First I want to congratulate Gaga on her Grammy and other award nominations and wish her the best winning them! And I want to congratulate the Wizard of Oz movie for being declared the most influential movie of all time.
I heard on the radio yesterday that the top General, or somebody - the Top Guy - said that America's war in Afghanistan was at a stalemate. I don't believe in War - I mean I believe it exists and shouldn't exist, I believe in Oz, a future without war or money. But I don't see how anyone can believe in War with this "news" that it is a stalemate between America and whoever we are fighting in Afghanistan.
Just put it in perspective. It is America's longest active war, 17 years. It's now at a stalemate, after 17 years. "A house fell on her sister I haven't seen her since," Becker just said. America has a bigger military than like the next 39 countries militaries put together. Afghanistan is somewhere far down on the list, I imagine. But the biggest military the world has ever seen, with unimaginably horrible destructive power, hasn't been able to defeat - somebody, I don't even know who, now - in Afghanistan for 17 years.
Is it because the people are completely incompetent? No - it's because war doesn't work.
War itself doesn't work.
Totally destroying the other side is not a victory or Good, fighting to a stalemate is the best you can hope for - and it's a stupid outcome to a stupid endeavor.
I said when the Syrian revolution started that it would only prove that violent revolutions, those kinds of wars, just don't work anymore, either. Even with all the American military support - which is basically what turned a non-violent protest led by women into a war - the rebel forces in Syria can't beat Assad.
Maybe they have right on their side - but they can't win, with violence. Because war doesn't work
They especially had right on their side before they took sides with America, before they took the weapons and path of violence. Iran recently condemned America for flooding the middle east with weapons.
When Russia was at war in Afghanistan they were at the height of their military power and fought there for ten years - while America supported the Mujaheddin or Taliban or whoever to fight against them - and didn't win. We've been there for 17 years, with an even more powerful military, and no one nearly as powerful (militarily) as America was in the 80's supporting Afghanistan's opposition - but we can't "win"
Because "winning" wars doesn't exist anymore - so war shouldn't exist anymore.
But we just need to get rid of the forces that insist on keeping War - and fossil fuels, etc - in place. Which brings us to Trump, which brings us to Russia.
The news yesterday was that details from the memos about the Mueller investigation into Trump's collusion with Russia showed Michael Cohen had meetings with a well-connected Russian agent who promised a meeting between Putin and Trump would be good politically and financially. They also showed Cohen's guilt in paying off Stormy Daniels and other women was at Trump's direction - that Trump broke the law, too. That's big news and may be what ultimately takes Trump down but for now I want to focus on the Russians.
Before I forget, I see it as more of a kidnapping or hostage situation that Trump is trying to arrest Meng Wanzhou, it's blatantly a brutish attempt to take a political bargaining chip, the same thing we accuse Iran and North Korea of doing. I have to emphasize: How can she be arrested for making a fraudulent company, to sell things to Iran, but Mark Zuckerburg is running around free after enabling and profiting from Russia hijacking our democracy, in America, UK, probably Brazil and now France - how is HE free, if CEO's and such can be arrested?
Why not nationalize Facbook? Why doesn't each country just nationalize their own segment of facebook - America would still be "first!" I think the #nationalizefacebook hashtag would make some crazy things happen, too, including what I actually mean by it.
Also I don't want to forget that I need to correct myself, from earlier, since I was duped into thinking the war in Yemen was a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Apparently that is the western news slant paid for to favor Saudi interests. According to someone on BBC last night, i forgot his name but he was a senior correspondent for the Gaurdian, Iran is barely involved but Saudi Arabia tells that story to "justify" invading Yemen which is in a civil war. He said Iran told the rebels not to take the capital, for instance, but they did anyway (war doesn't work.) And he said if Saudi Arabia had caught any Iranian agents working in Yemen they would have made a big show of it, but in fact they are just invading while a revolution is going on in Yemen, with our support, putting millions at risk of famine and killing countless people - and getting our support by saying it "opposes Iran."
We know now for a fact that Trump's election was influenced by Russian trolls and the same trolling was used to enact Brexit. I suspect the same trolls are the ones who got Bolsonaro elected in Brazil - because it fir the same pattern as Trump - online trolls in orchestrated ways making his support seem much greater than it really was in society, feeding on the worst, most racist and sexist and homophobic and authoritarian elements in society while making it all seem "normal" and popular.
And I suspect Russian Trolls are behind the Yellow Vest protests and riots rocking France now since they were organized online and insist there aren't, and "can't be," any actual leaders - the ones who have tried to come forward to represent the movement have gotten death threats and stepped aside. It just sounds like another Russian Troll scheme, to me, and the best way to diffuse the situation - and maybe avoid revolution there - could be to expose this and call it out.
If the people of France could look around and say "We have been duped, online, by the Russians - we were duped exactly like the English were" - I think if they said that they would relax and chill and stop revolting.
It hasn't made the news that Russian trolls hijacked the Brazilian election to put Bolsonaro in office - it's just my intuition and it just makes sense. Bolsonaro calls himself a Brazilian Trump and it fits: he's a racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-environmentalist, pro-police repression, anti-human rights fascist asshole just like Trump.
So if Russia wanted such a racist, fascist leader in America, why wouldn't they also want one in Brazil? It did make the news that facebook or Twitter deleted 100,000 fake accounts that were spreading false information and trying to influence the election in Brazil - just a few days before the vote. It sounded like Russia behind it, to me, all along, except in this case, unlike Trump, they managed to be predicting a win for him for months - due to that online activity, I'm sure.
While there IS evidence Russian trolling was the reason Brexit passed, they are only now, years later, considering revolting after wasting so much time, energy, and new coverage on what amounts to basically being scammed by a hostile government. Only when they've kept trying, and gotten about what could be expected - which will result in huge losses for Britain - do they finally realize it's just a terrible idea.
If they can just look at it from the Russian perspective - why does Russia want us to do this? - they can see through it.
We MAY be finally getting ready to get rid of Trump but no matter how much longer he is in office we can probably understand what he has been doing best, and learn the most lessons to avoid it in the future, by asking "Why would Russia want him to do this?"
Maybe because they have video of Russian prostitutes, the best in the world according to Putin, peeing on Trump - or maybe because they have billions of dollars in various deals with him - it seems to make the most sense if you just look at Trump as Putin's puppet. It makes all of his actions fit with an easy explanation - he's destroying America as much as possible. To be fair, I still consider him to be Hillary's puppet - she might be Putin's puppet, too, kind of like when Kang and Kodos ran for president on The Simpsons.
If we just look at these events and ask "What Would Russia Do?" we can see the pattern, see their agenda: In each case they are using the weakness of people in the country against them. In America, and I guess Brazil, one of our greatest flaws and weaknesses is racism. Trump, Russia, exploited that to hype up an ignorant "base" of white people who feel victimized and want to blame other races instead of their real persecutor, the system. Too many British people also, apparently, at least in England, feel some kind of Superiority and were sold Brexit on ideas of control and fears of immigrants, etc. The French may be keen to revolt and maybe a coordinated campaign on ANY issue could spark a revolution in the social media area - but the fact that this Yellow Vest revolt has some initial connection, supposedly, with protesting a gas tax it has that Clue that it is the work of Russia / Big Oil - that everyone is upset about Macron's attempt to shift to Green Energy.
That's a bad way to do it, just tax the rich, and while i have sympathy for any rebellion that is "for poor people" I do suspect the Russian trolling scheme is really behind the Yellow Vest revolution - and the best way to get the people to reconsider what they are doing is to see how they are falling for a Russian ploy.
Nothing against the people of Russia, just the government are obviously patriarchal oil and military baron assholes, like ours. What they don't realize is that having Trump eventually exposes the worst evils in our society and government -so we can root them out.
And we will. Historically, "Brexit" will be known as a huge waste of time, falling for a Russian ploy. Hopefully this Yellow Vest revolution will be exposed, soon, too - not only to end it but to get everyone aware that the trolls keep trying this - and succeeding if we don't expose them.
Their goal seems to be diminishing the power of their greatest "rivals" - I don't know what they're doing in China or India - maybe China has too much internet protection and India not as internet-saturated population - but maybe they helped elect Morsi in the old traditional ways - I feel certain that America did.
Which brings out the larger point: It's not The Russians, like they rule the world, now - it's Russian Trolls as part of All Fascism, worldwide - The Russians might be the best at trolling to influence things, now, but that is just one wing of the whole Fascist Agenda. We, in America, for example, have the guns and other weapons - that's our specialization in worldwide fascism.
The fact that Russians keep having this same agenda, and eventually will get "caught" for it, should show how these bad ideas are interwoven, in any culture. Greed and bigotry and anti-environmentalism and War are all hand-in-hand.
The fact that the Russians are "so good" at trolling just means they go too far, do it too much, and make it that much easier to expose them, in the end.
This is always the way with evil, it becomes it's own undoing.
Which is why War - hot, cold, cyber, trade - just doesn't work -it just punishes the "little guys" as the effect of Trump's trade war with China on farmers is proving. It always proves that the ones who push it just don't care.
If we see through it - see how it doesn't work, just leads to the destruction of others and ultimately ourselves - we can see what DOES work: working together, seeing ourselves as interconnected, with each other and with Nature.
"There are some Russian language tapes I want to o over' The guest star just said on The Joey Bishop show - he has recordings to hear as he sleeps to learn Russian. The magical message is, as we sleep and ignore how trolls are exploiting our weaknesses we just end up like them: more patriarchal, more oppressed, more tied to oil, military, and the corruption that goes with them. It just happens to be "Russian" but it's any of these anti-human, troll "languages" that hold the human race back: greed, bigotry, sexism, pollution, etc.
"I went to sleep last night 100% American I woke up I'm part Russian" Joey says, not knowing that he heard the record through the traincar wall while he slept. "He's captured by the enemy, and they brainwash him" - Lawrence Harvey in a movie. Now they are speculating that, years ago, some Russians that got Joey to drink vodka, and were smiling when he woke up, must have brainwashed him, and might wait years then "trigger" him to go back into the hypnotic state with a signal.
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