It works everytime. Go to confession, tell some minor sins, and walk out with a clean conscience.
Americans need a new text book. "History of the Word". The chapter on America will include: Adopted a position in 1776. "Free at everybody else's expense". Establish a monarchy but label it a republic. Kill the indigenous inhabitants and take their land. Take a part of Mexico. In 1901, Samar Island, Philippines, machine gun 8294 children, 2714 women, and 420 men. Do likewise around the world. From 1946 to now, invade and occupy 61 sovereign nations, steal their resources and pauperise their workers.
From where I write in NT Australia: deliver a national coup d'etat in 1975, take over government and all media, install eight military bases in the Northern Territory, schedule war with China in the New Year. Likely outcome: preemptive or reprisal strikes by China... total population of Darwin and NE Arnhem Land dead, bases in Pine Gap and Katherine wiped out. Some southern cities likewise.
We are talking of six months time, not pages in an obscure foreign history book. And I am only talking Day One. Day Two: no energy, no electricity , no transport, no food, no water. Day Five, 20 million dead.
A similar scenario in other parts of the world.
This is a bit more than a crisis in American identity. It is closer to species extinction, and less then 1% of Americans see this coming.
I'm sorry, but you lost me at "1975." Did something happen that I missed? I'm fairly sure I would have noticed if China had nuked significant parts of Australia.
Is this your prediction for the next six months, currently?
Sorry, I am a bad writer. I keep forgetting not many Americans, or Australians (remember, Murdoch controls all media), know that in November 1975 the CIA launched a coup in Australia, threw out the elected government, and has run its own puppet system ever since.
If you are American you will have to run the event backwards to the 22 years imprisonment of CIA agent Chrostopher Boyce for blowing the whistle on this takeover.
Sequence... CIA coup; install US military bases; future... China wipes bases off map. Nope, I don't think I can make it any clearer than that.
Huh. Actually, I do remember Christopher Boyce. I even read that book, The Falcon and the Snowman. Time and events have blurred my recollections of that particular one, but I would suggest that if China is going to nuke every American military or intel base we've scattered around the world like pigeon droppings, you may have to get in line for your turn at Armegeddon. We've put about 1100 of them out there, and at the moment China is believed to have only about 420 nuclear warheads currently, and you might remain untouched if you are far enough down their list.
Of course, if they can bring their pal, that gas station with rusty nukes, in on the deal, well, that would make it done, then.
" install eight military bases in the Northern Territory, schedule war with China in the New Year. Likely outcome: preemptive or reprisal strikes by China... total population of Darwin and NE Arnhem Land dead, bases in Pine Gap and Katherine wiped out. Some southern cities likewise."
See? none of these places are in the US. They are all in Australia. Sequence = US bases in Oz, China striikes bases; Aussies dead.
This gives rise to a brand new concept: Yankee go home.
A good entry. Gives me things to think about. But my first thought was: Why should our elites in the empire-building game be any smarter, or wiser, or thoughtful, or empathetic than the empire-building elites in the past? I've frequently compared our current elites to the 18th century Bourbons because they seem just as dense, self-centered, unaware, and uncaring as the worst of the Bourbons. And the influences around the edges of the Elite are no better, certainly, than their counterparts in the French courts of the 1770s.
The primary difference is that the Bourbons believed absolutely in the divine right of kings, a principle they had centuries of reasonable success with. Americans have no such bedrock guarantees in which to believe that would equally legitimize their ascendancy to the top of the top, globally. And we have always had a bit of an inferiority complex when it comes to Europe, even as we've carefully tended a superiority complex regarding the rest of the (non-white) world.
Before we polluted ourselves in the global marketplace/political arena, there was a vague, generalized conviction in our moral supremacy, which seemed to be borne out by our apparent military invincibility. In other words, the wogs and chinks and other such rabble wouldn't even dare to challenge us, and as for our old European bogeymen, we had to save their sorry asses from themselves twice in barely forty years. (No matter how distorted that picture might actually be, historically speaking).
Almost nobody believes that any longer, and the few who do aren't much involved in making national policy.
It works everytime. Go to confession, tell some minor sins, and walk out with a clean conscience.
Americans need a new text book. "History of the Word". The chapter on America will include: Adopted a position in 1776. "Free at everybody else's expense". Establish a monarchy but label it a republic. Kill the indigenous inhabitants and take their land. Take a part of Mexico. In 1901, Samar Island, Philippines, machine gun 8294 children, 2714 women, and 420 men. Do likewise around the world. From 1946 to now, invade and occupy 61 sovereign nations, steal their resources and pauperise their workers.
From where I write in NT Australia: deliver a national coup d'etat in 1975, take over government and all media, install eight military bases in the Northern Territory, schedule war with China in the New Year. Likely outcome: preemptive or reprisal strikes by China... total population of Darwin and NE Arnhem Land dead, bases in Pine Gap and Katherine wiped out. Some southern cities likewise.
We are talking of six months time, not pages in an obscure foreign history book. And I am only talking Day One. Day Two: no energy, no electricity , no transport, no food, no water. Day Five, 20 million dead.
A similar scenario in other parts of the world.
This is a bit more than a crisis in American identity. It is closer to species extinction, and less then 1% of Americans see this coming.
I'm sorry, but you lost me at "1975." Did something happen that I missed? I'm fairly sure I would have noticed if China had nuked significant parts of Australia.
Is this your prediction for the next six months, currently?
Sorry, I am a bad writer. I keep forgetting not many Americans, or Australians (remember, Murdoch controls all media), know that in November 1975 the CIA launched a coup in Australia, threw out the elected government, and has run its own puppet system ever since.
If you are American you will have to run the event backwards to the 22 years imprisonment of CIA agent Chrostopher Boyce for blowing the whistle on this takeover.
Sequence... CIA coup; install US military bases; future... China wipes bases off map. Nope, I don't think I can make it any clearer than that.
Huh. Actually, I do remember Christopher Boyce. I even read that book, The Falcon and the Snowman. Time and events have blurred my recollections of that particular one, but I would suggest that if China is going to nuke every American military or intel base we've scattered around the world like pigeon droppings, you may have to get in line for your turn at Armegeddon. We've put about 1100 of them out there, and at the moment China is believed to have only about 420 nuclear warheads currently, and you might remain untouched if you are far enough down their list.
Of course, if they can bring their pal, that gas station with rusty nukes, in on the deal, well, that would make it done, then.
Ah, Now I see the problem. You can't read.
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" install eight military bases in the Northern Territory, schedule war with China in the New Year. Likely outcome: preemptive or reprisal strikes by China... total population of Darwin and NE Arnhem Land dead, bases in Pine Gap and Katherine wiped out. Some southern cities likewise."
See? none of these places are in the US. They are all in Australia. Sequence = US bases in Oz, China striikes bases; Aussies dead.
This gives rise to a brand new concept: Yankee go home.
I can read fine. Your problem is that you can't think. Go away now, and don't come back.
A good entry. Gives me things to think about. But my first thought was: Why should our elites in the empire-building game be any smarter, or wiser, or thoughtful, or empathetic than the empire-building elites in the past? I've frequently compared our current elites to the 18th century Bourbons because they seem just as dense, self-centered, unaware, and uncaring as the worst of the Bourbons. And the influences around the edges of the Elite are no better, certainly, than their counterparts in the French courts of the 1770s.
The primary difference is that the Bourbons believed absolutely in the divine right of kings, a principle they had centuries of reasonable success with. Americans have no such bedrock guarantees in which to believe that would equally legitimize their ascendancy to the top of the top, globally. And we have always had a bit of an inferiority complex when it comes to Europe, even as we've carefully tended a superiority complex regarding the rest of the (non-white) world.
Before we polluted ourselves in the global marketplace/political arena, there was a vague, generalized conviction in our moral supremacy, which seemed to be borne out by our apparent military invincibility. In other words, the wogs and chinks and other such rabble wouldn't even dare to challenge us, and as for our old European bogeymen, we had to save their sorry asses from themselves twice in barely forty years. (No matter how distorted that picture might actually be, historically speaking).
Almost nobody believes that any longer, and the few who do aren't much involved in making national policy.