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Anti-War Quote from 400 B.C.
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another state — they praise it!… If a man on seeing a little black were to say it is black, but on seeing a lot of black were to say it is white, it would be clear that such a man could not distinguish black and white… So those who recognize a small crime as such, but do not recognize the wickedness of the greatest crime of all… cannot distinguish right and wrong.
– Mozi (470–391 B.C.), Condemnation of Offensive War I, Book V
How Much Does the Government Hate You?
Sometimes you might wonder:
Jeez, I know my security force would just as soon murder me and my family as protect us from some danger they themselves created. But just how much do they really enjoy beating me down and stealing my money?
Well: Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years
Disgusting, Degenerate Congressman Tim Walberg Demands Genocide Against Palestinians
Michigan lawmaker says Gaza should be approached ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima.’
He added that the U.S. should also “wipe out Russia” instead of wasting money on humanitarian aid and other effeminate things like that.
That’s what Zionism does, it turns people evil.
These people talk a big game about fearing Jesus Christ, but I don’t think they really mean it.
This Could Save You A Whole Lot of Trouble
In the last couple weeks, two disastrous events have occurred, capturing Americans’ attention—and imaginations.
On March 22, gunmen killed over one hundred concert-goers at Crocus City Hall near Moscow.
A week later, on March 29, a cargo ship crashed into a support of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, collapsing the entire thing.
With both events, everyone rushed to “have a take,” from false flag terrorism, to globalist plots to destroy American infrastructure.
On this email list, we’ve been learning together how to disseminate propaganda in search of the truth.
One major lesson that I’ve learned from the guys at antiwar.com is that when you’re reporting on emerging events, you should stick to the facts and not be pressured to mix in opinion, especially when the facts are emerging, unclear, incomplete, or contradictory.
For instance, when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, I watched live camera footage from Ukraine. I followed the news in real time, almost all night.
I really felt like I had something I wanted to say about it.
The observation I made (publicly) was that it seemed like the invasion really was a limited “special military operation” as opposed to a full scale, total war scenario, like the Western media was portraying it.
To this day, I still think about how I felt like I had to have a “take” as opposed to just witnessing an event, or even dispassionately relaying reports.
I could have easily been wrong, or things could have developed differently.
When news broke of the Crocus City Hall attack and the Baltimore Bridge incident, so many influencers and media personalities were wildly speculating without any facts. Many framed their wild speculation as analysis.
Of course, capturing people’s imaginations is much more popular than striving for integrity. Narrative is powerful and popular. When wielded for nefarious purposes, or clout, it can be incredibly harmful or disruptive.
I cover narrative in Chapter I of my forthcoming eBook “Slay Propaganda Like A Lawyer” cause it’s the most important.
The truth is, sometimes things happen in the world that we don’t immediately understand. In key moments, we are just along for the ride.
And that’s OK.
I am not saying never to speak out, but a certain respect is owed for our human imperfections. This respect is something I am developing right there with you.
My buddy Dave DeCamp put out this tweet that inspired this article. Go give him a follow.
https://twitter.com/DecampDave/status/1771270803889201330?s=19
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NATO Expansion Will Not Go Unpunished
The Russians have been invaded by the West four times [1812, 1914, 1918, 1941] in the last 212 years. Of course, technically, the precursor for 1918-20 was the German injection of the Bolshevik bacillus in the person of Vladimir Lenin into the Russian body politic in 1917 on the sealed train from Switzerland.
Red-lines are a real thing.
The present CIA director, William J. Burns, inferred this in 2008 in his capacity as US Ambassador to Russia. He knew better then but apparently doesn’t know better now.
“NYET MEANS NYET: RUSSIA’S NATO ENLARGEMENT REDLINES.”
“Ukraine and Georgia’s NATO aspirations not only touch a raw nerve in Russia, they engender serious concerns about the consequences for stability in the region. Not only does Russia perceive encirclement, and efforts to undermine Russia’s influence in the region, but it also fears unpredictable and uncontrolled consequences which would seriously affect Russian security interests. Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war.”
The full message is in the link above and it is a sober and crafty analysis.
Newton’s Third Law is a stone-cold killer of fantastic ambitions.
Email me at cgpodcast@pm.me.
Another Government Bureaucracy That Can’t Do Their Job: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The 150 million dollar Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) was created to replace the scandal plagued Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC).
More than 81,000 Americans remain missing from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the Gulf Wars/other conflicts.
Before quitting after less than a year on the job, the “new director” simply reassigned the previous JPAC Scientific Director to be in charge of “partnering with private groups”. What this “partnering” turned out to be was the giving away of millions of taxpayer dollars in annual contracts to “non-profits to do DPAA’s primary job: recover remains of MIA’s. With no apparent ethical oversight by DPAA, some of these same government contractors actively continue to solicit contributions claiming to be “non-profit” charities. Huge multi-million dollar contracts are farmed out. This obvious unethical practice is just another example of the past arrogance and abuse by this same old group of poor leaders and managers who continue to remain in functional control of the “new” organization.
And, in “deja vu all over again” the Department of Defense appointed a former JPAC commander as the “new, new” director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. This is the very same person who had steered the agency, known by its employees as “Dysfunction Junction”, into its final demise and lost his own job under a torrent of Congressional criticism.
And in other news, they can’t even get the names right nor the timelines of death correct on the Korean War Memorial:
“Shortly after the memorial wall was dedicated last July, errors were discovered that included missing and misspelled names and names of former service members who died from causes unrelated to the Korean War. One estimate includes more than 1,000 spelling errors and the listing of more than 240 people whose deaths weren’t related to the war, including a service member who died in a motorcycle accident in Hawaii and a Marine who lived six decades after his Korean War service.”
A microcosm of the ineffectiveness and clown-car antics of the most expensive military paper tiger in the history of Earth.
Email me at cgpodcast@pm.me.
Israeli Barbarians Slaughter Men Waving White Flag
For the fun of it: “Israeli soldiers shot dead two unarmed Palestinian men in Gaza, their bodies buried in sand and rubbish by an army bulldozer, exclusive broadcast footage obtained by Al Jazeera has shown.”
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