Albanese replied to the Israeli calling her a witch by saying Israel was guilty of genocide so if the worst she could be called was a “witch”, she’d accept that. She went on to say that if she were a witch she’d use her powers to stop the murders of Palestinians. Francesca Albanese, a hero of our time.
Poor Dick Cheney; still around, on his umpteenth heart, gets only derisive mention along with the likes of John McCain when US bombs fall all over the planet. I always wonder if old Dick is actually immortal. Then you write a piece like this making me remember that he really is, that his spiritual essence -- war and imperialism -- will persist in the American psyche indefinitely. Until this miserable bloody empire finds the bottom of some deep pit in hell.
When you mention Cheney it certainly indicates how little progress has been made in the USA since that man was creating havoc in his various roles in government. Progress almost zero.
The Bush period was the beginning of the failure of the USA to maintain anything in the way of respect from the rest of the world and downhill since then. But nothing will ever equal the deeds of the current US narcissist and there is more to come. We all know that. Look what he has got away with already as the puppet of Israel.
The most frightening indication of the deterioration of decent values in that USA is the similarity of the two parties, all able to be purchased by the Israeli loyalists and now representing 86% of all elected members. Paid for by the likes of Adelson and friends, calling themselves loyal Americans.
So, where to from here? More of the same and if the recent No King campaign was the best we can expect from the population at large, then Trump has a clear path to be able to claim the title as the greatest criminal in the history of the world making Hitler pale by comparison and making Bush and Cheney a distant fading memory.
Right there behind him, pulling the strings is Netanyahu and his criminal state, who without the weakness of the US government and the US veto at the UN would be of little concern to the rest of the world, as cunning and as devious as they have always been. The nature of the parasitical beast., known by all.
It is safe to say that the weaknesses in the structure of the US Constitution, its so very obvious obvious weaknesses now on full display, is now able to be manipulated in any direction as we have seen since January, 2025 and will contribute in a large measure to the eventual end of the United States of America.
It will take some time, but they are well on the way.
Cheney’s great contribution was the concept of outsourcing much of the role of the military to private contractors. Yes, defense contractors have provided weapons and materiel for centuries, but Cheney outsourced logistics, equipment maintenance, construction and maintenance of housing, food preparation and delivery, IT systems provisioning and support, etc.
Most of the skilled trades and administrative jobs that used to be done by military personnel are now done by for-profit contractors.
Even more interesting is that the contractors operate a “multi-level marketing system” analogous to Amway, Avon, MaryKay, etc., with each level getting a guaranteed profit markup.
I have to say I disagreed with you the first time you said it. I remember saying we own israel. I am so sorry to have doubted you my friend. I apologize.
the supremacy of god is there, despite having severed the link to a king. The divine source of power has been "lurking". I must sound like a heathen for those who can't really separate church and state, in spite of the rest of their western democracy constitution to that effect (variable from country to counrty). I have nothing against a moral god, but a political one, it has bad historical precendents, all religions alike. So my conclusion, is don't mix god and politicis that deep. But I might have been brainwashed from some narrative of the French revolution, in all its posterior duplicitous colonial exceptionalist application, the narrative did not include that. But maybe I am stuck in finding it a problem (putting a moral god on a political structure). I know also that my reasoning has some flaw, for what is politics really.... So this is just an idea or even question. Could it be that God is there, and that might allow ursurpation or sublimation of the democratic pillars also in the constitution? come the right government was the enemy, it was vanquished and conquered by the donor class (any religion, btw or none, does not change a thing to the proposal here), and the last real election found that libertarian maximus god kind liberator of the oppressed billionaires and those next in line aspiriing to). I said this is a question, an hypothesis.. call me heathen I don'T really know what that means, the emotion of it...
Well said Mr. LoPresti. His ethos stills looms large in the political sphere to this day, influencing policy even though he's not physically present. The bloodstained military-industrial complex continues to operate, driving and perpetuating war
and control of the media, and its use as a tool of advancing the interests of the wealthy, influential elite to keep the population from being aware of the real issues and doing something about them is one of those means
Yes, I asked what are we asking for? No one had an idea what I was saying. I was there for my friend fighting ICE in our city. They arrested a citizen going to work at our local hospital. You are right, the civil war is coming.
i think it's astounding how they managed to make the left-right fight something other than the bottom-up fight. i bet in 20 years they'll be saying 'it's not the bottom-up fight, it's the left-right fight'. imo, there's never been an up-left or a bottom-right.
Like a propaganda war after watching two years of mangled kids is going to work for Israel. Words don't do the trick when you see what Israel is actually doing.
And didn't Francesca Albanese have a great reply to the accusation that she was a witch?
“Look, it’s grotesque and frankly delusional that a genocidal state can’t respond to the substance of my findings,” she said, “and the best thing it resorts to is accusing me of witchcraft. So let it be — you are the one accused of genocide. If the worst thing you can accuse me of is witchcraft, I take it.
But rest assured, if I had the power to make spells, I would use it — not for vengeance, but to stop your crimes once and for all, to make sure those responsible end up behind bars, and that everyone from the river to the sea — Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and secular — lives in freedom and enjoys their rights, not just privileges for a few.”
You'd be surprised. Americans are not only conditioned to be highly susceptible to propaganda, but also to have very short collective memories, especially for things that didn't happen on US soil (or that the media didn't contemporaneously drill into their consciousness). The whole Gaza genocide was minimally covered by the dominant players in media (print, online, socials, cable) compared to stuff like 9/11 and the illegal invasion of Iraq. Most people who were fervent supporters of the Bush/Cheney regime can't even remember their own stance on Iraq accurately now. Believe me, I've had these conversations with some of them and it's mind blowing. I've even pulled up their own emails and social media posts about various US wars between 2003 and 2016 which directly contradict their stated recollections. It's fascinating when they start the mental gymnastics - and a lot of "us" do it.
In his feeble attempt to insult and discredit her, he complimented her. Witchcraft is not just blowing on knots or hookas-pookas, or staring into a crystal ball or stirring a potion in a large caldron.
She is definitely casting a spell, by “spelling” out the atrocities of what Israel is doing. His claims come from a deep center of fear. He knows about psychological warfare and he knows about how it has to be countered. He knows that both approaches are “crafts” and are part of the “craft of war”. He knows exactly what he is saying and exactly what he means. He knows a fellowwitch when he sees one. I wanted to laugh when I first heard this, but dude is serious as a heart attack!
Ms. Albanese is “crafting” public opinion and she is so well armed that Hasbara (the craft of propaganda) is having a hard time staying afloat.
To some, what he has said, may seem immature or even infantile, but for those of us who know… we see a battle between the forces of two “crafty” people. One who uses facts and figures, the other who uses manipulation. We are looking at Darth Vader and Luke Sky Walker.
I will tell you this, you do not want Ms. Albanese to cross over to the dark side, she would be just as awesome.
But she is "well armed"--by Israel! She is not crafty in using the right words--what makes her special is her refusal to be intimidated or bought. Anyone with that much determination and integrity would do as well, with Israel constantly supplying the ammunition.
The fact that the Divided States of America is bombing at all while its federal government milking the shutdown to ensure that the poorest Americans starve: this is the worst federal government in existence and it is not even close.
I made a donation to the local county food bank today.
"The entire American right is just Dick Cheney wearing various costumes." Mostly. There *is* Ron Paul. Also, the American Left is also Dick Cheney in various costumes, which has given me the image of Cheney in an obnoxious Tax the Rich dress, which I find amusing, so thank you.
Yeah, MTG impresses me in that she isn't afraid to challenge the establishment. I miss Matt Gaetz for that reason, too. Rand is sometimes okay, but I agree with you. He's def not his father.
Horrifying development, and even bigger than this, because Sudan (45mill. people) is quietly collapsing macro scale, under the same genocidal starvation killing landgrabbing regimes in the Middle East, led by UAE, funded by City of London and their zionist ilk, see Global GeoPolitics post on 30 October.
"The Empire doesn't just control the opposition, it controls the opposition to the opposition."
This strategy goes way back, if you can't beat them, you join them and then control them from within. This strategy has been the downfall of so many who started off as part of the resistance, then the resistance is co-opted and move ever so slightly away from its original precepts.
So many have fallen on their own sword by infiltrators who appear to be in alignment with the resistance, only to get into positions of power within the resistance movement and then are in a "strategic" place to undermine it.
What that does is sow seeds of discord among the resistance members and slowly but surely the resistance is dismantled.
I've seen this happen in so many "resistance" movements here in the USA from the small to the medium to the large movements.
I never understood the excitement around Nick Fuentes or Charlie Kirk. One thing that is for sure, once they get a lot of notoriety, fame and "fortune" they begin to yield to the pressure of becoming mainstream and if they don't yield they will be summarily demonized, threatened or eliminated. The infiltrators have all the "goods" on them and a good look into their bank accounts.
There was a time when Alex Jones was ahead of the curve. He created great documentaries... then he got rich.. What people don't realize is that the trap is being set to move them away from their opposing position.. like Caitlin said, the Empire controls the opposition to the opposition. Same thing happened with the Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam and even what happened during and after Katrina. There was a strong movement for reparations when the hurricane hit. Folks were unraveling the "inside" job that Katrina was. Before long, infiltrators came in under the guise of being part of the "opposition". Became strong advocates, moved to the top of the pile, only to get there and be the cause of the whole movement being dismantled. I can't remember the name of the African American man who was undermined by this infiltrator but it's a straight up CIA style op. Same thing happened with the so-called New Age Movement, the Disclosure Movement and so many others. The idea is to control it until it loses its power, discredit it, create distrust and ultimately destroy it.
>>"There was a time when Alex Jones was ahead of the curve."
Alex Jones was NEVER ahead of the curve (or anything of the sort). He was ALWAYS an opportunist (from the very beginning). Anyone that has read Michael Parenti or Noam Chomsky would know anything Alex Jones would talk about (and twist in his own conspiratorial ways). There are literally hundreds of people that have talked and written about things that Alex Jones simply repurposes, twists, manipulates, and sells in order to make a buck. He was ALWAYS a grifter.
Zionists have taught me all sorts of astonishing things of late. Francesca Albanese is a Wiccan. Who knew? And Manhattan has become a cesspool of Jew hate because Glamor Magazine picked Ms. Rachel and Rachel Zegler as their Women of the Year.
The demonization of “witchcraft” is in itself a deception since it has been used to smear mostly women who were primary holders of plant medicine knowledge and earth wisdom both of which were forcibly replaced by toxic pharma and the rise of allopathic medical orthodoxy.
"The world needs to terminate the experiment by any means necessary and end the Zionist state forever."
This should be memorized and reapeted as often as possible. There is no other credible position on Israel today. It and it's backers in the US are the enemy of humanity.
Albanese replied to the Israeli calling her a witch by saying Israel was guilty of genocide so if the worst she could be called was a “witch”, she’d accept that. She went on to say that if she were a witch she’d use her powers to stop the murders of Palestinians. Francesca Albanese, a hero of our time.
She definitely put him in his place: she also said "if I really had spells, I would immediately use them to stop you"!
But alas, the speech of the Italian UN representative...what a shame.
if the Nobel PP were actually relevant anymore, to her it could go
Or perhaps, jointly to Francesca Albanese and the people of Palestine.
Poor Dick Cheney; still around, on his umpteenth heart, gets only derisive mention along with the likes of John McCain when US bombs fall all over the planet. I always wonder if old Dick is actually immortal. Then you write a piece like this making me remember that he really is, that his spiritual essence -- war and imperialism -- will persist in the American psyche indefinitely. Until this miserable bloody empire finds the bottom of some deep pit in hell.
Vin
When you mention Cheney it certainly indicates how little progress has been made in the USA since that man was creating havoc in his various roles in government. Progress almost zero.
The Bush period was the beginning of the failure of the USA to maintain anything in the way of respect from the rest of the world and downhill since then. But nothing will ever equal the deeds of the current US narcissist and there is more to come. We all know that. Look what he has got away with already as the puppet of Israel.
The most frightening indication of the deterioration of decent values in that USA is the similarity of the two parties, all able to be purchased by the Israeli loyalists and now representing 86% of all elected members. Paid for by the likes of Adelson and friends, calling themselves loyal Americans.
So, where to from here? More of the same and if the recent No King campaign was the best we can expect from the population at large, then Trump has a clear path to be able to claim the title as the greatest criminal in the history of the world making Hitler pale by comparison and making Bush and Cheney a distant fading memory.
Right there behind him, pulling the strings is Netanyahu and his criminal state, who without the weakness of the US government and the US veto at the UN would be of little concern to the rest of the world, as cunning and as devious as they have always been. The nature of the parasitical beast., known by all.
It is safe to say that the weaknesses in the structure of the US Constitution, its so very obvious obvious weaknesses now on full display, is now able to be manipulated in any direction as we have seen since January, 2025 and will contribute in a large measure to the eventual end of the United States of America.
It will take some time, but they are well on the way.
Cheney’s great contribution was the concept of outsourcing much of the role of the military to private contractors. Yes, defense contractors have provided weapons and materiel for centuries, but Cheney outsourced logistics, equipment maintenance, construction and maintenance of housing, food preparation and delivery, IT systems provisioning and support, etc.
Most of the skilled trades and administrative jobs that used to be done by military personnel are now done by for-profit contractors.
Even more interesting is that the contractors operate a “multi-level marketing system” analogous to Amway, Avon, MaryKay, etc., with each level getting a guaranteed profit markup.
For-profit contractors weren’t so hot when it came to showers. Shocking.
You’ll know we’re headed back in the right direction when the Army cooks return to peeling potatoes for the mashed spuds served in the chow line.
I have said countless times: US is owned by a small State called Israel.
When war comes the the USA it will be a religious war owned by Israel and the Evangelists.
I have to say I disagreed with you the first time you said it. I remember saying we own israel. I am so sorry to have doubted you my friend. I apologize.
the supremacy of god is there, despite having severed the link to a king. The divine source of power has been "lurking". I must sound like a heathen for those who can't really separate church and state, in spite of the rest of their western democracy constitution to that effect (variable from country to counrty). I have nothing against a moral god, but a political one, it has bad historical precendents, all religions alike. So my conclusion, is don't mix god and politicis that deep. But I might have been brainwashed from some narrative of the French revolution, in all its posterior duplicitous colonial exceptionalist application, the narrative did not include that. But maybe I am stuck in finding it a problem (putting a moral god on a political structure). I know also that my reasoning has some flaw, for what is politics really.... So this is just an idea or even question. Could it be that God is there, and that might allow ursurpation or sublimation of the democratic pillars also in the constitution? come the right government was the enemy, it was vanquished and conquered by the donor class (any religion, btw or none, does not change a thing to the proposal here), and the last real election found that libertarian maximus god kind liberator of the oppressed billionaires and those next in line aspiriing to). I said this is a question, an hypothesis.. call me heathen I don'T really know what that means, the emotion of it...
Yep. We must stay on code. Even our progressive ‘heroes’ are cancer-ridden with the imperialist colonialism disease. The iceberg looms large.
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Well said Mr. LoPresti. His ethos stills looms large in the political sphere to this day, influencing policy even though he's not physically present. The bloodstained military-industrial complex continues to operate, driving and perpetuating war
Only a Cheney can kill a Cheney, and we lost our chance with Liz.
The U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II
......and more to come.
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As Chomsky once put it, "governments will use whatever means to combat their primary enemy: their own populations"
and control of the media, and its use as a tool of advancing the interests of the wealthy, influential elite to keep the population from being aware of the real issues and doing something about them is one of those means
The US people can walk down the streets of the USA with their pathetic NO KINGS march.
How about shutting down your media? Protest outside Mainstream Media offices..........these are the people you SHOULD be fighting against.
Yes, I asked what are we asking for? No one had an idea what I was saying. I was there for my friend fighting ICE in our city. They arrested a citizen going to work at our local hospital. You are right, the civil war is coming.
Yes, the fight is bottom up , not left, right.
i think it's astounding how they managed to make the left-right fight something other than the bottom-up fight. i bet in 20 years they'll be saying 'it's not the bottom-up fight, it's the left-right fight'. imo, there's never been an up-left or a bottom-right.
America - the Great Satan.
Like a propaganda war after watching two years of mangled kids is going to work for Israel. Words don't do the trick when you see what Israel is actually doing.
And didn't Francesca Albanese have a great reply to the accusation that she was a witch?
“Look, it’s grotesque and frankly delusional that a genocidal state can’t respond to the substance of my findings,” she said, “and the best thing it resorts to is accusing me of witchcraft. So let it be — you are the one accused of genocide. If the worst thing you can accuse me of is witchcraft, I take it.
But rest assured, if I had the power to make spells, I would use it — not for vengeance, but to stop your crimes once and for all, to make sure those responsible end up behind bars, and that everyone from the river to the sea — Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and secular — lives in freedom and enjoys their rights, not just privileges for a few.”
You'd be surprised. Americans are not only conditioned to be highly susceptible to propaganda, but also to have very short collective memories, especially for things that didn't happen on US soil (or that the media didn't contemporaneously drill into their consciousness). The whole Gaza genocide was minimally covered by the dominant players in media (print, online, socials, cable) compared to stuff like 9/11 and the illegal invasion of Iraq. Most people who were fervent supporters of the Bush/Cheney regime can't even remember their own stance on Iraq accurately now. Believe me, I've had these conversations with some of them and it's mind blowing. I've even pulled up their own emails and social media posts about various US wars between 2003 and 2016 which directly contradict their stated recollections. It's fascinating when they start the mental gymnastics - and a lot of "us" do it.
In his feeble attempt to insult and discredit her, he complimented her. Witchcraft is not just blowing on knots or hookas-pookas, or staring into a crystal ball or stirring a potion in a large caldron.
She is definitely casting a spell, by “spelling” out the atrocities of what Israel is doing. His claims come from a deep center of fear. He knows about psychological warfare and he knows about how it has to be countered. He knows that both approaches are “crafts” and are part of the “craft of war”. He knows exactly what he is saying and exactly what he means. He knows a fellowwitch when he sees one. I wanted to laugh when I first heard this, but dude is serious as a heart attack!
Ms. Albanese is “crafting” public opinion and she is so well armed that Hasbara (the craft of propaganda) is having a hard time staying afloat.
To some, what he has said, may seem immature or even infantile, but for those of us who know… we see a battle between the forces of two “crafty” people. One who uses facts and figures, the other who uses manipulation. We are looking at Darth Vader and Luke Sky Walker.
I will tell you this, you do not want Ms. Albanese to cross over to the dark side, she would be just as awesome.
But she is "well armed"--by Israel! She is not crafty in using the right words--what makes her special is her refusal to be intimidated or bought. Anyone with that much determination and integrity would do as well, with Israel constantly supplying the ammunition.
i wouldn't give him any credit, nor is ms albanese 'crafting', imo.
The fact that the Divided States of America is bombing at all while its federal government milking the shutdown to ensure that the poorest Americans starve: this is the worst federal government in existence and it is not even close.
I made a donation to the local county food bank today.
Death to America country of terrorism
Thank You Caitlin
"The entire American right is just Dick Cheney wearing various costumes." Mostly. There *is* Ron Paul. Also, the American Left is also Dick Cheney in various costumes, which has given me the image of Cheney in an obnoxious Tax the Rich dress, which I find amusing, so thank you.
Scuba, thank you for mentioning Ron Paul. Too bad his apple Rand fell a little too far from the tree.
I’m gonna add Marjorie Taylor-Greene to the short list. I’d give her a presidential vote based on her position on Palestine alone.
Yeah, MTG impresses me in that she isn't afraid to challenge the establishment. I miss Matt Gaetz for that reason, too. Rand is sometimes okay, but I agree with you. He's def not his father.
I never thought I would agree, and then listen to her for ten mins. and 2028 : ) I may write her in : )
Never in a million years did I think I’d go full-on MTG either Landru.
Her stand on Palestine and refusal to be an AIPAC whore changed everything.
Horrifying development, and even bigger than this, because Sudan (45mill. people) is quietly collapsing macro scale, under the same genocidal starvation killing landgrabbing regimes in the Middle East, led by UAE, funded by City of London and their zionist ilk, see Global GeoPolitics post on 30 October.
"The Empire doesn't just control the opposition, it controls the opposition to the opposition."
This strategy goes way back, if you can't beat them, you join them and then control them from within. This strategy has been the downfall of so many who started off as part of the resistance, then the resistance is co-opted and move ever so slightly away from its original precepts.
So many have fallen on their own sword by infiltrators who appear to be in alignment with the resistance, only to get into positions of power within the resistance movement and then are in a "strategic" place to undermine it.
What that does is sow seeds of discord among the resistance members and slowly but surely the resistance is dismantled.
I've seen this happen in so many "resistance" movements here in the USA from the small to the medium to the large movements.
I never understood the excitement around Nick Fuentes or Charlie Kirk. One thing that is for sure, once they get a lot of notoriety, fame and "fortune" they begin to yield to the pressure of becoming mainstream and if they don't yield they will be summarily demonized, threatened or eliminated. The infiltrators have all the "goods" on them and a good look into their bank accounts.
There was a time when Alex Jones was ahead of the curve. He created great documentaries... then he got rich.. What people don't realize is that the trap is being set to move them away from their opposing position.. like Caitlin said, the Empire controls the opposition to the opposition. Same thing happened with the Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam and even what happened during and after Katrina. There was a strong movement for reparations when the hurricane hit. Folks were unraveling the "inside" job that Katrina was. Before long, infiltrators came in under the guise of being part of the "opposition". Became strong advocates, moved to the top of the pile, only to get there and be the cause of the whole movement being dismantled. I can't remember the name of the African American man who was undermined by this infiltrator but it's a straight up CIA style op. Same thing happened with the so-called New Age Movement, the Disclosure Movement and so many others. The idea is to control it until it loses its power, discredit it, create distrust and ultimately destroy it.
>>"There was a time when Alex Jones was ahead of the curve."
Alex Jones was NEVER ahead of the curve (or anything of the sort). He was ALWAYS an opportunist (from the very beginning). Anyone that has read Michael Parenti or Noam Chomsky would know anything Alex Jones would talk about (and twist in his own conspiratorial ways). There are literally hundreds of people that have talked and written about things that Alex Jones simply repurposes, twists, manipulates, and sells in order to make a buck. He was ALWAYS a grifter.
Exactly right my friend, exactly right. Free, Free Palestine.
Zionists have taught me all sorts of astonishing things of late. Francesca Albanese is a Wiccan. Who knew? And Manhattan has become a cesspool of Jew hate because Glamor Magazine picked Ms. Rachel and Rachel Zegler as their Women of the Year.
What WILL they think of next?
The demonization of “witchcraft” is in itself a deception since it has been used to smear mostly women who were primary holders of plant medicine knowledge and earth wisdom both of which were forcibly replaced by toxic pharma and the rise of allopathic medical orthodoxy.
Trump is the worst anti American president ever.
"The world needs to terminate the experiment by any means necessary and end the Zionist state forever."
This should be memorized and reapeted as often as possible. There is no other credible position on Israel today. It and it's backers in the US are the enemy of humanity.