168 results for author: Dave Svetlik

SEEMS OBVIOUS – PART ONE

We once again witness the “Parade, the Charade, of Charlatans” (the PCC). Another “Brilliant Batch of Politicians” (the BBP) threaten to shut the US Government down over the “debt ceiling.” “America has overspent! Something must be cut!” The next paragraph is technical. Try to stay awake. This has a huge impact on your life, whether you know it or not. Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 of the US Constitution says: [The Congress shall have the Power] To coin Money and regulate the Value thereof In other words – the US Government is the creator, the source, of the nation’s money. The US Supreme Court has stated this includes ...

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR LIES

History matters. In 2018 the Washington Post and New York Times were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on the alleged interference by Russia in the 2016 Clinton/Trump presidential election. On February 20, 2022 the Editorial Board of the New York Post published an article titled: “The Absurd ‘Russiagate’ Pulitzer of the NY Times and Washington Post.” Opening lines from that article: “For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest,” the citation from the Pulitzer Prize board begins, “that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential ...

Who Will Speak for Spaceship Earth

            The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990,                                                                        by NASA’s Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles.                                                                                     (About one third down in the sunbeam on the right)   I have quoted Carl Sagan’s eloquent words on the Pale Blue Dot in a few past articles. But I am ...

DEMONIZATION

  Just some quotes:   “[Wars] are fought against people, 98 percent of whom are resistant to killing, and most of whom had little or nothing to do with bringing on the war. One way to dehumanize those people is to replace all of them with an image of a single monstrous individual.”                                                                                    - Excerpted from War Is A Lie by David Swanson.   “Words have consequences. You cannot compromise with unmitigated evil. So, once you’ve established that your adversary is a ...

FOR HUMANITY’S SAKE – SEE THE OBVIOUS

When the United States places missiles on Russia’s borders that can incinerate Moscow and St. Petersburg in 5-7 minutes, and Russia does not place any missiles near US borders, it is the United States that is being “aggressive.” Not Russia. This is obvious. But the Orwellian message that has been foisted on Americans by all major media for years has been: “Russian aggression!” “Russian aggression!” “Putin is a monster!” When the United States spends $5 billion in 2014 to orchestrate a violent coup in Ukraine to overthrow the democratically elected president of the nation because he favors neutrality and doesn’t want to break ...

FROM DREAM TO NIGHTMARE REALITY

I had the strangest dream last night. I dreamed that Russia and China had placed nuclear missiles and troops all along America’s northern and southern borders. Russia had armaments on the Canadian front that, should America show aggression and begin a war against Canada, in 5-7 minutes could incinerate Seattle, St. Louis, Minneapolis/St Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, and Washington DC. China had placed arms along the Mexican border and in 5-7 minutes could level San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, Miami, and Atlanta. Both Russia and China could wipe out the US electrical grid ...

DEAR LEGISLATORS

“Unchecked militarism is the fatal disease of empires.” - Historian Arnold Toynbee   “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 ...

BALLOONS AND CIRCUS CLOWNS

Grab your cell phone. Go to google maps. Click on satellite view. Search for Beijing, China. Zoom in. Want to sit on the roof of the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong? Zero in – you’re there. How about the Beijing Marriott Hotel? Not a problem. Wander around Tianamen Square? Go for it. Check out the curving roof ridges on the buildings in the Forbidden City? It’s all yours. Hungry? Head for Hongrongyuan Dumpling or Wankelai Beefsteak Hotpot. Heard they’re great! Ah, but let’s head back to America. Do a search for the White House, Pennsylvania Ave. Wander around the South Lawn. Isn’t the shadow from the flag and flag pole on the roof of the White ...

THE WISDOM OF NIKITA

Older Americans remember well the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The then Soviet Union had placed nuclear armed missiles on the island nation mere minutes from being able to destroy most major American cities, including Washington D.C. and New York. As a sovereign nation, Cuba, like Ukraine today, had every legal right to have Soviet missiles placed within its borders. Of course, these Soviet missiles were an existential threat to the U.S. and President John F. Kennedy was left in an impossible situation. No matter the international legalities, under no circumstances was America going to allow the missiles to remain in Cuba. The U.S. military ...

TECTONIC SHIFTS

History matters. As World War II came to an end in 1944, Europe and Japan were in ruins while the U.S. had become the world’s economic powerhouse. At a historic meeting in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, forty-four countries agreed to fix their currencies to the U.S. dollar and the dollar was made convertible to gold at $35 per ounce. Thereafter countries would settle their international trade in dollars, and the dollar became the world’s reserve currency. As one might expect, having the dollar as the world’s reserve currency proved enormously beneficial to America. The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, and the large Wall Street banks that control it, ...