Comments by "HesteBremse" (@HesteBremse) on "The Daily Show"
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Well I did not like Hillary, I do not like Trump and Obama had a great character, but what happened behind the scenes was just as bad. In most places around the world people are being lead by nuttcases suffering from one or another disorder - as average people we must consider why that still is so.
I do not know exactly what will happen under Trump, but it looks like it is gonna be a kind of American Purge and that it will take some years - I guess we will soon be under Chinese economic leadership, whatever that means in reality. As such I do not like the Chinese much, pretty grouse and cynical in many aspects, but they have the momentum and when they do stuff they see it through.
What one have to realize about the China is the immense potential for economical growth. The Chinese can go and build a whole new city for 10 or 20 millions residents and they do. That is equal to a new New York or new London each time they do it - Just consider when was the last time such an immense plan was executed in the USA or in Europe ?. That is how immense the Chinese potential is.
I´m guessing, but I think the Chinese economic power will already be present sometime during 2018 - and the USA will have a lot of internal challenges to be solved at that time. Europe might be in an even more soaked situation between the power transition, while not being able to truly unite - as we sadly never could in Europe.
In any case all people should start to consider local growth plans, be it local services and craftsmanship, repairs and local production - especially locally grown food could become a real saver. And do fight to keep your water in the hands of the local community. We can not live without drinking water that is the very basic of it, whatever you might stand politically - if the shit hits the fan and there is no water you and everybody else will be doomed, we can not go hunt new drinking water neither prey for it to be clean.
Try to unite out there and especially int eh USA - remember you are named "United States"....
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Civilizations come and go and have been doing so for at least 10.000 years – With various unexplained Monoliths around the globe, the period might much longer than 10.000 years. And even if he should show up I am quite sure there is little he can do, if Bilderberg members bring on Aliens into the midst of the chaos, along with Trump going to Jail even turning water into wine is not going to clean the oceans from microplastic or stop Genie Oil and Gas looking for more places to find the black gold, while the international Troops are sent into underdeveloped countries to fight proxy Terrorist armed with weapons from the USA, Europe, Russia, and China.
I am also sure that the sentence God Bless America or any other religion and nation praising their God when they go into war committing rape, murder and spilling blood generally will eventually lose its popularity and so the planet and most of the idiotic humans we are will cease to exist for a period – Which properly all in all will be a good thing, at least for the planet and its other inhabitants. God, Jesus, Allah and other supreme entities can take a rest and do not need to continually pay attention to all those worshippers constantly praying for one thing after the other, fearing everything and denying any responsibility in the mess – because it is so that God intended it.
And I am quite sure that no one on the planet today lived 2000 years ago meeting Jesus to get the warning directly and unchanged from the source – So essentially it could simply be Fake News – at least it would not be the first time that the endgame has been worded while still not happening - At least that is a truth.
"Religion is for people fearing hell,
Spirituality is for people who have already been there".
David Bowie
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Well, that is at least half or more of the goal – Keeping people scared, keeping people in fear. When we live in a fear state we behave differently and for some, it means to be more open to radical opinions and there are many other behavioral impacts of "irrational" fear state. This fear state is and has been constantly nurtured over many decades and in particular post-WWII. The Cold war was a very prolonged fear state and later "The war on Terror" – Which essentially was a staged and to some degree pre-planned campaign, which is still in motion.
If you live in the USA – War coming from the outside into the US is highly unlikely. Strategically the US sits in a very solid spot with the two largest oceans on either side – and there is very far to e.g. the Middle East – A place like Iran is about as far away as you can get from the US borders. Thus not to forget – but the USA has the largest Army by a long shot in the entire world. If something extreme like a nuclear explosion is gonna happen – be assured that the USA is not the place of the event. Offcourse it would still be a catastrophe of immense proportions no matter where in the world it would take place. If you live in Israel you have far more real reasons for having a higher state of fear, but even that can be discussed to some degree.
Most of all there is a power game ongoing – and it has roots in the control of natural resources, Oil, Gas, and prospects of pipelines. Russia would be the biggest threat in that regard, but as long as Trump is on some level with Putin a full out War is not going to happen – at least not in foreseeable future.
Most of these war "jingles" serve many other purposes – one part is to keep the War industry running. Without wars or prospect of wars and conflicts zones, the stockpiles of weapons and munitions would be so immense and the market for buying war material and munitions would simply decline, which would have a huge impact on the US and also the European economies. Ringing the fear bells of war is simply a way to keep a continued support for having a strong military force which can be used to control the access to the resources in case other deals are not possible. It is economy first and was for a very very long time.
Many wars before even WWI was funded by the same world-leading families and they funded both sides of the conflicts. There is no money to made by the all-out destruction of the world – but prolonged wars on foreign soil is on the other hand, fortunate for those with the money in that industry. Just an example: But in the beginning of WWII Ford Industries delivered most of the engines to the German War Vehicles – So when you get this fear – remind your self that it is most of all about the money and it is a business more than anything else. Full out destruction and in particular with nuclear weapons leaves the soil and thereby the resources or other business prospects, like rebuilding contracts more or less inaccessible – That is not good for business.
it is tragic that we are still in this primitive state of mind, but do not take all the war "jingles" too seriously – at least not in a way that impacts your daily life a negative and non-productive state of fear. Perhaps the Trumpy "Fake News" has its real point in this regard.
Cheers ;)
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It is not easy to clarify completely or as any factual truth. The war for resources like oil and gas has never ceased, but since 9/11 and in combination with the internet the "reality" has changed drastically for the common person. Conquer and divide is not a new thing for the power elite and for politicians – but what can be staged now is immense. In that regard what used to be far more independent news media in the West is now more or less contained within 5 mega-conglomerates, that is not good for the general diversity of the mainstream media flow. And I mention that because another fact is that many countries in the West have large generations that now are getting pretty old, which sadly for a large part turns to very narrow viewpoints, conservatism and "it was better back then" type rhetoric. The problem of the large older generations is that many systems will soon be on a heavy financial challenge to service the generations that are no longer productive – But it is not all on them far from it.
Financially the West have overall not really made any significant steps to create more longterm based stable economies – instead, the speculation market has skyrocketed out of control with e.g algorithmic automated investment systems that create fast turnarounds which have nothing to do with the actual and real productivity in a country. Even further this financial systems have speculated to far worse extend with collapses and taxpayer money payback like in 2008. One economist described the long low rent influence on the market as a person who has been on cocaine for 10 years and then suddenly stops taking cocaine with major recovery problems to follow.
Also "Starving the Beast" must be mentioned – just look at how much the low-end salaries in e.g the USA has stagnated over the last 30 years. Countries with weak or corrupted unions have paid a severe price for this lack and at some point, a person can only take so much before frustration becomes an everyday sate. That is when the divide sets in and we humans have a really bad habit always blaming others to avoid seeing our own fails, or part in creating our own misery. When the "beast" has been starved enough it will eat nearly anything, bark and bite at anything. It does not take much news to get the public to rise against e.g Muslims or other minorities "Acts of Terror" etc. – looking at the real numbers for these events in comparison to the media coverages and their effects on public opinions makes it evident that it is a highly political and manipulative endeavor. That said we can not neglect that the West has lived on a somewhat fatal illusion about what really brings happiness and prosperity to the majority of people – Pure Materialism is certainly not the finite answer – Democracy is after a certain period of time doomed to fail due to corruption and nepotism and brutalist communism or national socialism has never worked either. As such one could say that in our materialistic life we reached a new high, but the downside was falling into a form of luxurious apathy leading to ignorance to more large picture warnings.
Overall we must simply acknowledge that our so-called industrial revolution and also the so-called "Very High" living standards of the West has come at immense costs on many levels – everything from oil wars, the abuse of slave-like labor in third world countries for cheap productions, our never-ending need to constantly growth leading to highly controversial productions methods like GMO, use of Penicillin on healthy animals, pesticides ending in the water reserves, and a Pharmaceutical industry that has very doubtful agenda – reading: "If you completely heal people you have lost a customer", and many other highly destructive events. In all this race to stay on top, to lead in the world we have completely forgotten that we all live on the same one planet and that our resources usage has grown to insane levels – Even last year the world had used its quote of available world resources in August.
Our way of modern living is simply not sustainable, our financial systems have become speculation wealth that does not reflect the real productivity of our societies, The internet has opened the gates to an immense amount of valuable information – But users are still suckers for "reality show news", fast drama and TV Candy – Essentially we have neglected the often quite nasty facts behind the "machine" that has brought us to this point in time and we are still neglecting it.
And lets also not forget that moving technology to Asia and in particular to China was essentially a fatal strategy if anybody wanted the West to maintain leadership status in the world – But the world at large is not driven by such thinking – the West is now driven by fast growth, fast earnings, short term populistic and highly nepotistic politics and no real broadly accepted or even debated visions for where we aim to go for the next 50 years. That is something that China has already laid out as a 5 pillar concept. If any leading politician in the West would read out the 5 pillar concept from China – we would drop out jaws in hearing such thinking spoken out loud.
Trump is properly the mark in time giving a very large hint that we need to get our shit together and that the politicians are not gonna solve anything really, that the market-driven forces will continue to think profit and that we "the people" are in it and essentially the only ones that can bring real change by changing the way we live and the way we reflect about the lives we live. To continue as nothing has changed and as nothing will change is for sure fatal on so many levels.
What we are witnessing and what you rightfully call a chaotic TV reality show is a very large hint to question what is our reality? – How did we end at this point?
Post Trump will surely leave some rather big questions for the general public – Is this really what we want? is this really the only way?. And for the world and for the USA in particular, the understanding of the word "Freedom" will need redefinition and re-clarification.
"It is not the strongest, nor the fastest of species that survive, but those most adaptive"
– The question is if the West wants to adapt in pure necessity with no other options or if the West wants to be clever about it, plan ahead and start implementing general changes to our perception, understanding and of our current way of living.
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By reflection based consensus I mean that everybody must start to (at least try) to think a little different – meaning to reflect up on why a message is coming "your way" and what it actually means – ask why I was sent and what the purpose of it is or what it could be – it would mean to make a secondary reflection on the subject to avoid acting directly or "only" on our emotional responses. There is nothing wrong with emotions, but they belong in certain life situations better than in others.
When we are engaging on Social Media and as described in the utility of CA used to wire and strongly affect our perceptions – in this emotional reactions becomes a tool to be abused by those who intend to move us towards different perceptions fitting their agenda. By consensus I mean to collectively understand that our emotional reactions must be challenged by ourself regardless of who we are – Like some rules that are never written down, but something that is understood broadly by a community or group because it serves the group purposefully regardless of different opinions within it.
We are humans and we are strongly emotional beings so it is not an easy thing to ask to set aside these emotions and it is also not the real purpose, but if we do not have that extra layer of reflection running, we will remain open targets for emotionally driven content, which essentially often have a completely unemotional goals – Like; Power, Money, Diversion, Confusion and the most utilised political tool "Divide and Conquer" in other words Polarising intent.
it is a huge challenge but considering that social media in fact also makes us able to debate and discuss nearly globally, we must try to reach a consensus about how we react to all these constructed influences. The line between truth and reality is becoming constantly more blurred on the digital world we call the internet – because everything can be produced to fit the individual user (target) and it is nearly impossible for each user to check sources and validate content thoroughly.
And even here we must also consider why we discuss various subjects – Why do we do it?. There is not only one answer, but for sure we are trying to understand what is going on – Why does one person have this opinion over another, Why can´t or will this person not understand my view or why can I not understand his or her view. If we do not apply a reflection based mindset then we can not expect the outcome of the debate to become fruitful or useful – Meaning we just remain stagnant in our own perception of what is and we remain polarised and so we are fairly easy target regardless of political sides or otherwise.
Overall I have no answer how to achieve this consensus – but it is evident that most user profiles have real people in real lifes behind it, even the "Trolls" are real people and so is those that perhaps works for professional influencing companies. Everybody has a history, a social background and it is natural that these factors have had a strong influence on how each person see the world. I would simply advice to remember that when we communicate and to apply similar reflections when we debate or react to content.
– Remember that our emotional nature can subject to abuse, so think twice before you react.
– Remember that one message on a subject might not be the exact same as another user have seen.
– Remember that behind the text in a thread there is mostly real people, but in some cases there are people being paid to act as other persons...
– If you suspect that a professional influencer is at work – then regard it as You being on to something important to the subject debated.
– Remember there is a chance that a strongly emotional driven content is manufactured to catch You – Ask what is the purpose or intent of it.
– Acknowledge that everything on digital media is subject to information gathering – Nothing is for Free, never has been.
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Secondary and fully on my own account I find that Prejudgment and large scale Generalisation is a huge problem in the global debate.
I would suggest anybody regardless of political side and standpoint to avoid these two verbs when debating. If you have numbers or other fact based knowledge then it is not generalisation anymore. Prejudgment is a "super negative" that leaves out any openings for a constructive debate – But it is often what brings people to debate.
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Okay! so it is again back to minority punching politics (also known as eradicating the those that do not "fit in" – also known as Nazism) – Though Europe certainly is not without faults, I am happy that I do not live in states for what is coming next... And fucking hell, Trump said at the National Emergency speech that:
"We have so much money we do not know what to do with it"
– Well perhaps do not cut small budgets for well functioning minority groups, fix the payment system for the Veterans, fix the infrastructure, and stop making it even easier to pollute and poison the nature with no penalties at all. But Noo! let's start the next season with hammering on the Special Olympics, "those cripples do not deserve all this attention and for what, what is it good for?".
"We are soon gonna be known as the Healthcare Party" – Great! that is like companies saying we have "Great Prices" without explaining what that really means.
– We are known as the Party that completely privatized Healthcare once and for all with no way to get back for anybody. Follow up with people leaving their homes to live on the street, where they will get sick and it spreads around – Now everybody will be completely buttfucked and in the hands of yet another absolutely non-trustworthy business segment – The too large to fail insurance companies, that already robbed its taxpayers once back in the 2008 crash.
But at least if the Resume by Barr even states that it does not exonerate Trump, then it will very important know what that is...
And by the way, I think that Trump still has forgotten the fact the House has an opposition majority – He is only used to bribe and/or threaten any obstacles from his Business – if that does not work, then make a lawsuit, buy some time and influence some judges. And the sad parody of a broken system lead by power-hungry egocentric and sick humans continues.
So. yes "Drain the Swamp please and not the people – anyway a good deal of "Swampers" working on the Trump Watch got the law in the face – So far that is not Broken.
I do not think we have seen the end to the madness that might unfold around the white house in the coming months.
But if you give the current Trump friendly republicans a little finger, then they will try to eat all of you, that is simply how hungry they are...
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"Devos" is a concatenated form of the Dutch-language surname De Vos (meaning "the fox")
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Gaddafi was a "classical" dictator in the middle east, non the less he was far from hated all over the Libyan population. When he came in power the literacy level was below 18% and when he was removed the literacy level was around 80%. He also made many other progressive laws that would support agriculture, marriage and several other practices.
The middle east spring planned by the former Bush government has been a complete disaster in terms of the promises to make democracy - which naturally was never the intention. The intention has been to stop Irak, Egypt, Libya and now also Syria to prosper into the next step of their nations development. These steps where right about to happen even under those 3 dictators and would have made all the 3 nations much stronger in terms of economy and development. Apart from that the access to the Oil and the main influence of Saudi Arabian reign in the area naturally also played major roles, not to mention the Production Wheels of War that has too keep spinning and making payments for the oil and jobs, income and remaining military budgets for the West.
But the havoc is real now - Libya is a complete mess run by extremist militia groups, controlling the libyan oil and selling it to amongst other the Italian Mafia - For the money earned these militias buy weapons and ammunition to continue what they do - which also includes Human trafficking etc etc. What is left in Libya that could be called leadership has several times asked the West and in particular europe to help since the removal of Gaddafi was spurred on by France, when Gaddafi called upon the African leaders to re apply the gold standard - Which in the current economy would tear apart the Oligarchian money systems as we know them - They are nearly all based on the Black Gold Standard and the OPEC set up.
While all this might be very good for the West seen through cynical and economic eyes - the fact is that a large part* of the refugees coming from theses zones has the West to thank for their current chaotic situation (Not only*) and it then becomes really double morale when the Anti Muslim agenda is agitated so harshly through populism in politics when we in fact are those that creates the possibilities for the Radical Extremist groups to flourish and reign freely. We go to war and intervene in the name of democracy but only leave death, suffering, disruption and complete chaos in our trails.
And I am not saying that the middle east does not have its own internal problems - it has huge amounts of them since when it all comes down to it - Many part of the middle east are still in old tribes relationships that unleashes confrontation if it is not kept strictly with little religion involved - like is was with Gaddafi, Murbarak and Saddam and the very reason why they where removed - The West does not like stability in other parts of the World since that spurs prosperity and growth locally which directly means growing competition- So much for the so called free market economy - its bullshit and a lie.
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The USA suffers from a love for Guns, its in it heritage but it does not make sense anymore. Australia had it, Britain had it - they made it illegal and the mass shootings stopped. The 2nd Amendment has become nothing more that en excuse to keep the weapons closet filled and keep the gun producers earning money on their home market.
The more paranoid the USA becomes the bigger are the chances for more mass shootings and gun outbreaks - That is not going to save the USA now is it?. Some claim that the 2dn Amendment is there to throw of the government in case its harming its own people - Well guess what, it is already harming its own people in more than one way and has done for a very long time and nothing happened - so what kind of bad does the government need to do for all those with guns saying now is enough?... I think there is no clear answer to this - In the end such a scenario will be an act of desperation rather than an ideological call to change.
And what would the USA be changed to? - a rampant mash up of militants local groups driving around making patrols and shooting everything that seamed suspicious in their eyes - well welcome to the chaos of the middle east and welcome to a new self destructive and fascistic parole.
Of all the revolutions coming from a majority of people in modern times, none was based on the fact that we have weapons. Weapons is not the fire that drives a revolution - the need for change is. Weapons come into the revolution when the revolution becomes violent - that happens when military and police forces are being divided, when they can no longer accept putting up force up against their own people - because you know they have families and friends too. When a revolution needs armed fighters, weapons will be stolen and captured and used - you do not need em before hand. A revolution or change of government beyond the normal, does not need weapons - what is needs is a majority of citizen standing together in the first place.
Keeping access to guns in the USA at the current level is keeping the Paranoia open - Cops will be always be extra Alert because you know - that person might have a gun. You walk around and its better that you have a gun because someone else might have one too - That is self defense measures based on self caused problems. When paranoia and fear becomes part of your otherwise "normal" life - you have opened the gates to hell - you have started to mistrust your fellow citizen, you have started to withdraw and to suspect - because that gun sitting in the holster is always reminding your body of the possible dangers that might be the next thing happening. And if you forget your gun one day - fear might arise since you are now feeling defenseless and naked. All these and many other emotions and subconscious patterns will keep you on extra high alert because of the guns that has a constant place in your mind and for your feeling of security. While extra alert might sound great it comes at a the cost of overheating and exhausting the mind and the brain - which then might lead to high levels of stress related symptoms, illness or compensated with unhealthy habits (Extreme Sugar intake being the main and most common brain need).
I can understand that a person working in the military has guns, or a police officer or a professional hunter. Even a hobby hunter or someone living remotely on the countryside where there might be wild animals or where no Police ever would arrive in time of crime happening. But overall no country needs all their citizen to have access weapons - and in particular not the USA - Fuck you guys has the most powerful army in the world by a large margin, and you just raised the budget again. There no complex borders - you have south and you have north and I do not suspect that Canada is going to be a dangerous neighbor - in fact for avoiding invasion the USA could not be placed much better than it already is considering its size.
So fuck all these guns in civil life, you do not really need them, they just cause a lot of harm on your self - Its a habit and a excuse for doing something else instead.
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