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It is “highly likely”, Marko, that “we” will never know.

Yeah, being “right” about virtually everything for the past fifty years ought to be “worth” something.

Once Aaaange “suicides”, or gets locked up for life, well then, “things” can get back to “normal” and the next “Commander in Chief” can get on with perpetual war-making and the financial elite with making killings of various kinds.

However, most certainly, Russia (and China … and Iran and, well, all the “bad guys” of each precious moment) will have to be “dealt” with.

The U$ian foundational and exceptional myths are thread-bare and moth-eaten, yet the media and academia will continue to successfully push them onto a childish, stupefied public all aglow with being the preeminent “democracy”, the one True Hope of the world.

Existential crises?

What crap!

Nuclear wars are “winnable” and profitable while, of course, puny little people could NEVER harm or fatally pollute the wellsprings of life on planet Earth.

Epstein’s demise, predicted by so many, was (is) not a failure of authority, but a sign that authority believes itself far above consequence or even successfully sustained contempt and disgust.

Corruption wins out when the critical thought process is suffocated at birth.

However, there are still far too many who believe that “we” can vote our way out of extinction, especially if we keep voting for pre-selected candidates, all those Commander in Chiefs in waiting, the bridesmaids of Armageddon, whose profound inability to perceive societal collapse brought on by agriculture failure on a global scale, renders their “vision” of the future amenable to the financial masters.

While the Few hunger for more obscene wealth and unrestrained power, the Many will find less and less to sustain their already meager existence, even here in the “Homeland”.

Yes, Hunger will stalk the Many all over the world and technology will be pushed with a vengeance, to be matched only by the increasingly rigid control of “information” by the likes of Facebook and self-appointed think-tank Commitees of Rectitude which will patrol the boundaries of “Acceptable” speech. All “legal” and “above board” by judicial decree and executive order.

Legislators will “rubber-stamp” whatever they may be instructed to do so, through bribes and “understandings”.

Corruption on a massive, almost unimaginable scale?

“We” are there already.

Total propaganda on the “official”, “real” channels?

Already “there”.

Is Epstein’s demise of great convenience to the elites, financial, governmental, and so on, including foreign and domestic “intelligence” agencies?

You betcha.

Now, in light of your success rate with prediction, what do you predict will happen next, Marko?

What would be the next “convenient thing” for the elites?

By now, they need not fear anyone calling them out.

Obama showed whistle-blowers what to expect.

Trump is showing Manning and Assange (and any who would dare follow their “example”) what to expect.

So, what can the rest of us expect … next?

More scandals?

More outrages?

More slanders of those opposed to war, of those concerned about environmental catastrophe?

More of the same old shit, of which Epstein’s demise is but the latest example?

What nation or people will the U$ next attack, with sanctions or bombs?

Will “we” teach them uppity Huns (Germans) a lesson, for daring to suggest that the U$ military ought to just leave and take their stinking nukes with them?

Or will we simply bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age”, or perhaps stare at China, eyeball to eyeball, battleship to battleship, in the South Chona Sea?

Might the U$ simply declare itself against everyone and “First Strike” the entire world?

In a word, how much more insane will the U$ become?

Any predictions?

And, here is the Big One; When, if ever, will most everybody else, beyond the Israelis and the Brits, the Aussies and Canadians, simply decide that, in terms of U$ belligerence, “enough” is “ENOUGH!!!”?

It is a fairly safe bet that things are just going to get worse and worse, as even strictly amateur observers can envision that trajectory, but what of the keenest of observers?

What descending steps or precipitous plunges might they imagine await us as “we” (the U$) go “around the bend”?

Might it be time for intelligent folks to actually talk with (not at) each other, realizing that the status quo AIN’T working and begin, in democratic fashion, to build a vision of a more humane and sustainable future?

Perhaps it is both too early and too late for that?

I must say that these fabulous Friday Consortium News Events DO tend to suggest that REAL endeavor MUST be engaged in, by the Many, IF we are to wrest the future from the vultures and pathologically dangerous Few.

Should we fail to do this soon, then, ladies and germs, things look rather grim indeed, especially for the young, including my children, who we condemn to a world of violence, scarcity, and extinction … all in the name of mindless, unfettered greed and the infantile lust for absolute power.

What was it used to be said: “That ain’t a threat, it is a promise.”

Ain’t none too promising, I would venture to speculate.

Many of us have a rather clear sense of where things are going, should the present course of things prevail, but I note that even old incrementalists, like Paul Street (I have no idea how old he actually is), who, as late as 2016, advocated that we hold our noses and “vote” for Hillary, now calls for revolution though, as he cautions, “… people will die”.

Either way people will die.

If pointing out the truth be “sedition”, if the truth is said to be offense to the Elite Few, then by all means, let us make the most of it.

How much worse must things become before a majority of U$ians will understand that no political solution, resulting from merely taking a couple of minutes every four years to “choose” a candidate of the two(?!!!) legacy political parties, can possibly make any realistic difference?

To pretend that democracy exists in the U$, or ever really has existed, is an exercise in childish absurdity, it is pathetic, really, a surrender to empty mythology and compounded deceits.

Of course, if change is really going to be hard and dangerous, then why should we risk our precious skins and comfortable complacency?

Let the working stiffs do it.

Let the lower classes pay the price.

After all, we are well educated, know about choosing the best wines, have our portfolios profitably aligned …

I mean really, when you get right down to it, property is far more productive than people, right?

That is what the Floundering Fathers believed and designed, from the get go, a Constitution and a political process to severely limit democratic tendencies and to protect wealth, property, and power.

That is NOT democracy.

Politicians who speak of “returning” to some idyllic age when “things were more democratic” are either ignorant of actual history or conning the flock, sheep-dogging the many who have been spoon-fed stage-managed hagiography as “history”.

Those who desperately desire power are not ever to be trusted with it.

Any more than those who want to control information should ever be permitted to do so.

A decent familiarity with history, compiled by honest historians would admit to their own prejudice, reveals that little but the destructive power of technology has changed over the centuries of what we call “civilization”.

Too often, state or “official”, violence is excused as merely a manifestation of “human nature”.

A deeper appreciation of the enculturation process reveals that much of violent behavior is learned, it is taught, either blatantly or through its acceptance or aggrandizement.

Hollywood aggrandizes violence and violence is as U$ian as Apple pie, slavery and genocide.

We claim to be shocked when psychologically manipulated and weakened beings run amok and kill other humans in our cities, towns, and countryside, while pretending that we are not a military empire and the most violent of nations, as both policy and a matter of hubristic pride.

War, the threat of war, and economic warfare, constitute the essence and totality of our “foreign” policy, while U$ police forces kill with brutal “domestic” license every single day. Vast sums are spent on war and “policing”. The largest part of the federal budget goes to “defense” (a euphemistic term if ever there was one) and what monies the police do not get “up front”, they can always obtain through “civil asset forfeiture ” laws.

Violence is baked into the system, even the prison system reflects the violence directed against the poor, which is successful only because the poor, unlike the rich cannot “buy” their way out, as did Epstein, once upon a time.

Clearly, there are blatant patterns, obvious to all who are not willfully blind, of endemic systemic violence as fundamental to the U$ian “Way”.

However, when unhinged “amateurs” go amok, everyone exclaims, “Oh my! Where did this come from?”

Haven’t a clue?

No idea at all?

In U$ parlance: Violence is Solution.

Just ask John Wayne.

Just ask John Bolton.

They’ll tell ya, partner.

Ya got a problem?

Say a Epstein?

We got a solution.

Even if he did off himself.

Violence is the Final Solution.

You can bank on it.

Literally.

So, gulls and bouys, who shall we deep six next?

DW