The Dangers of Living in an Impoverished Ever-Malleable Present

My dog lives in the eternal present. It's OK for dogs to do so, but not OK for people. People need a sense of history to avoid the mistakes of the past.  People need a foundation of hard-earned knowledge on which to make sense of the future or else they will not ever accomplish great things.  Without a solid foundation of knowledge based on history, people will live like dogs.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

George Orwell - 1984

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About Your Tax Dollars Supporting the U.S. Proxy War Effort in Ukraine

The United States has already sent $68 Billion to toward the war effort in Ukraine a territorial dispute regarding who rules the Donbas Region of a country most Americans cannot locate on a map, a dispute that is risking "Armageddon," according to President Biden. The White House has now asked for another $37.7 Billion, so the total will soon be $105 Billion.

What does that mean for you if you are one of the 70 million Americans who pays taxes?  It means that, on average, $1,500 of your taxes will go to U.S. involvement in Ukraine this year.  Can you possibly think of any better use for your tax dollars?

The following tweet about sums things up, complete with the regurgitated U.S. Iraq war trope about not having to fight "them" over here. Who is "they"? Russia, of course. Icing on the cake is Adam Schiff's admission that this is a U.S. proxy war against Russia:

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