Tuesday 30th of April 2024

plus ça change, plus....

This political cartoon lamenting the relative budgets applied to science, education, arts, health &
military spending is 80 years old - progress?

Public-Democracy@humandemocracy Global Politics in Cartoons! How the World’s best cartoonists see the Big Issues of the day. The Public Group: Big Data for advocacy & App for better Democracy.  SEE ALSO: https://www.archives.gov/files/legislative/resources/ebooks/a-visual-history-1940-1963.pdf

 

A Visual History, 1940–1963 : Political Cartoons by Clifford Berryman and Jim Berryman

presents 70 political cartoons that invite students to explore American history from the early years of World War II to the civil rights movement. These images, by father-and-son cartoon- ists Clifford Berryman and Jim Berryman, highlight many significant topics, including WWII and its impact, the Cold War, the space race, the nuclear arms race, and the struggle for school desegregation. This eBook presents the artists’ perspectives on the events, people, and institutions that shaped this tumultuous era of American history.

Clifford Berryman had a remarkably long and productive career. From 1896 to 1949, his cartoons were featured on the front pages of leading Washington, D.C., daily newspapers – first the Washington Post and then the Evening Star. His son, Jim, began drawing cartoons for the sports page of the Evening Star in 1939. He transitioned to the editorial page and then took over as the paper’s chief cartoonist after his father died. The Evening Star featured Jim’s cartoons almost daily until his retirement in 1964.

The Berrymans are remembered as two of America’s greatest political cartoonists, artists whose thought-provoking illustrations spoke to a broad public over many decades. This eBook’s selection of cartoons promises to engage today’s visually-oriented students and expand their understanding of history while developing their ability to investigate images. Because each cartoon was published as events were unfolding, each is a primary source that invites students to experience the kind of detective work historians do.

At first glance, some of the Berryman cartoons might seem straightforward, but take a long second look: details in the drawings invite in-depth analysis and discussion. By learning to decode the cartoons, students will develop their visual literacy and hone the critical thinking skills crucial to academic success and participation in civic life.

 

 

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the golden calf.......

 

by Kaddour Naimi

Reading expert presentations on causes and social realities is certainly necessary, but even more necessary is to get to the source of the sources, to the primary agents who shape and manage the world. Of course, it takes time and tenacity, which is not within the reach of the person who works eight hours a day to earn a living or rather his survival. 

 "Golden Calf" Oracles

1. "Be greedy, egotistical, spendthrift for your pleasure as much as you can. This is how you will make your nation prosperous and your fellow citizens happy."

Ah! could one object, still conspiracy, defamation on the part of anti-capitalist people, envious and haters against people who have enriched themselves by their honest work!

In reality, the author of the declaration is… Bernard de Mandeville (1670-1733), one of the fundamental ideologues of capitalism. From its conception “flowed”, so to speak, the theory of “trickle down”, namely that the enrichment of some allows the “trickle down” of a part of this wealth on the whole of the population.

 

2. "When a government depends on the bankers for money, it is the latter who control the situation, because "the hand that gives is above the hand that receives." (…) Money has no country: financiers have no patriotism or decency; their sole objective is gain."

More defamatory conspiracy! We would object.

Bèh!… The author of this assertion is called… Napoleon Bonaparte.

 

3. "There is in me on the one hand a political and liberal man and, on the other hand, a financial man, and unfortunately finances cannot work without freedom, and even less with too much freedom.“… Author: James, the first of the Rothschilds, in a letter to his children in 1867.

It remains to be seen what he meant by “too much” freedom. Wouldn't it be that of calling into question the source of the unlimited enrichment of bankers, among other things by financing wars between peoples?

 

There is an answer to this question: "when blood is flowing in the streets, it's time to buy". Author?... A banker, Rockefeller.

 

4. "It is good enough that the people of the nation do not understand our system of banking and money; if people find out, I believe there will be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

To read this observation, one would think that it was authored by a vulgar leftist, ultra-leftist, in any case a conspirator.

Beh!... The author's name is... Henry Ford, and his confession dates back to 1922.

 

5. "Capital must ensure its own protection with all possible means, thanks to our union and our laws. Debts must be recovered and the value of mortgages on property must be cashed as quickly as possible. Thus, when for example ordinary people lose their homes, they become more docile and will be more easily managed thanks to the strong arm of the government represented by the main financial actors.

These truths are well known to our representatives who act to create an imperialism to rule the world. Through the political party system that divides voters, we manipulate them into spending all their energy on issues that don't matter. By acting with discretion, we guarantee the sustainability of what we have planned and carried out so well."

There, too much is too much! we would be indignant. Pure conspiracy!

Well, this is a statement from… the United States Bankers Association, in the year of disgrace 1924, a few years before the fateful date of 1929 (the crash), then the second slaughter world.

 

6. '"If people knew everything, it would be extremely difficult to manipulate them. (…) All mass control involves an element of manipulation. How to run a society if everyone has equal access to information, or receives it before it is processed by government analysts?"

Bèh!… The author is a… Russian banker (I couldn't find his name and surname), at the International Forum of Saint-Petersburg, in 2012.

All the official organs of control of information (“fake-checking”, in the Anglo-Saxon dominant language) will affirm urbi et orbi that all the declarations mentioned above are typically conspiratorial. And the majority of citizens would believe it, as what is reported is incredible: “But, how?!… Rich people who contribute to the wealth of the world would be so cruel, so bad, so criminal as that?! … Impossible !"… In fact, the emulators of Joseph Goebbels are, like him, thieves who cry thief. Not bad is not it? Distributors of false information who accuse the authors of real information of falsity, and who find that their deception works."

 "Producers, let's save ourselves!" »

Let's hope that one day a researcher or a group of researchers will publish a “Black Book” where we will read the confessions, more or less concealed, of the “Masters” of this world. We will discover, then, how much humanity is enslaved because manipulated by beings worse than the most ferocious beasts of the jungle, more precisely individuals who correspond exactly to the psychic characteristics of socio-psycho-paths. So, with this black book, we will understand who the real conspirators are, and, consequently, we will act better to free ourselves from them.

But here is the problem: almost all citizens entrust their money, their salary, their savings to a bank, and request a loan from a bank, ranging from the need to go on vacation to that of opening a small business, through the purchase of a home, etc. This is the source of the enrichment of the bankers and, therefore, their social domination. And, recently, we have just discovered that this domination is also exercised by the blocking of the bank accounts of those who contest oligarchic domination.

This made it possible to affirm that there is: "well and truly a class war but it is my class, the class of the rich which makes the war and it is we who win". Another conspirator?… The author is the American billionaire Warren Buffett.

So, how to free oneself from the "Golden Calf", from the greed and voracity of bankers (and wheeler-dealers of all kinds), consequently from their "legal" dictatorship?

In the past, Joseph Proudhon theorized and practiced the so-called "People's Bank" solution. Unfortunately, the bank failed. So, the question: how can citizens get rid of the influence of bankers other than by finding the way to manage their money themselves, according to mechanisms to be found, on the basis of the principle "By and for the people".?… This question implies another one: where are the social forces, the really good wills, to reflect on this project and begin to build it?… The problem is, of course, immense, but is it not essential? To great ills, great remedies. 

For the moment, we have finally entered the promising era of de-dollarization, a condition for the elimination of unipolar American oligarchic domination. But as long as the management of money will not be the truly democratic affair of the citizens, and at their service, humanity remains the slave of the “Golden Calf”.

 

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the gravy boat......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDbg5oQeyjI

 

F-16s to Ukraine/ More Aid to Ukraine?/ Zelenskyy at G7 - Tony Shaffer

 

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game changer?.....

The F-16 ARE "OLD TECHNOLOGY". TOP GUN AND ALL THE PIZZAZZZ IS RUBBISH... APART FROM THIS IT TAKES AT LEAST ONE YEAR OF TRAINING FOR A PILOT TO BE "EFFECTIVE" IN UNDERSTANDING HOW TO READ A SITUATION AND FLY THE PLANE. TRAINING OF ONE PILOT COST AROUN $10 MILLION.... RETRAINING PILOTS OF THE UKRAINIAN AIRFORCE IS IFFY BECAUSE THEY HAVE DEVELOPED THE HABIT OF FLYING RUSSIAN PLANES. OLD HABITS DIE HARD, AND DOING THE WRONG THING IN TIME OF STRESS WOULD BE COMMON.

SO SHOULD UKRAINER GET F-16 IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS FROM OBLIGING EUROPEANS, THEIR OWN PILOTS WOULD HAVE TO FLY THE CAPERS.... MEANING? NATO PILOTS (OR JUST RETIRED NATO PILOTS, NOW MERCENARIES) WOULD HAVE TO FLY THE F-16.

MEANWHILE RUSSIA WOULD ANIHILATE 50 PER CENT OF THESE ON THE GROUND — INCLUDING CREWS (PILOTS, ENGINEERS AND MAINTENANCE GUYS). THE REST WOULD BE INTERCEPTED WITH FASTER MISSILES THAN A SUNSET. GOOD NIGHT.

SHOULD ONE OR TWO F-16S MAKE IT THROUGH THE FRONTLINES, THEY WOULD DROP THEIR LOADS ON THE WRONG TARGETS, BEING ELECTRONICALLY JAMMED BY RUSSIAN EQUIPMENT.

A GAME CHANGER? NUPE.... JUST EXTRA NUISANCE AND NONSENSE FOR RUSSIA TO DEAL WITH, WITH MORE GRIEF FOR NATO...

 

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