The death of ISIS front man Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi has got the flag-waving, “America F– Yeah!” crowd in a tizzy. They’re over the moon that this person they know nothing about, and who has never set foot within a thousand miles of the United States, “died like a dog”, “whimpering”, etc. They rejoiced at their President strutting, sky-hooting, and affecting airs of a phony machismo while he celebrated the death in front of the nation, as if he had anything to do with Baghdadi’s death. “We’re winning the War on Terror!” many editorials exclaimed, with an unspoken “finally” somewhere in there. But, are we? Let’s think about it. This now-deceased person headed a terrorist organization, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, popped up seemingly out of nowhere in 2014. Convenient timing for the U.S., as there were few terrorist groups big enough or threatening enough to justify America’s continued predatory presence in the Mideast. ISIS arrived, and the Warfare State breathed a sigh of relief.

The point is that ISIS didn’t exist in 2001, when Bush launched his misbegotten War on Terror. ISIS arose out of the chaos and carnage that our government created. It is a testament to the immortal arrogance of our race that it believes it can remake an entire social order in its image with no harmful effects. Well, we now have several textbook examples of what happens when the most powerful military the world has ever known attempts it. Iraqi civilization, ancient, complex, and beautiful, disintegrated in a matter of just a few years. The social order tore itself apart, and a once-beautiful, thriving desert society effectively died. Ancient, priceless architecture was reduced to dust by American forces, who, with Philistine abandon, decimated lives, culture, and history. How many innocents died? Hundreds of thousands. Do there lives count for anything?

What about Libya, where a similarly beautiful culture and civilization was utterly ruined? It’s now a failed state, whatever civilization resides there now exists in a prehistoric, ‘red in tooth and claw’ form. Thousands died at the hands of US bombs, too. Why don’t their lives matter?

Syria has been no different, another regime-change war launched on false pretense, with the explicit purpose of ousting Assad. Syria, home to Damascus, the history of civilization itself, a civilization far more beautiful and charming than the vulgar mass consumerism that Americans open their doors to every morning. Millions displaced, hundreds of thousands of innocents dead. An irreplaceable culture utterly ruined, never to return.

The flying, armed robots of the drone war has done so much damage, killed many thousands of innocents throughout the Mideast. What about those lives?

And here we are, vulgar Americans, personified in the most vulgar of Presidents, holding a national hootenanny for a single death that occurred on the other side of the globe.

I’m reminded of a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche:

“The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it – what it costs us.”

What in gods name have we allowed our government to do? Our military has run amok, shooting and bombing indiscriminately, cutting a wide swath of gore across arguably the most beautiful, complex, civilized culture on earth. A culture we base, vulgar Americans could’ve possibly learned something from.  What is our culture other than a debased, materialistic nihilism? We feed on everything like pigs, be it food, television, the latest Apple gadget, “pop culture”, dumping it all in a trough and shoving our snout in, gorging until overfull. Could American society be more aptly described than that of a never-ending trough? There is nothing elevated, or civilized about this. And few aspects of real culture or civilization have remained untouched by this base materialism. And yet many believe it to be the duty of our government to spread the panacea to people who see it for what it is and want nothing of it.

There is nothing honorable in celebrating Baghdadi’s death, someone who never set foot in America, much less attempted to invade and occupy it.  The mindless, primitive celebration of his death, the utter unconcern with the deaths of hundreds of thousands of the innocent of the Mideast, combined with the complete lack of concern about what our own government has done to those abroad is a sign of terminal infection.

We’ve allowed our government to rack up a cosmic tab and then skip out on the bill. We citizens will be the ones to pay it off, to re-balance the scales, and we will finally face the cost of all the wanton death and destruction that we turned a blind eye to, because it didn’t affect us directly anyway.

Re-blogging a Facebook post from the group ‘Hear This Well‘ in its entirety for preservation in the event of some kind of social media Night of the Long Knives-style censorship blitz:

“Is anyone else as sick of this s**t as we are? How many more casualties before the country decides enough is enough? How many more children have to be injured?

☀️ 💙 From Soleil’s dad, Van Blue: “After receiving high doses of Immunoglobulin treatments Soleil is finally starting to show signs of improvement! She is walking a little better and her energetic personality has returned! All CSF test have come back negative which means her GBS was not caused by a viral infection! Which is confirmation that it was caused by the Flu Vaccine which she received on October 2nd. She will need Physical Therapy and still has a long road to recovery, but God is amazing and all of your prayers have been answered! 🙏🏽💙

In the Fall of 2014, Jasmine Lopez developed severe symptoms six days after the vaccinations that she felt pressured into receiving by the hospital she worked at. She was eventually diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a condition with symptoms virtually indistinguishable from some of the most severe of polio.

H/T Hear This Well

In Maui, Hawaii. 

In the spirit of using this space also as an arena to think out loud, I’d like to get one thought in print regarding the traditional distrust of large corporations by the Democratic party, the party that happens to be spearheading the various vaccine mandate bills in state legislatures across the country. The rhetoric of that party has always been that of a deep-seated distrust of enormous, impersonal companies that appear to be far too cozy with the government. That distrust extends to Pharma, that globe-spanning, colossal conglomeration of corporations that mass produce deadly, insanity-inducing drugs, various Frankenstein GMO products, et cetera. Yet the distrust stops at the feet of their vaccine division And not only stops, it inverts into enthusiastic support, to the point that the Democratic party would actively push to mandate this particular pharmaceutical product. The only one that happens to be completely shielded from lawsuits, in the event that someone is injured or dies.

The cognitive dissonance must be jarring, to say the least.

Instead, the party that has always been branded as the tool of industry, the Republican party, has stepped up to oppose legislative mandates. They’ve also been the sole party to acknowledge the existence of vaccine injury, and to give recognition to the growing community of vaccine-injured U.S. citizens. The Democratic party has done neither. It’s members act as a single entity on the topic of vaccines, bizarrely. And if there ever existed a party that allowed itself to be used as a tool of industry, on the vaccine question the Democratic party is surely it.

Trump once tossed around the idea of creating a vaccine safety commission, headed by RFK Jr., that would investigate vaccine safety, something that, surprisingly to almost everyone, does not happen. He ran the idea by Gates, who, according to Gates himself, responded with:

“And I said no, that’s a dead end, that would be a bad thing, don’t do that.”

Vaccines don’t get the same scrutiny as other pharmaceuticals, and everyone involved in some way with the vaccine industry also discourages applying the same standards to vaccines, just like Gates. They are apparently afraid of what would result from a vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated study. This is no way to do science, or public policy. It’s reckless, and if a policy requires for its success the suppression of real independent investigation, and censorship, then it obviously needs to change. Gates appears to care more about protecting the prestige of vaccine policy in the eyes of the public, and he will defend that first, even if it means ignoring alarming rates of injury.

Posey questioned Zuckerberg on Wednesday over Facebook’s policy of treating “anti-vaccine” content in a censorious manner, with Zuckerberg responding that he believed scientific “consensus” that vaccines were safe, and that Facebook search results would conceal any group critical of vaccines. Posey then mentioned the inconvenient fact that over $4 billion has been paid out in compensation to those who have been injured or to killed by vaccines. That fact bounced off Zuckerberg, who reiterated his company’s defense of burying any content critical of vaccines. Of course, it is his company, and he has a right to do what he wants with it. But does a company cease to be “private” once it begins contracting with the government, or doing its bidding? The corporate news here in the US begins wailing and wringing hands when the media in foreign lands is bullied, censored, or co-opted, yet when it happens here, no one in power appears to bat an eye.

No private business should be compelled to testify to Congress for lawful activity. The reason Zuckerberg goes along with it? Because he wants something from them. He wants the favoritism that Congress can dole out, he wants the blind eye, the protectionism, the perks of being in their favor. This ceaseless currying of favor from government is deeply unhealthy, and the spectacle of a private businessman prostrating himself before Congress is a pathetic display.

This way of doing business now, blurring the lines between industry and government, is dangerous because it clears a path for large-scale corruption. The difference should be clearly marked. Private business should only have to answer for crimes, not lawful activity. But in the present state of business and government, crimes can be openly committed by the politically favored, while the lawful-but-unfavored competitors are railroaded as a gift to the former.

Zuck should do what he wants with his platform. But he should also be forbidden from crawling, hat in hand, to Congress when his competition puts him out of business.

I don’t know much about this, as it hasn’t been written about much at all, but from what I have been able to learn about it, it sounds fairly alarming. From the its website, the ID2020 Alliance is:

“a public-private partnership maximizing the potential of digital ID to improve lives.”

As many have pointed out, the term “public-private partnership” is a public relations euphemism to describe the age-old phenomenon of powerful corporations using the government as a tool to fleece the public. It’s been known by many names: corporatism, mercantilism, fascism, and others. The result is the same. “Public-private partnership” is a nice way of saying that government is allowing itself to be bought by industry.

Now, what organizations does this “alliance” consist of? Microsoft, The Rockefeller Foundation, GAVI Vaccine Alliance, Accenture, and IDEO, an “international design and consulting firm”.  These players should of course raise eyebrows, as any alliance between them isn’t going to produce anything of value for the public.

These organizations have a habit of hiding behind a philanthropic facade, and in this instance their ostensible goal is to create some type of “secure digital identity”, but what is the real goal here? What it appears to be, on the surface, is to create a system of perfect, absolute surveillance, which the “alliance” will use to their advantage. Browsing around on the website itself, what can only be described as a cartel of powerful organizations is selling this ID as “privacy-protecting”, and it appears that they will soon beta test it on 35,000 residents of Thailand. From the website:

“Through their digital identities, participants will be able to not only access improved healthcare services but also securely store educational and professional credentials.”

So the most important personal information will be stored on these IDs in a database. How anyone would believe that this would protect privacy is beyond me, but these organizations do have a habit of testing out all their technocratic delusions on the vulnerable citizens of the Third World.

GAVI, another public-private alliance, peddles vaccines to the Third World, so this ID will certainly be linked up with the ID-holder’s vaccination history.

This will obviously not end well, particularly for the unwitting test subjects of the Third World. But if it succeeds there, it will then be attempted here. Before it is, though, we’ll be subjected to a propaganda campaign touting the necessity of such an ID, or our REAL ID cards will just be swapped out without our ever knowing it happened.