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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2024-202
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
Palestine:
Ukraine:
Selections:
Andrew Kloster @ARKloster – 23:57 UTC · Aug 24, 2024
BREAKING: Cornel West is dropping out and endorsing Trump.
“A brother can’t in good conscience endorse a pro-war, fake black, code-switching hussy whose ancestors owned slaves. I’m proud to stand with Donald John Trump.”
U.S. Navy Defeat:
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Other issues:
Boeing:
Free Speech:
Color Revolution Watch:
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …
Posted by: Ново З | Aug 25 2024 23:07 utc | 49
“..As to DJT being lame duck: yes, but maybe Bobby gets his 5% this November and wins as an Independent for next eight years. . ..
Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 25 2024 21:38 utc | 45
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Do you write more than you read, Scorpion? RFKjr has withdrawn from the election.
You are wrong; read more.
He is withdrawing his name from the ballot, on which citizens record their vote, in the ten main swing, or battleground, states wherein a few cities, most controlled by the DNC machine, often determine the national result. He remains on the ballot in the remaining 40 states wherein if he gets 5% of the national tally his candidacy (or Party?) qualifies for significant government funding next election and will get different treatment (perhaps) from the media etc. It is a significant hurdle.
Apparently he and Trump have been talking of a Unity government for some time, indeed they started in 2016 but Trump finked out as he became entirely outmanoeuvred in DC as many above have noted.
Have slowly been adjusting my habitual good versus evil, right vs wrong, filter over the years and come to the conclusion that both individually and collectively most are a combination. We all have positives and negatives and I now think the same of Trump and others. Barring the whole thing is kayfabe – which often provides the most reasonable explanation – I think Trump is a combination of bad and good ideas/policy aspirations, some of which he is more able to push forward more than others (and some of which are beneficial, others not). Most of the Establishment didn’t want The Wall, for example, but he was within about 6 months of completing most of the key areas when he left office in 2021. He had to classify it as a national emergency and use funds allocated by Congress to the military in order to finance it, and as typical with DJT the builder, it ended up costing less than most had forecast and went up fast once he had got through the many hurdles in the Courts and Congress.
A left-right Unity government in principle has the potential to change the Uniparty grasp on power in the States. Chances are that everything Honzo and suzan and others say to the contrary is correct, but again I think there are some positives in the mix, and not just aspirational. Bobby, clearly a troubled soul in many ways, also has a solid track record going up against major corporations and winning, and with verifiable results to boot, as the Hudson river demonstrates which in turn spawned a conservation association that is making a real-world difference, now world wide. He knows how to fight the Big Boys and Get Things Done, no small thing.
Trump also, to build buildings, has to go through sometimes 10-20 years of red tape and litigation involving not only competitors and local crime cartels (when in NYC for example), but all levels of government, municipal, State and Federal, wherein are many enemies as well as friends. Many times he failed but many times he succeeded and generally his buildings are of good quality and often quite interesting. By all accounts his Post Office to world class hotel conversion in DC was excellent and this is typical of his work. That work involves patience, tenacity and navigating through shark-infested waters to end up actually Getting Something Done. Most of his critics would not have the chops to build a single skyscraper in NYC or luxury golf course etc. and yet they look down on him scornfully as no more than a blowhard. He is that, but not only. Many working people, especially men, see him as one of their own; because he actually is. People are so used to everything being entirely phony these days that it is hard to perceive when something not entirely phony presents itself. Again: a mix.
So am hopeful that if this union has legs, they might actually start to shift the paradigm. One theme emerging, which I think has some truth to it, is that ‘it’s not left versus right anymore but reasonable versus crazy’. There is a Youtube with Bret Weinstein and PBD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju4ff_Ud99A (which I watched after my posts here yesterday) that has an interesting conversation, IMO. Bret is positive, and he was one of the leading alternative US intellectuals who went down to the Darien Gap to see for himself what was happening and came back to report on Tucker’s widely watched independent platform. He wants his country to do well, morally as well as politically, and is putting his shoulder to the wheel to help make it happen. He finds the alignment ‘monumental’, the biggest thing potentially since 1776. That might be over the top but think: if ordinary Americans can capture the middle and relegate the Uniparty Dems and GOP to the fringe, they really might have a shot at Draining the Swamp once they get the WH and enough votes in Congress to move things through. The only way this can happen is with a veritable landslide in November. Ideally they should get NY and California and just about everything else. This is what is being proposed.
Yes, the PTB are deeply corrupt and quite powerful. But they are not the sum of all in the mix. Can the American system actually accommodate the wishes of ordinary, largely decent We the People or has the entire thing been captured by Bad Actors as so many have gradually ‘woken up’ to realize?
I think there is a mix in the mix, though one never knows if one is not being ‘fooled again’.
Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 26 2024 13:32 utc | 87
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/107005
There are two irreconcilable worlds that have turned against each other. Us and them.
<=the concentration of wealth, power and control are consequences of division by polarization.
humanity differentiated by: and controlled from
level 9 intl orgs (NATO, BRICS, BIS, etc.) top down
level 8 Intl organized trade + NSS system top down
level 7 access to raw material, econ.&tech. top down
level 6 territorial boundaries, rule of law) top down
level 5 banking, transport (currency) & storage
________ (wealth) of value (Money) top down
level 4 religious, political & social orgs top down
level 3 gangs and criminal organizations top down
level 2 beliefs in ideology or religion bottom up
level 1 genetic diversity nature
It is clear human rights were suppressed by the top down few early in the development of the human world. This bias is
maintained by the claim that those with the power can conduct their activities in secret.. never disclosing to those they govern or exploit what happened..
It is the fault of those who are the governed..that the governed have come to be dominated by a dictatorial clan of vicious people? Has humanity allowed the few to take advantage of its global masses? States have a monopoly on [ownership of and access to] wealth and power. There are two forms of state power: direct monopoly power (the government); indirect privatized wealth and power given by the state to a few (in the form of patents, copyrights, franchises, and government contracts) or to the corporations and other entities owned by the few).
It is obvious that the more governmental monopoly power that ends up in private hands the weaker the government. In time, the governments become so weak, they become pawns, in service to, the few.
Unless humans born into the world rise to change top down to bottom up control, humanity is doomed to be dominated and to be abused by fewer and fewer who are wealthier and wealthier. To retain control the few must maintain oversight and veto dominance. States have no power; greedy people claim they have the authority given to a state as an excuse for their exercise of personal power. States cannot do anything.
Dominance is a feature of unequal polarization, that is why division gives rise to the rise of conquers. The war that is coming will balance the western power with the eastern power.
"He who owns the police and controls the news owns you, your wife and children and everything you and they own" <= Al Capone.
Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Aug 25 2024 15:42 utc | 3
unless there is a Trump win <= Trump proved he is unable to change anything and he also never asked the masses that voted from him for help..Trump kept his people out of the loop during his first term and likely will during his second term. WWIII is coming..and my bet is Trump will prove to be a poor general.
Posted by: Exile | Aug 25 2024 18:52 utc | 30
….. A land tax would offset the unearned income that is enabling the well off to have undeserved heights of profit elevating home prices out of the reach of ordinary citizen……Help me understand this
<= The 16th amendment eliminated the only way possible to tax the rich.. it was the war parties idea.. to collateralize the bankers who were dead set on financing the over throw of the oil rich Ottoman empire in the war known as WWI.. the 16th amendment reads:
The Congress should have the power to lay and to collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
the 16th amendment replaced Article I, Section 9, paragraph 4 which read..
No Capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
furthermore those who privately own land already pay taxes to the counties and cities.
and it is not failure to tax landowners that is "enabling the well off to have undeserved profit from artificially elevated home prices. Hudson is dead wrong on this point.
<=Counties already tax everyone's land. In fact it is just that county city land tax which is a major contributor to higher home prices. The counties are anxious to have housing prices go higher and higher because they collect and live off of a tax based on a percentage of real estate value each year. The insurance industries lobby more restrictive building codes because insurance profits skyrocket when premiums for replacements costs increase, and actual losses (payouts by insurance companies) decrease (higher premiums, fewer claims).
So homeowner pays double for his insurance(higher premiums, and higher cost to build or replace in the case of loss)
Zoning, material suppliers, labor, building codes, insurance lobbying and politics account for the higher real estate cost which are forcing homeowners into foreclosure.
Posted by: juliania | Aug 25 2024 20:08 utc | 35
So it’s the failure to tax away land rent, which is what Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Mill urged. This failure has caused the increase in housing prices that’s priced American and Western labor out of the market...
<= pardon me, but I own a few pieces of real estate and I develop new housing subdivisions; Hudson is dead wrong in believing if the value of land were taxed to 0, housing prices would decrease or rents would decrease. the price owners would need to charge for rent would triple.. already it is a struggle for developers to develop subdivisions or landlords to make a profit, because of insurance costs, land cost, cost imposed by building codes, and payments to county officials or local lawyers to get the right to develop land suitable for new housing.
The failure to tax the people in accord with Article 1, Section 9, paragraph 4 as above quoted accounts for inflation in general.. including house costs.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 26 2024 11:45 utc | 86
smoke blown up our arses constantly to keep us confused about the magic of Price and Value, Money and Wealth through the pseudo religious gobbledygook that is economics and its theories.
<= the price of a house is what willing buyers will pay, but if the cost to construct exceeds the willing sellers cost there will be no willing sellers, and if the Landlord costs exceeds the market determined rents, the landlords will offer no rentals. The correct solution, to be in line with Hudson economics, is for the government to own all housing and the government to provide to everyone a place to live.
Posted by: snake | Aug 26 2024 15:45 utc | 96
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