Oct 3, 2023·edited Oct 3, 2023Liked by Bill Astore
Indeed the moral abyss that these ghouls have fallen into is bottomless. Undergirding this is the obviously propagandistic bullshit that if the US does not stop Russia in Ukraine then Putin will soon be strolling down Pennsylvania Avenue in full control of America.
We need to get the high priests of war to stop and defend the proposition that a nation with an economy the size of Italy's (less on a per capita basis) is going to reconstitute the Soviet Union, run the table to the English Channel, cross the Atlantic in force and conquer the United States. Clearly they cannot defend this nonsense, and will fall back to it is in US "interests" to engage in endless wars.
Then we strike with the demonstrable truth that it is only in the interests of a politically connected elite that has parasitically attached itself to the economy, and unrighteously lined their pockets off the backs of ordinary taxpayers and the blood of foreign innocents. An uphill battle I know, but as always the only battle worth waging is the one for peace.
Boot has long been a monster. The disturbing reveal is what his being bold and confident in posting this warmonger tract to a mainstream (well, Beltway mainstream) pub shows how mainstream warmongering now is. The incoherence of the warmongers is that they (pols, pundits, gofos) will at times wail that our forces are soon to be if not are already hopelessly outmatched unless we spend on X, Y, Z, etc. but also at other times boldly assert the U.S. military preeminence. Both are types of threat inflation designed to justify the money-pumping imperialism.
Absolutely beautifully put! And "souless" seems to be the order of the day throughout our entire government from President (no matter who recently - including Obama with this kill lists) and the Pentagon, the State Department (thank you Mme. Nuland, Blinkin, and nod) and 98% of Congress (both parties) along with our entire MSM. Thank God for Substack, Consortium News, Jimmy Dore, and others that give us access to the sanity that still resides in this country, though you have to hunt hard for it. So thank you, Bill, for being one of the ones we rely on to keep us informed and give us hope that there is still a possibility for soul and sanity left in this country.
I think it's ironic too that Trump is on trial in New York for overestimating the value of his real estate holdings. No one ever goes on trial for overestimating the value of war. Maybe they should.
All of the depraved, nefarious individuals that inhabit the US government (Executive and Congress) along with all those that inhabit the National Security State (CIA, Pentagon, NSA, etc.) who think that this war (or any war) is a "good investment" should be forced to put their money where their mouth is. How? Namely, by signing up all their military-age relatives---children, cousins, nephews, nieces, etc.--to go fight in Ukraine. And if, for any reason, they are not willing to do so, then they should be diagnosed for who they are---sociopaths and psychopaths one and all---and sent away to an institution, so that the rest of us can live safely and securely in peace and harmony with nature and other like-minded human beings.
Just got another 1 week suspension from commenting in The Washington Post. This is the 7th suspension since the Ukraine WAR started.
I didn't save the comment that got me a 1 Day suspension last week. I'll save them all now when I post since my attitude toward the US and the WAR is much clearer and definite, telling it like it is.
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What The Washington Post is doing censoring my comments is exactly what they say Russia does and it's EVIL! This is what I posted, now deleted from the discussion.
"As a Canadian, it is in my self-interest to study closely what the US Goliath south of our border is doing.
Americans forgot or just dismiss as unimportant the FACT it was Vice-President Biden that presided over the 2014 US-CIA Coup/regime change of the Democratically elected Russian FRIENDLY government, changing it for a US/NATO proxy ANTI-Russian government.
That US installed anti-Russian proxy Ukraine government started shelling the Russian speaking UKRAINE CIVILIANS that voted for that Russian friendly government and reject the US-CIA Coup/regime change, a CIA specialty.
Over 14,000 Russian speaking UKRAINIAN CIVILIANS were killed by UKRAINE government shelling of CIVILIANS in the East bordering Russia between 2015 up to the week BEFORE January 24, 2022.
In that week, the OSCE TRUCE monitoring team in place because of Minsk I & II reported up to 2000 TRUCE VIOLATIONS every DAY. That's one FACT of History US/NATO neglects to inform the American People with so many SINS of Historical Omission that shows the US/NATO planned and provoked the Russian SMO to stop UKRAINE killing Russian speaking UKRAINIANS.
Why would I go to the OSCE website to know those FACTS BEFORE the WAR started?
One reason is Today is the 135th Day of my 80th year counting up, not a count-down.
I have more time to think and question, being able to pay my rent, utilities, food, car expenses on my Old Age Security of $1311 USD -$1811 CAD, with a little left over every month being satisfied with what I have.
Having TIME to question and weigh is a luxury most workers struggling with work and bill payments living from pay to pay don't have. That's why they just accept the prescribed WAR Narrative without question.
Another reason I took it upon myself to go to the OSCE website is because as a Canadian, The Kansas City Times was quoting me September 13, 1976 after the Republican National Convention left town, publishing a followup on ALL SOULS DAY, November 2, 1976."
Oct 8, 2023·edited Oct 8, 2023Liked by Bill Astore
I have held for a long time that all military expenditure is an investment in the Broken Window Fallacy. The weapons of war and the jobs and profits from making them and selling them to governments is what is seen. What is not seen is the death and destruction caused by those weapons, usually far away from where they were made. The best one can hope from such an investment is that they not be used! But if they are used, they will result in broken windows, broken bodies, broken lives. Hardly a productive investment.
"Not About Nato" | "Never About NATO" | "Nothing to do with NATO" | UKRAINE WAR
This video collage is all about the UKRAINE WAR being about NATO according to NATO and US/NATO Official Propaganda and the US MIC making a killing off it.
So true, Bill. I couldn’t agree with you more strongly. You’re supplying, you’re voicing, what’s most missing in all the current MSM bullshit about the decade-long cascade of dire events in and around and about Ukraine: MORAL OUTRAGE.
I suspect that for the neocons a rump Ukraine is indeed the second Israel they mentioned, it is my Dear Fellow Americans a return to The Tsarist Russian Pale, where indeed many have ancestral roots.
I always wonder about what makes an economy. Especially digging ditches to fill them back in and such.
War is especially interesting because the money to create weapons is returned, in part, through taxes, and the wages and profits benefit the local economy which then also pay taxes.
Indeed the moral abyss that these ghouls have fallen into is bottomless. Undergirding this is the obviously propagandistic bullshit that if the US does not stop Russia in Ukraine then Putin will soon be strolling down Pennsylvania Avenue in full control of America.
We need to get the high priests of war to stop and defend the proposition that a nation with an economy the size of Italy's (less on a per capita basis) is going to reconstitute the Soviet Union, run the table to the English Channel, cross the Atlantic in force and conquer the United States. Clearly they cannot defend this nonsense, and will fall back to it is in US "interests" to engage in endless wars.
Then we strike with the demonstrable truth that it is only in the interests of a politically connected elite that has parasitically attached itself to the economy, and unrighteously lined their pockets off the backs of ordinary taxpayers and the blood of foreign innocents. An uphill battle I know, but as always the only battle worth waging is the one for peace.
A fishmonger sells fish. A warmonger sells war. That's what they do.
Boot has long been a monster. The disturbing reveal is what his being bold and confident in posting this warmonger tract to a mainstream (well, Beltway mainstream) pub shows how mainstream warmongering now is. The incoherence of the warmongers is that they (pols, pundits, gofos) will at times wail that our forces are soon to be if not are already hopelessly outmatched unless we spend on X, Y, Z, etc. but also at other times boldly assert the U.S. military preeminence. Both are types of threat inflation designed to justify the money-pumping imperialism.
Absolutely beautifully put! And "souless" seems to be the order of the day throughout our entire government from President (no matter who recently - including Obama with this kill lists) and the Pentagon, the State Department (thank you Mme. Nuland, Blinkin, and nod) and 98% of Congress (both parties) along with our entire MSM. Thank God for Substack, Consortium News, Jimmy Dore, and others that give us access to the sanity that still resides in this country, though you have to hunt hard for it. So thank you, Bill, for being one of the ones we rely on to keep us informed and give us hope that there is still a possibility for soul and sanity left in this country.
I think it's ironic too that Trump is on trial in New York for overestimating the value of his real estate holdings. No one ever goes on trial for overestimating the value of war. Maybe they should.
All of the depraved, nefarious individuals that inhabit the US government (Executive and Congress) along with all those that inhabit the National Security State (CIA, Pentagon, NSA, etc.) who think that this war (or any war) is a "good investment" should be forced to put their money where their mouth is. How? Namely, by signing up all their military-age relatives---children, cousins, nephews, nieces, etc.--to go fight in Ukraine. And if, for any reason, they are not willing to do so, then they should be diagnosed for who they are---sociopaths and psychopaths one and all---and sent away to an institution, so that the rest of us can live safely and securely in peace and harmony with nature and other like-minded human beings.
Speaking of investments, here's an interesting article from today's NYT. I think it's encouraging that this little town pushed back on endless war.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/world/europe/germany-defense-ukraine-war-weapons.html?unlocked_article_code=98czv5_QQOxelqslcQwq3ZUB9-IdJOycol-6nN4_9_jnTDYpQPat_jr7-QwvbAwaPWxJ7OSSy2JNHbMKyQMvWbT2utpvsW1LWqM3yL_pk33NQOlnAjtjVFq-o9l1HEmBzoQ-SRAcSkz5kRHjdqLvApXnBpGTfs80LCGov3jhZh0bIk1KUhFv_G9z03R-H4rlk1kTrVKeVc5ZZtGOa5iOBGDEQLLyrflYLpmSyzEuu6wexBwSZqY_HI6u13sJUkHAvRmkeyV34ouwc6F71sPUU3iTsM00DFa_Se5IcxPbzWCJRvO2O-IBoKtlI2xiBEXP3_T87WCRlkxatADhBH1bKlndfVQAwS0yOpw2L665IRQCvg&smid=url-share
Just got another 1 week suspension from commenting in The Washington Post. This is the 7th suspension since the Ukraine WAR started.
I didn't save the comment that got me a 1 Day suspension last week. I'll save them all now when I post since my attitude toward the US and the WAR is much clearer and definite, telling it like it is.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/02/ukraine-aid-great-investment/
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What The Washington Post is doing censoring my comments is exactly what they say Russia does and it's EVIL! This is what I posted, now deleted from the discussion.
"As a Canadian, it is in my self-interest to study closely what the US Goliath south of our border is doing.
Americans forgot or just dismiss as unimportant the FACT it was Vice-President Biden that presided over the 2014 US-CIA Coup/regime change of the Democratically elected Russian FRIENDLY government, changing it for a US/NATO proxy ANTI-Russian government.
That US installed anti-Russian proxy Ukraine government started shelling the Russian speaking UKRAINE CIVILIANS that voted for that Russian friendly government and reject the US-CIA Coup/regime change, a CIA specialty.
Over 14,000 Russian speaking UKRAINIAN CIVILIANS were killed by UKRAINE government shelling of CIVILIANS in the East bordering Russia between 2015 up to the week BEFORE January 24, 2022.
In that week, the OSCE TRUCE monitoring team in place because of Minsk I & II reported up to 2000 TRUCE VIOLATIONS every DAY. That's one FACT of History US/NATO neglects to inform the American People with so many SINS of Historical Omission that shows the US/NATO planned and provoked the Russian SMO to stop UKRAINE killing Russian speaking UKRAINIANS.
Why would I go to the OSCE website to know those FACTS BEFORE the WAR started?
One reason is Today is the 135th Day of my 80th year counting up, not a count-down.
I have more time to think and question, being able to pay my rent, utilities, food, car expenses on my Old Age Security of $1311 USD -$1811 CAD, with a little left over every month being satisfied with what I have.
Having TIME to question and weigh is a luxury most workers struggling with work and bill payments living from pay to pay don't have. That's why they just accept the prescribed WAR Narrative without question.
Another reason I took it upon myself to go to the OSCE website is because as a Canadian, The Kansas City Times was quoting me September 13, 1976 after the Republican National Convention left town, publishing a followup on ALL SOULS DAY, November 2, 1976."
https://rayjc.com/2013/09/01/signs-of-the-times/
Good read, Bill. Linking once again @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
War is most definitely an investment, especially for the neocons and in "Empire" building!!!
Liz Cheney, Victoria Nuland, John Bolton and the rest are loving it!!!
Those who are promoting this war should be put into uniforms and sent to the front lines in Ukraine.
I have held for a long time that all military expenditure is an investment in the Broken Window Fallacy. The weapons of war and the jobs and profits from making them and selling them to governments is what is seen. What is not seen is the death and destruction caused by those weapons, usually far away from where they were made. The best one can hope from such an investment is that they not be used! But if they are used, they will result in broken windows, broken bodies, broken lives. Hardly a productive investment.
"Not About Nato" | "Never About NATO" | "Nothing to do with NATO" | UKRAINE WAR
This video collage is all about the UKRAINE WAR being about NATO according to NATO and US/NATO Official Propaganda and the US MIC making a killing off it.
https://youtu.be/Zf5xEBwBhds?si=w0a3FCnKjrDt-ELK
So true, Bill. I couldn’t agree with you more strongly. You’re supplying, you’re voicing, what’s most missing in all the current MSM bullshit about the decade-long cascade of dire events in and around and about Ukraine: MORAL OUTRAGE.
Since the 2014 coup US has been militarizing Ukraine.
Hitler 'remilitarizing' the Rhineland in 1936 was a great investment as well!
All those citing Munich 1938 are really dense!
More reason to hold Lockheed stock.
I suspect that for the neocons a rump Ukraine is indeed the second Israel they mentioned, it is my Dear Fellow Americans a return to The Tsarist Russian Pale, where indeed many have ancestral roots.
Further it’s a backup plan to Israel proper.
I realize that sounds mad.
It’s not my madness.
Analysis isn’t advocacy.
I always wonder about what makes an economy. Especially digging ditches to fill them back in and such.
War is especially interesting because the money to create weapons is returned, in part, through taxes, and the wages and profits benefit the local economy which then also pay taxes.
So what is the true net cost?