And never forget how Thatcher lionised Pinochet, and promoted her pet theory of monetarism, based on Chile being the only country that had even tried it. And today's mainstream economists have been brainwashed by an education system indoctrinated into that same dead-end theory, hence we have so-called socialist chancellor Reeves claiming she has to balance the books by taking away benefits. Even Thatcher didn't quite sink to that level. (Hint: govts DO NOT have to "balance the books", govt money doesn't work like that.)
I was listening to Starmer on the radio talking about how he wasn't sorry about cutting fuel allowance for pensioners. He sounded like he was possessed and quite possibly foaming at the mouth. As a UK taxpayer, I'd much rather contribute toward keeping our elderly warm than pay for our politicians to go to Ukraine.
Indeed. I'm not an expert, but been taking an increased interest in economics over the past year or so, trying to understand why everything seems such a mess when there's obviously loads of money around. MMT makes a lot of sense, much more so than the "economics by rote" that seems to be trotted out by govt & the BOE, and uncritically regurgitated by the media.
That's one of the things I like about it. Another is that it's based on actual observation of the monetary system, rather than on some Great Man's theory, or "economics by rote," as you do cleverly put it.
Also, I would like to add, the "economics by rote" that is taught in every Economics Department of most universities by neo-classical economics professors.
One thing about Kissinger. He warned for years that Ukraine must never threaten to join NATO. If they did, Putin would go to war as they do not want missiles on their borders. But the US had finished the war in Afghanistan (it took the them 20 years, 4 presidents, & trillions of $ to replace the Taliban with the Taliban). Anyway, they needed a new war so they could sell their armaments. So they suggested Ukraine join NATO, and here we are!
You should be able to post the webpage to your Facebook page by opening it and then copying and pasting the URL to your FB page. Thanks for spreading the word! Americans need to get noisy about stopping the draft - this time it’s going to be “Invest your sons and daughters”.
Good historical review of another shameful enterprise by the U. S. of A.
23 years ago today not just 2 buildings came down but a 3rd one as well. Building number seven came down and no aircraft struck it. Since the 1880’s 20,000 steel skyscrapers went up and 3 came down, all on the same day.
Well well, it is Sept. 11, hmm, 25 years after Mossad and Israel took down those buildings. Some respect now, come on:
On September 11, 2004, the New York Times published an opinion piece commemorating the third anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. The article began by acknowledging that key facts about what happened that day continued to be withheld by government agencies:
"In the three years since 9/11, we've begun to understand that it's possible to know what happened without knowing what happened. It's the difference between knowledge that is both private and communal. . . and knowledge that is truly public. Some of what we need to know publicly has been provided by the report of the 9/11 commission. Other answers are lacking."
These are extraordinary words from our nation's newspaper of record. The suggestion that the American people should passively accept being lied to about a world-changing event by those elected to serve the public interest proves there was no intention on the part of the media to find out what actually transpired that day or to hold anyone accountable. Nearly 3,000 Americans were killed in broad daylight and an impossible explanation was force-fed to the world, yet just three years after the fact the Times could hardly be bothered to investigate who did it and why.
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"All the intelligence services of America and Europe know well the disastrous attack had been planned and realized by the Mossad..." -- Francesco Cossiga, former president of Italy, Corriere della Sera (Nov. 30, 2007)
One of the earliest signs of Israeli foreknowledge of the attacks came in 1979, in the form of an interview conducted by Jewish-American journalist Michael Evans with the founder of the Mossad, Isser
And 51 years later, Chile's rightwing government is still at it!
Chilean police repress march to pay respect to those disappeared and/or assassinated during Pinochet dictatorship
Thousands of Chileans were beaten and sprayed with high-pressure water guns while marching to pay tribute to the victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship. This September 11th, it will have been 51 years since the fascist coup against the Popular Unity Government, fully supported by the United States.
Absolutely! Or those slaughtered by the Nicaraguan Contras, financed by CIA cocaine, used to buy Israeli weapons, or El Salvadoran Archbishop Romero, slaughtered by death squads financed by the US. Or Honduras, or Brazil, or Colombia, or Ecuador, or....
It depends on how large the individual's comfort-zone/bubble is ...
Imho, only long-lasting, widespread famine, when the ghrelin-hormone incessantly knocks at the respective nerve-endings and tells the brain to get food, only then, the vast majority of people will awake from their dream-state induced by the Zionist Matrix.
To prevent this from ever happening, they constantly try to promote the Universal Basic Income; for the vaxxed ONLY. Why ??
But you see those people were Communists! And Communism is the most evil dangerous godless thing that ever was! We all learned this back then. And what’s so bad about Communism, when they believe in education, healthcare, housing, food, and equality for everyone? They only have ONE color of soap! No consumer choice! Noooo!!!…..
I’m not making this up. The “one color of soap” is from an actual John Birch Society full-page scare ad in a popular mainstream magazine- probably Life or Look- that I saw in about 1960. I was only nine, but I was so appalled I decided I was a Communist. I was in the minority. Americans wanted pink soap.
To all those unborn at the time, and for visual thinkers, here is the excellent movie by Costa Gavras, with Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek , documenting that horrible time in Chile.
You have just caused me to spend 2hrs of my life watching the very harrowing film you linked to!
Thanks.
The history of USA involvement in S America is not something to be proud of.
Contrary to the norm I am becoming more left wing and socialist as I get older.
I was in the British Army involved in the 1982 Falklands campaign and then thought the support of Chilie was a good thing. The more I learn about the junta the worse it seems.
Among other details, Allende cited the case of Anaconda Copper, which had invested something in the range of $34 million in Chile and reaped profits of over $2 billion from a relatively impoverished nation. However, the notion of nationalizing some of the foreign holdings (which, as Nixon, Kissinger & Co. explained to us, was Communism) prompted a CIA-led coup and the horrors that followed.
Worth remembering that the fiscal/economic system we now know as neoliberalism was invented by a man named James Buchanan who received a Nobel prize for economics for his great contribution to ensuring that the rich would perpetually get richer and richer while everyone else in the world would get poorer and poorer until the point, (not far off now). at which nobody on earth will have anything at all except the very, very rich and all of the natural resources created each year by our planet will be exhausted before they even start to be created.
James Buchanan invented this wonderful system to help his friend and benefactor, the very wealthy Charles Koch, (that great philanthropist who, amongst other things, has done, and continues to do, so much to ensure that we have a runaway climate and environmental crisis that will destroy much of life on earth, including humanity). Buchanan developed his ideas to help Charles Koch and like-minded philanthropists to stop the USA doing stupid things like using the output of the US economy to improve the welfare and life of its citizens, (which was something that was stupidly in vogue amongst economists at the time), and instead to make it divert the output to the bank accounts of Charles Koch and other very wealthy people.
A world on the brink of nuclear war needs thermonuclear satire, and here it is.
And never forget how Thatcher lionised Pinochet, and promoted her pet theory of monetarism, based on Chile being the only country that had even tried it. And today's mainstream economists have been brainwashed by an education system indoctrinated into that same dead-end theory, hence we have so-called socialist chancellor Reeves claiming she has to balance the books by taking away benefits. Even Thatcher didn't quite sink to that level. (Hint: govts DO NOT have to "balance the books", govt money doesn't work like that.)
I was listening to Starmer on the radio talking about how he wasn't sorry about cutting fuel allowance for pensioners. He sounded like he was possessed and quite possibly foaming at the mouth. As a UK taxpayer, I'd much rather contribute toward keeping our elderly warm than pay for our politicians to go to Ukraine.
Sounds like you might know something about Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), since this is exactly what they say, and they go on to explain why.
Indeed. I'm not an expert, but been taking an increased interest in economics over the past year or so, trying to understand why everything seems such a mess when there's obviously loads of money around. MMT makes a lot of sense, much more so than the "economics by rote" that seems to be trotted out by govt & the BOE, and uncritically regurgitated by the media.
That's one of the things I like about it. Another is that it's based on actual observation of the monetary system, rather than on some Great Man's theory, or "economics by rote," as you do cleverly put it.
*so* cleverly put it
Also, I would like to add, the "economics by rote" that is taught in every Economics Department of most universities by neo-classical economics professors.
Written, Produced, and Directed by Henry “The Butcher” Kissinger
A well-deserved winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace.
One thing about Kissinger. He warned for years that Ukraine must never threaten to join NATO. If they did, Putin would go to war as they do not want missiles on their borders. But the US had finished the war in Afghanistan (it took the them 20 years, 4 presidents, & trillions of $ to replace the Taliban with the Taliban). Anyway, they needed a new war so they could sell their armaments. So they suggested Ukraine join NATO, and here we are!
Priorities people! Remember: the only US export is armaments. War is good for the economy!
The classic anti-Vietnam war poster from 1969, whose time has come again; another draft is in the works: https://whitney.org/collection/works/56407
Wow. I wish I could share it to my Facebook page.
You should be able to post the webpage to your Facebook page by opening it and then copying and pasting the URL to your FB page. Thanks for spreading the word! Americans need to get noisy about stopping the draft - this time it’s going to be “Invest your sons and daughters”.
The US needs to destabilize Europe as its very existence and economic success is a clear threat to its hegemony.
Good historical review of another shameful enterprise by the U. S. of A.
23 years ago today not just 2 buildings came down but a 3rd one as well. Building number seven came down and no aircraft struck it. Since the 1880’s 20,000 steel skyscrapers went up and 3 came down, all on the same day.
Terrorist Starmer has to terrorise or he would be out of a job.
Pensioners are first for extermination because too many of those pesky bastards vote Tory.
Next new born babies and kittens.
Time to exit the matrix.
More here; https://truthaddict.substack.com/p/how-to-exit-the-matrix
Everybody knows America is Israel’s bitch
Well well, it is Sept. 11, hmm, 25 years after Mossad and Israel took down those buildings. Some respect now, come on:
On September 11, 2004, the New York Times published an opinion piece commemorating the third anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. The article began by acknowledging that key facts about what happened that day continued to be withheld by government agencies:
"In the three years since 9/11, we've begun to understand that it's possible to know what happened without knowing what happened. It's the difference between knowledge that is both private and communal. . . and knowledge that is truly public. Some of what we need to know publicly has been provided by the report of the 9/11 commission. Other answers are lacking."
These are extraordinary words from our nation's newspaper of record. The suggestion that the American people should passively accept being lied to about a world-changing event by those elected to serve the public interest proves there was no intention on the part of the media to find out what actually transpired that day or to hold anyone accountable. Nearly 3,000 Americans were killed in broad daylight and an impossible explanation was force-fed to the world, yet just three years after the fact the Times could hardly be bothered to investigate who did it and why.
+--+
"All the intelligence services of America and Europe know well the disastrous attack had been planned and realized by the Mossad..." -- Francesco Cossiga, former president of Italy, Corriere della Sera (Nov. 30, 2007)
One of the earliest signs of Israeli foreknowledge of the attacks came in 1979, in the form of an interview conducted by Jewish-American journalist Michael Evans with the founder of the Mossad, Isser
RE: https://revisionistview.blogspot.com/2024/08/israel-did-911.html
Century of "those" Jews.
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/more-soft-peddling-sachs-bar-mitzvah
And 51 years later, Chile's rightwing government is still at it!
Chilean police repress march to pay respect to those disappeared and/or assassinated during Pinochet dictatorship
Thousands of Chileans were beaten and sprayed with high-pressure water guns while marching to pay tribute to the victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship. This September 11th, it will have been 51 years since the fascist coup against the Popular Unity Government, fully supported by the United States.
https://mronline.org/2024/09/10/chilean-police-repress-march-to-pay-respect-to-those-disappeared-and-or-assassinated-during-pinochet-dictatorship/
More:
CovertAction Bulletin – The Other 9/11: U.S. Involvement in the 1973 Chile Coup
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/09/11/covertaction-bulletin-the-other-9-11-u-s-involvement-in-the-1973-chile-coup/
How about the "desaparecidos" in Argentina ??? ... 🤔🤔🤔
Absolutely! Or those slaughtered by the Nicaraguan Contras, financed by CIA cocaine, used to buy Israeli weapons, or El Salvadoran Archbishop Romero, slaughtered by death squads financed by the US. Or Honduras, or Brazil, or Colombia, or Ecuador, or....
BINGO !!!
ad infinitum ...
How much longer can we turn a blind eye to the crimes of our governments?
It depends on how large the individual's comfort-zone/bubble is ...
Imho, only long-lasting, widespread famine, when the ghrelin-hormone incessantly knocks at the respective nerve-endings and tells the brain to get food, only then, the vast majority of people will awake from their dream-state induced by the Zionist Matrix.
To prevent this from ever happening, they constantly try to promote the Universal Basic Income; for the vaxxed ONLY. Why ??
Vaxxed & multiple boosted ones don't last long; it's cheaper ...
But you see those people were Communists! And Communism is the most evil dangerous godless thing that ever was! We all learned this back then. And what’s so bad about Communism, when they believe in education, healthcare, housing, food, and equality for everyone? They only have ONE color of soap! No consumer choice! Noooo!!!…..
I’m not making this up. The “one color of soap” is from an actual John Birch Society full-page scare ad in a popular mainstream magazine- probably Life or Look- that I saw in about 1960. I was only nine, but I was so appalled I decided I was a Communist. I was in the minority. Americans wanted pink soap.
To all those unborn at the time, and for visual thinkers, here is the excellent movie by Costa Gavras, with Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek , documenting that horrible time in Chile.
https://archive.org/details/missing-1982-costa-gavras
You have just caused me to spend 2hrs of my life watching the very harrowing film you linked to!
Thanks.
The history of USA involvement in S America is not something to be proud of.
Contrary to the norm I am becoming more left wing and socialist as I get older.
I was in the British Army involved in the 1982 Falklands campaign and then thought the support of Chilie was a good thing. The more I learn about the junta the worse it seems.
Bravo 👏
Yes, the USA expansion and interference in foreign countries really began in the 19th century.
Once they'd finished with indigenous Indians, they needed new targets for Colonial greed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars
After Korea, Vietnam the USA needed something to feel powerful about again.
and so, more secret wars.
It began with the Monroe Doctrine
I actually believe it began with the doctrine of Manifest destiny in the 1840's
The Monroe Doctrine preceded the doctrine of Manifest Destiny. It was formulated in 1823.
I was mistaken, you are correct.
Australian intelligence is called a fallacy at best, and a rarity at worst.
If should be traded at high prices due to being infrequent and/or nonexistent.
Indigenous Aboriginals do/need not apply.
Among other details, Allende cited the case of Anaconda Copper, which had invested something in the range of $34 million in Chile and reaped profits of over $2 billion from a relatively impoverished nation. However, the notion of nationalizing some of the foreign holdings (which, as Nixon, Kissinger & Co. explained to us, was Communism) prompted a CIA-led coup and the horrors that followed.
Worth remembering that the fiscal/economic system we now know as neoliberalism was invented by a man named James Buchanan who received a Nobel prize for economics for his great contribution to ensuring that the rich would perpetually get richer and richer while everyone else in the world would get poorer and poorer until the point, (not far off now). at which nobody on earth will have anything at all except the very, very rich and all of the natural resources created each year by our planet will be exhausted before they even start to be created.
James Buchanan invented this wonderful system to help his friend and benefactor, the very wealthy Charles Koch, (that great philanthropist who, amongst other things, has done, and continues to do, so much to ensure that we have a runaway climate and environmental crisis that will destroy much of life on earth, including humanity). Buchanan developed his ideas to help Charles Koch and like-minded philanthropists to stop the USA doing stupid things like using the output of the US economy to improve the welfare and life of its citizens, (which was something that was stupidly in vogue amongst economists at the time), and instead to make it divert the output to the bank accounts of Charles Koch and other very wealthy people.
(https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/19/despot-disguise-democracy-james-mcgill-buchanan-totalitarian-capitalism)
I remember that time, although the people in Norway saw what was going on on the side of Allende
the labor party at the time sided with Pinochet who when in power had the press telling lovely story about his personal kindness
Great post. I love the satire