Militarism at the Heart of US Gun Violence

[Correll]

the world’s central banks are obliged to finance the U.S. balance of payments deficit by using their surplus dollars in the only way that central banks are allowed to use them: to buy U.S. Treasury bonds.

"In the process, they finance the U.S. Government’s domestic budget deficit as well."

You don't want to hold "surplus dollars", don't run a trade surplus with the US.

You don't want to hold "surplus dollars", don't run a trade surplus with the US.

How would you suggest we stimulate US exports?

There’d be a lot of tech industry money at stake in a Trump trade war with China

If the nations in question don't want to be stuck with holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell shit to US.


Easy peasy, done.

If the nations in question don't want to be stuck with holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell shit to US.


Easy peasy, done.

Where do Americans find their computers, pharmaceuticals, and mineral fuels? Given a US population of 329.3 million people and its total $2.614 trillion in 2018 imports, that's roughly $7900 in yearly demand from each US resident.

orts

That would be our problem, not theirs. If they don't want to be stuck holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell US large amounts of stuff.

Your attempt to make this mechanism of control that we are forcing onto other people, is not supported. ANd perhaps not rational.


I'm not sure, because you have not explained, at all, how you got to this conclusion.

That would be our problem, not theirs. If they don't want to be stuck holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell US large amounts of stuff.

Your attempt to make this mechanism of control that we are forcing onto other people, is not supported. ANd perhaps not rational.

Three decades of neoliberal economic policies have hollowed out US manufacturing and burdened wage labor with oppressive levels of debt and taxation. Where do they turn for their electronics and pharmaceuticals if not to imports?

Like I already said, that would be OUR problem, not theirs.

If they don't want to be stuck holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell US large amounts of stuff.

Your attempt to make this mechanism of control that we are forcing onto other people, is not supported. ANd perhaps not rational.

 

[georgephillip]

From February 2018:

Militarism at the heart of a violent culture

"AS THE president continued smearing millions of immigrants as violent gang members to justify racist deportations and a border wall, it happened again. A young white man entered a school, not far from where I graduated, and unloaded a legally purchased weapon of war, killing 17 innocent people in three minutes...."

"WE NOW need to expand the demand beyond gun control, and connect the issue of mass murder at home to state-sanctioned mass murder abroad.

"At age 19, shooter Nikolas Cruz has not lived a year of his life when the U.S. was not actively bombing or occupying other countries, and exporting war through lucrative weapons contracts.

"A teen who can't yet legally buy beer or rent a car was able to purchase a weapon made for tactical combat--but then again, the same legislators who allow the AR-15 to be sold more easily than a Bud Light have supported every U.S. war and every bloated military budget presented to them.

"The U.S.-manufactured ammunition that kills abroad kills just the same in Parkland, Florida.

"The crisis we have before us is not about rap music or video games, as has been charged in previous mass shootings.

"It is a capitalist crisis."

A crisis groomed since 1945 during which the Exceptional US has exterminated millions of innocent human beings from Korea to Kandahar.

Only someone as dense as Trump would be surprised when these chickens come home to roost.

Lol
Political correctness has made you fucking retarded

Lol
Political correctness has made you fucking retarded

Too much winning, Loser?

 

[Correll]

the world’s central banks are obliged to finance the U.S. balance of payments deficit by using their surplus dollars in the only way that central banks are allowed to use them: to buy U.S. Treasury bonds.

"In the process, they finance the U.S. Government’s domestic budget deficit as well."

You don't want to hold "surplus dollars", don't run a trade surplus with the US.

You don't want to hold "surplus dollars", don't run a trade surplus with the US.

How would you suggest we stimulate US exports?

There’d be a lot of tech industry money at stake in a Trump trade war with China

If the nations in question don't want to be stuck with holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell shit to US.


Easy peasy, done.

If the nations in question don't want to be stuck with holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell shit to US.


Easy peasy, done.

Where do Americans find their computers, pharmaceuticals, and mineral fuels? Given a US population of 329.3 million people and its total $2.614 trillion in 2018 imports, that's roughly $7900 in yearly demand from each US resident.

orts

That would be our problem, not theirs. If they don't want to be stuck holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell US large amounts of stuff.

Your attempt to make this mechanism of control that we are forcing onto other people, is not supported. ANd perhaps not rational.


I'm not sure, because you have not explained, at all, how you got to this conclusion.

'm not sure, because you have not explained, at all, how you got to this conclusion.

I've provided the same link numerous times; if you're too lazy to read, perhaps you shouldn't be here?

https://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/superimperialism.pdf (P. 334)

"The final part of this book - Part III - traces how the international financial system was transformed after the U.S. balance of payments moved into deficit during the Korean War, becoming seriously disrupting of international finance.

"What is so striking is how differently American diplomats comported themselves in their deepening debtor position from the way in which debtor Europe had negotiated in the 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s.

"Whereas America had insisted that Europe sequester its private capital holdings and sell them off to pay the U.S. Government, Europe made no such demand on America in the 1960s or even in the 1970s - or subsequently, for that matter.

"In fact, whereas U.S. domination of the world economy stemmed from 1920 through 1960 from its creditor position, its control since the 1960s has stemmed from its debtor position.

"Not only have the tables been turned, but U.S. diplomats have found that their leverage as the world's major debtor economy is fully as strong as that which formerly had reflected its net creditor position."

Give me your best example of the US using it's debtor position as leverage.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

In the article, Superimperialism, Hudson states,

'The system began to unravel as America's balance of payments moved into deficit and its gold began to return to Europe -- not to private holders who had sent it as flight capital to the U.S. as the war loomed, but to central banks and hence to governments in France, Germany and other nations. The widening U.S. payments deficit resulted from overseas military spending, not from private-sector trade and investment. Starting slowly during the Korean War and gaining momentum with the onset of the Vietnam War, the gold cover shrank at an accelerated pace, approaching the minimum legal cover of 25 percent of the currency in circulation. The military and political coloration of America's balance-of-payments deficit was of critical importance for the government was not running up debt to finance policies with which most of its European creditors and many Asians disagreed. Under pressure of its military deficit the government intruded increasingly into the realm of international trade and investment, highlighted by the controls it imposed on bank lending abroad and the overseas financing of U.S. companies so as to oblige U.S. companies to buy out foreign firms with foreign-held dollars. But these controls were not enough, given the time pressures at work. In 1968 the U.S. began to close the gold window, and in 1971 formally cut the link between the dollar and gold....Instead of adhering to the creditor-oriented rules of international finance that it had endorsed in 1945, America used its debtor position to extort more foreign concessions and wealth than it had been able to obtain as a creditor nation. It obliged European and Asian central banks to extend almost automatic credits via the U.S. Treasury-bill standard, while still pursuing a creditor stance vis-a-vis indebted Third World and Comecon countries....Among the world's debtor economies, they were obliged to submit to austerity programs that U.S. planners refused to adopt for their own economy. Argentina's recent IMF riots that toppled the government in December 2001 are only the most recent example of this double standard.
(Hudson, pp. 329-30)

.Instead of adhering to the creditor-oriented rules of international finance that it had endorsed in 1945, America used its debtor position to extort more foreign concessions and wealth than it had been able to obtain as a creditor nation. It obliged European and Asian central banks to extend almost automatic credits via the U.S. Treasury-bill standard, while still pursuing a creditor stance vis-a-vis indebted Third World and Comecon countries....Among the world's debtor economies, they were obliged to submit to austerity programs that U.S. planners refused to adopt for their own economy. Argentina's recent IMF riots that toppled the government in December 2001 are only the most recent example of this double standard.
(Hudson, pp. 329-30)

The Japanese were reminded of their place in the "free market" in the 1980s:

https://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/superimperialism.pdf (P. 332)

"Japan has let its economic policies be dictated by U.S. advisors much as Britain succumbed in the aftermath of World War II, as if American proposals really had foreign interests in mind and put world development above their own national self-interest.

"It should now be obvious to every nation that such trust in U.S. leadership has been misplaced.

"Yet how many Japanese are reminded that in 1985-86 their country was asked to lower its rates and create a bubble simply to help promote boom conditions in the United States to help the Republican administration be re-elected?

"The equitable world economy based on free markets promised at the close of World War II under American aegis has led instead to an epoch of unprecedented government control.

"Outside of the United States, centralized economic planning is promoted via the financial sector, not to increase production or living standards as promised by monetarist economic textbooks, but to squeeze out interest and dividends and transfer them abroad."

"Yet how many Japanese are reminded that in 1985-86 their country was asked to lower its rates and create a bubble simply to help promote boom conditions in the United States to help the Republican administration be re-elected?

Ummmmm….the administration won a 49 state landslide in 1984.

Yet how many Japanese are reminded that in 1985-86 their country was asked to lower its rates and create a bubble simply to help promote boom conditions in the United States to help the Republican administration be re-elected?

Ummmmm….the administration won a 49 state landslide in 1984.

How did Republicans fare in '88?

Inside the Plaza Accord

"What Is the Plaza Accord?

"The Plaza Accord is a 1985 agreement among the G-5 nations—France, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan—to manipulate exchange rates by depreciating the U.S. dollar relative to the Japanese yen and the German Deutsche mark."

How did Republicans fare in '88?

Not as good at they did in 1984. LOL!

How could Michael Hudson fuck that one up?

How could Michael Hudson fuck that one up

It's not as complicated as you think, Kulak:

Michael Hudson (economist) - Wikipedia

"In 1972, Hudson published his first major book titled Super Imperialism in which he showed how the after abandoning the dollar-gold line the United States created a unique situation when United States Department of the Treasury bonds became the sole basis for global reserves and foreign governments had no choice but to finance the budget deficit in the United States and hence their military expenditures.

"After the publication of the book, Hudson left the institute and moved to work in the think tank Hudson Institute headed by Herman Kahn.

"In 1979, he became an advisor to the United Nations Institute for Training and Research(UNITAR). He wrote reports for the Ministry of Defense and also acted as a consultant to the Canadian government.

"His second big book titled Global Fracture: The New International Economic Order was published in 1977. In it, Hudson argued that the military superiority of the United States led to the division of the world along financial lines."

the United States created a unique situation when United States Department of the Treasury bonds became the sole basis for global reserves and foreign governments had no choice but to finance the budget deficit in the United States and hence their military expenditures.

They were free to hold their reserves as $20s. Or as gold. Neither of which pays interest.
Or as Russian or Venezuelan currency.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

From February 2018:

Militarism at the heart of a violent culture

"AS THE president continued smearing millions of immigrants as violent gang members to justify racist deportations and a border wall, it happened again. A young white man entered a school, not far from where I graduated, and unloaded a legally purchased weapon of war, killing 17 innocent people in three minutes...."

"WE NOW need to expand the demand beyond gun control, and connect the issue of mass murder at home to state-sanctioned mass murder abroad.

"At age 19, shooter Nikolas Cruz has not lived a year of his life when the U.S. was not actively bombing or occupying other countries, and exporting war through lucrative weapons contracts.

"A teen who can't yet legally buy beer or rent a car was able to purchase a weapon made for tactical combat--but then again, the same legislators who allow the AR-15 to be sold more easily than a Bud Light have supported every U.S. war and every bloated military budget presented to them.

"The U.S.-manufactured ammunition that kills abroad kills just the same in Parkland, Florida.

"The crisis we have before us is not about rap music or video games, as has been charged in previous mass shootings.

"It is a capitalist crisis."

A crisis groomed since 1945 during which the Exceptional US has exterminated millions of innocent human beings from Korea to Kandahar.

Only someone as dense as Trump would be surprised when these chickens come home to roost.

Lol
Political correctness has made you fucking retarded

Lol
Political correctness has made you fucking retarded

Too much winning, Loser?

 

[georgephillip]

How would you suggest we stimulate US exports?

There’d be a lot of tech industry money at stake in a Trump trade war with China

If the nations in question don't want to be stuck with holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell shit to US.


Easy peasy, done.

If the nations in question don't want to be stuck with holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell shit to US.


Easy peasy, done.

Where do Americans find their computers, pharmaceuticals, and mineral fuels? Given a US population of 329.3 million people and its total $2.614 trillion in 2018 imports, that's roughly $7900 in yearly demand from each US resident.

orts

That would be our problem, not theirs. If they don't want to be stuck holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell US large amounts of stuff.

Your attempt to make this mechanism of control that we are forcing onto other people, is not supported. ANd perhaps not rational.


I'm not sure, because you have not explained, at all, how you got to this conclusion.

That would be our problem, not theirs. If they don't want to be stuck holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell US large amounts of stuff.

Your attempt to make this mechanism of control that we are forcing onto other people, is not supported. ANd perhaps not rational.

Three decades of neoliberal economic policies have hollowed out US manufacturing and burdened wage labor with oppressive levels of debt and taxation. Where do they turn for their electronics and pharmaceuticals if not to imports?

Like I already said, that would be OUR problem, not theirs.

If they don't want to be stuck holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell US large amounts of stuff.

Your attempt to make this mechanism of control that we are forcing onto other people, is not supported. ANd perhaps not rational.

Like I already said, that would be OUR problem, not theirs.

If they don't want to be stuck holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell US large amounts of stuff.

OUR problem is simply this: if we don't import electronics and pharmaceuticals, we will NOT have any of those commodities.

Are you willing to sacrifice YOUR big screens (and anti-depressants?)

 

[Rustic]

From February 2018:

Militarism at the heart of a violent culture

"AS THE president continued smearing millions of immigrants as violent gang members to justify racist deportations and a border wall, it happened again. A young white man entered a school, not far from where I graduated, and unloaded a legally purchased weapon of war, killing 17 innocent people in three minutes...."

"WE NOW need to expand the demand beyond gun control, and connect the issue of mass murder at home to state-sanctioned mass murder abroad.

"At age 19, shooter Nikolas Cruz has not lived a year of his life when the U.S. was not actively bombing or occupying other countries, and exporting war through lucrative weapons contracts.

"A teen who can't yet legally buy beer or rent a car was able to purchase a weapon made for tactical combat--but then again, the same legislators who allow the AR-15 to be sold more easily than a Bud Light have supported every U.S. war and every bloated military budget presented to them.

"The U.S.-manufactured ammunition that kills abroad kills just the same in Parkland, Florida.

"The crisis we have before us is not about rap music or video games, as has been charged in previous mass shootings.

"It is a capitalist crisis."

A crisis groomed since 1945 during which the Exceptional US has exterminated millions of innocent human beings from Korea to Kandahar.

Only someone as dense as Trump would be surprised when these chickens come home to roost.

Lol
Political correctness has made you fucking retarded

Lol
Political correctness has made you fucking retarded

Too much winning, Loser?

chaos is good for the country... Bad for the federal government/deep state.

The country needed Trump

 

[Darkwind]

From February 2018:

Militarism at the heart of a violent culture

"AS THE president continued smearing millions of immigrants as violent gang members to justify racist deportations and a border wall, it happened again. A young white man entered a school, not far from where I graduated, and unloaded a legally purchased weapon of war, killing 17 innocent people in three minutes...."

"WE NOW need to expand the demand beyond gun control, and connect the issue of mass murder at home to state-sanctioned mass murder abroad.

"At age 19, shooter Nikolas Cruz has not lived a year of his life when the U.S. was not actively bombing or occupying other countries, and exporting war through lucrative weapons contracts.

"A teen who can't yet legally buy beer or rent a car was able to purchase a weapon made for tactical combat--but then again, the same legislators who allow the AR-15 to be sold more easily than a Bud Light have supported every U.S. war and every bloated military budget presented to them.

"The U.S.-manufactured ammunition that kills abroad kills just the same in Parkland, Florida.

"The crisis we have before us is not about rap music or video games, as has been charged in previous mass shootings.

"It is a capitalist crisis."

A crisis groomed since 1945 during which the Exceptional US has exterminated millions of innocent human beings from Korea to Kandahar.

Only someone as dense as Trump would be surprised when these chickens come home to roost.

Nice photoshop job.

This is absolute nonsense.

The cause of the mass shooting, or one of them I should say, is the institutionalized zero-tolerance policy they universities are teaching young people toward anyone who does not kowtow to the offical progressive narrative.

The cause of the mass shooting, or one of them I should say, is the institutionalized zero-tolerance policy they universities are teaching young people toward anyone who does not kowtow to the offical progressive narrative.

How many mass shooters are university graduates?
How many are raised in a gun culture that worships hired killers?

As usual, you fail to address the issue. You simply want the guns, but the symptoms point to teaching young people to be wholly intolerant of anyone's opinion but the one they are given by the progressive narrative.

A person who can think critically would come to the realization that not everyone would be affected to the point they would go to extremes to silence those they disagree with, but there are enough that will.

All of that is being normalized by our left-wing institutions. That bleeds over to the other side when they are targeted and find no recourse to stop the abuse that is heaped upon them. Now we have two sides, hell-bent on silencing the other side.

Take note. No one anymore is saying, "They are wrong but they have the right to say it and I intend to fight them with how I think the world should be."

They are saying that the other side cannot be allowed to speak, talk, demonstrate, or debate. They are saying, "Shut the fuck up or we'll shut you up!".

That is the real culprit in all the increases in mass shootings.

Now, I'll leave it to you as an exercise to see how all of this applies to why we did not have all these mass shootings in the past and in fact, guns were open and prevalent the entire time.

Have a nice day.

 

[georgephillip]

The Japanese were reminded of their place in the "free market" in the 1980s:

https://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/superimperialism.pdf (P. 332)

"Japan has let its economic policies be dictated by U.S. advisors much as Britain succumbed in the aftermath of World War II, as if American proposals really had foreign interests in mind and put world development above their own national self-interest.

"It should now be obvious to every nation that such trust in U.S. leadership has been misplaced.

"Yet how many Japanese are reminded that in 1985-86 their country was asked to lower its rates and create a bubble simply to help promote boom conditions in the United States to help the Republican administration be re-elected?

"The equitable world economy based on free markets promised at the close of World War II under American aegis has led instead to an epoch of unprecedented government control.

"Outside of the United States, centralized economic planning is promoted via the financial sector, not to increase production or living standards as promised by monetarist economic textbooks, but to squeeze out interest and dividends and transfer them abroad."

"Yet how many Japanese are reminded that in 1985-86 their country was asked to lower its rates and create a bubble simply to help promote boom conditions in the United States to help the Republican administration be re-elected?

Ummmmm….the administration won a 49 state landslide in 1984.

Yet how many Japanese are reminded that in 1985-86 their country was asked to lower its rates and create a bubble simply to help promote boom conditions in the United States to help the Republican administration be re-elected?

Ummmmm….the administration won a 49 state landslide in 1984.

How did Republicans fare in '88?

Inside the Plaza Accord

"What Is the Plaza Accord?

"The Plaza Accord is a 1985 agreement among the G-5 nations—France, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan—to manipulate exchange rates by depreciating the U.S. dollar relative to the Japanese yen and the German Deutsche mark."

How did Republicans fare in '88?

Not as good at they did in 1984. LOL!

How could Michael Hudson fuck that one up?

How could Michael Hudson fuck that one up

It's not as complicated as you think, Kulak:

Michael Hudson (economist) - Wikipedia

"In 1972, Hudson published his first major book titled Super Imperialism in which he showed how the after abandoning the dollar-gold line the United States created a unique situation when United States Department of the Treasury bonds became the sole basis for global reserves and foreign governments had no choice but to finance the budget deficit in the United States and hence their military expenditures.

"After the publication of the book, Hudson left the institute and moved to work in the think tank Hudson Institute headed by Herman Kahn.

"In 1979, he became an advisor to the United Nations Institute for Training and Research(UNITAR). He wrote reports for the Ministry of Defense and also acted as a consultant to the Canadian government.

"His second big book titled Global Fracture: The New International Economic Order was published in 1977. In it, Hudson argued that the military superiority of the United States led to the division of the world along financial lines."

the United States created a unique situation when United States Department of the Treasury bonds became the sole basis for global reserves and foreign governments had no choice but to finance the budget deficit in the United States and hence their military expenditures.

They were free to hold their reserves as $20s. Or as gold. Neither of which pays interest.
Or as Russian or Venezuelan currency.

They were free to hold their reserves as $20s. Or as gold. Neither of which pays interest.
Or as Russian or Venezuelan currency.

Or the dong?

"Part of the problem was simply that the United States did not want to pay for its war in Vietnam.

"The Korean War had been financed essentially by the Federal Reserve’s monetizing the federal deficit, an effort that transfer the war’s cost onto some future generation, or more accurately from future taxpayers to future bondholders.

"But in 1964, as the United States once again committed itself to military involvement, the likelihood of it settling its payments deficit in the foreseeable future declined.

"Foreign central banks would have to bear at least the foreign exchange costs of the war."

https://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/superimperialism.pdf (P. 254)

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

If the nations in question don't want to be stuck with holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell shit to US.


Easy peasy, done.

If the nations in question don't want to be stuck with holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell shit to US.


Easy peasy, done.

Where do Americans find their computers, pharmaceuticals, and mineral fuels? Given a US population of 329.3 million people and its total $2.614 trillion in 2018 imports, that's roughly $7900 in yearly demand from each US resident.

orts

That would be our problem, not theirs. If they don't want to be stuck holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell US large amounts of stuff.

Your attempt to make this mechanism of control that we are forcing onto other people, is not supported. ANd perhaps not rational.


I'm not sure, because you have not explained, at all, how you got to this conclusion.

That would be our problem, not theirs. If they don't want to be stuck holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell US large amounts of stuff.

Your attempt to make this mechanism of control that we are forcing onto other people, is not supported. ANd perhaps not rational.

Three decades of neoliberal economic policies have hollowed out US manufacturing and burdened wage labor with oppressive levels of debt and taxation. Where do they turn for their electronics and pharmaceuticals if not to imports?

Like I already said, that would be OUR problem, not theirs.

If they don't want to be stuck holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell US large amounts of stuff.

Your attempt to make this mechanism of control that we are forcing onto other people, is not supported. ANd perhaps not rational.

Like I already said, that would be OUR problem, not theirs.

If they don't want to be stuck holding large amounts of dollars, just don't sell US large amounts of stuff.

OUR problem is simply this: if we don't import electronics and pharmaceuticals, we will NOT have any of those commodities.

Are you willing to sacrifice YOUR big screens (and anti-depressants?)

OUR problem is simply this: if we don't import electronics and pharmaceuticals, we will NOT have any of those commodities.

If foreigners don't want US dollars, they shouldn't sell us those things.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

"Yet how many Japanese are reminded that in 1985-86 their country was asked to lower its rates and create a bubble simply to help promote boom conditions in the United States to help the Republican administration be re-elected?

Ummmmm….the administration won a 49 state landslide in 1984.

Yet how many Japanese are reminded that in 1985-86 their country was asked to lower its rates and create a bubble simply to help promote boom conditions in the United States to help the Republican administration be re-elected?

Ummmmm….the administration won a 49 state landslide in 1984.

How did Republicans fare in '88?

Inside the Plaza Accord

"What Is the Plaza Accord?

"The Plaza Accord is a 1985 agreement among the G-5 nations—France, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan—to manipulate exchange rates by depreciating the U.S. dollar relative to the Japanese yen and the German Deutsche mark."

How did Republicans fare in '88?

Not as good at they did in 1984. LOL!

How could Michael Hudson fuck that one up?

How could Michael Hudson fuck that one up

It's not as complicated as you think, Kulak:

Michael Hudson (economist) - Wikipedia

"In 1972, Hudson published his first major book titled Super Imperialism in which he showed how the after abandoning the dollar-gold line the United States created a unique situation when United States Department of the Treasury bonds became the sole basis for global reserves and foreign governments had no choice but to finance the budget deficit in the United States and hence their military expenditures.

"After the publication of the book, Hudson left the institute and moved to work in the think tank Hudson Institute headed by Herman Kahn.

"In 1979, he became an advisor to the United Nations Institute for Training and Research(UNITAR). He wrote reports for the Ministry of Defense and also acted as a consultant to the Canadian government.

"His second big book titled Global Fracture: The New International Economic Order was published in 1977. In it, Hudson argued that the military superiority of the United States led to the division of the world along financial lines."

the United States created a unique situation when United States Department of the Treasury bonds became the sole basis for global reserves and foreign governments had no choice but to finance the budget deficit in the United States and hence their military expenditures.

They were free to hold their reserves as $20s. Or as gold. Neither of which pays interest.
Or as Russian or Venezuelan currency.

They were free to hold their reserves as $20s. Or as gold. Neither of which pays interest.
Or as Russian or Venezuelan currency.

Or the dong?

"Part of the problem was simply that the United States did not want to pay for its war in Vietnam.

"The Korean War had been financed essentially by the Federal Reserve’s monetizing the federal deficit, an effort that transfer the war’s cost onto some future generation, or more accurately from future taxpayers to future bondholders.

"But in 1964, as the United States once again committed itself to military involvement, the likelihood of it settling its payments deficit in the foreseeable future declined.

"Foreign central banks would have to bear at least the foreign exchange costs of the war."

https://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/superimperialism.pdf (P. 254)

"Part of the problem was simply that the United States did not want to pay for its war in Vietnam.

Somehow, it was paid for.

 

[georgephillip]

From February 2018:

Militarism at the heart of a violent culture

"AS THE president continued smearing millions of immigrants as violent gang members to justify racist deportations and a border wall, it happened again. A young white man entered a school, not far from where I graduated, and unloaded a legally purchased weapon of war, killing 17 innocent people in three minutes...."

"WE NOW need to expand the demand beyond gun control, and connect the issue of mass murder at home to state-sanctioned mass murder abroad.

"At age 19, shooter Nikolas Cruz has not lived a year of his life when the U.S. was not actively bombing or occupying other countries, and exporting war through lucrative weapons contracts.

"A teen who can't yet legally buy beer or rent a car was able to purchase a weapon made for tactical combat--but then again, the same legislators who allow the AR-15 to be sold more easily than a Bud Light have supported every U.S. war and every bloated military budget presented to them.

"The U.S.-manufactured ammunition that kills abroad kills just the same in Parkland, Florida.

"The crisis we have before us is not about rap music or video games, as has been charged in previous mass shootings.

"It is a capitalist crisis."

A crisis groomed since 1945 during which the Exceptional US has exterminated millions of innocent human beings from Korea to Kandahar.

Only someone as dense as Trump would be surprised when these chickens come home to roost.

Nice photoshop job.

This is absolute nonsense.

The cause of the mass shooting, or one of them I should say, is the institutionalized zero-tolerance policy they universities are teaching young people toward anyone who does not kowtow to the offical progressive narrative.

The cause of the mass shooting, or one of them I should say, is the institutionalized zero-tolerance policy they universities are teaching young people toward anyone who does not kowtow to the offical progressive narrative.

How many mass shooters are university graduates?
How many are raised in a gun culture that worships hired killers?

As usual, you fail to address the issue. You simply want the guns, but the symptoms point to teaching young people to be wholly intolerant of anyone's opinion but the one they are given by the progressive narrative.

A person who can think critically would come to the realization that not everyone would be affected to the point they would go to extremes to silence those they disagree with, but there are enough that will.

All of that is being normalized by our left-wing institutions. That bleeds over to the other side when they are targeted and find no recourse to stop the abuse that is heaped upon them. Now we have two sides, hell-bent on silencing the other side.

Take note. No one anymore is saying, "They are wrong but they have the right to say it and I intend to fight them with how I think the world should be."

They are saying that the other side cannot be allowed to speak, talk, demonstrate, or debate. They are saying, "Shut the fuck up or we'll shut you up!".

That is the real culprit in all the increases in mass shootings.

Now, I'll leave it to you as an exercise to see how all of this applies to why we did not have all these mass shootings in the past and in fact, guns were open and prevalent the entire time.

Have a nice day.

As usual, you fail to address the issue. You simply want the guns, but the symptoms point to teaching young people to be wholly intolerant of anyone's opinion but the one they are given by the progressive narrative.

There's nothing progressive about white nationalist gun pussies:

Eco-Fascism: the Racist Theory That Inspired the El Paso and Christchurch Shooters

"A far-right philosophy dubbed 'eco-fascism' has been increasingly gaining steam in white nationalist circles online.

"On Saturday, for at least the second time this year, the racist tropes associated with that philosophy translated into real-world violence.

"Before the El Paso shooter targeted Latinos shopping at Walmart on Saturday morning, he posted a four-page screed accusing immigrants of destroying the environment.

It’s a conspiracy theory shared by the white nationalist who killed 51 at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, earlier this year. Both shooters posted manifestos on 8chan that blamed immigrants for the woes of the modern world — including environmental problems."

 

[badger2]

What's eco-fascism?

 

[georgephillip]

What's eco-fascism?

Apparently, the definition is broad enough to span "blood and soil" with the Green New Deal; as I understand it, white nationalists in the US have decided migrants are to blame for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions?

One suspected driver of the 'caravan': climate change - CNNPolitics


"Environmental historian Michael E. Zimmerman defines 'ecofascism' as 'a totalitarian government that requires individuals to sacrifice their interests to the well-being and glory of the 'land', understood as the splendid web of life, or the organic whole of nature, including peoples and their states
.'[3]

"Zimmerman argues that while no ecofascist government has so far existed, 'important aspects of it can be found in German National Socialism, one of whose central slogans was 'Blood and Soil'.[3]

"According to environmentalist David Orton, the term is pejorative in nature and has 'social ecology roots, against the deep ecology movement and its supporters plus, more generally, the environmental movement. Thus, 'ecofascist' and 'ecofascism', are used not to enlighten but to smear.'[7]

Ecofascism - Wikipedia

 

[georgephillip]

From February 2018:

Militarism at the heart of a violent culture

"AS THE president continued smearing millions of immigrants as violent gang members to justify racist deportations and a border wall, it happened again. A young white man entered a school, not far from where I graduated, and unloaded a legally purchased weapon of war, killing 17 innocent people in three minutes...."

"WE NOW need to expand the demand beyond gun control, and connect the issue of mass murder at home to state-sanctioned mass murder abroad.

"At age 19, shooter Nikolas Cruz has not lived a year of his life when the U.S. was not actively bombing or occupying other countries, and exporting war through lucrative weapons contracts.

"A teen who can't yet legally buy beer or rent a car was able to purchase a weapon made for tactical combat--but then again, the same legislators who allow the AR-15 to be sold more easily than a Bud Light have supported every U.S. war and every bloated military budget presented to them.

"The U.S.-manufactured ammunition that kills abroad kills just the same in Parkland, Florida.

"The crisis we have before us is not about rap music or video games, as has been charged in previous mass shootings.

"It is a capitalist crisis."

A crisis groomed since 1945 during which the Exceptional US has exterminated millions of innocent human beings from Korea to Kandahar.

Only someone as dense as Trump would be surprised when these chickens come home to roost.

Lol
Political correctness has made you fucking retarded

Lol
Political correctness has made you fucking retarded

Too much winning, Loser?

chaos is good for the country... Bad for the federal government/deep state.

The country needed Trump

chaos is good for the country... Bad for the federal government/deep state.

The country needed Trump

Like it needs dirty air?

U.S. Air Quality Is Headed the Wrong Way

"After four decades of improving air quality, the U.S. has started to take a step backwards, as the number of polluted days has ticked upwards over the last two years, the Associated Press reported.

"Federal data shows there were 15 percent more days with unhealthy air over the U.S. in 2017 and 2018 than there were on average from 2013 through 2016, according to the AP. In that four-year span, Americans had the fewest number of polluted days since 1980."

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

What's eco-fascism?

Apparently, the definition is broad enough to span "blood and soil" with the Green New Deal; as I understand it, white nationalists in the US have decided migrants are to blame for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions?

One suspected driver of the 'caravan': climate change - CNNPolitics


"Environmental historian Michael E. Zimmerman defines 'ecofascism' as 'a totalitarian government that requires individuals to sacrifice their interests to the well-being and glory of the 'land', understood as the splendid web of life, or the organic whole of nature, including peoples and their states
.'[3]

"Zimmerman argues that while no ecofascist government has so far existed, 'important aspects of it can be found in German National Socialism, one of whose central slogans was 'Blood and Soil'.[3]

"According to environmentalist David Orton, the term is pejorative in nature and has 'social ecology roots, against the deep ecology movement and its supporters plus, more generally, the environmental movement. Thus, 'ecofascist' and 'ecofascism', are used not to enlighten but to smear.'[7]

Ecofascism - Wikipedia

It's true, if we deported 20 million illegal aliens, CO2 emissions would drop.

 

[22lcidw]

From February 2018:

Militarism at the heart of a violent culture

"AS THE president continued smearing millions of immigrants as violent gang members to justify racist deportations and a border wall, it happened again. A young white man entered a school, not far from where I graduated, and unloaded a legally purchased weapon of war, killing 17 innocent people in three minutes...."

"WE NOW need to expand the demand beyond gun control, and connect the issue of mass murder at home to state-sanctioned mass murder abroad.

"At age 19, shooter Nikolas Cruz has not lived a year of his life when the U.S. was not actively bombing or occupying other countries, and exporting war through lucrative weapons contracts.

"A teen who can't yet legally buy beer or rent a car was able to purchase a weapon made for tactical combat--but then again, the same legislators who allow the AR-15 to be sold more easily than a Bud Light have supported every U.S. war and every bloated military budget presented to them.

"The U.S.-manufactured ammunition that kills abroad kills just the same in Parkland, Florida.

"The crisis we have before us is not about rap music or video games, as has been charged in previous mass shootings.

"It is a capitalist crisis."

A crisis groomed since 1945 during which the Exceptional US has exterminated millions of innocent human beings from Korea to Kandahar.

Only someone as dense as Trump would be surprised when these chickens come home to roost.

Nice photoshop job.

This is absolute nonsense.

The cause of the mass shooting, or one of them I should say, is the institutionalized zero-tolerance policy they universities are teaching young people toward anyone who does not kowtow to the offical progressive narrative.

The cause of the mass shooting, or one of them I should say, is the institutionalized zero-tolerance policy they universities are teaching young people toward anyone who does not kowtow to the offical progressive narrative.

How many mass shooters are university graduates?
How many are raised in a gun culture that worships hired killers?

As usual, you fail to address the issue. You simply want the guns, but the symptoms point to teaching young people to be wholly intolerant of anyone's opinion but the one they are given by the progressive narrative.

A person who can think critically would come to the realization that not everyone would be affected to the point they would go to extremes to silence those they disagree with, but there are enough that will.

All of that is being normalized by our left-wing institutions. That bleeds over to the other side when they are targeted and find no recourse to stop the abuse that is heaped upon them. Now we have two sides, hell-bent on silencing the other side.

Take note. No one anymore is saying, "They are wrong but they have the right to say it and I intend to fight them with how I think the world should be."

They are saying that the other side cannot be allowed to speak, talk, demonstrate, or debate. They are saying, "Shut the fuck up or we'll shut you up!".

That is the real culprit in all the increases in mass shootings.

Now, I'll leave it to you as an exercise to see how all of this applies to why we did not have all these mass shootings in the past and in fact, guns were open and prevalent the entire time.

Have a nice day.

As usual, you fail to address the issue. You simply want the guns, but the symptoms point to teaching young people to be wholly intolerant of anyone's opinion but the one they are given by the progressive narrative.

There's nothing progressive about white nationalist gun pussies:

Eco-Fascism: the Racist Theory That Inspired the El Paso and Christchurch Shooters

"A far-right philosophy dubbed 'eco-fascism' has been increasingly gaining steam in white nationalist circles online.

"On Saturday, for at least the second time this year, the racist tropes associated with that philosophy translated into real-world violence.

"Before the El Paso shooter targeted Latinos shopping at Walmart on Saturday morning, he posted a four-page screed accusing immigrants of destroying the environment.

It’s a conspiracy theory shared by the white nationalist who killed 51 at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, earlier this year. Both shooters posted manifestos on 8chan that blamed immigrants for the woes of the modern world — including environmental problems."

You Progs make more names and things up and have no guilt about it. You make a mess and won't clean up your own shit so blame it on the citizens you hate by accusing them of hating and blaming people from other nations. The tragedies we see ar 95% on your side of political thinking and you keep bringing up the ones that were not. I have evolved. I have seen crimes and not reported them. I do not care. I know you must be dealt with and I am not a violent person or great street fighter. You are dangerous and if you do win will not like the results once your leaders have to make the real decisions of life and death in a a small economic pie environment.

 

[whitehall]

There are more murders in Baltimore and Chicago every weekend in the summer. Is this perhaps an example of left wing militarism?

 

[georgephillip]

What's eco-fascism?

Apparently, the definition is broad enough to span "blood and soil" with the Green New Deal; as I understand it, white nationalists in the US have decided migrants are to blame for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions?

One suspected driver of the 'caravan': climate change - CNNPolitics


"Environmental historian Michael E. Zimmerman defines 'ecofascism' as 'a totalitarian government that requires individuals to sacrifice their interests to the well-being and glory of the 'land', understood as the splendid web of life, or the organic whole of nature, including peoples and their states
.'[3]

"Zimmerman argues that while no ecofascist government has so far existed, 'important aspects of it can be found in German National Socialism, one of whose central slogans was 'Blood and Soil'.[3]

"According to environmentalist David Orton, the term is pejorative in nature and has 'social ecology roots, against the deep ecology movement and its supporters plus, more generally, the environmental movement. Thus, 'ecofascist' and 'ecofascism', are used not to enlighten but to smear.'[7]

Ecofascism - Wikipedia

It's true, if we deported 20 million illegal aliens, CO2 emissions would drop.

t's true, if we deported 20 million illegal aliens, CO2 emissions would drop.

Or we could impeach one useful idiot?

"Furthermore, EPA data found there were significantly more polluted days each year of Mr. Trump's than in any year of President Obama's second term, according to the AP.

"And the worst of the bad days jumped even more than the 15 percent rise in unhealthy air.

"On average, there were nearly 140 times, in 2017 and 2018, when a city's air pollution reached 'very unhealthy' and 'hazardous' levels with the air quality index greater than 200.

"That's more than two-and-a-half times the average of nearly 55 from 2013 to 2016, the APreported."

U.S. Air Quality Is Headed the Wrong Way

 

[georgephillip]

From February 2018:

Militarism at the heart of a violent culture

"AS THE president continued smearing millions of immigrants as violent gang members to justify racist deportations and a border wall, it happened again. A young white man entered a school, not far from where I graduated, and unloaded a legally purchased weapon of war, killing 17 innocent people in three minutes...."

"WE NOW need to expand the demand beyond gun control, and connect the issue of mass murder at home to state-sanctioned mass murder abroad.

"At age 19, shooter Nikolas Cruz has not lived a year of his life when the U.S. was not actively bombing or occupying other countries, and exporting war through lucrative weapons contracts.

"A teen who can't yet legally buy beer or rent a car was able to purchase a weapon made for tactical combat--but then again, the same legislators who allow the AR-15 to be sold more easily than a Bud Light have supported every U.S. war and every bloated military budget presented to them.

"The U.S.-manufactured ammunition that kills abroad kills just the same in Parkland, Florida.

"The crisis we have before us is not about rap music or video games, as has been charged in previous mass shootings.

"It is a capitalist crisis."

A crisis groomed since 1945 during which the Exceptional US has exterminated millions of innocent human beings from Korea to Kandahar.

Only someone as dense as Trump would be surprised when these chickens come home to roost.

Nice photoshop job.

This is absolute nonsense.

The cause of the mass shooting, or one of them I should say, is the institutionalized zero-tolerance policy they universities are teaching young people toward anyone who does not kowtow to the offical progressive narrative.

The cause of the mass shooting, or one of them I should say, is the institutionalized zero-tolerance policy they universities are teaching young people toward anyone who does not kowtow to the offical progressive narrative.

How many mass shooters are university graduates?
How many are raised in a gun culture that worships hired killers?

As usual, you fail to address the issue. You simply want the guns, but the symptoms point to teaching young people to be wholly intolerant of anyone's opinion but the one they are given by the progressive narrative.

A person who can think critically would come to the realization that not everyone would be affected to the point they would go to extremes to silence those they disagree with, but there are enough that will.

All of that is being normalized by our left-wing institutions. That bleeds over to the other side when they are targeted and find no recourse to stop the abuse that is heaped upon them. Now we have two sides, hell-bent on silencing the other side.

Take note. No one anymore is saying, "They are wrong but they have the right to say it and I intend to fight them with how I think the world should be."

They are saying that the other side cannot be allowed to speak, talk, demonstrate, or debate. They are saying, "Shut the fuck up or we'll shut you up!".

That is the real culprit in all the increases in mass shootings.

Now, I'll leave it to you as an exercise to see how all of this applies to why we did not have all these mass shootings in the past and in fact, guns were open and prevalent the entire time.

Have a nice day.

As usual, you fail to address the issue. You simply want the guns, but the symptoms point to teaching young people to be wholly intolerant of anyone's opinion but the one they are given by the progressive narrative.

There's nothing progressive about white nationalist gun pussies:

Eco-Fascism: the Racist Theory That Inspired the El Paso and Christchurch Shooters

"A far-right philosophy dubbed 'eco-fascism' has been increasingly gaining steam in white nationalist circles online.

"On Saturday, for at least the second time this year, the racist tropes associated with that philosophy translated into real-world violence.

"Before the El Paso shooter targeted Latinos shopping at Walmart on Saturday morning, he posted a four-page screed accusing immigrants of destroying the environment.

It’s a conspiracy theory shared by the white nationalist who killed 51 at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, earlier this year. Both shooters posted manifestos on 8chan that blamed immigrants for the woes of the modern world — including environmental problems."

You Progs make more names and things up and have no guilt about it. You make a mess and won't clean up your own shit so blame it on the citizens you hate by accusing them of hating and blaming people from other nations. The tragedies we see ar 95% on your side of political thinking and you keep bringing up the ones that were not. I have evolved. I have seen crimes and not reported them. I do not care. I know you must be dealt with and I am not a violent person or great street fighter. You are dangerous and if you do win will not like the results once your leaders have to make the real decisions of life and death in a a small economic pie environment.

You Progs make more names and things up and have no guilt about it. You make a mess and won't clean up your own shit so blame it on the citizens you hate by accusing them of hating and blaming people from other nations. The tragedies we see ar 95% on your side of political thinking and you keep bringing up the ones that were not

Progressives jump to many wrong conclusions, but I don't see the pattern of deliberate deception we see coming again and again from Trump:

Trump's rapid pace of lies in 2018