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"[There are] two new currents of thought: the Jacksonians around Donald Trump and the Wokists, puritans without God.
We are currently witnessing an intensification of population movements in the USA. Election scholars find that many Americans are leaving the Woke regions and joining the Jacksonians. According to moving companies, their clients move from big cities to smaller ones where life is cheaper and more pleasant. However, they all note that their clients are increasingly citing a new motive: they are traveling to join part of their family. This explanation matches what Colin Woodard observed a decade ago: Americans are grouped by community of origin. Real estate developers are observing the proliferation of secure neighborhoods (Gated Communities). Their clients gather with people like them, having inherited the same culture and belonging to the same social class. Often, they are worried about the rise in insecurity and evoke a possible civil war."
"Let’s not be blind. All empires are mortal. The “American empire” too."
--Thierry Meyssan
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."
US Marine General Smedley Butler, reflecting on his 35-year career as a soldier
“Fact check; not locking down at all (like Sweden) would have saved lives in UK. Hard to believe how much money the UK spent on its sham covid inquiry.”
--Jay Bhattacharya
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry cost millions. It finally released the core political chapters of its long-awaited report. After nearly three years of hearings, millions of documents, and tens of millions of pounds spent on legal fees, the conclusion is now unmistakably clear.
They’ve learned nothing, even while watching millions suffer from lockdowns and vaccination.
Worse, they may not want to learn. The Inquiry’s structure, its analytical frame, even its carefully curated narrative all point in the same direction: away from the possibility that Britain’s pandemic response was fundamentally misguided.
Bill Madden writes, "Refusing illegal orders in the military is difficult to do because they normally are generated high in the chain of command and very few officers in the chain really know what is or is not a legal order. Immediate superiors can be very demanding and the orders are usually given in high pressure environments. Refusing an illegal military order is tantamount to whistleblowing and, as much good as it does for the concept of truth, the whistleblower’s life is made miserable as a punishment for his honesty and a warning to others."
I watched this happen with Army Spec Michael New during the Clinton years. He disobeyed an illegal Clinton order, was arrested on base in Germany, was then given an unjust, unconstitutional trial, and then a Bad Conduct Discharge. But he stood his ground the whole time and has been proven right since.
