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Carmelita's avatar

Clear and accurate analysis, good idea the topic by topic time codes. Thank you for this and all your other very helpful analyses

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Thank you for breaking this situation down into easy to understand steps. I figured the control of Iran's oil reserves and maintaining the petrodollar were at the top of the list, but the idea of breaking up BRICS and weakening China and Russia makes perfect sense. Warmongering genocide-enablers like Trump think all it takes is dropping a MOAB or a nuke bomb on one country to keep them on top of the heap. How little we learn from history!

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gerald f dobbertin's avatar

Mr. Norton, as usual your presentation was masterful, far surpassing any other report on line. Please allow me to suggest a companion approach which might help your followers understand the complicated explanation you offer.

It might help your followers if you present a view which I used for years in my undergraduate classes on the world's social problems. My claim was that economic institutions are the basic forms of social organization underlying all other institutions. I viewed economy from what might be a cultural anthropological point of view.

From Mankind's earliest time on this planet, to the present day it has been necessary for human groups to provide themselves with the means for survival by regulating the organization of four components:

1) raw materials

2) labor

3) distribution of finished products (today our capitalist economists call this "the market")

4) one might want to add the fourth: money

For the contemporary situation we can look at the small book put out by the Club Of Rome in 1972, THE LIMITS TO GROWTH. It was followed up 30 years later with another report of the same title. During my years of teaching I used the original report and when the second one was published I used it also.

If you have not already read LIMITS, you can find an acceptable summary of the book on line esp. WikiPedia. The authors of LIMITS take a malthusian view of population, but do not fall victim to the misconceptions of Thomas Malthus, who was a bishop in the Church of England.

I used Malthus's 1830 edition of POPULATION in my classes. I took the time to point out that his analysis was full of understandable errors because of his religious ideology. However, he took top honors in mathematics at Cambridge and his math was right on point. His religious assumptions about human behavior and organization lead him up blind alleys. Nevertheless, his basic idea was sound; as is the basic message of the authors of LIMITS.

Malthus claimed that mans ability to increase his extraction of raw materials grows arithmetically, while the size of population grows exponentially. Eventually humankind would reach the point where population and its needs would far outstrip Man's ability to produce finished products. The authors of LIMITS predicted we would reach that point in the 21st century.

I believe that once your readers understand the importance of the four components I listed above: raw materials, labor, markets, money; your analysis should fall into proper context much more easily in their minds.

I can provide a more complete explication of the components, Raw Materials, Labor, Markets, Money, if necessary. But it might require a dissertation. So I shall end here.

Keep up your great work!

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Brad S's avatar

Wow, that was an eye opening video. Something every American should watch.

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Abdul Basit Ahmad's avatar

Imagine if the mainstream media was this competent or at least not complicit in promulgating a genocide.

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Laladge's avatar

Thank you! Great work as always...

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Zachary Guadamour's avatar

It's impossible to negoiate with the Empire of Chaos *the US regime), because the change the rules when it doesn't favor them. It is also impossible to negoiate with Israel because they wouldn't know the truth even if it walked up to them and slapped them in the face. They almost immediately violate cease fire agreements that they've signed.

For over thirty years the Israelis have claimed that the Iranians are with weeks or months of developing nuclear weapons. This contradicts the Interational Atomic Energy Commission which has never found that they are doing this. The Iranian government has repeatibly stated that they do not want nuclear weapons. I believe with over a thirty year history of saying this, and no indication that they are developing them, I believe it is safe to trust what they are saying.

Trump hs warned the Iranians against escalating the conflict. The Iranians did not start the conflict, and they are within there legal right to respond. Trump need to warn the Israelis to back down, but he's not going to do that because he is too in love with the money of a few wealthy zionist backers who do not at all represent the vast majority of the American and world Jewish communities.

What is Israel seems intent on doing is to make the world aware of the illegimate state that it has always been, intent on inflicting biolence on all its neighbors. The world would truly be a safer state without Israel!

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Ahenobarbus's avatar

"That said, it is of course by no means guaranteed that these goals will be achieved."

That's an understatement. Iran will likely become a second Ukraine for US Imperialism, or worse if the Zios get their stooge Trump to directly involve the US. Can a desperate, floundering Imperialism withstand two Ukraine debacles at once? Throw in an economic collapse. Can it handle that too? In the immortal words of President Bush in the wake of the 2008 market crash: "This sucker's going down!".

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ChatterX's avatar

Remember this psycho Bush cracking jokes on the thousands of people he killed in Iraq over a false pretext of "WMD"?

youtube.com/watch?v=T5YgJx8VGRA

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ahenobarbus's avatar

Who can forget? And critically important to that recollection is what a disaster that previous invasion based on lies was. Anyone who thinks Iran will somehow turn out better for Imperialism needs to have their head examined. One big difference this time around is that the Dems are now an openly pro war and even pro genocide party. Any movement against war must first oppose the entire Democratic Party and all of its phony, devisive "leftism" . This requires not merely opposing Dem politicians but all Dem ideology, most importantly it's bourgeois idpol which was designed to divide and weaken the wage slaves (that share the same social reality and class position) into petty bourgeois racial, gender, sexuality tribes.

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gerald f dobbertin's avatar

Ahenobarbus, I do not disagree with you at all. I do not know exactly what you might mean by "withstand." But the coming economic collapse of capitalism will greatly [bigly?] change the U.S. I do not venture to predict what will come out of the coming collapse of the American Empire. There are too many possibilities. Any predictions?

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Adeel Mirza's avatar

The Devil IsRael

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Michael Lewis Kahn's avatar

This is from my newsletter regarding Norton's piece.

Caitlin urges her viewers to re-assess what they have believed and to reference new knowledge and to come to a more accurate worldview. I agree. Part of doing that should be willingness to consider conspiracy "theories," especially now that you see that you have been lied to regarding presidential elections, deceptive news media, and more. May I point out that I predicted in 2016 that Gates would depopulate the planet using vaccines. In addition in the same book I introduced weather manipulation, CIA controlling the ballot machines, allopathic medicine fraudulence, and much more. I have been proven wrong on absolutely NO point of my three world-changing books.

They are attached to this newsletter for you to read for free, as I am not interested in riches, but my motivation is to inform and to not only save humanity, but to be instrumental in creating a better world. That said, Iran is being attacked as part of a long-term plan of the real powers to depopulate the planet and to install a dystopian world fascist totalitarian technocratic police state, which the powers call Agenda 2030, the Great Reset, and New World Order, all one and the same.

The evidence is overwhelming, and for such intelligent people as Caitlin to be incapable of perceiving the truth

As much as I have given Caitlin huge exposure, she has disappointed me with her inability to break out of the matrix and see the foundational deceptions. Along with 98% of the media, she had misled the public, though it was, I am sure in her case unintentional. Most news media are dominated by the CIA, and spread lies for money.

WAKE THE FUCK UP. THOSE IN POWER ARE DECEIVING SNAKES. WAS COVID 19 A MISTAKE BY IDIOTS? OR WAS IT AN INTERNATIONAL AGENDA? DO WE HAVE CHEMTRAILS DESTROYING THE ATMOSPHERE AND WATER FOR HEGEMONY PURPOSES? IS AI SURVEILLANCE AND CBDCs IN EVERY NATION NATURAL?

THERE IS AN INTERNATIONAL DEPOPULATION EVENT, DUMBASS, AND THIS IS NOT SIMPLY COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM AS EXPERIENCED IN THE PAST. IT IS NOT ABOUT OIL, IRAN HAS BEEN WILLING TO SELL OIL AS DESIRED. THE POWERS WANT TO ELIMINATE 95% OF THE WORLD POPULATION. THE WAR WITH IRAN IS INTENDED TO INSTIGATE WORLD WAR 3. 

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/mike-huckabee-is-a-deranged-armageddon?publication_id=82124&post_id=166208718&isFreemail=true&r=2buxwv&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

In an information war, we cannot fight with half-truths and/or reasons that no longer apply. We need to fight with absolute truth, or we will lose.

If you don't think that people will believe the truth when it is stated clearly, simply, and with overwhelming evidence, think again. I have the largest readership of any voice in the world, and have introduced much alternative and conspiracy facts. The surveys that show that less people acknowledge conspiracy facts may be skewed. Surveys usually confirm what the sponsoring agency wants them to. 

I am one of the most influential voices in the world. Is that because I conform my knowledge and ideas to what most people believe, or because I have uncovered truth that none or few people had before observed? You know the answer. A word to the wise.

 Instead of writing to fit into the worldview of the reader, we need to tell the raw undiluted uncensored truth with sufficient evidence to make our case credible. What worked in the past will not necessarily work now. The evil establishment has switched its narrative while you remain stuck in past narratives that no longer are applicable. Instead of rehashing what you have said for decades, you need to have some courage to adjust your narrative to accommodate new revelatory data.

The powers have been planning world war 3 initiating in the middle east for 150 years. Reference the plans by Albert Pike dated 1871. Anyone desiring for me to give it to you, kindly respond to this comment requesting it. It lays out world war 1, 2, 3, and 4, as happened and will happen.

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Alex's avatar

That about sums it up. Thanks.

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Eleuterio F S Prado's avatar

I would like to have it not only in voice, but in written form. Is it possible?

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LYDIA ANNE MICELI's avatar

Thanks Ben for your precise analyis of the history of the Middle East. This is all about taking control of the resources from the Middle East and strangling BRICS

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Michael Lewis Kahn's avatar

no, it is about inciting world war. plain and simple. While BRICS and the west seem to be against one another, every world ruler is working for the same entities. mass depopulation and a new world order in a dystopian world fascist totalitarian technocratic police state. You gave me a like, but did not understand what I said. Norton follows the conformist view, not having complete knowledge of, nor courage to reveal the real agenda.

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LYDIA ANNE MICELI's avatar

Well if that is what it's all about, all I can say is I am glad I will not be around to see it.

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