Indeed -“Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out,” tweeted Graham (R-SC).
Indeed -“Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out,” tweeted Graham (R-SC).
I want to know why Putin thinks that murdering innocent women and children will restore greatness and glory to Russia. I want to know why Trumpist Putin-loving Republicans think that white nationalist racism will make America great again. I want to see Xi Jinping step up and prove China's greatness by brokering a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
If I were Putin, I'd laugh at that controversial comment of Biden's. It demonstrates our exasperation with how imprecise and slow are all the non-military options in opposing Russian hegemony. If it weren't for the nukes and other WMDs, we'd have taken a far more aggressive posture as the troops gathered on the Russian-Ukrainian border. In spite of the poor performance of his military and the improbable degree of coordination and vigor in the European and American responses, he has called our bluff again and has exposed the limits of our willingness and ability to act in coordination against Russia from a military standpoint. I think he cares far less about western rhetoric than he does about what information reaches the Russian public and how effective the propaganda machine is in deflecting what news from outside does leak through the firewall.
Do you think OUR fake news is any better than THEIR fake news?
My assessment of the habitual mendacity of the mainstream news media, including its deplorable coverage of the situation in Ukraine, together with my inclinication to condemn the genocidal imperialism emanating from Washington, D.C., has been strongly influenced over the past three decades by my reading of Davison Budhoo's 100-page resignation letter from the International Monetary Fund, which I view as essentially honest, and which is a taboo subject, blacked out of the mainstream news media.
(Ahem, that's my run-on sentence for the day.)
And now, for the first time, the first 29 pages of Budhoo's letter are readily available online. I'll share a few quotes:
"To me resignation is a priceless liberation, for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind’s eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples. Mr. Camdessus, the blood is so much, you know, it runs in rivers."
"The charges that I make are not light charges - they are charges that touch at the very heart of western society and western morality and post-war inter-governmental institutionalism that have degenerated into fake and sham under the pretext of establishing and maintaining international economic order and global efficiency."
"Will the world be content merely to brand our institution as among the most insidious enemies of humankind? Will our fellowmen condemn us thus and let the matter rest? Or will the heirs of those whom we have dismembered in our own peculiar Holocaust clamor for another Nuremberg?
"I don’t mind telling you that this matter has haunted me; it has haunted me particularly over the past five years. It has haunted me because I know that if I am tried I will be found guilty, very guilty, without extenuating circumstance."
"In guilt and self-realization of my own worthlessness as a human being, what I would like to do most of all is to so propel myself that I can get the man-in-the-street of North and South and East and West and First and Second and Third and Fourth and All Other Worlds to take an interest in what is happening to his single planet, his single habitat, because our institution was allowed to evolve in a particular way in late twentieth century international society, and allowed to become the supra-national authority that controls the day-to-day lives of hundreds of millions of people everywhere."
"We get away with our works of Dracula hiding behind the mask of Superior Technocracy and a Greater Wisdom striving for “financial balance” and “structural adjustment” in the Third World."
"And so it goes on and on and on. And nothing changes in the developing world except more death and destitution for the people in the slums, and more power for the Fund. And with the passing of every meeting our staff becomes even more reinvigorated; they wield a sharper and more bloodied tool; an even more terrifying Executor’s Axe stand poised for service everywhere in the South. And the children scream, Sir; my God, how they scream!"
(Budhoo is referring here to the incessant screaming of starving infants. When they stop screaming, you know that death is near.)
"The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same -- his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an 'Independent Press! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." ~John Swinton (1829–1901)
As previously asked; whom do you distrust the least? So far, we've apparently only identified two parties; the corrupt powerful and the duped masses, except for a few brave dissidents who can see the truth without the benefit of reliable sources of information (and yourself, of course).
Indeed -“Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out,” tweeted Graham (R-SC).
I want to know why Putin thinks that murdering innocent women and children will restore greatness and glory to Russia. I want to know why Trumpist Putin-loving Republicans think that white nationalist racism will make America great again. I want to see Xi Jinping step up and prove China's greatness by brokering a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
Unfortunately, under Xi in 2018, China took a decisive turn toward arrogant, neo-imperialistic thuggishness.
Yes, so true
I so agree with this! I think this could be a great opportunity Xi Jinping to become a statesman on the world stage.
If I were Putin, I'd laugh at that controversial comment of Biden's. It demonstrates our exasperation with how imprecise and slow are all the non-military options in opposing Russian hegemony. If it weren't for the nukes and other WMDs, we'd have taken a far more aggressive posture as the troops gathered on the Russian-Ukrainian border. In spite of the poor performance of his military and the improbable degree of coordination and vigor in the European and American responses, he has called our bluff again and has exposed the limits of our willingness and ability to act in coordination against Russia from a military standpoint. I think he cares far less about western rhetoric than he does about what information reaches the Russian public and how effective the propaganda machine is in deflecting what news from outside does leak through the firewall.
Do you think OUR fake news is any better than THEIR fake news?
My assessment of the habitual mendacity of the mainstream news media, including its deplorable coverage of the situation in Ukraine, together with my inclinication to condemn the genocidal imperialism emanating from Washington, D.C., has been strongly influenced over the past three decades by my reading of Davison Budhoo's 100-page resignation letter from the International Monetary Fund, which I view as essentially honest, and which is a taboo subject, blacked out of the mainstream news media.
(Ahem, that's my run-on sentence for the day.)
And now, for the first time, the first 29 pages of Budhoo's letter are readily available online. I'll share a few quotes:
"To me resignation is a priceless liberation, for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind’s eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples. Mr. Camdessus, the blood is so much, you know, it runs in rivers."
"The charges that I make are not light charges - they are charges that touch at the very heart of western society and western morality and post-war inter-governmental institutionalism that have degenerated into fake and sham under the pretext of establishing and maintaining international economic order and global efficiency."
"Will the world be content merely to brand our institution as among the most insidious enemies of humankind? Will our fellowmen condemn us thus and let the matter rest? Or will the heirs of those whom we have dismembered in our own peculiar Holocaust clamor for another Nuremberg?
"I don’t mind telling you that this matter has haunted me; it has haunted me particularly over the past five years. It has haunted me because I know that if I am tried I will be found guilty, very guilty, without extenuating circumstance."
"In guilt and self-realization of my own worthlessness as a human being, what I would like to do most of all is to so propel myself that I can get the man-in-the-street of North and South and East and West and First and Second and Third and Fourth and All Other Worlds to take an interest in what is happening to his single planet, his single habitat, because our institution was allowed to evolve in a particular way in late twentieth century international society, and allowed to become the supra-national authority that controls the day-to-day lives of hundreds of millions of people everywhere."
"We get away with our works of Dracula hiding behind the mask of Superior Technocracy and a Greater Wisdom striving for “financial balance” and “structural adjustment” in the Third World."
"And so it goes on and on and on. And nothing changes in the developing world except more death and destitution for the people in the slums, and more power for the Fund. And with the passing of every meeting our staff becomes even more reinvigorated; they wield a sharper and more bloodied tool; an even more terrifying Executor’s Axe stand poised for service everywhere in the South. And the children scream, Sir; my God, how they scream!"
(Budhoo is referring here to the incessant screaming of starving infants. When they stop screaming, you know that death is near.)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oJzvpfFzIKu76oE1CkzZlarRiVpYIggFMFzSt6OgHx0/mobilebasic"
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"The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same -- his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an 'Independent Press! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." ~John Swinton (1829–1901)
As previously asked; whom do you distrust the least? So far, we've apparently only identified two parties; the corrupt powerful and the duped masses, except for a few brave dissidents who can see the truth without the benefit of reliable sources of information (and yourself, of course).
Ten are the number.
We remember Reagan "Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev"