I just cannot purge from my mind Miko Peled's recent talk at MIT. I'm only slightly paraphrasing. What the hell is wrong with us, he insists. The terrorist is Israel. Sanctions and a no fly zone over Gaza immediately. Disband the apartheid state. He's absolutely right. We should be bloody tired of this and demand nothing less.
Good for him. Maybe I'll try and find that talk. I think Biden should be impeached for illegally sending weapons to human rights violators. I don't know why they think it's not illegal when the president does it. I haven't seen anyone else mention the idea of impeachment. Maybe because obviously congress won't. But I feel obligated to pepper my congress tools with demands for impeachment for this crime anyway.
I am Jewish (and who cares?!). In the name of humanity, stop the f@*$n bombing, cut off all US aid to Israel, Stop the Occupation!, and let the huge amount of humanitarian aid needed into Gaza NOW.
Strictly my opinion okay? People are basing the future on the past and I personally believe the entire world, but especially the middle east, has changed profusely and therefore nothing is applicable anymore. Most imperatively, Israel's reputation has been completely eviscerated and therefore so has their clout. Saying Israel is our friend is now considered a Scarlett Letter - changing the entire perspective of going forward and more precisely, with whom. They might have a handful (at best) of remaining allies.
I can't help but think Israel as we knew it will cease to exist. I believe Russia is going to take over everything but also resolve this matter. Putin has been extremely vocal of late - he gave a 4.5 hour press conference with questions - the leader of Hamas traveled to Russia and Putin went to the Middle East just last week. I read this is the USA's greatest fear. I see this as him clearly flexing his muscle in addition to giving the USA the middle finger regarding the proxy war.
I truly believe this is all about strategizing - to put the final nail in Israel's and the USA's coffin. People forget Putin is brilliant - just listen to him speak. And contrary the lies they continue to spew he is known as a "geopolitical genius more astute than Clausewitz, more subtle than Sun Tzu and more audacious than Napoleon".
Russia, contrary to the sanctions which backfired profusely, is also running a surplus while the USA's debt continues to increase by the minute. I also tend to think the Ukraine conflict is related to the Israel conflict because Russia is involved in both!
Looking at this from afar one could very easily say the USA has lost all it's power. Our military was already at it's very lowest it had ever been and then we gave how much to Ukraine and now Israel as well. Strictly from a strategic view point it would seem to me the US is not in a very good position but especially versus Russia and the entire middle east which he is now (unlike the USA and Israel) allied with. I think Putin knew and saw this coming from Day One. As reported everyone knew about the attacks on 10-07 over a year ago and I think Putin worked it to his fullest advantaged as their military intelligence is far superior to Israelis.
We know Netanyahu's days are numbered and perhaps his life - spending the rest of it in prison. Did he take Israel down with him - it is not far fetched to think he might have made a deal with Putin to destroy Israel - because we all know this is all about Russia, Iran and China taking over the middle east. I can also conceive Hillary being involved as no one hates Putin more and is a greater supporter of Israel. This is the greatest power grab we've seen in quite some time to say the least.
I have been watching Al-Jazeera (Arabic and English) since October 7th and they have been showing the daily carnage since it started. Can anyone really claim that they are only now seeing these images? Really?
I've seen reported (mostly from Independent news sources) there is a measurable gap of young vs. old Americans who support Israel. The younger generation being far more against the slaughter. I suspect part of the reason is many older Americans are not on the Internet as much as the younger generation - more of whom would probably come across Al-Jazeera sooner or later. Al-Jazeera is the only network I watch for the remarkably brave reporting coming out of Gaza - and also for other events announced or voted for at the U.N. The others I don't bother with.
I've thought a lot about this myself - our generation had kept saying for years how much we'd pitied this generation coming up. Well thank God it turns out we may've hopefully been wrong.
I noticed at first when they discovered the Bin Ladin letter and how it went viral and all these reports about the numbers some as high as 13 million on TikTok or whatever the hell it's called. But what I noticed is the age of some of these replies and what they were saying - they were so involved. It was amazing! One young girl wrote: I woke up this morning to discover my Government has been lying to me about everything!
Look what she said and how she said it - she wasn't just passing criticism per se but rather understanding the depth. I was so impressed as so many others wrote similar things. This was not nonsense, these kids were actually thinking understanding and getting involved AND voicing their intelligent opinion. It wasn't the normal Taylor Swift bandwagon BS.
And then the crisis started in Gaza and they came out in droves. Once again I was listening to how they spoke - and it was the same as before. Well informed well spoken - not some bandwagon garbage.
I attribute it to the reality of being forced to MOVE BACK HOME! They finally-finally get it!
These are educated kids that can't afford to leave home - can't afford to buy a house and now they're asking and learning why! By the grace of God and what little is left of this Third World Country we are living in - maybe just maybe there is a slight glimmer of hope.
Just goes to show you how important media control is and why one of the very first thing anyone who seizes power does is to take over the TV, Radio, and Newspapers.
But when one can't do that -- in the age of social media -- the truth starts to spread faster than a lie. And that is something that many, many believe is something very dangerous -- the fast spreading of the truth -- and will (and have already started to) move to reverse. Let's hope that such a task -- reversing the reality of distributed social media -- will be an impossible one to accomplish.
Very true and well said - the irony being the lies about Covid and the lethal injections. Thank God - one good thing was able to come of this - no one believes anything the media and government say anymore. You can tell by how fast everything is now debunked and the fact no one is getting the boosters. The other side of that coin and I thought about this many years ago when I stopped believing anything - is that there will be a bio-terrorism attack (of course intentional) and people will be instructed to remain in place. No one will believe the warnings and move around instead and wind up killing millions by spreading it. This is how I have always believed they will regain trust! I thought about this YEARS AGO!
Lastly - before social media and even telephones word always got out hence why the deliberately locked us down during Covid and closed all churches and gatherings. Not going to work this time. The other side of THAT coin is people now know they are being monitored and watch what they say. Talk about tyranny!! The revolution is coming or civil war I believe it will commence next year when they try and overthrow yet another election. Trumps lead is far to insurmountable to pull it off yet again. It will have nothing to do with who won and who lost but rather - they did it yet again and so blatantly! I swear Hillary is absolutely coming back! You know she's going to replace Kamila
If Clarissa Ward's report made it clear that Israel was the attacker, if she made it clear that Israeli murdering was facilitated by American money and munitions, she would have been out of a job.
The fact that this was allowed at all speaks volumes! Everyone knows the truth but especially the Jewish Community - watch how fast the propaganda machine lambastes CNN claiming they exacerbated the antisemitism showing this - I'm shocked they didn't try and kill her like all the other journalists they've slaughtered to silence the truth!
I've been aware, and kind of surprised that CNN pretty much from the beginning of Israel's onslaught in Gaza gave it coverage. I didn't evaluate it, but thought for CNN that's pretty good. Every little bit helps, and I think pictures help more then words since they tell their own story.
Absolutely Fran! Pictures don't lie and the people know this story stinks. Thank God for Covid and the lethal injections - now people no longer believe the media and sure as hell the government! The people in Israel know the truth and are not only coming forward to testify - but I think I read something like 350,000 have moved to Europe. If what Israel is doing is so righteous and noble - what exactly are they running from? I would assume their own government - after knowing they slaughtered so many on 10-07 and blamed Hamas in order to start this conflict
I really feel Israel knew this was coming, since they were warned several times by three different sources. They exaggerated the number of deaths, introduced rapes and baby killings, to justify their very obvious intent of implementing a genocide to clear the land of Gaza. Oh, Netanyahu would never do that say many, however the widow of Rabin blamed Netanyahu for his death. Rail violently against the Oslo Accords, create a funeral procession for Rabin, and surely someone will hear your message, "Kill Rabin!"
Oh they knew it was coming and used it as a pre-text to start the invasion and genocide. That's why they needed to slaughter their own people - Hamas's orders were to kidnap and not kill civilian's. When it didn't unfold or pan out as Israel assumed - they had to do it themselves which is why they continue to destroy all the evidence! The orders were given to kill everyone. Watch the Ron Unz interview he almost nails everything bringing the truth to light but says he has a hard time believing the conspiracy this was intentional. For such an esteemed political activist he should not have used the word conspiracy. l can't wait until the truth becomes to unbearable to deny to hear what the Israel's have to say about their own government. Israel witnesses are coming forward to testify what happened - it was the IDF and not Hamas who slaughtered the majority on 10-07. Unz thinks and I agree - it was closer to 100 that Hamas killed. You might be able to censor the truth in the media but people that were there that day know and saw what happened and rest assure are talking - hence the massive migration to Europe. Imagine knowing your own governments murdered IDF soldiers? Everyone knows the truth - why the lies are just so incredibly egregious.
Last night on CBS (don’t ask me why I bother!) Ziobitch Nora O’Donnell presented a quasi-serious “inquiry” about “sexual assaults” on Israeli women on 10/7.
Problem is, there are no survivors, and no forensics were done on anyone who was supposedly assaulted!
She crowed about women “bleeding from their vaginas.” Well, anyone who knows one damned thing about the birds and the bees are perfectly aware that yes, younger women DO bleed from their vaginas on a monthly basis. It’s called “menstruation “.
It could be argued that if she had any compassion, any empathy or any sense of honour, she would quit. But if Ward stays with CNN and continues to push the boundaries further, she might win some brownie points.
I'm not sure what's to elaborate, but Ward may have just have been following company orders in attempt to improve the public image of CNN and the MSM ( More and more people are gradually becoming aware of the propaganda and outright bullshit from biased and corrupt media ) and perhaps they feel the need for some favourable PR.
Or, Ward might be genuine and feel that if one person can start chipping away at the B.S. from the billionaire corporate class and their servants others might follow.
I remember the NYTImes and CNN headlines when the bombing started saying that Israel was "pummeling" Gaza -- as if we were witnessing a boxing match.
If Biden thinks that the outrage of the people who have been following this closely in the US will dim and subside once the bombing stops to give him time to recover his brand after a few months, he has no clue. Once the bombing stops, that's when the reckoning begins, as the images and stories of hell and horror emerge, and the question will become: How could you not only have let that happen, but actuallty financed it with OUR tax dollars.
That and the outrage will surely rob him of any moral overtones as he talks about Ukraine.
And there is the matter of Democracy -- and its gross violation by the DNC by effectively banning any challengers to Biden to stand in primaries.
And then there are the many broken promises -- including his weak, dismal moves to protect women's right with whatever tools he has (and he has plenty).
In any case, it is indeed fitting that the Democratic Convention this year is going to be in Chicago. It's going to be 1968 all over again, with the many, many factions loudly calling for a platform against militarism, corporatism, political spinelessness (Trump's Louis DeJoy is STILL Head of the US Post Office!), the destruction of the environment. In the middle of all that, the Trump scarecrow will be consumed and reduced to ashes by the flames of anger and disgust for Biden, the DNC, and their many minions in the US mainstream media.
Yesterday I was reading an updated list of congressfolk who’ve signed onto Cori Bush’s legislation for a permanent ceasefire. And MY US CONGRESSMAN’s name had magically appeared on it!
After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I immediately called his DC office to thank him.
Now I certainly cannot claim to have accomplished this by myself. But by calling his DC office three times a day over the past few weeks, I’m confident that I had some small part in it 😁
I was contemplating writing a Substack about how you don't see CNN's Clarissa Ward in Gaza, but only a team of al-Jazeera reporters instead, risking life and limb. This article pre-corrects what I would have mis-written, so Big Thanks! Of course, Palestinians are merely "dying," not being indiscriminately killed by US-backed Israeli bomb strikes. IDF no doubt were well aware of Ward's assignment, probably OK'd it, and deliberately "non-targeted" her location. All said, CNN's coverage of Gaza still doesn't hold a candle to al-Jazeera's; translation: More people are watching al-Jazeera English than CNN--so send in the Clarissa Ward to Save the Ratings!
I have bad days and decent days. Trying to occupy my mind with some home improvement projects since gardening season is long gone. I miss being outdoors; mostly I miss my sweet mare.
100% true! They're a little slow at CNN, but they finally got the "memo" that al-Jazeera is "scooping" them like nobody's business, so they sent Clarissa in, who's an expendable asset based on her time served with the company, benefits accrued. She survived her foray into Gaza based on pre-arranged visit with IDF, who no doubt had exclusive rights on her report. Framing, framing, framing: the Genocide's all in the Framing. Joe Biden, by the way, could be on Traflamadore for all he knows, old Zionist Joe...
Towards the end of the segment, Clarissa Ward enumerates other cities that had undergone horrific destruction this century. Grozny, she says, Aleppo, Mariupol... No Fallujah, no Mosul, no Raqqa.
Together with everything that Caitlin describes here, I have to say that's quite a way for a reporter to pull their pants down and take a dump on all the hard work they'd done. I am sorry for the wording, but it pains me to see the Palestinians being taken through a spin yet again, and that as they are being literally wiped out.
I know. I followed Aleppo and Mariupol as close as it was possible from afar. Having made some adjustements for the length and dynamics of operations, the measures taken by the advancing party to safeguard the civilians, secure routes of evacuation etc., it's safe to say there is hardly a comparison to be made.
If anything in the last decade comes close, it's Mosul, or the brainless bombardment of Raqqa.
"At no time in the 14-minute segment does Ward or anyone else make any mention of the fact that this relentless massacre can only happen because it is being backed by the US, and that the Biden administration could end it at any time by withdrawing that backing."
This. The completely disjointed coverage that the US has nothing to do with this immoral genocide of Palestinians is almost worse than calling the bombs dropping "strikes" without mentioning the Israelis' hand in dropping those bombs. Most can figure out who is doing the carpet bombing of Gaza (the folks next door), but not everyone understands that without the US handing these bombs over to the murdering Israelis, these wounded people in a Gaza hospital where CNN filmed wouldn't be in the state they're in. CNN must accept its responsibility for misleading their viewers, but, of course, they're on the US "Ministry of Truth's" payroll so they won't.
I'm hoping and praying they run out of US bombs as of now because they're still people in Gaza trapped and starving that need UN aid workers and Doctors Without Frontiers to come in to help them.
I am beginning to feel vaguely optimistic that Israel has begun to finally push their fiction over the edge. For the first time on local news tonight I did not hear about an alleged war between Israel and Hamas, but instead details about the Palestinian humanitarian crisis.
I am so tired of funding bullies, both at home and abroad. We need to cut the purse strings.
a religious and white supremacist, racist settler colonial regime called the government of Israel.
The nation was self declared by Zionists who had already rejected unoccupied land in Africa when the lands of Palestine were gifted to them by guilt stricken Europeans after the last World War. Or, the pathetic Europeans, who also don't like the scheming Zionists, solved the problem by dumping it on the Palestinians and shifting it out of Europe.
ZNN (Zionist News Network) otherwise known as CNN is a propaganda outlet, nothing more. Thank you for watching so I don't have to. Fact that even this farcial 'News' organization reports some truth gives you a sense of the catastrophe happening currently in Gaza. Free Palestine, stop the Genocide.
The british, like most europeans, just lurrve being slaves. Nothing gives a european greater delight than being permitted to lovingly fellate his American master.
Witnesses Say IDF Troops 'Executed' Women and Children in Gaza School
The Biden administration "must respond to the reported execution-style massacre of women, children, and babies," said the spokesperson of a U.S. Muslim advocacy group.
BRETT WILKINS
Dec 13, 2023
Eyewitness testimony reported Wednesday by Al Jazeera accused Israeli troops of massacring forcibly displaced women and children sheltering at a school in northern Gaza, an allegation that prompted a leading U.S. Muslim advocacy group to demand a response from President Joe Biden.
The reported massacre took place at the Shadia Abu Ghazala School in the al-Faluja area west of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Video footage aired by the Qatar-based news network showed numerous covered bodies piled in one of the school's classrooms.
"The Israeli soldiers came in and opened fire on them," one unidentified witness said. "They took all men, then entered classrooms and opened fire on a woman and all the children with her," including "newborn children."
"The Israeli soldiers executed those innocent families point-blank," she added.
A man who arrived at the scene after the alleged mass murder told Al Jazeera that "we found dozens of dead bodies in the classrooms."
"There is no sign of any missiles or shells," he added. "All those who were in the buildings were executed from point-blank. The Israeli soldiers opened fire on them. Many families came searching for their children. They found them all killed. They were all killed, executed at gunpoint."
As of press time, the alleged massacre had not been independently verified.
Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said in a statement that "because the Biden administration stands almost alone on the world stage in defending and enabling the far-right Israeli government's campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza, administration officials must respond to the reported execution-style massacre of women, children, and babies seeking refuge in a school in Gaza."
“Our nation must stop enabling what even President Biden privately admits is the 'indiscriminate' targeting of innocent Palestinians," he added.
Also on Wednesday, Palestinians sheltering in the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza said Israeli troops stormed the facility after days of shelling and siege.
"Conditions in the hospital are dire with no water or electricity," one survivor told Al Jazeera. "Bodies are scattered on the ground."
An elderly man told the network that "the Israeli army used loudspeakers to demand the evacuation of the displaced individuals from the hospital," but IDF troops subsequently shot people trying to flee the facility.
Gaza health officials said Wednesday that at least 18,608 Palestinians—most of them women and children—have been killed by Israeli bombs and bullets since October 7, with over 50,000 more Palestinians wounded.
Additionally, more than 1.9 million Gazans—or upward of 85% of the strip's population—have been forcibly displaced since October 7, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Joe Biden's owners are triangulating on "the official narrative" now? Quel surprise. Clearly, the present administration decides such matters on a committee basis and so are limited to the lowest functioning members capabilities. They learned NOTHING from using that approach to sell Hillary Clinton, did they?!
When a "thought leader" in an area of import is ID'd, pressure will be applied to sway them into the required consensus. Money, trappings of power, high status employment, under age & kinky sex + embarrassing photos, whatever.
If a thought leader is required but not easily available or is unpalatable to the target demographic, a new or more suitable one will be created. Think ad agency PR department beholden to a whale type client, most MSM news and entertainment are chosen by such.
Israel announced its worst combat losses in more than a month on Dec 13 after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza, and faced growing diplomatic isolation as civilian deaths mounted and a humanitarian catastrophe worsened in the Palestinian territory.
Intense fighting was under way in both north and south Gaza, a day after the United Nations demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. US President Joe Biden said Israel’s “indiscriminate” bombing of civilians was costing international support.
Biden's comment about "indiscriminate bombing" by Israel looks different to me in light of yesterday's analysis of ENRICHED uranium (higher U235 than U238, NOT "DU") in Gaza. This points to use of mini-nukes, which has been suggested in prior US and Israeli bombings, from Tora Bora in Afghanistan, to Rafic Hariri's assassination 2/14/05, supposedly by means of ordinary explosives, and ultimately blamed on Hezbollah. I recall the rumors. Look at that crater. Does it look like recent craters in Gaza?
John Helmer has this story, mostly introducing the documentary and analytical work of nuclear scientist Christopher Busby.
NEW EVIDENCE THAT ISRAEL IS USING A NEW URANIUM WEAPON – MAKE THAT THE NEUTRON BOMB
The neutron bomb was invented in 1958 by Samuel Cohen of the Livermore Laboratory of California and then RAND...
Abstract
Since 2003 measurements made by Green Audit in Fallujah, Iraq 2003, Lebanon 2006 and Gaza 2008 have provided unequivocal evidence of Uranium residues which show anomalous Uranium U-238/U235 isotope signature ratios. Results from independent laboratories in Europe and the UK, using different techniques, revealed the presence of enriched Uranium in biological materials and environmental samples including soil, bomb craters and air (as recorded in vehicle air filter dust). More recently, 2021 results published in the journal Nature, show that Uranium enrichment levels in background samples from Gaza have been increasing markedly since 2008. Since enriched Uranium is an anthropogenic substance which does not exist in nature, the question arises as to the source, in the weapons employed by the USA (Fallujah) and Israel (Lebanon, Gaza). It is proposed that the only logical answer is that a Uranium-based weapon exists that produces U-235 by neutron activation and has been deployed. Such a weapon must be some kind of neutron bomb...
..Conclusion and further investigation.
An inevitable deduction from the consistent findings of enriched Uranium in samples from Gaza, Lebanon and Iraq, is that a neutron weapon of some kind has been employed since the second Gulf War, and possible before then. This is an Israeli (and US) secret weapon, as was reported by Robert Fisk in The Independent in 2006 [7]. The increases in congenital effects seen in the Fallujah population [8,9,10] and also in Gaza [20,21] can plausibly have resulted from exposure to neutrons as well as to the Uranium particulate aerosols. The weapon is ideal for armies employed in methodological destruction both of fighters hidden in urban environments (where neutrons pass through walls) and for any state which has the aim of destroying the civilian population using a genetic mutation weapon (cancer, fertility loss, birth defects). It is, however, a nuclear weapon, and those deploying it are using a nuclear weapon against civilian populations as part of a project to destroy an enemy state population without acknowledging this. This is a war crime.
I was watching Scott Ritter on Judge Napolitano and he believes Hamas is winning - another article I read talked about Hama's tenacity - can you imagine the people that perceive my reply as being Pro-Hamas? Hah!!
ALL TRUTH!!>“Consistent inhumanity is the sign of savagery.” - Abhijit Naskar, Revolution Indomable
“We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. ” - Bertrand De Jouvenel
“Murderous, mutual loathing between tribes was no more explicable, or complicated, then the genocidal urges of chimpanzees—a fact of nature that we humans, vainly and disingenuously, pretend our codes of civilization transcend.” - Alan Weisman
“There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn’t guard against it, risks being swept away by it.” - Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility
“Man's savagery is unmatched. Compared to his savagery, the cruelty of the animal world looks almost benign.” -Krishna Murthy
I think those who write on this issue exaggerate a bit, and become to all inclusive. Seems to me most people would prefer not to engage in wars, and have no need to dominate and control others and engage in savage behavior. "There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn’t guard against it, risks being swept away by it.” Sounds dramatic, scary, but I beg to differ. To claim we all have these proclivities provides an excuse for the most vile among us, like Netanyahu, who grew up with a father that taught him Arabs are savages."
Hmm, sorry I respectfully disagree!, look thru History books, EVERY , GROUP, ORG. RELIGION, SECT AND ON!, starts with honest cose, but eventually turn criminal, barbaric, savige brutal killing machine!...it is in our chromosomes (and sadly in our genes). ...and this> "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." Lily Tomlin (1939 - , Actress...sadly but true , give ''human power'' eventually he will do unimaginable ...I will stop here!..
In any given society where a hierarchy develops you will find this to be true, but when man wondered the land for food with little to no competition, no problem. I disagree that all of mankind has this inherent trait that is capable of mayhem and murder. Do you know that some 85 percent of people who are abused as children, do not, go on to be abusers?
“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.” Rousseau
“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.” Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
I will end here!> hmm, History will repeat, and new lies will replace "old" ones, haha, until "humans" are, as experiment, gone! ,bye, bye stupidity!...useless period of soil this rock!....totally useless!....
I agree. The characteristic is pervasive in societies rather than individuals; there is a small but influential percentage of psychopaths, e.g. in a society, but not a small amount in every individual. Admittedly most people are capable of inhumanity in extreme circumstances.
We have as much of the "other" chimpanzee (Bonobo) genes as the one you mention. Patriarchal society made the decision long ago regarding which one of our nearest releatives' path would be best to follow for their narrow benefit.
True, Che. The thing about foxes—and I have witnessed this—is that they create a “stockpile” for later consumption, unaware that the henhouse owner is going to be waiting for their return with a shotgun 😉
I just cannot purge from my mind Miko Peled's recent talk at MIT. I'm only slightly paraphrasing. What the hell is wrong with us, he insists. The terrorist is Israel. Sanctions and a no fly zone over Gaza immediately. Disband the apartheid state. He's absolutely right. We should be bloody tired of this and demand nothing less.
Good for him. Maybe I'll try and find that talk. I think Biden should be impeached for illegally sending weapons to human rights violators. I don't know why they think it's not illegal when the president does it. I haven't seen anyone else mention the idea of impeachment. Maybe because obviously congress won't. But I feel obligated to pepper my congress tools with demands for impeachment for this crime anyway.
I am Jewish (and who cares?!). In the name of humanity, stop the f@*$n bombing, cut off all US aid to Israel, Stop the Occupation!, and let the huge amount of humanitarian aid needed into Gaza NOW.
Yes. Two state solutuion will only end up the same as before.
Hey Jen . . . .
Strictly my opinion okay? People are basing the future on the past and I personally believe the entire world, but especially the middle east, has changed profusely and therefore nothing is applicable anymore. Most imperatively, Israel's reputation has been completely eviscerated and therefore so has their clout. Saying Israel is our friend is now considered a Scarlett Letter - changing the entire perspective of going forward and more precisely, with whom. They might have a handful (at best) of remaining allies.
I can't help but think Israel as we knew it will cease to exist. I believe Russia is going to take over everything but also resolve this matter. Putin has been extremely vocal of late - he gave a 4.5 hour press conference with questions - the leader of Hamas traveled to Russia and Putin went to the Middle East just last week. I read this is the USA's greatest fear. I see this as him clearly flexing his muscle in addition to giving the USA the middle finger regarding the proxy war.
I truly believe this is all about strategizing - to put the final nail in Israel's and the USA's coffin. People forget Putin is brilliant - just listen to him speak. And contrary the lies they continue to spew he is known as a "geopolitical genius more astute than Clausewitz, more subtle than Sun Tzu and more audacious than Napoleon".
Russia, contrary to the sanctions which backfired profusely, is also running a surplus while the USA's debt continues to increase by the minute. I also tend to think the Ukraine conflict is related to the Israel conflict because Russia is involved in both!
Looking at this from afar one could very easily say the USA has lost all it's power. Our military was already at it's very lowest it had ever been and then we gave how much to Ukraine and now Israel as well. Strictly from a strategic view point it would seem to me the US is not in a very good position but especially versus Russia and the entire middle east which he is now (unlike the USA and Israel) allied with. I think Putin knew and saw this coming from Day One. As reported everyone knew about the attacks on 10-07 over a year ago and I think Putin worked it to his fullest advantaged as their military intelligence is far superior to Israelis.
We know Netanyahu's days are numbered and perhaps his life - spending the rest of it in prison. Did he take Israel down with him - it is not far fetched to think he might have made a deal with Putin to destroy Israel - because we all know this is all about Russia, Iran and China taking over the middle east. I can also conceive Hillary being involved as no one hates Putin more and is a greater supporter of Israel. This is the greatest power grab we've seen in quite some time to say the least.
Yes we do! I think it could work if somehow those Zionists were shut up, made to work at a job and allow their women to work too if they wish.
Not sure if I would like them in the Military1
I hope so Jeano!
I have been watching Al-Jazeera (Arabic and English) since October 7th and they have been showing the daily carnage since it started. Can anyone really claim that they are only now seeing these images? Really?
I've seen reported (mostly from Independent news sources) there is a measurable gap of young vs. old Americans who support Israel. The younger generation being far more against the slaughter. I suspect part of the reason is many older Americans are not on the Internet as much as the younger generation - more of whom would probably come across Al-Jazeera sooner or later. Al-Jazeera is the only network I watch for the remarkably brave reporting coming out of Gaza - and also for other events announced or voted for at the U.N. The others I don't bother with.
Yes -> https://twitter.com/didou/status/1719730829394366918
I've thought a lot about this myself - our generation had kept saying for years how much we'd pitied this generation coming up. Well thank God it turns out we may've hopefully been wrong.
I noticed at first when they discovered the Bin Ladin letter and how it went viral and all these reports about the numbers some as high as 13 million on TikTok or whatever the hell it's called. But what I noticed is the age of some of these replies and what they were saying - they were so involved. It was amazing! One young girl wrote: I woke up this morning to discover my Government has been lying to me about everything!
Look what she said and how she said it - she wasn't just passing criticism per se but rather understanding the depth. I was so impressed as so many others wrote similar things. This was not nonsense, these kids were actually thinking understanding and getting involved AND voicing their intelligent opinion. It wasn't the normal Taylor Swift bandwagon BS.
And then the crisis started in Gaza and they came out in droves. Once again I was listening to how they spoke - and it was the same as before. Well informed well spoken - not some bandwagon garbage.
I attribute it to the reality of being forced to MOVE BACK HOME! They finally-finally get it!
These are educated kids that can't afford to leave home - can't afford to buy a house and now they're asking and learning why! By the grace of God and what little is left of this Third World Country we are living in - maybe just maybe there is a slight glimmer of hope.
Just goes to show you how important media control is and why one of the very first thing anyone who seizes power does is to take over the TV, Radio, and Newspapers.
But when one can't do that -- in the age of social media -- the truth starts to spread faster than a lie. And that is something that many, many believe is something very dangerous -- the fast spreading of the truth -- and will (and have already started to) move to reverse. Let's hope that such a task -- reversing the reality of distributed social media -- will be an impossible one to accomplish.
Very true and well said - the irony being the lies about Covid and the lethal injections. Thank God - one good thing was able to come of this - no one believes anything the media and government say anymore. You can tell by how fast everything is now debunked and the fact no one is getting the boosters. The other side of that coin and I thought about this many years ago when I stopped believing anything - is that there will be a bio-terrorism attack (of course intentional) and people will be instructed to remain in place. No one will believe the warnings and move around instead and wind up killing millions by spreading it. This is how I have always believed they will regain trust! I thought about this YEARS AGO!
Lastly - before social media and even telephones word always got out hence why the deliberately locked us down during Covid and closed all churches and gatherings. Not going to work this time. The other side of THAT coin is people now know they are being monitored and watch what they say. Talk about tyranny!! The revolution is coming or civil war I believe it will commence next year when they try and overthrow yet another election. Trumps lead is far to insurmountable to pull it off yet again. It will have nothing to do with who won and who lost but rather - they did it yet again and so blatantly! I swear Hillary is absolutely coming back! You know she's going to replace Kamila
If Clarissa Ward's report made it clear that Israel was the attacker, if she made it clear that Israeli murdering was facilitated by American money and munitions, she would have been out of a job.
The fact that this was allowed at all speaks volumes! Everyone knows the truth but especially the Jewish Community - watch how fast the propaganda machine lambastes CNN claiming they exacerbated the antisemitism showing this - I'm shocked they didn't try and kill her like all the other journalists they've slaughtered to silence the truth!
I've been aware, and kind of surprised that CNN pretty much from the beginning of Israel's onslaught in Gaza gave it coverage. I didn't evaluate it, but thought for CNN that's pretty good. Every little bit helps, and I think pictures help more then words since they tell their own story.
Absolutely Fran! Pictures don't lie and the people know this story stinks. Thank God for Covid and the lethal injections - now people no longer believe the media and sure as hell the government! The people in Israel know the truth and are not only coming forward to testify - but I think I read something like 350,000 have moved to Europe. If what Israel is doing is so righteous and noble - what exactly are they running from? I would assume their own government - after knowing they slaughtered so many on 10-07 and blamed Hamas in order to start this conflict
I really feel Israel knew this was coming, since they were warned several times by three different sources. They exaggerated the number of deaths, introduced rapes and baby killings, to justify their very obvious intent of implementing a genocide to clear the land of Gaza. Oh, Netanyahu would never do that say many, however the widow of Rabin blamed Netanyahu for his death. Rail violently against the Oslo Accords, create a funeral procession for Rabin, and surely someone will hear your message, "Kill Rabin!"
Oh they knew it was coming and used it as a pre-text to start the invasion and genocide. That's why they needed to slaughter their own people - Hamas's orders were to kidnap and not kill civilian's. When it didn't unfold or pan out as Israel assumed - they had to do it themselves which is why they continue to destroy all the evidence! The orders were given to kill everyone. Watch the Ron Unz interview he almost nails everything bringing the truth to light but says he has a hard time believing the conspiracy this was intentional. For such an esteemed political activist he should not have used the word conspiracy. l can't wait until the truth becomes to unbearable to deny to hear what the Israel's have to say about their own government. Israel witnesses are coming forward to testify what happened - it was the IDF and not Hamas who slaughtered the majority on 10-07. Unz thinks and I agree - it was closer to 100 that Hamas killed. You might be able to censor the truth in the media but people that were there that day know and saw what happened and rest assure are talking - hence the massive migration to Europe. Imagine knowing your own governments murdered IDF soldiers? Everyone knows the truth - why the lies are just so incredibly egregious.
Hi Fran
Last night on CBS (don’t ask me why I bother!) Ziobitch Nora O’Donnell presented a quasi-serious “inquiry” about “sexual assaults” on Israeli women on 10/7.
Problem is, there are no survivors, and no forensics were done on anyone who was supposedly assaulted!
She crowed about women “bleeding from their vaginas.” Well, anyone who knows one damned thing about the birds and the bees are perfectly aware that yes, younger women DO bleed from their vaginas on a monthly basis. It’s called “menstruation “.
It could be argued that if she had any compassion, any empathy or any sense of honour, she would quit. But if Ward stays with CNN and continues to push the boundaries further, she might win some brownie points.
Can you ellaborate?
I'm not sure what's to elaborate, but Ward may have just have been following company orders in attempt to improve the public image of CNN and the MSM ( More and more people are gradually becoming aware of the propaganda and outright bullshit from biased and corrupt media ) and perhaps they feel the need for some favourable PR.
Or, Ward might be genuine and feel that if one person can start chipping away at the B.S. from the billionaire corporate class and their servants others might follow.
The reasons do not matter. They are improving.
There remains the tactic of fight back from within and any ally is an asset. For me, the jury's still out.
Susan T. IF every journalist told the truth they would all be out of jobs and then at least there would be NO propaganda.
I remember the NYTImes and CNN headlines when the bombing started saying that Israel was "pummeling" Gaza -- as if we were witnessing a boxing match.
If Biden thinks that the outrage of the people who have been following this closely in the US will dim and subside once the bombing stops to give him time to recover his brand after a few months, he has no clue. Once the bombing stops, that's when the reckoning begins, as the images and stories of hell and horror emerge, and the question will become: How could you not only have let that happen, but actuallty financed it with OUR tax dollars.
That and the outrage will surely rob him of any moral overtones as he talks about Ukraine.
And there is the matter of Democracy -- and its gross violation by the DNC by effectively banning any challengers to Biden to stand in primaries.
And then there are the many broken promises -- including his weak, dismal moves to protect women's right with whatever tools he has (and he has plenty).
In any case, it is indeed fitting that the Democratic Convention this year is going to be in Chicago. It's going to be 1968 all over again, with the many, many factions loudly calling for a platform against militarism, corporatism, political spinelessness (Trump's Louis DeJoy is STILL Head of the US Post Office!), the destruction of the environment. In the middle of all that, the Trump scarecrow will be consumed and reduced to ashes by the flames of anger and disgust for Biden, the DNC, and their many minions in the US mainstream media.
I can’t wait for it! 😁 @ Ahmed
Oh Jeano, he’s been doing that all along.
And….drum roll please…VICTORY!
Yesterday I was reading an updated list of congressfolk who’ve signed onto Cori Bush’s legislation for a permanent ceasefire. And MY US CONGRESSMAN’s name had magically appeared on it!
After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I immediately called his DC office to thank him.
Now I certainly cannot claim to have accomplished this by myself. But by calling his DC office three times a day over the past few weeks, I’m confident that I had some small part in it 😁
I modestly thank you, Che. ☺️
And no, I never physically threatened him 😁
I was contemplating writing a Substack about how you don't see CNN's Clarissa Ward in Gaza, but only a team of al-Jazeera reporters instead, risking life and limb. This article pre-corrects what I would have mis-written, so Big Thanks! Of course, Palestinians are merely "dying," not being indiscriminately killed by US-backed Israeli bomb strikes. IDF no doubt were well aware of Ward's assignment, probably OK'd it, and deliberately "non-targeted" her location. All said, CNN's coverage of Gaza still doesn't hold a candle to al-Jazeera's; translation: More people are watching al-Jazeera English than CNN--so send in the Clarissa Ward to Save the Ratings!
Yeah, but considering CNN's shortcomings, not too bad. Ever listen to FOX on this issue?
Oh, HELL NO, Fran ! 🤮
Hi!
How you doing gypsy?
Thanks for asking, my friend🙂
I have bad days and decent days. Trying to occupy my mind with some home improvement projects since gardening season is long gone. I miss being outdoors; mostly I miss my sweet mare.
How about yourself, Fran?
Mondoweiss has a correspondent in Gaza risking life and limb to get the word out.
I’m a modest monthly contributor. If you are able to as well, please do!
100% true! They're a little slow at CNN, but they finally got the "memo" that al-Jazeera is "scooping" them like nobody's business, so they sent Clarissa in, who's an expendable asset based on her time served with the company, benefits accrued. She survived her foray into Gaza based on pre-arranged visit with IDF, who no doubt had exclusive rights on her report. Framing, framing, framing: the Genocide's all in the Framing. Joe Biden, by the way, could be on Traflamadore for all he knows, old Zionist Joe...
Towards the end of the segment, Clarissa Ward enumerates other cities that had undergone horrific destruction this century. Grozny, she says, Aleppo, Mariupol... No Fallujah, no Mosul, no Raqqa.
Together with everything that Caitlin describes here, I have to say that's quite a way for a reporter to pull their pants down and take a dump on all the hard work they'd done. I am sorry for the wording, but it pains me to see the Palestinians being taken through a spin yet again, and that as they are being literally wiped out.
The irony being that Russia has bent over backwards to avoid civilian casualties in Ukraine.
I know. I followed Aleppo and Mariupol as close as it was possible from afar. Having made some adjustements for the length and dynamics of operations, the measures taken by the advancing party to safeguard the civilians, secure routes of evacuation etc., it's safe to say there is hardly a comparison to be made.
If anything in the last decade comes close, it's Mosul, or the brainless bombardment of Raqqa.
Or Fallujah.
What all these have in common is left as an exercise for the reader.
"At no time in the 14-minute segment does Ward or anyone else make any mention of the fact that this relentless massacre can only happen because it is being backed by the US, and that the Biden administration could end it at any time by withdrawing that backing."
This. The completely disjointed coverage that the US has nothing to do with this immoral genocide of Palestinians is almost worse than calling the bombs dropping "strikes" without mentioning the Israelis' hand in dropping those bombs. Most can figure out who is doing the carpet bombing of Gaza (the folks next door), but not everyone understands that without the US handing these bombs over to the murdering Israelis, these wounded people in a Gaza hospital where CNN filmed wouldn't be in the state they're in. CNN must accept its responsibility for misleading their viewers, but, of course, they're on the US "Ministry of Truth's" payroll so they won't.
Scott Ritter maintains that Israhell couldn’t bomb for 24 hours without a steady supply of Amerikkkan instruments of death.
I'm hoping and praying they run out of US bombs as of now because they're still people in Gaza trapped and starving that need UN aid workers and Doctors Without Frontiers to come in to help them.
Hi TRC
More UN workers have been killed in Gaza than in any other conflict since the establishment of the UN.
I am beginning to feel vaguely optimistic that Israel has begun to finally push their fiction over the edge. For the first time on local news tonight I did not hear about an alleged war between Israel and Hamas, but instead details about the Palestinian humanitarian crisis.
I am so tired of funding bullies, both at home and abroad. We need to cut the purse strings.
Hi Marci
My husband and I are each withholding $25.25 from our tax returns this year.
That’s the amount that each Amerikkkan taxpayer “contributes” to Israhell each year. Nuh-uh, no more, ain’t a-gonna happen in our names.
The passive voice strikes again.
She died.
The wounded child.
The destroyed hospital.
The distressing numbers.
Were caused by ...
a religious and white supremacist, racist settler colonial regime called the government of Israel.
The nation was self declared by Zionists who had already rejected unoccupied land in Africa when the lands of Palestine were gifted to them by guilt stricken Europeans after the last World War. Or, the pathetic Europeans, who also don't like the scheming Zionists, solved the problem by dumping it on the Palestinians and shifting it out of Europe.
ZNN (Zionist News Network) otherwise known as CNN is a propaganda outlet, nothing more. Thank you for watching so I don't have to. Fact that even this farcial 'News' organization reports some truth gives you a sense of the catastrophe happening currently in Gaza. Free Palestine, stop the Genocide.
I guess some mainstream, sloppy coverage of Gaza is better than none at all.
Even if she had said those things, the managers back in the US would have edited them out.
I suppose once those conscripted Ukrainian women and teens start buying farms and it can't be ignored, Western media will call them "civilians".
The BBC- if they ever get there - will be even more craven.
The british, like most europeans, just lurrve being slaves. Nothing gives a european greater delight than being permitted to lovingly fellate his American master.
Really bad visual there, Feral 😂
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-school-attack
Witnesses Say IDF Troops 'Executed' Women and Children in Gaza School
The Biden administration "must respond to the reported execution-style massacre of women, children, and babies," said the spokesperson of a U.S. Muslim advocacy group.
BRETT WILKINS
Dec 13, 2023
Eyewitness testimony reported Wednesday by Al Jazeera accused Israeli troops of massacring forcibly displaced women and children sheltering at a school in northern Gaza, an allegation that prompted a leading U.S. Muslim advocacy group to demand a response from President Joe Biden.
The reported massacre took place at the Shadia Abu Ghazala School in the al-Faluja area west of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Video footage aired by the Qatar-based news network showed numerous covered bodies piled in one of the school's classrooms.
"The Israeli soldiers came in and opened fire on them," one unidentified witness said. "They took all men, then entered classrooms and opened fire on a woman and all the children with her," including "newborn children."
"The Israeli soldiers executed those innocent families point-blank," she added.
A man who arrived at the scene after the alleged mass murder told Al Jazeera that "we found dozens of dead bodies in the classrooms."
"There is no sign of any missiles or shells," he added. "All those who were in the buildings were executed from point-blank. The Israeli soldiers opened fire on them. Many families came searching for their children. They found them all killed. They were all killed, executed at gunpoint."
As of press time, the alleged massacre had not been independently verified.
Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said in a statement that "because the Biden administration stands almost alone on the world stage in defending and enabling the far-right Israeli government's campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza, administration officials must respond to the reported execution-style massacre of women, children, and babies seeking refuge in a school in Gaza."
“Our nation must stop enabling what even President Biden privately admits is the 'indiscriminate' targeting of innocent Palestinians," he added.
Also on Wednesday, Palestinians sheltering in the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza said Israeli troops stormed the facility after days of shelling and siege.
"Conditions in the hospital are dire with no water or electricity," one survivor told Al Jazeera. "Bodies are scattered on the ground."
An elderly man told the network that "the Israeli army used loudspeakers to demand the evacuation of the displaced individuals from the hospital," but IDF troops subsequently shot people trying to flee the facility.
Gaza health officials said Wednesday that at least 18,608 Palestinians—most of them women and children—have been killed by Israeli bombs and bullets since October 7, with over 50,000 more Palestinians wounded.
Additionally, more than 1.9 million Gazans—or upward of 85% of the strip's population—have been forcibly displaced since October 7, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
@BJ
Joe Biden's owners are triangulating on "the official narrative" now? Quel surprise. Clearly, the present administration decides such matters on a committee basis and so are limited to the lowest functioning members capabilities. They learned NOTHING from using that approach to sell Hillary Clinton, did they?!
Basic principles:
When a "thought leader" in an area of import is ID'd, pressure will be applied to sway them into the required consensus. Money, trappings of power, high status employment, under age & kinky sex + embarrassing photos, whatever.
If a thought leader is required but not easily available or is unpalatable to the target demographic, a new or more suitable one will be created. Think ad agency PR department beholden to a whale type client, most MSM news and entertainment are chosen by such.
'Twas ever thus.
Jeffrey Epstein has entered the chat.
I can’t find it Jeano. If anyone could provide a link, I’d love to see it!
Israel announced its worst combat losses in more than a month on Dec 13 after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza, and faced growing diplomatic isolation as civilian deaths mounted and a humanitarian catastrophe worsened in the Palestinian territory.
Intense fighting was under way in both north and south Gaza, a day after the United Nations demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. US President Joe Biden said Israel’s “indiscriminate” bombing of civilians was costing international support.
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/israel-suffers-heaviest-combat-losses-since-oct-netanyahu-vows-to-fight-on-despite-diplomatic-isolation
Biden's comment about "indiscriminate bombing" by Israel looks different to me in light of yesterday's analysis of ENRICHED uranium (higher U235 than U238, NOT "DU") in Gaza. This points to use of mini-nukes, which has been suggested in prior US and Israeli bombings, from Tora Bora in Afghanistan, to Rafic Hariri's assassination 2/14/05, supposedly by means of ordinary explosives, and ultimately blamed on Hezbollah. I recall the rumors. Look at that crater. Does it look like recent craters in Gaza?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-60691507
From Yesterday:
John Helmer has this story, mostly introducing the documentary and analytical work of nuclear scientist Christopher Busby.
NEW EVIDENCE THAT ISRAEL IS USING A NEW URANIUM WEAPON – MAKE THAT THE NEUTRON BOMB
The neutron bomb was invented in 1958 by Samuel Cohen of the Livermore Laboratory of California and then RAND...
Abstract
Since 2003 measurements made by Green Audit in Fallujah, Iraq 2003, Lebanon 2006 and Gaza 2008 have provided unequivocal evidence of Uranium residues which show anomalous Uranium U-238/U235 isotope signature ratios. Results from independent laboratories in Europe and the UK, using different techniques, revealed the presence of enriched Uranium in biological materials and environmental samples including soil, bomb craters and air (as recorded in vehicle air filter dust). More recently, 2021 results published in the journal Nature, show that Uranium enrichment levels in background samples from Gaza have been increasing markedly since 2008. Since enriched Uranium is an anthropogenic substance which does not exist in nature, the question arises as to the source, in the weapons employed by the USA (Fallujah) and Israel (Lebanon, Gaza). It is proposed that the only logical answer is that a Uranium-based weapon exists that produces U-235 by neutron activation and has been deployed. Such a weapon must be some kind of neutron bomb...
..Conclusion and further investigation.
An inevitable deduction from the consistent findings of enriched Uranium in samples from Gaza, Lebanon and Iraq, is that a neutron weapon of some kind has been employed since the second Gulf War, and possible before then. This is an Israeli (and US) secret weapon, as was reported by Robert Fisk in The Independent in 2006 [7]. The increases in congenital effects seen in the Fallujah population [8,9,10] and also in Gaza [20,21] can plausibly have resulted from exposure to neutrons as well as to the Uranium particulate aerosols. The weapon is ideal for armies employed in methodological destruction both of fighters hidden in urban environments (where neutrons pass through walls) and for any state which has the aim of destroying the civilian population using a genetic mutation weapon (cancer, fertility loss, birth defects). It is, however, a nuclear weapon, and those deploying it are using a nuclear weapon against civilian populations as part of a project to destroy an enemy state population without acknowledging this. This is a war crime.
https://johnhelmer.net/new-evidence-that-israel-is-using-a-new-uranium-weapon-make-that-the-neutron-bomb/#more-89018
I was watching Scott Ritter on Judge Napolitano and he believes Hamas is winning - another article I read talked about Hama's tenacity - can you imagine the people that perceive my reply as being Pro-Hamas? Hah!!
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/14/let-it-be-a-tale-on-refaat-alareer-and-the-martyrdom-of-the-gaza-intellectual/
"Winning by not losing."
ALL TRUTH!!>“Consistent inhumanity is the sign of savagery.” - Abhijit Naskar, Revolution Indomable
“We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. ” - Bertrand De Jouvenel
“Murderous, mutual loathing between tribes was no more explicable, or complicated, then the genocidal urges of chimpanzees—a fact of nature that we humans, vainly and disingenuously, pretend our codes of civilization transcend.” - Alan Weisman
“There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn’t guard against it, risks being swept away by it.” - Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility
“Man's savagery is unmatched. Compared to his savagery, the cruelty of the animal world looks almost benign.” -Krishna Murthy
I think those who write on this issue exaggerate a bit, and become to all inclusive. Seems to me most people would prefer not to engage in wars, and have no need to dominate and control others and engage in savage behavior. "There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn’t guard against it, risks being swept away by it.” Sounds dramatic, scary, but I beg to differ. To claim we all have these proclivities provides an excuse for the most vile among us, like Netanyahu, who grew up with a father that taught him Arabs are savages."
Hmm, sorry I respectfully disagree!, look thru History books, EVERY , GROUP, ORG. RELIGION, SECT AND ON!, starts with honest cose, but eventually turn criminal, barbaric, savige brutal killing machine!...it is in our chromosomes (and sadly in our genes). ...and this> "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." Lily Tomlin (1939 - , Actress...sadly but true , give ''human power'' eventually he will do unimaginable ...I will stop here!..
In any given society where a hierarchy develops you will find this to be true, but when man wondered the land for food with little to no competition, no problem. I disagree that all of mankind has this inherent trait that is capable of mayhem and murder. Do you know that some 85 percent of people who are abused as children, do not, go on to be abusers?
“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.” Rousseau
“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.” Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
I will end here!> hmm, History will repeat, and new lies will replace "old" ones, haha, until "humans" are, as experiment, gone! ,bye, bye stupidity!...useless period of soil this rock!....totally useless!....
I agree. The characteristic is pervasive in societies rather than individuals; there is a small but influential percentage of psychopaths, e.g. in a society, but not a small amount in every individual. Admittedly most people are capable of inhumanity in extreme circumstances.
We have as much of the "other" chimpanzee (Bonobo) genes as the one you mention. Patriarchal society made the decision long ago regarding which one of our nearest releatives' path would be best to follow for their narrow benefit.
"Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization." ~Peter Kropotkin
Objection to the last paragraph.
The animal kingdom is not “cruel” in any way. Animals kill for subsistence only, not because they have issues with other “animals”.
True, Che. The thing about foxes—and I have witnessed this—is that they create a “stockpile” for later consumption, unaware that the henhouse owner is going to be waiting for their return with a shotgun 😉