Seeing whats in front of your nose demands a constant struggle.George Orwell

Im in Munich, my favorite European city, if I throw out Venice. Is Venice actually a city? At one time it was the center of a vast Mediterranean empire. It strikes me as more of a sprawling, open-air museum frozen in time. I just left there. It was, as always, wonderful.

There is a serious problem with Munich. It is under constant construction and reorganization. The inner city was bombed to smithereens in the Second World War and had to be rebuilt from scratch. That project continues through force of habit.

Another annoyance: I invariably begin the day by digesting my two least favorite establishment media outletsthe Financial Times and the NY Timeswhile having breakfast. The hotel provides them free of charge. What can one do?

I owe it to myself to keep up-to-date with Washingtons Big Cons which run simultaneously and nonstop, e.g., Ukraine, China, Russia, Iran, Israel, etc. The FT print edition is available in Munich. I love print. At home, Im stuck with the internet.

Simply put, the Big Cons are the trumpeted false narratives that (a) Russias invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked, (b) China wants to invade Taiwan and threatens the peace of the world, (c) Russia is an enduring enemy of the West, (d) Iran is building an atomic bomb to nuke Israel and must be stopped, (e) Israel is an innocent, peace-loving ally of America worthy of unlimited support.

Plus all the rigorous, irrational corollaries supporting these narratives.

A recent FT column by Gideon Rachman caught my eye in the breakfast room and caused heartburn. It seems that Europe has fallen behind America in many important ways. Who knew? Rachman appears to be stunned. This surprising trend apparently commenced in 2008, the year of the global financial crisis. Why?

Rachman proclaims, The aggregate figures are shocking. He is right. As a result, Europes chances of strategic autonomy from Washington have vaporized. It is a dependency, if not exactly a nonentity.

The trend to nullity was accelerated before our eyes thanks to this insane war in Ukraine. Although instigated in Washington by our neocon and neoliberal masterminds, the war has been enthusiastically embraced by Europes lazy, subservient leaders. Even neutral Switzerland was caught up in Ukraine hysteria.

Most importantly, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, holding hands with his green party partner, Foreign Minister Anna Baerbock, has shot Germany in both feet, if not in the head. At the behest of Washington, these two have decoupled Germany from inexpensive, easily-accessed Russian energy next door.

In the NY Times and the FT, this is called sanctioning Russia, but it is something more.

It is madness. The real loser, th......

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by Kelly John Walker

Take down the CCP! These four words are sending shock waves across the world as the feisty, brilliant, and superbly organized New Federal State of China goes into its fourth year.

Lawmakers, patriots, pundits and a plethora of powerful people converged on the magnificent Darlington Estate in New Jersey to celebrate freedom and the decline of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Fiery speeches and energetic activist anti-CCP music blasted out messages that should make autocrat Xi Jinping tremble. America is waking up, in large part thanks to the efforts of NFSC and their allies, and America will fight back!

Over the last three years, the NFSC has quickly developed to be a global movement with 24 chapters across 13 countries.

David Xia, Chairman of Rule of Law Society (a 501c4) and Secretary General of NFSC led the speaking portion of the event, saying:

The New Federal State of China will end the CCPs tyranny and its slavery of the 1.4 billion people, as well as its erosion of the free world. NFSC seeks to establish a society based on one person, one vote, governed by the Rule of Law, and the principles of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Over the last three years, the NFSC has quickly developed to be a global movement with 24 chapters across 13 countries, followed by more than 600 million people, NFSC attracts not only the Chinese people, but also people of other ethnic groups worldwide, especially here in the United States of America.

Miles Guo has changed the direction of the world because hes identified [the CCP] as a trans-national criminal organization. -Steve K. Bannon

Steve K. Bannon followed:

The elite in China of the CCP are partnered with elites throughout the world; they have an economic system that works for thembuilt on the slave labor of the Chinese peoplethis entire world economy rests on slave labor.

Bannon pointed out that the George Bush administration saved the CCP by protecting their business interests based on their lies. In 1949, wethe administration of this countryessentially backed the communists

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