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POWER. DOESN'T. CARE.
Maybe we the people should start thinking about a different strategy.
All around the world, millions of people have finally figured out they are trapped in a "divide and rule world", and it has been all about PROFITS and CONTROL over the people.
Counter strategy to "divide and rule": Start pulling the rug from underneath the feet of these eternal meddlers...
Boycott: Much simpler than trying to remember the long loooong lists of what not to buy, and for whatever specific reasons, is to try and limit what one actually does buy: buy no-name brands from small companies (addresses usually on the labels), buy local foods (farmers markets), buy locally produced or handmade items, otherwise go slightly "over-regional," or buy fair trade wherever possible.
It is not a perfect strategy, but don't get sidelined by the whiners/finger pointers who will invariably ALWAYS show up like clockwork, trying to ridicule or nag with their dumb "...duh but your using a smartphone, but your using oil toooo"-gotcha style distractions. It is not MEANT to be "perfect"...
Methodology: JDI and make it a longterm lifestyle, not just a short-term knee-jerk "trend," because of some or other upsetting event in the news. Just boycott ALL corporations, as far as personally convenient and possible, and always remember that even if only 75% of all the people on the planet only get it right about 75% of the time, on roughly 75% of everything they buy, it will finally make a massive difference for all the causes you also value. Want to bring the boys home? Do you wish to limit military actions to becoming multinational, following the principles of international law only, and independent of any corporate "interests." Do you wish to contribute to end western imperialist actions and meddling all over the world? You wish to contribute a small share to forcing Israel into a negotiated peace process? Do you wish to give small companies a better chance in the dog-eat-dog capitalist world in your country?
Join BDS, because the international cross-border politically influencial rich and powerfull only REALLY start caring when their pockets start hurting.
Regardless of where you live, or how much money you have, just remember this:
- You are not going to achieve much by voting in elections.
- You are not going to achieve much by posting on social media.
- You are not going to achieve much by debating on any plattform, real or virtual.
- You are not going to achieve much by making use your "freedom of speech" in any way.
- You are not going to achieve much by protesting in any possible way which will politically make a difference.
Here is what you can do, easily:
1) Read Smedley-Butler/War is a Racket, a very short book (should be possible in a few hours)
2) realize that after around a 100 years, NOTHING has changed
3) start unravelling the connections between big business and Washington DC, by boycotting "big brands".
Do not delay. Start today. đź‘Ťđź‘‹
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How our leaders avoid "avoiding war", and then make a racket...in three easy steps.
Step 1:
Ignore the warnings.
”I think it is the beginning of a new cold war. I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else.” George Kennan, re. NATO expansion, New York Times interview in 1998
Step 2:
Watch on as the situation deteriorates.
As "crisis" turns to "gloom", do little.
Step 3:
From wiki: "War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
Butler confesses that during his decades of service in the United States Marine Corps: I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested." Smedley-Butler
Every generation is "same procedure as last time".
Today a new generation of racketeers are "standing down/standing by".
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The USA has lived beyond its means for more than 50 years. Now it's all coming to a head.
After 1945 the US government and 1%-ters set out to gobble up as much of the world's resources for themselves if not direct control then indirectly via implementation of the dollar hegemony.
Money in the form of printed fiat currency (post-1913) of course, is a means to exercise CONTROL, and to funnel the resources of the world in ONE direction: upwards, towards the hegemon issuing the fiat currency as a means to steer the resources.
That is the reality on ALL tiers, even within the own borders, not only International Relations. Divide and rule implemented downwards, onto their own people, and outwards, onto the entire planet.
This is how limited factor (resources) can be CONTROLLED by printing a potentially unlimited factor (money), and affording this unlimited factor to FAVORITES (divide and rule).
Observation reveals that it is not "hard work" which determines how the resources are divided (WHO you are), but a pre-selected standing (WHAT you are). Americans, are slowly waking up to this reality, as we speak, because it is not 1950, or 1970, or 1990 anymore.
The USA came out "on top" after 1945 because of a GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE, not because of better leaders, a better government, or anything else.
A geographical advantage meant the ability to employ division as tool, more successfully than other systems: which is the employment of the divide an rule technique.
No, the US government was not "good," unlike its people, but rather used geographical advantages to be more slimy than everybody else. Sorry, if reality triggers anybody. Sorry, but at least 50-90% of Americans are NOT privileged enough to benefit from the "50%" of resources the empire vacuums up, claiming it as its justified "right" to CONTROL.
Whatever.
You'll soon find out.
Then, from the position of the "top of the hill" (shiny house) point at other systems, and via the use of false argumentation, claim that all other systems are bad/evil, want to rule the world or whatever: it doesn't really matter because the entire rotten own system is filled the brim with every imaginable ideologue, idealist, nutcase, cutthroat, and everything else. These will soon simmer and percolate to the top of the froth, as and the true reality of human nature will be revealed soon, when the entire card house of lies implodes, and the USA can no longer CONTROL "50%" of the world's resources.
footnote
In February 1948, George F. Kennan's Policy Planning Staff said: "We have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of the population*...Our real task in the coming period is to develop a pattern , of relationships that allow us to maintain this position of inequality."
And that's what these internationalist/globalist gentlemen did in the past, and still do today.
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POWER. DOESN'T. CARE.
Maybe we the people should start thinking about a different strategy.
All around the world, millions of people have finally figured out they are trapped in a "divide and rule world", and it has been all about PROFITS and CONTROL over the people.
Counter strategy to "divide and rule": Start pulling the rug from underneath the feet of these eternal meddlers...
Boycott: Much simpler than trying to remember the long loooong lists of what not to buy, and for whatever specific reasons, is to try and limit what one actually does buy: buy no-name brands from small companies (addresses usually on the labels), buy local foods (farmers markets), buy locally produced or handmade items, otherwise go slightly "over-regional," or buy fair trade wherever possible.
It is not a perfect strategy, but don't get sidelined by the whiners/finger pointers who will invariably ALWAYS show up like clockwork, trying to ridicule or nag with their dumb "...duh but your using a smartphone, but your using oil toooo"-gotcha style distractions. It is not MEANT to be "perfect"...
Methodology: JDI and make it a longterm lifestyle, not just a short-term knee-jerk "trend," because of some or other upsetting event in the news. Just boycott ALL corporations, as far as personally convenient and possible, and always remember that even if only 75% of all the people on the planet only get it right about 75% of the time, on roughly 75% of everything they buy, it will finally make a massive difference for all the causes you also value. Want to bring the boys home? Do you wish to limit military actions to becoming multinational, following the principles of international law only, and independent of any corporate "interests." Do you wish to contribute to end western imperialist actions and meddling all over the world? You wish to contribute a small share to forcing Israel into a negotiated peace process? Do you wish to give small companies a better chance in the dog-eat-dog capitalist world in your country?
Join BDS, because the international cross-border politically influencial rich and powerfull only REALLY start caring when their pockets start hurting.
Regardless of where you live, or how much money you have, just remember this:
- You are not going to achieve much by voting in elections.
- You are not going to achieve much by posting on social media.
- You are not going to achieve much by debating on any plattform, real or virtual.
- You are not going to achieve much by making use your "freedom of speech" in any way.
- You are not going to achieve much by protesting in any possible way which will politically make a difference.
Here is what you can do, easily:
1) Read Smedley-Butler/War is a Racket, a very short book (should be possible in a few hours)
2) realize that after around a 100 years, NOTHING has changed
3) start unravelling the connections between big business and Washington DC, by boycotting "big brands".
Do not delay. Start today. đź‘Ťđź‘‹
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And re. "strategies" and how "the truth is revealed on scraps of paper" (Roehl/Historian)
The USA has practically admitted that it misuses smaller nations as "lightning rods" and "tools" to advance own global domination.
Adam Schiff, in 2020, two years before the war:
"Most critically, the military aid we provide Ukraine helps to protect and advance American national security interests in the region and beyond. America has an abiding interest in stemming Russian expansionism, and resisting any nation’s efforts to remake the map of Europe by dint of military force, even as we have tens of thousands of troops stationed there. Moreover, as one witness put it during our impeachment inquiry: “The United States aids Ukraine and her people so that they can fight Russia over there, and we don’t have to fight Russia here.”
From a short ebook "Adam Schiff Impeachment an Opening Argument".
Note the use of "Russian expansionism", when it is actually the USA/NATO which has been acting as an icebreaker these last 30 years to create PNAC/EU markets in the traditional Moscow sphere if influence, the Black Sea region.
In other words, a typical attempt of "flipping the script".
Note also that this US policy regarding "tools to fight for US interests" was incidently revealed as a by-product of the probe into the alledged attempt by Trump to blackmail the Ukraine to dig up "smear material" on the Biden family for dirty domestic political games.
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The "divide and rule"-strategy or technique has a pretty long history in the Levant, which had been a desirable crossroads of civilizations ever since ancient times (land route connecting continents/systems) with changing POWERS implementing the strategy as time passed. If one wishes to understand history, one first has to familiarize oneself with strategies of power. If not, one WILL get misguided, distracted, and fooled into cheering for "imperialism", even whilst thinking one is cheering for "freedom and democracy", or something else...
The fact that one does not like an observed event (like = an emotion), does not mean the observed event does/did not take place.
Note that in order to play the game of "divide and rule", it needs a geographical/physical advantage, and POWER.
No POWER, no games...
In a more worldly sense.
As far as systems and strategies are concerned.
The 15 million people initially injected as "anchor state" (strategy) into the Levant, by an empire after WW1, are not going to rule/dominate the Levant.
Such a small number is always a "tail", and not the "dog".
The tail (lesser power) does NOT wag the dog (greater power).
That is just an easily chanted slogan, created by the dividers, in search of scapegoats for the slogan chanters/banner wavers.
It is a myth and a tool of deception and misdirection, by those who truly wish to rule by division. The ruling class. The elites, or the "1%-ters", the "$uperhubs", or whatever one wishes to call such a headless mass, united by their interests (§§§footnote).
In the real world, it is the "dogs" of POWER, who "wag the tails".
Modern Israel is a tool, once created by an Empire for a specific purpose, just like every other ME country was created for a purpose.
The sooner ALL these divided Semites in the Levant realize this, the better it will be for ALL Semites. They are ALL tools.
As a guideline, the first tentative examples of African leaders finally realizing the POWER of the "divide and rule"-technique is out there. This technique, same as 100 and 200 and 2,000 years ago uses a multitude of "carrots and sticks": the outside POWER mis/uses differences in race, religion, ethnicity, and uses the appeals to the leaders here in the form of "greed", personal advantages, or promises, or using the "shame game", etc. Whatever works in the desired area in which "disunity" is the goal. The example of African leaders standing united, and repulsing such outside attempts, can be studied. The initial positive observation, is not final though: the "dividers" will return. They will come back, and push, and push, and push until the first weakness appears, which will then be exploited...
"Divide and rule" is in politics and international relations, what nukes are in warfare.
AGE OF EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM
Israel, the artificial entity, had never been created by a god, never mind what the idealogues proclaim. In antiquity it was created by strategists, employing amongst other strategies, the "divide and rule"-technique to inch forward towards the "milk and honey"-land belonging to others already living there, while being the favorites of a god in an ideology. Thousands of years later during WW1 it was recreated by a very worldly empire, Great Britain, employing the "divide and rule"-technique. The goals and aims of this empire, acting in conjunction with France, tacidly nodded of by Washington DC, were very earthly: to rule, and keep the POWER it had amassed as a result of a previous lucky GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE vis-a-vis its European neighbors. For the British Empire starting around 1917: to use mass-immigration as a tool of division as they did all over their empire. Lines were drawn, and rulers imposed onto the people living here, who were never asked as a collective. Whether it was the White Highlands (Kenya) or Palestine, these white immigrants brandished their newly found power (as the favorites of an empire). In other cases (Fiji, for example) mass-immigration of other subjects were used to cause disruption within the original indigenous power structures. This power of the hegemony was transformed into pieces of paper (deeds) granting CHOSEN FAVORITES property in a promised land, and these new favorites/best friends in the form of mass-immigration would then, in return, protect the British Empire's interests. In the Levant, it was the very precious Suez Canal from the threat of potential attacks by land armies, from the north...because the British Empire did as it always did. Create useful tools in a "barrier state" (strategy), for its own perceived potential future gain.
That of the automatic ally (strategy).
If the Levant was attacked by a northern empire on the way to Egypt/Suez as per Heartland Theory (1904), via land routes where the mighty Royal Navy was useless, the "poor little friends" which had previously been strategically set up as homelands/states, would be defended. Of course, because the Empire cared so much about "poor people"...
The motivations for empires in the beginnings at this watershed of history for the Levant (1917) can be linked to the motivations for empires today.
THE DAWN OF MODERN CIVILIZATIONS
In the Bible, the original divider of mankind in the Levant, was the figure God (Old Testament).
Whether one believes in this god or not, doesn't matter. In a systemic analysis, Jesus the philosopher (New Testament) actually OPPOSED his (so-called) father's form of authoritarian and often brutal rule (Old Testament). In antiquity, the figure God had used the "divide and rule"-strategy on and over the rest of mankind in the Levant. From the position of ultimate POWER, God had chosen favorites, and throughout the Old Testament (as a historical series of events) continued to make rulings and grant miracles in the favor of his chosen. Yikes, God even nuked Sodom and Gomorrha in order to make living space for his chosen (lol, just kidding). On a sideline, also the invention of propaganda: These inhabitants were the collective "evil outgroup", who also collectively "deserved to die".
Whatever...
Further indicators: God favored "ruler types" (Old Testament/top down rule) like Moses. No doubt, in a realist analysis, strategists like Moses were most likely the inventor of the SINGLE HEGEMONY as a SOLE God with the all seeing eye, to create unity. To avoid people from creating a miriad of depictions and minor gods, and get constantly distracted by a plethora of personal favorite foreign gods in the lands they were dispered into, and who would end up dancing around idols...
Poor Moses must have been frustrated by his followers' insatiable appetite for entertainment, divisive squabbles, tribal infighting, family fueds, and other distractions from the endsieg: the land of milk and honey they all dreamed of as settler colonists on the move.
THE ROMAN EMPIRE
According to the legacy, Jesus approached commoners (New Testament/bottom up unity).
The polar opposite of God of the Old Testament (see above).
Around the year "0", The Roman Empire had the POWER in the Med, and it had amassed this power as a result of a previous lucky GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE vis-a-vis its neighbors in the Mediterranean. A technological and organisational edge gave it that slight advantage of reach: While it could "reach" all neighbors in the Med, these neighbors could not "reach" Rome, at least for the time being. That would change later as the balance of power shifted.
Around the year 0, one can consider Jesus as the "prototype Hippy" teaching love and charity, in other words the Monty Python take on the observed events, or one can see him as a talented strategist who intended to take on the might of the Roman Empire. Actual evidence then favors a combination of both (the "peaceful revolution" against the Roman Empire): crimes against the state, like sedition, were usually punished by crucifiction. The irony of the Roman Empire killing Jesus, is that they later took the resulting religion as a state religion, in efforts to bring unity to the crumbling empire, by replacing a miriad of gods and resorting to the "one god" as single hegemony over all (state religion). The intention to use an ideology to create unity was too little, too late to save a crumbling empire...
Whether such events mentioned on clay tablets, or scrolls, were actual events, or inventions by philosophers to explain strategies, or simply true at some core and then added onto as the ages passed, to become the well-honed stories we read today, is not even important in any systemic analysis. As I always say, historians and politicians can hardly agree on what happened last week, let alone 2,000 years ago, or 4,000 years ago.
Therefore, best to reduce everything to the tier of "systems/strategies" in order to discover what really happened.
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§§§footnote
How these "headless elites" unite for temporary alliances, see for example, amongst the many other sources, Sandra Navidi/$uperhubs
Of course, a repeat of the "old boys clubs" or the "halls of power" reality of politics, and about how deals are made OUTSIDE of the control of democratic means.
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Around 1900:
There was an informal alliance of "English speaking races" taking shape, which was busy "informally nodding off" each others' conquests.
The logical conclusion with regards to that should have been that according to age-old rules, the answer would have needed to be to create an alliance of "non-English speaking...ahem...'races'..." (to quote the advocates of "English speaking races" ruling the world").
Logic/reasoning: "Balance of Power"-strategy, which is neutral and unbiased.
The fools were elsewhere.
From ROYAL PAINS: WILHELM II, EDWARD VII, AND ANGLO-GERMAN RELATIONS, 1888-1910 A Thesis Presented to The Graduate Faculty of The University of Akron: Edward in a letter to Roosevelt: 'I look forward with confidence to the co-operation of the English-speaking races becoming the most powerful civilizing factor in the policy of the world.'
An ancillary detail, which seems to have gone under in the clutter.
"Civilizing factor" of course, nothing else but the hooded language of these "few" to kill a few people every now and then, in order to gain themselves, while convincing millions that they were the 'good cops'...
A few key London leaders thought they could use their geographical advantage to divide the continent, and thereby always be in a position "to rule" during crises and wars. In the end they became overpowered themselves: In the reality of strategy, the Truman Doctrine was the de facto "division" of Europe by Washington DC. Note that in geography and in geopolitics "Europe" includes GB and Russia. Germany could be "kept down", and the old friend and ally Russia was kept out as a matter of doctrine.
"Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with (feelings). As Huxley remarked ... the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny 'failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.'..." Neil Postman.
Huxley is less well-known, but far more correct.
The information, sufficient to understand "what happened" (in history), and "what is happening today" (news/headlines) is out there. But "what happens/is happening" is drowned out by a cacophony of irrelevant information, leading the overwhelming majority of people to simply "switch of"...simply repeating "narratives" in order to fit in with their surroundings.
Majorities ending up thinking their own "narratives" are the only correct ones.
Mission accomplished.
That is what strategists aim to achieve.
"Divide and rule/conquer."
Europe has been "divided" and "ruled" over for more than a hundred years.
Huxley points out how being confronted with millions of ancillary details, to confuse and divide cause most people to simply switch off...
Today, the problem is not that there is too little information which is "controlled by a few 1%-ters" (Orwell).
The issue is there is too much clutter (Huxley).
Huxley correctly points out that leaders don't really have to hide/burn much with "Operation Legacy"-style deceit, one just has to make it too boring or complicated to read for the overwhelming majority of citizens of a country. That makes the deceit right out there in our faces.
Those so convinced pay the taxes to bankroll the "cops", while the profits have always been raked in elsewhere.
Of course (reality) "military industrial complexes" have existed ever since the first blacksmith realized he could earn more by selling swords to a rich king, rather than to sell ploughs to poor farmers...
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