Commit to a Real Future, Not the Disaster of a Dying Empire by Jason Ross

Bassoe

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Article at the LaRouche Organization
July 12—The first science images produced by the James Webb Space Telescope shine light on the universe’s past, and illuminate mankind’s future. The images themselves point to new discoveries to be made, and to a new capability for posing questions. The tenacity, curiosity, and drive of those who brought the project to its completion reflect a truly human mode of collaboration — of relating to others in terms of jointly achieving a mission of discovery and exploration, of social organization for the purpose of advancing humanity’s universal knowledge.

Such a breakthrough — led by the United States, a country which is otherwise being used to such destructive effect globally — is a piece of good news that will come to be the rule, rather than the exception, when the geopolitical logic of war, subjugation, and social strife is replaced, globally, with a new paradigm of political, economic, and social relations among people and nations. This change is urgently needed!

While NATO leadership continues to express its commitment to military practices designed to impose a heavy cost on Russia (while actually imposing a heavier cost on Europe, and the world as a whole), while pushing, at the same time, to counter or hinder China’s rise, most of the world is no longer under its spell.

The teetering finances and economies of NATO-land reveal an attempted unipolar bloc that has no carrots, and only a decreasing supply of (extremely expensive) sticks. Outside of NATO, the Five Eyes, and such close allies as Japan, there is essentially no support for destroying the world in order to send a “message” to Russia. And it is impossible not to see the enormous, blatant hypocrisy practiced by those who denounce Russian aggression while supporting Saudi Arabia’s war against Yemen, the theft of Afghanistan’s financial reserves, and the use of “green” excuses to carry out continued colonial anti-development policies.

The absurdity of the world’s present condition is seen as a vignette in a ludicrous public service announcement by New York City, which explains, over the course of a minute and a half, what to do in the event of a nuclear attack with the same matter-of-fact breezy tone of voice as you’d expect in a video about taking several deep breaths to deal with stress, or a guide to registering for a library card.

What is required is a commitment to prevent nuclear war, by replacing the paradigm that could bring it about, with a vision of the future that places our destiny in the heavens.
It excellently makes the point that, since our countries no longer produce anything but hyperinflating fiat currency, if our leadership forces the rest of the world into a choice between being isolated from our economic system or from the economic systems of rivals who actually produce actually valuable commodities, it won't go in our favor and that rather than rebuilding our industries to fix this, our leadership is doubling down on quite plausibly apocalyptic military solutions.
 

Scottty

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Let me question the "our countries no longer produce anything" premise... yes, too much of the leadership in the West confuses the funny-money FIRE economy with the real economy, but there are still farms, mines, factories etc.
 

Simonbob

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Let me question the "our countries no longer produce anything" premise... yes, too much of the leadership in the West confuses the funny-money FIRE economy with the real economy, but there are still farms, mines, factories etc.
Can you get a US made keyboard? (Yes, but only an expensive mechanical one.) A US made phone? How many of the high tech weapons the US armed services use are made in the US? Or, even close allies? How about cars? There's still a few, but, compared with 50 years ago?


I'm looking at Australia, and we're much, much worse off, but the US isn't nearly where it used to be.
 

Cherico

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Can you get a US made keyboard? (Yes, but only an expensive mechanical one.) A US made phone? How many of the high tech weapons the US armed services use are made in the US? Or, even close allies? How about cars? There's still a few, but, compared with 50 years ago?


I'm looking at Australia, and we're much, much worse off, but the US isn't nearly where it used to be.

America is actually in the process of fixing that, there is a mass reindustrialization happening here it will take years to finish but it is in progress.
 

Simonbob

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America is actually in the process of fixing that, there is a mass reindustrialization happening here it will take years to finish but it is in progress.
Didn't Biden and crew cripple that? Trump let it start, but continuing with Biden, is it still happening?
 

Simonbob

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Bidens trying to fuck it up and failing.

Quite simply put China is having a complete meltdown and cant be trusted so a lot of manufactering is coming home because of that. Granted most of its moving into red states but its coming back.
Well, I hope it works.

Good luck, because it'll have to carry useless places like San Fan, New York, and Australia.
 

Scottty

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Bidens trying to fuck it up and failing.

Quite simply put China is having a complete meltdown and cant be trusted so a lot of manufactering is coming home because of that. Granted most of its moving into red states but its coming back.

Good to read that the people who want to give everything away to China are no longer in power, even when they're officially in office.
But China is not the only cheap-manufacturing country that the "Muh Profits, Hoo-man! Greed is eternal!" types can outsource to.
 

Marduk

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Can you get a US made keyboard? (Yes, but only an expensive mechanical one.) A US made phone?
Yes, cheap consumer product production was heavily shifted to the third world.
If you think cheap consumer products = "everything", well, that's your problem ironically.
How many of the high tech weapons the US armed services use are made in the US? Or, even close allies? How about cars? There's still a few, but, compared with 50 years ago?
All of them are forced to by law, and need waivers from that law if they want to use any, even cheap and minor parts from China.
How about cars?
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