more parenti

this guy is just great. though this talk is nearly 30 years old, it's just as relevant today as it was then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Zkw2oUWlY

straight talk

Esmaeil Baqaei, a spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, also condemned the attack on social media, blaming “the American-Israeli aggressors.”

“Heartbreaking, cruel, despicable, and utterly outrageous,” Baqaei wrote. “This is not merely another war crime committed as part of an illegal war; it is a barbaric assault on basic human core values.”

the above was copied from a Common Dreams article on one of the latest american war crimes committed against iran in it's war of aggression against another relatively defenseless nation. what prompted me to copy it and comment on it is the fact that such straight talk, such honest blunt criticism of the barbaric wars and foreign policy (and for that matter the domestic policy too) of the USA is never to be found in it's mainstream corporate media, which is too busy demonizing america's imagined enemies to take the time to notice the depravity right here. what surreally gets my goat is this propagandizing works in large part because most americans act as though they too, like the establishment media, are allergic to such straight talk criticism of the nation they've been indoctrinated to love, support, and defend.

one might think that most americans would have learned by now that the first casualty of war is the truth, and that it's simply a matter of course that the enemy du jour is going to be dehumanized and demonized by their establishment media, as was perhaps most notably done last century during it's two world wars when the germans were barbaric 'huns' and the japanese were subhuman 'japs'. but of course, and very sadly, one would be wrong to think such a thing, because most sheeple never learn or take to heart such historical lessons.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/pasteur-institute-iran

more dumbfounded

Just watched part of a pbs program titled 'Local, USA', episode titled 'Inundation District' about some incredibly expensive and foolish real estate development in the city of Boston on tidal bay land that was filled in over a century ago with garbage and earth taken from nearby hills, to just above high tide level. For a reason that went unstated, this manmade land was not developed until recent decades, when many skyscrapers have been built upon it. The speakers in this doc. never say this aloud, but it's made very clear that this enormous investment in buildings on land soon to be flooded regularly due to rising seas due to climate change (which my barbaric idiot president Donald Dunce calls a hoax) is one hell of a boondoggle, a case of more  dumbfounding stupidity. One must ask again; what the flock's wrong with America? Is everyone in power incredibly stupid, crazy, or what?

This program went on to make the very valauble points that climate change is here and only going to get worse for a long time to come, and our failure as a society to honestly acknowledge and deal with it is a humongous calamity which future generations will have to pay dearly for. But remember this documentary is on PBS World, a tv channel very few Americans watch. Thus the clueless masses' ignorance goes on, as will 'business as usual' in the clueless USA, until mother nature says enough!, and puts a stop to it.

dumbfounded

Jeffrey sachs is a hotshot political economist, apparently well connected in terms of having relationships with quite a few world leaders and other influential sheeple. he's also become a very outspoken, fierce, and articulate critic of american politics and foreign policy, making him a darling of the political 'far left' and a very popular guest on many intellectual independent 'far left' internet forums. I've been a big fan for years, more so even recently, for his criticism of the horrid trump presidency and of a u.s. congress and corporate media which do nothing whatsoever to impede his deranged xenophobic autocratic narcissistic arrogant war criminal governance. As he says in the video linked below, it's become completely normalized by these institutions which are supposed to serve the public, but which have been thoroughly corrupted and now only serve a criminal elitist agenda.

Listening to him, i'm dumbfounded because i agree with him completely as i'm plagued with thoughts of how this man has no chance of appearing in lamestream corporate media, and of seemingly somewhat intelligent and rational sheeple i know who for reasons which completely escape me prefer the bs of corporate media, the normalization of war criminality and support for genocide, imperialism, and wars of aggression, over someone like sachs who bluntly tells the truth and questions the sheer insanity of the political climate in america today, including how the american public, following the lead of it's government and media, normalize war criminality and support for israel's genocide of palestinians and it's supportive arab neighbors, all of whom are demonized by the american establishment as terrorist groups supported by it's current leading bogeyman, iran.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk46DNszJBw

Reject Authority, Trust Yourself - Terence Mckenna

I couldn't have promoted anarchy better myself, so i'll have Terence McKenna speak for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WXroiXWfcI

unprecedented chaos and collapse

population and resource use must be cut back. Fossil fuels, metals, potable water, arable land, ocean fish, are all at or near their limits compared to the demands being placed on them. If we fail to scale back, he warns, “this new century will not grow very old before we enter an age of chaos and collapse that will dwarf all the dark ages in our past.”

the above quote was taken from this nearly 13 year old post:

https://boryanabooks.com/humanity-caught-in-a-progress-trap-again/

which i came across at the collapse of industrial civilization blog while reading the following entry:

https://collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/2026/03/22/the-war-that-sinks-the-lifeboats/

this blog is written by xray mike. here's his brief self description from there:

I’m a social critic, political/cultural commentator and artist. The modern industrial world is sleepwalking towards the cliff of economic and ecological ruin. Most are oblivious to the paradigm shift that is occurring, but some are starting to awaken to the false stories our culture has told itself. My objective is to highlight important news stories and essays to find the hidden truth behind what Joe Bageant called the American Hologram. www.collapseofindustrialcivilization.com

what the flock is wrong with sheeple?

more thought on the false flag 9/11 terrorist attack: there couldn't be a more glaring, strong smoking gun evidence that it was an inside job than the obvious controlled demolition of WTC-7, so why is it that only a handful of relatively obscure individuals and small powerless organizations like AE911 have done so much as bat an eyelash at it in the u.s.??? and what about 'enemy' nations which have come under attack since under the very broad rubric of 'the war on terror'? why haven't their leaders been trying to make a great international stink over it? exactly what the flock is wrong with sheeple???