{"id":190976,"date":"2019-07-03T05:43:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T05:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190976"},"modified":"2019-07-06T05:15:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T05:15:55","slug":"unhappy-thoughts-for-the-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190976","title":{"rendered":"Unhappy Thoughts For the Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org July 2, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_48310\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/America-the-worlds-newest-dictatorship.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48310\" class=\"wp-image-48310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/America-the-worlds-newest-dictatorship.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/America-the-worlds-newest-dictatorship.jpg 568w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/America-the-worlds-newest-dictatorship-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dees: America the worlds newest dictatorship. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The human race, being a collection of stupids, continues to make decisions that imperil itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">For example, a simple mistake in a warning system about incoming ICBMs can end all life on earth.\u00a0 The supersmart idiots who invented nuclear weapons did not think about the possible unintended consequences of their handiwork.\u00a0 They wanted to defeat the Nazis, and that was the limit of their imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If you don\u2019t like that example, consider this one.\u00a0 The digital revolution has made us dependent on communications and control systems, such as those that operate power systems, that can be fried by superflares, which the sun on which we depend has every 2 or 3 thousand years, and shut down by hackers.\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.airspacemag.com\/daily-planet\/yet-another-looming-disaster-180972494\/?spMailingID=40059465&amp;spUserID=NzQwNDU0NzQ5NDMS1&amp;spJobID=1542273286&amp;spReportId=MTU0MjI3MzI4NgS2\">https:\/\/www.airspacemag.com\/daily-planet\/yet-another-looming-disaster-180972494\/?spMailingID=40059465&amp;spUserID=NzQwNDU0NzQ5NDMS1&amp;spJobID=1542273286&amp;spReportId=MTU0MjI3MzI4NgS2<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">As I understand it, the same thing can happen from a nuclear blast in the atmosphere.\u00a0 When power systems go down, nuclear reactors can overheat and produce Fukushima meltdowns.\u00a0 Try to image the consequences of a large number of such meltdowns.\u00a0 Yet, we have adopted a technology that subjects us to these kind of risks as well as to an Orwellian police state existence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Why?\u00a0 Because the human race is mindless.\u00a0 Unlike highly intelligent non-human animals who are capable of rational decisions, humans can\u2019t see beyond the end of their noses. The smell of money is what they respond to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And there are health risks of technology, such as those associated with the rollout of 5G.\u00a0 See for example:\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2019\/06\/29\/5g-the-stupidest-idea-in-the-history-of-the-world\/\">https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2019\/06\/29\/5g-the-stupidest-idea-in-the-history-of-the-world\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Nevertheless, 5G is rolling out as it serves material interests, that is, corporate profits.\u00a0 The external costs of these profits, if the many dissenting scientists and medical professionals are correct, will greatly exceed in medical bills, infertility, anguish, shortened life spans, and so forth, the totality of profits from 5G. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But don\u2019t think your government, or the 5G corporations care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Americans take their soma in the form of brainwashing and have become brainwashed sheep.\u00a0 As far as I can tell, they will remain brainwashed sheep until they are beat into non-existence.\u00a0Are brainwashed people capable of rebellion?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">No one on the coming 4th of July will call for an uprising against our easily identified oppressors.\u00a0 The reason is that everyone allowed to speak publicly is in the pay of our oppressors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Americans are so firmly locked into The Matrix that it is problematic that they can be rescued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">When the world faces \u201cthe Great American Democracy,\u201d the world faces a brainwashed public in the grip of material interests who are backed up by nuclear weapons, controls over the use of which have been consistently removed since the Clinton regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On the Fourth of July brainwashed Americans will wave the flag and chant: USA, USA, USA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2019\/07\/02\/unhappy-thoughts-for-the-fourth-of-july\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the world faces \u201cthe Great American Democracy,\u201d it faces a brainwashed public in the grip of material interests who are backed up by nuclear weapons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190978,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190976\/revisions\/190978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}