we're ruled by madmen and fools which becomes more obvious when you ignore the crap masquerading as 'news' and realize some of what pcr presents in this run of 'ukraine/russia' current events;

UPDATE: Martyanov has answered, and it is a scary answer:

“Russia and the United States today are in irreconcilable positions and no dialogue is possible with current US ‘elites’ for a variety of geopolitical, economic, historic and, importantly, moral-ethical reasons.”

https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/04/paul-craig-roberts-asks-question-of.html

Washington’s Follies Are Dangerous to Us and to the World

It is 1939 all over again

Paul Craig Roberts

A country without a media is lost to the follies of its government, and that is precisely the position of America today.  In the nuclear era, the entire world is at the mercy of Washington’s follies.  At the present moment the incompetent fools that an insouciant American public permits to rule them are preparing nuclear Armageddon by placing offensive missiles on Russia’s border.

By using their media whores to brand President Trump a “Putin stooge” and “Russian agent,” the military/security complex managed to force President Trump to accept the demise ot the stabilizing INF Treaty.  

Having got rid of the Treaty, Washington is now talking about putting missiles on Russia’s border.  The only purpose of such missiles is to enable a first strike.  In other words, the Kremlin sees the missiles as a prelude to an American first strike..........read more......

 the saying is/was, that people go mad in herds and that's certainly true these days as we watch the madness all around, created and enabled by 'our' governments. the video rebel presents more evidence in the latest from that venue;

From October 2019 to February 2021 the US M1 Money Supply grew 446%. Don’t worry. The Biden administration and the Federal Reserve have solved the problem. They have announced they will no longer report the M1 Money Supply. This would be like the National Weather Service canceling tsunami alerts because they don’t want beachgoers to worry.

At this rate the US M1 Money supply will have grown 2,000% by Summer 2022 which will give voters something to think about in the 2022 elections.

Joe Biden’s spending plans could increase the Money Supply by more than 2,000% by the summer of 2022. He is spending at a faster pace than Trump. And his spending will not increase real economic activity. Only $153 billion of his $3 trillion “Infrastructure” scheme actually goes to roads, bridges and airports. The tral infrastructure debt is more than $4 trillion. More than $10 trillion if you want guarantee safe drinking water without lead, poisons and radiation coming out of the tap. And if you want a guarantee that the lights will not go out for 6 months to a year in case of untoward events occur, you could add a couple trillion more.

But instead of maintaining America we spent our resources blowing up Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq and Syria since 911 when we let Israel blow up the World Trade Center.

M1 Money Supply includes cash, checking accounts and traveler’s checks. In 16 months we will learn what foreigners will do to the US Dollar when they see that much inflation. Of course this is by design. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have the support of most billionaires like George Soros, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates for a reason. All this money printing is part of the Great Reset which the Uber Rich love.

Hint: The US M1 Money Supply is currently growing faster than Argentina’s........read more.........

 when i saw the title i thought, ok, one more bullshit list but lets us go and see, and low and behold, a good and accurate list of our current realities;

There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.

1) Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.

Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had to be paid back. Not now. As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110 percent of annual GDP, our elites either believe permanent zero interest rates make the cascading obligation irrelevant, or the larger the debt, the more likely we will be forced to address needed income redistribution.

2) Laws are not necessarily binding anymore. Joe Biden took an oath to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” But he has willfully rendered federal immigration laws null and void. Some rioters are prosecuted for violating federal laws, others not so much. Arrests, prosecutions, and trials are all fluid. Ideology governs when a law is still considered a law.

Crime rates do not necessarily matter. If someone is carjacked, assaulted or shot, it can be understood to be as much the victim’s fault as the perpetrator’s. Either the victim was too lax, uncaring and insensitive, or he provoked his attacker. How useful the crime is to the larger agendas of the Left determines whether a victim is really a victim, and the victimizer really a victimizer...........read more.......

 just got this far and knew this caitlin essay needed to be posted, if only for this segment;

The western world has a very high opinion of itself and its supposed values, and its treatment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange makes a lie of it all.

Truth. Justice. Freedom. Democracy. We are taught from an early age that these are the sacred values our society upholds with the utmost reverence, and that we are very fortunate to have been born in a part of the world which holds such virtue.

You see this haughty self-righteousness pop up on a daily basis in the most influential circles on earth, from the way US presidents are still to this day referred to as the “leader of the free world”, to US Secretary of State Tony Blinken recently babbling about the “shared values” of the “free and open rules-based order”, to Magnitsky Act manipulator Bill Browder recently referring to the US-centralized power alliance as “the civilized world” in a bid to get Australia up to pace with the rest of the empire’s China hawkishness.............read more......

you might file this image under; things you might wish to consider; 

pcr makes several good points herein centered on ukraine and i believe he's quite accurate; 

Washington Is Misreading Russia at the World’s Peril

Paul Craig Roberts

On August 31, 2018, I wrote:

“So, the questions for Andrei Martyanov, The Saker, and for Putin and the Russian government is: How long does turning your other cheek work? Do you turn your other cheek so long as to allow your opponent to neutralize your advantage in a confrontation? Do you turn your other cheek so long that you lose the support of the patriotic population for your failure to defend the country’s honor? Do you turn your other cheek so long that you are eventually forced into war or submission? Do you turn your other cheek so long that the result is nuclear war?

“I think that Martyanov and The Saker agree that my question is a valid one. Both emphazise in their highly informative writings that the court historians misrepresent wars in the interest of victors. Let’s give this a moment’s thought. Both Napoleon and Hitler stood at their apogee, their success unmitigated by any military defeat. Then they marched into Russia and were utterly destroyed. Why did they do this? They did it because their success had given them massive arogance and belief in their “exceptionalism,” the dangerous word that encapsulates Washington’s belief in its hegemony.

“The zionist neoconsevatives who rule in Washington are capable of the same mistake that Napoleon and Hitler made. They believe in “the end of history,” that the Soviet collapse means history has chosen America as the model for the future. Their hubris actually exceeds that of Napoleon and Hitler.

“When confronted with such deluded and ideological force, does turning the other cheek work or does it encourage more provocation?.......read more.....

 pcr makes clear what many have been suspecting and its one more black mark on what remains of what was once called a justice system here in the empire;

No Fair Trial for Officer Chauvin

Paul Craig Roberts

The American Establishment is determined that Chauvin will not get a fair trial. Chauvin is the Establishment’s showpiece of white racism.  The point that is being made is that the KKK is alive and well, only instead of a noose it is knee-on-neck.  An unthinking and unaware Chauvin gave them the video that they needed.  

Chauvin is not really having a trial.  He is the object of a show trial like Stalin’s “trial” of Nikolai Bukharin.  Chauvin has to be found guilty in order to justify billions of dollars of damage to many cities’ business districts and the absence of any indictments of the looters and arsonists.  

If Chauvin gets a fair trial, he would be found innocent.  He recognized that George Floyd was dying from a drug overdose and had medics called.  He restrained Chauvin, not to cut off his oxygen, but to keep him still so he did not waste what little oxygen he was getting in agitation.

As I previously explained, if witnesses are unaware that George Floyd had taken three times the fatal dose of Fentanyl and they are unaware that Fentanyl kills by depriving the body of oxygen, and they see an officer with a knee on Floyd’s neck, they will think the knee, not the unknown fentanyl is killing Floyd.

In other words, the eye-witness evidence is worthless and completely misleading.  Given the fact that people, including police chiefs, are universally ignorant about fentanyl and its effects, it was a simple matter for the media to endoctrinate them with non-stop showings of the video of Chauvin with his knee on Floyd’s neck.........read more......