Unfortunately the majority of the US electorate are dimwits with an attention span of about 2 seconds. So no they can’t really detect lies or track narratives. Half probably think narrative is a big word.
And virtually every congressperson is dependent on Israeli money for their seat. (My belief is that campaign donations come from the $3 billion we send them every year in aid.
I invade your home (from a different continent), beat you to a pulp, torture rape and murder your family, bomb and demolish your house, and then i say "oh, you poor thing. Now you don't have where to live. But don't worry, I really really care about you so i will move you somewhere else, away from this terrible demolition site. This place is obviously unlivable now.."
ABUSE in its purest form.
The face of American-Israeli capitalist billionaires' imperialism. PURE EVIL.
And yet the hypnotized deceived worshippers of the fake "populist" infantile messiah are propagandized to view this VILE ABUSIVE MENTALITY AND PURE EVIL as "greatness".
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As for why israel plays such a supremely important and prominent role for the elite rulers, it seems to me that it has to do with how it functions as the perfect polorizing/dividing agent for our rulers. After all, if you're a tiny group of billionaire oligarchs ruling over the vast majority of humanity, then obviously your number one priority and survival strategy is to make sure that the 99% are not united against you but are divided among themselves, hating and fighting each other, right? Well, there doesn't seem to be a more dividing force on this planet than religious tribalism and hostility, and you won't find a more tribalist ANTI-UNITY ethnocentric exclusivist sectarian divisive force on this planet than Zionism - that believes that those humans who had a very specific (and childish the God-ignorant) religious label placed on us at birth (in this case, the label of 'jewish') are of a much greater importance and value than the rest of humanity.
And this tribalist exclucivist force achieves its polarizing/antagonizing/dividing effect (the effect that greatly benefits the ruling elite) to an even greater magnitude especially when it is intentionally imposed upon an already existing civilization, as was done with the placement of an exclusivist supremacist tribe right smack in the middle of the muslim world (and also strategically placed to occupy the ONLY land bridge there is between Asia and Africa) to provide for the oligarch dividers-and-rulers of humanity with what they call "our unsinkable aircraft carrier in west Asia") to create as much friction, antagonism and polarization as possible among the 99% (and again, the division and pitting of the masses of humanity against each other is clearly the number one priority and survival strategy for a tiny minority elite group that rules over the vast majority)
In this sense, the billionaires' supremacist exclusivist ethnocentric ANTI-UNITY zionist colony in west Asia is like the gift that keeps on giving for the ruling class, creating endless antagonism and war not only in west asia, but also endless polarization and division of 99% all across the planet. What more could an oligarchic elite possibly ask for?
Very well said!! These supremacist fuckers not only abuse murder colonize bomb, but then pretend to care about you and say that becasue your home was somehow mysteriously destroyed (by who? It's a mystery), so they now need to move you somewhere else.. My God, they're evil!!
And they hired a hot (but heart-corrupted) woman to read out their evil scripts with a straight face.. Everything these cunning predators do is designed to emotionally manipulate you..
As for the second part of your comment - how the elite use zionism as the perfect polarizing agent to divide (and rule) humanity - I never thought about it this way but I think you're definitely on to something here.. Things start to make sense once you look at it from this perspective..
Resistance types will not like what I have to say here, but there is a reason that Zionists are able to exert power well beyond their numbers:
Group solidarity and a willingness to do *whatever* *it* *takes* to advance group goals. This often is violence but not necessarily.
It's the same reason that a few Hells Angels were able to run riot at Altamont while many times their number of concertgoers milled around, got beat up, or ran for their lives. Every Hells Angel knew that his fellow outlaws would support him, whatever the cost, and they were not afraid to hurt or kill anyone who got in their way, nor did they fear any consequences.
The hippies, by contrast, were dithering and indecisive, when if they had the Angels' determination and ethos, could have easily disarmed them or worse.
Peace seekers are not geared up to fight thugs. Our live and let live mentality is the extreme opposite of what those currently in power want. Non-violent Civil Disobedience as practiced by MLK and Gandhi was effective. Now would be a good time to do it before the thugs become completely ruthless. (Glad I missed Altamont. Needed to take the SAT's that day.)
Non-violence isn’t always the answer. It’s a myth that Ghandi’s revolt was without violence.
And Malcolm X was IMO a far more effective leader than MLK.
What about Nat Turner? John Brown? Crazy Horse? Sitting Bull? Tecumseh? Their outcomes may have not have been what they wished for, but can you imagine a slave rebellion in which all of them simply refused to work for Massa and what would have happened to them?
Well said Gypsy! Too many people have believed the "non-violence" myths (especially in regards to Gandhi). The FALSE NARRATIVES need to be corrected, and REAL HISTORY needs to come out into the light.
"Israeli lobby money" also comes from all the oligarchs INSIDE the US: Schwarzman, Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Ballmer, Dimon, Dell, Ellison, Seligman, Kushners, and all the rest.
"Sen. J. William Fulbright claimed on the CBS 'Face the Nation' television program yesterday that the Senate was 'subservient' to Israel and prevented the Administration from applying pressure on that country. The Arkansas Democrat, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the U.S. possessed the leverage on Israel because 'we supply all the wherewithal –or a major part of the wherewithal–to finance or to pay for everything Israel does.' But, he added, this leverage could not be applied because 'Israel controls the Senate.'
Fulbright said, 'The Senate is subservient to Israel, in my opinion much too much. We should be more concerned about the United States interest rather than doing the bidding of Israel...The great majority of the Senate of the United States–somewhere around 80 percent–are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again and this has made it difficult for our government.' Fulbright said."
"The defeat of Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright by the state’s Governor Dale Bumpers was seen here today as indirectly Indicating gains for Israel in the Senate. Fulbright, head of the powerful and prestigious Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 15 of his 30 years in Congress, was outspokenly critical of many U.S. foreign policy stands including aid to Israel...Bumpers and Fulbright were in almost direct opposition in their views toward Israel. Fulbright’s antipathy towards U.S. aid to Israel has been long established, though he seemed to indicate a sudden, if almost imperceptible, change of heart in the final stages of his fight for reelection. Bumpers, however, indicated backing for a strong and secure Israel as a means of assuring against U.S. military participation in the Middle East 'after we just got out of that entanglement in Vietnam.'"
I think you can count on that, TS. 86% of politicians on the take. Loyalty to the USA. The big finger.
Mind you, That kind of campaign funding should not be a surprise when one sees what Trump Hotels Inc are preparing to do on the beachside suburb of Gaza. Then there is the Trump Country Club, just for golfers,
However, to save time. Do not apply for a beachfront unit if you consider things like murder, rape, starvation, sniping kids, bombing hospitals, killing school children and through drones, killing thousands......anything but acceptable for the 'chosen ones', at least 97% of all Jews welcoming the ethnic cleansing of Palestine people.
I believe it is a mandatory question to agree to for a land title on TRUMP Beach
That too is false: MOst Democrats think Israel is committing genocide (Jerusalem Post) and many, tho not most, reject money from pro-Israel groups. Rather than demonize virtually all Democrats, why not support those who agree with you: that is much smarter than trashing your allies which betrays the effort to form a consensus to stop the genocide. "A coalition of progressive groups has called on Democrats to reject political donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee because it has aggressively targeted progressives who have been critical of Israel.
“We have watched as AIPAC has done everything it can to silence growing dissent in Congress against [Israeli leader Benjamin] Netanyahu’s assault on Gaza ― which has killed over 31,000 Palestinians ― even as Democratic voters overwhelmingly support a ceasefire and oppose sending more blank checks to the Israeli military,” the Reject AIPAC coalition said in a statement. The coalition is made up of about 25 organizations, including Justice Democrats, the Working Families Party, the Democratic Socialists of America, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, Our Revolution and the Sunrise Movement." msn.com
In fact, most Democrats running for office since 2018 have refused money from all corporate pacs, including AIPAC. 'In 2018, three-quarters of Democratic Party challengers in "top races" rejected corporate PAC money." Wikipedia
IN the 2024 election 35% did not take money from AIPAC, most of whom are Democrats: "During the 2024 elections, the Israel lobby poured at least $45.2 million into winning candidates for Congress, the most by any organization in history, according to a new report from Sludge.
The report states that 349 senators and members of the House of Representatives, or 65 percent of Congress, received money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or its affiliated super PACs in both parties.
And to totally refute the false claim that virtually every congress person took money from pro-Isralic groups, it is a fact that the bill by Bernie Sanders to stop US shipment of weapons to Israel had 18 supporters which is 35% of the Democrats in the Senate.
The correct claim is as follows: while many Democrats took money from pro-Israel groups, ovr 1/3 refused an indeed sponsored bills that would stop US military aid to Israel. When we stop trashing our allies, we might have a slight chance of gaining enough power to matter, but so long as ignorant people make absurd and false claims that ignores the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, who want to stop the bloodshed, we will be impotent. And that is a betrayal of the Palestinian cause.
Which means of course, 2/3 of Democrat senators supported the sale/supply of weapons to the Zionist murderers to commit genocide. Either Democratic party members get better quality people into congress, or STFU about being the lesser evil.
At any time Biden/Harris could have picked up the phone and told Bibi to stop bombing Gaza. They did not. There is absolutely ZERO difference between the billionaire-owned-and-operated Dems and the Repugs. Voting for either of them is a wasted vote and immoral.
Bien could have, but there is no person such as Biden/Harris. Harris had no power or ability to pick up the phone and defy the President. False moral equivalencies such as you make are used to rationalize much evil. Not one person among the Republican Senators supported the Sanders bill to stop arms shipments, whereas in the Democratic Party, 18 (35%) did. Claiming 0 equals 18 is so stupid I am shocked that you even dare make such a claim. There is only one way to stop the evil and that is for the progressives in the Democratic Party to take control. You have no possible path that can do what growing the progressive wing can potentially do. You have nothing and in rejecting the 1/3 of Democrats (and among the base, the majority think Israel is committing genocide...no one will address that fact, based on a poll taken), you betray the movement to grow in strength to correct course. You should be ashamed to embrace such a nihilistic perspective that nothing is possible.
Workers Fight Back leader and activist Kshama Sawant says: "The Democrat Party is where progressives go to die." Just ask Bernie Sanders. Stop lying to yourself. The Dems are owned by the war machine. They'll NEVER be for the people. Genocide has made them all richer when their Raytheon stock went up last year. It's time to #DemExit before they take your last speck of human decency and empathy from your soul and you start to make apologies for genocide-enablers and wannabes like Biden & Harris...
BTW, NO one here thinks change is not possible. Why do you think we are here coming together as Sister and Brother. Workers Strike Back. Feb. come and listen to change coming to you.
Yes, which is all the more reason not to demonize the 1/3 who oppose and have grown in size and momentum. I was refuting the claim that "virtually all congress person.... and so 35% makes a strong reputation of a claim that denies the 1/3 who have already come forward and whom we should not lie about an rather support. Your anger is no greater than mine, but that is why I support these 1/3 and the majority of Democrats in the nation who call out Israel for genocide. You want to feel morally superior: I want to be part of movement to gain enough power to change things. The majority of base Democrats and the 1/3 of Dem senators ar not the lesser evil, you moron; they are our allies. Unless you want to destroy our only hope of changing things with your ego driven moral arrogance.
>>"The majority of base Democrats and the 1/3 of Dem senators ar not the lesser evil, you moron; they are our allies."
Allies? and Senators? What dementia-related drugs are you taking Dale Ruff? Or are you working for the lobbyists? No, wait - I figured it out - you are on the OTHER SIDE of the CLASS WAR with your "fancy Harvard degree" and "superior education" RIGHT???
Obviously a paid DNC 'bot. Maybe they'll spend another $1 Billion on trying to convince the public that Kamala wasn't a complete zy-0-nist air head. The Dems are a dying breed--and soon their paid shills will be in the ground with the rest of them. Rest in pieces, genocide-enablers!
We have just had a good example of where the Democratic Party stands with the recent election, on the first ballot, of the new DNC chair, Ken Martin, who is a longstanding supporter of Israel, "Democratic Majority for Israel President Mark Mellman sent his congratulations to Ken Martin, saying they had spoken to with him before his election and "he assured us that he supports a strong U.S.-Israel relationship and reminded us that his support for that alliance has been longstanding". From https://www.newarab.com/news/democrats-elect-pro-israel-establishment-party-leader-ken-martin
I don't live in the US, but the recent rants of Trumps about the US taking Gaza have got people who normally don't talk about the news or even listen much saying that the world is going insane. I live in Canada so we have also had to listen to Trump ranting about tariffs. And I think that many people see that Elon Musk, a person who has not been elected, being given the keys to the treasury, is a travesty. Everything the US government is doing from tariffs to immigration, to firing federal government workers is clearly for the benefit of billionaires and not a thought given to working people, poor people, people with disabilities or anyone who is not rich rich rich.
I wish to point here to the study by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, titled "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" (Princeton, 2014), which analyzed data on public opinion and policy outcomes in the United States over a period of several decades. The key findings were:
1. Elite Influence: The preferences of economic elites and organized interest groups have a substantial impact on U.S. government policy.
2. Average Citizens: The preferences of average citizens have little to no independent influence on policy outcomes.
In practical terms this means, the elites don't really care if Biden or Trump genocides the Palestinians, or whoever sends cash and weapons to Ukraine. Voters can replace heads but not concepts.
According to the Jerusalem Post, the majority of Democrats (there are over 80 million registerd), based on a poll, think Israel is committing genocide. Why do you insult people who agree with you? That you would do so suggests that factcheck is a big word for you.
They are not being insulted; they are being called out! We were not born on Oct. 7th: we have just witnessed a democrat president jointly commit genocide, repeatedly block a ceasefire and give a standing ovation to Netanyahu. Remaining a Democrat or a Republican means you back genocide. Ta
Again, I will say that those people do not agree with me, nor I with them. I would not be sending bombs and money to anywhere so that people could commit genocide. They are greedy, scum sucking pukes.
This aggravates me so much. It seems at this point in time that if America wants the world to eat shit, the world will eat shit or has been eating shit! Excuse my crudeness. Our compromised governments around the world, Australia included, continue to be cronies to USA, hoping that people will remain asleep forever and if not, bad luck they’ll just hit us with more censorships or otherwise deportation if we managed to speak up! 🤬🤬🤬 I know I’m just ranting now…. Still in disbelief but not.
“Again, it’s a demolition site right now,” Leavitt said. “It’s not a livable place for any human being....."
Oh, so NOW they are HUMAN BEINGS?????
If there were any ACTUAL Journalists, in the bunch, they would have rattled off the HUNDREDS of QUOTES from various Khazarian DEMONS and Khazarians' Demon MINIONS calling the Palestine People EVERYTHING BUT Human Beings!!
And as far as 'fixing' Gaza to be livable......it WILL need to be done in stages; so, NO ONE (PALESTINIANS) HAS TO GO ANYWHERE!! Not saying that they should.....but these people WOULD live in TENTS, until THEIR LAND/HOMES were rebuilt! Bring in 'tiny homes', mobile homes.....whatever!! But, I hope that THE PEOPLE go NO WHERE!!
It IS the Khazarian State (aka 'Israel') that needs to LEAVE.......send them BACK TO HELL, where DEMONS BELONG! Demons do NOT have the RIGHT to walk GODS GREEN EARTH!
I just watched Judge Napolitano interview Aaron Mate......and Aaron had stated that those in Gaza could go to the West Bank, while the Gaza Strip is rebuilt. But, even with THAT.....the Satanic Khazarians would NOT let Palestinians return to the Gaza Strip.
He actually did say it, Jenny, in passing, sort of tongue-in-cheek, as though he knew it was a hypothetical that should happen in a just world but never would. No discussion followed, the interview immediately moved on, so it was easy to miss.
Interesting how people feel free and even oh so privileged to speak on behalf of the Palestinians. That’s racism right there. Right in the open. No one would dare speak on behalf of the Israelis. So let me do just that. They can get the fuck out of there if they cannot learn to live with others. ‘Nuff said.
IMHO Bibi Nosferatu has done more than anyone in history to advance antisemitism (I use that term with a grain of salt, since we all know that the Palestinians are the true historical Semites, not the invaders from Poland and Noo Yawk Shitty.)
Yep, totally agree with you BUT and a big BUT; you can get away with sleeping in a tent, but you need food, drinking water, cooking facilities and utensils and possibly healthcare so where do they get from, with the "evil ones" destroying the hospitals and blocking the aid convoys ?.
I am sure that many will stay - but then what ?; social unrest over food ?. As this b*tch (Trump's mouthpiece) stated above, it looks like they are "promoting a better life" to the Palestine people by "sympathising" with them regards their destroyed land !!!, making them believe they will have a better life in Jordon ? and Egypt ... THE LATTER ;... WHERE FACILITIES ARE ALREADY BUILT OR BEING BUILT TO HOUSE THEM .. then of course onwards shipment of "them", to the UK, EU and maybe US.
How easily they lie. It is shock after shock ... but not awe. A convicted felon and a fugitive war criminal deliver the most outrageous pronouncements and holds the world in thrall. They are the rulers of a debased world. Their immorality boundless. Their greed insatiable.
It is 19th century colonialism writ large in the 21st century. The Western powers then went on a merciless rampage of exploiting, vandalising, killing, enslaving people, stealing land and resources, and fighting each other to conquer and redraw maps; mere lines in the sand for them but death and destruction to the inhabitants.
And now for certain their neocolonialist greed is fuelled by what lies beneath Gaza. I read that an " UNCTAD study in 2019 revealed that in the Palestinian Occupied Territory of West Bank and the Mediterranean coast of Gaza strip there is a deposit of 122 trillion cubic feet of gas and an estimated 1.7 billion barrels of oil worth $522 billion". All this carnage is to acquire this resource under a joint venture with Israel and oil rich Arab states - that is the sum of Trump's vision for a new world.
I believe Chevron (or is it BP?) has already garnered the rights from the Israelis to develop that oil and gas field off the coast of Gaza. So think about it... Not only will that oil/gas be burned to further the global warming crisis along, the US and Israel, by dropping so many bombs and causing so much contaminants to go up into the atmosphere by turning Gaza into rubble (think dust, asbestos, radioactive particles from bombs, etc.), have already caused a great deal of damage to the climate and soil. It's a humanitarian and environmental disaster of immense proportions. (All paid for by US Tax Payers--so join the Tax Payers Against Genocide class action suit:) https://youtu.be/7H_tUu1WIKo?si=QhdOs46yPoSuHHru
At the moment, I don't believe israel (forever lowercase) can make that formal agreement. By International law, if there is still such a thing, clearly shows Palestine owning those oil/gas fields. However, I understand your point.
Actually it’s Chevron. Valero provides jet fuel directly to the IOF. There's a national campaign calling on consumers to boycott both, a chance for every driving American to vote on genocide with their dollars.
>>"How easily they lie. It is shock after shock ... but not awe. A convicted felon and a fugitive war criminal deliver the most outrageous pronouncements and holds the world in thrall. They are the rulers of a debased world. Their immorality boundless. Their greed insatiable."
The question is what is anyone going to do about it?
Leavitt is lying, she knows she is lying, she knows that she lies with total impunity and that there will only be consequences, to the extent she does not lie.
They barely try to lie now. Why bother to lie. We’ve become openly fascistic in western society. Our great individualism has transformed to utter selfishness
I invade your home (from a different continent), beat you to a pulp, torture rape and murder your family, bomb and demolish your house, and then i say "oh, you poor thing. Now you don't have where to live. But don't worry, I really really care about you so i will move you somewhere else, away from this terrible demolition site. This place is obviously unlivable now.."
ABUSE in its purest form.
The face of American-Israeli capitalist billionaires' imperialism. PURE EVIL.
And yet the hypnotized deceived worshippers of the fake "populist" infantile messiah are propagandized to view this VILE ABUSIVE MENTALITY AND PURE EVIL as "greatness".
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As for why israel plays such a supremely important and prominent role for the elite rulers, it seems to me that it has to do with how it functions as the perfect polorizing/dividing agent for our rulers. After all, if you're a tiny group of billionaire oligarchs ruling over the vast majority of humanity, then obviously your number one priority and survival strategy is to make sure that the 99% are not united against you but are divided among themselves, hating and fighting each other, right? Well, there doesn't seem to be a more dividing force on this planet than religious tribalism and hostility, and you won't find a more tribalist ANTI-UNITY ethnocentric exclusivist sectarian divisive force on this planet than Zionism - that believes that those humans who had a very specific (and childish the God-ignorant) religious label placed on us at birth (in this case, the label of 'jewish') are of a much greater importance and value than the rest of humanity.
And this tribalist exclucivist force achieves its polarizing/antagonizing/dividing effect (the effect that greatly benefits the ruling elite) to an even greater magnitude especially when it is intentionally imposed upon an already existing civilization, as was done with the placement of an exclusivist supremacist tribe right smack in the middle of the muslim world (and also strategically placed to occupy the ONLY land bridge there is between Asia and Africa) to provide for the oligarch dividers-and-rulers of humanity with what they call "our unsinkable aircraft carrier in west Asia") to create as much friction, antagonism and polarization as possible among the 99% (and again, the division and pitting of the masses of humanity against each other is clearly the number one priority and survival strategy for a tiny minority elite group that rules over the vast majority)
In this sense, the billionaires' supremacist exclusivist ethnocentric ANTI-UNITY zionist colony in west Asia is like the gift that keeps on giving for the ruling class, creating endless antagonism and war not only in west asia, but also endless polarization and division of 99% all across the planet. What more could a minority oligarchic elite possibly ask for?
The most openly, and breathtakingly cynical plan, and excuse for a plan, that I have ever witnessed. And the presstitutes will just sit there and take it. The empire is on the march. It’s more like 1825, not 2025.
"Of course the question of whether or not it was evil for the US and Israel to deliberately create those conditions in the first place is never raised by the obedient press gaggle."
I just wonder how "blank" a mind one must have not to desire to ask that question. I mean, wouldn't a normally curious person (particularly one trained as a journalist) ask a question to follow up on what was meant by Gaza being utterly destroyed and without decent living conditions? How did this horrible situation come about? Surely the Trump admin. isn't claiming that the Gazans blew themselves and their homes up, right?
To paraphrase George Jetson: "Get me off this crazy thing (planet)!"
You tangentially raise the question of what it means these days to be "trained as a journalist", the key active verb being "train". The really good ones like Sy Hersh, John Pilger, Robert Parry, Chris Hedges, weren't trained by places like Columbia Journalism School (the incubator for NY Times writers). They were teachers/truth tellers by nature, who worked in other areas and who shared the goal of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.
The lies to cover the actions are not seen as important by the liars, this is how sociopaths and psychopaths behave.
They CLAIM the #narratives' are important. but actually the really important thing is what they DO.
Think back to B'liars, Clinton's original "3rd Way Politics" - "The Left gets Words, the Right gets Actions".
There is a lot of focus on 'narrative' - among WESTERN populations. But the real kicker is what they actually DO - the victims of Iraq are not interested in the lies told to Western populations, they are concerned with the destruction of their homes, communities and country.
Duh! The purpose of narratives is what effect they have on people (i.e. how they affect the thinking and actions of people). Without narratives (myths, stories, etc.) propaganda and brainwashing would be very challenging. Narratives are (almost) EVERYTHING. If you haven't understood that by now (which is what Caitlin does daily with her articles - i.e. dismantling narratives), then you don't really understand "narratives and how they work".
Will you PLEASE stop talking to me? I'm not interested in your doofus, lamestream opinions. When I like a post of yours, I'll like it, when I don't, I'll scroll right on past. Try it.
I'm sure in your nice, comfortable, boring, middle class life, in some nice, boring, middle class area, where IQ 105 is the norm, what you said made sense.
You don't live in Iraq, Syria, Libya, or Gaza, where the ACTIONS are causing all the mayhem.
No, for you, what is IMPORTANT is the 'narratives' how these atrocities were sold to people thousands of miles away from the bombs, guns, rotting limbs, and murdered doctors and nurses.
You're so busybody being "smart", it doesn't occur to you how you might appear.
And DON'T 'Speak for Caitlin', you are nowhere near her level of empathy and understanding of the suffering of those at the sharp end.
Now piss off until you've been around the World, grown up some, and stop being a mediocre middle class wannabe.
Go and live in the rural Global South, and LISTEN for once in your goddamned life, to the real suffering and opinions of others.
Intellectually, you remind me of those 'Corporate Art' statues. Vacuous. Bourgeois. Self-satisfied.
I wouldn't even care, except you seem like you could be so much more, and that sticks in my throat that you are not achieving your potentials.
Get out of your comfort zone, and go and live with those who don't know where their kids next meal is going to come from, who cannot afford basic medicines such as malaria treatment, the victims that have given you your comfortable life. LIVE!
There you go - that's the ad hominem, abusive "Gnuneo" that I recognize. No logical arguments? Insults is all you have?
Maybe FOCUS more on the "content" of comments (and understanding concepts like narratives and how they have been used throughout HISTORY) instead of trying to "defend your hurt ego"?
Maybe understand ->
(1) How narratives lead to human actions
(2) How narratives influence human decision making (which leads to the actions humans take)
Jesus fucking christ. I knew and understood "narratives" before you were BORN. I've been using po-mo and post-Structuralist arguments before you could even read.
Your complete disdain for the REAL WORLD victims of Western Imperialism is noted.
>>"Your complete disdain for the REAL WORLD victims of Western Imperialism"
Strawman argument. Understanding the importance of NARRATIVES does NOT indicate ANY disdain for ANYTHING.
Maybe take a class in LOGIC? Why are simple concepts SO DIFFICULT for you to understand?
>>"I've been using po-mo and post-Structuralist arguments before you could even read."
Doesn't matter what arguments you've been using if you can't do simple CRITICAL THINKING (as evidenced by this discussion and others such as your support for the "retired nurse teacher" John Campbell the grifter and maker of fools).
The US oligarchy's problem is that events have forced them to shift the narrative too much and too fast too often. It has become obvious, partly because the narratives have no relevance to the everyday lives of most Americans, partly because the lies are exposed so quickly on social media.
It's going to take some time, at least a few weeks and probably a few months, but a powerful national wave of revulsion over what Americans have financed in Gaza is coming.
It is interesting that Trump always puts the number of Palestinians to be resettled from Gaza at between 1.7m and 1.8m. The number of Palestinians killed there has always been said in the West as somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000. The population of the Gaza Strip according to the CIA World Fact Book in October 2024 was 2,141,643.
Of-course there are basically no news in the Western media about what is happening currently in the West Bank. Trump has announced that he will come up with an explanation with regards to the fate of this territory in about four weeks time.
Can I suggest ethnic cleansing Israeli Zionists from what is really Palestine? Would it even be "ethnic cleansing" since most of them came from Europe (and other places) and were NOT indigenous to Palestine in the first place?
One has to ask how long it will be before the government monitors of Trumpspeak (if there are any) ask Carolyn Leavitt (age and educational background unknown) to find a job somewhere else? Although, being fair, one can get away with anything in that White House these days. Owning Gaza, making it a Jews only resort, increasing tariffs, taking over Greenland, removing millions of US born workers back to Mexico and on, ad nauseum. The sky’s the limit.
Wait for the first venture into a press conference involving a proposed military action? Soon.
Rumours have it that they are going to build a fully functioning MacDonalds in the White House Press Room to create the right environment for these daily circus events.
Unfortunately the majority of the US electorate are dimwits with an attention span of about 2 seconds. So no they can’t really detect lies or track narratives. Half probably think narrative is a big word.
And virtually every congressperson is dependent on Israeli money for their seat. (My belief is that campaign donations come from the $3 billion we send them every year in aid.
I invade your home (from a different continent), beat you to a pulp, torture rape and murder your family, bomb and demolish your house, and then i say "oh, you poor thing. Now you don't have where to live. But don't worry, I really really care about you so i will move you somewhere else, away from this terrible demolition site. This place is obviously unlivable now.."
ABUSE in its purest form.
The face of American-Israeli capitalist billionaires' imperialism. PURE EVIL.
And yet the hypnotized deceived worshippers of the fake "populist" infantile messiah are propagandized to view this VILE ABUSIVE MENTALITY AND PURE EVIL as "greatness".
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As for why israel plays such a supremely important and prominent role for the elite rulers, it seems to me that it has to do with how it functions as the perfect polorizing/dividing agent for our rulers. After all, if you're a tiny group of billionaire oligarchs ruling over the vast majority of humanity, then obviously your number one priority and survival strategy is to make sure that the 99% are not united against you but are divided among themselves, hating and fighting each other, right? Well, there doesn't seem to be a more dividing force on this planet than religious tribalism and hostility, and you won't find a more tribalist ANTI-UNITY ethnocentric exclusivist sectarian divisive force on this planet than Zionism - that believes that those humans who had a very specific (and childish the God-ignorant) religious label placed on us at birth (in this case, the label of 'jewish') are of a much greater importance and value than the rest of humanity.
And this tribalist exclucivist force achieves its polarizing/antagonizing/dividing effect (the effect that greatly benefits the ruling elite) to an even greater magnitude especially when it is intentionally imposed upon an already existing civilization, as was done with the placement of an exclusivist supremacist tribe right smack in the middle of the muslim world (and also strategically placed to occupy the ONLY land bridge there is between Asia and Africa) to provide for the oligarch dividers-and-rulers of humanity with what they call "our unsinkable aircraft carrier in west Asia") to create as much friction, antagonism and polarization as possible among the 99% (and again, the division and pitting of the masses of humanity against each other is clearly the number one priority and survival strategy for a tiny minority elite group that rules over the vast majority)
In this sense, the billionaires' supremacist exclusivist ethnocentric ANTI-UNITY zionist colony in west Asia is like the gift that keeps on giving for the ruling class, creating endless antagonism and war not only in west asia, but also endless polarization and division of 99% all across the planet. What more could an oligarchic elite possibly ask for?
Very well said!! These supremacist fuckers not only abuse murder colonize bomb, but then pretend to care about you and say that becasue your home was somehow mysteriously destroyed (by who? It's a mystery), so they now need to move you somewhere else.. My God, they're evil!!
And they hired a hot (but heart-corrupted) woman to read out their evil scripts with a straight face.. Everything these cunning predators do is designed to emotionally manipulate you..
As for the second part of your comment - how the elite use zionism as the perfect polarizing agent to divide (and rule) humanity - I never thought about it this way but I think you're definitely on to something here.. Things start to make sense once you look at it from this perspective..
Resistance types will not like what I have to say here, but there is a reason that Zionists are able to exert power well beyond their numbers:
Group solidarity and a willingness to do *whatever* *it* *takes* to advance group goals. This often is violence but not necessarily.
It's the same reason that a few Hells Angels were able to run riot at Altamont while many times their number of concertgoers milled around, got beat up, or ran for their lives. Every Hells Angel knew that his fellow outlaws would support him, whatever the cost, and they were not afraid to hurt or kill anyone who got in their way, nor did they fear any consequences.
The hippies, by contrast, were dithering and indecisive, when if they had the Angels' determination and ethos, could have easily disarmed them or worse.
Peace seekers are not geared up to fight thugs. Our live and let live mentality is the extreme opposite of what those currently in power want. Non-violent Civil Disobedience as practiced by MLK and Gandhi was effective. Now would be a good time to do it before the thugs become completely ruthless. (Glad I missed Altamont. Needed to take the SAT's that day.)
Hi Francis/Clare
Non-violence isn’t always the answer. It’s a myth that Ghandi’s revolt was without violence.
And Malcolm X was IMO a far more effective leader than MLK.
What about Nat Turner? John Brown? Crazy Horse? Sitting Bull? Tecumseh? Their outcomes may have not have been what they wished for, but can you imagine a slave rebellion in which all of them simply refused to work for Massa and what would have happened to them?
Well said Gypsy! Too many people have believed the "non-violence" myths (especially in regards to Gandhi). The FALSE NARRATIVES need to be corrected, and REAL HISTORY needs to come out into the light.
"Israeli lobby money" also comes from all the oligarchs INSIDE the US: Schwarzman, Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Ballmer, Dimon, Dell, Ellison, Seligman, Kushners, and all the rest.
"Sen. J. William Fulbright claimed on the CBS 'Face the Nation' television program yesterday that the Senate was 'subservient' to Israel and prevented the Administration from applying pressure on that country. The Arkansas Democrat, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the U.S. possessed the leverage on Israel because 'we supply all the wherewithal –or a major part of the wherewithal–to finance or to pay for everything Israel does.' But, he added, this leverage could not be applied because 'Israel controls the Senate.'
Fulbright said, 'The Senate is subservient to Israel, in my opinion much too much. We should be more concerned about the United States interest rather than doing the bidding of Israel...The great majority of the Senate of the United States–somewhere around 80 percent–are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again and this has made it difficult for our government.' Fulbright said."
"The defeat of Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright by the state’s Governor Dale Bumpers was seen here today as indirectly Indicating gains for Israel in the Senate. Fulbright, head of the powerful and prestigious Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 15 of his 30 years in Congress, was outspokenly critical of many U.S. foreign policy stands including aid to Israel...Bumpers and Fulbright were in almost direct opposition in their views toward Israel. Fulbright’s antipathy towards U.S. aid to Israel has been long established, though he seemed to indicate a sudden, if almost imperceptible, change of heart in the final stages of his fight for reelection. Bumpers, however, indicated backing for a strong and secure Israel as a means of assuring against U.S. military participation in the Middle East 'after we just got out of that entanglement in Vietnam.'"
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency 1973, 1974
From Fulbright to Huckabee, gosh what a trajectory!
"assuring against US military participation in the ME"
Really worked out beautifully, didn't it? Bloodthirsty thugs.
I think you can count on that, TS. 86% of politicians on the take. Loyalty to the USA. The big finger.
Mind you, That kind of campaign funding should not be a surprise when one sees what Trump Hotels Inc are preparing to do on the beachside suburb of Gaza. Then there is the Trump Country Club, just for golfers,
However, to save time. Do not apply for a beachfront unit if you consider things like murder, rape, starvation, sniping kids, bombing hospitals, killing school children and through drones, killing thousands......anything but acceptable for the 'chosen ones', at least 97% of all Jews welcoming the ethnic cleansing of Palestine people.
I believe it is a mandatory question to agree to for a land title on TRUMP Beach
That too is false: MOst Democrats think Israel is committing genocide (Jerusalem Post) and many, tho not most, reject money from pro-Israel groups. Rather than demonize virtually all Democrats, why not support those who agree with you: that is much smarter than trashing your allies which betrays the effort to form a consensus to stop the genocide. "A coalition of progressive groups has called on Democrats to reject political donations from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee because it has aggressively targeted progressives who have been critical of Israel.
“We have watched as AIPAC has done everything it can to silence growing dissent in Congress against [Israeli leader Benjamin] Netanyahu’s assault on Gaza ― which has killed over 31,000 Palestinians ― even as Democratic voters overwhelmingly support a ceasefire and oppose sending more blank checks to the Israeli military,” the Reject AIPAC coalition said in a statement. The coalition is made up of about 25 organizations, including Justice Democrats, the Working Families Party, the Democratic Socialists of America, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action, Jewish Voice for Peace Action, Our Revolution and the Sunrise Movement." msn.com
In fact, most Democrats running for office since 2018 have refused money from all corporate pacs, including AIPAC. 'In 2018, three-quarters of Democratic Party challengers in "top races" rejected corporate PAC money." Wikipedia
IN the 2024 election 35% did not take money from AIPAC, most of whom are Democrats: "During the 2024 elections, the Israel lobby poured at least $45.2 million into winning candidates for Congress, the most by any organization in history, according to a new report from Sludge.
The report states that 349 senators and members of the House of Representatives, or 65 percent of Congress, received money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or its affiliated super PACs in both parties.
And to totally refute the false claim that virtually every congress person took money from pro-Isralic groups, it is a fact that the bill by Bernie Sanders to stop US shipment of weapons to Israel had 18 supporters which is 35% of the Democrats in the Senate.
The correct claim is as follows: while many Democrats took money from pro-Israel groups, ovr 1/3 refused an indeed sponsored bills that would stop US military aid to Israel. When we stop trashing our allies, we might have a slight chance of gaining enough power to matter, but so long as ignorant people make absurd and false claims that ignores the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, who want to stop the bloodshed, we will be impotent. And that is a betrayal of the Palestinian cause.
Which means of course, 2/3 of Democrat senators supported the sale/supply of weapons to the Zionist murderers to commit genocide. Either Democratic party members get better quality people into congress, or STFU about being the lesser evil.
At any time Biden/Harris could have picked up the phone and told Bibi to stop bombing Gaza. They did not. There is absolutely ZERO difference between the billionaire-owned-and-operated Dems and the Repugs. Voting for either of them is a wasted vote and immoral.
#DumpTheDuopoly and Read https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/they-did-it-again-and-again
Bien could have, but there is no person such as Biden/Harris. Harris had no power or ability to pick up the phone and defy the President. False moral equivalencies such as you make are used to rationalize much evil. Not one person among the Republican Senators supported the Sanders bill to stop arms shipments, whereas in the Democratic Party, 18 (35%) did. Claiming 0 equals 18 is so stupid I am shocked that you even dare make such a claim. There is only one way to stop the evil and that is for the progressives in the Democratic Party to take control. You have no possible path that can do what growing the progressive wing can potentially do. You have nothing and in rejecting the 1/3 of Democrats (and among the base, the majority think Israel is committing genocide...no one will address that fact, based on a poll taken), you betray the movement to grow in strength to correct course. You should be ashamed to embrace such a nihilistic perspective that nothing is possible.
Workers Fight Back leader and activist Kshama Sawant says: "The Democrat Party is where progressives go to die." Just ask Bernie Sanders. Stop lying to yourself. The Dems are owned by the war machine. They'll NEVER be for the people. Genocide has made them all richer when their Raytheon stock went up last year. It's time to #DemExit before they take your last speck of human decency and empathy from your soul and you start to make apologies for genocide-enablers and wannabes like Biden & Harris...
Read this article to understand what the duopoly is really about: https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/they-did-it-again-and-again
I forgot that Harris is just a glove puppet unable to speak her own mind.
Lord, the excuses!
BTW, NO one here thinks change is not possible. Why do you think we are here coming together as Sister and Brother. Workers Strike Back. Feb. come and listen to change coming to you.
Not sure you believe any of that. So you don't think a V.P. or a Presidential candidate has any power? Interesting ha.
Thank you for the perfect summation of the state.
Yes, which is all the more reason not to demonize the 1/3 who oppose and have grown in size and momentum. I was refuting the claim that "virtually all congress person.... and so 35% makes a strong reputation of a claim that denies the 1/3 who have already come forward and whom we should not lie about an rather support. Your anger is no greater than mine, but that is why I support these 1/3 and the majority of Democrats in the nation who call out Israel for genocide. You want to feel morally superior: I want to be part of movement to gain enough power to change things. The majority of base Democrats and the 1/3 of Dem senators ar not the lesser evil, you moron; they are our allies. Unless you want to destroy our only hope of changing things with your ego driven moral arrogance.
>>"The majority of base Democrats and the 1/3 of Dem senators ar not the lesser evil, you moron; they are our allies."
Allies? and Senators? What dementia-related drugs are you taking Dale Ruff? Or are you working for the lobbyists? No, wait - I figured it out - you are on the OTHER SIDE of the CLASS WAR with your "fancy Harvard degree" and "superior education" RIGHT???
Obviously a paid DNC 'bot. Maybe they'll spend another $1 Billion on trying to convince the public that Kamala wasn't a complete zy-0-nist air head. The Dems are a dying breed--and soon their paid shills will be in the ground with the rest of them. Rest in pieces, genocide-enablers!
"support those who agree with you"??? They don't agree with me and I don't agree with them. They are all a bunch of blood suckers.
We have just had a good example of where the Democratic Party stands with the recent election, on the first ballot, of the new DNC chair, Ken Martin, who is a longstanding supporter of Israel, "Democratic Majority for Israel President Mark Mellman sent his congratulations to Ken Martin, saying they had spoken to with him before his election and "he assured us that he supports a strong U.S.-Israel relationship and reminded us that his support for that alliance has been longstanding". From https://www.newarab.com/news/democrats-elect-pro-israel-establishment-party-leader-ken-martin
Quit insulting our intelligence. Biden could have stopped the war with a single phone call.
In fact, Biden's support of and active participation in genocide may have cost Harris the election.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/harris-gaza
I don't live in the US, but the recent rants of Trumps about the US taking Gaza have got people who normally don't talk about the news or even listen much saying that the world is going insane. I live in Canada so we have also had to listen to Trump ranting about tariffs. And I think that many people see that Elon Musk, a person who has not been elected, being given the keys to the treasury, is a travesty. Everything the US government is doing from tariffs to immigration, to firing federal government workers is clearly for the benefit of billionaires and not a thought given to working people, poor people, people with disabilities or anyone who is not rich rich rich.
Uh...yeah.
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Hi Susan
If I were Trudeau, I’d tell tRump FUCK YOU… we won’t export one goddamn thing to you. China is our new trade partner.
They are not dimwits....according to Paul Craig Roberts they are Shitbrained bootlickers !!!!
I wish to point here to the study by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, titled "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" (Princeton, 2014), which analyzed data on public opinion and policy outcomes in the United States over a period of several decades. The key findings were:
1. Elite Influence: The preferences of economic elites and organized interest groups have a substantial impact on U.S. government policy.
2. Average Citizens: The preferences of average citizens have little to no independent influence on policy outcomes.
In practical terms this means, the elites don't really care if Biden or Trump genocides the Palestinians, or whoever sends cash and weapons to Ukraine. Voters can replace heads but not concepts.
According to the Jerusalem Post, the majority of Democrats (there are over 80 million registerd), based on a poll, think Israel is committing genocide. Why do you insult people who agree with you? That you would do so suggests that factcheck is a big word for you.
They are not being insulted; they are being called out! We were not born on Oct. 7th: we have just witnessed a democrat president jointly commit genocide, repeatedly block a ceasefire and give a standing ovation to Netanyahu. Remaining a Democrat or a Republican means you back genocide. Ta
Again, I will say that those people do not agree with me, nor I with them. I would not be sending bombs and money to anywhere so that people could commit genocide. They are greedy, scum sucking pukes.
So, what did Biden do about it?
This aggravates me so much. It seems at this point in time that if America wants the world to eat shit, the world will eat shit or has been eating shit! Excuse my crudeness. Our compromised governments around the world, Australia included, continue to be cronies to USA, hoping that people will remain asleep forever and if not, bad luck they’ll just hit us with more censorships or otherwise deportation if we managed to speak up! 🤬🤬🤬 I know I’m just ranting now…. Still in disbelief but not.
“Again, it’s a demolition site right now,” Leavitt said. “It’s not a livable place for any human being....."
Oh, so NOW they are HUMAN BEINGS?????
If there were any ACTUAL Journalists, in the bunch, they would have rattled off the HUNDREDS of QUOTES from various Khazarian DEMONS and Khazarians' Demon MINIONS calling the Palestine People EVERYTHING BUT Human Beings!!
And as far as 'fixing' Gaza to be livable......it WILL need to be done in stages; so, NO ONE (PALESTINIANS) HAS TO GO ANYWHERE!! Not saying that they should.....but these people WOULD live in TENTS, until THEIR LAND/HOMES were rebuilt! Bring in 'tiny homes', mobile homes.....whatever!! But, I hope that THE PEOPLE go NO WHERE!!
It IS the Khazarian State (aka 'Israel') that needs to LEAVE.......send them BACK TO HELL, where DEMONS BELONG! Demons do NOT have the RIGHT to walk GODS GREEN EARTH!
Amen Bro !!!!
I'm not a 'bro', but thanks!! lol
I just watched Judge Napolitano interview Aaron Mate......and Aaron had stated that those in Gaza could go to the West Bank, while the Gaza Strip is rebuilt. But, even with THAT.....the Satanic Khazarians would NOT let Palestinians return to the Gaza Strip.
I watched Aaron Mate and I did not hear him say this!
He actually did say it, Jenny, in passing, sort of tongue-in-cheek, as though he knew it was a hypothetical that should happen in a just world but never would. No discussion followed, the interview immediately moved on, so it was easy to miss.
Thanks Vin. He talks very fast (Aaron) and I am reading really AWFUL subtitles.
Aaron Maté : Does Trump Understand Gaza?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfWjKetXoAw
Interesting how people feel free and even oh so privileged to speak on behalf of the Palestinians. That’s racism right there. Right in the open. No one would dare speak on behalf of the Israelis. So let me do just that. They can get the fuck out of there if they cannot learn to live with others. ‘Nuff said.
Why would anyone speak out on behalf of the Israeli's. We have all witnessed the horrors!
West Bank ?.... that is allegedly 90% under full control of the nosed evil nutters ?
Hi Dawnie
IMHO Bibi Nosferatu has done more than anyone in history to advance antisemitism (I use that term with a grain of salt, since we all know that the Palestinians are the true historical Semites, not the invaders from Poland and Noo Yawk Shitty.)
Yep, totally agree with you BUT and a big BUT; you can get away with sleeping in a tent, but you need food, drinking water, cooking facilities and utensils and possibly healthcare so where do they get from, with the "evil ones" destroying the hospitals and blocking the aid convoys ?.
I am sure that many will stay - but then what ?; social unrest over food ?. As this b*tch (Trump's mouthpiece) stated above, it looks like they are "promoting a better life" to the Palestine people by "sympathising" with them regards their destroyed land !!!, making them believe they will have a better life in Jordon ? and Egypt ... THE LATTER ;... WHERE FACILITIES ARE ALREADY BUILT OR BEING BUILT TO HOUSE THEM .. then of course onwards shipment of "them", to the UK, EU and maybe US.
Have a look if you want = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/egypt-building-walled-enclosure-in-sinai-for-rafah-refugees-videos-suggest
OR JUST SEARCH THE TITLE OF ABOVE in your search engine and check the dates - all 2024; nothing being stated about it in 2025; wonder why ?.
How easily they lie. It is shock after shock ... but not awe. A convicted felon and a fugitive war criminal deliver the most outrageous pronouncements and holds the world in thrall. They are the rulers of a debased world. Their immorality boundless. Their greed insatiable.
It is 19th century colonialism writ large in the 21st century. The Western powers then went on a merciless rampage of exploiting, vandalising, killing, enslaving people, stealing land and resources, and fighting each other to conquer and redraw maps; mere lines in the sand for them but death and destruction to the inhabitants.
And now for certain their neocolonialist greed is fuelled by what lies beneath Gaza. I read that an " UNCTAD study in 2019 revealed that in the Palestinian Occupied Territory of West Bank and the Mediterranean coast of Gaza strip there is a deposit of 122 trillion cubic feet of gas and an estimated 1.7 billion barrels of oil worth $522 billion". All this carnage is to acquire this resource under a joint venture with Israel and oil rich Arab states - that is the sum of Trump's vision for a new world.
I believe Chevron (or is it BP?) has already garnered the rights from the Israelis to develop that oil and gas field off the coast of Gaza. So think about it... Not only will that oil/gas be burned to further the global warming crisis along, the US and Israel, by dropping so many bombs and causing so much contaminants to go up into the atmosphere by turning Gaza into rubble (think dust, asbestos, radioactive particles from bombs, etc.), have already caused a great deal of damage to the climate and soil. It's a humanitarian and environmental disaster of immense proportions. (All paid for by US Tax Payers--so join the Tax Payers Against Genocide class action suit:) https://youtu.be/7H_tUu1WIKo?si=QhdOs46yPoSuHHru
To The Revolution Continues,
Thank you for highlighting the immense harm caused not only to human beings but to the environment. Thankfully I am not a US tax payer!
At the moment, I don't believe israel (forever lowercase) can make that formal agreement. By International law, if there is still such a thing, clearly shows Palestine owning those oil/gas fields. However, I understand your point.
It was BP. :)
Who I also boycott : )
As do I.
Actually it’s Chevron. Valero provides jet fuel directly to the IOF. There's a national campaign calling on consumers to boycott both, a chance for every driving American to vote on genocide with their dollars.
Thanks TRC!
>>"How easily they lie. It is shock after shock ... but not awe. A convicted felon and a fugitive war criminal deliver the most outrageous pronouncements and holds the world in thrall. They are the rulers of a debased world. Their immorality boundless. Their greed insatiable."
👏👏 Well said Indu!
Thank you, Chang.
The question is what is anyone going to do about it?
Leavitt is lying, she knows she is lying, she knows that she lies with total impunity and that there will only be consequences, to the extent she does not lie.
They barely try to lie now. Why bother to lie. We’ve become openly fascistic in western society. Our great individualism has transformed to utter selfishness
Don't think of them as lies. Consider them instructions on what to think. Or else.
Ask the surviving Palestinians what they want, eh?
I invade your home (from a different continent), beat you to a pulp, torture rape and murder your family, bomb and demolish your house, and then i say "oh, you poor thing. Now you don't have where to live. But don't worry, I really really care about you so i will move you somewhere else, away from this terrible demolition site. This place is obviously unlivable now.."
ABUSE in its purest form.
The face of American-Israeli capitalist billionaires' imperialism. PURE EVIL.
And yet the hypnotized deceived worshippers of the fake "populist" infantile messiah are propagandized to view this VILE ABUSIVE MENTALITY AND PURE EVIL as "greatness".
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As for why israel plays such a supremely important and prominent role for the elite rulers, it seems to me that it has to do with how it functions as the perfect polorizing/dividing agent for our rulers. After all, if you're a tiny group of billionaire oligarchs ruling over the vast majority of humanity, then obviously your number one priority and survival strategy is to make sure that the 99% are not united against you but are divided among themselves, hating and fighting each other, right? Well, there doesn't seem to be a more dividing force on this planet than religious tribalism and hostility, and you won't find a more tribalist ANTI-UNITY ethnocentric exclusivist sectarian divisive force on this planet than Zionism - that believes that those humans who had a very specific (and childish the God-ignorant) religious label placed on us at birth (in this case, the label of 'jewish') are of a much greater importance and value than the rest of humanity.
And this tribalist exclucivist force achieves its polarizing/antagonizing/dividing effect (the effect that greatly benefits the ruling elite) to an even greater magnitude especially when it is intentionally imposed upon an already existing civilization, as was done with the placement of an exclusivist supremacist tribe right smack in the middle of the muslim world (and also strategically placed to occupy the ONLY land bridge there is between Asia and Africa) to provide for the oligarch dividers-and-rulers of humanity with what they call "our unsinkable aircraft carrier in west Asia") to create as much friction, antagonism and polarization as possible among the 99% (and again, the division and pitting of the masses of humanity against each other is clearly the number one priority and survival strategy for a tiny minority elite group that rules over the vast majority)
In this sense, the billionaires' supremacist exclusivist ethnocentric ANTI-UNITY zionist colony in west Asia is like the gift that keeps on giving for the ruling class, creating endless antagonism and war not only in west asia, but also endless polarization and division of 99% all across the planet. What more could a minority oligarchic elite possibly ask for?
The most openly, and breathtakingly cynical plan, and excuse for a plan, that I have ever witnessed. And the presstitutes will just sit there and take it. The empire is on the march. It’s more like 1825, not 2025.
"Of course the question of whether or not it was evil for the US and Israel to deliberately create those conditions in the first place is never raised by the obedient press gaggle."
I just wonder how "blank" a mind one must have not to desire to ask that question. I mean, wouldn't a normally curious person (particularly one trained as a journalist) ask a question to follow up on what was meant by Gaza being utterly destroyed and without decent living conditions? How did this horrible situation come about? Surely the Trump admin. isn't claiming that the Gazans blew themselves and their homes up, right?
To paraphrase George Jetson: "Get me off this crazy thing (planet)!"
You tangentially raise the question of what it means these days to be "trained as a journalist", the key active verb being "train". The really good ones like Sy Hersh, John Pilger, Robert Parry, Chris Hedges, weren't trained by places like Columbia Journalism School (the incubator for NY Times writers). They were teachers/truth tellers by nature, who worked in other areas and who shared the goal of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.
TRC, anyone capable of asking such questions would be instantly seized by goons and wrestled out of the room ( see Sam Husseini).
Had to laugh. Once more, gypsy cuts to the heart of the issue: Fascist authoritarianism
Truly amazing how White House Press Secretaries are an endless stream of air heads and buffoons as official liars delivering cringe worthy answers.
Now Congress will begin twisting itself to fit this new fantasy. To their infinite shame.
"Changing the facts on the ground".
The lies to cover the actions are not seen as important by the liars, this is how sociopaths and psychopaths behave.
They CLAIM the #narratives' are important. but actually the really important thing is what they DO.
Think back to B'liars, Clinton's original "3rd Way Politics" - "The Left gets Words, the Right gets Actions".
There is a lot of focus on 'narrative' - among WESTERN populations. But the real kicker is what they actually DO - the victims of Iraq are not interested in the lies told to Western populations, they are concerned with the destruction of their homes, communities and country.
Same in Gaza and West Bank.
Duh! The purpose of narratives is what effect they have on people (i.e. how they affect the thinking and actions of people). Without narratives (myths, stories, etc.) propaganda and brainwashing would be very challenging. Narratives are (almost) EVERYTHING. If you haven't understood that by now (which is what Caitlin does daily with her articles - i.e. dismantling narratives), then you don't really understand "narratives and how they work".
Will you PLEASE stop talking to me? I'm not interested in your doofus, lamestream opinions. When I like a post of yours, I'll like it, when I don't, I'll scroll right on past. Try it.
I'm sure in your nice, comfortable, boring, middle class life, in some nice, boring, middle class area, where IQ 105 is the norm, what you said made sense.
You don't live in Iraq, Syria, Libya, or Gaza, where the ACTIONS are causing all the mayhem.
No, for you, what is IMPORTANT is the 'narratives' how these atrocities were sold to people thousands of miles away from the bombs, guns, rotting limbs, and murdered doctors and nurses.
You're so busybody being "smart", it doesn't occur to you how you might appear.
And DON'T 'Speak for Caitlin', you are nowhere near her level of empathy and understanding of the suffering of those at the sharp end.
Now piss off until you've been around the World, grown up some, and stop being a mediocre middle class wannabe.
Go and live in the rural Global South, and LISTEN for once in your goddamned life, to the real suffering and opinions of others.
Intellectually, you remind me of those 'Corporate Art' statues. Vacuous. Bourgeois. Self-satisfied.
I wouldn't even care, except you seem like you could be so much more, and that sticks in my throat that you are not achieving your potentials.
Get out of your comfort zone, and go and live with those who don't know where their kids next meal is going to come from, who cannot afford basic medicines such as malaria treatment, the victims that have given you your comfortable life. LIVE!
Fx: https://cicd-volunteerinafrica.org/from-the-project-period-in-africa-or-india/6-amazing-months-volunteering-with-dapp-zambia
There you go - that's the ad hominem, abusive "Gnuneo" that I recognize. No logical arguments? Insults is all you have?
Maybe FOCUS more on the "content" of comments (and understanding concepts like narratives and how they have been used throughout HISTORY) instead of trying to "defend your hurt ego"?
Maybe understand ->
(1) How narratives lead to human actions
(2) How narratives influence human decision making (which leads to the actions humans take)
Here are some reading suggestions for you ->
(1) Narrative Change: How Changing the Story Can Transform Society, Business, and Ourselves (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53498856)
(2) Narrative Machines: Modern Myth, Revolution, and Propaganda (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36256443)
(3) Changing the Narrative: Information Campaigns, Strategy and Crisis Escalation in the Digital Age (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199735902)
(4) Countering Mainstream Narratives: Fake News, Fake Law, Fake Freedom (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72128585)
(5) Cultures of Silence: The Power of Untold Narratives (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61355957)
>>"Get out of your comfort zone, and go and live..."
BTW, you don't know shit about me, but you keep assuming... You keep making a FOOL of yourself with your abusive/ad hominem comments.
Jesus fucking christ. I knew and understood "narratives" before you were BORN. I've been using po-mo and post-Structuralist arguments before you could even read.
Your complete disdain for the REAL WORLD victims of Western Imperialism is noted.
>>"Your complete disdain for the REAL WORLD victims of Western Imperialism"
Strawman argument. Understanding the importance of NARRATIVES does NOT indicate ANY disdain for ANYTHING.
Maybe take a class in LOGIC? Why are simple concepts SO DIFFICULT for you to understand?
>>"I've been using po-mo and post-Structuralist arguments before you could even read."
Doesn't matter what arguments you've been using if you can't do simple CRITICAL THINKING (as evidenced by this discussion and others such as your support for the "retired nurse teacher" John Campbell the grifter and maker of fools).
The US oligarchy's problem is that events have forced them to shift the narrative too much and too fast too often. It has become obvious, partly because the narratives have no relevance to the everyday lives of most Americans, partly because the lies are exposed so quickly on social media.
It's going to take some time, at least a few weeks and probably a few months, but a powerful national wave of revulsion over what Americans have financed in Gaza is coming.
I hope you're right...
It is interesting that Trump always puts the number of Palestinians to be resettled from Gaza at between 1.7m and 1.8m. The number of Palestinians killed there has always been said in the West as somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000. The population of the Gaza Strip according to the CIA World Fact Book in October 2024 was 2,141,643.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241001090306/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/gaza-strip/#people-and-society
Of-course there are basically no news in the Western media about what is happening currently in the West Bank. Trump has announced that he will come up with an explanation with regards to the fate of this territory in about four weeks time.
Can I suggest ethnic cleansing Israeli Zionists from what is really Palestine? Would it even be "ethnic cleansing" since most of them came from Europe (and other places) and were NOT indigenous to Palestine in the first place?
Right on Chang. What Scott Ritter calls “the Brooklyn Jews”.
One has to ask how long it will be before the government monitors of Trumpspeak (if there are any) ask Carolyn Leavitt (age and educational background unknown) to find a job somewhere else? Although, being fair, one can get away with anything in that White House these days. Owning Gaza, making it a Jews only resort, increasing tariffs, taking over Greenland, removing millions of US born workers back to Mexico and on, ad nauseum. The sky’s the limit.
Wait for the first venture into a press conference involving a proposed military action? Soon.
Rumours have it that they are going to build a fully functioning MacDonalds in the White House Press Room to create the right environment for these daily circus events.
A lot more to come.