The Elite Who Governs Us

Who Rules America: Power Elite Analysis, the Deep State, and American History

The Warren Commission: A Rothbardian Analysis

A pioneer historical examination of the composition of the Warren Commission by James Dunlap, (an old colleague of mine) using the power elite analysis framework created by the late world acclaimed economist/historian Murray N. Rothbard.

Yankees vs. Cowboys: Rothbardian Elite Theory on Watergate

The Yankee and Cowboy War, by Carl Oglesby

The late Murray N. Rothbard, was particularly enamored with this pioneering book, remarking:

Carl Oglesby’s new book is not only exciting and thoroughly researched, it presents the only analytic framework — originated by himself — which makes sense of the violent events of the last decade and a half our recent political history, and puts them all into a coherent framework: the Yankee vs. Cowboy analysis.

The important question looms: why is it that Oglesby has been alone in coming up with this framework? I think the answer is that the methodologies of other writers and researchers have led them astray: the free-market economists who are critical of government actions never bother to ask who benefitted from those actions and who were likely to be responsible for them; the Marxists are anxious to indict an abstract, mythical and unified ‘capitalist class’ for all evils of government, and believe that detailed research into concrete divisions and conflicts among power elites detract from such an indictment; those sociologists who have engaged in concrete power elite analysis have only examined structures (who owns corporation X, who belongs to what social club?) rather than the dynamics of concrete historical events; the one writer who has treated Yankees and Cowboys has been so blinded by particular hostility to the Cowboys that he virtually includes everyone living in the Sunbelt as part of a vast Cowboy conspiracy; and the various doughty investigators and reporters of Dallas or Watergate have struck to surface events because they lacked the overall coherent framework.

Carl Oglesby has surmounted all of these defects, and has therefore been able to make a giant breakthrough in explaining our recent history.

All attempts at central planning (like the Federal Reserve) lead to economic ruin. The planners ultimately drive themselves into a corner, where every single move they make equals economic pain. Nothing that they do takes the pain away, but only increases it further. It has been 100+ years since the immoral and unconstitutional Fed was shackled onto the American citizen. They’ve destroyed the money, the economy, funded the endless wars, and crushed the American Dream. They will reach the point where keeping this up will no longer be possible.

The major disturbing, inconvenient element never discussed in the lead up to the beginning of the Second World War (World War II).

As a follow-up to the above previous posted debate here at LRC on World War II Revisionism, you must understand that prior to Hitler’s National Socialist Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin had signed the Hitler-Stalin Pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) on August 23, 1939).

This dramatic news shook and astounded the world.

The twin totalitarian tyrannies, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Communists had become Allies. In Moscow they had an elaborate banquet with the highest echelon Soviet and German celebrants toasting Hitler and Nazi Germany.

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed on August 23, 1939, by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

This non-aggression treaty was a pact between German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, with a secret protocol that divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence for both nations. The pact enabled Germany to invade Poland without Soviet interference, which it did just nine days later, on September 1, 1939.

Public terms: The public agreement was a non-aggression pact, ensuring that Germany and the Soviet Union would not go to war with each other for a period of 10 years.

Secret protocol: A secret addendum to the pact divided Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence, including the partition of Poland.

Immediate consequences: The pact gave Germany a green light to invade Poland, which it did on September 1, 1939, leading to the start of World War II. The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east on September 17, 1939, as a direct result of the secret protocol.

At the beginning of World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union had become allies and jointly invaded Poland in September of 1939. Germany from the west, the Soviets from the east. They met and had joint military celebrations, with German and Soviet Generals jubilantly toasting each other.

This is all documented in the attached films below: The Soviet Story, and World War II: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West, episode I.

The Soviet Story

World War II: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West, Episode I

The Amazing Ideological Similarity Between German National Socialism and Soviet Marxist/Leninist Communism

Not only is Robert Barnes a master litigator and top-notch attorney but one of the most in depth, articulate, well read and street-smart experienced political analysts in the nation. Whether it involves the institutionalized criminal machine cartels of the Democrats and Republicans or the deep state, he is a true polymath reminiscent of Murray N. Rothbard in his power elite analysis of Realpolitik.

Closing Argument: The Hades of Hubris

• The Greeks warned of it. History repeats with lessons of its own. Scholars and literary authors list it like the heel of Achilles and the wings of Icarus – how the great and mighty fall. The Bible identifies it as the great calamitous sin – from Lucifer’s fall to the Tower of Babel’s collapse, from Goliath’s loss to Nebuchadnezzar’s judgment. Hubris, the “haughty spirit” that beckons a deep fall, now infects the leaders of the west, even the President himself, and now its consequences threaten us all.
• The clinical definition of hubris typically develops in individuals who hold significant power. Its characteristics encompass:  a magnified, embellished view of one’s own capabilities; obsession with personal image; contempt for criticism; loss of contact with reality; a reckless, uncalculated disregard of risk; a denial of dissent. An infection of the soul, an illness of the mind, rather than a permanent trait of a stable personality.
• The tell-tale signs of Hubris include – recent overwhelming success or power; dis-sociality disregarding others from one’s own traditional community; disinhibition into impulsiveness without calculated regard for risk; condescension, and even contempt, for others and any form of criticism; a belief in oneself above others beyond reason or wisdom.
• The decaying, declining empires frequently feature hubris, as Professor Paul Kennedy first penned in his Rise and Fall of Great Powers. The empire’s hubris — overconfidence in their “specialness” tends to overextend themselves in risky expressions – manifest in multiple manners, such as imperial overreach; mismatch between resources & risks; overestimation of their own capabilities; military operations globally as a nation’s global military deployment exceeds its resource capacity; persistent debt and deficits, in public and private sectors, including in balance-of-trade and budgets, as dependency on foreign adversaries rise; diverting resources to overseas adventurism diminishes the public infrastructure, human and physical; a declining industrial sector, replaced with financialization and services, often shifting its dependence on real goods and labor, it’s true capital, to foreign nations; deepening internal divisiveness, as competing interests vie for diminishing resources; bureaucratic infighting as the parasitic state replaces the functioning private economy for material wealth and moral purpose; a moral decay in the institutions of society, religious, social and communal, as the material foundation for that moral prosperity fades and fractures.
• What happens when you survive two impeachments, four indictments, and near assassination? Could the seductress of Hubris distract your soul and deceive your mind? Does this not well capture much of the modern west, and even Trump’s six-month flirtation with Hubris as his north star?
• The cure remains the same as the Scripture teaches and the Greek myths proclaim – a needed nemesis to teach us humility as the answer to hubris. Avoid the fall; abandon the arrogance, and listen again, to the people who truly were his wall against wrongdoers.

In this explosive episode of America’s Untold Stories, Mark Groubert and Eric Hunley are joined once again by the nation’s foremost civilian expert on the Secret Service, Vince Palamara, to discuss his latest works:

“The Plot to Kill President Kennedy in Chicago” — a visual investigation into the chilling assassination attempt weeks before Dallas.

“President Kennedy Should Have Survived Dallas” — a searing indictment of the Secret Service’s role in JFK’s death. Palamara has spent decades researching the Secret Service’s role in the assassination and his findings are disturbing: early warnings ignored, protective procedures abandoned, and damning patterns in JFK’s final days.

Discover the eerie similarities between Chicago and Dallas

Learn what agents really knew and when they knew it

Explore the visual and documentary proof of systemic failure

Understand why President Kennedy’s death was NOT inevitable

Palamara has appeared in The Men Who Killed Kennedy and is the author of multiple acclaimed works on the topic. This episode pulls no punches.

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Here is an extremely comprehensive reference collection regarding the Great War — its origins, strategy and tactics, major battles and personages, books, documents, feature films, documentaries etc.

Other names for World War I include “the Great War,” “the War to End All Wars,” and “the First World War”. Before World War II, it was commonly called the Great War, but the “First World War” moniker emerged after the second global conflict began.

The Great War: This was the most common name before the Second World War. It was even self-named “The Great War” by contemporary publications.

The War to End All Wars: This name reflects the hope that the conflict’s unprecedented bloody and deadly scale would mean no future wars would be necessary.

Approximately 15 to 22 million people died in World War I, with estimates suggesting 8.5 to 10 million military deaths and a similar number of civilian deaths. The total number of casualties, including the wounded, is estimated to be around 40 million.

Military deaths: Around 9.7 million soldiers died from combat wounds or disease. The German Empire and Russia suffered the highest number of military casualties.

Civilian deaths: Estimates for civilian deaths range from around 5 million to over 6.8 million, caused by factors like starvation and genocide.

World War: This was a common term used during and after the conflict, notably by Winston Churchill.

The War to Make the World Safe for Democracy: This name comes from a famous speech by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson encouraging American entry into the war.

The War of the Nations: This name reflects the wide range of countries involved in the conflict.

The European War: This name was used in some British newspapers during the conflict.

Episode 1: A House Divided (it is available – just click and wait)

Examines what impact the relationships between cousins Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and George V of the United Kingdom had on the outbreak of the First World War. This episode focuses on the story of the emerging divisions and rivalries between the inter-related royal houses of Europe during the 19th century.

Episode 2: Into the Abyss (it is available – just click and wait)

The realignment of the European powers and the emergence of the alliance system in the years following the death of Queen Victoria, played a significant role for the three monarchs in the frantic, desperate days of July and August 1914.

Cousins at War  — Article

In May 1910, the monarchies of Europe came together in London, in an opulent show of strength, for the funeral of Edward VII. War and revolution in the ensuing decade heaped assassination, defeat and exile upon them. Author Theo Aronson portrays the European Royal Families at War.

World War I: A Revisionist Reading List — By David Gordon

The WWI Conspiracy – Part One: To Start A War — Documentary

The WWI Conspiracy – Part Two: The American Front — Documentary

The WWI Conspiracy – Part Three: A New World Order — Documentary

History Is Written By The Winners — Documentary

People’s Century: 1914 Killing Fields — Documentary

They Shall Not Grow Old — Documentary

I Didn’t Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier — Popular Song Before American Intervention In World War I

World War I: The American Legacy — Documentary

Trench Warfare — Documentary

World War I: Tactics And Strategy — Documentary

The Christmas Truce of 1914 — Documentaries

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – episode 1: Explosion — Documentary

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – episode 2: Stalemate — Documentary

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – Episode 3: Total War — Documentary

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – episode 4: Slaughter — Documentary

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – episode 5: Mutiny — Documentary

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – episode 6: Collapse — Documentary

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – Episode 7: Hunger and Hatred — Documentary

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – Episode 8: War Without End – Documentary

Who Was Edward M. House?  — Article by Robert Higgs

Phillip Dru, Administrator — Anonymous (Edward Mandel House)

The Intimate Papers of Colonel House — Book by Charles Seymour (editor)

Triumphant Plutocracy; the Story of American Public Life from 1870 to 1920, Book by Richard Franklin Pettigrew

Your Country At War and What happens To You After A War, Book by Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.

The United States and World War I — Article by John J. Dwyer

Woodrow Wilson and World War I,  — Murray N. Rothbard (audio lecture)

World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals — Murray N. Rothbard article

War Collectivism in World War I  — Book by Murray N. Rothbard

More than any other single period, World War I was the critical watershed for the American business system. It was a “war collectivism,” a totally planned economy run largely by big-business interests through the instrumentality of the central government, which served as the model, the precedent, and the inspiration for state corporate capitalism for the remainder of the twentieth century.

Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry — Book by H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. Hanighen

Here is the archetype of all post–World War I revisionism of a particular variety: the hunt for the people who made the big bucks off the killing machine. The Merchants of Death was, in many ways, the manifesto of a generation of people who swore there would not be and could not be another such war.

But here is the kicker: it was co-authored by the founder of Human Events, the conservative weekly. So this is no left-wing screed against profiteering. It is a careful and subtle, but still passionate, attack on those who would use government to profit themselves at the expense of other people’s lives and property.

Here is a sample of the ideological orientation: “The arms industry did not create the war system. On the contrary, the war system created the arms industry.… All constitutions in the world vest the war-making power in the government or in the representatives of the people. The root of the trouble, therefore, goes far deeper than the arms industry. It lies in the prevailing temper of peoples toward nationalism, militarism, and war, in the civilization which forms this temper and prevents any drastic and radical change. Only when this underlying basis of the war system is altered, will war and its concomitant, the arms industry, pass out of existence.”

This book is a wonderful example of what Rothbard called the “Old Right” in its best form. The book not only makes the case against the war machine; it provides a scintillating history of war profiteering, one authoritative enough for citation and academic study. One can see how this book had such a powerful effect.

Why re-release this book now? The war profiteers are making money as never before. They are benefiting from conflict as never before. Everything in this book has not only come to pass but as been made worse by a million times. So this treatise is more necessary than ever.

This is the real heritage of the American Right.

Merchants of Death Revisited: Armaments, Bankers, and the First World War — T. Hunt Tooley article

The year 2004 marked the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Engelbrecht and Hanighen’s Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry, a book that made it into the general consciousness of most thinking Americans by the mid-twentieth century. The stark language of the title no doubt contributed to its fame. Moreover, the theme of arms merchants pushing for war is both easily understood and easily discussed, even by those who have not read it.

The World at War (Ralph Raico) — Video Lecture

The late Ralph Raico was a specialist in European classical liberalism and Austrian Economics. He learned economics under Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Friedrich Hayek, and was professor emeritus of history at Buffalo State College.

In this lecture, Raico teaches a Cato Summer Seminar group the history of World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. He offers an in-depth look at the conditions which led to both wars and the ways in which governments throughout the 20th century have used war powers to justify and fuel their expansion.

Aftermath of The Great War

Paris 1919, Part 1 — Feature Film

Paris 1919, Part 2 — Feature Film

Oklahoma became a state in 1907 during the Progressive Era. In the 1912 presidential election Oklahoma had the largest Socialist Party vote of any state.

In the first two decades of the twentieth century the Socialist Party of Oklahoma consistently ranked as one of the top three state socialist organizations in America. At the party’s height in the elections of 1914, the Socialist Party candidate for governor, Fred W. Holt, received more than 20 percent of the vote statewide. In Marshall and Roger Mills counties, where the Socialist Party was strongest, Holt captured 41 and 35 percent of the vote, respectively. More than 175 socialists were elected to local and county offices that year, including six to the state legislature.

As these statistics make clear, to a greater extent than anywhere else in the nation, the Socialist Party in Oklahoma played an active, potent role in state and local politics.

Later Oklahoma had the anti-war, anti-draft Green Corn Rebellion. during World War I.

WORLD WAR I in Oklahoma

The Green Corn Rebellion in Oklahoma During WWI, by
Nigel Anthony Sellars

Roads to the Great War: The Green Corn Anti-Draft Rebellion

Nigel Anthony Sellars, Treasonous Tenant Farmers and Seditious Sharecroppers: The 1917 Green Corn Rebellion Trials.

James H. Fowler, II, “Tar and Feather Patriotism: The Suppression of Dissent in Oklahoma During World War I,” The Chronicles of Oklahoma 56 (Winter 1978–79) pages 409 – 430.

Linda D. Wilson, “Oklahoma Council of Defense,” The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, www.okhistory.org (accessed March 16, 2018).

Jim Bissett, “World War I,” The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, www.okhistory.org (accessed March 16, 2018).

Jim Bissett, Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904–1920.

Garin Burbank, When Farmers Voted Red: The Gospel of Socialism in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1910-1924.

William Cunningham (Author), Nigel Anthony Sellars (Introduction), The Green Corn Rebellion.

Davis D. Joyce, An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before: Alternative Views of Oklahoma History. (See especially, Marvin E. Kroeker, “”In Death You Shall Not Wear It Either”: The Persecution of Mennonite Pacifists in Oklahoma)

Jeanette Keith, Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War

The Socialist Party in Early Oklahoma

INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD.

World War One Resources

For well over a millennium, the common people of all lands have struggled for basic rights of freedom, economic security and wellbeing for their families and hope for a brighter future for their children.

There is no war but the class war.

Today the primal existential enemy is the class of effete, out-of-touch, credentialled members of the elite professional managerial class, of the court intellectuals, opinion leaders and editorial directors of the mainstream regime media, bureaucratic functionaries and staff of the administrative state, the federal judiciary, members of Congress, and those arrogant and belligerent persons who comprise the top echelon of the military industrial complex and the intelligence apparat of the deep state.

There’s a stark disconnect between the Trump Administration’s description of the economy and the economy that we all live in. There are some things that can’t be faked. We pay our bills. We see our bank accounts, and credit card accounts. We don’t need the president, or the media, to tell us that “inflation is dead.” Inflation is not dead! Yesterday, it was reported that monthly layoffs from October were the highest total in 22 years! President Trump was elected to deliver a smaller government with less spending and debt, and an end to the wars. He has done the opposite on all fronts, and the battered economy is reflecting his decisions.

Dick Cheney is dead. But what does it mean? The lying corporate dinosaur media will tell you that America has just lost a dear, selfless, civic-minded patriot. But as we shall see, Dick Cheney has left behind him a very dark legacy of cover ups, coups, false flags, torture and death.

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DEEP State and Continuity of Government (COG)

Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld

Conspiracy Theory

At a White House press conference that is still going on, in response to a question about whether the TSA should be privatized (to avoid the funding problems we’re seeing now in the shutdown), Trump just said that air-traffic control and airport security should continue to be run by the government because it would “do it better.”

LOL. What a jackass. The TSA has a documented 95% failure rate, i.e., put a Glock pistol in a bag and 95 times out of 100 it gets past TSA. Not only could the airlines do far better (heck, pre-school kids would do far better), but how does Mr. Fairness justify the non-flying public paying for an agency that the flying public should easily be able to fund?  Coming from the guy who thinks tariffs are the engine of prosperity, it’s not a surprise.  He’s a stupid, New York crony-capitalist real estate developer left $400 million from his father.  Anybody with a pulse could have turned that into billions over the past 2.5 decades just by putting it in an index fund.

Since the beginning of the Progressive Era (1900-1920) the dominate ideology or world view of the professional managerial class of court intellectuals, opinion leaders and editorial directors of the elite mainstream regime media, bureaucratic functionaries and staff of the administrative state, the federal judiciary, members of Congress, and those persons who comprise the top echelon of the military industrial complex and the deep state, has been a synthesis of what has been described as corporate liberalism or proponents of the welfare-warfare state.

The outstanding economist/historian Murray N. Rothbard used the term “corporate liberalism” in his works, particularly in his historical analyses of the Progressive Era and the New Deal, to describe a political-economic system involving a collusive partnership between Big Business and Big Government. 

A key source for this concept in Rothbard’s work is his posthumously published book The Progressive Era (2017), and the idea is also discussed in The Betrayal of the American Right and his essay “Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty”. 

Key Points of Rothbard’s View on Corporate Liberalism:

Definition: Rothbard defined “corporate liberalism” as an ideology and movement, championed by certain big business leaders, to establish a strong, centralized state that would regulate the economy in a manner that served their interests, in contrast to a genuine free market.

Historical Context: He argued that during the Progressive Era and the New Deal, corporate elites, in the name of “reform” and “anti-corruption,” sought to cartelize industries and gain state power and perquisites.

Mechanism: This was achieved through government regulations, appointed committees, and centralization of power, which restricted competition and increased the power of insulated bureaucrats and special interests allied with big business.

Ideological Deception: Rothbard contended that this system was deceptively presented under the ideology of “free enterprise,” while in reality, it was a form of state capitalism.

The “Establishment” Consensus: He viewed the post-WWII consensus, including Cold War interventionism, as the triumph of “corporate liberalism”. 

The Progressive Era saw the birth of the cult of efficiency, with the new administrative state’s apolitical credentialed experts gingerly guiding public-policy instead of the archaic rule of political bosses and their ethnic urban political machines. Or, at least that was what was supposed to happen according to Progressives such as Herbert Croly, Walter Lippmann, Robert LaFollette, Jane Addams, Richard Ely, Lincoln Steffens, Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson.

The insightful attorney and political analyst Robert Barnes in a recent “daily brief” at VivaBarnesLaw.Locals.com brilliantly encapsulated this reality of elite rule in America.

“Charles Murray’s Coming Apart was like a sequel to the brilliant book The Big Sort. Lived experience now varies as widely and wildly as ever: working class Americans see, feel, and remember a very different narrative of life than the professional-managerial upper middle class who govern us. Who is this class? Those with certifications or licensures, college or more degrees, in a job that manages others. They dominate those with a post-college degree especially. They claim the right to govern others due to those degrees and certifications and licenses, as the credentialed class claims credibility from those credentials.

“Consider what is typical or atypical of this professional managerial class. Most spent their lives amongst other upper middle-class professionals. Quite literally. Their neighborhoods were professional class dominated neighborhoods. No risk of a Mr. Rogers’ or Mr. Robinson’s neighbor. Their schools were professional class dominated institutions. Their churches or organizations are professional class dominated. Their cultural outings are usually professional class dominated. Their parents and siblings and cousins were professional class dominant. They often never lived in a small town. They often never employed in a working-class occupation involving physical labor. They often never served in the grunt units of the military. They know few firemen, cops, or frontline workers. They never experienced poverty or dramatic loss of status. They don’t own guns, smoke or dip tobacco, or even ever walked on a factory floor or construction site. Evangelicals are freaks to them. Swamp people means neither DC nor the excellent reality series; it’s those folks who live in the scary backwoods.

“They see their status as deserved, as they define deserts by professional class standards: approval from teachers in school, and approval from authority figures in life, measured by grades, degrees, credentials, licenses, and public acclaim from approved authority figures. Their over-achieving, teacher-pet mindset surrounded themselves often with like-minded individuals, often not even knowing the kids for whom school was not a match.

“Now, add to that surrounding themselves with other professional class sources of information: medical “experts” approved by the state, judges in courts of law, professional politicians in representative government, professionalized credentialed journalists in big institutional media, and teachers of themselves and their children. Of the professional class, by the professional class, for the professional class. Then add to that censorship of dissident opinions, deplatforming dissidents, taking away their licenses, removing their credentials, defaming their reputation, and picking friends by political alliance and allegiance.

“Middle America ain’t like these folks. For many in the professional class, all of the following is absent: Pickup trucks, cheap beer, old school action films, proud patriotism, all kinds of fishing and hunting, chain restaurants, the local Kiwanis or Awanas more than art galleries and lefty parades, riding the dog, dream vacations to Dollyworld or Branson still await, folks smoke (and not just weed), work that might require a uniform, friends and family in protective services at the grunt level of police, fire, medical, or military.

“In other words, we are governed by an insular elite acculturated and educated to intellectually incestuous intersectionalism at the moral and practical effect of disastrous public policy. Any platform of change must do all it can to reallocate political capital from the professional managerial class to the people as broadly as achievable. Populism provides part of that answer to any problem: reallocate power to the people whenever and wherever you can.

51.7 to 47.9. Wow. So you can now say that you wish to see your opponent and his children brutally killed, and still win an election on the Dem side for the state office of attorney general. Scary. But just keep on funding those Marxist-Leninist government schools, conservatives. It’s doing the cause of civilized society real well.

As of 8:30 PM ET:

Donald Trump will host Al Qaeda linked terrorist Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House next week.  After decades of effort, the US national security state finally facilitated the fall of the Arab nationalist Syrian government last year, which was replaced by a Salafist regime headed by al-Sharaa.

In 2012, the US intelligence community welcomed the rise of ISIS in eastern Syria because they could use ISIS to undermine the Syrian government.  The US used the presence of ISIS as a pretext to illegally occupy Syria and plunder its oil.  The CIA also armed Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorists so they could fight against the Syrian government.

Since taking power, the new Salafist regime has carried out pogroms against religious minorities such as Alawites and Christians and has positioned itself in opposition to Iran and Hezbollah, which are enemies of the US and its key allies such as Saudi Arabia and Israel.

If Al Qaeda attacked the United States on 9/11 because they hated freedom, then why does the US national security state support Salafist terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda and ISIS, while overthrowing secular Arab nationalist regimes in Iraq, Syria, and Libya that are diametrically opposed to Salafism?

As of 5 PM Eastern Time.  If these are accurate, Pox News viewers are really going to be disappointed about Ciattarelli, as the network has him pegged as a likely winner.  Jay Jones winning would be bizarre.  Wishing out loud that an opponent would get shot and his two children killed and still winning would be a first, but not a huge surprise in the land of government employees, Virginia.

The national debt increased by $1 trillion during a 72-day period this year. Republicans have only themselves to blame. They control the House, Senate, and the presidency. They spend money just as fast as Democrats. The government has no money for food stamps but sent billions to Israel and Ukraine. Cursed be Republicans, as I have said for years.

This is what 77,303,568 people voted for a year ago as opposed to what we

have today.

The Meaning of MAGA

To Robert F. Kennedy Jr., MAGA means aligning his political and health agenda with Donald Trump’s movement, which he has embraced by taking on a key cabinet role in the “Make America Great Again” MAGA / “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) coalition. His approach frames MAGA as a vehicle for his health-focused policies, which include combating chronic disease through dietary changes and opposing what he views as harmful corporate influence in the food and pharmaceutical industries.

Make America Healthy Again (MAHA): Kennedy has adopted the slogan “Make America Healthy Again” as a health-focused reinterpretation of Trump’s MAGA slogan.

Health-centered agenda: He is the chair of the “Make America Healthy Again” commission, which aims to tackle chronic diseases and reform the food and drug industries.

Alliance with Trump: Kennedy has embraced the MAGA movement and is a powerful figure in the Trump administration, overseeing controversial actions related to public health and policy.

Policy focus: His policies include using the power of his commission to investigate the links between processed foods, pesticides, and chronic disease, and pushing for legislative changes to ensure food companies negotiate with him.

It is the insanity of US foreign policy in a nutshell that self-styled Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa is to be welcomed to the White House. Just before his (US-aided) rise to power in Syria last year he was head of the local al-Qaeda branch in Syria. Before that he worked with al-Qaeda in Iraq and is responsible for the death of numerous US service members.

Apart from his starring role in organizing mass murder in the Middle East and elsewhere as defense secretary and vice president, the one thing Cheney will most be remembered for is of course shooting his hunting partner in the face with a 12 gauge shotgun during a pheasant hunt.

He did make a contribution to business culture, however. During the Bush campaign he was appointed chairman of the vice presidential search committee. After a long and arduous search, reportedly leaving no stone unturned, Dick decided that he himself was the best candidate. They’re probably already teaching this tactic in Executive MBA programs.

Tributes are pouring in. But why? He was pure neocon evil.

Defend America First! No New Foreign Wars!

“Do Not Go Abroad In Search of Monsters To Destroy” – John Quincy Adams (Robert Barnes’ Distant Ancestor)

The phrase “do not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy” is a quote from an 1821 speech by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams arguing against intervention in foreign conflicts.

He stated that while the U.S. would be a “well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all,” it should only be the “champion and vindicator of only her own”. This line is often cited by those advocating for a more restrained foreign policy.

Adams believed the U.S. should focus on its own security and interests and be a model of liberty, rather than acting as an international police force. He was specifically addressing the U.S. role in the Latin American wars for independence at the time.