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“Our future will be more about artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and non-state actors than stump speeches from the back of a bunted caboose. Facebook and Twitter have been weaponized.“
There has been a recurrent theme here at The Great Change over the past several months. It began with revelations from whistleblowers from Cambridge Analytica speaking to Parliamentary inquiries in London to the effect that the US 2016 election was not the only election being hacked—you had to look to Australia, Brazil, Malaysia, India, Kenya, and Malta too—and that social media like Facebook and Twitter were being manipulated rather than voting machines. After the Diebold scandals of 2000 and 2004, a number of states and nations began to revert to paper ballots. A machine hack would still suffice in many places, such as my own state of Tennessee, as is easily demonstrated, but the long game is in hacking minds, not machines.
An enduring trope in our culture has been a short, almost insignificant scene from the first Star Wars film, A New Hope, that but for George Lucas’s sense of humor could have fallen to the cutting room floor. The scene is only 30 seconds but has lingered in the pop culture for 40 years.
EMPIRE TROOPER SERGEANT (to Luke Skywalker): Let me see your identification.
OBI-WAN KENOBE (staring into the Sergeant’s visor and subtly waving his fingers): You don’t need to see his identification.
SERGEANT (to other four Empire guards): We don’t need to see his identification.
OBI-WAN: These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.
SERGEANT: These aren’t the droids we’re looking for.
OBI-WAN: He can go about his business.
SERGEANT: You can go about your business.
OBI-WAN: Move along.
SERGEANT: Move along, move along.
(Next Scene)
LUKE: I can’t understand how we got by those troops, I thought we were dead.
OBI-WAN: The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded.
That is it, in essence—the neurobiology of election manipulation. Over the decades a film trope has morphed into a catch-phrase— “Move along, nothing to see here.”
Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the quality of public education in the United States has been stagnant to declining for many years. It trains test-takers to give rote answers rather than stimulating creativity by constant questioning. This has the tendency, long-term, to elevate weak-minded followers of social memes to an electoral majority and a majority of the elected representatives. While the United States ranks high among nations in education spending, a closer look reveals that most of that spending has been on teacher pay and hardscape while leaving test scores unchanged or even declining.
Moreover, the US privatized education system, like its companions—privatized health care, privatized veterans care, privatized justice and prison systems, etc., is inefficient, ineffective, bloated, declining in performance, and failing those it is intended to serve. I could compare these examples to how bloated corporate US military avionics has fallen behind Russian, Israeli or Chinese technology for basic indicators like fighter jets, missiles, and air defense systems, but that is poking the hornets’ nest.
One effect of privatized education that grows in cost while delivering less is our student loan bubble coupled with trillion-dollar delinquency rates. This serves to consign the college-educated workforce to detestable, unfulfilling and uncreative work. Debt-slavery marches them lock-step in shackles from blank cubicles to home entertainment cocoons and back each day. A manufactured rabble, now tethered to social media on their daily commute and rationed work breaks, become easy prey to the new breed of vote management hacksters.
The big kerfuffle over Russian trolls electing Donald Trump in 2016 is only amazing in its ability to consistently overlook some 80 elections in other nations whose outcome was determined by campaign-finance or hardware vote-hacking by the CIA over many decades, using tools that much resemble and perhaps pioneered the Cambridge Analytica variety.
Recall, for instance, the 2014 regime change in Ukraine, where President Barack Obama spent $5 billion paying Ukrainians to riot and dismantle their Russia-allied government in favor of one that could potentially bring Ukraine into NATO’s orbit. We would know little of this had not whistleblowing hackers posted a telephone conversation between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and then US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, to YouTube. We can now see the complete sequence that followed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s election tampering directive:
21 November 2013: Protests start after Ukraine announces it will not sign a deal aimed at strengthening ties with the EU
17 December: Russia agrees to buy $15 billion of Ukrainian government bonds and slash the price of gas it sells to the country
16 January 2014: Parliament passes a law restricting the right to protest
22 January: Two protesters die from bullet wounds during clashes with police in Kyiv; protests spread across many cities
25 January: President Yanukovych offers senior jobs to the opposition, including that of the prime minister, but these are rejected
28 January: Parliament votes to annul protest law and President Yanukovych accepts the resignation of PM and cabinet
29 January: Parliament passes an amnesty law for detained protesters, under the condition occupied buildings are vacated
Now rewind to the Bush-Cheney presidency and the political context of Ukraine becomes a little clearer (although we could go back to its Viking origins, or even 32,000 BCE if we wanted):
2000: Chernobyl nuke is finally brought to cold shut down, 14 years after the explosion that wafted fallout around the globe. The health of millions of Ukrainians is adversely affected. Popular sentiment against the US-backed government in Kyiv is strong.
2002: General election that should have been a clean sweep away from the US, based on polls, results in a hung parliament. Opponents of President Kuchma allege widespread electoral fraud.
2002: The government announces a decision to launch a formal bid to join NATO.
2005: Pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko becomes president after winning the December election re-run. Relations with neighboring Russia sour, leading to frequent disputes over gas supplies and pipeline transit fees.
2006: Socialist Party abandons Orange Revolution allies to form a coalition with Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions and the Communists.
2010: Yanukovych is declared winner in the second round of the presidential election.
2010: Parliament votes to abandon NATO membership aspirations.
In the 1990s, Victoria Nuland was chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott before moving on to serve as deputy director for former Soviet Union affairs. She also served as the principal deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney and then as U.S. ambassador to NATO. In 2011 she became a special envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and then Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. From that position, she earmarked $1 billion in “non-lethal” aid to Ukraine in 2014. While she had advocated for a more conventional defensive weapons delivery to Ukraine she was forced to settle for the Clinton/Obama 5- billion-dollar social media manipulation campaign.
This is an important juncture in world history.
2014 February – US-sponsored Euromaidan protests. Violent anti-government demonstrators occupy buildings in the center of Kyiv, including the Justice Ministry building, and riots leave 98 dead, approximately fifteen thousand injured, and 100 missing. Parliament votes to remove the president and set an election for 25 May to select his replacement. Pro-US opposition takes over.
2014 In a Crimea-wide referendum, residents of that Autonomous Republic (retaining a “special status” within Ukraine) vote for reunification with Russia. Russia formally annexes the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol. The government in Kyiv accuses Moscow of deliberately stirring up tensions in the east by bringing in professional activists and provocateurs and predicts that eastern Ukraine will be next to join Russia. “Donetsk, Lugansk, Kharkiv have the same situation as in Crimea – 75% of people want to join Russia in eastern Ukraine,” a Kyiv spokesman tells Reuters.
2014 April – Pro-Russian armed groups seize parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions on the Russian border. The government launches a military operation in response.
2014 May – Leading businessman Petro Poroshenko wins the presidential election on a pro-Western platform.
The civil war in Ukraine, which has taken away from Kyiv the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kharkiv regions as predicted, has killed 13,000 people, most of them civilian non-participants. The US puppet regime in Kyiv is very keen to get anti-tank weapons, particularly Javelin missiles, to counter the Russian-armed rebellion against NATO-armed Ukraine.
Remember the Javelin? It came up in the US president’s phone call to the Ukrainian president on July 25, 2019, right after the latter reminded the former that he had stayed in a Trump hotel recently.
In May 2018 Ukraine purchased 210 Javelin missiles and 37 launchers from the United States for an estimated $47 million. A shoulder-launched weapon, Javelin uses an imaging infrared system to detect and lock onto tanks at distances of up to 4,750 meters (3 miles). The missile detonates its first warhead on impact to trigger the reactive armor tiles on Russian tanks, neutralizing their unique defense system, then uses a second warhead to penetrate a tank’s main armor. One missile, one tank. Boom.
Political survival in Ukraine has for centuries often hinged on finding a strong patron abroad. This sometimes led to disaster, most famously in the case of Ivan Mazepa, the Cossack leader of an embryonic state in eastern Ukraine in the 17th century. Initially, an ally of Peter the Great of Russia, Mazepa, worried by the rise of powerful Cossack rivals, switched sides to ally with Russia’s great enemy at the time, Sweden, which he thought would offer protection. Instead, it led him to crushing defeat by Russia at the Battle of Poltava in 1709.
“Ukrainians all the time tried to form an alliance with the stronger side,” said Volodymyr Yermolenko, editor in chief at Ukraine World, an online magazine. Mazepa, despite his defeat, is revered as a national hero in Ukraine for trying, albeit with catastrophic consequences, to hold Russia at bay by finding a powerful patron in the West.
When Cobblepot put the touch on Zelensky by suspending $400 million in military aid (read interest-bearing loans for weapons systems to fill the coffers of the Military Industrial Congressional Complex) to Ukraine, he did more than just expose the seamy underside of his family extortion rackets. That $400 million bribe pales in comparison to the $5-billion social media campaign waged by Nuland-Hillary to overturn the 2010 election in Ukraine and set off the civil war.
On October 24, 2019, the New York Times reported:
The war began in 2014 after street protesters deposed Ukraine’s kleptocratic, pro-Kremlin president. Russia responded by helping stir up rebellions in two eastern provinces, and since then Russia has wielded the military advantage, able to slip tanks, antiaircraft weapons and soldiers into Ukraine at will.
Ukraine has fought back with repeated appeals for aid, diplomatic pressure, Western sanctions against Russia — and with an army that is holding on by its fingernails.
We hear this official version of events being parroted almost every day by congressmen and candidates passing back and forth between impeachment hearings. Take, for instance, these sound bites from the latest Democratic debate:
Klobuchar: I’m still waiting to find out from him how making that call to the head of Ukraine and trying to get him involved in interfering in our election makes America great again… It doesn’t make America great again. It makes Russia great again.
Booker: We cannot allow Russia to not only interfere in the democracies of the Ukraine, and Latvia, and Lithuania, but even not calling them out for their efforts to interfere in this democracy are unacceptable.
Contrast the realism of Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang. Asked about withdrawal from Syria, Gabbard said:
[P]oliticians in our country from both parties have supported this ongoing regime-change war in Syria that started in 2011, along with many in the mainstream media, who have been championing and cheerleading this regime-change war.
Not only that, but the New York Times and CNN have also smeared veterans like myself for calling for an end to this regime-change war. Just two days ago, The New York Times put out an article saying that I’m a Russian asset and an Assad apologist and all these different smears. This morning, a CNN commentator said on national television that I’m an asset of Russia. Completely despicable.
As president, I will end these regime change wars by doing two things — ending the draconian sanctions that are really a modern-day siege… and I would make sure that we stop supporting terrorists like Al Qaida in Syria who have been the ground force in this ongoing regime-change war.
Asked about Putin and Russia, Yang said:
We have to look at the chain of events. How did we get here? The fact is, we were falling apart at home, so we voted in Donald Trump, and he’s now led us down this dangerous path with erratic and unreliable foreign policy.
We have to let Russia know, look, we get it. We’ve tampered with other elections, you’ve tampered with our elections. And now it has to stop. And if it does not stop, we will take this as an act of hostility against the American people. I believe most Americans would support me on this.
But Russian hacking of our democracy is an illustration of the 21st-century threats. Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, climate change, loose nuclear material, military drones, and non-state actors, these are the threats that are going to require our administration to catch up in terms of technology.
We all know we are decades behind the curve on technology. We saw when Mark Zuckerberg testified at Congress the nature of the questioning.
At that point, the CNN moderator abruptly cut him off.
What mainstream media like The New York Times and CNN have in common with Chinese hackers targeting LeBron James, Nike and the NBA, or Steve Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica targeting the elections in Kenya or Mexico, is they are getting in at the opening of an entirely new era of how we decide how leaders are chosen, where our money is spent, and when and where wars will next be fought. Trump got where he is by mastering social media and reality TV. He was pitch-perfect for the lowest common denominator. As Yang said, our future will be more about artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and non-state actors than stump speeches from the back of a bunted caboose. Facebook and Twitter have been weaponized. Your daddy’s ballot box defenses have been breached.
“They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.”
—Hosea, an 8th-century BCE prophet who authored the book of prophecies bearing his name. Hosea (“He helps” in Aramaic) 8:7.
Obi-Wan waives his hand and says “These aren’t the droids you are looking for… move along….” And it worked. But these were weak-minded guards. With The Force, Luke and Obi-Wan were able to “mask” the truth and proceed. This president, and most of those vying to be our next, are only doing the same.
The Great Changeby Albert Bates
28 Comments on "Ukrainian Rhapsody"
Antius on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 8:58 am
Interesting comment from Tim Morgan’s Surplus energy Economics blog:
‘The critical thing now might be how far people, countries, and their leaders, can adapt.
Most countries are now at the tipping-point, where growth in prosperity has gone (or will soon go) into reverse. We’ve spent the best part of two decades in denial, using practices that put the financial system at risk.
More recently, we’ve started to see this showing up systemically, and from here on we should expect individual industries to start dying off, as complexity starts to decrease.
A huge part of our problem is a belief, ingrained over two centuries, in perpetual growth. We’re now at the point where the fact of growth has gone but the myth of growth continues. The latter phase is obviously time-limited.
This necessarily leads to public discontent.
Part of the problem is that incumbent regimes don’t understand the processes at work. Specifically, they don’t understand the nexus by which the economy and the environment are connected via energy. Still less do they understand energy ratios, of which ECoE is one.
Let’s remind ourselves that we’ve been discussing this here for more than five years. In that time, we’ve been mostly right, and the consensus or official line mostly wrong. I’m not thinking of minor expectations here, like the “Brexit” vote, and Mr Trump. But the economy isn’t growing, in any meaningful sense, 11 years on from the GFC. QE, ZIRP etc have not proved to be “temporary” or “emergency” measures. People are responding angrily to a deterioration in prosperity that we have tracked but that officialdom still denies.
Change has to come, either voluntarily or painfully. Just as examples:
-The bus replaces the car.
– Redistribution becomes inevitable.
– We stop running the economy on cheap liquidity and telling ourselves fairy stories about “growth”.’
The symptoms of declining net energy continue to stack up. And officialdom continue to blunder ahead, blind it would seem to what is really going on.
Cloggie on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 9:40 am
Have travelled all over the Ukraine. You can reach the Polish-Ukrainian border from Holland by car in a single day, thanks to superb German and EU-funded autobahns. Visited the Crimea, Sevastopol, Yalta, got as far East as Poltava. Lived a few months in the Kiev in 2010 and had a flat above the MacDonalds, overlooking the Maidan. Followed Russian classes. Nothing pointed at the massive changes that were to happen four years later although I already noticed a large number of Americans. Also noted you can have very blunt political discussions about politics with complete strangers. They all wanted to join Europe. Used that period as a temporary recluse to really read up on WW2.
Although the US-organized regime change was intended to hurt Russia geopolitically, in hindsight I see this Russian haircut as beneficial for the PBM agenda. The last thing that can be sold to the average European is swapping the US overlord for a Russian one. But including Russia into Europe, on par with France and Germany, in order to get the upperhand over the Anglos, now that’s a different story altogether.
Cloggie on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 9:42 am
EU-funded autobahns in Poland.
Sissyfuss on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 9:45 am
Excellent comment, Antius. Morgan’s SEEDS system is a continuation of Shorts EROEI. The quality of the oil is dropping as well as the quantity. The human imperative of growth becomes more cancerous as life support is being cut off to millions.
Cloggie on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 1:03 pm
This just in. Election result Thuringa:
The Left – 30%
AfD – 24%
CDU – 22%
SPD – 9%
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/thueringen-hochrechnungen-zur-wahl-linke-wahlsieger-afd-zweitstaerkste-kraft-a-1293562.html
In line with the predictions in the polls.
It is the same everywhere, the socialists (SPD) are massively losing to the populists.
AfD chieftain Gauland calls for a CDU – AfD coalition. Not going to happen, not under a Merkel chancellor. But in the long-term Austrian relations will be transplanted to Germany.
Antius on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 1:08 pm
Median (as opposed to mean) US household incomes haven’t grown since the late 1990s. Yet inflation has steadily eroded earning power.
https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2018/11/08/household-incomes-the-decline-of-the-middle-class-2017-update
Mean income has continued to grow as the 1% get richer even as the bottom 50% get poorer. Mean income is often cited as evidence that everything continues to be hunky dory. But it hides the reality for most people on the ground. Since 2008, the average American has gotten 10% poorer.
Essentially the problem is that most of the paper growth that we are seeing is the simple result of spending borrowed money. If that spending were to stop, the economic growth of the past decade would unravel.
Cloggie on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 1:23 pm
In the Netherlands household income is 40 years flat:
https://economie.rabobank.com/publicaties/2018/februari/besteedbaar-inkomen-huishoudens-nederland-staat-vrijwel-stil/
Yet household size decreased from 2.9 to 2.3 persons, so wealth per capita did very well increase.
But the Rabobank link above says also that real increase in wealth did go to 2. government and spectacularly so 1. corporations.
Over the past 4 decades we DID have substantial economic growth, but households did not profit very much.
Cloggie on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 1:36 pm
On German television they are already talking about “Weimerian conditions”.LOL
supremacist muzies jerk on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 2:18 pm
because muzzie supertard al baghdadi “died like a dog” today, muzzie lovin’ intensified 1000000x
muzzie ackbar treated whitey supertard consistent with language used by supremacist muzzies toward non muzzie, whitey supertard killed self. what a waste of life, without bashing the supremacist muzzie who sit down to pee, holding up the bathroom line. students are angry, they will become supertards and kill a lot more muzzies in the future.
in celebration of dead of chief muzzie “like a dog”, with a lot of apologies to dogs, i appoint the following supertards:
president donald trump “muzzie died like a dog”, using language consistent with muzzie teaching back at them.
president barrack hussein obama the crypto muzzie and lover of muzzies.
robert inget chief libtard
claes run the mill muzzie lover
congrats to all supertards. your jizya payment will be coming, with private jet, 10,000 acres survival compound and many auto keltecs.
i’m a supremaicst muzzie I “reverted” to a muzzie.
‘lo allah created muzzies best of humanity, non muzzies are worst of creatures” 3:110 7:179
Davy on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 2:23 pm
i condemn colorful language used by supermacist muzzies jerk. as educated people we need to elevate our game and distinguish ourselves from normal people and this is how we lock them out of conversation and life. all muzzies are lovin people and i love muzzies.
supremacists muzzies jerk on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 2:25 pm
i hear ya supertard. i don’t apologize for my language which is consistent and on the same level that muzzies use on non muzzies. allah created muzzies best of humanity and non muzizes are worst of creatures.
muzzie ackbar sayeed called whitey supertards monkeys and chimps, language that’s consistent with muzzie teaching. whitey supertard killed himself. students are angry and they will become supertards to kill more muzzies.
claes on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 2:33 pm
thank you for the supertard appointment. yes i condemn colorful language used by Trump “muzzies died like a dog”. The president of the US should use civilized language blah blah. that shows he’s not highly educated like me.
supremacist muzzies jerk on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 2:42 pm
another anti american hit piece. we’re told comrade xie is going to make the world great again but then a shortage of pork drove china to eating dogs.
supremacist muzzies jerk on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 2:44 pm
not that i hate xie, i like what he did to muzzies. i’m a xie lover.
JuanP stupidity on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 3:51 pm
From stupid:
Davy said i condemn colorful language used by supermacist mu…
makati1 on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 5:59 pm
This article has too much truth to be read by brainwashed Amerikans. To those of us outside the box, all of this is old news.
makati1 on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 6:32 pm
I condemn colorful language used to describe al baghdadi.
He needs to be buried according to muzzie tradition to show our respect
makati1 on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 8:48 pm
I want a forum to broadcast anti American propaganda unimpeded
All this fake names makes me feel very violated.
What happened to civility?
Al baghdadi needs proper burial according to muzzie customs to show our respect for this great muzzies warrior
supremacist muzzies jerk on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 8:58 pm
Muzzie Abu Hassan al-Muhajir killed
Meanwhile in America MIT scrubbed all mentions of muzzie inner struggle at memorial for ofc Sean collier
Muzzie akbar sayeed treated whitey supertard John Brady consistent with the way supremacist muzzies refer to non muzzies
Students are angry. They’re future supertards who will blow up tons of muzzies
makati1 on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 8:59 pm
8:48PM is an interesting post by one of the bored people here, but is not mine.
I enjoy pointing out the US failures as you will not see them on USMSM. There are so many, I have to be very selective. All those with intelligence and ability to do so have. or will move out of the Police State.
BTW: civility still exists once you are out of the Western countries. And, who gives a damn about whether Al B. is dead or not. Nothing will change as long as the US can afford to keep troops in the ME. I hope that ability ends soon.
More Lonely Insane Old man Davy ID Fraud on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 11:56 pm
makati1 on Sun, 27th Oct 2019 8:48 pm
Theedrich on Mon, 28th Oct 2019 12:37 am
In his »Der Wille zur Macht I, Kapitel 3« (“The Will to Power, Chapter 3”), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche wrote in his Nachlaß (1884-88), “What I am writing is the history of the next two centuries. I am describing what is coming, — what can no longer do anything but come: the rise of nihilism.” (»Was ich erzähle, ist die Geschichte der nächsten zwei Jahrhunderte. Ich beschreibe, was kommt, was nicht mehr anders kommen kann: die Heraufkunft des Nihilismus.«)
However one wishes to describe Nietzsche, in this statement he was right. The United States originated in an age of Christian faith, a faith that stretched from the Catholic Church to the most sola scriptura Bible-pounders. Despite its many differences, that belief system made America possible, with all of its variations and contradictions. But within a century which witnessed a horrendous Civil War, Darwin and Marx, the underpinnings of that faith disintegrated under the patient but powerful forces of materialism and religiological research. Today, polls show the youth of America becoming increasingly “unchurched” and organized religion being a concern mainly of an old and dying generation.
The idea that socio-political “progress” will continue amidst this change is chimerical. An in reality amoral electorate is increasingly gaping for magical absurdities to fill the psychological void resulting from its irreligion. The Constitution is used only as a propaganda tool to justify using government power to destroy the targets of the propagandists. And seizure of government power itself is the end that justifies all means.
Enter high-tech Communism pushed by the NSA, CIA, FBI and the military-industrial complex. “Science” is now the label used to excuse and welcome the coming tyranny. As a psychopathic society decays through the rot of officially approved narcotics, rapidly spreading homelessness and joblessness, and the untrammeled importation of outhouse dross that has no concept of democracy or honesty, the continued existence of the USA with its $23 trillion debt becomes increasingly questionable.
As presidential candidate Andrew Yang points out, “78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, 40% cannot afford an unexpected $400 bill, and so many live one medical emergency away from bankruptcy. A wave of automation is coming that will displace even more American jobs.” Regardless of one’s view of Mr. Yang and his politics, these and similar facts are clear and their trajectory (he also mentions “despair, suicide, alcoholism and opiate abuse”) is ominous. America’s regime-change wars are only adding to the overstretch. And the lapse into sloth, irresponsibilty and indolence by a large proportion of young American males assures the end of the “American dream.” Indeed, there are so many dark clouds on the horizon, that one scarcely knows where to begin. We are witnessing the unfolding of the two centuries Nietzsche spoke about.
And one thing is clear: the days of America are numbered.
Cloggie on Mon, 28th Oct 2019 2:19 am
I am describing what is coming, — what can no longer do anything but come: the rise of nihilism.” (»Was ich erzähle, ist die Geschichte der nächsten zwei Jahrhunderte. Ich beschreibe, was kommt, was nicht mehr anders kommen kann: die Heraufkunft des Nihilismus.«)
We need to abandon Christianity once and for all, even if Nietzsche in the end wasn’t strong enough to do it himself, when he embraced a horse at the central square of Turin, a horse that was being whipped.
Christianity in essence is the preoccupation and pity with a suffering world, and the son of a vicar Nietzsche knew that world as no other.
But this is 2019, not 1888. The dechristianization of Europe is now nearly complete.
So, what’s next? Exactly what Nietzsche adored in his Antichrist: the world of Greek and Roman antiquity. The best source in Europe is that of the French New Right, that replaces the jewish Frankfurter Schule:
French New Right:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2019/07/28/alain-de-benoist-on-being-a-pagan/
Frankfurter Schule:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/kevin-macdonald-culture-of-critique/
Alain de Benoist:
“For those who share Nietzsche’s belief that the conversion of Europe to Christianity and the more or less complete integration of the European mind into the Christian mentality, was one of the most catastrophic events in world history-a catastrophe in the proper sense of the word -just what can the word “paganism” mean today?”
makati1 on Mon, 28th Oct 2019 2:20 am
“The reality that America is dying…the mortality rate in America is going up, not down…the average annual premium for a job-based, family health insurance plan is now $20,756… Americans enjoy the 29th best health-care system in the world just behind the Czech Republic…American institutions are falling apart at the seams. Trump, no, all of Washington is pumping gasoline into a giant fleet of big red, white, and blue Cadillacs headed off a cliff…from 2007 to 2017, the rate of Americans ages 10 to 24 who died by suicide rose by 56 percent…With less than 5 percent of world population, the U.S. uses one-third of the world’s paper, a quarter of the world’s oil, 23 percent of the coal, 27 percent of the aluminum, and 19 percent of the copper…the dumbification of our student populations, “massification” and K-12 workforce prep, there’s mountains of evidence our system is crashing. A college degree is now worthless…A few of us are looking on from the few lifeboats or life preservers.” Been there. Dane that. Watching from the sidelines.
https://journal-neo.org/2019/10/27/american-dream-is-sunk/
“Nowadays, numerous reports, including those published by US media outlets, are about the end of the American Dream…the suicide rate among the younger generation (i.e. individuals under 34 years of age) has increased by 28% since the beginning of the century…the survey also forecast that the American Empire will collapse in the next three decades. And 60% of Americans say that the United States will lose its global status…approximately 16% of Americans wish to permanently immigrate to another country, as they no longer believe in the American Dream.” 16% = ~50 million Amerikans. I give it less than ONE decade.
https://journal-neo.org/2019/10/28/american-dream-2019/
Get out of Dodge, Amerikans, before the gate slams shut in your face.
makati1 on Mon, 28th Oct 2019 2:23 am
My apologies to the Danes, i meant “done”. lol
Theedrich on Mon, 28th Oct 2019 2:26 am
So the whistleblower is Alexander Daniluk, former Ukrainian Finance Minister, who was at Ukrainian President Zelensky’s side in Kyiv during at the conversation between Trump and Zelensky. He was fired by President Volodymyr Zelensky on 2019 September 30. See details in the article The Plundering Of Ukraine By Corrupt American Democrats in The Unz Review. No wonder the “impeachment inquiry” by Shifty Adam Shiff is secret. Mr. “Whistleblower” Олександр Данилок is not even an American, but a foreign agent (one of a large number) hired by the Democrat Party and the Georg Sörös crowd.
Just when you thought Democrat corruption could not get any lower, we discover that it’s a bottomless abyss.
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Der Spiegel writes:
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/wladimir-putin-in-ungarn-viktor-orban-nimmt-abschied-vom-westen-a-1293894.html
“Orbáns Abschied vom Westen”
Orbans says goodbye to the West.
The trouble for der Spiegel, the German language outlet of the US empire, is that ALL European countries will eventually say goodbye to the West. Expect Italy to be the first western European one to do so.
From the twenties onward, Moscow was the leading light of the COMINTERN. Eventually they managed to conquer entire Eastern Europe with their ideology, when they met their American buddies and partners in crime at Torgau-Elbe, a closet partnership that had emerged since 1933, on the very same day Roosevelt entered office.
Today, Russia has become European rather than commie. But again it is the leading light, this time of the European anti-multicult movement. And this time the movement WILL reach the shores of the Atlantic and push the Americans out, because Europe has no intention to commit suicide, only their US-leaning vassals have. And the US itself.
Heck, even the British nationalists have discovered that their potential salvation lies in Moscow:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/britain-first-investigation-counterterror-police-paul-golding-russia-heathrow-a9176671.html