We all know about the “weapons of mass destruction” lies, lies that have led to catastrophic—yes, I think that’s the right word—throughout much of the Middle East. Who knew those lies were lies, and when did they know it? Surely, before the invasion of Iraq. But there’s another story that we tend to forget that helped to demonize Saddam—not that he might not have been a demon, but it’s worth remembering the old saw about the devil you’ve got.
I, as a natural born American citizen, sincerely apologize for the disgusting acts committed essentially in my name by the US government since the end of the Cold War. I was suckered in by the liars during the Gulf War era. Now that I know what was done I am powerless to do anything other than to vote against the evil ones, most of my fellow Americans are willfully ignorant and/or indoctrinated, and therefore are blinded to the evil.
Who are the evil ones then? Are they purple tie wearing pompous, lying former CIA Directors, insane warmongers in skirts, a demented President, creepy Congressmen, sickening Senators? I think We the People are just as culpable as the aforementioned evildoers for tolerating and funding their behavior.
Except lots of us didn't lie, cheat, and steal and lots of us didn't know. But lots of us know now and lots more are learning. They won't be able to continue getting away with this stuff. People might not march en masse to DC but at the same time people won't be believing jerks like Pompeo, Graham, or Turtle and his minions either. No more Iraqs, no more Libyas, and no more Ukraines either.
If We the People do not repent, and vow to end the ever accelerating evil acts of the US.gov, we collectively deserve whatever blowback comes our way. Disbelieving the evildoers is one thing, disabling them will be very difficult, but necessary, and painful.
True story: my urologist is a Republican member of Congress (not my district). Had an appointment with him last month. We’re shooting the shit about politics. You know who HE wants to be the GOP nominee? You guessed it: The same fat@$$ who bragged about the U.S. lying, cheating, and stealing.
We are so lucky. Imagine if these people were really brilliant, and they do control all of Washington. We wouldn't have a chance. They would even have convinced us that they were the good guys working in our favor. Instead they and their media cronies have lost us. And they can't even manage to make our lives even a tiny bit better.
What a total format mess this column is... tweets patched onto copy with white and black backgrounds, snippets of this and that with no continuity, just a lazy 52 pickup. Why? Yesterday's column was well-argued and excellent....
I won't argue that this is my best post. Perhaps I assumed that my thought processes in connecting it all were more transparent than my writing warranted. To me the continuity was fairly obvious, and perhaps I dropped the ball in not making that explicit for all readers. The overall theme is simple enough--the same people have been lying us into foreign adventures and gross inhumanity for a long time, and those people include plenty who were long considered 'conservative'.
To get the full impact of it all it's necessary to follow and read the thread re Elon Musk being triggered. Substack was warning me about space limits at that point so I left it as just a link. The lack of discussion of that link may have contributed to the appearance of a lack of continuity. But some of that appearance may be in the eye of the beholder.
What the actual hell? If Mark were doing this for a living, then MAYBE you would have a right to make such a cheap comment. But until you spend hours every day reading, watching and summarizing material for the rest of us FOR FREE . . . Keep your snark to yourself
I like this site.. I think sloppy postings are a disservice to fine thinking... I find a LOT of fragmented positioning these days... Waulk's are not atypical... but he is better than that.
I guess I don't understand. You of course have the right to apply your own "fine thinking" standards to anything you see or read, as an individual, and accept or reject it on that basis. But are you saying that all of us should reject the value of this post based on your presentation standards? How shall we know when those standards have been met? Why would you suppose that your standards would apply to everyone? I received value from this post entirely apart from the application of your standards. I can tell you through experience that it is much easier to accept the gifts you have been given in the spirit in which they are given rather than to refrain from accepting them due to your own idiosyncratic critical filters. Please, if you have criticisms let them be of content - at least we as a community can then obtain value from your comments and examine and respond to specific points.
There’s a helluva lot happening. Sometimes a quick shotgun approach is what’s needed. Besides, I for one don’t have time to keep up with what others have been saying on Twitter. So what Mark has done here is valuable to me.
Again, your comment was unhelpful at best. What were you trying to accomplish? The man’s already doing yeoman’s work here.
Lastly, for such a demanding critic, you’re pretty lazy yourself. Can’t even spell Mark’s name correctly.
I wanted to suggest watching Linda Moulton-Howe's "Earthfiles." The Feb 15th rebroadcast is one of the most interesting ever. (Part II Edward Keith Abbott). In fact I think this is the second time this has been rebroadcast. Mr Abbott states among other mind-blowing things that "We went into Iraq to get something. They wanted something. And they got it." Sure sounds like some kind of ET artifact. He even describes his time in Hawaii at a particular facility, where the military spent a lot of time conversing with ET's on a regular basis. All this may sound fanciful, but everyone should listen to this. I believe all these lies were done to achieve a goal without telling the population what they were after.
For the Neocons at this point it might be as simple as trying to cling to power and maintain the façade of their own credibility. The Davoisie WANT social and economic destruction (as in "Build Back Better" with them as the builders). Collectively they would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven. But more specifically, war has been used in the recent past to cover up or alleviate other social and economic problems. For example, the Great Depression and all of the economic missteps that aggravated it were essentially covered over by WWII. We are now at the end of a debt cycle that is unmanageable by conventional means - so once again, the experts want to divert attention from that and inflate and spend their way out of it through war. As always, our well being is least on their minds.
My view is that many of these really smart people have never had to manage or run anything, much less lead a diverse group of people to accomplish something. Especially those who have found a niche within government where all their associates thoughts are of one mind.
I witnessed this in the military, where engineering duty officers would be assigned to run operations (to check a box) that required actual leadership, not textbook and formula memorization. Some careers were ruined because of this, including some of these EDOs. But in both government and the military, many of these individuals seem to fail upward and move on to screw something else up. They have a way of protecting their own, even as bystanders observe the damage they cause, only to continue on without any apparent career ending penalty, much less accepting responsibility for their actions.
I, as a natural born American citizen, sincerely apologize for the disgusting acts committed essentially in my name by the US government since the end of the Cold War. I was suckered in by the liars during the Gulf War era. Now that I know what was done I am powerless to do anything other than to vote against the evil ones, most of my fellow Americans are willfully ignorant and/or indoctrinated, and therefore are blinded to the evil.
Who are the evil ones then? Are they purple tie wearing pompous, lying former CIA Directors, insane warmongers in skirts, a demented President, creepy Congressmen, sickening Senators? I think We the People are just as culpable as the aforementioned evildoers for tolerating and funding their behavior.
Except lots of us didn't lie, cheat, and steal and lots of us didn't know. But lots of us know now and lots more are learning. They won't be able to continue getting away with this stuff. People might not march en masse to DC but at the same time people won't be believing jerks like Pompeo, Graham, or Turtle and his minions either. No more Iraqs, no more Libyas, and no more Ukraines either.
If We the People do not repent, and vow to end the ever accelerating evil acts of the US.gov, we collectively deserve whatever blowback comes our way. Disbelieving the evildoers is one thing, disabling them will be very difficult, but necessary, and painful.
True, dat. But disbelieving is the first and very necessary step. Blessings to you, SCT.
True story: my urologist is a Republican member of Congress (not my district). Had an appointment with him last month. We’re shooting the shit about politics. You know who HE wants to be the GOP nominee? You guessed it: The same fat@$$ who bragged about the U.S. lying, cheating, and stealing.
We are so lucky. Imagine if these people were really brilliant, and they do control all of Washington. We wouldn't have a chance. They would even have convinced us that they were the good guys working in our favor. Instead they and their media cronies have lost us. And they can't even manage to make our lives even a tiny bit better.
What a total format mess this column is... tweets patched onto copy with white and black backgrounds, snippets of this and that with no continuity, just a lazy 52 pickup. Why? Yesterday's column was well-argued and excellent....
I won't argue that this is my best post. Perhaps I assumed that my thought processes in connecting it all were more transparent than my writing warranted. To me the continuity was fairly obvious, and perhaps I dropped the ball in not making that explicit for all readers. The overall theme is simple enough--the same people have been lying us into foreign adventures and gross inhumanity for a long time, and those people include plenty who were long considered 'conservative'.
To get the full impact of it all it's necessary to follow and read the thread re Elon Musk being triggered. Substack was warning me about space limits at that point so I left it as just a link. The lack of discussion of that link may have contributed to the appearance of a lack of continuity. But some of that appearance may be in the eye of the beholder.
Those of us out here in the real world know Mark does an overall fine job, perfection is unattainable.
What the actual hell? If Mark were doing this for a living, then MAYBE you would have a right to make such a cheap comment. But until you spend hours every day reading, watching and summarizing material for the rest of us FOR FREE . . . Keep your snark to yourself
I like this site.. I think sloppy postings are a disservice to fine thinking... I find a LOT of fragmented positioning these days... Waulk's are not atypical... but he is better than that.
I guess I don't understand. You of course have the right to apply your own "fine thinking" standards to anything you see or read, as an individual, and accept or reject it on that basis. But are you saying that all of us should reject the value of this post based on your presentation standards? How shall we know when those standards have been met? Why would you suppose that your standards would apply to everyone? I received value from this post entirely apart from the application of your standards. I can tell you through experience that it is much easier to accept the gifts you have been given in the spirit in which they are given rather than to refrain from accepting them due to your own idiosyncratic critical filters. Please, if you have criticisms let them be of content - at least we as a community can then obtain value from your comments and examine and respond to specific points.
Thanks for letting us all know your blog post evaluation criteria.
There’s a helluva lot happening. Sometimes a quick shotgun approach is what’s needed. Besides, I for one don’t have time to keep up with what others have been saying on Twitter. So what Mark has done here is valuable to me.
Again, your comment was unhelpful at best. What were you trying to accomplish? The man’s already doing yeoman’s work here.
Lastly, for such a demanding critic, you’re pretty lazy yourself. Can’t even spell Mark’s name correctly.
I was going to write about the same thing and then I followed the thread and found your post
Mark keeps a steady hand on the tiller and he sees one hell of a lot more than us
He should put together a weekly potpourri/a top 10 list of the ones that couldn’t command his full attention
Drop a url to your last column
Please excuse my laziness.
Thank you Mark. I think the chickens are coming home to roost. I wouldn't want to be a NeoCON when they do.
I wanted to suggest watching Linda Moulton-Howe's "Earthfiles." The Feb 15th rebroadcast is one of the most interesting ever. (Part II Edward Keith Abbott). In fact I think this is the second time this has been rebroadcast. Mr Abbott states among other mind-blowing things that "We went into Iraq to get something. They wanted something. And they got it." Sure sounds like some kind of ET artifact. He even describes his time in Hawaii at a particular facility, where the military spent a lot of time conversing with ET's on a regular basis. All this may sound fanciful, but everyone should listen to this. I believe all these lies were done to achieve a goal without telling the population what they were after.
Victoria "Nudelman" 😂😂😂
He goes by Zhou. Shorter next time.
For the Neocons at this point it might be as simple as trying to cling to power and maintain the façade of their own credibility. The Davoisie WANT social and economic destruction (as in "Build Back Better" with them as the builders). Collectively they would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven. But more specifically, war has been used in the recent past to cover up or alleviate other social and economic problems. For example, the Great Depression and all of the economic missteps that aggravated it were essentially covered over by WWII. We are now at the end of a debt cycle that is unmanageable by conventional means - so once again, the experts want to divert attention from that and inflate and spend their way out of it through war. As always, our well being is least on their minds.
Can’t recall but did we outlast the recent supply chain challenges?
Completely whacky. Supposedly smart people really can be ... stupid.
My view is that many of these really smart people have never had to manage or run anything, much less lead a diverse group of people to accomplish something. Especially those who have found a niche within government where all their associates thoughts are of one mind.
I witnessed this in the military, where engineering duty officers would be assigned to run operations (to check a box) that required actual leadership, not textbook and formula memorization. Some careers were ruined because of this, including some of these EDOs. But in both government and the military, many of these individuals seem to fail upward and move on to screw something else up. They have a way of protecting their own, even as bystanders observe the damage they cause, only to continue on without any apparent career ending penalty, much less accepting responsibility for their actions.