Today’s working class feels the built-in pay cuts that inflation brings. Reality hits when they compare their wages to the increasing prices at the grocery store, the gas pump, and the monthly rent. Every Friday feels like a robbery has occurred. No, it is just the long arm of the Washington monster reaching into their pockets.

Engineered by the Federal Reserve Bank, it is a silent extraction. Officials tell them that inflation is coming down. They offer nothing to ease the pain inflicted by their eight percent pay cut last year. But they promise another three percent pay cut via inflation this year on top of the previous year’s pay cut. How sweet of our benevolent leaders as they approve billions of dollars for their neo-Nazi friends in Ukraine. 

The working class is not alone in their battle for equitable money. The upper-middle class faces the same dilemma. The only difference is that their cars are more expensive, homes bigger, and salaries higher than the working class. This demographic lives with the threat of unemployment and financial bankruptcy. With a recession looming, their jobless child living in their basement with a worthless degree, a $216,000 in college debt will be no help when the shit hits the fan. Yes, professional workers are living with the same anxiety.

These groups are bidding their time for a savior to rise. It will not come from the Republican or Democrat Party. Many thought it was Trump in 2016. Their support was a defiance of the Republican Party mixed with the leakage from the Democratic Party. He was not the answer. He only provided a big fat “fuck you” to the Washington vetted. What did that get him, jail time?

“Washington DC is a blood-swollen tick, sucking all the economic progress and freedom away from America’s working people and producing nothing of value in return. Wealth demographics of the Metro DC area prove that the parasite has clearly gotten bigger than the host. defunding the Deep State careerists in the federal executive branch.” https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/were-primed-for-a-spark/

Washington workers are out of touch with America. They exist at the behest of the American working class. They wallow in an economic fascist revolving door. They provide the opportunity for the politically-favored corporations to get sweetheart federal contracts. They conceal their tactics behind propaganda, misinformation, and national security. It provides $100 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine to get hundreds of thousands of 19-year-old Russian and Ukrainian conscripts killed. 

Five of the Metro DC counties are among the ten wealthiest counties in America. Washington DC has no agricultural output, no manufacturing prowess, and no products that provide the comforts and necessities of Americans. The American working class watched Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin profits skyrocket as funds somehow mysteriously trickled into the accounts of the DC Metro elite as the Metro DC footprint expanded with million-dollar mansions. 

The FBI and Big Tech have become their hired hands to hide the profit of war and death. They are used to snuff out and remove any threat to this political and profitable relationship. The Covid lockdown, the Moderna jab, and the Amazon/NSA connection come to mind.

The backing for Trump was about a rebellion against the political establishment. The political results since 2016 have shown that American workers are unhappy. They are looking for a rebel capable of draining the swamp. The 2020 elections confirmed that no one in politics was on the side of the American working people.

Who, in 2024, can capture this crowd? Will their savior come democratically in the next presidential elections, or will it come by force? As we stray further from the government our founders designed, we open the door wider to change by force.

Clark Stanley, a Texan huckster, traveled across the United States dressing up as a cowboy. He would slice open live rattlesnakes, throw them into boiling water, and bottle up the oil that rose to the top. Stanley promoted his Snake Oil as the perfect miracle-cure-all. The oil he produced was not as promised. In the 1800s, he was tried and found guilty of misrepresenting his product.

The sociopathic bargainers of the Washington ruling class are selling Ukrainian Snake Oil. Upon returning from Kyiv, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) concluded that the Ukrainian War was worth it. Recently, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) called the war “the best national defense spending I think we’ve ever done.” Justifying a 7:1 ratio of Ukrainian to Russian killed, he states that the U.S. is “losing no lives in Ukraine, and the Ukrainians are fighting heroically against Russia.”

Upon newspeak translation, the substance of their jargon is clear. Tax dollars extracted from hard-working Americans and the money created by the Federal Reverse (devaluating the rest of our income) means nothing. The lives of Ukrainian men, women, and children are worthless. The only thing of value is dead Russians. It is a hoax perpetrated by elected officials.

U.S. Senator Blumenthal talks about Ukrainian life like a piece of clothing hanging on a Kohl’s clearance rack. He believes Americans “should be satisfied that we’re getting our money’s worth on our Ukraine investment.”

Romney is as cold as Blumenthal. “We’re diminishing and devastating the Russian military for a very small amount of money.” He continues, “For less than 3 percent of our nation’s military budget, we’ve enabled Ukraine to degrade Russia’s military.”

Whether Snake oil salesmen or Washington carnival hawkers, these war promoters are shamelessly evil. Without our Big Brother Bob Emory green glasses, we may be able to see them for who they are. Washington is a haven for shysters. Clark Stanley, for his part, was fined for misrepresenting the truth. In Washington, misrepresenting the truth gets you reelected.

According to W.C. Fields, “There is a sucker born every minute.” We have been suckers long enough!

Government corruption is because of power. Not all politicians begin as corrupt individuals. The temptations are so grand that many become corrupt. The people empower politicians through elections, and the politicians, once elected, appoint bureaucrats. These unelected officials inherit as much and sometimes more power than the elected official.

Power is intoxicating. It changes many moral men and women to approve of immoral acts. Allowing and encouraging agencies to force innocent, hard-working citizens to pay bribes or send young men and women to places around the world to kill or be killed can be intoxicating.

They often use catchy slogans for the common good to justify their vote or support of these crimes. It is a dishonest claim. I cannot extort money from my neighbors to pursue a cause I decide is worthy. I cannot hire an assassin to kill someone I have quarrels with. These actions would put me behind bars.

Abuse of this corrupting power tempts politicians and bureaucrats because they can benefit directly from political favors. Bribes, campaign contributions, expensive vacations, post-retirement jobs, sinecures for family members, and the benefits are overwhelming. They use their support for the “public good” as the reason they deserve to stay in power. How convoluted is that? Washington politicians and bureaucrats use our mandatory bribe money (taxes), and the Federal Reserve created money to make favors to the select few so they can personally benefit.

Wealth transfer is the product of this relationship. Subsidies are a direct distribution. Tariffs are an indirect distribution. Both exemplify how money gets transferred from taxpayers, consumers, and disfavored businesses and delivered to a favored person, corporation, or industry. Central Banking (Federal Reserve) allows for money creation and government borrowing. This results in a dollar depreciation inflation that promotes wealth transfer from the underprivileged to the overprivileged.

Washington’s hierarchy of needs is corrupt. Favored persons, businesses, industries, and countries have surpassed the basic needs of our citizens. Look at how Washington has acted towards the victims of the Maui catastrophe. A one-time $700 check. Really, $700 to rebuild your life from scratch.

This callous response is only the tip of this corruption iceberg. Biden held the funds hostage to the approval of more funding for Ukraine. Ukraine is the country that has received over $100 billion from Congress. Congress’s common good money to fight a war they could never have won. For what? Do not be fooled. It is another example of how wealth shifts from the U.S. working class to oligarchs, politicians and bureaucrats, and weapon makers.

This corruption has destroyed the three-branch government system of checks and balances the founders wrote into the Constitution. How can we find a way to get the Washington power structure back in compliance with the Constitution? Is there a 2024 Presidential candidate independent, strong, and bold enough to wake the indoctrinated and rally the true Constitutional patriots?

Admit that Ukraine is yet another U.S.-led interventionist crusade that failed. Intervention because this war should have never occurred. Two acknowledgments: 1) an announcement that Ukraine would not be allowed into NATO; 2) Washington would work toward Minsk Agreement compliance by Ukraine could have prevented the Russian-Ukrainian War. The tragedy is that these monsters willfully destroy human life.

The fiascos in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan should have been proof enough that the Washington foreign policy is flawed. They always promote wars billed as democracy against authoritarianism. They use hooks like “rules-based” international order against the law of the jungle. The marketing of humanitarianism is just a cover for the monetary profits of the weapons makers and a total world hegemony that Washington envisions.

In Washington, there are whispers of dissatisfaction with Kyiv’s recent military offensive. It appears that Washington realizes that Ukraine’s usefulness to weaken Russia is drawing to a close. Ukraine’s “fifteen minutes of fame” has passed. The only unknown is how hard they will let Ukraine fall. The only softening of Ukraine’s fall will occur if it provides cover for Washington’s guilt.

A telling sign of a good friend is having each other’s back. Washington appears to be in a face-saving mode that will discredit its bloodied pawn. They are expressing concern with Ukraine’s military strategy and “willingness to fight” with a “growing unwillingness of Ukrainian forces to follow the advice of NATO advisers” and their excessively “casualty averse.” This verbiage prepares the American public for the possible abandonment of a U.S. client.

America’s foreign policy hawks may be smart enough to abandon a used pawn. But will the indoctrinated public be able to identify Washington’s next target? The weakening of Russia and the Putin regime failed. Who is next? China

Democratic Party prophet President Obama once promised: “to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration.” Let us examine his disciple’s record. I will keep it political. I won’t even mention the lack of transparency (cover-up) associated with sonny boy, Hunter. 

In April, the Biden White House was blindsided by leaked US intelligence documents on the Ukraine proxy war they discouraged the public from reading them. “This is information that has no business in the public domain,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby declared. “It is not intended for public consumption.” Transparency? Failure

55% of the public polled by CNN say the US Congress should not authorize additional funding to support Ukraine. Less than a week after this poll, the Biden administration asked Congress for an additional $24 billion for the Ukraine proxy war. This request, if approved, will bring the total aid to Ukraine to about $137 billion. How arrogant is it to demand more money from a public that does not support this war? So much for public participation and collaboration. Failure

The Biden administration instigated the Ukraine-Russia War and has never pressured Ukraine to pursue peace. That is because this is a war to weaken Russia. It is a war not to defend Ukraine. The Biden administration thumbs its nose at the US public as they watch the pathetic Ukrainian soldiers and innocent civilians die “to ensure a strategic failure for Putin so that Russia can pay a longer-term price in terms of the elements of its national power.” Jake Sullivan, United States National Security Advisor 

War is the heroine of our Ruling Class. It satisfies their addiction with every dose of armament or funds. At last month’s NATO summit, the New York Times reported the reality of their addiction. “American and European officials acknowledged” that their “commitments” to Ukraine “make it all the more difficult to begin any real cease-fire or armistice negotiations.” 

Without eliminating the drug, our rulers will not find an off-ramp from this war. They will not detox on their own accord. The only solution is cold turkey. Stop the funding and pursue peace. However, Congress is full of enablers not willing or able to intervene. Only a well-informed citizenry possesses the power to be a proper interventionist.

President Donald Trump increased military spending by 20%. Biden has now achieved a similar 20% increase in three years. In 2021, when President Joe Biden took office, the defense spending bill in front of Congress was $740 billion. For FY2024, the defense budget bill is $886 billion. That increase is incredible considering the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Afghanistan war. After all, the troop withdrawal was supposed to be a $50 billion savings to the taxpayers.

In his July 4th tweet, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin praised, “We have the greatest fighting force in human history,” After 9/11, President George W. Bush boasted that this country had “the greatest force for human liberation the world has ever known.” Then in 2010, President Obama declared them “the finest fighting force that the world has ever known.”

Is that what our exceptional nation status has become? This country can no longer boast of having the world’s best educational system, the best healthcare system, the most advanced and safest infrastructure, or the best democratic politics. So our leaders are left with boasting about the strength of our military force.

Most political scientists believe that the most dangerous challenge to freedom is war. The end of the first Cold War should have been a cleansing and reduction in size, power, and restraint. Instead, the military complex was allowed to search for dragons to slay. The road was bloody, but the marketing was top-notch. They were smart enough to sell the war as our exceptional nation spreading democracy in countries that promoted the rule of law-based governments. It sounds humanitarian, but examining reality proves suspect.

The U.S. fought several wars after the Soviet Union’s implosion and before 9/11 were not for countries appearing on the Who’s Who of Democracies. The list of wars includes; Panama, the Gulf War (Iraq for the sovereignty of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia), Iraq (no-fly enforcements), Somalia, Bosnia, Croatia, Haiti (once twice I lost count), and Kosovo. Comparatively small in nature but large enough to feed the military beast. Then came the 9/11 jackpot, a reason to declare war on a tactic, terrorism. In other words, the declaration removed all boundaries to include the whole world.

No other country comes close to our commitment of funds to wars and weapons. All spent in pursuit of global dominance. The Pentagon’s budget for “defense” in 2023 will exceed the military budgets of the next ten countries combined. Bragging about the most expensive military ever is not what I consider admirable or patriotic. The MIC sycophants in Congress will no doubt approve the request. And probably, as they have done before, add to it.

The founding fathers warned about worshiping a standing army. We are inmates in the Congressional Military Industrial Media Complex that promotes and practices warfare in favor of diplomacy.

August 9, 1945, marks the anniversary of the third and final Nuclear Test conducted by the United States Government. Test? The nuclear bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima that took the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings were to “determine the power of the bomb.”

An official US Government booklet titled, “Announced United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 Through December 1979.” New Mexico was at the top of the list as the first nuclear test. Second, on the list was Hiroshima. Third was Nagasaki. I must have been sleeping in history class when my teacher taught that lesson. Anyway, I am sure it was in the textbook assigned to read. How could I have missed that? Was I lied to?

Manhattan Project director, Gen. Leslie Groves, confirmed: “To enable us to assess accurately the effects of the bomb, the targets should not have been previously damaged by air raids. It was also desirable that the first target be of such size that the damage would be confined within it so that we could more definitely determine the power of the bomb.”

What type of Evil Empire would test a uranium-fueled atomic bomb on Hiroshima and then the plutonium bomb on Nagasaki to determine its destructive power? How different is this from the Nazi experiments on human life?

The fallout from World War ll destroyed our once proud nation. We converted from a humanistic republic to a military-industrial security state. NATO, the Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam, Yugoslavian wars, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine, were about world hegemony and profits.

Contrary to the narrative, they were not about spreading democracy. On January 17, 1961, Eisenhower told us about the Military Industrial Complex cabal. President Kennedy became a casualty when he pushed hard against it.

The list of its victims is enormous: the innocent bystanders that are robbed of their wealth to support evil (taxes, Federal Reserve-induced inflation); those collaterally damaged in war (ie. killed and murdered); those killed wrongfully by the domestically aligned security forces (police, FBI); the despaired that resort to crime or addiction; those in poverty, the list goes on.

Is it too late to regain control? The corrupt Washington duopoly system bought and controlled by the security predators is powerless. They cannot correct it. Those few that attempt to expose this distorted power hierarchy are silenced.

I do not see a David capable, powerful, and popular enough to slay Goliath. I guess I will have to sit back and watch it destroy itself and hope it does not come at the expense of innocent American civilians.

The United States Women’s National Soccer Team has dominated international soccer for four decades, winning the last two World Cup Championships. Today this team was left at a rest stop along the road to the World Cup Championship. Hungrier and more pursuant sides choose to bypass the highway oasis. Is it comfort, age, leadership, or training? But they are now watching the tournament through the dust of more cohesive, not more talented teams.

However, the Americans are still unbeatable at the bank, claiming “11 of the 15 spots on the list of the highest-paid players at this summer’s tournament in Australia and New Zealand. The two highest paid are USWNT veterans Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe, both cleared $7 million over the last 12 months.” Forbes 

Thanks to the US Women’s National Soccer Team’s massive success over the past 40 years, brands have been more willing to support the current professional women’s soccer players. However, they are cashing checks that others earned. (Akers, Heinrichs, Hamm, Lilly, Chastain, Wambach, Lloyd, and many others) I believe this is the base of their under-achieving play. Carli Lloyd pointed out that the “easy” money, off-field distractions, and politics translate into sporadic, unfocused, and disjointed play. 

Why else would it take the fourth World Cup game to finally show glimpses of the passion and play of yesterday’s heroines? It is time to show more respect for the pioneers that blazed your trail.

The Show
A recent headliner at the US Capitol Theater was a hideous man. It was Zelensky, a sweatshirt and cargo pants-clad ex-comedian turned President. The crowd of Representatives and Senators applauded relentlessly and uproariously as visions of billions danced in their heads as the corrupt clown bloviated from the podium. The con man recited lines written by neocon/NATO puppet masters with just the right amount of Ukrainian accent to seduce his patrons.

He is a shameless man. He is ungrateful for the billions he has already stolen. The theme rendered from the tinny poseur was – not enough. Washington has authorized $65 billion of economic and military aid, with other NATO nations throwing in $32 billion additional. On top of that, the Omnibus Abomination will authorize $45 billion more. This despicable man wants more.

Zelensky’s rhetoric has nothing in common; with humanity, the security of the free world, or the safety and liberty of the American homeland. Zelensky kept repeating lies; about the rule of law, the sovereignty of borders, and the freedom of the peoples of Ukraine and their neighbors.

Let me be clear this war is not about freedom and democracy. Ukraine is an authoritarian, corrupt country. Zelensky has shut down or taken over all opposition press. His opponents have been arrested or killed. There are no longer any opposition parties, his national security apparatus has purged dissenters, and he has even attacked the Russian Orthodox Church.

A Walk Down Memory-hole Lane
The present Ukranian-Russian War is a civil war in which Russia chose to intervene. The civil war was instigated in 2014 by the illegitimate government installed in Kyiv after a Washington coup d’ tat against the duly elected and Russian-friendly President. Washington intervened in response to the last legitimate election held in Ukraine. The Russian-friendly candidate, Yanukovych, won the 2010 national election. The election outlined two separate political and cultural regions in Ukraine. It was the democratic votes of the people that drew those borders.

Yanukovych had a 60-90% margin in the east and south against the Ukrainian nationalist candidate, Tymoshenko, who won the center and west by similar 60-90% margins. The Washington-backed victors set these two regions against each other. The new regime was not tolerant of the long-standing regional differences in language, religion, ethnicity, and economics.

The Russian-speaking populations of Crimea, the Donbas, and the Black Sea coastal areas sought separation owing to fears of repression by the Ukrainian nationalist and neo-Nazi politicians who took control of the government in Kyiv. The latter brought the bloody violence of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including the overtly neo-Nazi Azov Brigade, down upon them.

The Kyiv-instigated civil war against the Russian-speaking populations of eastern and southern Ukraine raged on for eight years before Putin finally responded to their pleas for overt military assistance. Upwards of 14,000 separatist military and civilian personnel had been killed by Kyiv’s violent onslaught against this population.

Fission – As In Cellular – Not Nuclear
Yugoslavia did it, Czechoslovakia did it, and all the affected populations are far better off. It’s now time for the borders created by Lenin from New Russia and parts and pieces of the Czarist empire and post-WWI Galicia, by Stalin from WWII era Poland, Hungary, and Romania, and by Khrushchev to dissolve. Let the inhabitants of this region figure it out.

Zelensky and his bloodthirsty Ukraine destroyers will not go away quietly. Give them safe passage to transport themselves and the billions they have stolen from American taxpayers and socked away in secret bank accounts to safe havens far from the homelands they have destroyed. Chase and prosecute later after a negotiated settlement. Just don’t give them more money and destructive equipment. Any introduction of nuclear weapons will be too late. Please save the planet now. That is the price I’m willing to pay to see Zelinsky go away.

“President Zelensky has just been named by Time magazine “politician of the year 2022”. It is not to have realized his coup de force of July, in favor of the war. He had all the political parties that opposed him banned; assassinated the personalities who resisted him; controlled all the media, written, audiovisual and internet; banned the Russian language; destroyed 100 million books; confiscated many of the assets of the oligarchs, including the one who personally financed him; nationalized the assets of Russian investors and companies; and finally banned the Orthodox Church.” Thierry Meyssan Political consultant, President-founder of the Réseau Voltaire Network (Translation Roger Lagassé)

Thierry Meyssan’s recent article https://www.voltairenet.org/article218518.html expounds upon the above statements. It is sad that the corporate U.S. Mainstream News continues to propagate the lie that this man is a good model for the Liberal, Rule Based Democracy farce. In reality, Zelinsky has proven to be a profitable asset for the weapons industry, he and his corrupt cronies, population control, and propaganda shills like Time. 

Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the United States’ most senior general, said last month, “over 100,000 Russian soldiers killed and wounded,” then added, “Same thing probably on the Ukrainian side.” According to General Milley, the Russian invasion had also killed about 40,000 Ukrainian civilians and displaced 15 million to 30 million. Time’s Person Of The Year could have prevented the Russian invasion. Instead, he chose war over diplomacy.

President Zelensky will join an eclectic group of former winners of Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. The list includes; Chiang Kai-shek, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin (twice), Richard Nixon (twice), Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump.