They've been baldfacedly uttering that gigantic lie about their democracy for decades and decades. Bouncing it off the dumb accepting heads of their own people for the whole world to see.
Yup. They are strong enough now that they no longer need to pretend to hide their deeds, but simply say "And what are you going to do about it?" whilst slapping a billyclub into their palm.
YEP , we do , n send our kids to school to learn how to vote for that , religious private public university any old school , just as long as we vote n werk n pay taxes n shut up .
Goodonya Caitlin, keep going , got to prise them eyes open.
Great article. Sometimes the insanity just writes itself. It's horrifying that this is all done and we're told it's for our protection, not just for the freaks in power to make more money.
I grew up poor, not abjectly but lower class poor. After my classes ended in middle school, my dad would come in as the janitor and clean up. I grew up in a town with no rich people; the few affluent were a few doctors and attorneys. The oil wealth that came out of my town of Taft, california (now dried up and replaced with a large private pirson) enriched no one who lived in Taft, a dry, tough town with 2 inches of rain a year and gullies that ran not creeks but black thick oil. A favorite passtime was walking the oil pipes over the gullies in a terrain that was crisscrossed with pipes and stacked with tall wooden oil derricks (today there is only one in the museum), All my relatives worked in the oil fields and many had missing fingers from handling the pipes: they were called roughnecks.
I was on a journey to relative middle class influence when I dropped out of Harvard, the son of two parents with an 8th grade education and dropped to the bottom of the economic ladder, depending on welfare to survive, using my inability to function economically in a capitalist world of cubicles and hierarchy, born unable to tolerate any attempt to treat me an inferior or subordinate. Demanding freedom exacts a price, a cruel punishment, but I survived. Now at 85, with an income just above poverty, I feel rich and have traveled abroad 10 times in the last 7 yrs, on free award miles on credit cards. I live rich by shopping only in thrift stores for clothes, furniture, art, hardware, and living a lean vegan lifestyle based on whole foods.
I mention this not for sympathy, I desire none, but as a platform for what I am about to say.
I have met very few rich people in my life, based on the fact that the rich do no contaminate themselves with those who are not rich, except in the case of those who serve them.
Here is what I want to say about the rich, the powerful, those who run the world.
I hate them (I can make exceptions) but in my few encounters with the rich, they have been, without exception, arrogant and assuming they were superior. I would call this a sense of entitlement, as tho they were modern day princes and barons. I hated the way it felt. And so I hate the rich, not just as a Marxoid rebel, but as a human being who rejects their claim to superiority and the right to command others. Let me repeat: I hate the rich and powerful as a class. I have never met one who treated me with kindness, dignity, or respect. I have felt, in my few encounters, spat on. And so I hate not all individuals who are rich (there are exceptions) but the genraal class of the rich, the ones who run the show and feel entitled to treat the rest of us as peasants in a feudal world.
I now see the world in simpler terms: haves and have nots, with the haves looking down on us have nots and finding ways, laws, wars, gated communities, etc to expand their status and keep us down. I see Marx's class struggle as indeed the dialectic of history, with a constant battle, often masked, of the haves against the have nots and then, suddenly, the have nots rising, often violently in absence of any other weapon, to take down the haves.
Haves and have nots: that is my view at 85. A world of spoiled assholes who have and the rest of without. And so I urge all of you to join together and end this bloody and humiliating farce and create a world where there are none rich and so none poor, a world where there are no master and slaves. My only experience of such a world is thru the writing of Orwell, who in Barcelona described the brief era when the anarchists were in charge and tore down the norms o the class hierarchy.
Here is what he wrote, words that inspire to belive that what I see as revenge and redemption is possible, if at threat. Here is what he wrote in Homage to Catalonia, which I visited twice in my recent travels to feel the vibrations of that anarchistic refusal to obey the master of the world that still exists in a city that , almost unique among cities, is designed for people and not the rich, not cars, not commerce, but for living and sharing beauty open to all, streets without cars, plazas around every corner, medians wider than the streets full of playgrounds, sculpture, musicians, outdoor cafes, public spaces paved, by law, with tiles and paver so that even the ground we walk on, what is normally a spit infested and grotesequely ugly sidewalk, is infused with beauty and a refuation of the very idea that lower is less worthy.
So here's Orwell, with a breath of what Marx was hinting at, what the future might be if we understand it is not a utopia but a spirit of dignity and love for each other, equal and without hierarchy or entitlement, a world not of entitlement and privilege but of universal rights.
" The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing. To anyone who had been there since the beginning it probably seemed even in December or January that the revolutionary period was ending; but when one came straight from England the aspect of Barcelona was something startling and overwhelming. It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle. Practically every building of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or with the red and black flag of the Anarchists; every wall was scrawled with the hammer and sickle and with the initials of the revolutionary parties; almost every church had been gutted and its images burnt. Churches here and there were being systematically demolished by gangs of workmen. Every shop and cafe had an inscription saying that it had been collectivized; even the bootblacks had been collectivized and their boxes painted red and black. Waiters and shop-walkers looked you in the face and treated you as an equal. Servile and even ceremonial forms of speech had temporarily disappeared. Nobody said 'Señior' or 'Don' or even 'Usted'; everyone called everyone else 'Comrade' and 'Thou', and said 'Salud!' instead of 'Buenos días'. Tipping was forbidden by law; almost my first experience was receiving a lecture from a hotel manager for trying to tip a lift-boy. There were no private motor-cars, they had all been commandeered, and all the trams and taxis and much of the other transport were painted red and black. The revolutionary posters were everywhere, flaming from the walls in clean reds and blues that made the few remaining advertisements look like daubs of mud. Down the Ramblas, the wide central artery of the town where crowds of people streamed constantly to and fro, the loudspeakers were bellowing revolutionary songs all day and far into the night. And it was the aspect of the crowds that was the queerest thing of all. In outward appearance it was a town in which the wealthy classes had practically ceased to exist. Except for a small number of women and foreigners there were no 'well-dressed' people at all. Practically everyone wore rough working-class clothes, or blue overalls, or some variant of the militia uniform. All this was queer and moving. There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for. Also I believed that things were as they appeared, that this was really a workers' State and that the entire bourgeoisie had either fled, been killed, or voluntarily come over to the workers' side; I did not realize that great numbers of well-to-do bourgeois were simply lying low and disguising themselves as proletarians for the time being."
Since the latest 'Epstein File' dump, Prof. Marandi was on George Galloway, and he (Marandi) said something that WE ALL need to make common, in our everyday communications.......
Prof. Marandi used the term, the 'EPSTEIN-CLASS' when referring to our 'rulers'.
It seems as though 'EVERYONE' was named in the latest file dump.
We need to now use this term when referring to our 'rulers'/'political-class'/'the elite'.
EXAMPLES:
Epstein-class Politicians
Epstein-class Presidents
Epstein-class Congress
Epstein-class Government
Epstein-class Intel Agencies
Epstein-class Police/Law Enforcement
Epstein-class Courts/Legal System
Epstein-class Pharma
Epstein-class 'Big Ag'
Epstein-class Education/Educators
Epstein-class Science/Scientists
Epstein-class Health Care/Medical
Epstein-class BIO-WEAPONS/(FAKE) PLANNEDemics
Epstein-class 'Religion'
Epstein-class Royalty
Epstein-class Banksters
Epstein-class Corporations/Businesses
Epstein-class Hollywood/Movies/Media
Epstein-class News Media/Press/Journalists
Epstein-class Social Media
and so on......!!
'THE SYSTEM' is EPSTEIN-CLASS!
THIS is how we NOW need to refer to these individuals, in 'positions of power'!
Because we ALL KNOW just 'HOW' they got into those 'positions of power', don't we?!
Those (so-called 'teachers', SKOOL Board members, and so on) who want to KEEP PUSHING
the 'TRANNY'/'LBGQXYZ' books, 'teaching', ect......ON CHILDREN......NOW NEED TO BE CALLED........
Isaac Herzog was a visitor to Epstein’s island in 2014. This corrupt Zionist should not be allowed anywhere near Australia. His support and complicity in the Gazan Palestinian genocide is only the latest in a long list of corruption, propaganda and lies.
What you are not seeing is our government being complict and supporting these evil individuals and proxy governments. By proxy I mean lobbyists, sponsors, financial backers. With those that we see as nothing more than puppets on a string. And the average Joe hooked on technology unable to know the difference between real and fake information. The time for a revolution is comming when the public takes back control.
That time has been calling us for years, but instead in Murrika they voted for drumpf - again, knowing that he was out for vengeance on anyone who could see what he was, though he's so much more worse than anyone saw.
Outstanding article, as always, Caitlyn. I clicked through, by the way, to your prior article on how Trump was bought by the richest Israeli in the world -- Miriam Adelson (and her husband, Sheldon Adelson, while he was alive).
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Trump sells out cheap, doesn't he? Granted, the Adelsons jointly paid Trump over $500 million in graft, but, for goodness sakes, what's one more half a billion to a billionaire? And what does half a billion buy these days, anyway? Maybe a cup of coffee, and....
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... let's see... oh yes, it also buys... the Golan Hights, and... moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem, and... doubling down on the most evil and vicious genocide of the 21st Century… and... killing off and ethnically cleansing over two million indigenous inhabitants of Palestine.... and, need we go on?
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As you say, Caitlyn, the evils that our rulers get up to in private pales compares to what they get up in public. Funny, really, isn't it? I mean, with most normal people, it's usually the other way around.
Are you sure the money really comes from the Adelsons? It may just as well be dollars originating from US aid to Israel, and sent back via the Adelsons... Who knows? This may be true not only in the case of Trump, but in the case of all American politicians bought by AIPAC.
You know, I would not be in the least surprised to find out that was the case.
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I mean that is essentially what is going on, anyway, is it not. And not only with the Adelsons and Trump. The powerful and the wealthy bribe our politicians to funnel taxpayer money back to them in the form of subsidies, and gifts and tax exemptions, and what-have-you. It's just one big money-go-round, isn't it?
Every decade has been equally disastrous by these so called leaders that unfortunately we elect over and over again. Or may be I am just more aware of it now! It's hard to breathe in this world
It must now be obvious to anyone interested that the Zionist billionaires all acting on behalf of the apartheid ethnocentric state of Israel completely control Western Governments. The countries most susceptible were all conquered by settler colonial imperialists. The Zionists are simply the latest group of settler colonialists. The Palestinians are the first peoples to be live-streamed slaughtered while the world watches and says nothing. Not one of these Zionist billionaires are self-made. Their fortunes have been stolen from the Commons. This power and greed can only be psychopathic. When the less than 1% have stolen all of the wealth and power then what ? If the live streamed genocide of Palestine continues and the sociopathic war criminal, Netanyahu, takes further control of the US Congress, it that is at all possible, then what? Our only hope is that more people will read Caitlin’s fine work and rise up against these immoral politicians and their donors.
They've been baldfacedly uttering that gigantic lie about their democracy for decades and decades. Bouncing it off the dumb accepting heads of their own people for the whole world to see.
Bang on once again Caitlyn. It’s astounding but not surprising.
Yup. They are strong enough now that they no longer need to pretend to hide their deeds, but simply say "And what are you going to do about it?" whilst slapping a billyclub into their palm.
It's almost beyond belief that we've normalized this stuff. It's all abhorrent, all of it.
AND we vote for that. ?
YEP , we do , n send our kids to school to learn how to vote for that , religious private public university any old school , just as long as we vote n werk n pay taxes n shut up .
Goodonya Caitlin, keep going , got to prise them eyes open.
Great article. Sometimes the insanity just writes itself. It's horrifying that this is all done and we're told it's for our protection, not just for the freaks in power to make more money.
I grew up poor, not abjectly but lower class poor. After my classes ended in middle school, my dad would come in as the janitor and clean up. I grew up in a town with no rich people; the few affluent were a few doctors and attorneys. The oil wealth that came out of my town of Taft, california (now dried up and replaced with a large private pirson) enriched no one who lived in Taft, a dry, tough town with 2 inches of rain a year and gullies that ran not creeks but black thick oil. A favorite passtime was walking the oil pipes over the gullies in a terrain that was crisscrossed with pipes and stacked with tall wooden oil derricks (today there is only one in the museum), All my relatives worked in the oil fields and many had missing fingers from handling the pipes: they were called roughnecks.
I was on a journey to relative middle class influence when I dropped out of Harvard, the son of two parents with an 8th grade education and dropped to the bottom of the economic ladder, depending on welfare to survive, using my inability to function economically in a capitalist world of cubicles and hierarchy, born unable to tolerate any attempt to treat me an inferior or subordinate. Demanding freedom exacts a price, a cruel punishment, but I survived. Now at 85, with an income just above poverty, I feel rich and have traveled abroad 10 times in the last 7 yrs, on free award miles on credit cards. I live rich by shopping only in thrift stores for clothes, furniture, art, hardware, and living a lean vegan lifestyle based on whole foods.
I mention this not for sympathy, I desire none, but as a platform for what I am about to say.
I have met very few rich people in my life, based on the fact that the rich do no contaminate themselves with those who are not rich, except in the case of those who serve them.
Here is what I want to say about the rich, the powerful, those who run the world.
I hate them (I can make exceptions) but in my few encounters with the rich, they have been, without exception, arrogant and assuming they were superior. I would call this a sense of entitlement, as tho they were modern day princes and barons. I hated the way it felt. And so I hate the rich, not just as a Marxoid rebel, but as a human being who rejects their claim to superiority and the right to command others. Let me repeat: I hate the rich and powerful as a class. I have never met one who treated me with kindness, dignity, or respect. I have felt, in my few encounters, spat on. And so I hate not all individuals who are rich (there are exceptions) but the genraal class of the rich, the ones who run the show and feel entitled to treat the rest of us as peasants in a feudal world.
I now see the world in simpler terms: haves and have nots, with the haves looking down on us have nots and finding ways, laws, wars, gated communities, etc to expand their status and keep us down. I see Marx's class struggle as indeed the dialectic of history, with a constant battle, often masked, of the haves against the have nots and then, suddenly, the have nots rising, often violently in absence of any other weapon, to take down the haves.
Haves and have nots: that is my view at 85. A world of spoiled assholes who have and the rest of without. And so I urge all of you to join together and end this bloody and humiliating farce and create a world where there are none rich and so none poor, a world where there are no master and slaves. My only experience of such a world is thru the writing of Orwell, who in Barcelona described the brief era when the anarchists were in charge and tore down the norms o the class hierarchy.
Here is what he wrote, words that inspire to belive that what I see as revenge and redemption is possible, if at threat. Here is what he wrote in Homage to Catalonia, which I visited twice in my recent travels to feel the vibrations of that anarchistic refusal to obey the master of the world that still exists in a city that , almost unique among cities, is designed for people and not the rich, not cars, not commerce, but for living and sharing beauty open to all, streets without cars, plazas around every corner, medians wider than the streets full of playgrounds, sculpture, musicians, outdoor cafes, public spaces paved, by law, with tiles and paver so that even the ground we walk on, what is normally a spit infested and grotesequely ugly sidewalk, is infused with beauty and a refuation of the very idea that lower is less worthy.
So here's Orwell, with a breath of what Marx was hinting at, what the future might be if we understand it is not a utopia but a spirit of dignity and love for each other, equal and without hierarchy or entitlement, a world not of entitlement and privilege but of universal rights.
" The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing. To anyone who had been there since the beginning it probably seemed even in December or January that the revolutionary period was ending; but when one came straight from England the aspect of Barcelona was something startling and overwhelming. It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle. Practically every building of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or with the red and black flag of the Anarchists; every wall was scrawled with the hammer and sickle and with the initials of the revolutionary parties; almost every church had been gutted and its images burnt. Churches here and there were being systematically demolished by gangs of workmen. Every shop and cafe had an inscription saying that it had been collectivized; even the bootblacks had been collectivized and their boxes painted red and black. Waiters and shop-walkers looked you in the face and treated you as an equal. Servile and even ceremonial forms of speech had temporarily disappeared. Nobody said 'Señior' or 'Don' or even 'Usted'; everyone called everyone else 'Comrade' and 'Thou', and said 'Salud!' instead of 'Buenos días'. Tipping was forbidden by law; almost my first experience was receiving a lecture from a hotel manager for trying to tip a lift-boy. There were no private motor-cars, they had all been commandeered, and all the trams and taxis and much of the other transport were painted red and black. The revolutionary posters were everywhere, flaming from the walls in clean reds and blues that made the few remaining advertisements look like daubs of mud. Down the Ramblas, the wide central artery of the town where crowds of people streamed constantly to and fro, the loudspeakers were bellowing revolutionary songs all day and far into the night. And it was the aspect of the crowds that was the queerest thing of all. In outward appearance it was a town in which the wealthy classes had practically ceased to exist. Except for a small number of women and foreigners there were no 'well-dressed' people at all. Practically everyone wore rough working-class clothes, or blue overalls, or some variant of the militia uniform. All this was queer and moving. There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for. Also I believed that things were as they appeared, that this was really a workers' State and that the entire bourgeoisie had either fled, been killed, or voluntarily come over to the workers' side; I did not realize that great numbers of well-to-do bourgeois were simply lying low and disguising themselves as proletarians for the time being."
"In full view of the whole world"or as I put it,in front of God and everybody.
I marvel that people in my country openly believe that these ridiculous antics are ACCEPTABLE to them!!
I didn't vote for this bullshit either time,I told people what would happen,and happen it had,in Spades.
Since the latest 'Epstein File' dump, Prof. Marandi was on George Galloway, and he (Marandi) said something that WE ALL need to make common, in our everyday communications.......
Prof. Marandi used the term, the 'EPSTEIN-CLASS' when referring to our 'rulers'.
It seems as though 'EVERYONE' was named in the latest file dump.
We need to now use this term when referring to our 'rulers'/'political-class'/'the elite'.
EXAMPLES:
Epstein-class Politicians
Epstein-class Presidents
Epstein-class Congress
Epstein-class Government
Epstein-class Intel Agencies
Epstein-class Police/Law Enforcement
Epstein-class Courts/Legal System
Epstein-class Pharma
Epstein-class 'Big Ag'
Epstein-class Education/Educators
Epstein-class Science/Scientists
Epstein-class Health Care/Medical
Epstein-class BIO-WEAPONS/(FAKE) PLANNEDemics
Epstein-class 'Religion'
Epstein-class Royalty
Epstein-class Banksters
Epstein-class Corporations/Businesses
Epstein-class Hollywood/Movies/Media
Epstein-class News Media/Press/Journalists
Epstein-class Social Media
and so on......!!
'THE SYSTEM' is EPSTEIN-CLASS!
THIS is how we NOW need to refer to these individuals, in 'positions of power'!
Because we ALL KNOW just 'HOW' they got into those 'positions of power', don't we?!
Those (so-called 'teachers', SKOOL Board members, and so on) who want to KEEP PUSHING
the 'TRANNY'/'LBGQXYZ' books, 'teaching', ect......ON CHILDREN......NOW NEED TO BE CALLED........
THE EPSTEIN-CLASS!
ASSOCIATE them ALL with EPSTEIN!
Turn 'The Gay Pride Parades' in to......
The Epstein-class Parades!
And so on.....!
Epstein as an illusionist/wizard, providing whatever they want, and thereby controlling them. Backed by the great voice of "The Big O":
https://substack.com/@thegoodcitizen/note/c-209837780
I plan to attend the pro-Palestine rally in Adelaide at 5.30pm today:
GENOCIDER HERZOG NOT WELCOME HERE
Isaac Herzog was a visitor to Epstein’s island in 2014. This corrupt Zionist should not be allowed anywhere near Australia. His support and complicity in the Gazan Palestinian genocide is only the latest in a long list of corruption, propaganda and lies.
I hope Mr. Herzog gets a large "warm" welcome there. Free Palestine!
What you are not seeing is our government being complict and supporting these evil individuals and proxy governments. By proxy I mean lobbyists, sponsors, financial backers. With those that we see as nothing more than puppets on a string. And the average Joe hooked on technology unable to know the difference between real and fake information. The time for a revolution is comming when the public takes back control.
That time has been calling us for years, but instead in Murrika they voted for drumpf - again, knowing that he was out for vengeance on anyone who could see what he was, though he's so much more worse than anyone saw.
And they are controlling the water supply into Iran via weaponized weather manipulation.
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Outstanding article, as always, Caitlyn. I clicked through, by the way, to your prior article on how Trump was bought by the richest Israeli in the world -- Miriam Adelson (and her husband, Sheldon Adelson, while he was alive).
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Trump sells out cheap, doesn't he? Granted, the Adelsons jointly paid Trump over $500 million in graft, but, for goodness sakes, what's one more half a billion to a billionaire? And what does half a billion buy these days, anyway? Maybe a cup of coffee, and....
.
... let's see... oh yes, it also buys... the Golan Hights, and... moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem, and... doubling down on the most evil and vicious genocide of the 21st Century… and... killing off and ethnically cleansing over two million indigenous inhabitants of Palestine.... and, need we go on?
.
As you say, Caitlyn, the evils that our rulers get up to in private pales compares to what they get up in public. Funny, really, isn't it? I mean, with most normal people, it's usually the other way around.
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Are you sure the money really comes from the Adelsons? It may just as well be dollars originating from US aid to Israel, and sent back via the Adelsons... Who knows? This may be true not only in the case of Trump, but in the case of all American politicians bought by AIPAC.
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You know, I would not be in the least surprised to find out that was the case.
.
I mean that is essentially what is going on, anyway, is it not. And not only with the Adelsons and Trump. The powerful and the wealthy bribe our politicians to funnel taxpayer money back to them in the form of subsidies, and gifts and tax exemptions, and what-have-you. It's just one big money-go-round, isn't it?
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Very well put, Caitlin. Gery Warner
Every decade has been equally disastrous by these so called leaders that unfortunately we elect over and over again. Or may be I am just more aware of it now! It's hard to breathe in this world
Well put caitlain!
They aren’t elected. They’re selected. Voting provides us with the illusion of choice.
Said the late George Carlin. RIP🙏🙏💪👍
It must now be obvious to anyone interested that the Zionist billionaires all acting on behalf of the apartheid ethnocentric state of Israel completely control Western Governments. The countries most susceptible were all conquered by settler colonial imperialists. The Zionists are simply the latest group of settler colonialists. The Palestinians are the first peoples to be live-streamed slaughtered while the world watches and says nothing. Not one of these Zionist billionaires are self-made. Their fortunes have been stolen from the Commons. This power and greed can only be psychopathic. When the less than 1% have stolen all of the wealth and power then what ? If the live streamed genocide of Palestine continues and the sociopathic war criminal, Netanyahu, takes further control of the US Congress, it that is at all possible, then what? Our only hope is that more people will read Caitlin’s fine work and rise up against these immoral politicians and their donors.
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