tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post8465382915193379573..comments2024-03-28T18:59:21.172-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Which elite sectors could unite to stop nuclear WWIII?agnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-30201061311462842972018-07-20T03:22:08.310-04:002018-07-20T03:22:08.310-04:00This is kind of a short term problem though our &q...This is kind of a short term problem though our "leaders" might try for a proxy war or two. Longer term Russia and China knows it just has to keep the warmongers at bay for a couple decades or so. <br /><br />https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/03/06/commentary-the-looming-crisis-for-us-tritium-production/<br /><br />By the early 2030s, the viability of the entire U.S. nuclear deterrent is at risk from an inability to produce tritium for nuclear warheads. The Trump administration will need to take action soon to manage this long-term problem. <br /><br />The US is as the Russians say "Not agreement capable" so by holding out for a few more years, roughly the time from Bush 2 till now, they will will no longer face as grave a threat.<br /><br />I doubt strongly the US will be able to reverse course on this and its quite possible we'll fall apart by than, a lot of people are predicting a civil war by than <br /><br /><br /><br />AB.Prospernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-65501673836093143442018-07-18T15:08:29.985-04:002018-07-18T15:08:29.985-04:00Agriculture doesn't have much private leverage...Agriculture doesn't have much private leverage to wield, but would bring crucial votes from politicians and the electorate alike -- giving the anti-war effort a broad-based appeal, including flyover farm states and socially conservative voters, not just Hollywood and Wall Street.<br /><br />They could also bring along some political organizing, like the Club for Growth, who like the Kochs control the anti-war libertarian GOP-ers like Paul, Amash, etc. There's no bigger budget-buster and debt-driver than militarism, so they're one of the few major GOP donor groups that are only in the party for the tax cuts, and explicitly against the soaring military budget and globalist occupation. Club for Growth comes from the finance sector, but is in alliance with agriculture by being part of the GOP coalition right now.<br /><br />They'd have the operatives and experience to run anti-war campaigns in states with lots of agriculture but little military pork, selling a socially conservative rather than liberal audience the case against endless boundless war.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-52057090836832180262018-07-18T14:25:42.051-04:002018-07-18T14:25:42.051-04:00The leverage here would be de-financializing the w...The leverage here would be de-financializing the warmongers, especially the news media getting de-funded by the finance sector, and the entertainment cartel shedding their news-oriented subsidiaries. News isn't profitable anyway, so no pain felt by getting rid of them, unlike getting rid of highly profitable fictional entertainment franchises.<br /><br />Make it so that the propaganda nexus would have to rely on conservatard donor funding, turning the mainstream news media into a collection of crackpot outlets. Their reputation for neutral trusted news-givers -- to the extent it even exists anymore, after all this incessant propaganda -- would go down the tubes if the more beloved entertainment companies spun them off, with their CEOs and actors, singers, and other entertainers saying we just can't afford to provoke nuclear WWIII if we want America to survive. And if it became known that only crazy Republican donors were propping up their funding, with the government -- intel agencies and the military -- being their puppetmasters, rather than being an independent news organization.<br /><br />The tech sector would reinforce the warmonger media's marginalization through de-ranking in search results, the "news" tab, tagging their YouTube channels with "sources are often anonymous CIA operatives," etc.<br /><br />Tech needs support from finance more than it needs support from the propaganda nexus or from the military. Most of their money comes from consumerist services -- digital ads and user information provided to marketers, little of which is political or news-oriented.<br /><br />Tech would move more toward the entertainment media bloc of the informational sectors. Netflix is already there, totally entertainment, zero news. Only Facebook would need cajoling, or removal from the coalition.<br /><br />Slashing the military's budget and scope of action directly requires taking over Congress and the White House, which would take longer. Until then, these private sectors can flex their muscles in the domains of society that they control.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-15131113690330193612018-07-18T13:30:06.590-04:002018-07-18T13:30:06.590-04:00Energy interests might be hurt by a war, but they ...Energy interests might be hurt by a war, but they would benefit from a theoretical conquest of Russia and getting to develop Russia's natural gas resources.<br /><br />In his book, "The Next 100 Years", George Friedman argues that the U.S. government is pursuing the collapse of Russia's government(hopefully through peaceful means) for that very reason.Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-54443126634499864022018-07-18T12:07:55.501-04:002018-07-18T12:07:55.501-04:00We've only just begun, white lace and promises...We've only just begun, white lace and promises, a kiss for luck and we're on our way...<br /><br />Ron Unz just published the article he's been wanting to write for years:<br />https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-oddities-of-the-jewish-religion/<br /><br />Something is stirring out here, Ag, that he felt so strongly to do this and now. The content and the timing strike fear into me.<br />Before reading this, there were two minor things that had recently been in the news or are still. Sarah Palin had been punked by Sacha Baron Cohen which wasn't all that noteworthy, but the treatment of she and her child afterward when the cameras weren't rolling was unusual: they were purposely dropped off at the wrong airport for what could only be for reasons of cruelty.<br />The second is that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quickly got visited with a grilling about Israel and Palestine. I have not come across anything noting her feelings on foreign policy matters, feelings on WikiLeaks, etc., so I assume she's been protected from such questioning that could stir controversy. But she could not escape this one.<br /><br />George Galloway, anti-Iraq War hero, has a very good article about this liberal hysteria and I thought you might find it interesting. He notes three instances of conservative presidents meeting with USSR leaders and that back then US liberals, naturally, cheered this and the rest of his article is an attempt to answer the puzzle of why this time is different:<br /><br />"All of this stems from the deep sense of denial on the left side of US politics. Denial and guilt.<br /><br />Their denial of a truth self-evident – that the Democrats fielded the only candidate in America who could possibly have lost to Donald Trump. Their guilt – that they colluded before or after the fact to rob the electorate of the chance to vote for the candidate most likely to have won them the presidency, Bernie Sanders.<br /><br />That their sordid maneuvering in the dark was revealed via WikiLeaks is something they have never forgiven. Their rigging of the Democratic Primary process on behalf of Hillary Clinton is now scarcely denied but like Lady Macbeth's damned spot it will not out. And all the expensively donated perfumes of Arabia will not expunge it."<br />https://www.rt.com/op-ed/433498-helsinki-trump-treason-summit/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com