The propaganda surrounding Vaccines is even worse than the silence against Israeli terrorism. Most are outright frauds that cause more harm than good while enriching oligarchs. MMR vaccine does cause Autism. The Covid vaxes do kill via blood clots, scrambled DNA. The Spanish flu was a Rockefeller vaccine test. And the annual flu shot is proven useless.
No. It's part of Terrain discussion/history. Probably Dr Tom Cowan's or Dr Andrew Kaufman's blogs would be good backup on this - along with how to read a peer-reviewed study, such as the many, maybe all, that ASSUME the existence of 'pathogenic viruses' and pretend to be good science, and aren't at all.
A question I have been asking, which makes me disliked at dinner parties. Have we past the tipping point of chaos that will allow change into Socialism. No one argues the point of chaos.
Apparently more have indeed engaged in Germany - the far-right now gaining huge power under Friedrich Merz. Once again, militarization is back on the menu. Attack Russia? Yes, I agree, it will soon "be over".
Friedrich Merz is “far right”?? Since when? I must have missed his conversion from a corrupt, narcicistic Rothschild-agent to a patriot devoted to serve his nation.
This is what America was like before POTUS FDR formally recognized labor unions. The 40-hour work week and two-day weekends and decent wages were the concessions to the union demands in order to forestall a bloody revolution.
The “good times” period from around 1935 until around 1970 was an anomaly. The illegal undeclared war in Vietnam was a clear indication of disruption of the myth of the American Dream.
"Fascism was the application to white people of colonial procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the 'coolies' of India, and the 'ni**ers' of Mrica."
-Aimé Fernand David Césaire
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Simply speaking, Fascism is Imperialism brought home..
Note the quotation marks around “good times”. The economics were good for some people aside from the elites in the USA and elsewhere. Many of the MAGA cheerleaders may want to return to such conditions.
The government of the USA officially represents less than 5% of human population of the world. The American Empire, however, appears to be governed by Wall Street and has far greater influence.
The governments of China, India and Russia may or may not have different intentions.
If *only* government were the problem, like the billionaires have been spending their billions to make sure you believe is the problem. That - and the guy mowing your lawn (apparently).
The billionaires own Wall Street and the government and the mass media that entertains and informs the proverbial “lawnmower guy” and the “red hats”.
The billionaires are striving to own the entire educational system. Note that Secretaries of Education DeVos and McMahon are billionaires.
The real power is collectively in the hands of the 99% of the population without whom the billionaires cannot function. In a true democracy of adequately educated voters the billionaires would not be in control.
China simply wants to be able to sell things and make money.
Russia doesn't want to end the West - they want to be allowed to join it.
For their part, the Americans care for nothing but power, domination and control, and are perfectly happy to burn the world down to ensure that they do not lose these things.
According to Michael Pillsbury’s book, https://thehundredyearmarathon.com/ China is working towards objectives establishing in 1949. I agree with most of Pillsbury’s analysis.
According to information from some of my executive and engineering associates from Ford, GM, IBM, HP, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney who have worked with China, Pillsbury may not know the full extent of China’s plans and the extent to which US corporations have been accelerating China’s progress.
My professional associates from the former USSR tell me that Russia is not an enemy of the people of the USA or Europe. Western Capitalists fear the success of Russia’s socialism and have sided with Russian oligarchs.
India is a huge multiethnic county with no clear plan that I can discern. US Capitalists side with India’s oligarchs.
Even if there were a 100-year plan, the idea is silly. If you asked anyone in 1949 what 2049 would look like, it probably wouldn't predict the internet or genetic engineering. It would look something like "The Jetsons".
To the present system. I have noted that the West is well on the way to being a glorified Brasil, albeit with worse weather, less attractive females and a more hyperbellgerent foreign policy. This suits elites just fine.
Full of exceptionalism and the zero sum game that lowers anyone elses quality of life to increase their own. Except that too is a lie, as only the wealthy and powerful reap the benefits.
The elites see this as a desirable state of affairs.
If the standard of living for, say, the bottom 50% of Americans were to fall to sub-saharan African levels, but the rulers somehow maintained their living standards, the United States would continue to churn along, with the oligarchs coming up with ever more improbable narratives to keep the peons disunited, disoriented, and under control.
"The wealth that's extracted from Imperialism goes into the coffers of the select few, whereas the costs of empire are paid out of the common treasure of the people."
"Fascism is just Imperialism trying to save itself"
"This methodology of justifying wars and exploitation abroad and dividing population at home is built into Imperialism, it's absolutely necessary to justify itself"
"Fascism was the application to white people of colonial procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the 'coolies' of India, and the 'ni**ers' of Mrica."
-Aimé Fernand David Césaire
***
Simply speaking, Fascism is Imperialism brought home..
It is the American Empire, and not just the country of USA. In Australia it is the same albeit slightly less advanced but going in the same direction. we have no more influence or say in its progress than any American and we have the same corrupted power structures and influences. To a large extent those influences all trace back to the same Epstein class abomination at the core too. Our police are increasingly pro Zionist and they punish the same humanity for the same thinly veiled excuses. The same curtailment of free speech, something we never even had entrenched in our constitution anyway and the same unwritten but widely recognised two tiered legal system. Rules for the people but none for the elites. The same level of corruption and demonic forces peaking through, between the cracks.
I have been feeling this acutely since 2003. I remember the exact time and place I knew we had crossed over to a dystopian nightmare. Now I often feel like I’m watching a very scary movie.
I love crowds. I usually find myself gravitating to the mic. Friends usually try to keep me from the mic with " They are not here to hear the truth" : )
I think it crossed over in 2001. In 2020 The Covid lies were the most obvious demarcation between the old world and this new dystopian one but in 2001 all that was hidden began to emerge from the shadows and focussing on the lies of 9/11 stripped away the illusion for me. I finally realised all that I had grown up believing in were lies. Starting with the lies of Christianity and against Islam. I reverted to Islam in 2011 and from within my new cultural paradigm the realisations came thick and fast thereafter. From here I have also become aware of the breadth of the deception which is not limited to just the Western world after all. There is an elite class which perverts all for its own benefit and protection and ignorance is entrenched, desired and rewarded while speaking truth is all but forbidden outright and words which once had meaning have taken on new and counterintuitive ones. George Orwell's 1984 was a quaint facsimile of the real thing now that we have arrived at the destination.
If the tent encampments give you stress, wait until a bomb falls on your tent if you happen to exist in Gaza.. oh, forgot, talking about that is anti- Semitic…
Which it is not really, because it's semitic people who are being bombed by antisemites.
I was born during WWII, although I don't actually remember being lifted out of my cot and wrapped in blankets, while my mum ran with me to bomb shelters. Yet the sound of a siren still sends a shudder through me. It took years for me to stop, and stand frozen, wherever I was when I heard that sound, even one going off in a movie sends that fear in me.
Something that keeps running through my mind with these wars for no valid reason as in - bombing a country without warning(we'll make up the excuses later). Then your country has the absolute right to defend itself, the honest to god right, not some made up lies about the aggressor being the innocent party because they're your ally, but above all the made up rubbish, you are ten out of ten, right to defend your country.
But why are there these wars upon wars, mostly against countries the West does not see as too important to bomb? Is it to cut down the world's population while the oligarchs continue to dig up fossil fuels because it grows their fat bank accounts - accounts held in overseas banks that don't disclose how much they have accumulated from their pollution of the planet.
In their sick minds, is it only them that deserve to have decent food(cooked by someone else, of course) and clean air to breathe(at the cost of someone else's health) and multiple mansions in several countries that they are busy plundering for the wealth they steal from it(while so many may not have even one home, because their miserable wage keeps them in poverty)? Or those using spy nets to ensure no one else gets a decent living, if to live at all, while they make millions from the work of those whose pay is disgusting compared to what the company owners gets, which mounts up while they are enjoying five hour lunches or are sunning themselves on their newest yacht, while planning whise company they can buy out to make their fortunes even larger, again on the labour of those who do the hard work, but get little in return - apart from some measly insulting bonus, compared to what the owner's bank account just keeps on swelling to?
Keep in mind that these owners will already have had built bolt-holes for themselves, well stacked with their needs in more than one country--because even they might get caught out from a sudden war--way above what the average person can afford for their family for more than a year.
One more comment Davina regarding your comment on oligarchs owning many houses, palaces while others own none is as accurate as it gets. Some people own dozens , while some corporations own millions of residences.
A solution by the people for the people …. No one, or corporate entity of any kind can own more than 3 residences, generously speaking. That way, corporations are forced to sell their properties in a few years of grace, and sold at auction for whatever homes are still unsold. You will hear Socialist from every rabbit hole but who cares, if socialism or whatever name is suitable then hallelujah! We will have homelessness a fatal blow.
I know I’m stretching it here a little so no big deal if that strategy happens to break the corporate strings that enslave everyone.
The push back would be interesting. It turns out many people do not want the 1% to be income taxed, and are happy with them paying differed Capital Gains because they may win the lottery, really. I had many hard fought door knocking conversations with people angry at Bernie having three homes. I said, Bernie owns his home in Burlington, he owns the family cabin in the North woods near a lake, he also owns at home in D.C. that he lives in most of the year.
Property is one of the common assets of a large fraction of the middle class. I have no solutions to the I struggled to get mine why should I buy yours argument. There must be a solution. It is shocking how many older people balk at funding education in their own neighborhoods. Is it fear of the unknown future? Fear of the dystopia Caitlin is writing about.
As education exists today why would anyone want to fund it? It is nothing less than a system for indoctrinating people to help them become good slaves.
You said it Peter! “Slaves”. Paying rents, mortgages in particular, and having to beg for mercy without a decent Credit score’ tells you the extent of your slavery… to the ‘Masters’.
I love you my friend. Thank you so much for sharing your inner thoughts at times of chaos. At times I envy people who stay unaware and ignorant of the chaos.
I would love to have coffee and share stories of past and stories of our future.
Wow, thank you for writing this. I am still processing the emotions, thank you, thank you. I love you.
Most of your comments seem so intense, and riveting. Your question about why the occurrence of so many wars can probably be answered by the fact that wars, or the preparations for wars, are very profitable. The more wars, the more money is assigned to fight them.
Money making via wars could work forever, except when the day comes when the word nuclear will be added, and then that will end all wars.
"When Bonaparte insisted that the heart is one of the entrails, that it is the pit of the stomach that moves the world, - do we thank him for the gracious instruction? Our disgust is the protest of human nature against a lie. The ground of hope is in the infinity of the world; which infinity reappears in every particle ..." ~Emerson
This again. You nail it every time. I hope for a better society and I work towards that goal but it is an uphill struggle and I plummet back down sometimes into the trough of despair. People accuse me of being a cynic but as George Carlin pointed out, a cynic is a disappointed idealist. I will continue to speak out until I draw my dying breath and I take comfort that I see great young people who will pick up the baton after me. I believe in them.
I work everyday with the most intelligent, kind, and loving students. All of them seeing they have spent 6 yrs at a grad. degree that has declining funding for physics and the teaching positions that come with it. One went to an insurance company in order to pay her student loans. Teaching at a community university was not an option. One left the u.s. and returned to Mexico, brilliant and kind. I miss her.
I think the fact that ppl today, young and old, can see images of genocide on their smartphones and feel a visceral revulsion speaks to the fact that our shared humanity can't be covered up by pointless abstractions or stupid ideas.
Why do people keeps saying things like that? I'm 86 and still feel revulsion at what they people of this world do to each other, and I'm sure there are plenty of 60+ who feel exactly the same way.
Most people I know are around 60. Even the most conservative, well-off, right wing individuals are now seeing the truth. Some have only woken since 2023. Better late than ever, they're woken now. Oh, and my 86 year old cousin paid my train fare to go march in London as she didn't feel up to the full day. From my perspective it's the teens that are distracted, with their 'influencer' beauty videos and fast fashion. They have never taken any interest in world affairs.
CJ>>"Everything about this dystopia is like this. If you could see it all with fresh eyes, you would scream in horror. The only reason anyone finds any of this tolerable is because we have become desensitized and accustomed to the madness."
SO TRUE Caitlin! I've been screaming in horror for a while now (mostly internally, but sometimes it overflows externally). It's had an alienating effect on me (i.e. I feel more and more alienated from other humans that think 'this world is normal and just the way it should be'.), and the number of humans that I've been alienated from grows by the day...
I wish there was some MAGIC PILL that would instantly give people Critical Thinking skills and a massive dose of EMPATHY and ability to put themselves in the shoes of others.
If you ever come up with the formula for that magic pill, please start pumping it into the municipal water supply of every town and city you possibly can. The world could do with a lot more folks with empathy and critical thinking skills.
Hello Chang, It will be Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett) if we wait for a magic pill. I totally agree with you that critical thinking has to go together with empathy and compassion. Some are born with it and some acquire it. Human nature is such we can all learn it if we care enough.
"The more you learn about the way the world works, the more insane it all looks to you."
That's how you know you are sane--you have never agreed with the way the world works. You know things can be better. You want to love your neighbor, not blow them up. And if you are truly sane, you know you must become a part of the movement to bring this sanity to the way the world works.
And yet when Trump ordered that the streets of Washington, D.C. be cleared of the homeless and their encampments because they were an eyesore, their documents, those we are all required to have in order to justify our existence, were destroyed along with the rest of their belongings.
It didn’t get the coverage it deserved, but nonetheless, we saw live coverage of the destruction as well as interviews of several of the homeless who were displaced. I also heard afterward from members of organizations for the homeless.
No, here in the U.S. It received some national (cable tv) and local coverage. You might be able to find something on it online. I haven’t looked, because I saw the contemporaneous coverage.
Yes, it barely made the news here. I don't know for sure however that happened when Demented Don had Xi coming to D.C. Someone in the Chinese delegation must have remarked about the homeless?
The homeless do have the right to defend themselves, although they may not have the means to do so. Communities have a moral obligation to defend those who cannot defend themselves.
I am temporarily banned from Reddit for saying as much.
Thank you for this much-needed sermon, Caitlin's Encyclical Letter - Laudato Si’
And the recent, wasteful trip around the Moon was designed to show YOU who is in charge of directing humanity's wealth, to direct it the farthest possible distance from anyone who is lacking comfort or food or a future. Literally shooting humanity's most precious resources right out into the void of Space.
I have this argument about Science funding frequently. To me knowing what is out there in the Universe is important for us to know where we have been and where we are going. Would this spending for discovery in space be less annoying if we didn't spends hundreds of Billions more on war and destruction? My Sister would argue with me about her funding Dark Matter research. Most funding for the welfare of all of us is not mutually exclusive of funding for education and science. I not long ago invented a process to measure H2O on the Moon and Mars. Was it a waste of time even though most of the work was done in my head laying in bed?
Yes, that's true, science is important. But this Moon voyage served as a convenient weapon of mass distraction during these wars to prevent the flow on energy to China and refocus world attention that was seeing the U.S. as a rogue terrorist state back to a "leader of humanity." Not a leader advancing social progress, but a leader directing social capital into areas of "Progress" which MUST be curtailed if we are going to live in harmony with this planet.
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Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1, 1949 -- May 27, 2011) was an American poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word soul performer and his collaborative work with musician Brian Jackson. His collaborative efforts with Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues and soul music, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron.
The music of these albums, most notably Pieces of a Man and Winter in America in the early 1970s, influenced and helped engender later African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul. Scott-Heron's recording work is often associated with black militant activism and has received much critical acclaim for one of his most well-known compositions "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". On his influence, a music writer later noted that "Scott-Heron's unique proto-rap style influenced a generation of hip-hop artists".
Winter in America is a studio album by American soul musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron and musician Brian Jackson, released in May 1974 on Strata-East Records. Recording sessions for the album took place on three recording dates in September and October of 1973 at D&B Sound Studio in Silver Springs, Maryland. The album served as the third collaboration effort by Scott-Heron and Jackson following the latter's contributions on Pieces of a Man and Free Will.
As the first record produced by the two musicians, it was also the first of their work together to have Jackson receive co-billing for a release. The album features introspective and socially-conscious lyrical content by Scott-Heron and mellow instrumentation and soundscape stylistically rooted in jazz and the blues, which produced a fusion of bluesy jazz-based vocals and Jackson's free jazz arrangements. The album is also one of the earliest known studio releases to contain proto-rap elements such as a stripped-down production style and spoken word-vocalization.
Heron's father Gil Heron (1922 - 27 November, 2008) was a Jamaican footballer/soccer player. He was the first black player to play for Scottish club Celtic FC after being invited on a trial in 1951. Heron went on to score on his debut, on August 18, 1951 in a League Cup tie against Morton that Celtic won 2-0.
We can have the welfare of all of us and education, science funding. The mindless war is the problem. I would love to have had that discussion with him.
America has become a Fascist oligarchy which only serves the interests of the 1 percent. The rest of the public slaves away in jobs that can be abolished from one day to the other. Everything is done to maximize profits with a militarized regime stumbling from one war to another without a moral compass to guide its actions. Mass shootings and homelessness are its trademark and poor people with a mouthful of rotten teeth because they can't afford a dentist in a nation that spends billions on weapons but cares not about the health of its public. Dystopia? How about a living Hell?
America today:
1. Impoverished working class
2. Endless war
3. Militarized police
4. Largest prison system in the world
5. Corporations legally exploit the vulnerable
6. Wealth transfering into the billionaire class.
7. Legislative bodies, courts, & media all hostage to corporate power.
And don't forget:
8. No universal health care and a HHS Secretary who wants to outlaw vaccines for childhood illnesses and start easily avoided epidemics.
The propaganda surrounding Vaccines is even worse than the silence against Israeli terrorism. Most are outright frauds that cause more harm than good while enriching oligarchs. MMR vaccine does cause Autism. The Covid vaxes do kill via blood clots, scrambled DNA. The Spanish flu was a Rockefeller vaccine test. And the annual flu shot is proven useless.
Sounds like an internet educated person. You don't know science I see.
Sounds like someone who believes everything a corporation or government feeds them.
Vaccines, which Pasteur renounced on his deathbed, have never saved anyone's life or health, evidentially.
Do you have a link to a research article about that? Never heard Pasteur renounced vaccines.
No. It's part of Terrain discussion/history. Probably Dr Tom Cowan's or Dr Andrew Kaufman's blogs would be good backup on this - along with how to read a peer-reviewed study, such as the many, maybe all, that ASSUME the existence of 'pathogenic viruses' and pretend to be good science, and aren't at all.
God, what a nightmare. Wake me up when it's all over.
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. "
- Pericles
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in." ~Michael Corleone
In that case, you will need to sleep for longer than Snow White.
Rip Van Winkle is a more apt reference.
Mmmm, asleep for 20 years.
Stop the world I wanna get off…
Only a few acts left, we might as well see it out - until the curtain call.
It won't be over without your engagement.
A question I have been asking, which makes me disliked at dinner parties. Have we past the tipping point of chaos that will allow change into Socialism. No one argues the point of chaos.
Apparently more have indeed engaged in Germany - the far-right now gaining huge power under Friedrich Merz. Once again, militarization is back on the menu. Attack Russia? Yes, I agree, it will soon "be over".
Donald Trump is the best thing ever to happen to eu normies.
"Vote for us, unless you want a clown like Trump!" their slogan.
A familiar and well-worn slogan.
Friedrich Merz is “far right”?? Since when? I must have missed his conversion from a corrupt, narcicistic Rothschild-agent to a patriot devoted to serve his nation.
Please enlighten me. Thanks.
What I haven't felt for a long time, there may be no one to wake you up : ( The Neutron Showers rinse everyone at nearly the same time.
So all it was - was a nightmare and nothing more. Sigh.
Sounds like an interesting Sci-Fi story my friend.
More like a Long Day's Journey into Night. Turns out O'Neill was right after all.
This is what America was like before POTUS FDR formally recognized labor unions. The 40-hour work week and two-day weekends and decent wages were the concessions to the union demands in order to forestall a bloody revolution.
The “good times” period from around 1935 until around 1970 was an anomaly. The illegal undeclared war in Vietnam was a clear indication of disruption of the myth of the American Dream.
Yeah, the US may have had "good times", but millions were dying from WW2, cities destroyed, suffering went on for years afterwards.
Maybe that's part of the fucking problem?
The US never feels the effects of the misery it creates?
"Fascism was the application to white people of colonial procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the 'coolies' of India, and the 'ni**ers' of Mrica."
-Aimé Fernand David Césaire
***
Simply speaking, Fascism is Imperialism brought home..
youtube.com/watch?v=k17q7hdVsTA
Note the quotation marks around “good times”. The economics were good for some people aside from the elites in the USA and elsewhere. Many of the MAGA cheerleaders may want to return to such conditions.
It's coming.
That does appear to be true. The current situation is closer to the normal state of human government.
Results may vary.
The government of the USA officially represents less than 5% of human population of the world. The American Empire, however, appears to be governed by Wall Street and has far greater influence.
The governments of China, India and Russia may or may not have different intentions.
If *only* government were the problem, like the billionaires have been spending their billions to make sure you believe is the problem. That - and the guy mowing your lawn (apparently).
The billionaires own Wall Street and the government and the mass media that entertains and informs the proverbial “lawnmower guy” and the “red hats”.
The billionaires are striving to own the entire educational system. Note that Secretaries of Education DeVos and McMahon are billionaires.
The real power is collectively in the hands of the 99% of the population without whom the billionaires cannot function. In a true democracy of adequately educated voters the billionaires would not be in control.
India seeks to avoid short term pain.
China simply wants to be able to sell things and make money.
Russia doesn't want to end the West - they want to be allowed to join it.
For their part, the Americans care for nothing but power, domination and control, and are perfectly happy to burn the world down to ensure that they do not lose these things.
According to Michael Pillsbury’s book, https://thehundredyearmarathon.com/ China is working towards objectives establishing in 1949. I agree with most of Pillsbury’s analysis.
According to information from some of my executive and engineering associates from Ford, GM, IBM, HP, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney who have worked with China, Pillsbury may not know the full extent of China’s plans and the extent to which US corporations have been accelerating China’s progress.
My professional associates from the former USSR tell me that Russia is not an enemy of the people of the USA or Europe. Western Capitalists fear the success of Russia’s socialism and have sided with Russian oligarchs.
India is a huge multiethnic county with no clear plan that I can discern. US Capitalists side with India’s oligarchs.
Even if there were a 100-year plan, the idea is silly. If you asked anyone in 1949 what 2049 would look like, it probably wouldn't predict the internet or genetic engineering. It would look something like "The Jetsons".
It works just fine for the people who matter.
To whom do they matter? To me, they don't (only as the enemy).
To the present system. I have noted that the West is well on the way to being a glorified Brasil, albeit with worse weather, less attractive females and a more hyperbellgerent foreign policy. This suits elites just fine.
I used to wonder why Brazilians voted for the system that oppressed them. Now I get it.
But they DON'T matter, you troll.
Full of exceptionalism and the zero sum game that lowers anyone elses quality of life to increase their own. Except that too is a lie, as only the wealthy and powerful reap the benefits.
The elites see this as a desirable state of affairs.
If the standard of living for, say, the bottom 50% of Americans were to fall to sub-saharan African levels, but the rulers somehow maintained their living standards, the United States would continue to churn along, with the oligarchs coming up with ever more improbable narratives to keep the peons disunited, disoriented, and under control.
"The wealth that's extracted from Imperialism goes into the coffers of the select few, whereas the costs of empire are paid out of the common treasure of the people."
-Thorstein Veblen, 1906
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And this is exactly how "Privatizing Profits and Socializing Losses" works in Capitalism..
"Fascism is just Imperialism trying to save itself"
"This methodology of justifying wars and exploitation abroad and dividing population at home is built into Imperialism, it's absolutely necessary to justify itself"
-Joti Brar
"Fascism was the application to white people of colonial procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the 'coolies' of India, and the 'ni**ers' of Mrica."
-Aimé Fernand David Césaire
***
Simply speaking, Fascism is Imperialism brought home..
youtube.com/watch?v=k17q7hdVsTA
- 50,000 die every year from gunshots.
- 60 million live in food insecurity.
- Total homeless population (U.S.): ~650,000 people (point-in-time estimate)
Chronically (“permanently”) homeless: ~120,000
Temporarily / episodically homeless: ~500,000+
Don’t forget 100,000 - 400,000 killed by medical errors. Numbers vary by different perspectives.
What’s not to like?
Unfortunately true.
Sounds like Fascism to me.
A surveillance apparatus that makes the East German Stasi look like child's play.
A public driven to silence by fear of the State.
It is the American Empire, and not just the country of USA. In Australia it is the same albeit slightly less advanced but going in the same direction. we have no more influence or say in its progress than any American and we have the same corrupted power structures and influences. To a large extent those influences all trace back to the same Epstein class abomination at the core too. Our police are increasingly pro Zionist and they punish the same humanity for the same thinly veiled excuses. The same curtailment of free speech, something we never even had entrenched in our constitution anyway and the same unwritten but widely recognised two tiered legal system. Rules for the people but none for the elites. The same level of corruption and demonic forces peaking through, between the cracks.
I have been feeling this acutely since 2003. I remember the exact time and place I knew we had crossed over to a dystopian nightmare. Now I often feel like I’m watching a very scary movie.
As I remember, I had that same sense of crossing over into dystopia in September, 1951. I was only about three minutes old when the lights came on...
I always felt the most lonely when I was surrounded by people. Never when I was alone.
I love crowds. I usually find myself gravitating to the mic. Friends usually try to keep me from the mic with " They are not here to hear the truth" : )
I get nervous in groups of more than two.
I think it crossed over in 2001. In 2020 The Covid lies were the most obvious demarcation between the old world and this new dystopian one but in 2001 all that was hidden began to emerge from the shadows and focussing on the lies of 9/11 stripped away the illusion for me. I finally realised all that I had grown up believing in were lies. Starting with the lies of Christianity and against Islam. I reverted to Islam in 2011 and from within my new cultural paradigm the realisations came thick and fast thereafter. From here I have also become aware of the breadth of the deception which is not limited to just the Western world after all. There is an elite class which perverts all for its own benefit and protection and ignorance is entrenched, desired and rewarded while speaking truth is all but forbidden outright and words which once had meaning have taken on new and counterintuitive ones. George Orwell's 1984 was a quaint facsimile of the real thing now that we have arrived at the destination.
If the tent encampments give you stress, wait until a bomb falls on your tent if you happen to exist in Gaza.. oh, forgot, talking about that is anti- Semitic…
Which it is not really, because it's semitic people who are being bombed by antisemites.
I was born during WWII, although I don't actually remember being lifted out of my cot and wrapped in blankets, while my mum ran with me to bomb shelters. Yet the sound of a siren still sends a shudder through me. It took years for me to stop, and stand frozen, wherever I was when I heard that sound, even one going off in a movie sends that fear in me.
Something that keeps running through my mind with these wars for no valid reason as in - bombing a country without warning(we'll make up the excuses later). Then your country has the absolute right to defend itself, the honest to god right, not some made up lies about the aggressor being the innocent party because they're your ally, but above all the made up rubbish, you are ten out of ten, right to defend your country.
But why are there these wars upon wars, mostly against countries the West does not see as too important to bomb? Is it to cut down the world's population while the oligarchs continue to dig up fossil fuels because it grows their fat bank accounts - accounts held in overseas banks that don't disclose how much they have accumulated from their pollution of the planet.
In their sick minds, is it only them that deserve to have decent food(cooked by someone else, of course) and clean air to breathe(at the cost of someone else's health) and multiple mansions in several countries that they are busy plundering for the wealth they steal from it(while so many may not have even one home, because their miserable wage keeps them in poverty)? Or those using spy nets to ensure no one else gets a decent living, if to live at all, while they make millions from the work of those whose pay is disgusting compared to what the company owners gets, which mounts up while they are enjoying five hour lunches or are sunning themselves on their newest yacht, while planning whise company they can buy out to make their fortunes even larger, again on the labour of those who do the hard work, but get little in return - apart from some measly insulting bonus, compared to what the owner's bank account just keeps on swelling to?
Keep in mind that these owners will already have had built bolt-holes for themselves, well stacked with their needs in more than one country--because even they might get caught out from a sudden war--way above what the average person can afford for their family for more than a year.
One more comment Davina regarding your comment on oligarchs owning many houses, palaces while others own none is as accurate as it gets. Some people own dozens , while some corporations own millions of residences.
A solution by the people for the people …. No one, or corporate entity of any kind can own more than 3 residences, generously speaking. That way, corporations are forced to sell their properties in a few years of grace, and sold at auction for whatever homes are still unsold. You will hear Socialist from every rabbit hole but who cares, if socialism or whatever name is suitable then hallelujah! We will have homelessness a fatal blow.
I know I’m stretching it here a little so no big deal if that strategy happens to break the corporate strings that enslave everyone.
The push back would be interesting. It turns out many people do not want the 1% to be income taxed, and are happy with them paying differed Capital Gains because they may win the lottery, really. I had many hard fought door knocking conversations with people angry at Bernie having three homes. I said, Bernie owns his home in Burlington, he owns the family cabin in the North woods near a lake, he also owns at home in D.C. that he lives in most of the year.
Property is one of the common assets of a large fraction of the middle class. I have no solutions to the I struggled to get mine why should I buy yours argument. There must be a solution. It is shocking how many older people balk at funding education in their own neighborhoods. Is it fear of the unknown future? Fear of the dystopia Caitlin is writing about.
As education exists today why would anyone want to fund it? It is nothing less than a system for indoctrinating people to help them become good slaves.
Well, so being able to answer the questions we don't have answers to is useless? My first paper
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.48.3996
one of many
https://lss.fnal.gov/archive/2017/pub/fermilab-pub-17-351.pdf
another of many
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.15976
My personal favorite paper
https://inspirehep.net/literature/1359376
How could we learn any of this without people who wanted to know the answers to unanswered questions.
Read the papers and let me know how useless the information is.
You said it Peter! “Slaves”. Paying rents, mortgages in particular, and having to beg for mercy without a decent Credit score’ tells you the extent of your slavery… to the ‘Masters’.
I have spent most of my life answering questions that people use to answer questions today. I found it far more interesting than living in a cave.
This exp. allowed us to build the largest mass Dark Matter detector.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10847757/authors#authors
We built this exp. to launch end of year.
https://www.nanosats.eu/sat/darkness
For the life of me I don't know why someone wouldn't want to know the answers to our questions.
Well, so being able to answer the questions we don't have answers to is useless? My first paper
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.48.3996
one of many
https://lss.fnal.gov/archive/2017/pub/fermilab-pub-17-351.pdf
another of many
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.15976
My personal favorite paper
https://inspirehep.net/literature/1359376
How could we learn any of this without people who wanted to know the answers to unanswered questions.
Read the papers and let me know how useless the information is.
I love you my friend. Thank you so much for sharing your inner thoughts at times of chaos. At times I envy people who stay unaware and ignorant of the chaos.
I would love to have coffee and share stories of past and stories of our future.
Wow, thank you for writing this. I am still processing the emotions, thank you, thank you. I love you.
Most of your comments seem so intense, and riveting. Your question about why the occurrence of so many wars can probably be answered by the fact that wars, or the preparations for wars, are very profitable. The more wars, the more money is assigned to fight them.
Money making via wars could work forever, except when the day comes when the word nuclear will be added, and then that will end all wars.
We are all Palestinian now.
Almost nothing that humans do is natural. Why do you think cats stare in bemused contempt?
"When Bonaparte insisted that the heart is one of the entrails, that it is the pit of the stomach that moves the world, - do we thank him for the gracious instruction? Our disgust is the protest of human nature against a lie. The ground of hope is in the infinity of the world; which infinity reappears in every particle ..." ~Emerson
And the cats are right!
If you were small, cats would eat you…
And why do you think babies cry when they are born?
This again. You nail it every time. I hope for a better society and I work towards that goal but it is an uphill struggle and I plummet back down sometimes into the trough of despair. People accuse me of being a cynic but as George Carlin pointed out, a cynic is a disappointed idealist. I will continue to speak out until I draw my dying breath and I take comfort that I see great young people who will pick up the baton after me. I believe in them.
I believe in young people, too. They are capable and worthy. We should encourage and support them as much as possible.
I work everyday with the most intelligent, kind, and loving students. All of them seeing they have spent 6 yrs at a grad. degree that has declining funding for physics and the teaching positions that come with it. One went to an insurance company in order to pay her student loans. Teaching at a community university was not an option. One left the u.s. and returned to Mexico, brilliant and kind. I miss her.
Just finished reading ‘One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This’, by Omar El Akkad.
Thinking of Hind Rajab. And Aaron Bushnell.
Jeremiah Wright had it right - God, damn America.
I think the fact that ppl today, young and old, can see images of genocide on their smartphones and feel a visceral revulsion speaks to the fact that our shared humanity can't be covered up by pointless abstractions or stupid ideas.
They'll get used to it. Wait until they are 60 years old and have bought into the system.
Why do people keeps saying things like that? I'm 86 and still feel revulsion at what they people of this world do to each other, and I'm sure there are plenty of 60+ who feel exactly the same way.
Most people I know are around 60. Even the most conservative, well-off, right wing individuals are now seeing the truth. Some have only woken since 2023. Better late than ever, they're woken now. Oh, and my 86 year old cousin paid my train fare to go march in London as she didn't feel up to the full day. From my perspective it's the teens that are distracted, with their 'influencer' beauty videos and fast fashion. They have never taken any interest in world affairs.
Many of those same teens are seeing there is no path forward for them in the systems we have now.
Their feelings are justified.
I feel as you do.
CJ>>"Everything about this dystopia is like this. If you could see it all with fresh eyes, you would scream in horror. The only reason anyone finds any of this tolerable is because we have become desensitized and accustomed to the madness."
SO TRUE Caitlin! I've been screaming in horror for a while now (mostly internally, but sometimes it overflows externally). It's had an alienating effect on me (i.e. I feel more and more alienated from other humans that think 'this world is normal and just the way it should be'.), and the number of humans that I've been alienated from grows by the day...
I wish there was some MAGIC PILL that would instantly give people Critical Thinking skills and a massive dose of EMPATHY and ability to put themselves in the shoes of others.
If you ever come up with the formula for that magic pill, please start pumping it into the municipal water supply of every town and city you possibly can. The world could do with a lot more folks with empathy and critical thinking skills.
Be that pill! Recruit others to join you.
Hello Chang, It will be Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett) if we wait for a magic pill. I totally agree with you that critical thinking has to go together with empathy and compassion. Some are born with it and some acquire it. Human nature is such we can all learn it if we care enough.
Nice to see you back.
Thorazine?
It's a deliberate destruction of civil society and the social contract in order to discredit and get rid of democratic self-governance itself.
To paraphrase Lord Salisbury: "The people of the West are carrying a lunatic asylum on their backs."
"The more you learn about the way the world works, the more insane it all looks to you."
That's how you know you are sane--you have never agreed with the way the world works. You know things can be better. You want to love your neighbor, not blow them up. And if you are truly sane, you know you must become a part of the movement to bring this sanity to the way the world works.
The problem is: it is not working. Until it changes, and fast, it will collapse.
I love you friend. Yes exactly right.
If most of us are aware that tent living can lead to a harmful outcome, tent living would be abolished in a healthy population.
If there exists homelessness in our neck of the woods, and we do not react, then aren’t we responsible for it?
Moreover, if the authorities just walk in and destroy tent encampments, do the holes have the right to defend themselves ?
4th Amendment
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and
seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue,
but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmtion, and particularly describing the place to be searched,
and the persons or things to be seized."
Need anymore be need to be said?
And yet when Trump ordered that the streets of Washington, D.C. be cleared of the homeless and their encampments because they were an eyesore, their documents, those we are all required to have in order to justify our existence, were destroyed along with the rest of their belongings.
Wow I never heard this. I'm not sure it made the news over here
It didn’t get the coverage it deserved, but nonetheless, we saw live coverage of the destruction as well as interviews of several of the homeless who were displaced. I also heard afterward from members of organizations for the homeless.
In the UK?
No, here in the U.S. It received some national (cable tv) and local coverage. You might be able to find something on it online. I haven’t looked, because I saw the contemporaneous coverage.
Yes, it barely made the news here. I don't know for sure however that happened when Demented Don had Xi coming to D.C. Someone in the Chinese delegation must have remarked about the homeless?
proposed changes to Louisiana law on homelessness
https://www.commondreams.org/news/louisiana-homeless-bill
That is so cruel
So sorry for the typos.. should read’do the homeless have the right to defend themselves?’ And not :” do the holes……
The homeless do have the right to defend themselves, although they may not have the means to do so. Communities have a moral obligation to defend those who cannot defend themselves.
I am temporarily banned from Reddit for saying as much.
I assumed you meant the holes left when they departed... All that was left of their humanity...
Sorry Mary… I wanted to write the word ‘homeless’ not ‘holes’… but your assumption fits well nevertheless.
You make too much sense Cait.
that's CA CAPITOL CITY, start ~3:00:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPsPawTRsgI
and couple of more places around the city:
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sacramento-homeless-tents-at-c-and-30th-gm1655708962-534524619
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/sacramento-homeless-tents.html?sortBy=relevant
https://nypost.com/2022/07/19/sacramento-facing-record-homeless-crisis-crime-wave/
More taxes for MILITARY? More wars? More AI to REPLACE HUMANS???
TRILLIONS OF DEBT, with every day MORE 'thanks' to MENTALLY IMPAIRED POLITICIANS?
How long will American stay silent and watch this all?
Thank you for this much-needed sermon, Caitlin's Encyclical Letter - Laudato Si’
And the recent, wasteful trip around the Moon was designed to show YOU who is in charge of directing humanity's wealth, to direct it the farthest possible distance from anyone who is lacking comfort or food or a future. Literally shooting humanity's most precious resources right out into the void of Space.
I have this argument about Science funding frequently. To me knowing what is out there in the Universe is important for us to know where we have been and where we are going. Would this spending for discovery in space be less annoying if we didn't spends hundreds of Billions more on war and destruction? My Sister would argue with me about her funding Dark Matter research. Most funding for the welfare of all of us is not mutually exclusive of funding for education and science. I not long ago invented a process to measure H2O on the Moon and Mars. Was it a waste of time even though most of the work was done in my head laying in bed?
Yes, that's true, science is important. But this Moon voyage served as a convenient weapon of mass distraction during these wars to prevent the flow on energy to China and refocus world attention that was seeing the U.S. as a rogue terrorist state back to a "leader of humanity." Not a leader advancing social progress, but a leader directing social capital into areas of "Progress" which MUST be curtailed if we are going to live in harmony with this planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuqU5XSo-1U
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Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1, 1949 -- May 27, 2011) was an American poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word soul performer and his collaborative work with musician Brian Jackson. His collaborative efforts with Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues and soul music, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron.
The music of these albums, most notably Pieces of a Man and Winter in America in the early 1970s, influenced and helped engender later African-American music genres such as hip hop and neo soul. Scott-Heron's recording work is often associated with black militant activism and has received much critical acclaim for one of his most well-known compositions "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised". On his influence, a music writer later noted that "Scott-Heron's unique proto-rap style influenced a generation of hip-hop artists".
Winter in America is a studio album by American soul musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron and musician Brian Jackson, released in May 1974 on Strata-East Records. Recording sessions for the album took place on three recording dates in September and October of 1973 at D&B Sound Studio in Silver Springs, Maryland. The album served as the third collaboration effort by Scott-Heron and Jackson following the latter's contributions on Pieces of a Man and Free Will.
As the first record produced by the two musicians, it was also the first of their work together to have Jackson receive co-billing for a release. The album features introspective and socially-conscious lyrical content by Scott-Heron and mellow instrumentation and soundscape stylistically rooted in jazz and the blues, which produced a fusion of bluesy jazz-based vocals and Jackson's free jazz arrangements. The album is also one of the earliest known studio releases to contain proto-rap elements such as a stripped-down production style and spoken word-vocalization.
Heron's father Gil Heron (1922 - 27 November, 2008) was a Jamaican footballer/soccer player. He was the first black player to play for Scottish club Celtic FC after being invited on a trial in 1951. Heron went on to score on his debut, on August 18, 1951 in a League Cup tie against Morton that Celtic won 2-0.
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We can have the welfare of all of us and education, science funding. The mindless war is the problem. I would love to have had that discussion with him.
America has become a Fascist oligarchy which only serves the interests of the 1 percent. The rest of the public slaves away in jobs that can be abolished from one day to the other. Everything is done to maximize profits with a militarized regime stumbling from one war to another without a moral compass to guide its actions. Mass shootings and homelessness are its trademark and poor people with a mouthful of rotten teeth because they can't afford a dentist in a nation that spends billions on weapons but cares not about the health of its public. Dystopia? How about a living Hell?