THE INTIFADA VS. THE GREAT RESET

     As we enter the 4th Day of Israel's war of independence, we're starting to see a few shades of recent history rising. The Tech Lords have been blockading access to various Middle Eastern sources: a pattern of behavior that we've seen them follow during the Syrian Civil War, the Scamdemic, the 2020 Electoral Putsch, the war in Ukraine, the suppression of the Canadian protests, etc. I have an e-mail account with Yahoo, one of the drawbacks of which is being obliged to see their newsfeeds before accessing it. Yahoo News isn't too difficult to predict: "Gay good, Orange Man Bad," interspersed with fluff and sleazy scandals sums up the vast majority of everything they have to say. 

    The upside of this, though, is that it gives us all an insight into the disgraceful state of both American journalistic production and consumption. While they did lead off with an editorial about the situation---which read like any position-paper put out by some stupid think-tank---the rest of the stories followed the usual pattern. Yahoo also has a table next to their headlines displaying the news stories which the Ameroboobs believe are most important:

    Yes...Monday Night Football, the Powerball Lottery, Amazon Prime; celebrity and political dramas---not a peep about the fight for freedom against a New World Order-based despotism. It's rather reminiscent of the 2022 Canadian Truckers Protest: while freedom fighters just North of our Border were being massacred in the streets of Ottawa and being hunted down like wild dogs, Americans were occupied with the Super Bowl and celebrating 'Pride' during Valentine's Day Week. The Controlled Opposition press hasn't been slack either: the outrage of the day is that some Democrat Congresswoman displayed a Palestinian Flag in her office. 

   Already during this short period, the Netanyahu Regime has managed to exceed in its brutality everything that Tiananmen Trudeau his various imitators in Europe and Australasia have done. As we write this, Israel warships are blockading and shelling the city of Gaza after cutting off electricity, water, and transportation of food and medicine. The IDF has been caught using so-called 'bunker-buster' bombs indiscriminately and deployed banned poisonous weapons like White Phosphorus on the civilian population. 

   It must be remembered that Gaza is a city about the size (and general condition) of the San Francisco Metro Area; and many of the residents were forced into the city during earlier Israeli ethnic cleansing and forced Vaxx operations. Conditions there weren't very good to begin with; there was already (also like our exceptional West Coast cities), extensive crime, poverty, and lack of infrastructure. The Israeli Attacks are War Crimes by any definition of the term; but, of course, the First Bush Administration we turn a blind eye to such things when the right side is committing them.

    As if this weren't bad enough, members of the Regime are proposing deployment of nuclear-capable Jericho missiles upon the Gaza Enclave. If they actually go this far, the reaction from the Atlantic Coast of North Africa to the Indus River is going to be massive. The Islamic World, unlike its effete counterparts in the West, have wised up to the Reality that the forces driving the Great Reset are targeting them. This is one of the unspoken reasons why the Arab Gulf States---whose monarchs long supported the Davos Agenda---have been steadily pulling away and into the BRICS orbit recently. The genocidal and totalitarian objectives of the Great Reset have become obvious to anyone outside the Western media's sphere of influence.

   These threats and atrocities however have steeled the Freedom Fighters' resolve. At last report, the IDF has sustained about 3,000 casualties in dead, missing, and wounded and Hamas is advancing on the cities of Ashkelon and Beersheba. Clashes have been erupting on the Lebanese and Syrian borders. The fight is a desperate one; but it's a battle for the very survival of a people against Technofascist Barbarism---a fact which our own Regime and its Neocon enablers are doing their best to sweep under the rug.

   Take, for example, arch-Neocon Dennis Prager, who's graced us all once again with his two-cents' worth. Resuscitating anti-Iraqi and anti-Serbian propaganda from the Bush/Clinton Era, Prager rather hypocritically attempts to portray the Palestinian rebels to the Nazis and quotes such reliable sources as The Daily Mail and the Times of Israel with horror-stories about the alleged murders of babies and grandmothers targeted simply for being Jewish---as if none of the horrors of present-day Gaza were anything relevant.

   Admittedly, brutalities have been committed on the Rebels' side; and while we certainly don't condone such actions, it's good to remember an oft-quoted maxim from Thomas Paine, one of our Founding Fathers that "they learn these behaviors from the Governments they live under and retaliate with the punishments they have been accustomed to behold." Israeli actions against them taught them that there are no civilized boundaries to be observed and no mercy to be shown.

   While we're discussing that subject, where does one suppose that Israel itself learned this mode of warfare? How about if we examine closely the United States' military actions of the last six administrations? Which country was it which normalized unilateral military actions and exempted itself from the Geneva Convention and post-WW2 military conventions? How is the Israeli siege of Gaza materially different than the inhuman NATO attacks on Belgrade during the Kosovo Conflict? Which country was it that declared civilians fair game under the pretexts that they might be terrorists? Again Paine: "Lay the axe to the root and teach Governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind."

   Prager cites the oft-misquoted statement of a former Iranian President to the effect that "Israel should be wiped off the map," and utterly ignores the statements of the Netanyahu Regime of intentions about Gaza. The Israeli legislator advocating nuclear weapons against Gaza said just yesterday: "Congratulations to US President Joe Biden for a flame-throwing speech that showed Hamas that we are not alone in our intent to wipe it off the face of the earth.” Such a statement shows up the rather disingenuous assertions that Prager and other Neocons make that support for the Palestinian Cause is an exclusively Liberal position.

   This man actually says---and expects us to believe--- that "Radical Islam’s useful idiots on the Left deny this fact. They say that Muslims who seek to annihilate Israel are not motivated by antisemitism but by anti-Zionism, as if there is any real-world difference between the two, and as if seeking to eradicate one nation in the world – the only one that happens to be Jewish – is in no way anti-Jewish." This is a position that the Left routinely takes to forestall criticism of ethnically Jewish political figures like George Soros. Statements like these prove that Prager is being the useful idiot here, and most of his arguments are typical of Israeli propaganda funded by their own government for dissemination abroad. 

   Common Sense---as well as experience---ought to tell us that when both the Democrat and Republican Establishments, their respective media parrots, and Corporate America are all reading from the same script that whatever they're promoting is very probably nothing good. Unfortunately, common sense and learning from experience are qualities grossly deficient in the Postmodern West. 

AMERICAN IMPOTENCE AND THE ISRAELI REVOLT

    The uprising in Israel has, predictably, incited a whirlwind of political finger-pointing, mass-hysteria, and Cancel Culture. The thought that Hamas might imitate the Taliban and start removing Rainbow Flags and George Floyd Murals should they succeed in liberating their country has thrown America into its biggest panic-attack since a Chinese weather-balloon drifted off course and floated over the Great Plains earlier this year. The Junta has responded by sending our brave xhes in uniform to prowl the Palestinian Coast; while the Controlled Opposition is outraged that our nominal Head-of-State went to a cookout while fighting was going on 6,000 miles away. I suppose that sitting on his rump in the Oval Office waiting for the phone to ring would have made him appear more Presidential; but it wouldn't have accomplished much more than dining on ribs and cornbread would have. 

   WEF Young Global Leader and Hillary Clinton protegee Nikki Haley vaulted to the top of the Controlled Opposition Republican polls after supporting the Israeli Deep State's indiscriminate slaughter of civilians in revenge retaliation for daring to assert their Rights. Given that Nikki's support comes primarily from Supranational High Finance and Big Pharma, her fanatical statements should be unsurprising. All of the candidates are scrambling to keep from being called anti-war weenies---because all of our unilateral military interventions since the Bush Doctrine was announced have worked out so well, I suppose.

   Unfortunately, in our current cultural state, acting first and thinking afterwards is how we meet national and global crises. Most Americans know nothing about Israel other than the Media calls them an 'ally' and that we need to project a robust response, or else those meanies in Iran won't be afraid of us, like they naturally should be. The reality is that Israel is a fascistic, apartheid State which has driven its population to the point of sheer desperation. The people fighting the Regime literally have nothing left to lose: it's a matter of dying with some honor and self-respect or dying by the slow process of ethnic cleansing. The Regime has made its intentions now abundantly clear: the Defense Forces are butchering every Arab they can lay their hands on and have threatened military action against anyone offering humanitarian relief to the civilian population. They've laid siege to the city of Gaza and cut off supplies of food, water, and medicine while simultaneously targeting civilian residences and infrastructure. 

   This is the 'Great Reset' in its practical application. In a sense, Nikki Haley was right when she said that "This is not just an attack on Israel - this was an attack on America," though not in the sense that she meant it. It wasn't that long ago that Western pundits and political leaders were (and actually still are) talking about segregating and isolating political opponents and dissidents; and have actually encouraged 'depopulation' of undesirables and the unfit through social policy. The Israeli Regime simply put into practice what our own Oligarchy intends to do to our populations.

   The leader of the Israeli Regime and the camarilla who surround him are de facto extensions of the US Deep State and wholly committed to the Great Reset. It's not widely reported anywhere, but Israeli dictator Benjamin Netanyahu spent much of his pre-political career here in the United States. Netanyahu was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology---which is a notorious recruiting center for future Deep State operatives. Around the time that Netanyahu was enrolled there, testimony arose during the Church Committee Hearings in 1974 which stated:

  “To the Clandestine Services, the universities represent fertile territory for recruiting espionage agents. Most large American colleges enrolled substantial numbers of foreign students, and many of these, especially those from the Third World, were (and are) destined to hold high positions in their home countries in a relatively few years. They are much easier to recruit at American schools — when they might have a need for money, where they could be easily compromised, and where foreign security services could not interfere — than they would be when they returned home. To spot and evaluate these students, the Clandestine Services maintains a contractual relationship with key professors on numerous campuses. When a professor picks out a likely candidate, he notifies his contact at the CIA and, on occasion, participates in the actual recruitment attempt. Some professors perform these services without being on a formal retainer. Others actively participate in agency covert operations by serving as cut-outs, or intermediaries, and even by carrying out secret missions during foreign journeys.”

    Netanyahu then went on to serve on the Board of the Boston Consulting Group, one of the most vicious and most predatory members of the World Economic Forum's Top 100 Strategic Partners. (Arch-RINO Senator Mitt Romney was also a Board Member of BCG). Netanyahu is a WEF member himself, and is known to have attended at least six of their annual meetings beginning in 2009 when Klaus Schwab announced that a "new charter for the global economic order" was being drawn up and implemented. During the Scamdemic, Netanyahu gloated:

   “When the planes landed with the massive containers of vaccines, that was one of the most exciting moments in all my years as prime minister, because I felt that this was more or less like when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, you knew it was already the beginning of the end.” The tyranny that he and his henchmen went on to organize afterwards is well-documented. 

    This isn't to suggest that the Freedom Fighters' cause is doomed; they have so far inflicted about 3,000 total casualties upon the Israeli Defense Force, captured some territory, and reports leaking out have indicated that defections and anti-Regime collaboration within the IDF is occurring. 

    One of the most concerning things---which isn't being discussed by the Media anywhere---is that the Israeli Government is known to possess atomic weapons and it's certainly not out of the realm of possibility that the Regime will deploy them if they really feel threatened. Shortly, before his retirement, Pat Buchanan revealed that the Nixon White House (where Buchanan was an advisor) knew that then-Prime Minister Golda Meir had atom bombs primed and ready to be used if the Arab forces broke through the IDF defensive lines during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The current Israeli Regime hasn't shown much inclination for either restraint or regard for human life; and it is not unrealistic to imagine that, Hitler-like, Netanyahu might in the event of inevitable defeat decide to take down everybody else with him. 

    Outside of the Oligarchy's Sphere of Influence, there have been some moves to try and promote a cease-fire and negotiated settlement. The Arab League is convening in Cairo on Wednesday, and Turkey---which has relations with both sides---is also offering mediation. Unless there is some type of Regime Change in Israel, I don't see this as a possibility. One scenario could be that disaffected members of the IDF stage a coup against the Regime and restore order and democracy. That would probably be the optimal solution right now, though it's certain that the Corporate Cartels and the Western Deep States are working overtime to prevent that from happening.

     

    

    

THE OLIGARCHY'S TOUGH WEEK

      Though one probably wouldn't know it by exclusively relying upon Western Corporate Media, the Supranational Deep State and the Financial Robber Barons who control it have been meeting some significant resistance lately. The uprisings against it abroad are gaining momentum, as seen both by the support that rival superpowers have garnered during recent international summits and popular demonstrations which are as large at least as the ones which swept Davos-dominated satraps in 2020 and 2022 (the phony 'Floyd Riots' here don't count). This year, both the bullet (e.g. Africa) and the ballot (e.g. Continental Europe) have resulted in real Regime Changes everywhere outside of the US Borders. This last week has seen the would-be global socioeconomic dictators suffer some major blows.

    1.) Corsica: Corsica is a state within the French Republic. Much like Hawaii is in the US, it is an island separated from the Mainland with its own distinct culture. The Corsicans have an independence movement which, until this century, hadn't gathered much popular support. However, the increasingly repressive Regime headed by WEF Young Global Leader Emmanuel Macron has revived support for Corsican  Independence. The Movement undoubtedly has been emboldened by the humiliations suffered by the French Deep State in Africa. After months of bluster and threats of force, Macron and the Pentagon were obliged to slink quietly out of Niger after calls for African proxies to invade utterly backfired---leading to the loss of oil-rich Gabon and the near losses of Cameroon and Congo. 

    At the end of September, Corsica unilaterally set up its own Congress---reminiscent of the Continental Congress set up by our Founding Fathers prior to our Declaration of Independence. Macron was forced to visit the capital at Ajaccio and submit to several Corsican demands. The French Government really is showing that it has little power to stop such movements, owing to its widespread unpopularity on the French Mainland.

   2. Denmark: While the American political/legal Establishment has been grabbing headlines with show trials and procedural grandstanding, the Danish authorities are on the job. In a scandal which dates back to the Snowden revelations of a decade ago and has continued with Soros-backed migrant caravans being dumped on the country, continued US and EU bullying, and the Nordstream sabotage, the Danes, to put it mildly, have had just about enough. In 2019, they elected a Euroskeptic Prime Minister who hasn't been especially willing to toe the NWO Party Line. 

   This last week, a series of investigations conducted by the Danish Government bore some fruit with the indictment of their former Defense Minister and Intel Chief on charges relating to Domestic Espionage and other skullduggery carried on at the instigation of foreign interests in violation of the Danish Constitution. This is the first attempt by an EU/NATO country to bring Deep State operatives to justice, and hopefully is a significant precedent. The US Corporate Media completely buried the story---focusing instead on the anti-Trump legal witch-hunts and the meaningless McCarthy and Biden impeachments, lest Americans start drawing the correct conclusions. 

    3. Slovakia: Despite considerable electoral interference from the US, citizens of this small, but strategically located Eastern European nation voted out its Rump-Government and Parliament on October 1st. Stating that “Slovakia and the people of Slovakia have bigger problems than Ukraine,” incoming Prime Minister Robert Fico officially ended military aid to the Zelensky Regime on the 5th, unfortunately after his pro-Beltway predecessor had already depleted a large percentage of the Slovakian arsenal. The Slovakian Economy has been crushed---like most of Europe---by the Scamdemic restrictions and anti-Russian sanctions imposed upon them from abroad. 

   4. Israel: In a story which has become too big for the Corporate Media to ignore any longer, the population of Israel broke out in open revolt against the Regime headed by WEF member Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu's utter tyranny of forcing Loyalty Vaxxes on Israeli citizens and the brutality of his Scamdemic restrictions nearly resulted in the overthrow of the Government in 2022. Netanyahu briefly was out of power that year after being indicted on corruption charges; but a heavily-US influenced electoral campaign returned him to power. Since then, Netanyahu has resumed playing the tyrant, engaging in ethnic cleansing operations, persecuting Christians, launching unprovoked military raids on Lebanon and Syria, supporting terrorism abroad, etc. After receiving unparalleled support from the Trump Administration, Netanyahu was the first world leader to congratulate Biden upon his seizure of power in 2020.

   The Israeli Deep State and our own are deeply intertwined; not only is Israel a major customer of the US Military-Industrial Complex, the US is also a major consumer of Israeli espionage, AI, and 'security' technologies. Like Ukraine, Taiwan, and (formerly) Afghanistan, Israel is really just another Black-Budget site used by our Deep State and vested Corporate interests to offshore their activities. 

  What we've stated here about the situation in Israel is at complete variance with the Official Narrative being promoted by both the Mainstream and Controlled Opposition Media, and by both US political parties (it always ought to send up a red flag when they are in 'official' agreement). This isn't surprising, since the Israeli Government---by its own admission---employs NGOs and shell-companies to circumvent foreign lobbying laws; and also---by their own admission---funds and coaches Media organizations to promote a pro-Israel 'narrative' and whitewash its Deep State's crimes. Israel is also a major player in groups like the World Economic Forum---particularly in their promotion of Transhumanism and Scientism. 

     It's fairly clear that there is a surge of resentment against the Western Oligarchy under way. The question is: will it reach the Anglosphere? There were protests in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand during the 2020-2022 years which were answered with brutal police repression. There has been some resistance in Britain; while the US populace seems to have sunk into complete torpor and submission to the will of their Corporate Masters. The Oligarchs evidently consider the English-speaking world their 'base;' and its typical of predatory corporations to consolidate their power after a Hostile Takeover by cutting off expendable subsidiaries. Their Foreign Policy seems to be running in the same direction. With the current utter subservience of the Media and Academia, and their total Regulatory Capture of Government Agencies (including the Pentagon, NSA, and CIA) there's not the need for offshoring or outsourcing their projects since exposure is something that they no longer need to fear. In fact, they often admit to---and even boast about---what they're doing and what their intentions are; but Americans are too mired in drugs and distractions to care very much. 

    The second question is: are the Oligarchs miscalculating the power and momentum that their foreign opponents are expressing? True, Corsica, Denmark, Slovakia, Israel, and Niger are small countries; and although France and Israel have ties to our Deep State, their governments are really paper tigers---wholly dependent upon the Beltway's good graces. But backing this anti-NWO movement stands Russia, China, and India---who have a combined half of the world's population and are formidable economic and military powers not dependent upon the Western Oligarchy. At the very least, they are quite capable of defending their own spheres of influence: and the emasculation, demoralization, and degeneracy that the Oligarchs have promoted throughout the Anglosphere has also left these countries in a position of extreme vulnerability should another 'Cold War' arise. The Oligarchy's hubris and arrogance may in fact be their undoing. Pushing around countries like Iraq or Libya is one thing; attempting it on the Russians or Chinese is another. 

    We will wait and see. The people behind the Great Reset are learning that Freedom actually means something to some people; and that the rest of the planet may not so passively accept their schemes as we in the West do.

    

    

     

    

THE DOWNFALL OF KEVIN McCARTHY

    In the ongoing drama that has become the US political system, Kevin McCarthy became the first sitting House Speaker to be recalled since 1910. This follows on the heels of our last national drama: the semi-annual 'Threatened Shutdown' which itself has been a recurring show since 1995. The Budget Battle---like pro wrestling---always has a predictable outcome. The GOP makes a grand show, caves in to the Democrats at the last minute and passes a stopgap-spending package, then caves in again when that has expired. 

   The ouster of McCarthy---a WEF member, shill for special interests, and general all-around jerk---is not any great loss to our country or our cause. The other side of the coin is, nobody's certain about how it's supposed to help. In general, I'm not especially comfortable with this tactic of weaponizing parliamentary procedures in this way. Secondly, there doesn't seem to be any plan or program to change much of anything now that McCarthy's gone. It seems to be another example of the short-sighted actions characterizing the Postmodern Right (and America in general) of acting first and thinking later. "If we just get rid of Biden, McConnell, McCarthy..." then everything suddenly is supposed to right itself. McCarthy got his job in the first place because Congress was magically supposed to change just by removing Pelosi: at least, though, that was done through an actual election. 

   For example, one of the stories buried behind the Political Theater was a joint report from the United Nations Organization of Economic Developed Countries (OECD) and the US Center for Disease Control. After a two-decade long slide, the United States finally has reached bottom of Developed Countries in Average Life Expectancy. We're also in last place in literacy rates, addictions, obesity, infertility, violent crime, incarceration rates, and suicides; and circling the drain in infant mortality, poverty, and reproduction rates. One would think that our collapsing civilization and crumbling civil infrastructure would be a little higher priority than who serves as figurehead of the Rump Congress. The fact that 8 Republicans and 208 Democrats voted for McCarthy's ouster ought to tell us something too. 

  Frankly, though, I have very little interest in these partisan games. Our Federal Government isn't much more than a Holding Company for confederated supranational commercial enterprises at this point; and the McCarthy ouster amounts to little more than a shake-up at the middle-management level. We currently live in a Managed Democracy, and nothing ultimately will change unless the people gather some character and courage and start demanding it. 

  Congressman Patrick McHenry of North Carolina is currently serving as Interim Speaker. McHenry is utterly servile to High Finance. Regardless of whom the GOP selects to become Speaker, McHenry probably will be in charge of revising the upcoming budget; and given his previous legislative record and the lobbyists who supported him, the Big Banks certainly will have their way. Thanks too to the precedent the McCarthy ouster set, it will be relatively easy to eject any future speaker who doesn't toe the Uniparty Line. Soon, replacing Congressional leaders by Floor Vote will become just as routine as Impeachments (which were rare until just a few years ago). 

   Some on the Right are even floating the idea of nominating President-in-Exile Trump to the Speakership. This would, under the Constitution, put him third in line for presidential succession. If anyone imagines that the Deep State will permit this to happen, they really are living in Cloud-Cuckooland. 

   The United States has become what Plato referred to as a Theatrocracy. This described a period during the Athenian Republic when the masses eschewed Statesmanship and Merit in favor of celebrity-demagogues in the public theater. Athens went into a period of deep decline---as we are doing today. Stand-up comics, online trolls, seedy talk-show hosts, and paid pundits feed our salacious lust for drama and scandal, while ignoring issues of any importance. Madison Avenue and Hollywood, of course, are pulling the wires on these, their mouthpieces, to keep up fomenting division and distraction. Actual issues go on being marginalized, while the Oligarchs keep laughing all the way to the bank. 

   

    

BANNED BOOKS WEEK

    Sunday was the beginning of what used to be a fairly newsworthy event in the United States: Banned Books Week. Libraries and bookstores around the country often had exhibitions of literature which both here and abroad had been subject to censorship. The purpose of Banned Books Week was to remind Americans of the purpose of our 1st Amendment; that a well-educated public with access to the free exchange of ideas was essential to maintaining our survival as a free people. Of course, today in the Prozac Nation, the 1st Amendment became a dead letter in 2020; and Cancel Culture and Political Correctness defines what is and isn't censorship. Libraries caved in the National Lockdown just as fast and as thoroughly as our schools, churches, and State Legislatures did. 

   In our postmodern era, the American Library Association is, predictably, focusing on 'censorship' of outright homoerotic propaganda. The fact that this is an issue at all says more about the state of American parenting than it does anything else; but since American parents have, for the most part, abandoned their responsibilities to institutions run by arrogant social engineers such controversies were bound to arise. However, given that the Literacy Rate in the United States are now on a par with Sub-Saharan Africa one would think that our libraries would have higher priorities. If Americans actually had any sense of shame left, they would see our educational system for what it is---an international disgrace---start demanding reforms and, at the very least, teaching themselves how to read. 

  The would-be totalitarians here have taken a radically different approach than outright censorship. In Canada, for example, where the Literacy Rates are much higher than ours, Tiananmen Trudeau has had to resort to barbaric methods like book-burning, banning literature, internet censorship, and speech codes. We've actually done many of the same things here; although our suppression of literary material has been done more indirectly. The stranglehold that Corporate America has over production, publication, and distribution of all media materials allows the Oligarchs much latitude to impose censorship under the shield of being private businesses. Schools and libraries have also engaged in this kind of 'soft' censorship by purging their stocks and archives in the name of cost-effectiveness. They claim that much of their material is digitized now; of course access to this material is contracted out to private media agencies which are notoriously lacking in commitment to the First Amendment. 

    Like the rest of America's infrastructure, public libraries are woefully underfunded and incompetently managed. Most of them are really nothing more than Internet cafes, and their bookshelves look more like what's currently available on Amazon's storefront. In the big cities, libraries seem to double as homeless shelters and rent out meeting-rooms for such essential services as Drag Queen Story Hours. In most of our rural communities, it's rare to find a library open more than half the week. Such are national priorities in the exceptional United States. 

    From time to time, however, a city will decide to engage in some Virtue Signalling and pump billions to private contractors 'community investment' by making a grand show of building a new library. A few years ago, a foreign con-man gulled the Seattle City Council into constructing this monstrosity:

     Long-time local residents christened the structure 'The Toadstool' both because of its shape and because of the foul stench radiating from the multitudes of street bums who congregate there. The unbelievably chaotic interior design is just as bad as the exterior: most agreed that in a natural disaster this building would be a death-trap. There's one narrow stairwell in the whole building that doesn't even connect all floors and is both the emergency exit and the emergency entrance for response teams. The massive amount of glass and the steel framing for it would, for example in an earthquake, cut everybody and everything into ribbons for half a block when it came down. As for actual library purposes like research, it's nearly useless, not only because of the bums and violent drug addicts haunting the place, but because the stupid architects made the auditorium open, so that any event held there creates more internal noise pollution than being out on the open street would. In a glass building like this, the noise reverberates on every floor like an echo-chamber. 

    Seattle isn't the only example of this kind of civic flummery; but it is a typical specimen of the superficial approach that American communities take towards solving our growing literacy gap and the very real compromises against our First Amendment. As for a solution to the problem, I wish that there was an easy answer. As it is, when we have politicians and their Corporate Masters who depend upon a population of arrant ignoramuses to keep them rolling in power and profit, there's naturally going to be very little impetus to build or maintain an enlightened and illiterate public. It's a much easier strategy to convince morons that they are intelligent and well-informed than it is to control an astute and aware populace with raw police power. 

     But High-Level Corruption aside, this is yet another crisis entirely of the American people's own making. For short-term gain and to evade our responsibilities as parents and citizens, we Americans turned over our children's minds to ideologues and charlatans who grabbed the opportunity for control and ran with it. As an example of Ameroboob priorities today, note that Banned Book Week doesn't even register on top stories on search engines. Here's a sampling of what does however:

   1.) Taylor Swift, Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds headline A-list fans at Chiefs-Jets game;

   2.) Sam Asghari Defends Ex Britney Spears Against ‘Bully’ Donald Trump Jr.;

   3.) The 2023 MLB playoffs are finally here after a season full of surprises;

   4.) Jamaal Bowman draws doubts after claiming fire alarm pull just a mistake as GOP demands socialist House member be prosecuted;

   5.) Arrest In AMC Movie Theater Incident Where Patron Was Brutally Attacked In Dispute Over Reserved Seats – Update;

   6.) 'That won’t fly': Former Defense secretary warns Vladimir Putin is hoping Donald Trump wins reelection;

   7.) Government Shutdown: 4 Immediate Consequences to Your Wallet If Another Deal Isn’t Reached in November;

   8.) John Fetterman’s hoodie and gym shorts on the Senate floor are roiling DC.

    One would think that the fact that we have Congressmen who can't read the label on a fire alarm and Senators who can't read a Dress Code would be a wake-up call to our illiteracy problem in its own right; but then again, they are mere reflections of what elected them. Our Corporate Overlords want a population just intelligent enough to do the required work, but just dumb enough to accept substandard wages and working conditions; the politicians that the Oligarchs choose to manage us have roughly the same qualifications. 

    Thus today there really is neither the political nor popular will to do much against either Censorship or Illiteracy. Reading has actually become part of the Counter-Culture in many ways. Being seen with a tome written by a Dead White Male would be considered a subversive act in many public venues (including schools and libraries). For my own part, I frequent used book stores and have a decent library at home---full of material that the Oligarchs would rather not be seen and disseminated. Maybe instead of a Banned Books Week we should promote Reading as an Act of Resistance. So honor this week by checking out a good used book store. 

    

    

     

CHINESE OPIOID EXPOSE FRUSTRATES US DEEP STATE

    Recently, the Beltway Junta has been trying desperately to paper over reports of increasing Opioid fatalities in the United States. As part of their 'depopulation' agenda, of course, the Oligarchy desires this situation, but the situation has reached such proportions that it's become impossible to hide from the general public. So, both the Junta and the Controlled Opposition have agreed upon a narrative blaming China for the problem---much like they blame Russia for spreading 'disinformation' whenever their crimes are publicly exposed in the alternative media.

   With great fanfare and 'bipartisan' support, the nominal United States Government officially listed China as a Major Drug Source Country and imposed several pointless sanctions on Chinese companies making pharmaceutical supplies. This, in spite of the fact that China (unlike the US) bans Fentanyl even as a prescription drug. China's officials have been speaking out against this. In an interview with Wei Xiaojun---head of the Chinese equivalent of the DEA---some rare admissions were made as to the state of the Opioid Crisis in China. While it is fairly severe, it pales in comparison to the American problem---and, unlike the US, China has been making substantial progress in suppressing the illegal drug trade.

   The Global Times also went on to publish an investigative report on the Opioid situation here. Americans have been conditioned by our own Corporate Media to sneer reflexively at anything published by China (as if our Media isn't State-disseminated propaganda itself). The most compelling aspect of this article is that is an outsider's view of corrupt, corporatist Western Culture. If this is indeed  Propaganda that the Chinese Government employs to tell it's citizens what to think of the West, it's a very damning indictment that they don't really need to exaggerate or lie much to make their case that postmodern Western Civilization is a sham Democracy; and that most of us are really just slaves to the Corporate Leviathan that rules over us, and seeks to spread it's Empire of Domination over the entire world. It may be 'anti-American propaganda used to prop up a Communist regime'; but if so, it's certainly effective, because so much of it is based on the truth. In fact, it is noteworthy because it cites sources from our own Government-Media Complex.

   

      

     The report states that "the US is plagued with a drug abuse problem more acute than any other countries as 12 percent of global drug users come from the North American country, two times higher than the proportion of its population. Provisional data indicates that nearly 110,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2022, the highest of all time, and more than two-thirds of the deaths involved the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, as per US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." 

    This number was going down under the Trump Administration's Opioid Task Force, incidentally; but Orange Man Bad, and we know the rest of the story. Today, dope-pushers are running free again, while our President-in-Exile may likely end up in jail---a perfect metaphor for Americans' social priorities.

    "US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, when visiting China in late August, claimed that US hopes to cooperate with China to tackle the rapidly increasing rates of fentanyl overdoses. However, the country simultaneously keeps scapegoating China on the issue, imposing sanctions and filing criminal charges against Chinese enterprises and individuals."

    It should also be noted that the Trump Administration made an agreement with China to work jointly on eradicating Opium supplies in Afghanistan, and Trump also agreed to end the so-called Freedom of Navigation exercises in the South China Sea so that China could focus more heavily upon suppressing smuggling in the region. The Pentagon ignored both of those orders. 

   China likewise launched military operations in Burma aimed at destroying the Opioid networks illegally operating there. US NGOs backed by George Soros and Bill Gates fought China desperately; framing the narrative as 'ethnic cleansing' against the Burmese Rohingya people---whose population was largely engaged in it. They've promoted a similar narrative against Chinese actions among the Uighurs in Western China who are doing the same things. Coloring anything as 'racist' in the American Media is like a magic incantation---it causes immediate cessation of reasoning. However, that formula never applies when our Media blames all Mexicans for drug trafficking on our Southern Border. 

   The report goes on to trace the sordid history of Big Pharma and US Deep State collusion beginning with the OxyContin scandals of the 1990s. "The pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma colluded with US medicinal regulators and developed aggressive marketing tactics to promote its brand name product OxyContin, an extended-release form of Oxycodone, as less likely to cause addiction, raking in tens of millions of dollars. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), charged with the responsibility of prescription drug use regulation, gave OxyContin the green light in 1995 even though neither long-term studies nor assessments of its addictive capabilities had been thoroughly conducted."

   I well remember this scandal, and that several officials within the Clinton Co-Presidency were implicated, as noted in the report: 

  "Two principal FDA reviewers who originally approved Purdue's application took positions at the company after leaving the agency. In the following two decades, more FDA staffers involved in opioid approvals left the FDA to work for opioid makers, according to the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics. Purdue offered kickbacks, paid lecturers, and organized free seminar vacations to doctors to incentivize them to prescribe OxyContin, leading to a tenfold increase in prescriptions for less serious pain, from about 670,000 in 1997 to about 6.2 million in 2002."    

  Purdue is now an insolvent corporation; it was formerly headed by a billionaire 'woke capitalist.' (Sound familiar?) The case is still in litigation, mostly over corrupt CEOs and Federal bureaucrats trying to protect their assets. Of course, nobody in our Mainstream Media is going to talk about the revolving-door bureaucracy, 'woke capitalists' in Big Pharma---or about the obvious fact that, coupled with the stated 'population control' agenda of these interests---that our drug crisis is part and parcel of a deliberate, Corporate-Government organized system encouraging addiction and overdose deaths. So, who is the real party here engaging in Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide?

   The report also notes the collusion of the Insurance Cartels in promoting the epidemic: "Most insurance, especially for poor people, won't pay for anything but a pill," said Judith Feinberg, a professor at West Virginia University with expertise in infectious diseases associated with drug injection. The US Department of Health and Human Services estimated that about 11 million people in the US consume Oxycodone in a non-medical way annually." 

   In the American Healthcare System, cost-effectiveness has replaced what was once personal care. Medical personnel once felt a responsibility for their patients; today, the primary responsibility is to profit the 'stakeholders' in the Insurance Cartels. Patients are simply commodities. Needless to say, actual treatment for addictions is not an especially high priority to these people. That matter they leave up to their corporate cronies in the Prison-Industrial Complex. 

   "Addicts are not redeemed." the report notes, "The large, ever-expanding group of drug dependence, without proper social support and intervention, easily became the victims of new, more powerful drugs. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid which is also FDA-approved, is up to 50 and 100 times stronger than heroine and morphine respectively. Fentanyl, the cheaper to make yet more lethal drug and its close cousins became the biggest drug-related killers in the US in 2016, the Associated Press reported."

     The Trump Administration did make an effort to focus on treatment for addicts, despite considerable obstruction and bristling, even from members of his own Party. Trump's policy cut too deeply into too many profit-margins and since has been scrapped. 

    The very notion of investing in treatment programs often brings a firestorm of fury from many on the Postmodern Right. "No way! Why should we be taxed to pay for someone else's poor lifestyle choices?!?" is one common refrain heard. Aside from the humanitarian aspect---which seems to matter very little to today's new breed of Conservatism anyway---it doesn't occur to anybody that we're already paying a lot for overpriced, for-profit prisons, the crimes committed to support drug habits, and declining quality-of-life in general. Sadly, it's doubtful that such arguments carry much weight. 'Justice' in America today is really more focused on retaliation, revenge, and scapegoating; and advocating rehabilitation is seen as being a soft-on-crime weenie. Contrary to American Media propaganda, incidentally, the Chinese Justice System prioritizes treatment for drug-offenders. 

    

    "With around 4 percent of the world's population, the US consumes 80 percent of the world's opioids. Why is the US? 

    "The US' drug problem, including the current fentanyl abuse crisis, is deeply rooted in the country's lobbying political structure and ideology, said Zhang Yifei, an associate research fellow at the Institute of American Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The colossal profits bundle pharmaceutical companies with the FDA, sponsored politicians, academic groups, and the media, making the fentanyl crisis a predictable tragedy in the US that has enriched a few at the expense of many lives lost.

    "Academic institutions provide 'scientific proof,' media and think tanks propagate said proof, and drug makers lobby the government - this is a very complete and mature chain, Zhang elaborated, 'They have various ways to exchange rights and interests through the Revolving Door system.'  

   "Zhang also pointed to 'the pan-liberalism trend in the US, which emphasizes the absolute freedom of individuals.' US governments, be they federal or state, are incapable of exercising effective regulation on many issues, although some of them, like drugs, have endangered the public."  

    Sadly, I don't think that one can argue with any of Zhang's assessment. In fact, it could be added that the American population in general isn't exactly making it difficult for exploitative corporations and corrupt politicians to get away with their criminal activities. Despite annual six-figure casualties from narcotics, the Drug Crisis doesn't even crack the top 10 of voter concerns.  

   As the report showed---and many of us recall---the Opioid Epidemic began first with Big Pharma in the 1990s, and surged after the US Occupation of Afghanistan. According to official sources, "from 1999 to 2017, more than 399,000 people died from drug overdoses that involved prescription and illicit opioids. Those addicted to opioids, both legal and illegal, are increasingly young, white, and female, with 1.2 million women addicted compared to 0.9 million men in 2015. The problem is worse in rural areas." Just as the 'Cocaine Epidemic' of the Bush-Clinton Era  proliferated narcotics among Black Communities, the Opioid Crisis of the Bush Jr-Obama Era targets the White working-class. 

    After the Biden 'Administration' seized power, Afghanistan was abandoned due to increasing anti-drug actions in the region---mostly by China and Iran. Operations were brought back to the United States and compromised Latin American countries. With the downfall of the Trump Justice Department and a complete stranglehold on the American Media, the Oligarchy has no fear of exposure. Since 2021, Opioid overdoses and addiction rates have returned to, and even surpassed pre-2017 levels. 

    The American drug epidemic is the result of an orchestrated policy, the Strategy of Tension, the Depopulation Agenda, and cultivating anti-China sentiments. Most importantly, though, it is also a product of our own making. The American public---which sees the effect of the crisis before its own eyes every day---continues pretending not to see, and so it goes along unabated. 

 

THE POWER OF SYMBOLS

     September has been a month with a lot of activity in Foreign Policy issues all across the globe. The remarkable thing that's characterized this month's international meetings has been the very clear assertion of power by most of the developing against the Great Reset's delusions of a New World Order. The humiliations that the Biden/Harris Junta suffered at the ASEAN, G-20, and UN General Assembly Summits were juxtaposed against the successes of America's so-called 'enemies' at the BRICS and Eastern Economic Forums. The Deep State's utter impotence against military revolts against them in Africa, their failure to stop the Russian liberation of Eastern Ukraine, their sinking fortunes in Taiwan, and their inability to prevent long-standing allies Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Argentina from switching sides and growing instability in Europe underscored an important fact: although the Oligarchs might have the Anglosphere under their thumbs, their fantasies of global domination are a long way from realization. 

     The reverses suffered at the UN General Assembly were downplayed or ignored by the American Corporate Media. It was actually one of the more contentious meetings in recent UN history. The United Nations, in recent times, has been little more than a rubber-stamp of anything proposed by the US State Department to give the illusion of some international solidarity behind Beltway policies (much like Elections are in the US itself). This year, however, there was quite a bit of stirring among the national leaders---mostly over the issue of unequal representation. 

     Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his disgust to the Turkish Media after the meeting, pointing out that the even the decor of the UN Meeting Hall was designed to overawe participants with symbolism of who was actually in charge. 

     “One of the issues that bothers me the most... is that when entering the United Nations General Assembly, you see the LGBT colors on steps and other places," Erdogan said. “How many LGBT [people] are there in the world right now? However much right they have on these steps, those against LGBT have as much right as well. This is a humanitarian issue and we need to know that there are people who are disturbed by this.” The President also said that he intended to initiate a formal protest to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, though given Guterres' history as the former Socialist Prime Minister of Portugal; his former presidency of the Socialist International; and the fact that he's attended nearly every WEF meeting since 2007; it's likely that the Sultan's protests will fall on deaf ears. 

      

    While homosexuality isn't illegal in Turkey, the Government there has followed the enlightened policies of its neighbors, Russia, Belarus, Hungary, and others of suppressing attempts by this pernicious group to undermine and destabilize their societies. Across Turkey, homo student organizations in universities have been shut down---with the full support of Turkish intellectuals and academics. Dr. Saffet Kose, chancellor of  Kâtip Çelebi University spoke at the Great Family Gathering rally on Sep. 17, in Istanbul. 

   "For the salvation of our generation, the survival of our society, the peace of our nation and the continuation of humanity; I call on everyone to protect the family institution, to be one heart against the LGBT imposition." Professor Kose stated, "State officials have the duty to take steps against LGBT individuals, who are a threat to all humanity, a challenge to the natural order and attempting to impose social corruption.”  Would that our country still had Academics with the courage to speak out like that: but in our exceptional nation which holds to Freedom of Speech and Liberty of Conscience, no Academic who did would be permitted to teach anywhere. 

    Erdogan's principled stand also highlights that the use of such symbolism for propaganda purposes was not lost on him. Advertisers and Propagandists have known for decades the value and connotation of symbolism. It wasn't any accident that one of the first acts of the Biden/Harris Junta was to order the Rainbow Flag flown next to our national ensign. The Rainbow symbol formerly was used by the WEF itself, until the connections became too obvious. Nonetheless, the original logo of the Fourth Industrial Revolution bears a striking resemblance to the central image in the UN display pictured above:

    The symbolism behind the Rainbow wasn't chosen by accident. The Rainbow conjures an image to most of Mankind as a symbol of peace and order after a storm. Probably the most famous example in literature was written in the Biblical story of the Great Flood. When Noah's Ark reached dry land and safety after a 40-day cleansing of the Earth, God made a rainbow to symbolize a 'new order' for Mankind. Rainbows are also symbolic in human folklore as an emblem of rest and repose after a great quest: legends tell that following a rainbow to its end, one will find treasure enough for a life of leisure. 

    The powers behind the Great Reset chose the Rainbow for the same reason: they promise a world free from responsibility and care; though what they don't show is that that world is a Paradise only for themselves, and a sterile, purposeless existence for the rest of us. All of this promotion of 'population control,' 'sterilization campaigns,' 'family planning'---all just terms substituting for Genocide---apply to us, not to them. As the new Master Race, they'll still perpetuate themselves; the Gay Agenda, legal abortion, euthanasia, and extending Cancel Culture to heterosexual behavior is our future, not theirs. 

   While it must admitted that President Erdogan is an accomplished practitioner of Realpolitik (which is probably a survival mechanism in Turkish politics), he is ultimately a Turkish patriot who isn't going to sell out the interests of his country when it really comes down to long-term survival as a culture. Erdogan understands that strong families are the basis of any stable social order, and deserves credit for standing up to Cultural Imperialism.