Indeed. When I returned home from studying in the USSR in 1983, the CIA reached out to recruit me. As part of the interviewing process, I was given numerous publications, books, and CIA papers to read so I could familiarize myself how the company operated, and what my role may be. Several of the items detailed the process by which the CIA overthrew Latin American countries and installed U.S. puppets. Of course, this practice is relatively well known today, and the book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" illuminates the financial aspect of the practice.
After the crash of 2008, it became terrifyingly clear to me that the CIA - who "purchased" Jeff Bezos for $600 million, $300 million of which went immediately to purchase the WaPo - was doing in the U.S. to the people of the U.S. exactly what they'd been doing around the world for decades. Backed by trillions of dollars of government and personal debt, the plan was being executed here at home, exactly as it had been abroad for generations.
If anyone is complicit in crimes against the state, it is the media, not the Trumpers that stormed the Reichstag...er.. Capitol
Well, you've brought it up: 6 January is now a Rorschach test. You show it to some people and the see the Beer Hall Putsch with Trump cast as Hitler. You show it to other people and they see the Reichstag Fire with Trump cast as Marinus van der Lubbe. Personally, I see a blot, a blot on Trump and a blot on the American republic, that ought to be cleaned up with an impeachment, for which I sincerely hope 17 GOP votes for conviction can be found.
While still others see it as men dressed up throwing tea into the harbor, and burning the governors, soldiers, and king in effigy. And of course there are those more contemporaries that see blacks burning cities and antifa shooting automatic weapons at white people...
I see Jan 6, 2021 as our Tiananmen Square. Which was a protest that got a bit rowdy and was used as justification for one of the biggest crackdowns on freedom in history. And like they are doing now, many in western media at the time weтАЩre echoing Chinese propaganda and called the protests тАЬinsurrectionтАЭ....
I see the US having narrowly avoided a far greater event that could have devolved into civil war. The animosity runs deep on both sides, and following the demands of hotheads will not lower the temperature.
Please lay out a plan whereby a bunch of unarmed fanatics rioting with flagpoles for a few hours could have led to a civil war. Personally, the ongoing crackdown seems like a much more viable path to civil war.
I cashiered at Walmart in 1993 and saw the glee everywhere over the cheap, sweatshop/slave everything.......very ominous then. Had to quit. Now our poor have to go there.
Some of you old-time readers of Glenn's work might recall these words:
"the war ALWAYS comes home."
Now you get to experience what your government has been inflicting on three-quarters of the world for decades.
Good luck.
Indeed. When I returned home from studying in the USSR in 1983, the CIA reached out to recruit me. As part of the interviewing process, I was given numerous publications, books, and CIA papers to read so I could familiarize myself how the company operated, and what my role may be. Several of the items detailed the process by which the CIA overthrew Latin American countries and installed U.S. puppets. Of course, this practice is relatively well known today, and the book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" illuminates the financial aspect of the practice.
After the crash of 2008, it became terrifyingly clear to me that the CIA - who "purchased" Jeff Bezos for $600 million, $300 million of which went immediately to purchase the WaPo - was doing in the U.S. to the people of the U.S. exactly what they'd been doing around the world for decades. Backed by trillions of dollars of government and personal debt, the plan was being executed here at home, exactly as it had been abroad for generations.
If anyone is complicit in crimes against the state, it is the media, not the Trumpers that stormed the Reichstag...er.. Capitol
Well, you've brought it up: 6 January is now a Rorschach test. You show it to some people and the see the Beer Hall Putsch with Trump cast as Hitler. You show it to other people and they see the Reichstag Fire with Trump cast as Marinus van der Lubbe. Personally, I see a blot, a blot on Trump and a blot on the American republic, that ought to be cleaned up with an impeachment, for which I sincerely hope 17 GOP votes for conviction can be found.
While still others see it as men dressed up throwing tea into the harbor, and burning the governors, soldiers, and king in effigy. And of course there are those more contemporaries that see blacks burning cities and antifa shooting automatic weapons at white people...
That Roarschac...it sure is fun, isn't it?
I see Jan 6, 2021 as our Tiananmen Square. Which was a protest that got a bit rowdy and was used as justification for one of the biggest crackdowns on freedom in history. And like they are doing now, many in western media at the time weтАЩre echoing Chinese propaganda and called the protests тАЬinsurrectionтАЭ....
Funny I see AmericaтАЩs Tiananmen Square
I see the US having narrowly avoided a far greater event that could have devolved into civil war. The animosity runs deep on both sides, and following the demands of hotheads will not lower the temperature.
Please lay out a plan whereby a bunch of unarmed fanatics rioting with flagpoles for a few hours could have led to a civil war. Personally, the ongoing crackdown seems like a much more viable path to civil war.
Agreed. Well put.
I cashiered at Walmart in 1993 and saw the glee everywhere over the cheap, sweatshop/slave everything.......very ominous then. Had to quit. Now our poor have to go there.
ROFL