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For the New Year, Congress should resolve to end the stranglehold of the military-industrial complex by reining in out-of-control military spending.

In the closing days of 2023, the Biden Administration once again announced a large military aid package for Ukraine, this time a “mere” quarter of a billion dollars. Without a new authorization of funds from Congress, it is said to be the last bit of money left over from the more than $100 billion already authorized by Congress for the proxy war with Russia through Ukraine.

President Biden’s request for an additional $100 billion to spread around Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan was rejected by a Congress eager for its winter break, and with each passing day it looks like it’s going to be harder to push it through. Poll after poll show that Americans are increasingly opposed to more of their money being spent on the neocon’s lost-cause war to overthrow Putin in Russia.

For example, a recent Fox News poll revealed that more than 60 percent of Republican voters do not want any more money sent to Ukraine. As we enter an election year, it’s probably safe to predict that Republican candidates will be wary of crossing the wishes of the clear majority of voters.

That is why the Biden Administration has been desperately trying to re-frame its request for more Ukraine war money as anything but a request for more Ukraine war money. For example, they even brought back the old discredited “domino theory” used to justify US actions in the Vietnam war. If we don’t stop Putin in Ukraine, Biden said in December, then he will keep going into western Europe where we will be forced to fight him there.

On the one hand, supporters of the Ukraine war warn that Russia is about to reconstitute the Soviet empire in Europe, while at the same time the same people tell us Russia is out of missiles and on its last leg. One more infusion of US money will end the “Russian threat” once and for all. Both of these things cannot be true at once. In fact, neither of them is true.

But still the Administration, much of Congress, and an insatiable military-industrial complex keep selling the lies.

Last month Secretary of State Antony Blinken inadvertently revealed what exactly all the spending for war is about when he stated that as much as 90 percent of the aid for Ukraine is actually spent in the United States. The money is used “to the benefit of American business, local communities, and strengthening the US defense industrial base,” he said in an interview. In other words, the money “for Ukraine” is actually a massive welfare program for well-connected military contractors back home.

As we begin the year 2024, we need to home in on the real threat to the United States. It is not Russia or China or Iran. The true threat is closer to home: it is a corrupt system that bleeds the country dry to fight imaginary enemies while enriching the military-industrial complex.

For the New Year, Congress should resolve to end the stranglehold of the military-industrial complex by reining in out-of-control military spending. Members should simply vote “no” on military spending bills until they are drafted to benefit the American people rather than the Beltway elite. I don’t hold out much hope of this happening in the short run, but it only takes a few dedicated Members to make a real difference.

This article first appeared at RonPaulInstitute.org.

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‘Congressional districts are apportioned to states based on the population of citizens and NONCITIZENS,’ warns GOP rep. Thomas Massie.

Congressmen Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution this week that would prevent states with large numbers of illegal aliens from being represented more in Congress and the Electoral College.

Davidson posted on ? Tuesday, “Congressional districts should be drawn based on the population of US citizens only. The Census should specifically count US citizens for apportionment of representation. Only US citizens are represented by the US Congress. California has 5-7 extra members of Congress because the Census uses the total population. I have legislation that would end that practice.”

Massie also issued a message on ?, writing, “I have cosponsored this proposed Amendment to the Constitution. Currently, Congressional districts are apportioned to states based on the population of citizens and NONCITIZENS which gives states with numerous illegal aliens an advantage in Congress and in the Electoral College.”

When one ? user pointed out the amendment “isn’t needed” because it’s “already unconstitutional to count noncitizens in the allocation process,” Massie addressed the constituent’s concern.

“This could be changed without a Constitutional amendment, and even without a law, but then it would be challenged in the courts. The best way to put it to bed is a constitutional amendment,” the congressman suggested.

This common-sense idea could help address the fact that states have an incentive to bring in illegals so they get more political power.

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Infowars founder Alex Jones thanked ? owner Elon Musk for unblocking him on the platform so videos like the following censored exclusive report can be seen by the masses.

“At the time, I traveled to New York to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s sex slavery lair; this was censored on every platform. Now available, thanks to Elon Musk unblocking me on X! See the censored video I shot several years ago of Epstein’s NY sex dungeon.”

With the Epstein “client” list set to be released Tuesday, this epic video is just as timely as it was years ago:

Jones also shared a meme of the time he called out Bill Clinton for being involved with Epstein.

Follow the link below to see live coverage of the Epstein client list drop:

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Employees of Manhattan jail where Epstein was found dead claim health records for the billionaire pedophile could not be found.

The brother of deceased billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein attempted to obtain his brother’s medical records the day he died, but was told they do not exist.

Footage shared by Tucker Carlson ahead of an exclusive interview with Mark Epstein shows him demanding the report written by the emergency medical services team that moved Jeffrey Epstein’s body out of his cell at the Manhattan jail, but was told by government employees that they could not be found on the computer system.

“As of right now you’re telling me you can’t find the [pre-hospital care report]?” Epstein asked.

“Not for the 10th of August 2019, no,” the employee replied. “It’s not in the fire department database. I don’t know why.”

The U.S. government claims Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in a federal detention facility in Manhattan four and a half years ago, just before his trial. If that’s true, why are there so few records available from that night? Here’s Mark Epstein trying to get a copy of one of the… pic.twitter.com/yI2RLmOUQf

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A PCR document includes information such as “the documentation of the event or incident, the medical condition, treatment provided and the patient’s medical history.”

The employee’s supervisor then claimed that a PCR report may not have been written for Epstein, and said a photo Mark provided “doesn’t generate documentation.” 

“They told me they did,” Mark fired back. “I spoke to them, and they were the ones that suggested I get the PCR report…Since I heard that with my own ears, I believe them, and I don’t know why someone played with the computer and it’s not there.”

Mark has maintained that the official story surrounding his brother’s death is a “lot of really blatant bullsh*t.”

Court documents revealing the names of more than 170 people with links to Jeffrey Epstein are set to be released imminently as part of a settled civil lawsuit against his accomplice, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Five Japan Coast Guard members died on Runway 34R at Tokyo’s Haneda airport after their plane collided with Japan Airlines flight JL516

Transport Minister Tetsuo Saito confirmed that five Japan Coast Guard members died on Runway 34R at Tokyo’s Haneda airport after their plane collided with Japan Airlines flight JL516. 

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An Airbus A350, operated by Japan Airlines and carrying hundreds of passengers, collided with a Japan Coast Guard (JCG) plane while landing at Haneda Airport in Tokyo late Tuesday. 

Flight tracking website Flightradar24 wrote in a post on social media platform X, “Japan Airlines flight JL516 collided with a JCG aircraft and caught fire, during landing at Tokyo Haneda Airport Runway 34R.” 

The aviation app ForeFlight shows a diagram of Haneda Airport and Runway 34R. 

Public broadcaster NHK News said 367 passengers and 12 crew members were on board JL516, all of whom evacuated the aircraft after touchdown. One JCG plane crew member was evacuated, but five others were unaccounted for. 

Footage of the crash was posted on X. 

JCG confirmed to CNN its fixed-wing MA722 collided with JL516 on Runway 34R. They noted the fixed-wing MA722 was headed to Haneda airport to a JCG airbase in Niigata prefecture to support relief efforts following a powerful earthquake on Monday. 

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Truth, of course, is the first casualty of war. But it is also war’s objective. In the heat of battle paper tigers fold, and myths evaporate. The true strength of the combatants is examined, and the real order of power appears.

COUNTERREVOLUTION IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE

Alongside the complexity of the geopolitical questions and the intensity of the passions that Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip continues to provoke, the conflict also has exacerbated and exemplified, and perhaps clarified, the global metaphysical reality which extends beyond it: the post-truth reality that animates the Western mind.

Beginning with the murder of civilians in Southern Israel on October 7, the truth of every incident has been aggressively contested, regardless of the strength of evidence behind them. Across a no man’s land of information warfare, divided by the friend/enemy distinction, every fact presented by one side as decisive is rejected by the other as propaganda.

This situation itself presents a kind of fact that needs to be considered alongside other axes of analysis. We are enveloped by an electronic fog of war, chaotically combining symbols, interests, and emotions into an immersive, semi-conscious simulation. This fog today refracts the battlefield of Israel’s war in Gaza, but it precedes it, and extends beyond it, into an hallucinated future.

We are inside an interzone of ethical and intellectual ambivalence, punctuated by intermittent bursts of random violence. The long-forgotten spectacle of Kony 2012 supplies the template. For three weeks an ecstatic public shuddered at a tale of horror from the heart of darkness, and forgot about it one week later. 

Unconscious motives, massaged by cybernetic media, are the key to the spectacular reality of global conflicts. In the ghost parade of former current things, every urgent flashpoint becomes a temporary silhouette of psychic drama. The conditioned reflex of social media consumers mechanically asserting ideological or geopolitical allegiances should be submitted to the “school of suspicion” for examination. What are the psychic and commercial angles to the shadow war of Left and Right? What is the cybernetic logic of projection and apophenic paranoia? Why are certain metaphors and words and symbols chosen, and not others? What is the strategic function of conformism, and the function of transgression in the attention economy? What is the unity of the unconscious, shattered, across a billion mirrored screens?

It’s necessary to drop the liberal pantomime that still imagines politics through the prism of competing parties advocating for material interests. What exists today is a consumer simulation of that logic. With the extension of cybernetic media and its destruction of the older liberal media politics is content in a global matrix of pathology triangulated like a sex show or a multiplayer game. The current thing at any given moment is never the most salient, but the most emotionally magnetic, according to the passing mood, which changes like the weather in response to broken butterflies and solar breeze.

So-called climate change in fact refers obliquely “through a scanner darkly” to this changing cultural and social climate. What Bernard Steigler described as an “uncontrollable society of disaffected individuals” has been brought into being through the destruction of meaningful human communities and the liquidation of their concomitant intellectual and moral structures. 

Commodified dreams replace private experience. Character flattens into synthetic identity. Man no longer thinks and becomes unsure that he exists. Productions of selfies and autofictions circulate attempt to mask existential anxiety. Pseudo-communities and protest cults emerge as exhibitionist puppet shows in extended ideological universes. The ritual in which social media users photograph meals with their phones has replaced the ritual blessing characteristic of religious communities. Big data eats first. The choice of Hamas fighters on October 7 to film themselves murdering Israeli civilians is paralleled by the media strategies of internet prostitute-artists and criminal hooligan TikTok influencers to obliterate privacy for a cheapened celebrity.

Stiegler emphasizes the “immense rupture” created in the logic of the “calendrical and the cardinal” with the surgical birth of mass media and its development into computerized media. A stellar cosmology organized around natural cycles was replaced by a mass synchronization connected to ideological spectacles. The prototype was the French Revolutionary calendar, which defined a 10-day week to eliminate the sacrament of Christian Sunday. The plethora of new globalist holidays, above all for the deity Pride, is the contemporary update. Meanwhile, revolutionary iconoclasm channeled against national monuments and historical memory imposes a new cardinal landscape where heroes once stood.

The aim is to program the social environment to structure perception within a restricted psychological spectrum. The ideological schematization of politics serves the same purpose. If, over the last decade, the Left has enthusiastically supported every assault on human dignity and freedom, this consistency is not a fluke, but the attraction of the brand. Violence is the point. Ideology is secondary, if not irrelevant, except to the degree it offers targets. What calls itself the Left is a political expression of the desire to destroy, or scream, or profit from destruction. Similarly, if over the past three years, the most cynical actors across the ideological spectrum have been the ones who most consistently invoke the rhetoric of “We” and claim to represent its spokesmen the motives for this tactic aren’t hard to place.

Ideology is second-order rationality embraced to channel drives. Sloterdijk’s formula ira quaerens intellectum defines the general dynamic. Rage, resentment, or ambition locates a story which transmutes it into something else and something more. This is now exemplified by the war against Hamas in Gaza as it plays out as a festival of protest on the streets of European cities, on the campuses of zombie universities, and in the psychic sewer of online. Across all these zones the protests are identity parades seeking to express and ultimately impose a personal and social sense of self inside a non-stop city of deracination, dislocation, derealisation, and disgust. 

Any effort to establish the objective truth of incidents or claims or the relevance of historical context is misguided because the war is nothing but the shadow of the protestors themselves. No wonder the description of the conflict is disputed. Is Hamas at war with Israel or is Israel engaged in genocide against the peaceful Palestinian people? Does Hamas, or Antifa, or cancel culture, or accelerating demographic change, or crime, or race or sex or the difference between truth and lies exist, or are all these things “far-right” disinformation? The international phenomenon of individuals destroying posters of Israeli hostages demonstrates the basic logic. The truth must be suppressed in order to protect the fantasy, which also is a  weapon and a shield.

No one wants to be reminded that the enemy is also human. No doubt, denial of the suffering of civilians in Gaza arrives to the same point. But suffering is universal and irrelevant. Beyond the stories and hysteria the truth of this reality is war. Truth, of course, is the first casualty of war. But it is also war’s objective. In the heat of battle paper tigers fold, and myths evaporate. The true strength of the combatants is examined, and the real order of power appears. 

What is decisive? This question is settled through a war. If no position of neutrality today exists between the warring parties, even to the point of the description of the war, in Israel or elsewhere, this is because the imposition of the neutral is the goal. A ceasefire is pointless. One side must surrender or be beaten, or else perpetuate a pseudo-peace of self-delusion in lieu of true belief.

Why, against the protests of the state of Israel, has the BBC refused to label Hamas terrorists, and calls them militants instead? To tell this lie: “The BBC’s job is to place the facts before its audience and let them decide what they think.” Six months earlier, the broadcaster refused to grant that Elon Musk’s new Twitter could describe it as state-funded media, despite the fact the BBC is funded through taxation, and the Director General is appointed by the government. The BBC insisted it was “funded by the British public through the license fee.” This distinction with no difference defines a project to confuse. 

The real dividing line is here. There is no escape from truth, or from the fact that it means almost nothing. It is no longer possible, or never was, to establish truth as authoritative because truth does not exist in space, but in the midst of an occupied world in which the deciding factor isn’t truth but the power to impose a culture that respects it. 

The world is not a search for truth, but the reverse. The record cannot be corrected because no power is committed to the truth as such. Power possesses only expertise in using power. When the systems concentrating power are corrupted, so is the expertise they shelter. The knowledge of the powerful becomes the expertise of the seraglio, sophistic knowledge of maneuvers, masquerades, and games. At the same time, knowledge of the outside is suppressed, because it is increasingly unable to survive. Forced outside the cities, it takes to desert highways, to find refuge where it can, and waits. Welcome to 2024.

Daniel Miller is a writer, critic, and IM—1776’s literary editor.

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