Thank you for reading this in your own voice, the computer readings that most substack authors use mispronounce words, inflect incorrectly, and torture the emotion a writer may be trying to convey.
Dubai, where 90% of the population are foreign labourers, it's an infertile arid desert, with a Sunni Islam monarchy, and an economy entirely driven by cheap oil exports. Are you alright?
Imagine if the good were rich. That is what I want, what I see is possible. If so, if the good stood up and took back power, and stayed there. Well then you would see something.
Exactly. And dig a little deeper and what people should ask themselves is this: Who owns everything in Dubai? The average citizen or is it a facade to hide all manner of secular excesses of a scant few?
And dig into what humans are actually like as they gain more wealth and their lives are made easier. They get bored and descend into all types of hedonism and debauchery. No, I'd say people are at their most human and virtuous when their survival depends proportionally on the content of their character. This only happens when there is struggle against scarcity, aggression and illness, when banding together is necessary in order to defeat evil, to build and maintain small sanctuaries. The best art and expressions of human existence arise out of the human struggle. The world doesn't need 100 Dubais and there's a damn good reason 100 of them have not sprung up organically.
I like it BUT, fighting the evil in the world gives you just as much power and energy. We just don't have the imagination to see the possibility, because the good lose always
Imagine if the good were rich. That is what I want, what I see is possible. If so, if the good stood up and took back power, and stayed there. Well then you would see something.
Unfortunately, as I'm sure you all know, if you read your Bible (or any significant religious text) you won't often see the rich and the good manifesting in the same corporal form because true wealth is not found on Earth. Let me say, though, that there are some truly good and rich people out there but one tenant of being good is typically being modest (although Trump seems to be a exception to that rule hehe). That attribute, in my experience, is why we don't usually see the rich and virtuous enter the fray until it becomes crystal clear the world is ready for them because when they do enter they usually swing the Lord's sword. I'm hoping for a little Revelation 19 myself: "From his mouth goes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty."
That being said, Dubai does have very low crime and strict law and order due to it having all the sliders for tolerance pushed pretty far to the right. This is always the tradeoff. America is still a very, very rich place yet where we do see small pockets of community-organized bliss they are typically somewhat mundane and pedestrian in terms of aesthetic appeal, probably due to the rather modest and pragmatic nature of those who live there. But they tend to last. On the other hand, the cities of the West that have chosen to build the most lavish and architecturally impressive edifices have found it quite difficult to hang onto them or make passage to see them safe enough to warrant the journey. I think that says a lot about who we are as a people. Americans are descended from that 5% of Europeans who left their centuries-old churches, got in aquatic space ships and sailed straight off the edge of the world to go and seek their fortunes, not necessarily to go paint the Mona Lisa or compose concertos. We brought along a lot of baggage on that trip.
The magnificent culture of Ancient Athens was enabled by the free time that was the result of human slaves doing all the menial labor. It's lovely that humans get more decent (rather than less) under duress, but it seems a bit inhumane to wish that state on everyone just for the hoped for joy of seeing people at their best, 24/7/365. I think if we just circulate wealth around (akin to how blood circulates in the human body, where every cell gets what nourishment it needs BEFORE it gets to doing whatever it was created to do), THEN we will see something (the plan for doing exactly that was published in 2010 - and can be found using the Wayback Machine or the archives of the Library of Congress - at alanforcongress.com). What we have now is akin to CANCER, where a few cells suck up just about all of the nourishment. (Spoiler::we just need our own political party so we can create our own money by converting all debt to permissionless electronic credit money, charge a 1% MONTHLY service fee on every account, and use the proceeds to fund all levels of government and compensate all adult legal residents with $500 worth of credits every WEEK for the government's TAKING of everyone's right to access land to support the right to life of themselves and their family.)
And the observation is just misguided, Germany's economy may have been doing well, but France has always been the dominant power in continental Europe since forever, historically because of its massive agricultural land, and in modern times as it's Europe's largest nuclear power.
Britain?? At Waterloo, less than 40% of the Allies were British. The majority were Germans — both Prussians and non-Prussians. Thus, this was a case of the Germans beating the French and the Limeys hoarding others' glory.
In the past millennium, in Continental Europe, the main powers were France, then Spain + France + Poland, then France + Austria + Prussia + Russia, and post-1871 Germany never won a single war. In the millennium before that, there was Frankia, though that included much of modern Germany.
You have a nice voice, thanks for that informative video….
"If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized … If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance — you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest.”
One of the reasons Dubai can build a city like they have and we haven't is we helped make them rich enough to do that while the "leaders" of the western countries have depleted their resources mainly through out in the open and secreted theft. There have bee no new advances or designs in any city in America . I don't know about other western countries. Not only that but it is obvious that they have given up maintaining the worn out infrastructure and out dated relics as they have bankrupted most municipalities . N.Y.C would be the poster child for throwing in the towel ,once the example of a great metropolis ,now like all the others an embarrassment.The take down of America and the west as a whole has been orchestrated not only by theft of it's resources and it's citizens wealth but by crushing it's spirit through endless ,worthless, needless wars which have not contributed one benefit to it's populace but has been responsible for the death and suffering of tens of millions of others.The demoralization program which was the "Biden/Harris " shit show has now turned 180 degrees to the right ,which is what it was meant to do . Seems no rest will come to its weary, moral population. Sad to say!
I will point out the obvious that Elizabeth has many gifts. One is of course is her knowledge on the history of the climate change fallacy and its army of ecoterrorists . one of her other gifts is using their own deluded words to example just what idiots some of them are or in other cases just how diabolical some are. There are of course in many other agendas those who know they are deceiving everyone and there are those who are the useful idiots parroting the propaganda. As I pointed out in a comment previously my personal experience with the lefty do-gooders is that they are a lazy, uncurious lot who drive their electric higher carbon footprint vehicles but either have non knowledge or deny what is literally raining down on them on a daily basis in the form of poison emitting geoengineering dumps. Elizabeth does a great job of collating facts and quotes and when used in a machine-gun like fashion really hits the point home. I don't think she will mind if I forward this video from the Pennsylvania session on geoengineering of last week . My wife and I belong to a achingly small group headed by Rachael McIntosh called Bio Ethics here on R.I. She forwarded this at my request to share with platforms I follow. The woman who speaks at about min.15 is Jolie Diane. Another person who has a gift of collating facts, figures and documents to use against the perpetrators. Please listen and share.
Maybe when I'm on the road driving long distances (as a useless eater, creating carbon chaos through exhaust) I'll choose a future podcast. Thank you for expanding options to your peeps.
Fake 'everything' seems more the rule these days than the exception.
But as William J. Casey, the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) once stated: "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false", which reflects a similar idea of manipulating public perception.
Elizabeth, I absolutely love you! Your intelligence, guts, the way you think, incredible research; your 'Eco Fascists' book should be a number best seller globally! I thought you might be interested in this: This reveals the fraud involved in the Carney election.
Mark Carney Tears Up as Governor General Makes Shocking Ruling On Election Results
It is a beautiful place, but don't forget they have a massive surveillance system, a justice system that assumes guilt rather than innocence, hard-core crackdown on ANY alcohol related incident to include public discourse that does not cross the boundary of decency, a population composed of 85% 3rd country nationals that serve as low cost, almost slave labor, and much more.
See, original Star Trek series, episode "The Cloud Minders".
As for the country, I can't stand the smug arrogance of their leaders, the overweening condescension, all to be wiped in an instant, please God make it happen soon, when the secret of anti-gravity is revealed....or exposed, from now secret government programs whose very existence is denied by the Pentagon.
Dubai or UAE is following on on the steps of it's number one ally and terrorist friend USA and terrorist friend Israel too. They are working on the same EVIL Satanic Agenda to cause sufferings, killings, coup d'etats and killings in Libya, Syria, Sudan and Palestine as well as in Tunisia and Algeria. These axis of evil are responsible for so much blood shed, creating and funding terrorist groups and destroying so many countries. They MUST be brought to justice fro crimes against humanity.
Indeed. Rather than Dubai, I would have cited Libya, under Khadafi, as a model/example of a nation where the gov't was working in the interests of the general populace and the conditions for the average person were pretty good....especially considering that the entire western world was focused on destroying that country..
Hi Elizabeth. I am not a good auditory listener or learner. I hope you keep publishing your articles in writing, too. I admire you so much and really appreciate all of the hard work and your honesty! Thank you! Kim
I was writing a really nice comment, went to look up a quotation, and when I came back, lovely Substack had deleted my in/progress comment. I was saying how I love your awkwardness, am completely smitten by your obvious sincerity, and pointed out how I had described in another comment "how to get there from here".
If the good were rich, they would either cease to be good, or they would cease to be rich; Jesus (allegedly) told a rich young man how to be good: "sell your possessions, give the proceeds to the poor, pick up your torture stake, and follow me". We don't need to be rich: we just need our physical needs to be effortlessly met (which is what that plan - pointed to in the other comment - easily does.
Also, I changed my name to JOIN THE ACTUAL JUSTICE PARTY on Substack, but apparently Substack leaves the old name on subscriptions made previous to the change. If it wasn't for you, I would stop Substacking altogether.
Thank you for reading this in your own voice, the computer readings that most substack authors use mispronounce words, inflect incorrectly, and torture the emotion a writer may be trying to convey.
Dubai, where 90% of the population are foreign labourers, it's an infertile arid desert, with a Sunni Islam monarchy, and an economy entirely driven by cheap oil exports. Are you alright?
Imagine if the good were rich. That is what I want, what I see is possible. If so, if the good stood up and took back power, and stayed there. Well then you would see something.
Exactly. And dig a little deeper and what people should ask themselves is this: Who owns everything in Dubai? The average citizen or is it a facade to hide all manner of secular excesses of a scant few?
And dig into what humans are actually like as they gain more wealth and their lives are made easier. They get bored and descend into all types of hedonism and debauchery. No, I'd say people are at their most human and virtuous when their survival depends proportionally on the content of their character. This only happens when there is struggle against scarcity, aggression and illness, when banding together is necessary in order to defeat evil, to build and maintain small sanctuaries. The best art and expressions of human existence arise out of the human struggle. The world doesn't need 100 Dubais and there's a damn good reason 100 of them have not sprung up organically.
I like it BUT, fighting the evil in the world gives you just as much power and energy. We just don't have the imagination to see the possibility, because the good lose always
I believe the good will win in the end. The dark side was before the BIG BANG. The Universe has been lighting up since then. Most want to be good...
Imagine if the good were rich. That is what I want, what I see is possible. If so, if the good stood up and took back power, and stayed there. Well then you would see something.
Unfortunately, as I'm sure you all know, if you read your Bible (or any significant religious text) you won't often see the rich and the good manifesting in the same corporal form because true wealth is not found on Earth. Let me say, though, that there are some truly good and rich people out there but one tenant of being good is typically being modest (although Trump seems to be a exception to that rule hehe). That attribute, in my experience, is why we don't usually see the rich and virtuous enter the fray until it becomes crystal clear the world is ready for them because when they do enter they usually swing the Lord's sword. I'm hoping for a little Revelation 19 myself: "From his mouth goes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty."
That being said, Dubai does have very low crime and strict law and order due to it having all the sliders for tolerance pushed pretty far to the right. This is always the tradeoff. America is still a very, very rich place yet where we do see small pockets of community-organized bliss they are typically somewhat mundane and pedestrian in terms of aesthetic appeal, probably due to the rather modest and pragmatic nature of those who live there. But they tend to last. On the other hand, the cities of the West that have chosen to build the most lavish and architecturally impressive edifices have found it quite difficult to hang onto them or make passage to see them safe enough to warrant the journey. I think that says a lot about who we are as a people. Americans are descended from that 5% of Europeans who left their centuries-old churches, got in aquatic space ships and sailed straight off the edge of the world to go and seek their fortunes, not necessarily to go paint the Mona Lisa or compose concertos. We brought along a lot of baggage on that trip.
The magnificent culture of Ancient Athens was enabled by the free time that was the result of human slaves doing all the menial labor. It's lovely that humans get more decent (rather than less) under duress, but it seems a bit inhumane to wish that state on everyone just for the hoped for joy of seeing people at their best, 24/7/365. I think if we just circulate wealth around (akin to how blood circulates in the human body, where every cell gets what nourishment it needs BEFORE it gets to doing whatever it was created to do), THEN we will see something (the plan for doing exactly that was published in 2010 - and can be found using the Wayback Machine or the archives of the Library of Congress - at alanforcongress.com). What we have now is akin to CANCER, where a few cells suck up just about all of the nourishment. (Spoiler::we just need our own political party so we can create our own money by converting all debt to permissionless electronic credit money, charge a 1% MONTHLY service fee on every account, and use the proceeds to fund all levels of government and compensate all adult legal residents with $500 worth of credits every WEEK for the government's TAKING of everyone's right to access land to support the right to life of themselves and their family.)
No, we do not need any watered-down version of communism.
X1,000, Ruth. Your second paragraph is a gem of insight.
And the observation is just misguided, Germany's economy may have been doing well, but France has always been the dominant power in continental Europe since forever, historically because of its massive agricultural land, and in modern times as it's Europe's largest nuclear power.
I think you are overlooking Britain which whipped France at Waterloo, and France had to be saved by the US twice.
Britain?? At Waterloo, less than 40% of the Allies were British. The majority were Germans — both Prussians and non-Prussians. Thus, this was a case of the Germans beating the French and the Limeys hoarding others' glory.
You may be a bit stupid
In the past millennium, in Continental Europe, the main powers were France, then Spain + France + Poland, then France + Austria + Prussia + Russia, and post-1871 Germany never won a single war. In the millennium before that, there was Frankia, though that included much of modern Germany.
Are you high?
You have a nice voice, thanks for that informative video….
"If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized … If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance — you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest.”
– Ian Watson-
One of the reasons Dubai can build a city like they have and we haven't is we helped make them rich enough to do that while the "leaders" of the western countries have depleted their resources mainly through out in the open and secreted theft. There have bee no new advances or designs in any city in America . I don't know about other western countries. Not only that but it is obvious that they have given up maintaining the worn out infrastructure and out dated relics as they have bankrupted most municipalities . N.Y.C would be the poster child for throwing in the towel ,once the example of a great metropolis ,now like all the others an embarrassment.The take down of America and the west as a whole has been orchestrated not only by theft of it's resources and it's citizens wealth but by crushing it's spirit through endless ,worthless, needless wars which have not contributed one benefit to it's populace but has been responsible for the death and suffering of tens of millions of others.The demoralization program which was the "Biden/Harris " shit show has now turned 180 degrees to the right ,which is what it was meant to do . Seems no rest will come to its weary, moral population. Sad to say!
I will point out the obvious that Elizabeth has many gifts. One is of course is her knowledge on the history of the climate change fallacy and its army of ecoterrorists . one of her other gifts is using their own deluded words to example just what idiots some of them are or in other cases just how diabolical some are. There are of course in many other agendas those who know they are deceiving everyone and there are those who are the useful idiots parroting the propaganda. As I pointed out in a comment previously my personal experience with the lefty do-gooders is that they are a lazy, uncurious lot who drive their electric higher carbon footprint vehicles but either have non knowledge or deny what is literally raining down on them on a daily basis in the form of poison emitting geoengineering dumps. Elizabeth does a great job of collating facts and quotes and when used in a machine-gun like fashion really hits the point home. I don't think she will mind if I forward this video from the Pennsylvania session on geoengineering of last week . My wife and I belong to a achingly small group headed by Rachael McIntosh called Bio Ethics here on R.I. She forwarded this at my request to share with platforms I follow. The woman who speaks at about min.15 is Jolie Diane. Another person who has a gift of collating facts, figures and documents to use against the perpetrators. Please listen and share.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=9842121285880904
Thank you
Elizabeth,
I chose the 'transcript' route.
I prefer to read vs. listen for some reason.
Maybe when I'm on the road driving long distances (as a useless eater, creating carbon chaos through exhaust) I'll choose a future podcast. Thank you for expanding options to your peeps.
Fake 'everything' seems more the rule these days than the exception.
But as William J. Casey, the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) once stated: "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false", which reflects a similar idea of manipulating public perception.
Elizabeth, I absolutely love you! Your intelligence, guts, the way you think, incredible research; your 'Eco Fascists' book should be a number best seller globally! I thought you might be interested in this: This reveals the fraud involved in the Carney election.
Mark Carney Tears Up as Governor General Makes Shocking Ruling On Election Results
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVFpm8YOW-g
B, Bayne Boyes, Subscriber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWmo7__Ty_4
Intriguing. No language just prime numbers….
unbidden
"Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom." --Will Rogers
I've been to Dubai. It's like a city became West Edmonton Mall circa 1985, no serious person would want this for themselves.
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
Rahm Emanuel
It is a beautiful place, but don't forget they have a massive surveillance system, a justice system that assumes guilt rather than innocence, hard-core crackdown on ANY alcohol related incident to include public discourse that does not cross the boundary of decency, a population composed of 85% 3rd country nationals that serve as low cost, almost slave labor, and much more.
Ah yes, "Stratos", the city in the clouds....
See, original Star Trek series, episode "The Cloud Minders".
As for the country, I can't stand the smug arrogance of their leaders, the overweening condescension, all to be wiped in an instant, please God make it happen soon, when the secret of anti-gravity is revealed....or exposed, from now secret government programs whose very existence is denied by the Pentagon.
Dubai or UAE is following on on the steps of it's number one ally and terrorist friend USA and terrorist friend Israel too. They are working on the same EVIL Satanic Agenda to cause sufferings, killings, coup d'etats and killings in Libya, Syria, Sudan and Palestine as well as in Tunisia and Algeria. These axis of evil are responsible for so much blood shed, creating and funding terrorist groups and destroying so many countries. They MUST be brought to justice fro crimes against humanity.
Indeed. Rather than Dubai, I would have cited Libya, under Khadafi, as a model/example of a nation where the gov't was working in the interests of the general populace and the conditions for the average person were pretty good....especially considering that the entire western world was focused on destroying that country..
Hi Elizabeth. I am not a good auditory listener or learner. I hope you keep publishing your articles in writing, too. I admire you so much and really appreciate all of the hard work and your honesty! Thank you! Kim
I was writing a really nice comment, went to look up a quotation, and when I came back, lovely Substack had deleted my in/progress comment. I was saying how I love your awkwardness, am completely smitten by your obvious sincerity, and pointed out how I had described in another comment "how to get there from here".
If the good were rich, they would either cease to be good, or they would cease to be rich; Jesus (allegedly) told a rich young man how to be good: "sell your possessions, give the proceeds to the poor, pick up your torture stake, and follow me". We don't need to be rich: we just need our physical needs to be effortlessly met (which is what that plan - pointed to in the other comment - easily does.
Also, I changed my name to JOIN THE ACTUAL JUSTICE PARTY on Substack, but apparently Substack leaves the old name on subscriptions made previous to the change. If it wasn't for you, I would stop Substacking altogether.