The irony being that, if Twitter were censoring the McResistance or the spooks were making up fake interference stories for the explicit purpose of getting Trump re-elected, those same Team D goodthinkers would be singing a very different tune.
AUKUS makes Oz and the UK alike lap dogs of US hegemony. You're right though Oz is going come out of it worst and as badly as Taiwan will and Ukraine has, the US military machine doesn't give a sh£t about any of us.
The US Hegemony Juggernaut just keeps rolling over everything and anyone in its path, regardless of what anyone thinks or dares say. It's immune to all criticism. It hears nothing but its defenders in the DC swamp and their media sycophants. And by now the US media is all sycophants, except the sliver of critics in independent media such as Caitlin and a handful of others on the internet.
The war machine pays no attention to any of them, except to have them censored, shadow banned or otherwise silenced, which it's now doing with renewed vigor and determination, with billions of $$$ of funding coming from multiple quarters. It's the new, improved totalitarianism! Americans, except the usual few suspects, are not going to "wake up" to any of this. They aren't going to "rise up." They'd have already stopped the proxy war in Ukraine if they were inclined to awaken and arise. There are just too many new shows and sports extravaganzas to behold daily to devote time trying to stop the destroyers of everything that lives and breathes so they can maintain total power over all. There are just so many hours in a day, you know.
This is unfortunately very true. Sad that the whole world can burn down in full view while a bunch of airheads are concerned with the next episode of whatever (I don't have a name I don't watch TV) and meanwhile the fire outside their windows rages on!
Twice. What most people seem to miss about it is that it's not only about impending climate chaos and serial catastrophes, but also it's about the increasing probability of nuclear war, extinction of us all, end of civilization. Either one will wipe us out. Many are seeing that as a good thing. Oh, the irony.
The other irony is that it isn't the mouth-breathing MAGA set that is charging towards nuclear holocaust, but the self-styled Best And Brightest, the credentialed and highly educated, the Folks Who Believe The Science.
Most mouth-breathers don't have any real power, while the "best and brightest" believe power is best expressed by destroying everything standing in your way. Russia, China, Iran--they must be eliminated. And then we all die? So be it. Power has spoken.
Being from the u.s. (lower case for disrespect) I should not voice my opinion other than to say, every Australian should be very afraid. First order of business should be to ban every u.s. citizen from entry into Australia. That won't by itself solve the problem however it will give a pause to an insane position.
Caitlin is right in her comparison of Australia to Ukraine, the massive sale of weapons is coming and most likely far more than anyone knows. I would love to be wrong however, history tells me..........
I laughed at first because it was so criminally obvious at your opener "In 2013 Clapper committed perjury by telling the Senate under oath that the NSA does not knowingly collect data on millions of Americans, only to have that lie exposed by the Edward Snowden leaks a few months later." because once again the Criminal gets a free lunch and Edward? Well we all know what became of him!
Oh Caitlin, this is one of your best articles. You have found a new beat.
If Australians would like to see how intelligent the US strategists are and the results of being a "partner" to their strategies and wars, in my recent article on the US Intel leaks and related matters, I provide a summary of what has happened in the lead up to and the process of the war in Ukraine. It is in the section titled "The Aftermath or Taking Stock". The summary is that partnering with the US in its foreign wars is a universally disasterous choice.
May Australia society learn from the folly of Europe.
Americans should wake up to its government negative aggressive behavior, the cost to humans and the environment. Enemies are a choice! We are stuck in a rut!
I wrote my senators & representatives about Ukraine. Feel free to borrow this.
Dear Representative Davids,
With the revelations in the Washington Post that Ukraine is losing 7 soldiers for every 1 Russian soldier, I think it is time to:
* Admit that Ukraine can’t win;
* It is immoral to make Ukraine fight to the last Ukrainian;
* Negotiations with Russia are 14 months overdue;
* China proposed peace. Why are we letting China act like the adult?
* Our media never told the truth about Ukraine, which means we don’t have a media; we have propaganda outlets, and it doesn’t make any difference if they are MSNBC or Fox;
* Social media censors debate, and this is unamerican. But we’ve had a lot of censorship and propaganda these past three years, and we are losing our country;
* We’ve wasted $113,000,000,000 creating hell on earth for the Ukrainians. This war didn’t need to happen, but no one wanted to listen to Russia for the last 30 years. Gorbachev and Jim Baker had a handshake deal that NATO would not expand east of Germany. That was before NATO added about 14 more countries. No one is following the Minsk Accords, either.
Question: what could that $113,000,000,000 have done in the U.S., for us? Aren’t there people still being poisoned in East Palestine, Ohio?
Further, didn’t the national debt go from $1 trillion to $31.6 trillion in the last forty years, as: families got deep into debt, crime skyrocketed, and race relations became worse? But we started wars all over the world since 2001. What the heck for?
We Americans want our money back.
We want our country back.
I could go on.
There are Republicans and Democrats like President Trump, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Ron DeSantis, Tulsi Gabbard, and many others who tell the truth about this proxy war. They understand that we are playing with nuclear Armageddon. And they know it is wrong for our “media” to lie to us about what has been going on for 14 months.
I won’t vote for any Republican or Democrat who supports this war, and I will vote for any Democrat or Republican who tells the truth, starts negotiating, and shuts it down.
I’m done. I’m done voting for “the lesser of two evils.” Anyone who supports this war is not “the lesser of two evils.”
We should have started leveling with the American people back in 2002. Well, better late than never.
I want to vote for you. Where do you stand on this apocalyptic, immoral, proxy war that we could end this week if we wanted to?
WP: China proposed peace. Why are we letting China act like the adult?
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For the very simple reason that China, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa, ... are the adults while the usa has been NOTHING but a war criminal, genocidal, lying, gangster, mass murdering, and all other possible evils "nation".
The usa has caused the Ukraine problem and every other world problem since the Founding Liars, Genocidists, Terrorists, ... .
WP: We should have started leveling with the American people back in 2002.
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When has the usa EVER levelled with the American people? It has been RANK propaganda from the Founding Liars to war criminal, "butcherer of women and children" biden. And every other war criminal, "butcherer of women and children" usa prez since washington.
Australia , Ukraine comparison. The first response I get is, No it's Taiwan , Ukraine. Taiwan there would be instant war with little chance to profit from extended years of arms sales. Australia there would be at least several years of 100s of BILLIONs of weapons sales , plus the forced Australia/NATO spending globally. Caitlin has it right , Australia is the new Ukraine : (
Well, Australians can take comfort in the fact that if it goes nuclear, there will be barely seconds difference in who takes the hit first - and the rest of us. In the meantime it's the grinding of Australian faces in the dirt that must hurt. That and the boring presence of Americans jumping up and down, trying to get Beijing's attention.
I have to agree with you Caitlan that Australians need to wake up and look at the disaster we are being led into. We have never had a fully independent military and have always followed either the UK or the US since the end of WW2. Ronnie Raaf was a big flying club post Vietnam. However that all changed after the 1991 Gulf War. It became an extension of the US military, albeit one that could be cutoff from US intel or systems at a moments notice, if the US did not like our political direction. After Johnnie Howard embraced George W after 9/11 2001, the marriage and subservience of Australia was complete. All the obscenely authoritarian 'anti-terror' laws were in lockstep with the US. Now we are blindly following them into WW3 thanks to the Ukraine conflict and the effort to "contain" China. Although I am not a fan of the CC'P's authoritarian ways, each country should be allowed to choose their path in the world. "You leave us alone and we leave you alone should be the motto and the military used for Self Defense only. Unfortunately we are an arrogant puppy of the US and will be either used for target practice by a spare Sarmat or Chinese equivalent aimed at Pine Gap, Northwest Cape, Darwin and other places or military interest or be used as a "hostage/bargaining chip" when the US starts to lose the war.
I am not now, nor have I ever been a 9/11 Truther or whatever, but I will say that 9/11 proved hella convenient.
In the 1990s, Biden tried to push something much like the so-called "Patriot Act". It sank like a rock. On 9/12., Americans could not give up their civil liberties fast enough.
Feral Finster: I am not now, nor have I ever been a 9/11 Truther or whatever ... .
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Anyone who is not a 9/11 truther cannot make any claims to being a thinking human being.
First, a truthER is simply one who does the truth just as a teachER is one who teaches. This is fundamental to the English language.
Second, there is not a single piece of evidence that supports the USGs' Official 9/11 Fairy Tale.
Third, there are myriad total impossibiities that make the USGs' Official 9/11 Fairy Tale 100% impossible.
Just one, WTC7 free fall acceleration for the first 2.5 seconds, 105 feet, 8 stories is enough to totally sink the USGs' Official 9/11 Fairy Tale.
A controlled demoltion, aka explosives which removed all support columns within a fraction of a second is the ONLY thing known to womankind that can cause this to EVER happen.
"The principal conclusion of our study is that fire did not cause the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11, contrary to the conclusions of NIST and private engineering firms that studied the collapse. The secondary conclusion of our study is that the collapse of WTC 7 was a global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building."
A Structural Reevaluation of the Collapse of World Trade Center 7
And I am not really picking on Feral Finster, Jean, but I appreciate your thinking words. Close to 3000 people were mass murdered on that day, not just OBL and the 19/20 "hijackers" were lied about and maligned, but all Muslims have been which has seen some 6 millions Muslims and others falsely accused by the evil usa also being mass murdered.
JW: Some people just cannot CONCEIVE of a government so deeply vile that it would perpetrate such an act.
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Speaking honestly, that is thee defining characteristic of all usa governments from the Founding Liars/Terrorists/Genocidists/... to war criminal, "butcherer of women and children" biden.
Mr Finster is an adult and adults who cannot do reality have no business being allowed to do adult things, like having children, voting, ... .
I welcome FF to overcome whatever blindness it is that has him supporting such incredibly deep evil as that done by ALL usa governments. Ms Johnstone doesn't write about the good, decent, humane, ... things usa governments have done because there aren't any, NONE!
Here is a link to FEMA, who did a study of WTCs 1, 2 & 7 melted [2800F] and vaporized [4000+F] structural steel. WTC top temp fires were 1800F, sustained fires were 1300F.
Yet, NIST totally denied the existence of this molten steel, still does to this day. They are in essence, saying the 3 FEMA profs are liars. Why aren't the 3 FEMA profs asking NIST, "Why are you calling us liars when we have pieces of WTCs 1, 2 & 7 melted and vaporized structural steel?"? The NYTs wrote about the FEMA study.
The volume of usa lies, from so many different sources, direct lies and massive numbers of lies of omission are a dynamite example of just how much, almost totally; how often, almost always, the usa lies.
Caitlan ALSO writes about this, OFTEN!!!
What melted and boiled that steel? Also boiled lead, 3180F, melted Mo, 4753F.
Not any Muslims nor OBL because they had no involvement.
James Clapper. Human version of The Clap. Often invisible, never good.
That is outstanding! True scary , funny at the same time ha.
Why thanks. :)
Caitlin’s work is the truly outstanding piece here though. As always. She’s been consistently killing it for years. Remarkable output.
(I’m being Irish and difficult in accepting compliments!)
The countries of the collective West are governed by traitors corrupted by the psychopaths in Washington. What more can be said?
Why Clapper isn't in jail is beyond me. Obviously lying to congress in full view of the public they serve doesn't mean anything. But that's not news.
Congress wanted to be lied to.
The irony being that, if Twitter were censoring the McResistance or the spooks were making up fake interference stories for the explicit purpose of getting Trump re-elected, those same Team D goodthinkers would be singing a very different tune.
But you or I would be under the jail. Equality under the law? What a joke.
AUKUS makes Oz and the UK alike lap dogs of US hegemony. You're right though Oz is going come out of it worst and as badly as Taiwan will and Ukraine has, the US military machine doesn't give a sh£t about any of us.
It's not just Oz and the UK ... most of NATO countries other than Turkey and Hungary are also Uncle Satan's bag and butt lickers
Indeed
The US Hegemony Juggernaut just keeps rolling over everything and anyone in its path, regardless of what anyone thinks or dares say. It's immune to all criticism. It hears nothing but its defenders in the DC swamp and their media sycophants. And by now the US media is all sycophants, except the sliver of critics in independent media such as Caitlin and a handful of others on the internet.
The war machine pays no attention to any of them, except to have them censored, shadow banned or otherwise silenced, which it's now doing with renewed vigor and determination, with billions of $$$ of funding coming from multiple quarters. It's the new, improved totalitarianism! Americans, except the usual few suspects, are not going to "wake up" to any of this. They aren't going to "rise up." They'd have already stopped the proxy war in Ukraine if they were inclined to awaken and arise. There are just too many new shows and sports extravaganzas to behold daily to devote time trying to stop the destroyers of everything that lives and breathes so they can maintain total power over all. There are just so many hours in a day, you know.
This is unfortunately very true. Sad that the whole world can burn down in full view while a bunch of airheads are concerned with the next episode of whatever (I don't have a name I don't watch TV) and meanwhile the fire outside their windows rages on!
Ever seen "Don't Look Up"!"?
Twice. What most people seem to miss about it is that it's not only about impending climate chaos and serial catastrophes, but also it's about the increasing probability of nuclear war, extinction of us all, end of civilization. Either one will wipe us out. Many are seeing that as a good thing. Oh, the irony.
The other irony is that it isn't the mouth-breathing MAGA set that is charging towards nuclear holocaust, but the self-styled Best And Brightest, the credentialed and highly educated, the Folks Who Believe The Science.
Most mouth-breathers don't have any real power, while the "best and brightest" believe power is best expressed by destroying everything standing in your way. Russia, China, Iran--they must be eliminated. And then we all die? So be it. Power has spoken.
Further evidence that they believe that they are entitled to rule as a matter of Divine Right.
Being from the u.s. (lower case for disrespect) I should not voice my opinion other than to say, every Australian should be very afraid. First order of business should be to ban every u.s. citizen from entry into Australia. That won't by itself solve the problem however it will give a pause to an insane position.
Caitlin is right in her comparison of Australia to Ukraine, the massive sale of weapons is coming and most likely far more than anyone knows. I would love to be wrong however, history tells me..........
I laughed at first because it was so criminally obvious at your opener "In 2013 Clapper committed perjury by telling the Senate under oath that the NSA does not knowingly collect data on millions of Americans, only to have that lie exposed by the Edward Snowden leaks a few months later." because once again the Criminal gets a free lunch and Edward? Well we all know what became of him!
What happened to Edward Snowdon? He is living a normal life in Moscow - if only Julian Assange could have done the same...
And what do you think would happen to him if he came back to the states?
Judging by what happened to Assange, what do you think will happen?
Oh Caitlin, this is one of your best articles. You have found a new beat.
If Australians would like to see how intelligent the US strategists are and the results of being a "partner" to their strategies and wars, in my recent article on the US Intel leaks and related matters, I provide a summary of what has happened in the lead up to and the process of the war in Ukraine. It is in the section titled "The Aftermath or Taking Stock". The summary is that partnering with the US in its foreign wars is a universally disasterous choice.
May Australia society learn from the folly of Europe.
The Effect of the US Intelligence Leaks
https://yesxorno.substack.com/p/the-effect-of-the-us-intelligence
Americans should wake up to its government negative aggressive behavior, the cost to humans and the environment. Enemies are a choice! We are stuck in a rut!
Some of us are awake and a fat lot of good that does. We are silenced and dismissed.
Sad but true!
I wrote my senators & representatives about Ukraine. Feel free to borrow this.
Dear Representative Davids,
With the revelations in the Washington Post that Ukraine is losing 7 soldiers for every 1 Russian soldier, I think it is time to:
* Admit that Ukraine can’t win;
* It is immoral to make Ukraine fight to the last Ukrainian;
* Negotiations with Russia are 14 months overdue;
* China proposed peace. Why are we letting China act like the adult?
* Our media never told the truth about Ukraine, which means we don’t have a media; we have propaganda outlets, and it doesn’t make any difference if they are MSNBC or Fox;
* Social media censors debate, and this is unamerican. But we’ve had a lot of censorship and propaganda these past three years, and we are losing our country;
* We’ve wasted $113,000,000,000 creating hell on earth for the Ukrainians. This war didn’t need to happen, but no one wanted to listen to Russia for the last 30 years. Gorbachev and Jim Baker had a handshake deal that NATO would not expand east of Germany. That was before NATO added about 14 more countries. No one is following the Minsk Accords, either.
Question: what could that $113,000,000,000 have done in the U.S., for us? Aren’t there people still being poisoned in East Palestine, Ohio?
Further, didn’t the national debt go from $1 trillion to $31.6 trillion in the last forty years, as: families got deep into debt, crime skyrocketed, and race relations became worse? But we started wars all over the world since 2001. What the heck for?
We Americans want our money back.
We want our country back.
I could go on.
There are Republicans and Democrats like President Trump, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Ron DeSantis, Tulsi Gabbard, and many others who tell the truth about this proxy war. They understand that we are playing with nuclear Armageddon. And they know it is wrong for our “media” to lie to us about what has been going on for 14 months.
I won’t vote for any Republican or Democrat who supports this war, and I will vote for any Democrat or Republican who tells the truth, starts negotiating, and shuts it down.
I’m done. I’m done voting for “the lesser of two evils.” Anyone who supports this war is not “the lesser of two evils.”
We should have started leveling with the American people back in 2002. Well, better late than never.
I want to vote for you. Where do you stand on this apocalyptic, immoral, proxy war that we could end this week if we wanted to?
God bless you,
WP: China proposed peace. Why are we letting China act like the adult?
=====
For the very simple reason that China, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa, ... are the adults while the usa has been NOTHING but a war criminal, genocidal, lying, gangster, mass murdering, and all other possible evils "nation".
The usa has caused the Ukraine problem and every other world problem since the Founding Liars, Genocidists, Terrorists, ... .
WP: We should have started leveling with the American people back in 2002.
======
When has the usa EVER levelled with the American people? It has been RANK propaganda from the Founding Liars to war criminal, "butcherer of women and children" biden. And every other war criminal, "butcherer of women and children" usa prez since washington.
Australia , Ukraine comparison. The first response I get is, No it's Taiwan , Ukraine. Taiwan there would be instant war with little chance to profit from extended years of arms sales. Australia there would be at least several years of 100s of BILLIONs of weapons sales , plus the forced Australia/NATO spending globally. Caitlin has it right , Australia is the new Ukraine : (
Well, Australians can take comfort in the fact that if it goes nuclear, there will be barely seconds difference in who takes the hit first - and the rest of us. In the meantime it's the grinding of Australian faces in the dirt that must hurt. That and the boring presence of Americans jumping up and down, trying to get Beijing's attention.
Right between the eyes. Always incisive, Caitlin for head of state!
The reach of the US war machine is mind boggling.
What you are seeing is a textbook example of sociopathy, organized.
I have to agree with you Caitlan that Australians need to wake up and look at the disaster we are being led into. We have never had a fully independent military and have always followed either the UK or the US since the end of WW2. Ronnie Raaf was a big flying club post Vietnam. However that all changed after the 1991 Gulf War. It became an extension of the US military, albeit one that could be cutoff from US intel or systems at a moments notice, if the US did not like our political direction. After Johnnie Howard embraced George W after 9/11 2001, the marriage and subservience of Australia was complete. All the obscenely authoritarian 'anti-terror' laws were in lockstep with the US. Now we are blindly following them into WW3 thanks to the Ukraine conflict and the effort to "contain" China. Although I am not a fan of the CC'P's authoritarian ways, each country should be allowed to choose their path in the world. "You leave us alone and we leave you alone should be the motto and the military used for Self Defense only. Unfortunately we are an arrogant puppy of the US and will be either used for target practice by a spare Sarmat or Chinese equivalent aimed at Pine Gap, Northwest Cape, Darwin and other places or military interest or be used as a "hostage/bargaining chip" when the US starts to lose the war.
I am not now, nor have I ever been a 9/11 Truther or whatever, but I will say that 9/11 proved hella convenient.
In the 1990s, Biden tried to push something much like the so-called "Patriot Act". It sank like a rock. On 9/12., Americans could not give up their civil liberties fast enough.
Feral Finster: I am not now, nor have I ever been a 9/11 Truther or whatever ... .
=====
Anyone who is not a 9/11 truther cannot make any claims to being a thinking human being.
First, a truthER is simply one who does the truth just as a teachER is one who teaches. This is fundamental to the English language.
Second, there is not a single piece of evidence that supports the USGs' Official 9/11 Fairy Tale.
Third, there are myriad total impossibiities that make the USGs' Official 9/11 Fairy Tale 100% impossible.
Just one, WTC7 free fall acceleration for the first 2.5 seconds, 105 feet, 8 stories is enough to totally sink the USGs' Official 9/11 Fairy Tale.
A controlled demoltion, aka explosives which removed all support columns within a fraction of a second is the ONLY thing known to womankind that can cause this to EVER happen.
"The principal conclusion of our study is that fire did not cause the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11, contrary to the conclusions of NIST and private engineering firms that studied the collapse. The secondary conclusion of our study is that the collapse of WTC 7 was a global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building."
A Structural Reevaluation of the Collapse of World Trade Center 7
https://ine.uaf.edu/projects/wtc7/
And I am not really picking on Feral Finster, Jean, but I appreciate your thinking words. Close to 3000 people were mass murdered on that day, not just OBL and the 19/20 "hijackers" were lied about and maligned, but all Muslims have been which has seen some 6 millions Muslims and others falsely accused by the evil usa also being mass murdered.
A full on usa Holocaust all because of usa lies.
JW: Some people just cannot CONCEIVE of a government so deeply vile that it would perpetrate such an act.
======
Speaking honestly, that is thee defining characteristic of all usa governments from the Founding Liars/Terrorists/Genocidists/... to war criminal, "butcherer of women and children" biden.
Mr Finster is an adult and adults who cannot do reality have no business being allowed to do adult things, like having children, voting, ... .
I welcome FF to overcome whatever blindness it is that has him supporting such incredibly deep evil as that done by ALL usa governments. Ms Johnstone doesn't write about the good, decent, humane, ... things usa governments have done because there aren't any, NONE!
Here is a link to FEMA, who did a study of WTCs 1, 2 & 7 melted [2800F] and vaporized [4000+F] structural steel. WTC top temp fires were 1800F, sustained fires were 1300F.
https://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/fema403_apc.pdf
Yet, NIST totally denied the existence of this molten steel, still does to this day. They are in essence, saying the 3 FEMA profs are liars. Why aren't the 3 FEMA profs asking NIST, "Why are you calling us liars when we have pieces of WTCs 1, 2 & 7 melted and vaporized structural steel?"? The NYTs wrote about the FEMA study.
The volume of usa lies, from so many different sources, direct lies and massive numbers of lies of omission are a dynamite example of just how much, almost totally; how often, almost always, the usa lies.
Caitlan ALSO writes about this, OFTEN!!!
What melted and boiled that steel? Also boiled lead, 3180F, melted Mo, 4753F.
Not any Muslims nor OBL because they had no involvement.