We learn from history
that we do not learn from history.
—Friedrich Hegel.

a comparison of americans overseas involved in actions the empire disapproves of and how it is handled with oswald part of the mix;


How ironic that the U.S. government’s war on ISIS, the group brought into existence by the U.S. national-security establishment’s war of aggression on Iraq, would provide insight into the U.S. national-security’s establishment’s relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy some 55 years ago.
As I emphasized in my 29-part video series on the JFK assassination and as I am emphasizing in my multipart series on the same subject in FFF’s monthly journal Future of Freedom, circumstantial evidence is just as valid as direct evidence. Equally important, sometimes we can glean just as much from what government officials fail to do as from what they do.
Consider the case of Hoda Muthana, a 23-year-old American citizen who traveled to Syria four years ago and became the wife of a member of ISIS. She had a baby and now wants to return to the United States.
It’s not going to happen if President Trump gets his way. He is steadfastly refusing to permit Muthana to return to the United States. As far as he is concerned, she is a traitor for having left the United States to join up with ISIS, which became an official enemy of the U.S. Empire after the U.S. conquest of Iraq............https://www.fff.org/2019/02/22/isis-and-oswald/

here is a brief exploration of electric cars and the oil companies with bits of who wins and loses;

In the fall of 2017, as China announced its dramatic new regulations pushing electric cars, the price of lithium and cobalt went through the roof. The two minerals, essential in the production of batteries for ‘New Energy Vehicles’, were highly sought. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Australia and other countries that are source of rare minerals sped forward, expanding extraction to meet rising demand.

However, the price of these two prized commodities is now decreasing, amid a glutted market. The Wall Street Journal reports: “Cobalt prices have fallen more than 30% in 2019 to their lowest level in two years” and “a lithium price index published by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence dropped for the 10th consecutive month in January.”

Even though New Energy Vehicles have been selling at a much higher rate, with sales increasing by 64% in 2018, the demand for minerals has dropped. The trade war between the USA and China, with constant renegotiation and complicating factors, has made investors worried, and those who produce electric cars have put their purchases on hold, waiting with baited breathe to see what happens.

This comes after Lawrence Kudlow of the White House National Economic Council announced on December 3rd that it was rescinding Obama-era subsidies for the production of electric cars by American automakers.

The Chinese Communist Party sees electric cars as essential, not just for ecological sustainability but also as a mechanism for securing China’s industrial growth in a world market where oil dependency makes them quite vulnerable to foreign pressure. However, certain forces that are well embedded in the White House, have a very different material interest. They see electric cars as a threat to the global order from which their power flows.

The Wall Street-London Global Oil Trap

The four supermajor oil monopolies, Chevron, BP, Shell, and the top dog Exxon-Mobile, are almost synonymous with the elite entities on Wall Street and the London Stock Exchange. British Petroleum is closely tied to the HSBC bank. Exxon-Mobile is closely tied to Chase Bank. Longstanding oligarchical families like the Rockefellers, Carnegies, Morgans, Rothschilds, Vanderbilts, Gettys, and Duponts dominate, directly or indirectly, the global financial system as a kind of oil banking aristocracy with unprecedented power.............https://journal-neo.org/2019/02/23/whos-afraid-of-electric-cars-and-why/

paul craig roberts speaks about venezuela;


Max Blumental Proves Western Media A Propagandist For War Criminals
There is not an ounce of integrity anywhere in the Western print and TV media
“Grocery shelves lie empty as food becomes increasingly scarce” in Venezuela, the UK Independent weeps. The country’s shops remain open but “sparsely stocked,” The Guardian laments. Even “basic commodities” such as toothbrushes aren’t available for purchase, CNN bemoans. “Hungry” Venezuelans must choose between “torture or starvation,” Bloomberg grimly concludes. 
Mainstream media coverage of Venezuela gives the impression that President Nicolas Maduro is slowly starving his own people – a narrative which, as journalist Max Blumenthal found after surveying a massive supermarket in Caracas, is wildly deceptive.
Read the story and watch the video of Blumenthal in the Caracas supermarket jammed with all the allegedly unobtainable foods and products.
The reason Washington wants to shut down the English language Russian news organizations is that, unlike the US, UK, and European media, the Russian news organizations report truthfully, thus undermining Washington’s attempt to control all explantions.  
The dumbshit Westerners who rely on the Western presstitutes are brainwashed to the point that they are useless for the cause of freedom and democracy.  Indeed, they are dangerous to freedom and democracy.
https://www.rt.com/news/452158-blumenthal-venezuela-supermarket-shelves/ 


https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/02/22/max-blumental-proves-western-media-a-propagandist-for-war-criminals/

i post most of kunstler's stuff because he usually makes a great bit of sense, as he does with this one focused mostly on the hot air we see coming from our tv about the great russian hoax;


The #Resistance has been losing bigly in recent days as each new “bombshell” it manufactures turns out only to reveal its modus operandi, which is that the end justifies the means — the end being to evict the wicked Mr. Trump from office and the means being dishonesty and bad faith in its use of the government’s prosecutorial machinery. The New York Times has a Friday op-ed, The Mueller Report Is Coming. Here’s What to Expect, declaring, “A concise report will probably act a a ‘road map’ to investigation for the Democratic House — and to further criminal investigation by other prosecutors.”
Translation: prepare to be disappointed by Mr. Mueller’s report and microwave a giant tub of popcorn for an extravaganza of sequels and re-boots. Beware of what you wish for. If the baton is passed to House committee chairs Jerrold Nadler, Maxine Waters, and Elijah Cummings, then in Act Two of the show, the country will be treated to something like the Spanish Inquisition as performed by Moe, Larry, and Curly.
Meanwhile, their antics may be eclipsed by the now inevitable inquiry around the misdeeds carried out by public officials in Act I of the show: the Russia Collusion Ruse. Based just on the current Andy McCabe book tour, there will be an awful lot to get to, and it is liable to be far more compelling than the nonsense conjured up by the Three Stooges. Mr. McCabe, in his quest to hand off the hot potato of culpability to his former colleagues, and to sell enough books to pay his lawyers’ retainers, has neatly laid out the case for his orchestrating a coup d’etat within the FBI.........http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/great-expectations/

no comment necessary;


Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government) 

• China 1949 to early 1960s
• Albania 1949-53
• East Germany 1950s
• Iran 1953 *
• Guatemala 1954 *
• Costa Rica mid-1950s
• Syria 1956-7
• Egypt 1957
• Indonesia 1957-8
• British Guiana 1953-64 *
• Iraq 1963 *
• North Vietnam 1945-73
• Cambodia 1955-70 *
• Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
• Ecuador 1960-63 *
• Congo 1960 *
• France 1965
• Brazil 1962-64 *
• Dominican Republic 1963 *
• Cuba 1959 to present
• Bolivia 1964 *
• Indonesia 1965 *
• Ghana 1966 *
• Chile 1964-73 *
• Greece 1967 *
• Costa Rica 1970-71
• Bolivia 1971 *
• Australia 1973-75 *
• Angola 1975, 1980s
• Zaire 1975
• Portugal 1974-76 *
• Jamaica 1976-80 *
• Seychelles 1979-81
• Chad 1981-82 *
• Grenada 1983 *
• South Yemen 1982-84
• Suriname 1982-84
• Fiji 1987 *
• Libya 1980s
• Nicaragua 1981-90 *
• Panama 1989 *
• Bulgaria 1990 *
• Albania 1991 *
• Iraq 1991
• Afghanistan 1980s *
• Somalia 1993
• Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
• Ecuador 2000 *
• Afghanistan 2001 *
• Venezuela 2002 *
• Iraq 2003 *
• Haiti 2004 *
• Somalia 2007 to present
• Honduras 2009 *
• Libya 2011 *
• Syria 2012
• Ukraine 2014 *

Q: Why will there never be a coup d’état in Washington?
A: Because there’s no American embassy there.

here is a ten minute video sent by a friend where the subject is why do the 'elite' live so long;


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgnNrRUbNho