Israel bombs it with the US bombs, says it’s Hamas without any evidence,
US government and media hysterically run with it.
Result: pro-palestinian voices shut down, no more pressure on Joe, congress is free to do AIPAC bidding… or maybe we’ll just start WWIII and everybody dies…
Though they deny it, Israel has tactical nuclear bombs. I believe they have no qualms about using them it’s just they are greedy for the land in the surrounding Arab nations. If our governments won’t do anything then we must boycott all Israeli products & services. Puma is a good start.
No, take-away is a good start: McDonalds, KFC, Burger King - Hungry Jacks in Australia - Pizza Hut and Dominos. Haven't touched them since November, it's all dim sims and honey chicken from now on. :)
Jenny, the GDP is tanking because the IDF has called up all of their reserve forces. There are many fewer to keep the economy running.
Rich Israelis, especially those with dual passports, are just leaving. Some may come back, but not all. This, unfortunately, leaves the more committed Zionists to pursue ever more extreme actions.
Netanyahu is setting up an invasion of Lebanon. There have already been multiple incursions which were repelled with heavy losses to the IDF.
I support BDS, but let's be real here. If it was going to work it would have taken affect long before 7 Oct.
Let's just hope there will be more George Galloway victories. This Nov election in the US is going to be a total mess.
Yes I know about the Lebanon invasion it's all getting way out of hand. It's hard to contemplate and understand these 'butchers' minds. It's just one big cult called Israel to me who seem to love torturing and killing in the name of some old fable!
Our lives are being swamped by power/money/land hungry bastards.
I don't see many more "Galloways' happening especially in the US or Britain BUT one can hope.
The US has started all this with the aid of GB and Europeans it could be stopped immediately if the US would just pull the button on more arms!!!!!!!
Just a tech tip, all cmos cameras in modem phones can detect sintilatiin effects from any nuclear explosion from the nutrinos emissions by the initial blast that move at the near speed of light. It will apper as little white dots on the picture that don't look like they come from the picture itself..this is because they strike the cmos semiconductors and knock off electrons that appear as little white dots that flash for a second radomly ..it will mostly be around the edge of the brightest light you are seeing in the display ..if you see this from any blast it's a nuke.
Duck and cover ...real fallout will be on Its way.
Damn, have heard the most dangerous part outside of any ground zero is the shock wave. Duck and cover actually does work. That shockwave will contain all kinds for debris which acts like shrapnel. Hope we never have to find out.
Yea, I know it sounds silly but it probably would have saved lives. Imagine 100mph winds (maybe stronger depending on your location) run into with tiny shards of glass and other debris it picked up along the way. Problem is if you are in the shockwave you will most likely be in the fallout zone.
I wonder if the Samson option isn’t just the nukes we (US) has ready to go? Idk Seymour Hirsh wrote a book about it in the 90’s but I have know idea what it’s about.
The Sampson option in its basic form says if Israel is going to be no more they will take out the whole world with nukes ,,,you know the nukes they say they never had or stole. And jailed the whitlblower that broke the story about it ...
My interpretation of the Sampson option is slightly different - a country with a modern army, navy, airforce with state of the arc equipment including nukes using DISPROPORTIONATE use of force against Hamas a small group of freedom fighters with hand weapons and a few small calibre rockets. But then most Israeli targets have been civilian housing and hospitals. This breaks so many International Laws it’s unbelievable. Shame on the western governments who enable this or look the other way.
The disproportionate force, like a war on Lebanon, is the Israeli version of proving that they are blood-thirsty enough to use their 200 nuclear weapons indiscriminately all over the world in the event that the Israelis were required to leave Palestine. Compared to that Kim Jong-Il is a sweetie-pie when he flings an unarmed rocket over Japan.
I do not believe Putin is responsible for the hospital bombing in Gaza; but rather his influence most likely is the catalyst. Though a paper tiger he may be (?), he’s not without his KGB training to fall back upon.
I think you consume too much western McCarthy red scare 2.0 Jim Jones fruit punch.
Hollywood (cia has whole departments dedicated to it)really did a number on you western prolitariates by using drama depictions of the sacrosanct Americans always fighting some "evil" existential threats in the form of Russian xenophobia and Putin bogeyman syndrome.
I bet you are the same type to praise a western alphabet agency x employee of the CIA though as the "good guy" because TV series like CSI trained your brain stem into beliving USA good Russia bad.. KGB is evil ,,CIA is just doing a ruff job....you got all the roles reversed.
That’s the official taking point of “the day” at any rate.
I’ve heard just as many pointing to China.
Perhaps they might do better to look at Iran and PBS: (the elegant Prince of the House of Saud: no, really he does have a true physical elegance). They control much of the world’s finances at the moment (along with their close partners: Mossad).
Always cast a guilded eye towards the @boogeymen” of The West.
Quite frankly admire him for his ability to swim in the ocean as so many man eating , great whites are eager to make him a snack.
He’ll go down in the ranks of Castro, and Sadat: ultimate survivors.
He was a recruited asset himself at one point: then he listened to the corporate oligarchs who promised to make him wealthy, and to spread his wealth amongst “friends” that he could (and still does) control. He has what he’s wanted for 35 years now:
The demise of The West (actually Nikita K (a really cool guy: I hope he gets his just due one day!): began with Mr K 6+ Decades ago.
However Putin does have a justified hatred of The West for refusing to let Russia join the “civilized” country club of nations.
I can’t blame him one bit for his animosity.
However, he has no way out of his current situation short of the “pine box”. 📦
He will protect his daughter and his grandchildren I believe (which makes markedly different from most in his position of power):
He has rather bravely accepted his fate by now if indications are correct.
No, Vladimir Vladimirovich is no worse than any other powerful player today. He will simply pay a higher price for his performance:
Which has been spectacular so far!
Hate him?..
Hell NO:
He’s kind of a good guy who’s got himself backed into a corner (of his own ego).
Putin wanted to join the world as a cooperative partner.
His ego is in his intelegsnce and decent nature ..you have a clear ignorant bias here and it's unfortunate you can't see it.
But I guess for people skulking around clandestine psychopaths you all think everyone suffers the same psycological makeup. An intelegsnce agency of Russia might be just that ....actions speak far lowder and the CIA has nothing but blood on Its hands. Assasinations by Russia may be a thing but is probably all this Hollywood projection bull shit..
Keeping a stealth eye on the West is why Putin's winning in ukraine.. NATO is loosing..Israel is loosing and the new multi polar world is going to take over unless the psycopath USrAel in all its insanity start the nuke war...it won't be Putin that does it..but he will finnish it.
You sound as if you have met Vladimir or know people who have. Apparently he is a hero to you, and thus lies YOUR clear bias :
So (?), we both have our bias and our ignorance. I see him as heroic and a victim of his own patriarchal ambitions given to him by a culture who is also using the same survival at all costs ethnos that have destroyed many before him. The difference is Russia uses it with at least some culture and elegance :
The West(?); has yet to learn or understand that :
Yet. But then Russia has been at it much much longer.
And by the way,
I have met and known people for many years in the media who have met Vladimir Putin face to face, and they truly like the man: but know many who have turned their back on his organization at the wrong moment and have disappeared. He’s a proud man who will defend his heritage and culture: with as much passion and almost suicidal tenacity as Satanyahu and his Likud Mafia. But he is far too clever by half. I like that. I hope he manages to survive this.
Biden has no leverage as he sold his soul decades ago & the Zionists were one of many buyers. They’re getting their money’s worth out of him and the other Congressmen on the payroll (ironically provided by the US in 3$ billion a year subsidies) so no one is going to cross them. At least not in our country.
I watched an interview with Glenn Greenwald & George Galloway who won a landslide victory running on sane values and didn’t hesitate to call Gaza a genocide. He made the valid point that in the UK neither party represents the citizens and I would say the same is the case in the US.
That assumes that the pier will get ever built in the first place. I'd be shocked if it ever got past a planning stage, either because the election ended or the genocide made the whole thing moot.
Maybe Israel needs the pier to start building the drilling rigs for the gas and oil fields off the Gaza coast. I don't even see any point to the pier. The idf will still be inspecting and holding up shipments in north Gaza at the pier and then the shipments will have to be transported all the way south. The whole thing is a scam to buy more time for starvation and slaughter.
Plus, might be they’ll pay Israel to build it before they bomb it. Perhaps plant explosives to detonate as Palestinian drivers approach the waiting starvees.
I hope President # 47 who will win the election this year will know better than not to go this route. (and no, I don't trust Donald Trump, # 47 better be an Independent)
Thanks for calling out that stupid pier idea, Caitlin. How about the USA turns off the money and weapons tap instead? They just can't seem to do it, can they? Genocide seems to be no big deal to Biden and friends.
But the people will still sign and date the tax checks like mindless obedient serfs.
The one and only real power is the check book and the mind controlled brain washed American public is far to cowardly and fearfull of state financial and law violence against them if they dare.
Even the bleeting wankers on these threads start all sorts of bull shit cowardly excuses as soon as you bring up the subject of a tax revolt,,, that's how deep they are brain washed into being feckless usful idiots despite all this pontificating vertue signaling concern about "over there" and a genocide..they have no real will of their own and the establishment knows it and thumbs its nose at these worthless self involved prolitariates with a smart device and a phone bill with unlimited data.
WILL YOU PLEASE REALIZE THAT TAXES DON'T FUND SPENDING AT THE GOVERNMENT LEVEL IN EITHER THE US OR THE UK?
You can go to The Rogue Scholar, MMT Mondays, Macro'n'Cheese, or Real Progressives on YouTube to learn Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) which is an empirical, fact-based description of how a monetary system with a fiat currency works. Both the US and the UK use fiat ("on-demand") currencies. Either Congress or Parliament creates money when they pass an appropriations bill.
Your taxes don't come first in the flow of money through the economy, LIKE THEY DID IN THE MIDDLE AGES. They come last (and then they are deleted).
I know it will take a little bit of hard work to understand this but it will be worth it in the long run. You will then be able to see through the lies that your politicians are telling you.
I just love it when people respond to me out of the depths of their ignorance of the topic and refuse to bother to do the hard work of learning what I've referred them to.
Sorry for the cognitive dissonance I've caused you by challenging your deeply entrenched beliefs, but please grow beyond the limited version of the world you have and stretch your mind. I guess I'm referring to your own personal apple cart.
Why are you so emotionally invested in the version of the monetary system that you have?
It’s an interesting question Susan, but he and far too many others, have grown a particular hatred and contempt for systems that have been touted to “work” and to “hold the faith”. People who HAVE been or witnessed people who have been particularly victimized BY these systems react with a fierce anger towards those who have been inside those systems, know how they really work and attempt to explain the intricacies of the process. Too much pain, anger , and frustration can cloud the process for them.
I must admit, I have a stated sympathy with Chaz and those like him;
but this lack of discipline and energy to do that actual research you suggest(?), has its roots in frustration founded upon great suffering.
Sadly Susan (?),
This is what the current generation of 21st Century “robber barons” relies upon to maintain their control: (tenuous though that may be).
Patricia, what a sensitive explanation of why some people react the way they do.
However, I have a few points that I would like to explain:
I have been homeless for four years, ending in November 2023. The last seven months I spent sleeping on the sidewalk. I was homeless because I receive Social Security and Disability, which aren't enough, thanks to the neoliberal austerity practiced by Congress, to pay rent. I finally got a studio apartment in a subsidized senior high-rise building. So I have plenty of reasons of my own to hate the economic system in the US.
Also, the Modern Monetary Theory economists are NOT inside the system and are willing to explain how it works. They're very much outside the neoclassical establishment economists who dismiss them as being "just a theory."
What the MMT economists decided to do was to examine the entire monetary system from beginning to end and explain what they saw. It's called empirical description. They asked, "Where does money originate? How does it move through the system? Where does it end?"
I am not sure that his unwillingness to think about the economic system is based on great suffering. I've seen far more people who just don't want to know. The YouTube channels After Skool and The Academy of Ideas have many interesting videos about the mental traps that activate people these days.k
Chaz, I understand you have a certain conception of how the financial system works. In reality, the financial system is way more complex and integrated with systems of power (like governments, corporations, high-net worth individuals, massive funds, etc.) than most people realize.
If you really want to understand exactly what role citizen taxes play (and at what stage of financialization, budgetary decisions, government spending, etc.) you can get a good primer from the resources that Susan Mercurio above pointed to. Understanding financialization, financial instrumentation, and integration of the financial system with Governments in today's world will help in understanding why "Stop paying taxs will threaten an economic collaps" is not a realistic outcome/scenario. Again, the only way for you to convince yourself of that (the probability of such a scenario occuring being close to impossible realistically) is to dig into how Goverment budgeting, money creation, and Government financing strategies work.
you all have been mind controlled into it.. its all self preservation ...you don't want to upset your own personal apple carts so its all these excuses "its complicated" no its not.. its just side stepping ever actually lifting a finger. yeah i get it...
SO all this bull shit talk on here is pointless and useless... its just virtue signaling and voicing an "outrage" that has no teeth.
I know ...go vote to pretend it means something...
Im out...im done with all of this.. this is a waste of my time ...
Come on ChazLB why go after Americans on that level, how about going after the Israeli public who says nothing, does nothing in regard to the genocide their country is implementing instead of going along with the bullshit this is all about getting the hostages back.
Uuhhhm,,,, Israel in my mind is a lost cause ...I'm trying to save America from them dragging us down into the abyss like they have for the last 80 years...I don't give a fuck about Israel and as soon as they are gone I'll dance a jig in my underware in times square... The hostages? You mean the ones Israel sees as expendable except to use them as PR (if they exist at all, remeber we are dealing with cumpolsive liars here) they are under the hanibal directive where they are seen as better off dead as they might find out that the Palistinians don't cut off baby heads and rape people as is claimed ...
I don't think they care about them either, and are simply using them as an excuse to implement their genocide. At this point they simply provide the excuse. There was an article in Aljazeera today which made a good point. People blame Netanyanhu for this genocide, but it is also the state of Israel, it's people that are implementing it since they are silent on this issue. They might want to see Netanyahu gone, but care nothing about the life or death of Palestinians since they have been indoctrinated that their lives simply do not matter over many decades.
Same way the USA was able to dehumanize all Muslims into non human terrorists and slaughters in the middle East in droves while Zionist had been skullking around DC manipulating policy and the MIC to relentlessly bomb the planet ...
Well, you have to consider the fact that the founding fathers thought this land would be populated basically by the more desirable northern and western Europeans, then along come people like Italians and Poles and I guess they saw it as all down hill from there. By the way southern and eastern Europeans were considered well, less then human. So hating Muslims came easy, so much practice. Not to mention the Blacks.
The other problem I have with the average American is they are dumber than a mud fence on the whole. Look at where we are at for proof.
Some of thats not really their fault as they have been raised by the one way tv lie machine for generations and are products of government run education (obediance training centers) for generations and then they go on to university to get further institutionalised to prepare them for their proletarian worker drone existence ... Propagandized to near brain dead by Hollywood and sports and video games and military fly bys, to the oohes and ahhas of rockets red glair BBQ's.
I wanted better for America ..and I got a senial old boy network sycophant and a deep state psycopath crime cartel running the usa into the ground ..so parrdon me for my shear disgust but I am not the one that did it and I'm all out of bubble gum.
I have been looking at this the same way since I'm seven. I like the people of America, care about them, but I distrust the government because they lie. They lied about the Indians being the bad guys, and bad because they fought to keep their land, which was theirs. I have never saluted the flag and said with liberty and justice for all since I'm seven. I just feel Americans are duped. If you're really smart about this hate the politicians who are in their so long they lose their souls.
I keep forgetting you might be quite young and have not gotten as jaded as I am at my age... I would hate to spoil that for you..I think young people should have a lot more hope and optimism and leave the pessamusim to us old guys to grummble about ...ha!
Well as a person who lives here I must tell you I have pondered (often) what it might take for the American Public to revolt. Understand one thing if they ever did it would have nothing to do with Gaza I assure you.
The left here literally set the cities ablaze in the summer 2020. Immediately before that TPTB told everyone not to leave their homes for any reason other than emergency/food/etc. To be fair to my people we were all caught off guard. I damn sure was. I have always complained about our govt but I never thought they were capable of deliberately killing their citizens.
Then TPTB literally cheated right in front of everyone with 2 eyes to see. Talking about the election of course. Some people did try and do something. They were setup and now incarcerated by the FBI. If you think I am exaggerating just remember in 2016/20 they did the same to Bernie Sanders. Yet I would have liberals say you’re just being a sore loser and laugh. Such fools have no clue what they had just sanctioned. The whole show was them memory holed by the entire media (conservative too).
So that’s what we’re dealing with over here. A bunch of mind numb people (80%) who will not even think of leaving the plantation unless they lose it all. There’s a small sliver who would but it’s extremely difficult to organize.
My suggestion to some Trump people is a Nation Wide strike of blue collar workers. I suspect the elites are concerned about this very thing hence the great migration. We still have time to be effective but it’s NOT likely it will happen…….UNLESS
Unless Trump is cheated again and it’s even more flagrant than last time. I don’t trust him but this is why we MUST vote for him. He has the potential to make the system revolt on both sides. Ugh he’s not going to save us but he’s the best chance we have of blowing the system apart.
You're going to vote for Trump even though Biden has repeatedly warned that on January 6 we almost lost America? He even warned you about this during his state of the union address once again. Kidding. The democrats truly used him as their scapegoat. He was all bad, while they were all good. They created a black and white world during his four years in office and who ever thought when the 'good' was victorious we would be in a proxy war with Russia, with 2 hundred thousand Ukrainian lives lost, and still not enough. Who would have thought we would be supplying weapons for Israel to carry out it's genocide?
I think it was always going to happen, Fran. Planned a long time ago, I would have thought. When the US sold its independence and freedom in 1967 (the USS Liberty) and it has been downhill all the way.
From Caitlin today, if I may.....about today's political climate
“……….they took those positions based on what the pundits and politicians in their political faction told them to think. It’s got nothing to do with values or morals, it’s just blind tribalistic herd mentality.
And that’s exactly where the empire wants us. Evenly divided against each other too thoroughly to get anything done"
An accurate summary…..and the clear position in the USA today…..and in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and if we researched it properly, also the NATO puppets.
One party / Group / Faction / Candidate the mirror image of the other. Including the two seriously disappointing candidates for the top job, there seems to be little in the way of diverging opinions……..except for a small percentage of the people, different in every country. Overall, I would guess, a small percentage at that.
Why? Aren’t the people interested? The obvious answer is except for those children under 5 years old, power games, wars and international mischief have been our lives for as long as anyone alive can remember, so it’s just another day for all of us. It’s been just another day for the world in fact, for such a long time.
How can one come to such a conclusion?
Affording food, keeping a job, buying a home, getting an education remaining healthy are the peoples priorities and you can’t blame anyone for having any or all of those items as a priority. They are natural. If you only have a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea, what is the point of even getting out of bed.?
Are people jaundiced who think like this?
No? Right. Then let me take some time to sell you on the qualities exhibited by both candidates in November.
America has been lost under Biden. Hundreds of billions of dollars being blown up in Ukraine and Israel….while Americans go hungry including tens of millions of Americans homeless on the streets.
Luckily the Biden family is not among them after all the bribes Hunter Biden collected for dad bases on sharing his extensive strategic Ukrainian business experience with Burisma.
"Israeli Party Approves Annexation Plan to Coerce Palestinian Departure"
- Haaretz, Sept. 13, 2017
In other words: Let's make it impossible, so they'll leave. You were supplying the weapons then. Trump pumped them up on behalf of his Khristian Klan. As soon as the 'Flood happened, everyone knew to expect the worst of the worst.
Just business (in your name), doesn't matter who's yelling the slogans, or what colour they're wearing. One tags the other one in and they go murder people and steal shit. Rinse hands and repeat.
Lol smiles…..it is disturbing because we do not have the weapon systems to keep this up. TPTB obviously know this. I would think Israel is going to Trump Ukraine when it comes to attention. In my original comment I said Israel would not stop until a target number of deaths and/or evacuees are met. Maybe they’re getting close Idk. It’s disgusting how they have persecuted this war. It’s the lowest of the low.
FYI have heard from some very reliable sources the Ukrainian losses are much closer to 400k+. The Russians are probably around 65k. I’m confident in both numbers. I would have to call BS but it’s from some guys I am a firm believer of (Col MacGregor and many more). How they (US/UK/Ukraine) keep them going I do not understand that for the life of me. It does seem like a lot.
200k-400k either way it makes you sick. Those guys get conscripted or drafted it’s good bye. They press gang the shit out of them too. They find them on the street and beat the shit out of them and throw them in the van. Next stop the front lines. Total meat grinder.
I put down 400 Ukrainian dead on Mearsheimer's site and a couple of people corrected me and said it was 200, so I gave in. So it is 400 thousand. It would have been nice not to mention all those dead if the democrats had allowed Trump to get along with Russia. I always felt the coup we supported was to be followed by a proxy war with Russia, and if Hilary had won it wouldn't have waited until a Biden win. I don't trust Trump not to be player in the genocide in Israel. I know if he had not supported that position he would be a goner, but will he step that back, and even though it may be over by then I would like him to retract that support.
FWIW: I may have misunderstood, but the report this morning was 700,000 missing AFU soldiers. Some of these were never real people but the US was paying salaries for these non-existent people.
I've been saying that the Democrats certainly got their money's worth out of Trump. They have been able to use him for an excuse to do everything they claim that he would do since 2016.
Remember that WikiLeaks exposed that the Clinton campaign wanted Trump to run against HRC as a strawman.
I thought what the democrats did was really malignant. They were the good guys that could be trusted while he was a real danger to the world, and as they said had his finger on the button that could start a nuclear war even though no new wars under Trump. Jan 6 was a riot that gave big time jail time to many. No insurrection which Biden even used last night to further his career and his fellow democrats. Because or their antics I will never vote for a democrat again. I loathe them for what they did and that doesn't mean I'm in love with republicans.
I have to say the most satisfying thing to happen because of Trump was watching $Hillary LOOSE!
I would have went down with the ship just for that moment of watching that narsasistic sociopath demon loose her shot/shit over it...
Trumps too much an Israel firster for me to ever cast a vote for in good consicnce but having him whipe the floor with Biden is anouther glorious failure moment I will behold, if he's not driven out.
I personally no longer vote because I see the systems so grossly corrupted and I no longer do business with the criminal mafia style USA government.
If I sign a voter registration document to pledge my allegance to the next installed puppet I enter into a contract I can not condone or participate in.
I won't vote either and I've been telling people NOT TO VOTE since 2020. The electoral system in the US is too corrupt and rigged to use.
The establishment is relying on the myth that voting gives the peons some control of the system, which hasn't been true for a long time. Too many people still believe the myth.
I understand your position. If Trump just strolls into office with no MAJOR dust ups I will fall over. I’m not talking about riots and violence btw. I mean large entities (military, LE) getting involved. The Left is NUTS and I don’t even mean the people. Some of them are just like my aunt and uncle who I recently visited with. They have no fighting spirit and pretend that they are fighting for “The Resistance.” These fuckers are out there whoring for “The Man” and have no clue they’re even doing it. They have gone full devoid of facts and logic. It’s a cult in many regards. One that steadily marches towards its own suicide.
Trump is indeed a Zionist unless he’s playing a game. 99% certain he’s not but don’t doubt they had a hand in his removal. Again that’s why it’s not likely he can even win. But one must admit there’s still an unknown element to him. And TPTB damn sure hate his guts for whatever reason. If 2020 is repeated this time you could see a real hardcore “walk out” of blue collar workers. Those workers in unison are hands down the most powerful block on the planet perhaps.
They (truckers) talked shit about doing it after the NYC fine levied against him. One of those things that if you don’t work collectively you have ZERO power. If he loses can’t tell you that it will happen but there might be a possibility. The left may also go nuts and start pulling all kinds of shit.
All that to me makes it worth it. I’m not bullshitting you. I do not trust him. But he has the potential to start the fire. We need that fire and that’s the best way I know how to kindle it.
"They have no fighting spirit and pretend that they are fighting for “The Resistance.”
Am I truly the only cat who finds it rich that the #resistance includes most investment banks and major corporations, most of the MSM (ex Fox News), and the CIA, FBI and NSA, whom we all know have never had anything but civil liberties and freedom on their minds?
Hardly plucky little freedom fighters battling an evil empire, is it?
Feral, I watched a heartrending video yesterday…dozens of starving cats in Gaza pawing through rubble trying to find something edible. Their owners are either dead or unable to provide food for them.
And then there was the video of IsraHelli soldiers firing tanks at HORSES!
Apparently cats and horses are part of the Hamas Resistance. I am sickened beyond belief.
I've been advocating a General Strike for years! Don't go to work. Don't go to school. Don't go shopping. Try not to drive your car. Go visit the neighbors. Engage in hobbies.
If we stop keeping the system running, it will come to an abrupt halt.
Yes it would, the problem is getting the masses to follow suit. We would need a highly focused probably tragic event to get people moving in the same direction unfortunately.
You can be honest and still be wrong. And you are. The guy's a dickhead. Not to mention a walking funnel just drooling for another tank of swamp water. He does not care about you, "Them" or anybody else.
He helped start All of this shit, because he's just the same as everyone you, after all this time, all his pathetic shtick, all his laughable failures, have bowed and agreed to designate The Enemy.
I am not a Trump fan, but the one benefit to a Trump presidency is that America's european puppets, accomplices, flunkies and buttbois would be less likely to follow orders blindly if they came from a President Trump.
Europeans have lots of experience groveling before senile monarchs, but a gauche loudmouth seems to be too much.
Right Diana…a “humanitarian pier” which will cost taxpayers billions, while the bombs continue to fall.
This idea is so stupendously ignorant that it could ONLY have come from Genocide Joe’s addled brain.
How about sending in some Amerikkans troops to ENSURE that those thousand trucks lined up at the border get through? Much cheaper, and if Israhell bombs them, we could obliterate the Ziopath regime.
And how about the USA and all other countries stop sending money and military equipment to Israel? That would stop the bombing pretty quick.
While we're at it, how about we encourage Ukraine and Russia to negotiate a peace settlement? And get all the US military bases out of the countries that don't want them there?
I'm fed up with this war footing based on nothing except a pack of lies.
And how many wars have they started for no good reason? Like Ukraine (they started it imo) and now sabre rattling towards Taiwan, arming and financing Israel as it commits genocide.
Don’t think you have time to be specifically fearful. I see that the state of fear, abject fear, terror of being martyred is with every living being in that small concentration/holocaust hellhole called Gaza. When deprived of food and water body functions begin to consume organs from inside. Mental functions switch off …apathy. Palestinians have been abandoned in the present, just as many populations in the way of market exploitation were. They are and will become a worldwide cause celebre. But too late for the 100s of Ks who will be murdered in Rafah.
Biden talks about Port to facilitate exporting fracked gas under cover of distributing ‘humanitarian’ aid. My foot! Such blatant dishonesty will eventually be stopped but too late to prevent the inhumane atrocities being inflicted on defenceless civilians. The world stands with Palestine unfortunately not the corporations and bankers.
Please someone tell me where, how, when it will end? And is this all precursor to what is store for us common mortals?
When you give weapons with one hand to Zionist and insufficient aid with the other to Palestinian civilians. I can't help but reel from the sadism. Here child have some food while that person murders your people and then you.
I was thinking the same thing when Biden spoke of providing food for the Palestinians, and not a word about the bombs he provides Israel to kill them. Harris when she was running against him during the 2020 presidential race called him out on his double talk on integration which he claimed in the sixties he was all for it, but no busing, and you definitely could not have one without the other. He even blamed his wife's death on a man whose line of traffic she entered slamming into his vehicle, turning it over and over. Yet, Joe accused him of being a drunk driver who killed his wife. Had to step down from his presidential run in the 80's because he stole other people's speeches, etc, etc. and so it goes for old Joe. This speech like so many are made up of nothing more then promises never kept. Lies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P. S. I had a video clip of him playing up to a crowd a while back about how he's going to build the biggest wall, and no one is coming in. Not a soul. So much for consistency. He's very lacking in that regard. Maybe that's why his son is a nut job.
It’s a really sad thing. I never would have believed it. “They” are literally bombing people (civilians) who are evacuating. It’s not accidental. That’s being overly brutal to scar them for life. It’s like deliberately beating an animal to break its spirit.
Yes it is pure HORROR, but as I just read in Edward Herman & David Peterson 'The Politics of Genocide' the 2009 war on Gaza WAS AN ABSOLUTE BLUEPRINT (same thing, same arguments, same protection from the US, same go along of EU - DISGUSTING - so NOTHING changes ...) for this one (so I guess this 'conspiracy theory' -!!ha ha!! that CLEANING OUT the Palestinians was planned by Israel from the VERY beginning is the TRUTH and I am VERY angry at all the lies they stuffed down my throat in childhood - born and raised in Austria - Hitler-country!)
Good article, Caitlin. Just had a discussion with a guy in my jewelry making class who seemed genuinely upset that the Republicans won’t vote to send more money/weapons to Ukraine. I said that I don’t think U.S. should send weapons to Ukraine nor Israel and that the U.S. shouldn’t be the policemen of the world. I don’t think he quite got that. I mentioned about Palestinians being slaughtered in Gaza and U.S. shouldn’t be sending weapons to Israel. He said it’s just hate, but really didn’t want to engage. I think he is a Biden supporter. I don’t support any of these two political parties. They are the uniparty when it comes to these interventionist wars.😢
America is not the world’s policeman- it aims to be their slave master. Big difference between public service and genocidal abuse. Don’t confuse the two.
I feel like you are taking umbrage with what I wrote. I’m talking about how the U.S. is going around the world, acting like a bully and our government acts like the whole world has to be like us. Why are you getting all tangled up in knots over a comment?
"It just says so much about the state of western civilization that even genocide has been turned into another vapid culture war wedge issue for people to masturbate their tribal identity constructs on." So fking true, and so sad. Divide & conquer rinse and repeat.
I think the pier has probably got to do with oil or gas reserves that Israel wants access to?
"As though “don’t starve children to death or rip them to shreds with military explosives” is some kind of ideological position that only makes sense through a specific political lens, instead of just the normal human default perspective for anyone who isn’t a psychopath."
Face it, psychopaths are the only ones who are voting for the status quo parties/candidates. There the only ones who will since they don't have any sort of conscience and see nothing morally wrong with starving and blowing up children anywhere at any time.
Human beings with a conscience will protest and speak out against the genocidal maniacs in power with every ounce of strength that they have. Aaron Bushnell's soul calls out to us all to keep up the fight.
The pier story will go like this:
US builds it,
Israel bombs it with the US bombs, says it’s Hamas without any evidence,
US government and media hysterically run with it.
Result: pro-palestinian voices shut down, no more pressure on Joe, congress is free to do AIPAC bidding… or maybe we’ll just start WWIII and everybody dies…
I think item number ww3 is the only outcome because psychopaths are running the west into the abyss
I just commented about this very same thing. Tho I didn’t call it WW3 that’s exactly where this is heading. And make no mistake, it will be nuclear.
Though they deny it, Israel has tactical nuclear bombs. I believe they have no qualms about using them it’s just they are greedy for the land in the surrounding Arab nations. If our governments won’t do anything then we must boycott all Israeli products & services. Puma is a good start.
No, take-away is a good start: McDonalds, KFC, Burger King - Hungry Jacks in Australia - Pizza Hut and Dominos. Haven't touched them since November, it's all dim sims and honey chicken from now on. :)
I only go to mom and pop resturants if not buying groceries and use a boycott app to scan bar codes
I didn't know about that. I just use my phone as a phone. That's a brilliant idea.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israeli-soldiers-chow-mcdonalds-while-carrying-out-genocide
It's working here in France.
Just look at the GDP of Israel now it's tanking.
Jenny, the GDP is tanking because the IDF has called up all of their reserve forces. There are many fewer to keep the economy running.
Rich Israelis, especially those with dual passports, are just leaving. Some may come back, but not all. This, unfortunately, leaves the more committed Zionists to pursue ever more extreme actions.
Netanyahu is setting up an invasion of Lebanon. There have already been multiple incursions which were repelled with heavy losses to the IDF.
I support BDS, but let's be real here. If it was going to work it would have taken affect long before 7 Oct.
Let's just hope there will be more George Galloway victories. This Nov election in the US is going to be a total mess.
Hello John.
Thanks for the GOOD news!
Yes I know about the Lebanon invasion it's all getting way out of hand. It's hard to contemplate and understand these 'butchers' minds. It's just one big cult called Israel to me who seem to love torturing and killing in the name of some old fable!
Our lives are being swamped by power/money/land hungry bastards.
I don't see many more "Galloways' happening especially in the US or Britain BUT one can hope.
The US has started all this with the aid of GB and Europeans it could be stopped immediately if the US would just pull the button on more arms!!!!!!!
I have direct witness experience with Isralies coming and taking over others jobs.
I like to eat at a Somali place. Sometimes the owner feeds me, sometimes I eat the mice and rats that eat from his dumpster. Sometimes I eat both.
Feral, I have a pesky red squirrel that’s wreaking havoc in a small barn. My cats are unable or unwilling to dispatch it…will you do me the honors? 🙂
I'll get on it. Them's good eatin'!
Red squirrels are endangered here in Europe Gypsy.......try trapping it and moving it somewhere else?
When I lived in California and was working in gardens we used to move rattlesnakes with the aid of a large bin and shovel.!!!
Just a tech tip, all cmos cameras in modem phones can detect sintilatiin effects from any nuclear explosion from the nutrinos emissions by the initial blast that move at the near speed of light. It will apper as little white dots on the picture that don't look like they come from the picture itself..this is because they strike the cmos semiconductors and knock off electrons that appear as little white dots that flash for a second radomly ..it will mostly be around the edge of the brightest light you are seeing in the display ..if you see this from any blast it's a nuke.
Duck and cover ...real fallout will be on Its way.
Help!
Damn, have heard the most dangerous part outside of any ground zero is the shock wave. Duck and cover actually does work. That shockwave will contain all kinds for debris which acts like shrapnel. Hope we never have to find out.
Yeah watching films from the beruit blast (not a nuke but still)
Can teach us a few things...don't go to Windows and doors and look out. Best to duck and cover like you said is actually effective ...
{...duck and cover...} ??? 🤣🤣🤣
Duck ROASTED !!!
yum yum !!!
Oh, so THAT'S why they made us hide under our desks in school back in the real Cold War of the 1950s...
Yea, I know it sounds silly but it probably would have saved lives. Imagine 100mph winds (maybe stronger depending on your location) run into with tiny shards of glass and other debris it picked up along the way. Problem is if you are in the shockwave you will most likely be in the fallout zone.
Believe it or not (?),
Back THEN it wouldn’t have worked :
Today (?),
It would.
I hate to have to agree with you..israel sampson option and usa being bat sh¡t £μcking crazy
I wonder if the Samson option isn’t just the nukes we (US) has ready to go? Idk Seymour Hirsh wrote a book about it in the 90’s but I have know idea what it’s about.
The Sampson option in its basic form says if Israel is going to be no more they will take out the whole world with nukes ,,,you know the nukes they say they never had or stole. And jailed the whitlblower that broke the story about it ...
What is the Israeli delivery system for those nukes?
My interpretation of the Sampson option is slightly different - a country with a modern army, navy, airforce with state of the arc equipment including nukes using DISPROPORTIONATE use of force against Hamas a small group of freedom fighters with hand weapons and a few small calibre rockets. But then most Israeli targets have been civilian housing and hospitals. This breaks so many International Laws it’s unbelievable. Shame on the western governments who enable this or look the other way.
The disproportionate force, like a war on Lebanon, is the Israeli version of proving that they are blood-thirsty enough to use their 200 nuclear weapons indiscriminately all over the world in the event that the Israelis were required to leave Palestine. Compared to that Kim Jong-Il is a sweetie-pie when he flings an unarmed rocket over Japan.
See Colin Powell's offhand comment in the Podesta emails, about why Iran wasn't trying to get nukes. . - Israel has 200 nukes, all pointed at Tehran.
Yes, they can’t wait to start with Iran…
Best outcome for everybody, Chaz.
Only the brain-dead and the psychopaths are happy with humanity these days.
No Chaz,
I do not believe Putin is responsible for the hospital bombing in Gaza; but rather his influence most likely is the catalyst. Though a paper tiger he may be (?), he’s not without his KGB training to fall back upon.
I think you consume too much western McCarthy red scare 2.0 Jim Jones fruit punch.
Hollywood (cia has whole departments dedicated to it)really did a number on you western prolitariates by using drama depictions of the sacrosanct Americans always fighting some "evil" existential threats in the form of Russian xenophobia and Putin bogeyman syndrome.
I bet you are the same type to praise a western alphabet agency x employee of the CIA though as the "good guy" because TV series like CSI trained your brain stem into beliving USA good Russia bad.. KGB is evil ,,CIA is just doing a ruff job....you got all the roles reversed.
Actually laughing for the first time today. Thanks Chaz.
It's amazing to me that you can talk about any subject and Americans will come up with something to do with Russia OR China!
Oh!
But don’t you know(?),
“All roads lead to Putin”:
Well,
That’s the official taking point of “the day” at any rate.
I’ve heard just as many pointing to China.
Perhaps they might do better to look at Iran and PBS: (the elegant Prince of the House of Saud: no, really he does have a true physical elegance). They control much of the world’s finances at the moment (along with their close partners: Mossad).
Always cast a guilded eye towards the @boogeymen” of The West.
And no,
I do not “hate” Putin.
Quite frankly admire him for his ability to swim in the ocean as so many man eating , great whites are eager to make him a snack.
He’ll go down in the ranks of Castro, and Sadat: ultimate survivors.
He was a recruited asset himself at one point: then he listened to the corporate oligarchs who promised to make him wealthy, and to spread his wealth amongst “friends” that he could (and still does) control. He has what he’s wanted for 35 years now:
The demise of The West (actually Nikita K (a really cool guy: I hope he gets his just due one day!): began with Mr K 6+ Decades ago.
However Putin does have a justified hatred of The West for refusing to let Russia join the “civilized” country club of nations.
I can’t blame him one bit for his animosity.
However, he has no way out of his current situation short of the “pine box”. 📦
He will protect his daughter and his grandchildren I believe (which makes markedly different from most in his position of power):
He has rather bravely accepted his fate by now if indications are correct.
No, Vladimir Vladimirovich is no worse than any other powerful player today. He will simply pay a higher price for his performance:
Which has been spectacular so far!
Hate him?..
Hell NO:
He’s kind of a good guy who’s got himself backed into a corner (of his own ego).
Putin wanted to join the world as a cooperative partner.
His ego is in his intelegsnce and decent nature ..you have a clear ignorant bias here and it's unfortunate you can't see it.
But I guess for people skulking around clandestine psychopaths you all think everyone suffers the same psycological makeup. An intelegsnce agency of Russia might be just that ....actions speak far lowder and the CIA has nothing but blood on Its hands. Assasinations by Russia may be a thing but is probably all this Hollywood projection bull shit..
Keeping a stealth eye on the West is why Putin's winning in ukraine.. NATO is loosing..Israel is loosing and the new multi polar world is going to take over unless the psycopath USrAel in all its insanity start the nuke war...it won't be Putin that does it..but he will finnish it.
Don't think Putin will finish it at all.............maybe US fiddling in Taiwan will finally finish things off. All for a few chips.
You sound as if you have met Vladimir or know people who have. Apparently he is a hero to you, and thus lies YOUR clear bias :
So (?), we both have our bias and our ignorance. I see him as heroic and a victim of his own patriarchal ambitions given to him by a culture who is also using the same survival at all costs ethnos that have destroyed many before him. The difference is Russia uses it with at least some culture and elegance :
The West(?); has yet to learn or understand that :
Yet. But then Russia has been at it much much longer.
And by the way,
I have met and known people for many years in the media who have met Vladimir Putin face to face, and they truly like the man: but know many who have turned their back on his organization at the wrong moment and have disappeared. He’s a proud man who will defend his heritage and culture: with as much passion and almost suicidal tenacity as Satanyahu and his Likud Mafia. But he is far too clever by half. I like that. I hope he manages to survive this.
Biden has no leverage as he sold his soul decades ago & the Zionists were one of many buyers. They’re getting their money’s worth out of him and the other Congressmen on the payroll (ironically provided by the US in 3$ billion a year subsidies) so no one is going to cross them. At least not in our country.
I watched an interview with Glenn Greenwald & George Galloway who won a landslide victory running on sane values and didn’t hesitate to call Gaza a genocide. He made the valid point that in the UK neither party represents the citizens and I would say the same is the case in the US.
Oh, absolutely
That assumes that the pier will get ever built in the first place. I'd be shocked if it ever got past a planning stage, either because the election ended or the genocide made the whole thing moot.
Maybe Israel needs the pier to start building the drilling rigs for the gas and oil fields off the Gaza coast. I don't even see any point to the pier. The idf will still be inspecting and holding up shipments in north Gaza at the pier and then the shipments will have to be transported all the way south. The whole thing is a scam to buy more time for starvation and slaughter.
Feral(?),
You are making a sad and valid point there.
Plus, might be they’ll pay Israel to build it before they bomb it. Perhaps plant explosives to detonate as Palestinian drivers approach the waiting starvees.
Finally, someone associates the status quos of the human condition with World War III.... .
I hope President # 47 who will win the election this year will know better than not to go this route. (and no, I don't trust Donald Trump, # 47 better be an Independent)
Close enough for government work?
Thanks for calling out that stupid pier idea, Caitlin. How about the USA turns off the money and weapons tap instead? They just can't seem to do it, can they? Genocide seems to be no big deal to Biden and friends.
But the people will still sign and date the tax checks like mindless obedient serfs.
The one and only real power is the check book and the mind controlled brain washed American public is far to cowardly and fearfull of state financial and law violence against them if they dare.
Even the bleeting wankers on these threads start all sorts of bull shit cowardly excuses as soon as you bring up the subject of a tax revolt,,, that's how deep they are brain washed into being feckless usful idiots despite all this pontificating vertue signaling concern about "over there" and a genocide..they have no real will of their own and the establishment knows it and thumbs its nose at these worthless self involved prolitariates with a smart device and a phone bill with unlimited data.
I absolutely agree...........Taxes don't pay them and boycott Israeli products
WILL YOU PLEASE REALIZE THAT TAXES DON'T FUND SPENDING AT THE GOVERNMENT LEVEL IN EITHER THE US OR THE UK?
You can go to The Rogue Scholar, MMT Mondays, Macro'n'Cheese, or Real Progressives on YouTube to learn Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) which is an empirical, fact-based description of how a monetary system with a fiat currency works. Both the US and the UK use fiat ("on-demand") currencies. Either Congress or Parliament creates money when they pass an appropriations bill.
Your taxes don't come first in the flow of money through the economy, LIKE THEY DID IN THE MIDDLE AGES. They come last (and then they are deleted).
I know it will take a little bit of hard work to understand this but it will be worth it in the long run. You will then be able to see through the lies that your politicians are telling you.
Stop paying taxs will threaten an economic collaps that could be used as a wedge to force the government to listen to the will of the people.
Your just making cowardly excuses. None of you want to stick your selfish little heads out.
You financial corporate education wanking is just that..brain washed to obey. You boot lickers make me sick.
I just love it when people respond to me out of the depths of their ignorance of the topic and refuse to bother to do the hard work of learning what I've referred them to.
Sorry for the cognitive dissonance I've caused you by challenging your deeply entrenched beliefs, but please grow beyond the limited version of the world you have and stretch your mind. I guess I'm referring to your own personal apple cart.
Why are you so emotionally invested in the version of the monetary system that you have?
It’s an interesting question Susan, but he and far too many others, have grown a particular hatred and contempt for systems that have been touted to “work” and to “hold the faith”. People who HAVE been or witnessed people who have been particularly victimized BY these systems react with a fierce anger towards those who have been inside those systems, know how they really work and attempt to explain the intricacies of the process. Too much pain, anger , and frustration can cloud the process for them.
I must admit, I have a stated sympathy with Chaz and those like him;
but this lack of discipline and energy to do that actual research you suggest(?), has its roots in frustration founded upon great suffering.
Sadly Susan (?),
This is what the current generation of 21st Century “robber barons” relies upon to maintain their control: (tenuous though that may be).
Patricia, what a sensitive explanation of why some people react the way they do.
However, I have a few points that I would like to explain:
I have been homeless for four years, ending in November 2023. The last seven months I spent sleeping on the sidewalk. I was homeless because I receive Social Security and Disability, which aren't enough, thanks to the neoliberal austerity practiced by Congress, to pay rent. I finally got a studio apartment in a subsidized senior high-rise building. So I have plenty of reasons of my own to hate the economic system in the US.
Also, the Modern Monetary Theory economists are NOT inside the system and are willing to explain how it works. They're very much outside the neoclassical establishment economists who dismiss them as being "just a theory."
What the MMT economists decided to do was to examine the entire monetary system from beginning to end and explain what they saw. It's called empirical description. They asked, "Where does money originate? How does it move through the system? Where does it end?"
I am not sure that his unwillingness to think about the economic system is based on great suffering. I've seen far more people who just don't want to know. The YouTube channels After Skool and The Academy of Ideas have many interesting videos about the mental traps that activate people these days.k
And there is such a thing as toxic positivity.
Chaz, I understand you have a certain conception of how the financial system works. In reality, the financial system is way more complex and integrated with systems of power (like governments, corporations, high-net worth individuals, massive funds, etc.) than most people realize.
If you really want to understand exactly what role citizen taxes play (and at what stage of financialization, budgetary decisions, government spending, etc.) you can get a good primer from the resources that Susan Mercurio above pointed to. Understanding financialization, financial instrumentation, and integration of the financial system with Governments in today's world will help in understanding why "Stop paying taxs will threaten an economic collaps" is not a realistic outcome/scenario. Again, the only way for you to convince yourself of that (the probability of such a scenario occuring being close to impossible realistically) is to dig into how Goverment budgeting, money creation, and Government financing strategies work.
I think that is all a smoke screen....
you all have been mind controlled into it.. its all self preservation ...you don't want to upset your own personal apple carts so its all these excuses "its complicated" no its not.. its just side stepping ever actually lifting a finger. yeah i get it...
SO all this bull shit talk on here is pointless and useless... its just virtue signaling and voicing an "outrage" that has no teeth.
I know ...go vote to pretend it means something...
Im out...im done with all of this.. this is a waste of my time ...
Well said Susan Mercurio!
Very well stated yes:
and Point ON.
Come on ChazLB why go after Americans on that level, how about going after the Israeli public who says nothing, does nothing in regard to the genocide their country is implementing instead of going along with the bullshit this is all about getting the hostages back.
Uuhhhm,,,, Israel in my mind is a lost cause ...I'm trying to save America from them dragging us down into the abyss like they have for the last 80 years...I don't give a fuck about Israel and as soon as they are gone I'll dance a jig in my underware in times square... The hostages? You mean the ones Israel sees as expendable except to use them as PR (if they exist at all, remeber we are dealing with cumpolsive liars here) they are under the hanibal directive where they are seen as better off dead as they might find out that the Palistinians don't cut off baby heads and rape people as is claimed ...
I don't think they care about them either, and are simply using them as an excuse to implement their genocide. At this point they simply provide the excuse. There was an article in Aljazeera today which made a good point. People blame Netanyanhu for this genocide, but it is also the state of Israel, it's people that are implementing it since they are silent on this issue. They might want to see Netanyahu gone, but care nothing about the life or death of Palestinians since they have been indoctrinated that their lives simply do not matter over many decades.
Same way the USA was able to dehumanize all Muslims into non human terrorists and slaughters in the middle East in droves while Zionist had been skullking around DC manipulating policy and the MIC to relentlessly bomb the planet ...
And here we are again ...
Well, you have to consider the fact that the founding fathers thought this land would be populated basically by the more desirable northern and western Europeans, then along come people like Italians and Poles and I guess they saw it as all down hill from there. By the way southern and eastern Europeans were considered well, less then human. So hating Muslims came easy, so much practice. Not to mention the Blacks.
The other problem I have with the average American is they are dumber than a mud fence on the whole. Look at where we are at for proof.
Some of thats not really their fault as they have been raised by the one way tv lie machine for generations and are products of government run education (obediance training centers) for generations and then they go on to university to get further institutionalised to prepare them for their proletarian worker drone existence ... Propagandized to near brain dead by Hollywood and sports and video games and military fly bys, to the oohes and ahhas of rockets red glair BBQ's.
I wanted better for America ..and I got a senial old boy network sycophant and a deep state psycopath crime cartel running the usa into the ground ..so parrdon me for my shear disgust but I am not the one that did it and I'm all out of bubble gum.
I have been looking at this the same way since I'm seven. I like the people of America, care about them, but I distrust the government because they lie. They lied about the Indians being the bad guys, and bad because they fought to keep their land, which was theirs. I have never saluted the flag and said with liberty and justice for all since I'm seven. I just feel Americans are duped. If you're really smart about this hate the politicians who are in their so long they lose their souls.
I keep forgetting you might be quite young and have not gotten as jaded as I am at my age... I would hate to spoil that for you..I think young people should have a lot more hope and optimism and leave the pessamusim to us old guys to grummble about ...ha!
Well, no spring chicken, but younger then you. However not an easy life growing up so that did steal away a significant amount of my optimism.
Well as a person who lives here I must tell you I have pondered (often) what it might take for the American Public to revolt. Understand one thing if they ever did it would have nothing to do with Gaza I assure you.
The left here literally set the cities ablaze in the summer 2020. Immediately before that TPTB told everyone not to leave their homes for any reason other than emergency/food/etc. To be fair to my people we were all caught off guard. I damn sure was. I have always complained about our govt but I never thought they were capable of deliberately killing their citizens.
Then TPTB literally cheated right in front of everyone with 2 eyes to see. Talking about the election of course. Some people did try and do something. They were setup and now incarcerated by the FBI. If you think I am exaggerating just remember in 2016/20 they did the same to Bernie Sanders. Yet I would have liberals say you’re just being a sore loser and laugh. Such fools have no clue what they had just sanctioned. The whole show was them memory holed by the entire media (conservative too).
So that’s what we’re dealing with over here. A bunch of mind numb people (80%) who will not even think of leaving the plantation unless they lose it all. There’s a small sliver who would but it’s extremely difficult to organize.
My suggestion to some Trump people is a Nation Wide strike of blue collar workers. I suspect the elites are concerned about this very thing hence the great migration. We still have time to be effective but it’s NOT likely it will happen…….UNLESS
Unless Trump is cheated again and it’s even more flagrant than last time. I don’t trust him but this is why we MUST vote for him. He has the potential to make the system revolt on both sides. Ugh he’s not going to save us but he’s the best chance we have of blowing the system apart.
That’s an honest SITREP
You're going to vote for Trump even though Biden has repeatedly warned that on January 6 we almost lost America? He even warned you about this during his state of the union address once again. Kidding. The democrats truly used him as their scapegoat. He was all bad, while they were all good. They created a black and white world during his four years in office and who ever thought when the 'good' was victorious we would be in a proxy war with Russia, with 2 hundred thousand Ukrainian lives lost, and still not enough. Who would have thought we would be supplying weapons for Israel to carry out it's genocide?
I think it was always going to happen, Fran. Planned a long time ago, I would have thought. When the US sold its independence and freedom in 1967 (the USS Liberty) and it has been downhill all the way.
From Caitlin today, if I may.....about today's political climate
“……….they took those positions based on what the pundits and politicians in their political faction told them to think. It’s got nothing to do with values or morals, it’s just blind tribalistic herd mentality.
And that’s exactly where the empire wants us. Evenly divided against each other too thoroughly to get anything done"
An accurate summary…..and the clear position in the USA today…..and in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and if we researched it properly, also the NATO puppets.
One party / Group / Faction / Candidate the mirror image of the other. Including the two seriously disappointing candidates for the top job, there seems to be little in the way of diverging opinions……..except for a small percentage of the people, different in every country. Overall, I would guess, a small percentage at that.
Why? Aren’t the people interested? The obvious answer is except for those children under 5 years old, power games, wars and international mischief have been our lives for as long as anyone alive can remember, so it’s just another day for all of us. It’s been just another day for the world in fact, for such a long time.
How can one come to such a conclusion?
Affording food, keeping a job, buying a home, getting an education remaining healthy are the peoples priorities and you can’t blame anyone for having any or all of those items as a priority. They are natural. If you only have a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea, what is the point of even getting out of bed.?
Are people jaundiced who think like this?
No? Right. Then let me take some time to sell you on the qualities exhibited by both candidates in November.
Here goes.
America has been lost under Biden. Hundreds of billions of dollars being blown up in Ukraine and Israel….while Americans go hungry including tens of millions of Americans homeless on the streets.
Luckily the Biden family is not among them after all the bribes Hunter Biden collected for dad bases on sharing his extensive strategic Ukrainian business experience with Burisma.
Unless and until they personally face consequences, nobody of influence and authority cares about the peons.
That is why huge strikes will work and not paying taxes but I don't think the people will do this!
"Israeli Party Approves Annexation Plan to Coerce Palestinian Departure"
- Haaretz, Sept. 13, 2017
In other words: Let's make it impossible, so they'll leave. You were supplying the weapons then. Trump pumped them up on behalf of his Khristian Klan. As soon as the 'Flood happened, everyone knew to expect the worst of the worst.
He set the table for Ukraine, like a good little boy. Caitlin Johnstone: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/11/18/25-times-trump-has-been-dangerously-hawkish-on-russia/
Just business (in your name), doesn't matter who's yelling the slogans, or what colour they're wearing. One tags the other one in and they go murder people and steal shit. Rinse hands and repeat.
Lol smiles…..it is disturbing because we do not have the weapon systems to keep this up. TPTB obviously know this. I would think Israel is going to Trump Ukraine when it comes to attention. In my original comment I said Israel would not stop until a target number of deaths and/or evacuees are met. Maybe they’re getting close Idk. It’s disgusting how they have persecuted this war. It’s the lowest of the low.
FYI have heard from some very reliable sources the Ukrainian losses are much closer to 400k+. The Russians are probably around 65k. I’m confident in both numbers. I would have to call BS but it’s from some guys I am a firm believer of (Col MacGregor and many more). How they (US/UK/Ukraine) keep them going I do not understand that for the life of me. It does seem like a lot.
200k-400k either way it makes you sick. Those guys get conscripted or drafted it’s good bye. They press gang the shit out of them too. They find them on the street and beat the shit out of them and throw them in the van. Next stop the front lines. Total meat grinder.
I put down 400 Ukrainian dead on Mearsheimer's site and a couple of people corrected me and said it was 200, so I gave in. So it is 400 thousand. It would have been nice not to mention all those dead if the democrats had allowed Trump to get along with Russia. I always felt the coup we supported was to be followed by a proxy war with Russia, and if Hilary had won it wouldn't have waited until a Biden win. I don't trust Trump not to be player in the genocide in Israel. I know if he had not supported that position he would be a goner, but will he step that back, and even though it may be over by then I would like him to retract that support.
FWIW: I may have misunderstood, but the report this morning was 700,000 missing AFU soldiers. Some of these were never real people but the US was paying salaries for these non-existent people.
I've been saying that the Democrats certainly got their money's worth out of Trump. They have been able to use him for an excuse to do everything they claim that he would do since 2016.
Remember that WikiLeaks exposed that the Clinton campaign wanted Trump to run against HRC as a strawman.
I thought what the democrats did was really malignant. They were the good guys that could be trusted while he was a real danger to the world, and as they said had his finger on the button that could start a nuclear war even though no new wars under Trump. Jan 6 was a riot that gave big time jail time to many. No insurrection which Biden even used last night to further his career and his fellow democrats. Because or their antics I will never vote for a democrat again. I loathe them for what they did and that doesn't mean I'm in love with republicans.
I have to say the most satisfying thing to happen because of Trump was watching $Hillary LOOSE!
I would have went down with the ship just for that moment of watching that narsasistic sociopath demon loose her shot/shit over it...
Trumps too much an Israel firster for me to ever cast a vote for in good consicnce but having him whipe the floor with Biden is anouther glorious failure moment I will behold, if he's not driven out.
I personally no longer vote because I see the systems so grossly corrupted and I no longer do business with the criminal mafia style USA government.
If I sign a voter registration document to pledge my allegance to the next installed puppet I enter into a contract I can not condone or participate in.
I won't vote either and I've been telling people NOT TO VOTE since 2020. The electoral system in the US is too corrupt and rigged to use.
The establishment is relying on the myth that voting gives the peons some control of the system, which hasn't been true for a long time. Too many people still believe the myth.
I understand your position. If Trump just strolls into office with no MAJOR dust ups I will fall over. I’m not talking about riots and violence btw. I mean large entities (military, LE) getting involved. The Left is NUTS and I don’t even mean the people. Some of them are just like my aunt and uncle who I recently visited with. They have no fighting spirit and pretend that they are fighting for “The Resistance.” These fuckers are out there whoring for “The Man” and have no clue they’re even doing it. They have gone full devoid of facts and logic. It’s a cult in many regards. One that steadily marches towards its own suicide.
Trump is indeed a Zionist unless he’s playing a game. 99% certain he’s not but don’t doubt they had a hand in his removal. Again that’s why it’s not likely he can even win. But one must admit there’s still an unknown element to him. And TPTB damn sure hate his guts for whatever reason. If 2020 is repeated this time you could see a real hardcore “walk out” of blue collar workers. Those workers in unison are hands down the most powerful block on the planet perhaps.
They (truckers) talked shit about doing it after the NYC fine levied against him. One of those things that if you don’t work collectively you have ZERO power. If he loses can’t tell you that it will happen but there might be a possibility. The left may also go nuts and start pulling all kinds of shit.
All that to me makes it worth it. I’m not bullshitting you. I do not trust him. But he has the potential to start the fire. We need that fire and that’s the best way I know how to kindle it.
What does TPTB mean...sorry I'm not hip to figuring it out
The powers that be
The Powers That Be
Highlight it, right click it, then ask google to find it. Voilà!
Do you know how to use Google? If you ask it "What does TPTB mean?", Google will tell you.
"They have no fighting spirit and pretend that they are fighting for “The Resistance.”
Am I truly the only cat who finds it rich that the #resistance includes most investment banks and major corporations, most of the MSM (ex Fox News), and the CIA, FBI and NSA, whom we all know have never had anything but civil liberties and freedom on their minds?
Hardly plucky little freedom fighters battling an evil empire, is it?
Feral, I watched a heartrending video yesterday…dozens of starving cats in Gaza pawing through rubble trying to find something edible. Their owners are either dead or unable to provide food for them.
And then there was the video of IsraHelli soldiers firing tanks at HORSES!
Apparently cats and horses are part of the Hamas Resistance. I am sickened beyond belief.
There is NO left in the US.
I've been advocating a General Strike for years! Don't go to work. Don't go to school. Don't go shopping. Try not to drive your car. Go visit the neighbors. Engage in hobbies.
If we stop keeping the system running, it will come to an abrupt halt.
Yes it would, the problem is getting the masses to follow suit. We would need a highly focused probably tragic event to get people moving in the same direction unfortunately.
You need some French strike organizers..........!
You can be honest and still be wrong. And you are. The guy's a dickhead. Not to mention a walking funnel just drooling for another tank of swamp water. He does not care about you, "Them" or anybody else.
He helped start All of this shit, because he's just the same as everyone you, after all this time, all his pathetic shtick, all his laughable failures, have bowed and agreed to designate The Enemy.
Snap out of it.
I am not a Trump fan, but the one benefit to a Trump presidency is that America's european puppets, accomplices, flunkies and buttbois would be less likely to follow orders blindly if they came from a President Trump.
Europeans have lots of experience groveling before senile monarchs, but a gauche loudmouth seems to be too much.
Haven't had a monarch here for years but we definitely didn't cut enough heads off. Macron is old rich school!
He is a sociopath, Diana, as most of them are.
Right Diana…a “humanitarian pier” which will cost taxpayers billions, while the bombs continue to fall.
This idea is so stupendously ignorant that it could ONLY have come from Genocide Joe’s addled brain.
How about sending in some Amerikkans troops to ENSURE that those thousand trucks lined up at the border get through? Much cheaper, and if Israhell bombs them, we could obliterate the Ziopath regime.
And how about the USA and all other countries stop sending money and military equipment to Israel? That would stop the bombing pretty quick.
While we're at it, how about we encourage Ukraine and Russia to negotiate a peace settlement? And get all the US military bases out of the countries that don't want them there?
I'm fed up with this war footing based on nothing except a pack of lies.
Diana. Every time there is a treaty .........US rips it up.
The US is 'losing face' right now. How many wars have they started and not been able to WIN? Russia or Iran are the next in line for the US.
And how many wars have they started for no good reason? Like Ukraine (they started it imo) and now sabre rattling towards Taiwan, arming and financing Israel as it commits genocide.
The USA is losing face, and going down.
No, seriously, it's America. The Zionazis would literally be nothing without them. And who the hell would take them?
"A people without a land" will hopefully become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
AIPAC runs the USA
If I were in Gaza right now, I’d be fearful of anything coming from the sky
Don’t think you have time to be specifically fearful. I see that the state of fear, abject fear, terror of being martyred is with every living being in that small concentration/holocaust hellhole called Gaza. When deprived of food and water body functions begin to consume organs from inside. Mental functions switch off …apathy. Palestinians have been abandoned in the present, just as many populations in the way of market exploitation were. They are and will become a worldwide cause celebre. But too late for the 100s of Ks who will be murdered in Rafah.
Biden talks about Port to facilitate exporting fracked gas under cover of distributing ‘humanitarian’ aid. My foot! Such blatant dishonesty will eventually be stopped but too late to prevent the inhumane atrocities being inflicted on defenceless civilians. The world stands with Palestine unfortunately not the corporations and bankers.
Please someone tell me where, how, when it will end? And is this all precursor to what is store for us common mortals?
I would not have been eating those MRI'S...bet it was all expired to move them off the stockpile
When you give weapons with one hand to Zionist and insufficient aid with the other to Palestinian civilians. I can't help but reel from the sadism. Here child have some food while that person murders your people and then you.
I was thinking the same thing when Biden spoke of providing food for the Palestinians, and not a word about the bombs he provides Israel to kill them. Harris when she was running against him during the 2020 presidential race called him out on his double talk on integration which he claimed in the sixties he was all for it, but no busing, and you definitely could not have one without the other. He even blamed his wife's death on a man whose line of traffic she entered slamming into his vehicle, turning it over and over. Yet, Joe accused him of being a drunk driver who killed his wife. Had to step down from his presidential run in the 80's because he stole other people's speeches, etc, etc. and so it goes for old Joe. This speech like so many are made up of nothing more then promises never kept. Lies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P. S. I had a video clip of him playing up to a crowd a while back about how he's going to build the biggest wall, and no one is coming in. Not a soul. So much for consistency. He's very lacking in that regard. Maybe that's why his son is a nut job.
Young Hunter is basically what you get when you have unlimited rights and no responsibilities.
Cesare Borgia, without the charm, the military talent or aesthetic taste, but with cocaine and modern antibiotics.
It’s a really sad thing. I never would have believed it. “They” are literally bombing people (civilians) who are evacuating. It’s not accidental. That’s being overly brutal to scar them for life. It’s like deliberately beating an animal to break its spirit.
Yes it is pure HORROR, but as I just read in Edward Herman & David Peterson 'The Politics of Genocide' the 2009 war on Gaza WAS AN ABSOLUTE BLUEPRINT (same thing, same arguments, same protection from the US, same go along of EU - DISGUSTING - so NOTHING changes ...) for this one (so I guess this 'conspiracy theory' -!!ha ha!! that CLEANING OUT the Palestinians was planned by Israel from the VERY beginning is the TRUTH and I am VERY angry at all the lies they stuffed down my throat in childhood - born and raised in Austria - Hitler-country!)
It’s so inhumane and cruel. It sickens me!!😢😔😞🤮. These assholes are sadists.
It's the equivalent of posing for a picture giving a gunshot victim a bandaid, after you shot the dude six times in cold blood.
Good article, Caitlin. Just had a discussion with a guy in my jewelry making class who seemed genuinely upset that the Republicans won’t vote to send more money/weapons to Ukraine. I said that I don’t think U.S. should send weapons to Ukraine nor Israel and that the U.S. shouldn’t be the policemen of the world. I don’t think he quite got that. I mentioned about Palestinians being slaughtered in Gaza and U.S. shouldn’t be sending weapons to Israel. He said it’s just hate, but really didn’t want to engage. I think he is a Biden supporter. I don’t support any of these two political parties. They are the uniparty when it comes to these interventionist wars.😢
America is not the world’s policeman- it aims to be their slave master. Big difference between public service and genocidal abuse. Don’t confuse the two.
I feel like you are taking umbrage with what I wrote. I’m talking about how the U.S. is going around the world, acting like a bully and our government acts like the whole world has to be like us. Why are you getting all tangled up in knots over a comment?
Ha! You think policemen in America are interested in "public service"? No, they're abusive. And they're being more militarized every day.
Listen to Phil Ochs' song We're The Cops of The World on YouTube.
"It just says so much about the state of western civilization that even genocide has been turned into another vapid culture war wedge issue for people to masturbate their tribal identity constructs on." So fking true, and so sad. Divide & conquer rinse and repeat.
I think the pier has probably got to do with oil or gas reserves that Israel wants access to?
The endless lies and massive gaslighting campaigns on all fronts will not stop until they are stopped
"As though “don’t starve children to death or rip them to shreds with military explosives” is some kind of ideological position that only makes sense through a specific political lens, instead of just the normal human default perspective for anyone who isn’t a psychopath."
Face it, psychopaths are the only ones who are voting for the status quo parties/candidates. There the only ones who will since they don't have any sort of conscience and see nothing morally wrong with starving and blowing up children anywhere at any time.
Human beings with a conscience will protest and speak out against the genocidal maniacs in power with every ounce of strength that they have. Aaron Bushnell's soul calls out to us all to keep up the fight.
To be fair, humans are herd animals and easily led. It doesn't mean that they are psychopaths or sociopaths, but they are very good at rationalizing.