A very short note informing the Gym of an outstanding lecture to Americans but also the rest of the world from whom Judge Napolitano dubbed “Tik-Tok Guy.” The one-minute forty second clip was aired today during his chat with Pepe Escobar.
The "Tiktok Guy" is 100% right. Judge A.N. agrees with him on everything, except one thing: "The US hasn't spent billions on its wars, as "Tik-Tok Guy" claims, it's spent trillions!"
The game is over. What we are now seeing from the USA is already the last twitch of a "dying giant". I have been following developments in China and the BRICS for some time now. The most sensible thing for Europe would be to decouple from the USA and Black Rock as quickly as possible and turn to the BRICS. But that's wishful thinking. It won't work with the "old" elites and networks. Unfortunately. And such a total reversal of their DNA will not be possible in the USA either. Not even if that would be the salvation for the USA. And it would be. But finance capital will never allow this.
I love Pepe Escobar's permanent optimism, his zest for life. Even though I myself, here in Germany, live in a swamp of depression.
America has not even woken from her slumber, much less come to end of life.
We must stop this habit of referring to tiny, tiny juntas, collections of insane, egomaniacal, grasping, stupid individuals as the nations they have by the throat.
'America' as the word is used today is not America at all. Is it? 350 million good people trying to live, work, grow, make sense of it all?
No. It is a tiny, tiny coterie apparently, best we know, of jewish plutocrats ruling through this incredibly unfathomable irrational indivual Trump.
'Ukraine' as the word is used today is not 40 million Ukrainian people, is it? Christ no, it is a tiny, tiny group of totally corrupt and murdering remorseless individuals directing 30 million to wipe out the oither 10 million.
'Germany' today is not 80 million good sensible strong people looking to make a life is it? No. It is a tiny tiny handful of totally out of this world lunatics that are killing those people's present and future as hard as they can go.
In all instances and everywhere you look it is axiomatic today that in the west the people do not matter, do not signify.
Attention needs to be turned towards the people and they need to be urged to wake up.
Wake up to what? To the fact that they are asleep at the wheel. That they ought to be directing the affairs of the nation. They should say whether a nation goes to war or not is, of course the number one thing.
Their opinions are not even canvassed except covertly and for shabby reasons: commerce or exploitation, control, manipulation.
Be it FB or X or Tiktok or linkin or whatever the stats are studied by big money and politicians alike to discern how to profit from knowing the 'heart and soul' of the people.. Discovering what will appeal to them, what will persuade them, what can be sold to them: good and/or propaganda.
'Surveys' and polls are used for the same purpose. Hundreds of low profile firms specialise in 'market research' and gather such information. It is a big industry.
But all 'covert'.
Why? Why not make it clearly overt? Why openly canvas the opinions,feelings, attitudes, beliefs, of the people and be open about the significances of those knowledges?
Well because then the people would become aware of their own power.
They would become aware of themselves, the data then being available to them, too, they'd come to know themselves, their own 'mass profile'.
Being aware of themselves and their power they'd naturally begin to use the information and the power.
They would,, in fact, begin to take control of their own nation.
They would become awake, active, proactive, practicing citizens of a democracy: democrats in reality rather than in name because of membership of a so named political party with no democratic features at all.
How could such a thing ever come to be?
Well it already exists. Very very nearly.
It simply requires an app on your phone where you have an online account as secure as your online bank accounts which belongs to you and you only. And everyone who has such an account is a real person just as everyone with a bank account is a real person.
And at the press of a button you could lodge your anonymous vote on any question at all.
We all could.
We know this is true because we have secure online bank accounts and we have software apps such as Polleverywhere and Mentimeter that do this polling.
We even have States where they do their normal ritual voting via suchlike software today, though of course that is not in the hands of the people and is not used for anything more than that single once every few years elect this or that shill for this or that Party.
Practical Democracy has always suffered from an inability to model the ancient Greek whereby every voice was heard because of the sheer scale today. Too many people. No ancient Greek amphitheatre to get us all into. Impractical.
So we adopted 'representative democracy'
As a makeshift, a makedo. A provisional thing adopted for want of better.
Well that presumes a direction for progress - a path to tread, a goal to get to doesn't it? Somewhere to go. Something to do. Improve on the current 'makeshift'.
As technology gets better.
Well it got better. It is better.
Why do no politicians, no intellectuals, no plutocrats, call for us to take this next step?
I often speak and write in metaphors. It saves me unnecessary words, as I find myself in the company of thoughtful people. Of course, the population of the United States will still exist even if the current system is replaced by another. No matter how many people die—they already do, all the time. From poverty, from poor healthcare, or because they can’t afford the heakthcare they need, from addictions to various substances, from toxic water and poisoned food, from depression leading to suicide, from crime, from wars in foreign lands where people are lured by propaganda to fight, and so on... All these people were murdered. Murdered by this system we worship like a god, a system called "capitalism."
Violence will not bring about anything better. History teaches us that. Far more crucial is the development of information, education, awareness, and overcoming lethargy to embrace action—which, at the very least, can mean simply saying, "No!" But the existing system cannot be toppled by violence. Because those in power within this system hold a monopoly on violence and are just waiting for resistance to take a violent form. That’s when they can finally legitimize installing a totalitarian regime that would make Adolf Hitler green with envy. And a population frightened by violence and chaos would be grateful for it. Karl Sanchez is doing something very important and right in the realm of information. No matter how overwhelming systemic propaganda may be, information is the foundation for understanding and awareness. Yet even critical citizens are divided among themselves, because intelligence agencies and their subcontractors have planted their PSYOPS in the "new media." One example among many is "MAGA."
The primary enemy of all peoples is the oligarchy. As long as it persists, nothing is truly won.
Let's take a country desperate to escape the suffocation and outright theft of its resources, Burkina Faso. Well, before he's 40 Traore will have had as many assassination attempts/plots on his life than Fidel Castro had. 19 attempts in 2/3 years. France bankrolls most of these coup attempts after being evicted from the country and the bee in its bonnet with Russia sees the knock on effect of its lead role in Ukraine. Macron's a Rothschild Man and Rothschild's Disciples are all over Ukraine, Bank Credit Dnipro, DCH conglomerate just lost their large deposit of iron-ore near Sukha Balka.
Mali's gold resources & Niger's uranium used to feed Paris, gone.
Europe's Ukrainian Lithium resource, gone.
Those didn't return chanting Kumbaya!
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin'around.
It's bloody, wrestling back control from an oppressor.
While we chat, how many women and children and elderly die in Gaza despite all the chitchat at the UN, International Courts, many other Bodies? 90% of the world at least could come together for this alone because today it's Genocide in Gaza, tomorrow . . .
I only see the Houthis and Iran's Axis-of-Resistance in a positive light, while Russia has its hands full.
Folks are being targeted on our streets by masked groups and thrown into the back of vans, much like the recruitment tactics in Ukraine and the very people engaging in this lawlessness, paid public servants.
You advocate a specific kind of revolution: armed, violent, revolution.
That's utterly wrong.
Wrong because of the violence of course.
But wrong because of the 'scene', the 'environment' the 'setting' for it.
Which is the current system: it's practices and its members, its protocols etc.
And, of course, its tangible assets: building, land, data sets, whatever.
Violent revolution destroys the tangible assets to everyone's detriment and fails to change the intangible which is where the real problems lie inasmuch as they lie with the govts and not the people.
Its practices, members, protocols, paradigms, these are the problem.
What happens in armed revolutions is they all get adopted wholesale by the incoming 'revolutionaries'.
Who often use precisely that same machinery to turn on the people and incarcerate and murder thousands or millions of them.
Not an improvement to a nation at all. Not.
What is needed is a simple educating and empowering of the people.
This can and should begin with each and every one of us. We have a duty to work on ourselves and a commensurate duty to work on our friends and neighbours, to disseminate what we learn.
That's what we should be doing. Checking our own performance. That's proactive and immediate and personal and effective.
Calling for armed revolution is none of those. It calls for someone else to be proactive and 'revolt with arms' and that, of course, is anything but 'immediate' and it is impersonal, leaving the agitator without need to do anything and shifting the activist burden elsewhere. And it is ineffective in bringing fruitful change.
Such agitators are notionally shouting to, pleading to, asking things from, young men with guns. Asking them to attack and fight, to destroy.
The people who should be addressed are really such as the grandmothers in their shawls or in their homes tending children. They need educating in the realities of what is and what could be. That if the mass of people showed incontrovertibly that its desire was 'thus' then 'thus' is what would happen. No corporations, no oligarchs, no politicians would stand in the way of incontrovertible evidence of the people's will and desire. And grandmothers are an equal part, a valid and strong, part of that will. More a valid part and more a strong part than any dumb machine gun in the hands of a hyped up madly radical youth.
Now that's a revolution. For democracy to suddenly have something really to do with the will of the people.
Yes. A revolution is very necessary. But that's the kind of revolution that is required.
Putin tried to be reasonable with the scum running this plantation. Didn't work. We're not dealing with people who'll go quietly into the night. Even with Russia's superior array of weaponry and resources they still scream and kick.
Like you saw him on Judge Napolitano and was blown away. Good to see the links to his post. Here's a link to his TikTok site. Calls himself the Grumpy Chinese Guy. He's got a bunch of amazing short posts about the US and China. https://www.tiktok.com/@neil778027
For the record, there has been a surge in infrastructure building over the past few years in the Central European banana republic where I mostly live - roads, railways, bridges, power grid, you name it. My guess is that the money is a bribe for complying with the con-vid bullshit. Some of the stuff (highways/railways) might also be peddled as military spending (they gotta ship them tanks eastward somehow, eh?). But one could say that some 'investment into people' as per the clip is being made.
The big picture, however, is, of course, precisely as the guy says.
I watched the whole episode as it is very good, and of course, I loved the TikTok video. Who on the Left could have summed up the US mess better? The end of the program spoke about Yemen. I have heard rumors that the aircraft carrier Harry S Truman was hit by the Yeminis. I would love to know what is happening for sure.
Given the volume of fires aimed at USS Truman, it’s being hit is very likely. But those fires can’t cause great damage, so it continues to operate. WW2 Kamikaze attacks provide a good comparison.
Let me ask a question here, Karl. And consider the naivety of it. Ok, I can see all the distractions, destruction, etc…..but I keep thinking about the Russian destroyed economy after 1991 via glorious neoliberalism. And they have managed to rebuild it after 2014, when sanction were imposed! So, is there a hope for Western economy to reidustrialise or they cannot take the same route as Russians did. Just curious.
The West can reindustrialize—BUT—there are some steps that must be taken to oust and erase Neoliberalism first some of which I mentioned in “Mismanaging Empire.” What that essentially means is a complete political reversal must occur as widely as possible. Afterwards, cooperation will be required because most nations lack the resources to become manufacturers again. Designing each nation’s political-economy to provide for the masses will be a big task since no nation is the same, although many areas can be copied generally then modified. The main issue is the masses must want what they design. Hudson and Wolff both agree that Europe has enough political depth to make the switch, although it must go further and almost amount to a purge of the ancien regime—reactionaries will always exist, so the key is to neuter them politically.
Yes, neoliberalism. As I keep thinking about it — it is a Zombie refusing to be let go. Still, Russia was neoliberalism and many aspects persist there, as Michael Hudson points out. Anyway, I think that much worse is people. They have become entrepreneurs, losing site of the common good. As Michael Hudson corrected Richard Wolff in the last Nima’s talk. The left turn is rather impossible. Aurelian, in his last post, said something really interesting, which has a ring of truth to it (not sure about this metaphor 😎): “The fact is that organising political movements is hard, and inevitably has to be done around some kind of unifying principle and some set of common objectives”. In other words, I would say, the utopia, which could unite people is turned into entrepreneur’s material paradise, which is never achieved, but is very individualised. And the problem is also, as Aurelian noted, that “today’s politicians have managed to bury the very distinction [between right and left] itself beneath a facade of blank managerialism which has removed all of the politics from politics”. Thank you, Karl.
The young generation receive another education about American and western oligarchy because trump is not only a clown unfit to lead his country but also insults whole nations and groups of people.
They also learned about generational Israeli genocide of Palestinians supported by their leaders, and "Letter to the American People" written by Osama Bin Laden.
No surprise the zionist sponsored and controlled American politicians try to force China to sell it to them :)
The battle is now completely global as I’ll be pointing out in my next article. I know you’ve been watching the weekly Hudson/Wolff/Nima chats and are gaining insight from them. Today’s is very good as it connects with a Chinese podcast I’ll be translating and work that Hudson has done in the past. Here’s the link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G98DeCZcT8
Changes not seen in 100 years! President Putin and Xi discussed this. And I really believe it.
Thank you very much for the tip, yes I am very grateful for the introduction to both of them and have listened and read a lot more. Their views are mine.
I read your recent work, excellent, very enjoyable, I have read a lot of Mao. I will comment further at the article because here nobody will see it a lot, but finally, a warm congratulations for everything you contribute. Adequate and decent people, that is you.
That is a great tik tok. A revolution is definitely one way to remedy the state capture of the usa. I had just finished watching Glenn Diesen interview with Henry Tillman on thorium reactors and thought I would slip the link here at the gym and found this gem of an intro from Karl, so here it is all 35 minutes.
The usa had thorium technology in its hands since 1959 and built a few systems, even powered a ship and then ditched it, shared out the technology of the time and guess who took it up and invested research effort into it... China and Russia. I guess the uranium/mic had the presidents nuts in their hand even then. But check out the Diesen report.
The sad thing about Trump is not so much his personal ignorance but his pathetic persistence in appointing ignorance in his team. Yes there are one or two exceptions. Here is a ground changer tech that he could pump hard and perhaps even sell well but you know they won't as they will just whine and blame and find every excuse to keep the current oligarchs on top.
On the subject of Trump/Ukraine I have been ruminating on yesterday's abject defeat of Trump at the hands of Zelensky and his local and EU buddies - nazis of a feather stick together. Trump has suffered his first major defeat in his first 100 days and by his own allies. Now that is a mighty wound for such a haughty ego. My thought is that there will be savage repercussions against the entire SS gang of nato.
The Putin Lavrov Belousov team must be truly pleased with this defeat of the 'leader of the West' by Zelensky. It is easy to imagine there will be a mighty spring in the step as these victors walk to the podium for the Russian Victory Day Parade come May 9. The brave win in battle and the equally brave politicians win in diplomacy and strategy and they will meet to share their victory again in 2025.
Now we need a motion in the UN General Assembly to prosecute the USA president's war crime and genocide in West Asia.
Just after the tik-tok guy segment Pepe throws out a question to the judge.
He asks whether the judge remembers a proposed 'famous audit' of the Pentagon that was made, by Donald Rumsfeld, just before 9/11 (18.00). The judge then asked what happened. Pepe answered, "Exactly, that audit never happened." ... (18.00-18.47) I wonder whether the section of that building that was apparently damaged contained records or documentation relevant to such an audit?
Anyway, viva the tik-tok guy and thinking people every where.
Yes, that portion of the Pentagon was where the investigation’s offices and its evidence was located. Same thing for the twin towers and Building 7—all housed evidential records of the massive fraud that was and had been occurring for years. The same was the situation with Oklahoma City’s Federal Building that Team McVeigh bombed. Very few investigators ever put the pieces together to gain the whole picture. One was Mike Ruppert who I associated with after 911. Pepe doesn’t broadcast it but he’s aware of what 911 really was and the reason for it, which is why he has high cred with me.
The "Tiktok Guy" is 100% right. Judge A.N. agrees with him on everything, except one thing: "The US hasn't spent billions on its wars, as "Tik-Tok Guy" claims, it's spent trillions!"
Technically Loam, trillions are billions, just more of them.
That's true WTFUD. Anyway, from a thousand dollars onwards I'm already starting to get lost on an unknown planet. Too much for a poor pensioner.
The game is over. What we are now seeing from the USA is already the last twitch of a "dying giant". I have been following developments in China and the BRICS for some time now. The most sensible thing for Europe would be to decouple from the USA and Black Rock as quickly as possible and turn to the BRICS. But that's wishful thinking. It won't work with the "old" elites and networks. Unfortunately. And such a total reversal of their DNA will not be possible in the USA either. Not even if that would be the salvation for the USA. And it would be. But finance capital will never allow this.
I love Pepe Escobar's permanent optimism, his zest for life. Even though I myself, here in Germany, live in a swamp of depression.
America has not even woken from her slumber, much less come to end of life.
We must stop this habit of referring to tiny, tiny juntas, collections of insane, egomaniacal, grasping, stupid individuals as the nations they have by the throat.
'America' as the word is used today is not America at all. Is it? 350 million good people trying to live, work, grow, make sense of it all?
No. It is a tiny, tiny coterie apparently, best we know, of jewish plutocrats ruling through this incredibly unfathomable irrational indivual Trump.
'Ukraine' as the word is used today is not 40 million Ukrainian people, is it? Christ no, it is a tiny, tiny group of totally corrupt and murdering remorseless individuals directing 30 million to wipe out the oither 10 million.
'Germany' today is not 80 million good sensible strong people looking to make a life is it? No. It is a tiny tiny handful of totally out of this world lunatics that are killing those people's present and future as hard as they can go.
In all instances and everywhere you look it is axiomatic today that in the west the people do not matter, do not signify.
Attention needs to be turned towards the people and they need to be urged to wake up.
Wake up to what? To the fact that they are asleep at the wheel. That they ought to be directing the affairs of the nation. They should say whether a nation goes to war or not is, of course the number one thing.
Their opinions are not even canvassed except covertly and for shabby reasons: commerce or exploitation, control, manipulation.
Be it FB or X or Tiktok or linkin or whatever the stats are studied by big money and politicians alike to discern how to profit from knowing the 'heart and soul' of the people.. Discovering what will appeal to them, what will persuade them, what can be sold to them: good and/or propaganda.
'Surveys' and polls are used for the same purpose. Hundreds of low profile firms specialise in 'market research' and gather such information. It is a big industry.
But all 'covert'.
Why? Why not make it clearly overt? Why openly canvas the opinions,feelings, attitudes, beliefs, of the people and be open about the significances of those knowledges?
Well because then the people would become aware of their own power.
They would become aware of themselves, the data then being available to them, too, they'd come to know themselves, their own 'mass profile'.
Being aware of themselves and their power they'd naturally begin to use the information and the power.
They would,, in fact, begin to take control of their own nation.
They would become awake, active, proactive, practicing citizens of a democracy: democrats in reality rather than in name because of membership of a so named political party with no democratic features at all.
How could such a thing ever come to be?
Well it already exists. Very very nearly.
It simply requires an app on your phone where you have an online account as secure as your online bank accounts which belongs to you and you only. And everyone who has such an account is a real person just as everyone with a bank account is a real person.
And at the press of a button you could lodge your anonymous vote on any question at all.
We all could.
We know this is true because we have secure online bank accounts and we have software apps such as Polleverywhere and Mentimeter that do this polling.
We even have States where they do their normal ritual voting via suchlike software today, though of course that is not in the hands of the people and is not used for anything more than that single once every few years elect this or that shill for this or that Party.
Practical Democracy has always suffered from an inability to model the ancient Greek whereby every voice was heard because of the sheer scale today. Too many people. No ancient Greek amphitheatre to get us all into. Impractical.
So we adopted 'representative democracy'
As a makeshift, a makedo. A provisional thing adopted for want of better.
Well that presumes a direction for progress - a path to tread, a goal to get to doesn't it? Somewhere to go. Something to do. Improve on the current 'makeshift'.
As technology gets better.
Well it got better. It is better.
Why do no politicians, no intellectuals, no plutocrats, call for us to take this next step?
Interesting question isn't it?
Here's more on the same topic.
https://abrogard.com/blog/2023/12/25/dont-write-to-congress/
Very Nice!
'Representative Democracy' = Never Give a Sucker An Even Break
What America needs is a thousand or two Timothy McVeigh's and Europe a larger scaled version of the IRA called the PRA (Peoples Republican Army).
Nothing short of REVOLUTION will do.
I often speak and write in metaphors. It saves me unnecessary words, as I find myself in the company of thoughtful people. Of course, the population of the United States will still exist even if the current system is replaced by another. No matter how many people die—they already do, all the time. From poverty, from poor healthcare, or because they can’t afford the heakthcare they need, from addictions to various substances, from toxic water and poisoned food, from depression leading to suicide, from crime, from wars in foreign lands where people are lured by propaganda to fight, and so on... All these people were murdered. Murdered by this system we worship like a god, a system called "capitalism."
Violence will not bring about anything better. History teaches us that. Far more crucial is the development of information, education, awareness, and overcoming lethargy to embrace action—which, at the very least, can mean simply saying, "No!" But the existing system cannot be toppled by violence. Because those in power within this system hold a monopoly on violence and are just waiting for resistance to take a violent form. That’s when they can finally legitimize installing a totalitarian regime that would make Adolf Hitler green with envy. And a population frightened by violence and chaos would be grateful for it. Karl Sanchez is doing something very important and right in the realm of information. No matter how overwhelming systemic propaganda may be, information is the foundation for understanding and awareness. Yet even critical citizens are divided among themselves, because intelligence agencies and their subcontractors have planted their PSYOPS in the "new media." One example among many is "MAGA."
The primary enemy of all peoples is the oligarchy. As long as it persists, nothing is truly won.
Let's take a country desperate to escape the suffocation and outright theft of its resources, Burkina Faso. Well, before he's 40 Traore will have had as many assassination attempts/plots on his life than Fidel Castro had. 19 attempts in 2/3 years. France bankrolls most of these coup attempts after being evicted from the country and the bee in its bonnet with Russia sees the knock on effect of its lead role in Ukraine. Macron's a Rothschild Man and Rothschild's Disciples are all over Ukraine, Bank Credit Dnipro, DCH conglomerate just lost their large deposit of iron-ore near Sukha Balka.
Mali's gold resources & Niger's uranium used to feed Paris, gone.
Europe's Ukrainian Lithium resource, gone.
Those didn't return chanting Kumbaya!
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin'around.
It's bloody, wrestling back control from an oppressor.
While we chat, how many women and children and elderly die in Gaza despite all the chitchat at the UN, International Courts, many other Bodies? 90% of the world at least could come together for this alone because today it's Genocide in Gaza, tomorrow . . .
I only see the Houthis and Iran's Axis-of-Resistance in a positive light, while Russia has its hands full.
Folks are being targeted on our streets by masked groups and thrown into the back of vans, much like the recruitment tactics in Ukraine and the very people engaging in this lawlessness, paid public servants.
How bad does it need to get before we say enough?
You advocate a specific kind of revolution: armed, violent, revolution.
That's utterly wrong.
Wrong because of the violence of course.
But wrong because of the 'scene', the 'environment' the 'setting' for it.
Which is the current system: it's practices and its members, its protocols etc.
And, of course, its tangible assets: building, land, data sets, whatever.
Violent revolution destroys the tangible assets to everyone's detriment and fails to change the intangible which is where the real problems lie inasmuch as they lie with the govts and not the people.
Its practices, members, protocols, paradigms, these are the problem.
What happens in armed revolutions is they all get adopted wholesale by the incoming 'revolutionaries'.
Who often use precisely that same machinery to turn on the people and incarcerate and murder thousands or millions of them.
Not an improvement to a nation at all. Not.
What is needed is a simple educating and empowering of the people.
This can and should begin with each and every one of us. We have a duty to work on ourselves and a commensurate duty to work on our friends and neighbours, to disseminate what we learn.
That's what we should be doing. Checking our own performance. That's proactive and immediate and personal and effective.
Calling for armed revolution is none of those. It calls for someone else to be proactive and 'revolt with arms' and that, of course, is anything but 'immediate' and it is impersonal, leaving the agitator without need to do anything and shifting the activist burden elsewhere. And it is ineffective in bringing fruitful change.
Such agitators are notionally shouting to, pleading to, asking things from, young men with guns. Asking them to attack and fight, to destroy.
The people who should be addressed are really such as the grandmothers in their shawls or in their homes tending children. They need educating in the realities of what is and what could be. That if the mass of people showed incontrovertibly that its desire was 'thus' then 'thus' is what would happen. No corporations, no oligarchs, no politicians would stand in the way of incontrovertible evidence of the people's will and desire. And grandmothers are an equal part, a valid and strong, part of that will. More a valid part and more a strong part than any dumb machine gun in the hands of a hyped up madly radical youth.
Now that's a revolution. For democracy to suddenly have something really to do with the will of the people.
Yes. A revolution is very necessary. But that's the kind of revolution that is required.
Putin tried to be reasonable with the scum running this plantation. Didn't work. We're not dealing with people who'll go quietly into the night. Even with Russia's superior array of weaponry and resources they still scream and kick.
He was on napo w/ Mearsheimer too. Love the kid more than Mere Shriner, tho his reaction was telling as he ducked the question.
The the 'grumpychineseguy' on tiktok.
There are others, they are all on point.
here are my notes/links from when i found them:
tiktokker chinese man sets usa straight ********************
'the humanist report' american youtuber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf_GCOSZ2bA
neil. the tiktokker he mentions
https://www.tiktok.com/@neil778027/video/7492201250637778231
and the other one buddhawang showing an interesting american girl tiktokker
https://www.tiktok.com/@buddhawang/video/7495186152132054280
another by wang more on economics
https://www.tiktok.com/@buddhawang/video/7494626970618121480
another good one from neil
https://www.tiktok.com/@neil778027/video/7491097464208887045?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
Like you saw him on Judge Napolitano and was blown away. Good to see the links to his post. Here's a link to his TikTok site. Calls himself the Grumpy Chinese Guy. He's got a bunch of amazing short posts about the US and China. https://www.tiktok.com/@neil778027
I've shared the long version and the short version. Thanks, Karl.
Thanks Diana!!
The pleasure was all mine, Karl. That was a great clip!
For the record, there has been a surge in infrastructure building over the past few years in the Central European banana republic where I mostly live - roads, railways, bridges, power grid, you name it. My guess is that the money is a bribe for complying with the con-vid bullshit. Some of the stuff (highways/railways) might also be peddled as military spending (they gotta ship them tanks eastward somehow, eh?). But one could say that some 'investment into people' as per the clip is being made.
The big picture, however, is, of course, precisely as the guy says.
I watched the whole episode as it is very good, and of course, I loved the TikTok video. Who on the Left could have summed up the US mess better? The end of the program spoke about Yemen. I have heard rumors that the aircraft carrier Harry S Truman was hit by the Yeminis. I would love to know what is happening for sure.
Given the volume of fires aimed at USS Truman, it’s being hit is very likely. But those fires can’t cause great damage, so it continues to operate. WW2 Kamikaze attacks provide a good comparison.
Eloquent. Accurate. Succinct. Speaks English well. Obviously not an American.
Thanks! Enjoyed this moment of truth.
WOW thanks KS and you also T.C.
It looks like my days of viewing Youtube videos is over as YT now requires me to disable AdBlocker in order to see this video. Ho-Hum.
T.C. found the link, https://www.tiktok.com/@00panchopantera/video/7493046392588422431?q=Tarifs%20china%20revolution&t=1745442332850
Let me ask a question here, Karl. And consider the naivety of it. Ok, I can see all the distractions, destruction, etc…..but I keep thinking about the Russian destroyed economy after 1991 via glorious neoliberalism. And they have managed to rebuild it after 2014, when sanction were imposed! So, is there a hope for Western economy to reidustrialise or they cannot take the same route as Russians did. Just curious.
The West can reindustrialize—BUT—there are some steps that must be taken to oust and erase Neoliberalism first some of which I mentioned in “Mismanaging Empire.” What that essentially means is a complete political reversal must occur as widely as possible. Afterwards, cooperation will be required because most nations lack the resources to become manufacturers again. Designing each nation’s political-economy to provide for the masses will be a big task since no nation is the same, although many areas can be copied generally then modified. The main issue is the masses must want what they design. Hudson and Wolff both agree that Europe has enough political depth to make the switch, although it must go further and almost amount to a purge of the ancien regime—reactionaries will always exist, so the key is to neuter them politically.
Yes, neoliberalism. As I keep thinking about it — it is a Zombie refusing to be let go. Still, Russia was neoliberalism and many aspects persist there, as Michael Hudson points out. Anyway, I think that much worse is people. They have become entrepreneurs, losing site of the common good. As Michael Hudson corrected Richard Wolff in the last Nima’s talk. The left turn is rather impossible. Aurelian, in his last post, said something really interesting, which has a ring of truth to it (not sure about this metaphor 😎): “The fact is that organising political movements is hard, and inevitably has to be done around some kind of unifying principle and some set of common objectives”. In other words, I would say, the utopia, which could unite people is turned into entrepreneur’s material paradise, which is never achieved, but is very individualised. And the problem is also, as Aurelian noted, that “today’s politicians have managed to bury the very distinction [between right and left] itself beneath a facade of blank managerialism which has removed all of the politics from politics”. Thank you, Karl.
The young generation receive another education about American and western oligarchy because trump is not only a clown unfit to lead his country but also insults whole nations and groups of people.
They also learned about generational Israeli genocide of Palestinians supported by their leaders, and "Letter to the American People" written by Osama Bin Laden.
No surprise the zionist sponsored and controlled American politicians try to force China to sell it to them :)
The battle is now completely global as I’ll be pointing out in my next article. I know you’ve been watching the weekly Hudson/Wolff/Nima chats and are gaining insight from them. Today’s is very good as it connects with a Chinese podcast I’ll be translating and work that Hudson has done in the past. Here’s the link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G98DeCZcT8
Changes not seen in 100 years! President Putin and Xi discussed this. And I really believe it.
Thank you very much for the tip, yes I am very grateful for the introduction to both of them and have listened and read a lot more. Their views are mine.
I read your recent work, excellent, very enjoyable, I have read a lot of Mao. I will comment further at the article because here nobody will see it a lot, but finally, a warm congratulations for everything you contribute. Adequate and decent people, that is you.
That is a great tik tok. A revolution is definitely one way to remedy the state capture of the usa. I had just finished watching Glenn Diesen interview with Henry Tillman on thorium reactors and thought I would slip the link here at the gym and found this gem of an intro from Karl, so here it is all 35 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7TV4qpimA
The usa had thorium technology in its hands since 1959 and built a few systems, even powered a ship and then ditched it, shared out the technology of the time and guess who took it up and invested research effort into it... China and Russia. I guess the uranium/mic had the presidents nuts in their hand even then. But check out the Diesen report.
The sad thing about Trump is not so much his personal ignorance but his pathetic persistence in appointing ignorance in his team. Yes there are one or two exceptions. Here is a ground changer tech that he could pump hard and perhaps even sell well but you know they won't as they will just whine and blame and find every excuse to keep the current oligarchs on top.
On the subject of Trump/Ukraine I have been ruminating on yesterday's abject defeat of Trump at the hands of Zelensky and his local and EU buddies - nazis of a feather stick together. Trump has suffered his first major defeat in his first 100 days and by his own allies. Now that is a mighty wound for such a haughty ego. My thought is that there will be savage repercussions against the entire SS gang of nato.
The Putin Lavrov Belousov team must be truly pleased with this defeat of the 'leader of the West' by Zelensky. It is easy to imagine there will be a mighty spring in the step as these victors walk to the podium for the Russian Victory Day Parade come May 9. The brave win in battle and the equally brave politicians win in diplomacy and strategy and they will meet to share their victory again in 2025.
Now we need a motion in the UN General Assembly to prosecute the USA president's war crime and genocide in West Asia.
Just after the tik-tok guy segment Pepe throws out a question to the judge.
He asks whether the judge remembers a proposed 'famous audit' of the Pentagon that was made, by Donald Rumsfeld, just before 9/11 (18.00). The judge then asked what happened. Pepe answered, "Exactly, that audit never happened." ... (18.00-18.47) I wonder whether the section of that building that was apparently damaged contained records or documentation relevant to such an audit?
Anyway, viva the tik-tok guy and thinking people every where.
Yes, that portion of the Pentagon was where the investigation’s offices and its evidence was located. Same thing for the twin towers and Building 7—all housed evidential records of the massive fraud that was and had been occurring for years. The same was the situation with Oklahoma City’s Federal Building that Team McVeigh bombed. Very few investigators ever put the pieces together to gain the whole picture. One was Mike Ruppert who I associated with after 911. Pepe doesn’t broadcast it but he’s aware of what 911 really was and the reason for it, which is why he has high cred with me.