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How you manage to put into words my very thoughts on a daily basis is proof that these are truths. We MUST keep TRUTH ALIVE!

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This is a good piece. And it's indeed truthful. But I'm not sure if the last sentence does not sound irresponsibly optimistic. Sadly, it's not the only possibility. Or to put it in lyrical terms:

with all the inconveniences

gone to a memory hole

with all the fears known

so they can catch you if you fall

no need to see through walls

instead just make them screens

and war is entertainment

missions humanitaires, not screams

or a holiday trip to spice up your dreams

slavery is freedom

war is peace

ignorance is strength

ignorance is bliss

sit up stand down

don’t think yourself into trouble

think once think twice

then make it double

it’s here where you make your call

it’s either nothing

or not for all

long live the king

god save the queen

welcome my son

welcome to the machine

looking in the mirror

through the shades with a smile

the latest design, Oceania style

the most needful thing

you wouldn’t trade for life

because this little magic

turns two and two into five

on weekends, on weekdays

it’s properly seven

occasionally – six, and

once was nine/eleven

it makes a butcher handsome,

but a victim is still boring

come on, quick, grab a clicker

before we’re all snoring 

slavery is freedom

war is peace

ignorance is strength

ignorance is bliss

sit up stand down

don’t think yourself into trouble

think once think twice

then make it double

it’s here where you make your call

it’s either nothing

or not for all

every remaining doubt

cut clean by guillotine

welcome my son

welcome to the machine

who would write across

if given ruled paper?

it’s worse yet still nice here

in this one big fat caper

but the real is there

there's no way to escape it

and viene la tormenta

a storm is coming in

our coda, no-nu-nor-

clear judgement day

and a brand-new-

brave-new-world-order

where we all forget

our Snakes and Ladders

we all take to the bottle

at the Chestnut Tree Cafe

but, for now, while it’s still fun

when your mind is still

don’t bother to cast

any pebbles around

and simply keep opting

for the blue pill

with this kind of stuff

who would need drinking

stealing is hip

killing is kinky

heat's going up

until paper burns

and just few simple things here

are all we’re left to learn

slavery is freedom

war is peace

ignorance is strength

ignorance is bliss

it’s really easy

no need to frown

just follow this

sit up stand down

sit up stand down

don’t think yourself into trouble

think once think twice

then make it double

sit up stand down

the simplest routine

welcome my son

welcome to the machine

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Moral clarity is Caity's greatest gift.

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Yes, Feral. She has the knack of hitting the nerves.

But to most of all, to probably all of us, she is preaching to the converted. How one is able to penetrate through to the majority is the question.

When white, Christian governments from North to South can preach to the masses their need to support a sadistic state like Israel, because "it has the right to defend itself" against a virtually unarmed nation being cut to ribbons, where children are dying in the thousands and where if it wasn't Gaza in 2024, it was Afghanistan, then Iraq, then Syria, then Yemen, then Libya, then Vietnam and finally Korea plus literally hundreds of less serious dalliances in between.

The USA, as the supporter of the world's worst crimes, now a shadow of its former self , sixty years ago, with values in the gutter and a record of 107 military dalliances and wars to its credit.

What a pairing these two make, Israel, "God's chosen people" and "exceptional America", one equally as bad as the other, with the undoubted end result of both being hoisted on their own petard.

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Some truths are crashing in from TikTok. THAT is why the U.S. is banning it!

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The U.S. government does not want you to know the truth. They want the public to know their truth for their own agenda.

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Not sure where it was that I read - "The vast majority of US citizens have no idea which side of the "conflict" has the more casualties" ...

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I read it on Instagram today.

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Lets make this simple for you. Hamas killed about a thousand, and now a couple of hundred Israeli dead are officially attributed to Israeli fighters, not uncommon in war. However those dead babies and raped women were conjured up to further enhance the damage that Hamas inflicted. It's simple, Hamas had no intention of caring out a genocide, but to inflict death, true, and Israel is using the assault Hamas carried out to inflict a genocide. I hope that clears things up. Oh, and Bob is correct. Hamas and Netanyahu never wanted a 2 state solution so Netanyahu did empower them over the years where millions, and millions of dollars came their way through Qatar. Look it up, no secret. P. S. I'm not aware that Hamas rockets were intercepted, but if they were in no way would they have come even a tiny bit close to the 30, 40, 50 thousand dead, caused by the Israelis, and some 60 thousand injured. Your bias is getting in the way of your ability to see reality. To repeat: Israel is implementing a genocide. and that is never to be forgotten! I will never forget!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Great conversation by Finkelstein and Hedges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VtaKMoS-KE

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Thanks I appreciate it. Like both.

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I didn't say Israel knew, only that it was forewarned, and it acknowledges that it was. However Israel ignored those warnings, or so they claim. Also, their response time was pretty slow, and the wall they claimed to be Impenetrable certainly was not. If I remember correctly Hamas hit some 20 towns before there was any kind of response. By saying this I'm not justifying what Hamas did. They were put in power in 2006, and half the population of Gaza are too young to have voted for them. Your last paragraph is rife with your own prejudice which doesn't allow you to objectively evaluate what is going on. You are basically saying the Palestinians are less then human, killers and deserving of death, unwanted. Very similar to Hitler's perception of the Jews and Poles and gypsies, etc, who were killed in his concentration camps where whole families died because of his hate and prejudicial perspective on these people. Ever hear the story of a ten year old that lost her whole family and her leg from Israel's bombs. She was recovering in the hospital where they interviewed her. She said when she grew up she wanted to become a doctor to help people. That of course never happened, Israel bombed the hospital and her head blew off. I could go on and tell you many stories like this, many, many, many, stories and too often it's because too many Israeli's see Palestinians as inhuman.“Hitler saw Jews as a perversion of humanity and nature and was fond of calling them rats. the only perversion was his own.

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You are defending the published establishment narrative which in my experience is always a lie.

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"Take the worst thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by 1,000 times and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians" ~Gabor Maté, Holocaust survivor

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You can't intimidate me,  although your responses make me feel you think you can. I never liked Hamas, and certainly didn't approve of their assault, but I certainly have no need to lie about dead babies, raped women, etc and overplay the number of weapons Hamas implemented. I do find it interesting that Israel knew of their plans, but dismissed them as too complicated for them to carry out. They were also informed by people who monitor Gaza that suspicious behavior was going on, which was also ignored, as were Egypt's warnings only days before the attack. For me there has never been a reasonable explanation for all these ignored warnings. Although there are times I think Israel wanted this to happen so they could implement a genocide, and perhaps the reason for their dismissal of the warnings.  However, although Israel has always overreacted, and has always been brutal in her responses, most likely I don't think Hamas expected them to implement a genocide. Although true, Israel doesn't behave like a civilized country in regard to the Palestinians in the West Bank, or Gaza. I read Israel is going around and destroying all the Palestinian heritage sites. Perhaps you would like to read about that on Aljazeera? They are no doubt  engaging in this behavior to further legitimize their right to this land, like the Palestinians weren't there many, many hundreds of years before,  and were the dominant population by some 85% or more when the Zionists were wrongfully given this land by colonial powers like Great Britain, and a world bogged down in their prejudice of Arabs. You know that old colonial mindset. Also just wanted to bring this to your attention when you define Israel's response to the Hamas attack and you call it disproportionate and punitive, be self aware that you define the attack by Hamas as brutal. You give yourself away, just in case you think I am ignorant of that fact of who and what you are.   

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The reason for it and why it happened now is that the US military complex wants a southern front to the Russian war. They wanted justification to attack Iran and what better partner than Irans longtime enemy Israel. Its also been used to justify dumping billions worth of weapons into the middle east yet again. It keeps the gravy train rolling, manipulates the electorate in the states, many religious conservatives were not friendly towards the Ukraine war but they will send their own money and children to support Israel. its all propaganda and perception and you are looking for mundane run of the mill reasons.

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There is no Hamas in the West Bank, but hundreds of Palestinians have been murdered by Israeli settlers who brazenly steal their homes. Anything to say about that? Or how Israel had been slowly genociding Palestinians decades before Hamas?

Love how Israel apologists can ignore decades of history. Is it ignorance or stupidity, Gene?

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Exactly who created, trained and funded HAMAS ?. I can not even believe you stated that after the last 75 years of genocide.

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I still strongly believe the entire Oct 7th attack was a staged false flag or at least a craven plan to allow Hamas to attack as justification for genocide. I believe even more strongly that the "ISIS" terrorists that attacked Israel on Oct 8th from inside Syria were US assets, used to support the claim that Iran was behind it. The whole thing reeks of propaganda and lies from the very start.

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no, gene

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Where can I sign up to get paid to do bad hasbara? Or is this a charity effort on your part?

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He refuses to acknowledge that he obviously had some allegiance to his implementing a genocide, understandable, because what they are doing will be a part of their history forever.

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Apparently for war mongers "most likely" is enough justification to mass murder entire populations and start massive wars. Saying Iran is a known exporter of terrorism from the US is rich, the US government is the #1 state sponsor of terror in the history of the world..

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I go to TikTok for all my truth these days

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I must remember to get on board with who our next enemy is…

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TikTok is headquartered in Singapore, not China. Or do you think all Asians look alike?

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So, all the corporations in Delaware are really from CHINA? Wow, who was the senator there for many years? Joe... Joe B something or other. I remember! Genocide Joe Biden! Joe Biden is a Chinese operative using your logic.

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Banning TikTok is to stop the truth about ZioGenocide. PERIOD!

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Exactly, it has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with controlling the narrative.

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How is that any different than Gooogle, youtube, instacrap or X ? All of these platforms do exactly what you describe and sell their data to the highest bidder. The very idea of "Chinese Software" is ludicrous and ignorant of how the tech industry works. In most platforms and products there are libraries from every country on earth.. in every development shop you have engineers from every nation, of every persuasion. The US government invented cyber warfare, the USA is the leader in the cyberwar world in every imaginable category..

"Chinese software" is about as valid as the idea of "San Francisco Software"

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Brilliant 👏👏👏

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You conveyed my mood nicely. For the most part other commenters feel you too. Trying to talk to those in my area is like talking to a wall.

Your ghost town is populated by zombies infected with the manufactured mental disorders Russophobia, Sinophobia and Islamophobia. They've been indoctrinated and conditioned by our rulers.

We are the antidote. You and others in your network saved me by vaccinating me with the truth.

All I can do while wearing my 'Free Assange' tee shirts I got from you is fight for his freedom by contacting my representative, donating to the cause and praying. We've already lost Gonzalo Lira.

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Brilliant!

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Brilliant.

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You nail it again, and this time with something extra. It can be difficult to see what's right there, when the words for it aren't. I thank you for having those words within your reach, and using them! You may sometimes think you are stating the obvious. Obvious to you, maybe, but that kind of obviousness is vital and necessary cause it brings light and clarity and DON"T STOP FOR ANYTHING!

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Brilliant! Thank you Caitlin. Simple yet profound. I felt an inkling of what Caitlin is saying here when Taylor Swift mania hit Australia and people were queuing for tickets for hours, while Gaza was getting pulverised and thousands were getting killed by Israel. Another kind of mania. The ugliest possible.

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Ghosts.

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Yes to your extraordinary daily insights and passion. Have you any suggestions as to a personal course of action? No one in a position of power seems to be listening or to care. The horror persists!

Thank you for your courage!

Gigi

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Gene, your twisted logic is beyond comprehension. Have the Gazans lives got better with Zionist bombs?!

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Gene is afflicted with the manufactured mental disorders Russophobia, Sinophobia and Islamophobia. I hope he sticks around. Maybe he'll learn enough to change his outlook. I was once just like Gene.

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If you changed, there's hope.

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Ya know? It's kind of funny. Thinking on terms of "Left Wing" and "Right Wing" is how our rulers who want total control manipulate us. You're enthralled by Infotainment provided by them and that's where you get your "facts". Those facts are half truths, propaganda and lies. They feed you this shit through network "news", Facebook and Google and you eat it up. I bet you have a TV and watch AFOX.Enthralled means to be enslaved.

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FOX. Not AFOX.

By the way, left wingers think I'm right wing and right wingers think I'm left wing.

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Who's name calling? You do in your comment. You never presented facts but proved your lack of knowledge of history.

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in 1948 israelis knew damn well there would be retaliation for the nakba lest they at least tried to make amends. plenty of opportunities and time to go the other way, instead they chose the path that is also instilled in you by the same nurtured attitudes, imo.

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well that would have been a feat under occupation. it's pretty much like reproaching the indigenous colonized tribes or an enslaved population that they don't thrive.

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They have not had an election since 2006. There has been a blockade there since 2006 limiting food and supplies. There is a generation of children that's grown up in an open-air prison. Palestinians have no vote and no rights. They are summarily raped, robbed, and murdered in Gaza and the West Bank by the IDF and have no recourse because Israel, under the protection of the gangster empire called America, can get away with anything, even if sanctioned by the ICJ. You are a narrow-minded and brainwashed zionist here to troll and lack basic knowledge of recent events and revelations.

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Well said Jay Antani!

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Then maybe you zionists should pressure your govt to stop funding Hamas.

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Me thinks you're losing ground here, Geno. You might want to split and cut your losses instead of wasting cyberspace. Just say'n.

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i don't think the un lists hamas as a terrorist group. that is a designation from the 'our pliable rules based order'. under israeli occupation the lives of palestinians have not gotten better, hence the desperate move.

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who is your gold standard for integrity or rationality?

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does it surprise you that your opinions and attitude are quasi (almost cartoonishly) in line with certain political groups and pundits?

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Under Israeli occupation their lives have certainly NOT gotten better!

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Palestinians have the right to defend themselves.

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HAMAS is just a scapegoat, a distraction, a misdirection. It is, in fact, a zionist creation, funded and abetted by the Israeli right-wing.

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Excellent article tells you about the rise of the Likud: https://joebrunoli.substack.com/p/how-israels-mizrahi-jews-are-making

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Facts are stubborn things.

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“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.”

― Mark Twain

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Mark Twain is my hero.

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Good sandwich at subway!

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Outstanding. Self-indulgent ignorant and oblivious - they epitomise the failings of humanity.

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I think a lot of people know that something is seriously wrong, but they don't know what to do about it, at least not that doesn't come at a higher price then they are willing or able to pay, like burning yourself to death or going off to the woods and living on roots and acorns. Many of them have tried voting, leafleting, writing to the editor or their congressperson, contributing to the cause, volunteering at the co-op, whatever: nothing works. As the archabomination Biden said, "Nothing fundamental will change."

But I suppose a lot of people are thinking about it. Some of them are going to be pretty focused. After all, "If they can do it to them, they can do it to you." The enemy is in the field; he may be momentarily triumphant, but he's also visible.

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parasitic poem post coming at you...

8^)

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their web of lies is all connected

why the smallest must be protected

one small lie exposed and then unwound

leads to a nest of lies to be found

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all the interlocking deceptions

resist any serious questions

can’t make a case that’s open and shut

we can not figure out who owns what

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shell corporations with changing names

defy us for placing the blame

they use purposeful non-disclosure

to minimize their own exposure

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as our government becomes opaque

we can’t see the liberties they take

and when we are not fully informed

our democracy becomes deformed

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no disinfectant like the sunshine

blocking truth’s light is all by design

elites rule by their lies and secrets

their acts unseen lead to our regrets

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The Worlds Most Dangerous Poet

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and in its shallow layers the strain of fear is deafening, one that they can't hear that is their own.

Brilliant, as usual Caitlin.

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Once you stop running from yourself, you may need some help. Music, art, movement. People are hiding from the truth and running from themselves.

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Joni gets it:

"In a highway service station

Over the month of June

Was a photograph of the earth

Taken coming back from the moon

And you couldn't see a city

On that marbled bowling ball

Or a forest or a highway

Or me here, least of all

You couldn't see these cold water restrooms

Or this baggage overload

Westbound and rolling, taking refuge in the roads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfLH0xJByiI

"I pulled into the Cactus Tree Motel

To shower off the dust

And I slept on strange pillows of my wanderlust

I dreamed of 747s

Over geometric farms

Dreams Amelia, dreams and false alarms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcTDoi9JQiY

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it's true - Israel has turned us all into zombies

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Does that also make us 'The chosen ones' ?

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