An Essay on Writing Essays

An Essay on Writing Essays

A correct and effective essay consists in three elements – an introduction, the body of the essay, and its conclusion.

The introduction, of course, introduces, telling the reader, in short, everything he is about to learn, making all of the assertions that will be supported and proven within the subsequent body of the essay. In addition to innate on-the-face positive proofs for the author’s own assertions, recourse can be made to supporting scholarship or even scholarship to the contrary, by discrediting it with one’s own observations and opinions. Remember, that in Scholastic Circles NOBODY is ever totally right, and there is always open some crack of imperfection even in the Best Previous Scholarship that new Scholars can bore into and criticize. Scholars have no respect for the God’s, not even their own. Agreeing with Past Scholarship always seems timid and servile compared to attacking it with opinions of one’s own, and there is always more room for further thought about things. Anyway, once all open circles of inquiry promised by the introduction have been closed, a conclusion comes in order. This is where the reader is informed, in some clever way, that if he had not been convinced by the preceding essay, then, well, he very well should have been. In the best of essays the Conclusion, in establishing that the promised Truth had been found, should suggest, again cleverly, that some Greater Truth is now revealed and evident.

These conditions for an essay – the Intro, the body, and the Conclusion – have never been just mere literary conventions. It is all just common sense, just as any essay is supposed to be. We can see this even if we reduce it to simplest terms, to a gem of an essay in less than 50 words: (Intro)Watch out for that truck! (Body) You were about to step into it. It was 20 tons and going 60 miles per hour and would not have been able to stop. (Conclusion) It would have killed you dead as a bug. The Intro quickly captured the attention of the audience, presenting the problem to be discussed. The problem was discussed lucidly within the Body, and the Conclusion set it all into the pithy perspective of Life Death Mortality issues.

So an up and coming essay writer will never go wrong as long as he remembers those three essential things, to say what he will say, to say it, and say that he said it… and the World now better off for it.

The Woodward Secret Operation

The Woodward Secret Operation

In Bob Woodward’s new book he speaks at half length about a Secret Operation in Iraq that has the proportions of another Manhattan Project, the program that created the Atomic Bomb and which was a huge employer during the Second World War, employing most Scientists and hundreds of thousands of additional people … although most people didn’t know what they were working for or why. Anyway, this new Secret Operation is purported to be just as big and historically momentous as all of that. And this is coming from Bob Woodward who can be expected to understand the proportions of scale before using words like ‘big’ or ‘momentous’.

Anyway, I was curious. Bob gave a few hints but basically begged off because everyone swore him to secrecy (probably telling him they would block future interviews unless he held his tongue, and of course we can trust a journalist to do the right thing). Besides, we already suspected that if we want to know about the Truth of Government, the Media certainly wasn’t going to be much help. The Media gets their Paychecks from the same People who are paying off the Politicians. They’re all one big happy family.

So I called a few old friends that had friends in various Black Ops Organizations. Now the trick about dealing with Ex-Military Spook Types is that Military Culture is a bunch of drunks, when reduced to simplest terms. And drunks talk. The good stuff they brag about. Now this Super Secret Operation that Woodward was talking about, so effective, so momentous… well, there would of course be bragging about THAT. I know, I know… its SUPPOSED TO BE Secret. But the thing about talk is that it is only just talk. Its Documents they worry about. Yes, it would raise a great good many red flags if one were to actually reprint some specific Secret Papers. But drunken talk is customarily assigned the Status of Conspiracy Theory, right next to UFO conjectures and Elvis sightings. The Government would not wish to draw attention to it by shushing it… and so it is that in the shady bars of Spook World everybody knows everything, at least in broad strokes if not in every detail. And so everybody was glad to tell me everything that had been churning through the rumor mill. You know, it’s not so remarkable. It’s probably the same way Bob Woodward found out everything. And if they gave me a million dollar book deal NOT to say anything, I’d keep it a Big Secret too.

And, yes, Wow! Bob was right!... in what he did allow himself to say. It is big… and getting bigger every day. It started small enough. Intelligence Analysts were only looking for a way to cut through all the Data that was piling up – surveillance data from satellites, from airplanes and drones, aerial balloons… it was swamping them. They just didn’t have time to comb through it all. At first they tried to write Computer Programs to sort through the information, but the IT guys were taking forever with it, and getting further behind the longer that they worked at it. Then someone somewhere combined two promising Technological Trends – Computer Generated Design and Artificial Intelligence. Even ten years ago Engineers had noticed that Computer Generated Design was developing a kind of mind of its own – through apparent trial and error CGD was formulating original and innovative design concepts that no human being had even imagined… its what would happen when Computers were allowed to do their own Thinking. And Artificial Intelligence builds even upon that, systematically pursuing objectives while continuously learning from experience. Anyway, regarding the Birth of the Secret Operation, they patched together an Artificial Intelligence Algorithm into a Computer Generated Program Writer. All they wanted it to do was catalog data, and it sure did!

As I have hinted above, the Computer Engineers were surprised at how well the new programming worked, while at the same time sort of expected to be surprised. The Most Important Surprise came when the Program suddenly was able to so effectively catalog Identity. You see, in order to cut down on the total amount of Data which would have to be saved to memory, the Program found a way of reducing Identity to the most basic terms. The Program looked at all sorts of variables that no human Programmer would have thought of. Not that anybody really KNOWS how the program is really working. The Results are fine, and who needs to know how it works anyway. Its Artificial Intelligence doing its thing. But there were requirements. It began asking for specifics. “Don’t give me that! Give me this!” The Engineers had not expected that. The Program wanted Data Surveillance in several Light and Energy Spectrums. Given a few overlapping surveillance photos, reflecting different spectral qualities, the people being observed, even if they appear to be the tiniest of dots, are effectively ‘marked’, can be catalogued in just a few numbers, and will be remembered if they ever pop up again… even as the tiniest of surveillance ‘dots’. This was the real Big Secret Golden Nugget within the Big Secret.

Were the Program Tags perfect? Well, probably not, or not at the beginning. But what was soon discovered was that the Program was great at Tracking and Sorting. As long as the Surveillance Cameras were running individuals could be followed, and nobody could ever be lost in the crowd. Even if thousands of people were to go into an Opera House… I mean Mosque… out of sight for hours, well, as soon as they would leave, everyone would be re-identified and picked up again. Once ‘tagged’ there was never any getting away, and this was with a system that required only the barest levels of stripped down data. Huge areas could be kept under surveillance, quantifying the interactions of hundreds of thousands of ‘targets’.

Of course this could be useful. Think how it might work -- if a Satellite picks up an Insurgent Attack, all the insurgents can be tagged and followed. They don’t need to be instantly arrested, or assassinated, but can be allowed to follow their day by day routines… business as usual. Every move they made would be catalogued.

Woodward tells us that the Secret Operation targets the Leaders. Well, yes, in a way. What the Algorithm is really doing is identifying Nexus Personnel. Yes, often enough tactical level insurgent Personnel will report to official Leaders, and these are identified by the Program. But they also report to various supply clerks, pay clerks, even religious clerks… all the logistical and moral support people that keep day to day terrorist operations going smoothly. So while Leaders are included, the Program is really set up to target all of the necessary support personnel. Leaders are over-rated anyway. The other day I heard the Israelis announce they had just assassinated another Hamas “Leader”… they murdered some young guy who was only 24 years old. If that’s what they call a ‘Leader’ it would probably be more useful to take out somebody really important, like a Supply Clerk. Anyway, the Program takes care of assigning all of these targeting priorities – who sees whom, who reports to whom and how often. The important targets begin to stand out, not necessarily because they are “Leaders” but because they are the people that all the tactical personnel and foot soldiers find it necessary to meet with.

Bob Woodward told us that this Secret Operation is Big and getting bigger. It needs to. As you can guess, such an Operation would be ravenous about sucking up Computer Memory and Power. Although the bulk of the Program is about Cataloging the Important Stuff and tossing out the rest, still, at the onset there needs to be a great deal of Raw Data – surveillance of an entire Country in two or three Spectrums of Light Energy. That chews up a lot of Disc Space. Then, the Cataloging requires a huge amount of Computer Capacity. Records need to go back in time, and even compressed data takes up space in the long run. Indeed, the day to day improvements to the Program are almost entirely measured, not in how it has refined Target Acquisition, but in how it has learned to work just as well with less and less saved data. The limiting factor is Computer Power.

All those Programs we hear about, set up in certain Universities, that ask people to lend over their personal computers for various kinds of Data Crunching, that they say is concerning Global Warming and all such Green Things… well, the rumor is that all such Programs are supplying the necessary Computer Power for the Secret Operation in Iraq. Also, I have been keeping my eyes on my Intel, Cisco and other Computer Technology Stocks. As much as I wish I could say so, I see no sign that the Government is on a Spending Binge in Hi Tech. So, apparently, this Secret Operation was probably something of a lucky accident, at least as far as Government Funding was concerned – doing a lot with what had been an old original limited budget. Anyway, nobody has noticed much of a Supply and Demand distortion in the Civilian Marketplace. My Stock has not gone up. Just think how well this Secret Operation could work once they start really throwing money and resources into it.

Bob Woodward has told us that revealing the Truth about this Secret Operation would get people killed. Well, maybe, at first it would have. You see, at first nobody trusted the Program and they were sending in Intelligence Operatives to check on the Program’s Information. Were the Terrorists reporting to actual Leaders or just going to favorite neighborhood deli stores? They needed to see for themselves. But, since the program has evolved, they have learned to trust it. When the Tactical Teams finally go in, they find very much exactly what the Program had projected.

So why did all the Government Weenies tell Woodward to shut up about it? Well, they are probably afraid of chasing away what is left of the Insurgents and Terrorists who have not already gotten the big message. You see, the Algorithm is easy enough to beat – if you are a Terrorist, then just stop taking any meetings. Stay away from everybody. Of course, terrorism cannot conduct much business like that, but isn’t that what we want? The more they know about this Secret Operation, the more they can be expected to shut down and run for it. If they all go back to herding goats, afraid for their lives, then We have won the war, haven’t we?

Oh, I suppose there might also be concerns about Privacy Issues. Somebody MUST be thinking about bringing the Secret Operation back home. And it would be SO much more effective if people were kept in the dark about it. It could just as well be used against Organized Crime – to shut down Auto Theft, Drug Trafficking, even discrete instances of individual crime – there is nothing very special about Insurgent Operations that a few tweaks in the Program couldn’t turn it into being primarily a Crime Fighting Tool. For the Law Biding Good Citizen, it would be like God watching over us all. But Criminals, Corrupt Politicians and Police, and Privacy Fanatics would have a reflex opposition to it all. So they told Bob to keep it all a Big Secret.

Well, they couldn’t keep the Atom Bomb secret for very long either.

The Jewish Paradox

It is extremely tiring being called a Nazi because I disapprove of the Contemporary Jew doing exactly what the Nazis had been doing.

The Nazis thought they were the Master Race and therefore had right to kill anybody who came in the way.

And the Jews, probably learning more from the Nazis than they should have – a Stockholm Syndrome kind of thing no doubt, now do the same thing – killing anybody who stands in their way of their vision of a Greater Israel. What the Jews had originally complained of has become their own modus operandi. The Jews said that they ‘would never forget’, and they haven’t, apparently having made of the Nazis’ behavior toward them something of an Instruction Manual on how they would subsequently behave toward everyone else. Sort of a ‘genocide them before they genocide us’ kind of thing.

It’s sad that America helps them out to such an extent – as a tiny little country they never would have been able to do it all on their own, and they would have had to arrive at a Peace Deal by now. But with the Help of America, thank God, they’ll never have to make Peace with anybody. You see, it’s the Protestant Vision that by enabling the Jews to re-establish Israel, the Last Battle will be provoked – Armageddon – and then, just as prophesized, Jesus will make his Second Coming, the Righteous will be Raptured… blah, blah, blah. What it comes down to is that the Americans who are in power actually have no intention toward Peace, despite what they say, but are doing everything in their power to provoke War. Indeed, giving the State of Israel 5 billion dollars every year to remain in a constant state of War. That 5 billion dollars basically underwrites their whole Economy. Peace would in fact bankrupt them. When you hear on the news that either Washington or Tel Aviv is moving toward establishing Peace with the Palestinians, that it is really against all of their historic interests and motivations, and probably only a prelude to some scheme for embarrassing the Palestinians before ratcheting up the War Machine to even more strenuous intensities and expenses.

Anyway, I’m the guy who is for Peace and against victimizing a relatively helpless minority (for although much is made of the threat of ‘Terror’, it’s a danger that has only killed or harmed .0000000001% of the targeted population, putting ‘Terrorism’ largely in the column of being nearly all ‘bark’ and not hardly any ‘bite’. One is more likely to win the lottery than to be harmed by Terrorists. Indeed, much is made of so little only to justify the Perpetual War that American Protestantism still believes will bring them their Armageddon and their Rapture. But perhaps they should be reminded, that the State of Israel was re-established in 1949, more than a half century ago, more than a generation ago, and that there have been already rather a few full blown Wars, and Armageddon has not happened yet. How long do they expect their tardy God to put things off? Yes, its already been 2000 years, so how much longer could it be?

Really, the American Protestants should consider the possibility that Armageddon and the Second Coming had already happeneded, with the Destruction of Jerusalem in the year 71 A.D. It honestly fit all the Prophetic Descriptions. Armies marched on Jerusalem from every corner. Then it could very well have happened that all the Genuine Christians of the day were Raptured and lifted up into Heaven. The bitter pill for Modern Protestants to swallow, though, is that they are now part of the Population of the Reprobate – the Children of the Damned. Ooooops. You know, somebody had to be. If so many damned people were to be left behind, well, one can’t expect that they should all just shrivel up and die. Life would go on, and it did. Also, these Protestants should take it as a hint that the Christian Church that ‘survived’ really was not part of the Real Church at all, not the Jews that Jesus had taught, but Greeks who followed the Teaching of Paul who had been an actual Persecutor of the Real Messianic Church that Jesus had established. It’s really all in the Book of Acts, if one reads it from that slant.

The best that these Protestants should hope for, or pray for, is a New Dispensation – enough of trying to milk the old Prophecies. They should review the more recent Events in Religious History. There had been all the Appearances of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but the Protestants at their best and most Charitable, ignore Her. Now that the Protestants are allied with the Anti-Abortion Catholics on the Extreme Religious Right, they try to be un-provoking to their new Political Partners, but when assured there are no Catholics in the room they still continue to refer to the Mother of their Lord Jesus Christ as “the Whore of Babylon”… anything to re-justify their violence and hatred during what they call the Reformation, when they killed half the Catholics in Europe in order to confiscate Church lands, and set up rebellious little Nation States outside of purviews of Christian Civilization. However, they probably would not like the New Marian Prophecies anyway, as they are largely along the lines of bemoaning the Fall of Christian Civilization (Catholicism as it had been in its Glory Day), and the rise of Barbarism (everything Protestant, with its twin vehicles for Corruption – Capitalism and Democracy).

Okay, okay, you get the message – they are all Bad Guys. They either realize it and don’t care, or they are in complete denial about it, resting in their Faith that God somehow smoothes over the Moral Difficulties involved in having other Peoples suffer so that a few Chosen Jews and Protestants can live as Masters of the World and the Sole Inheritors of Heaven. In any case, it is necessary to deflect the blame from themselves to any who oppose them. Like the Jews before them they need to rise up and cut down even their own Prophets if they should happen to broach uncomfortable topics of conversation.

So I am the Bad Guy for insisting upon a modicum of morality. It’s sad when the good guys are now called Nazis or are seriously compared to the Nazis. They should consider that if it should be true, then how bad would that make everybody else?

Freedom of Speech minus Secrecy

Freedom of Speech minus Secrecy

Its odd that Americans still speak of Freedom of Speech. Now their Government places every embarrassing piece of information into some National Security Classification. Almost every Government Worker, Contractor, or member of the Military cannot discuss anything that has to do with anything because it is Classified. Indeed, it has caused quite a paradox of perceptions as Reporters are beginning to realize that ANY information released from the Government must certainly be contrived up lies, because if anything about it were actually True, it would have been Classified.

Private Information is no better. Every large Corporation now instructs their employees about all information available to them being “Company Private”.

Now, nearly nobody goes to jail for violating National Security Classifications or Company Private Guidelines; however, people are fired and they cannot ever again find comparable work. Everyone’s gainful employment largely depends upon keeping everything about their official capacities secret.

The Courts are also involved. One would think that Freedom of Speech would at least be respected by the Third Branch of Government. But now it is the most common of procedures for Judges to swear all parties to total secrecy and absolute News blackouts. Then there are Judgments issued on the condition that Secrecy remain perpetual. Official Government Agencies deliberately place constraints on Speech and don’t have a second thought about it.

Now, shouldn’t we all wonder how a Democracy is supposed to work if nobody knows anything? Democracy has become Government by Guess.

Yes, yes, Secrecy serves so many causes. If the Government and the Companies and the Courts did not see some advantage in maintaining Secrecy, they would not be so insistent upon the violation of Liberal Principles. However, they are only thinking of Themselves, aren’t they? If we were to think of the Greater Public Good, then would not all the advantages be in Freedom of Information. Even in regards to the Military, the great bulk of information now being classified is of no use to the Enemy – give the complete plans of an F-22 Fighter Jet to Turban Headed Terrorist in Afghanistan and he’ll probably use it for toilet paper. It is all about Political Control. Its all about covering up EVERYTHING. With Corporations it is all about Liability. With the Courts it is about hiding the fact that the Judges are ruling in favor of Wealth and Privilege – the other boys at the Country Club.

I forget where I read it, but the argument was made that when so many American’s came back from World War Two, having had close looks at how the Nazies and the Russians had done business, the convenience and utility of it all was much too tempting. Dictatorial Secrecy was imposed, publicly, privately and in the Courts. And nobody complained. I guess maybe nobody knew what was happening anyway. It was all kept secret.

Public Tyranny vs Private Tyranny

Public Tyranny vs Private Tyranny

Louis IVX was once asked how he could live with himself, being such a tyrant and all. He explained that he slept very well at night considering that as One Tyrant he saved the people from thousands of Petty Tyrants.

But the Kings were overthrown and now we live under the Regime of Thousands of Petty Tyrants who, of course, control the Media Propagandas convincing us that we are really very lucky to be enslaved on so many sides.

What brings this to mind is the Western Media’s coverage of the Chinese Olympics. We are treated to news which is supposed to shock of scandal that the Chinese Government had issued News Release Guidelines – instructing its Reporters and Media Coordinators of the type of thing that would be News and the kinds of things best left ignored. How Shameful that the Government should get involved in the News!

Well, what absolute Hypocrisy! Yes, in China is just so happens that the Government is the Entity that issues such orders. But is CNN, FOX, CBS or the BBC honestly going to pretend to tell us that NOBODY is issuing THEIR Reporters any such ‘Guidelines’. Are we supposed to believe that All Western Media is totally at the discretion of the Reporters themselves, that no story is ever quashed by some Editor somewhere in pursuant to some ‘policy directive’. We are to believe that the Billionaire Monopolists of the Western Media – Ted Turner and that Fat Bald Australian guy, oh, Rupert Murdick, and even Sung Mung Moon who apparently found that Controlling Public Opinion was even more fun than Playing Messiah (remember the “Moonies” back in the Seventies?) – are we to believe that these guys place no Political Filter upon what is being reported by THEIR Reporters – their hirelings, their slaves? They are NOT Government, certainly, but what assurances are there that they are not bad or worse? For instance, are we really served by all the efforts of the Private Media to stir up Wars and Insurrections? Makes great reading though, huh?

Then there arises the larger issues. The Republicans, the Libertarians, and the Tories, and the little Nazi-Like Parties throughout the World have argued that all Oppression and Inefficiency sources from Government and that without Government the World would naturally revert back to Eden again, pristine and perfect. But what happened when such Anti-Government policies were actually implemented. The Corporations went wild and now every single one of the Capitalist Democratic Economies is hanging on the very brink of collapse. You see, without Government, even those who had a vested interest in remaining Rich could not refrain from implementing schemes so extreme that of course they went over the top into the area of diminishing returns, blowing up in their faces. They behaved like children, that is, Absolutely Powerful Dictatorial children. In all this time where Private Capitalists reigned supreme with absolutely no Government oversight, HOW many workers were ‘downsized’, thrown to part-time employment, stripped of Health Coverage? Raped and Pillaged. If a Government were to so screw over people like this then it would be treated as a Scandal. But since people were only being screwed over by other people, the ones with Political Lobbyists, then it is all fine and dandy.

Honestly, would Louis the IVX, and his corps of professional Civil Bureaucrats really be much worse then this present Regime of Thousands of Petit Tyrants and all the Wild Corruptions we know about even despite the Blanket of Secrecy our own Capitalist Medias try to throw over the Top of it All? At least a Bureaucrat can be expected to have some Ideals. We can imagine how a Person brought up for Public Service might aspire to be genuinely helpful. But Rule by Corporate Mogul, which is what we have now? What can we expect from people who admit to their Greed as some kind of a virtue and pretend to have no other goal in life but to Win and make Losers of everybody else? Even if Government is potentially Corruptible – a Flower that wilts around the edges, it must be obvious that Capitalism is the Very Being and Nature of Corruption itself – an Orchid of stinking dead flesh! Yes, corruption in Government is shocking because it is NOT supposed to be there. But what would truly be amazing to us is Rule by these Capitalist Lobbyists if it were not found to be basically, deeply and intrinsically Corrupt, for what can we expect of people who never claimed to care about anything else besides making a Fast Buck.

Those who told us that Government was Bad omitted telling us that Private Schemers and Crooks would be so much more worse. Bring back Louis.

Russian to War

Russian to War

It had to happen sooner or later. All the Old Timers are gone who remembered not only World War Two but also World War One which really was the absolute proximate cause for the Second World War. I think without a shadow of a doubt that future historians will not make the same distinction we do between World War One and World War Two, but will see the intervening cessation of hostilities much as a truce, also as there had been truces during the Hundred Years War. The obvious factor is that the same line-up and allies and enemies went at each other again. The two conflicts had not been separated by even a complete generation – more than a few soldiers were able bodied men for both Wars. Future Historians will gloss over discussions of what ‘caused’ what has been called World War Two as so much short-sighted silliness, as it will be obvious to the larger view made impartial by Time that the cause of World War Two had been World War One. It is the causes for that First War that are important to us.

But if one listens to the Political Propagandizing currently being presented to us all, it is along the lines of instructing us that World War Two was inevitable and that it was absolutely necessary to stop Hitler… leaving us to infer that it is equally necessary now that Putin of Russia be stopped. No one reminds us of the millions who had to die to teach Hitler his lesson, and not just in battle. There was the bombings, but far worse but mostly forgotten (for that very reason I suppose) were the Food Embargos enforced by America and Britain that assured that even if Hitler had not put large segments of the population in camps, where, by the way, food was for a long time rationed before it inevitably ran out, that millions of deaths would have occurred nonetheless. Millions of people cannot live without food. Starving a Continent to teach Hitler a lesson would have had its Holocaust one way or another no matter how it came down. We are told of Gas Chambers but really, most people had starved to death… and it was Roosevelt and Churchill behind all that. Anyway, all of that aside, it is difficult to comprehend the ignorance behind anybodies serious wish that we should have another World War Two – that we should measure how ‘Glorious’ our Generation is entitled to be by what proportion of dead it leaves on battlefields that might well have been avoided.

Besides, as much as this present Generation of Politicians look back in nostalgic awe of World War Two as a Righteous and Necessary War, the comparison to any situation we have today with Russia simply does not apply. What really draws a parallel is the wildly tragic blunders that lead up to World War One – a War that had a thousand causes but not a single hint of any reason that could justify the subsequent losses and disastrous results, yes, including World War Two. More than 30 million people died in World War One, and the subsequent instabilities set up a resurge in the conflict a mere 15 years later which took another 30 million. Yes, apart from the Propaganda that tells us again and again that there were only 6 million deaths that really mattered, the rest of the dead should be measured too, even if they were not the “Chosen People”. For every Jew that died in the Holocaust, ten ordinary people died too… but no Propaganda is served by Remembering them. While everyone else was encourage to Forget and go on and Live in Peace, the Propaganda Machine decided to remember this One Fraction of the Deaths in order to justify a War Machine that has destabilized World Politics ever since. Because of a European Holocaust that everyone suffered, they alone have the right to murder and enslave Palestinians. The Logic of Propaganda is wonderful.

World War One was instigated by a bunch of openly Imperialistic Democracies that had to talk tough and act tough to please their constituencies. If it had all been still under Kings who utilized professional diplomatic bureaucracies, then there would have been a Convention held in Paris or Vienna and the competing Imperial Powers would simply have sliced up the World Map like a big pizza pie. There would have been no Huge European Civil War, no collapse of Civilization (and, yes, Civilization DID collapse… just listen to the music), and the rest of the World would have been brought up to speed a whole lot faster than it did. A Cooperative Network of Imperial Powers ruling the World, as opposed to two horribly destructive World Wars, would have been a much better package for all concerned. Instead what we had was an escalating game of push and shove from which no politician could dare back down, resulting in Wars and then the Revolutions which perhaps killed and destroyed more than even the Wars had done. Europe has not yet gained back even half of what it had lost with that misguided conflict. Only America benefited by this European Suicide.

But it is all about to start again. That new little foreign President that the French got to rule over themselves (what? The French know enough about their own national character not to elect another Frenchman… Napoleon wasn’t French either now that I think about it) – when he is not poking his new Super-Model wife, he’s out drumming up a War against Russia. Just minutes ago in History the French themselves had refused to join NATO, not wishing to be pulled into an American driven War. Now France wishes to provoke a War by insisting that NATO effectively invade the Former Soviet Union, annexing what was until only just recently an integral part of what we understood as ‘Russia’.

Even the new German Girl, with her political ear to the ground, has come out thumping for War, perhaps with the intuition that Peace with the Germans had only been something of a momentary fad, that Defeat has left a lasting bad taste in their mouths and that they are ready to go again. Doing so well now after having lost two Big Wars, I suppose they think that losing one more might make things even better.

As for the Americans, apart from their Propaganda, they really did not fight in the Big Wars, not like everyone else did. Indeed, the Americans even had to contrive a few disastrous battles just in order to sustain enough losses so that they could pound the Treaty Tables afterwards pretending as much vehemence as the other Partners in War who had lost millions where America had only lost thousands. Indeed, the real fact of the Wars for America was that they were the ultimate Arms Supplier, draining the World’s Gold while hanging back from any real combat until the outcome of the Wars had already been decided.

But does America think that it could now instigate a new World War with Russia and remain equally untouched? America can’t even manage to comfortably deal with the relatively primitive pastoralists of Iraq and Afghanistan. Fighting these shepherds has lead America to the verge of Bankruptcy. Is any of America’s Intelligence Community telling any of their reckless Politicians that Russia has scores of Armored Divisions, a competitive Air Force, a huge blue water Navy. What of those Midget War Mongers in France and Germany? How many Armored Divisions can France and Germany commit? Russia still has enough Mig Airplanes to darken the sky. France and Germany can barely mount an air show.

Yes, I suppose everybody thinks that if everyone talks tough and in unison, then Russia will back down. Really? But who is more likely to back down? It is not Russia that is on the verge of Bankruptcy. Russia had its big problems and is now on the other side of them. America is barely able to keep afloat on its swiftly sinking dollar, and Europe makes no secret of depending on America… watch the European Exchanges as they mirror Wall Street day after day, even with amplified swings… when America sniffles Europe catches cold, and when America skins its knee Europe hemorrhages blood. Honestly, of what does Russia have to be afraid? Even if America with its few European auxiliaries were to launch a devastating attack on Russia’s Military and Economic infrastructure, everyone knows that America and its Little Friends have no stomach for occupying Russia. As said previously, America has its hands full dealing with tiny defeated little Peoples. Even if America were to knock the Russian Giant down to the ground, certainly they no longer harbor any delusions about being able to keep It down.

And why shouldn’t America and Europe back down. America has its United States. Now Europe even has its Union. Why is it that Russia is the only World Power that can’t pull together the Peoples and Nations within its Natural Boundaries. Besides, it’s the right and best thing. Larger Political and Economic Jurisdictions do better than small City States. The only people who benefit from these little C.I.A. Client Republics are the Little Gangs that usurp power and become the Little Kings of the Mountain… the local Fat Hogs. Yes, yes, the Propaganda says that Democracy gives people Self-Representation, but really? Who Nominates these Client Candidates? These Politicians who step forward to run for Public Office, who’s paying them to do it? Then there is the matter of the Losers within these Democracies – the 49% of the Public that can be entirely ignored if their Candidates are voted down. For Democracy to be really representative, they should gather together all those who cast losing votes and shoot them, so that it can actually be true to say that the People, the survivors anyway, are represented by the Government that they did indeed vote for. I would say I am just kidding, but in some Democracies it is almost that serious – that Elections are so violent because the Results decide the fate of complete Demographic Segments of Society which will certainly be marginalized politically and economically should their Candidate or Party lose. Anyway, I can hardly believe that the Propagandists really believe in their own Propaganda to such an extreme extent, as they must be so well acquainted with all of the underlying Corruption, that even if it has made them wildly wealthy, they must be cynical and jaded enough from the Suffering they see themselves imposing on others to realize that their Scam isn’t worth another Devastating World War. After all, just how naughty are the Russians being? Taking charge of a Former State that is about to commit Treason is hardly the same thing as attacking some really Free and Independent Republic. If Abraham Lincoln was justified in America’s own Civil War, where Rebellious Independent Republics were invaded and brought back to Statehood and Union, then why does not Putin deserve the same latitude? If Lincoln could burn his Georgia…?

Oh, there I am talking about facts of life and common sense. Always always always we must keep in mind that we live in Mindless and Corrupt Democracies. In that case if a totally devastating War could possibly be launched out of excesses of overblown Public Patriotism, whipped up by super-interested Propaganda Machines, so that a mere handful of the Super Rich can double the value of their stock portfolios, then we all should probably be very afraid.

This Young Generation of Idiots who know nothing of the turn of the Last Century that lead up to all the bloody excesses of the Deadliest One Hundred Years in Human History – ordinarily I would ask them to read a few books to get some insight into it all. But I guess they don’t need to. They are now living it. They are the Fools of 1914 all over again.

Georgia Russia and America

Democracy can be so insidious. Let’s look at the History of Georgian Democracy. The Soviet Union collapsed and the American Spy Services installed a Pro-American Regime. People who could be bought cheap were bought cheap and everyone else was pushed out of the way. There is something about Democracy that most people ignore. Yes, everyone votes, but who is it that nominates? Who picks the people that finally get voted for. There we have the first corruptions.

Is Georgia’s government corrupt? Well, we know the Regime did not get on top because of its brains. The Little Midget on the World Stage, the President of Georgia has been boasting East and West that he is America’s Ally, the New Israel. Honestly, does he even know what that means? In Israel they get 5 billions dollars a year from America, a percentage of which is laundered through salaries and donated back to American Politicians to continue to support Israel and keep the Money Flow going. Georgia has no where near even the beginning of such a Lobbying apparatus. There is not a single American Politicians that will get a nickel less for their next campaign if Georgia were to completely disappear from the face of the Earth, America’s Ally or not. That Little Midget of a Georgian President would know that if he would glance at a newspaper.

Besides, despite all of the American Bluster in the face of the Russian Invasion, the American State Department has time and time again insisted that NATO was not assembled as an Anti-Russian Army. After decades of insisting that they were not Russia’s Enemy, the American’s would be most embarrassed liars to change their tone now, at the first excuse to attack Russia.

Besides, Bush is planning to attack Iran. McCain and Obama are both out to intensify the War in Afghanistan, and neither has ruled out widening the War into a full scale invasion of Pakistan. Simply put, America has not the least little bit left over for instigating World War III against the Russians. The Russians know this. That little Weenie in Georgia should have known it before he started killed Russian Soldiers and harassing Citizens holding Russian Passports.

Could Russia have restrained itself. Well, not really. America simply was not stopping its policy of NATO-izing first every Eastern European Country that had been in the Soviet Sphere, but then going on to Americanize even former Soviet States. Russia had warned that that would be going too far. Now, the best time to act is BEFORE an Ex-Soviet State is NATO-ized. Once a Country becomes a NATO Member it becomes difficult NOT to go to War should it be invaded. But Georgia is not yet a NATO Member. Georgia is not yet really an Ally.

And this does bring up the larger matter that American’s and European’s should consider… all NATO Members. Do they REALLY want to launch World War III because the American’s were overselling NATO, apparently for no better reason than to mock and ridicule Russia on the World Stage, showing how Capitalist Democracy can roll up everything that Russia had lost.

Honestly, France and Germany, who really have no say at all in NATO policy should simply pull out and as quickly as possible or be pulled into World War III because America is in an Election Cycle and nobody could politically afford to look weak and back down.

Marx was wrong. It is not Capitalism that will cause the Collapse of Civilization. It will be Democracy, mindless retarded Democracy.