The crazy part is that they are defending zionist jews that will ensure they are killed once their usefulness over, or perhaps, given the choice to become their slaves. Of course that depends how many Jewish zionist are still standing after all their enforced, and lied about wars are over, if they are ever over.
Truly admire your ability, Caitlin, to paint that ghastly egotistical narcissist without upheaving - or did you?
The lie they are starting to promote now is that the school bombing was a mistake - they were using outdated maps. It’s a lie. They targeted that school knowing it was full of children because that’s how terrorists work. And they did a double tap 40 minutes later when people were trying to save children or pull their bodies from the rubble. There has never been an evil like that of the USA/Israel.
Let's go back to the beginning, the original lie that started it all.
The Earth as both tom Paine and Jefferson recognized does not belong to anyone; it was not built by anyone, nor created by anyone. The fertlity of the soil, the oil, the bounty of the sea....alll once a shared commons of equals, belonging to all....or more accurately no one, since in an equal society, such as the 300,000 yrs of Homo Sapien evolution, there was no concept of what private property ...just perhaps your personal necklace or cape...but otherwise, the world was just there, belonging to no one. Instead, the idea was that we belong to the earth. That is how we evolved.................until
about 10,000 yrs ago, with settled populations and suddenly surpluses, the concept of private property arose when someone, as Rousseau describes it, put up a fence and said: now it's mine. And everyone blinked and said "What the Fuck is that All about?" and that is where it all began,,
In short time, some who had been shunned in the egalitarian sharing communities prior to settled life, came to realize that the sin of selfishness and power was now a tool to gain more property, to hoard the surplus, and then through collaborations with other of the new world of haves and have nots, raid the surpluses and gain more propertym then to hire the have nots to help them take more: and after a while, this class organization became the state, whose purpose was to protect the haves and keep the have nots not having. And because this new invention of centralized topdown power was met with resistance, religion was invented with a God to give divine authorizaion to the new rulers...for who could argue with the ruler of the universe? And then, inevitibly, the new state found that if it taxed everyone, taking what little they had, they could create a money system (based on debt) to hire an entire army and the massacres became wars, expanding the power of the rulers on behalf of the haves to gain even more property and control the have nots even more; in fact, the have nots who were the least having could be hired, with the new tax money, to kill and be killed in the invention of war that came along with property, the state, religion, and now the grand idea of mass murder.
And that is how we got here today with mass murder by the state, sanctified by religion, making the rich richer, the poor poorer, and erasing the evolutionary legacy which lingers in our DNA with a new world of wars, hundred of millions slaughtered each century by men called "great" (Aleander the Great, Nepoleon, the greatest Generation, etc). And so we have the war on Iran to grab their oil, the war on Venezuela, to grab their oil, the war on Palestine to grab their oil.
And it will only get worse until we understand how replacing the shared commons, where we belong to the land rather than the land belonging to us (or them) and fighting over it, has led to this dystopia we all civilization, with an irony that defies logic.
Only when we redefine property in a way that replaces the world of haves and have nots , with the world's richest man a despicable sociopathy, having moree wealth than a billion people, 5 illionaries having more than the 3 billoin who live on less than $6 a day...only when we are able to gain the power to end the power that enslaves us will we be able to reclaim our evolutionary legacy and become peaceful, unalienated, happy, and sharing the prosperity, as we did before the fence was invented to separate the haves from the have nots, the privileged from the dispossessed. And that means struggling for a world where there are none rich, none poor, and we do what we love and belong, once more, to the earth, which belongs to no one. that my 2 cents worth. MAY WE ALL refrain from fighting each other, as the haves want to stay in control, and join to fight for our emanicipation from a world that no longer works.
I just turned 85, and that is my perspective on how we got here. And what needs to change to get out of here alive. Fight like your life depended on it, and do it with joy.
Happy Birthday dale ruff! It is great that you can ruminate and contemplate at age 85. And look back philosophically at a very unsatisfactory world knowing its causes and effects.
I would characterise all that you have written under the heading of Capitalism, which gives full vent to man's greed, hatred and delusion.
I can do more than rumnate and contemplate...I can also kick ass! My thesis is while capitalism is the form in which the subversion of our evolutionary legalcy has evolved over 10,000 yrs, wars, slavery, etc developed long before capitalism but forms a ragged ovement towards what we have today, private and state capitalism, all based on the invention of private property (beyond personal intimate posssessions), by which I mean the source of wealth (once hoarded grain or fenced off forests and today stock, rental property, factories, etc.
This concept, which we take for granted, without thinking about it, is the idea that undermined our earlier evolution, still embedded in our DNA, as a trusting, sharing, and peaceful people, with no religion, no nation, no property...just each other. Thank you for the greetings. I love your name!
Hello dale ruff. VERY well said. Your perspective is spot on. One of the most concise explanations of "history" I've ever read. Bravo! to you, sir. Here's a bit I penned a while back:
“Man joined the eternal abyss - when food became a commodity” - Paul Vonharnish - January 2, 2020
I keep saying to myself, this is the 21st century – just pronouncing it has, or had, a certain energy, an optimism to it, or so it seems – but as a species aren’t we supposed to be further, much further along than this? Instead the era is revealing that we’re devolving to an existence akin to no better than microbes, competing for nutrients on a giant Petri dish. Maybe this is what Yawah Sinwar was warning about, this is where civilization was headed - under the Zionists, the United States, maybe the entire West – when he planned and launched Oct. 7th, not just for the Palestinian cause, but for the rest of the world as well.
As the Zionists recognize no limits in their campaign to aggrandize and recast the universe in all ways Israel – indeed feel entitled to do so – the reality of a nuclear-armed Israel, emboldened with its “Samson Option” and buttressed by the lunatics in Washington, means the 21st century may be civilization’s last, the world repaved in trinitite, the green, glass-like substance formed by the intense heat of the first atomic bomb explosion in the desert of New Mexico on July 16, 1945.
Now that Russia has sanctions relief, and is making windfall profits from $100 per barrel oil, why not share some of that money with Iran?
After all, it is Iran that has provided Russia with this fantastic opportunity by closing the Hormuz Straights. Don’t they deserve a ‘kickback’ payment? Iran could use the cash to keep it’s economy afloat during this war.
Russia could also help by returning the thousands of the fantastic Shahed-Geran drones that Iran gave to Russia in recent years for use in the Ukraine war.
The more drones Russia sends back to Iran, the higher the price of oil will go. The more oil tankers Iran hits, the higher the cost of oil will go. And so on … and so on! How about $200 oil to make the Europeans scream? And …. all of it to Russia’s benefit. That may be the only way to end the war.
So Russia, why not help Iran out a bit in return while the good times roll on? Spread the wealth around a bit.
Ms Johnstone, I see from your list of articles above that you wrote one entitled "Iran is more moral than the United States."
I am sure a country can't be moral. Picturing a "country" is a tremendous mental trick. No doubt every person thinks there is a "China." But is there? The leaders decide what will be done. How do the consciences of the people influence them? Maybe not at all.
Caitlin, name a country today that has a mind of its own.
How about Stralia? Is it moral? You're there. You seem moral. I'd be OK with you as Prime Minister. But souls such as you can't make it into politics. You'd never get "pre-selected" unless somebody as wealthy as God could manage the "Branch-stacking." Even if you won, media would silence you.
Their narrative of lies has become so incoherent and transparent that you can see the corporate-media consumers starting to become slightly paralysed by an avalanche of “WTF???” thought bubbles.
They have been lying since they created the plutocratic Republic. American equality is a joke, American democracy is a joke, American freedom is a joke, American genocide is a fact, American slavery is a fact, and …
Yes, they will keep lying about everything. The problem is the people who blindly believe the lies. Trump, especially, has a very loyal following. I wonder just what it will take for people to understand they are being conned and demand accountability. What will it take to see that the man who pledged peace a hundred+ times has begun an unwinnable war of choice against an innocent country? Every war inclined president has skipped over a war with Iran for decades and for good reasons, but Trump is being hailed as the only one willing to take it on! So brave! Only Trump!
In the meantime it's pretty crazy to watch how all the positions people held in the past are being bent to excuse and praise this administration. That shows it has turned into a cult.
As is often said, some have to learn the hard way. This will be when the suffering they have excused hits home.
I don't think they'll learn even then. The rank and file MAGA are pretty willing to endure years of hardship as long as their enemies suffer. At least, according to the sociologists and podcasters willing to engage with them. Just read Stolen Pride by Arlie Hochschild. These folks aren't gong away.
Your Trump looks mad enough to spit bullets--hopefully at his own ugly, pedo reflection in the mirror! (Do bullets bounce off of glass? Maybe rubber bullets? We live in hope.)
The crazy part is that they are defending zionist jews that will ensure they are killed once their usefulness over, or perhaps, given the choice to become their slaves. Of course that depends how many Jewish zionist are still standing after all their enforced, and lied about wars are over, if they are ever over.
Truly admire your ability, Caitlin, to paint that ghastly egotistical narcissist without upheaving - or did you?
Seems like the slave part is already pretty institutionalized.
The lie they are starting to promote now is that the school bombing was a mistake - they were using outdated maps. It’s a lie. They targeted that school knowing it was full of children because that’s how terrorists work. And they did a double tap 40 minutes later when people were trying to save children or pull their bodies from the rubble. There has never been an evil like that of the USA/Israel.
The innocent blood sacrifice is the main event. Terrorizing the population is a bonus.
Let's go back to the beginning, the original lie that started it all.
The Earth as both tom Paine and Jefferson recognized does not belong to anyone; it was not built by anyone, nor created by anyone. The fertlity of the soil, the oil, the bounty of the sea....alll once a shared commons of equals, belonging to all....or more accurately no one, since in an equal society, such as the 300,000 yrs of Homo Sapien evolution, there was no concept of what private property ...just perhaps your personal necklace or cape...but otherwise, the world was just there, belonging to no one. Instead, the idea was that we belong to the earth. That is how we evolved.................until
about 10,000 yrs ago, with settled populations and suddenly surpluses, the concept of private property arose when someone, as Rousseau describes it, put up a fence and said: now it's mine. And everyone blinked and said "What the Fuck is that All about?" and that is where it all began,,
In short time, some who had been shunned in the egalitarian sharing communities prior to settled life, came to realize that the sin of selfishness and power was now a tool to gain more property, to hoard the surplus, and then through collaborations with other of the new world of haves and have nots, raid the surpluses and gain more propertym then to hire the have nots to help them take more: and after a while, this class organization became the state, whose purpose was to protect the haves and keep the have nots not having. And because this new invention of centralized topdown power was met with resistance, religion was invented with a God to give divine authorizaion to the new rulers...for who could argue with the ruler of the universe? And then, inevitibly, the new state found that if it taxed everyone, taking what little they had, they could create a money system (based on debt) to hire an entire army and the massacres became wars, expanding the power of the rulers on behalf of the haves to gain even more property and control the have nots even more; in fact, the have nots who were the least having could be hired, with the new tax money, to kill and be killed in the invention of war that came along with property, the state, religion, and now the grand idea of mass murder.
And that is how we got here today with mass murder by the state, sanctified by religion, making the rich richer, the poor poorer, and erasing the evolutionary legacy which lingers in our DNA with a new world of wars, hundred of millions slaughtered each century by men called "great" (Aleander the Great, Nepoleon, the greatest Generation, etc). And so we have the war on Iran to grab their oil, the war on Venezuela, to grab their oil, the war on Palestine to grab their oil.
And it will only get worse until we understand how replacing the shared commons, where we belong to the land rather than the land belonging to us (or them) and fighting over it, has led to this dystopia we all civilization, with an irony that defies logic.
Only when we redefine property in a way that replaces the world of haves and have nots , with the world's richest man a despicable sociopathy, having moree wealth than a billion people, 5 illionaries having more than the 3 billoin who live on less than $6 a day...only when we are able to gain the power to end the power that enslaves us will we be able to reclaim our evolutionary legacy and become peaceful, unalienated, happy, and sharing the prosperity, as we did before the fence was invented to separate the haves from the have nots, the privileged from the dispossessed. And that means struggling for a world where there are none rich, none poor, and we do what we love and belong, once more, to the earth, which belongs to no one. that my 2 cents worth. MAY WE ALL refrain from fighting each other, as the haves want to stay in control, and join to fight for our emanicipation from a world that no longer works.
I just turned 85, and that is my perspective on how we got here. And what needs to change to get out of here alive. Fight like your life depended on it, and do it with joy.
Happy Birthday dale ruff! It is great that you can ruminate and contemplate at age 85. And look back philosophically at a very unsatisfactory world knowing its causes and effects.
I would characterise all that you have written under the heading of Capitalism, which gives full vent to man's greed, hatred and delusion.
I can do more than rumnate and contemplate...I can also kick ass! My thesis is while capitalism is the form in which the subversion of our evolutionary legalcy has evolved over 10,000 yrs, wars, slavery, etc developed long before capitalism but forms a ragged ovement towards what we have today, private and state capitalism, all based on the invention of private property (beyond personal intimate posssessions), by which I mean the source of wealth (once hoarded grain or fenced off forests and today stock, rental property, factories, etc.
This concept, which we take for granted, without thinking about it, is the idea that undermined our earlier evolution, still embedded in our DNA, as a trusting, sharing, and peaceful people, with no religion, no nation, no property...just each other. Thank you for the greetings. I love your name!
Hear ya Dale !!!
Hello dale ruff. VERY well said. Your perspective is spot on. One of the most concise explanations of "history" I've ever read. Bravo! to you, sir. Here's a bit I penned a while back:
“Man joined the eternal abyss - when food became a commodity” - Paul Vonharnish - January 2, 2020
My apologies, my "21st century" entry was inspired by what you have written here, and I should have replied here, rather than posting de novo.
I keep saying to myself, this is the 21st century – just pronouncing it has, or had, a certain energy, an optimism to it, or so it seems – but as a species aren’t we supposed to be further, much further along than this? Instead the era is revealing that we’re devolving to an existence akin to no better than microbes, competing for nutrients on a giant Petri dish. Maybe this is what Yawah Sinwar was warning about, this is where civilization was headed - under the Zionists, the United States, maybe the entire West – when he planned and launched Oct. 7th, not just for the Palestinian cause, but for the rest of the world as well.
As the Zionists recognize no limits in their campaign to aggrandize and recast the universe in all ways Israel – indeed feel entitled to do so – the reality of a nuclear-armed Israel, emboldened with its “Samson Option” and buttressed by the lunatics in Washington, means the 21st century may be civilization’s last, the world repaved in trinitite, the green, glass-like substance formed by the intense heat of the first atomic bomb explosion in the desert of New Mexico on July 16, 1945.
Now that Russia has sanctions relief, and is making windfall profits from $100 per barrel oil, why not share some of that money with Iran?
After all, it is Iran that has provided Russia with this fantastic opportunity by closing the Hormuz Straights. Don’t they deserve a ‘kickback’ payment? Iran could use the cash to keep it’s economy afloat during this war.
Russia could also help by returning the thousands of the fantastic Shahed-Geran drones that Iran gave to Russia in recent years for use in the Ukraine war.
The more drones Russia sends back to Iran, the higher the price of oil will go. The more oil tankers Iran hits, the higher the cost of oil will go. And so on … and so on! How about $200 oil to make the Europeans scream? And …. all of it to Russia’s benefit. That may be the only way to end the war.
So Russia, why not help Iran out a bit in return while the good times roll on? Spread the wealth around a bit.
Ms Johnstone, I see from your list of articles above that you wrote one entitled "Iran is more moral than the United States."
I am sure a country can't be moral. Picturing a "country" is a tremendous mental trick. No doubt every person thinks there is a "China." But is there? The leaders decide what will be done. How do the consciences of the people influence them? Maybe not at all.
Caitlin, name a country today that has a mind of its own.
How about Stralia? Is it moral? You're there. You seem moral. I'd be OK with you as Prime Minister. But souls such as you can't make it into politics. You'd never get "pre-selected" unless somebody as wealthy as God could manage the "Branch-stacking." Even if you won, media would silence you.
Their narrative of lies has become so incoherent and transparent that you can see the corporate-media consumers starting to become slightly paralysed by an avalanche of “WTF???” thought bubbles.
"an avalanche of 'WTF???' thought bubbles."
Superb!
well said Mr. Walker. And the more lies they add, the more tangled the web becomes but the more easily it unravels as well
They have been lying since they created the plutocratic Republic. American equality is a joke, American democracy is a joke, American freedom is a joke, American genocide is a fact, American slavery is a fact, and …
Yes, they will keep lying about everything. The problem is the people who blindly believe the lies. Trump, especially, has a very loyal following. I wonder just what it will take for people to understand they are being conned and demand accountability. What will it take to see that the man who pledged peace a hundred+ times has begun an unwinnable war of choice against an innocent country? Every war inclined president has skipped over a war with Iran for decades and for good reasons, but Trump is being hailed as the only one willing to take it on! So brave! Only Trump!
In the meantime it's pretty crazy to watch how all the positions people held in the past are being bent to excuse and praise this administration. That shows it has turned into a cult.
As is often said, some have to learn the hard way. This will be when the suffering they have excused hits home.
I don't think they'll learn even then. The rank and file MAGA are pretty willing to endure years of hardship as long as their enemies suffer. At least, according to the sociologists and podcasters willing to engage with them. Just read Stolen Pride by Arlie Hochschild. These folks aren't gong away.
"6-fingered-Netanyahu" has a persistent tongue, but molars on both sides that appear and disappear, in official Thursday Israeli video, which proves he was not killed last Saturday in an Iranian missile attack, sort of... https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/iran-war-update-netanyahu-his-brother
Thank you Ms. Johnstone as always. The hope is that people can see through the lies now more than ever.
Have to tell the story. My buddy was unloading on the “Death to America” shit. I said oh yeah this chick I read Caitlin screams it during sex.
Haha he laughed and so did I 🤭
"Believe them"???? Didn't you just tell us they were non-stop liars??
Your Trump looks mad enough to spit bullets--hopefully at his own ugly, pedo reflection in the mirror! (Do bullets bounce off of glass? Maybe rubber bullets? We live in hope.)