By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
For the previously unstated purpose of impugning internet censorship, and the fact online search engines are becoming less of a trustworthy source when attempting to research past articles, a catalog of links was started by this blogger on Mayday 2018; and based upon the belief that transitions are roads to revelations.
Keep in mind the following May denouements occurred in addition to those previously delineated during the first “Seven Days in May”.
The ensuing disclosures occurred between the dates of May 8-31, 2018 and have been organized into categories for the reader’s convenience:
The American Experiment
1.) In early May, a 108 year old American tradition officially ended as the Boy Scouts of America succumbed to political correctness.
2.) A report was released showing that Illegal immigration surged 230% on southwest border with 75% of apprehensions being “catch-and-release”.
3.) The White House claimed apprehensions of illegal immigrants were up 50,000 for the second month in a row.
4.) It was revealed that California’s resistance to the Trump administration included at least 32 lawsuits, including everything from health care and DACA to the border wall.
5.) Trump’s plan to cut funding to Planned Parenthood was announced.
6.) President Trump’s poll numbers improved in spite of 90% negative coverage in the media. In response to the apparent bias, the president threatened to “take away credentials” from TV reporters.
7.) Because of the Tweets of Rapper, Kanye West, a small poll sampling showed support for Trump among black men doubled in one week, before radio stations began to boycott the music of Kanye West.
8.) The 44th House Republican announced plans for retirement prior to the midterms.
9.)Trump and Congress made significant progress on agenda items in spite of an obvious media blackout.
10.) President Trump announced his intention to pardon conservative filmmaker and pundit, Dinesh D’Souza, who was convicted of a campaign finance violation by President Obama’s justice department. Many considered the felony conviction to have been politically motivated and in response to D’Souza’s earlier film that criticized the former president. In his statement to the press, Trump said the filmmaker was, indeed, “treated very unfairly by our government”.
Capitalism & Marxism
11.) Oil hit a 2018 high over $70/barrel in early May and rose to $80/barrel a few weeks later as gas prices hit $5 a gallon in New York City.
12.) Housing confidence hit a new high as home prices skyrocketed.
13.) Americans gave Trump credit for good economy, according to a CBS News Nation Tracker poll.
14.) In an April Rasmussen Poll of 1,000 U.S. voters posted on the Drudge Report on May 2, 2018: Forty-six percent favored government guaranteed jobs for all.
15.) A Los Angeles Antifa group hung Trump in effigy and called for revolution against the capitalist state.
16.) Hungarian-American billionaire, George Soros, dropped $1.5 million in San Diego for a far-left district attorney candidate.
17.) Four socialist-backed candidates won Pennsylvania legislative primaries.
18.) Millennial candidates embraced Socialism, as Venezuela choked on it.
19.) According to a study released by the United Way ALICE Project, almost half of US families can’t afford basics like rent and food.
20.) Mortgage rates have been rising at a pace not seen in almost 50 years.
21.) The retailer Sears announced more store closings as dying shopping malls continued to die; thus “wreaking havoc on suburban America”.
Global Geopolitics
22.) To the dismay of globalists worldwide, President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran Nuclear Accord.
23.) As the Trump administration cracked down on Tehran, Iran plotted with U.S. allies to skirt Trump’s new sanctions causing some to anticipate a forthcoming global showdown.
24.) President Trump welcomed home three 3 Americans freed by North Korea.
25.) After Trump’s June 7th, 2018 historic summit was set with North Korea, the Norks soon backed out for fear of becoming Muammar Gaddafi. Then Trump called off the summit after one of North Korea’s Foreign Ministry official’s called Vice President Mike Pence a political dummy. As of this writing, it now appears the summit is back on for a later date in June.
26.) Democratic Senator and 2020 presidential hopeful, Elizabeth Warren, lamented President Donald Trump’s lack of strategy regarding North Korea and, instead, praised communist China’s “whole-of-government” strategy.
27.) NBC News reported on CIA claims that North Korea wouldn’t denuclearize but might, instead, “open a burger joint”. There was speculation the CIA leaked the report to the media in order to undermine Trump’s summit with the Norks.
28.) Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner traveled to Israel for the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem.
29.) American-Hungarian globalist, George Soros, funded a campaign to nullify the Brexit vote of which he considered an example of “territorial disintegration”, and “an immensely damaging process, harmful to both sides”.
30.) The European Union vowed economic retaliation in response to Trump’s “unacceptable” steel and aluminum tariffs on the EU, Canada, and Mexico. Canada’s Justin Trudeau also condemned the measure as “totally unacceptable” and joined Mexico in dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs on various U.S. products.
Sex Crimes
31.) Pursuant to the #MeToo reckoning, New York state’s top prosecutor, Eric Schneiderman, resigned after being accused of physically assaulting four women.
32.) John McCain (R-AZ) admitted giving the phony Russian “Golden Shower” dossier to former FBI director James Comey. McCain said: “Duty demanded I do it”.
33.) Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was indicted in New York on multiple counts of rape and criminal sex acts. If found guilty, the Oscar winner could find himself behind bars for up to 25-years.
The President & the Porn Star
34.) Stormy Daniels’ attorney, Michael Avenatti, claimed that President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen received $500,000 from a company controlled by a Russian oligarch which deposited the funds into an account for a company also used to pay off the adult film actress. But it was the wrong Michael Cohen, and it remained “a mystery how the financial records of a completely separate Michael Cohen ended up in the “tranche of documents provided to Avenatti.”
35.) Somehow Stormy Daniels’ attorney, Michael Avenatti, obtained the e-mail records of Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and used them to counter a claim made by Trump’s most recent lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
36.) Questions were raised as to who was paying Michael Avenatti.
37.) Michael Avenatti threatened a defamation suit against the reporters at The Daily Caller News Foundation for accurately writing about Avenatti’s shady legal and business history.
38.) It was reported that CNN, MSNBC had Given Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Michael Avenatti $175 Million in earned media.
39.) (Perhaps, in part, due to the excessive coverage of Stormy Daniels?) CNN’s primetime audience has collapsed by 25% according to Nielsen Media Research.
40.) Michael Cohen’s attorneys accused Stormy Daniel’s attorney, Michael Avenatti, of professional misconduct.
41.) Michael Avenatti was ordered to pay a $10 million fine after he failed to pay $2 million to a former colleague.
42.) West Hollywood, Californicatia awarded porn star, Stormy Daniels, a key to the city for her consensual sex with president Donald Trump and then later publically punishing him for the act.
43.) It was reported that the Mayor who gave Stormy Daniels the key to his city had actually settled $500,000 sexual harassment claim in 2016.
44.) A U.S. District Judge instructed Michael Avenatti to end his “publicity tour” before the attorney could participate in Michael Cohen’s federal case.
The President, Lawyers, Spies, & Media Lies
45.) In response to some early and erroneous comments made Trump’s newly conscripted personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, in early May, Trump said “great guy” Rudy would soon get his facts straight before Giuliani did, indeed, clarify his earlier statements.
46.) A federal judge overseeing Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort’s, case accused Robert Mueller’s team of lying and trying to target Trump before another U.S. district court judge rejected Manafort’s bid to dismiss Mueller indictment.
47.) Another judge denied Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s request to delay the first court hearing in a criminal case charging three Russian companies and 13 Russian citizens with using social media and other means to foment strife among Americans in advance of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
48.) Paul Manafort accused the Mueller team of leaking but Mueller’s office opposed any hearing on leaks.
49.) It was revealed that Robert Mueller was tainted by a conflict of interest with the very Russian Oligarch who Trump was accused of collusion with previously.
50.) Two colleagues contradicted former CIA Director John Brennan’s lie that the bogus Russian “Golden Shower” dossier on Trump was not part of the official Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
51.) Special Counsel Robert Mueller rejected President Trump’s request to answer questions in writing.
52.) Rudy Giuliani claimed that Robert Mueller admitted he couldn’t legally indict President Trump.
53.) Evidence surfaced that the FBI spied on Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump through a secret intelligence source and the Department of Justice covered up the misdeeds. Of course, the New York Times, said the spy was just an informant; and the Washington Post said the “informant” was to “protect Trump”.
54.) Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, found that the Obama’s FBI and DOJ broke the law in the Hillary Clinton e-mail probe and referred to federal prosecutor, John Huber, for criminal charges.
55.) Vice President Mike Pence called for an end to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s year-long investigation.
56.) Special counsel Mueller began to probe donations with foreign connections to Trump’s presidential inauguration.
57.) Under pressure by congress, Mueller released an unredacted memo which revealed the scope of the Russia probe. However, the memorandum, written by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, was filed under seal so no one could read it.
58.) In an attempt to minimize any blowback from the forthcoming Inspector General’s report, FBI Officials admitted they spied on Donald Trump’s Presidential Campaign by means of a secret surveillance initiative code named “Crossfire Hurricane”. Of course, instead of factually reporting on what the President of the United States has called the biggest American political scandal since Watergate, the New York Times continued to spin, enable, and downplay the government’s crimes as “missteps”, congressional and presidential allegations of “bias”, and “sound-bite-sized accusations” of “conspiracy” .
59.) In spite of the New York Times’ Error-Ridden Defense Of FBI Spying On Trump Campaign: The spying was acknowledged; as was the fear of the forthcoming Inspector General’s report and the admitted lack of evidence of Russian collusion. The multiple, and seemingly intentional, errors in the Times’ article appeared to have been used to downplay not only the crimes perpetrated by the FBI and DoJ, but, ultimately, those of Hillary Clinton and perhaps, even, Former President Barack Hussein Obama. The National Review’s, Andrew McCarthy put it this way :
The scandal is that the FBI, lacking the incriminating evidence needed to justify opening a criminal investigation of the Trump campaign, decided to open a counterintelligence investigation. With the blessing of the Obama White House, they took the powers that enable our government to spy on foreign adversaries and used them to spy on Americans — Americans who just happened to be their political adversaries.
The Times averts its eyes from this point — although if a Republican administration tried this sort of thing on a Democratic candidate, it would be the only point.
60.) Trump complained that the DoJ was trying to frame him, but Rudy Giuliani admitted they didn’t know if that was true.
61.) Former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, claimed the FBI spying on Donald Trump’s campaign was “a good thing” and Trump saying it was bigger than Watergate was “hyperbole”.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
62.) As former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, peddled his new book “Facts and Fears” on how Russia definitely hacked the 2016 Presidential Election, the Wall Street Journal asked: “Why does a former intelligence chief make claims he can’t back up?”.
63.) The Trump campaign mole who was activated in the FBI spy-op was outed as Stefan Halper, a 73-year-old University of Cambridge professor who was also a CIA and MI6 asset, while some claimed there was more than one mole in Trump’s campaign.
64.) In response to Trump’s ordering a DoJ investigation into the deep state’s subversive infiltration of his 2016 Presidential Campaign, former CIA Director John Brennan appealed to House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to stop the investigation.
65.) Trump returned volley by Tweeting that former CIA Director John Brennan was a “disgrace” who was “largely responsible for the destruction of American’s faith in the Intelligence Community and in some people at the top of the FBI”.
66.) It was revealed that the mole in Trump’s campaign, Steven Halper, was paid over $1 million by the Obama administration including $411,575 that was made in two payments, and had a start date of September 26, 2016. That date was three days after a Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff on Trump aide, Carter Page, that the FBI later used as supporting evidence in a FISA warrant application for Page.
67.) Former Trump aide, Michael Caputo, revealed a second spy, claiming to be from the NSA, may have attempted to infiltrate Trump’s 2016 Presidential Campaign by offering Hillary Clinton’s missing e-mails.
68.) Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) ordered the DoJ turn over unredacted text messages between FBI lovers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page because they may actually indicate the Crossfire Hurricane Spygate fiasco was run by Obama’s White House. Grassley’s deadline was June 6, 2018.
69.) FBI agents expressed their desire for Congress to issue them subpoenas so they could reveal the crimes of former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
70.) As political leftists, and their mockingbird media, continued to accuse President Trump of interfering with their coup to replace him, the Wall Street Journal continued to inform Americans about the REAL constitutional crisis of SPYGATE.
71.) As President Donald Trump lamented the “young and beautiful lives ruined” by the phony Russian scandal, former Trump campaign aide, Carter Page, described to the New York Times how his life was indeed ruined.
72.) Trump accused Mueller’s team of meddling in the midterm elections and the democrats of collusion.
73.) Florida Senator, Marco Rubio, asserted the FBI was not spying on Trump, but the agents were, instead, “doing their jobs to protect America”.
74.) In “stark contrast to Trump’s public assertions”, and in apparent accord with James Clapper’s previous statements, South Carolina Republican, Trey Gowdy, claimed the “FBI acted properly” and denied any evidence that the “FBI planted spies” in Trump’s 2016 Presidential Campaign.
75.) The New York Times claimed Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, was a key witness for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of President Trump for obstruction of justice.
76.) Trump Tweeted that he wished “he didn’t pick Sessions as attorney general”.
77.) It was reported that Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, ran up a $16 million tab in the Trump-Russia Investigation, and has budgeted another $10 million for 2019.
78.) President Donald Trump said he didn’t fire FBI Director James Comey over the Russia probe despite previously citing that as the reason, as his lawyer Rudy Giuliani called the Mueller investigation a “lynching mob”.
79.) Investigators from the District of Columbia U.S. Attorney’s Office interviewed former FBI director James Comey as part of a probe into whether his deputy, Andrew McCabe, broke the law by lying to federal agents.
Guns R Us
80.) The Trump administration announced plans to provide records on the Obama administration’s gun-smuggling scheme known as Fast & Furious.
81.) During the 2018 Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence held May 7-14, 2018, the United Nations pushed for international gun control.
82.) On May 16, 2018 a school resource officer confronted a gunman at Dixon High School in Illinois and “Countless lives were saved”.
83.) Two days after the Dixon, IL shooting gunfire erupted on one of Trump’s golf courses in Florida as well as at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas; where multiple people were killed. According to CNN, it was the 22nd school shooting this year.
84.) Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and ex-prosecutor, wrote an op-ed in USA today entitled “Ban assault weapons, buy them back, go after resisters”.
85.) Obama’s Former Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, Tweeted the radical idea that parents should pull their children out of school until elected officials pass stricter gun control laws.
86.) David Hogg, the photogenic boy wonder who became famous prior to the funerals for the victims of the Parkland Florida school shooting, demanded $1 million from the grocery store chain and a pledge of ideological fealty to the gun-control movement. In response to the “Die-in” organized by Hogg, the grocery chain suspended all political donations.
87.) In Oklahoma City, lives were saved on May 24, 2018 when a good guy with a gun killed a bad guy with a gun who had just murdered two females.
88.) Former Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul claimed that “Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) were teaming up with Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to ram through one of the “worst nationwide gun confiscation schemes ever devised”.
The gun confiscation bill, according to Paul, is designed to disarm Americans without any due process. The senators are using the recent tragic shooting in Texas as the impetus behind the law—in spite of the fact that this law would not have prevented the shooting at all.
Big Brother Cometh
89.) LenCo Armored Vehicles of Pittsfield Massachusetts expanded production to meet U.S. law enforcement demand for military-style armored vehicles.
90.) An internal video by GOOGLE was revealed that demonstrated how total data collection could reshape society. The total data collection would be obtained through the exponential growth of sensor-enabled objects.
91.) GOOGLE employees began to quit in protest over the company’s decision to develop a controversial drone program for the Pentagon.
92.) Even after the high ratings success of Rossanne, ABC boss Channing Dungey, no doubt upon pressure from his globalist masters, decided to censor the show by making it less political. Fortunately for the network, however, the show was cancelled due to racism after Roseanne Barr sent out a Tweet conflating former Obama advisor, Valerie Jarrett, to the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes. Barr apologized for her comments and, in spite of widespread public support for ABC’s swift retaliation to her thoughtcrime, there were those who questioned the doublethink of the Hollywood left.
93.) The day after Rosanne Barr was fired from ABC, comedian and host of the TBS cable network’s “Full Frontal”, Samantha Bee, called Ivanka Trump a “feckless cunt” in her show’s monologue; for which she later apologized. As of this writing, Bee still has her show and, in fact, is scheduled to be honored for her work by the Television Academy for “advancing social change”.
94.) The Pope legitimized homosexuality as being God ordained.
95.) A former advisor to both President Bill Clinton and later Hillary Clinton claimed that Robert Mueller must be stopped in order to protect us all.
96.) A columnist and practicing attorney from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania wrote about how the FBI and CIA restarted the Cold War to protect themselves.
97.) Harvard University announced that Hillary Clinton would receive their prestigious Radcliffe Medal for her “transformative impact on society”.
98.) Democrats once again promised to impeach Trump should they win the House this fall.
99.) In the wake of FBI’s unprecedented and illegal nullification of President Donald Trump’s attorney-client privilege by raiding the offices of Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen, Robert Mueller successfully extorted cooperation from Cohen’s business partner, Evgeny Freidman.
100.) In response to the recent revelations of former FBI Director James Comey’s illegal actions, he expressed grave concerns for Republicans and their grandchildren.
101.) Facebook was accused of conducting mass surveillance through its apps.
102.) A federal judge ruled that Trump could not block users on his Twitter account. This, in spite of Twitter’s censorship of the independent media.
103.) Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, along with Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, have written a letter calling for the CEOs of Facebook and Twitter to address concerns over conservative censorship ahead of the 2020 election, as well as a call for transparency.
104.) United States Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, told air force graduates to prepare for war.
105.) Former President, and community activist, Barack Obama, along with his wife Michelle, contracted with Netflix, now the most valuable media company in the world, to produce films and series in order to train a new generation of young activists. Although Obama’s former National Security Agency advisor, Susan Rice, was appointed to the Netflix board of directors in March, 2018, and it was Obama’s former bundler and Ambassador to the Bahamas who helped the Obamas score the Netflix deal, the company has assured the public that the Obama productions will not have a political slant, while, at the same time admitting: “it’s hard to argue that there’s not a left lean to the creative community.”
106.) The reporter who was spied upon by the Obama administration, presented eight signs that the Obama administration also misused U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies in order to conduct a counterintelligence operation against its political opposition.
107.) Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called his spying on Trump “Benign Information Gathering” before claiming that Donald Trump was “Orwellian”.
108.) Hillary Clinton declared her desire to become the CEO of Facebook because the company “is the biggest news platform in the world” and she believes “it really is critical to our democracy that people get accurate information on which to make decisions”.
109.) Whistleblower Chelsea Manning warned that mass surveillance by government agencies is increasing, especially in the United States.
110.) The New York Times made up a quote from a White House official, and then doubled-down again on the lie after Trump called them out. When the audio was later released it showed the quote, was indeed, fake news.
111.) The New York Post reported on how President Obama’s Spygate was looking a lot like Watergate.
112.) The president’s son and advisor, Donald Trump Jr., claimed conservatives were being shadow banned on Instagram.
113.) Facebook ad censors demanded the home address and driver’s license of a conservative author who wrote an Obama exposé book.
114.) American Islamic leader and black nationalist, Louis Farrakhan, claimed that “Mr. Trump is destroying every enemy that was an enemy of our rise”.
115.) Former president Obama stated “our democracy and economy won’t survive if America stays divided”.
116.) Tommy Robinson, the founder of the English Defense League, was jailed for 13 months for contempt of court for publically stating nothing that would have unfairly prejudiced the trial of Islamic pedophiles whom he was reporting on within the public domain.
117.) In a race to roll out 5G service, wireless companies in the U.S. announced plans to install 300,000 new antennas, or roughly equaling the total number of cell towers built over the past three decades. The plans have caused “outrage” and “alarm” in response to antennas “going up around homes” as well as health concerns.
118.) It was revealed that prosecutors were to get “about 1 million items from phones” pursuant to the criminal investigation of President Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen.
119.) Right out of a “technocratic nightmare”, it was revealed that Amazon, Inc. was working with law enforcement to deploy invasive facial recognition technology.
120.) A secret Transportation Security Administration (TSA) watchlist was revealed by the New York Times, comprised of Americans who fight back against the pointless groping by “one of the most incompetent agencies on earth”.
121.) A veteran Police Officer in Florida was suspended and required to undergo “sensitivity training” for making a disparaging comment on social media about gun control advocate, David Hogg.
122.) Google listed “Nazism” as an “ideology” of the Republican Party in California.
123.) Democrats in New Jersey overrode President Trump’s repeal of the Obamacare mandate, thus forcing 78% of New Jersey households making less than $50,000 per year “to purchase health care whether they want it or not”.
Conclusion
Every journey begins with a single step, and sketches are drawn via one impression upon another. Outlines are adumbrated as silhouettes appear increasingly recognizable. Like dots on a matrix, patterns emerge and trends become apparent.
In other words, time reveals everything.
In the above transitional revelations, and according to this blogger, 40 could be considered making America (and/or the world) great again, with 8 as being neutral or questionable, and 75 as representing the ever-accelerating slide into Orwellian hell. Of course, from the view of any political leftist, these numbers would be roughly inverted. This is because, in today’s world, heroes, criminals, facts, causation, and outcomes, are defined in the minds of the beholders.
Nonetheless, the journey continues.
So whether we rise to surmount lofty mountain peaks, travel through narrow passageways and broad valleys, or descend upon the inevitable road to ruin, fasten your seat belts. It’s June.
Is this a subtle use of the number Twenty-Three?
Secret Squirrel stuff?
I have been trying to imagine the reorganization and rebuilding of the North American political structure after the revolution. I think we will be fine here as long as the crazies from St. Louis stay north of I-44.
Let me get this straight… all of these transitional events track to May 2018, right? I feel a strong sense of foreboding, especially with the strange goings on in Missouri politics.
Is a depressing list, over all, Undefined. What should we expect next, do you think? Assassination attempts?
@ Mags – As of yesterday morning, the number stood at 114. By late afternoon it had reached 120. And by late evening, just prior to post, it hit the magic 123.
I almost changed the title to something as “easy as 1 2 3”, or similar, but then decided to leave it as it was.
My original intention was to cull the list, distilling it down to the “bare bones” of the items I deemed most significant. I still may do that for future months but decided to leave this one unfiltered in the end.
In my mind, and as bad as many of the items are (especially in the “Big Brother” segment), the revelations I found most disturbing for May, were #’s 73 and 74. Especially # 74.
One can hope there’s something else going on with Trey Gowdy (like angling for AG or similar), but if not, then I will either have to check my premises or, as Hardscrabble has claimed here before, acknowledge that all our heroes have feet of clay.
That is an interesting list.
But, the real list begins with the traitor, Woodrow Wilson, signing America over to the banksters. The takeover from within began in earnest after that. Then the next major event, is the traitor, FDR, signing Western Civilization over to the bolsheviks. Since then, it has been a non-stop, day-by-day slide into socialist abdication, and outright depravity.
America’s doom began a century ago. The items you have listed are just a few of the recent obvious indicators, that the fix is in.
I don’t think this one is headed to a hundred. But, here’s fifty!
Maggie, I think we need to send all the MO crazies to IL.
I don’t know what is going on with the whole Greitens thing but I always felt he was slimy. Still, they are pursuing to prosecute him for the so called pic he took of his former mistress even though there is no evidence that one even exists. How does that work, one wonders?
Methinks former mistress has other dirt on him. I’d look into his military background. You would be shocked to find out what some of these so-called heroes from Iraq and Afghanistan have been involved in. I am not pointing at Greitens but I once read a diary type of memoir, cheaply printed and sold for a dollar or two … written by a former National Reserve/Guardsman was sent TDY to Iraq with an Army unit, then transferred to different units before the magical six months turned him into a free man (some loophole that allows the DOD to activate the reserves for no more than six months, but then… the loophole is the word “consecutive.” By moving these guys from unit to unit to avoid a continuous TDY assignment for six months, they were able to force them to be “in theater” for years. One of the former soldiers actually claimed to have been held hostage while his commanding officers called him deserter. He was just a reserve guy trying to go home.
However, the book I read was a really poignant and painful story by a young man who had signed up for the reserve or guard to get help with college, then got activated and sent to Iraq. The stories about being sent to basically murder people and the drug use indicated and the large number of “friendly fire” incidents he suggested go unreported, well, it was horrifying. I gave it to a Supervisor to read and comment on (I was a SSgt in USAF and I picked the book up at the BX at a book fair where a bunch of GI authors try to peddle their books) and he never gave it back. When I asked for it, he hemmed and hawed. I think he either threw it away or gave it to someone and reported me for being subversive.
I wish I could remember the title or author, but can’t. I just know it was a horrifying account. And since he wrote under his real name with photos to support and validate his stories but did not name others and blurred out faces, I have to come to the conclusion that there were others complicit in the terrible things he and the others were ordered to do in Iraq. And, those others were in positions of leadership. People not unlike Greitens.
Listen, I know there are some here who think I try to make everything all about me. Well, I can’t really help it that it is all about me.
The parallels with Missouri politics when I think about the corruption I have seen on the state and county levels since I’ve been here. Not to mention my run-in with local law enforcement that ended up with my smart-ass mouth against the pavement and my hands behind my back with someone either shocking me with the cuffs or manipulating them to pinch my nerves with some sort of REMOTE. My research project ended badly that day.
After much therapy and introspection (seriously), I have determined I witnessed the complete deterioration of our societal structure, born on the edge of the boomer generation with a few years to the first of the Gen Xers. December 1961, when the Age of Aquarius had yet to dawn but was turning the horizon gray if you looked over toward Vietnam. I do not remember JFK’s death but I know where I was sitting and what I was doing because I have heard my mother tell the story about carrying her two-year-old daughter (me) and holding the five-year-old’s hand while trotting to the field to tell my father the President had been shot. She’d heard it on the radio. After a half-hour or so, he came in and they turned on the television to watch it, putting my sister in charge of playing with me. The older kids were in school.
See, it was all about what I remember or what I think I remember.
Some bizarre things have happened to me regarding legal issues. Really bizarre. It chills me to realize how very corrupt every single official I come into contact with here seems to be. The tax assessor’s husband comes onto people’s property uninvited to inventory property. The FREAKING COUNTY knows it and thinks it fine they get two for one salary.
Our neighbor (mile or so away with a big farm operation) is in jail and has been for more than a year, held on a $500,000 cash bond for conspiracy to hire a hit-man to kill his wife for the insurance money. His meth-whore mistress, who inspired the drunken mid-life crisis, was released on a bond and faces charges of possession. Nick has dropped of a couple of magazines for him with no problems but when I went down to drop off a book and a card, they made me show ID and sign in. JUST TO LEAVE HIM A BOOK.
What kind of shit was that? Nick didn’t have to sign in. My walking partner didn’t have to sign in. The people who own that annoying beagle I chain to the tree by the pond a couple days a week didn’t have to sign in to drop off religious stuff. See… it really is all about me.
All “Hyperbole” aside, I am dead serious about the timing of the “Great Change” in our country. I think it is time to talk about it.
The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to Democrats, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it’s inherently illegitimate. The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through Federal judges and bureaucrats. Every time that a Federal judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States can’t scratch his own back without his say so, that’s the civil war.
http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/06.18/civilwar.html
Excellent article/video from Silver Bear, Angel. It was Silver Bear Café where I read my first Jim Quinn article almost ten years ago and got hooked here.
The man makes some really valid points about social media and the rise of narcissistic tendency.
Says the woman who recently declared it really is all about her.
“8.) The 44th House Republican announced plans for retirement prior to the midterms. “…
This is the plan of the progressives, Hollywood, and the main stream media. They will continue to “shame” conservative thought and individuals by brow beating them and forcing them underground and out of main stream. These communist progressives already control most of the administrative state, all forms of media, and our entire education system. We’re one snowflake away from the avalanche that will crush this once great country and rid us of our individual liberty and freedom.
Great post Doug… Chip
Where is the evidence they were forced out?
Shirley Godbunny and Scrapper Rabbit are so proud you made full bird, “B”!!!
I doubt there is evidence of coercion, but in most of our memories, we know Congress Critters and BurrowCRats hang onto their gubment jobs with their cold dead fingers. (I really LOVE Congress Critters as a term and have seen in out in social media outlets a time or two, which makes me as proud as my rabbits are of any of their little kits, Colonel B. Now, I’m fashioning a new word for Bureaucrats. Burrow Rats doesn’t quite get one to the scummy faces of high-level civil servants (Servile Civits…hmmm, whatcha think, Tadpole?)
I don’t know if Solzhenitsyn’s discussion of socialism, communism and the abject horror of living in a world where everyone is equal and no one matters is something that many of us should read more than once in entirety, but I just did so over the last year and have been profoundly changed. I truly believe our country is being prepared for a different sort of invasion and the influx of peoples with no intention of becoming part of anything other than a stranger in a strange land is just a stage of that invasion. Ultimately, those folks, brown, yellow or just a splotchy bronze from all the tattoo ink and scars from the whips and chains, will be minimized in the “public” eye. The elitists will not want to see their service workers after a certain point. Just like Congress Critters no longer give a crap about the people who elected them until they fear for their re-election chances. Because once they get up there to the Powerful Playgrounds on the Potomac where fifty lobbyists PER Congress Critter are ready to wine, dine and redefine the goals of their entire lives, not to mention short-term goals while in office. There is so much dirt on anyone in political office for more than one term, Col. B. Bunny, I imagine “coercion” is just a way of life for them. I would mention John McCain, but he is still clinging with those dead fingers, isn’t he? Why? He LOVES the power and the money and the control. He thinks that only his opinion matters. He has become IT.
It is the LOVE of money that spreads the evil. Who taught you to love money? Your government did. Your government said that only IT would determine the price of your labor and skill and only IT would let you sell your produce and then buy the food from food producers at prices and with content controlled by, well, IT.
A Wrinkle in Time is a nice summary about those gulags. At least it was when I read it as a kid. Now that Whorelywood has gotten hold of it, I imagine the themes of equalness, sameness and dullity of a world where everything is the same for everyone lack the impact they had on me as a child and young adult.
Colonel, there is always an entity in CHARGE. If you are really a Col and not just a bunny, then you know that.
I apologize for jumping on you if your real name is indeed “Bunny.” But, as a Chubby Bunny Farmer out in the middle of the sticks, the name demanded my attention.(chubby bunnies, not me. I lost a whole person over the last year… almost 75 pounds. I could make Air Force weigh-in!) Since I like to get the last word in on certain posters around here (NOT favoritism, coyote… he produces), you provided a quick hop to the post, since it is not pinned.)
Hmmm…….,given this list suddenly prepping/homesteading/bloat/what have you doesn’t seem such paranoid behavior at all.
Nice compilation, Uncola.
Fits nicely with the 4th Turning in progress.
Don helmet and goggles; shitstorm approaching!
Jerry? Is that you?
Great article….
Our country is burning faster than the lava is flowing in HI. And the destruction & pile of worthless rock left behind blankets a once beautiful, vibrant, growing land. Some day, many decades from now, plants will begin to peak thru and thrive, but until then, it will lay in waste. I pray our America doesn’t become a pile of rock, but the signs are ever increasing, and the deep state lava flow is pushing ever so close to blanketing the freedoms and rights of Libetaria Americans.
Pray & prepare….
Although I agree with your assessment of America on fire, I do believe 60% of the above items are likely even worse than the lava flows on the Big Island currently.
As always – the key, for me, is to wade through the hype and separate facts from fiction. It’s not always easy due to media distortion.
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A very comprehensive detailing of the continued slide of America deeper into dementia. And, although written with a very sharp and subjective slant, and containing a couple pieces of fake news, it was predominantly accurate. To be very sure, prepping and homesteading are not at all a bad idea, but I would also strongly encourage fallback plans.
Thanks Mouse. I am well aware of my bias and, in fact, wield it like a weapon. As to the fake news, it is possible some may have slipped through. If you could point them out, I would be grateful.
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Great collection of web links to the stories in digital media.
Kept thinking…
Print ’em off for preservation, as the listed 123 + links are a silver platter for the censors should they continue to control narrative and access to stories and facts that prove / refute their claims of conspiracy theories by truth seekers.
Thanks, Doug. That compilation must have taken you several hours of work to share with us. It explains why I am suffering from Current Events Fatigue as evidenced by a much-reduced interest in all the goings-on. It also memorializes the very troubled times in which we live: a life-and -death, full-Luciferian attack on every positive aspect of life in the world. I am not being flippant nor mocking anyone when I suggest PRAY.
Wow, this must have taken you some time to put together. There is so much here it’s overwhelming. Maybe that’s the plan, to overwhelm us to the point where we are numb?
I agree # 74 is very concerning but not really surprising. My concern which I haven’t really seen discussed here, unless I missed it, is #90 and the “internet of things”. I’m not techie at all so I wouldn’t even know where to start, but what limited info I have is that everything, and I mean everything will have a chip in it so we can be constantly tracked. For our own good, of course.
So, chipping each one of us will never be a necessity. That would be too easy for us to resist.
Anyways, I am trying to pack for a vacation. I am not sure whether I will check in or not. It might depend on the internet access. Or maybe I should just take a break from it all for a week.
Gayle & MC,
It actually did turn out to be ALOT of work, but over the entire month. Still, as I mentioned to Maggie above, I may distill future lists through the filter of my own opinion (bias?) as to what I deem as most significant.
Are you coming down to Cape Girardeau to visit the most boring river city on the Mississippi?
Texas, Maggie. Where it’s really hot.
M C
Where the steers are?
Great compilation and like Admin sez, there be a shitstorm a brewin’. #74 is a bit perplexing. Seems strange to me that Gowdy would be spending his last days in House defending the very things he railed against…
I agree Rob. If Gowdy is retiring anyway, and not running for election, why not go full Rambo on the way out? Unless….
Amazing that your list is only for one month. It would be easy to add many moar.. Just think what it will be like when the shit really hits the fan.
Been watching his videos for years and pine again for the days of Gowdy Mode…
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Didn’t it make for great theatre… Looking back with hindsight though it seems that all the antics and semantics did not add up to a big bucket of fuck-all.. Must be frustrating… And with the countdown on to the IG report, if it ever gets here, you’d think he would be spending his days sharpening axes for the slaughter that has been promised. And yet he seems happy to slip away.
Lets hope he is just wanting for a change…
Hard to explain, unless…
Unless…..?
SAY IT.
Controlled opposition.
The little items which would have been shocking not so long ago are now simply signposts on our descent into the maelstrom.
“Outlines are adumbrated as silhouettes appear increasingly recognizable.” ——-article
First of all …. 123 of anything …. even Stormy’s tits … is a tad bit overwhelming, dontchyathink?
Secondly, I believe you did all that just to use the word “adumbrated”. I admire that. Shows real commitment.
Also, it might show deception. I mean, it just SCREAMS … “Look at me!! I used adumbrated, you dumb-ass peons!” Or, you are good at using a thesaurus, because nobody … at least no NORMAL person ever uses that word either verbally or script.
Yet, I believe you are using it incorrectly. I had to look up the word (because I’m normal) and it means “represent in outline”. So, what you are saying is that “outlines are represented as outlines” … which makes no sense, unless you once worked in the government’s Department of Redundancy Department.
You’re welcome.
Couldn’t resist…
@ Stuck,
One of my favorite things on TBP is to read the articles so I learns more words and gets more smarts.
I also construed while perusing an ineffable tome one time how people with the largest vocabularies made the most money, and people with the least command of the language made the least amount of money. So naturally, the least I could do, is to help TBP readers get even more smarter and more richer.
But actually, though, in all seriousity, I think I meant “adumbrated” as “foreshadowed”, like the beginning of an “outline” hinting at the final picture? Because I am pretty sure I think that was my internal comprehension of that particular processment?
Also – as an addendum and BTW (all redundancies purposefully meant) – in the very first sentence of the above piece I had ” oppugning internet censorship” and I believe I may have, in an inadvertent accident, hit the WordPress spell-check prior to posting that changed it to “impugning”.
op·pugn (ə-pyo͞on′)
tr.v. op·pugned, op·pugn·ing, op·pugns
To oppose, contradict, or call into question.
im·pugn (ĭm-pyo͞on′)
tr.v. im·pugned, im·pugn·ing, im·pugns
To attack as false or questionable; challenge in argument:
Either one works because some words are imbued with more elastical flexibleness than others I think.
I can appreciate that belief, Unc.
I heard the same about high vocabulary skills equating to loftier positions in business and income level.
My source was Earl Nightengale, from one of the 12 lessons in the audio series ‘Lead the Field’.
Remember ‘Word Power’ page in the old Reader’s Digest?
Quiz of 20 words, with 4 multiple choice possible answers. Answers found elsewhere in the book, with examples of use & pronunciation.
So here’s one vote, for you to keep using challenging words for better learning.
I think it was Hemmingway who’d ponder long times to whittle down his thought sentences so they were as lean and effective as possible. Use 6 to say what most writers would use a dozen.
@ LGR – In retrospect, “foreshadowed” would have worked. But “adumbrated” ended up being more funner by way of triggering Stucky here; as well as from my own blog (where people seem to prefer e-mailing or communicating via the contact page widget over the comment section)
As to lexiconic dexterity efficaciously consummating economic ascendancy and stratification – I thought it might have been Napolean Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” or Psycho-cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz. Either, however, could have been quoting Nightengale or vice versa?
The only audio series I’ve ever listened to was when my older bro gave me some cassette tapes of a Navy pilot named Denis Waitley years and years ago. Waitley once said:
Which to me kind of sounded like the Serenity Prayer
Damn!!
I have both of those books.
Influenced me a lot. Have studied Denis Waitleys cassette tape series The Psychology of Winning, (talk about old school, well, because Old’s Cool)
…and have posted verses 2 and 3 of The Serenity Prayer on the Platform before.
Either we share common ground, or like EC, you have great memory recall of some other monkey’s habits.
Ever catch Claude Bristol’s The Magic of Believing?
How about James Allen’s As A Man Thinketh?
Good reading, at any age, imo.
Actually, I believe this place just might BE the common ground for many like-minded people from another era. I’ve not read those books but am amazed at how many times I’ve put things like that on the mental radar only to see them emerge before me like Richard Bach’s blue feather. Thanks LGR.
I haven’t seen a reference to Richard Bach in decades. I think that is what you mean about “this place” because just the other day I was thinking about a book of his I read in USAF days… the ONE?
Active Voice demands disciplined word choice.
I see what you did there.
Obviously, I saw alone.
We do indeed live in interesting times. Never a dull moment.
One question. Does being opposed to neocon warmongering really make me a globalist?
In my opinion, it is the neocons who are the true globalists operating under the guise of Democracy & the American Way.
Posts like this is why I check TBP daily.
I don’t know why my comments are coming up anonymous…like the one above.
Anyway, outstanding mosaic post.
Mark
Great list. It’s really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, fucked up.
Really.
I don’t see a path down which the USA returns to some semblance of peace and harmony. I think we’re just in a bit of a lull, sadly.
Time to party like it’s 1859.
I just want to say that I’m glad some people appreciated the above compilation. Truly, it was an ass-kicker and not near as gratifying as writing other types of articles. While gathering and recording the items each day it began to feel like being stuck on a treadmill; and just grinding it out. Last night, while putting the finishing touches on it all, it did seem a little overwhelming, and I started to ask myself what I got myself into.
Today, however, in reading the comments – I am gratified that some found it worthwhile. If it benefits the reader and TBP as a whole, then it was worth it to me. Plus, I believe I will benefit from the catalog of links over time because the internet is breaking. Today, if you search the net for “Big Brother”, this is what you get:
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Of course, I’m saying that half in jest, but still…
I did a “search” last night trying to find a picture of a monkey’s butt (you KNOW it was for Stucky!) and got a bunch of very, very strange set of images that had NOTHING to do with Monkey Assholes.
I think the search algorithms have gone rogue.
And, by the way, Admin? This has got to be the only place on the web where you can type a comment about wanting a picture of a monkey butt and no one questions why you would look for such a thing.
What a wonderful little blogspot!
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Uncola, it was worth it to me. Thank you.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/06/02/seeds-and-pesticides-company-merger.aspx
The Bayer-Monsanto entity is now the largest seed and pesticide company in the world, controlling more than 25 percent of the global seed and pesticide supply. In all, just three companies now dominate the global seed and pesticide market
The men who have adopted our long-neglected 40 acres where we bugged out and started homesteading here in the suburbs of the sticks fertilized and mowed.
I told Geneva’s husband down the hillside he could forget about Yard of the Month for at least a month.
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They have “reclaimed” another ten to twelve acres from the sagebrush and crabcrass and briars which have just grown wild on that section since we moved our neighbor’s horses and beagles off the land. The horses did keep the growth down but the beagles were a threat to my rabbits, so they needed to go. The owner of the animals was a decent sort but he was what my father’s generation would call a ne’er do well, perhaps. Willing to do a few days hard work for a decent wage, but never tied to a paycheck kind of job. His paycheck comes in the form of EBT and disability for his freaking 38-year-old son who has the mental capacity of a teen. I paid the two of them 20 bucks to cut down a tree and let them have it for firewood when I was getting the electric lines put in years ago. Then, when I burned some trash and the wind took it to the dry, uncut field of fescue that first spring and I almost set fire to the entire northern section of the county, I called them to come help from a couple miles away. They helped me put out that fire until the fire departments from two counties left, so I was grateful for their help. But, to be honest, after I asked them to keep their beagles away from my rabbit pens, they weren’t as friendly. After they had some problems, their landlord restricted their use of the barn and they moved away without saying goodbye. My feelings were kind of hurt because when I cooked a big pot of chicken and dumplings I always tried to take them a tub or big bowl of it. The mother had a stroke and was a shut-in. She could get herself around and to the bathroom, but that was about it. I felt sorry for her but they seemed content.
The fields were cut yesterday and I talked to the older brother, Harold, who comes in his truck or SUV with a cooler and “just in case” stuff to watch his 72-year-old brother, Daryl, do the tractor work. Harold lost the use of his legs in Vietnam. Daryl and he have a large cattle farming operation just a few miles north of our little empire of sagebrush and rabbits. Their grandson has decided to train roping cattle for rodeo riders and they were hoping to clean up our field and take the hay. They heard our other neighbor had been arrested and that was a shame. Pause to glance downward to signal we are not gossiping about that guy in jail for trying to get his wife killed.
So, he and I were chatting and he told me something so profound I may never be able to “re-create” the scene. But, I do believe it is time for someone to try. I am ready for Agnes to tell her story, I think. I just haven’t decided what language to use.
Oh, there are chemicals we could spread on the back acreage to make the hayfield as beautiful as the front field. And, those chemicals would do that magic in just ONE growing season. However, Harold told me with a twinkle in his eye, if you use that stuff from Monsanto on the land one year and don’t treat it with other Monsanto products, then your hay won’t grow tall enough to hold a good grain head. He said he checked into it because if he treated that field, it would double the amount of hay they could pull of our land, doubling the value of bringing their trucks and tractors the few miles to our land.
How much for enough of the stuff from those chemical toxin makers to turn my back pasture of sage and briars into beautiful fescue and clover? One gallon costs $125 and treats four acres. So, 12 acres means $375 for the chemical. The spreader would be hired (you really don’t want to mess with applying these chemicals in a haphazard way) and he charges $9 per acre. Another $108.
I am not sure why, but am sure his equipment looks NOTHING like anything my father or grandfather used on our family’s farm. The most “spreading” of seed and chemicals by their hands involved a big tub carried over the shoulders on the back to spray liquid or dust on plants or a hand operated spreader to distribute granules. But those days are indeed longagofaraway because a freaking gallon of gasoline costs more than milk and how in the world are our children going to take care of themselves if they don’t even know how to grow a tomato? So, Harold and Daryl told me they will continue to cut and fertilize, but they aren’t willing to put the chemicals on to make the pasture worth their effort this year. I asked them if there was anything we could do to help (I’ll be happy to haul bunny poop over on the quadrunner and spread it out it once a week) but they said they just like to stay active, promote their grandkids’ interests in all things country and hope to leave every piece of ground they touch a little nicer when they go.
That is one hell of a life goal. I’m adopting it.
They drove onto our land the exact same morning the man who cut our hay last year told us there was too much sagebrush in the fescue for his cattle to eat. I really do think God sent them to help.
My camera wasn’t able to handle my photo bomb. Too bad, my walking attire today was an old TShirt declaring “This IS my Happy Face!”
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I’m helping my husband power wash the logs today. It is a bit of a precarious task, with ladders and a real pressure washer (not just a gravity fed well!) Nick will do it without me, but I won’t let him. Someone needs to protect the best thing I have going for me.
Uncola, your collection of recent events /plus many of the comments/ makes it clear that the USA is no longer a nation of laws, but has reverted to the age old standard of nation of kings. Given such, why o’ why does not the Orange One call out the 1st Inf. Div to attack and destroy his opponents? Chucky Schumer’s warning of the intel community’s “six ways from Sunday” to take out any who do not comply would last 60 seconds under a sustained artillery barrage. Follow that up with a search and destroy operation by infantry and maybe, just maybe, the communist operation to take over America could be stopped.
Yes, those of us living closer to TRUER reality call it NEO FEUDALISM…
Anyone who thinks they are WOKE who doesn’t understand this, IS and can still be considered an AGENT OF THE MATRIX
Thors Hammer
“Communist operation to take over America?” Seriously?
Watch this video on “active measures” from an ex KGB agent who defected and understand that the “America” taught in textbooks for generations has been gradually subverted and what we are witnessing globally is the synchronization of nation states through their legislative bodies and the Hollywoodization through Pop culture and social media into one BIG PILE OF MONCULUTURE with the ALLISTER CROWLEY crowds motto of DO WHAT THOU WILT!
5 MIN clip of interview, note the date of airing…way past the point of no return…frogs are being boiled to death, soon with 5G, LITERALLY AS WELL
Thunder wrote:
To that, some would believe Trump is operating to remove the cancer without killing the patient, whereas others would believe Trump to be one of the kings or, at the very least, the jester.
As for me? I concur with Shakespeare:
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”
On another note – I saw this got picked up on Zero Hedge and it looks like it set my personal record of readership over at SHTFplan.com. As always, thanks again, JQ.
I’m glad to see the info go far and wide. Shakespeare also said:
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
I will take this opportunity to point out to EC that I saw the potential in the tadpole over in Mayberry. First.
Okay, so my welcome wagon routine also attracted a few doozies and whosies but, hey, at least I didn’t have to chew my arm off after waking up. I do have an odd scar on my leg, however.
Hmmm.
The guy usually does that.
Someone above mentioned of the cultural narcissism that continues to grow,
I follow “Jason A” YouTube channel , every video he puts out is truly thought provoking,
This one from today deals with the monoculture being constructed globally