Over the past three months ... I've discouraged any of my family and friends from even going near the US ... even to get transit flights
Want to fly to Asia? ... get a direct flight, pay extra, don't land in the US on your way there or back
Want to go to Europe? ... get a direct flight, pay extra, don't even think of landing in the US
Want to go to the US? ... forget it! ... go to Asia or Europe instead!
I'm in Canada in Ontario and my cousins are in France right now enjoying a month long holiday there. They had originally planned to take cheaper flights connecting through New York from Toronto. I spent about a month hounding them to get them to rebook and avoid landing in New York. As the headlines got worse and worse in the US, they finally agreed and paid a bit extra and flew direct from Montreal instead. Even their return flight was originally supposed to be through New York but they changed that too to fly direct back to Canada.
That was the secret of the Nazi war machine .... they had German u-boats in the Atlantic ... and manned icebergs! ready to do damage to unsuspecting ships
I think we can safely agree that the American government and American system is whatever the wealthy owners and corporate overseers want to do with it.
I'm convinced that the phrase 'counting the dead' doesn't mean anything to Americans anymore ... it won't mean anything to them until they start seeing piles of body bags or mounds of human bodies in the streets before they think that things are going bad.
If this is the analogy of a frog boiling in water .... America's frog eyes are starting to grow grey as their skin starts to harder in the extremely hot water
All throughout most modern history ... if you set up an economic system where you allow humans to gain unbelievable amounts of wealth and ask them or wait for them to share it, they never do and instead use that wealth to gain even more sums of wealth in a never ending cycle. I know plenty of wealthy people and they do share their wealth, just not in the sums you want to imagine - they share a few hundreds or thousands here and there but never enough to create meaningful change and never in the amounts to affect the growth of their wealth.
I know plenty of millionaires ... people who own property, vehicles and wealth that all amount to one or two million ... and they are still just getting by. They aren't that terribly wealthy - they don't live with any more luxury than most people, they just have more things.
Billionaires on the other hand are something else ... it's like comparing someone with a weight problem and calling millionaires slightly pudgy and billionaires are grossly overweight behemoths that can affect the structure of your house.
Here's a visual comparison using grains of rice of what a millionaire and billionaire and the wealth of someone like Jeff Bezos is
Millionaires with a few million dollars aren't the problem
The biggest problems are the handful of billionaires and the billionaires that are not Canadian but have a strangle hold on companies or corporations that affect Canada.
If the government could just tax the ever loving shit out of billionaires, they'd remove the single root cause of a lot of problems in the country and actually allow some sort of competition in all industries. This would allow the economy to spread the wealth to more Canadians than to a bunch of non-aligned billionaires who could care less what country they are attached to because their wealth is so great, they are basically their own country at this point.
Millionaires aren't the problem .... Billionaires are
No need for a tracker, predictions or allusions .... we're going to have proof soon when the country gets hit with a major hurricane, tornado or extreme weather storm.
I'll take a guess that it will take about three or four major events before everyone will say or do anything about it ... but even then, their corporate media will play it all down while the country continues to break down.
Yes there were ... we just didn't call them billionaires ... we called them Kings, Queens, Supreme Rulers, Emperors, God Kings
The world looks exactly the same now as it did 2,000 years ago politically because the idea of supreme and infinite wealth never went away. We've always had men who believed they could rule or own the entire world ... and we still do.
I always say and think about all this from the perspective of billionaires .... all they ever care about is money and the free flow of money everywhere. As long as money is moving and people believe in it, praise it and worship it, everything else can be tolerated and controlled.
The internet and free flowing communication allows for money to flow a lot .... without it money would quickly become segmented into tight regions and countries and everything becomes closed .... which makes it harder for money to flow, which makes it harder for a billionaire to make more money.
Same with World War or even nuclear war ... I don't think it will ever happen on purpose because once that first bomb goes off, billionaires will cease to be billionaires as the world financial system collapses. The billionaires won't care how many millions die, they'll be more upset that their imaginary digitally managed wealth will either decrease a lot or even completely. They know that in a post apocalyptic world, no one will care if you claim to be a billionaire if banks no longer exist. You might say that billionaires will have gold stashes around to fund their own personal army .... but that won't work either because their army will just kill them to take the wealth.
All of it is possible because of human greed .... all of it is under threat because of human greed .... and all of it is held in balance because of human greed.
Why bother? Just hire some guys pay them whatever money you can raise and get the hired hands to hunt down the bounty hunters. They put on masks call themselves ICE and Bob's your uncle. It's the wild west again ... just do whatever you want with a mask on and a gun. Everyone is doing it and it's the only way to get things done because the government isn't involved in anything anymore.
Over the past three months ... I've discouraged any of my family and friends from even going near the US ... even to get transit flights
Want to fly to Asia? ... get a direct flight, pay extra, don't land in the US on your way there or back
Want to go to Europe? ... get a direct flight, pay extra, don't even think of landing in the US
Want to go to the US? ... forget it! ... go to Asia or Europe instead!
I'm in Canada in Ontario and my cousins are in France right now enjoying a month long holiday there. They had originally planned to take cheaper flights connecting through New York from Toronto. I spent about a month hounding them to get them to rebook and avoid landing in New York. As the headlines got worse and worse in the US, they finally agreed and paid a bit extra and flew direct from Montreal instead. Even their return flight was originally supposed to be through New York but they changed that too to fly direct back to Canada.