They keep saying the quiet part out loud which is informative. Like Melanie Phillips saying we all have a responsibility to lie to deceive on what Israelis doing. She actually said it out loud.
There is no point trying to have a rational discussion with bad faith actors.
I felt the same when I saw the IDF "crying" about four of their soldiers being killed in Lebanon. And... of course used it to justify further attacks. The Israeli mindset is operating in a different reality to the rest of us:
- invade Lebanon and kill 1000s of Lebanese, to "protect itself"
- get shot at
- call this out as unwarranted aggression
- kill more Lebanese
Yes, we can all see it for what it is. But, where are our Governments?
It is truly amazing that any group of people so desperate to be top dog can, and will, actually believe it's own lies, as it goes on an eighty-year, so far, killing spree on neighbours who have lived there for thousands of years mostly peacefully, but plagued by invasions pushed by a rogue, genocidal state that gets an ally to not only supply weaponry but step in and give its soldier's lives for an illegal state, while dragging other countries to do the same sacrificing.
10/10, Steve. Our governments are so shit-scared of the power of the naZionist lobby, that their champion athlete-level contortions, evasions and obfuscations could not fail to impress the selectors. Being Australian is now becoming bloody embarrassing, not to mention infuriating.
1."Telling people not to use ChatGPT to make shitty memes isn’t going to save us from the ecological fallout of the AI-driven facial recognition murder drones we’ll have patrolling our skies in the future of this increasingly dark dystopia."
Yes, but if Team D has the whip hand, those drones will be mindful of pronouns, informed that gender is a continuum, not a binary.
Cue up the Team D apologists telling us that we have to settle for woke murder drones. At least they won't misgender their victims. That would be intolerable.
2. "Maybe I don't understand what terrorism is."
Terrorism is when they do it. When we or our pets do it, they're Freedom Fighters(tm). This is why Ukraine can attack a bus full of school kids in neutral Byelorus and nobody says boo. Were Russia to do anything remotely comparable, the worldwide howls of condemnation would be deafening.
Yes, indeed double standards - I am reading a lot of history (WW1 onwards, mainly WW2 afterwards) recently and would summarize it was ALWAYS the same, difference to now is, that we have the internet which allows us (for those who want to see it) to see the crimes quickly after they happen (and not read about them after they open the archives and some history professor has written his book)
I read everything Erich Fromm wrote, didn't find anything depressing in there - do you probably confuse him with someone else? For me the most fascinating thing was:
his concept of biophilia vs. necrophilia (introduced in his 1964 book The Heart of Man) contrasts a passionate love of life and growth with a destructive fixation on death, decay, and mechanical control.
What depresses me is the fact that decades ago we still would have had time to CHANGE (as he hoped and suggested), too late now, we are 'machines' (1976: To have or to be?) ruined by greed brought by the capitalist system.
To the shitlib, the unrepentant Capitalist, "everything is insane, the world's run by maniacs". It's a truism, blanket explanation, a out-statement designed to avoid the specifics of AI's dark eco-destrctive and mass-surveillance aspects. Likewise, designed to avoid focus on Israeli crimes with the "oh West Asia has always been a madhouse" view. I know and recently chatted with such an acquaintance. Nice person, but . . . .
More important than ever that the search for justice continues! The work that the Hind Rajab Foundation is doing to track down and bring Israeli criminals to justice is one that is vital in the effort to hold Israel accountable. Let us hope they will also turn their sights on the criminal leaders of the countries of the west who are co-perpetrators of these crimes.
The land they’re doing their best to steal in southern Lebanon is being presented as a “safety buffer zone.” If they want this buffer zone how about they use their own land instead of stealing Lebanon’s? The manipulation of language to whitewash their crimes is impressive. Like you wrote — words,words,words.
IOF/Israel is in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, & now they are on the border with Somaliland. Did i miss someone else's country they're in? 🤔
"Neoliberalism is already doing that thing where they shift all the blame for the environmental consequences of ecocidal capitalism to the individual consumer, like how they told everyone to ride bikes and recycle instead of regulating the corporations who are actually destroying our biosphere."
The Kaibiles: US Psychopathy at the Tip of the Spear
To grasp the true nature and sickness of American foreign policy in Guatemala, requires you must look at the Kaibiles.
The Kaibiles are an elite, hyper-violent Guatemalan special operations force. They were created in 1974, entirely modeled on U.S. Army Rangers and Green Berets, and trained directly by U.S. military advisors at the School of the Americas (SOA) and in the jungles of Guatemala. The U.S. explicitly trained them to act as the tip of the spear in the “Silent Holocaust” against the Mayan population.
The Kaibiles were intentionally forged into psychological and physical monsters. Their US crafted training involved extreme physical abuse, sleep deprivation, and the forced slaughter of animals to desensitize them to blood and suffering — the precise inversion of human empathy that Rubicon underwent in his own “Psychological Kill Training.” The Kaibiles were indoctrinated with a simple, fascistic creed: “If I advance, follow me. If I stop, urge me on. If I retreat, kill me.”
These were the men who executed the infamous 1982 Dos Erres massacre. Disguised as leftist guerrillas (a classic CIA false-flag tactic), a patrol of Kaibiles entered the village of Dos Erres. Over three days, they systematically tortured, raped, and murdered more than 200 men, women, and children. They smashed infants’ heads against trees and threw their bodies down a well.
This was not a rogue unit. This was the U.S. military’s pedagogical masterpiece. The Kaibiles were performing exactly as they were trained to perform, using the tactics and the ideological justifications provided to them by their American instructors.
You name so much insanity here, Caitlin. I wonder if anyone believes that Israelis being shot in Lebanon while invading is terrorism. I mean, how gullible can people actually be?!
Re: AI, I practically never use it, but if I do I use DeepSeek, not only because I trust Chinese ope source AI more than the other stuff on offer but, and this is the reason I sometimes use it, it links to better, less western biased articles that I can link to in the posts I write.
Very good suggestion and information re the reason you use DeepSeek.. I have yet to use DeepSeek. I do not use google as my search engine anymore though.
They keep saying the quiet part out loud which is informative. Like Melanie Phillips saying we all have a responsibility to lie to deceive on what Israelis doing. She actually said it out loud.
There is no point trying to have a rational discussion with bad faith actors.
Thank you for reminding us. Zionists often deflect from their bad actions by simply committing more bad actions.
Thank you 🙏🙏 from one of the "terrorist" sign holders. My younger self cannot believe the life experiences we are all currently having.
Great article.
I felt the same when I saw the IDF "crying" about four of their soldiers being killed in Lebanon. And... of course used it to justify further attacks. The Israeli mindset is operating in a different reality to the rest of us:
- invade Lebanon and kill 1000s of Lebanese, to "protect itself"
- get shot at
- call this out as unwarranted aggression
- kill more Lebanese
Yes, we can all see it for what it is. But, where are our Governments?
Where are our governments? Shoveling zionist blood money "donations" into their pockets.
It is truly amazing that any group of people so desperate to be top dog can, and will, actually believe it's own lies, as it goes on an eighty-year, so far, killing spree on neighbours who have lived there for thousands of years mostly peacefully, but plagued by invasions pushed by a rogue, genocidal state that gets an ally to not only supply weaponry but step in and give its soldier's lives for an illegal state, while dragging other countries to do the same sacrificing.
10/10, Steve. Our governments are so shit-scared of the power of the naZionist lobby, that their champion athlete-level contortions, evasions and obfuscations could not fail to impress the selectors. Being Australian is now becoming bloody embarrassing, not to mention infuriating.
So happy you wrote this. I liken it to blaming climate change on people using plastic water bottles rather than holding ecocidal companies responsible
So true. Abd why is our water so bad that we need to buy it???
Or dropping bombs on unarmed civilians in tents? Every bomb dropped adds to our destruction of our planet, and usrael has dropped thousands.
1."Telling people not to use ChatGPT to make shitty memes isn’t going to save us from the ecological fallout of the AI-driven facial recognition murder drones we’ll have patrolling our skies in the future of this increasingly dark dystopia."
Yes, but if Team D has the whip hand, those drones will be mindful of pronouns, informed that gender is a continuum, not a binary.
Cue up the Team D apologists telling us that we have to settle for woke murder drones. At least they won't misgender their victims. That would be intolerable.
2. "Maybe I don't understand what terrorism is."
Terrorism is when they do it. When we or our pets do it, they're Freedom Fighters(tm). This is why Ukraine can attack a bus full of school kids in neutral Byelorus and nobody says boo. Were Russia to do anything remotely comparable, the worldwide howls of condemnation would be deafening.
Yes, indeed double standards - I am reading a lot of history (WW1 onwards, mainly WW2 afterwards) recently and would summarize it was ALWAYS the same, difference to now is, that we have the internet which allows us (for those who want to see it) to see the crimes quickly after they happen (and not read about them after they open the archives and some history professor has written his book)
Fat lot of good it does.
Totally agree - I am very depressed (one of the side effects of powerlessness - following my favorite Erich Fromm readings!)
Fromm was always depressing.
I read everything Erich Fromm wrote, didn't find anything depressing in there - do you probably confuse him with someone else? For me the most fascinating thing was:
his concept of biophilia vs. necrophilia (introduced in his 1964 book The Heart of Man) contrasts a passionate love of life and growth with a destructive fixation on death, decay, and mechanical control.
What depresses me is the fact that decades ago we still would have had time to CHANGE (as he hoped and suggested), too late now, we are 'machines' (1976: To have or to be?) ruined by greed brought by the capitalist system.
To the shitlib, the unrepentant Capitalist, "everything is insane, the world's run by maniacs". It's a truism, blanket explanation, a out-statement designed to avoid the specifics of AI's dark eco-destrctive and mass-surveillance aspects. Likewise, designed to avoid focus on Israeli crimes with the "oh West Asia has always been a madhouse" view. I know and recently chatted with such an acquaintance. Nice person, but . . . .
Brilliant as always! I'm sending this to a Zionist kinsman in Jerusalem.
Excellent post and writing! Thank you, thank you
More important than ever that the search for justice continues! The work that the Hind Rajab Foundation is doing to track down and bring Israeli criminals to justice is one that is vital in the effort to hold Israel accountable. Let us hope they will also turn their sights on the criminal leaders of the countries of the west who are co-perpetrators of these crimes.
Find out what they’re doing here:
https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org
The least we can do is donate to help them:
Support the Hind Rajab Foundation
https://donate.stripe.com/cN228hbY5g7jaM84gg
The land they’re doing their best to steal in southern Lebanon is being presented as a “safety buffer zone.” If they want this buffer zone how about they use their own land instead of stealing Lebanon’s? The manipulation of language to whitewash their crimes is impressive. Like you wrote — words,words,words.
IOF/Israel is in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, & now they are on the border with Somaliland. Did i miss someone else's country they're in? 🤔
"Neoliberalism is already doing that thing where they shift all the blame for the environmental consequences of ecocidal capitalism to the individual consumer, like how they told everyone to ride bikes and recycle instead of regulating the corporations who are actually destroying our biosphere."
Thank you for identifying this political trick.
The Kaibiles: US Psychopathy at the Tip of the Spear
To grasp the true nature and sickness of American foreign policy in Guatemala, requires you must look at the Kaibiles.
The Kaibiles are an elite, hyper-violent Guatemalan special operations force. They were created in 1974, entirely modeled on U.S. Army Rangers and Green Berets, and trained directly by U.S. military advisors at the School of the Americas (SOA) and in the jungles of Guatemala. The U.S. explicitly trained them to act as the tip of the spear in the “Silent Holocaust” against the Mayan population.
The Kaibiles were intentionally forged into psychological and physical monsters. Their US crafted training involved extreme physical abuse, sleep deprivation, and the forced slaughter of animals to desensitize them to blood and suffering — the precise inversion of human empathy that Rubicon underwent in his own “Psychological Kill Training.” The Kaibiles were indoctrinated with a simple, fascistic creed: “If I advance, follow me. If I stop, urge me on. If I retreat, kill me.”
These were the men who executed the infamous 1982 Dos Erres massacre. Disguised as leftist guerrillas (a classic CIA false-flag tactic), a patrol of Kaibiles entered the village of Dos Erres. Over three days, they systematically tortured, raped, and murdered more than 200 men, women, and children. They smashed infants’ heads against trees and threw their bodies down a well.
This was not a rogue unit. This was the U.S. military’s pedagogical masterpiece. The Kaibiles were performing exactly as they were trained to perform, using the tactics and the ideological justifications provided to them by their American instructors.
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/the-hemisphere-of-plunder-guatemala
Sickening!
Thank You Caitlin
"Terrorism" is in the eye of the beholder.
If you like it, it's patriotism. If you don't like it, it's terrorism.
One person's "terrorist" is another's "freedom fighter."
You name so much insanity here, Caitlin. I wonder if anyone believes that Israelis being shot in Lebanon while invading is terrorism. I mean, how gullible can people actually be?!
Re: AI, I practically never use it, but if I do I use DeepSeek, not only because I trust Chinese ope source AI more than the other stuff on offer but, and this is the reason I sometimes use it, it links to better, less western biased articles that I can link to in the posts I write.
Very good suggestion and information re the reason you use DeepSeek.. I have yet to use DeepSeek. I do not use google as my search engine anymore though.
Good for you, Helen. What do you use -- Duck Duck Go?
yes...maybe you know whether that is a better option? I hope so.
By "better option" I mean somewhat more moral than google. (I refuse to to use upper case for the first letter of the name of the g search engine.)
I've heard that it's better, but don't really know.
I was using Duck Duck Go, but it's too much like google. I'm using Start Page now. So far, so good.