I agree with your assessment of things, but for me, one of the worst aspects of life in America is having to deal with the nasty women. I’m not just talking about their gluttonous habits and lack of grooming, a significant minority of them lack any professionalism much less gentle manners. It never ceases to amaze me how often I have to endure some snide comment or rude gesture from a female worker when I’m back in the States. I’ve actually had to tell women that I wasn’t their husband. How employers can tolerate their behavior is incomprehensible to me.

The fact that I have NEVER (not once) encountered it outside the porous walls of “The Shining City on the Hill,” leads me to believe there is some sort of strong unspoken social taboo about this. Having to endure it so regularly in America changes our disposition and expectation in social interactions. When you have to keep your hands up even around women, you begin to feel alienated and hard.

You may not notice it if you’ve never lived outside the country, but since I spend enough time both inside and out, it never fails to make an impression on me. You can’t pay the bills with pleasant daily encounters, but it sure makes you feel better about being alive.

Sure, just get married. A piece of cake! I’ve never known one married man in my entire life who said that marriage was the path to happiness. Most marriages don’t last. Brazilian women are a lot sweeter on the outside than Americans, but they are every bit as hard on the inside.

The ones who are the most likely to want to marry have nothing to lose, and I do. If you marry someone from a more traditional culture, you’re going to become part of their family. You’re going to be expected to help them out, and if you don’t, the family gatherings are going to become very cold experiences. NB. There’s a family gathering almost every other weekend.

I’m not saying I would never get married, but I don’t take the idea lightly.

You obviously live in America. I feel the same way when I’m there. Do yourself a favor and leave! Go anywhere! Get out!

Both. I’ve run a relatively successful business in the US, and I write blog articles (marketing stuff) when I’m in Brazil. It ain’t easy, believe me.

The brutally honest truth is that America is the most depressing place I’ve ever been.

The owners of America want us this miserable, so we’re more anxious to celebrate the destruction of some society that has refused to pay their tribute. A happy and sane people would never tolerate the wreckage we impart on others. Think about it, what kind of a country could have a publicly acknowledged drone assassination program?

I think I would prefer to avoid the sight of beggars and malnourished people.

America is full of beggars! It is a nation of beggars! You can’t buy a cup of coffee without the cashier holding out a jar for your spare change! Do you think this happens in the rest of the world?

As for malnourished: Americans are without a doubt the most malnourished people in the world. They don’t go hungry, but they are poorly nourished. More than half of the country is suffering from some dietary disease. Go outside and look at people. Just look at them. Do they appear healthy to you?

What is it with you guys and crime? Yes, there is street-crime in Brazil. I was pick-pocketed once in 1989, and that was it. You have to be careful, but you don’t have to go hang-gliding to experience some danger in life.

He’s just one of those guys who wants everyone around him to be as miserable as he is. To wit, he is a true American.

A man after my own heart!

Congratulations on your escape!

Lin didn’t write it. I did. You’ve obviously never been to Natal, so why are you commenting on it? Brazil is far from a poor country, and Natal isn’t even close to being one of the poorest areas.

There’s plenty of crime, but like everywhere else, most of it is drug-related. Racial distinctions are almost irrelevant here. People aren’t black or white, they’re just darker or lighter (the lighter the better).

I’ll be attending one of the best samba shows of the year tonight in a luxury box with an open bar under the stars on a warm summer night. Not only that, I’ll be accompanied by a hot girl 20 years younger than me. http://www.carnatal.com.br/

What will you be doing tonight?

If you think it’s easy to get a permanent visa, try to do it. On a tourist visa, you can only stay six months per year: No exceptions.

Trump is the worst overcooked noodle to sit in the White House

Trump is a 72-year-old man who spent his pampered life as a front man for the New York mob’s real estate holdings. Did ANYONE seriously believe he was going to be able to run the largest military and financial empire in world history?

I’m not saying he’s stupid, far from it, but let’s face it, his job is to make a few television appearances each week and nothing more.

Just because most Americans are fat, stupid, and broke doesn’t mean don’t like it that way. As far as I can tell, they’re happy as pigs in shit, so there’s no point in trying to convince them they aren’t.

That’s a good argument. Perhaps the only charge for a college education should be the opportunity cost of doing something else? If there is no benefit to society in the graduate’s skills, the degree shouldn’t be offered. If there’s a benefit, society at large gains from having more skilled people.

Of course, that would lead to the question of who would decide what should be taught? Any tax paying employer should have a voice.

The only interesting question remaining about 911 is whether the same group who planned the destruction of the twin towers also demolished WTC 7. Even though all three supposedly succumbed to fire, WTC 7 resembles a classic demolition while 1 and 2 exploded. These were obviously different techniques at work.

I began to wonder if some rival faction within the establishment demolished WTC 7 just to spoil the cover story for the Bin Laden angle for leverage in other areas, or the did the perpetrators themselves do it so the American people would have no plausible deniability when the day of reckoning finally comes? After all, what sort of infantile and wicked population could allow the crimes committed by its government after such a preposterous false flag operation? Surely, they deserve to be stripped of everything they have (especially Social Security ;).

Yeah! Where’s the profit? If Wall St. can’t make a buck off it, it’s nothing but shit! Imagine how much more profit you could make if you sold cars to a bunch of Uber drivers to drive people to and from the airport. The vehicles would have to be financed, insured, maintained, and then Uber could get a 25% cut on every ride. With all the ensuing auto accidents, there would be a profit on the ambulance rides, surgeries, rehab treatment, or even the funerals. Now that’s profit. Yeah, baby!

You’re expecting a wave of Asian immigrants when the US$ collapses? I always assumed everyone who had a home would go home.

When fat ass Americans miss the first meal of their lives, the guns will come out of the racks and safes, and before it’s all over: “There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Since the collapse of the American empire will be, among other things, a cultural and psychic deliverance for Americans themselves, all should wish for it.

I have for a long time, but I’m starting to fear I may not live to see it.

Hmmm, so I if I understand this article correctly, the generals will not start a major war? That’s how I see it too, but sometimes I have to wonder, just look at this country! 50% functional illiteracy, 40% obesity, LBGTQ (and God knows what else!), tattoos, and a landscape covered with McMansions and trailer parks. If this wasn’t all a setup for a nuclear war, then what exactly do they have in mind? Trump is going to bring manufacturing back and MAGA? Puh-lease!

Bolsonaro is compared to President Trump, there are both similarities and differences. Both share hostility to minorities

I assume Petras means dark-skinned people? Dark-skinned people are not a minority in Brazil, and no matter how dark your skin is, there is always a Brazilian with darker skin. Darker skin is not favored socially, so Bolsonaro’s disdain for darker skin is very typically Brazilian.

None-the-less, the most attractive part of Bolsonaro’s platform is to crack down on crime. The military is in charge of policing the streets, and they refuse to do their job without a much larger share of the public purse. If Bolsonaro can pry them out of their barracks by directing more funds to the Brazilian MIC, most Brazilians will likely be satisfied with the results.

You’d have to know more about Cohn to understand, but I don’t think the UNZ comment section is the appropriate place to write his biography.

Trump’s mentor in the 1970s was Roy Cohn. Is it possible to be more Deep State than that?

What if this whole thing was just carefully managed theater designed to entertain the rubes? We must never be allowed to forget there is a government in our lives to the point where it starts to feel like a family member.

You can’t turn on a TV without seeing it, and there are TVs everywhere in America. This is the ultimate made for TV drama since everyone can have an opinion on it (everyone had uncomfortable makeouts while they were young). I don’t know what you mean by “following it closely,” but I would guess the number who have formed an opinion about it is close 70%.

If I had to bet, I would say the entire saga is just the Swamp putting a show for the hoi polloi. I don’t believe any of it is real.

Eat less sugar.

Have you ever been to Brazil? I suppose you don’t have to live somewhere to have an opinion about it. After all, you probably heard or read something about it one time.

Your question is valid but presupposes a more detailed understanding on my part than I actually possess, so I can only give you my rather vague assessment.

I consider the Deep State to be the Imperial Power of the US government. It makes the decisions and steers the ship of state. Human beings are naturally greedy and power hungry, and Americans are at the top of the scale. Thus, running America, the Deep State is greed and power incarnate and to paraphrase Chris Floyd, it’s where the Overworld meets the Underworld.

Clearly, the subject is worthy of 500 pages, but I’m just a working stiff struggling to get enough sleep.

The Liberty story demonstrates how Israel’s ability to make the United States government act against its own interests has been around for a long time.

Since the United States government (Deep State) is only interested in enriching its members, Israel and its fifth column have been very helpful to it.

So what are they waiting for?

I’m flattered that a world traveled intellectual like yourself would concern yourself with my ancestry. Are you an amateur genealogist, or is your life really that boring?

Yes. I’m an American.

HOW LOW CAN YOU GO

What it really boils down to is that we live on different planets.

Latin America was unstable to begin with because of its racial/colonial component. At the top were some European aristocrats like Fox’s family and then a load of poor Indians and Mestizos. So obviously the Indians and Mestizos left. That is the bottom line. In the case of Florida, the whites fled Cuba.

Maybe you’ve heard of the Monroe Doctrine? You might benefit from learning about US corporate ownership of the raw materials in the western hemisphere and US involvement in the military coups of the 1960s and 1970s. But those are just details aren’t they, and you can’t be bothered to actually learn any facts that might confuse your simple little view of the world, now can you?

The Spanish Mestizos and Chinese were going to dominate the Philippines anyhow, so ordinary Filipinos with no hope of ever being anything but squatters obviously want to get to the United States.

In the world I live in, the Philippines was an American colony and still host two of our largest overseas bases (purely for their benefit, of course).

It is really the same with Indians. The real high-caste Brahmin elite and Parsi do not come to the United States. They’ve got a good gig in India.

India was a British colony for a long time, and if being a British colony was so grand, why did we fight a war to kick them out?

If life in the US is so hard, why are there so many knocking at the door? As I recall, there are talks about building a wall to prevent people from entering?

OMG. Such platitudes in 2018! The reason so many people come to America is that the American Oligarchy is turning their countries into unlivable hellholes even faster than in the United States. Nevertheless, I’ve yet to meet an immigrant (and I’ve met countless) that didn’t half regret coming here.

The problem is usury. The solution is global infrastructure development and state-owned (not government bailouts) banks.

Nothing is more liberating than financing a car, keeping it maintained, putting gas in it, and paying the insurance. I’m from Detroit as well, and just like in most major American cities, a public transit system is now unprofitable. Nevertheless, they must be built, and zoning laws must change. Unless you plan to add a car allowance to the food stamps, housing subsidies, and Obama phones that people now receive, automobile ownership is slipping out of most American’s grasp.

For those that can still afford one (without having to live in it), they can enjoy the daily traffic jams as long as they’re not one of the 40 thousand people who die every year in auto accidents. Three thousand perished in the 9/11 false flag, and America was ready to nuke half the world.

First, let’s figure out how the pyramids were built.

It was satire, but we can’t all be as smart or moral as pendejos like yourself.

Well, you’ve obviously spent years of your life studying Latin American history. How much time have spent in Latin America?

In America, the Confederacy is all about financial swindles, endless wars abroad, police state for the homeland, low skilled labor, and a steady diet of GMOs, but there are plenty of cushy government and corporate jobs for the top 10%.

The Pentagon is working on much smaller nuclear bombs these days.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/pentagon-pushes-for-new-low-yield-nuclear-bombs

There’s nothing to worry about. We’ll sneak in one morning with our stealthy bombers for a few surgical strikes, and Russia and China will surrender by dinner time.

I stand corrected!

Apparently, they make them. He was just a tool for the Global Banking Oligarchy. You might as well get a Lloyd Blankfein tee shirt.

Signs and Wonders!

I had no idea!

I had no idea that someone would have produced a Pinochet tee shirt. My point is that the Latin American governments have been murdering people whenever it’s convenient since the Spaniards arrived. It should be celebrated when somebody shoots back. America was founded in a revolution.

Steve doesn’t want Latin Americans coming to America (nor do I), yet he calls someone a murderer who tried to challenge the Latin Oligarchy.

So my question is do we support Latins trying to improve their countries, do we want them all to move here, or do we just burn the western hemisphere to the ground?

It shouldn’t surprise that many in rural America identify with the South, for they both cherish community, the land and traditional values, and are equally contemptuous of the coastal elites, with their globalist ideology.

Rural whites identify with the Confederacy because they see it as a rebellion against Washington, but they don’t realize that the Confederacy/British Empire is back in charge and running the country.

Free trade
3rd world immigration (slave trade)
Natural resource based economy
Southern Generals running the asylum/Empire
Everyone defines themselves by skin color
Cultural reverence for the military

If I’m wrong, tell me what living in the Confederacy would look like.

Come on, Steve! Che Guevara’s firing squads? Latin America has been plagued with right-wing death squads for decades. Do I really need to provide links for this? Would it make you feel better if Augusto Pinochet had his own tee shirt?

Good catch! I didn’t know JFK supported Hart-Celler. However, I hope you can see the link between the colonial wars and third world immigration.

It all started after the MIC killed JFK, and the Empire went into full beast-mode with the Vietnam War and the Hart–Celler Act. It’s been nothing but whistling past the graveyard ever since.

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Well said! Not to mention the enormous cost to a Brazilian woman whose “baby-daddy” is poor.

You might become psychotic, or then again, you might win 23 Olympic gold medals.

https://goo.gl/images/jTDBQw

Well, for starters, we could build a high-speed rail system throughout North America. Functional mass transit systems in every city. We could have a real space program. We could grow more labor-intensive organic food. How about building some modern high-density cities in Wyoming or the Dakotas?

Maybe there’s no scarcity in your life, but I know people who work 40 hours/week and have next to nothing. Unless you consider a GMO diet and owning a smartphone to be a full life?

There’s nothing left to do but lay waste to Persia to keep Russia and China out of the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean. If the Generals won’t do it, they’ll have to account for the missing trillions at the Pentagon. For the four and five star princes, it’s going to be either Leavenworth, the Hague, or nuclear war.

I thought it was just the city I lived in that had so many non-profits. Maybe they’re everywhere? You know the Empire is rotten to the core when the capitalist system has to create “non-profits” to keep the unemployable college graduates off the streets.

She has a point. Most American smiles are as a fake as a $3 bill. It’s not a terrible thing, but it reduces one of the most basic human emotions to a business transaction.

The two things that always hit me first when I go overseas are “Where are the fat people?” and “Why isn’t anyone smiling at me?”

The bottom line is that American business decided that smiles sell burgers, clothes, and whatever else. Therefore, their employees are going to smile, and then people start marketing themselves and their “brand” by smiling more in public.

Matthew 6:24

Well, technically you may be correct, but I distinctly remember commenting on one of your comments that it was “high power,” i.e. possibly low voltage but very high amps. I still think the author of that comment was both bright and insightful!

I stand corrected!

Work without meaning

Though no one has ever accused me of being bright or insightful, I noticed the phenomenon of the uselessness of most paid work almost as soon as I entered the workforce as an adult. I always admired those who understood how ridiculous their daily activities were in contrast to the pride of those who wielded their “power” with breathtaking insolence.

It doesn’t make much sense. The people in charge of protecting capitalism refuse to participate in it. Some people might call that a “clue.”

While this article is accurate, it should be noted that while the US$ is still the preeminent settlement currency, the Empire pays for the upkeep of our pampered centurions. Since the 1970s, Germany and Japan have carried the US economy on their capable backs (Trilateral Commission), while London and Wall St. have looted and plundered the developing countries through sundry financial swindles. None of this would be possible without the strong arm tactics of the US military.

In short, the only thing that has changed since Smedley Butler’s seminal work is the increasing share of the spoils enjoyed by the military caste. Contemporary events suggest that the status quo is no longer tenable since all of the low hanging fruit has been picked. Thoughtful observers will take advantage of the present situation and have some fun before the music stops.

According to Chas Freeman (You should Google him if you aren’t familiar with his name), the South eventually won the Civil War by taking over the Pentagon. The United States now has far more in common with the agrarian Confederacy than the industrial Union:

Low wages
Military worship
Free trade
Natural resource based economy
Third world immigration (slave trade)
Etcetera

Eisenhauer warned about the Military Industrial Complex. He should have called it a resurgent Confederacy.

Great article, Fred!

In 1991, John Stockwell described the US military’s relationship to global usury in his book, “The Praetorian Guard: The U.S. Role in the New World Order.”

I would like to see universal conscription for the armed forces, and by universal, I mean everyone (2 years of service between 18-20) with no lottery and no deferments. Service would be required during peacetime and not just when the Generals need cannon fodder. Conscripts would be exempt from any overseas duty unless they volunteered. In fact, overseas service should consist of a sort of American Foreign Legion (funded by the corporations who profit from these bloodbaths).

Of course, this would be an expensive army, but in a nation that worships the military like our modern day Confederacy, everyone should be thanking each other for their service. We might not be McMansion Nation any longer, but that would be a good thing.

inevitable that something bad is going to happen somewhere down the line as the irresistible force meets the immovable object.

Maybe Artsakh during the FIFA W.C?

We Will March on a Road of Bones!

I wouldn’t be surprised if WW3 starts around the Caspian.

Linh,

Anyone who reads you knows that you don’t hate “whitey.” Bragadocius and his ilk are going to be a fixture in America until the rest of the world pushes this decrepit Empire over a cliff (and puts us out of our misery). It can feel gratifying to put a Zionist troll in his place, but they aren’t worth the effort. Americans only wake up after the system bites them on the ass, and by that time, they’re powerless. C’est la vie.

The trick is to turn them against one another.

Uh, Washington has been trying to do that since the 1970s. It failed. Plan B?

Sad but true. However, the “Eagles” may have a shot.

Only a “Clown Nation” could believe the official story of 9/11. Everything else is just whistling past the graveyard.

The bankers and generals run this country, so why should we care whom they decide to admit? I don’t see any concern about the origin of all this wealth. It’s not that Americans live well, we don’t. Nevertheless, our miserable lives require vast amounts of energy and resources to sustain. Since our ruling class can’t let go of the mid 20th-century business model, we’ll have to take the refugees along with the stolen loot.

Living in America is lonely enough, I would go insane if I worked at home here. I just do the remote working thing, so I can live overseas for some months (never enough) per year.

Automobiles are inherently dangerous. Rockefeller made sure they became popular, so he could have a market for his petroleum waste product (gasoline). I have been fortunate enough to live in a situation where I worked at home and could walk to the grocery store: Happiest days of my life.

Lately, I’ve been filling up my tank about three days per week.

My apologies: Merry Christmas.

Saker was right. Talking to drones is a waste of time.

It might be that both Israel and the “United States” (actually the Confederacy, since the South and the British eventually won the civil war) are both just provinces of the British Empire.

Your entire argument rests on the presumption that material wealth is the only way to measure well-being. There are people and entire cultures that believe honor, courage, and independence are more important than the size of your house (or supersizing your Big Mac meal).

I know, it sounds crazy.

We are rearming Japan and encouraging their jingoism, but not so they can attack Pearl Harbor. We’re aiming the Kamikazes at China (again) since Anglo Saxons always get someone else to do the heavy lifting (can’t blame this one the Jews).

If American white men want to play a stupid game, they should expect to win a stupid prize.

The whole point of having darker minorities is to minimize the ethnic differences between white people. A German and a Pole suddenly have a lot in common when Senegalese are roaming both their countries.

The northern states in the US busted up their Catholic ethnic neighborhoods using black immigration from the South.

See E. Michael Jones for more information.

Instead of AngloZionist Empire, I like just to call it the “Confederacy.”

1. The Southern Generals strut around the globe like they own the place.
2. We’re a resourced based economy with a free trade mantra.
3. Slave labor camps litter the Empire (though only in prisons in Confederate Homeland).
4. Hyper Police State.
5. Everyone defines themselves by their skin color.

Would anyone else care to add this list?

Did Jacob Rothchild suffer the same fate as Prince Mansour?

http://twofeed.org/2017/11/18/jacob-rothschild-feared-dead-helicopter-plane-crash-estate/

I agree: First, the Sahara, then on to Antarctica. It doesn’t matter if we ever get there. The point is that human ambition would have a purpose. If we aren’t committed to technological progress, then we might as well listen to rap music and get high.

A competent analysis of most components of the economy would come to the same conclusion. 60% of the “work” performed in America is superfluous, and 30% of it lowers our standard of living.

Either man tries to colonize the solar system, or we need to revert back to simple agrarian lives. There are no other sane options.

When was the last time the US military attacked someone who could fight back? The Germans who were losing to the Soviet Union? The Japanese who were bogged down in China? Korea? Vietnam?

The US federal tax system used to be like that, but Paul Craig Roberts’ supply-side economics changed it. You can see the result.

Just about everything an American hears, sees or notices is bullshit or propaganda.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H. L. Mencken 1918

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. . . . I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors.” Thomas Jefferson (June 11, 1807)

Such optimism! So Trump will take the stairs rather than the window?

https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

All “isms” are theoretically attractive, but no society can exist long without a valuing virtue.

Neither can any economy can use fiat money without a commitment to technological progress (ie improved physical landscape as opposed to racketeering).

He said that all Yankees are Jews, behave like Jews, aspire to be Jews … So it is natural that real Jews succeed better in being Jews than their Gentile neighbours.

All of America is Yankee now.

You make a good point, but Russia and Iran will not permit the Turks to move in. The war will be fought throughout the entire region (especially the South Caucasus). The US will support the Turkish effort 100 percent (perhaps not officially?).

Two years ago, Putin promised Erdogan his very own Stalingrad if he went ahead with it.

Matthew 6:24

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

America loves mammon, and the Jews control mammon.

Well, I don’t dare dispute anyone who is “Mensa” qualified. LOL.

Sorry Jazzman, I can only call it like I see it. I sure would like to live in the America you inhabit. Sounds like a great place.

Thanks for writing.

I get out quite a bit. Most Europeans are well educated and healthy. Most Americans are borderline illiterate and obese (even if they do drive an F150).

The public transportation and hospitals in Europe make America look like a cruel joke.

Profit is just shorthand for McMansions, private jets, and vacation homes. Think of how much profit was made in developing Houston! One rain storm ruined it all.

I guess you’re saying that greed is driving America over the cliff? More stuff? The sad thing about America is that most of the wealth is idle and unused. Private jets are waiting for their owners; vacation homes are seldom visited, collections of sports cars gather dust. It all just sits there. In Europe (and Asia? I’ve never been there), most of the wealth is for public use, or at least for public viewing.

James,

Nice effort. Can I make a request? Please write an article about the IDEAS that rule America. The attitudes of the billionaire, the Deep State, the working stiff, and the low-level bureaucracy. All the passengers on the ship are doing their part as the Titanic heads for the iceberg.

What are the ideas that keep the ship of state plugging along?

A Kurdistan, seceded from Baghdad, would be a magnet for secession-minded Kurds in Turkey, Syria

I think Buchanan has it backward. Turkey intends to herd the Turkish and Syrian Kurds into the newly formed Iraqi Kurdistan (Armenian treatment after WW1).

I remember reading an article years ago by a Russian historian where he argued that the Romanov’s biggest mistake was supporting the North during America’s civil war. The American South would have been allied with Great Britain, and the North would have sided with the Kaiser. There would have been no Versailles, no Hitler, no WW2, etc…