Quoting me in a carefully selective way that neatly hides the context.

I think Bill Gates is intelligent, but a scheming rat. Or I should say vulture.

One born fried at it again. Friedmaniac. Milton kind. A brainwashed little child or one who was.

Disagree. The NY – California comparison proves that the lockdown Unz supports or supported saved lives. California, the larger state, with the earlier first infections, has had much fewer infections and deaths than NY, thanks to quick lockdown.

You can perhaps say we’ve learned by now that the disease is less deadly than at first thought, and that the treatment ventilators are more deadly than at first thought. But that we’ve learned with time is not a reason to rip into Ron Unz as you and others have done here. That’s stupid. Or malicious.

Thanks, Kali. A benefit of the lockdown is that those stuck at home have had nothing to do but read and browse and learn. So if there was a conspiracy by our rulers to make us all accepting of house arrest and having all our movements and contacts spied on, too many of us are aware of that, aware of the conspiracy, so it’s not going to work.

Israel practices official “apartheid” to a much greater degree than that of any other country in the world—the former South Africa included.

Every vehicle driver in Israel proper and in the illegally occupied territories is identified by his or her vehicle license plate as well as personal documentation (identity papers). License plates are coded as to the ethnicity and religious persuasions of the owners, and are used to deny basic “rights” to those who are of “the wrong ethnicity”.

There are roads and thoroughfares that are designated “for jews only”. “Jews-only” roads and thoroughfares are state-of-the-art, paid for with American taxpayer dollars, while roads used by Palestinians are poorly maintained, with many military “checkpoints” which adds further misery to the lives of Palestinians.

Any Arab or Palestinian who attempts to use “jews only” roads or thoroughfares is arrested and heavily fined.

This policy even extends to “footpaths” which are designated by “jewishness”.

Palestinians and other Arabs are forced to go through humiliating “checkpoints”, even being delayed for HOURS, if they are even allowed to pass, at the whim of the jewish “authorities”. This even extends to medical emergencies, where ambulances are routinely delayed by jewish authorities, “just because they can”.

In Israel proper, and in the illegally occupied territories, Israeli officials make rules and laws as they go along, ignoring the (official) laws (rule of law) already in place.

On a whim, any Israeli official can declare that a building, other structure, planted farmland, water wells, and other basic facilities owned by Palestinians are “illegal” and subject to destruction by Israeli forces.

This even applies to buildings, lands, orchards and crop-producing lands which have been in Palestinian possession for centuries. All the Israeli military has to do is to declare the Palestinian-owned property to be a “military zone”. No other laws or permissions are needed to expropriate land from the Palestinians.

Water is heavily restricted in Gaza and in the Palestinian areas while jewish settlements can use all the water they want.

Sewage from illegal jewish settlements is routinely dumped on Palestinian land without regard to the pollution problems that it causes.

This is a continuing process that is forcing Palestinians off their land and facilitating the building of jewish “settlements” in the illegally occupied areas.

Let’s turn to the treatment of Christians in Israel proper. In the tourist areas, jewish authorities try to keep the disrespect for Christianity to a minimum so as not to insult their Christian zionist tourists.

In fact, the hatred for Christian churches, and Christians in general is so pervasive, it is not surprising to see jews “spit” when walking past a Christian church.

Jews are experts at “graffiti”, calling it “price tagging” which they use to good effect as the authorities generally “look the other way” when the vandalism and destruction of Christian facilities by jews is going on.

The Israeli authorities plan specific itineraries for Christian zionist groups and American politicians so they do not witness the overt, outright hatred that jews have for Christians,

You see, “it’s all for show” when it comes to begging for American dollars from the American taxpayers and from these misguided Christian zionist groups.

The irony of the situation is that the Palestinians who have lived in the middle east for centuries and even millennia are reduced to being unwelcome in their own land while jewish interlopers, most of them from the United States and Europe are overlords in Israel and in the illegally occupied territories.

Palestine IS the ancestral homeland of the Palestinian Muslims and Christians. They are the indigenous people, the descendants of the ancient Hebrews and Canaanites. The Jews of “Israel”, the land, are almost all Europeans distinguished from other Europeans only in practising weird rituals including the genital mutilation of babies but many others. They have no right to have colonized a Semitic land.

Real historians have shown that the Muslim conquest of Palestine did not dispossess its inhabitants. The only illegal occupiers are the Jews, whose beastliness you have well demonstrated.

The Arab world is to blame, first for manufacturing a people like the “Palestinians” (long ago I lived in a small Arizona town where at one time, a bunch of white guys had gotten together and invented an Indian tribe out of themselves, and got funding as a legit tribe. Same thing.)

The Arab world has tons and tons of places for them to go. Land, if you can get the lazy buggers to farm, they’re good at burning down anything given to them…. jobs, etc. It’s like being on the beach where there are tons of empty beach chairs but you want THE one some little old lady is sitting on, just trying to get some vitamin D.

Corbyn didn’t want to make a multi cultural country in Israel, but simply that the rights of the Palestinians be respected. This has nothing to do with pandering to Muslim voters. If this were the case, why wouldn’t the conservative party also pander to those votes? You don’t seem to know very much about Israel. If Jews are not happy with the fact that Palestinians live in Palestine, which has always been their land, they can search for another country. It’s Jews who made a multicultural country of Palestine. Maybe you also think that we shouldn’t have multi-cultural countries in the West and in this case you favour expelling Jews?

Second, the time was never better for Corbyn. he certainly didn’t want to raise taxes of most of the people, even less the taxes of the people who lost their jobs in fabrics. I have never heard of any proposal by him that had to do with a”spending spree”.

I doubt that Labour talked about free movement beyond rules concerning the EU: “Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesperson has confirmed that it is Labour policy to end freedom of movement once the UK leaves the EU.”

At the moment it’s the American tax payers who are paying for the tenth orthodox child to live in lands that belongs to the Palestinians. Muslims are coming to the West in large part because of the money that the West spends fighting Israel’s wars. Everything corrected for you.

Good ideas, but how do you prevent the New Progressive Party from being taken over by pro-Israel Jewish members?

And “Progressive” is dangerous. Too often, what has posed as socially progressive has been in fact socially subversive. Think of same sex marriage as social progress.

I would call the party the Anti-Semitic Party. That would make it immune to accusations of breaking that particular taboo, immune to accusations of “anti-Semitism”, while openly taking on the issue of excessive Jewish power, and ending the treason of governments subservient to a foreign country. That would be made impossible.

It would become a matter of debate rather than a taboo subject, but throwing around that label would no longer work.

Brilliant, Craig, thanks! And disgusting. Makes us disgusted with us. And you don’t even mention FDR’s trick of engineering the Pearl Harbor attack, sacrificing US sailors etc. Of course they are disposable, hence USS Liberty only 22 years after the war.

Is it Jew bashing? Or a warning of what’s happened before, and the need to face reality?

The members of the new party would need to be vigilant.

Is that a reply to IvyMike that you addressed to me by mistake?

It’s a mark of the corruption of the US system, particularly its legal system, that realistically a new party would need lots of money. Otherwise it will be taken over by new owners with lots of money.

Don’t call the Jews Hebrews. They are Europeans, the result of massive proselytizing between 200 BC and 200 AD and later mass conversions like the Khazars.

Ask Benjamin Freedman about “so-called Jews”.

I hear you, and I sympathize, but even if a third party could manage to gain traction against all the forces the oligarchy has to offer, it will be easily corrupted and co-opted.

The problem is that our entire establishment – not just the political parties, but the media, the universities, the non-profits – is corrupt and set against us. Progressives like FDR got traction because, even though they got heated opposition, they also had real support from major sectors of the establishment. No such support exists today.

You talk about funding, but that’s old school. The biggest problem of a new party is that the media simply won’t give it any attention, and no measly hundred million dollars or so can overcome that barrier. A new party will not be covered or given any air time (can you spell Tulsi Gabbard?) and if so, will be slimed as racist/fascist/anti-semtic etc.etc. 24/7. It won’t go anywhere, it can’t.

The Sierra Club used to be against the government using massive immigration to force population growth higher, for the simple reason that massive population growth is the biggest single threat to the environment (compare the environmental quality of Canada with India if you still believe that it’s all about individual consumption, that’s rubbish). Then a billionaire gave a hundred million dollars to the Sierra Club leadership in return for them no longer talking intelligently about population growth (google “Sierrans for Population Stabilization) and now an organization that used to oppose forced population growth now files lawsuits demanding it! The elites have too much power, they can and will corrupt and co-opt anything you build.

I wish I had a solution but I don’t. It does seem to me that perhaps we are lecturing the wrong audience. People like me don’t matter. Maybe the key is to convince the elites that they are killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. They don’t care if their policies are immiserating you and me. They might care if they thought that their policies were killing the future wealth of themselves and their heirs, maybe.

Democracy having nothing to do with voting is a good point. Representative democracy could work well by using a computer to generate random numbers to pick the legislators for a fixed but longish single term off the electoral rolls of districts large enough that the size of the parliament would not be excessive.

It was voter-elected governments that took the world into World War One. It was the voter-elected Churchill and FDR who gave us World War Two. These people are dumb. Their skill is in debating, nothing else. People selected purely at random would give us ancient Athenian democracy, but representative.

I’ve been hugely impressed by the comments here. Together they outshine the original article, except that that is what brought them here, so thanks, Trall.

How is this different from dictatorship? I would much rather have Gaddafi ruling my country than any recent POTUS. He did very, very well. Free health care, housing, … What brought him undone was that he was independent of the USA, the only problem with Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba. But Venezuela is vastly more democratic than the USA.

And Russia and China, of course.

The computer OS and the random number generator would need to be free and open source, not another Bill Gates monopoly, of course. Linux is the best OS candidate. So observers in each electorate could see the OS compiled and monitor everything, ensure that selection was not rigged.

Compare the cost of that with the overall cost of current elections.

He said back then he thought that. Hasn’t expressed his current view. None of us knew back then that the US was dumping pure U238 on Yugoslavia making large parts uninhabitable for a thousand years.

There goes One Born Fried again, the Milton Friedmaniacal worshipper of Joe McCarthy.

America’s mission is already drafted and ready for print, Mr. Buchanan. The Corporation of the United States of America is now tasked to proceed to the International Bankruptcy Court for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy due to obvious insolvency financially & morally in 2020.

By the numbers America is literally toast as any sort of financial or social arbiter of world affairs from this point onwards. The new mandate for Americans writ large is to concede defeat at the hands of the ever incompetent financial bureaucrats that head up the US Treasury & Federal Reserve Fractional Banking System so that Americans can deal responsibly with the crimes against humanity that America’s political & Deep State leadership has foisted upon US taxpayers that are responsible for the crimes of state that have manifested to bring the world to this juncture of chaos worldwide.

America’s mission is to be completely honest about the level of international criminality they have wrought upon an unwitting global world to date.

Historically, America is merely a low level thugster functionary sovereign of half wits & political imbeciles educated in degree mills with zero talent or foresight into possible & probable futures.

American taxpayers all owe the world reparations for the incessant destruction that Americans have destroyed the world economies & world populations with over the last half century.

Engaging in psychological projections of where America will be heading into the next few decades must reliably contain the reality of a world that rejects the false so-called ‘supremacy’ of anything American and especially anything that is politically expedient when it comes to sovereign obfuscation around the matter of liability for the bioterrorism that the CIA inflicted upon a previously thought of business partner at the international level of business & commerce.

America is a schoolyard bully that has finally been outed and is slated to be beaten up after school for the overarching abuse overextended over decades upon decades of malevolence towards human beings.

Let America be cast into perdition for their crimes against humanity & civilization.

That is America’s mission, Mr. Buchanan.

RW

I think it was Ron Paul who wrote that the FBI should be abolished, investigation of crime is not a federal matter.

But it seems more important to abolish the CIA. Put them all on generous pensions for a few years but forbid them to communicate with each other or leave the country. Army help would be needed.

Let each individual state manage its own counter-espionage.

If NY had been managing its own security I think the 9/11 dancing Israelis would still be in a NY prison.

So get rid of both the FBI and the CIA.

Andy, thanks. Very well explained. I’m not sure, through, that you should have told everyone what you’re going to do when, if, you survive your next trip to Hong Kong.

This site’s credibility is going down faster than the financial markets. It’s only good for entertainment value at this stage.

Is it really hurting China’s image in the world? It has boosted it, not hurt it, as far as I can see. It’s America’s that’s been hurt, isn’t it?

Brilliant, Saker! There are a few typos in there, but then, dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t.

It makes me optimistic that in the not too distant future we will have a happy, peaceful world, that monstrosity, the USA, being no longer part of it.

It should be a world in which English is no longer the international language. Check out io.m.wikipedia.org.

It is true that the US is the “ever bad guy”. You are simply in denial.

You have a point regarding China. Tibet comes to my mind. But it is a weak point. The USA prevented freedom of navigation through that passage between Vietnam and the Philippines to prevent oil from reaching Japan to force Japan into war. Another mark of the monstrosity that is the USA.

Polarized USA in the nasty election time did it and not the China. China’s leadership is much more smarter than to damage their best customer’s economy. This is so simple…the US is so polarized beyond repairs. One has to assume this polarization is spread to every institutional sector of the country, including Pentagon and its military bio-labs.

The Covid19 was released by the pro-Democrats military fanatics (unknown ethnicity) to prevent Trump reelection by damaging his economy. They realized their senile candidate has no chance against Trump. For obvious reasons the Republican element in the military would not do such a thing. There you have it.

This is much more plausible scenario than China did it. It is in the pattern of previous attempts like fake dossier or Ukraine call or prostitute Stormy.

Throwing around labels like “hook-nosed maggots” probably won’t check them. So make a useful comment. Or do you know how they can be checked but want to keep it secret?

American Empire is surely the most obnoxious in human history. Why? Because it’s so unnecessary. It’s like the fattest person trying to eat the most to grow even fatter.

Past empires made political sense(even if they were morally dubious). Without domination over other peoples, certain kingdoms and nations could not be great powers or world hegemons. Without their empire, the Romans weren’t much. Same with Persia and the Ottomans.
Spain, Britain, and France on their own could be regional powers but not great world powers. They needed empires and had to rule over other lands & peoples to be world players. Same with the Japanese empire. Japan on its own could be prosperous but it couldn’t be a dominant power in Asia, let alone the world.

In contrast, just look at the US. It is gigantic and occupies the best land mass by far in the world. US has just about everything. It even has Alaska. Besides, Canada is essentially an extension of the US, and Mexico is its backyard. US doesn’t need overseas empire to be a great power, a world player. It is an empire unto itself. The only other nations that are comparable are Russia, China, and Brazil(and maybe India). But Russians are underachievers, Chinese lack sufficient individuality for innovation(and are limited in arable land and resources relative to their land mass), and Brazil has too many corrupt idiots and too many blacks.

It’s understandable why UK and France didn’t want to give up their empires. It’s understandable why Germans and Japanese felt they needed to conquer and rule over others to be world players. On its own, each of those nations couldn’t be a world power.

But US, all on its own, is a world power, but apparently that isn’t enough. It feels this lust to dominate and rule the rest of the world. Jewish rulers with their supremacist arrogance and Anglo managers with their restless adventurism are the cancer of world history. They don’t know when and where to stop.

I suggested calling the new party the Anti-Semitic Party. That would empower the party to examine and record whether applicants were Jews and remain on the guard against Jewish influence. It doesn’t mean none could join, but not too many, perhaps.

It would also spark outrage which would be good publicity.

There would be a real risk of their meeting place being blown up. That has happened before with Holocaust revisionist printing works. But a political party would be safer.

But “racial block” is wrong. The Jews are not a race.

This April 22 article by Michelle Malkin currently appears as the first on the home page so appears to be the latest.

But several articles for April 23 by other authors appear if I click on Authors and scroll past the table of names at the top. There are several there for April 22 also but Michelle’s article is not one of them. She doesn’t appear under Authors.

But if I click on her name I find about 7 articles by her for April. They don’t appear either on the home page or under authors. Surprisingly (to me) all except the April 1 article have normal-looking numbers of comments. She also has there articles for March, quite a few, but all of them and that for April 1 have drawn zero comments, presumably haven’t been seen.

Ron, could you put Michelle’s articles into the reverse-chronological Authors list?

KIM

-dont be a pedantic, nitpicking, detail oriented, overbearing, know it all ass. It is boring ! You are boring ! who gives a shit about McCarthy anyway and whether he belonged to the Representatives House or a whore house.

So there is no hope? There is so far a Finnish smartphone maker independent of Apple and Google. And there are a few others. Their limitation seems to be that they lack Google apps. And it’s possible to simply stop watching movies on phone or TV and simply read texts, perhaps not MSM newspapers. We have been turned into children who need picture books and nothing else.

Is our chief need smugglers who can bring those alternative phones into the country?

Linux hasn’t been made illegal yet. We need the Free Software Foundation which gives us all of Linux except the kernel, and has another kernel. Basically (my offhand interpretation) they reject intellectual property, make everything of their own free in that sense, plus all open source, nothing hidden, so we can control our own security. That includes our own end-to-end encryption. There are tools for that.

At the other end we see viruses being patented.

We need to see intellectual property as a total fraud, perhaps needed a century ago but something whose validity is long passed. End patents, see anything patented as owned by a criminal so violation of patents is perfectly proper and indeed highly commendable. And go GNU.

IN Myanmar, for decades, it was illegal for gatherings of five people or more. This law was started by the British colonials. The Burmese dictatorship reserved it’s enforcement for political dissidents. In 2009 I used to meet with activists in forested parks, far away from populations, yet even there, because undoubtedly someone knew we were there, we had to have look outs to keep watch for any stranger approaching us. Usually, a curious guy would wonder near to see us and we’d pick up a guitar and sing, or read poetry, until the threat was gone. The police state in Burma was eyes and ears, and many impoverished people who would rat out anyone for a fee, usually a dollar. Sounds like De Blasio, right?

The law made it hard for activists to gather, to plan, to educate, and share.

In America, social distancing similarly makes it difficult to meet, share, talk about grievances, and organize. Social media overlords ban the online community bulletin boards, meet ups are nearly impossible, activism is effectively suppressed. Cars and smartphones tell the state everything they need to know to pre-arrest anyone, if need be.

There is no liberty. Liberty is gone. Freedom is gone. People cower to the state. America is dead. They get threatened to be put in jail and possibly raped.

It’s exactly as it was in Burma.

People are arrested for being outside. Even Tom Brady was hustled by police as he worked out in a park.

Last week, Burma, now Myanmar, announced the illegal gathering law was once again in effect during the five week lock down. Curiously, they are using technology as much as the human force of eyes and ears on the ground to follow people when they go shopping for food, or go anywhere, they break up gatherings of friends who happen to pass each other on the street. They are ordered to stay home.

We can’t meet, can’t speak, can’t enjoy technology. We are statistics, nothing more.

This article is missing the tag Trump Derangement Syndrome

Obviously what MM says is correct, however it is hard not to feel perturbed by the way she tries to weasel her way into the right-wing populist insurgency. She is also married to a Jew.

Nobody on this site can accuse me of going easy on the Jew.

I encourage everybody to be balanced, and tune their Jew-dar. Not all Jews are the enemy, some are regular people who are confused or in denial about the activities of their tribal elders. Some Jews are actually on the side of morality, and choose to not screw over their host country and neighbors. Use discernment and don’t be an inflexible ideologue.

Also, Jewish religion and method is transmitted by the Jewish mother to her children. Is MM Jewish?

With regards to her “weaseling.” What if she is a genuine right wing populist… which she obviously is.

Then consider this: Her being married to Jew, her being a woman, her being non-white, is actually ARMOR plating. This armor means she can do things and say things white men cannot. Her punches land and are effective. MM, as a living and breathing example, drives lib-tards and feminists crazy.

There is no good economic reason for mass immigration – in the long term it is all bad. MM is correct on this subject and is an effective communicator. China only immigrates specialists with knowledge they need, and this knowledge is then passed on to Chinese. China uses their own labor, and hence don’t shift their demographics and culture.

We have enemies within, and MM is not an internal enemy.

Let’s do a thought experiment. Suppose immigration was restricted to only cute north asian females? Do you think they would work collectively as an in-group, or would they norm to their new husbands world view? Would white feminists be happy with the competition? Would the collective IQ of the nation go down? Would farmers be exploiting their labor to pick crops? Would Jews be able to baffle them with BS, and teach them to hate their likely white husbands?

Thanks, Ted Rall. Good ideas all. I could add that when new technology gives us automation and throws people out of work UBI should be automatic. If due to technology no-one needs to work, that sounds idealic. Everyone living in luxury with no need to work. Why hasn’t it turned out that way? UBI or UI is so, so fundamental! Again, why? Why do we have exploitative rather than compassionate rulers?

It will be amusing to see how the indoctrinated nutcase One Born Fried comments on your proposals.

So, write your own masterpiece on tbe subject, smartypants. Take English lessons first.

As social media is already being manipulated and controlled by the government working hand-in-hand with the oligarchs who own and operate the sites, the ability to further isolate members of the public so as to preempt the development of any genuine resistance to state policies might well be seen as highly desirable

Lucky thing that Western governments are being run rings round by China, which is there to protect us. Yes, thank goodness for Huawei.

Okay. You win. Thanks.

I really dislike this type of carping, quibbling comment.
“PCR must evolve as an analyst..go into the whole issue he is talking about into where it intersetcs with life as a whole.”
For gods’ sake. PCR has written a short article on the tech’ dystopia that has emerged, contra all the tech’ optimism we have been fed — stuffed with — for decades. There is nothing incorrect in the article. But it was never intended to be encyclopedic. Apparently this a fault.
And then we come to the outright dishonesty of such gratuitous insults as “endless sad tears” & his “hopeless cocoon”.
No wonder PCR got fed up with comments & wouldn’t accept them for some time.

By Finnish I meant jolla-devices.com. Look for phones with the Sailfish OS.

But some people patent things to prevent them from being patented, make the innovation available to all without condition. I certainly did not mean them when I called people who patent things criminals.

I strongly disagree with your nasty attitude towards the author. BUT:

Doing away with MSM fearmongering, and MSM actually promoting things like the Syria war for the lucrative drama and tragedy, simply means prohibit advertising by mass media. That doesn’t impact on freedom of the press.

Particularly on the Web. It came to Google free at a time when Internet experts held that it would unethical to use it, the Internet, to advertise, that advertising on the Net was spam.

Okay, today it’s safe to allow advertising in physical newspapers, but not on the Web. A problem, I admit, is that the Web is anarchy, no country has jurisdiction over it, and we like it that way.

And corporate mergers. Prohibit. Demerge all traceable past mergers. They are mostly about swallowing up the competition. And mergers create giants of such huge size that they are hugely damaging socially, all for the benefit of a tiny, tiny few who do it only for power, because they would never, ever, be able to spend all of their existing wealth.

I can sum this up for anyone who doesn’t feel like reading:

Free shit, more free shit, compulsory government service, and debt forgiveness (i.e. even more free shit)–in a nutshell, the 2020 Democrat party platform on steroids, with “COVID-19” tacked on to lend it a patina of credibility.

Never once were the bleeding obvious solutions mentioned–doing away with the MSM fearmongering and government lockdown and letting people get on with their lives.

But would you expect anything more from a pudgy faggot liberal hack like Ted Rall?

We need to understand that racism does not mean hating another race. Hating is hateful. But it is natural to love one’s own race. It is like loving one’s own family.

That said, for Bezos, the wealthiest man in all history, who despite that is also disgustingly and exploitively greedy, to pull that stunt, being “progressive” on “mult-culturalism” to hold down the wages of his poor workers, proves him to be a deeply evil man.

He had a free ride to become the world’s wealthiest man. Only needed a Web server when the Internet was a gift to us, RFCs are voluntary work. There is a business skill in buying up competitors, but a nasty one. He has done nothing to deserve that astronomical wealth.

Ban Web advertising, demerge all Amazon mergers and buy-outs, and as for Jeff Bezos, easy, string him …

There’s a solution:

It’s high time for the deeply evil USA with its vicious efforts to conquer the world, its navy in the Persian Gulf far, far, far from home where it has no business being, so many countries destroyed by it and more planned to be destroyed by it: it is high time for that evil country to be broken up into 4 mutually independent countries of about the same size in terms of fertile land.

In that revolution let the white warriors drive all the non-whites into one of those republics, all into the same one.

I should have said, also ban advertising on television. If you are looking for a product so need an ad, go and buy the paper.

Mike, you pig, Iran is a normal nation. When is the USA going to start behaving like a normal nation?

Sadly, not until it’s not the United anything. But that time will come, and you’ll be living on foodstamps if you ever get out of jail.

I thought the condensation by blowing on a cold window was caused by water vapour, that is, gas, liquifying. I didn’t know there was no such thing as steam, that it is little drops of liquid water.

Anyway, Dr Roberts, thanks enormously for passing on this essay.

A surpassingly informative article.

It was not him, it was a quote or translation (he doesn’t say that, I don’t think) of the Belgian virologist. He draws a parallel with clouds, which don’t look like gas. I’m intrigued. Apart from solid, liquid and gas there might be a fourth state of matter, aerosol, that I never knew about.

The two together would be needed. I didn’t go into those details. The person in your town elected by lot to represent the town might turn out to be in a padded cell, genuine lunatic. There would need to be means to de-elect such unsuitable random appointments. There’d need to be oversight by a corruption watchdog and the ability to de-elect and replace the corrupt. And I said longish single fixed term. Say 12 years. Someone picked off the street and put into the parliament with his consent, given a temporary new career long enough to make it worth while, paid the upper-quartile or upper-quintile wages for that time, with say an election by lot every 4 years for a third of the members, would first want to learn about the new job from those who had been there for 4 or 8 years. And give them all professional civil service advisors.

To me that would be practical and they would be better legislators than a voter-elected parliament of career politicians. There would no longer be in the parliament cranks like Pelosi or the cranks who took us into WWI and WWII.

That would give us something close to Marx’s “dictatorship of the proletariat”, the rule of the ordinary people rather than the plutocrats, which if it had ever been implemented anywhere would have been a more genuine democracy than any, anywhere in the world since his time. Genuine Marxism would be genuine democracy.

But that’s just a side point.

Commenting on the author’s previous article about a needed new political party I pointed out that today using a random number generator election by lot, representatives chosen by chance, would be low cost and safe. That would mean they were not people who lusted for power but found themselves in power by chance but weren’t going to be chosen by chance a second time. No re-election. Not career politicians. Then we would have compassionate rather than exploitive rulers.

You make the case for election by lot very forcefully. Thanks.

Thanks. You may have weakened your case by taking as an authority the Woos-Woos, the WSWS, the Trotsyists opposed to the existence of any nation-state, but your case remains strong.

That’s probably true. In fact, I intended to quote Striker and write ‘profitable liberalism’, and by mistake I wrote ‘progressive liberalism’ instead, which is an expression Striker didn’t use. But my point is: the articles I linked to are mostly class-oriented (some are geopolitically oriented). None are identity-politics-oriented. Yes, Jacobin does run some articles which deal with race and gender now and then, but it always has. That didn’t cause it to back down from its primary emphasis on class. Furthermore, I included a link to an article which goes directly against Israel’s current politics (the one about Iran), apparently contradicting Striker’s allegations. As I said, the facts Striker brings up are somewhat worrying, but they somehow are not reflected perceptibly by the magazine contents.

Happy hacking.

I hope time is right for Syria to retake the Golan Heights and that annexation would provoke a Hezbolla charge into Israel causing it to lose more than it gained.

Or maybe we need the US to shoot down a boat in the

I hope the time is right for Syria to retake the Golan Heights and more. Historically, well before Islam was invented, Palestine was part of Syria. And it was part of the Muslim conquest of Syria. For the annexation to provoke that kind of reunion would be good.

Another good starting point might be for the US to shoot down a boat.

The latter, certainly. Then things would change so much that they would go back into ghettos and lose citizenship except of the ghettos.

“As President Ronald Reagan undiplomatically observed in an early press conference, Communists reserve to themselves “the right to lie, cheat and steal,” which is pretty much how the Chinese Communists have been behaving toward us since we reengaged with them in 1972.”

Paranoia anyone?

The current American Secretary of State, Mr. Mike “we lied, we cheated, we stole” Pompeo might be amused by Mr. Buchanan’s reference to Mr. Reagan’s aspersion against the Communists.

For how many decades has the American CIA in particular, and the American government in general, reserved “the right to lie, cheat and steal” as well as the right to slander, torture and assassinate foreigners & Americans alike, & destroy democratically elected governments and entire nations around the globe who stood in the way of American tyrrany, or just because the American regime “felt like it” at the time?

Despite the accurate logic of his final paragraph, Mr. Buchanan’s article is premised on a flawed and morally bankrupt premise of accusing China of the USA’s own evils.

Have I landed on a different planet? Where am I? Thinking out of the box? Fallen into a different mental box?

I’ll need to re-read your article more than once, trying to fully understand it.

But Vladislav Krasnov, thanks!!!

Sorry, I meant the latter would be the better. Having them the dominant parasite class in our country alone would be better than what’s happening now. It wouldn’t last forever, there’d need to be a revolution, a new constitution allowing de-emancipation of the Jews would be needed, but that would come.

Many a US president has done his best to wipe out aboriginal populations at home and abroad, and at the time has gotten approval for it.

It’s apples and oranges for the fakestinians aren’t aboraginal to the area. Jordan, maybe.

Wrong, beastly one. Your nasty label “fakestinians” is typical of you lot. The Palestinians are the original Canaanites and Hebrews. Post-Alexander there was massive Jewish proselytizing all over the Hellenistic world that was his legacy and it was a huge world, from the Atlantic to the Indus Valley.

That’s what gave us the modern Jews. The Hebrews of Palestine were never driven out. On the contrary, Acts 18.1-3 records them being driven out of Rome about AD 40-50 and there were other such expulsions, before and after. It has been well established that the Hebrews were not driven out of Palestine in AD 70 or later. And the Muslim conquest of did not bring dispossession or demographic change, not even forced conversion, but they did over centuries convert. The 9th century Gaon, Saadia, placed on the record that in his time the Palestinian Jews were too-rapidly converting to Islam. I think it was Gilad Atzmon who wrote that they would have found Islam a truer version of Judaism as they knew it than the Babylonian Talmud was.

There is no Diaspora. The Jews of the world have origins all over the world. The Palestinians are close to being aboriginal, to use your word.

Just look at the fact that European Jews call themselves Ashkenazim. Genesis 10.3 names Ashkenaz as a grandson of Japheth. After the Flood the world needed new humans, descendants of Noah, Europe was vacant, Ashkenaz was the father of the new Europeans. Not Semites, Japhethites, the European Jews.

God Bless and protect Phil Giraldi.

Truth Teller Extraordinaire.

We, the sane people of planet earth, dream of the day this disgusting, parasitic, apartheid state, is given back to the indigenous Palestinian people. Long live Palestine!

Yes. The Palestinians seem to be their own worst enemies.

On the other hand what is demanded of them is acknowledgement of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, and that implies acceptance that the European Jews took their land as of right, that it was not stolen from them. And even if they came close to acknowledging it Israel would invent another obstacle. It was after they recognized Israel that the new as-a-Jewish-state condition was added.

It might be possible for them all to apply for Israeli citizenship and swear loyalty to Israel and if that was rejected because of a “Jewish state” condition, if millions did that and millions were rejected, the world would wake up.

They might even be able to accept the Jewish state stuff because they are the original Hebrews, the original Judaeans, the real Jews, and the European conquerors are fake Jews.

I wish they would do that. I suppose Islam is the obstacle there. But they could say, Judaism is not a religion. It’s a nationality, ours. We are still Muslims.

But as I said, they seem to be their own worst enemies.

Never. Their corrupt framing of Julian Assange has finished Sweden.

Even if they have to accept it as a Jewish state for now, they can always change it later on when they achieve a huge majority. And in the long run, Jews don’t stand a chance of out breeding Palestinians notwithstanding biblical stories about Hebrews outnumbering Egyptians. Just like Jews who use their compos mentis to succeed despite their relatively small numbers by hook or crook, the Palestinians must use their libidoes to outsmart them.

Using a random number generator to elect reps would be better and vastly cheaper. There’d be no lobbies, no career politicians, and those picked by chance off the street would be as competant as the present … I’d say worms rather than lizards.

Why have adults been reduced to children who only want picture books?

Roth is pronounced rot. Good name for a rotten person.

My general impression of E. Michael Fanatic is that he is against the Jews because they don’t accept Papal rule over his Judeo-Christian religion. As bad as Protestants in his mind.

I’m waiting to be enlightened, waiting for him to show me the place in the NT where Jesus rules that there is such a thing as Apostolic Succession, meaning the present Roman Pope is an apostle.

One of my favorite World War II historians is Paul Fussell. He was not an approved history professor, but an English professor who served with the US Army during World War II. This allowed him to write things like:

“I would read accounts of so-called battles I had been in, and they had no relation whatever to what had happened. ”

His book “Doing Battle” didn’t sell nearly as well as books by Stephen Ambrose, who somehow missed military service but became wealthy writing about brave and brilliant American troops in World War II. Perhaps Fussell’s work wasn’t popular because he insisted on writing:

“In the opinion of British military historian Max Hastings, the American forces were so bad (and actually so were most of the British) ‘that when Allied troops met Germans on anything like equal terms, the Germans almost always prevailed.’ Thank God the troops, most of them, didn’t know how bad we were. It’s hard enough to be asked to die in the midst of heroes, but to die in the midst of stumblebums led by fools — intolerable. And I include myself in this indictment.”

Fussell wrote that of the 12 million Americans who served during World War II, only one million volunteered. The rest entered “kicking and screaming” with the threat of imprisonment and spent the war scheming to avoid combat. His short book “The Boys’ Crusade”, is about infantrymen fighting in Europe during World War II where he served as a lieutenant. He noted many great books on the war, but wrote that all missed key elements, such as:

– Most fighting was done by American infantrymen, who were just out of high school. They were drafted and didn’t want to be in the war or the Army. The Army’s official tally was 19,000 deserters in Europe.

– Self-inflicted wounds (a downward bullet wound to a leg or arm) were so common that the Army kept a tally and used it to measure unit morale.

– When the U.S. Army’s new 106th Infantry Division was attacked at the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge, it didn’t put up a fight. Its boys were so startled by the unexpected appearance of large numbers of German panzers that officers jumped into jeeps and fled while 8000 GIs threw up their hands and surrendered.

– The “platoon guide” was a junior sergeant added to each infantry platoon whose duty was the trail the platoon and confront anyone who attempted to desert.

– During the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans sent 150 English speaking commandos dressed in US Army uniforms to infiltrate American frontlines and cause chaos. They were quickly captured because American MPs guarded all roadways. Any healthy soldier heading toward the rear was presumed a deserter and arrested and interrogated.

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See my comment 9. The answer. In the ancient Athenian democracy that gave us the word the general assembly was all citizens but there was also the executive chamber of government whose members were elected by lot, or selected by lotteries in every district from the ordinary citizens there. Solves the problem. Democracy. The rule of the ordinary people, not the plutocracy.

Purim, celebrating the slaughter of the Persians comes to mind. And the genocide of the Midianites who had been helping them, recounted near the end of Numbers. And the Book of Joshua is all about genocide of the Canaanites. And the Talmudists apparently exterminated the Hellenistic Jews. And came close to total extermination of the Karaites, non-Talmudic Jews. Just a few cases that immediately came to mind.

When there’s only the GOPpledegooks and Demoncraps, what do you expect? Need very fundamental change over there.

Compare the success of Cuba https://on.rt.com/afuu with the failure of US capitalism https://on.rt.com/ag4h and decide where you’d rather be.

Oops … success, I mean. Compare the success of Communism with its “People before profit” with the success of Capitalism with it’s “Profit before people” and tell me which is best.

A very important article. Huge thanks, Michael Hudson.

At the top of my mind just now (yes, I have one — I think I have) are two current RT articles, one about how Cuba is helping the world with cov19 and how the USA is trying to prevent that help from being delivered, Covid-19: Cuba’s people-before-profit approach pays off as capitalism proves a bitter pill for the US https://on.rt.com/afuu and the other on the plight of the USA, that bitter pill, ONE IN SEVEN Americans would avoid Covid-19 treatment for fear of cost, even as pricey new pill shows promise against virus https://on.rt.com/ag4h with a photo of a near corpse on a stretcher at the top with the caption This person doesn’t know it yet, but they’re about to be charged thousands of dollars.

The first is about the success of Communism and the second’s about the success of Capitalism.

Michael Hudson, I presume you’ve been to Cuba and studied their system. It would be great if you could write an article on it.

Oops. I didn’t mean to reply to you, Jedi Night, but now I do.

Easy. The USG has already paid the banks enough to have bought up all their assets and nationalized them. Let it put its own civil service adminstrators in charge of each and they just adjust the books, writing off the debts of all debtors. Then they start affresh, new genuine borrowings, new genuine debts.

What’s difficult about that?

Great news. Revisionists have been claiming that the 6 million number is/was a physical impossibility for a long time, and the delivery of the cyanide gas pellets to the camps actually caused a plummeting of the rate Jewish deaths by ending the plague epidemic. But that Jews are now telling us the origin of that number was in someone’s imagination is huge progress.

Adjustment of the victimhood needed.

There may have been some scheme behind the timing, and a need for the Jews themselves to finally expose the number as fake. It’s like the Chmielnitsky Cossack rebellion which was the monumental example of Gentiles killing Jews for centuries, given a high place in Leon Uris’s Exodus then suddenly, with a new 6 million event to replace it, several Israeli authors published refutations, the million replaced by a hundred or something, and admission that the number of Gentile deaths was vastly greater.

Something similar has happened here. Jews needed to expose fake story about Jewish victims. May have been planned.

I’d consider it an honor. I’ve never gone on Fakebook and don’t intend to.

Alex, I’m amazed that I agree with you on something, but me too. I’ve never logged in to Faecebook, know so little about it I’m even uncertain how to spell the word. Is there or is there not an s before the b?