‘HEAD EAST, YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN’: A REALISTIC LOOK AT OUR GLOBAL FUTURE
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY MARCH 6, 2023) — THE PLANET has long been interested in the social aspects of culture, geopolitics, economics, and the arts — especially how they intermingle and mix in the formation of nations and societies.god.
And nowhere do we find a greater amalgamation of such factors than in the “religion” of today’s global ti’mes. We speak of Technology. Not just any Technology (yes, capital “T” the way we would use a capital “G” in the word “God”) but, to use the cliche, cutting-edge Tech. Examples: AI, IT, GPT-3, Big Data, new algorithms, and “remote everything.”
If industrialization of the 19th century was the future, and information served the same purpose for the 20th, today’s equivalent is High Tech. The leader in this area will direct the globe’s near future as the new superpower — if, that is, we don’t blow ourselves to atoms first, perhaps by the time 2023 runs its course.
It should come as no surprise, therefore, especially with Syracuse Joe at America’s helm, that the future is Sino. As a resurrected Horace Greeley might put it, “Go East, young man and woman.” Incidentally, that would be all the gender he would recognize.
Want tomorrow today? Think about this [from an online report]:
- China leads the US in the research of 37 out of 44 key technologies tracked by an Australian think tank.
- These critical and emerging technologies span a range of sectors including defense, space, and energy.
- China’s research lead in these sectors will have implications for democratic nations.
- China has a “stunning lead” ahead of the US in high-impact research across critical and emerging technologies, according to Canberra-based independent think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute, or ASPI.
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Consider the miserable state of public education in the USA and couple it with the fact that three out of every four Ph.Ds in High Tech were earned by nationals from the Pacific Rim. Most of those students obtained their advanced degrees at U.S. colleges and universities (Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and the like) and when they passed their comprehensives headed back to their home countries.
The implications for democratic countries need not be spelled out or mapped. You are well capable of following the bread crumbs.
Should we survive an all-out nuclear war, at best a 50-50 proposition, within 20 years today’s geopolitical landscape will be unrecognizable. At the head of the class: China.
Despite the 300-year aberration that is the West’s experimentation with democracy, republicanism, and liberalism, China’s Middle Way, if left alone, will prevail, propelled by its huge investment in critical and emerging High Tech.
China will continue to fashion a new kind of rightist, authoritarian form of politics and government, fashioned from the best of capitalism and theoretical socialism (as opposed to the insanity of Soviet-styled Communism). Individual freedoms and liberties as we know them will give way to a more orderly state of things to come. Greater security will be purchased with the coin of license that is in the process of morally bankrupting the West.
For centuries since the beginning of civilization, China was the world’s top superpower. Then came the rise of Europe in the 15th century. From then to the Boxer Rebellion and onto Mao’s disastrous perch, the West lorded supreme, led by America. Uncle Sam’s crown lasted a rough 100 years.
Is it too late for the U.S.?
No. It’s never too late, per Yogi, as in “It ain’t over til it’s over.” Time, though, is running out, which is why next year’s elections assume great importance.
At present, geopolitics and Technology are returning China to the top perch, with no signs of abating. The guard is changing, and we are in the midst of that epochal event. We are living in times that future generations will not call the past. They will call it History — and it is tumultuous and upsetting. That, by the way, is not the same as pronouncing it good or bad.
Your thoughts?
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“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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China invests billions of dollars into Big Tech and the news media to keep up their facade about how great they are. They may have even paid the think tank, too, to spread their manipulated information. Wasn’t there another authoritarian regime in the 1930s that was all about propaganda? They even hosted the Olympics in 1936, and the EVIL dictator refused to shake the hand of a certain U.S. gold medalist. Blogger Dan Valenti – the man, myth and legend whom the Fourth Estate is named after – may want to differentiate between the propaganda that China pays a lot of money to influence us into believing that their country is on the path to glory versus reality. It would be like us believing that a certain past Mayor of Pittsfield’s Rolodex and Renaissance propaganda made the city a better place!
shaddup.
Nice words.
Believe me this one time.We beat China in technology. Example. They can’t even send a balloon over here. Come on Dan?
Yeah it we are number one at climate change as the city clowncil conversation. And we can put a damn good commemorative sign on our side streets.
New Sign Proposal: “Welcome to Pittsfield, World’s Leader in Climate Change”
“It’s Happening”
Ah, those famous words.
Do you remember when the Ruberto regime wasted taxpayer money on those ceramic sheep on North Street? I don’t remember what the “theme” for the sheep was though.
Of all animals too, why pick a sheep? For Pittsfield? I get that theme for a hill town maybe. You know were men and men and sheep…..
I’m really surprised that the ceramic molds were not of young, teenage boys, with the saying, “Tell ‘um Angelo sent you,” sponsored by Greylock Credit Union.
A trip down memory lane.
I thought it was cows.
Coulda been a bunch of ceramic Bernie Madoff molds.
Dan, in your interest in such things have you formed an opinion as to whether the U.S. should honor its treaty and support Taiwan if China invades it? That is what we signed up for long before Biden came on the scene. Also, I really do not think Biden has had very much to do with China s power position in the world today. It started quite some time before him.
I also think that if America were to go to war with China they would bitch slap us into submission in a very short time. And I do not think they would even need nukes to do it.
Way off.
Depends on whose war it is and who we have left here to fight it.
United States is far superior to any country. Our under sea weaponry is second to none as is our communication,surveillance technology to name a few. In the last couple years we have invested Trillions,not for balloons.Dans Australian research team is full of balloons. We would annihilate China in a War. One other comment do you think our Allies would just sit and watch? Come on Dan?.
Agree. Also, China actually doesn’t have the fuel resources or cash to go to war with us. We are energy independent and we have a MASSIVE economy.
The first thing that would happen in a war with China is that we’d embargo them. What would they do then? Buy farmland in idaho? Enlist the help of North Korea’s skelaton army (again underfed farmers whose military experience is missile tests and blowing up political convicts with anti aircraft rounds.)
Paper tigers abound in the far east. Armies that have never actually fought in any war and engineers who never invented anything.
We are no longer energy independent, Traitor Joe saw to that 1st month in office 2021, shutting down much of domestic production. Joe then went begging to the Saudis and Venezuelans to increase imported oil, rather than developing our vast reserves. He also undid sanctions with Iran. Remember $2/gallon gas and heating oil 2019?
The Chi-Coms have already bought up significant US farmland along with their good friend, Bill Gates. Some next to strategic military installations (North Dakota).
Traitor Joe has emasculated/neutered our military with “woke” types like General silly Millie, and given away our best weapons to the Taliban (85 BILLION WORTH), and his and Hunter’s corrupt money laundering business partners in Ukraine (BILLIONS MORE). US Military is more concerned with: correct pronouns, allowing the enlisted tax funded sex changes, and CRT, than being an effective fighting force.
We no longer have a border, and untold millions of criminals have been allowed into our country, with many more coming daily.
The Bidens are not for sale. China already bought them, years ago.
America has fallen far in just two short years.
Biden ended our independence, but it’s there. And the Chinese depend on coal and imports. Biden won’t fight the Chinese – he’ll surrender before the first shot.
Why aren’t the John Kerry’s of the world and their followers picketing in Red Square about the pollution that China is spewing creating “Climate Change”?? I say lets pay for a Carnival Cruise for all the picketers here in the US to go picket in China….let’s see how far they would get. Can anyone stop this stupid east-west choo choo?? The state has proven they can not run a train system that is safe and runs on budget do why re they thinking this is a good idea??? Is China Neal behind it all??
You can’t picket in China.
Don “the traitor”Trump must not continue to be treated above the law.The wealthy never see justice.
China has never set foot outside it’s borders and never will. What they would encounter if they tryed to invade Tiawan would make the Ukraineians look like mamby-pambys. China is no match for the USA on the battlefield or anywhere else.
“China has never set foot outside it’s borders and never will. ”
Korea, India, the South China Sea? How about their police stations throughout the USA? Also, tell that to the Africans and the Philipines. In fact, global ownership is their manifesto.
You are correct that China wiull not invade the US. They’ll just take over our government and deal with them to steal our wealth. Lithium mines have come to our shores – that is the first shot.
PFH, China has never invaded Korea, India or the Phillipines, and they have zero presents in US police stations. Globel ownership is nowhere listed in any manifesto of there’s, and they would never be able to take over our govt. What are you smoking?
Remember the Korean war? They frequently cross the Indian border and fight. They attack Phillipine ships. They have practically seized the South China Sea, and yes, they do maintain police stations in the US. It’s kind a scandal, and it’s not much of a secret.
And, for the record, they claim dominion over the planet. That is driving their behavior. Heard of the ‘Silk Road?’ I’ll do you a favor and ignore your parting insult, though that trashes your credibility. Why insult unless you have no facts?
I do appreciate your favor and apologize for the insult, and understand you now that you have explained. Now I’ll give you my take.
The K war had fighters aiding the North. They aided the NVN as well and then returnd home. The crossed borders you speak of are matters of mere miles, and the S China sea is the border accd to them (not Hawaii or Algeria or Afghanistan) and their occupation of it is tenuous at best. I’d love to know more about your police stations and planet dominien. The silk road has been traveled by all sorts of folk for over 40 centuries, by no means all CCP.
No problem – I’ve done my share of insults too most likely.
Mere miles is an invasion, as are mere feet. Saddam Hussein considered the Kuwaitis’ poaching Iraqi gas grounds for invasion, so we can also say sticking straws under your border is off limits. South China Sea is guarede by them and they do not respect international shipping zones.
Silk Road is a contemporary colonial concept. They are taking over nations’ governments by offering to subsidize their infrastructure leaving them in hock for debts that they’ll never pay off. As result, the country gets mined and exploited in the same fashion as the Dutch and the French and Brits did in the 19th cent.
30 years ago, China couldn’t dream of taking Taiwan. They lacked a navy capable of crossing the Strait which will sink most ships. Now they have their navy, and all the Taiwanese have is us.
The Chi-coms won’t invade like a video game. They’ll starve them economically, deplete their defenses with nuisance attacks, and then invade.
Help for them is a long way off, and I doubt they’ll get much from their neighbors.
As for Korea, they not only helped their neighbors, they also took them over. It’s a Chi-Com puppet state.
Police Stations:
Chinese ‘police stations’ in the US | MCLC Resource Center (osu.edu)
World domination:
China accused of ‘world domination’ plot through coronavirus spread ‘Xi Jinping is clear’ | World | News | Express.co.uk
Thanks for the response and the police station reference.
Now, if you zoom out 50 miles or so or look at a map you can visualize that China has never exceeded its borders. It is afraid to. It has no experience fighting a war with extended supply lines. The Indian incursions are trivial, N Korea is not a vassal state, they left VN when the war ended, and the citizens of Taiwan would never fold. They have themselves as well as us.
What we need to worry about is not China but rather the cultural split in our own country. THAT is what keeps me up at night.
“What we need to worry about is not China but rather the cultural split in our own country. THAT is what keeps me up at night.”
Ok, I can live with that. You’re probably right. My take: the split is between those of us who hold the Faith and the Love for our nation’s great founding. Then there are the others who believe the forgery. That’s the essence of the divide.
Where I disagree: there is nothing trivial when a foreign army crosses your border. Israel deals with the same sort of activity with Hezbollah and Hamas. That’s war!
PFH, you have misunderstood the OSU police station reference (I was a candidate to chair the relevant dept there). What the reference says is that ccp has multiple centers it uses as bases for recruitment and espionage, which is absolutely true. Don’t worry about it – Uncle Sam is all over it.
bonner:
I get the ‘police station’ – I know they aren’t physical stations with cells, call desks, detectives, etc…
However, I feel that our argument over China is really secondary to our argument about how to argue. Thank you for bringing it to that level. You raise the bar.
You are very kind.
You have class.
I think you mean the ‘belts and roads’ initiative. The silk road meme has been around for thousands of years.
My mistake. Ouch! Your point is well supported.
You are delusional & naive.
I am neither; I am an evaluator of fact. I like to know what’s going on.
LOL
https://history.army.mil/reference/Korea/kw-chrono.htm
U.S. Army Center of Military History
The Korean War Chronology
Chi-Coms don’t recognize others’ borders.
Actually they do.
No, they really don’t.
I see you are a history buff. Korean war ring a bell?
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/korean-war/casualty-lists
How many Americans were lost in Korea? Killed by Chi-Coms/NK/Russians.
killed 54,246 wounded 103,284 MIA 8,196 POW 3,746 Total169,365
USA could do little to stop an all out invasion of Tiawan short of nukes, and our military is unprepared under Biden.
Those casualties were killed mostly by Koreans, not Russians or Chinese.
China would never actually invade, because, among other things, they know we would be there and we are a tough customer. We are comityed to the defence of Taiwan by treaty.
So did China invade or not? Simple yes or no.
Did China invade where and when?
Korea. If you can’t figure out when you are a lost cause.
To answer your question, China did not invade N Korea. They joined forces with the Korean forces in the north and then withdrew when hostilities ceased. They did the same thing in the VN war – they withdrew when hostilities ceased.
John Kerry’s uncle got a Purple Heart in Korea. Ate a bad batch of Kim Chi.
Agree with both Planet and Ann.
So,they spend 230 billion and we spend 900 billion.Ivanka has her 17 trademarks and Nixon open the world to Chiner
Don’t worry the “Big Guy”got his 10%
Sure did,and the 2 billion Ivanka got from Saudi Arabia
“If America were to go to war with China they would bitch slap us into submission in a very short time. “
No way Jose.
Why did Joe put another 85 billion into our military.We spend 600 billion more than Chiner
am still waiting for the UN to sanction and wipe out all countries debt with China due to the genocide they committed on the world with a little slip out of the window of the COVID virus!! It does seem the America policy of trying to help create a middle class in China would help the citizens have human rights and do away with children slave workers, didn’t work. The citizens are cowardly and will not rise up against their tyrannical rulers. Americans just need to stop buying from China and all their subsidiaries, do you hear that choo choo Neal?? Why are you in bed with the CCP? Massachusetts should not pay for the inferior work the Chinese company has done with the T Trains!!
Nothing will get better in the US unless we fix the disastrous education system. What was once a great system has turned sour. Our beloved schools and universities do not do their jobs. Instead of education and teaching our children how to think they now want to teach them what to think. Instead of education first, the schools are now restaurants and social engineering cesspools. Actual education is so far down the list on their agenda it’s ridiculous. For example, there are universities and colleges that are making gender studies a required course. Let’s not forget the safe spaces and teddy bears that are popular these days in higher education. Keep in mind these young adults are the same age group as the men that stormed the beaches in Normandy. Then there are the teachers unions that protect ineffective and incompetent teachers all the while demanding more and more money and benefits.
Paul makes very good points in his assessments of the AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. It is very clear that a small segment of our society tries to force their agenda on all of us. Who knows what America will look like in the next decade but it is clear that necessary college courses are being dropped in favor of mandatory gender related courses which only weaken our commitment to excellence in core American values. These aberrant mandatory college courses can only weaken the fabric of excellence in our American educational system. We must revamp our educational system so that these American core values are instilled in our college age youth. DEI and other mandatory gender related issues are taking precious moments away from core values that should be mandatory for all of our college age students. What will America look like if we keep up our present involvement with mandatory gender related studies. A wedge is being driven between americans that has to be stoped otherwise america will continue its downward spiral.
Define “American core values.”
Sounds like you copied this rant off of someone else’s article.
Thank the good lord for gym teachers
The way to stop the wedge is to be tolerant of one another; to listen to and respect others’ point of view.
Respect your point of view and always will. Negotiating is my preference.listening to and respecting others point of view should be taught at all of our schools and institutions of higher learning.Compromise is the only way to solve any and all problems without any blood being spilt. Bonner, in a subsequent post you mentioned the faith you have in our fighting forces and I agree 100% with you. I fought in the Vietnam War and I saw first hand the courage of both the American soldier and north Vietnamese soldier. We lost over 58 thousand American troops and we’ll over 2 million Vietnamese soldiers. Just think if both sides compromised.. in good faith we wouldn’t have had the loss of humanity we experienced. We must learn that fighting is never the way to solve any problem. But because we deal with so many countries with so many problems we must remain vigilant at all times and absorb any monetary cost to keep our country safe for the American people. Hopefully we have learned that we must keep the peace at any cost. We should
never partake in savage unthinkable and unimaginable annihilation of human beings whether friend or foe. Let us all pray that we never have to commit our young men to the savagery of wars ever again. We must realize that compromise is the only way out. A life is not dispenseble to the american family and your family.it is sacred to both
Paris Berker, totally agree, home.
As a fellow VN vet (Danang, Tansohnnut) I could’nt agree with you more.
Tan Son Nhut
Phuket
Bonner Wannabe Shark and Bazooka welcome home and thank you for your service. God bless you all
Thanks. Where were you when I came home?
To be intolerant of gender studies etc. is to be short-sighted. They do not occur at the expense of STEM and writing courses. Who is forcing their agenda on whom? Which segment of our society is actually the smaller one?
If you want to study gender pick up a grammar book.
Not the same.
Gender IS a term of grammar. It had nothing to do with biology or any other science. It’s left wing fantasy.
Brilliant
Latin
Nothing will get better in the US until our political parties talk civilly to each other. Americas worst enemy right now is itself.
The Chinese government and their military are one and the same. If they want to get aggressive they do not need to run it buy a nutso faction of their congress for opinions. This in of itself is a huge advantage. They have a very short chain of command and will not be standing around with their thumbs up their collective asses discussing what to do. My guess is the first thing they do is knock out most of our electrical grid putting most computers and whatever relies on them out of commission. Think banks, grocery stores and gas stations. Airports will shut down creating total chaos within the country.
If you go to Youtube and check out how far advanced China’s infrastructure is over ours you will be shocked. Look at their bridges, roads, railways and damns. We are third world compared to them and it would take us 20 years to catch up IF we had the money and political cohesiveness to try it.
Check out their ability to mass produce. Check out their robotics. How many healthy in shape dedicated soldiers do you think they have on line compared to America, who has had to lower its recruitment standards several times due to so many snow flakes, overweight people and drug addicts not to mention a generation of the undisciplined and undisciplineable. And I am not knocking the many dedicated, experienced awesome soldiers we do have. I am saying they will not be enough to sustain. Don’t like to think about it.
Soldiers don’t win war, faith and causes win wars. I don’t think a fat healthy Ci-com will remain committed for long getting their asses shot out on Amercian soil, so they’ll just rob us blind instead and get us to strip in our national parks and give them the goods. That’s all they want anyway.
America only wins the wars we don’t launch, and we always go in underarmed, understaffed, and behind the eight ball. Drafts are very different than volunteering.
The only reason we have a huge military is to protect other nations and it looks to me to be a mercenary army for rent, only we don’t charge rent. As madelaine Albright said before we lent our army to the Albanian Serbs, “What’s the point of having the best milirary in the World if we don’t use it?”
*get us to strip-mine our national parks…
Though, come to think of it, they’ll get us to strip there too probably given what they are getting us to do to our kids now.
How pessimistic you are.
My word would be realist. While it may be in vogue right now to support this political party or that political party, I look at the whole picture. I try to look past the nonsense and divisive rhetoric dumped daily by pundits, some of which seem to actually be intentionally aiding our enemies.
And it makes me so sad when I think where this country could be if our political parties acted like adults and both worked for the country as a whole and not one party domination, which seems so self destructive to me.
I couldn’t agree more.
I have more confidence in this country and its fighting force than you do.
‘America’s worst enemy right now is itself.’
I couldn’t agree more.
I am not worried about China. I consider us better on all measures. Most important is the fact that we have a form of government that is flexible, allowing us to evolve in a way that reflects changes in our society.
Our government has tied itself in knots. Not sure where you see the flexibility.
Our govt is a reflection of the polity, which is remarkably divided and diverse. We have a 30% faction represented by MT Greene and Trump, a 40% faction represented by Biden et al., and 30% on the fence. Since we are a representative democracy, our govt reflects the factionalism in its difficulty moving forward.
The Democrat party is neo Marxist. You can’t compromise with any Marxist.
We have got it all over them wrt hacking tools and control over infrastructure. Don’t worry about it. Remember, it is us they stole those capabilities from. Anything they can do we can do better. Don’t believe everything you read. Read Nicole Perlroth.
The Democrat party is neo Marxist. You can’t compromise with any Marxist.
No way the Chinese are worrying everyday about how many genders they have. That nonsense was pushed on us by the far left forces in this country and others, like China on Tik-Tok, who are trying to destroy us from within. Nations from the Pacific Rim are warning students to only concentrate on American technical education, which is still excellent, and ignore all the garbage. Sadly, American students are caught up in the garbage and are more worried about wokeness, gender identity, and the removal of body parts to become the correct gender; while ignoring the important education.
It came from China.
With help from Fauci, Ecohealth, NIH, and DOD.
They are also Chinese. That’s where they park their money and their loyalties.
This is what I am talking about when I say our country is its own worst enemy. Constant bitching and bickering in our own country. China will use that big time. As a divided country we will be easy pickings. Apparently we cannot help ourselves or get out of our own way. Tucker Carlson is a Chinese agent turning Americans against each other.
SS, I’m with you 100%.
Carlson a Chinese Agent? Now you’ve really lost it!
Carlson is exposing the scam that is called “Jan. 6th Insurrection!”
Chinese agents are McConnell, Biden, Hunter, Schiff, Feinstein, Pelosi etc etc!
Watch the Jan. 6th tapes and rethink your outrageous statement!
Tucker of lying FOX Media Giant is telling you FOX FAKE news watchers a story for his trigger story program and the idiots listen and repeat.Trans is a very big problem for the fascist Florida governor ….Triggering a state is so funny but Tucker is getting it done for storytime
Right. They do love him here in FLA.
Correct. Carlson is a Russian cheerleader. His edition of the edited Jan 6 tapes support the Russian view.
You know what they do worry about? Their government trying to run their lives.
This war is between Russia/Iran/China vs. the globalists. Biden has intentionally involved us with the globalists because he is a globalist as are many on the left. The globalists see China and Russia as their major enemies standing in the way of their world domination and vice versa. This is why the next election is so important because Biden or any other far left candidate for president will continue to lead us down the road to the next world war, if it isn’t already too late.
We ignore the globalists at our own peril.
Dan is right. The smart money gets in when the market is down. The China market is definitely down. Knowing where to invest will take those who know the economic details very well.
50 on Red.
Who gives a hoot. What about those bike lanes and drag shows Rube?
Go visit your sheep. They’re lonely.
Get your head out of your McDonough
They might ought to read it.
Since a copy was recently located.
Republicans started a war in Iraq the Afghanistan. Obama and Biden ended those 15 and 20 year old wars…..Republicans fixed our public education by giving us school choice which allowed those of means to leave the urban school system.School choice is a racist law.The moron party now has Trump a very real traitor to America and a fascist from the state that is against intelligence and compassion weird Ron DiSantos
A long time ago, denkoes did not have stoobles so they went everywhere on tabblings. The streets were rempled but it took too much jawbydosh to get to pralinkot. If it rained, the children would put on their craxozob and deshel-peshel through the puddles. At night, everyone would flishlinkle and nardogunt until it was dark.
Profound.
One must be lost before one can be profound.
Jabber, I feel some kind of way.
Speech writer for Biden and Fetterman
With apologies to Alice in Wonderland.
Yup. “Now see here. It takes all the running in the world to stay in the same place.”
My Grampaw has pictures of him and his borhters doin that stuff. He gots run over by a trolley one night and it even broke his bottle of moonshine. Everbody was sad about that bottle.
I thought Afghanistan started a war with us, which we finished. They sent bombers into destroy five military/economic targets. We negotiated with the Taliban. They refused to talk so we fought back.
Barack Obama, in an early speech said that Iraq was ‘wrong’ and we should be fighting in Afghanistan. And there we fought under 8 incompetent years (bribing warlords to not shoot us, stuffing dollar bills into Karzai’s accounts, training Afghan soldiers to hide behind Americans, and the President announcing strategic decisions to the press) until Trump negotiated an end to it in his final years.
Then came Biden. As Obama said, “Do not underestimate his [Biden’s] ability to fuck things up.” The result: now Russian and Chinese engineers have the best of our tech and are busily re-engineering it and the Taliban is the lead arms dealer of American hardware, probably surpassing us.
If Biden keeps up in Ukraine, Putin is threatening nuclear war.
With weapons built with uranium purchased from, Hillary Clinton.
There will be no world war. I don’t believe the strongmen of Russia will stomach losing everything.
We’l just go broke while NATO watches us pay for the war.
It’s time for NATO to stop equivocating. They are either in this fight or they are not. No NATO country is being attacked, we might point out. But allowing Uncle Sam to pick up the tab shouldn’t be able to cut it. Of course, under Syracuse Joe, it does cut it.
I saw that on Tucker FOX PUTIN
glad you are getting some education. Personally I would say turn off the TV, get a job and attend the City Council Meetings and committee meetings. You could also volunteer at the soup kitchens or homeless shelter. Do some good in the world for a change.
Traitor Joe and the leftists are just using it as a ruse to loot the US treasury and and launder money.
The “aid” is unaccounted for. Well, Zelensky has purchased lots of new toys for himself……
We should stop supplies until they match us. It’s their stupid continent, not ours.
Every 50 years the Euro’s have a massive continental war and this starting at least with the Jacobins and Napoleon. Only since 1914 we got convinced that they should be outsourced to us.
I’m growing to STRONGLY appreciate our 19 century sages and leaders who refused to get participate in European mischief and instead focus on kicking all of them out of our continents. Today, we could add more to the list.
We should keep their British rock and TV – that’s it.
And George Washington’s advice to avoid foreign entanglements. Being an isolationist militarily is not the same as being one economically.
There has got to be four or five American families whose ancestors came from Europe. America may even have strong roots in Europe.
And look, we all came here to get away from there, and it’s still looking better here than there.
Not sure what you mean.
He means, 4/5 Americans escaped Europe to settle here. I say, having lived in Europe, that the strongest roots we have to them is food. Nothing else really applies.
You must have gone to the Hannity school of revised history. BUSH got us into Afghanistan. Trump was president for FOUR of those years. BIDEN got us OUT.
The Taliban declared war with Al Quaida in tow under Bush. Obama, in an early speech argued that gong to war in Irag was an error and further stated we need to focus on winning in Afghanistan. I was an Obama voter and I remember that speech well as I had agreed with it at the time.
Trump negotiated the end run, Biden did execute getting us out – in the worst and most catastrophic fashion.
I stand by those facts above, and your insults don’t persuade me to reconsider.
Biden did get us out. What made you think no one would get hurt on the way out. Hundreds could have been killed as they were all sitting ducks. It was a miracle that it went as well as it did.
It was a complete fiasco.
Our top brass should have reigned and left their toy WWII styled uniforms in the locker. Barring that Biden should have dismissed the lot. When we announced our departure, the Taliban had pickup trucks and light arms. We left them with armored Humvees, Apaches, fighter jets, 700,000 assault rifles (the real ones not AR15 or even crap-rattle AK47’s) and everything in between.
And yeah, we lost a bunch of soldiers too – that should not have happened given we weren’t even under fire. And we lost a lot of American civilians working there under Biden’s scrutiny and the entire lot of Afghan support staff.
What is more entertaining than watching the world’s best army scrambling for the exit leaving EVERYTHING and EVERYONE behind? Tbe only thing that could have been worse is if the US boarded the planes in their underwear or missing their shoes.
You may not spin it Biden’s way. It is unbecoming.
The women and girls of Afghinstan are very grateful to Joe. The Taliban loves those shinny new weapons too. Thanks Dementia Joe.
Also, Biden didn’t ‘get us out.’ Getting out was predetermined by Trump. Biden just ordered an emergency evacuation.
There is a difference between a tactical withdrawal and a chaotic evacuation. The real fault lies with the generals, but since they are still serving, the buck stops with Biden.
Biden is doing his best to start WWIII with the largest nuclear power in the world.
Dan
You omitted slavery and greed in Chinas many attributes.
If China were to move the majority of its military from China ( which would be required) to invade a foreign country, the native population would revolt and gain their freedom by force.
Only a small percentage of Chinese, wish to be socialist, the ones with the monopoly on violence ( guns).
The Chinese government is terrified of its own citizens.
The key is stopping the flow of western assets to china for cheap goods, and tarrifs on any forced labor products.
Pay now to America, or be cheap and pay commie China later.
Totally agree T Betit. I add, “Socialism comes in only one flavor but many wrappers.” We should print that for fortune cookies.
I disagree with your assessment. The majority of the Chinese population are poor people who follow. They just want to get by with their lives and they will not revolt. Hence the reason for their whole time the Chinese have never embraced human rights
Also, there is now a middle class in China, who have enjoyed the benefits of greater prosperity. Nations today must choose between civil liberties and security. Picture a scale from 0 to 10. Zero is extreme liberty to the point of license. 10 is clamp-down absolute dictatorship. The wholesome balance might be at 4, 5, or 6. China went from 10 during Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” in the mid 60s to (pick a number) 7 (?) under Xi along with greater personal prosperity.
You nailed it.
The planet is still censoring, be interesting when 230 is repealed.
Valenti ” voice of the little guy”?
Me thinks not, voice of the GOB!
Blocking happens after 3-4 posts done in short time. Prevents bots from chattering?
True: 3+ posts submitted all at once or one after the other (clock time) will trigger the AOR algorithms. More than that will usually send them into “file” which nearly always ends up in the trash.
Now that’s cleared up, you’ll be wanting a new algorithm….
We regularly get updates on the existing algorithms, which are sometimes replaced by new ones. It’s part of our security package. Those multiple simultaneous posts catch a flag every time. Actually, THE PLANET has been MOST generous in allowing what we do.
Maybe be less generous?
Why, what have you got to lose?
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light.
Pete White privilege
He’s running in 2024?
Right!
Someone please carry him up the steps before he breaks a hip!
Where’s the cognitive test for China Joe?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/06/watch-80-year-old-joe-biden-trips-again-on-air-force-one-steps/
Biden told Kim Jung-un “we have nukes”.
The response was “we have stairs”, followed by laughter.
“The real job is not cleaning up the mess, that Biden created. It’s cleaning up the mess, that created Biden”
Very true. Afterall, he had only 10% polling during his primary. So no, he didn’t create Biden.
Your tax dollars at work….
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-vast-expanse-us-military-hardware-positioned-polish-port
If Horace Greeley were to stand at the edge of his namesake town, he would be horrified at the stench eminating from the massive JBS meatpacking stockyard facility that now dominates that cities eastern flank. He would say ‘go west’, as he would not fear a China that can’t find it’s way out of a Uighur work camp.
The Uighurs, in the eastern part of the country, have tried to bring Islam into the mix. Why would China stand down and allow that? They wouldn’t, and they haven’t. It’s part of the security of their form of authoritarianism. When will the U.S. realize that? Even under the emperors, China was that way. And had Chang Kai Check won over Mao, he would have done that also.
“When will the U.S. realize that?”
We know that.
If any of you are fed up with Rush’s talk radio heirs Clay & Buck, I recommend Jimmy Failla on Fox Across America M-F 12-3 pm live feed online.
Off topic, but which one of our elected officials has a relative who was pulled over in a drug stop 2 weeks ago and not even issued a traffic citation?
Their car is on camera all over this town showing them to be the driver in an ongoing criminal enterprise, and the same relative abandoned a disabled senior citizen miles from home over the weekend, when that senior thought they were paying for a legitimate ride to deliver engine formula to a family in need.
Luckily, in the senior citizen was smart enough not to be carrying cash, and the driver had agreed to accept payment for the ride at the gas pump, via debit card,when they returned to town.
Good thing or from what I understand we would be reading posts together missing disabled senior right now.
I share this out of frustration and anger but this also illustrates the bigger picture in which folks on fixed income have no choice which are remain here amid the violence and corruption.
Infant, not engine
I don’t understand the story about the senior citizen.
Close relative of one of our elected officials abandoned a senior citizen several miles out of town after they hired this close relative to give them a ride there and back.
The same close relative of an elected official here in Pittsfield is also the driver in a traffic stop that ended with two arrests, and heroin being recovered, but the connected driver wasn’t even given a traffic citation or asked for license and registration.
Same driver is on camera all over town transporting people known to PPD as drugs providers to the locals, and should probably be charged as an accessory but isn’t being so. why
Why?
FOX
Who is this person? What are the details? Is you wish, send it to me privately at danvalenti@verizon.net.
The abandoned piece please, explain what you meant by abandoned?
Informant.
My guess too. Otherwise known as ‘detective on discount’
Who is the elected official?
If the globalists get their way the future looks pretty bleak…
https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/heaven-on-earth-workers-paradise?r=1cssgp&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
City man accused of West Street shooting in Pittsfield last March found not guilty | Crime | berkshireeagle.com
Another not Guilty?
Remember, these cases were put together by the former DA, who made the decision on whether the evidence collected warranted charges and/or a trial. It’s like taking a test based on another students notes, who was flunking the class.
And maybe lost on purpose?
Or, a required finding based upon impeachment of some sort.
An apt analogy, TWO.
The following councilors must go. Kavey,persip,white Conant and quiel. Quiel has the least amount of nervous tissue of this bunch followed closely by Conant and persip.White and kavey are losers but in comparison to the other three they appear as marginal buffoons and not worthy of a vote except to be voted out of office.Ward 6 drew the booby prize when they chose quiel a medical marvel in her own right, who was born with a pumpkin seed in her brain cavity rather than a brain. She has been a disgrace to all city residents but especially to ward 6 voters. . In conclusion any body who runs against quiel deserves to be seated as ward 6 councilor. The other four deserve to be booted also. Let’s cleanse the council seats and make room for new people who are qualified and are willing to do the job. We were hood winked by these 5. Good bye and good riddance to bad councilors
Well said.
Jan. 6th Committee Members LIED – tapes expose the truth on Tucker Carlson’s Show. More on tomorrow night. A must-watch! McConnell, Schiff & others should be prosecuted!
The eagle online has a story about two missing juveniles but they won’t let you read the story unless you pay for it….are you serious?
Gee, I watched 40,000 hours of video from 9-11-2001. People just milling around, minding their own business. Then Bam, terrorists crash two planes into the WTC. What’s your point Rube?
You’re not even on the right subject.
Talking about Jan. 6.
Confused and dazed?
Good thing for you Hoople they didn’t fly into the sheep barn in da no common sense.
One can cut and paste and cherry pick and edit in or out to make any thing you want. There are people who could edit a Tom and Jerry cartoon and turn it into the Wonderful Wizard of OZ.
Tucker Carlson is a master of the bob and weave, alternative facts, side stepping and spinning yarn into dog shit. He is a highly compensated Russian operative and only idiots believe anything he says.
Thank you fizzlehead. TC is definitely talented, but his job is to sell MyPillow 2.0 and keep ratings up for Rupert Murdoch. He knows the real truth, but says what he says to keep ratings up.
Democrats are phonies and liars.
Exhibit A, Fizz & Bonner.
So I’m a phony and a liar, am I?
Yup
You should be ashamed of yourself for repeating democrat/Marxist lies.
Carlson is a performer, an entertainer, paid for keeping the ratings high.
Have You seen the newly released J6 footage? Pretty damming for the J6 committee, and the kangaroo courts/AGs trying the prisoners held in the DC Gulag for 2 years.
It may be a fix, as Fox ratings are going to skyrocket with what’s being released.
Why did McCarthy give the videos to Tucker/Fox? Something else going on here?
Haven’t seen the footage, but it doesn’t surprise me. The “riot” was an inside job all the way, in the manner of the COVID junk.
To clarify Dan. You think Jan 6th was a hoax perpetrated by democrats? Nobody was trying to deny an election? Just want to make sure where you stand on this for your followers.
MT is EXHIBIT A as an idiot that believes Tucker Carlson. I mean good God man he is a clown show even an abandoned child would recognize as such.
I believe what I see with my own eyes.
You are too much of a leftist tool, to even watch the tapes, that show what really happened J6.
There was no inssurection. The leftists have promoted a false narrative for over two years now aided by the corrupted MSM.
Danny nails it.
Maybe all the talking heads on opinion shows should have Pete White’s personality?
Be that as it may. If you have proof he’s wrong please show us.
Most informative show on TV.
You left out traitor.
That’s th3 big guy
The truth will set you free if you accept it
Time to get some glasses, if you can’t believe your own eyes.
Cut and paste- – Raskin was caught red-handed photshopping ‘evidence’ in his slander and false prosecution.
As for so called 1/6 (not to be confused by the real 9/11) If Jan 6 was as insurrection, then we really suck at insurrections.
The U.S. Government and Wall Street both profit off of war. The U.S. Government’s number one non-farm export is arms sales. The U.S. Government has fought – either directly or via proxy – in endless wars since the end of WW2. Many millions of innocent people and Peoples throughout the world have tragically died at the hands of the U.S. military industrial complex since the end of WW2 (to make Wall Street trillions of dollars – BLOOD MONEY!).
America has been in decline since we put a man on the moon. Pittsfield has been in decline since about 1980. Is there a decent would be president that can be elected? A decent mayor? Biden and Tyer have been horrendous.
So hasn’t Pittsfield. Imagine a rate payer produced Cable PCTV controlling political patronage with all of their shows in one big cabal? What good are committees if it’s one sided? For political agenda or interest. For instance,the lanesboro police station had proponents to build a new multi million dollar police station for that hicktown? When I have anti-police station on the show? That’s just one example. another might be the bike lanes shot down for a vote and you can better be sure you only have a proponents on a pctv v show. Something ain’t jiving here.
New hat in the city council ring. Bio may suggest embedded with special interests.
WHO?
Alisa Costa for Ward 3, DIE advocate and community organizer.
Poor Ward 3! May a challenger rise up and defeat her.
She’s a far left lunatic in the mold of Dina and Squeaky. She said she doesn’t volunteer because that’s for rich white woman. She’s a woke joke.
Look out ward 3 she’s serious and she got the early start. She’ll probably run unopposed too because she’s the special interest candidate and that means $$$
I think her ( Costa) bio running in ward 3 is definitely a special interest. Promoting DIE etc.. says all I need to know.
watch the campaign finance reports for out of town money
https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/07/dont-believe-beijings-peace-plan-as-it-builds-up-its-military/
Are all the J6 “insurrection theorists” eating crow today?
TSC, you out there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7UlskMrr68&t=35s
The conspiracy theorists won’t even believe what we all see with our own eyes.
The police can be seen escorting one of the so-called rioters into the Senate Chamber. This was the guy with the huge hairpiece. He has been in prison for 2 years and his lawyer was only recently able to get him out of solitary confinement. He has 2 more years left. This video of him and the police escort has been hidden by these government prosecutors and not allowed as evidence in his defense. Are we in America or Russia?
Courtesy of Tucker Carlson’s editors.
The problem was Schiff’s and rino Lynn Cheney’s editors but it all exposed now. Drain The Swamp.
12 gauge, I challenge you to watch both sides and then give your opinion.
I would ask the same of you. Clear cut fraud by the Jan. 6 committee.
I watch both.
Big time CC
The fake news media was the only version until the release of the recent footage. I saw all the 1/6 crap and you know my opinion.
Same footage…edited with much of it cut out.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Please tell us what you saw?
Ok. I watched TC last night and tonight. Tucker and his writers and editors are extremely skillful. To give an example, Carlson used a 1/7 clip of one of the cops who later died as a result of his injuries to claim that he wasn’t dead at the time of filming (true), implying that the MSM and the committee had claimed he had died at that point (false), and calling the committee and the MSM ‘liars’ as a result.
The entire one-hour TC show had running clips of 1/7, completely consisting of clips where there was no violence.
I could give you several more examples of this sort. Carlson knows exactly what he is doing. It is easy to see if you examine his words and footage very carefully.
The cop didn’t have injuries from any protestors.
He died of natural causes and an autopsy showed that.
He was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher.
Total lie. No evidence of this. He died of natural causes. The democrats and their media lied to you and you believed it.
So if there was video of the 9-11 hijackers prior to storming the cockpits, I’m sure it would show some peaceful tourists politely sitting in their seats eating cocktail peanuts and drinking soda.
McDonough you are clueless. Go back to robbing clients. Say hi to Sherwood.
Off topic,
A Lenox Man accused of sending lewd photographs and videos of himself displaying his genitalia to what he believed to be a minor child, and attempting to pressure the minor child into sending him photos of herself has been released has, with conditions, despite the fact that he faces 10 years in prison, 3 years supervised release and a fine up to $250,000, if convicted, of alleged child exploitation.
And this from the officer of DA Timmy “Kid’s Place” Shugrue; in the interest of ‘Better, Safer’
Man Sentenced for Assaulting Child, Must Register with Sex Offender Registry.
This tawdry tale of Indecent Assault and Battery involves multiple child victims, one child as young as 7. On the first count of Indecent Assault and Battery of a child, the defendant was sentenced to 5 years’ probation, with conditions. On the second count the defendant may or may not actually serve 18-months in the house of correction.
Authorities believe Mexican drug cartel allegedly mistook the four Americans, on an alleged leisure trip, to Mexico, for an alleged tourism tummy tuck, for Haitian drug smugglers. Judging by the pictures of the American tummy tuck tourists, the Mexican Drug Cartel may have a plausible excuse for mistaking the American tummy tuck tourists for Haitian drug smugglers, or drug smugglers from Pittsfield. One of the alleged Haitian looking drug smugglers looks a lot like a Crack Dealer, Registered Sex Offender, Murder Suspect in the city of Pittsfield, MA. The really look like they could be brothers from different mothers.
I suspect that those who are critical of Tucker Carlson have never watched his show. They most likely see out of context clips on cnn, msnbc or the View.
I guess Dan isn’t going to post my response to 12-gauge’s request ‘Please tell us what you saw?’
Ok, he posted it above.
No, I watch TC very carefully. I like to see how he uses words, footage and guest interviews to produce his chosen narrative.
Tucker Carlson brings up some good things but he is always late to the party. I saw the video footage two years ago of the cops letting the protesters in. I knew two years ago the “vaccines” had safety issues. Dr. Shiva’s lawsuit showed two years ago that election fraud is very real. I have no use for mainstream media in any form. They are paid to push a narrative, facts don’t matter.