No Evident 'Goodwill'

The main thing that stands out for me in the latest video from Julian Assange, was his comment that there was a lack of goodwill in global politics right now, and also across the internet space.

What he means is that the big government 'players' in geopolitics today are not acting from any standpoint of goodwill whatsoever - in other words, they could and would create 'hot conflicts' (IE wars) out of malice and very obscure elements of self-interest which they are good at concealing from everyone outside of only their closest inner circles.

No Tiffany blue for today's 'elite...'

I mean, seriously, why does Poland want to irritate Russia right now? They would be creating difficulties for their close neighbor Germany because of the fact that Germany is dependent on Russian energy resources, and they are themselves not energy self-sufficient and could pay far less for Russian gas than what they are now paying from other sources.

What are they doing? The Prime Minister was just in Washington asking Donald Trump to place a permanent US military base in Poland. I mean that is ridiculous on so many levels - even Senator Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) laughed at it saying 'they are clever people, the Poles, they want us there and they are willing to pay billions to us to have us there.' He was driving home the point that if the Poland government wanted to try and manipulate the US on behalf of the Eu-Commission to literally create another problem with Russia, well then fine, the US would do it so long as it got paid - lots!

The maliciousness of the Poland Prime Minister, the sheer audacity of him to walk up to Trump and lie straight to his face in public pretending that Poland needed protection from the USA, was breathtaking. Poland is directly protected - if any absurd and dire threat took shape - by NATO. Poland is nowhere near America and has no natural relationship with America - so why the flirting?

This is just one example of the preparedness by governments around the world to lie for extremely underhanded, questionable, and ulterior often quite malicious purposes.

And this idea of slinging around the word 'Nazi' or 'extremist' at political figures in Western countries has gone well beyond any kind of joke. And it's happening with the complicity, in far too many cases, of courts and judges. The current situations to do with people like Marie Le Pen in France, or Tommy Robinson, or certainly Assange, are part of a broadening trend, in my view.

Are we facing some risk we cannot see for the moment?

There is absolutely no reason for any of it - we have had stable economic conditions for well over twenty years and have hit all-time-record-highs in the Dow-Jones, plus low inflation and highly stable oil prices. What gives?

Is this some kind of psychological issue that the human race has, in which it simply pathologically has to have a massive war for no authentic purpose every fifty years or so?

If I had to make a guess about the 'feel' of the place - of the whole world right now - I would say never have I observed a more angry 'elite' and 'ruling-class establishment.' I try to make this Blogspace about luxury and leisure and general messing around but I don't think the rich people are buying luxury things, and nor are they spending money, and nor are they appearing to be 'having a good time!' They're all acting like dogs-in-a-manger.