"But what has been done to us is the least of it. The worst is what we’ve been forced to do to others. The purpose of the Constitution was to fund a standing army, which all citizens were against. That’s now we’re the military enforcer for the despots ruling the world, giving 60 standing ovations to the greatest psychopath. It isn’t for us we need to take back our sovereignty, but for those whose sovereignty we’re taking away in the most heartbreaking ways."
That's a new spin - for me. Very insightful. Thanks, Tereza.
That was the last thing I wrote before running out the door (so thanks for showing where I needed to edit). It was because a friend sent a post from Caitlin Johnstone that reads, "He had two babies and a wife, now he has nothing." It shows newborn twins, adorable. They and their mother and grandmother were killed by an Israeli bomb while he was out collecting their birth certificates. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/he-had-two-babies
The CIA and DOD NOW believe that they have the right to SELECT AND INSTALL our Presidents - they will do ****ANYTHING**** to keep President Trump away from the Whitehouse - the president they want is one who will support the Ukranian Proxy War .
Thanks for linking that Lew Rockwell article, Contumacious. Here's a quote from it:
"Patrick Henry (1736—1799), in his June 5 speech in the Virginia ratifying convention against adopting the Constitution, likewise denigrated standing armies: “A standing army we shall have, also, to execute the execrable commands of tyranny; and how are you to punish them? Will you order them to be punished? Who shall obey these orders? Will your mace-bearer be a match for a disciplined regiment?” “Brutus” wrote more about the evils of standing armies than any other Anti-Federalist. Sixteen of his essays were published in the New York Journal from October 1787 to April 1788. In four of these essays (numbers 1, 8, 9, 10), he explains how the establishment and maintenance of standing armies breeds fear, is destructive to liberty, and should be viewed as a scourge to a country instead of a benefit."
Patrick Henry and Robert Yates, aka Brutus, are two of my greatest heroes. However, Trump has been selected by Israel, which means he'll be the next placeholder. Ukraine is a sacrifice zone that's already lost. It's war against the Levant and Iran/ China/ Russia that Bibi is doing his damnedest to incite. And Trump is their Chosen One to provide the standing army/ drones/ bombs/ tanks. It will be interesting times.
I knew some of this, but all these details do tie it up altogether so nicely. I particularly loved the comment about double speak: calling something the opposite of what it is and usurping the word/phrase which actually describes it. Language used as a weapon. Counterfeit used a weapon. Empathy used as a weapon… all these inversions. Ready for that third paradigm, T! Can it happen within my lifetime? Or maybe we’re in it but still filtering out the old. Hard for the fish swimming in the ocean to notice the water.
You're making me feel much better about reposting this. It felt like cheating but important enough to bring current.
Yes that inversion of language has been striking me (violent verb, case in point.) When I want to use a superlative, I have 'amazing' or leading into a maze, 'incredible' or not believable, 'unbelievable' or not credible, ''stupendous' or able to stupefy, 'terrific' does that include terror?, or fascinating or mesmerizing which mean spell-binding. Are these all casting subliminal spells on us?
And yes, empathy used as a weapon, compassion turned against us. So awful (awe-full turned into its opposite).
I think we are already in the turning. It's easier for people to believe bad predictions than good but the two are tied together. The assassinations and attacks on foreign soil by Netanyahu are designed to provoke a war of the US/ Israel against Iran/ Russia/ China and the global South. Maybe it will end in nuclear conflagration but it's nearly certain to end with the US cut off from trade using petrodollar funny money. We have no industry other than war munitions. So I don't think it's fear mongering that we may be thrown into self-reliance, whether we will or no.
I’m convinced there’s only two kinds of people in this world: those who wish to be governed and those who chose self-reliance. I’d like to think that we’ll be thrust into self-reliance and most folks would learn how to swim rather than sink.
Great point about all that spell casting. So much of the american language is so militant. We're just taught these phrases and expressions and we repeat them without a second thought.
Thank you so much, Pauline. Isn't it astonishing that these things are so major and we don't know them? I feel like one rabbit hole led to another, like Alice in Wonderland. And I kept saying, "Nah, that can't be true. Someone would be talking about it, right?"
I read Zuboff's book a few years back. It's possible that I'm misremembering, but I believe that she was saying that companies like Facebook are not just advertising agencies, but are also intelligence gathering agencies, cooperating with government to spy on us at all times. To me that's a bigger issues than ads (which I can block with uBlock Origin), and is why I still refuse to use Facebook.
Ah you've done it now, Mark. I rewatched this video, which I hadn't for a long time. I'm assuming you're one of the other four who has. I think I'll set it to repost over the weekend, since I'm traveling anyway, and then we can have a whole thread to talk about it. I agree with you, in short, but it covers a lot more topics.
I know you like dancing so here is a (Broadway) musical tribute ...
Crikey, that’s some reading list!! Tereza, do you realise how important your posts are in providing a broad and solid foundation for information and discussion?!!
My ‘awareness’ of this period of American history is somewhere between zero and anecdotally superficial.
12:16 – “Alexander Hamilton was the lawyer for Robert Morris who was the primary financier of the Revolutionary War …”
Hamilton – lawyer – I am triggered to offer this little dossier on Hamilton the lawyer … readers, please take on at your own pace …
I just rewatched Episode 4 of “Forbidden History of Globalism” by Mike (M. S.) King. He presents the entire history of globalism in 39 parts (see his Bitchute channel).
• Episode 4 - Young America vs London Bankers – The Invisible Critic (Mike King)
The second half from around 5:00 is all about Hamilton and is highly relevant to this article.
Spoiler alert! Mike King is not a fan of Hamilton.
The rewriting of history as part of the eradication of ‘Western culture and civilisation’ often starts with mockery in the form of ‘entertainment’ (Charlie Chaplin and black-face Al Johnson come to mind) and a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down …
But speaking of dancing, they have even turned selective ‘history’ into a Broadway musical …
• The Miseducation Of Hamilton: America's First Shadow Banker Redefines Reality
44:20 – Alexander Hamilton working along with Robert Morris, the wartime head of his central bank and Governor Morris who confusingly is not related to Robert Morris but is also another fellow traveller – they were found out, it has later been proved, to have been working behind the scenes during this Newburgh conspiracy - with this issue of an unpaid army, to make sure that other potential solutions to paying them were rejected – they would not allow other solutions to just solve this crisis. And simultaneously they were working behind the scenes to stoke the anger of these army officers and their followers. …
and then it just accelerates from the ridiculous to the absurd
Chris Curls (Bitchute channel “The Highest Underground Show”) did an audio reading with commentary of the book “A Youth’s History of The Great Civil War” by Rushmore G Horton.
First 10 minutes explains the purpose of the book by the author (with astute commentary by Chris Curls)
• A Youth’s History of The Great Civil War…Chapter 1 (improved sound) – Chris Curls - The Highest Underground Show
What a kind thing to say, Julius! Broad, solid and deep foundation for informed discussion, that's exactly my goal. And you are always right there, at the growing tip of information, ready to stretch us a little farther in knowledge and ideas.
I know we've been disagreeing lately over Asha Logos but there's something I've been wanting to say--I think you disparage your own wisdom in relationship to him. I think he's done some great work with his research and presentation but he also feels, to me, young. I hear some of his views and think, "Okay talk to me when you've raised a few kids to be adults." When one of my daughters tries to explain how the world really is to me, I think, "You're smart and you're starting from a point further along than me (thanks to me) but I still have 35-41 yrs on you, and I haven't wasted it." That's certainly true for you as one of the best-informed people I've ever met. I think what you're bringing is more nuanced and humble than Zack. That's all I wanted to say.
And you've given me much to listen to lately but these will go to the top of the queue! Yes, Matt Ehret and I have fallen out over Hamilton and it makes me question his blind spots as a historian. My oldest daughter loved the musical and went to see it. It seemed like pure propaganda to me. These have me so excited to have at my fingertips for those arguments!
And my only small correction is that Gouverneur is Morris' first name, not title, which I still can't spell without looking it up. Was there a contest for the most vowels in a name the year he was born? Thanks always, Julius!
Yes, yes and yes. Great foundation - or we would not even be talking about any of the topics you present. Blind spots - everywhere - it's all a blur to me. If I 'see' (I mean detect) a blind spot in someone (eg Asha Logos - hopes in Trump) I assume it is me or try and put myself in their position at a certain stage in their journey.
LOVED the Miseducation of Hamilton. So well presented and well informed. He covered every base. SO interesting about the Rockefeller funding and the author of Titan and the playwright's father and sister, and the EduHam. I need to watch more from this guy, he's very history savvy.
I watched Mike King with The Invisible Critic and was happy to see all the things he got right. And I didn't know, or forgot, that Hamilton was half-Jewish. Very interesting. He misses the point of the Articles of Confederacy, however. They were intentionally bland, only the areas in which the States needed to agree. When he condemns them as weak and not providing for defense, he's falling into the same standing army argument.
The State Constitutions were the inspirational ones. And I've a few choice words for Washington in my book. Definitely not the hero Mike thinks he is. More like a real estate mogul who wanted to eradicate the natives, something England was preventing. That was his motivation. Looking forward to the Miseducation, which I'm enjoying so far!
I've been getting a stomach ache from all the Hamiltonian hagiography out there without the requisite stomach acid to digest the gristle. This is just what I needed. Now I can proceed with equanimity to redress my gross ignorance and forgetfulness of American history.
Julius Skoolafish posted some great references in the comments, including this you might enjoy on the Miseducation of Hamilton: https://www.bitchute.com/video/wB9Q88sgdxc/.
As usual required 2 readings and reading about Ben Franklin a fascinating guy, despite being a Freemason.
The central role of "money" in the revolt and post-revolt. I had long suspected Hamilton's role as agent for the bankers, but was not aware of his role in de-federalization. The working people are the power of a revolution, but without an understanding of the "enemy", a strong organization and wise leadership end up being abused, and their sacrifices are used against them. The corrupt "judicial" system since day one.
PS. I nice quote of Ben Franklin, written shortly before his death:
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble. I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequence, as it probably has, of making his doctrines more respected and better observed; especially as I do not perceive that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in his government of the world with any particular marks of his displeasure.
Thank you, Fadi. I'm preparing a draft called Poppy Wars & Taming Tigers that brings in your research on Japan and the Monster of Showa. Really shocking to realize I had no idea of any of this, although I was aware of the 'Comfort Women,' which also shocked me at the time.
Very interesting that he was Shinzo Abe's grandfather. Cynthia Chung reposted an article about his assassination here: https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/why-shinzo-abe-was-assassinated-towards. At the same time, she once again presents Hamilton as saving the US as a sovereign nation-state and influencing List in Germany.
I've debated this in various posts and comment threads with Matt Ehret, Cynthia's husband. It's such a blatant misrepresentation of history that it calls into question all the other areas where we agree. Julius posted some excellent references on Hamilton that I'll cite, including this one: https://www.bitchute.com/video/wB9Q88sgdxc/. If you have any thoughts on Cynthia's article on Shinzo Abe, I'd love to include that in my piece.
And yes, Ben Franklin remains a hero as much as anyone is to me, and despite being a Freemason. He has some other scathing words for Christians in their treatment of native Americans. This seems a very diplomatic answer. Thanks, Fadi.
Quote: "I'm preparing a draft called Poppy Wars & Taming Tigers"
Super. My writings are neither for fame nor fortune. I don't care for the former and have enough for my simple lifestyle for the latter. My purpose is to disseminate truth to the best of my knowledge.
Quote: "Really shocking to realize I had no idea of any of this"
Yep, neither did I when I started my research. It is a shame that not everybody knows about these horrendous crimes. And worse is that these criminals went on to assume leading positions in Japan and the US. Exposing these crimes is our humane duty towards the memory of the poor souls who suffered.
Quote: "Very interesting that he was Shinzo Abe's grandfather"
As I stated in the book, post WWII Japan was a Kishi fiefdom, just as Saudi Arabi is to the Saudi clan. Kishi, his brother and his grandson were prime ministers. More importantly, at least until Abe's death they were the power behind politics in Japan. 74 year reign at least.
Quote: "Cynthia Chung reposted an article about his assassination"
I read it. In the usual style long-winded, with many unnecessary divergences. I didn't find the explanation she provided for his assassination convincing.
The Kishi family has a long trail of blood dating back 1935. There was a powerful opposition to US occupation in the 1950s. This was ruthlessly quelled. In particular, to consolidate Kishi clan rule and subservience to occupation, many crimes were committed in Japan, including death squads and culminating with the assassination of opposition leader Inejirō Asanuma in 1960. Asanuma was calling for entente with China. Japanese population was greatly opposed to US occupation and the shameful treaties. When president Eisenhower wanted to visit Japan in 1960, the police refused to provide security for the visit. Kishi had the Yakuza (Japanese mafia provide security), but Eisenhower cancelled the visit.
Cynthia is looking solely from a Western perspective, without researching internal dynamics in Japan. Enemies of the Kishi clan in Japan, can be easily counted in the millions. Note that there is no justice in Japan, suffice to note that conviction rate exceeds 99% lol. Of course the death squad crimes in the 1950s had a conviction rate of 0% lol.
Accordingly addressing the Abe assassination requires much much more research than what Cynthia presents.
Quote: "At the same time, she once again presents Hamilton as saving the US as a sovereign nation-state and influencing List in Germany.
I've debated this in various posts and comment threads with Matt Ehret, Cynthia's husband. It's such a blatant misrepresentation of history that it calls into question all the other areas where we agree"
Yep, I agree. I used to follow Ehret, but stopped a while back. I disagree with him on both Hamilton and FDR. He also makes a hero of FDR, whereas the much better researched work of David Rogers Webb, exposes FDR to having been in cahoots with the Fed and the big banks. And how they dispossessed the population of their wealth.
Perfect, Fadi, that confirms what I was suspecting. And yes on FDR, I forgot about that blind spot for Ehret and Chung. I appreciate the research and I'll include it. We both have the same view towards fame and fortune: however I can put forward my best understanding of what's true at that time, I'm willing to do and give credit wherever I can. I love that your reviews call your book a primer. It's how I think of mine too. There's so much history we need to understand clearly before we can draw any conclusions about the path forward.
hola, tereza. i really enjoyed this. again, you've done an excellent and succinct job of debunking the propagandised myths of the american government's root and purposes. double speak from a long time ago!
have you read jane jacobs 'cities and the wealth of nations: principles of economic life'? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85401.Cities_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations this book looks at how the great cities of the usa became great because they had their own internal banknotes. and that the decline of their greatness is directly connected to the forced american dollar. at the time i read it i was researching my economics debunked and the eu had recently been formed. i saw that as a great opportunity to see the validity of her argument: would their be a migration of wealth away from certain countries/cities to those that were the most efficient? at the time there was strong evidence that that was indeed happening.
and another book i rcommend is an interesting perspective on debt written by the canadian writer and thinker, margaret atwood. paybook: debt and the shadow side of wealth. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3428252-payback
i found her book a great complement to graebers' amazing debt: the first 5000 years.
and speaking of margaret atwood, i have found it interesting that her novel, oryx and crake https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46756.Oryx_and_Crake has not been talked about with so-called mfm or anti-tyrannical discussions because it has some interesting near confid-like precognitions. it was set in the near future around the manipulation of health by big pharma, the use of poisoned vitamins to promote illness. it included man-made 'meat' protein. and, ultimately, death by a man-made virus.
Hello, Guy and thank you. Yes, you've mentioned Jane Jacobs before and she's very interesting. I haven't read the ones by Margaret Atwood. I'll check them out. Thanks again.
hola, tereza. i'll do my best to remember that i've mentioned to you jane jacobs. the other books of hers on economics and social structures i've read have also been well worthwhile.
i really did find your deconstruction of the constitution and its formation to be pretty much invaluable. and goes back, by inference, that the deep state is indeed 'deep' and deeply imbedded in the history of at least western civilisation. it covertly supports the idea of the km and the rhaddanite bankers having had a lot of influence for a very long time. great work.
Well, wow.
"But what has been done to us is the least of it. The worst is what we’ve been forced to do to others. The purpose of the Constitution was to fund a standing army, which all citizens were against. That’s now we’re the military enforcer for the despots ruling the world, giving 60 standing ovations to the greatest psychopath. It isn’t for us we need to take back our sovereignty, but for those whose sovereignty we’re taking away in the most heartbreaking ways."
That's a new spin - for me. Very insightful. Thanks, Tereza.
That was the last thing I wrote before running out the door (so thanks for showing where I needed to edit). It was because a friend sent a post from Caitlin Johnstone that reads, "He had two babies and a wife, now he has nothing." It shows newborn twins, adorable. They and their mother and grandmother were killed by an Israeli bomb while he was out collecting their birth certificates. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/he-had-two-babies
I'm so tired of this.
>>>>>>The purpose of the Constitution was to fund a standing army, which all citizens were against.<<<<<<
The Anti-Federalists opposed Standing Armies
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/05/laurence-m-vance/standing-armies/
The CIA and DOD NOW believe that they have the right to SELECT AND INSTALL our Presidents - they will do ****ANYTHING**** to keep President Trump away from the Whitehouse - the president they want is one who will support the Ukranian Proxy War .
Sad.
Once again the anti-federalists are proven right
Thanks for linking that Lew Rockwell article, Contumacious. Here's a quote from it:
"Patrick Henry (1736—1799), in his June 5 speech in the Virginia ratifying convention against adopting the Constitution, likewise denigrated standing armies: “A standing army we shall have, also, to execute the execrable commands of tyranny; and how are you to punish them? Will you order them to be punished? Who shall obey these orders? Will your mace-bearer be a match for a disciplined regiment?” “Brutus” wrote more about the evils of standing armies than any other Anti-Federalist. Sixteen of his essays were published in the New York Journal from October 1787 to April 1788. In four of these essays (numbers 1, 8, 9, 10), he explains how the establishment and maintenance of standing armies breeds fear, is destructive to liberty, and should be viewed as a scourge to a country instead of a benefit."
Patrick Henry and Robert Yates, aka Brutus, are two of my greatest heroes. However, Trump has been selected by Israel, which means he'll be the next placeholder. Ukraine is a sacrifice zone that's already lost. It's war against the Levant and Iran/ China/ Russia that Bibi is doing his damnedest to incite. And Trump is their Chosen One to provide the standing army/ drones/ bombs/ tanks. It will be interesting times.
I knew some of this, but all these details do tie it up altogether so nicely. I particularly loved the comment about double speak: calling something the opposite of what it is and usurping the word/phrase which actually describes it. Language used as a weapon. Counterfeit used a weapon. Empathy used as a weapon… all these inversions. Ready for that third paradigm, T! Can it happen within my lifetime? Or maybe we’re in it but still filtering out the old. Hard for the fish swimming in the ocean to notice the water.
You're making me feel much better about reposting this. It felt like cheating but important enough to bring current.
Yes that inversion of language has been striking me (violent verb, case in point.) When I want to use a superlative, I have 'amazing' or leading into a maze, 'incredible' or not believable, 'unbelievable' or not credible, ''stupendous' or able to stupefy, 'terrific' does that include terror?, or fascinating or mesmerizing which mean spell-binding. Are these all casting subliminal spells on us?
And yes, empathy used as a weapon, compassion turned against us. So awful (awe-full turned into its opposite).
I think we are already in the turning. It's easier for people to believe bad predictions than good but the two are tied together. The assassinations and attacks on foreign soil by Netanyahu are designed to provoke a war of the US/ Israel against Iran/ Russia/ China and the global South. Maybe it will end in nuclear conflagration but it's nearly certain to end with the US cut off from trade using petrodollar funny money. We have no industry other than war munitions. So I don't think it's fear mongering that we may be thrown into self-reliance, whether we will or no.
It's not cheating!! It's totally relevant. I'm honored you kicked it off with a mention of my recent post. 😊
"It's easier for people to believe bad predictions than good but the two are tied together." Yes. Always.
The other industry we have is SHOWBUSINESS, BABY!! 🎩
But show business didn’t want to have us. 😭
I’m convinced there’s only two kinds of people in this world: those who wish to be governed and those who chose self-reliance. I’d like to think that we’ll be thrust into self-reliance and most folks would learn how to swim rather than sink.
Great point about all that spell casting. So much of the american language is so militant. We're just taught these phrases and expressions and we repeat them without a second thought.
I didn't know any of this Tereza 😳
You're a fantastic teacher...thank you for sharing your gifts 🙏
Thank you so much, Pauline. Isn't it astonishing that these things are so major and we don't know them? I feel like one rabbit hole led to another, like Alice in Wonderland. And I kept saying, "Nah, that can't be true. Someone would be talking about it, right?"
Concur with you.
I read Zuboff's book a few years back. It's possible that I'm misremembering, but I believe that she was saying that companies like Facebook are not just advertising agencies, but are also intelligence gathering agencies, cooperating with government to spy on us at all times. To me that's a bigger issues than ads (which I can block with uBlock Origin), and is why I still refuse to use Facebook.
Ah you've done it now, Mark. I rewatched this video, which I hadn't for a long time. I'm assuming you're one of the other four who has. I think I'll set it to repost over the weekend, since I'm traveling anyway, and then we can have a whole thread to talk about it. I agree with you, in short, but it covers a lot more topics.
I know you like dancing so here is a (Broadway) musical tribute ...
Crikey, that’s some reading list!! Tereza, do you realise how important your posts are in providing a broad and solid foundation for information and discussion?!!
My ‘awareness’ of this period of American history is somewhere between zero and anecdotally superficial.
12:16 – “Alexander Hamilton was the lawyer for Robert Morris who was the primary financier of the Revolutionary War …”
Hamilton – lawyer – I am triggered to offer this little dossier on Hamilton the lawyer … readers, please take on at your own pace …
I just rewatched Episode 4 of “Forbidden History of Globalism” by Mike (M. S.) King. He presents the entire history of globalism in 39 parts (see his Bitchute channel).
• Episode 4 - Young America vs London Bankers – The Invisible Critic (Mike King)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/SL4Tv7fVMYEu/
The second half from around 5:00 is all about Hamilton and is highly relevant to this article.
Spoiler alert! Mike King is not a fan of Hamilton.
The rewriting of history as part of the eradication of ‘Western culture and civilisation’ often starts with mockery in the form of ‘entertainment’ (Charlie Chaplin and black-face Al Johnson come to mind) and a spoonful of sugar to make the medicine go down …
But speaking of dancing, they have even turned selective ‘history’ into a Broadway musical …
• The Miseducation Of Hamilton: America's First Shadow Banker Redefines Reality
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wB9Q88sgdxc/
“became a lawyer” …
44:20 – Alexander Hamilton working along with Robert Morris, the wartime head of his central bank and Governor Morris who confusingly is not related to Robert Morris but is also another fellow traveller – they were found out, it has later been proved, to have been working behind the scenes during this Newburgh conspiracy - with this issue of an unpaid army, to make sure that other potential solutions to paying them were rejected – they would not allow other solutions to just solve this crisis. And simultaneously they were working behind the scenes to stoke the anger of these army officers and their followers. …
and then it just accelerates from the ridiculous to the absurd
Hamilton the Musical in German – Mike King
• Horror in Hamburg: German Version of "Hamilton"
https://www.realhistorychan.com/anyt-09192022.html
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Chris Curls (Bitchute channel “The Highest Underground Show”) did an audio reading with commentary of the book “A Youth’s History of The Great Civil War” by Rushmore G Horton.
First 10 minutes explains the purpose of the book by the author (with astute commentary by Chris Curls)
• A Youth’s History of The Great Civil War…Chapter 1 (improved sound) – Chris Curls - The Highest Underground Show
https://www.bitchute.com/video/NKMUT46GQrSl
What a kind thing to say, Julius! Broad, solid and deep foundation for informed discussion, that's exactly my goal. And you are always right there, at the growing tip of information, ready to stretch us a little farther in knowledge and ideas.
I know we've been disagreeing lately over Asha Logos but there's something I've been wanting to say--I think you disparage your own wisdom in relationship to him. I think he's done some great work with his research and presentation but he also feels, to me, young. I hear some of his views and think, "Okay talk to me when you've raised a few kids to be adults." When one of my daughters tries to explain how the world really is to me, I think, "You're smart and you're starting from a point further along than me (thanks to me) but I still have 35-41 yrs on you, and I haven't wasted it." That's certainly true for you as one of the best-informed people I've ever met. I think what you're bringing is more nuanced and humble than Zack. That's all I wanted to say.
And you've given me much to listen to lately but these will go to the top of the queue! Yes, Matt Ehret and I have fallen out over Hamilton and it makes me question his blind spots as a historian. My oldest daughter loved the musical and went to see it. It seemed like pure propaganda to me. These have me so excited to have at my fingertips for those arguments!
And my only small correction is that Gouverneur is Morris' first name, not title, which I still can't spell without looking it up. Was there a contest for the most vowels in a name the year he was born? Thanks always, Julius!
Yes, yes and yes. Great foundation - or we would not even be talking about any of the topics you present. Blind spots - everywhere - it's all a blur to me. If I 'see' (I mean detect) a blind spot in someone (eg Asha Logos - hopes in Trump) I assume it is me or try and put myself in their position at a certain stage in their journey.
You expand and challenge all of our paradigms
Thanks, Gouv!
Hahahaha!
LOVED the Miseducation of Hamilton. So well presented and well informed. He covered every base. SO interesting about the Rockefeller funding and the author of Titan and the playwright's father and sister, and the EduHam. I need to watch more from this guy, he's very history savvy.
I watched Mike King with The Invisible Critic and was happy to see all the things he got right. And I didn't know, or forgot, that Hamilton was half-Jewish. Very interesting. He misses the point of the Articles of Confederacy, however. They were intentionally bland, only the areas in which the States needed to agree. When he condemns them as weak and not providing for defense, he's falling into the same standing army argument.
The State Constitutions were the inspirational ones. And I've a few choice words for Washington in my book. Definitely not the hero Mike thinks he is. More like a real estate mogul who wanted to eradicate the natives, something England was preventing. That was his motivation. Looking forward to the Miseducation, which I'm enjoying so far!
Hallelujah trail, thank you !
I've been getting a stomach ache from all the Hamiltonian hagiography out there without the requisite stomach acid to digest the gristle. This is just what I needed. Now I can proceed with equanimity to redress my gross ignorance and forgetfulness of American history.
I've had a draft on Hamilton the Traitor in the works for awhile. Hamilton hagiography (great phrase, btw!) came up again in a more recent post: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/poppy-wars-and-manchukuo-monsters.
Julius Skoolafish posted some great references in the comments, including this you might enjoy on the Miseducation of Hamilton: https://www.bitchute.com/video/wB9Q88sgdxc/.
WOW!
As usual required 2 readings and reading about Ben Franklin a fascinating guy, despite being a Freemason.
The central role of "money" in the revolt and post-revolt. I had long suspected Hamilton's role as agent for the bankers, but was not aware of his role in de-federalization. The working people are the power of a revolution, but without an understanding of the "enemy", a strong organization and wise leadership end up being abused, and their sacrifices are used against them. The corrupt "judicial" system since day one.
PS. I nice quote of Ben Franklin, written shortly before his death:
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble. I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequence, as it probably has, of making his doctrines more respected and better observed; especially as I do not perceive that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in his government of the world with any particular marks of his displeasure.
Thank you, Fadi. I'm preparing a draft called Poppy Wars & Taming Tigers that brings in your research on Japan and the Monster of Showa. Really shocking to realize I had no idea of any of this, although I was aware of the 'Comfort Women,' which also shocked me at the time.
Very interesting that he was Shinzo Abe's grandfather. Cynthia Chung reposted an article about his assassination here: https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/why-shinzo-abe-was-assassinated-towards. At the same time, she once again presents Hamilton as saving the US as a sovereign nation-state and influencing List in Germany.
I've debated this in various posts and comment threads with Matt Ehret, Cynthia's husband. It's such a blatant misrepresentation of history that it calls into question all the other areas where we agree. Julius posted some excellent references on Hamilton that I'll cite, including this one: https://www.bitchute.com/video/wB9Q88sgdxc/. If you have any thoughts on Cynthia's article on Shinzo Abe, I'd love to include that in my piece.
And yes, Ben Franklin remains a hero as much as anyone is to me, and despite being a Freemason. He has some other scathing words for Christians in their treatment of native Americans. This seems a very diplomatic answer. Thanks, Fadi.
Quote: "I'm preparing a draft called Poppy Wars & Taming Tigers"
Super. My writings are neither for fame nor fortune. I don't care for the former and have enough for my simple lifestyle for the latter. My purpose is to disseminate truth to the best of my knowledge.
Quote: "Really shocking to realize I had no idea of any of this"
Yep, neither did I when I started my research. It is a shame that not everybody knows about these horrendous crimes. And worse is that these criminals went on to assume leading positions in Japan and the US. Exposing these crimes is our humane duty towards the memory of the poor souls who suffered.
Quote: "Very interesting that he was Shinzo Abe's grandfather"
As I stated in the book, post WWII Japan was a Kishi fiefdom, just as Saudi Arabi is to the Saudi clan. Kishi, his brother and his grandson were prime ministers. More importantly, at least until Abe's death they were the power behind politics in Japan. 74 year reign at least.
Quote: "Cynthia Chung reposted an article about his assassination"
I read it. In the usual style long-winded, with many unnecessary divergences. I didn't find the explanation she provided for his assassination convincing.
The Kishi family has a long trail of blood dating back 1935. There was a powerful opposition to US occupation in the 1950s. This was ruthlessly quelled. In particular, to consolidate Kishi clan rule and subservience to occupation, many crimes were committed in Japan, including death squads and culminating with the assassination of opposition leader Inejirō Asanuma in 1960. Asanuma was calling for entente with China. Japanese population was greatly opposed to US occupation and the shameful treaties. When president Eisenhower wanted to visit Japan in 1960, the police refused to provide security for the visit. Kishi had the Yakuza (Japanese mafia provide security), but Eisenhower cancelled the visit.
Cynthia is looking solely from a Western perspective, without researching internal dynamics in Japan. Enemies of the Kishi clan in Japan, can be easily counted in the millions. Note that there is no justice in Japan, suffice to note that conviction rate exceeds 99% lol. Of course the death squad crimes in the 1950s had a conviction rate of 0% lol.
Accordingly addressing the Abe assassination requires much much more research than what Cynthia presents.
Quote: "At the same time, she once again presents Hamilton as saving the US as a sovereign nation-state and influencing List in Germany.
I've debated this in various posts and comment threads with Matt Ehret, Cynthia's husband. It's such a blatant misrepresentation of history that it calls into question all the other areas where we agree"
Yep, I agree. I used to follow Ehret, but stopped a while back. I disagree with him on both Hamilton and FDR. He also makes a hero of FDR, whereas the much better researched work of David Rogers Webb, exposes FDR to having been in cahoots with the Fed and the big banks. And how they dispossessed the population of their wealth.
Perfect, Fadi, that confirms what I was suspecting. And yes on FDR, I forgot about that blind spot for Ehret and Chung. I appreciate the research and I'll include it. We both have the same view towards fame and fortune: however I can put forward my best understanding of what's true at that time, I'm willing to do and give credit wherever I can. I love that your reviews call your book a primer. It's how I think of mine too. There's so much history we need to understand clearly before we can draw any conclusions about the path forward.
hola, tereza. i really enjoyed this. again, you've done an excellent and succinct job of debunking the propagandised myths of the american government's root and purposes. double speak from a long time ago!
have you read jane jacobs 'cities and the wealth of nations: principles of economic life'? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85401.Cities_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations this book looks at how the great cities of the usa became great because they had their own internal banknotes. and that the decline of their greatness is directly connected to the forced american dollar. at the time i read it i was researching my economics debunked and the eu had recently been formed. i saw that as a great opportunity to see the validity of her argument: would their be a migration of wealth away from certain countries/cities to those that were the most efficient? at the time there was strong evidence that that was indeed happening.
and another book i rcommend is an interesting perspective on debt written by the canadian writer and thinker, margaret atwood. paybook: debt and the shadow side of wealth. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3428252-payback
i found her book a great complement to graebers' amazing debt: the first 5000 years.
and speaking of margaret atwood, i have found it interesting that her novel, oryx and crake https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46756.Oryx_and_Crake has not been talked about with so-called mfm or anti-tyrannical discussions because it has some interesting near confid-like precognitions. it was set in the near future around the manipulation of health by big pharma, the use of poisoned vitamins to promote illness. it included man-made 'meat' protein. and, ultimately, death by a man-made virus.
Hello, Guy and thank you. Yes, you've mentioned Jane Jacobs before and she's very interesting. I haven't read the ones by Margaret Atwood. I'll check them out. Thanks again.
hola, tereza. i'll do my best to remember that i've mentioned to you jane jacobs. the other books of hers on economics and social structures i've read have also been well worthwhile.
i really did find your deconstruction of the constitution and its formation to be pretty much invaluable. and goes back, by inference, that the deep state is indeed 'deep' and deeply imbedded in the history of at least western civilisation. it covertly supports the idea of the km and the rhaddanite bankers having had a lot of influence for a very long time. great work.
Thanks so much, Guy.