THE MANUFACTURING GAP: CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST

    While the American public is eagerly awaiting MSNBC's and Fox News' exposure of all of the lurid sexual details surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's secret files---as if anything in there was any great secret---some apparently have been amusing themselves by shutting down Government offices with fake bomb threats and swatting their political opponents. I would guess that the frustration that threat of Jihadi terrorist attacks haven't materialized is starting to wear on the public mind, so many are creating their own dramas. Meanwhile, in the exceptional United States, the City of Portland, Oregon is suffering an outbreak of Shigellosis, a disease which Wikipedia says "is usually the cause of epidemics of dysentery, particularly in confined populations such as refugee camps." 

   Chinese weather-balloons are also making the news again, this time in Taiwan just 10 days before the Taiwanese Elections: what a coincidence. Now, naturally the US Deep State is totally disinterested and unbiased in the Taiwanese Elections, there are absolutely no Wall Street vested interests involved in the outcome. 

    Those big meanies in Beijing were at it again today complaining that the Junta's emissary to the Japanese Empire---apparently forgetting the disastrous New Years Day earthquake there---took to social media instead to pounce on an ongoing territorial dispute between China and Japan. Former Obama henchman Rahm Emmanuel made his remarks---once again coincidentally, we reiterate---just days after the news broke that China had surpassed Tesla as the world's leader in Electronic Vehicle technology. 

    As Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emmanuel's top donor was that great Conservative hero, Elon Musk. Shortly after Emmanuel's election, he awarded a contract to Musk to electrify the City's transportation system. This, coincidentally, follows a similar pattern: Musk was also a top donor to Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom and Democrat Washington Governor Jay Inslee; both of whom announced State transitions to electric vehicles by 2035. Likewise, former Democrat Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak was one of Musk's top recipients and suddenly Tesla got a grant to build a new factory outside Las Vegas. Sisolak has since gone on to Chicago, where he now works for the Deep-State connected Pritzker Family. 

    

    The widening technology gap between the US and China is another entirely of our own making. From the 1990s onward, both Republicans and Democrats engaged in a deliberate policy of deindustrialization as entire manufacturing sectors were outsourced and shipped overseas. The 'experts' and the pundits assured us all that Big Tech was our future; that we no longer needed an agricultural or industrial base in the New American Century; that American technological superiority could never be challenged, etc. As usual, they were wrong: today we have rotted-out cities and high unemployment to show for it.

   Both the Trump Administration and the Biden/Harris Junta have attempted to bring manufacturing back to the United States, but both are finding it easier said than done. Manufacturing requires skilled labor and skilled management and a well-developed distribution infrastructure---and the US no longer has these things. There are really only two options left for us: either give up the policy of 'containment' and start working with foreign countries in free and fair trade; or invest substantial sums in a nationwide Industrial Policy. 

  The odds of either of these things happening are not especially high: the political and commercial classes gain more traction by scapegoating and finger-pointing. The Whackos at the WEF imagine that AI and robotics will eliminate the need for troublesome things like workers. Not to worry, though, according to the same experts who told us that tech would replace industry: there will be plenty of manual labor and service-sector jobs created, and of course a demand for more bureaucrats and social workers to administer the New Order. Besides, cooperating with foreign powers or investing in American Infrastructure instead the Security State will make us look weak. It must always be remembered that when the sociopolitical and economic 'experts' talk about American interests, they mean the interests of the self-appointed New Aristocracy and the American people at large don't factor into their equations. To them, we are simply a herd to managed (or culled if necessary). This is why, for example, interference in the Taiwan Elections are more a priority than domestic outbreaks of diseases common to underdeveloped countries. 

   

MEDIA HYSTERICS AND TRASH CULTURE CONSERVATISM

  Here in the Prozac Nation, violent crime isn't all that uncommon although for both political and commercial purposes, its extent is typically exaggerated and has been for a long time. Narcotics, the lack of adequate mental treatment facilities; and the combined incompetence, unwillingness, or inability to enforce laws are contributory factors but rarely discussed. 

   Thus, on New Years Day in Rochester, New York a vehicle crashed into another vehicle, spun out of control and hit several pedestrians before catching fire. This happened outside of a concert venue and social media was all abuzz with certain elements of our new, evolved Right gleefully hoping that it was a terrorist attack. It's another way that the Right has copied the Left. In every other act of violence, the commentary is flooded with Left-Wing Whackos asserting that some Trump-supporter was responsible before all the facts are known; and it generally turns out that the suspect was exactly the opposite. 

   In an effort to control the narrative and own the Libtards, the Right recently has been doing the same thing. Arabs and immigrants---and sometimes even the Chinese---get blamed for the most dramatic of these incidents; and just like happens to the Whacko Left, the Right usually ends up eating crow afterwards. 

  "Although the motive behind the crime remains unknown, the conversations officials have had with Avery's family so far lead them to believe that Avery had been suffering from undiagnosed mental health issues. At this time, officials have not been able to identify that anyone else was involved or that this was part of a larger plot. There is also no evidence that this was politically or socially motivated. 'So far we've uncovered no evidence of an ideology and no nexus to terrorism, either international or domestic, so far in the investigation,' FBI Special Agent in Charge Jeremy Bell said."

  Unable to obtain any political capital from the car crash, the Controlled Opposition has turned to the tried-and-true method of sensationalizing a titillating sex-scandal. Apparently, lurid details of Jefferey Epstein's visitors are about to be released: Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew are said to be perverts. Really, who knew? 

   Of course, both the Mainstream and Controlled Opposition Press will pass over in silence the railroading of Ghislaine Maxwell in a kangaroo-court show-trial; or the suspicious circumstances surrounding Epstein's death; or his activities as an 'asset' for the Deep States of the world; or his ties to funding WEF-Connected transhumanist and other projects; or the Media's intentional cover-ups of any of these things. 

   For those readers living outside of the English-speaking world, a short explanation may be necessary here. In the Anglosphere---the United States in particular---heterosexual behavior is considered a more serious and scandalous matter than Criminal Conspiracy, Blackmail, Extortion, Judicial Malfeasance, Government Corruption or any of the other non-sexually related things that Epstein and his associates were guilty of engaging in. This is why Ghislaine Maxwell---who really did little more than manage Epstein's seraglio---was locked away in the bowels of the Prison-Industrial Complex for 20 years while the real criminals skated away with few or no consequences. 

   That is essentially what any of these forthcoming shocking revelations will amount to. A lot of soft-core pornography will get thrown around as 'newsworthy;' a lot of finger-pointing in both wings of the Media; a lot of paedohysteria will be generated. All of it is a distraction: some people will get rich off the publicity; maybe another scapegoat here or there will be sacrificed; but in the end nothing will really change and nobody will be the wiser until the next manufactured crisis comes along.

   The really disgusting thing is that the Right---instead of calling for a deep investigation into what really went on with Epstein---is playing along with the deceptions and injustices. This is intentional, too. The so-called 2024 Election could possibly be between Trump (who's allegedly in the Epstein files and being witch-hunted by Left-Wing activists over sexual improprieties); and Biden (who's routinely accused of the same things in the Controlled Opposition Media). That would be an optimal situation for those managing American Elections: a pair of geriatric men arguing over who is the biggest pervert. The Corporate Oligarchs and the Deep State can laugh up their sleeves and go on with their projects while Ameroboobs fight among themselves over such nonsense.

   We have to be on our guard against these kinds of distractions. It's a standard operating procedure of propagandists working for authoritarian causes to substitute fake issues for real ones and demonize the 'opposition' along the way. The thing they fear the most is people actually thinking about whether or not they're being conned by official narratives and fake counter-narratives. This is why we get bombarded with these peripheral stories along with a steady supply of dope and mindless entertainment drivel---to prevent thinking as much as possible simply by crowding out time for it. 

   Unfortunately, the Media and Academia have well-cultivated into the American psyche a tendency to demand immediate action for its own sake and think about consequences later, if they think about it at all. Americans have also been conditioned to believe that whatever everyone else is talking about must be vitally important, while those who bring up real issues are on the fringes. In a culture like ours which has difficulty distinguishing fantasy from reality, naturally acts of criminal violence sells. In a culture like ours where heterosexuality is repressed, naturally salacious sex scandals sell well too. Dramas of these sorts are a profitable commodity as being politically useful; and the Top 20% or so percent laugh all the way to the bank, every time. 

    

    

STAKES GO UP IN THE RED SEA

    So our brave xhes in uniform have been celebrating a glorious Victory at Sea this weekend. A cargo ship belonging to the Maersk shipping conglomerate and bound for the Zionist nation was attacked by Yemeni gunboats and damaged, but our frontline heroes responded, sinking three Yemeni vessels and killing ten sailors. The fourth gunboat retreated successfully after returning fire against the Coalition helicopters. Supposedly there were no US casualties, but we have only the Pentagon's word for that. 

   In response to this, what the Media calls "US bases in Syria and Iraq" were attacked by drones and missiles---again supposedly with no casualties. These outposts are actually in both countries illegally, over the objections of both the Syrian and Iraqi Governments. They are run by shady Defense Contractors (otherwise known as 'terrorists' when other countries deploy them) around local oil fields. The US military provides 'security' for them and helps impress local labor to pump oil which is then shipped abroad to Heaven-knows-where by other Contractors. Occasionally, the Pentagon will claim that civilian workers are killed or injured in these attacks---not that they would be using human shields like Hamas supposedly does. 

   Iran announced today that it was dispatching a patrol from the Persian Gulf Fleet also for the purposes of defending the Red Sea; though one would presume that Iranian interests in the region are somewhat different than our Deep State's. 

    The Yemeni Government stated that would not be intimidated, to put it mildly. As we recently predicted here, the warhawks in the American punditocracy are not thinking this through carefully. The prudent course of action would be for the Government to tell shippers to use other routes: but of course that wouldn't be an Alpha move, and, despite having near zero national interest in the Red Sea, the American people need to be prepared to make sacrifices so that Global Corporations' investments are protected and our leaders don't look like wimps.

   In fact, Jolly Old King Chuck---despite having few weapons to work with---nonetheless issued a Royal Ultimatum against Yemen yesterday. In typical British fashion, His Highness' Lord Admiral of the High Seas implied that the British would fight to the last drop of American blood, since he was in the Beltway this weekend impressing upon Generalissimo Austin that Americans would have to participate. Now Britain is already blatantly violating our Monroe Doctrine, but there hasn't been a peep of protest over this from either the Mainstream or Controlled Opposition Media. British warships in the Caribbean apparently don't rise to threat level of Chinese weather balloons.

   If Americans could actually find the Red Sea on a world map, they might ask themselves why our Navy is there at all, and what they are defending. One would think that with the amount of narcotics being smuggled in by sea or the decrepit condition of our own ports, and inland waterways, our Navy would be put to better use in the United States. The answer won't be hard to find if we look at the shipping company that our Navy defended yesterday.

   The vessel attacked by Yemen belongs to a Danish shipping company, A.P. Moeller-Maersk. Maersk is a US Government contractor supplying the Pentagon's forces abroad, among other things. Why our own Navy isn't doing this, we don't know; but what we do know is that Maersk was fined for price gouging the Pentagon in 2012 and caught again in 2014 committing fraud in defense contracts. Maersk has also been caught violating sanctions; as well as retaliating against whistleblowers. However, not many objections will be raised, since they have a significant lobbying presence inside the Beltway, most of whom are Revolving-Door former Federal bureaucrats. 

   The former CEO of Maersk, Jim Hagemann Snabe is now CEO of WEF Top 100 Strategic Partner, the Siemens Corporation, Snabe is also a member of the WEF Board of Trustees, along with Bush-Machine apparatchik David Rubenstein. Rubenstein is involved with the Carlyle Group which is heavily invested in major ports worldwide. The current Maersk CEO, Soren Skou, is a WEF Agenda Contributor. Thomas Thune Andersen, another former Maersk executive, is now a Board member of WEF Board of Trustee Member Marc Benioff's NGO which is trying to exert control over the world's oceans. 

  Lloyd Austin himself formerly worked for government contractors Raytheon and Nucor; as well as the heavily-WEF connected Pine Island Capital Partners. I think that we can all draw our conclusions about whose interests the US Navy is defending against those big meanies in Yemen. Incidentally, former Republican Senators Byron Dorgan, Saxby Chambliss, and Don Nickles are also connected to Pine Island, which might go a long way to explaining why so many in GOP also favor a robust response. 

   Isn't it a remarkable coincidence how all of these 'crises' always seem to lead back to the same people?

   Before these idiots manage to start World War III in the Middle East---probably more by their own arrogance and stupidity than by actual design---we Americans really need to start asking ourselves who's telling that we have vital interests there and why. 

2024 AND BEYOND

     2023 is concluding and a new year beginning. Everyone is making past year reflections and new years predictions. Personally, I don't think that we will see a lot of major differences in 2024 like we saw in 2020, at least not in our sphere of the world. The events that happened four years and the Long March building up to it for 30+ years have become so ingrained in Western psychology that expecting wholesale changes in our sociopolitical trajectory is not likely to happen. As we were saying back in 2020-21, what we experienced was a Color Revolution, not some temporary interruption in our normal routines like previous crises were. The Color Revolution was the culmination of the first phase of the hostile takeover and phase two, the Great Reset, is well underway. 

    In domestic and foreign affairs, the trajectory that we seem to following in 2024 therefore looks much like 2022 and 2023. In domestic issues, the biggest non-issue, the Election, is going to be presented as the most critical issue. The outcome of the Elections---which probably has already been decided---isn't the important thing. The purpose of holding them at all is to give the public the illusion that whatever the Oligarchy plans to do in 2025 and beyond has a 'popular mandate.' We will probably see some political violence: in fact, some of it is starting already and being carried out on both sides. There have been several more incidents recently of Leftist harassment of Republican politicians and Right-Wing harassment of Democrat operatives. This is part of the Strategy of Tension employed to keep the nation divided and fearful, the final purpose being to impose a strongman who will 'restore order.' 

   It could very well happen in 2024 that the Oligarchs play this card. Voter dissatisfaction both with the Junta and the President-in-Exile is very high; and the tensions have been exacerbated by extreme actions and rhetoric on both sides. It's not clear at this point whether or not the Oligarchy will insert a strongman into this year's race to 'unify the country,' but the possibility exists. At this point, there isn't such a unifying figure---at least that we know of. 

  In any event, other than the possible insertion of a candidate, I don't forsee any major 2020-level disruptions domestically. The Great Reset forces are going to go on; instituting many of the changes they hope to put into full effect after the next year. We'll see more of what we saw in 2023: gradual phasing-in of Technofascist control over the currency, erosion of civil liberties, further concentrations of wealth, etc. 

  There are many on the political Right who are clinging desperately to some great turnaround in our direction: but the only turning around going on is the Republicans moving further and further Left. The Republicans are a lot closer to imploding than they are of winning, despite all of the grandstanding and cheerleading going on inside of their Media echo-chambers. All of the loose talk, too, on Social Media of a 'Civil War 2.0' is just as much of a fantasy. The Right has no leadership, no organization, no plan or purpose---not to mention neither the courage nor the character---to do anything like that. 

   Foreign Policy is unlikely to change in substance much since both Parties are wholly aligned with the Deep State's objectives in the world: maintaining Beltway hegemony at all hazards. The situation abroad might change rather radically, however. 

   Ukraine: is on the verge of complete collapse. There's really nothing holding that Regime together any more---and really never was, outside of foreign support. However, Ukraine could still spiral into dangerous escalation. Our Deep State is obsessed with Ukraine because it seems to have become symbolic of what the pundits call our national resolve. 'National Resolve' is the political version of 'street cred' in the ghettoes and hoods of American Trash Culture, but it is also our defining political philosophy these days. 

   Despite Ukraine's complete irrelevance to any issues facing American society, both wings of the American Deep State are calling for greater and greater involvement. The general consensus among the Russian leadership currently is that the US is already involved in the war in everything but name. Outside of the mentally lethargic American public, the Junta hasn't fooled anybody as to what they were doing; and the only 'Conservative' response has been to stop being weenies and go kick some Russian butt. What they are going to kick with, no one knows: but it makes a good political talking point.  

   The Junta's position itself is unpredictable: the Deep State actually seems flummoxed on what to do about Ukraine. All of their 'experts' and paid flatterers greatly overestimated our own capabilities and vastly underestimated Russia. Some seem willing to negotiate some face-saving withdrawal---but Russia clearly has the upper hand and isn't going to make any concessions just to save Biden's electoral chances. Others want direct military involvement which would mean a showdown with Russia which we don't have the ability to back up. Ever since the Deep State's hostile takeover of Ukraine in 2014, the Oligarchs have consistently mistaken Russian patience for weakness, at the cost of many lives and the squandering of our national resources.

     Palestine: as in Ukraine, the 'experts' proved wrong again in Palestine. The Left-Wing Technofascist Zionist Regime---praised as a model state by the WEF and a model of Western military superiority by our 'defense analysts'--- is 90 days into a Civil War which is protracting in the face of stubborn resistance. Also like Ukraine, the Israeli Military is showing the effects of relying on the Pentagon: while they have managed to kill a lot of civilians, their military gains have been nothing to brag about. The Corporate Media here dubbed the Palestinian Revolt "Israel's 9/11" and as we saw with Bush's War on Terror, the reaction has cost more lives and resources than the initial attacks did, to no benefit.

    The Zionists have been trying desperately to goad Iran into the conflict, in the hope that the US Deep State will respond militarily and bail them out. So far, Iran hasn't taken the bait. Nonetheless, this is posing a major problem for the NWO crowd, as the Middle East is rapidly slipping from their intended grasp. Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran are all eligible next year for BRICS membership and all are major players in the region.

    Argentina:  a Color Revolution in Argentina which installed an outright Deep-State backed nutjob in power who has already nullified Argentina's inclusion into the BRICS economic bloc, effectively banned protests, and is on track to tie Argentina into utter dependency on the Corporate Oligarchy. Javier Milei may cause a lot of problems in the region, to be sure. The worrisome thing is that he's become something of a role model for our new, evolved Conservative movement.

    Bear in mind that Zelensky, Netanyahu, and Milei are the sorts of leaders that the WEF Oligarchs and their flying monkeys in the Neocon Right think that the bottom 80% of the world's population deserves. We can't, for this reason, entirely rule out the possibility that the Oligarchy may a substitute a nominally Right-Wing strongman for the Biden/Harris Junta. They did this with the Bush Machine in 2000, and the Neocons do have representation on the WEF Board of Trustees. The important thing here is not to fall for any fake 'populist' who might surface during the 2024 Elections.

    Taiwan: This is going to be the first foreign policy distraction of next year since the Taiwanese Elections are coming up next month. The Beltway Deep State has been interfering to considerable extent in these proceedings; as well as stirring up problems in the South China Sea and with North Korea. Again, however, it comes down to the same problem. The 'China experts' have again flopped: the Deep State is in no position to impose its will on China---in fact, China has grown more economically powerful and politically stable despite sabotage from the West. 

   These foreign affairs are going to be important in 2024 for two reasons: the first is that Oligarchy has depended upon Western Military abilities to defend and expand its interests; the second is that the Military has become something of a popular symbol of the last shred of actual American strength. This is one reason why the Controlled Opposition has been playing up the "Biden's weakened military" trope so strongly even though our military decline started largely under Republican leadership. 

   We've really reached a point where our Foreign Policy has declined to the level of our domestic policy. The sociopolitical and moral bankruptcy of our system has become apparent in 2023 because of the obvious and egregious failures of our foreign policy alongside the complete inability to solve any of these problems. 

   Alongside the failures abroad, the failures at home have also become more glaring. The Junta has been obliged to shift resources away from our own infrastructure to support mercenary military activities elsewhere for no other reason than to uphold 'American prestige' and transfer wealth into the pockets of vested interests. The Right isn't offering any actual solutions except to double-down on the same policies.

   Thus, our major prediction for 2024 is that---not unlike 2023---it will be characterized by distraction and political in-fighting, although probably to a more elevated degree. The level of decline and degeneration in our culture is something that the great masses of the American public are still utterly oblivious to and in hopeless denial about. That too is likely not to change. For the rest of us, 2024 should be a year of expanding our networks and preparing for greater independence and resistance. 

GOP AND WEF YEAR-END HI-JINKS

    So, I suppose that we've heard that Maine became the second State to disqualify the President-in-Exile from running as a Presidential Candidate. What the Controlled Opposition Media discreetly left out of the story is that, like Colorado, members of their own Party were involved in colluding with the Democrats who currently run Maine's Executive Branch. Kimberley Rosen and Tom Saviello---two Republican former State Senators issued a statement praising the disqualification, saying that “Secretary Bellows showed great courage in her ruling, and we look forward to helping her defend her judicious and correct decision in court. No elected official is above the law or our constitution, and today’s ruling reaffirms this most important of American principles.” 

   In a not-unrelated story, Ohio's Republican Governor Mike DeWine vetoed a Bill protecting children and legal minors from being preyed upon by perverts in the medical establishment and their dysfunctional parents and schools. DeWine was re-elected in 2022 despite being the first Governor to suspend the Legislature, impose Mask Mandates, and order (selective) lockdowns during the Scamdemic. Good thing a Democrat didn't win.

   Meanwhile, Senator Lindsey Graham gave an unhinged psychopathic outburst impassioned speech on Fox News yesterday, encouraging the Junta to stop being a bunch of weenies and use up what's left of our munitions stockpiles upon Iran and Yemen. This sentiment was echoed by Deep State shills in the Controlled Opposition. 

   "U.S. security interests in the Middle East have also been gravely undermined by President Biden’s weak leadership and foreign policy and are likely to further deteriorate in 2024!" Pundit Fred Fleitz screeches. "The consequences of Biden’s feckless Middle East policy have been demonstrated by the surge in attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria over the past two months by Iranian-backed militias and attacks on Israel and Red Sea shipping by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels! The U.S. response to these attacks has been weak, causing such attacks to grow in number! Neither Iran nor its terrorist proxies are worried the U.S. will make them pay a price for these provocations that are endangering U.S. troops and global shipping!" 

   It doesn't seem to have occurred to either Fleitz or Graham that US troops are being attacked because they are stationed illegally in both Iraq and Syria; or that bombing Iran and Yemen would probably not only close the Red Sea but the Persian Gulf as well and make oil exports from the Gulf Region nearly impossible. There would be enormous pressure on the Arab States and OPEC to engage in an oil embargo too. But that's not important: in the ethos of gangsta-rap ghetto gangland which the GOP seems to have adopted, not losing street cred is the all-important thing.

    Though one would never know it from reading the Corporate Media, there actually are candidates in the race besides Trump, Biden, and the quartet of GOP also-rans. It's rather amazing that, despite polls showing that Americans desire a third candidate, no one is giving attention to a high-profile name like Robert Kennedy. Now Kennedy isn't going to be permitted to win any more than Trump will; probably much of the Media blackout comes from his organization doing things like exposing Bill Gates and Big Ag's marketing of potentially dangerous food products with no regulatory oversight.

   "Recent testing revealed 92 unknown molecules — and a fungicide — in “synthetic” milk now sold in common grocery chains, according to the Health Research Institute (HRI). The product, sold by Bored Cow uses a fake whey protein called ProFerm made by biotech company and partner Perfect Day. Perfect Day uses genetically modified microflora to produce the synthetic milk protein...Synthetic milk has never before been consumed by humans and has not undergone safety testing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), according to HRI’s Chief Scientist and CEO John Fagen."

   Not only is Gates doing this with no oversight; other Agribusiness Cartels are adding to their product to their own compounds and formulas. It's unlikely that there will be much public outcry, however, since Microsoft alone retains 90 Federal lobbyists---65 of whom are Revolving-Door former Beltway bureaucrats, including two former Congressmen. 

   Gates' NGO, besides being a massive government contractor, is a highly-placed WEF Top 100 Strategic Partner, along with his good buddy Warren Buffet's Berkshire-Hathaway. These two worthies have been buying up American farmland at a rate far higher than the much-hyped less than 1% owned by Chinese-affiliated firms. The WEF actually has three executives from the world's largest Agribusiness Cartel, the Nestle Corporation, whose CEO has advocated turning the world's water supply over to Big Ag as well. Nestle has been caught using outright slave labor in various countries. Despite being headquartered in a foreign country, Nestle has a fairly substantial lobbying base in Washington of its own. Contrary to what might be believed, Microsoft's PAC actually donated most heavily to Republican candidates during the last election cycle. Since he received a dishonorable mention in our last post, check out which prominent politician is most heavily invested in Nestle. 

   Yes---but Iran, Hamas, and Yemen: those are the real threats according to the paid experts. However, we don't see any of them deliberately adulterating our food supplies with dangerous chemicals or openly calling for a Fascist takeover of American farmland. I couldn't find on Open Secrets any lobbying profile for the Iranian Government, or Hamas, Yemen, or Hezbollah. 

  But what about the shipping lanes in the Red Sea being closed? Someone might ask. Well, we can look at China---which carries on shipping throughout the Middle East including Israel. In fact, China has even greater problem since the Government of Malaysia---which has ports a lot closer to China---closed its ports to all Israeli shipping. What is China's reaction? China is doing what we should be doing: shipping by alternative routes. 

  But that position wouldn't answer the purposes of our Corporate Overlords anymore than taking action against their depredations on our agricultural system would. Meanwhile, the Ameroboobs will sink further into poor health, lower life expectancy,  more addictions, while transferring more national wealth to the Military-Industrial-Complex and Big Ag; blissfully believing that holding their noses and voting for a Neocon will solve everything. 

   

   

ALPHAS SPLASH AROUND IN THE RED SEA

    Last week, the Junta's Generalissimo Lloyd Austin cobbled together a 'coalition' to deal with Yemen, the only nation so far which has formally entered the Palestinian Civil War. That Coalition has already collapsed. Earlier this year, another US-trained, equipped, and financed Coalition met with a humiliating defeat at Yemeni hands. This followed a string of losses for the Military-Industrial Complex in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Ukraine is probably going to be the next loss within a few months; and the Zionists are nearly 90 days into a battle with an Arab Militia occupying a territory about the size of Cook County, Illinois and are taking heavy losses despite terrorizing the civilian population. 

   It's becoming apparent even to the US Deep State that our threats of imposing American Exceptionalism everywhere else on the planet through force is falling on deaf ears. Decades of selling off military functions to Corporate looters have left us with bloated defense budgets combined with shortages of critical material. Decades of ignoring civil infrastructure and outsourcing agriculture and industry have left us unable to sustain a protracted conflict. Decades of no investment in the education or welfare of our youth---along with our culture's obsession with deconstructing toxic masculinity---has left us with a shortage of manpower. Decades of military promotions based upon Political Correctness instead of merit have left us with incompetent leadership. And no---for all of the Neocons reading---it didn't all just start under Biden. 

   This isn't to say that Republican leadership isn't right on top of the military problems. Montana Senator Steve Daines reacted sharply to another expose by that paragon of Journalistic Integrity, NBC News. NBC reported that the Biden/Harris Junta "initially hoped to conceal the Chinese balloon incident earlier this year from the public and even the Congress. Officials feared that the story could spark public outcry and damage relations with China." In fairness, Biden actually turned out to be right for once in his life, because his fears were precisely what happened. 

    “As if it wasn’t enough that the Chinese spy balloon flew over Montana’s nuclear missile fields unabated, now we find out that the admin intended to hide it from Congress & the American people!" Daines thundered on social media,"The Biden administration must be held accountable!” 

    Daines, who is a multimillionaire, actually made a considerable fortune living and working in China, outsourcing thousands of American jobs as an executive with WEF Top 100 Strategic Partner, Procter & Gamble. Daines later went to found Right Now Technologies with his good pal current Montana Governor Greg Gianforte. The company sold in 2011 for $1.8 billion to Big Tech powerhouse, Oracle Corporation. Oracle is a major US Defense Contractor and also has sold technology to China. This probably will be passed over quietly, since among the 464 Beltway lobbyists contributing to Daines, his top donor, Kirk Blalock, is also a lobbyist for Oracle as well as tech companies invested in Taiwan. 

    Beltway antics aside, the lack of military readiness is a serious problem. Like Daines, however, the Conservative punditocracy seems to be in a state of mental paralysis and go about talking as though nothing changed since the mid-20th Century. They seem to be under some delusion that the US is capable of fighting a World War II-level conflict, and worse still, they actually seem to desire it. 

    "The U.S. must defend its national interests by going on the offense against the threat from the Houthis and Iranian presence in Yemen to ensure freedom of navigation! By so doing, it will convey to the PRC that the U.S. will not tolerate interdiction of freedom of navigation in any waters, including the East and South China Seas, and so prevent America’s Suez Moment!” So say these yo-yo's, as if the world's oceans belonged exclusively to the United States. They've apparently forgotten what happened the last time our brave xhes in uniform clashed with the Iranians. 

     The underlying irrationality and outright hysteria coming from the GOP leadership has nothing to do with the concrete facts of the situation. It's all about projecting an image with these people. They have to prove themselves manly Alpha leaders; the fact that our military is about as tough as security guards at local middle schools doesn't factor into their thinking. If things go wrong, they can always change the narrative and blame it all on the Left. 

    Before these idiots manage to talk us into another global conflict that we can't possibly win, Americans on the Right need to start asking themselves a few hard questions. Questions like: If the loss of Taiwan threatens our computer-chip supply, why aren't we building them here in the first place? Or, What really are our national interests in the Middle East? Or, Why doesn't our military guard our own borders instead of guarding Corporate interests abroad? And so on...and so on.

   Unfortunately, such questions are unlikely to be asked or even raised. Most Americans' idea of the military comes out of Hollywood and convincing anybody that we shouldn't simply blast some country off the map for daring to flaunt our tough-guy image is met with incredulity. As a culture, we've largely assimilated the ethos (as well as the character) of the inner-city ghettos and our leadership---whether Left or Right---is a reflection of that.

   

    

    

   

    

CHRISTMAS 2023: ZIONISTS ATTACK BETHLEHEM

    It's Christmas Afternoon in the Prozac Nation; between the now 42 Corporate-sponsored College Bowl games and the obligatory visit to the Megachurch, many American Conservatives have the opportunity to check out the Excel Spreadsheets on their defense stocks since Wall Street will be open for business tomorrow. More and more Corporations are compelling their serfs employees to work on Christmas Day---that may be a good investment for stakeholders in our new, realistic brand of Conservatism too. As far as defense stocks go, the Israeli Government carried out its most ferocious bombing campaign to date on the Gaza Strip, killing almost 1,000 civilians. 

   The Netanyahu Regime, while taking cash and unwavering support from American Churchians seems to take an almost sadistic delight in committing high-profile crimes against Christians in response. Today, on the anniversary of Christ's birth, IDF thugs carried out a series of brutal raids in Bethlehem, smashing down doors and dragging residents off without charges to indefinite detention. Despite what Neocon propaganda tells us, only the Chosen People have rights to anything like Due Process in the Holy Land. 

   Biblical cities of Nablus and Jericho were also targeted. 

     I'm certain that the Churchian Right will find endless excuses and justifications for supporting these outrages---nothing else that the Zionists have done has swayed them so far. Persecuting Christians is only wrong when ISIS does it, I guess. The new breed of Christian Conservative has to flexible about such matters.

    The Civil War in Palestine has presented us with an interesting psychological problem. The mentality of Christian Conservatives who stand with Israel genuinely is difficult to fathom of explain. The Israelis are easier to comprehend. They live under a government controlled by homicidal maniacs who believe themselves a Master Race; and the Israeli people---despite their pretensions to superior intelligence---are just as susceptible to mob psychology as anybody else.

   The ego-investment that American Conservatives have defending Israel is more complicated. It reminds me in many ways of families of criminals whom I've encountered over the years. Invariably when talking to a suspect's family, one hears that there's no way that their precious little angel really shot a cashier five times while robbing a liquor store to pay off his drug dealers. Why does everyone keep picking on him, another asks: just like in High School when they tried to blame him for raping that girl at knife-point and setting her hair on fire! Why he never did anything violent in his whole life, etc. etc. We see stories like this in the news all the time: the serial killers whom the neighbors insist were gentle giants who taught Sunday School, voted regularly, and nobody had any idea what was going on in that soundproof shed in his backyard or why he was burying large plastic bags in the garden at midnight on a regular basis.

    I suspect that much of the same dynamic is going with many Western Christian Conservatives. In certain sects of Evangelical Protestantism especially, there is a strain of thought which looks backwards to the Old Testament instead of forward to the New, though the Fathers of the Church condemned such an outlook. Thus they've largely incorporated Judaism into their own theology. Add into the mix the influence of Neoconservatism---a movement largely begun by militant Zionists---which aggressively promotes the myth of America's Judeo-Christian Heritage, as if the Jews had even the slightest thing to do with founding the United States; and it becomes clear why so many on the contemporary Right are willing to excuse or disbelieve anything that Israel does in the name of the Jewish people.

    Unable to separate in their minds the Zionist Regime from the Jewish Faith, accusations against Israel are met with the same incredulous horror that family members of an accused criminal exhibit. They imagine that God's Chosen People could possibly do things like forcing its citizens to carry Vaxx Passports, or turning Christian holy sites into gay hotspots, or sanction raping women of inferior races. They couldn't possibly be engaged in ethnic cleansing, or fire-bombing hospitals, or letting children die from starvation and dehydration. Even when they admit such things themselves, they must have a good reason for doing them: such special people are naturally the targets of bigotry and envy. 

    Reality, for people in these states of mind, is simply too hard to face. No amount of evidence is going to convince them that those whom they've invested so much of their own pride and ego-identity are anything other than spotless saints and noble heroes victimized by others' malice. The dangerous thing is that there enough of such deluded people that they can influence political decisions and social attitudes. We have to be on our guard against them---especially since they come wrapped in the colors of Christians and Conservatives.