I love Caitlin, an Aussie who speaks powerful truth. And so do you! Summary; ‘Murika is run by morans.
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SOURCE: caitlinjohnstone.com
Intelligence sources say biggest threat to US is actually US policy
A new “threat assessment” by the US intelligence cartel has named China the number one threat to the United States today, followed by Russia, Iran, and North Korea. This has of course led to blaring news headlines like “China poses the biggest threat to the U.S., a new intelligence report says” from The New York Times, instead of something a little less propagandistic like “Here’s who the CIA wants you to be afraid of in order to advance its geostrategic power agendas.”
The report makes a bunch of evidence-free assertions which serve no purpose other than to help manufacture consent for the movement of expensive weaponry around the globe at the facilitation of unscrupulous war propaganda firms like The New York Times. Not only that, but I can now report that this US intelligence threat assessment is squarely contradicted by my own intelligence source.
Far from being threatened in any meaningful way by Beijing, Moscow, Tehran or Pyongyang, my intelligence source tells me that the greatest threat facing the United States today is actually the policy and behavior of the US itself.
My source informs me that infinitely more threatening to Americans than China is their own government’s policy of maintaining more and more severe domestic austerity measures and relying on a racist, violent and increasingly militarized police force to bash its most impoverished populations into line instead of simply helping them. The fact that America’s primary system of care for those who fall through the cracks is its immense prison-industrial complex poses a far greater threat to America than Moscow, Iran or North Korea ever will.
“When prison has become your country’s social safety net and you’re incarcerating at a rate unseen anywhere else in the world, it is not the time for you to worry about Kim Jong Un,” the intelligence source tells me.
But this crushing poverty and authoritarianism is necessary when a nation is the hub of a globe-spanning empire and its rulers need to make sure the populace remains too poor, busy and propagandized to begin interfering in the mechanics of the war machine. If Americans began using the power of their numbers to force their political system to cease hemorrhaging money and resources into interminable occupations and ever more expensive acts of military expansionism so that people could be cared for at home, the empire would fall. And that would make the imperialists sad.
According to my source, the real threat to America today is the standing policy of overextending US military commitments in a futile effort to maintain unrivaled unipolar planetary hegemony on a world that is forever out of control while impoverishing and oppressing Americans at home, all to preserve a failed competition-based model of mass-scale human behavior that our species needs to evolve beyond anyway.
China is a truly awful country! pic.twitter.com/sLjkWOWTaT
— Lee Camp [Redacted] (@LeeCamp) April 12, 2021
Okay, my intelligence source is between my ears.
Anyone with a brain can see that there is no real threat to the United States from outside US borders. US unipolar domination might be under threat from an ever-changing world in which empires are always temporary. Imperialism’s days might be numbered. Capitalism may be on the way out. But the US itself is not being threatened on the world stage by any foreign actor.
The US government is the one threatening nations with obliteration if they do not obey its dictates, not the other way around. Nobody is threatening America.
Your own intelligence sources will, with some rigorous usage, tell you that the real threat to America comes from oligarchs, imperialists and war profiteers who see the US government and its historically unprecedented military force as a tool for expanding power and wealth no matter what the human cost might be.
We can trust our intelligence sources on that matter my friends. Our story is much better-sourced than any we’ll ever see in The New York Times
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Unfortunately America is not run by Americans, so there’s that.
Caitlin is a left wing nutjob. And that is all I have to say about that.
Ok, I have more to say. Even nutjobs can be right sometimes. Why does America incarcerate so many people. Blacks and Mexicans. They commit, especially blacks, huge amounts AOC crime. No other western nation has the racial issues to the extent that the US does. Also, some are so left wing they have abandoned incarceration. Some of the incarceration is bullshit, of course. But take away the black and Mexican influence, and guess what? The stats change markedly. Multiculturalism is bullshit.
Her thoughts re foreign policy are largely correct.
Caitlin obviously originated from the left-wing nutter corner.
She has gone quite a long way, just like Kunstler, but she still has a way to go.
What I find most embarrassing is that Caitlin pretty much never calls out her homeland, a complete US vassal state.
I hate it when you rain on my parade.
I do not see this “left wing nutjob” in her writings posted here. And I know nothing about her except from these articles …. which are always about foreign policy, which you say she is correct on.
So, I’ll take your word on it …. cuz you are not often wrong.
Just curious … did you come to this understanding of her before you moved to Oz, or after?
I looked her up aplenty. Never heard of her before I came here. She can make sense at times, as she is plenty smart. But she is a lefty for sure and certain, and her depth of thinking leaves lots to be desired at times. Exhibit A us her talk about incarceration without perspective of the racial issues that are the root of most of the issue. I doubt she would ever address that, as that would be racist in her book, I suspect.
She is not entirely fruit loops, but she is not on what I would consider to be our side. Here is what one of the sites that posts her stuff says about her:
“ Caitlin Johnstone is a 100 percent crowdfunded rogue journalist, bogan socialist, anarcho-psychonaut, guerilla poet and utopia prepper”. Yikes.
She seems to be an unapologetic lefty, and is anti-Ron Paul. Described that she imagines the “free market fairy” to look like Ron in a tutu.
Oh, and because she is not far enough left, and oft proposes compromise with the right, she gets attacked by the more left. She is not a total wild lefty. She can be somewhat reasoned with. I think, anyway.
Anti Ron Paul, eh? I think I’ll stop posting her articles.
Don’t do that. TBP needs the entire spectrum of ideas, even from corners and spaces considered by some as “nutjob” as from there often comes perspectives that challenge even the most most dearly held and deeply believed orthodoxies. Sometimes shaking beliefs to the core and occasionally roasting sacred cows to a crisp.
Yes, more free speech and ideas is most always better.
I believe your friend AP has been saying that for a loooong time now.
Give me a white Christian nation and you will have a wonderful country.
Well maybe AP hasn’t said exactly that but…
I’ve been a fan of CJ since Admin’s been posting her here.
Always good insight from outside the bubble.
But, I think I missed something during my nap.
Wasn’t white supremacy the greatest threat last week?
Or was it white men?
Cisgendered?
I’m so confused.
Blacks are 13% of the population, 40% of the prison population. Hispanics 16% and 19% of the prison population. Whites 60 and 30%. Wonder what the problem is?
Countries, like Australia, with no severe racial issues need to STFU. They have no idea, and will eventually end up in the same place as a result.
Like McLuhan’s the medium is the message, when it comes to race in America the problem is the solution.
It serves numerous agendas from the basic let’s you and him fight to maintaining a highly fractious society, thus the demand for ever increasing government intervention.
By the late 1970’s most blacks and whites had begun to come to a homeostasis in terms of relating to one another. Yes there were still concentrated areas of restless and combative populations in urban areas, but for the most part we were actually moving beyond race and accepting one another as part of the landscape. That’s why they needed to import another population of competitors to stir up hornets nest in the form of third-world refugee types looking for economic advancement and for the most part it came at the expense of our native black population- at least the first waves.
These people running the operation are simply farm managers. They understand full well how to either calm or agitate their herds, to keep them well fed and complacent or to ramp up their anxieties and fears in order to stampede them as they see fit. The populations unaware of their status are simply reacting to stimuli rather than reasoning their way towards a solution to their real problem which is…the farm managers.
What happened in the 70s? That would be welfare, and that was the end of racial progress best I can tell.
A lot happened.
https://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1970.html
Word up!
merica’s foreign policy is set by Wall Street. What you are seeing is a coup designed to have WS financiers gain direct control of a bankrupt US—just as they have dominated the world as listed by William Blum and John Perkins. CJ and most of the world fail to see a distinction between what WS and what the US government does. ref. https://genzconservative.com/the-federal-reserve-for-dummies/#_ftn3
There are many reasons for the huge numbers of people incarcerated.
1. The breakup of the basic family unit, especially in the poor community. No Fathers to teach the young men how to live a responsible life and to discipline them when they mess up.
2. Too many laws that make just about everything illegal. The kid who was killed in MN last week broke a law that says you cannot hang anything from your rear view mirror. Is this unsafe – Yes. Should it be against the law – No.
When you criminalize everything, everyone becomes a criminal.
No, that is lefty disinformation. He was pulled over for tags or broken tail light. Then they found he had a warrant. He earned the warrant for brandishing a weapon because he used weapon to threaten a woman’s life. Look it up. He was bad news.
So the fact that the china commies have biden’s son on their payroll isn’t a threat? Nonsense.
It could be argued that the china commies are just another POS billionaire buying-off US leadership, and any of the threat talk is either kabuki theater or a clash of these billionaire shitbags infighting.
Foreign governments and big businesses buy politicians like they are a piece of meat in a butcher shop. Once they have made their “investment”, they call the shots.
His registration was expired, but he also had something hanging from his rear view mirror.
My point is why is such a minor thing a violation of the law, other than to give the AGW’s another reason to pull you over and write a ticket. It is like seatbelt & helmet laws that are nothing more than government trying to protect you from yourself.
YPF, our national petroleum corporaion and major gas station operator, now has a stated policy of refusing to sell gasoline to any motorcycle driver not wearing a helmet. I wonder if this is true of all our filling stations now. The encroachment never stops.
Personally, I’m glad to see the nog get his comeuppance. I’m also glad to see the cop get charged. If a citizen made a similar mistake, their lives would be ova.
TN is also right, IMO, way too many laws.
The biggest threat to America and its Citizens is the US government.
Way to many people in prison in USA. They should cur the hands off convicted thieves. Adopt the Baltimore and St. Louis prosecutors position on illegal drugs and let the gangs provide their own drug enforcement. Buy drive by shooters a new gun and ammunition if they promise to do it again. That would reduce overcrowding a lot. I probably could come up eith a few more suggestions.
Thanks Stucky – this should be noted. I too love Caitlin.
.CJ writes: “the real threat to America today is the standing policy of overextending US military commitments in a futile effort to maintain unrivaled unipolar planetary hegemony…”
When you have unfettered control of $28 trillion embezzled over 100 years, you can sway and dominate nations, buy controlling interests in businesses, corrupt politicians, and wage endless wars. Ref. https://genzconservative.com/the-federal-reserve-for-dummies/#_ftn3 ….