Referencing the film Fight Club is quasi-cringey because it represents every angry, in your twenties, posters on the wall without a frame, cliff-note Bukowski, jaded, wannabe Nietzschean “edge lord” that most of us, especially men, have dealt with.
But almost in my forties, over most things, and arguably…content mostly, etc., I do admit I daydream about how Edward Norton saw the banking buildings at the end of the film go down in rubble, but instead of banks, I envision social media companies. Seeing all the symbols come crashing down to Earth. The blue bird of Twitter, well – now the way too bright X shinning down in San Franscisco as drug addicts hiss in piss filled streets being bought up by hedge funds like BlackRock or Vanguard. The F of Facebook. The almost Hello Kitty looking camera symbol of Instagram. This, that, whatever. Yet, before I get flagged, I just want to say I’m not really serious – at least about any violence or destruction, though a world without social media, at least as it is now, would be much better, healthier, etc.
But I don’t hate Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, etc., though, yes, Elon is lame, but when I think of a person like Mark or Jack, I see optimists who had a dream they couldn’t’ control and still can’t control but can’t admit they don’t have control because they’re in charge of capitalist enterprises bent on profits. In other words, Mark, etc., signed out and could care less if the world burns. This adds on more to the irony. Analogous to demi-gods they created a universe but are letting it crumble because they didn’t comprehend the sheer power.
Books aren’t dead but they very well may be dead. To read means to sign out, and to feel catharsis must now be shared instead of silently appreciated by oneself. Basic cable, though organized and safe, doesn’t stimulate us as much as streaming where we can customize our experiences. Social media reigns supreme but still it’s…inhuman. Maybe it’s too convenient? With such an easy way of getting information, maybe it’s making us dumber, yet living in a world that requires us to keep track of the ever-growing interconnectivity of things, that is why people are…depressed? Stupidity mixed with complexity creates a dialectical tension that leads to hopelessness as one realizes they become masters-of-none, just repositories of trivial information.
At least, you get off with porn, though sure, many will say that too is bad, yet at least you get a spike of some naturally occurring chemicals in your body.
With basic social media…what is it even really for? To feel bad? To flex wealth? To juxtapose our romantic relationships against that of others to remind us that we should be happy where we are rather than being “single” or with someone else? To pretend to be a wise sage even though deep down instead you’re just speaking to yourself but through others without the fear of having to actually deal with…people? Are we just projecting our fears out onto the electric ether just like how a child who sees a scary movie will tell his or her friends about it, so they too are afraid but in that collective fear comes comfort, solace?
I think a healthy New Years resolution would be to spend less time on social media. And I get that is hard because in many ways we have “social media friends”, i.e., people we’ve met online who we’ve vetted who are people we consider to be on friendly terms with though you may not have ever physically have met the person. People who know you exist and are a person with a life in a world that may not see that. There are also legitimate close ties with people in your actual personal lives (friends, family, co-workers, business connections, etc.). Yet, the good parts aside, the truth is social media has destroyed the planet.
As with most tools, humans get utility out of it, but most tools become corrupted because of our innate nature as self-serving, self-preserving, aggressive yet passive-aggressive creatures. Instead of saying hello, we spy and snoop. Instead of trying to find common ground, we instead agitate an already agitated public. Instead of pursing our dreams in the real world, we scroll.
We don’t even need to fear Artificial Intelligence because we as humans have a good enough job at driving ourselves crazy, making alternative universes, pushing a culture of solipsistic post-truths, etc.
It will take us as a society to teach the social media companies a lesson by not spending so much on time so they can’t mine our data, etc.
Social media is a postmodern cesspool of racial tension against all groups, conspiracy theories (spanning the Great Replacement Theory, the New World Order, Blood Libel by Jews, a belief we are being turned gay, etc.), racial conspiracy theories, antisemitism, misogyny, sovereign citizens, Qanon, Manosphere & Men’s Rights shaming videos that feed the insatiable appetites of Incels across the blob of angry men who LARP (live action role play) in video games about killing people or dying honorably in battle. Men who struggle with women and publicly commit to “no fapping” (masturbating) as a means of tapping into their inner Marcus Aurelius but taking out their sexual repression on women by providing “fatherly words of wisdom” to women who they think have no minds of their own. How many Pakistanis, Saudis, or other horny Middle Eastern men using VPNs to access Western porn/women are the ones actually crying about their alleged addictions?
Let’s not forget the Instagram “thirst trap” models of large squat sculpted buttocks, sultry MILFs, what have you, but also…bot accounts, covert government operations both foreign and domestic, etc. Or wait, the annoying street interviewers attempting to make people seem stupid or lost for whatever agenda they are really about, such as “drinking liberal snowflake tears.”
You never know if its Iranian intelligence firms with bot armies infiltrating black “woke” Marxist liberation sites to stoke anti-whitey sentiments because Iran knows they have a backdoor plug into the Black American community via Muslim adjacent hate groups such as the Nation of Islam with figures such as Rizza Islam.
You never know if Israel Unit 8200 bot accounts ran by drafted Israeli teens are stoking racial division to keep the eyes away from Israel and that it’s not Jews behind the scenes but rather hordes of Muslim refugees flooding Europe who will topple the West.
You never know if Russian bot accounts are stoking unrest by infiltrating American Conservative politics as a means of depicting the West as a “corrupt, amoral, Sodom and Gomorrah” so more and more paranoid white Americans and Europeans see Putin as “big daddy savior” of Christendom.
You never know if what you’re seeing is being ran by a legitimate cult who are pushing every New Age conspiracy theory that intends to unravel our linear view of history apart. You never know if hate groups like the Aryan Brotherhood, or any other aspiring group are behind many accounts. You never know if it’s the CIA, FBI, DEA, ATF, local police, MI5/6, Mossad, etc.
We are literally living in a William Gibson Neuromancer nightmare, and we all know it, but we don’t know how to express it because outside of social media, in perfect American fashion for example, we’ve all been trained to be self-serving individuals. Despite out own quiet desperations and ennui, if we see such melancholy elsewhere, we are now trained to simple walk over the dying bodies of others, because we are too busy “manifesting” our own happy little worlds. Any whiff of negativity could lead to the dreaded…unfollow.
It is everything that Philip K Dick lost his mind over.
Social Media is arguably MK Ultra 2.0. A brainwashing tool for various parties, some in unison, and some in opposition, who fart out toxicity to scramble the general public’s brain.
I’ve literally been seeing people get murdered on social media. Seeing the N word is just commonplace now and even if reported, sites like Instagram do nothing. Nudity is even acceptable.
The thing is…it’s all insanity. It’s to the point where I make it a hobby to block accounts. I’ll literally try to block 50 a day because many are just replica accounts, often pushing Right Wing social conditioning that mixes a denunciation of progressive politics with a worship of capitalist greed, misogyny, Abrahamic religion, doomsday Revelation fears, etc. It’s as if the Koch Brother Foundation along with the John Birch Society wrote a blank check and gave it to a bunch of Young Republican college kids and shills like Charley Kirk to fart out as many bot accounts as they can as a means of pulling the youth to the far right, just because rich people or aspiring rich people want a tax break.
Social media is a joke
Deconstructed to an animal impulse the only thing on social media that makes me somewhat happy is a combination of food porn, glamour shots of retro porn actresses from the 90s to 80s, history stuff, and models in yoga pants.
Sex, food, daydreams
The only way to really fix social media is to (1) Dox everyone, i.e., make it some everyone’s real first name, age, and country of origin is on their profile because this will expose the armies of chaos agents stoking tension. Imagine if that Right Wing Anti-SJW account is owned by Boris in some oblast in Russia or Ahmed as the IT guy working with the Iranian Revolutionary guard or a Jewish kid with braces doing a high school project funded by the IDF. (2) Limit the number of accounts a person can have/hunt down replica accounts and limiting how many times a specific video can be uploaded or using digital forensics of some sort to post the date that photos or videos were taken in order to add context to conversations. For example, a racist account intent of shaming black people will upload frequent videos of black crime or racial tension when certain videos may be very old, but pretending they are new helps to feed the current narrative that black people are these “ungrateful criminals” intent on “killing the white man”. (3) More culturally sensitive content moderators because an Indian person in a cubical may not get certain American nuances or vice versa. (4) An active campaign to fight conspiracy theories by having users list sources. (5) Partnerships with sites such as Ground News to help show the political biases of articles (6) continued parental controls
Social media is too cerebral.
It reveals everything ugly about us without any way of making us better. Even most self-help just serve to reduce one into a consumerist bot.
But I saw some good food and yes, some great feminine, squat-sculpted powerful buttocks in an array of multi-colored synthetic material leggings. At least I am honest.
John David Norman (born 10/13/1927, died 5/22/2011) California Death Certificate No. 3201110002677 is known as one of the United States most notorious pedophiles and…he may be another character in the ant colony of characters involved with the JFK assassination. Jeffrey Epstein seems to have nothing on this person.
It is my impression that if true, Norman’s involvement is an example of the very dangerous underworld that was behind the JFK and later RFK assassinations.
This underworld was the cross juncture between state law enforcement and intelligence agencies with that of the criminal underworld (involved in gun trafficking, drug trafficking, laundering, contract killings, pornography, and sexual content featuring minors). The State has always had ties to criminal organizations either to get informants, infiltrate foreign governments, move weapons/money/drugs, incriminate enemies, and make the careers of aspiring bureaucrats.
We will never really know who killed JFK directly, but his death is a symbolic representation of where the underworld meets the mainstream world. Big business, mob-controlled unions, the Mafia, law enforcement, intelligence agencies, the military, etc., are all layers.
But back to Norman, he created an industrial scale operation for illicit content depicting minors that spanned decades until his eventual incarceration at a California mental asylum and then later death. His operation involved various newsletters that acted as a sort of “back page” or brochures that sold minors to pedophiles across the globe. But Norman despite being arrested multiple times in multiple jurisdictions, often using confusion across police jurisdictions and aliases to avoid detection, was essentially…let off the hook for nearly 50 years.
The thing is, Norman with his rolodex, black-book, and memory of names/numbers, likely had dirt on very influential people who likely still needed to get their “fix” while Norman was able to provide. There are two proven cases of rolodexes associated with John David Norman having gone missing, where one was destroyed by the US State Department which was confirmed by Matthew Nimetz in 1977 after John Norman was investigated by the Chicago Tribune journalist Michael Sneed (pronounced Michelle) for crime in Illinois. [See: https://archive.ph/MkYUC/c6e92138f14b14e3b86c692223c5c14841b5837a.jpg]
Why would the State Department take or destroy his files? It could be possible that incriminating information found in his index cards could be helpful to the US government to bribe officials, etc.
In Episode Two of the Clown and Candyman by ID Discovery, Norman fled to Homewood, Illinois and police there led by Frank Flannery found another batch of index cards. Homewood PD gave the cards to the Chicago P.D. but the cards were never seen again.
In other words, John David Norman made himself an indispensable part of the world of pedophilia so he was likely kept around for fear of what information may leak if he were to be killed or imprisoned, etc. Norman, even admitted if the index cards ever got out it would send shockwaves.
John David Norman’s heyday was before the internet, before Amber Alerts, etc., where mail was often not checked, and the general public was ignorant about the mass abuse of minors notably of young boys (often because a naive conservatism about the world).
John David Norman was featured in the Clown and the Candyman docuseries which ties serial killer Dean Corll of Houston, TX to John Wayne Gacy of Chicago, IL. In the documentary, it was John David Norman’s name was mentioned during a Dallas area sting operation into pornography featuring minors.
While arrested for his Illinois crimes, Norman (who went by multiple aliases and was described as being a “jailhouse lawyer”) met a young local hoodlum named Phil Paske, who wanted in on Norman’s national/international “boys for sale”/child content ring. Paske, interestingly was an associate for John Wayne Gacy, going so far as working for Gacy’s PDM Contractors and having a key to Gacy’s house. Gacy while in jail alleged, he didn’t kill all those boys and young men found under his house.
To add more insanity to the situation, a later crew of Satanic serial killers called the Ripper Crew (yes, for real – i.e., I am not trying to push “Satanic panic”).
Further, another Chicago area serial killer Brian Dugan alleged he has been assaulted by Gacy (where Gacy was known for “cruising” for young males).
So, think about that, Gacy had possible ties in varying degrees to multiple serial killers, which to me sheds light on how serial killers were often “cleaners and fixers” or “sharks” for larger parts of the underground economy such as sex trafficking and illegal pornographic content.
But, what about Norman?
Norman may actually link to the confusion web of plays, plots, and subplots involving the assassination of John F. Kennedy and by extension Robert F. Kennedy (where RFK was shot by Sirhan Sirhan who may have had ties to California gangster and nightclub owner Eddie Nash, who thereafter had ties to the Corsican Mob – themselves known for the French Connection, and some theories concerning the JFK assassination such with Lucien Sarti).
Norman in 1973 was arrested in Dallas at his apartment at 3716 Cole Avenue by Detective RC Nelson, just one week after Dean Corll was killed by one of his youth accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley in Houston.
Norman was arrested through an anonymous tip from a male sex worker living in San Fransisco, yet, Henley down in Houston told authorities after being arrested himself that Dean often bragged about being part of a larger ring.
Yet, earlier in the 1960s, Jack Ruby who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, may have moved from 500 Marsalis to 223 South Ewing St., apartment 207″ and “Receipt for $40 deposit on 223 South Ewing is signed by John D. Norman.
Jack Ruby was alleged to have been a homosexual with his possible lover, George Senator, etc. This room at this Ewing St apartment was a boarding room type apartment.
Regardless, if this receipt of Jack Ruby was indeed signed by the same John D. Norman, then this opens the players involved in the JFK and later RFK plot to the underworld of child trafficking. If this is indeed the same Norman, then this seems to link back to the New Orleans branch of the larger JFK conspiracy. But, why?
The infamous case of Boy Scout Troop 137 in New Orleans from around 1974-1977 involved many men but notably a Raymond Woodall, and Woodall’s name was found in John David Norman’s rolodex during his arrest in Dallas. This Troop 137 case by proxy allegedly had ties to former District Attorney, Henry Connick, Sr., who was known for having shelved the case files of previous D.A. Jim Garrison who connected CIA affiliate, Clay Shaw to the JFK assassination. CIA Director, Richard Helms admitted to Congress that Shaw was a member of its Domestic Contact Service. Shaw was an associate of David Ferrie (a Bay of Bigs CIA affiliated pilot and disgraced aspiring Jesuit priest with a penchant for young boys), who was an associated of Lee Harvey Oswald, notably during Oswald’s younger days in the Civil Air Patrol.
New Orleans during this period of the pre-planning of the failed Bay of Pigs invasions involved Cuban nationals, Civil Air Patrol pilots, the Italian Mob under Carlos Marcello (with links to Florida’s Trafficante Family), and a dirty cop turned New Orleans P.I., Guy Bannister, etc.
In 1976, detectives Frank Weicks Jr. and Gus Stansbury of the New Orleans Police Department received a call from a film developer in Dallas TX after it was discovered the film developed involved minors, and this later implicated Boy Scout Troop 137. In the case, detectives stated they had come upon a photo a person, largely understood to be a Robert Lang (an alias), where this person was photographed wearing multiple military uniforms. This connection to Dallas further links to John David Norman. Both detectives invited an FBI agent to review the files they had found but the FBI agent never returned after a four to five interview.
My belief is that this man was likely David Ferrie known for wearing disguises, or possibly it could have been Frank Sturgis who served in multiple branches of the US military. Both Ferrie and Sturgis ran arms to Cuba.
Lee Harvey Oswald may have killed the President, but he still had very odd “few degrees of separation” connections considering CIA spymaster Richard Bissell had a loose connection to Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald was stationed in Japan under the secret U2 program. Bissell interestingly made contacts with Chicago Outfit mobsters Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana (both murdered); James Jesus Angleton had a 201 File, i.e., a personality file, on Oswald which is a Wet or Liquid Affair File relating to assassinations, and later CIA director Richard Helm under oath admitted that Clay Shaw was a member of the CIA’s Domestic Contact Service. Shaw was an associated of David Ferrie with Ferrie an associate of Oswald; CIA banker Paul Helliwell who financed the operations involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion [Operation 40, Brigade 2506, Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, Crusade to Free Cuba Committee] that was managed by Richard Bissell – largely with veterans of the successful CIA overthrow of Guatemala, and the failure of that plot is what drove David Ferrie to make public comments about killing JFK, etc.
Paul Helliwell was a member of OSS Detachment 202 in China during WWII where he worked with future CIA spooks Lucien Conien (a French American who had ties to the Corscian Mob and later became head of Nixon’s drug policy under the Federal Bureau of Narcotics which became the DEA. Conien was also involved in the November 1, 1963 coup and Strategic Hamlet Program in Vietnam); John K. Singlaub who managed the Secret War in the Golden Triangle during the Vietnam War and had ties the World Anti-Communist League (which had ties to Far-Right groups, racists, etc.); E. Howard Hunt who was involved in the Bay of Pigs and Watergate, and Mitchell Werbell III.
Also, anti-Communist zealot, Guy Bannister, an ex-FBI member with ties to Chicago, later turned “Red Squad” cop in New Orleans and then later a P.I. had ties to Oswald via the Newman Building where the Pro-Castro organization Fair Play for Cuba Committee was in the same building that housed Anti-Castro Cuban expats who wished to overthrow Castro.
This seems strange but there was a murky time before Castro was on the bad list of the USA, where the US supported Castro, which seems similar to the older Dixie Mission of the US Army making relationships with Mao’s rebels in China during the Chinese Civil War [See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sturgis#Section – Moves to Cuba, joins Castro forces]. Oswald may be a left-over of US support for Castro yet didn’t adapt to the shift that as the US became vehemently Anti-Castro. If Oswald were truly a Communist and not some sort of double-agent, stooge, etc., he must have been delusional to think the US at that time would ever have an appeasement policy with Communism.
CONNECTIONS:<<<<A>>>JFK Conspirators (Locations: New Orleans, Dallas, Chicago, South Florida. Organizations: CIA, The Italian Mob such as the Marcello Family, Trafficante Family, and Chicago Outfit, and its Corsican Mob subcontractors, Dixie Mafia, The Gay Underground, etc.) <<<<B>>> Lee Harvey Oswald <<<<C>>> Jack Ruby who ran strip clubs in Dallas but was from Chicago originally <<<<D>>>John David Norman > (1) Dean Corrll? and (2) John Wayne Gacy/Phil Paske/Ripper Crew and (3) Boy Scout Troop 137 with Raymond Woodall and via Richard Halvorsen <<<<E>>> Richard Halvorsen under alias John Douglas had ties to Rev. Bud Vermilye’s Boy’s Farm Scandal in Tennessee <<<F>>> Boys Farm had possible links to various web of shell companies dedicated towards children involved with those responsible for the North Fox Island Scandal by Francis Shelden – and possible ties to the Oakland County Child Killings<<<<G>>> Francis Sheldon had ties to an Adam Starchild, alias for libertarian fraudster Malcolm McConahy who was included in the Boy Scouts America Perversion Files (See: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/471954/1051.pdf). Starchild helped Sheldon flee the USA and Sheldon had ties to Edward Brongersma who was a Dutchmen who advocated for legal pedophilia. Norman was known to have sent minors to “sponsors” over state and international lines, but foreign nationals, US government officials, etc., were alleged to have used the trafficking services of Boy Scout Troop 137.
Notes/Nodes
I call these “nodes”. I have 5 main nodes in this post (more as well) which represent 4 distinct narratives. The NXVIM-Benghazi Node (regime change, human trafficking, drug smuggling, bank havens). The Star Wars SDI – WWI/WWII Node. Also, how prolific Serial Killers had ties via child abuse networks and some allegedly had ties notable events such as the JFK/RFK assassinations
Pizzo_Exh_453-A_Oswald_leaflets_New_Orleans. Photographer not credited – Originated from the report of the Warren Commission a US Government report. From WH Vol.21 p.139. http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh21/html/WH_Vol21_0082a.htm Border cropped before upload. Lee Harvey Oswald and others handing out “Fair Play for Cuba” leaflets in New Orleans, August 16, 1963
I am a Black American who lived in Germany as a kid in the early nineties not far after the Berlin Wall fell. Germany is beautiful with nice people, great culture, etc. But I feel the US failed Europe (not too late to make amends) and it does sadden me to see Europeans falls back into Right Wing politics because they didn’t ask for this influx in refugees. Sure, they were willing to take some, but the levels they have is…insane. I am not sure what Angela Merkel was thinking. It’s as if there was too much of a pendulum swing in Germany from far right to super liberal democratic but that pendulum never stops swinging, unless you put your hand out and intervene to ensure there’s a nice sway rather than a violent rocking back and forth.
Restrict immigration, work peace deals in the Middle East, and try to expatriate migrants back to their countries, yet still promote concepts of tolerance but within reason. Sorry, not sorry. But the truth is many people can’t go back home because they did flee for a political or cultural reason such as not being the right denomination of Muslim under another particular Muslim regime.
Ireland up in flames (not all of it but major protests). Terror attacks having been done in Spain and France including the Charlie Hebdo comic attack. A teacher was BEHEADED in France. As of December 2023, there was a stabbing in Paris by a migrant near the iconic Eifel Tower, and let’s not forget issues across Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, where assailants were Muslim men. Unemployed migrant men with nothing to do but when they feel alienated/hated some become religious radicals, despite some engaging in drinking, using sex workers, etc.
There are beautiful aspects of Islam, but it makes people nervous that you can’t talk about it. Honestly you can’t talk about Muslims or Zionist Jews, yet anyone can blast Christians. So, if you can’t talk about them, even if your intent is good and to understand, then why are they permitted. Why does intolerance have to be met always with tolerance?
I was in 9th grade with 9/11 happened and nothing was ever the same.
The US made a big error invading the Middle East. Saddam likely in old age would have gotten overthrown by one of his sons in a civil war between the two of them, and Iraq would have handled itself, and the US intelligence community could have betted and bribed the winning side because…that’s what they do. Afghanistan could a pure air war until the Taliban gave up Bin Laden which allegedly, they attempted to do despite the Bush Cheney cronies saying, “we don’t negotiate with terrorist”. Interference in issues that weren’t all our own because we wanted oil and we wanted to protect Israel got the West into this mess, and ironically with Israel currently at war with Hamas, Israeli propaganda machines/troll farms/AI bot accounts are saying that Europe will fall if they support Palestine since Palestine is Muslim, but the Muslims of recent are more so in Europe because of wars to protect Israel.
Sure, crime exists in all religions, races, groups, ages, sexes, etc., but people are only willing to put up with crime they think shouldn’t be there to begin with otherwise we will have a far right or localized (nativist) response. And maybe this is by design. See, the conservative wants you think that this is some grand “Jewish” or “Internationalist Marxist” conspiracy to “miscegenate” Europeans away (the Kaligri Plan), but really one could say that the plan was to have migrants come into Europe, not for them to assimilate, but for them to be criminalized as pretext for a Right Wing takeover of governments and continued wars with Muslims who still sit atop vast oil and natural gas reserves. For example, Italian Prime Minister has ties to Goldman Sachs, and Steve Bannon who often pushes a dystopian view of cyclical violence (akin to the Nazi appropriated ideas of the Kali Yaga of Hindu religions) was an employee of Goldman Sachs (and, possibly with links to either the CIA and/or US Naval Intelligence, i.e., where US Naval Intelligence has given us oddballs such as Right-Wing commentator Jack Posobiec. Side Note: There seems something very “deep state” about MAGA such as Roger Stone and his ties to NXIVM, his links to Alex Jones, Alex Jone’s ties to a prominent lawyer involved in the Trump Fake Elector scheme, etc.).
The inability to curb the migrant crisis and the normalization of far-right politics, often with the help of social media companies who often don’t take down Far Right material seems like a larger plan. A more controlled, right-wing world of racial and/or ethnic segregation (with some cross-over), that is ruled by corporations who have more and more control over Earth’s limited resources. State subsidized billionaires such as Elon Musk spew Right Wing conspiracy theories all the time and the idea of conflicts of interests are out the window when he owns Twitter (X) and Jeff Bezos even owns the Washington Post (at least American media isn’t as creepily owned by elites as that of British Media, i.e., Robert Maxwell, yes, dad of Ghislaine Maxwell was a media mogul who attempted to buy a newspaper from the Rothermere Family who had Nazi ties themselves).
The Right Wing would love nothing more than to go back to the 1920s, where strong man leaders, guarded by uniformed jack-booted thugs, yelled from pulpits in front of massive crowds, where they talked about blood, soil, and grand conspiracies intended to replace simpler and more bucolic ways of life as a result of an ever-evolving modernist and technological trajectory. When you think about it, the same fallouts and externalities of industrialization that caused violent reactions within early democracies that led to the Great Wars of the twentieth century are happening now but with adjustments to new technologies such as social media, the democratization of communication (including misinformation), Artificial Intelligence, etc. Yet, that note aside, the sad truth is that Europe took the brunt of most of NATO’s, the United States, Israel’s, and Russia’s Wars. George Bush opening the hornets’ nest of sectarian violence, poverty, and a large swatch of Earth’s population who didn’t adapt or wouldn’t adapt to Western liberal ideals has caused an issue. Sure, even though we say Islam is a religion of peace, and I believe that for many of its followers, in any religion you will have radicals, the mentally ill, those who think they “see visions”, etc., and these people are capable of using violence. The Western idea is that there is a separation of church of state, and even though we have Christian theocrats attempting to reimpose their will over the secular state – often having to rely on propaganda to fearmonger – the thing is that democracy is a debatable concept within Islam. Muslims seems happier when there is not a separation of church and state. And so be it. Yet, Europe and the West (which includes nations even colonized or having been colonized by Western European powers who adopted Western philosophy) can’t make enough concessions in my opinion to make Muslims truly feel at home, unless they are Muslims who are more cultural Muslims than they are true religious Muslims. I would say the same to hardcore Christians who decry modernity. If you don’t like modernity so much, then please, go or create your own space, rather than impose your will on others where the will of others is protected by Western democratic ideals such as separation of church and state, the pursuit of happiness, equality for women, etc.
But, with so many migrants from Northern Africa mostly and the Middle East coming into Europe, there is no way Europe has the governmental or natural resources to sustain this. Europe is already dependent upon Russia oil mostly, and the Russia Ukraine War has led to higher gas prices globally, despite US efforts to import Liquid Natural Gas to Europe, or US-Saudi Allies (and now Israeli allies) such as the Qatar or the UAE increasing natural gas imports (hence why there’s more pro-Western promotional and tourist content within these countries). Europe also has an elderly population, and sure, migrants are needed to replace that labor, but the cost of assimilation (tension, strains on social services) or the rise in nationalistic and/or racist sentiments will rise. The truth is Europe since WWII has been…babied by the larger superpowers. Europe such as France, the UK, etc., despite their fallen empires still had the covert means to subvert the development of their former subjects as a means of getting cheap resources by controlling/manipulating the finances of developing nations. Further, the US bearded the burden of sacrificing its own troops so Europeans wouldn’t have to keep fighting large wars over trade. As a result, Europeans were able to invest the social democracies that many even the US envy such as free education, healthcare, perfect roads, etc. Yet, that debt was starting to be repaid when the US under George Bush urged European powers via NATO to enter into his Coalition Forces idea to invade Afghanistan and latter Iraq, etc.
European nations sent a few soldiers here and there, but the brunt was done by the Americans and the British. But, by involving themselves, certain smaller nations made themselves targets for reprisals against Jihadist, since many of the smaller nations with humanist/social democratic traditions also fostered refugee programs more generous than that even of the United States who started the wars.
Sure, even though the most debt, resources, and troop casualties were taken by the Americans, the Europeans either because of US pressure and/or Europe’s tendency to appear to lean more humanitarian because of their own domestic policies/sentiments, took the burden of refugees. Yet, even after President Obama called a figurative end to the Global War on Terrorism, going so far as attempting to do a timeline withdraw (still there to appease the Warhawks, but with a quasi-plan to leave to appease the doves), the Europeans thought they were done. Yet, the US likely for the benefit of Israel, ended up supporting “regime change” via the “Arab Spring” democratic protests such as overthrowing militant leaning Egyptian forces, overthrowing Qaddafi in Libya, and attempting to neutralize Syria’s Assad regime. Never one to be left out, the Russians interfered on behalf of Assad, yet Russian bombs were too falling on the Middle East. In retrospect, Russia’s promise to help get rid of Assad’s chemical weapons was nothing but lip service considering Donald Trump in the early days of his presidency bombed Syria on the grounds they still had chemical weapons.
Russia essentially bombed the Middle East to make more refugees, and Russia helps those refugees go into Europe as a means of destabilizing NATO and using online propaganda (via the Alt Right, Far Right, social media, etc.) to appear as if Putin is the savior of the West. Sadly, Fox New and the US Republicans seems to be in on this because they are more pro-Russia, and this may or may not have helped influence the decision to can Tucker Carlson who became more and more pro Russia because of the ultra-conservatism of the Putin Regime, which Putin only does for control reasons. By ultra-conservatism I mean anti-LGBTQ, pro-wife beating, and yes, even Orthodox priest blessing nuclear weapons.
Regardless, Europe has to get it under control, but it will take the Left to take a harder approach otherwise the Right Wing will own the conversation. For example, look at the rise of the Men’s Rights movement. It happened because the left didn’t really take men’s issues seriously, so psychos were able to make millions by catering to a market of angry men. The Left needs to implement more of a “nativist” approach while still fostering ideas of mercy because mercy isn’t even on the plate of the Right Wing.
It feels like the “system” wants Donald J. Trump to win again, so a as result I don’t know if I can even trust Democrats.
I think that the candidate who espouses the most hyper-capitalist rhetoric will win because that is what America is about…money. Nothing else matters. Not God, not war, nothing. Only, capital.
The Democrats have already neutered the Progressive Caucus, i.e., The Squad, notably Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (because she realizes running her mouth often without any clear plan brings more negative attention than good), and they, as in the DNC overall, also serves the capitalist class too. I think the DNC will help Trump get elected just so both the DNC and GOP can go back to their made-up drama to brainwash we, the people, that it’s a basic dialectic of left vs right.
Joe Biden is a nice, albeit boring filler to help calm things down and restore the relationships that Trump tried destroying, yet, he is old…and, I don’t know when his last day alive will be. If the goal was to hopefully have Biden win and for Kamala to win by default as Vice President without running in the event he dies, well, that will be a pretty complicated plan to do with too much on the line, i.e., Trump winning and beginning his revenge tour, tearing apart as much as he can, throwing our allies into uncertainty, appeasing Russia (who will likely want to enter into a rushed peace deal that will benefit them such as having official recognition of the lands they annexed by force), etc.
I’m sure the soulless executives of news companies are getting aroused thinking about the ratings of the Trump Revenge Tour. CNN will pretend they have disgust, when really, they see dollar signs. They will then pretend that they are fighting for journalistic integrity when really, they could care less because while the nation descends into chaos, their children will be at private schools, and they’ll be drinking bubbling water imported for Italy while discussing the next seasons of White Lotus or whatever horrible take Bill Maher had.
But, a lot of people want him to win because they want to see the backlash.
See, Trump represents hate.
He represents that thousand-mile stare one has after driving home from work after a long day. He represents fear. He represents the sadistic need to have total control as a means of protecting one’s own aggrieved ego. He represents nostalgia for days of the John Wayne stoic male, when food was prepared when you got home, little Sally was in home economics and little Johnny was starting pitcher. But he also represents the cocaine fueled days of Wall Street floor trading where everyone had money and yacht rock like Duran Duran were the jams, etc.
The days of muscled men of the West, murdering Communist who dared to nationalize their own resources away from dictators the US ironically installed.
They want to see the police breaking down their enemy’s doors, because they feel they have been treated that way. They want impeachment papers, subpoenas, public trials, and even dreams of executions (seriously, just surf online and look at people’s comments).
Who would have thought that Republicans would be the Jacobins considering the term Jacobin was often used to muckrake against Left Wing radicals? There’s something very Robespierre about MAGA, but instead of the proletariat taking the heads of the rich, it’s the rich convincing the working people to attack those of their same class because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, or assignment. A dastardly albeit inverted type of revolution where the elites use the people to butcher themselves.
Social media is rampant with conspiracy theories where if you peel back though all the Right Wing insanity, the general summary is we are living under a “cabal” of blood-drinking, cannibal, adrenochrome and Interferon harvesting, groomer and child trafficking elites who hold the secrets to the Holy Grail and UFOs, but are actually lizard people in cahoots with the Chinese government as China sets forest ablaze with space lasers manufactured with the help of Israel, using figures like George Soros to erase all borders so help exterminate the “white race”, but only Jesus Christ working through Donald Trump can save the world, defeat Satan, institute the rapture, and bring forth God’s Kingdom on Earth. Oh, and wait, a secret agency with a Q level security clearance is leaking all this information to the public. Oh, and wait, COVID was intended to institute the Fourth Industrial Revolution where we will use Central Bank money controlled by these elites, and oh wait, the World Economic Forum will make us eat insects as a means of aligning with Club Rome created climate change theories. Oh, and wait, wait, where am I?
At least Right Winger’s are having fun, I guess.
But, peeling through all the layers most conspiracies they are pro-capitalist, quasi libertarian, Christian Zionist, American exceptionalism, etc., in nature anyways.
Wait did Qanon rip of the TV show called V? Probably, yes.
Maybe instead of Mark Zuckerberg trying to fight Elon Musk (a loon in many ways himself), maybe he needs to help resolve misinformation rampant on Facebook and Instagram with the billions he has, considering he should have learned his lesson from the Cambridge Analytica Scandal.
It is as if they, i.e., billionaires, the media, the private equity firms, old grump Cold War veterans living the DC/MD.VA area, etc., are trying to weave this narrative of him as a martyr, so Trump at the behest of the capitalist and industrialist class whom both Republicans and Democrats work for, can usher in a new future.
A future of more corporate dominance but once possibly on precipice of war with China, where such a war would be the last step in creating unfettered neoliberal capitalism for the multinational corporations. Think about it, why would Erik Prince, brother to Betsy DaVos (Trump’s former Secretary of Education), and major Trump donor, be helping China with security contracts on the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative? It seems that breaking up China, probably attempting to institute some form of neoliberal democracy, etc. Imagine Chinese, possibly divided along ethnic lines, consuming as much as Americans do. It would be a capitalist dream. Infinite profits, exploitation, investments, etc.
I find it funny that Right Wingers complain about depopulation, yet, if the US and China ever went to war, the death tolls would be astronomical, not just for both nations, but for surrounding nations such as Japan.
In other words, it seems “they” want Trump to win because he will help the realization of the plan that has been the plan all along, from America’s early emphasis on expanding trade dating back to the Jeffersonian Era, to modern day CIA operations to sustain markets and cheap access to resources through extrajudicial means, and to the predictions of Francis Fukuyama with his End of History thesis, i.e., the total dominance of neoliberal capitalism as the only economic model acceptable for recognized nations.
The brilliance of Trump is his ability to sell this capitalist dominance as a liberating force to the working, predominately white working classes. Meaning he has no real resistance because Trump is able to distract and blame others. The irony is the supposed patriot, who may have a decent heart, ends up logically being steered towards a hateful lens when viewing his or her opposition, thus the patriot may not be one, yet, could end up being a terrorist. The irony further is that when one of these Trump supporters does something violent that the government will use it clamp down further, so their original goal of liberation ends up feeding into the plans of people or businesses who wish to dominate us anyways.
Citizens United has already permitted corporations to donate directly to political campaigns, which exacerbates the already bad lobbyist industry of effectively buying politicians. On the state level, Delaware, the domestic tax has for most US based corporations, has passed a bill that allows corporations to vote in municipal elections. Corporations are also buying up entire communities of homes making homeownership even that much more impossible, and when you add to the fact that corporations are being bought up by corporations with billionaires buying up land, it means even buying land to build a home on is getting harder. Prisons are being privatized. Republicans are trying to cut social security, possibly attempting to privatize it all together. Medicare can’t negotiate prescription drugs to lower prices meaning the government has to foot the bill for overpriced drugs for senior citizens. Most media are out of the public domain due to tigher intellectual property. Even car companies are trying to charge people to gain access to features in cars they already pay for, in sort of Software as a Service model for your vehicle. Everything will be privatized.
Now, sprinkle this dystopian nightmare…. This neo-feudalist state with Christian Evangelism.
Version 1 posted on 8/17/2023. Version 2 updated on 8/18/2023. Version 3 updated 8/22/2023. Version 4 updated 8/27/2023.
I. Digging into the Hawaii Emergency Management System anddebunking the rumor that only $700 was given in Federal Aid to Maui Fire Victims
Disclaimer: This section about Hawaii despite having some research backing my thoughts is speculative. I am not putting any personal blame or libelous claims on any companies, government officials, etc. The general theory is that the fires were started by downed power lines in conjunction with environmental conditions, e.g., dry grasses. However, I wrote this specific section of this paper on Hawaii to research more about the emergency siren system itself, its possible OEMs (official equipment manufacturers), etc.
Sadly, in early August 2023, there were multiple fires on the Hawaiian Islands. Conservatives, conspiracy theorists who have blamed the fires on “Chinese Space Lasers” or arsonists trying to clear the precious real estate, anti-Ukraine War people, etc., have tried to place the blame on President Joe Biden. However, it seems this fire situation was an accident (downed power lines per Brianna Sacks, 2023, of The Washington Post) exacerbated by environmental conditions.
I personally know people from Hawaii. I went to college with many and some of my best friends are from the various islands spanning Oahu and Maui. According to one friend, when consulting his father-in-law, the emergency system was simply old and outdated. According to another friend whose father was a federal firefighter on the US military bases in Hawaii, his father said that local firefighters only “contain” fires, whereas federal fighter fighters serving the US military bases are required to fully put out fires. Sometimes there’s coordination between the firefighters on federal facilities with those of civilian firefighters, but my friend did not know much more than that.
There are many rumors being circulated online, such as Biden only gave $700. These rumors often negate to go into detail about how programs, bills, funds, etc., all work, yet, instead they appeal to emotion and rage within our already divided country, with a good chunk still reeling that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. Many of these Trump supporters, but not just them, believe in various conspiracies that been within the pop culture for years such as “FEMA Camps” which are code-word for concentration camps, the New World Order, Mark of the Beast which is code for implants, surveillance, etc.
For example, regarding the $700 payment, FEMA.gov (2023) addressed the rumor, titled, “Rumor: FEMA is only giving Hawaii wildfire survivors $700 per household.”, but responding with “This is not true. There is a range of federal disaster assistance available. Critical Needs Assistance provides a one-time payment of $700 to address immediate needs such as food, water, and clothing. This is just one of several types of federal assistance you may be eligible to receive. As applications are reviewed, you can check your application status online or call 800-621-3362 to find out what types of disaster assistance you are eligible to receive.”
Looking into the CNA Program, FEMA.gov (202) stated that, ““FEMA may provide financial assistance to applicants who have immediate or critical needs because they are displaced from their primary dwelling. Immediate or critical needs are life- saving and life-sustaining items including, but not limited to: water, food, first aid, prescriptions, infant formula, diapers, consumable medical supplies, durable medical equipment, personal hygiene items and fuel for transportation. Critical Needs Assistance (CNA) is awarded under the Other Needs Assistance (ONA) provision of the Individuals and Households Program (IHP).Funds awarded for CNA count toward an applicant’s financial ONA maximum for that disaster, which is an annually-adjusted amount based on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index. CNA is a one-time $500 payment per household. An affected state, territorial, or tribal government must submit a written request to FEMA to implement CNA. FEMA’s Individual Assistance Division Director may authorize assistance when the majority of applicants from the declared area are, or will be, displaced from their primary residence for an extended period of time, generally 7 days or more.” (end quote)
Note, that this quote/reference is from 2020, so that $500 must have been bumped up to the $700.
Further according to FEMA.gov (2021), Other Needs Assistance (ONA) falls under FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program and provides financial help after a disaster to cover necessary expenses and serious needs not paid by insurance or other sources (FEMA, 2021). The first two categories of assistance – transportation and personal property – are dependent on residents applying for a low-interest disaster loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration beforehand. If applicants are denied a loan, or if the loan does not cover all their needs, they may receive a FEMA grant to replace or repair transportation and/or personal property (FEMA, 2021). Survivors do NOThave to apply for an SBA loan first to be considered for the following categories of assistance, which includes (A) moving and storage equipment, (B) Medical and Dental Assistance, (C) Funeral Assistance, and (D) some miscellaneous item (FEMA, 2021). If you have already applied with FEMA for Housing Assistance, you don’t need to apply separately for ONA (FEMA, 2021).
Regarding the Small Business Loan, states such as Washington State’s Emergency Management page under its Department of Military (i.e., the National Guard) stated that, “SBA disaster loans are available even without a Presidential Disaster Declaration and are a great tool to provide low-interest loans to individuals, families, businesses and organizations that suffer physical or economic loss due to a disaster or other disruption”
But what about this Other Needs Assistance (ONA) maximum which the $700 from the Critical Needs Assistance falls under?
First off, Other Needs Assistance programs are administered by the state and funded 75 percent by FEMA and 25 percent by the state (Washington State Military Department – Emergency Management Division). This 75 to 25 cost sharing between the federal government and states can be found on multiple state’s webpages, etc.
Secondly,
According to the Federal Register (2021), where the Federal Register could be understood as the Federal Government’s bulletin board it was stated that Section 408 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the Stafford Act), 42 U.S.C. 5174, prescribes that FEMA must annually adjust the maximum amount for assistance provided under the Individuals and Households Program (IHP). FEMA gives notice that the maximum amount of IHP financial assistance provided to an individual or household under section 408 of the Stafford Act with respect to any single emergency or major disaster is $37,900 for housing assistance and $37,900 for other needs assistance. The increase in award amount is for any single emergency or major disaster declared on or after October 1, 2021. In addition, in accordance with 44 CFR 61.17(c), this increases the maximum amount of available coverage under any Group Flood Insurance Policy (GFIP) issued (Federal Register, 2021). [See: https://www.fema.gov/fact-sheet/group-flood-insurance-policy%5D
Further, Federal Register (2021) FEMA bases the adjustment on an increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers of 5.3 percent for the 12-month period, which ended in August 2021. The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor released the information on September 14, 2021.
To wrap our heads around this for the sake of clarity, $700 was given in immediate assistance under the CNA (Critical Need Assistance) Program which is based on an annually-adjusted amount based on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index, but CNA falls under FEMA’s Other Needs Assistance (ONA) provision, which is a larger type of “expense account budget” where FEMA provides 75% of funding and the state provides the other 25% (as well as manages the program), which is for personal property, transportation, funeral expenses, etc., that is not necessarily for FEMA Housing Assistance (but can be applied for at the same time if applying for FEMA Housing Assistance). ONA however falls under the Individuals and Households Program (IHP) of FEMA. Per Section 408 of the Stafford Act, the ONA maximums are $37,900 for housing assistance and $37,900 for other needs assistance. So, $75,800 overall, but you get $700 up front.
The White House has begun the process of disaster relief, but it is important to remember that the Federal government must work with the State Government regarding disaster relief such as in relation to laws such as Posse Comitatus (federal troops can’t police states in theory), the Stafford Act, etc.
Regarding the conspiracy theory that the fires are due to “Chinese Space Lasers”, even though I have no way of verifying that, nor do I really want to encourage the conspiracy because of its jingoistic/xenophobic undertones, back in February 2023, mainstream outlets such as Newsweek, Popular Mechanics, etc., did address the space laser situation. So, I understand why people may believe this, even though I am not sure if it’s believable or not.
Brodsky (2023) stated that the Chinese pollution-monitoring satellite Daqi-1 probably produced the lights spotted over Hawaii on January 28, according to a NASA scientist.
In other words, a sort of optical illusion in the atmosphere.
Yet, back on track, according to CBS News (2023) by way of CNN, residents did receive some text messages about winds and fires, including a National Weather Service fire warning, but per some residents there was not a major alert akin to an Amber Alert and most importantly there were no sirens. Hawaii residents have long been accustomed to the monthly tests of the outdoor siren warning system (CBS News, 2023).
While Maui’s warning sirens were not activated, emergency communications with residents were largely limited to mobile phones and broadcasters at a time when most power and cell service was already cut (CBS News, 2023).
Most Americans can relate to the feeling. We often get Tornado, Flood, or other Emergency warnings, but often it is hard to gauge the severity of the matter.
Relating to Hawaii, the National Weather Service operates the National and Pacific Tsunami Warning Centers ensuring there is free and not-for-profit tracking of tsunamis which can be caused by earthquakes. The PTWC dates to 1946 when 165 U.S. citizens were killed by tsunamis in Alaska and Hawaii.
However, this Tsunami system seems different than the siren warning system involved in the Maui Fire Disaster.
After looking into the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (n.d.), the actual siren system under question seems to be the Hawaiʻi All Hazard Statewide Outdoor Warning System managed by the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HI-EMA) which is the largest single integrated Outdoor Siren Warning System for Public Safety in the world.
This Warning System is one part of the larger Hawaiʻi Statewide Alert and Warning System (SAWS) which includes FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS) which used both the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) to alert the public.
So, who made or worked on the All-Hazard Statewide Outdoor Warning System?
I searched terms such as “Contract”, “Award”, “Supplier”, and “OEM” (Official Equipment Manufacturer), in relation to the All-Hazard Statewide Outdoor Warning System, which we should shorten to AHSOWS, and found an official government website by the State of Hawaii that reveals procurement data of state awards to suppliers. This website is called HANDS, i.e., Hawaii Awards & Notices Data System.
I noticed a few contracts awarded to Federal Signal Corporation by the State of Hawaii for its Defense Department. The Federal Signal Corporation is based in Oakbrook, Illinois, founded in 1901, and specializes in emergency vehicle equipment, warning sirens and public safety systems. They are listed on Nasdaq under NYSE: FSS.
From June 2022 through November 2022, I noticed a few procurements (buys) relating to sirens such as 110w Solar Panels and affiliated equipment for the State’s Emergency Warning Siren System which was awarded to Federal Signal Corporation via a Sole Source procurement (i.e., they were the only supplier solicited, i.e., not procured via a competitive bid) issued under Purchase Order Number G22A0157 in a dollar amount of $60,974.27.
Federal Signal Corporation also received a sole soured award Purchase Order under PO # G2218071 in the amount of $58,366.47 for Satellite Activation and Services (Isat Data Pro System Service) for Emergency Siren Communications. According to the posting, “SAT Data Pro System Service ‐ satellite to provide communication with the State’s Emergency Warning Siren System. The SAT service is a backup communication to the Siren system should the Cellular network fail. Service period from July 01, 2022 – June 30, 2023 DAGS Job No 16‐14‐7242. Federal Signal Sole Source # 21‐001‐SK. Approved Dec 11, 2020. CHANGE ORDER 1 Approved”
Also, under PO G2218061, in amount of $ 40,722.50, via a sole source procurement, Federal Signal Corporation was awarded an annual renewal for their Commander One Subscription Services which per the posting states, “Annual Renewal of Commander 1 Subscription for service period: 7/1/22 to 6/30/23 Includes: 1. Mobile apps & Web access 2. 20 SEATS 3. 5 Organization 4. 512 devices supported, 5. 24/7 after hours suppor 6. SmartMsg updates and 5,000 text and email notifications/month Approved for Sole Source pursuant to HRS 26‐6, 103D‐306, HAR 3‐122‐143 on 12/11/2020 Ref No. 21‐001‐SK, Federal Signal Sole Source Contract DAGS Job # 16‐14‐7242, CHANGE ORDER 1 Approved 3/8/2022.”
Further, PO 22807001, Federal Signal Corporation was awarded a contract for emergency siren equipment due to environmental reasons and vandalism.
Using a different search term I discovered that Federal Signal Corporation was awarded a $9 Million dollar award by the State of Hawaii for the HI-EMA, under PO 16-14-7242, issued by Daniel Jandoc, which in an Indefinite Quantity type of contract. FSC was to furnish Outdoor Warning Sirens for Public Safety (Sirens). This PO had a Period of Performance of 1/1/2021 to 12/31/2022.
The Period of Performance was 7/1/2022 to 6/30/2023 for the Satellite Activation and Services Contract and 6/14/2023 – 6/30/2023 for the Annual Renewal of Commander 1 Service.
Is it possible that the Period of Performance for certain subscriptions expired and that the State of Hawaii was trying to re-issue a new award or exercise an option, but due to lapse in time from June 2023 to early August 2023, there were lags or drops in coverage between the satellites, cell phones, controllers, towers, etc.? It would be nice to know the actual business and contracting behind the emergency system, i.e., was there pre-planning or were procurement offices reactionary once they realized funding was about to dry up or a new contracting vehicle was lingering in some sort of approval phase.
In other words, Federal Signal Corporation as the prime contractor has a complex system in place to support Hawaii (a combination of Software as a Service -SaaS- mixed with Hardware that integrates with other equipment), but while they were waiting for the state to issue funding for a new award or exercise a contract option, that lap in coverage, possibly mixed with vandalism, weather, etc., disrupted parts of the overall Emergency System, and once the fires started, their high temperatures fried the actual hardware.
II. The Federal Response
According to the White House.gov (2023) in an official press release it was stated that Mr. Maona N. Ngwira of FEMA has been appointed to coordinate Federal recovery operations in the affected areas. Further, President Joe Biden, likely by evoking the Stafford Emergency Act, authorized federal funding available to affected individuals in Maui County including assistance on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures statewide which includes grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster.
Per, the White House.gov (2023) article, residents and business owners who sustained losses in the designated areas can begin applying for assistance at www.DisasterAssistance.gov, by calling 800-621-FEMA (3362), or by using the FEMA App.
According to Claims Journal (2023), Two firms have released early estimates of losses and damage from the devastating wildfires across Hawaii’s Maui Island and the historic town of Lahaina. Catastrophe modeler Karen Clark & Company issued new estimates showing the insured property losses from the Lahaina Fire in Hawaii to be around $3.2 billion. AccuWeather on Monday increased its estimate of the total damage and economic loss to $14 to $16 billion (Claims Journal, 2023). That update followed AccuWeather’s preliminary estimate last week of total damage and economic loss of $8-10 billion, and the latest AccuWeather loss estimate would equate to about 15% of the state of Hawaii’s gross domestic product and would exceed the GDP of Maui (Claims Journal, 2023). The Lahaina fire burned approximately 2,170 acres and devastated the town of Lahaina on Maui, according to KCC (Claims Journal, 2023).
According to Jim Garamone (2023) of DOD News of the US Department of Defense, Combined Joint Task Force 50, under the command of Army Brig. Gen. Stephen F. Logan, has mustered almost 700 DOD personnel and 140 Coast Guardsmen that are part of the coordinated response to the Maui wildfires that killed more than 100 people and destroyed the city of Lahaina last week, according to Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder. This includes FEMA asking for space at the US Army’s Schofield Barracks for billeting (i.e., rooms for troops and personnel, etc.). The Joint Task Force includes the US Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines, Homeland Security, FEMA, and the National Guard. The Task Force is flying two Boeing CH-47 Chinooks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CH-47_Chinook) with fire suppression buckets capable of 189,000 gallons of water, and the Navy also has two Sikorsky (a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin) SH-60 Seahawks and three Boeing CMV-22 Ospreys on standby to support incoming requests.
More specifically this CJTF 50 is comprised of 402nd Field Support Brigade (responsible for assisting in Quartermaster duties, Sustainment Support, etc. in the Pacific Region) under Colonel Courtney Sugai and Lt. Colonel Timothy Page. Also, there is the 249th Engineer Battalion which is a power generation battalion that answers to the US Amry Corps of Engineers and serves more in a Reservist Capacity. The 249th Engineer Battalion Company is comprised of four companies, but specifically Company A is based at Hawaii’s Schofield Barracks and answers to Lt. Colonel Langston J. Turner. Lastly, the US Air Force and Navy have also established Liaison Officers, i.e., Points of Contract, to help their respected branch coordinate in the CJTF effort. Further, there is the Third Marine Littoral (i.e., nearshore) Battalion under Colonel John G. Lehane of the US Marine Corps providing General Dynamics MQ-9 Reaper Drones for aerial surveillance, Boeing MV-22 Osprey, and a Lockheed Martin KC-130J Super Hercules.
III. We have money for Ukraine, Hawaii, the Border, Crime Prevention, etc.
Sofi Stadium cost $5.5 Billion.
Lionel Messi at FC Barcelona had a $675 Million contract….to himself… but Christiano Rinaldo at Al Nassr has a $536 Million contract.
So that’s $1.2 billion of pledged (not necessarily paid) money on just two athletes.
So, why not hate on sports and not a country trying to maintain independence from Russia, when Russia invaded Ukraine?
[See video, Shut up about NATO expansion]
[See Video: The Dumbest Arguments About Russia’s War on Ukraine]
Regarding the 2008/9 Bailouts of US Auto Industry with giants like Ford and GM, “In all, the federal government extended nearly $81 billion to bail out the auto industry in a rescue effort that began under Bush’s watch and ended in December 2014, well into Obama’s second term.” (Source: Andrew Glass, Politico, 12/19/2018, Bush Bailouts US Automakers, Dec. 19, 2008).
Further, the New York Post (2021) by way of the Associated Press, released an article, titled: Costs of the Afghanistan War, in lives and dollars, which referenced a meta-study by Harvard University’s Kennedy School and Brown University’s Costs of War project. These studies estimated the amount of direct Afghanistan and Iraq war costs that the United States has debt-financed as of 2020 was $2 trillion but with interest will be $6.5 trillion by 2050.
According to Jonathan Masters and Will Merrow (2023) of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), since the war began, the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress have directed more than $75 billion in assistance to Ukraine, which includes humanitarian, financial, and military support, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German research institute (end quote). Much of the aid has gone toward providing weapons systems, training, and intelligence that Ukrainian commanders need to defend against Russia, which has one of the world’s most powerful militaries (Master and Merrow, 2023). Yet, according to the US Embassy to Ukraine (2015) Vice President Joe Biden announced today in Kyiv, Ukraine, that, pending consultation with Congress, the White House plans to commit approximately $190 million in new assistance to support Ukraine’s ambitious reform agenda.
Note this was when Biden was Vice President, speaking for President Obama in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, so this was only a policy promise and pledge. Yet, Donald Trump got into office and then threatened to pull funding away that Congress was ready to approve if Ukraine didn’t give dirt on Joe Biden.
But, fast forward, according to Lawrence Richards (2022) of Fox News in an article, titled: US leads the rest of the world with $196 billion given to Ukraine amid war with Russia – Russia first invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the article’s headline states that use has given $196 Billion, but in the article, it states “$200 billion in promised or sent aid”. Emphasis on promised or pledged, not actually spent, yet it looks like the US has spent over 200 billion.
Yet not all this money is “new money” being randomly created, but it was already spent on existing hardware or approved on existing budgets. Or it is pledged money that has not been approved yet.
Tom Norton (2023) of Newsweek, in his article, titled: Fact Check: Have U.S. Taxpayers Sent Over $200B to Ukraine? In the article Norton (2023) details how Republicans have repeatedly and misleadingly used the $200 Billion price tag. From Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Monica Crowley who stated, “”$200 billion+ of your hard-earned money has been disappeared into the corrupt money-pit of Ukraine.”, Andy Briggs, Keri Lake, Steve Bannon, and Fox News have all chirped this dollar amount.
Norton (2023) summarized as of April 2023, that Congress has only approved $113 billion for spending in Ukraine. Researchers tracking spending suggest that only around $77 billion has gone directly to Ukraine, a combination of financial, military and other forms of aid.
So let’s summarized…Fox News or at least prominent conservatives have dubiously stated the US has already spent $200 Billion, yet, per Norton (2023) back in April 2023, the US had spent $77 Billion out of $113 billion approved by Congress. Yet, to update this figure, in July 2023, Masters and Merrow (2023) stated that the US has sent $76.8 Billion, so that matches what Norton (2023) was saying on money actually spent, not promised, not pledged, not talked about, etc.
I do not blame people for being angry about Hawaii vs Ukraine situation regarding the perception and reality of responses and funding, but…Ukraine is not affecting Hawaii, no more Social Security or Medicare are affecting Hawaii. We are talking about different pools of money, bills, authorizations, etc. We have checks and balances, appropriation, and financing rules, etc., so to change rules we need Congress to change such rules. I get it. Why can’t we just command things into existence, but the thing is that we in the United States have rules based on checks and balances and tight appropriation laws (color of money rules, Misappropriation rules, etc.)
A lot of the Ukraine Lend Lease Money is money already for paid for assets via the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), and Foreign Military Financing (FMF). According to the CRFB, i.e., the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (2023), using PDA, the President can send military hardware out of the U.S. military’s own stockpiles directly to Ukraine (CRFB, 2023). Through USAI, the federal government contracts with the private sector to provide training, supplies, and other operational needs to the Ukrainian military and other allies (CRDB, 2023). Also, per CRFB (2023), the federal government uses FMF to backfill the stockpiles of NATO allies that have sent their own military hardware directly to Ukraine.
So, when you see this or that billion that is being spent on Ukraine a lot is basically a receipt and public disclosure of something already paid for, not more “pork barrel waste” adding onto our debt. The government did not just “print” with the “Federal Reserve” the money, but the money was also on the books, appropriated, and in many cases already spent on hardware that were sitting in stockpiles. Think of it all as receipts against existing appropriated budgets.
But I get the confusion. Defense funds come from NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) pot of money whereas FEMA funding under Homeland Security comes from the Homeland Security Bill (See HR 8257).
In other words, sending already paid for tanks wouldn’t help Hawaii in a freak act of God accident no one saw coming, so it’s a false equivalency to compare the two, though emotionally I get people’s frustrations. And Congress controls the “power of the purse”, so it is on them to attempt to reform laws, even the constitution, if need be, if they want to change how money is appropriated and spent.
Republicans in Congress, running for office, or anti Biden types talking about this are gaslighting. Congressional Republicans had no problem voting for the NDAA same as Democrats, so if people want more FEMA funding it’s on Congress to do the bills such as budget more for the Homeland Security Bill. The President only signs or vetoes the bills but has certain executive powers to tap into those already existing and approved pots of money, i.e., the PDA program.
According to John M. Donnelly of Rollcall.com (2022), “The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to pass the final defense authorization bill for fiscal 2023, clearing the sweeping measure for President Joe Biden’s signature. If Biden signs the NDAA into law, as he is expected to do, it would be the 62nd straight fiscal year that the defense policy measure has been enacted. The Senate’s final NDAA passage vote was 83-11, and 60 votes were required. The House passed the bicameral compromise on Dec. 8. When Armed Services Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., noted that the bill is named after the committee’s top Republican, James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the chamber resounded with applause. Reed said that Inhofe’s leadership of the committee, both in the majority and minority, had been “monumental.” Inhofe is retiring at the end of this year. With enactment of the bill, Washington will have authorized spending about $858 billion on defense programs in this fiscal year, mostly at the Pentagon. That is $45 billion, or 5 percent, more than Biden asked for in March.” (end quote).
Think about that. (A) Both parties voted for the NDAA (because it’s political suicide to not), (B) Congress added more money than what Biden had even asked for, meaning that Congress could have potentially shifted $45 Billion to the Homeland Security Bill or had planned on doing that, which theoretically could have pushed the Homeland Security Bill from $80 Billion to $125 Billion, (C) the bill was named for a Republican.
If you are angry at what is happening in Ukraine, then take it up with your legislators.
According to the Appropriations page owned by the US Senate’s website, The Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill includes a total of $82.068 billion, including $60.7 billion in net discretionary appropriations.
The below picture is from the US Congress.gov
According to the US Senate Armed Services Committee (2023) 857.9 billion was appropriated for the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023. Out of this 857.9 billion most of the funds goes to the Department of Defense whereas some funding also goes to the Department of Energy considering the DOE overseas nuclear power, certain infrastructure such as electricity attached to our dams (whose construction is monitored by the US Army Corps of Engineers), etc. The bill does allow for up to 6 billion for General Transfer Authority for unforeseen high priority needs via “Reprogramming”. On an interesting note, this FY23 NDAA also authorizes funding to support a 4.6 percent pay raise for both military service-members and the DOD civilian workforce.
So, the NDAA got 857.9 billion, whereas the FY23 Homeland Security Funding Bill of $82.068 billion. So, the NDAA has over 10 times more funding. Yet, whose fault is this? It starts with Congress.
So, can we fund Ukraine to defend itself while protecting the border, funding cops and drug rehabs, investing in public housing and schools, etc? Yes.
The US has money to fund Ukraine and take care of most of its issues at home because our allies are gonna vouch for our debt anyways and buy our US treasuries, because that’s the brilliance of the scheme.
The EU, UK, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Canada, etc., will vouch for our debt and even if the US dollar weakens, a weak US dollar can boost US exports since foreign currencies rise, i.e., they have more purchasing power.
They’ll vouch for our debt because they already have so many US investments that dumping our debt would crash them too and cause a Global Depression. I do not think most of the world wants the Chinese Yuan or Russian Ruble as their reserve currency. And, sorry to the Crypto currency bros, but there’s only so many bitcoins that will ever be made.
The US despite its flaws has a good relationship with most powerful albeit non-Super Power nations. Yet, people have a very conservative framing of how sovereign debt and taxes work as if national financing is the same as personal financing in your personal life, when they’re not the same. Also people forget there were tax cuts on the highest income earners/corporations starting with Bush, the Obama Era Bush tax cut extension, and the Trump cut.
According to the Emily Horton (2017) of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “In 2013 CBPP estimated that, when the associated interest costs are taken into account, the Bush tax cuts (including those that policymakers made permanent) would add $5.6 trillion to deficits from 2001 to 2018. This means that the Bush tax cuts will be responsible for roughly one-third of the federal debt owed by 2018.”
In theory if Bush didn’t do these cuts and if Americans accepted increases as opposed to reductions in taxes that $6.5 Trillion bill by 2050 with interests included according to Harvard and Brown University’s would have been hedged significantly by the $5.6 Trillion is projected loses in revenue.
So it’s not a matter of not having money for home improvement and Ukraine, when (A) our allies don’t care if we create money because we have the most lethal military as far as weapons that we use to protect them so they do not have to fight, i.e., the US economy is a Spartan mercenary operation at industrial scale, (B) the US has the safest banking system to store the world’s money and if they don’t store it here, they often store it in US dollars, and, (C) we can always reverse the 20 years of tax cuts because the rich are likely investing in this war anyways.
It’s a gaslight to make it seem as if we can’t afford both. Further even if we weren’t funding Ukraine to keep Russia away, our conservative minded, pro business politicians wouldn’t fund the things we want anyways like housing, etc. When has the government ever really invested in people? Bill Maher freaked out when people got COVID relief money.
So pretending like cheapskate frugal Republicans and phony progressive corporate Democrats will make us into a utopia is laughable.
Most people who are against the war are (A) Trump supporters just being Trump supporters, despite, ironically their blood-lust for war with “Communist” China, (B) hippies who have no realpolitik or concept of defense policy who believe peace exist in nature rather than something maintained by projecting force, (C) fake hippies who are actually conservatives who simply want the current Biden Administration to fail but not appearing to be conservative adjacent, e.g. The Hill owned by Nexstar Media, (D) Russian, Chinese, etc., psy-ops that want Russia to win even if they get concessions.
Brown University (2023) Cost of War by the Watson Institute – International and Public Affairs. Source: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures (Date Retrieved. 17 August 2023).
Federal Emergency Management Agency (18 August 2023) Hawaii (DR-4724-HI): Rumor Response and Frequently Asked Questions. Source: https://www.fema.gov/disaster/4724/rumor-response (Date Retrieved 27 August 2023).
John M. Donnelly (15 December 2022) Senate sends fiscal 2023 NDAA to Biden’s desk – With enactment, Washington will have authorized about $858 billion on defense programs in this fiscal year. Source: https://rollcall.com/2022/12/15/senate-sends-fiscal-2023-ndaa-to-bidens-desk/ (Date Retrieved 27 August 2023).
Disclaimer: Antisemitism is wrong and counterproductive. This paper is intended to not spread hatred of any kind. This paper is also an extension of the ACSZ (Anglo-American, Continental, Zionist, Saud Network) that I have written about previously. This paper is also not intended to be a promotion of conspiracy theories but rather an analysis of them, juxtaposed against my more grounded theory about the ACZS Network. All I ask, particularly if you are American and into a lot of these conspiracies is to question them. We all are looking for truth but sometimes we scapegoat others instead of seeing how our own beliefs may be a part of the problem. Yet, we have all had regressive thoughts or opinions and it is never too late to grow or change no matter what anyone says.
Part 1
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interviewed an independent journalist named Whitney Webb. According to Mint Press, “Whitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for MintPress News. She currently writes for her own outlet Unlimited Hangout and contributes to The Last American Vagabond and MintPress News.” [Source: https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/whitney-webb/%5D. She has also contributed to documentaries such as Victoria’s Secret: Angles and Demons. per IMDB, see: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2819249/. According to YouTuber, Patrick Bet David she is now living in Columbia and when I googled searched her a Whitney Fuentes popped up, but that could be a coincidence, but it is possible she got married.
Disclaimer: I do not think she is a racist based on her interviews with comedian Tim Dillon where she did express a concern about Big Pharma’s relationship to often poorer nations in the Global South (and, jokingly, she has a Boondocks comic strip inspired tattoo). Yet, Whitney did at one time collaborate with an actual antisemite Adam Green of Know More News, so she is complicated because in one hand she has great research but due to her former ties, that good research could take on more nefarious means, even if that was not her original intention. Hence, I think she needs to be more vocal about how her research is not antisemitic. However, it would be more interesting to see more legitimate researchers challenge her ideas, not as a means of cancelling or destroying her, but rather to potentially anchor ideas by putting them up against the rigor of intensive peer review, etc.
I find it funny that per her theories that her books are on sale on Amazon led by Jeff Bezos. But, I get it, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism so you got to do what you got to do.
Yet, as RFK Jr., has said antisemitic things, I realized that Whitney Webb was interviewed by him. Whitney does have BitChute and Gab accounts, and ironically the Tree of Life Synagogue shooter was an active participant on Gab.
According to Caroline Linton (2018) of CBS News, “Bowers, who killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue last week, regularly used Gab to post anti-Semitic content. He frequently railed against the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), a Jewish nonprofit that aids refugees. On the morning of the shooting, he posted “HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.””
But, as stated, I will talk about her further later.
In the meantime, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., got into some hot water for his statements about how COVID-19 was engineered to attack white and black people while sparing Jewish and Chinese people. A totally unhinged take by an aspiring Presidential candidate, yet instead of this being a disqualifier it oddly has created a nexus of support amongst the vast spectrum of American and even non-American conspiracy theorists both left and right wing.
Conspiracy theory culture has always been around. From the Kennedy Assassination to the Warren and Church Commissions, to origin the of Aids, etc. But, in the current millennium the rise of conspiracy culture is a formula of 1) the public mistrust of government under the Bush Cheney regime due to the Iraq War which created many wounded and jaded veterans (2) the economic tensions from the 2008 Wall Street Crash unleashing far right and far left thought, while both have a history with Conspiracy such as the Left’s distrust of COININTELPRO, Red Squads, FBI or police murders of activists, etc. But on the Right Wing you had a John Birch Society paleo-conservatism which pushed New World Order, anti UN, white genocide and arms confiscation beliefs. Around the time Barack Obama’s election, the Right Wing notably on the coattails of the libertarian Tea Party movement unleashed a partially coded radicalized attack on Obama because he potentially represented change not only as the first President of partial black African descent but also open to progressive policies.
Also, Alex Jones InfoWars was popular and this caught the eye later of Roger Stone who absorbed this Conspiracy base into what would be MAGA.
This vast spectrum hovering over, near or within the conspiracy space encompasses New Age ideas, anti-vaccination culture, a distrusts of government institutions such as the CIA or FBI, False Flags operations the Gulf of Tonkin incident where oddly Jim Morrisson’s dad was the commander at the time), “Feds” i.e., government snitches and infiltrators, MKUltra studies (such as over-talked about analysis of Operation Climax), Operation Paperclip scholars, libertarians, utopian socialists, Burning Man and Ayahuasca psychonauts (“mind travelers”), thoughts on the upcoming or currently occurring Fourth Industrial Revolution, Transhumanism, the Rothschilds (which is interesting because no really talks about non Jewish dynastic families such as the Fugger Family), suspicion around Bohemian Grove, the Bilderberg Group, The Gates Foundation, Open Societies Foundation, Aspen Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, Davos, and the World Economic Forum, but…
More nefariously the are believers in everything from Qanon, fluoride-in-the-water making us less intelligent theorists, the Illuminati (where you get bonus points for knowing the name of Adam Weishaupt), Area 51 and UFOs (popularized by Ancient Aliens on the History Channel, a channel owned by A&E Networks, which has been accused of casual racism, and in reality has actual ties to the Defense Information School via its contributor Jonathan Young), Lizard people, Adrenochrome drinking and Interferon collecting elites (where Interferon was talked about by comedian Dick Gregory when he was campaigning to bring attention to the Atlanta Child Murders, yet Dick previously with researcher Robert J. Gordon appeared on Geraldo’s Goodnight America to air the previously unaired Zapruder Film), the Nephilim (i.e., the demonic half children of angels and humans), Dan Brown books such as The DaVinci Code relating to the Knights Templar protecting Jesus sacred bloodline (where Knights Templar aesthetics have been appropriated by the Alt-Right movement of Dues Vult, typically Catholic or Traditionalist Christian in scope, which has overlap with the antisemitic groups called the Groypers and Goyim Defense League that includes white supremacists Nick Fuentes), Antediluvian (Pre-Flood) advanced society myths, Theosophy, the Occult, Neoplatonism, Pan-spermia ideas (that humans were implanted on Earth by extraterrestrial creatures or forces), etc.
By the way if you notice, most of these concepts have been talked about on Joe Rogan at some point or another.
On top of this conspiracy there is also religious fervor and militancy such as Christian doomsday ideology or the belief in the Rapture popularized by the Left Behind books by Tim LaHaye.
The American conscious that is deeply rooted in apocalyptic Protestant Puritanism and Calvinist individualism seems highly susceptible to conspiracy theories because of the concepts of End Times, but also the proselytizing nature of Christianity often gives people a sense or “mission” in evangelizing, i.e., colonizing others. However, all religions are susceptible to conspiracy.
But as far as American Christianity goes and even more importantly than religion outright, the capitalist core of American life has pushed society into postmodernism or into some variant thereof, where postmodernism could loosely be defined as when systems reach an apex and start recycling culture or culture devolves as the quest for generating profits continues while ideas, i.e., culture reach a zenith, thus high art merges with low art, morality becomes subjective, the overload of information makes it hard for individuals to come to consensus of objective truths, anachronisms are re-created to give the appearance of something new, etc.
The system also becomes so advanced that it is hard to distinguish fake from real. [Note: look into the works of Jean Baudrillard]. The best way to really understand post-modernity is to read literature (not Jordan Peterson), such as the works of Don DeLillo, Brett Easton Ellis, Philip K. Dick, and Thomas Pynchon, all of whom I have read at various degrees.
Sure, we have free speech to talk about conspiracies, and many of these concepts (Operation Paperclip, MKUltra, the Kennedy assassinations, etc.) deserve legitimate research, yet how more fringe and fantastical topics are talked about is often used to simply cast doubt about the stability of reality and the congruity of history, therefore encouraging certain people with mental illness and/or preconceived hatreds to double down on their biases and possibly use violence (information as a catalyst for schizophrenia)
But what defines a conspiracy theory as opposed to research? I suppose a conspiracy theory is when you make an allegation but already have the conclusion pre-set and fill in holes of your thesis, often with unsubstantiated claims, to argue for that thesis being correct, while also layering your thesis and conclusion with your personal biases, often bypassing personal accountability (e.g., with the intent to scapegoat another).
Yet, back to RFK, Jr.
Not only did RFK Jr. make a statement that appeals to antisemitism, but also overlaps with the growing paranoia of Chinese influence as it appears the West is prepping for war or conflict with China either over the South China Sea itself, Taiwan, the theft of American trade secrets, the fear of a declining American Empire, and allegations of Chinese investors buying up large swaths of American land allegedly near US military installations (related to the Chinese spy balloon case), etc.
It seems RFK Jr’s goal is to farm the conspiracy vote
To be frank, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is a conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones InfoWar, “moderate” candidate, because deep down underneath his claims are antisemitic beliefs. Yet, he like many has an accurate criticism of US foreign policy disasters. Essentially RFK Jr., is what happens when the “elites” are so out touch, yet, RFK ironically may be establishment overall but is simply catering towards a nexus between Left Wing Anti-War Doves meets Right Wing isolationists, even though he may not actually believe in scaling back American hegemony or empire.
RFK is the Obama Effect, i.e., he promises a sense of hope but really will keep things the same, and I must confess, that I am not a big optimist when it comes to implementing radical change and I do personally believe in “Peace thru strength”.
But, who isn’t a bit of a conspiracy theorist?
RFK Jr., has Baby Boomer Qanon appeal considering his father and uncle were unfortunately assassinated and factions of Qanon believed John F. Kennedy, Jr., would re-appear. Certain conspiracy theorists also blame, of course, Hillary Clinton for JFK Jr.’s death to advance her own career. RFK’s centrist policies appeals to old guard Center Left Democrats and Center Right Republicans, where everyday people in this spectrum might called themselves “moderates” or “Independents”, because his ideas do not seem as “radical” as Progressives or Leftists (e.g., Progressives wanting…universal healthcare, taxing corporations, diverting police funds from weaponry towards mental health or drug rehabilitation, etc.).
But, when it comes to RFK, Jr., sadly because of the deaths in his family, i.e., the alleged Kennedy Curse, Robert seems…paranoid. On the Joe Rogan podcast he has claimed that he will be assassinated which is sure the fear of any public official, but RFK seems to have a type of trauma around it. He’s scared basically. Traumatized. His father was assassinated by a pro-Palestinian man allegedly because of RFJ Sr.’s willingness to arm Israel with fighter jets which would’ve been use on Palestinians.
That’s more of my concern. A paranoid President who won’t be able to function for living in constant fear that he has conditioned himself to live in. This could lead to irrational behaviors (such as what we may be witnessing with figures such as Jordan Peterson) or he may fall into a sense of ennui, clinical depression, etc.
And, I think to myself how RFK, Jr. would run a country if he were so paranoid, even though we are tempted to feel sorry for him because of his losses. RFK Jr. also went on The Hill (owned by Nexstar Media. See my post about Kim Iversen) to speak out against the CIA and his belief that they were involved in his uncle’s death.
It seems his foreign policy is conciliatory towards Russia adopting the anti-west framing of war in Ukraine, where this anti-war framing gaslights “the Left” for supporting Ukraine from Russia. This concept of the Left now “not being the same as they used to be” is unfair because I personally think and feel that the certain liberals or Leftist (certainly not all, notably the Marxist camp who see the war as imperialist) support the war because the alternative is Putin spreading an almost medieval Aleksandr Dugin inspired Orthodox nationalism closer to Central and Western Europe. This would pose a risk to liberal democracies/Republics. [Note: feel free to investigate Aleksandr Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory and the book Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics, and Strategy by Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky. Link: https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Nuclear-Orthodoxy-Religion-Politics/dp/1503608050]
Part 2
First off, I don’t believe criticizing the state of Israel is antisemitic, because protecting Israel from analysis or criticism feeds into antisemitic rhetoric such as Israel having special status, protection, or privileges, especially with the perception of Jewish people in certain positions of power, but also the crisis relating to the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank.
However, I do acknowledge that antisemitic conspiracy theories are probably they worst they have been in my lifetime, and it has become more and more popular. I was born in the late 1980s, so by the early 90s, even as a child I was aware of antisemitism especially because of the Oklahoma City Bombing (where there are even theories in spaces online that it was an inside job) but also the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting that occurred in 1999.
However with the internet, things have gotten out of hand, especially with (1) the shadowy life and death of Jeffrey Epstein but also Ghislane Maxwell and her controversial father, Robert Maxwell, who is buried currently in Israel, (2) accusations about billionaire investor George Soros and his Open Society Foundation which has given charity to organizations across the globe, (3) the silencing of academics or critics relating to the State of Israel, which even includes accusations that the Left Wing, not only Right Wing figures, are antisemitic because of their criticism of lobby groups such as the ADL, (4) the NXIVM Scandal which included Claire and Sara Bronfman, who are of Jewish descent, but their father, Edgard Bronfman, Sr., the founder of the Seagram fortune, was the former leader of the World Jewish Congress, (5) the crimes of Hollywood executives such as Harvey Weinstein, which was another blow to Hollywood’s perception because of allegations of child abuse, (6) the slow incorporation of the Anti-Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) laws into state legislatures where businesses could potentially lose money if they are unwilling to sell to Israel, such as lose of government contracts, etc.
Relating, to Epstein it is my belief that Epstein was of course a criminal mover and pusher within the circles of power, but whomever he was working for decided to expose him because by doing so it would drive the American pubic crazy because they won’t trust anything, and this feeds into the strategy of those who have bad intentions for the US. Or, they exposed Epstein because they knew it would help drive a Right Wing backlash because the intention is to get a Right Wing president in power to will continue to support the corporate-military complexes behind the scenes, yet while on stage being a “hero actor” who will go after the “Deep State” he or she ironically works for. In other words, all of this anti authoritarian conspiracy minded voters will vote for a “American First” patriotic type character who will actually be the despotic leader needed to bring forth A) “singularity”, but B) also prep for war with powers such as China. Qanon, Epstein, the state version of Russia Gate (though, I do believe there were Russian cells in the USA), etc., as far as stories goes, gives the public a sort of anesthetizing game to play. We are all sleuths on the hunt for answers, yet this was intended, to keep us distracted, and/or to convince us to give away our freedoms to supposed saviors who “sill slay our dragons”.
Yet, even though I do not think a good-faith criticism (such as on humanitarian grounds) of Israel is antisemitic, and even with me acknowledging that antisemitism is worst that it has ever been, I do also suspect that, unfortunately, some Jewish people pull their “antisemitic card” as a means of silencing any criticism of Israel (such as Bari Weiss). For example, as previously stated, the Pro-Palestinian movement being labeled inherently as antisemitic. This silencing of criticism seems to create cognitive dissonance,
So, to keep track, (1) I acknowledge that good faith arguments against Israel are not antisemitic, (2) there is a disturbing trend of normalizing antisemitism these days, (3) some Zionist organizations or operators calling everything antisemitic that may not meet their interests, but there is a fourth concept I want to touch. That is… Actual antisemites pretending to be good-faith humanitarian critics of Israel.
This is where Whitney Webb comes in. Even though it seems she falls into the first category, she has been associated with those of the fourth, so there is a level of ambiguity around her intentions. In other words, is Whitney Webb an antisemite hiding under investigative journalists but gaining fame by exploiting our paranoid society where people are looking for logical answers that connect the dots?
Whitney Webb has been platformed by YouTube podcasters such as Patrick Bet-David with this PBD and Valuetainment podcasts. Bet-David is just another figure in the ecosystem of the right-wing leaning spaces of YouTube where most content creators are directly linked or separated by a few degrees of separation. For example, there has been collaboration of some degree or another between the Manosphere space such as the Fresh and Fit Podcast (who has featured figures such as Sneako and Nick Fuentes who are both antisemites), Rollo Tomassi (who had links to Stefan Molyneux), Andrew Tates, and Pearl “Just Pearly Things” Davis (who platformed Nazi Nick Fuentes and wrong about why we can’t talk about the Jews?) with the Comedian space with creators such as Andrew Schulz, Tim Dillon, Graham Elwood, Joe Rogan (who frequently platformed controversial figures ranging from Alex Jones, Gavin McInnes of the Proud Boys, Jordan Peterson, Stefan Molyneaux, the Weinstein Brothers, Sam Harris with his penchant for the Bell Curve, etc.), Whitney Cummings, etc., with the New Age space with figures such as Russell Brand who represents conspiracy spiritualism, i.e., con-spirituality (which overlapped with the anti-vax and all organic food movement, etc.), but with that of the “Bro space”, i.e., the mostly college age, Barstool Sports following, Wall Street Bets redditor, and pro-capitalist camp that includes the PBD Podcasts stated previously, Jake Tran, the Nelk Boys, the Impaulsive Podcast with Logan Paul and Mike Maijak, various cypto and how to be a dividend king training sites, the Alternative Politics space such as The Greyzone, Glenn Greenwald, Katie Halper, Matt Tiabbi, etc., but also of course the Conspiracy Space which was held down by Alex Jones with his InfoWars stream, Jay Dyer (who has talked extensively about Transhumanism, Smart Cities, , to some extend Shuan Attwood, etc.
Figures from these spaces often overlap and collaborate because of the incentive that YouTube’s algorithm gives to content creators who drive massive amounts of traffic, thus enabling more eyeballs to see more advertisements. In other words, successful people from more sensational spaces are likely to drive content, and this volume equates to more wealth for the creators. As a result, you will see the same faces recycling through the various spaces. You can type in any variation and a video will pop up, e.g., PBD with Andrew Schulz, Fresh and Fit with PBD, Alex Jones with Andrew Schulz, Joe Rogan with Alex Jones, the Nelk Boys (who “interviewed” Trump but never asked the hard questions) with Pearl Davis, etc., and something will pop up.
Part 3
Yet, interestingly…Whitney Webb has appeared on the Tim Dillon Podcast (episode 196, 207, 226, 246, and 355) in the Comedian space. In episode 226 around 1:46:55, Whitney talks about Edward Bernays who was a relative of Sigmund Frued and the father of modern marketing. This sounds innocuous but to an antisemite it is another way of saying Jews are manipulating people through media. We also have PBD Podcast in Bro Space (episode 198 and 270), Glenn Beck on an episode titled: How Elites will create a new class of slaves (episode 162) and RFK in the Conspiracy Space make on March 15, 2022, in the Alternative Politics sphere. Also, she was interviewed by Russell Brand of the New Age Space where he has the full interview on Rumble which is often called Right Wing.
Yet, I remember Whitney Webb from something more nefarious.
A podcast called Know More News by Adam Green who is an antisemite whose platform (which was banned from YouTube before setting up shop on Far-Right server BitChute) used to collaborate with Whitney Webb, multiple times. Adam Green (middle name likely Richard) is from the San Diego area and went to Cal State East Bay in Hayward, CA near San Francisco/San Jose/Oakland where he played basketball according to me hearing that in one of his podcasts. He attended Cal State E.B. from 2009 to 2012, earning a degree in Business Administration and worked while in college as a Rental Agent for Monarch Truck Company in Union City, CA for just over a year. According to Cal State E.B. website, an Adam Greene (spelled differently, likely a typo) in 2009 to 2010 was listed as being from San Marcos, CA, which is in San Diego where it seems Adam resided while making Known More News [See: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-green-09843635 and https://eastbaypioneers.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/adam-greene/2343%5D. He had a short stint at ViaSat, which he said he hated, before moving into podcasting where he started exploring topics such Israel, Chabad, etc., but notably what he considers to be Jewish Supremacy. He admitted he was a big Alex Jones fan before he realized in his opinion that Alex Jones was working for a “Zionist Deep State”.
It is hard for me to believe that Whitney did not know about his and those of his frequent collaborator’s beliefs.
I admit that I use to watch it when it was on YouTube because at first, because I thought it was very good information that criticized Trump’s relationship with Israel, how the military complex and Silicon Valley are investing in Israel (Silicon Wadi), understanding crackdowns on the BDS movement, etc. Yet, as time went on Adam Green stated showing his true paranoid “white genocide” theories and then I stopped watching. I even got into argument with him in the discussion session of one of his videos because he was pushing that idea that protestors against police brutality were controlled by George Soros, i.e., in other words washing over the atrocity of police brutality and twisting the conversation to appeal to white fears about being “taken over” or “overrun”, etc.
Adam Green’s core thesis is that Jews via organizations such as the ADL, WJC, Chabad Lubavitch, etc., wants to take over the world because Jews are a supremacist group who based on the idea of Chosen-ness and that they believe other non-Jewish groups (Goyim) have lesser souls since they are not kosher.
He also believes that the Jews will kill or breed white people out of existence such as pushing this idea of the Kaligri Plan by opening borders (which is something pushed by Patrick Bet David when ranting about Soros and the Open Society Foundation on the Flagrant Podcast with Andrew Schulz – even tough Schulz is not antisemitic.)
But this idea of white genocide was also pushed on the Tucker Carlson show on Fox News, which overlaps with the white supremacist allegations of high numbers of white farmer murders in ANC (African National Congress) controlled South Africa for example. He also talked about the “Dancing Israelis” case which is when allegedly a group of Israelis under the cover of a cleaning service where dancing in celebration as the Twin Towers fell because 9/11 was an inside job partially coordinated by Israel and Netanyahu to drag the US into the disastrous Middle East wars which benefited Israel by the US taking out its enemies. These Israelis were investigated by the FBI before deportation.
Adam Green collaborated with people such as Vincent James (i.e., the Red Elephant), Ryan Dawson, Matthew North, Christopher Jon Bjerknes (he has own site at cjbbooks.com), RedIceTV with avowed racist Lana Lokteff, etc., meaning Whitney by proxy was in this circle. Adam Green’s works has also been shared on Stormfront and the Renegade Tribune, the latter being a publication that pushes white genocide theories.
For example in the below video, Adam Green praises Henrik and Lana of RedIce TV. See below:
Christopher Jon Bjerknes was very close with Adam Green, and Christopher to my knowledge has the belief that Christianity was a made-up religion intended to overthrow the Roman Empire because of the Jewish grudge with Rome for occupying the Holy Land. He also believes that Jews use Kabbalistic practices to subvert the West. Yet, per a YouTube video that Mr. Bjerknes uploaded titled: Adam Green of Know More News Plagarizes the Work of Christopher Jon Bjerknes where Mr. Bjerknes accuses Mr. Green of taking his ideas. When it comes to Ryan Dawson, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) wrote a report calling out his allegations that Israel was involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Yet, when I got to Mr. Bjerknes website, I see a plethora of seemingly unhinged material that all feeds back into this overall coded antisemitic thesis, with even some videos about RFK, Jr., himself.
According to Green and Bjerknes (well, presumably more from Bjerkens due to his allegations of plagiarism from Green)., the Jewish goal notably thru the Talmudic Chabad, the Sabbatean Franks (followers of Sabbatai Levi and later Jacob Frank. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankism), and the Kabbalah movement, is to build the Third Temple which is required for the Jewish messiah (the Mashiach) to come (in theory). Israel must remove all non-Jews, destroy Al Aqsa Mosque (Dome on the Rock), build Solomons Temple, and take over the world notably exacting revenge on Europeans (understood in this theory to be the descendants of Esau, the hunter, and Brother to Jacob, a scion of Israel).
The US government notably “Kosher Conservatives” and Democrats per this theory are assisting in accelerating Israel’s consolidation of power by taking an indifferent view to the treatment of the Palestinians.
Bjerknes is under the impression that RFK is actually a pawn of Israel (where I am assuming that he believes RFK Jr.’s antisemitism is a tactic to harvest votes from the ever-growing number of Antisemitic believing conspiracy theorists) According to Malachi Haim Hacohen as published on the Cambridge University Press, presumably from Chapter 3 – Ishmael, and Christian Europe: Medieval Edom from his book, titled: Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire it was stated:
To medieval European Jews, Esau and Edom meant Christian and Christendom, and Jacob & Esau evoked the messianic vision of Christendom’s downfall. “Christian Esau” became an enduring Jewish topos. Spanish (Sephardi) Jews thought of the Jewish Diaspora as living “under Edom and Ishmael” – Ishmael was deemed the Arabs’ ancestor – and interpreted the vision of the Four Empires in the Book of Daniel as presaging liberation from Christian and Muslim rule alike. Historically, the Christian–Jewish confrontation was traumatic in ways the Jewish encounter with Islam never was. While the Holy Roman Empire inherited the Roman imperial title, the Crusades shifted the target of Jewish hatred from the Empire to the Church, as the Pope appeared “the king of kings.” With late medieval persecutions, the kabbalistic Zohar literature signaled a shift from triumphal historical eschatology to cosmological tiqun (healing). Jacob & Esau became cosmogonic forces, and the “Kings of Edom” represented a cosmogonic disaster. As Christians became increasingly familiar with rabbinic literature, they polemicized against the Jewish concept of Edom, but late medieval Christian biblical commentary reflected Jewish views of Edom. Medieval Jewish European history appears as a confrontation of intersecting Jewish and Christian cultures, and the Jews left their imprint on Europe even as they were expelled.
In other words, Bjerken’s either believes that either Europeans are in biblical struggle with the Jews or he’s not religious but he’s taking the medieval Jewish view of Europeans as proof of their vendetta with Christian Europeans (while possibly neglecting the fact that medieval Jews were frequent persecuted by Europeans, e.g., the Spanish Inquisition, York Massacre, Rhineland Massacres, etc.). This Esau Edomite notion is someone common in conspiracy culture, yet, the irony is that the location Edom is essentially modern-day southern Jordan or parts of Northwest Saudi Arabia, and Europeans had existed way before the events depicted in the Bible.
Relating to Matthew North, I had actually stumbled upon his work when I was trying to find good faith criticisms of Joe Rogan around maybe 2018, because Joe Rogan seemed to have been purposely platforming Right Wing (i.e., Intellectual Dark Web figures). It seemed the Rogan was using his podcast as a sort of propaganda platform. I stumbled upon Matthew North’s video titled: Joe Rogan Exposed: CIA ELON MUSK, MAPS, ESALEN, MKULTRA-Neuralink BRAVE NEW WORLD IDW.
This video inspired me to write my blog post on Joe Rogan, however, I refute Matthew North’s antisemitic allegations and expanded upon it to develop my inclusive ACZS Network idea to include Jews, Saudi Sunni Muslims, and predominately white Protestant and Catholics of the US, UK, and Continental Europe. My ACZS idea was also inspired by some notes I had picked up from Jay Dyer in his analysis of the Anglo-American (Atlanticist) networks inspired by his reviews of Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigly, The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brezinski, etc. Yet, like North, I refuted Dyer’s seemingly Pro-Russian stance, because Dyer like most Western conspiracy theorists or independent journalists often keep the lens on America and not other powers such as the Kremlin. For instance, Dyer I have never heard calling out the Kremlin for assassinations of dissents. Also, Dyer has a very Christian based viewpoint, so he refutes the claims of scientific method, etc. He actually considers science to be an occultic ideology based on neoplatonic ideas. So, despite many good sources and readings by Dyer, I really want nothing to much to do with him.
For example, we rarely hear about the French the General Directorate for External Security, the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), the Canadian Security Intelligence Services (CSIS), the Italian External Intelligence and Security Agency (AISE), etc. It seems convenient to solely talk about the CIA which could ironically be an expression of American Exceptionalism, i.e., the USA is the center of the universe, and by focusing purely on the CIA, we not only give the USA all the blame but we ignore the possible crimes or undemocratic interventions by other superpowers. Hence, focusing on the CIA could be considered a type of anti-American propaganda feeding into our enemy’s plans, i.e., reducing American soft power, trying to accelerate the dumping of US currency as the reserve banking note of the world, etc.
Below is the video by Matthew North. I repeat, I ignore and disagree with any of his antisemitic remarks, because to me the world is not ran by “Jews” but rather by factions of various groups representing various interest who work in tandem. Note: I do not know Matthew North personally. https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-north-466666181. But, supposedly he committed suicide? If true, regardless of his beliefs, that is unfortunate, yet, Matt despite being smart, did seem a little paranoid, but I have no idea.
Relating to Ryan Dawson, according to the ADL (2010) in their publication, titled: Decade of Deceit: Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 10 Years Later, published on August 30, 2011, stated, “Two videos in particular, Missing Links: The Definitive Truth About 9/11, produced by Mike Delaney, and War by Deception, by Ryan Dawson, make virulently anti-Semitic claims about the 9/11 attacks. The two films, both over two hours long, have been viewed by tens of thousands of people despite their length. In “War by Deception,” made originally in 2008 and updated in 2011, Dawson presents the “standard” anti-Semitic conspiratorial view of the 9/11 attacks as a false flag operation carried out by Israel. He lays out one conspiracy theory after another that blame Jews and the Mossad for the 9/11 attacks and for the subsequent war in Iraq. Dawson, who runs an anti neo-conservative forum, paints the Israeli government and Jewish members of the Bush Administration as part of an evil cabal that wanted to control the world. In his narration, Dawson asks “Who is compounding the lies? Who is continuing the narrative? Who has the power to cover it up?” His answer is that the “source of lies” about the 9/11 attacks is “Israeli intelligence and the Zionist cabal.” Like other figures who promote anti-Semitic 9/11 conspiracy theories, Dawson’s views about Israel’s alleged involvement in the 9/11 attacks are linked to his view of Israel as a “brutal apartheid regime.”” (End quote by ADL, 2011)
Adam Green’s ideas were rehashing of the old ZOG (Zionist Occupied Government) idea.
This ZOG conspiracy theory is the same conspiracy theory that led to the Poway Synagogue Shooting perpetrated by John Timothy Earnest on April 29, 2019, and the Tree of Life Pittsburg Synagogue Shooting done on October 27, 2018, by Robert Bowers.
It was complicated. I watched his podcast almost as if I was gathering intel about the topics he was talking about, but also keeping tabs on him in general particularly as he “let the mask off”. In other words, I discovered legitimate concerns about Zionism and its relationship to Trump, Russia, etc., yet, I also become more aware of the threat of white supremacy especially online. My goal is to separate legitimate concerns about Israel, even though I do not hate Israel (it has a right to exist), from conspiracy theories that catered solely toward white racism and victimhood.
Part 4
Whitney Webb has gotten popular with her thesis about how Israel is using entrapment methods to take over or corrupt the US government. Yet, I know that she did not come up with this herself. There was already an existing underground online community researching for non-racist and racist means the relationship of the Zionist lobby to the US government.
The general theory, at least relating to modern America is the Jewish Mob, Zionists, etc., infiltrated the US government via the neoconservative movement particularly that of the McCarthy Era with figures not limited to Roy Cohn, who would later go on to be Donald Trump’s mentor. The idea is that there was always a Zionist plot to take over American to protect Israel and they did this by using sexual entrapment, which is something later that Epstein and the Maxwells were accused of doing himself. There was overlap between the CIA, Mossad, etc.. This all feeds into the upcoming “technological singularity” of a controlled state of smart cities, pre-crime initiatives, mass surveillance, digital money, etc.
The question to me is, is there any truth to any of this?
My answer is yes, there is, but the thing about conspiracy theorist notable relating to the topics I am writing about is that they point ALL THE BLAME of Jews as a means of diverting from the truth that people who are not Jewish have as much if not more power and influence.
It is a silly statement to say that Jews run the world because if they did then why would Israel not have already “taken over” the Middle East according to the conspiracy theory called the “Greater Israel Project”? Why would so many Jews be victims of antisemitic attacks if they ruled all the levers of power?
This is why I developed my separate non-antisemitic concept of the “ACZS” network, i.e., the Anglo-American, Continental, Zionist, and Saud Network as a better and more logical way of describing the power base that runs the Western world. This network is synonymous with a collective of rivals that are often friendly with each other but also compete, i.e., “frenemies”. This network includes mostly white Americans and British elites that are mostly Protestants (for example Ivy League Schools and exclusive prep school leagues such as the Eight Schools Association, that produced many politicians, business leaders, and intel officers, were predominantly founded by Protestant denominations. Note, we’ve only had one Catholic President who was assassinated while all others have been Protestant). Traditionally of the older East Coast Blue Blood stock but later incorporated Wild West industrialists in Big Oil and those of the Pacific Coast in California, i.e., the Cowboy faction.
This network also includes the Continental which is a nickname to represent Europeans who are presented by both Protestant interests notably of Germanic nations but also heavily Catholic interests, and both of these factions are often expressed by European nobility – both high and low (i.e., the ones you rarely hear about but still hold title and land) who have shifted their old power into new means of making money such as private equity via tax-havens such as Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Andorra, Vatican City, etc. They collaborate via old knightly orders, i.e., the Knights of Malta, the Teutonic Knights, etc., which are essentially the old-world equivalent of social clubs and have direct ties to the Papacy. Europe is the base of NATO and therefore was involved with Operation Gladio that has been discussed by many scholars and online amateur content creators.
Then we have the Zionists who are mostly Jewish outright, yet because of Evangelical Christianity in both the United States and England (i.e., British Israelism. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Israelism), there are many non-ethnic Jewish people who support Israel largely because of religion, e.g., the evangelical belief in the Second Coming of Christ, Armageddon, etc. Since Jews have a history of migrating, there is a strong “international” network of collaboration but strongly in the UK and the USA where there was less antisemitism as compared to Continental Europe, e.g., pogroms, the Rhineland Massacres, etc. This group from Israel directly or from Jews abroad (who get citizenship for being Jewish) collaborate, etc., but this group in the United States does have influence over both political parties, yet often sides more so with Right Wing politics ironically because of the militaristic and religious elements that play into Israel’s defense of itself. Then we have the Saudi Royal Family who overseas one of the world largest proven oil reserves. The Saud’s are synonymous with OPEC and a leader amongst the other OPEC nations.
This ACSZ Network includes affiliates such as the Japanese representing the Far Right East traditionally, though South Korea, etc., has gained more prominence as things have heated up against China.
But there are other syndicates such as the Sino-Russian Syndicate who serves as the biggest hedge to the ACSZ and the Sino-Russian’s often reach out to Iran, considering the US has not mended its relationship with Iran (pronounced e-Ran). But the Jews have the ability to move between the Western ACSZ and the Russians in their own syndicate because historically many Ashkenazi Jews descend from Russia and the former Pale Settlement (Belarus, parts of Ukraine and Russia, etc.). This is why in my opinion the MAGA movement of Trump was interesting because figures such as Jared Kushner, who is of the Chabad sect, was attempting to almost unite Russia with the USA where both superpowers could protect Israel (note: Russian is the second most spoken language in Israel). MAGA tried to subvert standard US foreign policy by inviting Russia into the ACSZ Network, yet, it is my belief that Russia wasn’t fully trusted by the Western intelligence community because of Russia’s constant antagonizing of Western strategy, assassinations of journalists (which may allude to more violence amongst actual intel agents), arms dealing to US enemies, obstruction in international bodies such as the United Nations, etc.
Part 5
In conclusion, I do not know what to make of Whitney Webb. She reminds me a little bit of Millennial as opposed to older Gen Xer with Annie Jacobsen, who wrote the book The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA [See: https://www.amazon.com/Pentagons-Brain-Uncensored-Americas-Top-Secret/dp/0316371661]. Yet, she also seems
I am not sure if she antisemitic. I do not consider myself to be even though I was interested in many of the same topics as she is. However, I did not at one point collaborate with a known antisemite, Adam Green, and I also do not have content on sites such as Gab, Rumble, and BitChute which are known for having Far Right, Neo Nazi, and conspiracy-based content.
To me, I find it wise of Whitney to get ahead of this and continue, hopefully, to differentiate between her research and antisemitism. Her history mixed with her current interviewing with RFK, Jr., makes Whitney a bit ambiguous, despite the vast wealth of knowledge she has shared in non-racist spaces such as on the Tim Dillion podcast.
African American culture if you step back objectively is essentially Afro-Anglo-Saxon-Celtic
History does not stop and history is an evolutionary chronicle of human development. We often make the mistake of treating “race” and “ethnicity” as static non-evolutionary (unchanging) concepts, typically since race as we see it, is a modernist construct that arose alongside European colonialism over other groups of humans.
But, we often make the mistake of seeing race as concrete in my opinion, because of the now debated thesis of neolibieral capitalist thinker, Francis Fukuyama, with his “End of History” idea, which relating to concepts of race/ethnicity and culture, makes the mistake of turning culture into commodities or “brand names” of post-Treaty of Westhpahlian nation-states, when in fact culture is always shifting and will contiue to evolve. Note: The Treaty of Westphalia is often agreed to be the beginning of modern nation-states.
For example, as we debate race in the modern world, we often forget fascinating historical events such as the fact that Asians from as far as Mongolia left a genetic and culture imprint on Europe. We often don’t talk about how the very language in which I’m writing this in, i.e., English, is a type of Indo-European language, falling under a family of languages that includes distant tongues as far as India. We forget the fact that Germanic warriors set up a Vandal Kingdom in North Africa in modern day Algeria and Libya. Or, we forget the fact that sub-saharan “black” Africans sometimes found themselves in Europe as far back as the Roman Period and even further back with the Greeks making note of black Africans with figures such as Memnon (likely from ancient Ethiopia).
We often never talk about how there was a dynasty of Roman Emperors were from North Africa and the Middle East. We never talk about what we consider to be modern German, British, etc., are fairly new concepts in the span of history and are based on a confluence of diverse factors, groups, tribes, migrations, etc. We even forget to acknowledge that Iron Age settlers from the Middle East with more advanced farming techniques settled in Europe as ice-sheets thawed and these settlers merged this “old Europeans” of the Ice Age period, and later Central Asian and Iranian peoples invaded.
Meghan Markle marrying Prince Harry is in a way an acknowledgement of an open secret that’s always been staring us in the face, which is that African Americans (similar to other black diaspora peoples under the yoke of English culture, e.g. Black Canadians, African Americans, Jamaicans, etc.) are a Western peoples branching strongly from English Anglo-Saxon “Western” culture.
For example, the Jamaican dialect is noted for being influenced by Irish settlers alongside African slaves. If we hear “ebonics” or African American Vernacular English and compare it to Cockney accents of London, there’s many similarities in the sound.
These Black English Diaspora groups often have varying levels of European DNA to do sexual relationships between Africans and Europeans in the colonial period and onward. A big reason why we still have such a discernible visibly black population is because colonial governments such as those of Virginia noticed an uptick in “yellow” people, i.e., bi-racial people, and put bans on the practice of interracial relationships, but also after the invention of the cotton-gin by Eli Whitney, a new group of black Africans were imported into the United States, sustaining slavery as an institution for another 80 years until the Civil War, and slowing down racial mixing. For example in Spanish or French countries (Latin) you had categories of White with Native American, White with African, etc., but in the English colonies, such large mixed groups were hidden or discouraged.
In theory, the same way how Mestizo in Spanish culture is often the dominate ethnic group (Iberian European mixed with Native American), the English colonial-based “mulatto” culture was limited by law, thus creating a more entrenched racial binary between white and black, which was essential in maintain a divide-and-conquer system that benefited the merchant and owner classes.
The marriage of Meghan to Harry might be looked back on with history as a strategic marriage that brought black diaspora culture/peoples together with European culture, by ordaining it with the aesthetics of western nobility. Such strategic marriages have been common throughout aristocratic history, where leaders often marry into group that were subjugated as a means of including said groups into the existing power structures, e.g., a Frankish prince marrying a Bavarian or a Saxon princess, etc.
Meghan and Harry’s marriage represents in part an attempt at reconciliation and unity between white European culture and Westernized African Diaspora culture, and….in perfect fashion, there are powers at be who cannot get over the manufactured racial dialectic.
Prince Archie not only represents the unique sub-culture of black culture within Western Civilization, but he also literally represents the West, since he is a descendant of Charlemagne himself, as well as William The Conqueror, Rollo the Viking, Henry the Lion, etc.
African-Americans, largely descended from the dense rainy forests, river delta, and Sahel peoples of West Africa, experienced a process of assimilation no different than European pagan groups being assimilated such as the Germanic forest peoples such as the Saxons, the Baltic peoples, the Finns, etc.
But, we often don’t see it in this light because the modern USA has such an entrenched and dialectical viewpoint of race, i.e., innocuous racial segregation. “Proper talk” vs “ebonics”. Stiff vs rhythm. Bland vs spicy, etc. Stereotypes policed by the general public.
Black Americans experiencing slavery is similar to German tribes being forced into Christianity and serfdom by the Franks and earlier Romans. On a likely dreary day in the fall time of 782 AD, Charlemagne, the Frankish warrior king who would become Holy Roman Emperor, i.e., the de jure ruler of Western and Central Europe as crowed by the Pope, ordered the beheading of around four thousand & two hundred (4,200 estimate) Saxons.
The Saxons were a Germanic tribe of pagan forest peoples who lived in modern day Northwest Germany, first documented by the earlier Romans who tried but never truly conquered the various Germanic factions (e.g., the Alemanni, Suebi, Bavarii, Thurnigii, Macromanni, Saxons, Frisii, Franks, etc.).
Charlemagne on his blood-thirsty conquest of the pagan Germanic peoples of the dense forests of Central Europe, wanted the covert the Saxons to Christianity and he went so far as to deface sacred objects to the Saxons such as the Irminsul (a sacred tree). Charlemagne’s incentive for conquests was to spread to Christianity, not because he was the best Christian, actually far from it, but since his title of Emperor was ordained by the Pope, Charlemagne had an obligation to conquer to people, i.e., more Christians means more people for him to easily rule over and have the backing of the Papacy.
The irony is these “Earthy German forest peoples” with soul became Westernized into the expansionist ideals of Christian evangelism, and even more ironic these once enslaved Europeans would enslave black Africans.
In other words, Christianity and colonization are often synonymous with each other, and with conquest often comes crimes against humanity such as genocide, but this isn’t merely a Christian issue, but can be found in most major world religions, including Islam.
The Saxons eventually fell and were assimilated into Western culture, i.e., at the time meaning Latin based Roman Catholicism centered around a feudal model of serf-renters (sharecroppers) under a militarily-protected land-owner noble class of Frankish extraction, similar to how the Franks assimilated earlier into Western Roman culture.
Note: Frank eventually meant to go mean “free” and the word Frank influenced the word “Franchise”, i.e., what we today consider the be the right to vote, but also the modern business term of franchise meaning a business who is licensing their name of a smaller organization for a fee (nobles were granted their rank by promising to represent the central leaders and each party in a sort of pact or contract would perform a duty for each other, e.g., the lower noble charged with mustering defense and supervising agricultural production, whereas the central leader promised protection and the settling of disputes. Workers on estates, i.e., everyone else but the ruling class, were seen as “villains” coming from the word “villa”, descended from the Roman plantation system farms of villas where many conquered Celtic and Germanic people’s worked on as …slaves.
Charlemagne’s blood line eventually lost its grip over Imperial power across the empire, and those the Franks had conquered or married into took over, e.g., the Robertians of West Francia based out of Paris would eventually take over what is today France and the Capetian Dynasty arose from this. In Italy, the Uroching Family – related to Charlemagne – took over Italy for a time, yet, in the Germany, the Saxons muscled their way over leadership of the Germanic peoples of present day Germany (first under the Ottonian Dynasty and then later under the Welf Family, whom at a time controlled Saxony in the North and Bavaria in the South near the Alps).
By the late 12th century, the Duke of the Saxons, Henry the Lion (of the House of Welf. Note: The modern British royal family is in part strongly descended from the House of Welf-Este which included an Italian and German line), started to “colonize and settle” the Northeastern part of Germany and Northwest Poland, which were inhabited by a mix of Western Slavic (proto-Polish) Prussians, Obotrites, Sorbs, etc.
This colonization by German settlers lead to the violent Northern Crusades beginning around 1147. The militant and fanatical Christian Teutonic Knights and Knights of the Livonian Order, established what could be considered a “for-profit military contractor outpost” in the Baltic region. The Teutonic Knights shifted their focus from the Crusades of the Levant (in defense of Jerusalem, Acre, etc.), where they were protecting and treating (i.e., hospitalling) Christian pilgrims, to a militant force for Germanic colonization, largely as a means of staying relevant (warriors need war to exist and the fuedal social order relied on second or third sons either joining the clergy or becoming a soldier selling his service on the hopes he’d be eventually alloted his own land to manage or keep to oversee).
The Teutonic Order was accused of war crimes such as genocide against these “Wendish”, i.e., West Slavic and Baltic peoples. Dominican Priests such as John of Falkenberg would advocate for genocide against the Western Slavic and Baltic tribes as a means of justifying the war crimes of the Teutonic Order.
Rewind, before the Saxon Conquests by Charlemagne, around 300-500 AD, near the end of the Western Roman Empire, many Saxons migrated into England. This period was the “Great Migration” period where various “barbarian” tribes moved all over the European continent seeing a power vacuum left as the Romans declined. For example, the Goths would sack Rome before half of their confederation staying in Italy while the other half went treasure seeking and land grabbing in modern day Spain.
The Saxons, Angles, Frisians (the closest language to modern English), and Jutes merged with the native Briton populations created, who were influenced in part by Roman rule in Britannia, creating Anglo-Saxons and displacing the Celtic tribes who fled to the North, the West (Wales) and Southwest (modern day Cornwall), etc. Note: this period is speculated as being the origin story of King Arthur, i.e., a supposed Roman-Briton warrior with his Celtic sorcerer teacher in Merlin (representing the old ways before Christianization) fighting against the invading pagan Saxons and Germans.
This Anglo-Saxon culture in the England would go to influence modern English culture (along side, and this culture was eventually forced upon West Africans, whom like Saxons of old, were assimilated into Western “Roman” Germanic culture.
What is an African American?
A person of West African descent assimilated into Christian Anglo-Saxon and Celtic culture resulting a unique branch of Western culture that oscillates between African culture, mostly due to a re-surged interests in indigenous African customs in the Civil Rights Era, and European culture. This ethnogenesis resulting in black people with English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish and French surnames, who are overwhelmingly Protestant but with some representation within Catholicism.
African American could be defined as Afro-Celtic, Afro Saxon, Afro Saxon-Celtic, West African Teutonic, etc.
For example, my name Quinton Mitchell where this version of Mitchell comes from Scottish American settlers. Think of Larry Fitzgerald, Donovan McNabb, Martin Luther King, Jr., etc. Before the 1970s, most Black Americans named their children these Germanic Celtic names.
The same process by which the Saxons of old were assimilated into the West, the forest peoples of West African experienced the same thing, ironically from descendants of Saxon influenced culture. Also, the same way that European pagans of the Baltic fought against German (heavily influenced by Saxon culture) and how Saxons fought against the earlier Franks, African-Americans resisted white supremacy.
But, the reason we don’t include African Americans within the iconography of Western Civilization is due to (A) racism by white supremacy, and (B) reactionary movement to that supremacy which is a de-colonial Pan-Africanist mindset espoused by black nationalists, which is often associated with political Left as is as of 2022, considering this ideology could be argued as inspired by Marxist ideology which seeks to flatten hierarchical systems.
Attempts by African Americans to accept their place within Western Civilization as activate participants is often seen as “selling out” by black nationalists and an affront by white supremacists to the status quote. This all seems to be by design in my opinion, i.e., keeping African Americans out of the glory of Western Civilization by convincing us to not want to participate, i.e., encouraging self-determinism and segregation as a means of achieving what white supremacy wanted along, aka, segregation of the races.
In other words, African Americans are Western people but traditionally discriminated against from owning what rightfully belongs to them as well, i.e., a stake in the longevity of Western Civilization. More disturbing, many Black Americans have convinced themselves to disassociate from the West.
Further, due to the rise of black nationalism which often basis itself in opposition to “whiteness”, this ideology too has erased the uniqueness of African Americans with Western Civilization, because so much of Black Nationalism sees no sort of reconciliation process as being possible, and often defines itself, ever-growing with a dialectal mindset, i.e., doing the opposite for opposites sake as a means of defining blackness as separate from “white”.
For example, many extremist black nationalist groups adopting Islamic ideology (which is ironic considering Islam played a big role in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, e.g., Muslims couldn’t enslave other Muslims so they enslaved pagan nature-worshiping Africans, similar to how Christians enslaved European pagans)
There are so many bot accounts discrediting Black Lives Matters on social media platforms such as Instragram, Twitter (now X), etc. Bots aside, it is a popular talking point to muckrake against Black Lives Matters and you’ve seen this in the Right-Wing eco-system of Charlie Kirk, Candance Owens especially, Tim Poole, Gavin McInnes, etc.
With BLM Global Network having been exposed for money issues such as with Patrisse Cullors buying a 6 Million dollar home, using funds for a birthday party (which she supposedly paid back), and hiring her family members for a near 1 million dollar security contract, this gave the Right Wing the ammunition they needed to further perpetuate anti-black sentiments such as black people aren’t capable, that we are “race baiters”, that we blame all our problems on white people yet seems to want white people’s money, etc.
Anti-blackness runs deep across the globe and its not just the West. Perception does matter, which is why I was disappointed that BLM didn’t do an aggressive PR campaign to own the situation, get a head of it, and create a pathway forward.
Rather, the leaders faded away such as Cullors posting “crystal mommy” Instagram posts or Alicia Garza going off to start other non-profit projects. The attacks of the Right Wing, the money scandal, and other issues such as social media and the news showcasing situations of black citizens attacking Asian Americans, the system got what it wanted…letting “black people” get hopeful, just to pull the rug from up under our feet, so we end up embarrassed after appearing as “mouthy” “angry”, etc.
It is exactly what the Right Wing wanted, and BLM’s anonymity allowed them to use BLM as a means of recruiting arngry white males to Far Right causes, which includes people such as the Buffalo Mass Shooter. Sure, these weren’t BLMs intent but it was a result.
But, I think there’s still hope for BLM but it will take work. PR, scholarships, auditing reports by legit third parties such as Ernst Young, conference calls, grants, an aggressive media campaign, etc. Or, the new non-profits that Garza created need to be absorbed into BLM.
But, regardless…
What about BLEXIT? What are they doing to help the black community, especially since they have more access to billionaire money as opposed to Left Wing organizations who have to scrap for small dollar donations? Candance Owens according to the Daily Beast (2022) article by Kelly Weill, titled: Blexit’s Finances Are Slumping – but Its Paycheck to Candance Owens Keeps Coming, stated that Owens received $230,000 in 2022.
I repeat, BLEXIT has way more access to fundraising and capital potential but it doesn’t seem like there is a coordinated effort to help the black community, but rathe piece-milling grants here and there. For example, Turning Point USA with Owen’s ally Charlie Kirk has received money from billionaires. “Turning Point USA is funded by numerous right-of-center foundations and big Republican donors.
According to InfluenceWatch, TPUSA received $275,000 from the Ed Uihlein Family Foundation, the Rauner Family Foundation (run by former Illinois Governor Bruce Raunder (R)) gave $150,000, the Folgia Family Foundation gave $210,000, and the Marcus Foundation gave $72,500. TPUSA has also received smaller donations from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Michael and Andrea Leven Family Foundation, the Huizenga Foundation, the Mike Miller Foundation, Dunn’s Foundation for the Advancement of Right Wing Thinking, the Einhorn Family Foundation, Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation (run by the in-laws of former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos), the Gianforte Family Foundation (run by Montana Governor Greg Gianforte (R)), the Thomas Patrick Morrison Foundation, and the Family Taxpayer’s Foundation.” This doesn’t include the various sponsors such as the Heritage Foundation, the National Rifle Association, the Reason Foundation, the Foundation for Economic Education, PragerU, the Job Creators Network, the Leadership Institute, and the Generation Opportunity Institute. [Source: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/turning-point-usa/%5D
These people and organizations have enough money to buy entire neighborhoods, pay for people’s private schooling or college, but the goal of BLEXIT isn’t help but rather pushing anti-black liberation politics to support the capitalist system as is, which means supporting the 1%, as is.
TPUSA has ties to Lynde and Harry Bradley are related to the Allen Bradley company which is now Rockwell Automation. Harry Lynde Bradley was one of the founders of the John Birch Society which are the group that paved the way for far-right, New World Order, anti-UN conspiracy theorists such as Alex Jones with InfoWars. The John Birch Society had an early member, Revilo P. Oliver, who left the JBS because he felt it was “too Jewish” and went to help found Neo Nazi organizations alongside William Luther Price (the author of The Turner Diaries).
The First Amendment literally states, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
There is this movement to separate church and state.
And, I must state that they are insane.
Most of this is coming from Evangelical Protestant (often modern as opposed to mainline church) based Dominion Ideology (often with Prosperity, i.e., money is good, Doctrine) which seeks to create a religious state. It may be hyperbole, but it sounds like the Handmaids Tale, considering the conservative majority Supreme Court has recently banned abortion at the federal level and has opened the window for “creative businesses” to discriminate against LGBTQ peoples. Certain things may not affect you, but it may be a matter of time before SCOTUS starts taking away other rights or legal protections.
People argue that the country was built upon Christianity, but I slightly disagree. The colonies were majority Christian (even though Rhode Island was explicitly founded with an emphasis on religious tolerance), but the constitution that united those colonies (and, following states that were entered into the union later) were built upon an ideal of religious pluralism, i.e., the ability to agree to disagree. There was also no linear way of practice since the colonies had different make-ups and sources of their specific types of Christianity. One colony may have had a different way of believing than another, or influenced by a different sort of doctrinal practice, i.e., even back then you still had Anglicans vs Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Catholics, Quakers, etc. So how can the US even have a state church if there is no standard framework particularly amongst Protestant faiths. How will church leaders be elected? Apostolic succession or voting for elders in a congregational model? Can women be ordained or not? What language do we do service in? Does traditional matter or is it “faith alone?” Do we honor saints? Are non-Nicaean Trinitarians such as later Mormons or Jevoah’s Witnesses allowed?
There wasn’t even a coherent way of worshiping then, then why would there be now?
For example, there is no Plymouth Colony with Pilgrims anymore but rather the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which is a US state, rather than a colony which was basically a chartered business operation and not a sovereign entity. So, even if that colony was built by religious settlers, it doesn’t mean that they triumph over the later US constitution that gives our country…life. Same can be said about Jamestown Colony in Virginia, or the Debtor Colonies of Oglethorpe in Georgia, or if it had survived the Roanoke Colony in North Carolina. In other words, even though Christianity inspired the creation of the United States, the freedom away from it also did, and the Constitution which came after the Articles of Confederation, is the de facto document of our government.
For example, many Protestants in the USA who often simply call themselves Christian, often have anti-Catholic sentiments, even though Catholics are literally one of the earliest Christian sects. Two Catholics signed the US Constitution which were Daniel Carroll and Thomas Fitzsimones. Also, in the early colonies you had small Jewish population in New York and Charleston such as Haym Salomon, who was vital in converting French loans into liquid cash for the Revolutionaries to use. You also had the indigenous Native Americans with their deities, but also the imported African enslaved peoples who had their own indigenous belief systems but also some had Islam (Islam had conquered various areas of Western Africa), even though most African slaves were assimilated into Christianity (which slaves seeing their blight akin to that of the Jews of the Old Testament). According to the Smithsonian, “African Muslims also fought alongside colonists during the Revolutionary War (1775–1783). Multiple men with Muslim names appear on the military muster rolls, including Bampett Muhamed, Yusuf ben Ali (also known as Joseph Benhaley), and Joseph Saba. Other men listed on muster rolls have names that are likely connected to Islamic practice, such as Salem Poor and Peter Salem, whose names may reflect a form of the Arabic salaam, meaning peace. These men often distinguished themselves on the battlefield.” (Source: https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/african-muslims-early-america)
We have freedom of religion meaning freedom away from religion if we want. If you want to believe in God and Jesus then so be it, but if don’t then cool. If you believe liberty if from God, then so be it, but you believe liberty is form human reason alone, then so be it. Yet, since we have to live amongst each other, a person who doesn’t believe can’t be forced to believe or have is or her liberties hindered by those who believe, unless the courts go through their process and rule with the concept of separate of church and state as the underlying framework of their ruling, i.e., the courts can’t say you must follow law, but you may not be able to do something because of another reason based on previous rulings (i.e., precedent).
If a certain religion that Christians does not want takes over then how will they deal with it? Hence, erosion of the separation of church and state needs racism and xenophobia to maintain the pre-existing religious hierarchy, and by doing so you are denying certain understood principles such as the right to enter the US and gain citizenship.
How will US Protestants deal with the US becoming Catholic or Catholics if the US becomes explicitly Protestant, or how will both deal with it becomes Orthodox? Or, Muslim?
This is why separation matters.
As already stated, The First Amendment literally states, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Put it this way, if God is angry at the USA, then so be it. God is God. It can make do. The US was built by those with faith and those who didn’t want faith. Since religion was basically forced through social compliance, how do we even know that the faith the Founders and settler had was genuine and not simply a way of living at the time as hand?
God is all powerful so why does it even need us, when it would make what it wants to happen, happen?
This is why I respect the Amish. They just mind their own business. I respect that. Let Jesus or God do their work but live the way you want but don’t go trying to regulate other people’s ability to be themselves.
Republicans on their constant quest for Culture War, as a means of brainwashing the public to hate progress as the rich get richer, our environment goes down the dumps, and capitalism is running out of things to exploit as we all live part time in toxic digital spaces, etc., are now saying that the military does not need diversity, or more specifically “diversity quotas” or “affirmative action”, and that the military should only be about meritocracy.
These Congressional discussions are in the wake of the Supreme Court banning affirmative action at certain private colleges, which has led many to think this will create precedent throughout the entire college admissions process across the county.
Still hot on their victory, Republicans seem to be operating under the mindset of “we have an inch, so we are going to take a mile” mentality. This means that they are taking any concept of diversity to bat, even if diversity is a force multiplier when it comes to national defense. By force multiplier, I mean something that gives the US military a strategic advantage and create synergies, e.g., (for example), the ability to have people from various backgrounds, the ability to have people who speak various languages which are vital for translating, the fact that foreign nations might relate more to people that look like them as opposed to seeing a bunch of white males who may be seen as colonizers or invaders, etc.
Also, Republicans like many conservatives assume that diversity is forced, i.e., that traditional minority groups are only in college, business, or the military because of crutches at the expense of white people, when many people of minority groups are in positions of power because of meritocracy, i.e., their hard work, personality, timing, how they “played the game”, etc., and not because of their identity.
Republicans have this agenda of stewing white rage, despite white people still being the majority, and many immigrant groups that are non-Anglo-Saxon, i.e., Germanic and/or Celtic groups (i.e., Northern and Central Europeans), such as Latinos still identifying as white in many cases, since Hispanic/Latino are ethnicities and not races (though we in the USA often see Latino as a different race since it’s based on a “different programming”, i.e., it is more Catholic and Spanish, rather than Germanic based and Protestant, but also Many Hispanic Latinos in the US are Mestizo, notably of Chicano heritage meaning they have partial indigenous American roots).
The interesting thing is that the military is not as meritocratic as civilians might think or how conservative veterans may explain things on “the inside” as they flaunt their military service to silence those who didn’t serve.
For example, officers don’t test for their rank as compared to enlisted personnel who must test for their rank. So how is this meritocratic?
First off, because of the Mike Rowe Dirty Work sentiment more prevalent in conservative politics that stresses that college is overrated as compared to blue-collar (working with your hands) skilled work, and adding on the fact that conservatives such as Tucker Carlson have called colleges something akin to “Communist indoctrination centers”, I find it interesting that in order to be an officer one must have a college degree (so I guess they fail the “anti-woke” tests”?).
Secondly, that those who gain a commission as an officer in the United States military don’t have to have test for rank or promotion.
So, while conservatives attempt to gas-light the public into believing that our ever-growing progressive society is “anti-white”, especially anti-white straight Christian male, they fail to mention that officers, yes – our higher paid, college educated, quasi-fraternity like leaders – don’t have to test for rank.
Promotions are almost guaranteed until you get to certain levels, i.e., a junior enlisted officer may have different expectations as opposed to field grade (or, mid-grade) officers, general level officers, etc.
Yes, officers like enlisted must study for their career development (such as they will go to Technical Training or TDY, i.e., Tour of Duty, for advanced learning), yet when it comes to enlisted forces, they must pass courses to get pass junior enlisted to the non-commissioned officer ranks (sergeants and above depending on branch).
For example, when I was in the military, I did trainings or course work as far as my job (sometimes among officers) as means of getting certified from an apprentice to a journeyman, but when it came to promotion from E4 (Senior Airman) to E5 (Staff Sergeant) I had to test and pass (a two part exam on my job skills and another on general military history/etiquette, etc.), whereas officers simply gained rank on time, board reviews, and behavior without testing. Does that make sense?
Simply put, to do your job you need to have training, but to promote, testing on your job is required for enlisted but not for officers, even though if an officer does poorly in job course work this may be counted against them on their Officer Performance Report (OPR) but it may not hinder them from achieving rank, yet it depends on what higher ups determine. “Testing” only really becomes important once officers start needing War College level training where they learn how to command in foreign theaters, command multiple forces where some may be foreign militaries, etc., but these may not happen until you hit Major or Lt. Colonel (or, equivalent type ranks).
So, is it really meritocracy in the officer ranks? You can make it to Captain or Major and not be that bright of a person or not be battle tested, yet you made those ranks on time rather than necessary proven tested aptitude.
Separately, in the Air Force at least, a person’s Physical Testing scores aren’t factored in to rank promotions, and adding insult to injury, passing requirements for rank promotions vary form year to year, meaning some years you may need an 85% to pass, whereas others you may need a 95% to pass.
So, there’s no clear way of comparing troops, especially between officers and enlisted, let alone between enlisted and enlisted. For example, I had leaders who tested lower than what I scored on my promotion exams, and were way more out of shape (barely pass their PT tests), etc. In theory, there’s people who partied through college, did ROTC, and now are making 2.5x or more than enlisted personnel.
Ironically, and adding more insult to injury, officer promotions such as in the US Air Force as based more on achieving goals, community service, leadership activities, etc. It’s more like a corporate annual review you might see with your boss in corporate America, after you have a few quarterly or a mid-year check in.
Officers are evaluated more on a “good ole boy” and “peer review” system, meaning that at higher levels that there might be favoritism when getting selected since you essentially interview before a board. Boards occur in enlisted ranks but often only senior enlisted ranks, yet, still enlisted personnel must test for rank.
Without saying it, you may be discriminated against such as whether you were an “Academy cadet” as opposed to an ROTC, Enlisted-to-Officer, or general commissioned officer (i.e., a person off the street with a degree who gets a commission after doing Officer Candidate School or Office Training Schools depending on branch).
So why is it like this?
The simplest answer in my opinion is that enlisted do the actual work, whereas officers are in leadership roles, so it’s not so much about knowing your job but rather ensuring your workers are doing their job. The concept of officer’s dates to medieval times when feudalism existed.
If you want a true meritocracy you would abolish the two-tier enlisted and officer system and have promotions be based on education, testing, PT scores, interviews, communication skills, etc.
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