"Clearly the sort of country we should all want to send our sons and daughters to go fight and die for."
How about we all vow to NEVER send our sons and daughters to go and fight ANYWHERE on the planet? Especially for sick and twisted f*cks like Isrealhell and its allies. Let's keep dragging our feet and blocking the streets and flooding the email boxes of the boobs who think they're actually in control in order to keep the AIPAC checks out of their filthy, grasping hands. We don't have a moment to waste.
May the great uprising that leads to peace and happiness for all occur swiftly and soon!
The US regime is interested in Venezuelan oil. They are no more interested in the welfare of the people of Venezuela than they are interested in the welfare of US citizens or people of any country. Unless, of course, those citizens are "successful" i.e. billionaires or millionaires. I yearn for a world where success is seeing our earth treated with care so that we can all continue living on it in harmony. Which would mean no wars, no nuclear anything, no plastic, hardly any cars, and a totally different socio/political system. I don't see that happening any time soon.
Spot on, Susan T. 1000 years of reserves in Venezuela .Yes, the oil is actually in sand, meaning a little more work to extract it out ......but all those 1000 years WHEN THE USA HAS JUST.........8 .....EIGHT YEARS OF RESERVES.
Do I need to state all this again? Venezuela has !000 years where the USA has 8 years.
There, clear as a bell. By the way. Iran is #3 in reserves, Of course, as we all know Israel is aware of this fact as well.
USA wants Venezuela for oil
Israel wants Iran also for oil.. What a coincidence
So when you see activity against a country like Venezuela, it is because the CIA is in there strirring up trouble; that the USA has purchased lots of local political figures to push their case; that important decent people are bound to be on a CIA assassination list very soon; that sanctions will be applied for some nefarious reason; that the US media will have all outright campaign to paint the current elected government as worthless, anti-democratic and corrupt; also that the Venezuelans are associated with Russia and under Russian control; that they have trade agreements with China who are planning a military base on their soil and ....that they hate the USA. Just a small sample. Used before so many times and proven to work in an apathetic world.
Any number of other reasons as well. All it tales is history and imagination based on fact and past illegal successes all around the world to know that they have ulterior motives for their current actions against the Venezuelan election results.
Oh. By the way, what the hell has it to do with them anyway.
No. The motives are clear. US objectives in this world are always clear.. Since 1950 we are all better aware of the outrageous criminality of the United States of America with the United Nations as their compliant partner-in-crime through the magical and very convenient UN Veto.
Stay strong, Venezuela. Don't become another US / Israel controlled state.
Even more brutal sanctions are no doubt about to be applied. And, of course, Maduro wasn't fairly elected. So the U.S. already has another fake president ready. An octogenarian war criminal who can barely speak or stand up. Sound familiar ? Though Venezuela is on friendly terms with Russia and China. Which is great. There's safety in numbers. And hopefully it will join the BRICS alliance soon. The United States' record in dominating Central America is not what it was in the halcyon days of C.I.A. coups.
Contrarian, on the topic of energy reserves, the sins of the US and Israel go further than just Venezuela. The Palestinian territories that Israel illegally occupies and is successfully stealing more and more of have an oil reserve capacity of 1.7 billion barrels (about 10 quad. A quad is a quadrillion Btu.), and natgas capacity of a trillion cubic feet (about a quad). So total energy reserves, which I believe are mostly in Gaza and offshore Gaza is about 11 quad. Israel consumes about one quad of energy per year in oil and natgas. Thus Gaza has about 11 years of energy reserves for Israel. Could this be part of the motivation for Jewish genocide and theft of land? Certainly. It's all about the Land and the many kinds of different riches it brings.
Zero oil in Israel. Natural gas is in the sea. Do you think Arabs, especially the Gazan type, would ever have the brains or capability to drill for natural gas?
You'll unfortunately discover that even in areas dedicated to gardening that physical threats can be made. You'll find that nasty people who see someone creating a healthy fertile growing area will try and unsettle them so they can freeload off the hard work and benefit for themselves. You may even find such people put themselves on organising committees.
Human nature in my experience is far from being peaceful and kind and there is no area where the self-serving schemers do not impose themselves.
You have only known the "human experience" under capitalism. This clouds you're ability to see humans not being the parasites capitalists have turned us into. Cooperation is the key to our survival. The ruling class knows this so they keep us fighting amongst ourselves. Nothing our species has been forced into doing to survive capitalism should be considered natural, human behavior.
Sorry jasmine but I have to disagree. We are not the parasites. The Capitalists are the parasites.
All societies / nations are built on the labour and the production of the workers and no society or nation could exist without that labour. Nor could the true parasites.
Yes humans are exhibiting parasitic behavior because of capitalism. We're not given any other options. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. We can only lessen the damage as much as possible by consuming and purchasing less. And yes, society absolutely can exist without forced labor. Humans were doing just fine for 295,000 years until the advent of currency and capitalism then in just a brief 5,000 years we've destroyed our environment and put ourselves on the endangered species list.
OK. So British Mandate Palestine was a wasteland until the Jews with brains and investment turned it into a flourishing nation. That's when the neighbouring Muslim countries displayed their jealousy via their violence. You can't claim to have the final word of God if in the midst of your failed Arab states you have a Jewish success story.
US wars and aggression cannot be separate from the need for energy dominance and the interests of Big Oil cartels, Rockefeller and their financiers. They are the same thing. The Deep State, who controlled politicians including, or especially, Trump, are funded by these people.
That's why so much money is spent on propaganda that climate change is a hoax and that renewables (especially if made by China) are unreliable and expensive- the last thing they want is countries to have energy autonomy and independence.
Precisely. In this understanding of reality, this is a mafia, DOD is the goons, the media anre the greasy reporter on the take, and State are the smarmy consiglieri.
The oil and gas reserves in the illegally occupied territories, which the Jews are constantly shrinking, have enough energy to supply all of Israel's current consumption for about 11 years.
I'm almost in the same page. But your comment about no plastic... Do you understand how much of our lives depend on that material group? We literally depend on it, all of us. Can I suggest, before getting carried away with that sort of comment, you present us with the alternative. Otherwise I can only imagine you want us all, all 8 billion of us, back in the stone age
ha ha. I really do mean we have to get rid of most of the plastic we are using or find a viable substitute. I do realize how much we depend on it. Perhaps we could start with plastic bags and those kinds of disposable plastics that we use so much. Maybe cloth bags, glass bottles. No matter what we choose, it is somewhat problematic because we consume so much. The pre plastic era is not quite back to the stone age. It is just a bit less convenient. We probably need to start thinking about all the other disposable things we use too.
Thanks for replying ☺️. I am a design engineer and materials are a big deal in my life. I am highly aware of how few people really understand they implications of this romantic idea - to get rid of plastics. To be honest, if most people understood half of what I know, which is only half of what material scientists understand, the "get rid of plastics" thing would take a different turn. Maybe in the distant future, if we are still here, there will be ways to get closer to this idea. But, all of these things require a total life change approach - for every human on the planet. But there's the fly in the ointment - humans... 🙈
for me, getting rid of plastics is not really a "romantic idea". I don't feel at all romantic when I see plastic bags in the ocean or scattered around parks or blowing around the streets in the wind. Humans need to take it seriously and dispose of the plastic in a better way. I have thought about the plastics used in making machines etc but I don't think that they are as serious an issue as bags getting into the stomachs of sea animals altho I think we need to be more aware of how plastic machine parts are disposed of. Maybe if we were not so busy teaching our children that success equals lots of money in the bank and instead that success would be figuring out how to dispose of the things we consume in an environmentally responsible manner as well as how to negotiate our differences instead of bombing people we don't agree with we would not be having a climate crisis and thousands of people dying in a genocide that is supported by all kinds of governments and other people.
Day after day, Caitlin, you write -- and Tim speaks -- truth to power. Thank you.
' “Sanction enforcement is vital to enforcing our laws,” writes Rubio. ' Yep: the wholly owned-Zionist-subsidiary-US uses economic sanctions and regime change; the Colonial Zionists in tandem favor assassination as twin-pincer tools to maintain their exploitative and murderous imperial/colonial agendas of satanism.
A great friend shared his all-time favorite dissident truth today: "They tried to bury us; they didn't know we are seeds." Marvelous! I immediately posted/taped it to the wall of this, my computer corner.
Viva Palestine!--Hamas and ALL of Palestine! Aaron Bushnell and Dr. Ismail Haniyeh (and many others): Rest In Power!
Absolutely clear tally of hard truths, deceptions and double speak, Caitlin. SO WELL SAID! Thank you! Anger rises in me every time I hear the words "Israel has to "defend" itself." Not so long ago the U.S. Dept of "Defense" was called the Department of War - changed in 1949, interestingly the year after it's doppelganger Israel was planted by the US and Britain in Palestine.
I'd like to join you in the post tyrannical abusive imperialist world you are envisioning. The information we've had to gather is like so many heavy albatrosses around our necks.
"To one day have all this knowledge we’ve gathered be obscure trivia and all this work we’ve done be forgotten, because we live in a healthy and harmonious world that no longer has any use for it. And then we can throw ourselves into art and beauty and discovery and love, and into the project of collaborating toward the further good of all creatures with everybody else, in a society that is at long last at peace with itself." Beautiful.
It' quite often used against those whose sexual peccadilloes were recorded by the Mossad to be used as blackmail any time they refuse to promote Middle East violence and funding for the Israeli war machine.
I'd love to have access to Jeffrey Epstein's 'video collection' to see precisely who starred in his favourite videos.
Thanks for this. All of it, but especially the last two paragraphs. Israel is so tiresome, along with being a violent racist state; it consumes light and life and time and energy like a black hole. Ugh. And today Kamala's fangirls who think cat lady memes are smart and impudent make me want to vomit. (It's as if she was just elected homecoming queen and they all want to be in her court.) Anyway...
Thanks also for the song. I had forgotten about it. You do good work in the world.
Honestly, anyone who has not woken up by now to the imperial propaganda after 10 months of live streamed genocide doesn't deserve to wake up at all and I would prefer such people not to wake up and perish as they are, mindless zombies, because they are not the sort of people you want in a battle with you. They can all go and rot in hell
As for Israel and America, they are Babylon and Jezebel and their Time is up. They will be put down like the rancid rotten animals that they are as most of the world can see the filth that they truly are.
I don't know how or when they will be extinguished but I am certain they will because Gaia cannot have such rotten filth feasting on her without retaliation, they will be fucked up and I will be glad to see the lights go out of their dying evil soulless eyes. Rotten Filth.
“ I would prefer such people not to wake up and perish as they are, mindless zombies…”
Speaking as someone who could have felt and said t something like this, for more than sixty years, might you, or Caitlin, or any number of those who are now aware and speaking out, have once been included amongst the unaware?
And do the Palestinian, themselves, not deserve the support, no matter how “late” any of you were to arrive at the table of truth?
10 months of continuos live streamed genocide when there is ample access to real information asides from the propaganda suggests to me that anyone who is still plugged in to the propaganda machine by now deserves no sympathy from me and I will not be changing my Mind on that one bit
We heard the same B.S. during the runup to the War On Iraq. For that matter, you may recall the cute little girl trotted out to drum up war on Syria. And, of course, faux concern about Muh Afghan Women And Girls used to sell that war.
I'd like to remind any who don't know that Tuesday Aug 6 is Hiroshima Day, Commemoration of the day Amerika killed nearly 1 million people with one bomb.
And three days later, they dropped an even more powerful bomb on Nagasaki and killed even more people.
The minimum estimate for Hiroshima is 800,000 from the immediate blast and the subsequent firestorm and uncounted deaths from effects of radiation over the following decade.
Nagasaki was a more powerful plutonium bomb, so it's reasonable to assume a much higher death toll.
Yes these radiation deaths are uncounted so we don't know how many there are!
These estimates of deaths, like those of 'covid' and the Black Death (it could have been as little as 5% of population in Europe- and maybe nobody died from a bacteria at all, but rather from the measures) can be way off.
Assumptions about nukes, Nagasaki and Hiroshima makes an ass of you and me.
as with the edicts to 'mask-up'- there is a certain ill-logic at play on the world stage- to paraphrase, -'it doesn't protect me - so much as it protects you- and yours doesn't protect you- so much as it does me', and thus, really, none are protected- under this big tent made up of carcinogenic face-diapers
That's correct. Allowing Covid to spread unmitigated is causing irreparable damage😷 Masks work and we absolutely need more people using them consistently.
They do believe they own the world and their wonderful propaganda has allowed them to do so without being stifled by interrogations by its people and god forbid, some form of self imposed intelligence and inquisition! I am still flabbergasted at the fact that allies appear to play to it and continue to do so even in this climate. Why have the collective forgotten that if the collective acts and moves in a single direction, power will shift!
The US should stay out of venezuela because we usually bring nothing but war and pain. We're not acting for the good of Venezuela That said the Venezuelans I follow are very clear - they don't want Maduro, they feel the elections were corrupt. We need to be careful to not conflate the US's aggression and intervention with self determination.
If the US wants maduro out that doesn't make maduro good or the will of the people (or bad and not the will of the people). It just means we are piggy backing parasites. We have a real bad cultural habit of somehow still pegging who is good or bad, right or wrong, corrupt or not, to the perception of what our government wants. Not everyone is ready to decouple the concept of the US from the self-determination of other countries.
i recommend you stop following those venezuelans. the us always intervenes and agresses to impede self determination, this can almost be regarded as a law of nature. the default position should be to conflate us agression with it's fight against self determination of people everywhere.
the default position is that if the us wants maduro out, there's a 90% chance maduro is good and enacts the will of the people. there is plenty of evidence that the us and stopping self-determination are firmly coupled. it often begins by propagandising, marketing and manipulating what a people 'wants'.
LOL no. These are real people with real connections and I'm not going to stop following them because other people want to impose a certain ideology. Thats the way of propaganda.
As is, again, pegging what the world wants against what the US wants. Good god. The US intevenes for its own interest. How that lines up with others is a matter of how the sticks lay. It isn't god and it isn't a fundamental force of nature. It will fade like all governments and people will eventually, and it will fade faster than a lot of empires. Stop turning it into something it isn't. A parasite is a parasite, not an immutable law of physics.
The more we treat the US like natural law, the more we help it retain its empire power.
very real people often want to impose a certain ideology. there's little room for 'neutrality'. preventing even the most modest success of any socialist-leaning experiment is one of the major interests of the us centralized empire. and that is baked in the system by which it operates.
the more we act as if the us empire will fade on it's own, the longer it will stay around with (empire educated) future generations indeed regarding it as natural law, imo.
This isn't about neutrality and this isn't about acting like the US empire will fade on its own; nor is it about acting like the US isn't what it is in the current grand scheme of things. Its about giving it power that doesn't belong to it and feeding it in the process, which helps keep it alive longer than it would be on its own or with people fighting it.
Stop taking other people's power and handing it over to the us in a sith/jedi worldview.
I don't have an opinion on Maduro. I have an opinion on the US and on listening to other people above the us. Of being aware of US propaganda, but not letting split thinking become a propaganda leverage point in and of itself.
I wonder what those people would thtabout Maduro if Venezuela had not been under crippling sanctions all these years? What difference could a functioning economy make?
The United States has imposed a series of sanctions on Venezuela, primarily targeting the government and its supporters. Here are some key aspects of these sanctions:
Executive Orders: Several executive orders have been issued to block the property of the Government of Venezuela and its supporters. These orders also provide authority to designate individuals and entities involved in human rights violations, corruption, and undermining democratic processes1.
Financial Restrictions: The sanctions prevent the Venezuelan government from accessing the U.S. financial system, freeze the bank accounts and other assets of the Nicolás Maduro administration, and block oil imports from the state oil and gas company, PDVSA2.
Visa Revocations: The State Department has revoked the visas of more than 1,000 individuals and their families connected to the Venezuelan government3.
General Licenses: The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issues general licenses to authorize certain activities that would otherwise be prohibited under the sanctions. These licenses cover transactions related to humanitarian assistance, financing, and other specific activities4.
Given that they're literally Venezuelan, I'm guessing their not stupid, and they know what they're lives are now. I have no idea what difference a functioning economy could make for Maduro specifically. My guess is there would be completely different candidates if the US hadn't intervenes.
"Clearly the sort of country we should all want to send our sons and daughters to go fight and die for."
How about we all vow to NEVER send our sons and daughters to go and fight ANYWHERE on the planet? Especially for sick and twisted f*cks like Isrealhell and its allies. Let's keep dragging our feet and blocking the streets and flooding the email boxes of the boobs who think they're actually in control in order to keep the AIPAC checks out of their filthy, grasping hands. We don't have a moment to waste.
May the great uprising that leads to peace and happiness for all occur swiftly and soon!
The US regime is interested in Venezuelan oil. They are no more interested in the welfare of the people of Venezuela than they are interested in the welfare of US citizens or people of any country. Unless, of course, those citizens are "successful" i.e. billionaires or millionaires. I yearn for a world where success is seeing our earth treated with care so that we can all continue living on it in harmony. Which would mean no wars, no nuclear anything, no plastic, hardly any cars, and a totally different socio/political system. I don't see that happening any time soon.
Spot on, Susan T. 1000 years of reserves in Venezuela .Yes, the oil is actually in sand, meaning a little more work to extract it out ......but all those 1000 years WHEN THE USA HAS JUST.........8 .....EIGHT YEARS OF RESERVES.
Do I need to state all this again? Venezuela has !000 years where the USA has 8 years.
There, clear as a bell. By the way. Iran is #3 in reserves, Of course, as we all know Israel is aware of this fact as well.
USA wants Venezuela for oil
Israel wants Iran also for oil.. What a coincidence
So when you see activity against a country like Venezuela, it is because the CIA is in there strirring up trouble; that the USA has purchased lots of local political figures to push their case; that important decent people are bound to be on a CIA assassination list very soon; that sanctions will be applied for some nefarious reason; that the US media will have all outright campaign to paint the current elected government as worthless, anti-democratic and corrupt; also that the Venezuelans are associated with Russia and under Russian control; that they have trade agreements with China who are planning a military base on their soil and ....that they hate the USA. Just a small sample. Used before so many times and proven to work in an apathetic world.
Any number of other reasons as well. All it tales is history and imagination based on fact and past illegal successes all around the world to know that they have ulterior motives for their current actions against the Venezuelan election results.
Oh. By the way, what the hell has it to do with them anyway.
No. The motives are clear. US objectives in this world are always clear.. Since 1950 we are all better aware of the outrageous criminality of the United States of America with the United Nations as their compliant partner-in-crime through the magical and very convenient UN Veto.
Stay strong, Venezuela. Don't become another US / Israel controlled state.
Even more brutal sanctions are no doubt about to be applied. And, of course, Maduro wasn't fairly elected. So the U.S. already has another fake president ready. An octogenarian war criminal who can barely speak or stand up. Sound familiar ? Though Venezuela is on friendly terms with Russia and China. Which is great. There's safety in numbers. And hopefully it will join the BRICS alliance soon. The United States' record in dominating Central America is not what it was in the halcyon days of C.I.A. coups.
Contrarian, on the topic of energy reserves, the sins of the US and Israel go further than just Venezuela. The Palestinian territories that Israel illegally occupies and is successfully stealing more and more of have an oil reserve capacity of 1.7 billion barrels (about 10 quad. A quad is a quadrillion Btu.), and natgas capacity of a trillion cubic feet (about a quad). So total energy reserves, which I believe are mostly in Gaza and offshore Gaza is about 11 quad. Israel consumes about one quad of energy per year in oil and natgas. Thus Gaza has about 11 years of energy reserves for Israel. Could this be part of the motivation for Jewish genocide and theft of land? Certainly. It's all about the Land and the many kinds of different riches it brings.
Zero oil in Israel. Natural gas is in the sea. Do you think Arabs, especially the Gazan type, would ever have the brains or capability to drill for natural gas?
I see. You mean only Jews are the smart ones and Arabs are dumb animals. Gotcha.
You'll unfortunately discover that even in areas dedicated to gardening that physical threats can be made. You'll find that nasty people who see someone creating a healthy fertile growing area will try and unsettle them so they can freeload off the hard work and benefit for themselves. You may even find such people put themselves on organising committees.
Human nature in my experience is far from being peaceful and kind and there is no area where the self-serving schemers do not impose themselves.
You have only known the "human experience" under capitalism. This clouds you're ability to see humans not being the parasites capitalists have turned us into. Cooperation is the key to our survival. The ruling class knows this so they keep us fighting amongst ourselves. Nothing our species has been forced into doing to survive capitalism should be considered natural, human behavior.
Sorry jasmine but I have to disagree. We are not the parasites. The Capitalists are the parasites.
All societies / nations are built on the labour and the production of the workers and no society or nation could exist without that labour. Nor could the true parasites.
Yes humans are exhibiting parasitic behavior because of capitalism. We're not given any other options. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. We can only lessen the damage as much as possible by consuming and purchasing less. And yes, society absolutely can exist without forced labor. Humans were doing just fine for 295,000 years until the advent of currency and capitalism then in just a brief 5,000 years we've destroyed our environment and put ourselves on the endangered species list.
Yes, but: clearly the plan is to do it with a lot less labour……people actually underestimate the lengths to which the parasites will go…
Where did I say that? Because I didn't,
OK. So British Mandate Palestine was a wasteland until the Jews with brains and investment turned it into a flourishing nation. That's when the neighbouring Muslim countries displayed their jealousy via their violence. You can't claim to have the final word of God if in the midst of your failed Arab states you have a Jewish success story.
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Mostly true.
it's rather difficult to beat the programming, let alone envision something beyond...
Yes exactly and there's gas by the coast of Gaza.
US wars and aggression cannot be separate from the need for energy dominance and the interests of Big Oil cartels, Rockefeller and their financiers. They are the same thing. The Deep State, who controlled politicians including, or especially, Trump, are funded by these people.
That's why so much money is spent on propaganda that climate change is a hoax and that renewables (especially if made by China) are unreliable and expensive- the last thing they want is countries to have energy autonomy and independence.
Precisely. In this understanding of reality, this is a mafia, DOD is the goons, the media anre the greasy reporter on the take, and State are the smarmy consiglieri.
The oil and gas reserves in the illegally occupied territories, which the Jews are constantly shrinking, have enough energy to supply all of Israel's current consumption for about 11 years.
I'm almost in the same page. But your comment about no plastic... Do you understand how much of our lives depend on that material group? We literally depend on it, all of us. Can I suggest, before getting carried away with that sort of comment, you present us with the alternative. Otherwise I can only imagine you want us all, all 8 billion of us, back in the stone age
ha ha. I really do mean we have to get rid of most of the plastic we are using or find a viable substitute. I do realize how much we depend on it. Perhaps we could start with plastic bags and those kinds of disposable plastics that we use so much. Maybe cloth bags, glass bottles. No matter what we choose, it is somewhat problematic because we consume so much. The pre plastic era is not quite back to the stone age. It is just a bit less convenient. We probably need to start thinking about all the other disposable things we use too.
Thanks for replying ☺️. I am a design engineer and materials are a big deal in my life. I am highly aware of how few people really understand they implications of this romantic idea - to get rid of plastics. To be honest, if most people understood half of what I know, which is only half of what material scientists understand, the "get rid of plastics" thing would take a different turn. Maybe in the distant future, if we are still here, there will be ways to get closer to this idea. But, all of these things require a total life change approach - for every human on the planet. But there's the fly in the ointment - humans... 🙈
for me, getting rid of plastics is not really a "romantic idea". I don't feel at all romantic when I see plastic bags in the ocean or scattered around parks or blowing around the streets in the wind. Humans need to take it seriously and dispose of the plastic in a better way. I have thought about the plastics used in making machines etc but I don't think that they are as serious an issue as bags getting into the stomachs of sea animals altho I think we need to be more aware of how plastic machine parts are disposed of. Maybe if we were not so busy teaching our children that success equals lots of money in the bank and instead that success would be figuring out how to dispose of the things we consume in an environmentally responsible manner as well as how to negotiate our differences instead of bombing people we don't agree with we would not be having a climate crisis and thousands of people dying in a genocide that is supported by all kinds of governments and other people.
Unrecognized evil is the world the West lives in.
Day after day, Caitlin, you write -- and Tim speaks -- truth to power. Thank you.
' “Sanction enforcement is vital to enforcing our laws,” writes Rubio. ' Yep: the wholly owned-Zionist-subsidiary-US uses economic sanctions and regime change; the Colonial Zionists in tandem favor assassination as twin-pincer tools to maintain their exploitative and murderous imperial/colonial agendas of satanism.
A great friend shared his all-time favorite dissident truth today: "They tried to bury us; they didn't know we are seeds." Marvelous! I immediately posted/taped it to the wall of this, my computer corner.
Viva Palestine!--Hamas and ALL of Palestine! Aaron Bushnell and Dr. Ismail Haniyeh (and many others): Rest In Power!
What sanctions have done has started up BRICS
The more sanctions on sovereign countries the more people will join BRICS
BRICS+++: Godspeed!
Absolutely clear tally of hard truths, deceptions and double speak, Caitlin. SO WELL SAID! Thank you! Anger rises in me every time I hear the words "Israel has to "defend" itself." Not so long ago the U.S. Dept of "Defense" was called the Department of War - changed in 1949, interestingly the year after it's doppelganger Israel was planted by the US and Britain in Palestine.
I'd like to join you in the post tyrannical abusive imperialist world you are envisioning. The information we've had to gather is like so many heavy albatrosses around our necks.
"To one day have all this knowledge we’ve gathered be obscure trivia and all this work we’ve done be forgotten, because we live in a healthy and harmonious world that no longer has any use for it. And then we can throw ourselves into art and beauty and discovery and love, and into the project of collaborating toward the further good of all creatures with everybody else, in a society that is at long last at peace with itself." Beautiful.
I think « psychopath « is the word for someone aroused by violence against others.
It' quite often used against those whose sexual peccadilloes were recorded by the Mossad to be used as blackmail any time they refuse to promote Middle East violence and funding for the Israeli war machine.
I'd love to have access to Jeffrey Epstein's 'video collection' to see precisely who starred in his favourite videos.
Epstein was just the messenger and fixer. He probably hated his job as much as many of us. Felt like he had no choice.
Thanks for this. All of it, but especially the last two paragraphs. Israel is so tiresome, along with being a violent racist state; it consumes light and life and time and energy like a black hole. Ugh. And today Kamala's fangirls who think cat lady memes are smart and impudent make me want to vomit. (It's as if she was just elected homecoming queen and they all want to be in her court.) Anyway...
Thanks also for the song. I had forgotten about it. You do good work in the world.
Absolutely heartbreakingly true Caitlin. I echo your hopes and fears. Thank you.
"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it"
We are living in Orwell's dystopian nightmare.
Quite so. He predicted today's world in detail. He however didn't believe it would actually happen.
Honestly, anyone who has not woken up by now to the imperial propaganda after 10 months of live streamed genocide doesn't deserve to wake up at all and I would prefer such people not to wake up and perish as they are, mindless zombies, because they are not the sort of people you want in a battle with you. They can all go and rot in hell
As for Israel and America, they are Babylon and Jezebel and their Time is up. They will be put down like the rancid rotten animals that they are as most of the world can see the filth that they truly are.
I don't know how or when they will be extinguished but I am certain they will because Gaia cannot have such rotten filth feasting on her without retaliation, they will be fucked up and I will be glad to see the lights go out of their dying evil soulless eyes. Rotten Filth.
“ I would prefer such people not to wake up and perish as they are, mindless zombies…”
Speaking as someone who could have felt and said t something like this, for more than sixty years, might you, or Caitlin, or any number of those who are now aware and speaking out, have once been included amongst the unaware?
And do the Palestinian, themselves, not deserve the support, no matter how “late” any of you were to arrive at the table of truth?
10 months of continuos live streamed genocide when there is ample access to real information asides from the propaganda suggests to me that anyone who is still plugged in to the propaganda machine by now deserves no sympathy from me and I will not be changing my Mind on that one bit
"People who tell you “Talk to Venezuelans!”..."
We heard the same B.S. during the runup to the War On Iraq. For that matter, you may recall the cute little girl trotted out to drum up war on Syria. And, of course, faux concern about Muh Afghan Women And Girls used to sell that war.
Amazing that anyone still falls for it.
Incubators, anyone?
Heartfelt and poignant as ever, from Caitlin.
I'd like to remind any who don't know that Tuesday Aug 6 is Hiroshima Day, Commemoration of the day Amerika killed nearly 1 million people with one bomb.
And three days later, they dropped an even more powerful bomb on Nagasaki and killed even more people.
And got away with it!
Your sentiment is laudable but your figures are wrong.
The minimum estimate for Hiroshima is 800,000 from the immediate blast and the subsequent firestorm and uncounted deaths from effects of radiation over the following decade.
Nagasaki was a more powerful plutonium bomb, so it's reasonable to assume a much higher death toll.
Yes these radiation deaths are uncounted so we don't know how many there are!
These estimates of deaths, like those of 'covid' and the Black Death (it could have been as little as 5% of population in Europe- and maybe nobody died from a bacteria at all, but rather from the measures) can be way off.
Assumptions about nukes, Nagasaki and Hiroshima makes an ass of you and me.
https://jowaller.substack.com/p/just-like-scary-contagions-and-911?utm_source=publication-search
https://jowaller.substack.com/p/seeing-is-believing
https://jowaller.substack.com/p/the-black-death-killed-50-of-the
as with the edicts to 'mask-up'- there is a certain ill-logic at play on the world stage- to paraphrase, -'it doesn't protect me - so much as it protects you- and yours doesn't protect you- so much as it does me', and thus, really, none are protected- under this big tent made up of carcinogenic face-diapers
Masks work to prevent the spread of illnesses. You're a 🤡
I sometimes wish I knew what all these emojis are supposed to mean. But I'm guessing Jasmine, that yours' is not meant as a compliment.
That's correct. Allowing Covid to spread unmitigated is causing irreparable damage😷 Masks work and we absolutely need more people using them consistently.
Actually, if yours protects me and mine protects you then we are both protected - through co-operation for a common cause.
Brilliant, as usual - even more so, if that’s possible.
They do believe they own the world and their wonderful propaganda has allowed them to do so without being stifled by interrogations by its people and god forbid, some form of self imposed intelligence and inquisition! I am still flabbergasted at the fact that allies appear to play to it and continue to do so even in this climate. Why have the collective forgotten that if the collective acts and moves in a single direction, power will shift!
Legislatures are easily bought off.
You're not aware of the power of the US Jewish Lobby.
The US should stay out of venezuela because we usually bring nothing but war and pain. We're not acting for the good of Venezuela That said the Venezuelans I follow are very clear - they don't want Maduro, they feel the elections were corrupt. We need to be careful to not conflate the US's aggression and intervention with self determination.
If the US wants maduro out that doesn't make maduro good or the will of the people (or bad and not the will of the people). It just means we are piggy backing parasites. We have a real bad cultural habit of somehow still pegging who is good or bad, right or wrong, corrupt or not, to the perception of what our government wants. Not everyone is ready to decouple the concept of the US from the self-determination of other countries.
i recommend you stop following those venezuelans. the us always intervenes and agresses to impede self determination, this can almost be regarded as a law of nature. the default position should be to conflate us agression with it's fight against self determination of people everywhere.
the default position is that if the us wants maduro out, there's a 90% chance maduro is good and enacts the will of the people. there is plenty of evidence that the us and stopping self-determination are firmly coupled. it often begins by propagandising, marketing and manipulating what a people 'wants'.
LOL no. These are real people with real connections and I'm not going to stop following them because other people want to impose a certain ideology. Thats the way of propaganda.
As is, again, pegging what the world wants against what the US wants. Good god. The US intevenes for its own interest. How that lines up with others is a matter of how the sticks lay. It isn't god and it isn't a fundamental force of nature. It will fade like all governments and people will eventually, and it will fade faster than a lot of empires. Stop turning it into something it isn't. A parasite is a parasite, not an immutable law of physics.
The more we treat the US like natural law, the more we help it retain its empire power.
very real people often want to impose a certain ideology. there's little room for 'neutrality'. preventing even the most modest success of any socialist-leaning experiment is one of the major interests of the us centralized empire. and that is baked in the system by which it operates.
the more we act as if the us empire will fade on it's own, the longer it will stay around with (empire educated) future generations indeed regarding it as natural law, imo.
This isn't about neutrality and this isn't about acting like the US empire will fade on its own; nor is it about acting like the US isn't what it is in the current grand scheme of things. Its about giving it power that doesn't belong to it and feeding it in the process, which helps keep it alive longer than it would be on its own or with people fighting it.
Stop taking other people's power and handing it over to the us in a sith/jedi worldview.
was it about maduro being a bad guy, to the perception that your government wants?
I don't have an opinion on Maduro. I have an opinion on the US and on listening to other people above the us. Of being aware of US propaganda, but not letting split thinking become a propaganda leverage point in and of itself.
I wonder what those people would thtabout Maduro if Venezuela had not been under crippling sanctions all these years? What difference could a functioning economy make?
From MS Copilot:
The United States has imposed a series of sanctions on Venezuela, primarily targeting the government and its supporters. Here are some key aspects of these sanctions:
Executive Orders: Several executive orders have been issued to block the property of the Government of Venezuela and its supporters. These orders also provide authority to designate individuals and entities involved in human rights violations, corruption, and undermining democratic processes1.
Financial Restrictions: The sanctions prevent the Venezuelan government from accessing the U.S. financial system, freeze the bank accounts and other assets of the Nicolás Maduro administration, and block oil imports from the state oil and gas company, PDVSA2.
Visa Revocations: The State Department has revoked the visas of more than 1,000 individuals and their families connected to the Venezuelan government3.
General Licenses: The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issues general licenses to authorize certain activities that would otherwise be prohibited under the sanctions. These licenses cover transactions related to humanitarian assistance, financing, and other specific activities4.
Given that they're literally Venezuelan, I'm guessing their not stupid, and they know what they're lives are now. I have no idea what difference a functioning economy could make for Maduro specifically. My guess is there would be completely different candidates if the US hadn't intervenes.