"It turns out “terrorism” is just a meaningless label that means whatever the empire needs it to mean at a given time and place."
The best thing to come out of all this hypocritical, sadistic horror show is that nobody believes a single thing the empire says anymore. Their cover has been blown for good. We see the pure evil they are. Now is the time for us all to stand up like Roger Waters and shout our support of Palestine Action and the Palestinian people. Down with the evil empire!!
It's not a minority anymore. Remember all the hand-wringing that 'people have lost faith in the institutions!' from liberals, before during and after Covid? People can't be arsed to vote because there is no one to vote for. The only entities the US public hates more than the media is the congress.
Don't confuse what the media says about people with what people actually think. The media stokes partisanship, and then amplifies those voices, and it works to a certain extent - but most people aren't as partisan as the evening news likes to pretend.
I think the problem is brainwashing, poor education, the Democrats having sold out. If the great majority were actually awakened to what's going on, I think you'd be right.
I think you assume a time that never way - when the Democrats were anything other than a subset of a monopoly. Neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party have ever done anything except through force. The new deal was passed out of fear of the labor movement and the idea that we'd all turn Commie if we had the chance. The Vietnam war finally ended after the military started shooting kids. Certainly, the lack of education (a purposeful policy after the government learned the danger of an educated population withe leisure time), and propaganda (enabled by Bill Clinton and his media conglomeration act) play a part; economics are a huge factor as well - people struggling to eat don't have a lot of time to fight. But, I credit people for being smarter than the media would have you think. As long as we think everyone else is stupid, we won't look up to the people keeping us in the dark and feeding us all bullshit.
There is really no limit to that. A lot of people are willing to work as prison guards and plenty more are willing to do the construction work. At the end of 2022, there were about 1.2 Million people imprisoned in the US, and they are practically invisible to the public. That number could easily be scaled up to 12 Million or 30 Million or more. The Israelis (always at the cutting edge of brutality) are planning to build a single concentration camp (or maybe two) for the entire population of Palestinians in Gaza, which is upward of 2 Million people. If Israel can build a mega-prison for 1 Million or more people, the US can do the same.
I think you underestimate their intelligence and their determination to diminish their opposition. They want to reduce the population anyway because they know a revolt is inevitable. They will probably frontrun the "revolt" under their puppets. So, after mass arrests of those who "revolted" and/or refused the Kool Aid, why not have a COVID 26 or 27 that mostly strikes the prisons?
From the very founding of this self-absorbed country, the mass murders of indigenous peoples, the religious fanaticism that has never permitted women to achieve equality, the virulent racism that has never waned, long after the official death of slavery, the masses are seeing the end of doublespeak. To be sure, empty rhetoric will never die, but there has never been a time when the vocabulary that has been the mission of propaganda to instill, has been so clearly demonstrated in deed by a state drunk on its own power.
I mean “rule of law” sounds like a comedy sketch, and have religious leaders ever been so irrelevant? This may become known as the golden age of transparency. The actions of a government that proudly promotes “rule of the fist” or “rule of the gun” or “rule of the buck,” Openly lie and brag about it, invade states that refuse to pay protection money. What could be next? The UK has already legalized euthanasia, but the religious fanatics here won’t accept that; but they’ll happily kill the misfits who just want to be left alone.
I look around and at every turn I hear Malcolm X. The chickens are coming home to roost.
Religions enslave minds. I often ask myself, how can Palestinians suffer so much, yet oblige women to wear head coverings in public.. a mystery to me??
Secular humanism is a "religion" that enslaves. Western women also covered their hair until just over a century ago. The uncovering of women culminates in the destruction of society.
Inti, so what you are saying is that women are inferior to men ? I therefore assume that you are a man… how does that feel? Is that why Gods are men?
We are all equal , and liberating Palestinians who enslave their own people seems like going in an opposite direction of freedom… As I believe, religions enslave people.
The only thing in life that you possess is the choice you make with your mind,. No one can prevent you from thinking the way you want to think. In that way, you can be free, or be enslaved by the thinking of others. Be free…
The truly unsettling aspect is not simply supporting Israel, but actually endorsing murderers, sadists and psychopaths, pretending that their bloodlust is somehow an acceptable or defensible behavior. We are redefining humanity to be little more than unhinged bestiality, and in too many ways our media and imposed "modern" culture also align with this usurpation of inherent morality.
The US was a terrorist organization long before Al Qaeda existed. Ask the Native Americans and the people of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Panama, the Philippines, Honduras, Chile, etc.
Ask anyone being kidnapped and renditioned by warrantless anonymous ICE thugs.
You weren’t wrong. You were only limiting your scope. As for the US relationship with Al Qaeda, the history dates back a couple of decades.
Osama bin Laden established Al Qaeda to get the US terrorists to stop meddling in the affairs of the Middle East after the successful ejection of the forces of the USSR from Afghanistan.
I believe that Obama ordered the assassination of Osama bin Laden to avoid what OBL might have revealed if he had been captured and tried in a court of law. Ditto for Saddam Hussein and Muammar Qadaffi
I believe that Bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11, and, that he was dead long before he was ''assassinated.'' That's why Seal Team Six's (the team that supposedly 'got Bin Laden') helicopter coincidentally crashed not very long after the ''assassination.'' Dead Six members tell no tales. Iraq and Libya were on the neocons' target list, hence their leaders had to go and yes, Hussein and Qadaffi had plenty to say about everything, so they needed silencing.
From most reports, Osama Bin Laden died of kidney failure in December 2001. Why do you suppose we never saw the body? Qadaffi was killed because he tried to institute a gold backed currency, and unhitch Libya from the IMF's debt trap. NATO turned once prosperous Libya into a third world slave state. As Hillary Clinton said "We came, we saw, and he died", followed by a snarky chuckle.
While I agree on the narrative, I don't believe al Qaeda was created without any elements of the "Deep State" being involved.
This is where things become "tricky". The "Deep State" is not monolithic. Just as different segments of the Oligarchy have different goals and just as often work to destroy one another as well as ally with one another on other "campaigns", the elements of the "Deep State" may work at cross-purposes.
Think of the mafia families in all the crime movies you have seen, that perfidy is multiplied several times over by the "Deep State".
Now, realize that it was Meyer Lansky who founded Murder Incorporated and expanded it to the National Crime Syndicate. Lansky received a Medal of Freedom from Harry Truman in a White House ceremony. The "Jewish Mafia" is rarely recognized in the Hollywood movies. In real life, they are much more powerful than the Italians. Then there are, what I call, the "Boston Brahmins" (because I don't have a better label) who are under even deeper cover who I venture to guess are affiliated with the criminals who populate the City of London.
A "unified conspiracy theory" which sounds crazy, but it is just acknowledgement of a segment of society that exists and has always existed but which is rarely talked about.
As POTUS and former head of the CIA, GHW Bush would have been familiar with the details. Despite his game of playing the Texas oilman/cowboy, he was born into the New England Brahmins and married into another family of Brahmins.
GHW Bush was a friend of the Bin Laden Family of billionaires and “Saudi Brahmins”.
Perhaps, someday, the world will learn the entire story.
Al Qaeda was formed by CIA with some cooperation from other intel agencies. Originally directed by then Major Ollie North. Taking the blame for the 9/11 false flag was just another black op. As one can see in Syria today almost all of these "terrorist" outfits are western controlled so-called opposition Until they aren't.
The new direct action group is called Yvette Cooper, after the UK Home Secretary. She may end up having to proscribe herself as a terrorist organisation, and showing support for Yvette Cooper would be a terrorist offence. Now that would be funny.
Ah, but you left off the key phrase that comes at the end. "The question is, which is to be master-that's all?" And I think we have a darn good idea of just who that is.
Humanity on Earth has to be the only species in the Universe where the rule of the day is: War, Hate, Aggression, and Oppression are Correct while Love, Peace, Justice, and Community are Wrong.
I've said this many times before and I'll say it again: we humans don't deserve to be the top of the chain. It's time for the dogs, cats, birds, fish, maybe the ants to take over.
Traditionally we’ve been lied to in a somewhat sophisticated manner in which there could possibly be some truth attached to the trash they were selling. However the pure unadulterated bullshit that Trump throws out on a daily basis is not holding up. He’s going to have smooth out some of these lies or fewer and fewer of the faithful will be sticking around.
Isn’t that my point? If a real democracy is a symbol of freedom, why are we continuing to enslave ourselves to dictators at every corner of humanity. If we wanted to be free, since more than 90% of humanity are obliged to live by the rules of a minority, then we must obviously prefer to enslave one another.
It has long been obvious that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Witness how Ukrainian nazis were transformed overnight into highspirited young patriots, the moment they became useful to the Empire.
Hell, Azov sponsored a white supremacist "music" festival in Kiev in September, 2021. This was covered by Vice News (aka "no friend of Russia"). But come February of the following year, we were duly assured that they had "reformed".
CJ>>"“Terrorist” just means “anyone who inconveniences the empire in any way.” It really is that simple."
Yes Caitlin, the term has become meaningless when used by the U.S. Empire. As you say, anyone and any organization that is against the U.S. Empire is a terrorist organization, and any person or organization that is subservient/pliant to the U.S. Empire (regardless of how many thousands or possibly millions they have murdered) are not terrorists.
If the U.S. Empire was really honest, it would have to designate the U.S. of A. as the MOST dangerous terrorist entity on planet earth. But of course, the U.S. Empire and honesty? - they don't exist in the same universe.
Actually the term terrorist is not meaningless at all, as it now means anyone who stands in the way of the most evil entiti5 by far on the face of the earth, the "West" and the American Empire. Terrorist now equals anti-imperialist freedom fighter. A true badge of honor!
I use the Substack app on a tablet, and you can't edit after posting (they need to add that feature!), meaning I need to remember to read over what I've written before hitting the send button!
Today the criminal Netanyahu announced during his meeting with Trump that he nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize! So one criminal slavishly flattered the other, just like Mafia dons. Very savvy but also utterly disgusting!🤮
Maybe they think there will be peace when these two rabid animals exterminate all of us. The Nobel Peace Prize has turned into a political joke. The very fact that one is allowed to nominate the other shows how ludicrous the situation is. The U.N., WHO, and Nobel organization plus several others are nothing more than an extension of the Western propaganda machine.
"It turns out “terrorism” is just a meaningless label that means whatever the empire needs it to mean at a given time and place."
The best thing to come out of all this hypocritical, sadistic horror show is that nobody believes a single thing the empire says anymore. Their cover has been blown for good. We see the pure evil they are. Now is the time for us all to stand up like Roger Waters and shout our support of Palestine Action and the Palestinian people. Down with the evil empire!!
We see it, but how many Brits and Americans do? It still seems like a minority.
It's not a minority anymore. Remember all the hand-wringing that 'people have lost faith in the institutions!' from liberals, before during and after Covid? People can't be arsed to vote because there is no one to vote for. The only entities the US public hates more than the media is the congress.
Don't confuse what the media says about people with what people actually think. The media stokes partisanship, and then amplifies those voices, and it works to a certain extent - but most people aren't as partisan as the evening news likes to pretend.
I think the problem is brainwashing, poor education, the Democrats having sold out. If the great majority were actually awakened to what's going on, I think you'd be right.
I think you assume a time that never way - when the Democrats were anything other than a subset of a monopoly. Neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party have ever done anything except through force. The new deal was passed out of fear of the labor movement and the idea that we'd all turn Commie if we had the chance. The Vietnam war finally ended after the military started shooting kids. Certainly, the lack of education (a purposeful policy after the government learned the danger of an educated population withe leisure time), and propaganda (enabled by Bill Clinton and his media conglomeration act) play a part; economics are a huge factor as well - people struggling to eat don't have a lot of time to fight. But, I credit people for being smarter than the media would have you think. As long as we think everyone else is stupid, we won't look up to the people keeping us in the dark and feeding us all bullshit.
So what's next?
Multiple deaths in the USA.
They arse them to vote all the time. What else have they got?
You have guns BUT you don't use them! Chickenshit Americans. Watched too many Movies.
I agree. How many people can they put in Prison?
There is really no limit to that. A lot of people are willing to work as prison guards and plenty more are willing to do the construction work. At the end of 2022, there were about 1.2 Million people imprisoned in the US, and they are practically invisible to the public. That number could easily be scaled up to 12 Million or 30 Million or more. The Israelis (always at the cutting edge of brutality) are planning to build a single concentration camp (or maybe two) for the entire population of Palestinians in Gaza, which is upward of 2 Million people. If Israel can build a mega-prison for 1 Million or more people, the US can do the same.
They can't do so because they need those 20. - 30 million people to be working their capitalist jobs and paying taxes for the empire
They can't allow those many people to go to "waste" eating free food in prison and not contributing to the empire war machine
They definitely cannot imprison a large number of the population as it would hurt their pockets and image. They wouldn't dare
Correct.
I think you underestimate their intelligence and their determination to diminish their opposition. They want to reduce the population anyway because they know a revolt is inevitable. They will probably frontrun the "revolt" under their puppets. So, after mass arrests of those who "revolted" and/or refused the Kool Aid, why not have a COVID 26 or 27 that mostly strikes the prisons?
Who are the people working in your redundant agriculture business owned by big Company;s.
Open up the Prisons USA. Which is exactly what they did in the French Revolution.
A concentration camp. No food, rapes round the clock?
Yeah. I guess you are right.
Imprisonment creates jobs!
Was their cover "blown"?
Or has the Oligarchy/Deep State become so powerful that they don't care what people think.
Waters and the rest of us can yell as much as we want. They don't care.
In fact, they encourage the yelling. They finance the "No Kings" protests so we think we're doing something but then go home and do nothing.
Terrorism is just fine as long as we are the one’s doing it…we just call it “defending our freedom” l o l
One person's "terrorist" is another person's "freedom fighter."
Or soldier.
If fire fighters fight fire, and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?
From the very founding of this self-absorbed country, the mass murders of indigenous peoples, the religious fanaticism that has never permitted women to achieve equality, the virulent racism that has never waned, long after the official death of slavery, the masses are seeing the end of doublespeak. To be sure, empty rhetoric will never die, but there has never been a time when the vocabulary that has been the mission of propaganda to instill, has been so clearly demonstrated in deed by a state drunk on its own power.
I mean “rule of law” sounds like a comedy sketch, and have religious leaders ever been so irrelevant? This may become known as the golden age of transparency. The actions of a government that proudly promotes “rule of the fist” or “rule of the gun” or “rule of the buck,” Openly lie and brag about it, invade states that refuse to pay protection money. What could be next? The UK has already legalized euthanasia, but the religious fanatics here won’t accept that; but they’ll happily kill the misfits who just want to be left alone.
I look around and at every turn I hear Malcolm X. The chickens are coming home to roost.
Religions enslave minds. I often ask myself, how can Palestinians suffer so much, yet oblige women to wear head coverings in public.. a mystery to me??
Secular humanism is a "religion" that enslaves. Western women also covered their hair until just over a century ago. The uncovering of women culminates in the destruction of society.
Inti, so what you are saying is that women are inferior to men ? I therefore assume that you are a man… how does that feel? Is that why Gods are men?
We are all equal , and liberating Palestinians who enslave their own people seems like going in an opposite direction of freedom… As I believe, religions enslave people.
The west oppresses women and deems "freedom" to be tied to a desk while a stranger raises your children.
Ibti,
The only thing in life that you possess is the choice you make with your mind,. No one can prevent you from thinking the way you want to think. In that way, you can be free, or be enslaved by the thinking of others. Be free…
That is false.
Top tier refutation
It's a very sexist statement. Whst exactly do you mean by the destruction of society?
Women moving from the private, domestic sphere into the public sphere causes the collapse of birthrates, and therefore, societies.
The truly unsettling aspect is not simply supporting Israel, but actually endorsing murderers, sadists and psychopaths, pretending that their bloodlust is somehow an acceptable or defensible behavior. We are redefining humanity to be little more than unhinged bestiality, and in too many ways our media and imposed "modern" culture also align with this usurpation of inherent morality.
So this makes the US a terrorist organisation as it is now associated with Al Qaeda. Rebranding doesn’t remove the taint of murder.
The US was a terrorist organization long before Al Qaeda existed. Ask the Native Americans and the people of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Panama, the Philippines, Honduras, Chile, etc.
Ask anyone being kidnapped and renditioned by warrantless anonymous ICE thugs.
Totally agree. I was being facetious which is wrong of me considering the hell they unleash on the world.
You weren’t wrong. You were only limiting your scope. As for the US relationship with Al Qaeda, the history dates back a couple of decades.
Osama bin Laden established Al Qaeda to get the US terrorists to stop meddling in the affairs of the Middle East after the successful ejection of the forces of the USSR from Afghanistan.
Al Qaeda still wants the US to stop meddling.
OBL was a CIA asset, as was Al CIAeda.
I believe that Obama ordered the assassination of Osama bin Laden to avoid what OBL might have revealed if he had been captured and tried in a court of law. Ditto for Saddam Hussein and Muammar Qadaffi
I believe that Bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11, and, that he was dead long before he was ''assassinated.'' That's why Seal Team Six's (the team that supposedly 'got Bin Laden') helicopter coincidentally crashed not very long after the ''assassination.'' Dead Six members tell no tales. Iraq and Libya were on the neocons' target list, hence their leaders had to go and yes, Hussein and Qadaffi had plenty to say about everything, so they needed silencing.
From most reports, Osama Bin Laden died of kidney failure in December 2001. Why do you suppose we never saw the body? Qadaffi was killed because he tried to institute a gold backed currency, and unhitch Libya from the IMF's debt trap. NATO turned once prosperous Libya into a third world slave state. As Hillary Clinton said "We came, we saw, and he died", followed by a snarky chuckle.
While I agree on the narrative, I don't believe al Qaeda was created without any elements of the "Deep State" being involved.
This is where things become "tricky". The "Deep State" is not monolithic. Just as different segments of the Oligarchy have different goals and just as often work to destroy one another as well as ally with one another on other "campaigns", the elements of the "Deep State" may work at cross-purposes.
Think of the mafia families in all the crime movies you have seen, that perfidy is multiplied several times over by the "Deep State".
Now, realize that it was Meyer Lansky who founded Murder Incorporated and expanded it to the National Crime Syndicate. Lansky received a Medal of Freedom from Harry Truman in a White House ceremony. The "Jewish Mafia" is rarely recognized in the Hollywood movies. In real life, they are much more powerful than the Italians. Then there are, what I call, the "Boston Brahmins" (because I don't have a better label) who are under even deeper cover who I venture to guess are affiliated with the criminals who populate the City of London.
A "unified conspiracy theory" which sounds crazy, but it is just acknowledgement of a segment of society that exists and has always existed but which is rarely talked about.
As POTUS and former head of the CIA, GHW Bush would have been familiar with the details. Despite his game of playing the Texas oilman/cowboy, he was born into the New England Brahmins and married into another family of Brahmins.
GHW Bush was a friend of the Bin Laden Family of billionaires and “Saudi Brahmins”.
Perhaps, someday, the world will learn the entire story.
Al Qaeda was formed by CIA with some cooperation from other intel agencies. Originally directed by then Major Ollie North. Taking the blame for the 9/11 false flag was just another black op. As one can see in Syria today almost all of these "terrorist" outfits are western controlled so-called opposition Until they aren't.
Al Qaeda was created by the US "Deep State" (TBH, the British are also deeply involved in its creation and management.)
The CIA and Mossad are two peas in a pod. Both came into being at the same time as the creation of Israel.
It's now '1984' meets 'Idiocracy' as non-fiction. Ok.
The ‘War on Terror’ is a fraud, and has been since 9/11/2001.
The Western definition of terrorist: Someone who has a bomb but does not have an air force to deliver it.
Or a can of red paint.
The new direct action group is called Yvette Cooper, after the UK Home Secretary. She may end up having to proscribe herself as a terrorist organisation, and showing support for Yvette Cooper would be a terrorist offence. Now that would be funny.
That was one of Laura's best ones, right? I laughed out loud at that!
It's the Humpty Dumpty logic again: "When I use a word, it means exactly what I want it to mean, nothing more nor less."
Alice in Womderland.
Ah, but you left off the key phrase that comes at the end. "The question is, which is to be master-that's all?" And I think we have a darn good idea of just who that is.
Humpty Trumpty.
Humanity on Earth has to be the only species in the Universe where the rule of the day is: War, Hate, Aggression, and Oppression are Correct while Love, Peace, Justice, and Community are Wrong.
I've said this many times before and I'll say it again: we humans don't deserve to be the top of the chain. It's time for the dogs, cats, birds, fish, maybe the ants to take over.
I want off this ride.
Hear, hear. Couldn't agree more. Smart enough to destroy a whole precious world, but not smart enough to save it.
Or even recognize it.
Cats. Also, I am friends with an anything colony.
Traditionally we’ve been lied to in a somewhat sophisticated manner in which there could possibly be some truth attached to the trash they were selling. However the pure unadulterated bullshit that Trump throws out on a daily basis is not holding up. He’s going to have smooth out some of these lies or fewer and fewer of the faithful will be sticking around.
Because neither the Empire nor its figurehead need to bother with the elaborate pretenses anymore.
The only difference between the Dems and the Repubs is the former's pretence, which is exactly what makes them the more effective evil.
Yup, Team D simply treats us to more self-serving and hypocritical human rights talk.
In a democracy, it seems that the population get the government they deserve.
None of us would know, living, as we do, in a nominal democracy that has none of the actual substance of democracy.
Joy,
Isn’t that my point? If a real democracy is a symbol of freedom, why are we continuing to enslave ourselves to dictators at every corner of humanity. If we wanted to be free, since more than 90% of humanity are obliged to live by the rules of a minority, then we must obviously prefer to enslave one another.
I'd say that the Ds are even more heavily dependent on lies. Russiagate...need I say more?
It has long been obvious that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
Witness how Ukrainian nazis were transformed overnight into highspirited young patriots, the moment they became useful to the Empire.
Hell, Azov sponsored a white supremacist "music" festival in Kiev in September, 2021. This was covered by Vice News (aka "no friend of Russia"). But come February of the following year, we were duly assured that they had "reformed".
CJ>>"“Terrorist” just means “anyone who inconveniences the empire in any way.” It really is that simple."
Yes Caitlin, the term has become meaningless when used by the U.S. Empire. As you say, anyone and any organization that is against the U.S. Empire is a terrorist organization, and any person or organization that is subservient/pliant to the U.S. Empire (regardless of how many thousands or possibly millions they have murdered) are not terrorists.
If the U.S. Empire was really honest, it would have to designate the U.S. of A. as the MOST dangerous terrorist entity on planet earth. But of course, the U.S. Empire and honesty? - they don't exist in the same universe.
Actually the term terrorist is not meaningless at all, as it now means anyone who stands in the way of the most evil entiti5 by far on the face of the earth, the "West" and the American Empire. Terrorist now equals anti-imperialist freedom fighter. A true badge of honor!
Yes, I stand corrected!
And I meant entity (not entiti5 lol), so I stand corrected too! 😂
Have another cup of covfefe.
FYI, the edit feature is hidden behind the three dots, but exists only if you are on a computer, I've not seen it available on a phone.
You can edit your comment.
Like I just did here.
I use the Substack app on a tablet, and you can't edit after posting (they need to add that feature!), meaning I need to remember to read over what I've written before hitting the send button!
250 Years of Hypocrisy!!!
Today the criminal Netanyahu announced during his meeting with Trump that he nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize! So one criminal slavishly flattered the other, just like Mafia dons. Very savvy but also utterly disgusting!🤮
Maybe they think there will be peace when these two rabid animals exterminate all of us. The Nobel Peace Prize has turned into a political joke. The very fact that one is allowed to nominate the other shows how ludicrous the situation is. The U.N., WHO, and Nobel organization plus several others are nothing more than an extension of the Western propaganda machine.
Ech, wrong comment.
Like a courtiers flattering a monarch.