The new issue of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. This issue features a painting of Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin.
Those of you that have seen me on here before probably know that traditionally I have been aligned with Conservative thought. That has ended as I see the bigger picture I think. Am on Team Humanity and nothing else really matters anymore. “If we don’t hang together we will surely hang separately.” I think that is a Ben Franklin quote. Regardless of who said, it is apt.
Our enemies biggest weapon is being able to control money supply. The second is military. As of now much of the military still has independent thought. Every soldier still the ability to think. If we see the day where robot armies exist that will be too late. If the day comes that the surveillance grid is enacted, even more importantly PROGRAMMABLE money we are double screwed.
As of today we still have a chance. I came across this and thought it was brilliant. It’s from AI. It’s a blueprint to stop them.
I also saw this. He has the right attitude. Throw in some revolutionaries and we have a chance. The hardest part is to organize for a multitude of reasons. Something I learned during Covid is that it is unlikely you will see any real resistance from Americans. The Albanians have been remarkable. Truth Americans are too brainwashed and too comfortable. The ONLY thing that will snap them out of it is severe pain. Most likely that will be financial in nature.
We have far more in common than not. I have more in common with a homeless, mentally ill heroine addict than the 1%. You are right we still have time if we join together as Caitlin and many others have said for years. Welcome Brother, Community and Solidarity our only path forward.
I tell conservatives all the time, "you can be as conservative as you like and still be a communist." the working class is dvided against itself on social issues. War, power and money are the important things. The ruling class doesn't like us talking about them so their media and their politicians distracts us.
Right, Luke why have the terms "Commie" and "Socialist" been ingrained as 'blasphemy' - think of all the conditioning and brainwashing Americans have been subjected to.... The ruling class with its legacy media and the rich and powerful saw to it that people are kept ignorant.They manufactured ignorance in various clever ways so that the masses lost any sense of any critical thinking; swallowed wholesale what was fed to them. They came to believe that they were living in the greatest democracy on earth. While it always was neoliberal capitalism's natural progression to fascism, as is happening now.
Any other form of government was anathema to exploitative capitalism. If other countries developed forms of government that gave people quality of life - of good free health care, free education to name a few - they have to be ruthlessly destroyed.
What we see in the world today the wars, genocides, billionaire oligarchs, their corruption and destruction of whole nations is the direct outcome of degenerate capitalism and ignorant masses who made it all possible.
Coming after CodePink and Medea Benjamin... I don't know what could be more surreal. Those who fight for peace are labeled "troublemakers," and yet the troublemakers who start wars and fund genocides are labeled "heroes." Make it make sense! (Nice painting of Medea, BTW.)
I'm old enough to remember when this song reached #1 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1974, came in ranked as the #21 song for 1974. Also reached #1 in the UK and Australia.
We are living in a real ass backwards world where people who oppose genocide or destruction of people's lives are imprisonned or attacked and people who commit genocide, starve people, withold oil so that a society cannot function have taken control. Or are in the process of trying to do so. We have all been propagandized and it goes on. Nobody is allowed to critcize Israel or Trump. Billionaires are good, homeless people are bad.
"One is ordered awareness. The other is compulsive reactivity.
"One is the parasympathetic nervous system engaged — integration, rest, restoration, clear perception.
"The other is the sympathetic system running the show — fight-or-flight, chronic stress, the beast mode that most modern humans are trapped inside by default."
-> You already have the tools to override that default - it is up to you to use them - THAT is free will.
Peace be upon you by Gaza and Jerusalem - Honour and victory are the allies of the axis of resistance and its allies, and humiliation and shame are for the axis of evil, Epstein Class (USA, Britain, France, Turkey, Qatar, UAE, NATO Governments, New Nazi, Masonic, Zionist and Israel) and its allies.
My friend, Amazon top of the list for BDS, like so many of the 1%. Starbucks, McDonalds, Chevron, BP, HP, Microsoft and Intel. I purchased a Chinese cell phone works better than anything I have ever owned for 160$ TCL. A Chinese laptop mainly owned by Chinese Academy of Science. Love it.
Yup, same here Amazon with the rest of GAFAM/BigTech are on my boycott list and avoid all USA genocidal corporations as much as possible. Bought the last laptop from Spanish Slimbook, it came pre-installed with free/libre and opensource GNU/Linux operating system, for example and yeah don't buy any other US product. My new TV is a Hisense 65U8Q, with no GoogleTV OS on it, my new smartphone is Xiaomi Redmi Note,(still has Google Andoid, can only hope they replace that also with some other Jolla or postMarketOS or some other proper Linux-based operating system). Switched my search engine to Qwant and Kagi. Left US crorporate fascist propaganda networks (Xitter, Facebook, Instagram) long ago and am now only on Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed. BDS!
Please make the hard copies available from somewhere other than Amazon (which is on the BDS boycott list). I suggest Lulu (what Prof. Wollf uses), but there are other print-on-demand distrubutors!
"The bet is that whoever gets to a certain level of AI and with the infrastructure to run it will lock in global dominance in perpetuity, by being able to do absolute surveillance and immediate suppression of all dissent and resistance. And whoever gets there first will be the master of the world forever, because there will be no way to break the chains.
This is also why they are seriously going for deep underground data centers and data centers in space. The only way to get rid of the data centers in space is with ASAT weapons, but ASAT weapons pretty much require a state actor to put together. But once Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have been destroyed and subjugated (which is part of the plan, obviously), there will be no such independent actor. No rag-tag rebels will be able to amass the resources to deorbit the data centers in space, which will lock in the perpetual dominance of whoever controls them. Putting them deep underground is also a level of protection above that provided by the current practices of having them on the surface. I am not quite sure how cooling will work in either case though, but the intent is clear."
If I wasn't so broke that buying food has become an issue I would subscribe to, or purchase individually, JOHNSTONE. The United States' rapid descent into authoritarianism may be impossible to halt. But a fascist takeover is inevitable if we who vastly outnumber the oligarchs and Zionists remain passive. Code Pink ( one of the very few antiwar organizations in the U.S. ) embodies the sort of integrity and organizational strategy that threatens a system that speaks the language of violence and oppression, while cloaking itself in a fatuous narrative of virtue that no one not in a coma still takes seriously.
Those of you that have seen me on here before probably know that traditionally I have been aligned with Conservative thought. That has ended as I see the bigger picture I think. Am on Team Humanity and nothing else really matters anymore. “If we don’t hang together we will surely hang separately.” I think that is a Ben Franklin quote. Regardless of who said, it is apt.
Our enemies biggest weapon is being able to control money supply. The second is military. As of now much of the military still has independent thought. Every soldier still the ability to think. If we see the day where robot armies exist that will be too late. If the day comes that the surveillance grid is enacted, even more importantly PROGRAMMABLE money we are double screwed.
As of today we still have a chance. I came across this and thought it was brilliant. It’s from AI. It’s a blueprint to stop them.
https://x.com/ky_statesman/status/2063277482673881128?s=42
I also saw this. He has the right attitude. Throw in some revolutionaries and we have a chance. The hardest part is to organize for a multitude of reasons. Something I learned during Covid is that it is unlikely you will see any real resistance from Americans. The Albanians have been remarkable. Truth Americans are too brainwashed and too comfortable. The ONLY thing that will snap them out of it is severe pain. Most likely that will be financial in nature.
https://x.com/raythewarchief/status/2063070292998570007?s=42
I advise avoiding ideology in general as ideology has a way of short-circuiting critical thinking
That sir is excellent advice.
The Finster aims to please.
We have far more in common than not. I have more in common with a homeless, mentally ill heroine addict than the 1%. You are right we still have time if we join together as Caitlin and many others have said for years. Welcome Brother, Community and Solidarity our only path forward.
I tell conservatives all the time, "you can be as conservative as you like and still be a communist." the working class is dvided against itself on social issues. War, power and money are the important things. The ruling class doesn't like us talking about them so their media and their politicians distracts us.
This is one of my favorite guys on X. I am still working on the right. To most of them “Commie” or “Socialist” has been ingrained as blasphemy.
https://x.com/proudsocialist/status/2062882419699499438?s=46
Right, Luke why have the terms "Commie" and "Socialist" been ingrained as 'blasphemy' - think of all the conditioning and brainwashing Americans have been subjected to.... The ruling class with its legacy media and the rich and powerful saw to it that people are kept ignorant.They manufactured ignorance in various clever ways so that the masses lost any sense of any critical thinking; swallowed wholesale what was fed to them. They came to believe that they were living in the greatest democracy on earth. While it always was neoliberal capitalism's natural progression to fascism, as is happening now.
Any other form of government was anathema to exploitative capitalism. If other countries developed forms of government that gave people quality of life - of good free health care, free education to name a few - they have to be ruthlessly destroyed.
What we see in the world today the wars, genocides, billionaire oligarchs, their corruption and destruction of whole nations is the direct outcome of degenerate capitalism and ignorant masses who made it all possible.
Very well said Indu
Medea and friends are making a difference, challenging the evil of US, Israel policies against human beings, nations. Much respect!
Coming after CodePink and Medea Benjamin... I don't know what could be more surreal. Those who fight for peace are labeled "troublemakers," and yet the troublemakers who start wars and fund genocides are labeled "heroes." Make it make sense! (Nice painting of Medea, BTW.)
I'm old enough to remember when this song reached #1 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1974, came in ranked as the #21 song for 1974. Also reached #1 in the UK and Australia.
Billy Don't be a Hero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjilwTUGE5g
Odds the record studios and music industry, promoters would give a song with the same message today a chance to top the charts: Exactly 0%
We are living in a real ass backwards world where people who oppose genocide or destruction of people's lives are imprisonned or attacked and people who commit genocide, starve people, withold oil so that a society cannot function have taken control. Or are in the process of trying to do so. We have all been propagandized and it goes on. Nobody is allowed to critcize Israel or Trump. Billionaires are good, homeless people are bad.
Two legs good, four legs bad. Animal Farm. Will the sheeple awake?
That is the question Kathleen McCroskey, will the sheeple awake?
There were always pathways (by Hans Jonsson)
"One is ordered awareness. The other is compulsive reactivity.
"One is the parasympathetic nervous system engaged — integration, rest, restoration, clear perception.
"The other is the sympathetic system running the show — fight-or-flight, chronic stress, the beast mode that most modern humans are trapped inside by default."
-> You already have the tools to override that default - it is up to you to use them - THAT is free will.
https://kathleenmccroskey.substack.com/cp/200918572
Four legs good, two legs better!
Some pigs are more equal than others.
Thanks for this offering, Caitlin. I love your painting of Medea Benjamin, and appreciate your writing that's always so on point.
Peace be upon you by Gaza and Jerusalem - Honour and victory are the allies of the axis of resistance and its allies, and humiliation and shame are for the axis of evil, Epstein Class (USA, Britain, France, Turkey, Qatar, UAE, NATO Governments, New Nazi, Masonic, Zionist and Israel) and its allies.
I really would like to buy hard copies of these, but I boycott Amazon.
My friend, Amazon top of the list for BDS, like so many of the 1%. Starbucks, McDonalds, Chevron, BP, HP, Microsoft and Intel. I purchased a Chinese cell phone works better than anything I have ever owned for 160$ TCL. A Chinese laptop mainly owned by Chinese Academy of Science. Love it.
Yup, same here Amazon with the rest of GAFAM/BigTech are on my boycott list and avoid all USA genocidal corporations as much as possible. Bought the last laptop from Spanish Slimbook, it came pre-installed with free/libre and opensource GNU/Linux operating system, for example and yeah don't buy any other US product. My new TV is a Hisense 65U8Q, with no GoogleTV OS on it, my new smartphone is Xiaomi Redmi Note,(still has Google Andoid, can only hope they replace that also with some other Jolla or postMarketOS or some other proper Linux-based operating system). Switched my search engine to Qwant and Kagi. Left US crorporate fascist propaganda networks (Xitter, Facebook, Instagram) long ago and am now only on Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed. BDS!
Please make the hard copies available from somewhere other than Amazon (which is on the BDS boycott list). I suggest Lulu (what Prof. Wollf uses), but there are other print-on-demand distrubutors!
lulu.com
Anything the Empire aspires to sooner or later becomes a "war": it's both projection and prediction.
War on Poverty, War on Drugs, War against Terrorism.
Look at just what all those bought and brought, though.
Now it's War on Migrants, War on Liberals, War on free Media.
you know you're over the target when the bombs start to drop upwards.
The regime is targeting any form of dissent.
What do you think that the data centera are for?
Found on internet:
"The bet is that whoever gets to a certain level of AI and with the infrastructure to run it will lock in global dominance in perpetuity, by being able to do absolute surveillance and immediate suppression of all dissent and resistance. And whoever gets there first will be the master of the world forever, because there will be no way to break the chains.
This is also why they are seriously going for deep underground data centers and data centers in space. The only way to get rid of the data centers in space is with ASAT weapons, but ASAT weapons pretty much require a state actor to put together. But once Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have been destroyed and subjugated (which is part of the plan, obviously), there will be no such independent actor. No rag-tag rebels will be able to amass the resources to deorbit the data centers in space, which will lock in the perpetual dominance of whoever controls them. Putting them deep underground is also a level of protection above that provided by the current practices of having them on the surface. I am not quite sure how cooling will work in either case though, but the intent is clear."
My partner and I watch reports on solar events, with the hope that one or two big ones will take out the media infrastructure altogether.
📢 Boo empire. BOOOOOO
If I wasn't so broke that buying food has become an issue I would subscribe to, or purchase individually, JOHNSTONE. The United States' rapid descent into authoritarianism may be impossible to halt. But a fascist takeover is inevitable if we who vastly outnumber the oligarchs and Zionists remain passive. Code Pink ( one of the very few antiwar organizations in the U.S. ) embodies the sort of integrity and organizational strategy that threatens a system that speaks the language of violence and oppression, while cloaking itself in a fatuous narrative of virtue that no one not in a coma still takes seriously.
Thank You Caitlin
Thank you Caitlin, beautiful work. You can feel the power of Medea in your work.