#establishment
#Establishment woke #melt-down BOMBSHELL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBL7VBUkXPU
It’s out! Our establishment is officially full of bias - but I reckon this is only the tip of the iceberg!
Banana Republic USA
When the leading #opposition #candidate is repeatedly charged with made-up crimes, you know a country has neither the rule of #law or a #legitimate #democracy.
Former President #DonaldTrump’s legal woes deepened after he was hit with federal criminal charges linked to his attempts to cling to power after losing the 2020 election. Trump is facing four counts including #conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and obstruct the electoral count for trying to overturn the 2020 election. The 45-page indictment says he was ‘determined to remain in power’ despite ‘having lost.’
Special Counsel Jack Smith said in a televised public statement following the release of the indictment that the attack on the Capitol was ‘fueled by lies’ made by Trump ‘targeted at obstructing the bedrock function of the U.S. government – the nation’s process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election.’ He pledged that his office will conduct a ‘speedy’ trial.
The former president has been summoned to appear before U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan – an Obama appointee – on Thursday in Washington, D.C. There are also six unnamed alleged co-conspirators according to the indictment.
Trump and his co-conspirators ‘used knowingly false claims of election fraud’ to try to ‘subvert the legitimate election results and change electoral votes’ for Joe Biden, according to the indictment.
So, the #Establishment committed #electoral #fraud in order to put a #fake #President into office, then criminalized anyone pointing out that they did what they observably did.
Sounds legit.
The absurd thing is the fact that the only thing the #USA really had going for it vis-a-vis the challenges posed by #China and #Russia was the perception of it holding the moral high ground with regards to “freedom and democracy”. But the perceived moral high ground has now gone the way of its European majority and its industrial capacity.
Enjoy the #show. It’s unusual to have the chance to witness a #global #empire in the process of #collapsing.
Daniel Ellsberg, and the “Good” and “Bad” Whistleblower
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/06/daniel-ellsberg-and-the-good-and-bad-whistleblower/
"My tribute to my friend #DanielEllsberg, which looks at his defense of #Assange and #Snowden and the wholesale twisting of his memory and legacy by the #establishment #media and #political #class."
#danielellsberg #whistleblowers #wikileaks #guardian #journalism #julianassange #edwardsnowden #chelseamanning
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Kshama Sawant
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-chris-hedges-report-podcast-with-23b
The Democrats and Republicans both answer to the billionaires, that’s why #working #people keep getting screwed, she says. Even so-called #progressives in #Congress, she notes, have completely failed to fight against the #establishment, and offer no #solutions. #Sawant in her decade as a member of the #Seattle-city-council has an impressive track record. She helped win a $ #15-minimum-wage for #Seattle #workers, pushed the council to #tax #Amazon, and championed #renter #protection as the #Chair-of-the-Renters-and-Sustainability-Committee. She joined the #Socialist-Alternative-party in 2006.
#chrishedges #kshamasawant #podcast #interview #workers-strike-back #labor #unions #organization #movement #strikes
“Cold and Hot Wars”: U.S. Has No Choice but to Exercise Restraint in Military Matters, Scholars Argue
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-no-choice-but-exercise-restraint-scholars-argue/5791379
"It is about time Washington exercises some #restraint – in #Taiwan, #Ukraine and #beyond.
#Containment” has simply not worked and the #unipolar moment has already passed – whether the American #establishment likes it or not. Therefore, the #UnitedStates needs to get out of the #escalatory #dynamic it has put itself into, for the sake of #global #peace; and it must surrender much of its #military #overcommitment."
#hot-and-cold #wars #military #restraint #joebiden #RaviAgrawal #StephenWertheim #UrielAraujo
A quotation by Schopenhauer, Arthur
Of course it is quite a different matter if we consider the utility of religion as a prop of thrones; for where these are held “by the grace of God,” throne and altar are intimately associated; and every wise prince who loves his throne and his family will appear at the head of his people as an exemplar of true religion.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher
“Religion: A Dialogue,” Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: Religion: A Dialogue, Etc. [tr. Saunders (1851)]
#quote #quotation #church #church-and-state #establishment #religion #state
Sourcing and notes: https://wist.info/schopenhauer-arthur/24791/
former Labour Party leader speaks candidly about British media, the U.K. military and intelligence services, Israel, Keir Starmer, Julian Assange and Saudi Arabia.
#Israel #Starmer #Assange and #SaudiArabia #guardian #mi5 #mi6 #sis " title="Former Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn">
New York’s Stylish Slide Into #Despotism - The Return of the Roaring #Twenties
Source: https://modernheretic.com/
The text is so fitting that this time I have to reproduce very long passages.
concern about the supposed risk posed by “the unvaccinated,” who apparently no longer merit consideration as human beings worthy of compassion; we’ve become in the minds of people like him just a filthy amalgam of contagion and stigma.
They are not, as they have styled themselves in their own delusional minds, the hip Cagney-esque mobster with a heart of gold making gin in the bathtub or the wild flapper dancing the charleston on the roof with a skirt short enough to scandalize the matronly landlady below; they are the scandalized landlady who will snitch to the #police the first chance she gets or the sanctimonious #politician who is building his profitable career on compelled temperance.
Despite lusting after subversive non-conformity, these mere re-enactors are content to live in the shadows of their rebel icons, resigned to merely creating the palest imitation of the lives of truly adventurous people from the past instead of having the courage to live their own adventures today. With their obsession for safety, these people can only infuse their lives with the adventure they still crave by living vicariously through others more daring than themselves.
That is why when finally faced with the #opportunity to rage against the machine, these imposters got behind the machine and helped push it along instead. Lacking the moral courage to stand for their supposed convictions, they sublimate their own desire to be deviant into movies and make-believe. From the #punk enthusiast with a shaved head and ripped pants to the John Waters fan who identifies with the Drapes in Crybaby–many of these people who lust after subversive non-conformity and style themselves after countercultural icons are ironically, laughably, pathetically devoted to fitting in.
When it comes to the dichotomy of maestro versus tribal character types, they are #tribal people through and through. In essence, the tribal personality is the #conformist who is conventional, strives to fit in with others, and is great at tasks requiring unity and standardization. The maestro is the aloof non-conformist who is comfortably on their own wavelength, who is not afraid to think outside the box, and prefers to work independently. According to a popular career guidance book, the vast #majority of the population are tribal types, and maestros comprise a tiny minority.
It is easy to see this dichotomy illustrated in the #pandemic. We see it amply demonstrated in mask compliance, with tribal individuals basing the strictness of their mask-wearing, not on any supposed concern about germ prevention— but solely based on what others around them are doing. They are stringent about mask wearing when around others who also appear to be strict in their compliance. But when around others who defy the custom, they let their masks slip down to their chins or even take it off altogether because they know the risk of social ostracism is low. For most people, the mask serves as a social tool rather than a tool of supposed #hygiene.
Tribal people’s sense of values is relative and changes based on their social environments. All the societal evils that have taken place in the United States (and elsewhere) have occurred by the hands of an #establishment with the consent and complicity of masses of otherwise good, tribal-minded people who lacked the #independence and courage to be deviant. If it looks like the majority are going along with something, even something in retrospect that would clearly be deemed wrong or evil, the tribal person will go along with it as well by rationalizing their guilt and responsibility away. These rationalizations, collectively, become mass delusions that are later used to excuse the complicity in the wrong-doing. “We did not now any better,” or “it was a different time,” they will say. Hogwash. They knew exactly what they were doing, but they lacked the courage to stand apart from the crowd. For every mass atrocity that was committed, there was a strident minority that not only knew better but tried to hold the majority to task for its actions. These minorities were #historically and are currently dismissed, ignored, laughed at, socially ostracized, or even penalized.
Progressive #ideology teaches that we are better than previous generations, that we have learned our lessons from past mistakes, and that we will not repeat those mistakes. This is a load of crock, and the past two years have shown that humans are no more evolved now than they were at any previous period, that they are more willing than ever to persecute others for their differences and to subjugate people into #conformity. If nothing else, the pandemic revealed that most people today have no deep understanding of why various past persecutions were wrong, and if persecution today does not look exactly like a persecution of yesterday they cannot recognize it for what it is. Their understanding of persecution as a moral wrong is a reductionist list of rote memorization rather than an innate value borne of an underlying moral #philosophy.
These tribal-minded people, these supposed lovers of #rebellion and #subversion, are going to rationalize their culpability and cowardice away. They always do. They will say that they were operating on the best information they had at the time, that no one could have known, that even the experts were fooled, that they simply followed the leaders and experts.
We cannot let them get away with these lies.
Their complicity was not an innocent mistake as they will try to make us believe, but a willful effort to persecute the rebel #opposition.
Declared emergencies are the most expedient way for governments to seize power and the method by which many military dictatorships come into existence. A medical #dictatorship is a new twist on an old classic. Emergency powers enable politicians to do things they otherwise do not have the power to do and to severely trample on the rights of the citizenry
A quotation by Wallace, David Foster
If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that you’re not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.
David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) American author, academic
McCain’s Promise (2006)
#quote #quotation #abstention #apathy #cynicism #democracy #election #establishment #politics #voting
More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/wallace-david-foster/50706/
The U.S. Foreign Policy 'Establishment' Is Incredibly Dumb
The #US #Foreign #Policy #Establishment Is Incredibly #Dumb #politics
"The U.S. foreign policy 'establishment' is incredibly dumb:
[With Afghan Retreat, Biden Bucks Foreign Policy Elite](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/world/europe/afghanistan-biden-foreign-policy.html), New York Times, Sep. 1 2021
“The foreign policy establishment did get it wrong in Iraq, where the U.S. overreached,” said Richard N. Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. “We got it wrong in Libya, we got it wrong in Vietnam. But over the last 75 years, the foreign policy establishment has gotten most things right.”
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The #Republicans want the #COVID-19 #pandemic to continue, so they can reap political capital from the fear and chaos.
The #Democrats want you to become immune to #COVID.
The main difference between the parties is that the Democrats are more #patriotic and #conservative, while the Republicans are radical neoliberals and/or fascists, who oppose the Constitutional #establishment in favor of a #privatized #corporate order.