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Where Are We Headed? Part Three: War-making

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US troops in Vietnam in 1968, Photo: Britannica.com

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

So where are we headed? War is perhaps the most destructive force on the planet and therefore should not be engaged in. Our military should not be called a Department of Defense, as that is not what it is. I will use the space of this article to show how many aspects of our war-fighting are off track. The topics will be: 1. Smedley Butler’s insights, 2. Regime Change, 3. Congress’s job, 4. DARPA, 5. The Cold War, 6. NATO, and 7. the abuse of our soldiers’ health.

*1. Butler. Many citizens have read this famous quote from “War Is a Racket” by Smedley Butler (1881-1940) who was a Major General in the US Marine Corps:

“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service …. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.” 

I don’t think we need more than to understand that our military is not a defensive one. It is a private one – Smedley Butler, and all the men under him, were mercenaries. Oddly it is the taxpayer, not Wall Street, that picks up the bill for this work.

*2. Regime Change. In 2007, former US Armey General Wesley Clark revealed that a Pentagon man showed him a memo after 9/11 which said “We are going to take out 7 counties in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing it off with Iran.”

So there again you can’t really say this was the operation of a “Defense” Department. Nothing in the countries of, say, Syria or Sudan, gave any hint that they could attack the United States. I believe we should immediately get rid of euphemisms such as “regime change” and “ethnic cleansing.” They are more correctly called Coups d’etat and genocide. When you use wrong words, you can’t then depend on your brain’s power of reasoning.

Since all seven of those nations have a Muslim majority, it may be that the coups d’etat were done at the behest of Israel. However, in the case of Libya, where US Sec’y of State Hilary Clinton had Muhammed Gaddafi murdered, his sin seems to have been that he was threatening to go off the US dollar, regarding the oil trade. Hilary said, on CBS News, laughingly, “We came, we saw, he died.”

You might ask “Who is running the USA and who makes the decision to perform military actions? That brings me to my next subject: Clause 11.

*3. Congress’s job: Clause 11. In the last year (2023-2024), there have been many headlines about Biden planning to do this or that in regard to Ukraine. You never see a retort “But he can’t do that.” He definitely cannot make decisions to start a war. The Framers of the Constitution in 1787 were well aware that a president or a king could be forced by some outside party (or by greed) to make war. So they wrote in Article I, sec 8, clause 11 “The Congress shall have power to … declare war. There was never any doubt that this meant a president cannot start a war (though once the war is happening, he is commander in chief). Thus, for example, President FDR in 1941 wrote to Congress to get permission to send troops into the Pacific against Japan.

This respectful gesture to Congress stopped in 1950 for the Korean War and has not been seen since. Oh, then what about the 5 wars Wesley Clark mentioned? Apparently a minor  statement about terrorism, declared by President George W Bush three days after “9/11,” is considered constitutional enough. It is known as the AUMF. And yes, Congress signed it, as a joint resolution, but for one dissenting vote by Rep Barbara Lee. The short text is:

“The President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.”

I have twice filed a lawsuit against US presidents (Bush Jr in 2006 and Trump in 2019) for threatening to bomb, respectively, Iran and North Korea, without Congress’s say-so. Both times a federal district court dismissed the case for lack of standing by the litigant. Note that when one of the two “political branches” violates the separation of powers, the judiciary won’t intervene!  In short, Houston, we have a problem.

*4. DARPA is an “agency.”  From their website, darpa.mil: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.” They take credit for GPS, language translation, voice recognition, Siri, and the Internet in general. DARPA was launched supposedly in reaction to the Soviet rocket Sputnik going into outer space in 1957.

I do not have much to say here as I do not understand the legislation that pays money to DoD to create products that are usable by all foreign nations as well as US citizens, US businesses, and the CIA. It is almost certain that DARPA research enabled the US government to clobber the rights laid out in the Bill of Rights, such as the 4th amendment right to privacy.

I also do not understand the concept of agency within the US government. It certainly confuses the Executive branch’s mandate to make sure the laws are faithfully executed.

*5. The Cold War. During WWII (1939-1945), Germany wanted to clobber Russia for its incursions into Germany in the form of communist activism. It correctly saw socialist ideas as likely to be popularly received (despite the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 having been anti-citizen, anti-nation, and anti-freedom.) America, on the other hand, did not view Russia as its enemy; it formed an alliance in the 1940s whereby Stalin, FDR, and the UK’s Winston Churchill became The Allies.

After WWII ended, with Germany’s defeat, the US shifted its policy. It declared Communism to be the greatest enemy and it had the Church’s approval in this, since the Commies wanted atheism. My childhood in the 1950s had such notable moments as hiding under the desk at school during an Air Raid, and waiting, all the time, for the expected attack which would come from a nuclear bomb, delivered by an inter-continental ballistic missile. (Ooo, an ICBM, how sophisticated.)

By college days, in the 1960s I had developed enough ethical concern to disapprove of the US support for cruel dictators, but the logic that was used against this was “Better dead than Red.” I fell for it, more or less. This meant that we would fight proxy wars, here and there, to “help” a country keep the Commies out. The Vietnam War of 1965-1973 was the major one. The males of my generation got conscripted into the military. 58,281 of them died in Vietnam. The Commies won, headed by Ho Chi Minh who is rumored to have been CIA.

Based on much that has come to light, including How the Far East Was Lost by Anthony Kubek, National Suicide by Antony Sutton, and Daniel Glanser’s book on GLADIO, I think it is obvious that there was never a “real” Cold War. Prior to 1945 we helped Mao Tse Tung rise to power in China. At the Yalta meeting of the Allies in 1944, Churchill and FDR conceded much control of Eastern Europe to Stalin.

Was the US government’s anti-communism but a show piece? That would have to be the case if the globalists were already in power, pre-1945, and it appears they were. Right away in 1945 Rockefeller had the plan for United Nations ready to roll. This included the IMF and the World Bank which subsequently allowed “Finance” to rule the world. The UN used a lot of “Human rights” talk in its programs, but that was, I think, a cover. Show me an instance of the UN coming through as a powerful force to help people win their civil rights.

*6. NATO is Ridiculous and Unconstitutional.  Founded in 1949 at Brussels, the National Treaty Organization was an alliance of “western nations” — against the Commies who had the Warsaw Pact. Note that in 1990, the Communist party of the Soviet Union, under Mikhail Gorbachev, threw in the towel. There had also been, in 1989, “the fall of the wall,” that is the wall separating West Berlin from East Berlin that divided the nation of Germany into two halves, postwar.

Today, NATO appears to me to be a way for the US to keep watch over national leaders in Europe. Or to put it another way, it allows supervision of the world by the Real Boss (which may be the US or UK or Israel, or no known nation, just a Club of men). Russia is reportedly the enemy. I mean you would need an enemy if you are a military type formation, right?

NATO has a supreme commander who is sometimes American, sometimes not. At the moment it is a US Army man, General Christopher Cavoli. When the commander is not American, I do not see how it can be constitutional for US troops to answer to anyone other than their own leaders.

*7. The abuse of our soldiers’ health. It strikes me that there is something very weird, maybe satanic, going on inside the US military. It looks like we try to harm our own soldiers. I will mention just two instances. In 1990, the small nation of Kuwait was apparently stealing oil from Iraq by “diagonal drilling.” Although we had no treaty to defend Kuwait, we sent our soldiers to make war on Iraq because of this issue.

Maybe what we really wanted was the fall of Saddam Hussein, who was an independent sort of national leader, in Iraq. Anyway, our soldiers, while in Iraq (only for a few months in early 1991), developed Gulf War Illness. Of course, it could all have been an accident. But when a few cases started to emerge, the DoD did not jump to investigate it. In the long run, 600,000 US soldiers contracted the illness.

They are entitled to disability payment if their symptoms developed within one year of leaving the area and if they have these four symptoms: chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, certain gastro-intestinal issues such as irritable bowel syndrome, and one other that is flexible. The history of official handling of the disease known as Chronic Fatigue is enough to tell us that there is foul play.

The other illness is the one caused by the anthrax vaccine. Around the time of September 11, 2001, US Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont received a letter that contained anthrax powder which was later confirmed to be weapons-grade and probably a product of DoD. As early as 1998, soldiers had started to receive anthrax vaccination if they held particular assignments. Studies show that 85% of recipients of the vaccine complain of various symptoms, including fibromyalgia. Many Air Force men quit the service, some saying that the use of this vaccine was experimental and needed consent. Compensation is paid through the Veterans Administration.

There will be more articles in this series “Where Are We Headed?”

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  1. I scored today. I was in a second hand shop and I found an old ‘generic’ kerosene lantern. The kind you might find in any household 100-150 years ago. Simple, machined brass fixture with a simple glass bottom to see the level of kerosene in the lantern. The kind of lantern that would sit in the depressions that frequent the old courthouses.

    I tweaked the brass fixture a bit and filled it. Works great! – When the power goes out, those ‘re-chargeable’ electric lanterns will only be useful as a paper weight.

  2. Terry,
    I lived in a home without electricity for about three years to mid July 1@55.
    I will know how to mahage and in our last blackout a few months ago love my three candle silver Calabria🤪

    Mary, well where are you heading? Want to really know the REALITY?
    No, you need more than seven minutes, so forget it,

    HOWEVER, those who live in the US, have Tele/friends there or thinking of visiting better get real by listening to Jim Willie at beforeitsnews,com – people powered news. See if you can last from about five to twenty five minutes.
    Then there is more that sounds interesting….
    TERRY. How long did you last, may I ask?🙀💁🤷‍♂️😎😎😎😎

    • I also have candles and not the cheap paraffin kind, the ones with lots of beeswax. Stick one of those candles in a used wine bottle and it will burn for most of the night.

      Yes, I hear/read about ya’ll referring to ‘the plan’. Unfortunately, I have been so betrayed, lied to, stolen from, conned and just generally crapped on over the course of my life, that I prefer to have my own ‘plan’. You can trust somebody (whoever that may be) that has a ‘plan’. As for me, I’m proceeding with my own plan. – If sometime in the future you need a feed, let me know, I should be able to fill your belly with some good quality tucker.

      Protect yourself, nobody else will…

      • “Yes, I hear/read about ya’ll referring to ‘the plan’. Unfortunately, I have been so betrayed, lied to, stolen from, conned and just generally crapped on over the course of my life, that I prefer to have my own ‘plan’. You can trust somebody (whoever that may be) that has a ‘plan’. As for me, I’m proceeding with my own plan. – If sometime in the future you need a feed, let me know, I should be able to fill your belly with some good quality tucker.”

        quoted for truth.

  3. No more wars are coming our way for at least a thousand years.

    Well, what about World War Three you say? Aren’t we already in it?

    If you looked to where Ned and I, have been pointing to look, then you would already know there will be no more war on this planet forever more.

    • “If you looked to where Ned and I, have been pointing to look, then you would already know there will be no more war on this planet forever more.”

      because neither of you are capable of simply articulating the solution in a simple paragraph or two?

      • So, what is your plan, Fair Dinkum? Ned and I, have taken the time to learn what is coming for all – how about you – do you know anything at all about what is coming?

        • The Deagle Report indicated a 34% reduction in Australia’s population in 2025. My research has indicated that the figures in the Deagle Report were obtained by remote viewing.

          If that is true, what is your plan for that possible future?

          • 34% reduction of population seems a little heavy. I believe we must also take on board that remote viewing is not always accurate, especially as to specifics, like numbers of population decreasing.

            I think you should questioning who commissioned the Deagal Report, and for what purpose?

            I guess, at this time, we must also take on board that there are still those dying from the delayed effects of the jab – and other nefarious ways that the Globalists have been using to decrease the population, and that I assume, most of us on this site are only too well aware of.

            Then we have to balance out any projected population drop with the introduction of the Med Beds – according to sources – should be rolling out in every country by the end of this year. If you are not aware of what Med Bed technology is and how it will replace the barbarism that has been, ‘medical science’ and Big Pharma for far too long, and will enhance, and benefit Humanity, then I would suggest you at least make yourself familiar of such life saving and life altering technology.

            Nuremberg 2 begins November 20, 2024. Going on the findings that will be made public as the trials become ongoing – many who have been jabbed will be awakened by such revelations as will be exposed in those trials. My guess is, when that occurs, many jabbed will be saved via the appropriate remedies that are already out there for those who will look for them.

            What happened to the Chem trails? Where have they gone?

            Have you noticed just how green everything now appears to be, especially over the past three years?

            And this ‘greening’ is all over this great big land and not just limited to the East Coast, and bits and pieces around the coastline, as you would find as a standard on any colored map printed prior to, 2021.

            My guess is this – the Deagal Report will be proven inaccurate, although this country will experience a population drop during 2025, but not due to deaths, but many who do not belong here, and came here to take over, who will choose to eventually return to their homeland, during next year, to benefit in the wealth that everyone will soon share in.

            I know your plan. At some time though, you have to re-join Humanity.

          • So your “guess” is as good as anyone’s, but you “own” any good news that comes along, and if the news is bad you will go away and hide, like you did a couple of years ago after you lost a huge argument about an old boat, and like you did recently when you said people were ganging up on you.
            The reason things are green is because it is spring, not because of Q-anon, and certainly nothing to do with anything you ever did, so you can stop trying to take the credit.

          • Well, Joe – at least I have based my guess on what I have come to know is true – while you choose to ignore most of the signposts to what you should know, which then, leaves you still guessing as to what will eventuate.

            And your willingness to remind me of what you believe occurred some ‘years’ ago, just shows up your own lack of memory and judgement, especially for those you have no empathy for.

            You can be very nasty at times – Joe. You will need to rein that characteristic in, if you wish to advance spiritually.

    • Dear Sandra
      There are wars, yes, but as usual, proxy wars fought away from the bastards manipulating them trying to create THEIR WORLD WAR TO RESET THE BROKE BANKS.
      NOW WE ARE AT THE ‘SCARE’ time when the people controllers are desperate but are controlled, with violence perhaps.
      There may be huge scare events to awaken the normies but with some deception; how many military want to see or risk their families turned into ash? It is a new game.

      To get a idea, just look up the latest now released from Ben Fulford, cited in some details by Mary at situation update at beforeitsnews. com – people powered need
      Just relax and listen… you will cope, those who have not listened and not been awakened will have to manage….. they make their own bed!
      I have had to face some disappointments for the traitors and anti-Christs, are even in my world.
      Everything we believed in is false.🙏
      T O and me, at least have been on the job for years. As for me, I am relaxed, even knowing of so much evil….. whatever!

      • BTW: spend 25 mins with Jim Willie, from 5 summarising the present US and manage the rest.
        Just have cash and necessities by the end of Monday – just in case. If nothing happens in October, you will still have the cash and supplies. Win win!

  5. Mary,
    Thank you for writing as it happened concerning the global military madness murder and genocide. Seriously, why take aim and pull the trigger on any one, because our bombs are blessed?
    Commandment is don’t kill.
    So simple a child understands, tragic how adults forget sins with screens pushing 24/7 abominations. The ‘pacifists’ ruling this place have all the guns as we sit unarmed and programmed.
    Krown kabal komunizm.

  8. T.O
    Have you noted Oprah and Diddy discussed by King at beforeitsnews..com?
    Diddy mentioned by Q. In 2018. Some normies are too thick to realise the music usual controllers with the means to blackmail the stupid sick politicians so the usuals control the politics.
    It is all building up to the exposures I have been expecting this.
    💁🤪🙀🤷‍♂️⚖️☠️

    • Ned – going on Joe’s comment below. Joe doesn’t comprehend the enormity of what is about to be exposed concerning the, ‘entertainment industry’.

      And, good riddance to it all.

      • Messiah Plodgers,
        It has already been exposed over and over on the Alt-news by sites such as Gumshoes and even people like Ricky Gervais who told them all, right to their faces at the Oscars. The process goes on.
        Since you don’t understand I will tell you again, I am not interested in becoming a Q-member or joining your personality cult, once again, can you stop addressing your stoopid remarks at me.

      • Joe – many are still asleep to the evil that is the ‘entertainment industry’ and for instance – Taylor Swift has quite the following, into the millions I believe, who ‘idolize’ her/him, whatever she is, she/he, does not care for those who stupidly place such a Devil worshipper on a pedestal.

        What the ‘entertainment industry’ is all about goes well beyond what some other folk have made public jokes about, it is part and parcel of the system of worship that would have been forced onto us all, if that witch, Clinton, had became the president, in 2016.

        Now, thankfully, it will all be publicly exposed.

        Open your bloody eyes!

  9. They have plenty of small fish to throw under the bus, pervy types are ten a penny, Epsteins are much rarer, a great financier we hear, where dark meets not so dark.
    What’s that about Trump’s uncle getting his hooks into the Tesla stuff. And now Lord Muck has swung in. Those Haitians will have to be microchipped along with the pets.

  10. Mary – for your next essay, maybe you could consider writing about WHERE WE WERE ALL HEADED TO, had Hilary Rodham Clinton, become President in 2016?

    Think about it – there is so much to write about what would be happening to us all right now, if Trump hadn’t won that election?

    We would all be forced into worshipping Lucifer – or lose our heads on refusal. All the evidence is there, it just needs to be publicly exposed, and probably will be, soon.

    You could be the first to write about it. Do you feel up to it?

  13. Forty years ago, Australia had the most affordable housing in the world. Today, Sydney is tied with Hong Kong as the most unaffordable globally. With Oz taking gold as the most expensive nation to live in. War is good business for some, as we see red comrades. To add insult to injury, pension raised from 65 to 67!
    Where are the jobs, look at who’s doing the work. Not so long ago the biggest middle class, that was our self sufficiency, now with ‘free’ trade fleeced to the bone.

    • The house price leads by design to apartment dwelling, from where the unfortunate can be controlled as in China. Over the course of the scamdemic we saw a sudden rise in interest in old quarter acre block properties and big freestanding houses regardless of location. I know a guy who was renting and his desirable block with old house near the shopping mall was recently sold to a Chinese buyer for more than double what it would have fetched immediately pre-Covid. Apartments have not rocketed up like that so the developers must be very frustrated. Nobody should buy into a hirise apartment with a lift, the extra body corporate fees alone should be enough of a deterrent. The government should let the rich Chinese buy them, as they do in Thailand, where foreigners cannot buy land. The government is clearly, deliberately lying constantly and very incompetent, which we can clearly measure by their spiralling debt.

      • Indeed, the politicians are obliged to the globalist control agenda.
        I would never buy and live in a unit complex where strata or company director/s self promoters and spivs have any say on my residence/casrtle..
        With some invested interests, we have been experiencing over 60 years of idiot self promoting psycho narcissists throwing their weight around to act like concentration guards.
        Then you get the spend thrifts who have plenty of money left from there down sizing or movement to Australia, they compel unit holders to have to squander money on their spoilt lifestyle indulgences that some unit holders cannot afford.
        It is akin to inviting those myriad of Gods) (little frustrated ones) into a person’s kitchen to live on lobster and truffles…. As If they knew how to cook within a pensioner’s budget. Especially the spoilt brats who had servants in their previous domain to order around and wipe their ……

        • I don’t comprehend how some people can live in human filing cabinets as a ‘home’ – I have always desired some decent land around me where my closest neighbor has to be shouted at, to get his attention.

          • They are being manipulated into their voluntary prison cells by planned deliberate globalist policies implemented by our politicians because sufficient alleged leaders are compelled with blackmail and goodies to succumb.

          • I have lived in apartments most of my adult life ( do you call them flats down there too ? ) and while I would desire to have what you have , I have not had to cut grass , shovel snow , or climb up on the roof in a very long time .

            Too old to start now . File me under “stuck”.

          • Hans – I’m no spring chicken either. But when push comes to shove for repairs, I pay someone to do it.

            No snow here mate, at least not yet, and the beloved and I, have been here for over a decade.

  14. Now for some REAL news – Specialist troops from Russia, Brazil, Germany and France, have been placed into position in Texas, Florida, New York City and Washington D.C.

    Why, you ask?

    You can find out all about that headline if you CHOOSE, to look, over at Judy Byington at beforeitsnews.com

  16. ‘There is something bizarre about all this- what are they planning for October?’
    The promo has a large Q included.with something about October.
    Where, the. Old fart’s ‘ cultist club’ at
    Beforeitsnews.com TODAY.
    The presentation us easy to listen to – ‘TONY.
    I have been noting him for some time for his superficial short reports on mainly finance.
    SO I PLUGGED HIM FOR HIS AUDIO REPORT ON MY WALK FOR SOME SHOPPING.
    I suppose only the Terrys and awake will take the time to have factual material to think what’s new etc’
    But he refers to official stuff and reports with a little more street detail then Jim Willie and ors.
    Matter for the normies to consider.
    I am sick of trying to kick sufficient arses.
    I thought that in my way back with the rest of the commentary.’ that I could discern.
    Well probably for the LAST TIME I FEEL DUTY BOUND TO REFER THE CONTENT.
    IOK stupids and gullible normies and msm couch potatoes:
    I do not care about you lot if you do not have a month’s “insurance supply” of cash. Stiff.
    Nor if you do not have some canned stuff and a bit of rice etc.
    BUT WHAT IF YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ARE AS STUPID AS YOU!
    HOW ARE YOU GOING TO HELP THEM OR THEM HELP YOU if the shtf!???????

    • For the bible commentators.
      Recall the parable of the brides going to meet their grooms etc.
      On the journey, some did not have sufficient fuel for their lamps and asked others for some of their fuel.
      In short; the brides with fuel told those without light to piss off because they were stupid and had not brought enough of their own.
      A parable that I have never forgotten.
      Amen.

      Ah EB. And Ant; Fancy me?!
      Whom you do not know💁🤪🤪🤪🤪🙏

  18. Oh well, we know sfa.
    But some have an idea!
    I note that the US fiscal year ends every 30/9 (ours 30/6)
    Oh well, if Mary’s report has some AERIOUS legs – at beforeitsnews.com – people powered news Latest today ‘ PT …. You were warned ……’
    THEN DO NOT WHINGE IF YOU CANNOT HANDLE SHTF!
    You have been warned here for years.
    If you have taken notice of distractions, then it is your problem.

    • Just caught up with WTPN, and what a show!

      Especially what V. Thor has to offer.

      I remember watching a very grainy video some years back, and that was removed soon after, concerning that crashed Martian ship on the back side of the Moon – occupied by ‘Mona Lisa’ and her two male companions – deceased of course.

      During my lifespan, I have come to know many things about Mars, which is not what NASA has been publicly putting out for decades.

      V.T. has confirmed what I have learned about Mars and my suspicion as to why the surface of Mars appears – and the debris that the Rover has been exposing – to be the leftovers of some massive destructive force, from above.

      There is way more exposed than I will not mention here.

      If you, the reader are a doubter, but one, who wishes to know more, than I suggest you watch it, from toward the end of the show.

      We all come here to this world to learn, so now is your big chance to get another piece into that giant jigsaw puzzle, called Humanity

  19. Take Wesley Clark’s “7 countries” and look at them on a map. Now overlay that with an outline of the “plan for Greater Israel.” This plan would allow access to 3 different waterways, creating an economic juggernaut. The correlation is hard to ignore…Somalia, for example, makes much more sense if thought of in terms of keeping the Red Sea safe for commerce.

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