The Evening Blues - 9-19-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 09/19/2024 - 3:00pm
Open Thread - Thurs 19 Sep 2024 - Not Surprised!
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 09/19/2024 - 5:03am
Not Surprised...
I can't say I'm all that surprised about the revelations Jeffery Sachs and Matt Taibbi have brought forward about the US's interest and involvement in the ending of Communist Russia and the development of whatever Russia is now. I will admit to be depressed by such revelations, because it just confirms how idiotic our leaders are.
Remember the fall of the Soviet Union? Everything was going to be hunky dory, supposedly, and every country, including Russia, was going to turn to capitalism and prosper - or so we were told. And TPTB sent people, like Sachs, to do that for countries like Poland. But Russia? Naw. It seems that TPTB always wanted Russia, the former Soviet Union, to fail, to remain our enemy. Our military industrial complex needs it. And so TPTB set that up to happen. Sachs details some of that in his article 'A True Shock? Economist Jeffrey Sachs Reveals Secret at Heart of U.S.-Russian Relations'. The sub-title of the article says it all: 'The U.S. was advised toward a "Marshall Plan" to help rebuild post-Soviet Russia as a democracy, but a key witness says the Cold War never ended, because we didn't want it to'.
Taibbi and Sachs discussed all this recently on Counter Points - 'Jeffrey Sachs, Taibbi: How The West DESTROYED Russia' (the discussion is 50 or so minutes long):
The Evening Blues - 9-18-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 09/18/2024 - 4:02pm
Wednesday Mind Bender
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 09/18/2024 - 5:00am~
World Bamboo Day
The Evening Blues - 9-17-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 09/17/2024 - 3:20pm
Patsy inCLINEd
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 09/17/2024 - 11:03am
I'm wondering how Ryan Routh knew Trump was going to be at the golf course that day and time.
Secret Service claims Trump was not scheduled to golf that day and were caught by surprise of his golf outing.
So, was Routh tipped off?
More questions than answers.
The Evening Blues - 9-16-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 4:02pm
09/16 Open Thread - El Grito de Dolores
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 09/16/2024 - 5:00am
~~ El Grito - Mexican Independence Day
The Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 09/15/2024 - 6:53am
The Political Kabuki Theater
Another busy week in the news cycle. It was the debate which prompted this week's theme. Almost all the commentary I heard about the variety of stories we'll look at today mention the theatrical aspects of what is presented to the people. Censor what the TPTB don't want you to hear, and promote the propaganda with theatrical stories to reinforce the narrative....you know Ukraine is winning, Hamas raped Israelis, Putin plans to conquer the EU, and China's economy is in collapse, as a few examples. Let's start with a great example as Thomas Massie explains the congressional economic policy play.
More corruption at the Fed
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 09/14/2024 - 11:20pmAs far as I am aware, there is only three federal government agencies that have no legally enforceable code of ethics: the presidency, the SCOTUS, and the Federal Reserve, In many ways the Pentagon is included, but not officially.
