of society. Worse, some are pandemic profiteering, looting government stimulus programs and taking advantage of market monopolies,” he told MintPress News.

The enormous explosion in wealth, even amidst a pandemic that has caused the economy to collapse, businesses to close, and demand to dwindle, is down in no small part to the passing of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, one of the greatest upwards transfers in wealth in history. While the bill, passed in late March, includes a check of up to $1,200 for most Americans, the vast majority of the benefits go to the ultra wealthy.

A report from the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), a nonpartisan congressional body, found that almost 82 percent of the tax breaks and other financial benefits go to those already earning over $1 million per year. In contrast, less than three percent will go to the great majority who earn under $100,000 annually. The loopholes around capital gains tax will especially benefit the richest few hundred Americans. The JCT also projects that the tax cut will add almost $170 billion to the deficit over the next ten years.

Some of the biggest winners in the last few weeks, according to the IPS, include Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (up over $34 billion in two months), Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg (up over $25 billion) and Microsoft’s Bill Gates, who increased his already enormous fortune by $8 billion. Meanwhile, Elon Musk, whose California Tesla car plant was closed for months, has seen his net worth increase by almost 50 percent, to over $36 billion. Even in the last week, America’s billionaires’ fortunes have increased by $50 billion.

At the same time, unemployment has surged to over 40 million, and food banks across the country are inundated with customers desperate for anything they can get. Around one third of renters in the United States failed to pay their rent in April and May.

“When the wealth of billionaires surges at the same time that tens of millions lose their lives and livelihoods, it undermines the solidarity required for us to pull together and help one another during a pandemic,” Collins added.

I heard there was looting and I'm furious. Republicans and Democrats stealing from the poor to bail out the rich in a #pandemic. That kind of theft is unacceptable.

While many among the elite may be aghast at the scenes of low level looting in Minneapolis, the enormous siphoning off of public funds to further enrich billionaires has gone largely unnoticed. A mountain of sociological studies on wealth inequality have shown that it has a corrosive effect on social cohesion, with the more unequal a society gets, the less likely people are to see themselves as participants in a community, viewing others as threats.

More unequal societies also commonly favor more repressive policing tactics like the ones seen in Minneapolis this week. Although many might not realize it, the enormous looting by billionaires and the petty looting by protestors in Minneapolis might have more in common than first meets the eye. 
  
Maybe the rioters and looters should be looting the offices of of Mitch McConnel, Nancy Peolsi, Chuck Schumer and the rest of the millionaire globalists who are destroying America and looting our treasury.  In the middle of a pandemic with 40 million laid off and losing their health insurance, Pelosi’s office has assured the insurance industry she’s got their back.  From The Intercept:

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TOP NANCY PELOSI AIDE PRIVATELY TELLS INSURANCE EXECUTIVES NOT TO WORRY ABOUT DEMOCRATS PUSHING “MEDICARE FOR ALL”


LESS THAN A month after Democrats — many of them running on “Medicare for All” — won back control of the House of Representatives in November, the top health policy aide to then-prospective House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Blue Cross Blue Shield executives and assured them that party leadership had strong reservations about single-payer health care and was more focused on lowering drug prices, according to sources familiar with the meeting.

Pelosi adviser Wendell Primus detailed five objections to Medicare for All and said that Democrats would be allies to the insurance industry in the fight against single-payer health care.

Yes, millionaire Nancy Pelosi wants the insurance industry to know that if they back Democrats their massive profits will remain while the American people suffer. 

The more unequal the more repressive policing becomes. Not only have the police been trained in Israel to view the masses as the enemy but they no longer police the communities where they reside.  In other words, they have no skin in the game, they do not belong to the community they police and therefore don’t care about the small businesses being destroyed; it doesn’t affect them.  From Libor Jany Star Tribune:

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Only about 8 percent of Minneapolis police officers live in city limits

Of the department's 873 officers, 72 live in Minneapolis ZIP codes.

While its police force may be on the smallish side, Anoka is arguably one of the most guarded places around.  That’s because the suburb about 40 minutes north of the Twin Cities is home to 27 Minneapolis police officers, nearly outnumbering the town’s 29-member department.  Another 29 Minneapolis cops reside in nearby Andover, which doesn’t have its own police department.

In fact, Minneapolis police officers living outside of the city is more the rule than the exception. Of the department’s 873 sworn officers, only about 8 percent — or 72 officers — live in ZIP codes that cover most of Minneapolis, according to a Star Tribune analysis of city records. Not that times have changed all that much: in 1989, about 70 percent of the police force lived elsewhere.

Today, you’re more likely to run into a Minneapolis cop after hours and out of uniform in Hudson, Wis., (home to 10 officers) or Elk River (12) than in parts of the North Side, the records show. One officer commutes about 60 miles each way to the city from his or her home in Deronda, Wis. 

The fractious debate over whether officers should live in the communities they patrol resurfaced in the wake of a series of high-profile police shootings, including that of Justine Ruszczyk Damond in south Minneapolis last month. One way of bridging the divide between law enforcement and communities of color is to have the two sides live next to each other, say some advocates.

New Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said at a community forum last week that where an officer lives matters less than his or her willingness to serve, and that working to stem racial profiling and recruit more minorities are more important to regaining public trust.  “I will take character over residency every day of the week,” Arradondo said. “I don’t care if a person lives in Alaska.”

There has been little appetite to repeal a state law barring cities from requiring their officers to live near the citizens they’re sworn to protect, said Minneapolis Council Member Blong Yang, chair of the Public Safety Committee, who said he is in favor of hiring more locals to the city’s police force.

Encouraging officers to live where they work so they can better relate to the people they serve would go a long way to building community trust, he said.  “It’s a feeling of like ‘These people are like us,’” said Yang. “There’s something to be said about that, when you can identify with them as humans and neighbors, and they’re not just hired guns that show up whenever the city of Minneapolis needs someone to enforce stuff.”

Others fear that hiring people from outside Minneapolis could mean a police department that’s out of touch with the realities of life in some of the city’s tougher neighborhoods.

“When a police officer lives in a community that they are supposed to serve, they’re going to feel more accountable, they feel more ownership, they’re going to have those community connections,” said Sam Sanchez, community organizer with Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar.  Some argue that residency requirements make it harder for the city to recruit and retain talented officers…

 “Most departments have residency requirements, they’re just not as restrictive as the public would like them to be,” said M. Michaux Parker, an associate professor of criminal justice at Indiana University East, who co-authored a 2013 study on officer residency requirements. Some departments require officers to live relatively close to their work, in case “there’s a riot situation or there’s some other type of civil unrest, every officer is going to have to be called in.”

“If your goal is to [improve] police-community relations, that’s one way of the doing it, but it’s not the only way of doing it,” he said.

The Zionist imperialists that are infesting our government will do anything to remove President Trump from office, even if it means destroying America.  The military refuses to obey the Commander In Chief’s orders.  When President Trump called for the troops to leave Afghanistan, the military advisors convinced him to stay.  Congress doesn’t want order restored and actually are supporting the looting.  It’s revolting.  From Gold Goats and Guns:

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Trump’s Distractions or Is the Empire in Retreat?

Things continue to spiral out of control in the U.S. as the myth of policing fails and anti-civilizational forces move into the power vacuum.  And while I’m still completely committed to the end of the U.S. empire and its imperial edicts, It’s also not lost on me what’s happening, who’s making it happen and how they are taking advantage of this.

I warned you President Trump’s near atavistic pursuit of U.S. ‘enemies’ in places like Syria, Iraq, Iran and Venezuela would turn the world against us. Look at the protests for George Floyd across Europe and tell me things haven’t changed.  The empire is the problem. It’s a lesson Justin Raimondo taught me at Antiwar.com twenty years ago. And it’s only now that that idea has reached any kind of critical mass.

Are we going to dismantle the empire in an orderly fashion or a chaotic one? The animals on the streets have cast their vote. What’s yours?  And while Trump has made a hash of foreign policy in so many ways, I also told you that he was smart enough to only play the crazy Ivan role up the to point of actually starting a shooting war.

This is his greatest accomplishment as President. Sadly, it shouldn’t be that great an accomplishment.

And all detractors need to remember this, including me. He hasn’t ended existing wars, but he hasn’t started any new ones. And the U.S. political apparatchiks in D.C. have been braying for wars for nearly four years.   Trump’s failure, however, is in not understanding that sanctions, tariffs, and diplomatic strong-arming are acts of war.

They may be a real part of realpolitik but his failure to grasp the nuances of that have led to the present situation internationally where he is effectively being ignored in every way that matters.  At the same time he’s dealing with a domestic insurrection that is both organic and organized, free-spirited and feral.  Here are a list of major incidents over the past week that support the thesis of the failure of the U.S. empire.

They are all significant.

The first is Iran successfully staring down U.S naval blockade threats to deliver refined petroleum and replacement parts to Venezuela. All five tankers made it safely into port and expect another five in the future.  Like with last year’s drone incident and this January’s missile attack on our bases, Iran called Trump’s bluff when push came to shove.

As Yra Harris said to me in my recent podcast, do you think the U.S. will go to nuclear war over Turkey? No.  We didn’t do it in 1972 over Taiwan when Nixon sat down with Mao. We’re not doing it today with Iran, China or Russia. Iran understands this. Russia understands this. And China understands this.

So, all Trump has as an effective weapon is excising people from the dollar system, itself the source of most of the U.S.’s real strength, because the military truly can’t be used anymore like it was in the past.  And that weapon is being easily countered.  That is only accelerating the resistance to the U.S.’s hegemony in the long run.

Next up is the completion of Nordstream 2. It’s happening. Yes, Trump and his idiotic sanctions delayed it for a year or so, but that delay forced Ukraine’s hand to sign a terrible gas transit deal with Gazprom which will ensure in five years there will be no gas transiting across Ukraine.  So, does that change the dynamic in Ukraine? Ukraine was the project of Obama, Clinton, Biden, McCain and Nuland. Why on earth would he continue it today?

End the sanctions. End support of Ukraine. The Democrats will scream Russia into a vacuum.  The Russian pipe-laying vessel is in Danish waters doing the work and all Trump accomplished is ticking off the Swiss. None of the legal arm-twisting worked.  More sanctions won’t stop it.  The pipeline will be finished by the end of the year.

The EU gas directive which forces un-bundling of the ownership of the pipeline from the gas going through it was nullified by German courts.  Was anyone surprised by this? Germany gets to become the energy distribution hub for Europe, tying them to Russia. Why would they vote against that?

All the time, money and political capital spent to stop Nordstream 2 which was never going to be stopped because of the economic and political advantages to Germany, have come to naught.  Pipelines are important. They are the seams that bind countries together. Trump knows this but he can’t stop it.

Putin and Russia now have major energy pipelines connecting them to two major NATO countries, Turkey and Germany. All because the Obama administration decided to stop South Stream going through Bulgaria.  So instead of Russia gaining the long-term relationship with and loyalty of Bulgaria, it has gained even stronger relationships with Turkey and Germany. If this isn’t a foreign policy own goal of epic proportions nothing is.  And that’s on Obama, not Trump.

This solidifies Russia’s hold over the Black Sea and gives Russia the ability to support kicking the U.S. influence out of the Eastern Mediterranean. It also ensures that Turkey’s adventurism in the Mediterranean is tempered by Putin, not Erdogan in the end.  When Turkey gets uppity to the point of needing a smack down, Trump won’t hold the hammer, Putin will. And Trump will need Putin to deliver that blow to protect Greece and/or Israel and what happens then?

Still think the Empire needs to be kicked in the nuts by attacking it from within? It’s doing a fine job of self-flagellation from my seat in the bleachers.

The war in Syria is, effectively, over. So is Iraq. Trump understands this dynamic but won’t admit it publicly. In reality, he knows there is little left to do except pull out of the region now. Hence he’s quietly, for him, drawing down troops in Afghanistan at a far faster rate than has been officially recognized.

The Pentagon says that the goal has been for 8,600 troops to be left in the country by mid-July, and they are so ahead of schedule they say they’ll meet that number in June, which is just a few days away. The White House, by contrast, suggested that the US has somewhere in the realm of 7,000 troops left in Afghanistan and that this is set to drop even further.

Afghanistan first. Then Iraq. Then Syria. If reports of Bibi Netanyahu’s pet traitor Jared Kushner’s days in the White House being numbered are true, that timetable could accelerate quickly in the next couple of months as we approach the election.  

The big issue surrounding the domestic insurrection today is the ruthlessness of the Empire abroad and at home.

Trump has a chance here to ‘win bigly’ as Scott Adams puts it, by reversing his worst foreign policy excesses, lifting some of the sanctions on places like Iran and Venezuela and reining in the lawlessness of both the jackals in D.C. and on the streets across the U.S.

But he can’t do that if people pile on the side of the vandals fomenting insurrection to cover up their crimes.

The complete collapse of law and order that is occurring today is not the result of racism it is the result of imperialism.  Imperialism is the root of all evil and it begets racism and class warfare.  This disaster was foisted upon us by the Zionist imperialists embedded in our government that remain in place through administration after administration.  Americans must rebel and clean out congress and rid us of this evil once and for all.