The Ardent Pipe Dreams of American Voters
Edward Curtin
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To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.”
Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh
Voters in the USA live in fantasy and probably always will. No matter how obvious it is that the U.S. is an oligarchy, not a democracy, the ardent pipe dreams of a new face in the White House go to their heads every four years.
It can only be explained by a combination of intellectual ignorance, the acceptance of propaganda, and the embrace of illusions.
An analogy is apropos. In the small town and vicinity where I live, there are about 10 pot shops where pipe dreams are dispensed. As The Platters sang long ago, “when your heart’s on fire, you must realize smoke gets in your eyes.” But few realize it.
Smoke? What smoke?
Quadrennially, this love affair with the presidential candidates burns hot and heavy despite their records, as if they were heart throbs of stage and screen, straight from Broadway or Hollywood deeply concerned for the public’s welfare.
Americans love actors, and the presidential candidates are of course actors, following the directions of the fat cats who produce their shows. As the grand opening of election day approaches, the supine public is aroused to a fanatical frenzy of excitement from its years’-long sleep by a mass media that spews out drivel to deceive. It could be said that what the media propagandists digest, the public eats.
Smoke and mirrors never fail as the electorate’s favorite billionaire-backed candidates – at this point in 2024 Trump and Kamala Harris (but don’t count on it) – spew lie after lie and the mass media faithfully promote the show as if it were an actual contest between good and evil, a grand movie. The acting is terrible, but the audience is so inflamed they can’t tell.
“There are unconscious actors among them and involuntary actors; the genuine are always rare, especially genuine actors,” Friedrich Nietzsche told us long ago, alluding to far more than this crude political masquerade – to life itself – urging us to take a deep look at the games we play and love in our politicians because they confirm our illusions.
In the 2020 election between Joseph Biden and Donald Trump, more than 158 million ballots were cast, a record number that was two-thirds of estimated eligible voters. That was about seven percentage points higher than in 2016 when Trump and Hillary Clinton faced off. Each election was supposed to be the most important in “your lifetime.”
And as everyone knows, the country has gotten more prosperous, healthier and happier, and the world more peaceful, in those eight years of Republican and Democratic rule.
One can expect more of the same smoke this year as the excitement, titillation, and political lies build to a November 4th crescendo. Illusions die hard, or to be more accurate – they do not die.
The Spectacle rolls on.
Although it might sound uppity, unless people read books that explain how the political and economic system is constructed and how it operates, they have no hope of understanding why the presidential elections are musical chairs played to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy. Podcasts and talks can be instructive when true, but they don’t stick like words on a page in a book that you have noted and can refer back to.
But the vast majority of people will not read such books because many can’t read or are too lazy or distracted to take the time to switch off digital media and the mainstream corporate press. It is only through slow meditative reading and study of the great analytic books about social structure, propaganda, history, capitalism, and political economy that a person can truly grasp the nature of the power elite’s domination of the US government, the mass media, and the White House.
A soupçon of differences between contestants for the presidency – superficial makeup – is enough to have those caught in the spectacle get worked up into a hot lather of excitement for candidates chosen by the billionaires. It is an aspect of the mania for celebrity culture.
One cannot simply imbibe the daily mass media, listen to talking heads, or read books recommended and promoted by The New York Times or some prize committee such as the Booker or Pulitzer prizes. (see the NYT’s Best Sellers here – as if #5 could be as “best” as #1).
It is no secret that the reading public has been shrinking for years as literacy has waned dramatically. This is not an accident as the internet, cell phones, and the online life have been pushed by the authorities at every level, including throughout the school system. (I am not arguing that the voters saw through the electoral charade in the past because the level of cultural literacy was higher.)
Today, a walk into any local library throughout the country will confirm the sad state of what even those who read books are reading. The new fiction shelves are filled with books with candy-colored sensationalized covers that evoke bodice-ripping books of old now updated to sound more serious by telling stories of orphans on European trains during WW II, mysterious murders, separated twins, equally evil Nazis and Russians on the prowl, childhood trauma, unfaithful men, etc. All seemingly NY Times bestsellers, together with the “non-fiction” books within which you would search a long time on the shelves to find a radical critique of the American political system and its propaganda arms.
This issue of voting and literacy is connected to another key matter. The American public as a whole does not much care to follow foreign policy and military issues. That is an understatement. Once the military draft was ended in January 1973, the public lost interest in who was being killed in America’s wars. Let foreigners be damned was the unspoken assumption. It was a stroke of genius by the military-industrial-political complex, for politics has always been about what’s in it for us, and when the military is voluntary and Americans are dying in smaller numbers, people are indifferent to the killing.
When it comes to politics, the public’s focus is primarily on domestic issues, the economy, health care, taxes, etc., despite the fact that the entire economy is dependent on war and preparations for war and the U.S. has been at war continually for decades. The U.S spends nearly $900 billion dollars annually on “defense” spending; this is more than China, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, the U.K., Germany, France, South Korea, and Japan combined.
As everyone knows:
The U.S. is defending itself in Syria where its troops illegally occupy the oilfields in the northeast.
It is defending itself helping Israel slaughter Palestinians and supporting an expanded Middle Eastern war.
It is defending itself by attacking Russia via Ukraine and leading the world to nuclear war.
It is defending itself by provoking China in the South China Sea.
It is defending itself all over the world with special forces and military bases everywhere because everyone is out to get us.
It is defending itself always far, far away from its own shores.
Everyone knows that’s how it goes.
But facetiousness aside, the voting public either doesn’t know or doesn’t care that the U.S.A. is a warfare state; it’s as simple as that. Without waging wars, the U.S. economy, as presently constituted, would collapse. It is an economy based on fantasy and fake money with a national debt over 35 trillion dollars that will never be repaid. That’s another illusion. But I am speaking of pipe dreams, am I not? And whether they choose to be aware of it or not, the vast majority of Americans support this killing machine by their indifference and ignorance of its ramifications throughout the society and more importantly, its effects in death and destruction on the rest of the world. But that’s how it goes as their focus is on the masked faces that face each other on the stage of the masquerade ball every four years.
This charade is comical but accepted by so many, and as the Halloween season in a presidential election year in the USA approaches, it becomes most clear. It’s always a trick until four years elapses and the next poisoned candy treat is offered.
Get to the polls. Your life depends on it!
But there is a big price to be paid – a lesson always too late for the learning – for going to the masquerade ball. Yet when smoke gets in your eyes…ah, such an exciting time it is!
“Do you not know there comes a midnight hour when everyone has to throw off his mask?” warned Søren Kierkegaard.
“Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked?
Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this?
Or are you not terrified by it?”
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Many many years ago I watched tv. A strange thing was on the program, bizarre and ugly beyond belief….no, no, that can’t be true. For next ten minutes or so I expected that any moment Spanish inquisition or some other Monty Python joke will drop in …and save the day. Didn’t happen, that shit was for real I realized. It was Santa Barbara soap opera.
Since that times production of similar crap not just went through the roof, it reached once unimaginable lows with reality shows like Love island. I know that even worse things exist but I don’t know their names.
Welcome to the desert of the Real.
US presidential contest is just like aforementioned crap. People cannot discern what is Real and what is “Real”.
Elections today are a spectacle in choosing the lesser evil. Participating in them is immoral because one will choose evil. Never mind it is lesser evil when you have opportunity to choose good in the form of not participating in the charade at all. Seems to me that moral acts are aberration in the realm of “the Real”.
Imagine they called for a war and nobody came?
Yeah, but that is not realistic, comes from Joe Sixpack.
Really…..what, living in “the Real” is realistic?
Along with the dreams of some American voters is the dreams of the economy!
https://southfront.press/the-economic-situation-of-the-west/
I saw a clip of a Kamala Harris campaign stop somewhere, didn’t notice, but the spectacles these things have become, with the empty rhetoric and entertainment and flag waving and cheering like they’re some rabid English soccer fans is so ridiculous now it’s what we Americans that Off Guardian participants love to hate, call “jumping the shark”. If you don’t get it, it’s a long story but easily searchable. But those participating, I guess estimated at around 15K for Harris, are the real American idiots. Believe it or not, there are some that aren’t. Imagine that, out of a country of 340 million.
All you monstrous creeps want a bit of Keeley Hodgkinson now
Who?
For Sophie…(Yes I am that old but can’t sing or play guitar) and my Ex left me.
“Deep Purple – Mistreated 1974 Live Video Sound HQ”
. I’m sure as soon as the election is over, your country will “improve” immediately. As for me, I’ll be home on that day, doing essentially the same thing as you, the only difference is, when I get finished masturbating, I’m going to have a little something to show for it folks.
— George Carlin
for your watching and listening pleasure
“It is defending itself by provoking China in the South China Sea.”
Pure fiction — CCP grabs over 1,000 miles into the ocean for their ILLEGAL 9–dash line sea grab, harrassing various nations in the region!
Also, anyone with a brain comprehends massive, automated election fraud in North America to be quite prevalent: Trump moronically signed the CISA Act of 2018 handing off elections and census to the subverted and corrupt DHS!
ILLEGAL !!!!!
If only those naughty chinks would be as law abiding as the people in the west, the people who created the laws that you mention. And let’s not forget their current heroes, the, Zelensky and Netanyahu angels. Who wouldn’t want to respect such an upstanding and morally upright system.
Because some clown in the USA or UK made up some law, you have a hernia. Was the rest of the world consulted; yeah, they had a choice, agree or die. Even Covid had its incidents of agree or die, and you are stupid enough to support this legal system? Really?
Much of this article is pure CUHRAP, but do agree that the RUBES do not read!
Nobody knows who assassinated JFK, although that data was revealed long ago in declassified documents only a handful of humans bothered to read; nobody knows what happened to the vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, except it was revealed in the technical data in the final official report; while all these mindless aliterate and illiterate “youtubers” and “podcasters” repeat the usual CNN/CBS PuppetMedia crapola!
not yet another american article on og – it’s getting boring now and highlights a considerable lack of insight leading to questions of credibility of og
Well i’d say the actors masks have slipped off, while the mask nazism and now speech/thought nazism escalates as their manufactured, multi-faceted fear mongering hysteria machine overclocks itself. The 360º dystopia for the bottom 90% with it’s negative disposable income now in all our faces. Much less WW3, plandemics, Samo racism and classism, digital cash Panopticon and IoT remote control totalitarianism… barely below the surface. All rolled into covering up the 1%;s Casino bubble blowing an opportunity to take authority to ourselves and cage the rich actor class in permanent LOCKDOWN.
One can look at this PBS post 2020 poll to see that 67 – 80% of eligible voters and non voters believe the system is rigged to: ignore their needs; rich profiteering; lies; a two party duopoly and more. It won’t take much for them to stop voting for the Two Parties altogether.
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/945031391/poll-despite-record-turnout-80-million-americans-didnt-vote-heres-why
I used to think 2024 would be the all time lowest turnout. Until Kamala’s lottery win smile seemed to revive DimoRATism. But, if KH fumbles and bumbles the debates, and DDT keeps performing like a compulsive poisonous stink bomb thrower, we may yet have the lowest Two Party turnout ever.
The US republic is a steaming trainwreck. There are 70 years of unsolved problems topped off by 30 years of incremental 1% financial war of terrorism on Humanity. The US Interest on the Debt will hit $1.4T this year and begin doubling. + an all inclusive War Budget of $1.3T. More than all Income Tax Revenues. Even the Spectacle can’t hide this one. And it’s going off now!
“ It won’t take much for them to stop voting for the Two Parties altogether.”
My theory: things have been so farcically grotesque, in a super-charged way, since c. 2015, that it could very well be that this spectacle is designed to nudge everyone toward “demanding” (the goal along)… GOVERNMENT BY ALGORITHM. Into which we already have more than an exploratory toe: FACEBOOT; GAGGLE, our devices, et al, already bark unilateral decrees at us all day long. FACEBOOT removed a link I posted, of the Cocteau Twins, a few days ago, because it “violated” their “policies”. Nothing I could do about it but laugh.
GOVERNMENT BY ALGORITHM… on the national, then global, level, will be sold as “objective/ impartial/ high speed/ infallible”. Of course it will actually be more wizard-of-oz-ing, with Feudal Lords telling their Merlins what they want their Merlins to program the Superbrain to decree…
All of the Lefty Wokey Liberal Wackery can’t be “real” either… not for the operatives pushing it. It’s very probably meant to trigger a hefty rightward backlash… which even I, seeing through the gambit from the beginning, would welcome as somewhat of a relief (for the first 6 months of the helmeted, ultra-right-wing, march-music-loving, re-simplified pronouns, reversal)…
OT: southport events
There is a puzzle to be solved in the names of the so-called dead.
2 of the pictures at least look to be AI generated.
People will do ANYTHING for money.
Jobs are hard to get. AI is now a big thing. Some people want to show practical experience in AI trickery.
Here we go again. People are getting excited about Words, Words strung together by professional speech writers, designed to be spoken, by professional liars, to target people who desperately want to be excited by Words. The ultra-corrupt political machines in place, entrenched for decades, changing incrementally, only, when their most rotten-with-age members die off, to be replaced with the brighter, younger, even more corrupt generations, trickling in to complete their near-total stranglehold on the Future, must find it all terribly amusing as more wealth, and more power, flows, inevitably, their way. All for the low, low price of Words.
Admin:
Why has my short post in reply to ‘Red Pill Reader’ (timed at 1.54pm today) gone into ‘pending’? Is it just a case of ‘gremlins in the works’?
Thank you.
The name ‘Tonyopmoc’ is flagged as a way of preventing that entity from spamming threads as he is always trying to do. Your comment used the name, so it was flagged, but it’s up now.
Thank you, Sophie.
Those demons stole it last time they will try it again this year.
They always win, red or blue same bullshit.
Remember Trump is also deep state himself…
Drain the swamp? He filled it with neocons just like Biden and Obama did
The counter-argument to your last point is that the swamp creatures who confirm appointees will only approve one of their own.
If it doesn’t matter who wins it, why go to the trouble to steal it?
Because it makes for a good show. Have you never watched professional wrestling? Or have you not caught on to that fakery as well?
“Why would he hit him with a real chair? Why would he really walk out of the ring during the tag team championship match? Why would McMahon hire a wrestler he hates so much?”
Because it makes for a good show.
If there were a candidate that the Deep state thought was a threat, maybe someone not playing within the accepted rules, I suspect that candidate would be neutralized.
But it does matter, do you seriously think that the owners would put themselves in a position where they are dependent on just one team?
The people at the top don’t care who wins, they own both teams, but the teams themselves care about who wins.
Mr Curtis what has changed your mind.? not long ago you was telling us how amazing magnificence loving caring JFK reincarnated RFK jr was.
how he was the one and will bring change to the world.
and with the 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Rfk jr is the one an outside an renegade and The elites deep state so scared of him.
Has the Rfk jr coolaid warned off.?
You obviously missed this article by Edward Curtis.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/12/an-epistle-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr/
Must admit I was uneasy about the writer endorsing RFK Junior at any point, never mind the idol status accorded to JFK and RFK. Were the older Kennedys really anti-zionist? Is the writer justified in conflating the Irish nationalist (in the early 20th century) uprising with anti-imperalism a la oppressed Palestinians in the early 21st century? Is an Israeli genocide of Palestinians a factual take on contemporary politics, given the level of propaganda being disseminated by all sides, including the (Hamas) Palestinian ‘authorities?’ Just asking.
His name is Edward Curtin. He is a nice man, and I have read his book.
I have also read RFK jr’s book “The Real Anthony Fauci” which is a stunning exposition of the corruption within the US Government and The Pharmaceutical Industry. I am amazed he hasn’t been suicided for that, but then totally lost interest in him, not just because of his damaged voice, making him totally unsuitable to be a US President – but his support for Genocide in Palestine – just another washed out American – not got the balls to Tell All The Truth, about The Evil Monsters in Control..more than my life’s worth mate – they’d kill me like JFK
Oligarchies
A: MRC (Monolithic & Ruthless Conspiracy) – aka: NWO, Multipolar WO, BRICS, Belt & Road, Kissinger, etc
B: Atlantic Council
C: Christian Zionists (Pence, Pompeo, etc)
D: AIPAC (I assume they still represent the Netanyahoos)
https://www.gov.il/en/pages/pm-netanyahu-addresses-the-aipac-conference-12-mar-2024
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B & C (i.e. Pax Americana) have almost identical foreign policy. This is Pompeo’s “smooth transition” and “three lighthouses of liberty”. It involves:
a1) Restoring Ukraine to 1991 borders
a2) Implementing Brzezinski’s plan for Black and Capsian Sea regions (i.e. pipelines to Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan)
b) Giving Israel a freehand
c) Securing Taiwan
Kissinger conceded defeat to Pax Americana in May 2023. Pax Americana can work with either Trump or Harris. I would much prefer they choose Trump since this would effectively end the Net Zero policy. AIPAC would clearly prefer Trump, but it probably wouldn’t make much difference.
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See:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/issue/geopolitics-energy-security
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/david-petraeus-on-israel-ukraine-and-the-evolution-of-warfare
David Petraeus on Israel, Ukraine, and the evolution of warfare
November 17, 2023
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/the-end-of-pax-americana-how-western-decline-became-inevitable/256388
The End of Pax Americana: How Western Decline Became Inevitable
The Euro-Atlantic world had a long run of global dominance, but it is coming to an end.
By Christopher Layne
April 26, 2012
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russia-fsu/2022-03-14/return-pax-americana
https://archive.ph/yVcbX
The Return of Pax Americana?
Putin’s War Is Fortifying the Democratic Alliance
By Michael Beckley and Hal Brands
March 14, 2022
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-great-strategist-henry-kissinger-turns-100-china-ukraine-realpolitik-81b6f3bb
https://archive.fo/0o3iI
May 26, 2023
Henry Kissinger Surveys the World as He Turns 100
The great strategist sees a globe riven by U.S.-China competition and threatened by fearsome new weapons and explains why he now thinks Ukraine should be in NATO.
Mr. Kissinger leaves no doubt that he believes in a Pax Americana and in the need “to defend the areas of the world essential for American and democratic survival.”
Pending and I can’t even guess which word set it off.
Democrats cheered when Harris announced her nomination – they cheered despite playing no part, casting no vote. As leading Dems become less human and more horrific their supporters are becoming more sheep-like.
Politics as become more like a sport recently, where its not the players who matter so much, but the teams, the sides, the cheering, the fights.
And this years event promises to be the most spectacular one of them all, until the next one of course.
Unhinged medicated loons.
Indeed. And – where to start – the primaries in 2020, Kamala was the least popular, got the fewest votes of all the candidates. That’s quite a feat. When I heard that Kamala was somehow selected for 2024, I thought Trump’s sure to win. That she’s doing better than Trump in the poles…I don’t believe it. The only popular base Kamala has is the MSM.
Remember, Shillary was predicted to win right up to selection day. I believe the very last poll on that day showed her with an 84% chance of winning…..
In 2016 — but in 2018 a witless Trump was convinced to sign the CISA Act of 2018 which gave away the election ballgame, hence the meat puppet Manchurian Joe in 2020 and his sidekick, Kamalala!
“POLLS” The dumb commie Pole is her VP TAMPON TIM WALZ!!!
No, her demographic is the Drag Queen sector, usually too stoned to bother to vote!
Again, as a member of the Election Integrity Movement on the tech side in the USA off and on for 25 years, Dominion, ES&S, Clear Ballot Group, Edison Research, Dominion–connected BallotTrax and all coordinated by the CISA/EI–ISAC network do majority of actual ballot counting —- Soros $32 billion went far to subvert the elections process and legal system!!!
Their supporters are so intolerant of others that they will accept anything that their side presents as the next Jesus. Up to the Biden debate catastrophe, they were bullshitting any “right wing”/”nazi”/”white man” etc that they met by stating catagorically how Biden was a magnificent POTUS, how he had done a really good job and how there was nothing they could complain about.
Complaints:
Sorry, too many to recall.
Refuse to pay war taxes.
US turnout has suggested US (non-)voters are way ahead of the curve. It hasn’t always been thus – US turnout was at European levels in the 1950s and before. According to the Fraud, “enthusiasm is off the charts” for Harris and she’s surging ahead in the polls. This is a candidate who won 1% of the vote in the primaries and couldn’t win any convention delegates for herself, she had to have them all gifted to her (and she’s going to save democracy!). Her VP pick seems to have been selected to cause maximum outrage on the other ‘side’, the main quality looked for in candidates now. Tim Walz was Governor of Minnesota when Minneapolis burned with BLM protests and he did nothing (as of course did Trump as President for another glimpse of the unaparty in action). His wife tweeted she’d thrown open the windows because she loved the smell of burning (like napalm in the morning presumably) and his daughter tweeted National Guard schedules so rioters would know when they wouldn’t be about. However the corporate media and RHINOs choose to fixate on his tampon law (he mandated tampon machines in male toilets) because they’re quite happy for squabbling over gender nonsense. Of course the VP on the other ‘side’ has been thoroughly exposed as a Peter Thiel sock puppet with his ridiculous “Hilly-billy” story the cover for his Silicon Valley strings. The 2020 election results contain some “interesting” numerology. Turnout of 158m reduces to 33 (read right to left: 8+5=13 and 11×3=33). Biden supposedly gained 81m votes which adds up to 9 and Trump 74m which adds up to 11 so it was a 9/11 event. The chances this is random happenstance and any reflection of actual behaviour seem to me miniscule. At the moment, it looks… Read more »
Nice to see a reasonable statement backed up by the numbers.
The numbers NEVER lie.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvy314jr3go
cf. “The war on terror will not end in our lifetimes!”
Rioters where double jabbed and wearing masks.
at least they was not spreading covid.
the posters where all at home unjabbed with terrorist flags
posting dangerous videos of dangerous videos spreading covid conspiracy’s
inciting anti s dangerous inciting rioters to be dangerous.
It reminded me of January 6th all over again.
I need therapy to get over this.
I stopped reading because this is the most important election of our lifetime.
You are wrong Brian, because I know for an actual fact the NEXT election is the most important of your lifetime…..
Central Casting. “Taylor ’32!”
Dot worry. Absolutely nothing will happen. Just more of the same; dragging time, talking it over, chatting, discussing solutions.
The most important election was 1960, as it postponed Nixon, Kissinger and David Rockefeller’s trip onboard AIR FORCE ONE to China by 13 years —- but the 1960 election was sadly altered by the COUP of 1963!
All voting in the (S)Election does is empower the vile political 1%. It justifies their continued existence. It gives them credibility and a mandate to continue in their looting of public coffers. It enables them to continue destroying your livelihood, your way of life and ditto for your love ones. And only stands to further enslave us all.
There is no political solution left we have to take back the reigns of control or face our ultimate demise. The scale has tipped and the sand is running out.
In solidarity with every one of you.
Amen
People seem to think that the owners decided to give away some of their power to the plebs. Firstly, what self-respecting owner would give anything to the plebs that they did not absolutely have to part with? And would any of them really have to part with power? No, the plebs can be bought with trinkets, they do not seek power. So why did the owners give the plebs the power of the vote?
Because there is no power in the vote. They can brainwash the plebs to vote whichever way they want them to, even going to the extent of selling council houses to buy votes. People are idiots and the owners know it, but it is a great way to keep them contained.
Did she smoke 40 Marlboro Red a day? Work down a coal mine? Or in an asbestos plant? No, she policed social media for non-compliant medical opinions!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wojcicki
On August 9, 2024, Wojcicki died at the age of 56. She had been living with non-small-cell lung cancer for the last two years.[69][70] Her death was first announced by Troper on social media.[71]
On February 13, 2024, Wojcicki’s 19-year-old son Marco Troper died while a student at the University of California, Berkeley. His grandmother has stated that he ingested a drug, though its specifics were unclear.[66][67] The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office announced that the cause of death was acute combined drug toxicity.[68]
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https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/13813322?hl=en
Medical misinformation policy
YouTube doesn’t allow content that poses a serious risk of egregious harm by spreading medical misinformation that contradicts local health authorities’ (LHAs) or the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidance about specific health conditions and substances. This policy includes the following categories:
Prevention misinformation
Treatment misinformation
Denial misinformation
Note: YouTube’s medical misinformation policies are subject to change in response to changes to guidance from health authorities or WHO. There may be a delay between new LHAs/WHO guidance and policy updates, and our policies may not cover all LHA/WHO guidance related to specific health conditions and substances.
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A Conversation with Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube | Davos | #WEF22
World Economic Forum
May 24, 2022
A conversation with YouTube Chief Executive Officer Susan Wojcicki.
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to make positive change.
Karma has been busy..
Here we see how far a woman can go to reach the absolute top when men stay the f… out of the way, and how men have been suppressing the superior strongest and most Intelligent sex of the two stereotypes we had in the awful 1000 years without women in power.
She is even managing Russia, and Putin, Shoigo and Lavrov cant do a shit about it.
Wojcicki aid and colluded in the murder of millions — must be thrilling to you knaves!
Ding dong the Wokcicki is DEAD!!!
The woj could have built Google into a company with real credibility, a company that took great care to be correct and willing to stand on its hard earned credibility, but instead she decided to mimic the BBC. Shame.
Wojcicki discussing Youtube’s role as Ministry of Truth for all things covid:
https://makismd.substack.com/p/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-who-removed
Apart from the IRA a bit, there was absolutely No Terrorism when I was a kid..
I have travelled a lot with my girl, and every where we went in foreign lands everyone was really nice to us..Everyone the shopkeepers, had all their goods on open display, even in Oldham and Forest Hill, No one would even think of Stealing Anything Anywhere in The World
Dunno about the USA – never been there.
My wife and I did go to Marrakech Twice..It hadn’t changed that much in over 20 years, except the donkeys had been replaced by mopeds, and we preferred the smell of donkey shit. We are all pretty much the same, all over the world, obviously with different histories,backgrounds and cultures.
I am merely asking for the Psychopaths in Control to Stop Trying to Kill us All – sure you might have had a rough childhood – so what – Try and make some friends and travel without hiding behind the barrel of a gun, or being bribed .brainwashed and terrorised by extremely evil people
0:13 / 4:37
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant – The Truth Explodes (Yallah) Morocco 1994
Cock off, bell end.
As for boleskine buying page, that pretty much says it all.
Was the IRA around with the dinosaurs? I remember all the plane hijackings, the Israelis killing loads of folks with terrism (nothing changes), the USA also killing bunches of people all over the world (nothing changes), and all sorts of other religious and political groups, there was terrorism everywhere.
Probably much the same now, except that you have to avoid the MSM if you want to find out that the USA and UK are not God’s left and right bollock, Israel being the cock that fucks you over.
‘A pipe dream’ ?
Yeah.
A SEWAGE pipe.
The fox will always rule the Hen house as long as we don’t recognize they look like chickens, too.
Thanks Ed. I agree 100%
I have lost all my faith in my country’s system. 2020 was rigged. 2024 will be rigged. Though why do they bother rigging when both candidates are just WEF puppets?
I will not be voting.
Maybe the problem in the USA is that you have got 10 pot shops in your local village. So far as I am aware, we haven’t got any in our local village in England, just a few pubs, arty shops, diy shop, where they do sell pots and sunflower seeds, and we also have loads of bees, and honey a theatre and the most beautiful fields near by, which smell absolutely lovely
I try not to publicise them cos we get absolutely overwhelmed with Japanese Tourists and Photographers…taking photos of their pretty girlfriend, trying to get the natural light completely right
Tony, you don’t live in the UK. We all know you don’t live in the UK. Nobody understands why you feel this need to keep pretending you do.
Well you have got my IP Address…where do you think I live. Its not that hard to work out.
We don’t track IPs, and in the days of VPNs it’s not really worth it. But your posting times and your total ignorance of British life and customs (to give just 2 examples, you talked about annual snow & sledging in Manchester, and called the Houses of Parliament the “Houses of Westminster”) we think you’re potentially a Midwesterner, from Wisconsin or Minnesota.
But frankly we don’t know who you really are or why you do what you do. We mostly just let you get on with it, despite calls to ban you. But an occasional reminder of reality feels in order.
Excellent sleuthing.
I might have a go at this imaginary geographical relocation.
“As I sit here on this glorious Californian beach gazing at the pagodas out on the savanna….”
edited by Admin for typo
I think Tony is Giles from Gogglebox.
That “Wiltshire cottage” is just a mock-up.
Good work Sherlock
LOL
“we think you’re potentially a Midwesterner, from Wisconsin or Minnesota.”
I have never been to the USA. You are judging me, because I rarely post in the morning UK Time.
I got paid 45% Shift Allowance by working Nights at ICL West Gorton Manchester.
I loved it when all The Smarmy Management had pissed off working at best 9-5 with a long lunch break, and left me in charge on Night Shift – because a lot of the time, we were doing work for Americans.
I am used to staying awake all night, and waking up with the birds in the morning…Then when all is at peace going to sleep.
The two music vids are excellent though
Anyhow, thanks for publishing some of the stuff I write. When my son was about 13 (you know clever kid), I appointed him our house Systems Administrator, it is possible he has garbled our IP address, and is my main moderator – Dad you can’t write this or you will have a knock on the door from – The London City Police, and a couple of years before that – the Local Squad – who looked like they had come they had come to clear our gutters.
Amazingly enough, I was the first to get to the front door…with my wife, close behind…
She said Let them in…I shouted upstairs to my son, there is someone here to see you, but to be fair the same thing happened to me, when I was 23.
The London City Police are in Kentucky, USA.
I think you mean the ‘City of London police’.
A real Brit would know that.
City of London police are only responsible for The City’. Know as The Square Mile financial district which is a state within a state, in much the same way as the Vatican and Washington D.C.
The rest of London (Greater London) – around 600 square miles – is under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police.
I know it is ‘known’. It was also missing a single quoation mark (‘) before The City.
Since I type quickly and directly into the little box for all comments, including long ones, there are regular typos.
I usually do spot them afterwards but since the edit function does not work, I have given up correcting them by addendum, unless major.
You could proofread all my comments after the fact and correct them, if it makes you happy.
The City of London Police came knocking on my Door, not looking for me, but locking for My son, cos he runs a small business, hosting stuff for customers all over the world, in the City of London. They wanted him to help investigate a crime. My wife used to work there as well actually, but resigned when we had our second child – and after a year – whilst we were both being checked out – became a registered child minder..
The second half of the name ‘Tonyopmoc’, read backwards, is ‘Compo’. I never watched the series, but ‘Compo’ was the name of a character in a TV series here in the UK called “Last of the Summer Wine”, back in the 1970s (or 80s, not sure).
I still think that ‘Tonyopmoc’ may well be a ‘bot’. What sort of actual human being would write in the way that ‘Tonyopmoc’ writes?
I’ve wondered myself. Some kinda random generator affable chat bot.
you behave yourself…I have been trying to post here longer than you – just didn’t join the party…happy with your new leader?
I have no objection to you posting. And I appreciate that with this retort you managed to keep it “on topic” … more or less.
… which makes me wonder if “tonyopmoc” might be an anagram. Nah there’s no “i” so I can’t make “topic” out of it.
But carry on anyway. Why not? It takes all sorts.
I’m pending here. Hasn’t happened for while. Just sayin’.
The name “Tonyopmoc” is flagged for pending in our system to prevent that person spamming threads as he tries to do. You used the name. It got held back
someone who works nightshift
Many Americans are familiar with the City of London Corporation and its infamous deal with the Royals in 1700 — in exchange for their creation of the Bank of England they would lease, for pence on pounds — at frozen rates in perpetuity — the choicest real estate to the Royals who could in turn forever rent it out at ever increasing rates over the centuries!
Believe that was altered by Parliament in 2010 to ONLY 40,000 more years?!
WE DESERVE BETTER CHATGPT
The average small village in Britain would be lucky to have one pub, unless it is a touristy village. Pubs are closing down at the rate of approx. 700 a year. (2 a day). Worse since the Plandemic and sky high electricity prices attributed to the Ukraine ‘war’
That red phone box in the (probably photoshopped) picture, apart from there not being many left in normal places would have a defibrilator in it now, not a phone.
Finding an independent ironmonger (D.I.Y/hardware) shop in a village, dream on. You would have to go to the local(ish) B&Q (Home Depot – USA equiv) on an industrial park.
Welcome to the new and not so new normal.
I never claimed there was a phone in the phone box, and I would be extremely surprised to find a defribulator there…They are almost completely useless anyway..Your chances of surviving 24 hours if your heart stops beating are extremely low, even if you are still alive in the RESUS Ward. I know – was there a year ago with SEPSIS…Amazed I am still alive, because 75% of Patients with SEPSIS are DEAD within a Year. I am still recovering…Some days, I am fine..but the next day, I have almost no energy and just want to sleep.
You are right about “sky high electricity prices attributed to the Ukraine ‘war’” but no black outs yet
It is useful to have a defibrilator nowadays because of all the lies!
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2024/03/11/what-is-a-defibrillator-for-and-what-has-it-got-to-do-with-joe-bidens-state-of-the-union-address/
You go through life, you can’t paint, but can appreciate Edward Curtin cos he reminds me of my Childhood..
Meanwhile, I came across this today, I thought it was the most beautiful use of AI, I have yet seen
Vermeer comes to life:
https://x.com/i/status/1821884208765194621
I don’t think so many people are quite the suckers you portray them as. After all, polls indicate that the only group viewed w more disbelief than the media is the politicians.
Perhaps people are confused by the double negative: When a known miscreant (the media) pretends rather convincingly to be against a politician (Trump), many couldn’t resist championing a media target.
We probably won’t hear much about the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty during the election theatre frenzy, but I suspect the following will certainly affect which puppet is chosen as the next US President.
“The expectation is that the negotiations will conclude in 2025, and given that U.S. elections will be held in November 2024 there remains some uncertainty about the future of U.S. engagement. This is especially true if President Trump were to be elected (selected) given his prior administration’s history of speaking out against WHO and moving to withdraw the U.S. from WHO membership, as well as his more general “America First” approach to international engagement. With Republican lawmakers and associated groups echoing those calls to withdraw U.S. support for WHO, U.S. engagement with and approval of any future agreement could be very different depending on the 2024 electoral results.”
https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/the-pandemic-agreement-what-it-is-what-it-isnt-and-what-it-could-mean-for-the-u-s/
With the parlous state of affairs in UK now, I am assuming Starmer will be clammering to sign away any remaining freedoms we have.
Every day I read more and more stuff straight from a dystopian novel and I give my head a bang to see if this is a dream.
It’s not.
It’s a nightmare.
A living nightmare.
You are not alone in your thoughts, neither are you wrong. Its so hard to see what’s happening in the world at present and not feel some sense of helplessness. Personally I find my solace in nature, trees, birds, water, blue sky’s (weather permitting) etc, and it gives me some sort of release from the rest of the absolute nonsense that I see or hear elsewhere.
Don’t let the bastards grind you down.
I saw what must have been a whole flock of storks above the village where I live in West Sussex, UK. I understand they now are nesting and breeding on the Knepp Estate.
https://knepp.co.uk/rewilding/reintroductions/white-stork/
In 2005 Harold Pinter, after receiving the Nobel Prize for literature describing very succinctly the US position on its coups and wars since 1945. He said ” it never happened even while it was happening”.
Harold Pinter: Art, Truth & Politics (wikispooks.com)
Running the clock forward almost 20 years, the US/ NATO are pursuing similar policies in the Ukraine. However, they are no longer fighting sand and sandals insurgent wars but a top tier military power. A very serious situation is approaching as many serious independent foreign policy analysts have stated.
The Western hegemon, which has controlled the planet via its military and financial power, is fading. Any serious student of history will know that hegemons do not relinquish power lightly. We are all in a very perilous position.
Who Really Controls US Foreign Policy? (youtube.com)
Are there two Edward Curtins? What happened to the Edward Curtin who told us in May of 2023 that “hope is resurrected” and that RFK Jr. is “the only candidate who can heal this nation’s great divide?” That drooling sycophant who was calling us to line up behind our next political savior can’t possibly be the same guy as this hardened cynic telling us that elections have never mattered.
You have missed all that I have written and said since that initial endorsement.
Why did I give my heart so fast?
It will never happen again
But I was a mere lad of sixteen
I’ve aged a year since then
-Sam Cooke
This is the second comment I have read alluding to Mr. Curtin’s support of RFK Jr early on.
Many of us felt the same as Mr Curtin when RFK Jr first announced his candidacy. I was at his announcement in Boston.
I did not believe he would actually win but I was very excited to think that his message about pharmacuetical and corporate corruption would finally get mainstream play.
I wanted his message out there, possibly to awaken a few people, as I had awakened in 2020.
I soon lost my enthusiasm for his candidacy. For whatever reason he has chosen to go “politics as usual” and it simply turns me off.
It took awhile to lift my jaw off the floor after listening to his interview with Jimmy Dore last summer on the subject of Israel and Palestine.
I can’t believe he really believes what he says about that situation but he must have his reasons.
Maybe it’s a long game. But I am not interested in long games. That is politics as usual.
So, I understand Mr. Curtin’s deep disappointment in RFK Jr’s turn. I will not vote for him or for any candidate.
Another thing that has driven me crazy are the daily, sometimes twice a day, emails from Kennedy Campaign asking for money.
And every time you watch something on youtube there is Kamala (previously Obama and Biden) and Trump and son, asking for money!!!
WHERE is all the money going????
It’s INSANE.
We all know who is running. We all know their views (or what they are told to view). Why do they need all this money?
“It costs money to run a campaign”. WHY? It is the age of the internet. No need for signs and flyers an expensive tv commercials.
At the time Curtin wrote that column idolizing his then-hero, RFK Jr. had already vociferously pledged to support Israel no matter what. Then just five months later, Curtin went from being willing to ignore the slow, quiet elimination of the Palestinian people to at least feeling the need to object when the extermination accelerated enough to become front-page news. That’s fair enough, but now after a mere ten more months have passed Curtin is suddenly painting himself as a hardened cynic who would never, ever have done anything so futile as endorse any political candidate, let alone one who tolerates genocide. That’s what’s beyond the pale.
I did not read into it that way, but I understand your point.
Of course I cannot speak for Mr. Curtin, but I think at this point we have all been so twisted, turned around and shaken by the utter transparency of the oligarchal uniparty that perhaps some slack is called for?
Absolutely not. If you are still a sucker, even if you were a sucker before Covid, then you have had your head in the sand. Any rational thinker will understand that there are too many false prophets out there, people who are very good at looking good, but once you scratch the surface …
My guess is that Curtin wanted to be on the crest of the RFK jr wave, so he adopted him early, didn’t do his due diligence, but hoped that he would maybe increase circulation; he was not alone, a lot of other bandwagon jumpers did the same. But, it was not to be, the RFK Jr revealed himself to be an Israel first power cuck, sucking Netanyahu dick like an Elon.
He would have destroyed his circulation if he had continued, so he backed down and accepted that his personal enthusiasm for RFK Jr was misplaced and not good for his career.
It is good to recognise your mistakes; we all make them!
Great article. Thank you Edward. You say “he games we play and love in our politicians because they confirm our illusions.” So true. And what an interesting word, ILL-usions. They make you ill if you believe them.
Emma Goldman said it best: “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” 😁
“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.”
Joe Stalin
True, that’s why voting is still legal.😆
Why would that matter when both candidates are fucking idiots? Counting votes doesn’t matter when the entire system is corrupt and it doesn’t matter who wins anyway.
Good question. Maybe it matters to our owners? Maybe giving the illusion of choice is useful for them, or maybe there are factions, largely in agreement in terms of ends, if not necessarily means, and it suits them to have a “friendly” competition to sort out which direction they’ll take. It’s even possible there’s a less than friendly competition.
Forget the revolution!
Let’s dance and sing.
JFK:
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy . . .
He nailed it . https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/who-runs-the-world
You are spamming multiple links to your substack. We don’t allow this. Please keep it to one or two per article.
I am not spamming … I made that Substack so that I would not have to rewrite those thoughts every time I post on other platforms…
I suppose I could copy and paste the entire thought instead?
If you are too lazy to post a unique comment, only paste links across multiple platforms (with a faux-discursive single line of text supplying zero context, no less), that is the definition of spamming! 😅 Perhaps you think we were born yesterday??? And hold the sarcasm, Admin was generous allowing you to post a link twice!!
Compose unique comments and have meaningful exchanges with fellow commenters. By all means link to your substack with a short exert, but once per article is sufficient.
And less of the discourteous attitude, young master Fast Eddy. Run along now and play with the other lads.
Spot the Difference!
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/05/kissinger-these-are-the-main-geopolitical-challenges-facing-the-world-right-now
When former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, spoke for the first time at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 1980 he said that “we are in an age of global-interdependence”. This statement was repeated by World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman, Klaus Schwab, in a discussion with the Nobel-prize winning diplomat at Davos 2022.
I said that already in 1977.
Kissinger may have picked it up from one of my comments around the case. Whatever it was, its clear that I were right on spot at the earliest moment.possible.
It was scripted, foreshadowed, pre-emptively programmed, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_(1976_film)
Release date: November 27, 1976
https://business.time.com/2008/01/21/the_vast_ecumenical_holding_co
The vast ecumenical holding company that is Davos
By TIME.com
Jan. 21, 2008
Mrs. CC and I are headed off to Switzerland tonight for a week of (winter sports and debauchery) high-minded panel discussions in the mountain resort of Davos. I will be posting regularly and even, heaven forfend, vlogging.
But before I go, I’ll leave you with these encouraging words from Arthur Jensen, the big-media CEO (played by Ned Beatty) from the movie Network. He’s giving Howard Beale, the Lou Dobbsian network anchor (played by Peter Finch) a talking-to:
And yes, I’ve used that line before. Just trying to keep you amused on behalf of my holding company.
—
I mentioned it PUBLIC in 1977, but I knew it well before the film you refer to of 1976.
All right someone took my rational and made a film out of it 1996. But as you see, the sheeple dont give a shit.
Here 1948 years later we are still at the same believe level.
The fundamental problem with government is that while you might not be interested in it, it most certainly is very interested in you. Especially if you don’t fit in.
This really negates the whole “a plague on both their houses” mindset. By all means don’t fit in, write and say what you want but don’t get any traction — build a movement — because you’ll have to be dealt with. This notion isn’t new, in the UK there’s a tradition of being able to speak your mind in public, so much so that the time and place became something of a tourist attraction (“Hyde Park Corner”). (Just don’t say anything that might give offense to someone, somewhere, because you’re likely to get arrested. Stick to approved topics like Flat Earth or UFOs.)
The present ultra-right wing in the US is proof that you can build a grass roots movement provided it has an approved end goal (a goal that might actually not be known to the grass roots membership — they’re typically fobbed off with the equivalent of Flat Earth and UFOs). If you want change then you have to figure out how to fit your aims into an approved template and be prepared to be patient — you have to build, often appearing to go in the wrong direction, until you’re powerful enough to look those ‘fat cats’ straight in the eye. I don’t know how to pull this off but just saying “No!” or directly challenging the Establishment has proven historically to be a waste of time.
didn’t you find it odd Julian Assange has not done a interview yet.
I thought he would at least tell his story to Doctor JB peterson or Carlson.
It would be odd if he did some interviews.
It is surely part of the plea deal that he has to keep his mouth shut in perpetuity.
And I am quite shocked that you would even seriously consider the option that he could get interviewed left and right.
Interestingly Carlson was in Australia at the same time Julian arrived home. Perhaps the interview may appear when the timing suits
Great article but (S)election Day is Nov 5, not Nov 4…
Americans are still thoroughly intoxicated with consumerism, tech, and the feeling of superiority that comes from having the best toys, the most disposable income and the delusion of global hegemony.
In whatever field of activity you are into, chances are that in the US people are doing it bigger and better, and there are more brands offering quality at a price and just more of everything to buy for every little need you didn’t know you had.
This is simply too addictive and they are not about to give it up voluntarily…
Also, America PRETENDS to be leading the world to nuclear war because nuclear weapons are a scam they invented. Do you really think they wouldn’t have used them again since the Japan false flag attacks?
>….and they are not about to give it up voluntarily…
…and why should they? In the words of Slarty Bardfast (Planet builder from the “Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”) “I’d far rather be happy than right”.
I’ve just finished reading “Brave New World”, an early 1930s book about a dystopia of sorts where the entire goal of society is Stability. To engineer Stability requires everyone to be allotted a place and purpose and to be engineered — literally — to fit into that place and not just lack any ambition to change but also the mental tools to question their place. They’re happy, “Happy Helmet” (Ren and Stimpy) style. Naturally this story centers about dissidence and like Orwell’s “!984” this doesn’t end well for the dissidents. Its just that conformance is enforced in a much more subtle, yet comprehensive, way than Orwell envisaged.
Breaking out of this topor — something we need to do because unlike sci-fi writers from a generation or two ago we live in a finite world — is going to be a real challenge. “The Government” might to it for us because our economic and social system tends to divide us into winners and losers and is very brutal towards losers. But the system has stood the test of time, adapting to all challenges, so it likely has lots of tricks up its sleeve (and, never forget, “it can afford the best”).
It is intersting how the ideas behind BNW and 1984 are being tested out in various countries:
In US, drugs are being legalised, echoing the use of soma in BNW to keep the population compliant
In Australia, Canada and now UK , pure tyranny is being rolled out as per 1984
I can only assume they’re testing to see which is more effective.
Or, probably more likely, cheaper.
Not all Americans…
As mentioned… we all benefit from pillaging the resources of weak countries… https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/why-war-is-awesome/
The United State of Shopping.
These help the zombification: (a) ignorance of the rest of the world, implemented in schools (b) blocking news and social-media outlets that will not compromise.