I remember Mark Twain talking about the American Eagle and found theses passages in an article which certainly shares my feelings about the American Warbird:
"But as U.S. forces began to turn on Cuban freedom fighters and subjugate the Philippines, Twain turned completely against ‘Manifest Destiny’ and American empire.
“We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem. It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the American eagle put its talons on any other land.”
On our endless need to find new enemies ro justify our inflated war (defense) spending:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarned (and hence clamorous to be led) by menacing it with an endless stream of hobgoblins all of them imaginary.)
I was listening to Political Misfits (https://rumble.com/c/PoliticalMisfits), and they were discussing the recent elections in France, where the will of the people is being ignored, and parties are turning to Fascism rather than bow in any small way to the left. All the countries aligned with NATO are having problems with getting their populations to support the US military goals.
One more quote from Mark Twain that speaks to our condition.
"The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."
And.., we call the United States an advanced country/society when we can do no better than also solve every conflict with violence. Arthur C. Clarke is probably right in his quote: "'I'm sure the Universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here." "Gattaca" great Movie "There is no Gene for the human spirit."
Gore Vidal, one of the most insightful poignant writers and debaters...As a kid I loved watching him demolish William Buckley in debates. Much like James Baldwin cut through Buckley.
Caitlin is especially good today. She says "Pay less attention to what the 2 candidates the Democrats and Republicans have offered you ... and pay more attention to what they HAVEN"T (her emphasis) offered you". Then she lists a bunch. "They haven't offered you a candidate" ( here I'll giver her list without this foregoing preamble)" who will stop funding the genocide in Gaza."
"who will end US warmongering, militarism or imperialism"
"who will fight against the destruction of our ecosystem"
"who will end homelessness and care for the needful."
"will ensure everyone working 40 hours a week can afford a decent place to live."
"who will get money out of politics."
"who will break up monopolistic megacorporations."
"who will roll back the authoritarianism, surveillance and police militarianism you've seen in your country."
"who will end the war on drugs."
"who will give your country a normal functioning healthcare system."
"Ending ecocide, ending poverty, or ending corruption are not on the ballot."
I'm glad Australian Caitlan points this out, the DNC is concentrating on "joy". I hope by some miracle that voters will wake up over the next few weeks and realize that both Dem and Repub candidates are merely chimeras the oligarchs have allowed to be presented. There is very little "joy" here.
Our politics is primarily a limited hangout operation, i.e., reveal only portions of truths while concealing the rest. Both sides engage in it; using the most combustible arguments and topics to stifle anything further. The MSM follows along - likely as much to get access to 'Important politicians' as it is for ideology. Is it any wonder then that genocide and nuclear war are only discussed in terms of the political opposition?
Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
But your iniquities have separated you and God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.
None calls for Justice, nor any pleads for Truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Their feet run to evil, and they make hast to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
The way of Peace they don't know; and there is no Judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goes therein shall not know Peace.
Therefore is Judgment far from us, neither does Justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for Judgment, but there is none; for Salvation, but it is far off from us.
For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
And Judgment is turned away backward, and Justice stands afar off: for Truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Yea, Truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no Judgment.
The Prophet could see the People were on that path thousands of years ago when there was not so much stuff to want. It is any wonder from THEN to NOW, the People don't know what to believe?
"Extremes on both sides" How come one side is doing all the shooting?
It’s because he is against the establishment and not of the swamp
It's disgusting what they are doing to him.
Ah, the left. So kind. So tolerant.
Anybody with a brain is voting for DJT.
Can people without a brain vote? They do all the time, that's why they had Obama and Biden as Presidents.
He's given no credit for the Abraham Accords and no new Wars during his tenure.
People who have been watching both sides see complete hatred from the harris side. Trump & co have not once used words like elimination, bullseye, hitler, etc which incites the crasies
Half of America has been taught to hate Trump. I admire him greatly because he cannot be bought, blackmailed or bludgeoned, which makes him great. I hope he knows this. I imagine he does. I do hope he survives and is elected.
Can 80 million people who voted trump be all wrong. Are these good people wrong. He's loved by most Americans.
Can’t understand why he has become so hated when he’s done F ALL that any other president hasn’t done - difference is that trump says what he thinks and doesn’t back down from the BS .
Poor bloke. I pray they never get him.
You can tell how valid your ideas are by the efforts of those who are against them .
The Dems must take responsibility for what is going on - their language is appalling.
Secret Service. The secret is, they are shite.
Yes..Trump is a very successful man....but human..
Thanks so much my fellow British compatriots. God save the King. LOL Your comments give me comfort that I am not the weirdo that I am portrayed to be on this site.
"The Biden White House and the Democratic Party machine trying to advance Kamala Harris from No. 2 in the regime to No. 1 gets more interesting by the week, I have to say.
The Harris campaign has at last, two months after the party’s elites and financiers railroaded her candidacy past any semblance of a democratic process, published a platform it calls A New Way Forward......
...Slowly and very surely, it becomes clear...... how a new Democratic regime, should Harris win on Nov. 5, proposes to manage the imperium’s business.
And however many foolish voters may be illusioned otherwise, if Harris takes the White House her business will be neither more nor less than managing the imperium —the wars, the provocations, the illegal sanctions and other collective punishments, the terrorist clients in Israel, the neo–Nazis in Kiev.
Last Wednesday, Sept. 4, Liz Cheney surprised Washington and, I suppose, most of the rest of us when she announced she would support Harris’s run for the presidency."
Read the rest and weep. By Patrick Lawrence on Consortium dot com
I remember Mark Twain talking about the American Eagle and found theses passages in an article which certainly shares my feelings about the American Warbird:
"But as U.S. forces began to turn on Cuban freedom fighters and subjugate the Philippines, Twain turned completely against ‘Manifest Destiny’ and American empire.
“We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem. It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the American eagle put its talons on any other land.”
What ever happened to the olive branch carried by the eagle?
It was sharpened into a spear.
It's now used to hide what we're doing.
On our endless need to find new enemies ro justify our inflated war (defense) spending:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarned (and hence clamorous to be led) by menacing it with an endless stream of hobgoblins all of them imaginary.)
--H L Mencken
"Pro life" Republicans giving standing ovations to Bibi as he slaughters thousands of children in Gaza. "Human rights" Democrats funding the same.
I was listening to Political Misfits (https://rumble.com/c/PoliticalMisfits), and they were discussing the recent elections in France, where the will of the people is being ignored, and parties are turning to Fascism rather than bow in any small way to the left. All the countries aligned with NATO are having problems with getting their populations to support the US military goals.
One more quote from Mark Twain that speaks to our condition.
"The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."
And.., we call the United States an advanced country/society when we can do no better than also solve every conflict with violence. Arthur C. Clarke is probably right in his quote: "'I'm sure the Universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here." "Gattaca" great Movie "There is no Gene for the human spirit."
Gore Vidal, one of the most insightful poignant writers and debaters...As a kid I loved watching him demolish William Buckley in debates. Much like James Baldwin cut through Buckley.
Caitlin is especially good today. She says "Pay less attention to what the 2 candidates the Democrats and Republicans have offered you ... and pay more attention to what they HAVEN"T (her emphasis) offered you". Then she lists a bunch. "They haven't offered you a candidate" ( here I'll giver her list without this foregoing preamble)" who will stop funding the genocide in Gaza."
"who will end US warmongering, militarism or imperialism"
"who will fight against the destruction of our ecosystem"
"who will end homelessness and care for the needful."
"will ensure everyone working 40 hours a week can afford a decent place to live."
"who will get money out of politics."
"who will break up monopolistic megacorporations."
"who will roll back the authoritarianism, surveillance and police militarianism you've seen in your country."
"who will end the war on drugs."
"who will give your country a normal functioning healthcare system."
"Ending ecocide, ending poverty, or ending corruption are not on the ballot."
I'm glad Australian Caitlan points this out, the DNC is concentrating on "joy". I hope by some miracle that voters will wake up over the next few weeks and realize that both Dem and Repub candidates are merely chimeras the oligarchs have allowed to be presented. There is very little "joy" here.
Ranney my man, Trump is NOT a RepubliCON candidate who is merely the chimera the oligarchs have allowed to be presented!
Far from it. The old school neocon RepubliCONS hate his guts. Like 90% of WA DC does!
He is a huge threat to the gravy train in the beltway.
What you are seeing is a new Party forming. A REAL People's Party.
With moderates from both the left and right.
Like RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard who really will represent the forgotten middle America folks.
And refuse to be bought off by AIPAC.
But with the backing of the UAW!
This is not your father's Republican Party my friend!
This is exactly a repeat of the Whigs Party collapsing back in the 1840's.
https://www.history.com/news/whig-party-collapse
Hunker down - WA DC is in for "a good boot up its arse!" Like we say down under!
Ran across this last night. John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs on the same stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFtyDy_Bt0
Wouldn't it be great if this great interview had been on ABC, CNN and MSNBC, Alex.
Sadly, it will never happen.
Yes for sure. Fortunately we have alternative media. At least in place where it isn't banned.
In the debate the term "nuclear weapons" was spoken 3 times. By Trump as warnings!
Harris open ended stand to impose neocon "rules and norms" on Russia, but not Israel!
Two right wings, the Harris one seems to not know about nuclear weapons!
Our politics is primarily a limited hangout operation, i.e., reveal only portions of truths while concealing the rest. Both sides engage in it; using the most combustible arguments and topics to stifle anything further. The MSM follows along - likely as much to get access to 'Important politicians' as it is for ideology. Is it any wonder then that genocide and nuclear war are only discussed in terms of the political opposition?
Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
But your iniquities have separated you and God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.
None calls for Justice, nor any pleads for Truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eats of their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Their feet run to evil, and they make hast to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
The way of Peace they don't know; and there is no Judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goes therein shall not know Peace.
Therefore is Judgment far from us, neither does Justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for Judgment, but there is none; for Salvation, but it is far off from us.
For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
And Judgment is turned away backward, and Justice stands afar off: for Truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Yea, Truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no Judgment.
The Prophet could see the People were on that path thousands of years ago when there was not so much stuff to want. It is any wonder from THEN to NOW, the People don't know what to believe?
A British perspective of DJT and Murica:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD5WviOfU10
Some comments:
"Extremes on both sides" How come one side is doing all the shooting?
It’s because he is against the establishment and not of the swamp
It's disgusting what they are doing to him.
Ah, the left. So kind. So tolerant.
Anybody with a brain is voting for DJT.
Can people without a brain vote? They do all the time, that's why they had Obama and Biden as Presidents.
He's given no credit for the Abraham Accords and no new Wars during his tenure.
People who have been watching both sides see complete hatred from the harris side. Trump & co have not once used words like elimination, bullseye, hitler, etc which incites the crasies
Half of America has been taught to hate Trump. I admire him greatly because he cannot be bought, blackmailed or bludgeoned, which makes him great. I hope he knows this. I imagine he does. I do hope he survives and is elected.
Can 80 million people who voted trump be all wrong. Are these good people wrong. He's loved by most Americans.
Can’t understand why he has become so hated when he’s done F ALL that any other president hasn’t done - difference is that trump says what he thinks and doesn’t back down from the BS .
Poor bloke. I pray they never get him.
You can tell how valid your ideas are by the efforts of those who are against them .
The Dems must take responsibility for what is going on - their language is appalling.
Secret Service. The secret is, they are shite.
Yes..Trump is a very successful man....but human..
Thanks so much my fellow British compatriots. God save the King. LOL Your comments give me comfort that I am not the weirdo that I am portrayed to be on this site.
Debunking The Biggest Lies Told About Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDpBh-Qi5dE
0:53 - Fine People Both Sides
3:02 - Black People
6:48 - Project 2025
8:19 - January 6th
13:22 - Abortion
14:11 - IVF
15:12 - Gay People
17:04 - Hispanic People
19:38 - 2020
I know this won't be watched by the "anyone but Trump" tribalists here on BV's.
The truth about the next President is not popular here!
There is only one option. That is starting at the grass roots level to dismember the duopoly by mounting a "people's" challenge. The approach must be methodical and unyielding. But it can be done ... https://no-contract-no-vote.us/how-the-cfar/ ... https://no-contract-no-vote.us/the-cfar-is-a-game-changer/
NOTC is flogging an old dead horse in Murica John.
Tried in Nevada state for nearly 50-years now!
No other state has ever adopted it.
"The Biden White House and the Democratic Party machine trying to advance Kamala Harris from No. 2 in the regime to No. 1 gets more interesting by the week, I have to say.
The Harris campaign has at last, two months after the party’s elites and financiers railroaded her candidacy past any semblance of a democratic process, published a platform it calls A New Way Forward......
...Slowly and very surely, it becomes clear...... how a new Democratic regime, should Harris win on Nov. 5, proposes to manage the imperium’s business.
And however many foolish voters may be illusioned otherwise, if Harris takes the White House her business will be neither more nor less than managing the imperium —the wars, the provocations, the illegal sanctions and other collective punishments, the terrorist clients in Israel, the neo–Nazis in Kiev.
Last Wednesday, Sept. 4, Liz Cheney surprised Washington and, I suppose, most of the rest of us when she announced she would support Harris’s run for the presidency."
Read the rest and weep. By Patrick Lawrence on Consortium dot com
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/20/patrick-lawrence-the-war-party-makes-its-plans/