China and the US will be in a war, either directly or through a proxy, by 2030.
After Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump, Democrats refused to accept any responsibility or reflect on why Hillary lost. Instead, Democrats accused and blamed “Russian election interference” for her embarrassing loss to a buffoon. Over the next few years, hostility toward Russia among Democrats and Americans on the left built and gradually intensified. About five years after Hillary’s loss, or two years after Trump had lost his 2020 reelection bid, the US under then-President Joe Biden — a Democrat, and by then hostility toward Russia and Putin, who was widely seen by Democrats as having robbed America of its first “woman president” in 2016, had become an orthodoxy within the Democratic Party — entered a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.
On July 16, 2026, President Trump went on primetime television to deliver a presidential speech. He made serious accusations, without any evidence, against China in an attempt to pressure Congress to pass the SAVE Act (i.e., a bill that would allow him to rig or undermine the upcoming midterm election). He directly and openly accused China of interfering in the 2020 election and causing him to lose to Joe Biden.
If the same pattern with Russia holds, then over the next few years Republicans — especially MAGA Republicans — will become increasingly hostile toward China. That built-up hostility will eventually lead to a war with China. It is the same pattern as “Russiagate” or “Russia Derangement Syndrome” on the left, except this time it will be mirrored on the right as “Chinagate” or “China Derangement Syndrome.”
A war is coming to China. It will most likely be a proxy war backed by the US against China, and I doubt China can do anything to prevent or stop what is coming. China must now prepare.
This is the 2024 CDC Autism and vaccine page. Stating conclusively “No link” between vaccines and Autism(1).
Instead of determining the veracity of that statement let’s simply analyze the page epistemologically.
What evidence is presented? Does it contain conflicts of interests? Is it reported accurately? Is it high quality? Is it assumption based?
The page says “studies have shown that there is no link” and sends us to the latest IOM review.
The IOM is funded by the CDC, and pharma companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Purdue, Amgen, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Takeda, GlaxoSmithKline etc..
The members of the committee received payments or worked for the same pharma corporations. The authors of the report also own patents for vaccines.
The CDC link to the IOM report is broken so here is a working one(2).
Children receive over 70 vaccine injections; 20 before their first birthday.
For all vaccines –excluding the MMR– the review listed one study. I repeat one study. This study Geier and Geier 2004, found DTap was associated with autism.
The review concluded “The evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship” for all vaccines besides the MMR vaccine.
Next they reference a 2013 study “showing that vaccines do not cause ASD”
This study was funded by the CDC.
The first author –Frank DeStefano– is known as the expert the military paid to show that there was no evidence Agent Orange was harmful.
He is also known for his 2004 study where his co-author William W. Thompson became a whistleblower because they destroyed evidence and committed fraud in order to hide evidence vaccines cause autism.
The 2013 study looked at the association between “antibody-stimulating protein and polysaccharide antigens” and autism among 256 children with autism and 752 controls all of which where heavily vaccinated.
The assumption being that since heavily vaccinated children with and without autism have similar levels of exposure to antigens vaccines can’t cause autism.
The next section is on Thimerosal (mercury) which used to be in almost all vaccines, but was mostly removed.
They say “Research shows that thimerosal does not cause ASD” “a 2004 scientific review by the IOM concluded” Their citation is the 2011 IOM report which is the wrong one and which is a broken link anyways.
The proper citation is here(3).
All the same conflicts of interest apply.
How did they reach their conclusion?
By comparing “children who received TCV with those who received thimerosal-free vaccine”. Vaccine manufactures replaced mercury with Aluminum another heavy metal. Got that? Injecting infants with mercury is safe because children injected with another heavy metal had similar rates of autism.
Table 3-5 show the sample size was too small to produce statistically significant results.
The original results of this study showed thimerosal caused a statistically significant increased rate of autism in a dose dependent manner. The highest vaccinated group had 7x more autism than the lowest.
Here is how they explain the discrepancy “the differences between the preliminary and final results” are due to changing “exclusion criteria” making data “adjustments” and modifying “time of exposure and inclusion of additional variables in the model”
According to committee it is common to make “adjustments” “along the way” when doing a study. It found nothing “inherently troubling in the fact” that the pharma paid authors, working on a pharma commissioned report decided in a secret meeting at Simpsonwood to change the methods of the study 7 times after the data kept showing something that their pharma sponsors wouldn’t like. I’ll take their word that this fraudulent practice is “common”
Summary:
Little to no evidence, check. Conflicts of interest, check. Assumption based, check. Misreporting, check. Conspiring to hide evidence, check. Fraud, check.
But hey, these rich people care deeply about you. Really just look at Gaza or go to a ghetto to see how much they deeply care.
A couple of years ago when I did a winter vacation trip to Chicago, I of course spent most of a day in the Art Institute. Picked up 2 Taschen books in the Gift Shop before leaving, since they always have stellar quality.
Today I just started in on one title, Rainer Metzger’s 1920s Berlin. Only 20+ pp. (plus the notes) into it, and I’ll note that my usual take that the Deutsche are a bunch of Martinet, Authoritarian Robots (as my German father was, though he eased up in his final years, to his credit) is intermittently validated and then reversed.
There’s one passage I wanted to share here to get to a larger point. The Germans did learn by the 1920s after their defeat and humiliation at Versailles, the ubiquity of “War Cripples,” Prosthetic sales shops, and mangled Veterans as seen in the Otto Dix painting of 1920, “The Match Seller”, both armless and legless, sitting on the pavement as a Weiner-dog pisses on him and crowds hustle by created a certain repulsion toward war, unsurprisingly. (When you lose, it’s hard to be happy and smug. A real lesson Trump Admin will soon teach Americans, since they don’t even learn any geography these days, as in the past.)
This was reflected indirectly in men’s and women’s fashion, a 1926 painting by Willy Jaeckel of The Wilke Siblings, Lotte and Ulfred, shows her with short hair, him with long hair, going for androgynous looks both. She was 20 & he 19 when the painting made.
The point is made that in times of No war postwar, men don’t have to adopt a fatalistic love of War, Fighting and Dying, and can indulge in a more healthy life seeking (I can only use a French word, not a German one) jouissance.
This made me think of Late Imperial U$A, and how recently Max Blumenthal had Dennis Kucinich on and Dennis made a point a favorite Unitarian Minister of mine made on Memorial Day some years back, that in the US’s 250 years of existence, it has continuously been at war except for a period of 11.5-12 years, practically a world’s record for belligerence and (mostly failed, as of the 21st Century) Colonialist Aggression.
Which brings me to something that Colonel Daniel Davis recently featured, I’m sure many of us remember reading about, “The Phoney War” from Sept. 1939 to May 1940, 3rd Reich sitting complacently on its new Polish Territory, ramping up Genocidal Work Camps and other infrastructure, Kristallnacht etc. but essentially biding their time. (I’ll proactively rebut a Lie that L&S has repeated ad nauseam here, no Hitler did not “punk” Stalin with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which Stalin used to move all the manufacturing capacity Eastward during the War Pause. As we all (except LaS) know, the Fuhrer died with his brains blown out alongside his new Bride Ms. Braun and “Blondie” his beloved German Shepherd; Stalin went on to divide the World up alongside the enfeebled FDR and Churchill, ironically in Teheran, Iran.
Now another book I read some years ago, Blitzed: Drugs in the 3rd Reich, translated from Norman Ohler’s original German version, covered the large Big Pharma capacity of the Germans, in conjunction with their Japanese allies, who had originally invented Methamphetamine. The 3 days’ drive, sudden, to the West by the Army was half spontaneous. Luftwaffe just sitting it out, indifferent, shut it down due to embarrassment by lobbying the Fuhrer, they looked bad for not participating, political divisions within the Reich, and all the soldiers (who didn’t, like elderly commanders, die from sudden heart attacks or strokes due to overstimulation) were in the 24 hour “naps” occasioned after bingeing.
This leads me to transitioning to something Colonel Davis covered in recent days on YouTube, Trump clowns are now doing a “phony war” in Iran, hitting infrastructure, but it’s all for show, Narrative, as of course are the big petrol, grease-fire drone bombings into Russia. Specifically, Davis showed shots of a major Iranian bridge “blasted” by the US. But here’s the rub, the gaslighting. It was a massive bridge over a dry gorge (no river below) and the damage was such that those using it just had to detour a bit, maybe 30 minutes added to their trips, but in fact they could still finish them.
So the Iranians responded with massive hits to the US GCC Proxy traitors, hitting UAE, Saudi, Qatar etc. infrastructure, esp. desalinization plants, which Iran barely needs, so massive that water is available. (As is food, worries of a famine early in the war never came to pass.) As Professor Mirandi warns, these places could be made uninhabitable for decades if the aggression continues. Oh, well!! They’re just stupid Ayrabs anyway, no big deal (until they want to migrate to live near white people; well, the Richest ones will be okay, anyway.)
Meantime another Davis clip, Merz and Macron talking about overriding General DeGaulle’s old decision not to threaten the Russians with a Nuclear presence on their borders. These clowns have 1/4 or less (others more expert than me can correct the #) the Nuclear capacity of the Russians. But they keep poking the Bear, imagining Russia has no Red Lines. So far I admit, Russia has been overly disciplined with not responding (much) to the provocations. That’s on them.
In the fevered, idiotic Children’s Crusade Plan for full-scale war with Russia by 2030, the Euro-Slugs simply do not have the capacity for a “NATO Victory”, whatever Hopium Lie and Suborn will spew here. Meantime idiotic provocations, some small force of Eastern European mainly Mercs sent into Central Ukraine as a “Reassurance” force. They will be annihilated as a couple hundred French Mercs staying in a Ukrainian hotel 2.5 years back were, when the time is right.
And what morons these people are!! We already had Trump’s moronic “Operation Epstein Epic Fury,” the silly, died stillborn 2 days in “Prosperity Guardian,” etc. A Pacifier for the thumbsuckers in the EU, “reassurance” that we will Fight Russia not only to the last Ukrainian, almost here, massive anti-Kidnapping riots in Ukraine currently against forced impressment on the front lines, “Recruiters” (just street-thug Press-Gangers) on the Streets being attacked and beaten . . . These War Pigs know literally no history, what an issue it was when the Brits were attacking US ships and kidnapping, “impressing” US sailors. These people are Nihilist, but thankfully they are stupid beyond belief, the one saving grace of the whole Clusterfuck. Mass Hopium Die-offs impending, a drug nearly as fatal as Meth, evidently. Let’s hope they don’t take the whole human race and most of the flora and fauna down with them.
“Meantime another Davis clip, Merz and Macron talking about overriding General DeGaulle’s old decision not to threaten the Russians with a Nuclear presence on their borders.”
KT Chong usually very well-informed viz China; I will nonetheless respond, 2 comments.
1. I was really pleased when Trump beat Hillary in 2016, mainly for existential reasons. I knew they were both pieces of Garbage, I can’t really say which is bigger . . . you know what, since Hillary recently applauded Trump’s continuation of the Gaza Genocide I will say she is the worst, and sickest (at the moment; they compete with one another.)
My gratification was and now is that had Hillary been installed as President she would’ve launched a full-scale World War against Russia and possibly a Nuclear Holocaust spread worldwide, when NATO and the US couldn’t win.
So hey, at least nearly a decade later, many of us are still alive, something to be grateful for; but see my note up thread, the Euro-Slugs really want to blow up ALL of Eastern Europe, including their own homelands, to “punish the Russians”, since as Marshall Zhukov mused, “We defeated Fascism, and the World never forgave us for it.”
2. I believe you are way too pessimistic, and thus wrong. I do not believe the US will in the next 2 decades, if ever, directly threaten China. They are too bogged down with the Defense Line, to use a sports metaphor. Trump totally bogged down doing symbolic damage to Iran for the cameras, just getting his GCC Allies to either (a) have their homeland annihilated and be forced out of the region, Bahrain first, Saudis eventually; or (b) go back to the Peace Pact that China peddled 2-3 years back, rapprochement with their Co-Religionists (whether Shi’a, Sunni, or a minority version) and save their countries long enough to rebuild. Or die, emigrate. I cannot imagine why they have not taken (b) by today. We can only see.
US will be defeated and distracted with either full-on Fascist Junta rule by the Trumpies, no more veneer of “democracy, a republic,” just Neo-Feudal rule on the principles of Mencius Moldbug and The Reptile, Peter Thiel; or (less likely) widespread revolt and the horseshoe unification of the tiny Legitimate Left (Libs won’t do anything unless they spend a couple years in a Concentration-Work-Rape camp and get radicalized) and the MAGA CHUDs who’ve lost their Medicare, Social Security, healthcare, & whose great “prize” of Social White Skin Capital over the “darkies” they realize is worthless when they are hungry and homeless . . .
I don’t think it’s gonna go rosy for USA. Iran will survive, despite taking lots of pointless carnage and murder. Russia will do fine, eventually take most of Ukraine, and the rest can be a Shithole Neo-Nazi statelet, something like Alabama in its prime Segregationist days.
USA might steal a few Tankers, big whoop! Xi already warned Trump Clowns viz the 100% Sanctions on buying Russian oil, “We don’t play that shit, you have no power” and if you try this, we will deny you ALL Rare Earths, for decades at least. US will never lay a hand on China at this point, they have neither the competence, adequate # of missiles or oil, or any other Wunder Waffen. China is free and liberated, Russia and Iran on the way. Hegemon a pipsqueak, a Never-Will-Be Hegemon again. What a relief to RoW.
Thanks, Donald Jenius Trump!! And as you pointed out, KTC, some time back, that Chinese Cult that decided Trump was God’s way of destroying the USA was correct, US already over the Cliff just waiting to drop with its Acme Anvil.
How many of you followed that about 2 months back, the “stunning and brave” and utterly historically ignorant Kaja Callous Kallas shared her shock, “Oh, China was a part of World War II, I never heard that!!”
Now she is a complete moron, brandishing her Joe McCarthy List of 29 Countries Russia has invaded, while it has NEVER been invaded or attacked a single time by anyone. The Battle of Stalingrad never happened, it’s just “Russian Propaganda,” like mentioning the 2 standing ovations for elderly Nazi soldier Yaroslav Hunka in the Canadian Parliament by Trudeau, World’s Highest Paid Actor the Green Goblin, and the Parliament itself c. 2024.
But to have never heard of Manchuria? A stinking moron. Von der Lying some time back deplored the use of Nuclear Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, deliberately refused to name the USA as the bombers, implied the bombing was . . . from Russia, LoL!!
Kallas could’ve called her ideological buddy, the former Trapeze Artist, Annaleena “360”Baerbock, now as the Scum always rises, “President of the United Nations General Assembly” in its 80th session, since September 2025. Baerbock is massively stupid, delusional but not at Kallas levels. Ask one simple question: “Why is China a Permanent Member of the Security Council?” Ignorance overcome. How could she not know The Middle Kingdom is the world’s largest population.
Kallas couldn’t run a Little Caesar franchise in the US or anywhere else. She once at least had Northern wispy good looks, but those are fading fast and she will soon resemble Von der Leyen, never a Bond Girl, but now an elderly scarecrow. Idiocracy meets Genocidal Russophobia (& I’m confident as a Western “leader” Kallas is down with the Gaza Genocide too, not that Estonia could contribute even a half dozen soldiers to advancing that.)
Alright, no more posts after this today– but Baron Serendipity again functioning at 100% levels. This came up in my feed, the answer to why Argentina not just so corrupt but so Nazi-Aligned. Maybe it’s not the Baron, it could be the AlGore(3.1 Model) Rhythm– dude has the perfect posh Monty Python accent, a bonus– Juan Peron + Fascist tendencies= Fascist “NonArcho-“Capitalism.
Klaise has another enlightening video on the Chinese political compass. Some of it isn’t that difference with our political compass, as the “leftists” in it all point fingers at each other accusing each other of not being pure lefties.
The outrages hit so rapid fire these days that one can hardly keep score. Laws protecting humans and animals are gutted daily. War crimes and death and destruction are cheered or muted by the media. People become numb and inured. Another new atrocity another rape another death, children bound and gagged and buried alive. It happens and is even recorded and glorified. Social media, beezlebub’s gift to the world.
So turning attention elsewhere on a lazy Saturday summer afternoon, I thought there was a tragedy in my little animal world wherein a nesting nut hatcher had flown the nest leaving her still borns behind.
As I’ve mentioned for a few summers here, the same family returns each year like clockwork to a nest on a porch light sconce and hatch their brood. This season it was mom alone, leading to speculation about what happened to dad along the way. It’s a cruel and indifferent world filled with mishaps and tragedies that we know nothing about. Lots of pathos out there.
So anyway, for some days having seen no signs of that intrepid solo avian mom, I thought it was all over. But this afternoon approaching my cabin I heard some cheep cheep cheeping from the nest above and adjacent to my door with some beaks peeking out. Mom having hatched her chicks was busy dusk and dawn capturing flying insects to feed them, and that’s why I didn’t see her.
So, here’s to survival and continuation and single moms wherever they may be.
May miracles and peace prevail.
I am not sure that they are stupid.
Rather, the eurocrats are indifferent to truth and facts, except as they can be weaponized at the moment. If they can’t, then they make shit up, and if that proves inconvenient, then they make up something else entirely.
These are the same people who proclaim the SS to be national heroes and in the same breath claim “Ukraine” liberated the camps from these same national heroes. They are perfectly happy to rewrite history, and hypocrisy and inconsistency pbother them not in the least.
The normie is always at a disadvantage when dealing with such humans, as normies care for intellectual honesty, consistency, facts, etc..
Stalin wisely used russias incredible military and industrial strength to ensure the west would not screw russia again.
in the east, russia was invaded by japan three times, so stalin boxed in japan in the east.
the west was in no position to say no. todays russia and china have not learned what real power is. it looks like iran may have figured it out, maybe?
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The Soviet Union was invaded multiple times, with notable invasions including the German invasion during World War II (Operation Barbarossa) in 1941 and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Other invasions occurred during its early years, such as the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1920.
Wikipedia United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Neville Chamberlain rejected the idea of an alliance with Stalin, preferring to avoid a partnership with the Soviet Union, which he distrusted. This lack of cooperation contributed to the Soviet Union’s decision to negotiate the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Germany instead.
Spartacus Educational Wikipedia
Chamberlain’s Stance on Negotiations
Distrust of the Soviet Union
Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister, was skeptical of forming an alliance with Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union. His distrust stemmed from several factors:
Ideological Differences: Chamberlain viewed the Soviet regime with suspicion, believing it had motives that conflicted with Western ideals of liberty.
Military Concerns: He doubted the effectiveness of the Soviet military, questioning its ability to contribute meaningfully to a collective defense against Nazi Germany.
Impact on Soviet-German Relations
Chamberlain’s refusal to negotiate with Stalin had significant consequences:
Soviet Isolation: The lack of a partnership with Britain and France left the Soviet Union feeling isolated in the face of growing German aggression.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: In response to this isolation, the Soviet Union sought to secure its interests by negotiating the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany. This agreement, signed on August 23, 1939, included a non-aggression clause and a secret protocol that divided Eastern Europe between the two powers.
Chamberlain’s rejection of an alliance with Stalin ultimately facilitated the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which allowed Hitler to invade Poland without fear of Soviet intervention, marking the beginning of World War II.
ebsco.com Wikipedia
The Soviet Union did not invade any countries after World War I; rather, it was involved in the Russian Civil War (1917-1922) and faced foreign interventions from Allied powers. These interventions aimed to counter the Bolshevik government but ultimately failed.
Wikipedia United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Soviet Union’s Actions Post-World War I
Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
The Soviet Union was primarily engaged in the Russian Civil War, which occurred from 1917 to 1922.
This conflict was between the Bolshevik government (the Reds) and various anti-Bolshevik groups (the Whites), including monarchists and supporters of the Provisional Government.
Foreign Interventions
Instead of invading other countries, the Soviet Union faced significant foreign interventions from Allied powers.
These interventions were aimed at countering the Bolshevik regime and included military support for the White forces.
Key Points
The Allied powers, including the United States, Britain, and France, intervened in Russia during the civil war, fearing the spread of Bolshevism.
The interventions were largely unsuccessful and did not lead to a change in the Bolshevik government.
By the end of 1920, most Allied troops had withdrawn, marking the failure of these interventions.
Conclusion
The Soviet Union did not conduct invasions of other countries after World War I; rather, it was embroiled in a civil war and faced foreign military interventions that ultimately failed to alter the course of its internal conflict.
Wikipedia United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Foreign interventions in the Russian Civil War included military support from the Allied Powers, such as the United Kingdom, United States, France, and Japan, primarily aimed at supporting anti-Bolshevik forces and protecting supply routes. These interventions occurred between 1918 and 1925 and involved various military campaigns across Russia, including in the Baltics, Ukraine, and Siberia.
The Army Historical Foundation Wikipedia
The Russian Civil War (1917–1922) helped establish the Soviet state by letting the Bolsheviks defeat the White Army, after which a 1922 treaty created the USSR. Once the Soviet Union existed, it could then engage in foreign relations as a new government—for example, the United States moved toward recognizing the Soviet Union in 1933 after years of non-recognition.
Wikipedia U.S. Department of State
The Allied powers initially intervened in Russia during the Russian Civil War to prevent German forces from seizing Allied military supplies left behind after Russia’s withdrawal from World War I, and later to support anti-Bolshevik forces amid concerns about the spread of communism in Europe.
University of Michigan Wikipedia
Stalin’s foreign policy after WWII focused on securing Russia’s borders by expanding Soviet influence in Eastern Europe and establishing buffer states to prevent future invasions. This strategy was driven by his desire for security and was evident in the agreements made during conferences like Yalta.
E-International Relations Wikipedia
Stalin’s Foreign Policy After WWII
Stalin’s approach to foreign policy following World War II was primarily focused on enhancing the security of the Soviet Union. This involved several key strategies aimed at preventing future invasions and establishing a strong Soviet presence in Eastern Europe.
Key Strategies
Expansion of Influence: Stalin sought to expand Soviet influence across Eastern Europe. This was part of a broader strategy to create buffer states that would protect the Soviet Union from potential threats.
Establishment of Buffer States: By installing pro-Soviet governments in Eastern European countries, Stalin aimed to create a protective barrier against Western powers. This was crucial for maintaining security and stability in the region.
Agreements and Conferences
Stalin’s foreign policy was significantly shaped by major conferences, particularly the Yalta Conference, where he negotiated terms that would allow the Soviet Union to regain territories and influence in Europe.
Conference Key Outcomes
Yalta Conference – Redefined borders in Eastern Europe
– Established spheres of influence
– Pledged to allow free elections in Poland, though this was not fully honored
Conclusion
Stalin’s post-WWII foreign policy was characterized by a strong emphasis on security through territorial expansion and the establishment of friendly regimes in neighboring countries. This strategy was rooted in his desire to prevent any future invasions, reflecting his long-standing concerns about Russia’s vulnerability.
Wikipedia E-International Relations
Stalin aimed to secure Russia’s borders after WWII by establishing a buffer zone of friendly, pro-Soviet governments in Eastern Europe and annexing territories such as Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of Poland. This strategy was reinforced through agreements made at the Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam Conferences, ensuring Soviet influence in the region.
ebsco.com
Stalin’s foreign policy helped shape Eastern Europe after World War II by pushing the Soviet Union to establish a “buffer zone” and create friendly, pro-Soviet governments in countries under Soviet control. It involved taking control of territories such as the Baltic states and parts of Poland and then using state power to suppress political dissent and install Soviet-style systems from 1943 to 1948.
ebsco.com The National WWII Museum
Excellent, nuanced discussion between Ajamu Baraka, Dimitri Lascaris (Canadian / Wall St lawyer) and Prof Karim Bettache (Psychology, HK) on: the Iran war, why China reduced oil imports helping reduce oil price impact of SoH, and implicit white supremacy conditioning – of whites and non-whites (think Obama) – that enables empire.
Those who like to read about the incompetent bunch that rules the west may like an essay by Nel Bonilla, who claims that they aren’t – just that their competence is very narrow, mainly in “networking”.
With her own words, “Thus, this pattern produces bureaucrats and other functional elites who lack the technical expertise or domain knowledge of the fields they are tasked to lead. // However, the starkness of this competence regime is a relatively recent phenomenon; the seeds for it were sown a century ago.”
Hers is the most parsimonious theory I have seen so far.
More athttps://worldlinesletter.substack.com/p/incompetent-or-imperial-rethinking
Oak chair presents a fairly compelling exposition of fraud throughout the medico/phamaco industrial complex.
Clearly this leans heavily into conspiracy rather than conspiracy theory. That being said, having looked into “studies” presented by the current director of HHS, completely unconvincing because of sources and studies suffering similarly in their use of “motivated reasoning”, logical fallacies, and just plain pure old Dee bullshit.
Unfortunately we’ve come once again to a point in the history of the world where honest inquiry has been smothered by money grubbing opportunists on one side and demented, brain worms on the infected charlatans whose idea of fun is putting a dead bear in Central Park
I think I invented a new word. It came to me while I was mulling the threats of tarriffs to tax US citizens for Canada suffering the effects of global climate change.
Craptivation
crap-ti-va-tion: adj.; capable of distracting and holding unwilling interest.
similar: nauseation
Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak: The Farm Trafficking Secret and Cyclospora with Dr. Sarah Taber
A farm insider explains the REAL causes of the parasite outbreak resulting in explosive diarrhea across 34 states, and goes into the dark world farm labor practices. Dr. Sarah Taber is a small farmer, a crop scientist, and a food-safety auditor who’s actually worked inside these farms, explains what nearly every outbreak comes down to… and why the answer is more UNCOMFORTABLE than the headlines.
There’s a major Cyclospora outbreak spreading across America right now — thousands sick, 34+ states, and a source that only comes from one place: human feces. Taylor Farms (supplier to Taco Bell, Chipotle, and grocery chains, moving ~160 million servings a week) has been named as a potential origin, while Forbes raised whether contaminated water, not produce, is the real driver.
So I brought on the one expert that many of YOU kept naming in the comments: Dr. Sarah Taber of YouTube channel Farm to Taber — a crop scientist, working farmer, and former third-party food-safety auditor who has stood in the fields where outbreaks like this begin. What she told me changed how I think about my own grocery cart.
What you’ll learn in this conversation:
Why you can’t wash Cyclospora off — and why cooking (not rinsing, peeling, vinegar, or fermenting) is the only reliable protection
Why nearly every outbreak traces back to one boring cause: farm workers don’t have bathrooms — not “humanure,” not fertilizer shortcuts
Why Cyclospora behaves differently from E. coli or salmonella (it can’t multiply in water — it only dilutes)
The counterintuitive reason big companies like Taco Bell often run tighter food-safety operations than small local farms
How the “legal” H-2A guest-worker program can enable worse human trafficking than undocumented labor — including a $200M ring in Georgia
What the 2024 anti-trafficking rules did, and what their 2025 rollback means for the food supply
Whether “buy local” and homegrown produce are actually safer (Sarah’s answer surprised me!)
The single fix that would prevent most of these outbreaks
If you’re a caregiver for an aging parent, someone immunocompromised, or a young child, the personal-protection section (37:32) is the part to send to your family group chat.
⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00 — Introduction & Context: A Parasite Spreading Across 34 States
01:13 — How Does Cyclospora Even Get Into Our Food?
01:59 — Worker Conditions & the “Toilet Paper Meadow”
04:52 — Taylor Farms, Big Ag & Market Concentration
08:05 — The “Humanure” Theory: Is It in the Water?
11:45 — Food Safety Audits & Why the Laws Go Unenforced
14:22 — International Farms & Why Crop Profit Margins Matter
17:30 — What Changed? ICE Raids & the Shift to H-2A
19:11 — Inside H-2A: Vetting, Cost & Employer Control
22:42 — How a “Legal” Program Enables Human Trafficking
24:14 — 2024 Anti-Trafficking Rules & Their 2025 Rollback
28:26 — Legal vs. Illegal: A Far More Nuanced Picture
31:45 — The Small-Farm Myth: Is Buying Local Really Safer?
37:32 — Personal Protection: What You Should Actually Do
40:33 — Rapid Fire: Sprouts, Washing & Grocery-Store Rules
43:41 — Accountability: Who’s Really Responsible?
49:37 — “Everybody Poops”: Fixing the System + Where to Find Sarah
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YouTube: @FarmToTaber — real talk about agriculture, food safety, and how your food actually gets grown.
🧠 About this channel
I’m Neal K. Shah, a Johns Hopkins- and NIH-funded caregiving researcher, CEO of CareYaya, and a caregiver myself. I break down the health, science, and safety stories that matter to caregivers and older adults. If you’re caring for an aging or immunocompromised loved one, this channel is for you.
This video is for general education and is not medical advice. If you’re caring for someone at high risk, please talk to their physician about food-safety precautions.
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Bill Clinton’s “Get Big or Get Out” policy contributed to agricultural disasters by promoting large-scale farming at the expense of smaller family farms, leading to economic struggles for many rural communities. This approach has been criticized for exacerbating issues like overproduction and low commodity prices, which hurt farmers’ incomes.
Wikipedia National Archives
Impact of “Get Big or Get Out” Policy
Bill Clinton’s “Get Big or Get Out” policy significantly influenced the agricultural landscape in the United States. This approach aimed to promote large-scale farming, which had several consequences for smaller family farms and rural communities.
Economic Struggles for Farmers
Promotion of Large Farms: The policy favored large agricultural operations, often sidelining smaller family farms.
Overproduction Issues: By encouraging large-scale production, the policy contributed to overproduction, which led to a surplus of crops.
Low Commodity Prices: The surplus resulted in depressed prices for agricultural products, negatively impacting farmers’ incomes.
Consequences for Rural Communities
Economic Disparities: Many rural communities faced economic struggles as smaller farms were unable to compete with larger operations.
Loss of Family Farms: The emphasis on large-scale farming led to the decline of family-owned farms, which are vital for community identity and local economies.
Summary of Effects
Aspect Description
Policy Focus Large-scale farming over small family farms
Economic Impact Overproduction and low commodity prices
Community Consequences Economic struggles and loss of family farms
The “Get Big or Get Out” policy has been criticized for exacerbating the challenges faced by many farmers and rural communities, leading to significant agricultural disasters.
National Archives Wikipedia
Large-scale farming (including farmland consolidation) can weaken rural economies by reducing the number of farms and jobs, making it harder for new farmers to enter, and squeezing out midsize farms that often supported these communities. It can also concentrate harvested land into very large farms, while midsize farms shrink, which threatens the long-term health of rural farm communities.
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Bill Clinton’s policies, particularly the reduction of government support for farmers and the promotion of free trade, contributed to increased corporate concentration in agriculture. This shift allowed larger agribusinesses to dominate the market, impacting small family farms significantly.
Wikipedia The Spokesman-Review
Impact of Bill Clinton’s Agricultural Policies
Reduction of Government Support
Bill Clinton’s administration significantly reduced government support for farmers.
This included cuts to subsidies that had traditionally helped small family farms.
The shift aimed to promote a more market-driven agricultural sector.
Promotion of Free Trade
Clinton’s policies favored free trade agreements, such as NAFTA.
These agreements opened U.S. markets to foreign competition, which benefited larger agribusinesses.
Smaller farms struggled to compete with the scale and efficiency of larger corporations.
Consequences of Corporate Concentration
Aspect Impact on Small Farms Impact on Agribusinesses
Market Share Decreased due to competition from large firms Increased due to economies of scale
Profit Margins Squeezed as prices fell Enhanced through cost efficiencies
Access to Resources Limited access to capital and technology Greater access to funding and innovation
Sustainability Often less sustainable practices adopted Can invest in sustainable technologies
Clinton’s agricultural policies led to increased corporate concentration in the farming sector, allowing larger agribusinesses to dominate the market. This shift had significant negative effects on small family farms, which faced challenges in competing with larger entities.
Wikipedia Modern Farmer
Corporate concentration in agriculture has led to the decline of small family farms by reducing competition, making it harder for them to access markets and resources, and pushing many out of business. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. has lost more than a million farms, while larger operations dominate production, often at the expense of smaller producers.
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Bill Clinton’s deregulation of commodities, particularly through the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, has been criticized for contributing to higher prices and increased corporate concentration in the market. This deregulation allowed for less oversight of over-the-counter derivatives, which played a role in the financial crisis.
Wikipedia
Overview of Bill Clinton’s Deregulation
Bill Clinton’s administration implemented significant deregulation in the commodities market, particularly through the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA). This legislation aimed to promote legal certainty and enhance competition but has faced criticism for its consequences.
Impact of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act
Key Features of the CFMA
Less Oversight: The CFMA allowed for reduced regulation of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives.
Corporate Concentration: The deregulation contributed to increased corporate concentration in the commodities market.
Higher Prices: Critics argue that the lack of oversight led to higher prices for consumers.
Consequences of Deregulation
Financial Crisis Contribution: The deregulation of OTC derivatives is seen as a factor in the financial crisis, as these financial instruments were poorly regulated.
Market Volatility: The CFMA’s approach has been linked to increased volatility in commodity prices, affecting both consumers and businesses.
The deregulation efforts during Clinton’s presidency, particularly through the CFMA, have been criticized for fostering an environment that allowed for greater corporate concentration and higher prices in the commodities market. This has raised concerns about the long-term stability and fairness of the market.
Wikipedia
Bill Clinton’s deregulation policies, particularly in the context of free trade agreements like NAFTA, led to increased competition that often suppressed farm worker wages. Many workers faced job insecurity and lower pay as agricultural markets became more globalized and competitive.
Wikipedia Dissent
Corporate concentration in agriculture has significantly reduced competition, forcing many family farmers out of business and leaving them with little negotiating power over prices. As a result, farmers often receive only a small fraction of the retail food dollar, while large corporations control the majority of the market.
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Yeah, Ronnie Raygun was a disaster that keeps echoing through the decades, but those here such as spud who chronicle the sins of big bad Billy Clinton depict an even bigger tragedy in the form of policies that are still destroying lives lo these more than thirty years later.
Billy Clinton—a founding member of the Epstein class disguised as a saxophone playing good guy who smoked pot without inhaling. (Then there’s the wife Hellary). One has to wonder what serotonin enhancers he was on. Hell, all the DC swampland have their go to drugs—something to bring you up something to bring you down. People divorced from themselves and the natural order making policy that hurts everyone and everything, yet they think they’re immune.
I dunno. It’s enough to make a grown man or woman cry.
It’s why I talk about birds and other animals because they’re a natural demonstration of the order of the universe.
And so, on we go with the sirens singing and the abyss but a step away.
Enjoy whatever good you got while you gots it.
May the gods have mercy.
This is the results of the only randomized study on the most widely used vaccine in the world:
children, having received DTP (±OPV) was associated with a mortality hazard ratio (HR) of 5.00 compared with not-yet-DTP-vaccinated children.
All-cause infant mortality after 3 months of age increased after the introduction of these vaccines https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28188123/
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This is the only randomized flu vaccine study that looked at all cause infections.
“There was no statistically significant difference in the risk of confirmed seasonal influenza infection between recipients”
“participants who received TIV (flue vaccine) had higher risk of ARI (acute respiratory illness) associated with confirmed noninfluenza respiratory virus infection RR, 4.40”
This is some of what the worlds leading Vaccinalogist says when he is under oath.
Q- as a scientist, can 12 you make the statement that vaccines do not cause 13 autism
A- As a scientist, I would say that I do not 16 have evidence one way or the other.
Q- 2.3 percent of participants in the 3 GARDASIL group and in the control group had a 4 systemic autoimmune disorder,
A- Yes
Q- But the saline placebo group that didn’t 8 get the aluminum adjuvant had a 0 percent, right?
A- yes
Q- vaccinated children were 30 times as likely to have 23 allergic rhinitis?
A- Yes
Q- 4.2 times as likely to have ADHD?
A-Yes
Q- 4.2 times likely as to have Autism
A- Yes
and this is why we cannot recover at all, it will take decades to rebuild, that is if it can even be done. bill clinton took a first word nation, and reduced it to a second world nation, on the verge of sliding even further into the hole.
there is not one segment of our economy, that is not flat on its back except finance.
so to address what was done, would be epic in proportion. it would make the rebuilding of europe after WWII, look like a side show.
For most of the twentieth century, if you were born in an American factory town, the plant was the whole deal. You walked in the gate out of high school and walked out forty years later with a pension. In the early 1990s, roughly seventeen and a half million Americans still went to work every day making things — steel in Pennsylvania, cars across the Midwest, furniture in the Carolinas.
At its peak, American manufacturing was the largest and most productive the world had ever seen, the backbone of the middle class. Then one man stood on a debate stage in Richmond, Virginia, in October of 1992, and told the country exactly what was about to happen to all of it.
He said if America signed a trade deal called NAFTA, there would be a giant sucking sound of jobs leaving the country and heading south to Mexico. Nearly twenty million people voted for him — the strongest showing by an independent in eighty years.
And almost everyone with a podium laughed. But fast forward thirty-three years, and the towns he named have gone quiet, one factory at a time, the trade surplus with Mexico has flipped into a deficit running near two hundred billion dollars a year, and a national debt he warned about has crossed thirty-eight trillion.
Now, there is a simple story here — the eccentric billionaire who was right all along. But the truth is more complicated, and in some ways more damning. He named the wrong villain and the right disease. Either way, what he said in a single sentence would outlive his campaign, his reputation, and the man himself.
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They aren’t all that competent, but they don’t have to be. Consequences are for the little people, nit The People Who Matter.
Something I wrote a long time ago:
These people don’t live in The Real World.
The US in general and its elites in particular, in and out of MSM, government and the military, live in a world increasingly consumed by symbol, spectacle and abstraction. Not only that, but they confuse wish-fulfillment with reality. Decide that you’re going to identify as a different gender, race, ethnicity, hell, decide that you’re a member of a different species and woe betide anyone who doesn’t go along with the charade. They might even get themselves “cancelled”.
Hell, even the consequences of their (symbolic) actions are themselves largely symbolic. Melvin didn’t get to put on a TED talk because someone dug up an old Tweet of his and now he’s “literal Hitler” for a while.
For that matter, the truly Great and Good rarely even face those kinds of consequences. They can cause institutions to fail everywhere they go – but as long as they parrot today’s approved platitudes, they glide from internship to government sinecure to think tank to academia to to financial services to corporate board to to consulting gig to MSM Talking Head, sometimes more than one simultaneously. Most probably never having had a 9-5 job, much less done farm or factory work, in their lives. These days, they may never even physically show up to work, ever, but their bank accounts rarely seem to reflect this.
They can even engage in outright fraud, but a big enough fish will only pay a fine, a portion of his ill-gotten gains. Meanwhile, he remains as free as a bird, and probably doesn’t even face social ostracism. Last I checked, Jon Corzine is not on the naughty list of the people who matter.
Since results don’t matter and there are few consequences for losing, even for catastrophe, everything becomes a matter of spin. All problems can be solved with better P.R., and there is no greater triumph than when some newscaster recites that glib talking point you just coined or when your FB post went viral, your instagram noticed by the right kind of influencer. In other words, winning is a matter of successful symbol manipulation. Speaking of spin, virtue signaling is an obsession, even unto rank hypocrisy, and the Davos Set think nothing of flying a private jet to a conference where they can congratulate themselves on their commitment to stopping climate change. Again, if there are to be any consequences, then those are for the little people to deal with.
Even in their dwindling contact with the physical world, the elites live in a world of wish-fulfillment. Push a button and whatever food or whatever else you want is brought to your door by some peon, paid for seamlessly by some electrons exchanged between banks that may not even have a physical location within a thousand miles of your location, if they have locations at all. Hell, you can even get laid via internet, just swipe right on the lucky profile. Everything is taken care of in the background, your credit card billed and airline miles accumulated automatically and the food or the girl just show up. Somehow. By Uber, I guess. Mundane questions like “How do I feed the kittens this week and pay for school supplies and make the rent?” never come into the equation.
These are people who confuse their fantasies with reality to the point where they actually believe their own press releases. They give an order and it happens. They proclaim their puppets in Kabul to be wise and stable technocrats, their well-trained military striding from triumph to triumph and So Let It Be Done, So Let It Be Written. “So let it be written” – that’s the word, that’s all that need be done and the little people just somehow make it happen. For sheer lack of contact with the real world, these people make Louis XVI look like a medieval gong farmer or a pygmy tribesman by comparison.
Contrast the Taliban. Symbol, spectacle and abstraction mean very little to them. Doordash doesn’t operate in their area and if a Talib wants a vegan option, he’ll have to provide for it himself. It has probably never occurred to a Talib that he could cancel his enemies simply by digging up their old tweets, sent under a long discarded Twitter ID, and he doesn’t have time for that, anyway. He lives in the world of concrete and material things, he thinks nothing of killing and in his world, there are bullets waiting to kill him quite literally dead and transport him to a very earthly and very earthy sort of paradise.
You can’t wish those things away, your credit cards are no good and probably rifa, anyway, and the bullet flying towards him isn’t concerned with word games, his upcoming struggle session to root out unconscious racism and cannot be reasoned with or convinced to bother someone less important.
The world of American elites collided with the world of the Taliban and got its ass kicked. Biden and his crew cannot deal with this, because that kind of reality does not select for success in symbol manipulation, any more than skill at football selects for an ability to do math problems.
The clownish Western response to the COVID is similar. The virus can’t be negotiated with, can’t be bought off, can’t be distracted, and is unimpressed with you and how highly you may think of yourself.
As you may know, I’ve seen quite a lot of both worlds, I’ve lived in barns and crouched under the table in the room where the decisions were made, so I think I understand both mindsets pretty well. I prefer freedom to regular meals.
Speaking of, I got some mice to catch, or otherwise, I will surely be going hungry.
‘Yeah, Ronnie Raygun was a disaster that keeps echoing through the decades, but those here such as spud who chronicle the sins of big bad Billy Clinton depict an even bigger tragedy in the form of policies that are still destroying lives lo these more than thirty years later.
Billy Clinton—a founding member of the Epstein class disguised as a saxophone playing good guy…’
Reagan was plucked out of Hollywood and was best friends with Roy Cohn who was one of his top advisors.
Reagan was obviously ‘gay’ himself – or ‘bisexual’ like Obama – and he no doubt had relations with many of these people.
So, the current ‘Eptstein class’ is just the latest version of what these sick sick people do in the interest of control and power.
Interestingly, Obama isn’t personally mentioned much in ‘the files’ but inner cirlce top advisor Kathryn Ruemmler is very intimately tied to the sickos – thus making she – and he – one of ‘them’.
The ‘rumors’ surrounding Obama that have allegedly been put to rest are in fact very believable to those of us privvy to both freebasing cocaine and the ‘sexual stuff’ that it often inherently brings out.
So, RIP Donald Young…and Mr Sinclair: I believe you…
…even though it’s a shame it took a Tucker Carlson interview to bring things to light as Carlson is himself quite obviously deeply embedded in this sickness that is beyond the comprehension of mere mortals – even those of us who haven’t always lived life on the up and up ourselves.
Takes one to know one.
So, just as we all agree we wouldn’t have gotten a Barak Duncan Obama without first a Bill Clinton…so too we never would have gotten a Bill Clinton sans a Ronald Reagan.
Oh, and the idea that Clinton’s shit couldn’t be reversed isn’t accurate.
It could have been reversed by Bush if he was on it right away but of course he is a part of the same continuity of operation so he wasn’t going to do shit even if he so desired.
It could still be reversed.
We can send a man to the moon but we can’t…
Did we go to the moon?
I digress.
It’s an extraordinary waste of time to keep harping on the evils of a Bill Clinton when he is simply the face they needed at the time for the ongoing agenda.
Interestingly, evildoer Jimmy Goldsmith – a direct protege of the Rothschilds et al – Goldsmith was on Charlie Rose back in the day arguing vehemently with the Clinton admin representative about NAFTA and GATT and all the problems they will create.
He is saying the same things spud says here* and he makes the Clinton person look like an idiot because he knows the ins and outs of business and the way things work ‘in the real world’ while she is just a silly policy wonk…
But in hindsight I imagine it was all theater because – let’s face it – Jimmy motherfucking Goldsmith was never any friend of ours.
Goldmsith’s daughter Jemima was married to Imram Khan who is now in jail (the good ones always are, right?) while she is free to wonder why – and continue her image and money-making in the process.
Khan was accused of being part of the Israel lobby himself due to his marriage to Goldsmith but being that he is in jail now and we know they…meaning ‘the lobby’ – which is much much bigger and more powerful than any other lobby in the world…they maintain their power and control.
Whitney Webb has done good work tracing Goldsmith’s evil connections.
* which satisfy the requirements of ‘ad nauseum’ in that it is important to know the facts of history but they aren’t being presented in any usable manner whatsoever other than to satisfy spud’s intellect at this juncture in his life
” Get big or get out” predates Bill Clinton. I remember it as being the Earl Butz policy and approach initiated under Nixon, whose Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz was.
I think well of Al Gore in certain regards, but every time I find myself thinking too well of him, I remember that he bigly supported NAFTA strongliest. I remember a weeks-long buildup to a much anticipated NAFTA debate between Perot and Gore to be held on TV. I remember people warning that Gore would win the debate on style and presentation because Gore was a trained masterdebater and Perot was not. For example, I remember Gore pointing out how Perot had a few years earlier invested several billion dollars into a truly vast truck-staging facility in Mexico to be able to Free Trade into America with those trucks. Gore could then dismiss Perot as an insincere hypocrite while Perot just stood there stammering like a deer in headlights.
A masterful Mister Gotcha move by Al Gore.
Only years later did I read about how that Perot trucking staging facility would have been rendered worthless if NAFTA had been defeated. Perot had to have been smart enough about business to understand that. Unfortunately he was not a good enough masterdebater to come back with ” I am willing to lose that whole investment to get NAFTA defeated, because I love America more than I love a few billion dollars more.”
” A ” first step to reversing the Anti-NewDeal reaction would be extensive education and information to millions or tens of millions of mainstreamal normies. That would require vast and massive teach-ins and etc. If Obama had not overseen and coordinated the breakup and putdown of Occupy, Occupy might have thought to move on to a next step . . . the setting up of hundreds and then thousands of Occupy Reading Rooms all over the country, stocked up with all this information and little centers of talks, workshops, etc. Something like all the Christian Science Reading Rooms which still dot America to this day.
The name “Occupy” is still remembered and somebody could still set up a series and then a whole system of Occupy Reading Rooms if they had enough support and people. They could be the information part of a long term Newer Deal Reconquest Effort. They could be thought of as Information Ammunition Dumps . . . Infommunition Dumps, if you will.
We can’t rebuild the High Classical Industrial Civilization here because most of the resources are gone. But we can grow a smaller slower Newer Deal civilization on a fairness basis IF we could work out some basic agreement on what the basic elements of that civilization would even be.
what i mean is what bill clinton did, cannot be reversed, maybe decades, or forever. because of our current governance. its just about impossible the way our government is set up now.
so there are going to be some tough choices to be made in the future. and those choices most likely will be made after we bottom out.
the reason why i name names to policies is because, if you do not, the clintonites will still be in charge.
carter and reagan were both stupid people as others were in the 1970’s/80’s, bush one was a aristocratic elite that did not want to be bothered, but it was clinton that got almost all of it done.
the chance to reverse it was obama, and with the clintonites still fully in charge, as they are today, then we know obama was the clintonites man for sure, just as biden was, and kamala was.
Ah, yes. Now I understand. Well . . . the people who helped and preceded Clinton should also be named. He was the leader of a wider movement to conquer the DemParty from within.
The best way to try ‘reversing’ it would probably be in Blue to Deep Blue States or substate regions where good government is still a popular concept. The people of these places could start building regionalocal Separate Survival government/ economic/cultural/social/etc. structures and habits and behaviors. And try slowly airgapping their regions from the rest of Clintonia.
” America doesn’t work anymore. Its an idea whose time is gone. It was nice while it lasted.”
Okay, so what comes next. People/groups with the best names and concepts might have the best chance to say what that will be. In that spirit, I suggest a new name for a country which might occupy the ” post-America space”.
USANOTI. United States And Nations Of Turtle Island.
Clara Mattei: capitalism is not natural – it’s enforced
In this clip, economist Clara Mattei argues that capitalism’s biggest problems are not failures of the system but consequences of how it was designed to operate. She explains why inequality, austerity and the concentration of wealth are structural features rather than accidental outcomes, and discusses who ultimately benefits from the current economic model. Mattei also explores the political choices that sustain the system and why she believes meaningful economic change requires rethinking the rules that govern it.
Devil with a blue dress/devil with a blue dress on
I’d send a link if I could, but I can’t so I won’t.
The Clintons are an enduring stain on the fabric of life.
this is coming from a guy who has supported the democrats. but now, he is like thomas frank. the name has to be named to the policies were are living under today. trump is the natural response to this fascist regime of bill clinton, that completely sent america back to the robber baron era.
we can never recover, till we reverse the policies of bill clinton.
spud, you said last time we went down this path – very recently in fact – you admitted that Clinton is just a face who can come along any time while it was the unions and ‘the left’ who are really to blame – we get the govt we deserve…
…and you went on to state point blank, pun intended I suppose, that it was George Meaney’s fault.
So if we are going to name names we have to name the names ‘on our side’ as well…perhaps even much more so.
And, as different clue and others are revealing, Clinton could not have done what he did without a lot getting done beforehand – both structurally and ideologically.
We could start with Carter being the first ‘non-Keynesian’ administration.
And Carter is fascinating in that neither he nor Brezinski – who met at a Trilateral meeting, the trilaterals being ‘globalists’ of a certain degree for sure – neither of these men had any love for the genocidal state nor Zionism.
Hell, even Ralph Nader was in favor of some deregulation at that time.
Ralph, it is nice that you are on the side of the consumer but if we ultimately don’t desire a wholesale superrficial consumerist society then we need to always state that upfront even as we go about advocating on behalf of ‘the consumer’ – which is worse than ‘the citizen’ which itself is a very narrow concept of being in the world.
I digress again.
I really wanted to focus on Reagan.
The propaganda both changed and was ramped up into high gear under Reagan.
This is when we went from 13 channels of shit on the TV to choose from to cable boxes with lots more programming.
At least the cable boxes were still one-way devices then.
Quick personal story: Dude I went to junior and high school with was from a non-TV family. They didn’t own one and it was noticeable how he and his siblings weren’t as ‘sped up’ as those of us who watched a fair amount of television back then….this being the mid-late eighties.
Anyway, he and his brother actually tapped the cable line in the street and ran their own line back into their clubhouse in the backyard!
The parents were well aware and were glad on some level that the kids were ‘climbing out of the playpen’ even though they’d raised them without the glowing screen during their early formative years.
So, the TV expansion gave the Reagan administration much to work with that handn’t been seen or used before and they used it to their advantage.
And it didn’t hurt having a TV personality (and former head of the hollywoood union!) at hand to boldly lead the country into this new unregulated paradise.
TV watchers may remember business major Alex Keaton arguing with his public television parents about the wonders of Reagan on Family Ties.
In real life Michael J Fox is married into the Pollan family who make a decent buck selling cookbooks to the bougies.
Those who still cook I guess.
Anyway, structurally much of the deregulation had been accomplished in addition to the new ‘tone’ being set…the mood changed…the zeitgeist was being hacked at the psychic level.
This was actually admitted to – and welcomed- by AIPAC’s Martin Indyk back in 2009.
You see, before NAFTA et al there were the bilateral trade agreements and the one bilateral that really set all this in motion was the 1984 US-Israel trade ‘deal’ which was so lopsided it’s hard to know where to begin.
Was this all supported by the old ‘WASP American-Anglo Catholic’ establishment because it was ultimately in their interests too and they were happy to let ‘Israel’ and ‘the Jews’ take the lead on the issue?
Not at all in fact:
‘During 1984 negotiations seventy-six leading American companies such as Monsanto, Dow Chemical, Sunkist, Hunt-Wesson Foods and organizations such as the AFL-CIO, American Farm Bureau and the US Bromine Alliance testified against the UIFTA.
Only seventeen organizations — most with no direct economic stakes — testified in favor.
More recently pharmaceutical, agricultural and other industry associations have continued to lobby against unfair Israeli trade practices…’
Oakchair will appreciate that this is what led to the wholesale deregulation of what has become ‘Big Pharma’ and of course the 1986 removal of all liability on vaccine manufacturers which has led to a recommended number of ‘vaccines’ that is obscene – but is completely normalized.
The idea of ‘first, do no harm’ and the precautionary principle and all that good stuff are almost completely eliminated from the psyche of most people in the US…beginning with the medical professionals themselves!
i agree there were others and they were stupid or incompetent, or criminally incompetent. but those people never took it as far as clinton. as we see today, and thomas frank opened the door to this. we now see(i saw it in 1993 on wards)who did the most over whelming damage.
to fix that damage is a must, because we are living today with those policies. you can trace just about all the damage to a eight year period, 1993-2001.
if you are a doctor, and you treat a gun shot wound with a bandage because you never investigated the wound, you get the ridiculous dodd-frank banking bill, that was to have replaced the Glass-Steagall Act.
they never came out and said it was bill clinton that created this mess by undoing of the new deal.
the one that holds the power, is the one who picks and chooses what route we go down. at anytime, clinton could have said no we will no longer go down this route, instead he super charged it.
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Michael R. Taylor, a former vice-president at Monsanto, played a significant role in the Clinton administration, particularly in the FDA, where he was involved in the regulatory process for genetically modified organisms. He is often referred to as a key figure linking Monsanto to the Clinton administration’s agricultural policies.
grist.org Wikipedia
Michael R. Taylor’s Role in the Clinton Administration
Michael R. Taylor is a notable figure who served as a vice-president at Monsanto before joining the Clinton administration. His career has been marked by significant involvement in food safety and regulatory policies.
FDA Leadership: Taylor held the position of Deputy Commissioner for Foods at the FDA, where he was instrumental in the regulatory process for genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Monsanto Connection: His transition from Monsanto to the FDA has led to scrutiny regarding the influence of agricultural corporations on government policy. Taylor is often seen as a key link between Monsanto and the agricultural policies of the Clinton administration.
Taylor’s work at the FDA included overseeing the approval of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), a controversial product associated with Monsanto. His actions have been viewed as pivotal in shaping the regulatory landscape for GMOs in the United States.
Political Contributions and Lobbying
Monsanto’s Influence on Clinton’s Campaigns
Monsanto has been linked to significant financial contributions to Hillary Clinton’s political campaigns. Key lobbyists associated with Monsanto, such as Jerry Crawford, have been major bundlers for her presidential runs, indicating a strong financial relationship between the company and the Clinton campaign.
Lobbyist Name Contribution Amount Role in Campaign
Jerry Crawford $151,727 Senior adviser, Midwest Co-Chair
Steve Elmendorf $20,295 Lobbyist for Grocery Manufacturers Association
Michael R. Taylor’s dual role as a former Monsanto executive and a key figure in the Clinton administration highlights the complex relationship between government and agricultural corporations. His influence on food safety regulations and the financial ties between Monsanto and Clinton’s campaigns illustrate the significant impact of corporate interests in political processes.
grist.org Wikipedia
Michael R. Taylor worked as an attorney at the law firm King & Spalding from 1981 to 1991, where he established and led the firm’s food and drug practice, including representing Monsanto during that period.
Wikipedia
Bill Clinton’s agricultural policies supported the growth of Monsanto by promoting biotechnology and genetically modified crops, which aligned with the company’s interests and allowed it to expand its influence in the agricultural sector. His administration’s favorable stance on these technologies helped create a more conducive environment for Monsanto’s business operations.
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A key controversy is that Monsanto exerted deep influence over EPA decisions about glyphosate (linked to Roundup), with significant parts of early EPA documents partially redacted or omitted and EPA staff scientists putting great weight on a 1983 mouse study that found glyphosate was carcinogenic. Another concern described is that when safety questions were raised after glyphosate first came on the market, Monsanto helped ensure answers supported its financial interests rather than scientific accuracy and transparency.
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spud, you keep talking past the points others and myself are making in your zeal to focus everything on the individual personage of William Clinton.
I agree with everything you say about the monster known as slick Willie but the point is that…
God, what is the point anymore?
Did Clinton write that legislation himself?
Those plans were written years in advance – just as the patriot act was, and just as pnac was based on oded yinon which was based on…
When people say ‘the democrats became republicans’ they fail to say that the republicans themselves morphed into something else entirely.
The binary operates as a system.
We also have a very good idea how deep this shit goes with the epstein files et al and so it seems that it was baked-in from the get-go and I hate to say that because it can lead to apathy in this realm but isn’t that what ‘the left’ is all about anyway:
The idea that the system itself is really the ultimate problem and unless this is constantly recognized and acted upon nothing will ever really change for the hoi polloi.
If all the progress made in expansion of rights for ‘minorities’ and women and gays etc came because of public pressure then all the time spent wasted on one man takes away from energies that would otherwise go towards these ends.
If the idea is that we need to know the history because it will come back to haunt us then by all means talk about the Clinton monstrosities but speaking of them in a vacuum is pointless, unproductive, unintelligent and on and on and on…
I know you said you were a contemporary of FDR (you knew him?) but frankly he was a very mixed bag at minimum and the things we got from him were due to pressures from ‘the real left’ and populists to boot…it wasn’t from the good graces of his heart.
And he was clearly a warmonger who lied repeatedly to the people about not going to war.
He was very Zionized.
But, all that said, we certainly would be in a much better place with many of the policies that are now gone.
Did it take war preparation to get them?
Is it a welfare-warfare state as the economic libertarians insist – the one leads to the other which is why they put the welfare first…
…or is it a warfare-welfare state?
Or do the two arise mutually?
I was thinking about the Clinton dereg of the media which led the incredible consolidation we continue to witness today.
I remember Chris Bollyn saying that the genocidal state was planning on doing 9/11 back in the late 80’s but they couldn’t get their hands on the WTC plans at that point because it was still public and they hadn’t gotten their grubby hands and backdoors into everything in this country yet.
But I don’t know if they could have done it without the media consolidation because much more would have gotten out at the local level via independent stations and what have you – which still had larger owners up the chain in many repspects but were able to operate much more independtly.
You couldn’t put together one of those video collages that show all the media people from ‘local’ affiliates – whether fox or nbc or cbs – you couldn’t create one of those collages where they are all saying the same thing in unison because even though the media wasn’t great back then either – and was presented at a rather low intelligence level even then – it nevertheless was allowed to be more independent at the granular level.
You would have had more William Rodriguez’ all over the place telling the people about the explosions in the basement and all the other ‘anomalies’ to the official story presented to us that day by the media they own.
i find that sunlight is the best disinfectant. i find that the most effective reliable analyst and economists are those that know history, expose who did what to whom and why.
its why the nuremberg war crime trails were held. many germans after the surrender thought they were the victims, and hitler and the nazi’s tried to save them.
One of the goals of the Nuremberg Trials was to educate German civilians about the true extent of Nazi atrocities and to convince them of the need for accountability after the war. This was part of a broader effort to establish a precedent for international law and deter future aggression.
The National WWII Museum Wikipedia
Purpose of the Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials aimed to address the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany during World War II. One of the key objectives was to educate German civilians about the extent of these crimes and the necessity for accountability.
Goals of the Trials
Educate the Public: The trials sought to inform the German population about the brutalities of the Nazi regime, including the Holocaust and other war crimes.
Establish Legal Precedents: The trials aimed to set a standard for international law regarding war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Deter Future Aggression: By holding leaders accountable, the Allies hoped to prevent similar atrocities in the future.
Impact on German Society
The Nuremberg Trials were significant not only for the prosecution of Nazi leaders but also for their role in shaping public perception in Germany. They served as a means to confront the past and encourage a collective acknowledgment of the crimes committed under the Nazi regime. This educational aspect was crucial in fostering a sense of responsibility and promoting a more democratic society in post-war Germany.
Wikipedia The National WWII Museum
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because of those trials, merz is going to have his hands full trying resurrect fascism.
when we bottom out or collapse, we must have a truth commission into how we got into this mess.
“Trump’s intention to build a wall at the US-Mexico border is the brainchild of President Bill Clinton. In fact, when Clinton proposed the wall and a crackdown on illegal immigrants in his 1995 State of the Union address, the Democrats gave him a standing ovation.
As for Muslims, they have been an easy target for at least 20 years.
Muslims were mainly the target of the ‘Secret Evidence law’ in 1996, and ‘suspected’ Muslims were either jailed indefinitely or deported without their lawyers being informed of their charges.
It was then called the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, later expanded to give immigration authorities the right to deport even green card holding permanent residents.
Few protested the undemocratic, no due-process law – and the media barely covered it – as most of those held were Palestinian activists, intellectuals and university professors.
The 1996 Act morphed into the Patriot Act, following the attacks of September 11, 2001. The new Act undermined the very US Constitution, giving the government unprecedented domestic authority to arrest, detain people, and spy on whoever they wished, with no legal consequences.”
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so when you look at outrages like the patriot act. understand garbage like this most likely was started under clinton, who pushed out in the open for all of his policies that he signed.
i do not worship FDR, nor the others that followed that protected and enhanced the new deal. i fully understand that they were imperfect humans.
there never has been a perfect human, chances are there never will be one,
but i measure what universal concrete material benefits all americans get out of their administrations.
here is a example of a very imperfect president, one that i never liked much, did damage for sure, yet, we got universal concrete material benefits for the american people out of him.
Richard Nixon expanded some New Deal–era social programs and regulatory agencies, earning comparisons to “the last of the New Deal liberals.”
davidfrum.com Wikipedia
Nixon’s Relationship with the New Deal
Richard Nixon’s presidency is often characterized by his expansion of social programs and regulatory agencies that were originally established during the New Deal era. This has led to comparisons of Nixon as “the last of the New Deal liberals.”
Expansion of Social Programs: Nixon increased funding for various social programs that were part of the New Deal framework. This included significant investments in health care and welfare initiatives.
Regulatory Agencies: He established new regulatory bodies, such as:
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Focused on environmental protection and regulation.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA): Aimed at ensuring safe working conditions.
Consumer Product Safety Commission: Established to protect consumers from hazardous products.
Nixon’s policies were implemented during a time of economic challenges, including high inflation and unemployment, often referred to as “stagflation.” Despite these challenges, Nixon did not dismantle the Great Society programs initiated by his predecessor, Lyndon B. Johnson, which were similar in scope to the New Deal.
Nixon’s approach to domestic policy reflected a continuation of the New Deal’s commitment to federal responsibility for economic welfare. His administration’s social spending doubled, and he maintained a focus on regulatory measures that aimed to protect various aspects of American life, aligning him closely with the New Deal philosophy.
davidfrum.com Wikipedia
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name one universal concrete material benefit we got from bill clinton, obama, or biden, name one?
i will answer it for you, not one.
well it was that rotten bum bush jr. that gave us medicare advantage thats’ bleeding us dry, well no, it was,
President Bill Clinton signed Medicare+Choice into law in 1997.
The name changed to Medicare Advantage in 2003…
so how did we get into such a mess? i have given due to clintons predecessors many times, they were small fry, it was bill clinton, a two time electoral college winner, who never got a majority.
today even clintons supporters on the left are abandoning him now, they opened their eyes and see his people still have a iron grip on the democrat party.
saw mitch ryder a few years back, he still has that voice and range. he even called himself a fool on stage about him walking out on the detroit wheels.
Here is a purely fascinating computer-simulation animation of airflow through different kinds of vents and joins and stuff, showing energy savings from better design. Better design will mean nothing without deep and stringent conservation, but WITH deep and stringent conservation, better design could reduce the use of this and that.
Hey spud, we’re all fools one way or the other no matter how slick we think we are.
I always remember avant garde black pianist and MacArthur award winner Cecil Taylor telling me no matter how slick you think you are there’s always someone slicker.
To put it another way, we’re water in a hoof print compared to the ocean.
Humility is a virtue.
the best way to look at things in the situation we are in, is that it was not the american voters fault, once a country goes down the route we went into in the 1970’s, its a out of touch elite, that takes away our sovereignty.
the founders who were almost all to a T, imperfect humans. but they tried to keep power dispersed as much as possible.
the last chance to vote our way out of this was 1992. perot was a fool.
it was almost better for americans to have elected bush one, who was a aristocrat and a elite. the democrats would have never let him get anything through.
and bush would have spent his summers in Maine boating.
KT Chong
China and the US will be in a war, either directly or through a proxy, by 2030.
After Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump, Democrats refused to accept any responsibility or reflect on why Hillary lost. Instead, Democrats accused and blamed “Russian election interference” for her embarrassing loss to a buffoon. Over the next few years, hostility toward Russia among Democrats and Americans on the left built and gradually intensified. About five years after Hillary’s loss, or two years after Trump had lost his 2020 reelection bid, the US under then-President Joe Biden — a Democrat, and by then hostility toward Russia and Putin, who was widely seen by Democrats as having robbed America of its first “woman president” in 2016, had become an orthodoxy within the Democratic Party — entered a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.
On July 16, 2026, President Trump went on primetime television to deliver a presidential speech. He made serious accusations, without any evidence, against China in an attempt to pressure Congress to pass the SAVE Act (i.e., a bill that would allow him to rig or undermine the upcoming midterm election). He directly and openly accused China of interfering in the 2020 election and causing him to lose to Joe Biden.
If the same pattern with Russia holds, then over the next few years Republicans — especially MAGA Republicans — will become increasingly hostile toward China. That built-up hostility will eventually lead to a war with China. It is the same pattern as “Russiagate” or “Russia Derangement Syndrome” on the left, except this time it will be mirrored on the right as “Chinagate” or “China Derangement Syndrome.”
A war is coming to China. It will most likely be a proxy war backed by the US against China, and I doubt China can do anything to prevent or stop what is coming. China must now prepare.
Oakchair
This is the 2024 CDC Autism and vaccine page. Stating conclusively “No link” between vaccines and Autism(1).
Instead of determining the veracity of that statement let’s simply analyze the page epistemologically.
What evidence is presented? Does it contain conflicts of interests? Is it reported accurately? Is it high quality? Is it assumption based?
The page says “studies have shown that there is no link” and sends us to the latest IOM review.
The IOM is funded by the CDC, and pharma companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Purdue, Amgen, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Takeda, GlaxoSmithKline etc..
The members of the committee received payments or worked for the same pharma corporations. The authors of the report also own patents for vaccines.
The CDC link to the IOM report is broken so here is a working one(2).
Children receive over 70 vaccine injections; 20 before their first birthday.
For all vaccines –excluding the MMR– the review listed one study. I repeat one study. This study Geier and Geier 2004, found DTap was associated with autism.
The review concluded “The evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship” for all vaccines besides the MMR vaccine.
Next they reference a 2013 study “showing that vaccines do not cause ASD”
This study was funded by the CDC.
The first author –Frank DeStefano– is known as the expert the military paid to show that there was no evidence Agent Orange was harmful.
He is also known for his 2004 study where his co-author William W. Thompson became a whistleblower because they destroyed evidence and committed fraud in order to hide evidence vaccines cause autism.
The 2013 study looked at the association between “antibody-stimulating protein and polysaccharide antigens” and autism among 256 children with autism and 752 controls all of which where heavily vaccinated.
The assumption being that since heavily vaccinated children with and without autism have similar levels of exposure to antigens vaccines can’t cause autism.
The next section is on Thimerosal (mercury) which used to be in almost all vaccines, but was mostly removed.
They say “Research shows that thimerosal does not cause ASD” “a 2004 scientific review by the IOM concluded” Their citation is the 2011 IOM report which is the wrong one and which is a broken link anyways.
The proper citation is here(3).
All the same conflicts of interest apply.
How did they reach their conclusion?
By comparing “children who received TCV with those who received thimerosal-free vaccine”. Vaccine manufactures replaced mercury with Aluminum another heavy metal. Got that? Injecting infants with mercury is safe because children injected with another heavy metal had similar rates of autism.
Table 3-5 show the sample size was too small to produce statistically significant results.
The original results of this study showed thimerosal caused a statistically significant increased rate of autism in a dose dependent manner. The highest vaccinated group had 7x more autism than the lowest.
Here is how they explain the discrepancy “the differences between the preliminary and final results” are due to changing “exclusion criteria” making data “adjustments” and modifying “time of exposure and inclusion of additional variables in the model”
According to committee it is common to make “adjustments” “along the way” when doing a study. It found nothing “inherently troubling in the fact” that the pharma paid authors, working on a pharma commissioned report decided in a secret meeting at Simpsonwood to change the methods of the study 7 times after the data kept showing something that their pharma sponsors wouldn’t like. I’ll take their word that this fraudulent practice is “common”
Summary:
Little to no evidence, check. Conflicts of interest, check. Assumption based, check. Misreporting, check. Conspiring to hide evidence, check. Fraud, check.
But hey, these rich people care deeply about you. Really just look at Gaza or go to a ghetto to see how much they deeply care.
(1) https://archive.ph/zT73W#selection-1379.5-1379.52
(2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK190024/
(3) https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/10997/chapter/1
Mark Level
A couple of years ago when I did a winter vacation trip to Chicago, I of course spent most of a day in the Art Institute. Picked up 2 Taschen books in the Gift Shop before leaving, since they always have stellar quality.
Today I just started in on one title, Rainer Metzger’s 1920s Berlin. Only 20+ pp. (plus the notes) into it, and I’ll note that my usual take that the Deutsche are a bunch of Martinet, Authoritarian Robots (as my German father was, though he eased up in his final years, to his credit) is intermittently validated and then reversed.
There’s one passage I wanted to share here to get to a larger point. The Germans did learn by the 1920s after their defeat and humiliation at Versailles, the ubiquity of “War Cripples,” Prosthetic sales shops, and mangled Veterans as seen in the Otto Dix painting of 1920, “The Match Seller”, both armless and legless, sitting on the pavement as a Weiner-dog pisses on him and crowds hustle by created a certain repulsion toward war, unsurprisingly. (When you lose, it’s hard to be happy and smug. A real lesson Trump Admin will soon teach Americans, since they don’t even learn any geography these days, as in the past.)
This was reflected indirectly in men’s and women’s fashion, a 1926 painting by Willy Jaeckel of The Wilke Siblings, Lotte and Ulfred, shows her with short hair, him with long hair, going for androgynous looks both. She was 20 & he 19 when the painting made.
The point is made that in times of No war postwar, men don’t have to adopt a fatalistic love of War, Fighting and Dying, and can indulge in a more healthy life seeking (I can only use a French word, not a German one) jouissance.
This made me think of Late Imperial U$A, and how recently Max Blumenthal had Dennis Kucinich on and Dennis made a point a favorite Unitarian Minister of mine made on Memorial Day some years back, that in the US’s 250 years of existence, it has continuously been at war except for a period of 11.5-12 years, practically a world’s record for belligerence and (mostly failed, as of the 21st Century) Colonialist Aggression.
Which brings me to something that Colonel Daniel Davis recently featured, I’m sure many of us remember reading about, “The Phoney War” from Sept. 1939 to May 1940, 3rd Reich sitting complacently on its new Polish Territory, ramping up Genocidal Work Camps and other infrastructure, Kristallnacht etc. but essentially biding their time. (I’ll proactively rebut a Lie that L&S has repeated ad nauseam here, no Hitler did not “punk” Stalin with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which Stalin used to move all the manufacturing capacity Eastward during the War Pause. As we all (except LaS) know, the Fuhrer died with his brains blown out alongside his new Bride Ms. Braun and “Blondie” his beloved German Shepherd; Stalin went on to divide the World up alongside the enfeebled FDR and Churchill, ironically in Teheran, Iran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoney_War
Now another book I read some years ago, Blitzed: Drugs in the 3rd Reich, translated from Norman Ohler’s original German version, covered the large Big Pharma capacity of the Germans, in conjunction with their Japanese allies, who had originally invented Methamphetamine. The 3 days’ drive, sudden, to the West by the Army was half spontaneous. Luftwaffe just sitting it out, indifferent, shut it down due to embarrassment by lobbying the Fuhrer, they looked bad for not participating, political divisions within the Reich, and all the soldiers (who didn’t, like elderly commanders, die from sudden heart attacks or strokes due to overstimulation) were in the 24 hour “naps” occasioned after bingeing.
This leads me to transitioning to something Colonel Davis covered in recent days on YouTube, Trump clowns are now doing a “phony war” in Iran, hitting infrastructure, but it’s all for show, Narrative, as of course are the big petrol, grease-fire drone bombings into Russia. Specifically, Davis showed shots of a major Iranian bridge “blasted” by the US. But here’s the rub, the gaslighting. It was a massive bridge over a dry gorge (no river below) and the damage was such that those using it just had to detour a bit, maybe 30 minutes added to their trips, but in fact they could still finish them.
So the Iranians responded with massive hits to the US GCC Proxy traitors, hitting UAE, Saudi, Qatar etc. infrastructure, esp. desalinization plants, which Iran barely needs, so massive that water is available. (As is food, worries of a famine early in the war never came to pass.) As Professor Mirandi warns, these places could be made uninhabitable for decades if the aggression continues. Oh, well!! They’re just stupid Ayrabs anyway, no big deal (until they want to migrate to live near white people; well, the Richest ones will be okay, anyway.)
Meantime another Davis clip, Merz and Macron talking about overriding General DeGaulle’s old decision not to threaten the Russians with a Nuclear presence on their borders. These clowns have 1/4 or less (others more expert than me can correct the #) the Nuclear capacity of the Russians. But they keep poking the Bear, imagining Russia has no Red Lines. So far I admit, Russia has been overly disciplined with not responding (much) to the provocations. That’s on them.
In the fevered, idiotic Children’s Crusade Plan for full-scale war with Russia by 2030, the Euro-Slugs simply do not have the capacity for a “NATO Victory”, whatever Hopium Lie and Suborn will spew here. Meantime idiotic provocations, some small force of Eastern European mainly Mercs sent into Central Ukraine as a “Reassurance” force. They will be annihilated as a couple hundred French Mercs staying in a Ukrainian hotel 2.5 years back were, when the time is right.
And what morons these people are!! We already had Trump’s moronic “Operation Epstein Epic Fury,” the silly, died stillborn 2 days in “Prosperity Guardian,” etc. A Pacifier for the thumbsuckers in the EU, “reassurance” that we will Fight Russia not only to the last Ukrainian, almost here, massive anti-Kidnapping riots in Ukraine currently against forced impressment on the front lines, “Recruiters” (just street-thug Press-Gangers) on the Streets being attacked and beaten . . . These War Pigs know literally no history, what an issue it was when the Brits were attacking US ships and kidnapping, “impressing” US sailors. These people are Nihilist, but thankfully they are stupid beyond belief, the one saving grace of the whole Clusterfuck. Mass Hopium Die-offs impending, a drug nearly as fatal as Meth, evidently. Let’s hope they don’t take the whole human race and most of the flora and fauna down with them.
Feral Finster
“Meantime another Davis clip, Merz and Macron talking about overriding General DeGaulle’s old decision not to threaten the Russians with a Nuclear presence on their borders.”
Everyone feared the Soviet Union.
Nobody fears dithering, indecisive Russia.
Mark Level
KT Chong usually very well-informed viz China; I will nonetheless respond, 2 comments.
1. I was really pleased when Trump beat Hillary in 2016, mainly for existential reasons. I knew they were both pieces of Garbage, I can’t really say which is bigger . . . you know what, since Hillary recently applauded Trump’s continuation of the Gaza Genocide I will say she is the worst, and sickest (at the moment; they compete with one another.)
My gratification was and now is that had Hillary been installed as President she would’ve launched a full-scale World War against Russia and possibly a Nuclear Holocaust spread worldwide, when NATO and the US couldn’t win.
So hey, at least nearly a decade later, many of us are still alive, something to be grateful for; but see my note up thread, the Euro-Slugs really want to blow up ALL of Eastern Europe, including their own homelands, to “punish the Russians”, since as Marshall Zhukov mused, “We defeated Fascism, and the World never forgave us for it.”
2. I believe you are way too pessimistic, and thus wrong. I do not believe the US will in the next 2 decades, if ever, directly threaten China. They are too bogged down with the Defense Line, to use a sports metaphor. Trump totally bogged down doing symbolic damage to Iran for the cameras, just getting his GCC Allies to either (a) have their homeland annihilated and be forced out of the region, Bahrain first, Saudis eventually; or (b) go back to the Peace Pact that China peddled 2-3 years back, rapprochement with their Co-Religionists (whether Shi’a, Sunni, or a minority version) and save their countries long enough to rebuild. Or die, emigrate. I cannot imagine why they have not taken (b) by today. We can only see.
US will be defeated and distracted with either full-on Fascist Junta rule by the Trumpies, no more veneer of “democracy, a republic,” just Neo-Feudal rule on the principles of Mencius Moldbug and The Reptile, Peter Thiel; or (less likely) widespread revolt and the horseshoe unification of the tiny Legitimate Left (Libs won’t do anything unless they spend a couple years in a Concentration-Work-Rape camp and get radicalized) and the MAGA CHUDs who’ve lost their Medicare, Social Security, healthcare, & whose great “prize” of Social White Skin Capital over the “darkies” they realize is worthless when they are hungry and homeless . . .
I don’t think it’s gonna go rosy for USA. Iran will survive, despite taking lots of pointless carnage and murder. Russia will do fine, eventually take most of Ukraine, and the rest can be a Shithole Neo-Nazi statelet, something like Alabama in its prime Segregationist days.
USA might steal a few Tankers, big whoop! Xi already warned Trump Clowns viz the 100% Sanctions on buying Russian oil, “We don’t play that shit, you have no power” and if you try this, we will deny you ALL Rare Earths, for decades at least. US will never lay a hand on China at this point, they have neither the competence, adequate # of missiles or oil, or any other Wunder Waffen. China is free and liberated, Russia and Iran on the way. Hegemon a pipsqueak, a Never-Will-Be Hegemon again. What a relief to RoW.
Thanks, Donald Jenius Trump!! And as you pointed out, KTC, some time back, that Chinese Cult that decided Trump was God’s way of destroying the USA was correct, US already over the Cliff just waiting to drop with its Acme Anvil.
Mark Level
Oh one more share, for all, not just KT Chong.
How many of you followed that about 2 months back, the “stunning and brave” and utterly historically ignorant Kaja Callous Kallas shared her shock, “Oh, China was a part of World War II, I never heard that!!”
Now she is a complete moron, brandishing her Joe McCarthy List of 29 Countries Russia has invaded, while it has NEVER been invaded or attacked a single time by anyone. The Battle of Stalingrad never happened, it’s just “Russian Propaganda,” like mentioning the 2 standing ovations for elderly Nazi soldier Yaroslav Hunka in the Canadian Parliament by Trudeau, World’s Highest Paid Actor the Green Goblin, and the Parliament itself c. 2024.
But to have never heard of Manchuria? A stinking moron. Von der Lying some time back deplored the use of Nuclear Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, deliberately refused to name the USA as the bombers, implied the bombing was . . . from Russia, LoL!!
Kallas could’ve called her ideological buddy, the former Trapeze Artist, Annaleena “360”Baerbock, now as the Scum always rises, “President of the United Nations General Assembly” in its 80th session, since September 2025. Baerbock is massively stupid, delusional but not at Kallas levels. Ask one simple question: “Why is China a Permanent Member of the Security Council?” Ignorance overcome. How could she not know The Middle Kingdom is the world’s largest population.
Kallas couldn’t run a Little Caesar franchise in the US or anywhere else. She once at least had Northern wispy good looks, but those are fading fast and she will soon resemble Von der Leyen, never a Bond Girl, but now an elderly scarecrow. Idiocracy meets Genocidal Russophobia (& I’m confident as a Western “leader” Kallas is down with the Gaza Genocide too, not that Estonia could contribute even a half dozen soldiers to advancing that.)
Mark Level
Alright, no more posts after this today– but Baron Serendipity again functioning at 100% levels. This came up in my feed, the answer to why Argentina not just so corrupt but so Nazi-Aligned. Maybe it’s not the Baron, it could be the AlGore(3.1 Model) Rhythm– dude has the perfect posh Monty Python accent, a bonus– Juan Peron + Fascist tendencies= Fascist “NonArcho-“Capitalism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjeOYQhU5uo
StewartM
Klaise has another enlightening video on the Chinese political compass. Some of it isn’t that difference with our political compass, as the “leftists” in it all point fingers at each other accusing each other of not being pure lefties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-dqTDIvbGo
mago
The outrages hit so rapid fire these days that one can hardly keep score. Laws protecting humans and animals are gutted daily. War crimes and death and destruction are cheered or muted by the media. People become numb and inured. Another new atrocity another rape another death, children bound and gagged and buried alive. It happens and is even recorded and glorified. Social media, beezlebub’s gift to the world.
So turning attention elsewhere on a lazy Saturday summer afternoon, I thought there was a tragedy in my little animal world wherein a nesting nut hatcher had flown the nest leaving her still borns behind.
As I’ve mentioned for a few summers here, the same family returns each year like clockwork to a nest on a porch light sconce and hatch their brood. This season it was mom alone, leading to speculation about what happened to dad along the way. It’s a cruel and indifferent world filled with mishaps and tragedies that we know nothing about. Lots of pathos out there.
So anyway, for some days having seen no signs of that intrepid solo avian mom, I thought it was all over. But this afternoon approaching my cabin I heard some cheep cheep cheeping from the nest above and adjacent to my door with some beaks peeking out. Mom having hatched her chicks was busy dusk and dawn capturing flying insects to feed them, and that’s why I didn’t see her.
So, here’s to survival and continuation and single moms wherever they may be.
May miracles and peace prevail.
Boris
KT Chong – “China must now prepare.”
They’ve been preparing for well over a decade.
Feral Finster
I am not sure that they are stupid.
Rather, the eurocrats are indifferent to truth and facts, except as they can be weaponized at the moment. If they can’t, then they make shit up, and if that proves inconvenient, then they make up something else entirely.
These are the same people who proclaim the SS to be national heroes and in the same breath claim “Ukraine” liberated the camps from these same national heroes. They are perfectly happy to rewrite history, and hypocrisy and inconsistency pbother them not in the least.
The normie is always at a disadvantage when dealing with such humans, as normies care for intellectual honesty, consistency, facts, etc..
spud
Stalin wisely used russias incredible military and industrial strength to ensure the west would not screw russia again.
in the east, russia was invaded by japan three times, so stalin boxed in japan in the east.
the west was in no position to say no. todays russia and china have not learned what real power is. it looks like iran may have figured it out, maybe?
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The Soviet Union was invaded multiple times, with notable invasions including the German invasion during World War II (Operation Barbarossa) in 1941 and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Other invasions occurred during its early years, such as the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1920.
Wikipedia United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Neville Chamberlain rejected the idea of an alliance with Stalin, preferring to avoid a partnership with the Soviet Union, which he distrusted. This lack of cooperation contributed to the Soviet Union’s decision to negotiate the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Germany instead.
Spartacus Educational Wikipedia
Chamberlain’s Stance on Negotiations
Distrust of the Soviet Union
Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister, was skeptical of forming an alliance with Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union. His distrust stemmed from several factors:
Ideological Differences: Chamberlain viewed the Soviet regime with suspicion, believing it had motives that conflicted with Western ideals of liberty.
Military Concerns: He doubted the effectiveness of the Soviet military, questioning its ability to contribute meaningfully to a collective defense against Nazi Germany.
Impact on Soviet-German Relations
Chamberlain’s refusal to negotiate with Stalin had significant consequences:
Soviet Isolation: The lack of a partnership with Britain and France left the Soviet Union feeling isolated in the face of growing German aggression.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: In response to this isolation, the Soviet Union sought to secure its interests by negotiating the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany. This agreement, signed on August 23, 1939, included a non-aggression clause and a secret protocol that divided Eastern Europe between the two powers.
Chamberlain’s rejection of an alliance with Stalin ultimately facilitated the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which allowed Hitler to invade Poland without fear of Soviet intervention, marking the beginning of World War II.
ebsco.com Wikipedia
The Soviet Union did not invade any countries after World War I; rather, it was involved in the Russian Civil War (1917-1922) and faced foreign interventions from Allied powers. These interventions aimed to counter the Bolshevik government but ultimately failed.
Wikipedia United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Soviet Union’s Actions Post-World War I
Russian Civil War (1917-1922)
The Soviet Union was primarily engaged in the Russian Civil War, which occurred from 1917 to 1922.
This conflict was between the Bolshevik government (the Reds) and various anti-Bolshevik groups (the Whites), including monarchists and supporters of the Provisional Government.
Foreign Interventions
Instead of invading other countries, the Soviet Union faced significant foreign interventions from Allied powers.
These interventions were aimed at countering the Bolshevik regime and included military support for the White forces.
Key Points
The Allied powers, including the United States, Britain, and France, intervened in Russia during the civil war, fearing the spread of Bolshevism.
The interventions were largely unsuccessful and did not lead to a change in the Bolshevik government.
By the end of 1920, most Allied troops had withdrawn, marking the failure of these interventions.
Conclusion
The Soviet Union did not conduct invasions of other countries after World War I; rather, it was embroiled in a civil war and faced foreign military interventions that ultimately failed to alter the course of its internal conflict.
Wikipedia United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Foreign interventions in the Russian Civil War included military support from the Allied Powers, such as the United Kingdom, United States, France, and Japan, primarily aimed at supporting anti-Bolshevik forces and protecting supply routes. These interventions occurred between 1918 and 1925 and involved various military campaigns across Russia, including in the Baltics, Ukraine, and Siberia.
The Army Historical Foundation Wikipedia
The Russian Civil War (1917–1922) helped establish the Soviet state by letting the Bolsheviks defeat the White Army, after which a 1922 treaty created the USSR. Once the Soviet Union existed, it could then engage in foreign relations as a new government—for example, the United States moved toward recognizing the Soviet Union in 1933 after years of non-recognition.
Wikipedia U.S. Department of State
The Allied powers initially intervened in Russia during the Russian Civil War to prevent German forces from seizing Allied military supplies left behind after Russia’s withdrawal from World War I, and later to support anti-Bolshevik forces amid concerns about the spread of communism in Europe.
University of Michigan Wikipedia
Stalin’s foreign policy after WWII focused on securing Russia’s borders by expanding Soviet influence in Eastern Europe and establishing buffer states to prevent future invasions. This strategy was driven by his desire for security and was evident in the agreements made during conferences like Yalta.
E-International Relations Wikipedia
Stalin’s Foreign Policy After WWII
Stalin’s approach to foreign policy following World War II was primarily focused on enhancing the security of the Soviet Union. This involved several key strategies aimed at preventing future invasions and establishing a strong Soviet presence in Eastern Europe.
Key Strategies
Expansion of Influence: Stalin sought to expand Soviet influence across Eastern Europe. This was part of a broader strategy to create buffer states that would protect the Soviet Union from potential threats.
Establishment of Buffer States: By installing pro-Soviet governments in Eastern European countries, Stalin aimed to create a protective barrier against Western powers. This was crucial for maintaining security and stability in the region.
Agreements and Conferences
Stalin’s foreign policy was significantly shaped by major conferences, particularly the Yalta Conference, where he negotiated terms that would allow the Soviet Union to regain territories and influence in Europe.
Conference Key Outcomes
Yalta Conference – Redefined borders in Eastern Europe
– Established spheres of influence
– Pledged to allow free elections in Poland, though this was not fully honored
Conclusion
Stalin’s post-WWII foreign policy was characterized by a strong emphasis on security through territorial expansion and the establishment of friendly regimes in neighboring countries. This strategy was rooted in his desire to prevent any future invasions, reflecting his long-standing concerns about Russia’s vulnerability.
Wikipedia E-International Relations
Stalin aimed to secure Russia’s borders after WWII by establishing a buffer zone of friendly, pro-Soviet governments in Eastern Europe and annexing territories such as Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of Poland. This strategy was reinforced through agreements made at the Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam Conferences, ensuring Soviet influence in the region.
ebsco.com
Stalin’s foreign policy helped shape Eastern Europe after World War II by pushing the Soviet Union to establish a “buffer zone” and create friendly, pro-Soviet governments in countries under Soviet control. It involved taking control of territories such as the Baltic states and parts of Poland and then using state power to suppress political dissent and install Soviet-style systems from 1943 to 1948.
ebsco.com The National WWII Museum
ventzu
Excellent, nuanced discussion between Ajamu Baraka, Dimitri Lascaris (Canadian / Wall St lawyer) and Prof Karim Bettache (Psychology, HK) on: the Iran war, why China reduced oil imports helping reduce oil price impact of SoH, and implicit white supremacy conditioning – of whites and non-whites (think Obama) – that enables empire.
https://bettbeat.substack.com/p/iran-china-fascism-and-boycotting
Jan Wiklund
Those who like to read about the incompetent bunch that rules the west may like an essay by Nel Bonilla, who claims that they aren’t – just that their competence is very narrow, mainly in “networking”.
With her own words, “Thus, this pattern produces bureaucrats and other functional elites who lack the technical expertise or domain knowledge of the fields they are tasked to lead. // However, the starkness of this competence regime is a relatively recent phenomenon; the seeds for it were sown a century ago.”
Hers is the most parsimonious theory I have seen so far.
More athttps://worldlinesletter.substack.com/p/incompetent-or-imperial-rethinking
Geoffrey Dewan
Oak chair presents a fairly compelling exposition of fraud throughout the medico/phamaco industrial complex.
Clearly this leans heavily into conspiracy rather than conspiracy theory. That being said, having looked into “studies” presented by the current director of HHS, completely unconvincing because of sources and studies suffering similarly in their use of “motivated reasoning”, logical fallacies, and just plain pure old Dee bullshit.
Unfortunately we’ve come once again to a point in the history of the world where honest inquiry has been smothered by money grubbing opportunists on one side and demented, brain worms on the infected charlatans whose idea of fun is putting a dead bear in Central Park
A pox on all their houses
Paul
I think I invented a new word. It came to me while I was mulling the threats of tarriffs to tax US citizens for Canada suffering the effects of global climate change.
Craptivation
crap-ti-va-tion: adj.; capable of distracting and holding unwilling interest.
similar: nauseation
spud
the lettuce disaster: a tale of capitalism, and how bill clinton intensified capitalists disasters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7VS9vYJsS0
Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak: The Farm Trafficking Secret and Cyclospora with Dr. Sarah Taber
A farm insider explains the REAL causes of the parasite outbreak resulting in explosive diarrhea across 34 states, and goes into the dark world farm labor practices. Dr. Sarah Taber is a small farmer, a crop scientist, and a food-safety auditor who’s actually worked inside these farms, explains what nearly every outbreak comes down to… and why the answer is more UNCOMFORTABLE than the headlines.
There’s a major Cyclospora outbreak spreading across America right now — thousands sick, 34+ states, and a source that only comes from one place: human feces. Taylor Farms (supplier to Taco Bell, Chipotle, and grocery chains, moving ~160 million servings a week) has been named as a potential origin, while Forbes raised whether contaminated water, not produce, is the real driver.
So I brought on the one expert that many of YOU kept naming in the comments: Dr. Sarah Taber of YouTube channel Farm to Taber — a crop scientist, working farmer, and former third-party food-safety auditor who has stood in the fields where outbreaks like this begin. What she told me changed how I think about my own grocery cart.
What you’ll learn in this conversation:
Why you can’t wash Cyclospora off — and why cooking (not rinsing, peeling, vinegar, or fermenting) is the only reliable protection
Why nearly every outbreak traces back to one boring cause: farm workers don’t have bathrooms — not “humanure,” not fertilizer shortcuts
Why Cyclospora behaves differently from E. coli or salmonella (it can’t multiply in water — it only dilutes)
The counterintuitive reason big companies like Taco Bell often run tighter food-safety operations than small local farms
How the “legal” H-2A guest-worker program can enable worse human trafficking than undocumented labor — including a $200M ring in Georgia
What the 2024 anti-trafficking rules did, and what their 2025 rollback means for the food supply
Whether “buy local” and homegrown produce are actually safer (Sarah’s answer surprised me!)
The single fix that would prevent most of these outbreaks
If you’re a caregiver for an aging parent, someone immunocompromised, or a young child, the personal-protection section (37:32) is the part to send to your family group chat.
⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00 — Introduction & Context: A Parasite Spreading Across 34 States
01:13 — How Does Cyclospora Even Get Into Our Food?
01:59 — Worker Conditions & the “Toilet Paper Meadow”
04:52 — Taylor Farms, Big Ag & Market Concentration
08:05 — The “Humanure” Theory: Is It in the Water?
11:45 — Food Safety Audits & Why the Laws Go Unenforced
14:22 — International Farms & Why Crop Profit Margins Matter
17:30 — What Changed? ICE Raids & the Shift to H-2A
19:11 — Inside H-2A: Vetting, Cost & Employer Control
22:42 — How a “Legal” Program Enables Human Trafficking
24:14 — 2024 Anti-Trafficking Rules & Their 2025 Rollback
28:26 — Legal vs. Illegal: A Far More Nuanced Picture
31:45 — The Small-Farm Myth: Is Buying Local Really Safer?
37:32 — Personal Protection: What You Should Actually Do
40:33 — Rapid Fire: Sprouts, Washing & Grocery-Store Rules
43:41 — Accountability: Who’s Really Responsible?
49:37 — “Everybody Poops”: Fixing the System + Where to Find Sarah
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YouTube: @FarmToTaber — real talk about agriculture, food safety, and how your food actually gets grown.
🧠 About this channel
I’m Neal K. Shah, a Johns Hopkins- and NIH-funded caregiving researcher, CEO of CareYaya, and a caregiver myself. I break down the health, science, and safety stories that matter to caregivers and older adults. If you’re caring for an aging or immunocompromised loved one, this channel is for you.
This video is for general education and is not medical advice. If you’re caring for someone at high risk, please talk to their physician about food-safety precautions.
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Bill Clinton’s “Get Big or Get Out” policy contributed to agricultural disasters by promoting large-scale farming at the expense of smaller family farms, leading to economic struggles for many rural communities. This approach has been criticized for exacerbating issues like overproduction and low commodity prices, which hurt farmers’ incomes.
Wikipedia National Archives
Impact of “Get Big or Get Out” Policy
Bill Clinton’s “Get Big or Get Out” policy significantly influenced the agricultural landscape in the United States. This approach aimed to promote large-scale farming, which had several consequences for smaller family farms and rural communities.
Economic Struggles for Farmers
Promotion of Large Farms: The policy favored large agricultural operations, often sidelining smaller family farms.
Overproduction Issues: By encouraging large-scale production, the policy contributed to overproduction, which led to a surplus of crops.
Low Commodity Prices: The surplus resulted in depressed prices for agricultural products, negatively impacting farmers’ incomes.
Consequences for Rural Communities
Economic Disparities: Many rural communities faced economic struggles as smaller farms were unable to compete with larger operations.
Loss of Family Farms: The emphasis on large-scale farming led to the decline of family-owned farms, which are vital for community identity and local economies.
Summary of Effects
Aspect Description
Policy Focus Large-scale farming over small family farms
Economic Impact Overproduction and low commodity prices
Community Consequences Economic struggles and loss of family farms
The “Get Big or Get Out” policy has been criticized for exacerbating the challenges faced by many farmers and rural communities, leading to significant agricultural disasters.
National Archives Wikipedia
Large-scale farming (including farmland consolidation) can weaken rural economies by reducing the number of farms and jobs, making it harder for new farmers to enter, and squeezing out midsize farms that often supported these communities. It can also concentrate harvested land into very large farms, while midsize farms shrink, which threatens the long-term health of rural farm communities.
Grinnell College ucs.org
Bill Clinton’s policies, particularly the reduction of government support for farmers and the promotion of free trade, contributed to increased corporate concentration in agriculture. This shift allowed larger agribusinesses to dominate the market, impacting small family farms significantly.
Wikipedia The Spokesman-Review
Impact of Bill Clinton’s Agricultural Policies
Reduction of Government Support
Bill Clinton’s administration significantly reduced government support for farmers.
This included cuts to subsidies that had traditionally helped small family farms.
The shift aimed to promote a more market-driven agricultural sector.
Promotion of Free Trade
Clinton’s policies favored free trade agreements, such as NAFTA.
These agreements opened U.S. markets to foreign competition, which benefited larger agribusinesses.
Smaller farms struggled to compete with the scale and efficiency of larger corporations.
Consequences of Corporate Concentration
Aspect Impact on Small Farms Impact on Agribusinesses
Market Share Decreased due to competition from large firms Increased due to economies of scale
Profit Margins Squeezed as prices fell Enhanced through cost efficiencies
Access to Resources Limited access to capital and technology Greater access to funding and innovation
Sustainability Often less sustainable practices adopted Can invest in sustainable technologies
Clinton’s agricultural policies led to increased corporate concentration in the farming sector, allowing larger agribusinesses to dominate the market. This shift had significant negative effects on small family farms, which faced challenges in competing with larger entities.
Wikipedia Modern Farmer
Corporate concentration in agriculture has led to the decline of small family farms by reducing competition, making it harder for them to access markets and resources, and pushing many out of business. Over the past 50 years, the U.S. has lost more than a million farms, while larger operations dominate production, often at the expense of smaller producers.
pew.org fb.org
Bill Clinton’s deregulation of commodities, particularly through the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, has been criticized for contributing to higher prices and increased corporate concentration in the market. This deregulation allowed for less oversight of over-the-counter derivatives, which played a role in the financial crisis.
Wikipedia
Overview of Bill Clinton’s Deregulation
Bill Clinton’s administration implemented significant deregulation in the commodities market, particularly through the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA). This legislation aimed to promote legal certainty and enhance competition but has faced criticism for its consequences.
Impact of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act
Key Features of the CFMA
Less Oversight: The CFMA allowed for reduced regulation of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives.
Corporate Concentration: The deregulation contributed to increased corporate concentration in the commodities market.
Higher Prices: Critics argue that the lack of oversight led to higher prices for consumers.
Consequences of Deregulation
Financial Crisis Contribution: The deregulation of OTC derivatives is seen as a factor in the financial crisis, as these financial instruments were poorly regulated.
Market Volatility: The CFMA’s approach has been linked to increased volatility in commodity prices, affecting both consumers and businesses.
The deregulation efforts during Clinton’s presidency, particularly through the CFMA, have been criticized for fostering an environment that allowed for greater corporate concentration and higher prices in the commodities market. This has raised concerns about the long-term stability and fairness of the market.
Wikipedia
Bill Clinton’s deregulation policies, particularly in the context of free trade agreements like NAFTA, led to increased competition that often suppressed farm worker wages. Many workers faced job insecurity and lower pay as agricultural markets became more globalized and competitive.
Wikipedia Dissent
Corporate concentration in agriculture has significantly reduced competition, forcing many family farmers out of business and leaving them with little negotiating power over prices. As a result, farmers often receive only a small fraction of the retail food dollar, while large corporations control the majority of the market.
farmaid.org nffc.net
mago
Yeah, Ronnie Raygun was a disaster that keeps echoing through the decades, but those here such as spud who chronicle the sins of big bad Billy Clinton depict an even bigger tragedy in the form of policies that are still destroying lives lo these more than thirty years later.
Billy Clinton—a founding member of the Epstein class disguised as a saxophone playing good guy who smoked pot without inhaling. (Then there’s the wife Hellary). One has to wonder what serotonin enhancers he was on. Hell, all the DC swampland have their go to drugs—something to bring you up something to bring you down. People divorced from themselves and the natural order making policy that hurts everyone and everything, yet they think they’re immune.
I dunno. It’s enough to make a grown man or woman cry.
It’s why I talk about birds and other animals because they’re a natural demonstration of the order of the universe.
And so, on we go with the sirens singing and the abyss but a step away.
Enjoy whatever good you got while you gots it.
May the gods have mercy.
mago
España es el ganador. Me alegro.
Mille es un cuño extraordinario.
Oakchair
This is the results of the only randomized study on the most widely used vaccine in the world:
children, having received DTP (±OPV) was associated with a mortality hazard ratio (HR) of 5.00 compared with not-yet-DTP-vaccinated children.
All-cause infant mortality after 3 months of age increased after the introduction of these vaccines
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28188123/
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This is the only randomized flu vaccine study that looked at all cause infections.
“There was no statistically significant difference in the risk of confirmed seasonal influenza infection between recipients”
“participants who received TIV (flue vaccine) had higher risk of ARI (acute respiratory illness) associated with confirmed noninfluenza respiratory virus infection RR, 4.40”
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/54/12/1778/455098
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This is some of what the worlds leading Vaccinalogist says when he is under oath.
Q- as a scientist, can 12 you make the statement that vaccines do not cause 13 autism
A- As a scientist, I would say that I do not 16 have evidence one way or the other.
Q- 2.3 percent of participants in the 3 GARDASIL group and in the control group had a 4 systemic autoimmune disorder,
A- Yes
Q- But the saline placebo group that didn’t 8 get the aluminum adjuvant had a 0 percent, right?
A- yes
Q- vaccinated children were 30 times as likely to have 23 allergic rhinitis?
A- Yes
Q- 4.2 times as likely to have ADHD?
A-Yes
Q- 4.2 times likely as to have Autism
A- Yes
https://www.lumenfidei.ie/documents/dr-stanley-plotkin-testimony.pdf
spud
and this is why we cannot recover at all, it will take decades to rebuild, that is if it can even be done. bill clinton took a first word nation, and reduced it to a second world nation, on the verge of sliding even further into the hole.
there is not one segment of our economy, that is not flat on its back except finance.
so to address what was done, would be epic in proportion. it would make the rebuilding of europe after WWII, look like a side show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsow_i13WpI
Ross Perot Warned America 33 Years Ago
For most of the twentieth century, if you were born in an American factory town, the plant was the whole deal. You walked in the gate out of high school and walked out forty years later with a pension. In the early 1990s, roughly seventeen and a half million Americans still went to work every day making things — steel in Pennsylvania, cars across the Midwest, furniture in the Carolinas.
At its peak, American manufacturing was the largest and most productive the world had ever seen, the backbone of the middle class. Then one man stood on a debate stage in Richmond, Virginia, in October of 1992, and told the country exactly what was about to happen to all of it.
He said if America signed a trade deal called NAFTA, there would be a giant sucking sound of jobs leaving the country and heading south to Mexico. Nearly twenty million people voted for him — the strongest showing by an independent in eighty years.
And almost everyone with a podium laughed. But fast forward thirty-three years, and the towns he named have gone quiet, one factory at a time, the trade surplus with Mexico has flipped into a deficit running near two hundred billion dollars a year, and a national debt he warned about has crossed thirty-eight trillion.
Now, there is a simple story here — the eccentric billionaire who was right all along. But the truth is more complicated, and in some ways more damning. He named the wrong villain and the right disease. Either way, what he said in a single sentence would outlive his campaign, his reputation, and the man himself.
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Feral Finster
@Jan W:
They aren’t all that competent, but they don’t have to be. Consequences are for the little people, nit The People Who Matter.
Something I wrote a long time ago:
These people don’t live in The Real World.
The US in general and its elites in particular, in and out of MSM, government and the military, live in a world increasingly consumed by symbol, spectacle and abstraction. Not only that, but they confuse wish-fulfillment with reality. Decide that you’re going to identify as a different gender, race, ethnicity, hell, decide that you’re a member of a different species and woe betide anyone who doesn’t go along with the charade. They might even get themselves “cancelled”.
Hell, even the consequences of their (symbolic) actions are themselves largely symbolic. Melvin didn’t get to put on a TED talk because someone dug up an old Tweet of his and now he’s “literal Hitler” for a while.
For that matter, the truly Great and Good rarely even face those kinds of consequences. They can cause institutions to fail everywhere they go – but as long as they parrot today’s approved platitudes, they glide from internship to government sinecure to think tank to academia to to financial services to corporate board to to consulting gig to MSM Talking Head, sometimes more than one simultaneously. Most probably never having had a 9-5 job, much less done farm or factory work, in their lives. These days, they may never even physically show up to work, ever, but their bank accounts rarely seem to reflect this.
They can even engage in outright fraud, but a big enough fish will only pay a fine, a portion of his ill-gotten gains. Meanwhile, he remains as free as a bird, and probably doesn’t even face social ostracism. Last I checked, Jon Corzine is not on the naughty list of the people who matter.
Since results don’t matter and there are few consequences for losing, even for catastrophe, everything becomes a matter of spin. All problems can be solved with better P.R., and there is no greater triumph than when some newscaster recites that glib talking point you just coined or when your FB post went viral, your instagram noticed by the right kind of influencer. In other words, winning is a matter of successful symbol manipulation. Speaking of spin, virtue signaling is an obsession, even unto rank hypocrisy, and the Davos Set think nothing of flying a private jet to a conference where they can congratulate themselves on their commitment to stopping climate change. Again, if there are to be any consequences, then those are for the little people to deal with.
Even in their dwindling contact with the physical world, the elites live in a world of wish-fulfillment. Push a button and whatever food or whatever else you want is brought to your door by some peon, paid for seamlessly by some electrons exchanged between banks that may not even have a physical location within a thousand miles of your location, if they have locations at all. Hell, you can even get laid via internet, just swipe right on the lucky profile. Everything is taken care of in the background, your credit card billed and airline miles accumulated automatically and the food or the girl just show up. Somehow. By Uber, I guess. Mundane questions like “How do I feed the kittens this week and pay for school supplies and make the rent?” never come into the equation.
These are people who confuse their fantasies with reality to the point where they actually believe their own press releases. They give an order and it happens. They proclaim their puppets in Kabul to be wise and stable technocrats, their well-trained military striding from triumph to triumph and So Let It Be Done, So Let It Be Written. “So let it be written” – that’s the word, that’s all that need be done and the little people just somehow make it happen. For sheer lack of contact with the real world, these people make Louis XVI look like a medieval gong farmer or a pygmy tribesman by comparison.
Contrast the Taliban. Symbol, spectacle and abstraction mean very little to them. Doordash doesn’t operate in their area and if a Talib wants a vegan option, he’ll have to provide for it himself. It has probably never occurred to a Talib that he could cancel his enemies simply by digging up their old tweets, sent under a long discarded Twitter ID, and he doesn’t have time for that, anyway. He lives in the world of concrete and material things, he thinks nothing of killing and in his world, there are bullets waiting to kill him quite literally dead and transport him to a very earthly and very earthy sort of paradise.
You can’t wish those things away, your credit cards are no good and probably rifa, anyway, and the bullet flying towards him isn’t concerned with word games, his upcoming struggle session to root out unconscious racism and cannot be reasoned with or convinced to bother someone less important.
The world of American elites collided with the world of the Taliban and got its ass kicked. Biden and his crew cannot deal with this, because that kind of reality does not select for success in symbol manipulation, any more than skill at football selects for an ability to do math problems.
The clownish Western response to the COVID is similar. The virus can’t be negotiated with, can’t be bought off, can’t be distracted, and is unimpressed with you and how highly you may think of yourself.
As you may know, I’ve seen quite a lot of both worlds, I’ve lived in barns and crouched under the table in the room where the decisions were made, so I think I understand both mindsets pretty well. I prefer freedom to regular meals.
Speaking of, I got some mice to catch, or otherwise, I will surely be going hungry.
Dan Kelly
‘Yeah, Ronnie Raygun was a disaster that keeps echoing through the decades, but those here such as spud who chronicle the sins of big bad Billy Clinton depict an even bigger tragedy in the form of policies that are still destroying lives lo these more than thirty years later.
Billy Clinton—a founding member of the Epstein class disguised as a saxophone playing good guy…’
Reagan was plucked out of Hollywood and was best friends with Roy Cohn who was one of his top advisors.
Reagan was obviously ‘gay’ himself – or ‘bisexual’ like Obama – and he no doubt had relations with many of these people.
So, the current ‘Eptstein class’ is just the latest version of what these sick sick people do in the interest of control and power.
Interestingly, Obama isn’t personally mentioned much in ‘the files’ but inner cirlce top advisor Kathryn Ruemmler is very intimately tied to the sickos – thus making she – and he – one of ‘them’.
The ‘rumors’ surrounding Obama that have allegedly been put to rest are in fact very believable to those of us privvy to both freebasing cocaine and the ‘sexual stuff’ that it often inherently brings out.
So, RIP Donald Young…and Mr Sinclair: I believe you…
…even though it’s a shame it took a Tucker Carlson interview to bring things to light as Carlson is himself quite obviously deeply embedded in this sickness that is beyond the comprehension of mere mortals – even those of us who haven’t always lived life on the up and up ourselves.
Takes one to know one.
So, just as we all agree we wouldn’t have gotten a Barak Duncan Obama without first a Bill Clinton…so too we never would have gotten a Bill Clinton sans a Ronald Reagan.
Oh, and the idea that Clinton’s shit couldn’t be reversed isn’t accurate.
It could have been reversed by Bush if he was on it right away but of course he is a part of the same continuity of operation so he wasn’t going to do shit even if he so desired.
It could still be reversed.
We can send a man to the moon but we can’t…
Did we go to the moon?
I digress.
It’s an extraordinary waste of time to keep harping on the evils of a Bill Clinton when he is simply the face they needed at the time for the ongoing agenda.
Interestingly, evildoer Jimmy Goldsmith – a direct protege of the Rothschilds et al – Goldsmith was on Charlie Rose back in the day arguing vehemently with the Clinton admin representative about NAFTA and GATT and all the problems they will create.
He is saying the same things spud says here* and he makes the Clinton person look like an idiot because he knows the ins and outs of business and the way things work ‘in the real world’ while she is just a silly policy wonk…
But in hindsight I imagine it was all theater because – let’s face it – Jimmy motherfucking Goldsmith was never any friend of ours.
Goldmsith’s daughter Jemima was married to Imram Khan who is now in jail (the good ones always are, right?) while she is free to wonder why – and continue her image and money-making in the process.
Khan was accused of being part of the Israel lobby himself due to his marriage to Goldsmith but being that he is in jail now and we know they…meaning ‘the lobby’ – which is much much bigger and more powerful than any other lobby in the world…they maintain their power and control.
Whitney Webb has done good work tracing Goldsmith’s evil connections.
* which satisfy the requirements of ‘ad nauseum’ in that it is important to know the facts of history but they aren’t being presented in any usable manner whatsoever other than to satisfy spud’s intellect at this juncture in his life
https://charlierose.com/videos/1563
Rose was himself completely compromised by TPTB.
different clue
” Get big or get out” predates Bill Clinton. I remember it as being the Earl Butz policy and approach initiated under Nixon, whose Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz was.
I think well of Al Gore in certain regards, but every time I find myself thinking too well of him, I remember that he bigly supported NAFTA strongliest. I remember a weeks-long buildup to a much anticipated NAFTA debate between Perot and Gore to be held on TV. I remember people warning that Gore would win the debate on style and presentation because Gore was a trained masterdebater and Perot was not. For example, I remember Gore pointing out how Perot had a few years earlier invested several billion dollars into a truly vast truck-staging facility in Mexico to be able to Free Trade into America with those trucks. Gore could then dismiss Perot as an insincere hypocrite while Perot just stood there stammering like a deer in headlights.
A masterful Mister Gotcha move by Al Gore.
Only years later did I read about how that Perot trucking staging facility would have been rendered worthless if NAFTA had been defeated. Perot had to have been smart enough about business to understand that. Unfortunately he was not a good enough masterdebater to come back with ” I am willing to lose that whole investment to get NAFTA defeated, because I love America more than I love a few billion dollars more.”
” A ” first step to reversing the Anti-NewDeal reaction would be extensive education and information to millions or tens of millions of mainstreamal normies. That would require vast and massive teach-ins and etc. If Obama had not overseen and coordinated the breakup and putdown of Occupy, Occupy might have thought to move on to a next step . . . the setting up of hundreds and then thousands of Occupy Reading Rooms all over the country, stocked up with all this information and little centers of talks, workshops, etc. Something like all the Christian Science Reading Rooms which still dot America to this day.
The name “Occupy” is still remembered and somebody could still set up a series and then a whole system of Occupy Reading Rooms if they had enough support and people. They could be the information part of a long term Newer Deal Reconquest Effort. They could be thought of as Information Ammunition Dumps . . . Infommunition Dumps, if you will.
We can’t rebuild the High Classical Industrial Civilization here because most of the resources are gone. But we can grow a smaller slower Newer Deal civilization on a fairness basis IF we could work out some basic agreement on what the basic elements of that civilization would even be.
spud
what i mean is what bill clinton did, cannot be reversed, maybe decades, or forever. because of our current governance. its just about impossible the way our government is set up now.
so there are going to be some tough choices to be made in the future. and those choices most likely will be made after we bottom out.
the reason why i name names to policies is because, if you do not, the clintonites will still be in charge.
carter and reagan were both stupid people as others were in the 1970’s/80’s, bush one was a aristocratic elite that did not want to be bothered, but it was clinton that got almost all of it done.
the chance to reverse it was obama, and with the clintonites still fully in charge, as they are today, then we know obama was the clintonites man for sure, just as biden was, and kamala was.
different clue
Ah, yes. Now I understand. Well . . . the people who helped and preceded Clinton should also be named. He was the leader of a wider movement to conquer the DemParty from within.
The best way to try ‘reversing’ it would probably be in Blue to Deep Blue States or substate regions where good government is still a popular concept. The people of these places could start building regionalocal Separate Survival government/ economic/cultural/social/etc. structures and habits and behaviors. And try slowly airgapping their regions from the rest of Clintonia.
” America doesn’t work anymore. Its an idea whose time is gone. It was nice while it lasted.”
Okay, so what comes next. People/groups with the best names and concepts might have the best chance to say what that will be. In that spirit, I suggest a new name for a country which might occupy the ” post-America space”.
USANOTI. United States And Nations Of Turtle Island.
Separately, here is a video of Hegseth happily cosplaying “training soldier”.
“He doesn’t know how to work the body.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/IThinkYouShouldLeave/comments/1v16jya/he_doesnt_know_how_to_work_the_body/
One wonders if the real Serving Soldiers are all that impressed.
different clue
And here’s a piece of good news.
Americans hate AI so much that politicians are starting to lose their jobs over it
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1v1yjbl/americans_hate_ai_so_much_that_politicians_are/
Lose their jobs? As in lose their elections? That would seem like voting matters in some cases, in a shallow proximal sense at least.
different clue
Here is a page from what could well be a minor masterpiece of Christalibangelical Christian literature for young people.
[OC] Page from one of my childhood books, about forgiving abusive parents through the power of Jesus
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1v20koh/oc_page_from_one_of_my_childhood_books_about/
spud
the capitalism we have today, i agree, its pure capitalism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyb4HsJC4T0
Does Capitalism Need You Poor? – Clara Mattei
Clara Mattei: capitalism is not natural – it’s enforced
In this clip, economist Clara Mattei argues that capitalism’s biggest problems are not failures of the system but consequences of how it was designed to operate. She explains why inequality, austerity and the concentration of wealth are structural features rather than accidental outcomes, and discusses who ultimately benefits from the current economic model. Mattei also explores the political choices that sustain the system and why she believes meaningful economic change requires rethinking the rules that govern it.
mago
Devil with a blue dress/devil with a blue dress on
I’d send a link if I could, but I can’t so I won’t.
The Clintons are an enduring stain on the fabric of life.
different clue
@mago,
Is this the devil with a blue dress on which you mean?
Devil with a Blue Dress On by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9PJPZ0BjC8
Or is this the devil with a blue dress on which you are referring to?
https://printerval.com/ca/bill-clinton-blue-dress-p655540
spud
mago:
this is coming from a guy who has supported the democrats. but now, he is like thomas frank. the name has to be named to the policies were are living under today. trump is the natural response to this fascist regime of bill clinton, that completely sent america back to the robber baron era.
we can never recover, till we reverse the policies of bill clinton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULNAe-WccU
How Democrats Embraced Neoliberalism | Robert Kuttner | TMR
“After 8 years of Bill Clinton no one could distinguish democrats from Republicans “
Dan Kelly
spud, you said last time we went down this path – very recently in fact – you admitted that Clinton is just a face who can come along any time while it was the unions and ‘the left’ who are really to blame – we get the govt we deserve…
…and you went on to state point blank, pun intended I suppose, that it was George Meaney’s fault.
So if we are going to name names we have to name the names ‘on our side’ as well…perhaps even much more so.
And, as different clue and others are revealing, Clinton could not have done what he did without a lot getting done beforehand – both structurally and ideologically.
We could start with Carter being the first ‘non-Keynesian’ administration.
And Carter is fascinating in that neither he nor Brezinski – who met at a Trilateral meeting, the trilaterals being ‘globalists’ of a certain degree for sure – neither of these men had any love for the genocidal state nor Zionism.
Hell, even Ralph Nader was in favor of some deregulation at that time.
Ralph, it is nice that you are on the side of the consumer but if we ultimately don’t desire a wholesale superrficial consumerist society then we need to always state that upfront even as we go about advocating on behalf of ‘the consumer’ – which is worse than ‘the citizen’ which itself is a very narrow concept of being in the world.
I digress again.
I really wanted to focus on Reagan.
The propaganda both changed and was ramped up into high gear under Reagan.
This is when we went from 13 channels of shit on the TV to choose from to cable boxes with lots more programming.
At least the cable boxes were still one-way devices then.
Quick personal story: Dude I went to junior and high school with was from a non-TV family. They didn’t own one and it was noticeable how he and his siblings weren’t as ‘sped up’ as those of us who watched a fair amount of television back then….this being the mid-late eighties.
Anyway, he and his brother actually tapped the cable line in the street and ran their own line back into their clubhouse in the backyard!
The parents were well aware and were glad on some level that the kids were ‘climbing out of the playpen’ even though they’d raised them without the glowing screen during their early formative years.
So, the TV expansion gave the Reagan administration much to work with that handn’t been seen or used before and they used it to their advantage.
And it didn’t hurt having a TV personality (and former head of the hollywoood union!) at hand to boldly lead the country into this new unregulated paradise.
TV watchers may remember business major Alex Keaton arguing with his public television parents about the wonders of Reagan on Family Ties.
In real life Michael J Fox is married into the Pollan family who make a decent buck selling cookbooks to the bougies.
Those who still cook I guess.
Anyway, structurally much of the deregulation had been accomplished in addition to the new ‘tone’ being set…the mood changed…the zeitgeist was being hacked at the psychic level.
This was actually admitted to – and welcomed- by AIPAC’s Martin Indyk back in 2009.
You see, before NAFTA et al there were the bilateral trade agreements and the one bilateral that really set all this in motion was the 1984 US-Israel trade ‘deal’ which was so lopsided it’s hard to know where to begin.
Was this all supported by the old ‘WASP American-Anglo Catholic’ establishment because it was ultimately in their interests too and they were happy to let ‘Israel’ and ‘the Jews’ take the lead on the issue?
Not at all in fact:
‘During 1984 negotiations seventy-six leading American companies such as Monsanto, Dow Chemical, Sunkist, Hunt-Wesson Foods and organizations such as the AFL-CIO, American Farm Bureau and the US Bromine Alliance testified against the UIFTA.
Only seventeen organizations — most with no direct economic stakes — testified in favor.
More recently pharmaceutical, agricultural and other industry associations have continued to lobby against unfair Israeli trade practices…’
https://archive.ph/faG3d#selection-2789.0-2791.55
Oakchair will appreciate that this is what led to the wholesale deregulation of what has become ‘Big Pharma’ and of course the 1986 removal of all liability on vaccine manufacturers which has led to a recommended number of ‘vaccines’ that is obscene – but is completely normalized.
The idea of ‘first, do no harm’ and the precautionary principle and all that good stuff are almost completely eliminated from the psyche of most people in the US…beginning with the medical professionals themselves!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y21FiyPoXVc
spud
Dan Kelly:
i agree there were others and they were stupid or incompetent, or criminally incompetent. but those people never took it as far as clinton. as we see today, and thomas frank opened the door to this. we now see(i saw it in 1993 on wards)who did the most over whelming damage.
to fix that damage is a must, because we are living today with those policies. you can trace just about all the damage to a eight year period, 1993-2001.
if you are a doctor, and you treat a gun shot wound with a bandage because you never investigated the wound, you get the ridiculous dodd-frank banking bill, that was to have replaced the Glass-Steagall Act.
they never came out and said it was bill clinton that created this mess by undoing of the new deal.
the one that holds the power, is the one who picks and chooses what route we go down. at anytime, clinton could have said no we will no longer go down this route, instead he super charged it.
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Michael R. Taylor, a former vice-president at Monsanto, played a significant role in the Clinton administration, particularly in the FDA, where he was involved in the regulatory process for genetically modified organisms. He is often referred to as a key figure linking Monsanto to the Clinton administration’s agricultural policies.
grist.org Wikipedia
Michael R. Taylor’s Role in the Clinton Administration
Michael R. Taylor is a notable figure who served as a vice-president at Monsanto before joining the Clinton administration. His career has been marked by significant involvement in food safety and regulatory policies.
FDA Leadership: Taylor held the position of Deputy Commissioner for Foods at the FDA, where he was instrumental in the regulatory process for genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Monsanto Connection: His transition from Monsanto to the FDA has led to scrutiny regarding the influence of agricultural corporations on government policy. Taylor is often seen as a key link between Monsanto and the agricultural policies of the Clinton administration.
Taylor’s work at the FDA included overseeing the approval of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), a controversial product associated with Monsanto. His actions have been viewed as pivotal in shaping the regulatory landscape for GMOs in the United States.
Political Contributions and Lobbying
Monsanto’s Influence on Clinton’s Campaigns
Monsanto has been linked to significant financial contributions to Hillary Clinton’s political campaigns. Key lobbyists associated with Monsanto, such as Jerry Crawford, have been major bundlers for her presidential runs, indicating a strong financial relationship between the company and the Clinton campaign.
Lobbyist Name Contribution Amount Role in Campaign
Jerry Crawford $151,727 Senior adviser, Midwest Co-Chair
Steve Elmendorf $20,295 Lobbyist for Grocery Manufacturers Association
Michael R. Taylor’s dual role as a former Monsanto executive and a key figure in the Clinton administration highlights the complex relationship between government and agricultural corporations. His influence on food safety regulations and the financial ties between Monsanto and Clinton’s campaigns illustrate the significant impact of corporate interests in political processes.
grist.org Wikipedia
Michael R. Taylor worked as an attorney at the law firm King & Spalding from 1981 to 1991, where he established and led the firm’s food and drug practice, including representing Monsanto during that period.
Wikipedia
Bill Clinton’s agricultural policies supported the growth of Monsanto by promoting biotechnology and genetically modified crops, which aligned with the company’s interests and allowed it to expand its influence in the agricultural sector. His administration’s favorable stance on these technologies helped create a more conducive environment for Monsanto’s business operations.
usrtk.org iatp.org
A key controversy is that Monsanto exerted deep influence over EPA decisions about glyphosate (linked to Roundup), with significant parts of early EPA documents partially redacted or omitted and EPA staff scientists putting great weight on a 1983 mouse study that found glyphosate was carcinogenic. Another concern described is that when safety questions were raised after glyphosate first came on the market, Monsanto helped ensure answers supported its financial interests rather than scientific accuracy and transparency.
inthesetimes.com
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no wonder trump won twice.
Dan Kelly
spud, you keep talking past the points others and myself are making in your zeal to focus everything on the individual personage of William Clinton.
I agree with everything you say about the monster known as slick Willie but the point is that…
God, what is the point anymore?
Did Clinton write that legislation himself?
Those plans were written years in advance – just as the patriot act was, and just as pnac was based on oded yinon which was based on…
When people say ‘the democrats became republicans’ they fail to say that the republicans themselves morphed into something else entirely.
The binary operates as a system.
We also have a very good idea how deep this shit goes with the epstein files et al and so it seems that it was baked-in from the get-go and I hate to say that because it can lead to apathy in this realm but isn’t that what ‘the left’ is all about anyway:
The idea that the system itself is really the ultimate problem and unless this is constantly recognized and acted upon nothing will ever really change for the hoi polloi.
If all the progress made in expansion of rights for ‘minorities’ and women and gays etc came because of public pressure then all the time spent wasted on one man takes away from energies that would otherwise go towards these ends.
If the idea is that we need to know the history because it will come back to haunt us then by all means talk about the Clinton monstrosities but speaking of them in a vacuum is pointless, unproductive, unintelligent and on and on and on…
I know you said you were a contemporary of FDR (you knew him?) but frankly he was a very mixed bag at minimum and the things we got from him were due to pressures from ‘the real left’ and populists to boot…it wasn’t from the good graces of his heart.
And he was clearly a warmonger who lied repeatedly to the people about not going to war.
He was very Zionized.
But, all that said, we certainly would be in a much better place with many of the policies that are now gone.
Did it take war preparation to get them?
Is it a welfare-warfare state as the economic libertarians insist – the one leads to the other which is why they put the welfare first…
…or is it a warfare-welfare state?
Or do the two arise mutually?
I was thinking about the Clinton dereg of the media which led the incredible consolidation we continue to witness today.
I remember Chris Bollyn saying that the genocidal state was planning on doing 9/11 back in the late 80’s but they couldn’t get their hands on the WTC plans at that point because it was still public and they hadn’t gotten their grubby hands and backdoors into everything in this country yet.
But I don’t know if they could have done it without the media consolidation because much more would have gotten out at the local level via independent stations and what have you – which still had larger owners up the chain in many repspects but were able to operate much more independtly.
You couldn’t put together one of those video collages that show all the media people from ‘local’ affiliates – whether fox or nbc or cbs – you couldn’t create one of those collages where they are all saying the same thing in unison because even though the media wasn’t great back then either – and was presented at a rather low intelligence level even then – it nevertheless was allowed to be more independent at the granular level.
https://vimeo.com/479391020
You would have had more William Rodriguez’ all over the place telling the people about the explosions in the basement and all the other ‘anomalies’ to the official story presented to us that day by the media they own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFB729dgnVA
We agree on slick Willie.
I just think more needs to be said and done.
spud, how do you feel about all the work Grant Smith at IRMEP has done?
Just wondering if you even perused the site at all.
Not an assignment!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI3yU5Z2adI
Dan Kelly
‘I know you said you were a contemporary of FDR (you knew him?) ‘
This isn’t accurate or you’d be a very healthy ‘young’ man!
I must have confused this with something else you wrote at some point.
mago
Hey different clue. Thanks for the links. It was the Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels song I was thinking of, but the other is pertinent.
Hope your garden is thriving, btw.
spud
Dan Kelly
i find that sunlight is the best disinfectant. i find that the most effective reliable analyst and economists are those that know history, expose who did what to whom and why.
its why the nuremberg war crime trails were held. many germans after the surrender thought they were the victims, and hitler and the nazi’s tried to save them.
One of the goals of the Nuremberg Trials was to educate German civilians about the true extent of Nazi atrocities and to convince them of the need for accountability after the war. This was part of a broader effort to establish a precedent for international law and deter future aggression.
The National WWII Museum Wikipedia
Purpose of the Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials aimed to address the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany during World War II. One of the key objectives was to educate German civilians about the extent of these crimes and the necessity for accountability.
Goals of the Trials
Educate the Public: The trials sought to inform the German population about the brutalities of the Nazi regime, including the Holocaust and other war crimes.
Establish Legal Precedents: The trials aimed to set a standard for international law regarding war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Deter Future Aggression: By holding leaders accountable, the Allies hoped to prevent similar atrocities in the future.
Impact on German Society
The Nuremberg Trials were significant not only for the prosecution of Nazi leaders but also for their role in shaping public perception in Germany. They served as a means to confront the past and encourage a collective acknowledgment of the crimes committed under the Nazi regime. This educational aspect was crucial in fostering a sense of responsibility and promoting a more democratic society in post-war Germany.
Wikipedia The National WWII Museum
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because of those trials, merz is going to have his hands full trying resurrect fascism.
when we bottom out or collapse, we must have a truth commission into how we got into this mess.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/09/the-uncomfortable-truth-are-we-hating-donald-trump-for-the-wrong-reasons/
“Trump’s intention to build a wall at the US-Mexico border is the brainchild of President Bill Clinton. In fact, when Clinton proposed the wall and a crackdown on illegal immigrants in his 1995 State of the Union address, the Democrats gave him a standing ovation.
As for Muslims, they have been an easy target for at least 20 years.
Muslims were mainly the target of the ‘Secret Evidence law’ in 1996, and ‘suspected’ Muslims were either jailed indefinitely or deported without their lawyers being informed of their charges.
It was then called the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, later expanded to give immigration authorities the right to deport even green card holding permanent residents.
Few protested the undemocratic, no due-process law – and the media barely covered it – as most of those held were Palestinian activists, intellectuals and university professors.
The 1996 Act morphed into the Patriot Act, following the attacks of September 11, 2001. The new Act undermined the very US Constitution, giving the government unprecedented domestic authority to arrest, detain people, and spy on whoever they wished, with no legal consequences.”
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so when you look at outrages like the patriot act. understand garbage like this most likely was started under clinton, who pushed out in the open for all of his policies that he signed.
i do not worship FDR, nor the others that followed that protected and enhanced the new deal. i fully understand that they were imperfect humans.
there never has been a perfect human, chances are there never will be one,
but i measure what universal concrete material benefits all americans get out of their administrations.
here is a example of a very imperfect president, one that i never liked much, did damage for sure, yet, we got universal concrete material benefits for the american people out of him.
Richard Nixon expanded some New Deal–era social programs and regulatory agencies, earning comparisons to “the last of the New Deal liberals.”
davidfrum.com Wikipedia
Nixon’s Relationship with the New Deal
Richard Nixon’s presidency is often characterized by his expansion of social programs and regulatory agencies that were originally established during the New Deal era. This has led to comparisons of Nixon as “the last of the New Deal liberals.”
Expansion of Social Programs: Nixon increased funding for various social programs that were part of the New Deal framework. This included significant investments in health care and welfare initiatives.
Regulatory Agencies: He established new regulatory bodies, such as:
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Focused on environmental protection and regulation.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA): Aimed at ensuring safe working conditions.
Consumer Product Safety Commission: Established to protect consumers from hazardous products.
Nixon’s policies were implemented during a time of economic challenges, including high inflation and unemployment, often referred to as “stagflation.” Despite these challenges, Nixon did not dismantle the Great Society programs initiated by his predecessor, Lyndon B. Johnson, which were similar in scope to the New Deal.
Nixon’s approach to domestic policy reflected a continuation of the New Deal’s commitment to federal responsibility for economic welfare. His administration’s social spending doubled, and he maintained a focus on regulatory measures that aimed to protect various aspects of American life, aligning him closely with the New Deal philosophy.
davidfrum.com Wikipedia
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name one universal concrete material benefit we got from bill clinton, obama, or biden, name one?
i will answer it for you, not one.
well it was that rotten bum bush jr. that gave us medicare advantage thats’ bleeding us dry, well no, it was,
https://www.medicareresources.org/medicare-benefits/medicare-advantage/
President Bill Clinton signed Medicare+Choice into law in 1997.
The name changed to Medicare Advantage in 2003…
so how did we get into such a mess? i have given due to clintons predecessors many times, they were small fry, it was bill clinton, a two time electoral college winner, who never got a majority.
today even clintons supporters on the left are abandoning him now, they opened their eyes and see his people still have a iron grip on the democrat party.
when Kuttner named names, i was stunned.
no wonder we got trump twice.
spud
mago:
saw mitch ryder a few years back, he still has that voice and range. he even called himself a fool on stage about him walking out on the detroit wheels.
different clue
Header: fascinating technology demonstration
Here is a purely fascinating computer-simulation animation of airflow through different kinds of vents and joins and stuff, showing energy savings from better design. Better design will mean nothing without deep and stringent conservation, but WITH deep and stringent conservation, better design could reduce the use of this and that.
CFD simulations of airflow through vents
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/1v3hyzg/cfd_simulations_of_airflow_through_vents/
mago
Hey spud, we’re all fools one way or the other no matter how slick we think we are.
I always remember avant garde black pianist and MacArthur award winner Cecil Taylor telling me no matter how slick you think you are there’s always someone slicker.
To put it another way, we’re water in a hoof print compared to the ocean.
Humility is a virtue.
spud
mago:
the best way to look at things in the situation we are in, is that it was not the american voters fault, once a country goes down the route we went into in the 1970’s, its a out of touch elite, that takes away our sovereignty.
the founders who were almost all to a T, imperfect humans. but they tried to keep power dispersed as much as possible.
the last chance to vote our way out of this was 1992. perot was a fool.
it was almost better for americans to have elected bush one, who was a aristocrat and a elite. the democrats would have never let him get anything through.
and bush would have spent his summers in Maine boating.
mago
Quite so spud.
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