{"id":714535,"date":"2022-06-23T17:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T17:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=130858"},"modified":"2022-06-23T17:45:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T17:45:44","slug":"out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/23\/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Out with the Old, In with the New"},"content":{"rendered":"
The shifting baseline syndrome requires today\u2019s people disavowing things written 10 years ago, even five years ago, but those books, articles, whitepapers and radio broadcasts are actually ahead of their time . . .<\/em><\/p>\n And what is that expiration date for good, sound, righteous news and writing and broadcasting?<\/p>\n I see more and more young people, and older ones, relying on up-to-the-minute news and up-to-the-minute authors to set the stage of their own personal collapse. Who do you need to hear, watch and rarely debate to help frame collapse?<\/p>\n Analysis paralysis, climate change fatigue, and, alas, the insanity of echo chambers and the constant high pitched whine of the mainstream news, the mainstream thinkers and all the handlers of us, including the gatekeepers, those are today\u2019s diseases, much more than mental malaise.<\/p>\n This is the groundhog day show, when people today think they are in the know because of some piece of ProPublica, investigative new or news feature, because of another hundredth documentary consumed in a year, and all the noise coming from these script readers and yellers and scammers we call the mainstream media.<\/p>\n For instance, how do we feed out kids, get our roads fixed, live healthy, and pull down the system, end the system, with stories like this?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who\u2019s Gaming the Tax System<\/a><\/p>\n Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He\u2019s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers.<\/p>\n by Justin Elliott, Jesse Eisinger, Paul Kiel, Jeff Ernsthausen and Doris Burke<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n There is no difference between Tucker or Rachel. They are in it for the money, the accumulation of power, and the attention. Narcissim, and neglecting context and history and mutliple points of view, definitely defining characteristics of this day and age.<\/p>\n And so many wagons are circling, so many lobbies running the America citizen into the ground. So much is broken and wrong about the way the USA operates, that we are at the point of living in a world of thirty five adult, full-grown clowns coming out of the VW Bug or compact car.<\/p>\n I have these conversations daily about how much the average person has abandoned sanity or any faith or confidence in systems meant for The People, meant as entitlements for WE The People. That the pigs of commerce are gouging Americans on every leveL, that the housing crisis is more crises, that all those bombs and bullets and balistics are shipping to the Zionist Zelensky, that all of that is happening, but, oh, my, what to do about it?<\/p>\n We have insane people in positions of power, positions of middling influence, and then, of course, policy makers are in the pockets of the millionaires and billionaires, and then, we are at a point where, say, the community where I reside, Waldport and Newport, the dam holding our water source is crumbling and any action on it has to wait until the lottery numbers come in. Casino capitalism. Money for infrastructure gained through gaming the system, through gambling addiction.<\/p>\n Newport City Council approved $600,000 from federal relief funds for design tasks to replace the Big Creek dams, keeping the project moving while the city awaits state lottery bond funds and hopes for a much larger contribution from the federal government.<\/p>\n Last year, the Oregon Legislature approved a budget with $14 million appropriated for design and replacement of the earthen Big Creek dams, which are vulnerable to failure from relatively minor seismic event and showing signs of internal seepage. Those funds would bring the city through the design process and might contribute some to initial construction. (Source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The incredible darkness of their lies, all of them, until here we are, stuck in a loop with Pig Trump and Pig Biden and all the Pigs of Politics.<\/p>\n How much money is funneled into the so-called Pentagon?<\/p>\n Really, how dependent is this country, USA, on the military machines? Military is everything \u2014 logistics, air, water, land, space, burgers\u00a0 and buttons, and trillions of dollars spent to prop up the welfare queens and kings of profiteering. War mercenaries, and profit players.<\/p>\n And what is this new green economy? What is this divestment from hydrocarbons? Americans and many in the Woke UK and EU, they live in a make-believe world, fully Disneyfied. Absolutely stupid greenies in terms of how things are made \u2014 think steel and aluminum and concrete and, well, embedded energy and life-cycles of products all embedded in oil!<\/p>\n Oh the headlines:<\/p>\n Tryzub: The National Revolution Fantasized by Ukranian Nationalists<\/p>\n \u2018Ukraine Fatigue\u2019 Intensifies as Sanctions Boomerang Ravages Western Economies<\/p>\n\n