The cherry on top is that reportedly the German ambassador was present, applauding along with the rest.
Even so, I think the historical facts implicated here, as glaring as they are, are secondary. The overarching reality being brought home is the absolutely bottomless conformity required to remain and thrive in elite establishment circles in the West today: they all stood and clapped, no hesitation or thinking permitted.
That conformity recalls those old stories of Soviet reps applauding Comrade Stalin until their hands ached; he who stopped applauding first was sure to be find himself next in a Gulag.
But we don't have that kind of mindless conformity in the West, hey, comrade?
I don't agree with your characterization of Stalin. If you have any real proof of that actually happening, I would like to know what it is. As you mentioned in your article Russia was the best ally the U. S. had in World War II, by far the best. Roosevelt planned on getting along with the Russians after the war, and it wasn't Stalin who dropped atomic bombs on civilians in two cities for no good reason at all.
I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with. Certainly, Stalin sent plenty of dissidents to gulags, and there was a heavy use of show trials. To be seen as opposing Stalin was to risk one's life. Stalin was a ruthless dictator who was jealous of his own power. He was also a powerful ally against Nazi Germany and led the most powerful army that defeated the Wehrmacht in World War II. Both those things can be true.
Russians in general and Putin in particular are constantly disparaged as less than human barbarians. That fiction makes it easier for the warmongers in Congress, in the Biden administration and, not least, in the New York Times to foment the proxy war against the Russians that is going on now. Roosevelt certainly wasn't perfect, and neither was Stalin, but they were both rational human beings. I think a pretty good case can be made that Russia is more civilized than we are.
"Just because Ukraine has Nazi paramilitaries and just because it’s impossible to take photos of Ukrainian soldiers without capturing Nazi insignia and just because Ukrainian Nazis get applauded in parliament doesn’t mean we’re on the side of the Nazis, you crazy Russian shill."
I'm not sure how Bill's very good comment on our lack of outrage about nazis , got morphed into a discussion on national debt, but thank you jg for your link to the article about that! I forwarded it to a bunch. Everyone should read it! I think the fact that we are subsidizing nazis by the billions in Ukraine may have something to do with the morph. How have we forgotten what nazis were like? Maybe only the people who were born before, during or shorty after the end of WWII really understand the horror. I was 10 when the war ended and I still remember the shock and horror I felt when I saw the newsreels of the camps and heard the stories in school of what nazism was about. Do we have to experience this all over again for everyone else who didn't live through this? Probably Europe has a better memory, but even that is fading, and our own MSM is ding its best to make sure we don't remember, and has "disappeared" the fact that Ukraine is basically run by nazis. That word doesn't seem to be in the vocabulary of the NYT or the Wash Post, NPR, PBS, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, FOX and hence not anywhere else either. But who cares? Nazis are just another political party that we are supporting just like Canada.
That wasn’t “Canada” that applauded a World War II Nazi War Criminal.
That was a bunch of dumb-shit Canadian politicians with their heads stuck very firmly up their individual and collective asses.
Just like it wasn’t “America” that gave Zelensky all those standing ovations when he addressed the US Congress back in December, 2022. It was America’s own spawn of dumb-shit politicians with their heads similarly stuck.
The real question ~ and one that has already been answered ~ is “So what are the Canadian People going to DO about that and their dumb-shit government’s support of the current Nazi regime in Kyiv?”
And the answer is that they will do exactly the same thing as the American People have done about their government’s waging this proxy war against Russia in Ukraine: Absolutely Nothing.
My guess is that the overwhelming majority of Canadians are just like the overwhelming majority of Americans: They couldn’t find Ukraine on an unmarked map of the world if their lives and livelihoods depended on it, let alone know and understand anything that has been and is going on there. And where it is leading.
"Gormless Canadian Hacks Applaud Nazi in Parliament" was my alternate title. :-)
Of course, all those Canadian reps are supposed to represent the voters just like our elected reps are supposed to represent us. Are Canadian reps as deeply compromised by moneyed interests as their American counterparts? They seem as docile and obedient to war as ours are.
If those Canadian politicians are as deeply compromised as America's, it is only because the Canadian Peoples let them be that way and get away with it. Just like the American Peoples and their politicians.
The question is: How many American and Canadian Citizens BENEFIT from their own Politician[s] being deeply compromised?
Apparently enough to see to it that nothing changes, eh?
And i'm not sure if "Gormless" is quite forceful enough. My headline would have been "Dumb F**k Canadian Hacks... ."
No, Jeff, it's not good enough to blame "ordinary" Americans and Canadians. Your analytical mind is much sharper than this. One must place the blame where it belongs: on those who exercise power, whether it be the federal reserve, the MICIMATT, or Wall Street, the banks, and similar conglomerations of money and power.
When SCOTUS defines money as speech and bribery is basically legalized, how can ordinary people fight back? It's not a fair fight. The game is rigged. And maybe the jig is up.
When you keep getting knocked down and kicked in the face, it's very hard to get up and keep fighting when the odds are so woefully stacked against you. Too many Americans, bullied and bludgeoned, have decided it's futile to fight. Do we blame them, or should we instead blame those who are bullying and bludgeoning them? I say the latter.
Also Bill, You wrote: “When SCOTUS defines money as speech and bribery is basically legalized, how can ordinary people fight back? It's not a fair fight. The game is rigged. And maybe the jig is up.”
Before “ordinary people” ~ however many of them there are ~ can begin to fight back, they are going to have to first figure out and agree on exactly what it is that they are going to be fighting back FOR. And then they can begin to figure out how to go about doing that successfully.
But unless and until there is a consensus of a critical mass of conscious, concerned, and committed Citizens as to what actually and exactly is WRONG with the current system of government and governance, nothing is going to change. Except to get worse.
Sorry, Bill, but i must completely, totally, categorically, and respectfully disagree with You.
Since ~ just for starters ~ since 9/11, exactly WHERE, WHEN, and HOW have the American Peoples been kept “getting knocked down and kicked in the face”?
Especially when it comes to “The Forever War” spawned by 9/11 in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Equatorial Africa, and Yemen?
Or about Saddam’s “WMDs” and the resultant DESERT STORM, Phase II? Or the 2008 “Too Big to Let Fail ¢risi$”? Or about The COVID Event, Phase 1?
Or about Obama’s Coup in Ukraine in 2014, Trump’s doing nothing to stop the murder of 14,000 Ukrainians after the Coup, and now, America’s supplying, equipping, and bankrolling Ukraine for its proxy war on Russia since February 2022?
When, Where, and How have the American Peoples done anything Against ~ or even About ~ any of this that then led them to being knocked down and kicked in the face?
It’s a damn good thing that too many American Colonists didn’t quit getting up after they had been bullied and bludgeoned by the British Empire, eh?
And the question isn’t “Who do we blame?” The question is: Are the American Peoples going to DO anything about this to change the current collision course with Reality that their Nation is? Or have they just given up?
If the answer is like what they have done on every major situation/crisis since 9/11, then the answers are NO and YES, respectively.
Also, You wrote: “One must place the blame where it belongs: on those who exercise power, whether it be the federal reserve, the MICIMATT, or Wall Street, the banks, and similar conglomerations of money and power.”
The blame is not to be placed on those Agents who exercise Power in the name of more Power so as to get more Money so as to get more Power so as to get… .
The blame is to be placed on a system of government and governance that allows ~ and in fact encourages ~ unfettered access by those Agents to that government’s legal power, administrative authority, and, particularly, its spending capability thru its governors: the elected politicians, entrenched bureaucrats, and anointed appointees.
Why popular movements have failed--check out Chris Hedges's latest, Jeff. His concluding paragraph:
"Revolutions require skilled organizers, self-discipline, an alternative ideological vision, revolutionary art and education. They require sustained disruptions of power, and most importantly leaders who represent the movement. Revolutions are long, difficult projects that take years to make, slowly and often imperceptibly eating away at the foundations of power. The successful revolutions of the past, along with their theorists, should be our guide, not the ephemeral images that entrance us on mass media."
We've seen false leaders in the U.S., like Obama in 2007-08 and Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020. Bernie had good ideas but was unwilling to break from the party that was screwing him. Obama, of course, ruled as a moderate Republican, as he himself admitted. He was a phony.
We need real leaders. RFK Jr? Cornel West? Someone else?
OK, so your last paragraph places the blame squarely on our "system of government and governance." I think you're also assigning blame to all of us for allowing this system to flourish like an especially foul and noxious weed. And you're suggesting some people are profiting from this system and therefore have no incentive to change it.
My point, as I've written about many times, is that "ordinary" people are kept divided, distracted, and downtrodden deliberately by that system. It's very hard to fight back when you're homeless on the street. Or when you're living paycheck-to-paycheck with two or even three jobs. And when you're told to obey or risk a police beating or prison for protesting. We are also heavily propagandized not only to accept the system as it is, but to believe it's the world's best system, an "exceptional" one. And that America is the world's greatest country.
Powerful forces are at work to keep people supine and asleep, or to whack them down if they awaken and resist. That's my point.
The latest headline in CanaDa is the Trudeau government will have to slash $1 BILLION from CanaDa's Defence Budget.
Not a word about the $800 MILLION Trudeau pledged to Ukraine during Zelensky's scandal plagued visit or the Jan 10, 2023 promise Canada will buy a U.S.-made National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) for Ukraine.
That system from the US Military-Industrial Complex costs $285 MILLION, each missile costing $1.2 MILLION with multiple missiles in each NASAM battery.
Ukraine is already bankrupt! Who's going to pay for replacement missiles being used up so fast?
There are reports the US government is BORROWING $6 BILLION every single day just to keep operating.
What does that portend for the Future with Politicians calling for austerity for the Public and increased Military spending?
By your link, despite all the negativity about the Russian & Chinese Economies, both are still in a better position than the US financially, especially Russia under Putin.
Russia is in much better shape financially than CanaDa running a $40 BILLION deficit annually as far as the eye can see without severe austerity imposed on Canadians.
Justin is so unlike his Father who must be spinning in his grave, seeing how high his son will jump to please, placate, and serve US Economic-Military Power!
The Canadian Economy is more deeply integrated with the US Economy than the World is with the Chinese Economy.
Unlike Humans, established governments cannot just separate as quickly and easily as ordinary People do.
When the US and the Soviet Russians were shouting at each other in Public during the mid 80s, to the chagrin of the US, Justin's father Pierre Trudeau at my urging, embarked on his World Peace Mission.
What was interesting to me seeing this CBC news report '1983: Pierre Trudeau's peace mission reaches China' as it was reported live in 1983, is the fact I still have the same poster in my living room that is behind Knolton Nash the news reader at the start of the CBC report!
It is as though Operation Unthinkable was instituted in slow motion, and we are still in the throes of it. That was the plan by Churchill for the Allies to join with the remnants of the III Reich and attack the Soviet Union as WWII drew to a close. The duplicity, immorality and deceitfulness of the Allies is stark and disturbing. I always wonder what the world would be like if the alliance between the Soviets and the West had been maintained after the war, instead of being shattered by the West's treachery.
And the latest episode of America’s favorite Reality-TV Soap Opera, SWAMPLAND…:
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN AVERTED: House Passes Bill To Keep Government Running For 45 Days
The House bill attracted strong bipartisan support and includes more domestic disaster relief aid but no money for Ukraine. It must pass the Senate before midnight to avert a shutdown.
Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown on Saturday with just hours to spare as the House, in a stunning turnabout, approved a stopgap plan to keep the federal government open into mid-November and the Senate then cleared it and sent it to the White House.
The Senate voted 88-9 to approve the measure, which President Biden was expected to sign.
ANTHONY FAUCI WAS AMERICA'S WARMUP DICTATOR: He Institutionalized The Purposeful Lie, Suppressed Critics, Mastered Emergency Politics, Even Sold Himself As A Sex Symbol. Anthony Fauci Gave The Next Monster A Playbook
Apart from a few conservative outlets, NO ONE PICKED UP THE STORY. How screwed up is the U.S. right now?
THE NATION’S TOP MEDICAL OFFICIAL FOR YEARS WORKED IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TO STIFLE INVESTIGATION OF OUR WORST HEALTH CRISIS, WHICH INCREASINGLY LOOKS LIKE A UNPARALLELED MAN-MADE CATASTROPHE, AND HE’S GOING TO SKATE ON IT, BECAUSE UPPER-CLASS AMERICA IS NOW SO DEEP INTO MASS MENTAL ILLNESS THAT IT’S MORE LIKELY TO MAKE A SEX SYMBOL OF CORRUPTION THAN PUNISH IT.
Historians will scratch heads at the Fauci episode, because as troubling as his secret behavior apparently was, his worst offenses were public. While the Washington Post patted itself on the back for counting by the thousand “false statements” by Donald Trump like, “The world respects us again,” and “[Biden] was a cheerleader for NAFTA,” Tony Fauci was winning plaudit after plaudit for telling reporters to their faces that he lied to the public for its own good. A TYPICAL TRUMP LIE WAS PRESIDENTIAL FLATUS, POPPING OUT UNSCRIPTED FOR A LINE OF POST REPORTERS TO EAGERLY INHALE, BUT FAUCI’S LIES WERE PLANNED, STRATEGIC, AND DESTRUCTIVE.
FAUCI LEANED INTO A CULT-OF-PERSONALITY MOVEMENT WHEN AMERICANS WERE EXQUISITELY VULNERABLE TO SUCH MANIPULATIONS. WHEN A COVID-LEVEL DISASTER HITS, TERRIFIED PEOPLE WILL SURRENDER TO ANY HACK WITH A POKER FACE CLAIMING TO HAVE ANSWERS. FAUCI ONLY JUST FINISHED PLAYING THAT HAND MORE AGGRESSIVELY THAN PERHAPS ANY AMERICAN PUBLIC FIGURE EVER.
Merely another piece of evidence of the intellectual poverty of our political and media 'elites', not to mention our Cold War and current foreign and military policies.
I remember the Bitburg incident very well, having watched it on TV on posting as Canadian Liaison Officer to a German Division. Two things that I found dumb, Reagan dressed in a raincoat over so much body armour that he could hardly move (Chancellor Kohl wore a normal suit, emphasizing the difference) , and two General Officers who had fought on opposite sides in WW II, choreographed to turn to each other at the programmed moment and ceremoniously and awkwardly shaking hands. I suppose that it would have been easier to pull off in a cemetery that featured only German non-SS and American graves.
The cherry on top is that reportedly the German ambassador was present, applauding along with the rest.
Even so, I think the historical facts implicated here, as glaring as they are, are secondary. The overarching reality being brought home is the absolutely bottomless conformity required to remain and thrive in elite establishment circles in the West today: they all stood and clapped, no hesitation or thinking permitted.
That conformity recalls those old stories of Soviet reps applauding Comrade Stalin until their hands ached; he who stopped applauding first was sure to be find himself next in a Gulag.
But we don't have that kind of mindless conformity in the West, hey, comrade?
I don't agree with your characterization of Stalin. If you have any real proof of that actually happening, I would like to know what it is. As you mentioned in your article Russia was the best ally the U. S. had in World War II, by far the best. Roosevelt planned on getting along with the Russians after the war, and it wasn't Stalin who dropped atomic bombs on civilians in two cities for no good reason at all.
I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with. Certainly, Stalin sent plenty of dissidents to gulags, and there was a heavy use of show trials. To be seen as opposing Stalin was to risk one's life. Stalin was a ruthless dictator who was jealous of his own power. He was also a powerful ally against Nazi Germany and led the most powerful army that defeated the Wehrmacht in World War II. Both those things can be true.
Russians in general and Putin in particular are constantly disparaged as less than human barbarians. That fiction makes it easier for the warmongers in Congress, in the Biden administration and, not least, in the New York Times to foment the proxy war against the Russians that is going on now. Roosevelt certainly wasn't perfect, and neither was Stalin, but they were both rational human beings. I think a pretty good case can be made that Russia is more civilized than we are.
Precisely the image I had in mind
I remember that Reagan visit and the uproar around. Good of you to remind us of context outrage and how far we've sunk.
As Caitlin Johnstone so eloquently explains it:
"Just because Ukraine has Nazi paramilitaries and just because it’s impossible to take photos of Ukrainian soldiers without capturing Nazi insignia and just because Ukrainian Nazis get applauded in parliament doesn’t mean we’re on the side of the Nazis, you crazy Russian shill."
Caitlin ALWAYS explains things eloquently. Thanks for sharing.
I'm not sure how Bill's very good comment on our lack of outrage about nazis , got morphed into a discussion on national debt, but thank you jg for your link to the article about that! I forwarded it to a bunch. Everyone should read it! I think the fact that we are subsidizing nazis by the billions in Ukraine may have something to do with the morph. How have we forgotten what nazis were like? Maybe only the people who were born before, during or shorty after the end of WWII really understand the horror. I was 10 when the war ended and I still remember the shock and horror I felt when I saw the newsreels of the camps and heard the stories in school of what nazism was about. Do we have to experience this all over again for everyone else who didn't live through this? Probably Europe has a better memory, but even that is fading, and our own MSM is ding its best to make sure we don't remember, and has "disappeared" the fact that Ukraine is basically run by nazis. That word doesn't seem to be in the vocabulary of the NYT or the Wash Post, NPR, PBS, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, FOX and hence not anywhere else either. But who cares? Nazis are just another political party that we are supporting just like Canada.
That wasn’t “Canada” that applauded a World War II Nazi War Criminal.
That was a bunch of dumb-shit Canadian politicians with their heads stuck very firmly up their individual and collective asses.
Just like it wasn’t “America” that gave Zelensky all those standing ovations when he addressed the US Congress back in December, 2022. It was America’s own spawn of dumb-shit politicians with their heads similarly stuck.
The real question ~ and one that has already been answered ~ is “So what are the Canadian People going to DO about that and their dumb-shit government’s support of the current Nazi regime in Kyiv?”
And the answer is that they will do exactly the same thing as the American People have done about their government’s waging this proxy war against Russia in Ukraine: Absolutely Nothing.
My guess is that the overwhelming majority of Canadians are just like the overwhelming majority of Americans: They couldn’t find Ukraine on an unmarked map of the world if their lives and livelihoods depended on it, let alone know and understand anything that has been and is going on there. And where it is leading.
"Gormless Canadian Hacks Applaud Nazi in Parliament" was my alternate title. :-)
Of course, all those Canadian reps are supposed to represent the voters just like our elected reps are supposed to represent us. Are Canadian reps as deeply compromised by moneyed interests as their American counterparts? They seem as docile and obedient to war as ours are.
If those Canadian politicians are as deeply compromised as America's, it is only because the Canadian Peoples let them be that way and get away with it. Just like the American Peoples and their politicians.
The question is: How many American and Canadian Citizens BENEFIT from their own Politician[s] being deeply compromised?
Apparently enough to see to it that nothing changes, eh?
And i'm not sure if "Gormless" is quite forceful enough. My headline would have been "Dumb F**k Canadian Hacks... ."
No, Jeff, it's not good enough to blame "ordinary" Americans and Canadians. Your analytical mind is much sharper than this. One must place the blame where it belongs: on those who exercise power, whether it be the federal reserve, the MICIMATT, or Wall Street, the banks, and similar conglomerations of money and power.
When SCOTUS defines money as speech and bribery is basically legalized, how can ordinary people fight back? It's not a fair fight. The game is rigged. And maybe the jig is up.
When you keep getting knocked down and kicked in the face, it's very hard to get up and keep fighting when the odds are so woefully stacked against you. Too many Americans, bullied and bludgeoned, have decided it's futile to fight. Do we blame them, or should we instead blame those who are bullying and bludgeoning them? I say the latter.
Also Bill, You wrote: “When SCOTUS defines money as speech and bribery is basically legalized, how can ordinary people fight back? It's not a fair fight. The game is rigged. And maybe the jig is up.”
Before “ordinary people” ~ however many of them there are ~ can begin to fight back, they are going to have to first figure out and agree on exactly what it is that they are going to be fighting back FOR. And then they can begin to figure out how to go about doing that successfully.
But unless and until there is a consensus of a critical mass of conscious, concerned, and committed Citizens as to what actually and exactly is WRONG with the current system of government and governance, nothing is going to change. Except to get worse.
I agree.
Sorry, Bill, but i must completely, totally, categorically, and respectfully disagree with You.
Since ~ just for starters ~ since 9/11, exactly WHERE, WHEN, and HOW have the American Peoples been kept “getting knocked down and kicked in the face”?
Especially when it comes to “The Forever War” spawned by 9/11 in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Equatorial Africa, and Yemen?
Or about Saddam’s “WMDs” and the resultant DESERT STORM, Phase II? Or the 2008 “Too Big to Let Fail ¢risi$”? Or about The COVID Event, Phase 1?
Or about Obama’s Coup in Ukraine in 2014, Trump’s doing nothing to stop the murder of 14,000 Ukrainians after the Coup, and now, America’s supplying, equipping, and bankrolling Ukraine for its proxy war on Russia since February 2022?
When, Where, and How have the American Peoples done anything Against ~ or even About ~ any of this that then led them to being knocked down and kicked in the face?
It’s a damn good thing that too many American Colonists didn’t quit getting up after they had been bullied and bludgeoned by the British Empire, eh?
And the question isn’t “Who do we blame?” The question is: Are the American Peoples going to DO anything about this to change the current collision course with Reality that their Nation is? Or have they just given up?
If the answer is like what they have done on every major situation/crisis since 9/11, then the answers are NO and YES, respectively.
Also, You wrote: “One must place the blame where it belongs: on those who exercise power, whether it be the federal reserve, the MICIMATT, or Wall Street, the banks, and similar conglomerations of money and power.”
The blame is not to be placed on those Agents who exercise Power in the name of more Power so as to get more Money so as to get more Power so as to get… .
The blame is to be placed on a system of government and governance that allows ~ and in fact encourages ~ unfettered access by those Agents to that government’s legal power, administrative authority, and, particularly, its spending capability thru its governors: the elected politicians, entrenched bureaucrats, and anointed appointees.
Why popular movements have failed--check out Chris Hedges's latest, Jeff. His concluding paragraph:
"Revolutions require skilled organizers, self-discipline, an alternative ideological vision, revolutionary art and education. They require sustained disruptions of power, and most importantly leaders who represent the movement. Revolutions are long, difficult projects that take years to make, slowly and often imperceptibly eating away at the foundations of power. The successful revolutions of the past, along with their theorists, should be our guide, not the ephemeral images that entrance us on mass media."
We've seen false leaders in the U.S., like Obama in 2007-08 and Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020. Bernie had good ideas but was unwilling to break from the party that was screwing him. Obama, of course, ruled as a moderate Republican, as he himself admitted. He was a phony.
We need real leaders. RFK Jr? Cornel West? Someone else?
OK, so your last paragraph places the blame squarely on our "system of government and governance." I think you're also assigning blame to all of us for allowing this system to flourish like an especially foul and noxious weed. And you're suggesting some people are profiting from this system and therefore have no incentive to change it.
My point, as I've written about many times, is that "ordinary" people are kept divided, distracted, and downtrodden deliberately by that system. It's very hard to fight back when you're homeless on the street. Or when you're living paycheck-to-paycheck with two or even three jobs. And when you're told to obey or risk a police beating or prison for protesting. We are also heavily propagandized not only to accept the system as it is, but to believe it's the world's best system, an "exceptional" one. And that America is the world's greatest country.
Powerful forces are at work to keep people supine and asleep, or to whack them down if they awaken and resist. That's my point.
The latest headline in CanaDa is the Trudeau government will have to slash $1 BILLION from CanaDa's Defence Budget.
Not a word about the $800 MILLION Trudeau pledged to Ukraine during Zelensky's scandal plagued visit or the Jan 10, 2023 promise Canada will buy a U.S.-made National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) for Ukraine.
That system from the US Military-Industrial Complex costs $285 MILLION, each missile costing $1.2 MILLION with multiple missiles in each NASAM battery.
Ukraine is already bankrupt! Who's going to pay for replacement missiles being used up so fast?
Nobody is going to pay for them. That's what the Magic of Deficit Spending and piling up the National, Sovereign Debt is all about.
And Ukraine isn't the only nation-state that is bankrupt. See https://usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html for details.
There are reports the US government is BORROWING $6 BILLION every single day just to keep operating.
What does that portend for the Future with Politicians calling for austerity for the Public and increased Military spending?
By your link, despite all the negativity about the Russian & Chinese Economies, both are still in a better position than the US financially, especially Russia under Putin.
Russia is in much better shape financially than CanaDa running a $40 BILLION deficit annually as far as the eye can see without severe austerity imposed on Canadians.
How much does the United States pay every day in INTEREST on all that money it is borrowing?
“The federal government spent about $1.3 billion per day on interest payments in 2022... .”
For details, see INTEREST COSTS ON THE NATIONAL DEBT ARE ON TRACK TO REACH A RECORD HIGH at https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2023/02/interest-costs-on-the-national-debt-are-on-track-to-reach-a-record-high .
Like i asked and answered earlier:
"How many Canadian Citizens BENEFIT from their own Politician[s] being deeply compromised?
"Apparently enough to see to it that nothing changes, eh?"
Justin is so unlike his Father who must be spinning in his grave, seeing how high his son will jump to please, placate, and serve US Economic-Military Power!
The Canadian Economy is more deeply integrated with the US Economy than the World is with the Chinese Economy.
Unlike Humans, established governments cannot just separate as quickly and easily as ordinary People do.
When the US and the Soviet Russians were shouting at each other in Public during the mid 80s, to the chagrin of the US, Justin's father Pierre Trudeau at my urging, embarked on his World Peace Mission.
What was interesting to me seeing this CBC news report '1983: Pierre Trudeau's peace mission reaches China' as it was reported live in 1983, is the fact I still have the same poster in my living room that is behind Knolton Nash the news reader at the start of the CBC report!
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1719402696
Bringing up the Bitburg controversy reminded me of an encounter I had around that time with a Holocaust survivor:https://believeandobey.net/face-to-face-with-history-d89/
"...back when the lamp was raised a bit higher and the golden door not so tarnished..." Barely a flicker remains...
Apparently Putin kicked the Nazis out of Ukraine so they had to go somewhere. Trudeau seemed like a good fit.
It is as though Operation Unthinkable was instituted in slow motion, and we are still in the throes of it. That was the plan by Churchill for the Allies to join with the remnants of the III Reich and attack the Soviet Union as WWII drew to a close. The duplicity, immorality and deceitfulness of the Allies is stark and disturbing. I always wonder what the world would be like if the alliance between the Soviets and the West had been maintained after the war, instead of being shattered by the West's treachery.
And the latest episode of America’s favorite Reality-TV Soap Opera, SWAMPLAND…:
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN AVERTED: House Passes Bill To Keep Government Running For 45 Days
The House bill attracted strong bipartisan support and includes more domestic disaster relief aid but no money for Ukraine. It must pass the Senate before midnight to avert a shutdown.
And the latest of that latest episode,,, :
Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown on Saturday with just hours to spare as the House, in a stunning turnabout, approved a stopgap plan to keep the federal government open into mid-November and the Senate then cleared it and sent it to the White House.
The Senate voted 88-9 to approve the measure, which President Biden was expected to sign.
"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition,,, ."
Matt Taibbi nails it once again with…:
ANTHONY FAUCI WAS AMERICA'S WARMUP DICTATOR: He Institutionalized The Purposeful Lie, Suppressed Critics, Mastered Emergency Politics, Even Sold Himself As A Sex Symbol. Anthony Fauci Gave The Next Monster A Playbook
Exposés in Public [ https://public.substack.com/p/fauci-diverted-us-government-away ] and Racket [ https://www.racket.news/p/did-anthony-fauci-impede-the-investigation ] this week showed Anthony Fauci engaged in the bureaucratic version of witness tampering, using a dubious “Proximal Origin” paper he helped engineer to divert attention from the possibility that Covid-19, too, was a viral Frankenstein’s monster.
Apart from a few conservative outlets, NO ONE PICKED UP THE STORY. How screwed up is the U.S. right now?
THE NATION’S TOP MEDICAL OFFICIAL FOR YEARS WORKED IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE TO STIFLE INVESTIGATION OF OUR WORST HEALTH CRISIS, WHICH INCREASINGLY LOOKS LIKE A UNPARALLELED MAN-MADE CATASTROPHE, AND HE’S GOING TO SKATE ON IT, BECAUSE UPPER-CLASS AMERICA IS NOW SO DEEP INTO MASS MENTAL ILLNESS THAT IT’S MORE LIKELY TO MAKE A SEX SYMBOL OF CORRUPTION THAN PUNISH IT.
Historians will scratch heads at the Fauci episode, because as troubling as his secret behavior apparently was, his worst offenses were public. While the Washington Post patted itself on the back for counting by the thousand “false statements” by Donald Trump like, “The world respects us again,” and “[Biden] was a cheerleader for NAFTA,” Tony Fauci was winning plaudit after plaudit for telling reporters to their faces that he lied to the public for its own good. A TYPICAL TRUMP LIE WAS PRESIDENTIAL FLATUS, POPPING OUT UNSCRIPTED FOR A LINE OF POST REPORTERS TO EAGERLY INHALE, BUT FAUCI’S LIES WERE PLANNED, STRATEGIC, AND DESTRUCTIVE.
FAUCI LEANED INTO A CULT-OF-PERSONALITY MOVEMENT WHEN AMERICANS WERE EXQUISITELY VULNERABLE TO SUCH MANIPULATIONS. WHEN A COVID-LEVEL DISASTER HITS, TERRIFIED PEOPLE WILL SURRENDER TO ANY HACK WITH A POKER FACE CLAIMING TO HAVE ANSWERS. FAUCI ONLY JUST FINISHED PLAYING THAT HAND MORE AGGRESSIVELY THAN PERHAPS ANY AMERICAN PUBLIC FIGURE EVER.
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Merely another piece of evidence of the intellectual poverty of our political and media 'elites', not to mention our Cold War and current foreign and military policies.
I remember the Bitburg incident very well, having watched it on TV on posting as Canadian Liaison Officer to a German Division. Two things that I found dumb, Reagan dressed in a raincoat over so much body armour that he could hardly move (Chancellor Kohl wore a normal suit, emphasizing the difference) , and two General Officers who had fought on opposite sides in WW II, choreographed to turn to each other at the programmed moment and ceremoniously and awkwardly shaking hands. I suppose that it would have been easier to pull off in a cemetery that featured only German non-SS and American graves.