August 15 marks 50 years since Nixon took us off gold. Since then, gold has gone from $35 an ounce to $1,782. A better way to put it is: The dollar’s value was eroded from $35 an ounce of gold to $1,782 – a reduction of 1/50th of the original value.
Andrey Vyshinsky was Stalin’s prosecutor during the Great Purge of 1936-39. He came up with the phrase, “Give me the man and I’ll find the crime.” That’s not remote. In 2009, Harvey Silvergate, a Boston civil rights lawyer, penned a book, “Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent.”
Out of power, though trying to claw their way back in, the Neocons have become an unintentionally humorous sect. Their howlings could form the dialogue of a woke sitcom.
“People say the Pentagon does not have a strategy They are wrong. The Pentagon does have a strategy; it is: ‘Don’t interrupt the money flow, add to it.’”
– Col. John R. Boyd (U.S. Air Force, ret.)
While Joe Biden’s fading consciousness was playing puppetmaster to the other six of the G7 supposedly prosperous democratic nations, as he waited to jockey with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin – his own country was coming apart.
In “1984,” Emmanuel Goldstein is the Enemy of the State necessary to bring cohesion to the totalitarian regime. The Two Minutes Hate directs society’s rage against the exiled traitor. Goldstein now is aiding Oceania’s current enemy – Eastasia or Eurasia, depending on the day – with whom we always have been at war.
Trump continues to clarify our politics. The latest flap involves Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming. The Elites are upset the GOP in the House is purging her from her perch as the third-ranking House Republican.
Sunday’s Internet Front Page of the Washington Post featured an article showing the dangerous delusions of our rulers. They’re upset that 100 percent of Americans don’t accept with Stalinist certainty the legitimacy of the recent plebiscite.
The main problem began last May when the death of George Floyd led to widespread riots, not only in Minnesota, but across the country. Such pusillanimous politicians as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey let the rioters burn down large parts of the city. The same thing happened in Portland, Seattle and elsewhere.
One of the themes of my writing for Fleming Foundation is: We have to get along with the Russians. They have 6,000 nuclear bombs. We have 6,000 nuclear bombs. Be careful.
