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Tom Bouklas's avatar

Wow! If you take a step back and look at the VOLUMES of information packed in just this one article you realize the amount time necessary to research, organize, and present this material in one article. Well done as usual.

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Helena Glass's avatar

Thank you - I appreciate your appreciation

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bbb's avatar

“Door Dash is now offering to finance groceries.”

We don’t make good food anymore; we make good bombs. We can afford the bombs, but you have to buy the food on credit.

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Robert Welch's avatar

Mostly true.

But, we can't afford the bombs either - look at the national debt.

We're running on fake money that's borrowed.

We're like the animal that's been shot in the heart but is still running at full speed, on adrenaline. What was that movie called ? Oh yea, Dead Man Walking. LOL.

And some say miracles don't exist...........

One could say that making America great again would be a miracle. But, was it ever great?

Maybe when we helped win WWII. But, our being in that war was a trick that caused kids to line up in recruiting lines. A trick called Pearl Harbor. A trick carried out by FDR via doing 17 things to cause Japan to be forced to attack. Cutting off oil and steel to Japan was part of it and moving the Pacific naval base from San Diego to Hawaii was major. The commanding officer resigned in protest when that was done because being in Hawaii made the base in-defensible. But, get this, early Sunday morning, 6ish, a guy on a medical ship, had a camera set-up and caught a shot of the USS Arizona being blown up. Life magazine printed it on it's cover, in color. But, back then, color producing cameras were very rare. Coincidence ???? Right. American soldiers were great, in spite of being fooled into fighting a war Americans didn't want to be involved in, until Pearl Harbor. ( After all, Europeans have always been at war historically -ie. the 100 year war, for example. LOL. Why bother risking one's neck over there? )

We're making mostly good, wholesome food, but it's tricky and work. And, the word games are gonna get ya. ( free range -doesn't mean much if the range is the floor of a barn with thousands of other animals milling around. Pastured doesn't mean much if the pasture is a mud field that's had nothing growing on it for years. Natural means nothing. and so forth and so on.....)

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Helena Glass's avatar

Cynical point - but unfortunately true - America was never great - that has always been the illusion for Power. The countries we do not incite violence in - would be the ‘short list’.

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Robert Welch's avatar

Absolutely - a 'short list'

America is a perfect example, especially recently - last 70 years or so - of a reality projected onto others. Because We are based in fear and have had this habit of destroying or harming other countries over claims that they are " the enemy " or they " want to take over, expand their borders, their philosophy ". But, wait, that is a description of what we do. LOL. Because this is our mindset, our reality/belief - make the world safe for Democracy, to sum it up - by whatever means necessary, we project or assume that is what other powers want also. ( Just because I'm paranoic doesn't mean they aren't after me, maybe. )

And, it could be argued that these other countries - China, Russia, X, Y or Z are, but as a result of a lot of provocation.

But, on a deeper level, maybe countries are being played as part of a larger game of King of the Sandbox. We could be doing so much of worth if we'd just stop acting like spoilt, little kids who have no control - " Here, Johnny, sit down and drink this coke a cola and stop tearing up the place. " LOL.

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