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By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)

(Originally posted on the True Spirit of America Party blog)

HOW TO SMASH THE PERMANENT WAR RACKET 

On the 20th anniversary of "Quagmire Accomplished" in Iraq, Dennis Kucinich wrote a great article about the utter disaster it has been, and the massive human costs and follies of wars of aggression in general.  I agree with him 100%.  Also, we should note that it was part of a much larger racket as well, that is, a state of permanent war that the oligarchs have been benefiting handsomely from for decades, all while cannibalizing our own country in the process, as Chris Hedges has noted in another good article.

My response to that article was as follows:

As Major General Smedley Butler said back on 1935, "War Is A Racket". It was true then, and is true now, *a fortiori*.

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

I will note that bringing back the draft would not really solve anything. Conscription did not prevent Vietnam from dragging on, and even (largely) universal conscription still doesn't prevent Israel from their own perpetual war against Palestinians and occasionally other neighbors as well. And plenty of non-imperialisitic countries have all-volunteer militaries currently, because they know it's a strategically superior choice in the 21st century. 

And then, there is that annoying little detail that conscription is a form of slavery, of course. And the working class would still bear the overwhelming brunt of it, while the elites would still find a way to stay out of harm's way. The middle class, however, would be further hollowed out. 

Would it heal our divided nation if brought back today? That is very doubtful. I think it would look far more like the (often very racist) 1863 Draft Riots of NYC than the anti-war protests of the Vietnam era. 

In other words, the grass may look greener on the other side, but it still has to be mowed all the same. 

One good idea though would be my own variant of General Butler's idea, "consensual conscription", where for all wars going forward, it should be put up to a vote by those of military age. Those who vote no will be exempt, while those who abstain or vote yes will be eligible to be drafted into that war. And renew the vote every year. If the majority vote no, the war must end within 90 days, period. Also, raise the eligibility age to include people in their 40s, 50s and even early 60s. You know, those who are of the age to start the wars but not actually serve in them. Those who are 4F or CO would join the newly-created Human Shield Brigade, which is exactly what it sounds like: a sort of Peace Corps on steroids whose primary purpose is to nonviolently put their bodies on the line to protect civilian populations wherever they are deployed. 

Everyone would have skin in the game, and yet no one would be forced or coerced into participating in a war they do not believe in, or any war for that matter. 

And eradicating poverty with UBI, free college, single-payer Medicare for all, and stuff like that would also end the so-called "poverty draft" as well. Of course, that would mean we would have to (gasp!) pay our troops what they are actually worth, that is, significantly more than they are currently being paid. And since the federal government is Monetarily Sovereign, they could easily print their own money to do so.

Problem solved.

More details, not included in my response:

The Selective Service System should be put back into "deep standby" like it was from 1975-1980, where all registration is suspended.  Only reactivate the registration requirement when an actual draft is either in effect and/or likely will be in the near future.  And yes, if that ever does happen, women should be included as well.  It's really only fair, right?  What's good for the goose is good for the gander, and if you really want equality, you got it, Toyota!

For the record, the TSAP of course does not support bringing back an actual draft.  A country that needs a draft to defend itself deserves to lose, and any fair-weather "allies" unwilling or unable to defend themselves without the help of foreign conscript armies from halfway around the world also deserve to lose as well.  And if there were a truly "just war", conscription would be unnecessary, as volunteers would be plentiful.  But in those vanishingly rare instances where we are actually in a war of necessity, and volunteers are no longer enough, the sacrifice should be shared equally.  Not only in terms of gender, but also age, class, race, and so on as well.

If anything, the billionaires should go first, THEN we can talk about drafting the broader working class.

Regardless though, any conscription for the sole or primary purpose of social engineering, as opposed to absolute necessity for defense as a last resort, has absolutely zero place in a free society.  It is an alien culture that ultimately belongs to totalitarians.

Also, the half-century old War Powers Resolution of 1973 needs to be updated and tightened so the President cannot just start indefinitely undefined wars willy-nilly, and the President should be held fully liable for any damages resulting from the abuse of this power.  Wars or any war-adjacent military actions in foreign countries lasting more than 90 days should require a formal and official declaration of war by Congress per the Constitution, and if not must it be halted within 90 days, no exceptions.  No more indefinite or nebulous AUMFs without a very strict sunset clause.  No more decades-long quagmires ever again.  Like, EVER.  And the nuclear launch codes must be taken off of "hair trigger alert", and only given when the President's senior advisers approve.

And of course, the profit needs to be taken out of war.  The crony capitalism of the mercenary-industrial complex needs to end yesterday, full stop.  And all it would take would be a few tweaks of the tax code, plus the intestinal fortitude to actually enforce it.

As General Butler famously said, 

"TO HELL WITH WAR!"

"Either war is obsolete, or man is."

-- Buckminster Fuller

"War, what is it good for?  Absolutely NOTHING!"

-- Edwin Starr

"Come the war, come the avarice, come the war, come hell...Come attrition, come the reek of bones, come attrition, come hell...This is why, why we fight, why we lie awake...And this is why, this is why we fight..."

-- The Decemberists

"Now the labor leader's screaming when they close the missile plant, United Fruit screams at the Cuban shore. Call it peace or call it treason, call it love or call it reason, but I ain't marching anymore."

-- Phil Ochs

"I declare the war is over, it's over, it's over..."

-- Phil Ochs

"But the hardest thing I'll ask you, if you would only try, is take your children by their hands and look into their eyes.  And there you'll see the answer you should have seen before.  If we win the wars at home, there'll be no fighting anymore"

-- Phil Ochs 

THREE YEARS LATER, THE DEBATE IS  OVER

Three years later, the results are in, and now the debate is over for good:

Lockdowns don't work, and actually do more harm than good.

Masks don't work, except as a mind control device, and are far from harmless. 

Novel experimental gene therapies that speciously self-identify as "vaccines" not only don't work as advertised, but they have caused a LOT of excess deaths and serious injuries on balance.

Sweden got it right overall, as did Belarus, Nicaragua, Tanzania, the Faeroe Islands, and the 12 US states that (largely) eschewed lockdowns, mask mandates, and jab mandates, plus a few other states like Florida and Georgia that came to their senses quickly after seeing their early errors.

In other words, the powers that be in most of the world did literally EVERYTHING wrong in dealing with the pandemic, by design, and the very few things that could have actually helped save lives were deliberately ignored or censored.

The day of reckoning is NOW.  Seriously, NEVER AGAIN!

Any questions?

UPDATE:  Once again, it looks like Vitamin D was the closest thing to a magic bullet for this virus, especially along with Vitamin C and Zinc.  We see consilience across numerous studies and converging lines of evidence everywhere.  And that's also probably why all Nordic countries and Canada and Australia had such relatively low excess death rates, as all of these countries fortify their food (mostly flour, bread, and milk) with Vitamin D far more than the rest of the world does, while the USA generally only fortifies milk and most countries don't even fortify with Vitamin D at all.  Additionally, we also see that neither the official narrative, nor the "Scooby Doo" narrative that they wanted us to discover, have ever really jibed well at all with Occam's Razor. 

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Comment from Rasa:  As usual, another great article.  I will study it tomorrow & make further comment..........Next day.  War - Send those who vote for it to the front lines.  If they can't fight, their arthritis is kicking in, let them nurse the wounded or do other things, but be out there subject to injury & death - you asked for it.

And vaccines - no one is going to jab or stab me with any kind of poison nor will they do so to anyone under my care.  In the New Religion it will be like Christian Science or stricter - no jabs for anyone.  We will be totally vigilant concerning any kind of govt' interference, we will have Member lawyers to look for the interests of our children & all of us at all times.  The Patriarchy is a demonic tyrant out to destroy humanity.  It used to be foreigners, but now, let's face it, it's us.  We the people are the enemy of the shadow govt & we must not be lost sheep but eagles flying above looking down & seeing the Forest, not just the trees.  We must see & understand what is going on, & be alert & awake to it & prevent by any means their interference in our lives.  And that is my intention & what I leave behind for the future.  Pay attention to Brighteon & all the conspiracy sites.

AJAX SAYS:  Thank you very much, Rasa, and you're very welcome. 

Latest Articles From Ajax The Great (Pete Jackson)

By Ajax the Great (Pete Jackson)

(Originally posted on the True Spirit of America Party blog)

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE LITTLE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN 

A new book by Matthew Desmond, Poverty By America, is the latest book about the topic of why poverty persists in the richest country on Earth.  In it, he discusses what he feels is the root cause of poverty's persistence, namely all of the ways that the non-poor benefit at the expense of the poor by keeping them poor.  It is true that it is not always enough to comfort the afflicted, sometimes you need to "afflict the comfortable" as well, to paraphrase the famous author and filmmaker Michael Moore.  

While there is a great deal of truth to what he says, and he makes some great points, the TSAP feels that the author is unfortunately 1) engaging too much in zero-sum game thinking, where in for one person to win, someone else has to lose, 2) largely ignoring the "little man behind the curtain", that is, the oligarchs of the big banks and Wall Street who fundamentally rig the game, and the FERAL Reserve that they own and control.  By focusing on all of the ways that the middle class and somewhat rich benefit at the expense of the poor, it also has the effect of ignoring what the billionaire class has done and is continuing to do to the broader working class, which includes the poor, the near poor, and the ever-shrinking middle class as well.  In contrast, David DeGraw back in 2014 wrote Peak Inequality, that really sheds light on the "little man behind the curtain":  the top 0.01%.  And it applies a fortiori to 2023, as inequality has only gotten worse.  If reading that doesn't make you feel RIPPED OFF, check your pulse 'cause you might be dead!

While there a number of things that need to be done to solve these massive intertwined and synergistic problems of poverty and inequality, keep in mind that we can mathematically end poverty overnight with a Universal Basic Income (UBI).  And also another that our tax code is actually regressive at the very top, where thanks to numerous loopholes, the top 0.01% often pay only a fraction of what those below them pay, if anything at all.  Aside from closing loopholes and greatly hiking the top marginal tax rates for those making over $10 million per year, another idea that has yet to be tried is a financial transactions tax on stocks, bonds, derivatives, and stuff like that. Alternatively, essentially all taxes could be replaced by a tiny 0.1% or less Universal Exchange Tax (UET) on all electronic transactions, period.  With a tax base of most likely $5 quadrillion or more, a 0.1% rate would raise $5 trillion per year, enough for the entire federal budget and then some.  It would actually be quite progressive in practice, since the rich make far more transactions than the non-rich.  And such a tax would still be quite painless for literally everyone except perhaps speculators and money launderers.

And of course, we need to nationalize the private FERAL Reserve, and restore the power of money creation back to its rightful creators, Congress, who would then authorize the Treasury to do so.  Such power is far too important to leave to the big banks and they sycophantic lackeys and technocrats. 

So what are we waiting for?

HOW TO DEFUSE THE QUADRILLION DOLLAR DERIVATIVES BUBBLE 

"Beware the Ides of March!"

With all the talk about (so far) isolated bank failures and the potential for a real, wider financial crisis in the near future, no one wants to talk about the real elephant in the room:  the looming QUADRILLION dollar derivatives bubble just waiting to burst.  And if the FERAL Reserve keeps on hiking interest rates in a misguided attempt to fight inflation that is already cooling, it will burst catastrophically, making 2008 and possibly even 1929 look like a walk in the park.

This massive derivatives bubble was decades in the making, resulting from the ever-increasing "financialization" of the economy.  Wall Street has basically been gambling with other people's money, in the world's largest casino, all while getting bailouts.  Privatize the profits, and socialize the losses, basically.

There is still time to defuse this ticking time bomb though:

1. Cut interest rates, YESTERDAY!  Or at least stop raising them!
2. End Quantitative Tightening, YESTERDAY!
3. Pass a financial transaction tax (aka "Wall Street Gaming Tax") of 0.1% on all financial transactions, including stocks, bonds, and especially derivatives.
4. Repeal the "safe harbor" provision of bankruptcy law, particularly as it applies to derivatives. 
5. Reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act in full.
6. Ban the practice of "quote stuffing".
7. Ban stock buybacks by corporations.
8. Going forward, ban any and all types of new and exotic derivatives that are not completely transparent. 
9. No more bailouts OR "bail-ins" of the banks (but of course depositors should still be made whole per the FDIC, with  no apologies to ultra-purist libertarians or paleoconservatives).
10. Implement "Quantitative Easing For People" (that is, with direct payments to individuals, not banks) as needed.
11. And last but not least, all banks that are "too big to fail" are really too big to exist, and should thus be either forcibly broken up, or nationalized as public utilities.  YESTERDAY!

The first five items alone, or even the first four, would be enough to defuse it in the near term, while the remaining items would be to clean up the damage and/or prevent it form happening again in the future. 

In the meantime, we all need to brace ourselves for a possible financial crisis and recession in the future.  But don't fall for the idea that we should withdraw all of our money now, as that would literally be a self-fulfilling prophecy.  The FDIC guarantees the first $250,000 per depositor per bank, so unless you have more than that (and didn't put it in multiple banks like you should have), it does not make sense to do so.

And let's not forget the role that the lockdowns played in all of this.  To paper over their predictable consequences, they printed trillions of dollars to do so (which increased demand for goods and services), at the same time that the lockdowns and their fallout constrained supply and snarled supply chains.  The resulting inflation was then belatedly papered over by raising interest rates and Quantitative Tightening, and the resulting whiplash has brought us where we are now with the banks, and making the bubble even more likely to burst.

Of course, things weren't exactly rosy for the financial system before the pandemic either.  Behind the scenes, a financial crisis was already subtly brewing, with the turmoil "repo market" in September 2019 being the first canary in the coal mine.  The FERAL Reserve kept printing more and more money to try to paper it over, but the problem wouldn't go away, even many months later.  They needed to do something BIG, and FAST.  It's almost like the pandemic was actually a PLANDEMIC, a big heist of the century to temporarily shore up the big banks in 2020 and make the rich richer, the poor poorer, and hollow out whatever is left of the middle class.  But hey, that's just a "conspiracy theory", right?

UPDATE:  The FERAL Reserve has raised the Fed Funds Rate by 0.25 percentage points.  Looks like they really, really wanna pop the "Everything Bubble".

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from Rasa, comments:

        OK, I know it's BRILLIANT & I read it but I don't UNDERSTAND IT as I don't have the education for this.  I know what you're saying is TRUE even though I don't get the terms, vocabulary & even some of the ideas, as to me, it's like 'legalese' of the lawyer to a lay person.  But the basic PRINCIPLES I do understand:  It benefits the rich to have the lower class, the lower the better so they can take advantage of them.  "Who will clean the horse shit off the streets?" Queen Victoria asked me when I channelled her. "We need the poor to do the dirty work.  Why don't we help them?  It's not our concern, we don't go there mentally, they are where they are, our minds are on keeping our wealth & status, at whatever cost."  Last night, I heard about this apparition of Our Lady.  Yes it is the Feminine Divine, Mother God as the person Mary, who has appeared to the human race so many times to save us in time of greatest need, crises, emergencies, war & poverty:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1ziOrzKuXk

    Thanks Ajax for all the great work you do.  It's important & much appreciated. 

AJAX THE GREAT SAYS:  Very well-said, Rasa.  Thank you very much, and you're very welcome.

New DooWop Mix 4 Rasa

 Friends, just awoke to find this honor made for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaOMfhu35w0&t=1433s

So please take a look & tank the DJ for producing it!  He's grateful for the kudos.  DooWop brings back bittersweet memories of my childhood

                My stage name was Kellie Everts, now Rasa Von Werder

For your pleasure, pics I took & photo shopped of Reef

Women must be alone

 Women must be alone to find themselves

    I prayed on this.  Women need to be LEFT ALONE to find themselves.  They need to GET AWAY from men, step into their own zone where there are NO MEN.  No men's voices, needs, opinions, no nothing from men.  This is extremely important.

This is what I'm trying to do especially in the beginning of this movement.  Consider that this  Patriarchy-men have robbed women of:  their IDENTITY, their pride or self esteem, the meaning of who they are, their inner dignity & self worth.  Their Oneness with God.

It's similar to the anchorites & hermits who go away from the world to find themselves, they also find God, because God & the Soul are One.  The final experience I had with God, when I saw her Face to Face, was that She was me, I was her, & we were Infinite Love.

Men have interfered with women's identity & their communion with God, their Divine Nature.  They have given their twisted opinions, their faulty views, of who & what women are.  Women have ingested this from birth, they are born into this evil world of male domination, & it injures their psyche, their emotions & minds.  Women do horrible things to please men:  foot binding, removing ribs for an hourglass figure, breast implants & all kinds of surgeries that boggle the mind on their faces including tattooing on their makeup.  All to please men.  Men have caused women to become SICK in their hearts & minds & women need to be HEALED.

Women also need to, as they regain their own Infinite worth, take a look at her sister & show MERCY upon her, realizing she has been victimized the same.  They need to stretch out their hand to their sister in support & love. Instead of being enemies - which they are - they must be friends.  And so they also need TIME to be ALONE with their sisters - like Girl Scouts - WITHOUT male interference, intrusion or opinions.

The New Religion & Order provides the arena for both these scenarios.  Indeed, it is not yet built, but an organization begins with the Idea of it - that is what I'm composing.

After it takes hold we can incorporate the men's part - but women must find their own identity first.  We include men but they will be HELPMATES not leaders of us.  They can lead themselves, such as having a Chief among their group, but they cannot lead the women.  And their Chief is under the authority of a woman.

We can have activities with the men, as I said, - dances, parties, shindigs, as we want those women in our Membership who want children to have them. This expands our order.  Some of them might want to live with their man - they are free to do so.  But this is all in the future, after the women discover a firm foundation which I stated in the beginning - achieving their own self worth.

What I find annoying is when a man pushes his own agenda, William.  You represent the submissive men.  You seem to care about them & miss what I'm trying to do.  You must interject the men's needs - what happens to the men?  is your cry.  I do not want to be fully immersed in that now, I want to concentrate on the healing of the women.

This healing is a serious matter.  Women have been dreadfully injured in their psyches.  You want to interpolate the men with their needs to be dominated right from the beginning like we do not dare leave them out, but leave them out for a time we must.  Otherwise it's the same'ole' same ole'.  I see it all around me.  They always end up in the same place - Patriarchy.

I speak of that which must be done now.  Does no one else see it?  William, you are so focused on submissive men & their needs you don't seem to 'get it' - what I am trying to do.   And you are blind to my message.