we swagger around swinging at everyone who doesn't get in line, as we tell them to. this post contains some thing i've been working on for a while in bits and pieces. there is no link beyond the url for this blog;

What happened to countries and leaders that trusted American promises and disarmed; Gadhafi and Saddam Hussein disarmed, and were brutally murdered. Russia disarmed in 1991 and thereafter was treated poorly in many ways. America abandoned treaties made in the Soviet days without comment. Non-nuclear North Korea will be bombed. There was an agreement for the nuclear disarmament of North Korea, and the Empire reneged on it. America broke the agreement for the denuclearization of Iran.

The Soviet Union collapsed because it was a dishonest system that ran on pretense and coercion. Apparently, ‘our’ spies completely missed the signs that political collapse was underway. America will collapse for the same reasons.

Hundreds of insiders with top secret clearance knew about the contents of the Pentagon Papers, and therefore knew the Vietnam War was an accumulation of official lies designed to protect powerful self-serving elites.  Only one of the hundreds with access to the truth had the courage to risk his career and liberty to release the truth to the American public: Daniel Ellsberg.

We don’t acknowledge that America is an empire; it’s impossible to realize a relationship if you’re not aware you are in one. ‘Our’ politicians refuse to consider the existence of the world or allow any opinion on the 60% of the budget that goes to militarism.

American exceptionalism defines itself as special among lesser nations, and demands that all Americans believe they are born superior to others, a concept of goodness that requires the existence of evil for its fuel. How could an American understand foreign people when, perhaps unconsciously, he didn’t recognize them as equally human? This kind of nationalism is beyond racism, prejudice, and ignorance.

An empire decides it’s in charge and that’s how we walk around the world. What commitment has America kept or what law have we observed?

In an atmosphere of mass hysteria and paranoia, like the one we’re living in at the moment, the authorities’ stories don’t have to make sense, or stand up to any type of real scrutiny. Their primary purpose isn’t to mislead, but to define an ideological territory of acceptable belief, expression, and emotion to which “normal” people are expected to conform. Beyond the boundaries of that territory lies the outer darkness of “abnormality” and “extremism,” which no “normal” person wants anything to do with. To avoid being ‘different’, people will conform to the most absurd and paranoid nonsense you can possibly imagine. The global ruling classes know this, which is why they don’t care if you disprove their tales on Twitter or some “disreputable” website they’ve rendered virtually invisible anyway. They’re not debating facts or truth; they’re marking the boundaries of “normal” territory, and herding frightened ‘consumers’ into it.

The sinister Putin-Nazi plot has something to do with killing Jews and gassing babies; Would you like to be associated with people like that; Assad-loving, Putin-supporting Nazis? No? Then stop and think very carefully before sharing, “liking,” or commenting publically. It’s for the children, we’re told.

We have to use force because we’re America, the indispensable nation. We see further than other countries into the future. So if some country doesn’t agree with the “indispensable” opinion of officials in Washington, they should prepare at least to get sanctioned, if not bombed, occupied, targeted by terrorists, or set up for a “color revolution” regime change, with the media cheering it on, Consequently the succession of wars of aggression in Serbia, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, plus regime change operations in many, many other places. After all, extremism is no vice, we’re told, in eliminating opposition to the inexorable forward march of “liberal democracy” against its ignorant opponents: nationalists, fascists, racists, anti-Semites, Marxists, protectionists,  conspiracy-mongers, fringe websites that spread “fake news.

My countrymen, by and large, are perfectly willing to convict and sentence the Palestinians or Russians or anybody, to certain destruction based on hearsay. ‘Consumers’ aren’t even willing to take the time to discern facts anymore. The revolution was begun for situations much less difficult that exist in today’s America. Taxation as a symptom of conditions then and now doesn’t begin to match as the taxes blamed on the start of the revolution were much less than today’s levels. The idea that representation would have solved the problem ignores reality in today’s America where that alleged representation does nothing positive for ‘consumers’.

The only “common sense gun control” that its advocates are eventually going to agree on is to take your guns away because that’s what they did in Europe. America’s revolution may have begun over Britain’s interest in gun control. What’s even more interesting is that modern-day gun control advocates agree with this analysis. One of their more regular responses is that “the Bill of Rights was written at a very different time,” admitting that it had its legitimacy then. If it had legitimacy because King George III could decide to overthrow the revolutionaries in an attempt to regain his territory and because the threat of new government becoming tyrannical was real, then what has changed? Is government unable to become tyrannical? The Second Amendment might be old, but the concerns it expressed are just as accurate today as they were in the 18th century.

People with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully. The world, including the Empire, is run by criminals. No government is doing, or will do, the right thing. They aren’t your friend. You can’t petition criminals. You’re being herded into a slot you won’t find a way to escape. The day cash is replaced by digital money is the day you’re fully a slave of their ‘new world order’. Most of you can’t even remember phone numbers, let alone history. Not long from now you will be fully controlled without even noticing it, until you step outside of your given boundary. You’ve given up your personal responsibility to others with the wish they’d do what you would, and now ‘they’ have taken that responsibility and your freedom along with it. This is the ‘new world order’ manifest, and the police protect, but aren’t the points of the spear creating this. This is because the world is run by criminals, and you tolerate this by ignoring it. You focus on trees and forget the forest.