'Death death from the IDF', by any means up to drugging the food meant for starving people, or destroying incubators so infants die, or anally gang raping medics to death, is perfectly okay however. Exchange the 'from' to 'by' - perfectly okay too. Israel's Prime Minister of britain, Keir Starmer, would happily chant it in Parliament. Never introduce a dangerous new idea by substituting 'to' however. Wishing any sort of ill to bullying thugs whose supporters have paid the Labour front benches shed loads of money is never a Good Idea.
Someone should do a false flag demonstration to ironically emphasize this. "Kill, kill, kill 'em all. Kill, kill, kill 'em all. Gaza, Gaza, want it all. Kill, kill, kill 'em all!"
That could be a lot more effective than your traditional demonstration.
While so far there’s no evidence of Rumeysa Ozturk even attending a protest or encampment for Palestine, let alone organizing them, a group morally pure enough to declare her a menace to society has said this -
“Not enough. We demand blood in Gaza!"
This was in response to a tweet listing the names of Palestinian babies killed by Israel before their first birthday, noting it’s likely an undercount because of bodies buried under rubble.
From Palestine historian Zachary Foster, PhD:
“The organization in part responsible for the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil is
1. ‘Turn Gaza to rubble!!’ This is incitement to commit a war crime, as purposeful destruction of civilian infrastructure is during armed hostilities is a war crime. https://x.com/Betar_USA/status/1892611426390364362
2. ‘We demand blood in Gaza,’ in response to a tweet by
4. They threatened violence against UCLA students protesting against a genocide, writing, "we demand police remove these thugs now and if not we will be forced to organize groups of Jews to do so.” https://forward.com/news/703018/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-cuad-ice/
Betar has given the phrase ‘every accusation is a confession’ new meaning and purpose.”
This is who generates lists that the US government accepts as sufficient, vetted proof that someone is dangerous enough to be seized, detained with inhumane treatment, and deported.
(April 18 - the “Turn Gaza to rubble!!” link now has a different message than before, with the same lovely sentiment. It now says, “Fuck your ceasefire!! Turn Gaza to rubble!! For the Bibas family! They must go!”, with graphics that scream FUCK. YOUR. CEASEFIRE. // NO MERCY. #HuntThemAllDown”)"
Hypocrisy has been the orthodoxy for a long time now. The new rules are actually much simpler than the superannuated Justice concept. In case you don't already know here are the new rules.
Everything We do is Good.
Everything They do is Bad.
See? It's not that hard. All that's required is a minor adjustment in attitude.
" . . . manipulative narcissist has seen all these patterns before. The self-centeredness. The hypocrisy. The horrific abuse, followed by collapsing into blubbering victimhood . . ."
I would only add "malignancy". These are "malignant narcissists", spreading the disease of Zionism through the society like the infestation it is.
The battle against "narcissism" (just call it evil, as there's countless ways to define narcissism, it's a hugely flawed concept) isn't a battle against zionist jews, Israel/the US of A/I or China or Korea or Russia or Germany you name it. Any MAGA--even the many vehemently *against* MIGA, but don't understand that's impossible, because Trump *is* owned by Israel in the first place--is going to be a "narcissist," because that is ultimately a pride issue, and to be under the left-right paradigm requires pride, that's where the tribalism comes in, too - pride. That's also where the stupidity comes from, as foolishness is a pride issue. "I support Israel! [because my (s)elected President does!]" Well, of course Mr. Trump 'supports' them, they own the guy, but do they give you fame and fortune? Nope - tribalism is weird like that, again pride cause foolishness. MAGA; and whatever Kamala supporters are called, these binary echo chambers, they're all about feeling like you're part of a productive movement.
If you're talking about the narcissists we see on our screens everywhere throughout our lives, many that are only famous *because* they're Zionist shills, that kind of narcissism (see why that word is stupid? It has many interpretations because it has attempted to describe just about every evil behavior in existence) is what gets you famous in the first place. Very few famous people aren't "narcissistic," as the devil is the one who ultimately shoves these celebrities down our throats, whether it's a cute new multilingual K-idol talent they want the world to fall in love with, or alleged FBI director Dan Bongino. You get the idea, famous people are all narcissistic, that's how you *become* famous and get promoted on screens--any platform you can think of--in the first place.
The true battleground is spiritual, *not* purely psychological. Without the soul, we quite frankly will *never* pathologize things like sociopathy and psycopathy, we can only identify it, but they will continue to run rampant unless we realize those people belong to the devil.
It's when we understand the profound demonic influence on these people (because of their *own* evil desire: power, money control/influence, fame; gaslighting, torture, murder above the world's laws, etc.) that we can truly begin to see them as having disadvantageous traits. As of still, everything is *completely* inverted, and the world still *values* 'narcissism' - even if most people would claim otherwise. It is literally a 'trait' so valuable to the point of being sexually appealing to people, depending again on how you even define a narcissist. Still don't believe in sin, just think it's another construct of the mind? If you don't believe in sin - you're literally just part of the problem here.
"Zionism" has always been Satanism in disguise, so I don't even bother calling them zionists because they're occultists, literal devil worshippers, i.e. not the gothic kid you knew in highschool with pentagram earrings (if the kids I knew were doing ritualistic magic for personal gain, it didn't fair very well for them, but that's probably for the better). But those of you who consider yourselves truthers, or whatever, and do not acknowledge our spiritual reality--our true battleground--you have to understand that even if these "Zionists" didn't exist, we'd still have our Satanic world government system, for which the US is one of the main headquarters. But that's not even my point, because, guess who's really at the top of the ol' pyramid of evil power? Who again do they serve?
Stop concentrating so much on Zionists, "bloodlines," cults, banks, intermingled governments et al. The world can not be saved, whether those people exist or not, it's the common man's ignorance of their own sin that's the problem. A sociopath is a child of the devil, Heaven is not open to people who don't feel empathy, because that's a heart issue.
The evil you have mentioned would not exist without the ongoing support of billionaires and mega-millionaires and Capitalist corporations who own the government, the mass media and the fossil fuels industries and the military industrial complex.
100%, they are fake through-and-through, all they really know is personal gain.
Since I 100% believe in Hell, and do not take any manner of secular or moral-relativistic-worldview, sociopaths not being constrained by ethics is only a temporary advantage, I could easily argue; but I still get your point. Those traits are only desirable if you're okay with getting what's coming to you. Ultimately: no one gets away with anything.
I could do what they do, I could be crafty and creative, I could scam people, etc. Yet I can't bring myself to do things like that, it's a deal-breaker, not an acceptable way of life. Why? What's stopping me? What's stopping you? You have taken the potential victims into consideration instead of taking advantage of them, because ultimately, you know that if you did - it would have consequences. Those with a conscience are actually fearing God (“God-fearing”), even if they do not acknowledge Him. Congratulations: God likes you better than he does these sociopaths, they are on their own because that’s how they go about their lives, no need for a God as they worship themselves. But that doesn't work out long term, as Hell is a real thing, and guess what? Pretty much all sociopaths are going to Hell, as Heaven isn't a place for people who believe empathy is useless. Empathy is from Christ.
God Bless, you people have great minds put to good use, keep up the good work.
A well elaborated viewpoint, but I think you'd have to define some terms to sell it to folks: devil? who's that? Generic Lucifer of Judeo-Christianity, Satan of cult worship, a vampiric demon that wanders the firmament? etc etc.
"famous people are all narcissistic" Probably, but I'd go you one better. Societies based on greed as principal elevator promote narcissism, and given that human egos possess this tendency, its expression is enhanced or not by the societal milieu. Nothing in the realm of human behavior occurs in a vacuum.
Thanks, that was more of a late night [or haha, early morning] rant that I thought people would at least enjoy. I obviously can't sell anything to anyone; people can believe what they'd like to about the world, but if you do not find the Biblical view to be quite accurate, 'good luck' to you moving forward, that's my advice, and I don't believe in luck which is another conversation. The Bible is really the only book that can give us some idea of what spiritual warfare looks like. These "Dark Triad" personalities aren't down to biology; people give their conscience up at some point in their life and it doesn't come back, because they didn't want it to. Those people are evil on a spiritual level, not simply biological traits. A sociopath isn't who psychology wants us to believe they are, the secular view of most psychologists (if not all!) speaks volumes to what I'm getting at.
"Devil" is vague and could mean anyone, yeah, as even demons, and people or certain animals/beasts, are often called devils. Biblically, Lucifer really *is* Satan, and I would strongly recommend that you'd watch theologist Gavin Ortlund's excellent YouTube video about who exactly Satan is, a bit how he operates and even the possible extent of his power. And people who worship anything sinful, their excess of money (greed) you name it, are by proxy worshipping the entity that is Satan/Lucifer. Actually, money acknowledges its own evil, as well as the Freemasons who designed it, what with all the satanic masonry and witchcraft symbols on it that wouldn't otherwise be there.
Now, any occultist will deny the worship of Satan, Lucifer, etc. Most occultists don't actually *know* that they're ultimately worshipping Lucifer, but at the higher levels they are well aware, this is seen plainly in the music industry and such. It's quite similar to Freemasons, they are de facto Luciferians as Albert Pike revealed, but at lower level of Masonry it's [intended to be] difficult for members to discern this fact.
I'll give you credit for an apparently global understanding of this subject. Given that mine is not even close, I defer to yours and just say: I 'll consider what you say as extremely thought-provoking, but likely go my own way.
mike huckabee often refers to the bible. lots of evangelical zionists probably are absolutely convinced that what's playing out in gaza is spiritual warfare materialising. freemasonry mostly requires its members to believe in a supreme being. afaik, there's nothing more down that rabbit hole than the exclusive golf-club, bridge-club, church-choir, bible-study, ...
The "supreme being" is Lucifer. And Mike Huckabee is part of the Zionist perversion of Christianity, he's a Satanist, he doesn't actually follow Christ, so his understanding of spiritual warfare is intended to deceive people under the Righty religious movement which isn't--at all--true Christianity - one bit. He like Trump is owned by Israel, and so is the network which his show airs, TBN. Olsteen, T.D. Jakes, etc. I call it false prophet network. Fox, and Newsmax, or any other channel demons like Huckabee would make an appearance are likewise owned by satanists.
“Greed” is a very tenuous concept. When does Survival become greed? One person’s ‘RedLine’ for a definition of greed is another’s survival threshold. If we as a society remove the conditions we are told to follow to survive, then greed becomes a fact. Otherwise, as Darwin said so well, it’s a survival of the Fittest jungle.
Greed is an obvious form of sin, it's really just selfisness but since you take the secular worldview, I would just tell you that excess is a decent way for you to look at greed. Do I really need a billion dollars? Or how about thirty milion, do I even *need* that much money... or should I be giving money away--constantly--to people in need, since I can totally afford to because I make more in an hour then they do in a year?
If a billionaire's money goes to a bunch of non-profit charities after he dies, does that make him at all generous if he's dead, no longer exists and therefore couldn't bring any of his wealth with him? Will he really deserve praise for that when he'd much rather live forever and continue to enrich himself without enriching others? That's a good example of greed: it's selfisness. Like anything, it's really only understood within the context of sin.
As for your example of an emergency survival context, ideally both parties wouldn't be greedy and they would help each other out, whether in need or out of conscious duty. It's impossible to understand greed when you take a Darwinian worldview, as you do not even believe in *sin* in the first place, and that's literally *what* greed is.
I just meant that survival at the expense of others, is definitely sin. If you're just talking about someone needing a ton of resources and money for their own survival, but not hurting others in any way, there's nothing wrong with that.
I place no monetary value on the preservation of any human being in need. Life and health should always be preserved. Obviously, government takes the polar opposite position: more for them, less for us, life for them death for us, etc. But they'll have Hell to pay, this life isn't the end of the story. You can't just hurt people and get away with it, and they're deceived if they do believe that.
You're really not going to preach social Darwinism to me, a biologist -- and get away with it. Stuff that, please, my friend. Darwinian theory, fabulously incomplete because of horizontal gene transfer is a BIOLOGICALLY applicable hypothesis, partially useful in parsing the mechanisms of organismal evolution. You bastardize it the moment you go trying to apply it elsewhere. And I disagree about greed. But welcome to your own opinion. But you're crapping all over what "Darwin said".
One other comment on your comment Vin… about Darwin’s incomplete theories..
In my view, every theory will always be “incomplete”.. that’s why they are named ‘Theories’ a quality that will always fit in any narrative about anything.
So you’re a ‘biologist’ and deny Darwin’s theory of evolution? Mmmmmm? Peraphs a refresher course on simplicity might help you have more faith in what Darwin proposed in his observations. P.H.D don’t impress me as much as they seem to weigh heavily on your concepts. All too often. P.H.D can lead to a Progressively Hallucinating Dysfunction.. which, if you can so easily deny Darwinism, you may be suffering from…
What I love about Darwin’s thinking is it’s simplicity , evidently not a quality in your professor like admonitions .
1. Learn how to fucking read for comprehension. I said the theory's incomplete -- as any knowledgeable biologist who understands the revelations of the past 30 yrs would also tell you. I don't like to cite Wikipedia, but in this instance it's convenient, and I'll paste in a key paragraph for your convenience after the link.
"Horizontal gene transfer is recognized as a pervasive evolutionary process that distributes genes between divergent prokaryotic lineages[17] and can also involve eukaryotes.[18][19] HGT events are thought to occur less frequently in eukaryotes (animals, plants, etc.) than in prokaryotes (bacteria, Blue-green algae). However, growing evidence indicates that HGT is relatively common among many eukaryotic species and can have an impact on adaptation to novel environments. Its study, however, is hindered by the complexity of eukaryotic genomes and the abundance of repeat-rich regions, which complicate the accurate identification and characterization of transferred genes.[20][21]
2. There are NO justifications. NONE,. for grabbing an incomplete theory to explain the emergence and persistence of new forms of life over time and suddenly applying it to sociology. Most responsible sociologists would tell you that.
You seem to have a deep need to be right. Too bad you have no supporting material from necessary sources.
Oh, and fuck you and your comments about PhDs; you have NO idea who and what I am.n What you are suffering from is insufferable malignant narcissism in your own right. You want to be right but have nothing to support you. Just go fuck yourself.
Caitlin, all I can say is that I am AWED at your ability to stay sane, to process all the 'unimaginable evil'. Any lesser person (like myself) would start hating humanity - like I currently do - because of the immorality, dis-interest, selfishness, greed,..... that I have witnessed since Oct 8th. There is NO movie, NO TV-Series, NOTHING that can compare to the reality of what we are all witnessing...
How are people not going mad? I suspect there will be a huge uptick in 'major mental-health crises' for the next several years (and maybe even decades).
It helps me (and I'm sure many others here) that you have created a space for people like us on Substack here so that we can vent, be emotional, be critical in analyzing structures of power and oppression (like Israel, the U.S. Empire, the system of Capitalism, and so much more).
Thank you Caitlin, much love, and stay safe and healthy! ❤️🙏
When one see how unrepresentative are the leaders of Germany, the UK, Canada and Australia, saddled with populations that have to wait years before they can exert pressure through elections in ridding those Western nations of such hypocritical leaders, one wonders how long it will take, if ever, for the people of the USA to generate the ability to muster enough guts to really rebel against the domination of the now comfortably ensconced Trumpanyahu Administration.
It is extraordinary, isn't it? Comfortable, reasonably well off people, so wrapped up in our own little worlds that we do nothing as profound evil happens. I suspect it's because we've all been trained to admire selfishness. That people who grab as much of anything they can get for themselves, no matter what that might mean for others, are now promoted as heroes, while people who want more for others are denigrated as sickos and deviants. Genuinely awful people have made 'goodness' something to sneer at. It is entirely remarkable that a capacity for empathy is considered one of the qualities that enabled human societies to flourish and yet, in the West at least, governments are doing their money-grubbing best to kick it to death.
I would say that they represent the nations they govern through the controlled media, after all this time now completely accepting as normal the need to conform to the dictates of the Western governments and their political philosophies.
Just look at the UK, Germany Canada and Australia. All never having stated in public, therefore in the media their disgust at the actions of Israel, still supporting Israel's genocidal policy against the wishes of the majority of citizens ( I am assuming) and making their thinking appear like the wishes of the majority, which they aren't. (My reference here is based on only one of the afore-mentioned countries but confident it applies to all four).
Without question, the USA is able to get away with murder, literally by the thousands. But please also remember that those other four Western governments are equally as guilty of disgraceful crimes based on their support for Israel. The worst being the UK and Germany.
Agreed… but you don’t get to be a big fish unless you are first a small fish.. I.e., if there is a need for puppets to run things, maybe the things conditions that are required to run things start with all of us?
Germany is the definition of human hypocrisy and collective evil. Because of their "guilt" they are now at the forefront of shamelessly and openly assisting genocide of unarmed Palestinians. What a disgusting nation. Israel should be moved to Germany where it belongs.
WE only rule when WE are united in a common cause. The master class encourages the myth of the rugged individual, the cowboy, the hero. The master class provides some tokens of appreciation, such as medals or ribbons, to the occasional individuals. Sometimes, such individuals are elevated to visible positions of esteem, but almost never into the hidden master class.
The impunity of the master class will end when enough of WE rise up to end it. A sustained general strike of most of the working class could do that simply by refusing to work for a month or two.
Imagine the impact of blocking the entire transportation system and all grocery and hardware stores.
The Amish and Mennonites are mostly self sufficient. Mormons ask their members to keep a stockpile of canned goods, dry beans, flour, etc., to sustain a shutdown of at least six months. Some survivalists have stockpiles to last more than a year.
My “stockpile” might last for a week. What about yours?
The system of elections has been rigged by the Constitution to favor the master class. The “Founders” restricted voting to approximately 3% of the population. Even today, the constituents may vote for representatives, but not for or against any legislation or judicial ruling.
Clean, what you are advocating is revolution. But humans have experienced an uncountable number of revolutions in the past, but to what avail?
We are moments away from annihilation, and perhaps only decades away from trying to live on a superheated planet, so revolutions have done nothing but bring us closer to our extinction.
My question is ,
: If we do indeed experience yet another revolution, what would make this revolution any different than others. ?
Mormon’s and Mennonite’s are indeed a different breed, and probably much can be learned from their experience.. religions however don’t impress me much, and if something in their way of thinking obliges religious tenets, I’m not a candidate…
The American, French. Russian and Chinese Revolutions have had some degree of success. Unfortunately, corrupt leaders tend to emerge to replace the ones who are overthrown.
Climate catastrophe may wipe out much of mankind, if nuclear catastrophe doesn’t happen, soon. Diplomacy has failed, to date. What other options are available?
“What other options are available? “ I suppose there are many types of revolution other than violent ones. Your question is rather exceptional since it is seldom if ever asked. For change to occur, a problem needs to be identified. The problem is to identify what needs to be changed.
If I may ask, why don’t we try to identify our problems with respect to addressing climate change issues and/ or nuclear catastrophe. For one, Helen Caldecott in the 80s organized marches in which demands to eliminate nuclear weapons were the target. One million marches marched in New York with that objective, all to no avail.
If we want to eliminate
Nuclear arsenals, don’t we need to identify WHzy they exist? I don’t wish to make this reply too long, but your question is most relevant.
"How are people not going mad?" Who's to say they haven't? Though a zombielike obedience is considered a normal and possibly even desirable condition.
I took a long airplane ride yesterday. Two of the three movies featured a plot to turn the entire population of Earth into obedient zombies. Coincidence or reflection of society?
Did you know zombies really exist, or at least did in 1980.
I also went through my phase of hating humanity early this year when the Gaza Ceasefire was broken in March and the genocide restarted and I just went ballistic on one of my posts here on a Catlin article stating I was done commenting and fighting for humanity here when nothing is being done in the real world and most are complicit in furthering all this brutality
That's why I haven't been as active as I once was here on Substack as I still read a lot here but I comment sparingly as I've just figured out most of humanity is in a mental bondage that has been centuries in the making ( and turbocharged this last century through mass media propaganda and mental poisoning in various forms ) and it's going to take a very long ass time before humanity can heal itself from the mental bondage they are currently trapped in... If they ever do as they seem to revel in their current rotten state
Anyways, so seeing the big picture of knowing this current state we are in has been centuries or millennia in the making if we want to be factual about it as humans have always been fed nonsense mostly by the society and environment they grow up in and to detoxify from those centuries of conditioning will take a fucking long time if they are even capable of doing so at this point
The only thing that gives me hope is the advent of the internet and social platforms like Substack which is democratizing and decentralizing the flow of *information in a way humanity has never before seen and thus we can collectively wake up from our zombie slumber much after than would have been possible without the Internet coming into Being
So now we are in a race against time for humanity to wake up in sufficient numbers from these gift of the gods to help break free from our shackles before we hurtle into the point of no return in the Abyss we are currently swimming in. It's 50/50 to me whether we make it in time before we collectively make ourselves extinct through a tragic ( or not so tragic depending on your perspective ) global extermination event and cataclysm that we currently possess the weapons to enact in excess in the form of nuclear bombs
So all I'm doing now is sitting on the sidelines and observing the madness unfold from my little corner of the world 🌍 and being totally okay with both scenarios coming to fruition as I majorly loathe humanity still though I better understand them now, but if they end up blowing up this planet and all life then I would be happy in some ways cuz I have long made my peace with death and experienced numerous times on ways the average human cannot comprehend so the end of all life doesn't frighten me at all but would be a ticket to shedding this limiting mortal coil faster than I expected and would be happy for that in some ways
On the other hand, I still have things I wanna accomplish on this Earth before I leave this realm so I would also be happy if humanity gets their shit together on time and extend our collective time on this planet and hopefully with a Higher Consciousness that won't allow for the current fuckery we are witnessing ever happen again
Either ways, I'm good and I'm just observing this mad world make its own choice. I suggest you also prepare your mind for any of those possibilities happening as we cannot do anything by our individual selves to turn the tide and it's the decision of the collective humanity whether they will be Obliterated or choose to live in a more Conscious and humane manner
I hope you are real Caitlin. Do not trust anything or anyone nowadays. So many people with influence that I thought would speak up are silent. I just wonder what the younger generation think about all this.
I have been objecting to war for most of my life. I will be 80 next year. Not once have those in power ended a war because we, the people, object. They absolutely do not give a good god damn what people think or want. I don't know how we can make them stop, but I do think we have to keep trying. Just don't hope for fast change from the power mongers.
They will never stop. It is us who must stop. The ones who go fight for these madmen. They are the ones we ought to direct our ire on. What the heck do they think they are doing? They are making themselves nothing but fodder. We have known this for decades yet the people still go, still go and bomb other people because they are ordered to by lunatics.
Yes. WE need to call them to come home. Disregard orders, just get in their planes and come home. They are needed here. We will support their breaking orders. But we need to also talk about what we will do when they do come home. It's fine to get into gardening or one's hobby, but we need to have strategies to take our energy out of this system.
The original error is in considering weapons production a legitimate part of productivity. It is not. It is destructive and wasteful of resources. Public money is channeled into paying these people to make destructive products, better to just give them the money directly and bypass the supposed productivity.
Good point. My point however was that if we don’t serve our masters, ( a job) we will not have a home to return to. That, in essence, is where the end of wars may occur, as in when everyone, including those with which we disagree, are entitled to life’s basic needs. Isn’t that what happens in nature, a survival of the fittest arena?
"Survival of the fittest" is misapplied; in Nature, it is survival of the opportunist, those most willing or able to adapt. That means in the moment, every day, while you are perhaps referring to long-term evolutionary outcomes. Humans have survived through collective actions, rather than individualistic norms, which are a recent, post-Enlightenment ideology.
It's important to note that many if not most people who go into the military in the US these days do it out of economic necessity--the government makes sure there are plenty of impoverished people to ensure they get the bodies they need. They also recruit heavily among poor people of color who are often desperate for a way out of their precarity.
Agreed, and I think the strategy works only because virtually everyone else in society feeds the false image of the soldier as a noble, heroic pursuit. The image is more of a draw than the money, by far. Everyone is helping draw in the naive, well-intentioned young men, to be turned into murderers for psychopaths, by perpetuating the profoundly-destructive lie that it's honorable to serve as a soldier for psychopaths, or as a soldier for anyone who expects soldiers to kill anyone they're told to kill. Today's soldiers are recruited to be cold-blooded murderers who kill anyone they're told to kill, and there's absolutely nothing honorable about it. If young men understood that, the recruitment tactics would fail completely, and the mentally-ill political and banking class members would be faced with fighting their own battles.
Well, I see one group of people in the US who are honest about what the professional military is, their kids understand it, and their young men joining the military is virtually zero: the Amish. They like money same as everyone else, and understand that no amount of it could entice one to become a paid murderer. I think there would be a similar result with most other people, if they could muster the same level of honesty.
Fine, but that's a tiny sliver of the population with a highly distinct, very self-sufficient culture. Poor people around the country do not live in such communities. This country has been highly propagandized to see the military as something positive, and with the economic benefits that can be hard to resist. Provide better economic opportunities and fewer young poor people will choose the military.
But we are like lemmings - I don't even see anyone saying "let's do something, who wants to be in it?" Nobody is seeking anything different. Even though many are impoverished, there's no looking for alternatives. And they are so simple, it's just that almost everyone doesn't want to do anything different. They don't experiment, don't try new things, just keep being fodder for corpulent devourers.
How do you know "nobody is seeking anything different" and "there's no looking for alternatives"? I wish no one went into the military either, but I am aware of the desperation of many out there who feel they have no other way to survive. And, in addition, in many if not most communities across the country the military is (unfortunately) highly respected, so there's the draw of gaining that respect too, which for a poor person of color is no small thing. What is really needed, for this and other reasons, are far, far better economic alternatives for poor folk.
I'm just being pragmatic. If we want better economic alternatives for poor folk, then we are in a better position to start something ourselves. How do I know nobody is seeking anything different? Because I am alive and I am always looking for people who are seeking something different. But it's funny how nobody wants to actually "do" anything different. Or even ask what can be done. Where do you see people who are seeking something different?
If no one was seeking anything different then everyone would be going into the military, which is obviously not true. Only a tiny percentage of young people end up in the military. I don't have a magic answer about how to get no one to go into the military anymore, but improving career prospects for young people would help significantly.
Here's a group, Palestine Action, taking direct action to stop the war machine, but time may be short on this excellent documentary about them, which is about to be banned in the UK, and from there, most likely the film, because the UK government is working to designate them as a terrorist organisation. Anyone supporting a designated "terrorist" organization is subject to 14 year imprisonment. You can watch the film online legally today, but come this first week of July, or soon after, based on the actions of the UK Parliament, who knows. These are y/our freedoms on the line.
Americans going to Israel to kill Palestinians are not ordered to, they do so by personal choice; proving that it takes a certain type of evil to join a genocidal entity whose only mantra is to kill.
No, we should not direct our ire at those who have drunk the koolaid and go to fight. They are mostly young people who have been hoodwinked by parents, media, friends etc. "We" may know that they are fodder, but many of those poor kids actually think they are supporting their country. Yes, it would be great if nobody went to fight in the disgusting wars that the elite decide to start. But we cannot blame young people who have not yet accepted that they are being lied to. The young people today do seem more aware than we were during Vietnam. Lets hope they won't go. But don't blame them. They get nothing from being obedient. They are just fodder, but they won't realize that until later.
Denise, your spirit is uplifting, but the reality is that we still abide by the rules which make jungles the real images of the way we think.. first recognize the environments, and if we don’t like them change them.. so far, people seem to like life in the jungles..
Let's keep working on that coming about. They started a war and nobody came. I know I've heard that phrase somewhere before. (For US service personnel to become a conscientious objector, visit quakerhouse.org for details.)
On bumperstickers during Vietnam. Such a great, simple idea.Of course, then they'd bring back the draft faster than you can Jack Robinson, as my grandmother used to say. Who was he? Jackie R. came later.
Bringing back the draft would be something that puts a whole lot more of Americans' skin in the game. Might gain even more support for putting an end to war.
Thanks for that piece of clarity about where we are at. And yes, I agree that we probably will never win our aim of stopping the forever wars. But we must not lose heart, as without our constant resistance the situation of humanity would be so much worse.
It's people like you, Caitlin, that would have punished those poor German Nazis at the end of WW2, rather than sending them to live in Canada and have state-subsidised counselling for the fact that the Russians defeated them.
Have you no empathy and shame?
Next you'll be demanding the Western leaders who have abused, invaded and genocided the Global south for generations, incl B'Liar and President Chimpie, also face justice before the law! FFS!.
It's almost like you don't believe the Western oligarchies are Exceptional! :'(
On Small Farm Australia platform, I wrote a reply to someone wanting to ban life export of sheep and cattle. The Australian government is setting a date to terminate the life cattle trade over its reported cruelty. Yet the Australian government does nothing concrete or lasting such as sanctions against Israeli for crime against humanity. A Palestine live is worth less that of an old sheep that has lost all its teeth, a bull which would not be eaten here but turned into dog food. How much has Australia lost is moral compass, on the surface it is really incomprehensible to believe. However, once you understand that if you apply as much corrupted media as you can, you are able to control the narrative. Australian live animal exporters are cruel, where as, Israeli killing innocent unarmed people is just self defense.
It’s the same across the ditch. The two faced, hypocritical media shamelessly (and embarrassingly) consider themselves at the vanguard of social progressiveness. Especially our state broadcaster, RNZ. The holocaust in Gaza has exposed the hollowness of western society, faarkin pathetic. Criticising politicians for meaningless shit, and holding hands to defend Israel and the fuckin IDF. Death to the IDF.
Whose patience isn't wearing thin at all this made up BS, and the hurt feelings of people who support genocide. I'm sick of it too. And we're all going to have to keep pushing hard to stop endless wars. I hope now that we've seen the extremes on our devices to which they'll go, it will turn the whole world upside down, and we'll take a different path.
Anyone who kills women, children, journalists, doctors, nurses, innocent fathers and husband's, is evil. No ifs, ands or buts, EVIL.
I wanted Israel to succeed but not at the expense of another tribe. As a teenager I read Leon Uris and bought into the birth of a nation. I have no issue with Jews, but Zionists are genocidal maniacs. Killing children puts you at the bottom of the human scale.
If Israel burns I will not give a fuck. You made your bed. Ba bye.
Their day is coming Caitlin and they will be reaping what they have sewn soon enough. The only thing is though is that it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets any better.
I agree with you. They will reap all the assets that everyone has worked to achieve. They will take it all, they can't stop themselves. We have to stop it but how? Does anyone want to sit and discuss how we can do it?
I believe it’s a case of getting all those poorly treated veterans out there telling their stories of abuse and the absolute destruction of their lives from being part of the war machine to make the soldiers of the world say no. I will not partake in this destruction of humanity because that is what war always is.
Incorrect. Obviously you have no grasp on history. Every empire falls and usually falls pretty hard. The trumplestein admin is much like that of Benito Mussolini and we all know what happened to him. Not that it's really about trump because he is merely playing his part. Although as opposed to soft fascism we now have a relatively hard fascism.
I remember the relief and joy with which the end of South African apartheid was celebrated, but it will be nothing compared to the relief and joy with which the world will celebrate the end of Satanic Israel.
Pampered to the point of obscenity, awash in money by the US of Americash, always unconditionally defended by the powerful, and also "chosen by God." What good and sensible thing could one expect from this monstrous creature?
You mentioned schizophrenics. Thank you, finally someone not ignoring the mentally ill. My father, schizophrenic, suicide, and murdered by the USA regime. There’s the enemy, there’s the blame if you want any.
Our side doesn’t want to be martyrs, but we are ready and proud of it. It’s means we’re not succumbing to this genocidal regime.
Regarding your argument, I agree. Waste no time. Another Zionist liar speaks, shut him down immediately: “Shut the fuck up! Next liar…”
Don’t be a wimp, like libertarian Dave Smith. When an English, lying, Zionist cocksucker is rambling—Murray—shut him down immediately. Stop pussyfooting around.
Thanks for your article. I’ve read several, never commented before. Carry on.
Schizophrenia is the result of human behaviour that is ‘sold’ as a normal part of our existence. It is a natural reaction to utter evil ‘sold’ to us as necessary by warmongering control freaks that only care for their own pocket and position. Genocidal maniacs cause schizophrenia.
I think you’re right. Whatever schizophrenia truly is, my father’s was triggered during boot camp for Vietnam. If you don’t want to kill Vietnamese civilians, but you are being forced to do so, something will give. They rushed him out of the service as quickly as possible and left him to die.
I don’t know neuroscience, but complex personality traits are both genes AND environment. Genocide is an environment in which good people will rebel, whether they want to or not.
Grass roots activism is all that really works for change. From the bottom up as you say. Here in Australia, we need to be working a whole lot harder to get our leaders to do the right thing. Sanction Israel. Expel the embassy. Call ours home. Send any Israeli visitors back to base and stop any Australians from fighting with the IDF - or they can't return. Because at them moment there is a steady stream of soldiers on and off duty between Israel and Oz. NOT GOOD AT ALL.
Remember, every Israeli citizen, or person with an Israeli passport is expected to do the IDF TRAINING FOR 2 to 3 years. Males and females. The entire nation is trained in military and combat procedures. That in itself creates a mindset of nationalistic superiority. They are so important but yet such targets, such victims in their minds. What they are is entitled and racist. They operate like a cult.
Maybe not quite the same thing, but here is an organization that seeks to target U.S. institutions that are entangled in Israel’s debt structure.
While recent credit rating downgrades make Israeli debt a more risky investment than ever, state and municipal U.S. treasuries and other institutional investors continue to buy into Israel’s debt through the purchase of bonds.
ACRE has created a report that provides an overview of Israel’s debt structure, its process of raising funds, and some of the key players involved.
Hell! AIPAC American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the post Cold War deep states in ameriKKKa and Britain are writing the script via the CIA AND Mossad as usual!
It is Critical to remember how we got to this point: 1860-1904 Theodor Herzl, The 1896 Basel Program, The 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement, the 1917 The Balfour Declaration, 1939 White Paper, the 1948 Redline Agreement, the deep state’s 1947 Truman doctrine, the 1948 Marshall Plan, the 1996 ‘clean break; strategy for securing the realm’ policy, the 1997 PNAC project for a new american century ‘rebuilding america's defenses’, the 2000 Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy, the 2001 ‘full spectrum domination doctrine’ the '2001 Proclamation 7463', the 2003 Rumsfield's 'a different kind of war, the 2009 "which path to persia" policy documents. The 1983 MILNET (fully Military Network), the 2002 NORTHCOM command (continuity of Government group) and the new GOLDEN DOME projects!!
All of those are true, but it leaves off the close to four hundred, plus, years of Christian Zionism that helped sow the seeds, and allowed these ideas to flourish, until we are at this point today. An excellent resource is "A Short History of Christian Zionism," by Donald Lewis.
That is true of the political Zionism, but the history behind it, that is why there was such a readiness for British Ministers to endorse political Zionism, as it was in the fulfilment of their own ends. And also helps explain, the long history, including the Puritans, of why there are so many Christian Zionists around. This movement, with changes, originates in 16th Century England. Even Wikipedia does a good job on this, or did last time I looked, but it is treated separately from political Zionism, as if there was no connection.
Chant "Death, Death to the children of Gaza" and it won't get you in trouble... what a distorted world we live in.
'Death death from the IDF', by any means up to drugging the food meant for starving people, or destroying incubators so infants die, or anally gang raping medics to death, is perfectly okay however. Exchange the 'from' to 'by' - perfectly okay too. Israel's Prime Minister of britain, Keir Starmer, would happily chant it in Parliament. Never introduce a dangerous new idea by substituting 'to' however. Wishing any sort of ill to bullying thugs whose supporters have paid the Labour front benches shed loads of money is never a Good Idea.
Someone should do a false flag demonstration to ironically emphasize this. "Kill, kill, kill 'em all. Kill, kill, kill 'em all. Gaza, Gaza, want it all. Kill, kill, kill 'em all!"
That could be a lot more effective than your traditional demonstration.
"We demand blood in Gaza!" is what Betar USA has said, in response to a list of babies murdered before their first birthday ...
https://anotherbetrayedliberal.substack.com/p/context-catastrophes-and-selective
"“We Demand Blood”
While so far there’s no evidence of Rumeysa Ozturk even attending a protest or encampment for Palestine, let alone organizing them, a group morally pure enough to declare her a menace to society has said this -
“Not enough. We demand blood in Gaza!"
This was in response to a tweet listing the names of Palestinian babies killed by Israel before their first birthday, noting it’s likely an undercount because of bodies buried under rubble.
From Palestine historian Zachary Foster, PhD:
“The organization in part responsible for the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil is
@Betar_USA
, according to this reporting by the Forward (https://forward.com/news/703018/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-cuad-ice/)
Betar's former leader Ross Glick ‘shared a list of campus protesters with federal immigration authorities.’
(Incidentally, Glick was arrested & convicted of second-degree harassment for posting revenge porn. whoops. https://nypost.com/2019/02/25/the-disturbing-story-behind-nycs-revenge-porn-perpetrators/).
A little about Betar. The organization has said:
1. ‘Turn Gaza to rubble!!’ This is incitement to commit a war crime, as purposeful destruction of civilian infrastructure is during armed hostilities is a war crime. https://x.com/Betar_USA/status/1892611426390364362
2. ‘We demand blood in Gaza,’ in response to a tweet by
Laila Al-Arian
listing the names of Palestinian babies killed by Israel. This is direct incitment to murder Palestinian babies. This is the literal definition to support for terrorism. https://middleeasteye.net/explainers/betar-who-is-far-right-jewish-american-group-blood-gaza
3. They proudly boost of their members vandalizing private property (literally the exact same accusation they've leveled at Mahmoud). https://x.com/Betar_USA/status/1886907012052566208
4. They threatened violence against UCLA students protesting against a genocide, writing, "we demand police remove these thugs now and if not we will be forced to organize groups of Jews to do so.” https://forward.com/news/703018/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-cuad-ice/
Betar has given the phrase ‘every accusation is a confession’ new meaning and purpose.”
This is who generates lists that the US government accepts as sufficient, vetted proof that someone is dangerous enough to be seized, detained with inhumane treatment, and deported.
(April 18 - the “Turn Gaza to rubble!!” link now has a different message than before, with the same lovely sentiment. It now says, “Fuck your ceasefire!! Turn Gaza to rubble!! For the Bibas family! They must go!”, with graphics that scream FUCK. YOUR. CEASEFIRE. // NO MERCY. #HuntThemAllDown”)"
Hypocrisy has been the orthodoxy for a long time now. The new rules are actually much simpler than the superannuated Justice concept. In case you don't already know here are the new rules.
Everything We do is Good.
Everything They do is Bad.
See? It's not that hard. All that's required is a minor adjustment in attitude.
Gotta love it.
" . . . manipulative narcissist has seen all these patterns before. The self-centeredness. The hypocrisy. The horrific abuse, followed by collapsing into blubbering victimhood . . ."
I would only add "malignancy". These are "malignant narcissists", spreading the disease of Zionism through the society like the infestation it is.
Vin
Parasites, one and all.
The battle against "narcissism" (just call it evil, as there's countless ways to define narcissism, it's a hugely flawed concept) isn't a battle against zionist jews, Israel/the US of A/I or China or Korea or Russia or Germany you name it. Any MAGA--even the many vehemently *against* MIGA, but don't understand that's impossible, because Trump *is* owned by Israel in the first place--is going to be a "narcissist," because that is ultimately a pride issue, and to be under the left-right paradigm requires pride, that's where the tribalism comes in, too - pride. That's also where the stupidity comes from, as foolishness is a pride issue. "I support Israel! [because my (s)elected President does!]" Well, of course Mr. Trump 'supports' them, they own the guy, but do they give you fame and fortune? Nope - tribalism is weird like that, again pride cause foolishness. MAGA; and whatever Kamala supporters are called, these binary echo chambers, they're all about feeling like you're part of a productive movement.
If you're talking about the narcissists we see on our screens everywhere throughout our lives, many that are only famous *because* they're Zionist shills, that kind of narcissism (see why that word is stupid? It has many interpretations because it has attempted to describe just about every evil behavior in existence) is what gets you famous in the first place. Very few famous people aren't "narcissistic," as the devil is the one who ultimately shoves these celebrities down our throats, whether it's a cute new multilingual K-idol talent they want the world to fall in love with, or alleged FBI director Dan Bongino. You get the idea, famous people are all narcissistic, that's how you *become* famous and get promoted on screens--any platform you can think of--in the first place.
The true battleground is spiritual, *not* purely psychological. Without the soul, we quite frankly will *never* pathologize things like sociopathy and psycopathy, we can only identify it, but they will continue to run rampant unless we realize those people belong to the devil.
It's when we understand the profound demonic influence on these people (because of their *own* evil desire: power, money control/influence, fame; gaslighting, torture, murder above the world's laws, etc.) that we can truly begin to see them as having disadvantageous traits. As of still, everything is *completely* inverted, and the world still *values* 'narcissism' - even if most people would claim otherwise. It is literally a 'trait' so valuable to the point of being sexually appealing to people, depending again on how you even define a narcissist. Still don't believe in sin, just think it's another construct of the mind? If you don't believe in sin - you're literally just part of the problem here.
"Zionism" has always been Satanism in disguise, so I don't even bother calling them zionists because they're occultists, literal devil worshippers, i.e. not the gothic kid you knew in highschool with pentagram earrings (if the kids I knew were doing ritualistic magic for personal gain, it didn't fair very well for them, but that's probably for the better). But those of you who consider yourselves truthers, or whatever, and do not acknowledge our spiritual reality--our true battleground--you have to understand that even if these "Zionists" didn't exist, we'd still have our Satanic world government system, for which the US is one of the main headquarters. But that's not even my point, because, guess who's really at the top of the ol' pyramid of evil power? Who again do they serve?
Stop concentrating so much on Zionists, "bloodlines," cults, banks, intermingled governments et al. The world can not be saved, whether those people exist or not, it's the common man's ignorance of their own sin that's the problem. A sociopath is a child of the devil, Heaven is not open to people who don't feel empathy, because that's a heart issue.
The evil you have mentioned would not exist without the ongoing support of billionaires and mega-millionaires and Capitalist corporations who own the government, the mass media and the fossil fuels industries and the military industrial complex.
That concentration of power, always going to all the liars/cheaters/stealers is inevitable because of evil/sin.
Liars, cheaters, sociopaths have the advantage of not being constrained by ethics or laws.
Many of them are “charming”.
100%, they are fake through-and-through, all they really know is personal gain.
Since I 100% believe in Hell, and do not take any manner of secular or moral-relativistic-worldview, sociopaths not being constrained by ethics is only a temporary advantage, I could easily argue; but I still get your point. Those traits are only desirable if you're okay with getting what's coming to you. Ultimately: no one gets away with anything.
I could do what they do, I could be crafty and creative, I could scam people, etc. Yet I can't bring myself to do things like that, it's a deal-breaker, not an acceptable way of life. Why? What's stopping me? What's stopping you? You have taken the potential victims into consideration instead of taking advantage of them, because ultimately, you know that if you did - it would have consequences. Those with a conscience are actually fearing God (“God-fearing”), even if they do not acknowledge Him. Congratulations: God likes you better than he does these sociopaths, they are on their own because that’s how they go about their lives, no need for a God as they worship themselves. But that doesn't work out long term, as Hell is a real thing, and guess what? Pretty much all sociopaths are going to Hell, as Heaven isn't a place for people who believe empathy is useless. Empathy is from Christ.
God Bless, you people have great minds put to good use, keep up the good work.
A well elaborated viewpoint, but I think you'd have to define some terms to sell it to folks: devil? who's that? Generic Lucifer of Judeo-Christianity, Satan of cult worship, a vampiric demon that wanders the firmament? etc etc.
"famous people are all narcissistic" Probably, but I'd go you one better. Societies based on greed as principal elevator promote narcissism, and given that human egos possess this tendency, its expression is enhanced or not by the societal milieu. Nothing in the realm of human behavior occurs in a vacuum.
Thanks, that was more of a late night [or haha, early morning] rant that I thought people would at least enjoy. I obviously can't sell anything to anyone; people can believe what they'd like to about the world, but if you do not find the Biblical view to be quite accurate, 'good luck' to you moving forward, that's my advice, and I don't believe in luck which is another conversation. The Bible is really the only book that can give us some idea of what spiritual warfare looks like. These "Dark Triad" personalities aren't down to biology; people give their conscience up at some point in their life and it doesn't come back, because they didn't want it to. Those people are evil on a spiritual level, not simply biological traits. A sociopath isn't who psychology wants us to believe they are, the secular view of most psychologists (if not all!) speaks volumes to what I'm getting at.
"Devil" is vague and could mean anyone, yeah, as even demons, and people or certain animals/beasts, are often called devils. Biblically, Lucifer really *is* Satan, and I would strongly recommend that you'd watch theologist Gavin Ortlund's excellent YouTube video about who exactly Satan is, a bit how he operates and even the possible extent of his power. And people who worship anything sinful, their excess of money (greed) you name it, are by proxy worshipping the entity that is Satan/Lucifer. Actually, money acknowledges its own evil, as well as the Freemasons who designed it, what with all the satanic masonry and witchcraft symbols on it that wouldn't otherwise be there.
Now, any occultist will deny the worship of Satan, Lucifer, etc. Most occultists don't actually *know* that they're ultimately worshipping Lucifer, but at the higher levels they are well aware, this is seen plainly in the music industry and such. It's quite similar to Freemasons, they are de facto Luciferians as Albert Pike revealed, but at lower level of Masonry it's [intended to be] difficult for members to discern this fact.
I'll give you credit for an apparently global understanding of this subject. Given that mine is not even close, I defer to yours and just say: I 'll consider what you say as extremely thought-provoking, but likely go my own way.
Thanks.
mike huckabee often refers to the bible. lots of evangelical zionists probably are absolutely convinced that what's playing out in gaza is spiritual warfare materialising. freemasonry mostly requires its members to believe in a supreme being. afaik, there's nothing more down that rabbit hole than the exclusive golf-club, bridge-club, church-choir, bible-study, ...
The "supreme being" is Lucifer. And Mike Huckabee is part of the Zionist perversion of Christianity, he's a Satanist, he doesn't actually follow Christ, so his understanding of spiritual warfare is intended to deceive people under the Righty religious movement which isn't--at all--true Christianity - one bit. He like Trump is owned by Israel, and so is the network which his show airs, TBN. Olsteen, T.D. Jakes, etc. I call it false prophet network. Fox, and Newsmax, or any other channel demons like Huckabee would make an appearance are likewise owned by satanists.
Vin,
“Greed” is a very tenuous concept. When does Survival become greed? One person’s ‘RedLine’ for a definition of greed is another’s survival threshold. If we as a society remove the conditions we are told to follow to survive, then greed becomes a fact. Otherwise, as Darwin said so well, it’s a survival of the Fittest jungle.
Greed is an obvious form of sin, it's really just selfisness but since you take the secular worldview, I would just tell you that excess is a decent way for you to look at greed. Do I really need a billion dollars? Or how about thirty milion, do I even *need* that much money... or should I be giving money away--constantly--to people in need, since I can totally afford to because I make more in an hour then they do in a year?
If a billionaire's money goes to a bunch of non-profit charities after he dies, does that make him at all generous if he's dead, no longer exists and therefore couldn't bring any of his wealth with him? Will he really deserve praise for that when he'd much rather live forever and continue to enrich himself without enriching others? That's a good example of greed: it's selfisness. Like anything, it's really only understood within the context of sin.
As for your example of an emergency survival context, ideally both parties wouldn't be greedy and they would help each other out, whether in need or out of conscious duty. It's impossible to understand greed when you take a Darwinian worldview, as you do not even believe in *sin* in the first place, and that's literally *what* greed is.
To Ted Turner, when describing the poverty he observed in childhood, 2 billion was not enough… was it greed or survival?
I just meant that survival at the expense of others, is definitely sin. If you're just talking about someone needing a ton of resources and money for their own survival, but not hurting others in any way, there's nothing wrong with that.
I place no monetary value on the preservation of any human being in need. Life and health should always be preserved. Obviously, government takes the polar opposite position: more for them, less for us, life for them death for us, etc. But they'll have Hell to pay, this life isn't the end of the story. You can't just hurt people and get away with it, and they're deceived if they do believe that.
You're really not going to preach social Darwinism to me, a biologist -- and get away with it. Stuff that, please, my friend. Darwinian theory, fabulously incomplete because of horizontal gene transfer is a BIOLOGICALLY applicable hypothesis, partially useful in parsing the mechanisms of organismal evolution. You bastardize it the moment you go trying to apply it elsewhere. And I disagree about greed. But welcome to your own opinion. But you're crapping all over what "Darwin said".
One other comment on your comment Vin… about Darwin’s incomplete theories..
In my view, every theory will always be “incomplete”.. that’s why they are named ‘Theories’ a quality that will always fit in any narrative about anything.
So you’re a ‘biologist’ and deny Darwin’s theory of evolution? Mmmmmm? Peraphs a refresher course on simplicity might help you have more faith in what Darwin proposed in his observations. P.H.D don’t impress me as much as they seem to weigh heavily on your concepts. All too often. P.H.D can lead to a Progressively Hallucinating Dysfunction.. which, if you can so easily deny Darwinism, you may be suffering from…
What I love about Darwin’s thinking is it’s simplicity , evidently not a quality in your professor like admonitions .
Perhaps you need to:
1. Learn how to fucking read for comprehension. I said the theory's incomplete -- as any knowledgeable biologist who understands the revelations of the past 30 yrs would also tell you. I don't like to cite Wikipedia, but in this instance it's convenient, and I'll paste in a key paragraph for your convenience after the link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer#:~:text=Horizontal%20gene%20transfer%20(HGT)%20or,shifting%20perspectives%20on%20bacterial%20evolution.
"Horizontal gene transfer is recognized as a pervasive evolutionary process that distributes genes between divergent prokaryotic lineages[17] and can also involve eukaryotes.[18][19] HGT events are thought to occur less frequently in eukaryotes (animals, plants, etc.) than in prokaryotes (bacteria, Blue-green algae). However, growing evidence indicates that HGT is relatively common among many eukaryotic species and can have an impact on adaptation to novel environments. Its study, however, is hindered by the complexity of eukaryotic genomes and the abundance of repeat-rich regions, which complicate the accurate identification and characterization of transferred genes.[20][21]
2. There are NO justifications. NONE,. for grabbing an incomplete theory to explain the emergence and persistence of new forms of life over time and suddenly applying it to sociology. Most responsible sociologists would tell you that.
You seem to have a deep need to be right. Too bad you have no supporting material from necessary sources.
Oh, and fuck you and your comments about PhDs; you have NO idea who and what I am.n What you are suffering from is insufferable malignant narcissism in your own right. You want to be right but have nothing to support you. Just go fuck yourself.
Very well said.
Caitlin, all I can say is that I am AWED at your ability to stay sane, to process all the 'unimaginable evil'. Any lesser person (like myself) would start hating humanity - like I currently do - because of the immorality, dis-interest, selfishness, greed,..... that I have witnessed since Oct 8th. There is NO movie, NO TV-Series, NOTHING that can compare to the reality of what we are all witnessing...
How are people not going mad? I suspect there will be a huge uptick in 'major mental-health crises' for the next several years (and maybe even decades).
It helps me (and I'm sure many others here) that you have created a space for people like us on Substack here so that we can vent, be emotional, be critical in analyzing structures of power and oppression (like Israel, the U.S. Empire, the system of Capitalism, and so much more).
Thank you Caitlin, much love, and stay safe and healthy! ❤️🙏
When one see how unrepresentative are the leaders of Germany, the UK, Canada and Australia, saddled with populations that have to wait years before they can exert pressure through elections in ridding those Western nations of such hypocritical leaders, one wonders how long it will take, if ever, for the people of the USA to generate the ability to muster enough guts to really rebel against the domination of the now comfortably ensconced Trumpanyahu Administration.
In a civilized world, how do Netanyahu and Trump ever get to represent the nations they govern, unless the population itself is uncivilized?
It is extraordinary, isn't it? Comfortable, reasonably well off people, so wrapped up in our own little worlds that we do nothing as profound evil happens. I suspect it's because we've all been trained to admire selfishness. That people who grab as much of anything they can get for themselves, no matter what that might mean for others, are now promoted as heroes, while people who want more for others are denigrated as sickos and deviants. Genuinely awful people have made 'goodness' something to sneer at. It is entirely remarkable that a capacity for empathy is considered one of the qualities that enabled human societies to flourish and yet, in the West at least, governments are doing their money-grubbing best to kick it to death.
Well said!
John,
I would say that they represent the nations they govern through the controlled media, after all this time now completely accepting as normal the need to conform to the dictates of the Western governments and their political philosophies.
Just look at the UK, Germany Canada and Australia. All never having stated in public, therefore in the media their disgust at the actions of Israel, still supporting Israel's genocidal policy against the wishes of the majority of citizens ( I am assuming) and making their thinking appear like the wishes of the majority, which they aren't. (My reference here is based on only one of the afore-mentioned countries but confident it applies to all four).
Without question, the USA is able to get away with murder, literally by the thousands. But please also remember that those other four Western governments are equally as guilty of disgraceful crimes based on their support for Israel. The worst being the UK and Germany.
Because the deep state puts them in power.
Agreed… but you don’t get to be a big fish unless you are first a small fish.. I.e., if there is a need for puppets to run things, maybe the things conditions that are required to run things start with all of us?
Germany is the definition of human hypocrisy and collective evil. Because of their "guilt" they are now at the forefront of shamelessly and openly assisting genocide of unarmed Palestinians. What a disgusting nation. Israel should be moved to Germany where it belongs.
Germany: always on the wrong side of history.
Institutionalized selective ignorance is part of the control mechanism of the ruling class.
But WE are the rulers, hence responsible for the ongoing impunity of the master class.
WE only rule when WE are united in a common cause. The master class encourages the myth of the rugged individual, the cowboy, the hero. The master class provides some tokens of appreciation, such as medals or ribbons, to the occasional individuals. Sometimes, such individuals are elevated to visible positions of esteem, but almost never into the hidden master class.
The impunity of the master class will end when enough of WE rise up to end it. A sustained general strike of most of the working class could do that simply by refusing to work for a month or two.
Imagine the impact of blocking the entire transportation system and all grocery and hardware stores.
The Amish and Mennonites are mostly self sufficient. Mormons ask their members to keep a stockpile of canned goods, dry beans, flour, etc., to sustain a shutdown of at least six months. Some survivalists have stockpiles to last more than a year.
My “stockpile” might last for a week. What about yours?
The system of elections has been rigged by the Constitution to favor the master class. The “Founders” restricted voting to approximately 3% of the population. Even today, the constituents may vote for representatives, but not for or against any legislation or judicial ruling.
WE can change that through solidarity.
Clean, what you are advocating is revolution. But humans have experienced an uncountable number of revolutions in the past, but to what avail?
We are moments away from annihilation, and perhaps only decades away from trying to live on a superheated planet, so revolutions have done nothing but bring us closer to our extinction.
My question is ,
: If we do indeed experience yet another revolution, what would make this revolution any different than others. ?
Mormon’s and Mennonite’s are indeed a different breed, and probably much can be learned from their experience.. religions however don’t impress me much, and if something in their way of thinking obliges religious tenets, I’m not a candidate…
The American, French. Russian and Chinese Revolutions have had some degree of success. Unfortunately, corrupt leaders tend to emerge to replace the ones who are overthrown.
Climate catastrophe may wipe out much of mankind, if nuclear catastrophe doesn’t happen, soon. Diplomacy has failed, to date. What other options are available?
CK,
“What other options are available? “ I suppose there are many types of revolution other than violent ones. Your question is rather exceptional since it is seldom if ever asked. For change to occur, a problem needs to be identified. The problem is to identify what needs to be changed.
If I may ask, why don’t we try to identify our problems with respect to addressing climate change issues and/ or nuclear catastrophe. For one, Helen Caldecott in the 80s organized marches in which demands to eliminate nuclear weapons were the target. One million marches marched in New York with that objective, all to no avail.
If we want to eliminate
Nuclear arsenals, don’t we need to identify WHzy they exist? I don’t wish to make this reply too long, but your question is most relevant.
"How are people not going mad?" Who's to say they haven't? Though a zombielike obedience is considered a normal and possibly even desirable condition.
I took a long airplane ride yesterday. Two of the three movies featured a plot to turn the entire population of Earth into obedient zombies. Coincidence or reflection of society?
Did you know zombies really exist, or at least did in 1980.
Love it!
Hey ya Chang,
I also went through my phase of hating humanity early this year when the Gaza Ceasefire was broken in March and the genocide restarted and I just went ballistic on one of my posts here on a Catlin article stating I was done commenting and fighting for humanity here when nothing is being done in the real world and most are complicit in furthering all this brutality
That's why I haven't been as active as I once was here on Substack as I still read a lot here but I comment sparingly as I've just figured out most of humanity is in a mental bondage that has been centuries in the making ( and turbocharged this last century through mass media propaganda and mental poisoning in various forms ) and it's going to take a very long ass time before humanity can heal itself from the mental bondage they are currently trapped in... If they ever do as they seem to revel in their current rotten state
Anyways, so seeing the big picture of knowing this current state we are in has been centuries or millennia in the making if we want to be factual about it as humans have always been fed nonsense mostly by the society and environment they grow up in and to detoxify from those centuries of conditioning will take a fucking long time if they are even capable of doing so at this point
The only thing that gives me hope is the advent of the internet and social platforms like Substack which is democratizing and decentralizing the flow of *information in a way humanity has never before seen and thus we can collectively wake up from our zombie slumber much after than would have been possible without the Internet coming into Being
So now we are in a race against time for humanity to wake up in sufficient numbers from these gift of the gods to help break free from our shackles before we hurtle into the point of no return in the Abyss we are currently swimming in. It's 50/50 to me whether we make it in time before we collectively make ourselves extinct through a tragic ( or not so tragic depending on your perspective ) global extermination event and cataclysm that we currently possess the weapons to enact in excess in the form of nuclear bombs
So all I'm doing now is sitting on the sidelines and observing the madness unfold from my little corner of the world 🌍 and being totally okay with both scenarios coming to fruition as I majorly loathe humanity still though I better understand them now, but if they end up blowing up this planet and all life then I would be happy in some ways cuz I have long made my peace with death and experienced numerous times on ways the average human cannot comprehend so the end of all life doesn't frighten me at all but would be a ticket to shedding this limiting mortal coil faster than I expected and would be happy for that in some ways
On the other hand, I still have things I wanna accomplish on this Earth before I leave this realm so I would also be happy if humanity gets their shit together on time and extend our collective time on this planet and hopefully with a Higher Consciousness that won't allow for the current fuckery we are witnessing ever happen again
Either ways, I'm good and I'm just observing this mad world make its own choice. I suggest you also prepare your mind for any of those possibilities happening as we cannot do anything by our individual selves to turn the tide and it's the decision of the collective humanity whether they will be Obliterated or choose to live in a more Conscious and humane manner
Let's hope they choose the latter
I hope you are real Caitlin. Do not trust anything or anyone nowadays. So many people with influence that I thought would speak up are silent. I just wonder what the younger generation think about all this.
I have been objecting to war for most of my life. I will be 80 next year. Not once have those in power ended a war because we, the people, object. They absolutely do not give a good god damn what people think or want. I don't know how we can make them stop, but I do think we have to keep trying. Just don't hope for fast change from the power mongers.
They will never stop. It is us who must stop. The ones who go fight for these madmen. They are the ones we ought to direct our ire on. What the heck do they think they are doing? They are making themselves nothing but fodder. We have known this for decades yet the people still go, still go and bomb other people because they are ordered to by lunatics.
And the ones who go to work in the morning every day making bombs and missiles. Put your tools down. Go home.
Yes. WE need to call them to come home. Disregard orders, just get in their planes and come home. They are needed here. We will support their breaking orders. But we need to also talk about what we will do when they do come home. It's fine to get into gardening or one's hobby, but we need to have strategies to take our energy out of this system.
Nice try.. but the reality is that if people don’t work for the man, they will be homeless, and that condition is international.
Nice thoughts, but if the worker doesn’t go to work,, there won’t be a home to go back to.
The original error is in considering weapons production a legitimate part of productivity. It is not. It is destructive and wasteful of resources. Public money is channeled into paying these people to make destructive products, better to just give them the money directly and bypass the supposed productivity.
Good point. My point however was that if we don’t serve our masters, ( a job) we will not have a home to return to. That, in essence, is where the end of wars may occur, as in when everyone, including those with which we disagree, are entitled to life’s basic needs. Isn’t that what happens in nature, a survival of the fittest arena?
"Survival of the fittest" is misapplied; in Nature, it is survival of the opportunist, those most willing or able to adapt. That means in the moment, every day, while you are perhaps referring to long-term evolutionary outcomes. Humans have survived through collective actions, rather than individualistic norms, which are a recent, post-Enlightenment ideology.
It's important to note that many if not most people who go into the military in the US these days do it out of economic necessity--the government makes sure there are plenty of impoverished people to ensure they get the bodies they need. They also recruit heavily among poor people of color who are often desperate for a way out of their precarity.
Agreed, and I think the strategy works only because virtually everyone else in society feeds the false image of the soldier as a noble, heroic pursuit. The image is more of a draw than the money, by far. Everyone is helping draw in the naive, well-intentioned young men, to be turned into murderers for psychopaths, by perpetuating the profoundly-destructive lie that it's honorable to serve as a soldier for psychopaths, or as a soldier for anyone who expects soldiers to kill anyone they're told to kill. Today's soldiers are recruited to be cold-blooded murderers who kill anyone they're told to kill, and there's absolutely nothing honorable about it. If young men understood that, the recruitment tactics would fail completely, and the mentally-ill political and banking class members would be faced with fighting their own battles.
"I gave them a good boy and they sent me back a murderer." -- A mother as quoted by Chris Hedges. That's the saddest thing I've ever read.
Yes, like the lyrics in the song’Little play soldiers’ says so well, “We love them then send them to die’
Agree, except I'm not sure the that the honor necessarily outweighs the economic benefits. I think they're both important.
Well, I see one group of people in the US who are honest about what the professional military is, their kids understand it, and their young men joining the military is virtually zero: the Amish. They like money same as everyone else, and understand that no amount of it could entice one to become a paid murderer. I think there would be a similar result with most other people, if they could muster the same level of honesty.
Fine, but that's a tiny sliver of the population with a highly distinct, very self-sufficient culture. Poor people around the country do not live in such communities. This country has been highly propagandized to see the military as something positive, and with the economic benefits that can be hard to resist. Provide better economic opportunities and fewer young poor people will choose the military.
But we are like lemmings - I don't even see anyone saying "let's do something, who wants to be in it?" Nobody is seeking anything different. Even though many are impoverished, there's no looking for alternatives. And they are so simple, it's just that almost everyone doesn't want to do anything different. They don't experiment, don't try new things, just keep being fodder for corpulent devourers.
How do you know "nobody is seeking anything different" and "there's no looking for alternatives"? I wish no one went into the military either, but I am aware of the desperation of many out there who feel they have no other way to survive. And, in addition, in many if not most communities across the country the military is (unfortunately) highly respected, so there's the draw of gaining that respect too, which for a poor person of color is no small thing. What is really needed, for this and other reasons, are far, far better economic alternatives for poor folk.
I'm just being pragmatic. If we want better economic alternatives for poor folk, then we are in a better position to start something ourselves. How do I know nobody is seeking anything different? Because I am alive and I am always looking for people who are seeking something different. But it's funny how nobody wants to actually "do" anything different. Or even ask what can be done. Where do you see people who are seeking something different?
If no one was seeking anything different then everyone would be going into the military, which is obviously not true. Only a tiny percentage of young people end up in the military. I don't have a magic answer about how to get no one to go into the military anymore, but improving career prospects for young people would help significantly.
Here's a group, Palestine Action, taking direct action to stop the war machine, but time may be short on this excellent documentary about them, which is about to be banned in the UK, and from there, most likely the film, because the UK government is working to designate them as a terrorist organisation. Anyone supporting a designated "terrorist" organization is subject to 14 year imprisonment. You can watch the film online legally today, but come this first week of July, or soon after, based on the actions of the UK Parliament, who knows. These are y/our freedoms on the line.
https://tokillawarmachine.com
Your comments say a lot.. as WE are responsible for the atrocities that are being committed. We are They.
Important: on Mint Press News. Lowkey interviews Greg Stoker.
Predominantly about why people join the Army. 7 stars.
Americans going to Israel to kill Palestinians are not ordered to, they do so by personal choice; proving that it takes a certain type of evil to join a genocidal entity whose only mantra is to kill.
No, we should not direct our ire at those who have drunk the koolaid and go to fight. They are mostly young people who have been hoodwinked by parents, media, friends etc. "We" may know that they are fodder, but many of those poor kids actually think they are supporting their country. Yes, it would be great if nobody went to fight in the disgusting wars that the elite decide to start. But we cannot blame young people who have not yet accepted that they are being lied to. The young people today do seem more aware than we were during Vietnam. Lets hope they won't go. But don't blame them. They get nothing from being obedient. They are just fodder, but they won't realize that until later.
According to Greg Stoker (interviewed by Lowkey on Mint Press) a large amount of people joining the military have usually been abused in some way.
I urge everyone to look.
Denise, your spirit is uplifting, but the reality is that we still abide by the rules which make jungles the real images of the way we think.. first recognize the environments, and if we don’t like them change them.. so far, people seem to like life in the jungles..
I've always wondered what would happen if our 'leaders' declared a war and nobody went.
Let's keep working on that coming about. They started a war and nobody came. I know I've heard that phrase somewhere before. (For US service personnel to become a conscientious objector, visit quakerhouse.org for details.)
On bumperstickers during Vietnam. Such a great, simple idea.Of course, then they'd bring back the draft faster than you can Jack Robinson, as my grandmother used to say. Who was he? Jackie R. came later.
Bringing back the draft would be something that puts a whole lot more of Americans' skin in the game. Might gain even more support for putting an end to war.
I've read that Robinson denoted a child conceived during a ritualistic pagan orgy. It could be so.
Ha That's just silly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Robinson_(mythical_person)
Only in fairy tales.
Sadly, yes. I suspect deep down in the male psyche, men actually enjoy war... until they get butchered anyway.
You mean the patriarchal death cult that rules us, actually enjoys war? Incredible!
I'm not talking about the hierarchy. I'm talking about the poor fools that blindly march to their deaths.
No you must hold it in your imagination. Because what we imagine comes to be. Everything that is comes from imagination.
They certainly apply it in Hollywood. Make good money too.
More than make money, they can totally control the people's minds and actions.
The only way is for a refusal to do their bidding.
Thanks for that piece of clarity about where we are at. And yes, I agree that we probably will never win our aim of stopping the forever wars. But we must not lose heart, as without our constant resistance the situation of humanity would be so much worse.
Susan, when we continue to see people everywhere on the planet who are homeless because of the rules of humanity, wars will never end.
It's people like you, Caitlin, that would have punished those poor German Nazis at the end of WW2, rather than sending them to live in Canada and have state-subsidised counselling for the fact that the Russians defeated them.
Have you no empathy and shame?
Next you'll be demanding the Western leaders who have abused, invaded and genocided the Global south for generations, incl B'Liar and President Chimpie, also face justice before the law! FFS!.
It's almost like you don't believe the Western oligarchies are Exceptional! :'(
/sarc, if plain it was not.
“War Never Changes"
The fields are green where poppies grow,
Yet blood still seeps in rows below.
The drums still beat, the banners fly,
And mothers’ sons still go to die.
The speeches roar with righteous fire,
The young march forth, their hearts aspire—
But mud and smoke and screams remain,
The same old tale, the same old pain.
The generals plot on maps so wide,
While soldiers bleed in crimson tide.
The names, the guns, the faces turn,
Yet history’s flames still rage and burn.
From spear to sword, from bomb to drone,
The cries echo in blood and bone.
The world may shift, the years rearrange,
But war—oh war—it never changes.
May you reap what you have sown!
👏👏 Cui Bono, if you haven't already, you should consider publishing your poetry work. I for one love your expressiveness and the rhyming of the lines.
On Small Farm Australia platform, I wrote a reply to someone wanting to ban life export of sheep and cattle. The Australian government is setting a date to terminate the life cattle trade over its reported cruelty. Yet the Australian government does nothing concrete or lasting such as sanctions against Israeli for crime against humanity. A Palestine live is worth less that of an old sheep that has lost all its teeth, a bull which would not be eaten here but turned into dog food. How much has Australia lost is moral compass, on the surface it is really incomprehensible to believe. However, once you understand that if you apply as much corrupted media as you can, you are able to control the narrative. Australian live animal exporters are cruel, where as, Israeli killing innocent unarmed people is just self defense.
It’s the same across the ditch. The two faced, hypocritical media shamelessly (and embarrassingly) consider themselves at the vanguard of social progressiveness. Especially our state broadcaster, RNZ. The holocaust in Gaza has exposed the hollowness of western society, faarkin pathetic. Criticising politicians for meaningless shit, and holding hands to defend Israel and the fuckin IDF. Death to the IDF.
Money based on debt is what rots the human mind. It's at the basis of everything.
Money.
It is not real.
North Korea has very little indebtedness.
Trying to prevent the suffering of all living beings is what it means to be truly civilized.
I have long maintained that the people of Gaza need to get a puppy.
People would be up in arms at the cruel killing of a puppy. The RSPCA would probably be more effective than our government.
Whose patience isn't wearing thin at all this made up BS, and the hurt feelings of people who support genocide. I'm sick of it too. And we're all going to have to keep pushing hard to stop endless wars. I hope now that we've seen the extremes on our devices to which they'll go, it will turn the whole world upside down, and we'll take a different path.
Anyone who kills women, children, journalists, doctors, nurses, innocent fathers and husband's, is evil. No ifs, ands or buts, EVIL.
I wanted Israel to succeed but not at the expense of another tribe. As a teenager I read Leon Uris and bought into the birth of a nation. I have no issue with Jews, but Zionists are genocidal maniacs. Killing children puts you at the bottom of the human scale.
If Israel burns I will not give a fuck. You made your bed. Ba bye.
Their day is coming Caitlin and they will be reaping what they have sewn soon enough. The only thing is though is that it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets any better.
Unfortunately, they won't reap anything except wealth and retirement.
I agree with you. They will reap all the assets that everyone has worked to achieve. They will take it all, they can't stop themselves. We have to stop it but how? Does anyone want to sit and discuss how we can do it?
I believe it’s a case of getting all those poorly treated veterans out there telling their stories of abuse and the absolute destruction of their lives from being part of the war machine to make the soldiers of the world say no. I will not partake in this destruction of humanity because that is what war always is.
That would be a good way yes. Maybe veterans could make videos about it and we spread them around.
Oh, I may have an idea or three...
https://kithefree.medium.com/transparency-one-46ee18ea6423
Interesting. I left my own idea as a comment there.
Incorrect. Obviously you have no grasp on history. Every empire falls and usually falls pretty hard. The trumplestein admin is much like that of Benito Mussolini and we all know what happened to him. Not that it's really about trump because he is merely playing his part. Although as opposed to soft fascism we now have a relatively hard fascism.
Not really, they just morph into a new empire. We could make empire past tense now by decentralizing EVERYTHING.
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Yes! I agree with you! Absolutely!
I remember the relief and joy with which the end of South African apartheid was celebrated, but it will be nothing compared to the relief and joy with which the world will celebrate the end of Satanic Israel.
Pampered to the point of obscenity, awash in money by the US of Americash, always unconditionally defended by the powerful, and also "chosen by God." What good and sensible thing could one expect from this monstrous creature?
You mentioned schizophrenics. Thank you, finally someone not ignoring the mentally ill. My father, schizophrenic, suicide, and murdered by the USA regime. There’s the enemy, there’s the blame if you want any.
Our side doesn’t want to be martyrs, but we are ready and proud of it. It’s means we’re not succumbing to this genocidal regime.
Regarding your argument, I agree. Waste no time. Another Zionist liar speaks, shut him down immediately: “Shut the fuck up! Next liar…”
Don’t be a wimp, like libertarian Dave Smith. When an English, lying, Zionist cocksucker is rambling—Murray—shut him down immediately. Stop pussyfooting around.
Thanks for your article. I’ve read several, never commented before. Carry on.
Schizophrenia is the result of human behaviour that is ‘sold’ as a normal part of our existence. It is a natural reaction to utter evil ‘sold’ to us as necessary by warmongering control freaks that only care for their own pocket and position. Genocidal maniacs cause schizophrenia.
I think you’re right. Whatever schizophrenia truly is, my father’s was triggered during boot camp for Vietnam. If you don’t want to kill Vietnamese civilians, but you are being forced to do so, something will give. They rushed him out of the service as quickly as possible and left him to die.
I don’t know neuroscience, but complex personality traits are both genes AND environment. Genocide is an environment in which good people will rebel, whether they want to or not.
Grass roots activism is all that really works for change. From the bottom up as you say. Here in Australia, we need to be working a whole lot harder to get our leaders to do the right thing. Sanction Israel. Expel the embassy. Call ours home. Send any Israeli visitors back to base and stop any Australians from fighting with the IDF - or they can't return. Because at them moment there is a steady stream of soldiers on and off duty between Israel and Oz. NOT GOOD AT ALL.
That is awful.
We need to get to the point where any young person drawn to soldiering is utterly disgusted by the idea of war.
Remember, every Israeli citizen, or person with an Israeli passport is expected to do the IDF TRAINING FOR 2 to 3 years. Males and females. The entire nation is trained in military and combat procedures. That in itself creates a mindset of nationalistic superiority. They are so important but yet such targets, such victims in their minds. What they are is entitled and racist. They operate like a cult.
One way that would really hit Israel hard is if people did this together, stopped paying interest on their bank loans.
I'd like to see everyone withhold their fed taxes.
Here are some resources for that:
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
https://nwtrcc.org/resist/war-tax-resistance/
War Resisters League
https://www.warresisters.org/how-resist-war-taxes/
Maybe not quite the same thing, but here is an organization that seeks to target U.S. institutions that are entangled in Israel’s debt structure.
While recent credit rating downgrades make Israeli debt a more risky investment than ever, state and municipal U.S. treasuries and other institutional investors continue to buy into Israel’s debt through the purchase of bonds.
ACRE has created a report that provides an overview of Israel’s debt structure, its process of raising funds, and some of the key players involved.
https://acrecampaigns.org/research_post/downgraded-by-war/?link_id=3&can_id=a707410023f29d0530df1e255f3edf18&source=email-heres-how-you-loan-money-to-israel&email_referrer=email_2743258&email_subject=heres-how-you-loan-money-to-israel
Hell! AIPAC American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the post Cold War deep states in ameriKKKa and Britain are writing the script via the CIA AND Mossad as usual!
It is Critical to remember how we got to this point: 1860-1904 Theodor Herzl, The 1896 Basel Program, The 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement, the 1917 The Balfour Declaration, 1939 White Paper, the 1948 Redline Agreement, the deep state’s 1947 Truman doctrine, the 1948 Marshall Plan, the 1996 ‘clean break; strategy for securing the realm’ policy, the 1997 PNAC project for a new american century ‘rebuilding america's defenses’, the 2000 Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy, the 2001 ‘full spectrum domination doctrine’ the '2001 Proclamation 7463', the 2003 Rumsfield's 'a different kind of war, the 2009 "which path to persia" policy documents. The 1983 MILNET (fully Military Network), the 2002 NORTHCOM command (continuity of Government group) and the new GOLDEN DOME projects!!
(Insert cognitive dissonance now!)
"Harvest of Iron"
They sow the wind with razor wire,
reap the thunder now.
Every missile a grinning tooth,
every border a burning vow.
The watchtowers hum their lullabies
to children who know dust too well—
*not peace, not peace* the sirens cry,
as Gaza's ashes tell.
Oh, clever victors, count your dead,
stack them neat like market bread.
But blood has long, unblinking eyes—
it watches from the empty skies.
The land grows heavy with its ghosts,
the olive roots twist deep with rage.
No wall stands tall enough at last
to hold back time's accounting page.
"The Fifth Cup"
You thought the prophets spoke in metaphor—
*"your children's teeth set on edge"*—
until the phosphorous blooms
made Eden of their beds.
Now the wailing wall weeps nails,
the *shofar* screams where tanks roll through,
and Moses' curse grows fat and sleek
on meat they never knew.
*An eye? A tooth? The math was crude—*
so history keeps the ledger now:
every *never again*
birthed a *somehow, somehow.*
I hope you publish (or record) these somewhere other than here.
I may put them in a book collection. For now it’s a was to let off steam!
All of those are true, but it leaves off the close to four hundred, plus, years of Christian Zionism that helped sow the seeds, and allowed these ideas to flourish, until we are at this point today. An excellent resource is "A Short History of Christian Zionism," by Donald Lewis.
Zionism was created in 1896…
That is true of the political Zionism, but the history behind it, that is why there was such a readiness for British Ministers to endorse political Zionism, as it was in the fulfilment of their own ends. And also helps explain, the long history, including the Puritans, of why there are so many Christian Zionists around. This movement, with changes, originates in 16th Century England. Even Wikipedia does a good job on this, or did last time I looked, but it is treated separately from political Zionism, as if there was no connection.