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@richard NH…according to American historian, C. Beard (read ‘an economic interpretation of the constitution of the US) that is an accurate assessment. In fact all, or nearly all, the founding fathers were slave owners and Freemasons. Their efforts toward creating a constitution were essentially a private initiative involving only a few of society’s insider ‘elite’. This cadre was not beyond using force and threats to get unsupportive Governors online. Democracy certainly was not prioritized as only 6% of the nation were eligible to vote.

The US Democracy is at the best an Plutocracy toothpaste to replace the Medieval Religions believes for masses manipulation… ====================== OCTOBER 26, 2017

The Simulacra Democracy

by JOHN STEPPLING

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… a nation in which 87 percent of eighteen- to twenty-four year olds (according to a 2002 National Geographic Society/Roper Poll survey) cannot locate Iran or Iraq on a world map and 11 percent cannot locate the United States (!) is not merely “intellectually sluggish.” It would be more accurate to call it moronic, capable of being fooled into believing anything …”

— Morris Berman

I cannot remember U.S. culture ever being quite so compromised by ruling class control. Hollywood turns out one jingoistic and militaristic and racist film and TV show after another. Corporate news is completely controlled by the same forces that run Hollywood. It is the complete capitulation of the liberal class to the interests of the increasingly fascistic U.S. elite. And this didn’t start with Donald Trump. Certainly in its current incarnation it goes back at least to Bill Clinton, and really it goes back to the end of World War Two. The ideological trajectory was formed under the Dulles brothers and military industrial complex — representing U.S. business interests and exhibiting a demand for global hegemony. But once the Soviet Union collapsed, the project was accelerated and intensified.

Another starting point might well be the 1960 Bay of Pigs fiasco, or the 1961 CIA (and MI6) assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Or Kennedy’s 1962 speech at American University calling for the end of Pax Americana. We know what happened to Kennedy soon after that. Pick any of these incidents. But it was the fall of the U.S.S.R. that signaled to the governing class, the proprietor class, that the last real obstacle to global domination had been removed. In the interim, one finds the Iran/Contra affair, and the invasion of Iraq. The real and the symbolic meaning of the Soviet Union is forgotten today, I think. Its meaning for the developing world, especially.

The next conscious trial balloon was Clinton’s attack on the former Yugoslavia. A test run for expanding NATO. And it worked. The propaganda machine has never been as successful as it was when it demonized the Serbs and Milosevic. Then came 9/11. And the well honed PR machine spewed an endless barrage of hyper-patriotic rhetoric and disinformation. American exceptionalism was given full credibility. And remember Colin Powell and his cartoon visual teaching aids at the UN? Nobody was going to argue. Certainly not the white liberal class. And Hollywood upped its game in churning out military fantasies. And in just churning out fantasies. A genre that lent itself to obvious neo-colonial messages. By 2007, when Barack Obama announces he will run for President, the master narrative for America was firmly entrenched. The biggest hit from Hollywood in this period is Avatar (2009), a neo-colonial fable that fit seamlessly with Obama’s reconquest of Africa.

Dan Glazebrook recently wrote:

The year 2009, two years before Gaddafi’s murder, was a pivotal one for US-African relations. First, because China surpassed the US as the continent’s largest trading partner; and second, because Gaddafi was elected President of the African Union. The significance of both for the decline of US influence on the continent could not be clearer. Whilst Gaddafi was spearheading attempts to unite Africa politically, committing serious amounts of Libyan oil wealth to make this dream a reality, China was quietly smashing the West’s monopoly over export markets and investment finance. Africa no longer had to go cap-in-hand to the IMF for loans, agreeing to whatever self-defeating terms were on offer, but could turn to China – or indeed Libya – for investment. And if the US threatened to cut them off from their markets, China would happily buy up whatever was on offer. Western economic domination of Africa was under threat as never before.

The US response was to increase base building, upgrade AFRICOM, and then murder Gadaffi. Hollywood hits from this period include The Hurt Locker and The Dark Knight. Meanwhile domestically Obama was giving the OK for militarizing of police departments across the country. On another front….Danny Haiphong wrote…

What isn’t discussed often enough is how Obama has worked tirelessly to protect and fulfill the interests of the corporate healthcare system. In 2009, he collaborated with the monopoly health insurance industry and its pharmaceutical counterparts to repress the demand for single payer healthcare. The conditions at the time appeared ripe for a single payer system. Popular discontent with Republican Party rule was at its highest point. A relatively organized movement for single payer care was represented by organizations such as Healthcare Now. The Democratic Party possessed a majority in both the House and Senate.

Obama came to power as Wall Street went into meltdown, 2008. But instead of hope and change we got almost 5 trillion dollars moving to the top 1% of the financial elite. Poverty increased every year under Obama, as did inequality. Social Network came out in 2010 and Wolf of Wall Street in 2013. Both were big hits. The message from Hollywood never changed. And part of that message is that wealth is its own justification and a symbol of virtue. Hollywood, and U.S. liberals just naturally gravitate toward the rich.

Obama attacked Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen. And it is perhaps that last venture that will prove to be his most significant. Arming, training, and coordinating the Saudi aggression (and now that has escalated to boots on the ground) against the helpless Yemen has resulted in the largest humanitarian catastrophe in five decades.

Etc…. https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/26/the-simulacra-democracy/

I always laught when Americans or Canadians cry about white genocide whereas they have genocided the Natives. XD.

The only that can talk about white genocide are Europeans, especially east Europeans that had never colonized other people. But, like most Americans and Canadians are Europeans, what I can understand is that people are crying about they have done to others.

So, morality is : never do to others what you don’t want others to do to you.

Then.. what about the criminal Israeli genocide of Palestinians? THAT is a real genocide taking place right now…

Supported by Americans and Canadians and Europeans.

Serious, your knowledge of history is sadly lacking .

Poland was once a very powerful nation that controlled her own Empire. I am sure that history to you is just ‘ old stuff ‘ but surely you should consider events that go further back then when you last went for a shit ?

http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/Poland/mocarstwo_polskie.htm

The Empire of Poland and the Baltic Nations By Kathy McDonough

I think it’s OK to have colonized people around you. But, they have genocided nobody. I don’t think you can compare that with crossing a whole ocean and genociding 100 millions people to take a land big than twice Europe.

And, Americans are still colonizing people.

Poles get a backfire when they were colonized in return after and they were not enjoying it at all.

Nobody likes to be colonized. that’s why I don’t understand people who colonized other people.

Your rather feeble attempts here to ‘ colonise ‘ this forum are akin to the US invasion of Canada in 1812 Serious.

A Total Failure.

During migration of Slavic tribes to west and southeast of Europe, many of the native tribes sees to exist. There are many artefacts of some cultures which lived together with Romans, but some cultures completely disappeared when Slavs arrived. Around 5th and 6th centuries much of omitted tribes were fierce warriors and mercenaries and quite often, they dealt with any resistance with wiping out the whole territory.

That is human history. It has been happening since mankind gathered in groups and killed other groups to take over their territories. Every human population, today, had to come from somewhere else and established themselves where they are now by driving out, or massacring whoever was there first!!! Even American natives where at constant war with other tribes.

poland was nothimg. the luthuanians were the strong part. polish animals only killed russians. then the russins said: nyet! and cut poland.

Solomon, you are really a rather poorly educated Jew.

The renowned Polish Heavy cavalry ( Winged Hussaria) stopped the advance of the Turkish armies in their tracks at the battle of Vienna and so by saved much of Europe from Muslim Rule.

https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2015/08/02/hussaria-at-vienna-1683/

one generation were good. but the lost quickly everything. polish nation is the most bloody wester slavian nation. losers.

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (empire) 1648–1764 was a 116 year period that is more that one generation Solomon. It is about 4 generations, so again you display your ignorance with your specious arguments Solomon.

this was shitty kingdom, never empire. and the lithuanians were the brain and muscle. when they have fallen, polish skunks lost everything. sieg heil russia, the comqueror of poland!

You know what was the greatest danger for native Americans during colonization? They actually couldn’t see their mortal enemy-germs and viruses. Tuberculosis, typhus, smallpox, measles, influenza, cholera, bubonic plague, chickenpox, the common cold, diphtheria, malaria, scarlet fever, sexually transmitted diseases, typhoid, and pertussis (whooping cough). killed much more natives than guns. It’s estimated 80-90% of natives died of diseases. The natives had much less starvation and they were larger and healthier than Europeans simply due to better diets, they didn’t lived in a bio-hazard hellholes like European towns. A lot of diseases came from domestic animals. The natives had only horses. But they didn’t have immunity system like Europeans. It was an unintentional annihilation, not a genocide. Zio wants you to think whitey is a monster, they are doing the same old tactic for decades-“divide and conquer”, ppl like Soros admitted they intentionally created mass migration in Europe. USA is fighting Israel wars in ME for 40 yrs. But AIPAC and likes will label you “anti-semite” if you question anything real about Israel. Why nobody at UN or anywhere is asking for Isreal to disclose its nuclear program? it’s a open secret they have nukes, they are the only limitless nuclear power in the world, zero official records.

I was thinking the same :) It must be something in the water they drink in the US.

If you are not aware of, Whites have brought Blacks in America.

I think the hypocrites are the Americans who tell Palestinians to leave I don’t know where whereas the Americans don’t go back to Europe.

Perhaps Al meant the current racial rift in the US. If that’s the case, you’re both right.

Yes you are right, apologies.

And Obummer wasn’t a bit hesitant to work for the deep-sate masters, destroying independent countries, murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians using his islamist terrorist brethren in Libya and Syria!!!! Obummer is another willing deep-state puppet, just like Bush!!! Both of them are war criminals and should be hanged!!!

That is because the US is essentially a two-party platform representative democracy. The Neo-Cons are seriously invested in creating and maintaining a Washington based two-party/ cross-party common foreign policy platform – so that regardless which major party is in office, the same Neo-Con middle east policies will remain dominant. This is proving to have two very significant electoral consequences in US. Firstly, the impact of the minority Neo-Con’s powerful lobbying and financial influence, and the purchased MSM compliance, is such that they have completely eroded real electoral choices for the majority to oppose this middle east fixated agenda. Secondly, when the majority did actually support a candidate from outside the Neo-Con cross-party bubble, in the form of Trump, running on a reduced middle east military interventionist policy campaign, completlely against the GOP establishment, the minority Neo-Con’s have done everything possible to frustrate this electoral choice of the majority.