Not seen much discussion of the latest shenanigans in the US here. I’ll kick off with two articles that I found interesting. Here is the MoA take on the whole thing.
And here is Caitlin Johnston
Glenn Greenwald with a typically thoughtful essay on the incursion and the likely aftermath.
I lived in New York City on 9/11 and remember to this day the excruciating horror from the smell and smoke emanating throughout Lower Manhattan and the haunting “missing” posters appended by desperate families, unwilling to accept the obvious reality of their loved ones’ deaths, to every lamp post on every street corner. I shared the same disgust and sadness as most other Americans from the Pulse massacre, the subway bombings in London and Madrid, the workplace mass shooting in San Bernardino.
My insistence that we look at the other side of the ledger — the costs and dangers not only from such attacks but also the “solutions” implemented in the name of the stopping them — did not come from indifference towards those deaths or a naive views of those responsible for them. It was instead driven by my simultaneous recognition of the dangers from rights-eroding, authoritarian reactions imposed by the state, particularly in the immediate aftermath of a traumatic event. One need not engage in denialism or minimization of a threat to rationally resist fear-driven fanaticism — as Barbara Lee so eloquently insisted on September 14, 2001.
I think we need to realise what actually took place, and the way that Ashli Babbitt’s premeditated execution has been covered over and blotted out from the Dem-friendly MSM. John Sullivan’s video camera caught Ashli’s assassin, picking his moment while hiding from the view of the protestors: Jayden X:
https://twitter.com/thejaydenxander/status/1347056697899163648 - which has changed to John Sullivan’s twitter account. A different view of the shooting is in this full video at about 38 minutes in and showing the run up as well as the excruciating last moments of Babbitt’s life:
https://banned.video/watch?id=5ff6857e00bac0328da8e888
The “violent mob” can be seen to be peaceful, and armed only with flags and phones and social media, except that someone starts smashing at the door glass. A voice says “we don’t want anyone to get hurt”…
My view is that anyone who (even from some of the doubtful evidence) still considers the US to have some semblence to a democracy is deluded. It is a corporatocracy, ruled from the shadows, but seemingly ruled by the crime families. On the Dems side, there are the Clinton’s and soon to be the Bidens. On the Republican side, there is the Bush family. And in the shadows, take your pick. Rothchilds, Carnegies, Rockerfellers, et al. Trump was aways an outsider and didn’t know how to play the game, so he had to go.
We are watching a coup take place, and the embedded reporters and film crew are Google, Facebook and Twitter. Oh well. As ye sow, so shall ye reap!
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