Pro-Zionist oligarchs control both US parties in totality. They own the judiciary, the elite bureaucrats and the corporate media. It seems they also own the German and British governments. The people who believe or pretend to believe their lies are willing participants in genocide.
The believers of whom you speak, blessed with doltamine in their brains instead of the usual dopamine, will love today's Times, queen of that corporate media that headlines:"Venezuela's Autocrat is declared Winner in Tainted Election" -- wanting us to believe, by implication, that it's the US with its coronation of Kamala which is "democratic" with clean elections, while poor stupid socialist Venezuela is an autocracy. But the dolts are eating it up, washing it into their doltish brains with their breakfast Starbucks.
Not just genocide/war "participants" but top-of-the-pile enablers who never face prosecution and imprisonment primarily because the bread-and-circus sheeple/heathen masses are by design still too self-absorbed and incurably clueless to learn any lessons from geopolitical history.
"Weenie babies" describes the Israeli soldiers pretty accurately when they get their soft little asses handed to them by Hamas on the ground. All Israelis can do is drop bombs on kids, in a stand up fight they get bent over.
Hmmm. Is that why the Houthi/Yemen is using its muscle to thwart Israel? Are the Houthis from Brooklyn? No!? By golly, You mean they're from the Arab Team? And,
gee, what about South Africa? Not Arab, but are supporting Israel? No?! JoJo?
1915, approximately 83,000 Jews lived in Palestine among 590,000 Muslim and Christian Arabs. According to the 1922 census, the Jewish population was 84,000, while the Arabs numbered 643,000.
Most people in the "West" are still kept usefully ignorant, egocentric and bigoted by the tame-stream media - so of course they never see who the real villains and victims are. So what's your point?
Elected officials are manufactured personalities and celebrities. We vote based on how we are made to feel about corporate political puppets. The puppets, Democrat and Republican, engage in hollow acts of political theater, keeping the fiction of the democratic state alive. There is, however, no national institution left that can accurately be described as democratic. Citizens, rather than participate in power, are permitted virtual opinions to preordained questions, a kind of participatory fascism as meaningless as voting on “American Idol.” Mass emotions are directed exclusively toward the culture wars that include battles over manufactured moral panics and fears. We are only permitted to take emotional stands on issues that do not affect corporate power.
As Caitlin points out so eloquently, it is all a charade. And as Noam Chomsky pointed out to an older generation it is all about creating necessary illusions. Wrap it up in a nice package called "democracy"; and the brainwashed masses believed their governments are generous enough to give the fruits of their " enlightened " ideas to the barbarians! They didn't question that their prosperity was/is built on the graveyard of the other! As is happening now before our eyes with the genocide of Palestinians by their partner in crime - Israel. Still there are the wilfully ignorant who refuse to see that the genocide is aided and abetted by the respective parties of the US. Weren't they repulsed by the many standing ovations that their lawmakers gave the war criminal?! Didn't they cringe at the unintellectual spectacle?
As Gramsci the Italian Marxist philosopher ( here I am relying on memory ) has said that the crimes visited on the periphery of empire will one day come to the centre. Sadly the truth of that is evident in violence, racism, inequalities and created divisions of all kinds that beset American society.
True for those who boycotted as well as for those who attended "Master" Benjamin Netanyahu's harangue before his "servants" in Washington D. C.
The money, the materiel for 100 years of occupation and genocide of Palestine will continue.
The deficits and debt will continue to grow.
The cities, the infrastructure, and the General Welfare of United States citizens will continue to decline and decay.
The American Empire now thrives on Bread and Circuses.
dennis hanna
*"Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.” Juvenal, a poet in Ancient Rome, spoke these words to describe how the Roman Citizens would not revolt or stop the decline of the decaying Roman Empire.
I couldn't have said this any better. This is pretty much what I said a week ago in my Sunday Edition podcast. Americans lost their first amendment rights years ago but the government keeps telling them that they should all go vote. Get out the vote they decry. Register to vote they decry. It's all a sham. If no one showed up to vote at any of the nations polling stations, the government would still elect whichever leader was still standing after they beat each other with political clubs. The congress and supreme court would declare a winner by holding up the arm of the winner of the brawl and things will continue as before.
The United States just needs a clean slate at this point. The corruption is so bad and so deep, there is no more patching things up. Much like having to format the hard drive and reboot the computer. It's time to load up a fresh new operating system as the files in this one are beyond repair.
"You can’t run a political campaign on “Vote for me, I’m exactly the same as my opponent.”
But that's what they've done for decades now. And the mainstream media will do their part to persuade the unsuspecting voters to go along with it... Unless we throw a wrench in the works and shatter the illusion. Vote outside the box. Mess with the oligarchs' minds!
That is your choice. But then when others ask you "Do you have a brand in the fire?" you have nothing to reply to them because you didn't vote. They assume you just don't care to be a part of anything. So, it's a fine line you walk without voting. If you want to be a part of the Revolution and help reform the government where you live, you need to think about how your actions might be interpreted by the multitude of others you will need to work alongside you in the Revolution. If they think you didn't care enough to vote, they might not believe you care about them at all and will not support your leadership.
AIPAC has bought all politicians in the US and probably in Canada too. Our leaders are just doing what is right and making sure they get their money's worth. Wouldn't want to cheat AIPAC now, would we?
"........that the real power in their country is completely unaccountable to their votes."
In fact the real power in their country is not even in their country at all. AIPAC, 10,700 kilometres away.....Main address. 251 H St NW. Washington, DC 20001 United States.
The Israel Head Office is sitting on stolen land, Palestine, in the Middle East, populated with extremely arrogant genocidal parasites, (who call other people "animals", "goyms"), supported by both of the current contenders for President of their USA branch called America, once a decent country, now a supporter of genocide, murder, also a hegemonic bully and well past its use-by-date as a decent....respected country.
For confirmation, please listen to the trashy grovelling rhetoric that will flow from that land over the next 3 months, both parties grovelling to the real power house called AIPAC as we have seen as an example in Caitlin's videos today. Sickening.
So how do you feel Americans (not the ones I have know for half a lifetime)?.Do you like the idea of all your profits from banks, the military industrialists, the Blackrocks and Vanguards, the clever technologists all finding their way over to make the new Jewish state of Israel (with US total political assistance, of course) as soon as they finally finish off the current Palestinians, one by one. 186,000 to date.
All actions supported by Germany, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and others, known as the white Christians.
I've been trying to tell people it's two sides of the same coin, like a big wwe production, except they exist to entertain the wealthy that bought them instead of distracting the poor.
“Vote for me, I’m exactly the same as my opponent” could be the slogan for every single political campaign in the democratic western countries, unfortunately...
I actually think France electoral system is even more distortive than others, making differences absolutely cosmetic... In any case, either the Melanchon-left and the LePenist-right will surprise you in the amount of policies overlapping with Macronism... You can be sure nothing will significantly change in foreign or economic policy... the only small differentiating space will be on internal social issues
Your opening paragraph is so right on. You should see the commercials for the Missouri state executive positions. Beyond ridiculous. Some of them having no connection to reality whatsoever, even coincidentally.
In a Just an Righteous society, those holding office and candidates for such, have a legislative mandate of 10 times of the penalty for lying to the electorate as any member of the electorate lying to body in which they hold office, or wish to. ESPECIALLY state and federal elected office.
'If Americans stopped pretending both parties to be different from each other regarding the way the US empire is run, they would begin to notice that they’ve fallen victim to a scam designed to trick them into thinking they have some control over how their government moves and behaves on the world stage.'
I gave your last paragraph a minor tweak. Please forgive my transgression.
Pro-Zionist oligarchs control both US parties in totality. They own the judiciary, the elite bureaucrats and the corporate media. It seems they also own the German and British governments. The people who believe or pretend to believe their lies are willing participants in genocide.
The believers of whom you speak, blessed with doltamine in their brains instead of the usual dopamine, will love today's Times, queen of that corporate media that headlines:"Venezuela's Autocrat is declared Winner in Tainted Election" -- wanting us to believe, by implication, that it's the US with its coronation of Kamala which is "democratic" with clean elections, while poor stupid socialist Venezuela is an autocracy. But the dolts are eating it up, washing it into their doltish brains with their breakfast Starbucks.
Couldn't agree more VinLoPresti.
How many coup attempts have the US tried on Maduro?
Lot of oil in Venezuela
Not just genocide/war "participants" but top-of-the-pile enablers who never face prosecution and imprisonment primarily because the bread-and-circus sheeple/heathen masses are by design still too self-absorbed and incurably clueless to learn any lessons from geopolitical history.
Bibi, who harbors oligarchs, shaking hands with DT who brought the embassy to Jerusalem for Godless Israeli-ism.
Mein Kampf did predict a century ago a Jewish state would be a university of budding crooks.
Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham making sure of it
Most people around the world hate Israel for what it is and what it does. At least they do if they have a conscience.
"Weenie babies" describes the Israeli soldiers pretty accurately when they get their soft little asses handed to them by Hamas on the ground. All Israelis can do is drop bombs on kids, in a stand up fight they get bent over.
Hmmm. Is that why the Houthi/Yemen is using its muscle to thwart Israel? Are the Houthis from Brooklyn? No!? By golly, You mean they're from the Arab Team? And,
gee, what about South Africa? Not Arab, but are supporting Israel? No?! JoJo?
1915, approximately 83,000 Jews lived in Palestine among 590,000 Muslim and Christian Arabs. According to the 1922 census, the Jewish population was 84,000, while the Arabs numbered 643,000.
Do you know much about the Houthis Jojo.
Read and learn more.
"tiny podium' Must have a BIG podium like the US!
Most people in the "West" are still kept usefully ignorant, egocentric and bigoted by the tame-stream media - so of course they never see who the real villains and victims are. So what's your point?
Elected officials are manufactured personalities and celebrities. We vote based on how we are made to feel about corporate political puppets. The puppets, Democrat and Republican, engage in hollow acts of political theater, keeping the fiction of the democratic state alive. There is, however, no national institution left that can accurately be described as democratic. Citizens, rather than participate in power, are permitted virtual opinions to preordained questions, a kind of participatory fascism as meaningless as voting on “American Idol.” Mass emotions are directed exclusively toward the culture wars that include battles over manufactured moral panics and fears. We are only permitted to take emotional stands on issues that do not affect corporate power.
All absolutely 💯 true
As Caitlin points out so eloquently, it is all a charade. And as Noam Chomsky pointed out to an older generation it is all about creating necessary illusions. Wrap it up in a nice package called "democracy"; and the brainwashed masses believed their governments are generous enough to give the fruits of their " enlightened " ideas to the barbarians! They didn't question that their prosperity was/is built on the graveyard of the other! As is happening now before our eyes with the genocide of Palestinians by their partner in crime - Israel. Still there are the wilfully ignorant who refuse to see that the genocide is aided and abetted by the respective parties of the US. Weren't they repulsed by the many standing ovations that their lawmakers gave the war criminal?! Didn't they cringe at the unintellectual spectacle?
As Gramsci the Italian Marxist philosopher ( here I am relying on memory ) has said that the crimes visited on the periphery of empire will one day come to the centre. Sadly the truth of that is evident in violence, racism, inequalities and created divisions of all kinds that beset American society.
Well said 👍
Bread and Circuses.*
No more; no less.
True for those who boycotted as well as for those who attended "Master" Benjamin Netanyahu's harangue before his "servants" in Washington D. C.
The money, the materiel for 100 years of occupation and genocide of Palestine will continue.
The deficits and debt will continue to grow.
The cities, the infrastructure, and the General Welfare of United States citizens will continue to decline and decay.
The American Empire now thrives on Bread and Circuses.
dennis hanna
*"Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.” Juvenal, a poet in Ancient Rome, spoke these words to describe how the Roman Citizens would not revolt or stop the decline of the decaying Roman Empire.
I couldn't have said this any better. This is pretty much what I said a week ago in my Sunday Edition podcast. Americans lost their first amendment rights years ago but the government keeps telling them that they should all go vote. Get out the vote they decry. Register to vote they decry. It's all a sham. If no one showed up to vote at any of the nations polling stations, the government would still elect whichever leader was still standing after they beat each other with political clubs. The congress and supreme court would declare a winner by holding up the arm of the winner of the brawl and things will continue as before.
The United States just needs a clean slate at this point. The corruption is so bad and so deep, there is no more patching things up. Much like having to format the hard drive and reboot the computer. It's time to load up a fresh new operating system as the files in this one are beyond repair.
"You can’t run a political campaign on “Vote for me, I’m exactly the same as my opponent.”
But that's what they've done for decades now. And the mainstream media will do their part to persuade the unsuspecting voters to go along with it... Unless we throw a wrench in the works and shatter the illusion. Vote outside the box. Mess with the oligarchs' minds!
Don’t vote at all !
That is your choice. But then when others ask you "Do you have a brand in the fire?" you have nothing to reply to them because you didn't vote. They assume you just don't care to be a part of anything. So, it's a fine line you walk without voting. If you want to be a part of the Revolution and help reform the government where you live, you need to think about how your actions might be interpreted by the multitude of others you will need to work alongside you in the Revolution. If they think you didn't care enough to vote, they might not believe you care about them at all and will not support your leadership.
And in a few years, Caitlin will tell us how they’ve “softened” 😂
AIPAC has bought all politicians in the US and probably in Canada too. Our leaders are just doing what is right and making sure they get their money's worth. Wouldn't want to cheat AIPAC now, would we?
"........that the real power in their country is completely unaccountable to their votes."
In fact the real power in their country is not even in their country at all. AIPAC, 10,700 kilometres away.....Main address. 251 H St NW. Washington, DC 20001 United States.
The Israel Head Office is sitting on stolen land, Palestine, in the Middle East, populated with extremely arrogant genocidal parasites, (who call other people "animals", "goyms"), supported by both of the current contenders for President of their USA branch called America, once a decent country, now a supporter of genocide, murder, also a hegemonic bully and well past its use-by-date as a decent....respected country.
For confirmation, please listen to the trashy grovelling rhetoric that will flow from that land over the next 3 months, both parties grovelling to the real power house called AIPAC as we have seen as an example in Caitlin's videos today. Sickening.
So how do you feel Americans (not the ones I have know for half a lifetime)?.Do you like the idea of all your profits from banks, the military industrialists, the Blackrocks and Vanguards, the clever technologists all finding their way over to make the new Jewish state of Israel (with US total political assistance, of course) as soon as they finally finish off the current Palestinians, one by one. 186,000 to date.
All actions supported by Germany, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and others, known as the white Christians.
How can they lose.
I’m afraid America was never a “decent country”.
Welcome to the Geopolitical Inception Mindf**** Theater
It's one big war party!
I've been trying to tell people it's two sides of the same coin, like a big wwe production, except they exist to entertain the wealthy that bought them instead of distracting the poor.
“Vote for me, I’m exactly the same as my opponent” could be the slogan for every single political campaign in the democratic western countries, unfortunately...
We do actually have multiple parties to vote for here in France so it's not the same in the whole Western World.
I actually think France electoral system is even more distortive than others, making differences absolutely cosmetic... In any case, either the Melanchon-left and the LePenist-right will surprise you in the amount of policies overlapping with Macronism... You can be sure nothing will significantly change in foreign or economic policy... the only small differentiating space will be on internal social issues
Melanchon is Socialist but in order to avoid Le Pens party a coalition was formed.
She was stopped
Macron is useless and with all the upheavels he could be voted out of office.
Economic changes are happening slowly there is a lot of good stuff going on here despite what you say.
You see right through it all! The words spoken by politicians are irrelevant nonsense. What matters are their actual decisions and actions.
Caitlin’s analysis and insights are consistently on the money
Your opening paragraph is so right on. You should see the commercials for the Missouri state executive positions. Beyond ridiculous. Some of them having no connection to reality whatsoever, even coincidentally.
In a Just an Righteous society, those holding office and candidates for such, have a legislative mandate of 10 times of the penalty for lying to the electorate as any member of the electorate lying to body in which they hold office, or wish to. ESPECIALLY state and federal elected office.
'If Americans stopped pretending both parties to be different from each other regarding the way the US empire is run, they would begin to notice that they’ve fallen victim to a scam designed to trick them into thinking they have some control over how their government moves and behaves on the world stage.'
I gave your last paragraph a minor tweak. Please forgive my transgression.