Wow, that’s a really good analysis. Interestingly, Brett Stephens just opined in the New York Times that Israel is fighting five fronts only it’s fronts of ideas. Stephens is not worthy to be in the same room as Hearst.
He's 74-yr-old criminal of corruption, protecting himself from punishment whilst seeking to engrave his name in Zionist history. He has everything to lose, and something to gain. He's an old man, wielding his dick for the last time. He's at his most dangerous.
You seem like a pretty decent guy Mike, but this relentless anti-Israel agenda doesn’t really resonate with me.
I respect your opinions and appreciate your writing but I wish you had stuck to subjects like Ukraine and South Africa where I’m almost 100% in agreement with you.
I'm perplexed by folks not seeing Ukraine and Israel in similar neocon light. Not picking on you, but something quite common amongst Americans, and in some media, including some that I like. More often, it's the other way around, journalists against the destruction of Palestinians yet pro-NATO against Russia. My approach, which I hope all my readers note, is that I'm pro-human rights. I don't like the elite that manipulates normal people to death.
Most of the world is lined up with Mike on this. Even the populations of the US and UK are against Israel.
It’s just the governments are defying the will of the people as usual, mostly due to the influence of big Jewish money (the Jewish Lobby) on our countries. The politicians in the US are bought off and terrorized by the Jewish Lobby, which is immensely powerful.
Democracies are not longer the will of the people. It's masquerade for 'leaders' the majority despise, actors of morality posing on TV, propaganda legitimising greed.
The greatest political strength of any nation is its Middle Class, the brakes on the rich, and the uplifter of the poor. But the Middle Class is generally the Coward Class, adapting to wherever the wind blows.
Given that the twentieth century saw the horrific destruction of the first and second world wars, what will this century see? I’ve always been concerned about human beings having never developed a weapon of war that we haven’t used. Has the H-bomb only been a temporary exception? Now that modified messenger RNA injections have been developed as a bioweapon countermeasure by the United States Department of Defense — which was put in charge of Operation Warp Speed during the Obama administration — and other militaries of other nation-states, I’m thinking that a depopulation agenda has been initiated. Will further depopulation be accomplished by global thermonuclear warfare? I wouldn’t put it past the Pathocracy.
The consolation is that inequality, as a product of elite oversupply, as Peter Turchin would say, always leads to revolt. The irony is that it will probably be the result of outcast elites manipulating the masses. The downside is that we've got more suffering before that, and the instability caused by revolution creates more suffering. We have to be masochists for a generation just being born.
There’s so much about this global civilization which is revolting, Mike. Will there ever be an organized revolution against the true ruling class of pathocrats, presuming that this class of elitists exists & presuming that this class can be identified and fought and rooted out? I sincerely don’t know.
The USA’s boomer era seemed wonderful, as Apartheid was for many white South Africans. However, those generations do not represent history, at least not for my intention, for it’s mostly the middle class who are complacent, whether they’re selfish or dissatisfied (as they are now). Longer history proves empires, which are longer than generations, do fall, but over a period of generations. However, the repercussions could be quicker (i.e. more disastrous) for poorer countries whose destitute majority may burn and kill. But more to your previous question, and my previous reply (on notes or my page), I’m with Peter Turchin in that the overproduction of elites can never provide enough for all of them, and thus it’s those elites who feel left out that organise the revolution. Even if we do the leg work, us masses are simply along for the ride.
The Roman Empire produced an over abundance of elitists. When Rome fell to the Germanic (so-called) “barbarians”, some elitists fled to Venice, formed the Black Nobility, and started a revolution. Some people say that this revolution created a control network interconnecting the City of London with the District of Columbia and the Vatican. Revolutions can create new & improved imperialistic systems, with these systems having new & improved bases and structures and superstructures. Most people, it seems to me, falsely believe that revolutions are always benign. Revolutions can be wholly malevolent.
There’s the 4 cycles we’re doomed to repeat: Destruction (in which we all suffer)→Birth (in which there’s community by necessity)→Wealth (with growing inequality and individualism)→Decline (in which superficiality, alienation and confusion take hold).
Sometimes I wonder about the end result of destruction, namely death, being the alleviation of suffering. I like to think of death as being a necessary part of removing one’s being from the karmic cycle, which cycle is embedded in the wheel of saṃsāra. On the other hand, perhaps transcending the wheel of saṃsāra can only be accomplished in the brief space of time between birth and death. I don’t know.
I think that modern humanity — with it being approximated that modern humans have been on the earth for about 300,000 years — has been through several galactic & solar & planetary cycles of global civilizations declining & collapsing & being completely annihilated, only for a relatively small number of humans to rise from the ashes and start all over again, with collective amnesia of the previous heights and depths of the global civilization. The struggle for survival and the struggle to adapt to the new environment — after the cycle of planetary catastrophic natural disasters has ceased — caused this amnesia.
I think your reply to Darkstar sums it all up succinctly. When the conflict stops in Israel so does the Bibi merry go round. He got a real shot of adrenaline over here at his congressional speech when he realized Johnson, Cotton, Cruz, Rubio and all the rest of these phoney “Christian “ congress critters are with him 1000%. With Trump, the Mr Zionist, in the wings and Boomercon frothing at the mouth for one last ride on the war machine, he senses, to quote the prophet Mick Jagger, “This could be the last time”.
Yes that’s true “but what can a poor boy do, except sing for a rock and roll band. Because in my sleepy American town there’s just no place for a street fighting man”
These corrupt souls in the unhallowed corridors and halls the nation's capital clapped exuberantly for not just this evil man, nor for their own evil plan, but for the fiery death of their own sailors. Believe not their nor your own government's feigned surprised and disgust about what's coming but believe your own eyes when you saw their gleeful standing ovation.
That first paragraph you wrote is just glorious. I didn’t even believe you wrote it. Succinct and perfect. “The perfect word” that Flaubert talked about.
That’s such a common one! Everyone messes that one up! Try it in your head either way with both words to see which sounds better.
I think you use fewer with count and less with non-count nouns. 😂 I just now realized that and I’ve been using the rule my entire life! I think we must know some of these rules unconsciously,
I haven't cogitated a thought into an article in two months. I've only cogitated.
Although I'm pleased that some found value, my recent posts don't count as writing. Haven't wanted to if I felt that I was dragging myself to a a butcher shop where I'd be rejected by my reflection as a pig too small.
But they say we should pursue our passions, so maybe an essay on my geopolitical depression. I can't bump into a pro bono editor without typing.
Thank you, Mike. Good analysis. I disagree with Mr. Hearst, however, in his assumption that Bibi is doing this for anything approximating Biblical reasons. I'd be very surprised to learn Bibi believes in God at all. He certainly doesn't believe in divine judgment. Bibi is trying to stay in power and out of prison and I truly believe he cares about nothing else. Oliver Stone met him once and said he's nuts. That could also be the problem.
I'm with you. My title used 'Biblical' War. Religion is rarely the belief of a leader, it's just a tool. But once used, the wielder enters the religion's history.
Religion, after all, is fantasy made reality. And democracy. And money. We are a species of belief, imagining ourselves higher, ignoring the reality of our falls.
Wow, that’s a really good analysis. Interestingly, Brett Stephens just opined in the New York Times that Israel is fighting five fronts only it’s fronts of ideas. Stephens is not worthy to be in the same room as Hearst.
The point you persuaded me at was “New York Times.”
LOL
Why does Netenyahu want war so badly?
I believe he wants to build his city made of gold the Bible speaks abut.
Maybe he's just nuts.
We can't be the only country with crazy politicians.
He's 74-yr-old criminal of corruption, protecting himself from punishment whilst seeking to engrave his name in Zionist history. He has everything to lose, and something to gain. He's an old man, wielding his dick for the last time. He's at his most dangerous.
You seem like a pretty decent guy Mike, but this relentless anti-Israel agenda doesn’t really resonate with me.
I respect your opinions and appreciate your writing but I wish you had stuck to subjects like Ukraine and South Africa where I’m almost 100% in agreement with you.
Best wishes anyway.
I'm perplexed by folks not seeing Ukraine and Israel in similar neocon light. Not picking on you, but something quite common amongst Americans, and in some media, including some that I like. More often, it's the other way around, journalists against the destruction of Palestinians yet pro-NATO against Russia. My approach, which I hope all my readers note, is that I'm pro-human rights. I don't like the elite that manipulates normal people to death.
Most of the world is lined up with Mike on this. Even the populations of the US and UK are against Israel.
It’s just the governments are defying the will of the people as usual, mostly due to the influence of big Jewish money (the Jewish Lobby) on our countries. The politicians in the US are bought off and terrorized by the Jewish Lobby, which is immensely powerful.
Democracies are not longer the will of the people. It's masquerade for 'leaders' the majority despise, actors of morality posing on TV, propaganda legitimising greed.
Even Al Jazeera succumbed to pressure and took this down - https://www.mikehampton.co.uk/p/sharing-the-banned-undercover-investigative
It’s our fault. We could vote them out any time, right?
The greatest political strength of any nation is its Middle Class, the brakes on the rich, and the uplifter of the poor. But the Middle Class is generally the Coward Class, adapting to wherever the wind blows.
Given that the twentieth century saw the horrific destruction of the first and second world wars, what will this century see? I’ve always been concerned about human beings having never developed a weapon of war that we haven’t used. Has the H-bomb only been a temporary exception? Now that modified messenger RNA injections have been developed as a bioweapon countermeasure by the United States Department of Defense — which was put in charge of Operation Warp Speed during the Obama administration — and other militaries of other nation-states, I’m thinking that a depopulation agenda has been initiated. Will further depopulation be accomplished by global thermonuclear warfare? I wouldn’t put it past the Pathocracy.
The consolation is that inequality, as a product of elite oversupply, as Peter Turchin would say, always leads to revolt. The irony is that it will probably be the result of outcast elites manipulating the masses. The downside is that we've got more suffering before that, and the instability caused by revolution creates more suffering. We have to be masochists for a generation just being born.
There’s so much about this global civilization which is revolting, Mike. Will there ever be an organized revolution against the true ruling class of pathocrats, presuming that this class of elitists exists & presuming that this class can be identified and fought and rooted out? I sincerely don’t know.
The USA’s boomer era seemed wonderful, as Apartheid was for many white South Africans. However, those generations do not represent history, at least not for my intention, for it’s mostly the middle class who are complacent, whether they’re selfish or dissatisfied (as they are now). Longer history proves empires, which are longer than generations, do fall, but over a period of generations. However, the repercussions could be quicker (i.e. more disastrous) for poorer countries whose destitute majority may burn and kill. But more to your previous question, and my previous reply (on notes or my page), I’m with Peter Turchin in that the overproduction of elites can never provide enough for all of them, and thus it’s those elites who feel left out that organise the revolution. Even if we do the leg work, us masses are simply along for the ride.
The Roman Empire produced an over abundance of elitists. When Rome fell to the Germanic (so-called) “barbarians”, some elitists fled to Venice, formed the Black Nobility, and started a revolution. Some people say that this revolution created a control network interconnecting the City of London with the District of Columbia and the Vatican. Revolutions can create new & improved imperialistic systems, with these systems having new & improved bases and structures and superstructures. Most people, it seems to me, falsely believe that revolutions are always benign. Revolutions can be wholly malevolent.
There’s the 4 cycles we’re doomed to repeat: Destruction (in which we all suffer)→Birth (in which there’s community by necessity)→Wealth (with growing inequality and individualism)→Decline (in which superficiality, alienation and confusion take hold).
Sometimes I wonder about the end result of destruction, namely death, being the alleviation of suffering. I like to think of death as being a necessary part of removing one’s being from the karmic cycle, which cycle is embedded in the wheel of saṃsāra. On the other hand, perhaps transcending the wheel of saṃsāra can only be accomplished in the brief space of time between birth and death. I don’t know.
I think that modern humanity — with it being approximated that modern humans have been on the earth for about 300,000 years — has been through several galactic & solar & planetary cycles of global civilizations declining & collapsing & being completely annihilated, only for a relatively small number of humans to rise from the ashes and start all over again, with collective amnesia of the previous heights and depths of the global civilization. The struggle for survival and the struggle to adapt to the new environment — after the cycle of planetary catastrophic natural disasters has ceased — caused this amnesia.
I think your reply to Darkstar sums it all up succinctly. When the conflict stops in Israel so does the Bibi merry go round. He got a real shot of adrenaline over here at his congressional speech when he realized Johnson, Cotton, Cruz, Rubio and all the rest of these phoney “Christian “ congress critters are with him 1000%. With Trump, the Mr Zionist, in the wings and Boomercon frothing at the mouth for one last ride on the war machine, he senses, to quote the prophet Mick Jagger, “This could be the last time”.
"I watched with glee
while your kings and queens
fought for ten decades
for the gods they made
I shouted out:
Who killed the Kennedys?
When after all,
it was you and me."
Yes that’s true “but what can a poor boy do, except sing for a rock and roll band. Because in my sleepy American town there’s just no place for a street fighting man”
“You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need.”
“I can’t get no satisfaction “
I’ll skip criticism by not quoting that Stone’s song about the 15yr old girl.
🙂
The big money in US campaigning - https://youtu.be/_iXqaJESr48
These corrupt souls in the unhallowed corridors and halls the nation's capital clapped exuberantly for not just this evil man, nor for their own evil plan, but for the fiery death of their own sailors. Believe not their nor your own government's feigned surprised and disgust about what's coming but believe your own eyes when you saw their gleeful standing ovation.
Indeed. Well said.
That first paragraph you wrote is just glorious. I didn’t even believe you wrote it. Succinct and perfect. “The perfect word” that Flaubert talked about.
Plus I'd become a better person if I used less words all the time.
Fewer words.
I could try mindful grammar too.
😂.
That’s such a common one! Everyone messes that one up! Try it in your head either way with both words to see which sounds better.
I think you use fewer with count and less with non-count nouns. 😂 I just now realized that and I’ve been using the rule my entire life! I think we must know some of these rules unconsciously,
If I develop schizophrenia, your voice in my head would be handy.
I have the same problem. Not only do I write too much but I supposedly repeat myself a lot. I guess we could all use an editor.
I haven't cogitated a thought into an article in two months. I've only cogitated.
Although I'm pleased that some found value, my recent posts don't count as writing. Haven't wanted to if I felt that I was dragging myself to a a butcher shop where I'd be rejected by my reflection as a pig too small.
But they say we should pursue our passions, so maybe an essay on my geopolitical depression. I can't bump into a pro bono editor without typing.
I get like that too. Has a lot to do how my life is going.
Let me take this as a reminder, make a post tomorrow, and then leave the internet (and world) for one month. Thanks.
Thank you, Mike. Good analysis. I disagree with Mr. Hearst, however, in his assumption that Bibi is doing this for anything approximating Biblical reasons. I'd be very surprised to learn Bibi believes in God at all. He certainly doesn't believe in divine judgment. Bibi is trying to stay in power and out of prison and I truly believe he cares about nothing else. Oliver Stone met him once and said he's nuts. That could also be the problem.
I'm with you. My title used 'Biblical' War. Religion is rarely the belief of a leader, it's just a tool. But once used, the wielder enters the religion's history.
"Once used, the wielder enters the religion's history." Damn, Brother. Well-said.
Religion, after all, is fantasy made reality. And democracy. And money. We are a species of belief, imagining ourselves higher, ignoring the reality of our falls.
Are you up very early or very late?
Was 3am today. Alarm set for 4am in case I fail.
5.30am now.
He’s a damn fine writer. Not to mention he’s wide too soon.
Hearst is terrific. I wish I knew who his funders are, but I'm consoled by quality. Khashoggi wrote for him.
WISE to soon.
History has recorded the two evil regimes that have fully committed crimes against humanity and violated international law!
If an alien look dispassionately at our history, he would see far more than two serial killers, and conclude that it’s human nature. That scares me.
Fuck Netanyahu
Yep, fuck him!