I'm rereading Chris Hedges' "The Greatest Evil is War" and I'm once again struck by the testimony of ex-officers like Spenser Rapone who tells us that "the (U.S.) military's inherent function is the abuse and degradation of other people". And "I was inflicting violence on the poorest people on earth. How is their any morality in that?'
Rapone's testimony and that of other U.S. service members goes a long way toward explaining why the US is so strongly committed to Zionist Israel's violence against Palestinians. After all, as our acolytes, Zionists learned it from the masters of violence, of genocide --- US. Thank you Uncle Sam. Genocidal maniacs stick together.
"If Christ were born today, he would be born under rubble, Israeli bombing’
"Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – The churches of Palestine have announced the cancellation of all festive Christmas celebrations in an expression of unity with Gaza and rejection of the ongoing aggression against Palestinians, limiting them to masses and prayers."
"In Bethlehem, the Lutheran Church decided that its Christmas nativity scene would reflect the reality of children living and being born in Palestine today, placing the symbolic Baby Jesus in a manger of rubble and destruction."
Both, but US population is extraordinarily compliant. For example, they’ve allowed themselves to be propagandised into believing that public health care is bad/inferior/unaffordable but a blank check for the military and invading other countries is fine. Very few question either.
I was just commenting on here with another person and I had an illuminating idea.
In Europe (France) we have one of the best Healthcare systems in the World. I see it as the last bastion against any right wing politician because if it is taken away we will have a revolution. Maybe this is why US never had a good health system?
Any possibility of a public system in the US has always been attacked and sabotaged by not only the private insurers and pharmaceutical companies but also the politicians themselves who take money from insurers, drug companies etc.
Don't count on it. Canada had a great healthcare system but over the past 20 years, it has slowly been eroded. Hospital boards have been taken over by insurance company executives, hospital staff have been cut back, chiropractic and massage therapy are no longer covered, Doctors are not treated very well by the government and opt out of the public health care system.
Obama saw opportunity for a perfect distraction and bait and switch...the Iraq war ragging he focused on health care ,,,they ask the public what they wanted...the shout came back about single payer..Obama's big ears flapped in a breeze,, ok folks will get to work on it..writes up a proposals presents it to public cheers,,.goes in the back rooms with the insurance industry strip out anything that helps the public avoid going medically bankrupt and comes back to shove it down our throats saying HERE YOU WANTED IT now EAT IT!
This sums up every single policy creation perpetrated by your feckless leaders for the end game of public exploitation as a resource to be simply managed and controlled as suckers.
Don't forget to sign and date those tax checks like obedient little serfs.
Yes my peers have always baffled me w/ fear & compliance. I was born trouble. But my pain of seeing just lead to self destructive me 🤷♀️female inward 🤷♀️could have been worse. No one wanted the thing i was , lashing out. Anywho today im back truth love forgiveness helping intuition are now my fav drugs. I want to make a positive difference. Leave it better than i found it. Redemption is real dont count people out. But forgiveness takes deliberate practice. Its effing hard ,but for the grace of....
I did not allow anything and you know nothing about what I have done with my life. I have voted altho I didn't like the system, I worked in the healthcare system, I opposed all those changes regularly and I sat on a neighbourhood hospital committee for a while. I only had anger directed my way from anyone with any possible ability to change the course of events. So, Jenny Stokes, glue your lips together and don't talk about things you know nothing about.
Why may I ask do you take this so personally? This is what happens when anyone talks to Americans about your Country. I was NOT talking about YOU personally. Yes we have problems and here in France it is because we have not enough Doctors. BUT try cutting down on anything. Remember the French out on the streets when they raised the retirement age? This retirement age will I can assure you come up in the next elections.
Thing is with the US you want everything to happen NOW we don't. It takes time. The 'art of politics' is looking to the future mostly.
First, I said in CANADA. Maybe you don't realize that Canada is not part of the US. And give me a break. France is not the only country where the people have opposed what their government is doing.
Erdogan: ‘ All values relating to humanity are being murdered’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a speech on human rights to accuse the West of “barbarism” for its stance on the Israel-Hamas war.
“Israel has carried out atrocities and massacres that will shame the whole of humanity,” Erdogan told a packed hall in Istanbul the day before the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“All the values relating to humanity are being murdered in Gaza. In the face of such brutality, international institutions and human rights organisations are not taking any concrete steps to prevent such violations,” the Turkish leader said.
“The United States stands by Israel with its money and military equipment. Hey, America! How much are you going to pay for that?” Not to mention our shame for that.
I am shocked that Presidents of Harvard, MIT and U Penn could not make it clear that a student holding a sign, calling for a Palestinian Intifada is not the same as calling for the genocides of Jews. In particular they should have made it clear that the threat of actual genocide comes from those who have the power to carry it out, ie. Israel. The context of an angry child telling their mother that " he/she is going to kill her versus a man who is pointing a gun at the mother with his finger on the trigger says he is "going to killer her" are the same words in different context. This is a good analogy because Palestinians are incapable of killing all the Jew, while it could be said that over a long period of time the Israelis are actually committing genocide. Most nation states capable of genocide don't talk about it, they just do it, although one could read between the lines and conclude that genocide is a stated policy of the( Lukkud) sp? party in Israel
My mother was driven out of Germany by war bombs abuse rape and death at the age of 12. The ills of my family are a result of war,, wars because the West didn't care about Jews,, That was just the cover story.. The real reason was stop Germany from becoming a power the West could not control. False flags as a policy of clandestine operations.
Already the American Jews (Zionists) had been embeding themselves into the fabric of western society. And they really reached their stride in Dallas 1963. And ever since have been getting away with all manor of stealth operations to control all of the western allies nations with a plethora of willing sycophants in high places to facilitate this.. On to Vietnam and Iraqi freedom to make sure you never notice.
The USA government is a big dumb bodyguard to ziopathology and will bow in servile subservance to the zog mafia no matter what atrocity it commits because in effect USrAel is one and the same.
Isn't the claim to go into every country the USA has destroyed is to "save its people" ??? from despotic leaders that dared try and run their own country without the influence and control of the USA?? And the USA is just a vassal state for the dynasty family European and american corporate elites..
Caitlin said: Only Truth And Clear Seeing Can Lead Us To Peace And Harmony. We need to examine those words closely; they are full of wisdom and no truer words have been written. Take note of the exclusionary word: ONLY.
In reference to your claim that a child threatening to kill his mother I must ask. Is NOW the only time? That child may well grow to be able to kill his mother and then what? Do we THEN equate his threat with the threat of a man who can NOW kill the mother? This enmity is long-simmering, occasionally coming to an outright boil or horror and mass death. In Catitlin's headline we see an answer, even if that answer is that these two sides WILL NOT EVER come to terms for co-existence. Because THAT answer tells us not who is right and who is wrong, if that paradigm actually exists.
To many people, it is obvious, the survival of the Jewish people is conflated with the survival of the "state" of Israel. If one wishes to address the troubles that exist because Israel exists, and many are appalled by this existence, one must predicate the resolution upon the survival of the Jewish people. Does "from the river to the sea..." imply a genocide? Some think so and those some are inclined to fight against what they believe to be an always-existing desire for their genoice. That must be reasoned out if this enmity is ever to be abated.
Now that we know how many stars there are, i.e. 200 sextillion, we might rethink the understanding that these people will be as numerous as the stars. If the Jewish people can do that, can those threatened by Israel reconsider how to accommodate their survival?
Only Truth And Clear Seeing Can Lead Us To Peace And Harmony
Western governments are shamelessly trying to cover the hideous crimes of the empire, and disgracing themselves in the process. Both democracy and morality in government are in full collapse. We are seeing the utter devastation of an empire seated in Washington cannibalizing its own country and all other Western/NATO countries. Empires are loaded with hubris and no remorse, and most likely will go into full collapse.
Whether or not they go nuclear will be a measure of how crazy they have become.
This is the truth Robert Billyard. As a child of British Colonialism in Sri Lanka I cringed the way the Singhalese were treated, this was before I was old enough to truly understand. Even today the British (many of them) can still not understand the cruelty of their capitalistic/arrogant dismissal of whole countries of people.
I really STILL do not understand the need for one country to FORCE others to be like them.
Caitlin is correct. Why don't we understand that if you keep people submissive they will retaliate. On and on and no-one learns.
Imperialism is by definition racist and a vehicle for absolute power and money, to steal others wealth and self-determination. Empires ultimately destroy themselves and that is what we are seeing now. The elites are going crazy as the empire crumbles and they are helpless when the judgement of history renders its verdict. The rise and fall of empires is one of the immutable cycles of history and American power elites cannot accept this. The first step forward is to repudiate war and they do not have the common sense to make this step, they are ruled by hubris and delusional ambitions.
"I really STILL do not understand the need for one country to FORCE others to be like them."
Maybe this will help you - they really DON'T want to force them into anything. It's a cover. Under that cover the real goal is to enslave them. "Spreading democracy" is a euphemism for "we need to ensure it's sufficient chaos here so we can control you".
And this is also why this week, the American public is being bombarded with fear-porn about the waning support for Ukraine, and the supposed likelihood of American troops fighting Russia if we withdraw financial support for Ukraine.
Like the magician's slight of hand, they no longer want us seeing the atrocity in Israel, so pivot back to Putin.
This is no longer a fight we can sit out. It's us against them. Us being the world, and them being the military-industrial complex led by the U.S. State Department and Congress. They all need to be out on their asses. Time for a real change, and I don't mean more politicians. They are all complicit.
The U.S. news programs and news analysis programs in particular seem to have many "experts" this week openly and clearly speaking on the need to increase the budget for the "defense industry".
Yes, the good cop, bad cop schtick works just as well in the U.N. as it does in Congress.
Have one or a few people who's turn it is to pretend that they oppose something knowing full dam well that they are simply controlled opposition. It works for or against an issue.
This is why it's important not to fall under the spell that someone is a good egg for opposing something that is destined to be. They are all complicit.
There are no good eggs, only the illusion of such.
Yes, and the State Dept. laughably asserting that Putin will attack NATO countries, not being "satisfied" with Ukraine. Russia had their hand forced as we all know, and there is no benefit to them moving against geographically close trading partners.
Yet our State Dept and many in Congress want to send another 61,000 millions (the impact of viewing the numbers this way so much more meaningful than 61 Billion) of dollars in laundered money to Ukraine while simultaneously threatening Ma and Pa taxpayer with conscription of their loved ones.
Ernesto much as I agree with your comments mostly I don't agree with this one.
I think the US understands NOTHING about Russia or China for that matter.
These politicians go back and forth and only talk to people on their strata.
I am NOT sure Americans are up for fighting from what I have read nor do I believe that the US is the Military Complex we believe it is. We have been told yes, but is this propaganda?
Similarly we are old that Russia won't survive! Hmmmm
Jen, I have read article upon article that the US military is at the lowest point it has ever been - the percentage of troops, ships, tanks and everything else - this is why I'm not understanding why anyone hasn't thrown the first punch? I'd like to see the US take on Iran and then Russia! IMHO Russia is going to put an end to all of this and come out the winner. Everyone was depleting their arsenal with Ukraine and leaving them vulnerable. As best as I can tell - everything seems to be in their favor. Putin has also been upping his threats for an immediate cease fire. The other side of that coin is - we know there was no security breach on 10/07 an this was deliberate. Both the US and Israel's reputation are now in tatters - paving the way for Russia. There is so much more to this but I personally have nor will ever underestimate Russia.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. **That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men ...**" ~Thomas Jefferson
In other words, without government - these rights cannot be secured. I agree with Jefferson - you cannot have a free society without some organization and agreed upon rules - and protection of the rights of all citizens of that society, which requires a government. Government in of itself is not necessarily evil - the evil lies in its abuses and corruption.
Invariably, with class warfare - the wealthy will attack whatever government stands between them and their obscene wealth - why there is such an assault on humane regulations (child labor right now is on the rise in the US), on doing anything about climate change - or maintaining a regulated marketplace - providing equal opportunity for all (not just the owner classes). The rights of a citizenry will never depend on an effete, corporatized controlling billionaire class. That is an Ayn Randian lie and pure propaganda, usually funded by the filthy rich.
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
This can be ended in a minute. All that is necessary is for people to RISE UP and PROJECT their power against the Evil Regime that is Washington DC and to Demand immediate withdrawl of any and all support to the TERRORIST state of Zionist Apartheid Israel. If a few hundred thousand can get together in UK, WashingtonDC, and a few to every county city and state governmnt office this will end despite The ADL, AIPAC. Despite the Television Propaganda and lies. Boycott government, and Israel on every level. Do Not look away Rise up and be counted.
The people banding together and rising up is an important and powerful tool. The problem isn't generically "government", it's who's controlling government. Government is the order of society and much of it is intelligent and necessary. When government is considered the culprit without the nuance of what within it is broken, our actual needs get lost. The issue is that those with the biggest influence over government aren't those motivated by the greater good.
I agree. With the exception that what is called Society does not have the same goals as government. Society is everyone of us pursuing our own self interests basically peacefully. Government is a Centralized 3rd party power structure of a territory that by force plunders and attempts to control the entirety of that society for Their purposes. Essentially a parasite. Buying legitamacy by stealing from some and giving to others..
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. **That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men ...**" ~Thomas Jefferson
Without government - no one would be able to pursue their self interest. The lie is that we'll all be better off allowing the rich run our lives with their corporations and privatized ownership. Corporations are far worse than any representative government .
As far as I'm concerned I think they're certainly equal insofar as basic human rights go but Leonardo da Vinci had far more to him than say the village idiot. Similarly Michelangelo, Einstein, blah blah.
"Government is always occupied by those who wish to control others..." Certainly so where the Westminster Parliament is concerned. It's Psychopathy Central with state-of-the-art strongly subsidised tuck shops, cheap booze, plentiful cocaine deliveries and all sorts of perks including bossing the country around and earning lots of loot from other countries to ignore genocides and war crimes. Nothing to do with libraries, or other public sector workplaces. It's the sick jokers who conspire together to pass rotten laws that are the problem and it's the representative 'democracy'/demockery/DemAllCrazy system that MUST be replaced and a decentralised but networkable approach taken with full participatory democracy for all as its basis. Just examine the legislation output of the psychopaths to know where today's foul political system is going.
"...the worst always rise to the top." Every cook knows this. It's usually called scum that requires skimming and then discarding. I'm not up for chaos though. We do need some basic agreed regulation. The very best, like [self]discipline, is chosen and then administered by ourselves in the Parliament of the Streets mode.
"1st all men are not created equal" - I think this is what Hitler and the Nazis believed.
"Government is always occupied by those who wish to control others." During my lifetime I worked as a librarian and worked for NASA. Myself, and many fellow librarians and NASA employees had no desire to control others - nor did the head librarians or NASA managers.
You are deluded with anti-government propaganda, paid for by the rich - who want to exploit us all like plantation slaves without government interference.
Somehow, those with less power have to find a way to stand up to those who take unearned and undeserved power. It is painful that the US could veto what most of the rest of the world supports. The US has become a Frankenstein.
It came to life as a plantation nation, with Britain about to outlaw slavery!
The U.S. Declaration of Independence explicitly counts its African slaves as less than human - and states that native Americans are “savages”. It’s all written in there. Read it.
If you want to see how extreme the pressure is to obliterate truth, look at not only the spread of lies by government murder of journalists, but also the Biden administration latest move.
Now the Biden regime is targeting STUDENTS in America to silence them for speaking up In favour of truth and accountability :
When the government EDUCATION department are doing this, you should understand how deep the mess is.
And how exactly can Biden win a close election while alienating young people? He can’t.
With moves like this, I suspect they have no plan to hold an election this year. They plan to suspend the election - probably by triggering war with Iran, using this genocide in Palestine to manufacture a reaction from someone- then blame Iran. Watch this space.
You may well be very close to the senerio. Im sure the claws will dig deep & not give up control w/o throwing the kitchen sink at us. They have military might but most of those are our children. So?AI is a joke a MIIC wet dream far from fruition.so far BET🤝no way that shit flys for them yet if ever. PropIGandas thick as they push it on us like the jab.🙄The elections are already very”suspicious”at very least since 16. Proof of tomfoolery exhists & how is DNC a private corp?🤷♀️WTF? I think we only have 1 collective serious move .reverse lockdown on the system:
STOP THE COMERSE 100% in its tracks. No participation in this money ball.ZERO participation,World wide. we could probably shut it down w/ 25% of population or less . Ive heard even 3% ? TAKE TO THE STREETS. Peaceful but Everywhere, in solidarity for only 1 thing we all agree on : HUMANITY FOR ALL (that covers the wrongs on all levels ) Devil in details i know but i feel strongly about having just a practicing a decency & respect for all life.
The action would show who has the ACTUAL POWER of SOLIDARITY & people will feel lifted up a stake in the planet , this existence,as it should be. that will bring miraculous results 🙏❤️🔥
Biden has lost huge amounts of the support he had. And gained nobody.
Plus the GOP has the not only the Supreme Court locked up but also the federal circuit courts. So any close election is lost to the Dems automatically. Because they sat around and did nothing while the GOP blocked appointments for all 8 years of Obama and stalled until they had a GOP president. Then Trump filled those seats.
The ONLY way Biden stays in power is to call off the election. Just watch.
As for GOP appointed judges on the circuit you should educate yourself as to why Biden’s son is now up on tax evasion charges. You’ll find it’s a GOP appointed judge in one of those stockpiles seats who ensured that the Biden DOJ did not get Hunter Biden out of his predicament.
In the Supreme Court they have thrown off any cloak of impartiality.
So you’ll have to deal with where we are in 2022 and the reality of the situation. Which is that Biden cannot stay in office without skipping the election.
Already the Florida “Democratic Party” primaries have been turned into a Soviet style one man “election”.
I take heart that either we will become conscious and bring everything into the light or we will kill each other and/or make the Earth uninhabitable for ourselves. Either way the horror will end soon.
It sure feels that way. There's so much intelligent awareness out there and there's also so much depraved horror out there. But rather than it being an all or nothing outcome, I think the back and forth struggle is part of the path.
The part of GOD ALMIGHTY'S CREATION that accepts THE LORD JESUS CHRIST'S OFFER is going to be saved all else is going to have to accept the outcome STIPULATED AND PROMULGATED clearly by GOD ALMIGHTY HIMSELF!
Bel Trew, whom I know well, is a wonderful journalist striving to publish the truth within a machine that makes that increasingly hard. Thank you for highlighting her work and thank you for continuing to expose the hypocrisies at play
Such an important point. The truth of a situation, and the situation in Gaza particularly, is what will lead to peace. And it's why there is so much propaganda and so many lies around it right now.
I'm rereading Chris Hedges' "The Greatest Evil is War" and I'm once again struck by the testimony of ex-officers like Spenser Rapone who tells us that "the (U.S.) military's inherent function is the abuse and degradation of other people". And "I was inflicting violence on the poorest people on earth. How is their any morality in that?'
Rapone's testimony and that of other U.S. service members goes a long way toward explaining why the US is so strongly committed to Zionist Israel's violence against Palestinians. After all, as our acolytes, Zionists learned it from the masters of violence, of genocide --- US. Thank you Uncle Sam. Genocidal maniacs stick together.
Grotesque what we allowed to fester Eisenhower & others warned us . We are fools & cowards if we allow this Genocidal train to continue u
"If Christ were born today, he would be born under rubble, Israeli bombing’
"Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – The churches of Palestine have announced the cancellation of all festive Christmas celebrations in an expression of unity with Gaza and rejection of the ongoing aggression against Palestinians, limiting them to masses and prayers."
"In Bethlehem, the Lutheran Church decided that its Christmas nativity scene would reflect the reality of children living and being born in Palestine today, placing the symbolic Baby Jesus in a manger of rubble and destruction."
Exactly
Is it "we" who are "allowing" it or "them" that are taking it?
Both, but US population is extraordinarily compliant. For example, they’ve allowed themselves to be propagandised into believing that public health care is bad/inferior/unaffordable but a blank check for the military and invading other countries is fine. Very few question either.
I was just commenting on here with another person and I had an illuminating idea.
In Europe (France) we have one of the best Healthcare systems in the World. I see it as the last bastion against any right wing politician because if it is taken away we will have a revolution. Maybe this is why US never had a good health system?
Any possibility of a public system in the US has always been attacked and sabotaged by not only the private insurers and pharmaceutical companies but also the politicians themselves who take money from insurers, drug companies etc.
But yes, Americans are not willing to fight.
Don't count on it. Canada had a great healthcare system but over the past 20 years, it has slowly been eroded. Hospital boards have been taken over by insurance company executives, hospital staff have been cut back, chiropractic and massage therapy are no longer covered, Doctors are not treated very well by the government and opt out of the public health care system.
No. The British had the same and stupidly allowed it to be destroyed
I lived in London for a while and the National Healthcare System was amazing. It is really sad that money grubbers have killed it.
And I can see that today's Europe is not a bunch of Nazi ideology occupied countries but healthy democracies.
That is, how did you manage to find such a "link"?
Obama saw opportunity for a perfect distraction and bait and switch...the Iraq war ragging he focused on health care ,,,they ask the public what they wanted...the shout came back about single payer..Obama's big ears flapped in a breeze,, ok folks will get to work on it..writes up a proposals presents it to public cheers,,.goes in the back rooms with the insurance industry strip out anything that helps the public avoid going medically bankrupt and comes back to shove it down our throats saying HERE YOU WANTED IT now EAT IT!
This sums up every single policy creation perpetrated by your feckless leaders for the end game of public exploitation as a resource to be simply managed and controlled as suckers.
Don't forget to sign and date those tax checks like obedient little serfs.
Yes my peers have always baffled me w/ fear & compliance. I was born trouble. But my pain of seeing just lead to self destructive me 🤷♀️female inward 🤷♀️could have been worse. No one wanted the thing i was , lashing out. Anywho today im back truth love forgiveness helping intuition are now my fav drugs. I want to make a positive difference. Leave it better than i found it. Redemption is real dont count people out. But forgiveness takes deliberate practice. Its effing hard ,but for the grace of....
Susan. Yes YOU allowed it by not voting for years and not taking politics seriously. Maybe you never thought it would happen in the US?
I did not allow anything and you know nothing about what I have done with my life. I have voted altho I didn't like the system, I worked in the healthcare system, I opposed all those changes regularly and I sat on a neighbourhood hospital committee for a while. I only had anger directed my way from anyone with any possible ability to change the course of events. So, Jenny Stokes, glue your lips together and don't talk about things you know nothing about.
Why may I ask do you take this so personally? This is what happens when anyone talks to Americans about your Country. I was NOT talking about YOU personally. Yes we have problems and here in France it is because we have not enough Doctors. BUT try cutting down on anything. Remember the French out on the streets when they raised the retirement age? This retirement age will I can assure you come up in the next elections.
Thing is with the US you want everything to happen NOW we don't. It takes time. The 'art of politics' is looking to the future mostly.
Jenny, she took it personally because you wrote it personally. Read what you wrote.
First, I said in CANADA. Maybe you don't realize that Canada is not part of the US. And give me a break. France is not the only country where the people have opposed what their government is doing.
Erdogan: ‘ All values relating to humanity are being murdered’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a speech on human rights to accuse the West of “barbarism” for its stance on the Israel-Hamas war.
“Israel has carried out atrocities and massacres that will shame the whole of humanity,” Erdogan told a packed hall in Istanbul the day before the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“All the values relating to humanity are being murdered in Gaza. In the face of such brutality, international institutions and human rights organisations are not taking any concrete steps to prevent such violations,” the Turkish leader said.
“The United States stands by Israel with its money and military equipment. Hey, America! How much are you going to pay for that?” Not to mention our shame for that.
The USofT military is a Force for Good https://postimg.cc/XZDLgW8g
Try to keep up with the propaganda!
Without it many countries wouldn't have Democracy and Freedom.
I am shocked that Presidents of Harvard, MIT and U Penn could not make it clear that a student holding a sign, calling for a Palestinian Intifada is not the same as calling for the genocides of Jews. In particular they should have made it clear that the threat of actual genocide comes from those who have the power to carry it out, ie. Israel. The context of an angry child telling their mother that " he/she is going to kill her versus a man who is pointing a gun at the mother with his finger on the trigger says he is "going to killer her" are the same words in different context. This is a good analogy because Palestinians are incapable of killing all the Jew, while it could be said that over a long period of time the Israelis are actually committing genocide. Most nation states capable of genocide don't talk about it, they just do it, although one could read between the lines and conclude that genocide is a stated policy of the( Lukkud) sp? party in Israel
It's as if an ordinary American Jew in 1944 calling for Germany to be leveled flat was a threat to humanity equal to the Holocaust in full swing.
They did do that...Dresden
I don't think that was because the average American Jew was pissed.
My mother was driven out of Germany by war bombs abuse rape and death at the age of 12. The ills of my family are a result of war,, wars because the West didn't care about Jews,, That was just the cover story.. The real reason was stop Germany from becoming a power the West could not control. False flags as a policy of clandestine operations.
Already the American Jews (Zionists) had been embeding themselves into the fabric of western society. And they really reached their stride in Dallas 1963. And ever since have been getting away with all manor of stealth operations to control all of the western allies nations with a plethora of willing sycophants in high places to facilitate this.. On to Vietnam and Iraqi freedom to make sure you never notice.
The USA government is a big dumb bodyguard to ziopathology and will bow in servile subservance to the zog mafia no matter what atrocity it commits because in effect USrAel is one and the same.
I don't think anyone seriously claims that WWII was started to rescue Jews.
Wow Feral I agree.
Isn't the claim to go into every country the USA has destroyed is to "save its people" ??? from despotic leaders that dared try and run their own country without the influence and control of the USA?? And the USA is just a vassal state for the dynasty family European and american corporate elites..
Caitlin said: Only Truth And Clear Seeing Can Lead Us To Peace And Harmony. We need to examine those words closely; they are full of wisdom and no truer words have been written. Take note of the exclusionary word: ONLY.
In reference to your claim that a child threatening to kill his mother I must ask. Is NOW the only time? That child may well grow to be able to kill his mother and then what? Do we THEN equate his threat with the threat of a man who can NOW kill the mother? This enmity is long-simmering, occasionally coming to an outright boil or horror and mass death. In Catitlin's headline we see an answer, even if that answer is that these two sides WILL NOT EVER come to terms for co-existence. Because THAT answer tells us not who is right and who is wrong, if that paradigm actually exists.
To many people, it is obvious, the survival of the Jewish people is conflated with the survival of the "state" of Israel. If one wishes to address the troubles that exist because Israel exists, and many are appalled by this existence, one must predicate the resolution upon the survival of the Jewish people. Does "from the river to the sea..." imply a genocide? Some think so and those some are inclined to fight against what they believe to be an always-existing desire for their genoice. That must be reasoned out if this enmity is ever to be abated.
Now that we know how many stars there are, i.e. 200 sextillion, we might rethink the understanding that these people will be as numerous as the stars. If the Jewish people can do that, can those threatened by Israel reconsider how to accommodate their survival?
Only Truth And Clear Seeing Can Lead Us To Peace And Harmony
Western governments are shamelessly trying to cover the hideous crimes of the empire, and disgracing themselves in the process. Both democracy and morality in government are in full collapse. We are seeing the utter devastation of an empire seated in Washington cannibalizing its own country and all other Western/NATO countries. Empires are loaded with hubris and no remorse, and most likely will go into full collapse.
Whether or not they go nuclear will be a measure of how crazy they have become.
This is the truth Robert Billyard. As a child of British Colonialism in Sri Lanka I cringed the way the Singhalese were treated, this was before I was old enough to truly understand. Even today the British (many of them) can still not understand the cruelty of their capitalistic/arrogant dismissal of whole countries of people.
I really STILL do not understand the need for one country to FORCE others to be like them.
Caitlin is correct. Why don't we understand that if you keep people submissive they will retaliate. On and on and no-one learns.
Money is power.
Imperialism is by definition racist and a vehicle for absolute power and money, to steal others wealth and self-determination. Empires ultimately destroy themselves and that is what we are seeing now. The elites are going crazy as the empire crumbles and they are helpless when the judgement of history renders its verdict. The rise and fall of empires is one of the immutable cycles of history and American power elites cannot accept this. The first step forward is to repudiate war and they do not have the common sense to make this step, they are ruled by hubris and delusional ambitions.
"I really STILL do not understand the need for one country to FORCE others to be like them."
Maybe this will help you - they really DON'T want to force them into anything. It's a cover. Under that cover the real goal is to enslave them. "Spreading democracy" is a euphemism for "we need to ensure it's sufficient chaos here so we can control you".
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And this is also why this week, the American public is being bombarded with fear-porn about the waning support for Ukraine, and the supposed likelihood of American troops fighting Russia if we withdraw financial support for Ukraine.
Like the magician's slight of hand, they no longer want us seeing the atrocity in Israel, so pivot back to Putin.
This is no longer a fight we can sit out. It's us against them. Us being the world, and them being the military-industrial complex led by the U.S. State Department and Congress. They all need to be out on their asses. Time for a real change, and I don't mean more politicians. They are all complicit.
The U.S. news programs and news analysis programs in particular seem to have many "experts" this week openly and clearly speaking on the need to increase the budget for the "defense industry".
This seems to be a tipping point.
Punctuated by the U.S. being the sole no vote in the U.N.'s declaration to call for an a ceasefire in Gaza.
There is no hiding anymore. Let everyone see who the U.S. really is: the world's foremost terrorist organization.
Even America's european buttbois did better, since they knew that the US would veto.
Yes, the good cop, bad cop schtick works just as well in the U.N. as it does in Congress.
Have one or a few people who's turn it is to pretend that they oppose something knowing full dam well that they are simply controlled opposition. It works for or against an issue.
This is why it's important not to fall under the spell that someone is a good egg for opposing something that is destined to be. They are all complicit.
There are no good eggs, only the illusion of such.
Ha. BUT we are told that the us is the major power in the world so why more money?
Yes, and the State Dept. laughably asserting that Putin will attack NATO countries, not being "satisfied" with Ukraine. Russia had their hand forced as we all know, and there is no benefit to them moving against geographically close trading partners.
Yet our State Dept and many in Congress want to send another 61,000 millions (the impact of viewing the numbers this way so much more meaningful than 61 Billion) of dollars in laundered money to Ukraine while simultaneously threatening Ma and Pa taxpayer with conscription of their loved ones.
These people are without honor and have no shame.
Ernesto much as I agree with your comments mostly I don't agree with this one.
I think the US understands NOTHING about Russia or China for that matter.
These politicians go back and forth and only talk to people on their strata.
I am NOT sure Americans are up for fighting from what I have read nor do I believe that the US is the Military Complex we believe it is. We have been told yes, but is this propaganda?
Similarly we are old that Russia won't survive! Hmmmm
Jen, I have read article upon article that the US military is at the lowest point it has ever been - the percentage of troops, ships, tanks and everything else - this is why I'm not understanding why anyone hasn't thrown the first punch? I'd like to see the US take on Iran and then Russia! IMHO Russia is going to put an end to all of this and come out the winner. Everyone was depleting their arsenal with Ukraine and leaving them vulnerable. As best as I can tell - everything seems to be in their favor. Putin has also been upping his threats for an immediate cease fire. The other side of that coin is - we know there was no security breach on 10/07 an this was deliberate. Both the US and Israel's reputation are now in tatters - paving the way for Russia. There is so much more to this but I personally have nor will ever underestimate Russia.
What are 'winners?' There are NO winners in war.
Maybe Russia is smarter than the US and is enjoying seeing it disintigrate on it's own?
Russia does NOT care about the US.
Pure propaganda from American's part, years and years of Commie's coming to get you!
Why should the US take on Iran> Iran is nothing to do with you!
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“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
― H. L. Mencken
"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses." ~Andrew Jackson
Hmm, how unusual that it is Pres. Andrew Jackson who made that comment about abuses of government, the author of The Trail of Tears. Interesting.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. **That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men ...**" ~Thomas Jefferson
In other words, without government - these rights cannot be secured. I agree with Jefferson - you cannot have a free society without some organization and agreed upon rules - and protection of the rights of all citizens of that society, which requires a government. Government in of itself is not necessarily evil - the evil lies in its abuses and corruption.
Invariably, with class warfare - the wealthy will attack whatever government stands between them and their obscene wealth - why there is such an assault on humane regulations (child labor right now is on the rise in the US), on doing anything about climate change - or maintaining a regulated marketplace - providing equal opportunity for all (not just the owner classes). The rights of a citizenry will never depend on an effete, corporatized controlling billionaire class. That is an Ayn Randian lie and pure propaganda, usually funded by the filthy rich.
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”
― H.L. Mencken
This can be ended in a minute. All that is necessary is for people to RISE UP and PROJECT their power against the Evil Regime that is Washington DC and to Demand immediate withdrawl of any and all support to the TERRORIST state of Zionist Apartheid Israel. If a few hundred thousand can get together in UK, WashingtonDC, and a few to every county city and state governmnt office this will end despite The ADL, AIPAC. Despite the Television Propaganda and lies. Boycott government, and Israel on every level. Do Not look away Rise up and be counted.
The people banding together and rising up is an important and powerful tool. The problem isn't generically "government", it's who's controlling government. Government is the order of society and much of it is intelligent and necessary. When government is considered the culprit without the nuance of what within it is broken, our actual needs get lost. The issue is that those with the biggest influence over government aren't those motivated by the greater good.
I agree. With the exception that what is called Society does not have the same goals as government. Society is everyone of us pursuing our own self interests basically peacefully. Government is a Centralized 3rd party power structure of a territory that by force plunders and attempts to control the entirety of that society for Their purposes. Essentially a parasite. Buying legitamacy by stealing from some and giving to others..
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. **That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men ...**" ~Thomas Jefferson
Without government - no one would be able to pursue their self interest. The lie is that we'll all be better off allowing the rich run our lives with their corporations and privatized ownership. Corporations are far worse than any representative government .
Ayn Rand was a nutcase. Just say'n.
Mistakes were made. 1st all men are not created equal. People have talents and gifts only few posses. There are genius and imbeciles born every day. Government is always occupied by those who wish to control others, the worst always rise to the top. For an excellent description Please visit; https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/12/gary-d-barnett/so-what-do-libertarians-and-the-right-wing-think-of-milei-now/
As far as I'm concerned I think they're certainly equal insofar as basic human rights go but Leonardo da Vinci had far more to him than say the village idiot. Similarly Michelangelo, Einstein, blah blah.
"Government is always occupied by those who wish to control others..." Certainly so where the Westminster Parliament is concerned. It's Psychopathy Central with state-of-the-art strongly subsidised tuck shops, cheap booze, plentiful cocaine deliveries and all sorts of perks including bossing the country around and earning lots of loot from other countries to ignore genocides and war crimes. Nothing to do with libraries, or other public sector workplaces. It's the sick jokers who conspire together to pass rotten laws that are the problem and it's the representative 'democracy'/demockery/DemAllCrazy system that MUST be replaced and a decentralised but networkable approach taken with full participatory democracy for all as its basis. Just examine the legislation output of the psychopaths to know where today's foul political system is going.
"...the worst always rise to the top." Every cook knows this. It's usually called scum that requires skimming and then discarding. I'm not up for chaos though. We do need some basic agreed regulation. The very best, like [self]discipline, is chosen and then administered by ourselves in the Parliament of the Streets mode.
"1st all men are not created equal" - I think this is what Hitler and the Nazis believed.
"Government is always occupied by those who wish to control others." During my lifetime I worked as a librarian and worked for NASA. Myself, and many fellow librarians and NASA employees had no desire to control others - nor did the head librarians or NASA managers.
You are deluded with anti-government propaganda, paid for by the rich - who want to exploit us all like plantation slaves without government interference.
When I said government i was not refering to the wage slaves. Those who seek power are the Narcissist control freaks. Seldom are they Altruist.
We are doing this in many countries but the us needs to read international news not just us News.
Somehow, those with less power have to find a way to stand up to those who take unearned and undeserved power. It is painful that the US could veto what most of the rest of the world supports. The US has become a Frankenstein.
“Become”?
It came to life as a plantation nation, with Britain about to outlaw slavery!
The U.S. Declaration of Independence explicitly counts its African slaves as less than human - and states that native Americans are “savages”. It’s all written in there. Read it.
‘Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?’.
~John Milton
If you want to see how extreme the pressure is to obliterate truth, look at not only the spread of lies by government murder of journalists, but also the Biden administration latest move.
Now the Biden regime is targeting STUDENTS in America to silence them for speaking up In favour of truth and accountability :
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/07/zwig-d07.html
When the government EDUCATION department are doing this, you should understand how deep the mess is.
And how exactly can Biden win a close election while alienating young people? He can’t.
With moves like this, I suspect they have no plan to hold an election this year. They plan to suspend the election - probably by triggering war with Iran, using this genocide in Palestine to manufacture a reaction from someone- then blame Iran. Watch this space.
You may well be very close to the senerio. Im sure the claws will dig deep & not give up control w/o throwing the kitchen sink at us. They have military might but most of those are our children. So?AI is a joke a MIIC wet dream far from fruition.so far BET🤝no way that shit flys for them yet if ever. PropIGandas thick as they push it on us like the jab.🙄The elections are already very”suspicious”at very least since 16. Proof of tomfoolery exhists & how is DNC a private corp?🤷♀️WTF? I think we only have 1 collective serious move .reverse lockdown on the system:
STOP THE COMERSE 100% in its tracks. No participation in this money ball.ZERO participation,World wide. we could probably shut it down w/ 25% of population or less . Ive heard even 3% ? TAKE TO THE STREETS. Peaceful but Everywhere, in solidarity for only 1 thing we all agree on : HUMANITY FOR ALL (that covers the wrongs on all levels ) Devil in details i know but i feel strongly about having just a practicing a decency & respect for all life.
The action would show who has the ACTUAL POWER of SOLIDARITY & people will feel lifted up a stake in the planet , this existence,as it should be. that will bring miraculous results 🙏❤️🔥
Nope.
Biden has lost huge amounts of the support he had. And gained nobody.
Plus the GOP has the not only the Supreme Court locked up but also the federal circuit courts. So any close election is lost to the Dems automatically. Because they sat around and did nothing while the GOP blocked appointments for all 8 years of Obama and stalled until they had a GOP president. Then Trump filled those seats.
The ONLY way Biden stays in power is to call off the election. Just watch.
Senile old man is losing in every poll.
As for GOP appointed judges on the circuit you should educate yourself as to why Biden’s son is now up on tax evasion charges. You’ll find it’s a GOP appointed judge in one of those stockpiles seats who ensured that the Biden DOJ did not get Hunter Biden out of his predicament.
In the Supreme Court they have thrown off any cloak of impartiality.
So you’ll have to deal with where we are in 2022 and the reality of the situation. Which is that Biden cannot stay in office without skipping the election.
Already the Florida “Democratic Party” primaries have been turned into a Soviet style one man “election”.
1. Presidents son getting indiske for tax evasion on money suspeced as bribes for the president, is an election scanda
2. When you wake up will understand the problem Biden faces.
3. Dont expect to have even the voting charade to indulge in this year.
Amen sister.
I feel the same way about factory farming and what happens in slaughter houses being brought into the light.
Yes you are right Georgie and Donny.
Humans perpetrate horror after horror on animals, nature and other human beings. What is the matter with us?
I take heart that either we will become conscious and bring everything into the light or we will kill each other and/or make the Earth uninhabitable for ourselves. Either way the horror will end soon.
Yes.
It sure feels that way. There's so much intelligent awareness out there and there's also so much depraved horror out there. But rather than it being an all or nothing outcome, I think the back and forth struggle is part of the path.
The part of GOD ALMIGHTY'S CREATION that accepts THE LORD JESUS CHRIST'S OFFER is going to be saved all else is going to have to accept the outcome STIPULATED AND PROMULGATED clearly by GOD ALMIGHTY HIMSELF!
We are the Evil Empire now.
Been that for a long time. It's just that the veil was of much better "quality".
Sickeningly true. :(
Feral the United States has been the evil empire since its inception. Slavery to the mess we are in today can all be connected to the US.
Slavery existed long before the US existed.
Still going on jamenta, isn’t it.
wage slavery - indeed Dave.
Bel Trew, whom I know well, is a wonderful journalist striving to publish the truth within a machine that makes that increasingly hard. Thank you for highlighting her work and thank you for continuing to expose the hypocrisies at play
As a clinical psychologist (R) I’ve never seen such an accurate description of humanity stated as clearly as in this posting.
Somehow every where I look, objection to Israel's bombing is conflated with virulent anti-semitism. Turning a story around is such a bully tactic.
I keep on finding your articles in my spam folder, so I started to check there too.
The horrors happening in Palestine must end.
The US must say stop.
Stop the Gaza holocaust and the ethnocide of the Palestinian people now.
https://mywisdom.substack.com/p/mary-christmas-with-bombs
Such an important point. The truth of a situation, and the situation in Gaza particularly, is what will lead to peace. And it's why there is so much propaganda and so many lies around it right now.