And the only people who believe it are those who have been up to their nostrils in BS from the time they could read, hear or watch. Unfortunately that is a huge number in the US.
I actually think it isn’t pure, unadulterated, 100% Columbian bullshit.
I was watching Glenn Greenwald and he stated that from Obama’s time in the WH, the DP has been trying to get Bibi out of power, by expressing to Israel that their Uncle Sam isn’t happy with their government. One of Obama’s last attempts to kneecap Netanyahu happened in the UN. There was a resolution in the UN to declare Israel a criminal state, which has always been a motion that America would reflexively veto. Obama opted to abstain.
So while Netanyahu keeps on murdering innocents, he knows that however badly his crimes reflect on the U.S., that the weapons pipeline is never going to be turned off. So I believe that reports of civil unrest in Israel are probably a consequence of high disapproval of Netanyahu, and however authentic the protests are, they are being amplified by U.S. operatives.
So reports of the Biden WH trying to petition Netanyahu to pull the plug on the genocide are probably accurate, but the absence of any leverage explains the failure to be successful. So nothing effectively changes.
I haven’t seen any video of protesters in Israel, but if you have, please drop a link. I have read and heard that Israel has increasing civil unrest, but no pix. I’m pretty confident that the DP will try to foment unending unrest that will force the Likud to go overboard, thus weakening it. And if that proves insufficient, a black ops assassination in concert with some Mossad operatives wouldn’t surprise me.
If you read my original comment, you know that I was addressing specifically the work-around to have a cease-fire. Biden is a Zionist, so of course he won’t deviate from the American commitment to always shower Israel with weapons, money and kind words.
At this moment in time. USA trying for another Coup in Venezuela meanwhile supporting the BUTCHER Netty. Meanwhile assassination in Iran and Lebanon courtesy of the USA/Israel.
Meanwhile we are all supposed to believe 'the man who isn't there' is being tough.
As we speak the US is sending war ships/more military aid to this country, which has the most awful son of the dictator Marcos.
I hope China is able to deal with this threat from the USA
When the USA is losing (I learned this from the Americans while I was living there) a baseball game is not dissimilar to the Roman amphitheatre...............win. win.win.
Is there a possibility that PEACE is a winning game?
JennyStokes Yes, the empire is trying another coup in Venezuela. There is an excellent article on Counterpunch about the latest machinations of empire - details below:
The U.S. policy toward Israel is one of appeasement. And we know from history this may lead to a disastrous world war. The spark may be Iran. While the U.S. may think it has such military superiority at this time that no other nation will confront it head on, I think this is a major error in judgment. The bullshit of pretending to be hard on BIbi is nothing more than pre election strategy. When will the U.S. stop sending weapons and bombs? When will we ever learn??
Probably when quite a few American body bags start coming home, just to protect Israel. Israel, a state that allows its guards to rape and torture thousands of its prisoners- and a state that has slaughtered 20,000 children deliberately, while calling it "Defense". That, or when a nuclear exchange obliterates most major American cities, because there is no way to protect the US from a full out nuclear exchange. By then, of course, it will be way too late (to learn).
"Probably when quite a few American body bags start coming home, just to protect Israel. Israel, a state that allows its guards to rape and torture thousands of its prisoners- and a state that has slaughtered 20,000 children deliberately, while calling it "Defense"."
The public knows, and will know, very little of that while the Circus side of B & C remains the prime objective of "the news". We know this already, because (1) in the early years of the Iraq war, body bag arrivals were very successfully censored; and (2) for the same reasons, the vast majority of the public, "left" and "right", *still* doesn't understand Israel's true nature.
"That, or when a nuclear exchange obliterates most major American cities"
Don't you worry! That'll successfully be blamed on MAGA, via the imbecile puppet dictator-in-chief-du-jour. Who it is that will have concocted the explanations and policies, no one will know.
Once the smoke of war clears and we're back down to about 500 million worldwide, along with its ironic but stunning achievement of the highest per capita income and wealth in world history, AI will assist the world's largest bulldozing/rebuilding project. It'll be named after an Israeli, in humble and grateful recognition of their award-winning most-moral status.
So, nah -- we should worry when we here get the (quite literal) ax, far sooner than the events above. Of course, the nature of the ax will be *very* creative, and, but only if messy, spawn 15 minutes of "conspiracy theories".
It does make one wonder what any of this (life) is about? Just a random bullshit accident of creation? i.e. The only meaning we should seek is that of a replicating virus, meant to reproduce and nothing more? Something inside me rebels against that doctrine of materialistic faith. But who knows? We'll all be dead eventually. And life, one way or another, will go on without us. So what was it all about anyway?
I believe the only reason we worry about meaning is that our brains grew too big for their britches. It's looking quite likely that evolution will punish us for it.
It sure is more difficult to define meaning than to have someone make it all up for us. But I don't see at all why that's morally worse. Especially if that "someone" turns out to be something other than god(s).
Mythology has been with man since classical times. It arises spontaneously as do symbols arise within man's consciousness. Consciousness itself, is one of the most tremendous facts of our reality, and has the peculiar nature of not being reducible to anything else.
The current dominating myth of our milieu is that of reductive materialism. It is just as devoutly a matter of "faith" as has been any other religion throughout human history. The reductive materialists claim theirs is the one true "religion" - true myth, that all other "religions" are "made up" and are dangerous and must be eliminated.
It's the same story, just with different clothes and different players. What remains however is consciousness itself, from which all meaning arises, from which nature itself is able to reflect upon itself. Consciousness is also a part of Nature, and it is what all myths spontaneously emerge from. Consciousness also has, many features physicists have already observed in reality - such as complexity, non-locality and self-organization.
i wouldn't call us actual policy (sending over a new carrier strike group) toward israel 'appeasement', it's more like 'incitement'. the propaganda in the above analyses is indeed appeasement of the us public.
"When will the U.S. stop sending weapons and bombs? "
It might be soon since America emptied its weapons cupboard to send to Ukraine and now Israel. I think it was Ritter who said we’d be out of weapons in a week if a full scale war happened. And how many did we use against Yemen?
The president of the United States of Genocide pretends that he’s really not happy about the genocide that he’s enabling. Fuck you, Genocide Joe. Go and burn in hell forever.
If I was in their shoes, and it was possible, I would ask Pakistan very VERY nicely for one of their nukes, and do exactly what Israel tried to do to Iran last time (Russia shot the missile down after a warning about it from the US, allegedly) - airburst the nuke over Israeli airspace as a warning.
Needless to say, this is in the realm of fantasy on a number of levels. But as this is the second to last possible escalatory step, it would be a wake-up call to the lunatics in Israel and Washington that THIS IS VERY SERIOUS, AND THEY TOO WILL PAY A PRICE.
The only escalation left for Israel will be full Samson Option.
If the warning was ignored to that level, then they were always going to launch SO anyway.
The ball would be in the Israeli military's hands, to do something about this noxious regime, or to let themselves and their families be inevitably vapourised for religous lunacy.
As if the current military dictatorship wasn’t installed by the US, therefore completely subservient to US interests, just as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc., are. Additionally, there’s been some rapprochement between Sunni and Shia but probably not enough to allow such a transfer, even if the logistics could be overcome.
When Netanyahu, just a few days ago, gave his warmongering speech in congress, there were just as many republicans as democrats sucking off Netanyahu's dick, with something like 50+ non-stop adulating applauses.
The US has been looking for a reason to attack Iran for a long time. Most likely Biden is cheering Netanyahu along when nobody can hear him. No holdup on the bombs and weapons either.
Unfortunately most of the US population are forgetful when it comes to what their politicians do. That's why their mainstream media is so influential. They can say any controversial thing and people will just forget a week later
This is my motto from now on. I will never let the US government forget what they've done to the Palestinian people and others. We have a Congress of war criminals and psychopaths for presidents. They all should be sent to the ICC at the Hague and locked up for life.
Make them own it. Don't let them forget what they've done.
>>"They all should be sent to the ICC at the Hague and locked up for life"
Revolution Continues, you seem to be a kind and peace-loving individual. For what the Israelis and Zionists have done to the Palestinians and for what they have unleashed onto this world, they deserve a fate that is a hundred times worse than what you suggest. I would say that the same could apply to US Empire Managers, oligarchs, and their ilk.
I'm also good with guillotines and dumping their bodies into the bottom of the ocean, but I worry about their toxic natures poisoning the water. Most folks are good with life imprisonment and that might just be the most torturous thing we could do to these sociopaths. Death would be a release from their "cage" and why should they ever be released from it? They caged the Gazans--they should experience it themselves. Forever.
I can understand the feelings. I’ve had them myself. But I’ve come to see that there is no salvation through retribution. Our species can’t keep walking this path and survive. As difficult as it is, we, who want to see a future with us in it, have to figure out a way to put that behind us, permanently.
If the USA and Israel go after Iran in any significant way it seems inevitable that Russia, and possibly China, will come to Iran’s aid. World War III and likely the Samson Option. Meanwhile, as part of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) craziness, the USA will try to start a war in South America over Venezuela to show the world it can fight two wars at once.
I can imagine him saying to his son, "Damn it Hunter., this is absolutely the last time I bail you out of your reckless bullshit. If you don't start making better choices I am cutting you out."
He may even believe it when he says it. But actions are far more persuasive than words.
And the only people who believe it are those who have been up to their nostrils in BS from the time they could read, hear or watch. Unfortunately that is a huge number in the US.
" You realize that America’s most profitable business is still the manufacture, distribution, packaging and marketing of bullshit.”
-- George Carlin
He could have added the force feeding of it too. Love Carlin.
I actually think it isn’t pure, unadulterated, 100% Columbian bullshit.
I was watching Glenn Greenwald and he stated that from Obama’s time in the WH, the DP has been trying to get Bibi out of power, by expressing to Israel that their Uncle Sam isn’t happy with their government. One of Obama’s last attempts to kneecap Netanyahu happened in the UN. There was a resolution in the UN to declare Israel a criminal state, which has always been a motion that America would reflexively veto. Obama opted to abstain.
So while Netanyahu keeps on murdering innocents, he knows that however badly his crimes reflect on the U.S., that the weapons pipeline is never going to be turned off. So I believe that reports of civil unrest in Israel are probably a consequence of high disapproval of Netanyahu, and however authentic the protests are, they are being amplified by U.S. operatives.
So reports of the Biden WH trying to petition Netanyahu to pull the plug on the genocide are probably accurate, but the absence of any leverage explains the failure to be successful. So nothing effectively changes.
OH my. Unwarranted.
I watched this too..........."amplified by US Protesters."
Netanyahu took time out of his speech to CASTIGATE/DEMONIZE the protests.
This is a man who knows that he IS the USA.
I haven’t seen any video of protesters in Israel, but if you have, please drop a link. I have read and heard that Israel has increasing civil unrest, but no pix. I’m pretty confident that the DP will try to foment unending unrest that will force the Likud to go overboard, thus weakening it. And if that proves insufficient, a black ops assassination in concert with some Mossad operatives wouldn’t surprise me.
I am talking about Net. castigating the American people for protesting his arrival at Congress.
No leverage to control the optics, no leverage to put the genocide in the past, and no leverage to change the subject.
If you read my original comment, you know that I was addressing specifically the work-around to have a cease-fire. Biden is a Zionist, so of course he won’t deviate from the American commitment to always shower Israel with weapons, money and kind words.
As in “we’re number one, we’re number one!” But in the gap between self-perception and reality.
I fear you are right, and that will lead to our downfall, you can't succumb to the BS unless you're somewhat delusional and truth avoidant.
At this moment in time. USA trying for another Coup in Venezuela meanwhile supporting the BUTCHER Netty. Meanwhile assassination in Iran and Lebanon courtesy of the USA/Israel.
Meanwhile we are all supposed to believe 'the man who isn't there' is being tough.
It's like a comedy if it wasn't so serious.
I forgot to mention the Philippine Islands here.
As we speak the US is sending war ships/more military aid to this country, which has the most awful son of the dictator Marcos.
I hope China is able to deal with this threat from the USA
When the USA is losing (I learned this from the Americans while I was living there) a baseball game is not dissimilar to the Roman amphitheatre...............win. win.win.
Is there a possibility that PEACE is a winning game?
That's what Putin wants you to think.
Not funny in decades.
JennyStokes Yes, the empire is trying another coup in Venezuela. There is an excellent article on Counterpunch about the latest machinations of empire - details below:
AUGUST 2, 2024 Counterpunch
Venezuela: An Attempted Coup By Any Other Name
BY MARIA PAEZ VICTOR
Do not worry, Iran will set up the pace for Israhell !!!!! Just be patient, and it include USSA !!!!
Stupid comment what does this mean?
The U.S. policy toward Israel is one of appeasement. And we know from history this may lead to a disastrous world war. The spark may be Iran. While the U.S. may think it has such military superiority at this time that no other nation will confront it head on, I think this is a major error in judgment. The bullshit of pretending to be hard on BIbi is nothing more than pre election strategy. When will the U.S. stop sending weapons and bombs? When will we ever learn??
Probably when quite a few American body bags start coming home, just to protect Israel. Israel, a state that allows its guards to rape and torture thousands of its prisoners- and a state that has slaughtered 20,000 children deliberately, while calling it "Defense". That, or when a nuclear exchange obliterates most major American cities, because there is no way to protect the US from a full out nuclear exchange. By then, of course, it will be way too late (to learn).
"Probably when quite a few American body bags start coming home, just to protect Israel. Israel, a state that allows its guards to rape and torture thousands of its prisoners- and a state that has slaughtered 20,000 children deliberately, while calling it "Defense"."
The public knows, and will know, very little of that while the Circus side of B & C remains the prime objective of "the news". We know this already, because (1) in the early years of the Iraq war, body bag arrivals were very successfully censored; and (2) for the same reasons, the vast majority of the public, "left" and "right", *still* doesn't understand Israel's true nature.
"That, or when a nuclear exchange obliterates most major American cities"
Don't you worry! That'll successfully be blamed on MAGA, via the imbecile puppet dictator-in-chief-du-jour. Who it is that will have concocted the explanations and policies, no one will know.
Once the smoke of war clears and we're back down to about 500 million worldwide, along with its ironic but stunning achievement of the highest per capita income and wealth in world history, AI will assist the world's largest bulldozing/rebuilding project. It'll be named after an Israeli, in humble and grateful recognition of their award-winning most-moral status.
So, nah -- we should worry when we here get the (quite literal) ax, far sooner than the events above. Of course, the nature of the ax will be *very* creative, and, but only if messy, spawn 15 minutes of "conspiracy theories".
It does make one wonder what any of this (life) is about? Just a random bullshit accident of creation? i.e. The only meaning we should seek is that of a replicating virus, meant to reproduce and nothing more? Something inside me rebels against that doctrine of materialistic faith. But who knows? We'll all be dead eventually. And life, one way or another, will go on without us. So what was it all about anyway?
I believe the only reason we worry about meaning is that our brains grew too big for their britches. It's looking quite likely that evolution will punish us for it.
So basically, it's all nonsense. We just make up the meaning.
It sure is more difficult to define meaning than to have someone make it all up for us. But I don't see at all why that's morally worse. Especially if that "someone" turns out to be something other than god(s).
That is why man made up religion so we can have meaning in life. At the same time, it is religion that divides us and destroys us.
Mythology has been with man since classical times. It arises spontaneously as do symbols arise within man's consciousness. Consciousness itself, is one of the most tremendous facts of our reality, and has the peculiar nature of not being reducible to anything else.
The current dominating myth of our milieu is that of reductive materialism. It is just as devoutly a matter of "faith" as has been any other religion throughout human history. The reductive materialists claim theirs is the one true "religion" - true myth, that all other "religions" are "made up" and are dangerous and must be eliminated.
It's the same story, just with different clothes and different players. What remains however is consciousness itself, from which all meaning arises, from which nature itself is able to reflect upon itself. Consciousness is also a part of Nature, and it is what all myths spontaneously emerge from. Consciousness also has, many features physicists have already observed in reality - such as complexity, non-locality and self-organization.
i wouldn't call us actual policy (sending over a new carrier strike group) toward israel 'appeasement', it's more like 'incitement'. the propaganda in the above analyses is indeed appeasement of the us public.
Heh….
"When will the U.S. stop sending weapons and bombs? "
It might be soon since America emptied its weapons cupboard to send to Ukraine and now Israel. I think it was Ritter who said we’d be out of weapons in a week if a full scale war happened. And how many did we use against Yemen?
I am more fearful of Israel then l am about all those so-called Arab terrorists.
Those so-called Arab terrorists were created by Israel because of their illegal occupation and aggression!
The president of the United States of Genocide pretends that he’s really not happy about the genocide that he’s enabling. Fuck you, Genocide Joe. Go and burn in hell forever.
With respect to your comment, and at the risk of repeating what I posted earlier:
Here’s a petition to excommunicate Joe Biden: https://www.change.org/p/excommunicate-president-joe-biden-bf979783-ac08-4576-a53f-c786ea23dc9c
The Judge Nap roundtable just concluded that the US had foreknowledge of the assassinations.
https://youtu.be/0VmJ4rIGYhY?t=793
Of course the U.S. did, and most likely participated. What will Iran do about it?
If I was in their shoes, and it was possible, I would ask Pakistan very VERY nicely for one of their nukes, and do exactly what Israel tried to do to Iran last time (Russia shot the missile down after a warning about it from the US, allegedly) - airburst the nuke over Israeli airspace as a warning.
Needless to say, this is in the realm of fantasy on a number of levels. But as this is the second to last possible escalatory step, it would be a wake-up call to the lunatics in Israel and Washington that THIS IS VERY SERIOUS, AND THEY TOO WILL PAY A PRICE.
The only escalation left for Israel will be full Samson Option.
If the warning was ignored to that level, then they were always going to launch SO anyway.
The ball would be in the Israeli military's hands, to do something about this noxious regime, or to let themselves and their families be inevitably vapourised for religous lunacy.
The same case in the US too.
As if the current military dictatorship wasn’t installed by the US, therefore completely subservient to US interests, just as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc., are. Additionally, there’s been some rapprochement between Sunni and Shia but probably not enough to allow such a transfer, even if the logistics could be overcome.
But I've heard that DPRK's Kim Jung un has instead offered to place a nuclear umbrella over Iran instead. <3 if true.
Wait.
They are for the benefit of the gullible democrats who simply are in denial about the fact they voted for a war mongering genocidal administration.
When Netanyahu, just a few days ago, gave his warmongering speech in congress, there were just as many republicans as democrats sucking off Netanyahu's dick, with something like 50+ non-stop adulating applauses.
The US has been looking for a reason to attack Iran for a long time. Most likely Biden is cheering Netanyahu along when nobody can hear him. No holdup on the bombs and weapons either.
Pfft. My arse the U.S. are 'getting tough'....they're cheerleader #1
Thank You Caitlin
Well there’s no excuses for stupidity except stupidity itself. What else is there to say?
The US is going to "protect" a country that rapes its prisoners, and deliberately targets children. What can one say?
Pot calling the kettle black!!
And isn’t it about time?
After Biden’s incredible dressing down of Netanyahu, he then told him he beat Medicare.
Unfortunately most of the US population are forgetful when it comes to what their politicians do. That's why their mainstream media is so influential. They can say any controversial thing and people will just forget a week later
" Make them own it."
This is my motto from now on. I will never let the US government forget what they've done to the Palestinian people and others. We have a Congress of war criminals and psychopaths for presidents. They all should be sent to the ICC at the Hague and locked up for life.
Make them own it. Don't let them forget what they've done.
>>"They all should be sent to the ICC at the Hague and locked up for life"
Revolution Continues, you seem to be a kind and peace-loving individual. For what the Israelis and Zionists have done to the Palestinians and for what they have unleashed onto this world, they deserve a fate that is a hundred times worse than what you suggest. I would say that the same could apply to US Empire Managers, oligarchs, and their ilk.
I'm also good with guillotines and dumping their bodies into the bottom of the ocean, but I worry about their toxic natures poisoning the water. Most folks are good with life imprisonment and that might just be the most torturous thing we could do to these sociopaths. Death would be a release from their "cage" and why should they ever be released from it? They caged the Gazans--they should experience it themselves. Forever.
I can understand the feelings. I’ve had them myself. But I’ve come to see that there is no salvation through retribution. Our species can’t keep walking this path and survive. As difficult as it is, we, who want to see a future with us in it, have to figure out a way to put that behind us, permanently.
If the USA and Israel go after Iran in any significant way it seems inevitable that Russia, and possibly China, will come to Iran’s aid. World War III and likely the Samson Option. Meanwhile, as part of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) craziness, the USA will try to start a war in South America over Venezuela to show the world it can fight two wars at once.
I can imagine him saying to his son, "Damn it Hunter., this is absolutely the last time I bail you out of your reckless bullshit. If you don't start making better choices I am cutting you out."
He may even believe it when he says it. But actions are far more persuasive than words.
Don’t think for a minute Biden or the the MSM believe those “leaked” stories