Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Okay, yes, police are currently in the process of violently stomping out political dissent on university campuses across America following multiple statements from President Biden attacking the protesters as “antisemitic” for opposing the genocide he’s been enthusiastically facilitating in Gaza. And okay, fine,
It would be easier to cope with.. If I hear one more time how angry Biden was during a conversation with Satanyahu, I'll have to puke in my mouth... or if I have to hear what a "decent" man Biden is.
The West Wing set have a raging boner for this sort of thing, for making excuses for their heroes because they acted as a result of some supposed internal conflict. The interpersonal drama doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter whether Biden is annoyed with Israel, as long as the latest shipment of weapons goes through. Those weapons work just the same.
It doesn't matter whether Obama had a sad when he ordered a drone strike on a wedding party. Those innocents are just as dead.
It doesn't matter whether Johnson really thinks he is an avatar of St. Winston Churchill or whether the CIA told him that play time is now over, or else we'll just have to do The Other Thing. His vote for war counts just the same.
It's the post actions era .. Feelings are more important now. That's how you can sell us any action. Especially when hiding behind the feelings of jewish people.
I love life. And I'm an old person. And I fear losing it all. I've already lost my youth. That in itself is quite a blow.
However, my suffering is nothing compared to what is happening right now in Gaza. :( And it is a far greater tragedy to see someone young lose their life (I agree) - for they never even got a chance to live.
Of course Biden is a decent man and he is doing things he doesn't like doing . And as George Orwell would have said If it sounds and looks like Big Brother is saying and doing things which feel unpleasant that is because the enemy the ANTI SEMETICS are attempting to turn a decent god and country loving society into its chaotic opposite. These students are attempting to kill all Jews on the campuses and have been brain washed by secret Russian and Chinese agents. Remember Israel is the Holy Land and is being attacked by demonic Islamics who are killing hundreds of women and children and blaming it on the Holy Warriors.
Of course I did nor mean nor do I think that Biden is a good man. Nor do I feel that Zionists are being treated unfairly. I quoted George Orwell whose dystopian work was dedicated to showing how the system can turn the truth on its head. I Was dismayed to get posts reacting as if I meant the rubbish I wrote. It WAS sarcasm of course but I'll give up posting in that vein
It still counts the same. Even if Blinken has to physically put the stamp in Biden's withered and shaking hand and guide him to the right spot on the piece of paper and promise him pudding instead of fruit cup for dessert if he gets his stamping task done today.
It counts just the same as if Biden were vigorous, alert and composed.
I really appreciate your words. I'm so sick of this "vote blue no matter who or we'll be experiencing fascism." As you point out many times, I don't know what the hell else to call this. They don't understand that none of us are free until we are all free. No exceptions.
No matter who you vote for, you will be experiencing fascism. none of us are free until we get another system and get rid of the greedy, capitalist money grubbers presently running for power.
You confuse capitalism with cronyism…lobbying to gain an advantage to be the ‘chosen’ by he government has zero to do with the market! When the government is picking winners and losers, that is Prima facia Fascism!
Ever seen the way and incompetence and corruption of how the government bureaucrats run prisons…you would not make that statement…politics always takes priority over common sense! Worked in a penitentiary system as an education mail contractor for 17 years!
They got rid of the uniforms and dodgy salutes remember. They have removed all the usual visual tropes and now it’s just these hideous cadaverous skin suits wearing aviators. You just have to get used to the new look of fascism. Watch the Actions not the paraphernalia.
In the US what used to be considers Centrist is now considered conservative and in some cases right wing, because many libs have gone totally leftist and are soft pedaling as Progressive!
are you kidding? How about her right to exist without the risk of having violence perpetrated on her by insecure sis men? How about her right to simply exist and be called by whatever pronoun she chooses? How about ANYONE's right to exist and be called by whatever pronoun they choose? The fact that it is sometimes awkward for others to get their heads around such changes does not warrant such hatred and ridicule.
Everyone already has, and of course should have, the right to exist without violence. They also have to the right to identify as the other sex, a teapot or as a cat if they wish. That doesn't mean that I have to play along with it. I have the right not to. If someone is offended by this, that is their problem. Offence can only be taken, not given.
The rights of women and girls to women only spaces, changing areas, prisons and sports, to safety and dignity, should not be overridden by pressure over using pronouns.
It's similar to the comments made above about the fact that we live in a post action world where only feelings count. The evidence is that vulnerable, previously sexually assaulted women have been locked up with sex offenders who have a penis and have been assaulted again. This trumps someone's feelings being hurt because the 'wrong' pronoun was used.
The feelings of Jewish people who say they are scared on campus and their rights are being attacked do not trump the abuses against Palestinians in Gaza.
Guess you forgot about the Jews kidnapped by HAMAS who were tortured and had their heads cut off and then the locals played soccer with the heads!
But of course the Jewish students who have been denied access to buildings at various buildings around the world who have zero to do with Gaza, when you intimidate people to the point that it alters their physical behavior, it qualifies as assault!
guess you are one of those that just cannot get their heads around the idea that others have different feelings than you do. Given your comment, lets hope that there are a lot that have a different perspective on life than you do.
Imagine being in a trench wirh your feet in cold water, loosing several comrads every week to artillery fire, with killer drones hovering above, away from your family for 15 months. But at least, the Russians aren't adressing you with the wrong pronoun.
Read a book. Queer people have always existed. They wouldn't have had the Lavender Scare if they did not. Bright side is old bigots like you are limited edition and decling stock.
Jenny Stokes: From what I see in these comments and from how you have responded to my comments, it is you that likes to call names. And it is not quite accurate that before this woke epidemic, "nobody gave a flyinf fuck what the hell you were/are". Don't know what planet you have spent your huge number of years living on.
It is physically dangerous for me to use the men's room when I am in a dress. The same goes for Trans Men who would be forced to use the womens restroom.
Trans women also get Sexually assaulted in prison at a 13 times higher rate than other prisoners. Passing additional laws criminalizing Trans people is functionally making the penalty for being Trans Sexual assault in prison.
These laws presuppose that all Trans people are sexually deviant for trying to live safe lives.
If you had said that you were prohibited from relieving yourself in any bathroom I'd have felt a bit sorry for you, though not as sorry as I am for Gazans who not only don't have any public conveniences, nor public services at all, they don't have the right to do anything in safety, which you do. What you mean is that you are not allowed to go where you want; which is into areas designated, with good reason, for girls, women and accompanied young boys, because you are a man.
If you beaten up in the men's loo for wearing a dress then your rights are not being taken away from you, it is illegal. This also is presupposing that men in toilets not wearing dresses care enough to risk arrest and incarceration and are not dudes minding their own business and trying to live their lives in safety.
I suggest that belligerently protesting your rights, such as the Jewish people unnecessarily crossing lines of Palestinian protestors to get to class when another route was clearly available, does not help society to accept behaviour that is different to the patriarchal norms that we've all been conditioned to accept. Society needs time to adjust, such as it did with homosexuality and the influx of Black people with the Windrush generation. The brain also needs time to adjust, such as double taking when seeing people with limbs missing, facial disfigurements or multiracial families. The majority of people are not racist, homophobic, transphobic nor cruel, they just need a bit of slack. I also suggest that BLM and transactivism deliberately creates more tension and division, not less, and will lengthen the time it takes for society to adjust.
You point about prisons is very important as it shows the difference between men and women as well as the need for prison and 'justice' reform on a massive scale.
Just about everyone is beaten up in men's prisons. In March 2000 Zahid Amin was murdered in Feltham jail by his cellmate; who was known by prison guards to be a violent racist. Zahid was 19, on his first offence for stealing a packet of razor blades and was coming to the end of his 90 day sentence. Does this mean that the punishment for being Asian is to be beaten up and murdered? No, the punishment for doing a crime is prison, where people are assaulted, not for being Trans or Asian. Does this mean that Zahid or Trans people should have been allowed into the safety of a women's prison where some, even convicted sex offenders, have been allowed in to assault and rape women? (Women inmates are drug offenders, shop lifters or involved in prostitution, ie more likely to have been abused than abusers.) No, it means that in a so called civilised society locking men up, for non-violent crimes, where they are able to beat and murder each other (and are also malnourished and mentally abused), with the knowledge of prison guards, is a total disgrace. Prison is a racket. It absolutely does not mean that biological men should be allowed into women's protected spaces of prisons, changing rooms, sports and bathrooms.
As there was a time when Black people were not allowed to use bathrooms, drinking fountains or enter businesses designated for “white people”, and this was in my lifetime.
Not to mention giving up their seats on the bus to whites.
gypsy; Except that women's bathrooms are not 'segregated' because of racism, sexism or transphobia; they are specially protected spaces for women's safety, privacy and dignity.
Please don't confuse these issues to imply that I'm prejudiced.
Rephrase that - certainly nothing good happens WITH American money. Money itself is not good. America is burning and that has got to lead to the total collapse of the current system. Good riddance to the American dream I say, it’s all been a lie anyway.
Obama promised to codify Roe v. Wade and had a Dem Congress and Senate. Nada. Biden' single payer, student debt relief, $15 minimum wage, ditto. Vote third party down-ticket too. AOC shows why.
All the J6 supporters that are now wringing their hands at the “horror” on college campuses is so disturbing. And all the Dems calling out the students is infuriating.
And we’ve all lost focus on Gaza and are now discussing the students … they sure moved the shinny ball quickly.
They hysteria is by design. Make this the focus so to take the focus away from the truly horrifying scenes of mass graves being unearthed.
Remember what happened right after the ICJ issued provisional measures? Big bad UNRWA became to centre of attention! Of course the fact that the most moral army in the world barbarically coerced these confessions was ignored. And former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna's report predictably concluded that there is no evidence that the agency is 'brimming' with Hamas.
Distraction and deflection is a time tested strategy to divert attention away from Israel's true motive - to "thin out" population of Gaza while rendering the Gaza Strip completely uninhabitable while inducing a large scale famine so that with time, the Palestinians who survive will face an existence so bleak that they'll have no choice but to up and leave if they want any semblance of a future.
So what your saying is Hamas as a governing body has been exposed as grossly negligent towards its constituents by expending its resources on GUNS vs BUTTER , meaning they have ignored infrastructure, economic development, education, in favor of purchasing & procuring military grade hardware & training for decades…resulting in a culture of that thrives on hate of another tribe vs a culture that thrives on its own accomplishments.
Most obvious answer seems to be the Sinai. 1.4 million Gazans have been driven to the southernmost governate bordering Egypt, have been sealed off from the rest of the enclave and now the Israelis are bombing Rafah + going to invade. There's only one place left to go when the predictable bloodbath ensues - Sinai.
Satellite imagery on the Egyptian side of the border with Rafah shows some sort of large encampment, tent city holding area being built. Chris Hedges wrote a piece about herding Gazans onto ships and sending them out to the sea to force others to take them (as was done with the PLO during Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, which is how they ended up in Tunisia).
Egypt so far has denied the reports regarding tent cities/encampments and threatened to tear up the 1979 peace treaty if Palestinians get forced into the Sinai. That's hogwash in my opinion. Most Arab regimes are subservient puppets of the neo-imperialist West (which includes Israel) because they're beholden to them both financially and militarily. They're all run by despots who don't have to care about public opinion. Egypt in particular has been in deep economic trouble for years now and is being held together by a combination of IMF loans and American military + financial aid. I suspect if the price is right, Sisi can eventually be bribed to open the gates at the Rafah border eventually (especially when the 'humanitarian catastrophe' that West and Israel supposedly want to avert predictably ensues).
Although this isn't directly related, I think it's imperative to understand in a nutshell the overarching regional dynamics at play for the past ~100 years. Anyone who does wouldn't ask stupid questions such as "why don't the Arab states do more?" What is now the neo-imperialist West has long sought to maintain control of the Middle East, first through direct rule (i.e. full on imperialist) from the early-mid 19th century, and after WWII indirectly (neo-imperialist). At first, it primarily came down to the strategic location of Egypt in particular (Suez Canal) and the land routes from the Levant to India (Britain's crown jewel). Once vast reserves of oil, a resource like no other, were discovered throughout the Persian Gulf by the 20th century, the stakes increased exponentially. Subservient despotic regimes were systematically imposed, either directly (as was the case with the Shah in Iran) or indirectly (Saudi royal family) or bribed (King Hussein of Jordan) to quell Arab nationalism and prevent public opinion from becoming the driving force behind politics in the region. Within this larger framework, Israel is the neo-imperialist West's strategic foothold in region, a last bastion of sorts which provides a land point to deploy military power to subdue the rest of the region in case bribery stops working. Since 1979, only Iran has really revolted and broken out of this frame, but it can't really do much on its own other than use proxies to harass the other side, which doesn't come anywhere close to meaningfully alerting the balance of power in the region. Furthermore, even then, the fall of the Shah was more than adequately offset by the complete pacification of Egypt in 1979. The next real threat emerged in 2011, which again has largely been quashed. Public anger on the Arab streets is palpable, but so far the heavy-handedness of the Jordanian, Egyptian, Saudi regimes seems to be working in keeping it contained.
It is common knowledge no one in the Arab world wants these malcontents, BUT the reasoning behind that goes a bit deeper…since Hamas has steeped them in such hate for Israel for decades, they are being used as PR & distractive Pawns to harass Israel while keeping their own hands clean, while letting HAMAS & their willing Palestinian duped do the dirty work! Egypt for one wants no part of this terror brigade while benefiting!
Where did I say that? The Arabs do not want them and are using them as pawns, which has been admitted…not my words, those from their own culture and Muslim brotherhood! This is where everyone is making a huge error and is being “played” by HAMAS and those who wan to rid them selves of the Jews in the region! Suck it up Buttercup, you, Caitlin and your ilk have been taken in by the propaganda, and there is a instigated military action that has been perpetrated. Ask me how you dial back the intent of thousands of missiles?
You are the one calling the residents of Gaza "malcontents". For that matter, if I take over your house at gunpoint, it must be your fault that your neighbors don't want to take you in.
FWIW the Third Reich used a similar argument that nobody wanted to take Jewish refugees as a justification for their crimes.
Actually, maybe you are. You might be an alumnus of Rush Limbaugh Institute of Trite Shit and currently showering yourself in the Bo Snerdley newsletter farts. Missing those days when Drudge was your source.
Undesirables,just like the German Jews in the 30s. By the way, Israeli bombs and starvation measures are much more potent radicalisation tools than any hate mongering brainewashing Hamas could come.up with.
HAMAS has been playing the guns vs butter game for over four decades scooter, time to wise up…just like the Dems keeping Blacks on the Welfare plantation & destroying their nuclear families!
the terrorists are the Israelis, as they are proving day in and day out. If Gaza is a shithole, it is because Israel has been shitting on it for decades.
Very much disputed by facts, much of the paperwork was done by political hacks…and tell me the jury was not intimidated into a verdict, since the trial should have been moved far away to a separate venue…by the way, it is impossible talk you can’t breath!
they didn't cheer them on. they "backed the blue for the most part. Like Amy Klobuchar who reportedly helped Derek Chauvin get off on an earlier complaint of police brutality or excessive force.
("As a Jew") Blinken Urges Hamas To Take 'Extraordinarily Generous' Ceasefire Deal
Israeli officials have reportedly given Hamas an ultimatum, saying the group has "one last chance" to reach a deal, according to Axios. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday, "If there is a deal, we will suspend the operation" - in reference to the planned Rafah ground offensive...
..According to Al Jazeera, this is ultimately unlikely to sway Hamas negotiators:
Israel wants to "have its cake and eat it too. They want to get their captives back out of Gaza and into Israel. But then they want to be able to continue the war on Gaza after a brief pause," Mohamad Elmasry, media studies professor and political analyst at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, told Al Jazeera.
UK’s Cameron calls on Hamas to accept ‘very generous’ offer on ceasefire in Gaza
In his opinion, Hamas has been given "a very generous offer of sustained 40 days ceasefire, the release of potentially thousands of Palestinian prisoners, in return for the release of these hostages" https://tass.com/world/1782157
"We can't support", means what, Sir? Same as usual?
Israel is preparing for the invasion of Rafah, which Tel Aviv calls the last stronghold of Hamas. The operation is likely to trigger a new round of escalation in the Gaza Strip and lead to massive casualties.
"We’ve said clearly, and for some time now on Rafah that, in the absence of a plan to ensure that civilians will not be harmed, we can’t support a major military operation in Rafah," Blinken said at the World Economic Forum (WEF) panel on Monday. "And we have not yet seen a plan that gives us confidence that civilians can be effectively protected." https://sputnikglobe.com/20240429/rafah-operation-looms-will-netanyahu-defy-bidens-warnings-1118179825.html
If you kill all the refugees, it is the most effective means to kill all of the "military age men", same as usual.
Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah, source says
World Socialist Website has the video of a large cop crushing his bike down onto tiny, 71 year old Jewish lady Jill Stein, "holding the line", her arms locked with other protesters for Palestinian human rights on Saturday. The arrest of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is an attack on democratic rights https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/29/jenj-a29.html
Funny how not generous their offer really is. They are full of it too if they think the Freedom Fighters will just give up. The terrorist IDF are getting their asses fed to them every day by "Hamas" and they can't stop that from happening. Yemen has costs all these ZioNazis billions (not that it truly matters since this filth prints it) and the Lebanese are destroying their military infrastructure around the region. These Zionist Nazi pigs are shitting themselves and do not know what to do!
I'm hitting grocery stores in and around my town of Falmouth Massachuetts trying to get Jill Stein on the ticket for POTUS here in the commonwealth. . Your commentary rings true to what I incounter when trying to get signatures for Jill. In Massacusetts we need 10,000 to get her on the ballot. I met zionists quoting the bible of "god's chosen people'. I get loyal Dems and Repubs that express dismay for I'll be taking votes away from their candidates by voting 3rd party. I could go on and on the way folks rationalize denying me my right to vote for a peace candidate be it Jill or Cornel this election. And we wonder why the same old same old happens when voting for those serving the duopoly. The forever wars, our surveillance state are here to stay and get worse until we citizens realize our current system is broke our leaders sociopaths needing replacing with sentient adults. There are no adults in the room in both chambers of congress. Biden and/or Trump repressent no choice at all IMHO.
Elections are like Drano trying to unstop our nasty two-party plug-up in the toilet. They won't work. We're gonna have to call Roto-Rooter for this clog.
I think students around the globe will force change in a good way. I believe once the world sees what Israel is doing it will move to the side of sanity. You see when the American politicians are being paid to support Israel, or else, thats what they do, they're cowards, they don't care babies and entire families are being blown to bits in Gaza, because its more important to hang on to your status and money. The day will come when God intervenes, it wont end well for the demons in power around the world.
You're count'n on 'God'? Isn't 'God' is a huge part of this whole equation? I mean, the Chosen People and all that stuff? Sorry, but I'm not interested waiting around to ride someones Rocket to Armageddon...Israel's, American, or anyone else's version. We need people with intelligence, not magic.
God probably has grown tired of his creations asking "him" to do everything for them as if he didn't give them Free Will and a Brain with Common Sense they are suppose to use. It's likely we're suppose to figure out the sadistic genocide of 14,000 children, and destroying the planet because of exploitation and the insatiable systematic greed of the obscenely wealthy- is not a good idea. And we won't learn anything, if "God" - whatever God may be, and who really knows what that is? - if "God" interferes - himself/herself/itself. It would seem, we're on our own - to learn this lesson - if it is a lesson (Maybe it isn't). But in the meanwhile, we probably should try to do something about genocide - and a bunch of cops dressed up in black beating up college kids all over the US and tying them up with plastic handcuffs. We should all learn - before these same cops turn into Israeli sadists who shoot the kids they tie up in handcuffs and then bury them in mass graves - like they are doing in Gaza.
Indeed. Americans could use an excuse "well I can't do anything physically since it's out there in Gaza". Well, now it's right here with your own police and hell knows what other enforcement. Frantically looking for another excuse...wait, here it is, God!
What is God? A question for the ages. In the meanwhile, we probably should do something ourselves about the genocide (and not just thoughts and prayers), as college students are doing all over the world right now.
Who are the real terrorists here? You think zip-tying hospital personnel (in the hundreds) and then shooting them one by one, and burying them into mass graves is not terrorism as well?
You are righteous about defending Israel and yet the very obvious (to the rest of the world) IDF sadists you advocate for - are just as much terrorists, as any "terrorist" one could find in human history. Such as the Nazi terrorists one finds depicted in Spielberg's Schindler's List. You argue that you and the Israeli IDF are different. No you're not. You (and Spielberg) ought to be deeply ashamed of your defense of genocide and mass killings taking place right now in Gaza and the West Bank. You condemn terrorism but at the same time are supporting terrorism on an industrial scale - like the German Nazis did. You are an immoral, contemptible hypocrite. You and Steven Spielberg - moral cowards.
Have you ever read what HAMAS has as its objectives? If you did, you would realize that most of the people demonstrating for them, should they show up on HAMAS’ doorstep, would be instantly killed or enslaved as infidels, perverts or Jews…they like women with pretty colored eyes!
Actually, I have. I suggest you do the same. For example sectiion 6. is one of a number of examples:
6. The Palestinian people are one people, made up of all Palestinians, inside and outside of Palestine, irrespective of their religion, culture or political affiliation.
There are those who are in the "my side, right or wrong," camp. And there are those who read some actual history, and learn. They might even have to change their opinion if they wish to have their opinion fact-based. I would imagine almost every person, who has come to reject the Zionist line, had to do that. I welcome the day when you too, decide that "the truth shall set you free," and you will join us, and as Lennon said, "And the world will be as one," just as the human genome has shown that we are all 99.9% the same. We are literally killing each other for some difference in the 0.1%. How crazy is that? This species will not survive if we can't learn how to get past this chimera of difference.
Have you heard what Israel’s government has for them objectives? If you did you would see that they want every Palestinian dead. Just today they said they want Rafah razed to the ground and every person they’re dead. Or do you have selective hearing?
I hate getting into these discussions about God but, do you realize when we were all born we were given free choice, it isn't up to God to intervene on anything, He leaves our choices up to us, you can't blame Him because things aren't going your way, I learned that along time ago. He has protected me my entire life, I have listened to His guidance and then I chose my path, we all have that inside us, we just have to listen. Thats all Im saying on this subject, you have your right to believe what yo want. God bless.
Here’s my deep thought for today; This one is about to blow up, IMO. Bottom line is that TPTB are once again using Monopoly money to wipe out an indigenous population and they expect everyone to buy into it, so that they can continue to build their shipping infrastructure and traffic whatever the F they want. Please, stay away from the University’s and cities. My peeps are predicting that it starts to get worse in June. Love you all! Stay safe out there.
History tends to repeat itself, but “You do you boo.”
“How many people died in the Kent State shooting 1970?
Four students
Kent State University was placed into the international spotlight on May 4, 1970, after members of the Ohio National Guard shot 13 students on campus during a demonstration. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded, including one who was permanently paralyzed from his injury.”
The term Palindrome derives from the Greek palin dromo (“running back again”). Examples of word palindromes include “civic,” “madam,” “radar,” and “deified.” Numerical palindromes include sequences that read the same in reverse order (e.g., 1991), as well as those that can be read upside down and backward (e.g., 1961).The first known palindrome was written in Latin and dates back to Roman times, “sator arepo tenet opera rotas,” which may be translated as either, “The sower Arepo leads with his hand the plough,” or, “The sower Arepo holds the wheels with effort.” They were also found in ancient Sanskrit, as well as in Ancient Greek.
It can also refer to dates throughout history that significantly repeat.
I would like us all for a moment to concentrate on this pier being built as we speak.
In Bidens address he said very firmly NO US BOOTS ON THE GROUND.
How does one build a pier without boots on the ground?
IF there are Americans building and (supposedly) defending this pier who is to know what might happen? One bomb thrown into the mix and the wailing and crying for American lives will be enormous.
Why are they building this pier when the US could force other routes to be opened?
Is the Biden administration building this for the Israelis when they take over Gaza and Kushner's new condominiums are built?
Or is this a way to put Palestinians on ships to nowhere?
It’s going to be a US military base.. that’s all the U.S. cares about. That way, the U.S. not only supplies Israel’s weapons and aid (& pay for its universal healthcare) but also be its police force.
Maybe their plan is to build that pier with wet suits in the water instead of boots on the ground. But then, anything they say they're going to do or not do can easily be rescinded a week or less later when the opposite of what they originally claimed is deemed in our "national interest," which in this case means in Israel's best interest, Israel being the US's 51st state, which essentially dictates US foreign policy.
Dear Caitlin, It may sound incongruous and heartless on my part - in these horrific times of Palestinian suffering - but the brilliant way you use satire made me smile. Your weapons of justice are words.
"When cops are cracking skulls at Columbia University .... wouldn’t the cracking sound way worse if the president was being all crude and impolite about it? " I am smiling. "Trump....he is the second coming of Adolf Hitler". Sorry I am smiling again!
But Caitlin is deadly serious.She is pointing out the post-truth of America going insane and fascist.The guise of antisemitism is becoming dangerous and frightening. The focus on the plight of the people of Gaza is again shifted with the ferocity and brutality of the police on campus. ( Israeli trained police, I might add). In addition to the violence of the pro-Israeli crowds. And the zionist regime under cover of that darkness is carrying on its sinister agenda unhindered. It is a genocide in every sense of the word, going on for seven long months, though the eminent judges of the ICJ are still deliberating waiting ... for what?
Meanwhile in America feelings of the Jewish lobby, the ruling class, the oligarchs, the compliant media matter more than the lives of Palestinians.
Like Caitlin says ".... then we’ll focus on that to the exclusion of all else".
Hello Joy in HK, I have no disagreement with you on that at all. I agree that it's crucial to differentiate between Zionist and Jewish. I have always been very diligent about that - here I was referring to a 'lobby'. Maybe I slipped up in not using the term AIPAC?
Please know that I am not trying to wriggle out of anything. I know what racism is.
It would be easier to cope with.. If I hear one more time how angry Biden was during a conversation with Satanyahu, I'll have to puke in my mouth... or if I have to hear what a "decent" man Biden is.
The West Wing set have a raging boner for this sort of thing, for making excuses for their heroes because they acted as a result of some supposed internal conflict. The interpersonal drama doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter whether Biden is annoyed with Israel, as long as the latest shipment of weapons goes through. Those weapons work just the same.
It doesn't matter whether Obama had a sad when he ordered a drone strike on a wedding party. Those innocents are just as dead.
It doesn't matter whether Johnson really thinks he is an avatar of St. Winston Churchill or whether the CIA told him that play time is now over, or else we'll just have to do The Other Thing. His vote for war counts just the same.
word.
It's the post actions era .. Feelings are more important now. That's how you can sell us any action. Especially when hiding behind the feelings of jewish people.
Death is so much worse under a Republican.
Death is nothing to fear unless you are a young person wanting a life.
I love life. And I'm an old person. And I fear losing it all. I've already lost my youth. That in itself is quite a blow.
However, my suffering is nothing compared to what is happening right now in Gaza. :( And it is a far greater tragedy to see someone young lose their life (I agree) - for they never even got a chance to live.
Confederacy of Dunces has been used. Jamboree of weasels?
Pandemonium of Fiends.
Symposium of freeloaders.
Federation of Fascists
Crapload of Capitalists.
I read that book.
“Congress of Whores”! Never more appropriate than NOW!
Of course Biden is a decent man and he is doing things he doesn't like doing . And as George Orwell would have said If it sounds and looks like Big Brother is saying and doing things which feel unpleasant that is because the enemy the ANTI SEMETICS are attempting to turn a decent god and country loving society into its chaotic opposite. These students are attempting to kill all Jews on the campuses and have been brain washed by secret Russian and Chinese agents. Remember Israel is the Holy Land and is being attacked by demonic Islamics who are killing hundreds of women and children and blaming it on the Holy Warriors.
Of course I did nor mean nor do I think that Biden is a good man. Nor do I feel that Zionists are being treated unfairly. I quoted George Orwell whose dystopian work was dedicated to showing how the system can turn the truth on its head. I Was dismayed to get posts reacting as if I meant the rubbish I wrote. It WAS sarcasm of course but I'll give up posting in that vein
“Genocide good, protest bad”.
Er…Jack….I DO hope that was sarcasm…otherwise, please follow Diana’s advice.
You really need a word with your dealer.. that stuff he’s giving you..
Of course. The problem is that, senile or not, his signature counts just the same.
Pretty sure that a rubber stamp is in use.
It still counts the same. Even if Blinken has to physically put the stamp in Biden's withered and shaking hand and guide him to the right spot on the piece of paper and promise him pudding instead of fruit cup for dessert if he gets his stamping task done today.
It counts just the same as if Biden were vigorous, alert and composed.
It counts the same if Biden, being of sound mind, authorizes it.
Good luck with that one. It doesn't work for Team D cultists who claimed that Trump was "insane" either.
Ha. Yes it's like leading a starved cow to food.
Blinken co-signed this genocide:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/05/20/2022-10828/in-the-matter-of-the-designation-of-kahane-chai-and-other-aliases-as-a-foreign-terrorist
...and Blinken, Nylander, and Sullivan are little more than effluent barfed upa from the rotting intestines of W, Cheney and HRC.
I really appreciate your words. I'm so sick of this "vote blue no matter who or we'll be experiencing fascism." As you point out many times, I don't know what the hell else to call this. They don't understand that none of us are free until we are all free. No exceptions.
No matter who you vote for, you will be experiencing fascism. none of us are free until we get another system and get rid of the greedy, capitalist money grubbers presently running for power.
I'm voting Stein and the Greens. Won't waste it on either fascist party.
I've been there and done that. I am ready to do it again.
Hi Susan
I’m old enough to recall the ‘68 Democratic Convention in Chicago. I believe the upcoming one in August will put ‘68’s to shame.
Somehow people must be free
I hope the day comes soon
Won’t you please come to Chicago, show your face
From the bottom of the ocean
To the mountains of the moon
Won’t you please come to Chicago, no one else can take your place
We can change the world
Rearrange the world
It’s dying
Rules and regulations, who needs them!
Open up the door
CSNY
You confuse capitalism with cronyism…lobbying to gain an advantage to be the ‘chosen’ by he government has zero to do with the market! When the government is picking winners and losers, that is Prima facia Fascism!
When the government makes imprisonment and murder a profitable business, that’s fascism.
Ever seen the way and incompetence and corruption of how the government bureaucrats run prisons…you would not make that statement…politics always takes priority over common sense! Worked in a penitentiary system as an education mail contractor for 17 years!
I really think 'Facism' is NOT the word to use here.
Look up the word before you use it so lightly.
They got rid of the uniforms and dodgy salutes remember. They have removed all the usual visual tropes and now it’s just these hideous cadaverous skin suits wearing aviators. You just have to get used to the new look of fascism. Watch the Actions not the paraphernalia.
LOOK up the meaning of the word first?
I did. Everything checks out, ALL of it. What are you seeing?
I think, in fact, it is the right word to use: far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist
Sounds much more like the Left, IMO.. They want to control EVERYTHING except abortion. Schools, the media, energy, ETC
What f---ing 'LEFT' there is NO left in the USA
In the US what used to be considers Centrist is now considered conservative and in some cases right wing, because many libs have gone totally leftist and are soft pedaling as Progressive!
There's a right & a left. Where've you been?
Exactly
Cue up "but we gotta vote Genocide Joe because pronouns!"
Sure, Biden will murder innocents by the thousands, but he'll at least preserve our ever so precious politically correct sensibilities....
As a Trans Woman, Biden has not done much of anything to curb attacks on my rights. Liberals can give lip service and nothing more.
Hiya, Which of your rights are being attacked may I ask. Do you have different rights to women without a prefix?
are you kidding? How about her right to exist without the risk of having violence perpetrated on her by insecure sis men? How about her right to simply exist and be called by whatever pronoun she chooses? How about ANYONE's right to exist and be called by whatever pronoun they choose? The fact that it is sometimes awkward for others to get their heads around such changes does not warrant such hatred and ridicule.
Everyone already has, and of course should have, the right to exist without violence. They also have to the right to identify as the other sex, a teapot or as a cat if they wish. That doesn't mean that I have to play along with it. I have the right not to. If someone is offended by this, that is their problem. Offence can only be taken, not given.
The rights of women and girls to women only spaces, changing areas, prisons and sports, to safety and dignity, should not be overridden by pressure over using pronouns.
It's similar to the comments made above about the fact that we live in a post action world where only feelings count. The evidence is that vulnerable, previously sexually assaulted women have been locked up with sex offenders who have a penis and have been assaulted again. This trumps someone's feelings being hurt because the 'wrong' pronoun was used.
The feelings of Jewish people who say they are scared on campus and their rights are being attacked do not trump the abuses against Palestinians in Gaza.
Guess you forgot about the Jews kidnapped by HAMAS who were tortured and had their heads cut off and then the locals played soccer with the heads!
But of course the Jewish students who have been denied access to buildings at various buildings around the world who have zero to do with Gaza, when you intimidate people to the point that it alters their physical behavior, it qualifies as assault!
Your 1st sentence was demolished months ago.1
Well said!
It is an issue that needs to be addressed, I agree. But not by fomenting violence on anyone.
Must be hell. I suppose Ukrainian men under fire on the battlefield feel lucky not being trans.
guess you are one of those that just cannot get their heads around the idea that others have different feelings than you do. Given your comment, lets hope that there are a lot that have a different perspective on life than you do.
Imagine being in a trench wirh your feet in cold water, loosing several comrads every week to artillery fire, with killer drones hovering above, away from your family for 15 months. But at least, the Russians aren't adressing you with the wrong pronoun.
I know that many people (most of the world population outside the anglo saxon countries) agree with me.
You can't even understand irony!
Susan.
You still come out with your naivety..........every word out of your mouth.
DO you understand that other countries just get on with life without these 'name tags.'
Before all this woke epidemic NOBODY gave a flyinf fuck what the hell you were/are. How do you make people fight each other?
Call them names and deride them.
I am 76yrs old in a few days and I really do not care who is what or what they are doing. It's only little religious people with small minds who care.
Read a book. Queer people have always existed. They wouldn't have had the Lavender Scare if they did not. Bright side is old bigots like you are limited edition and decling stock.
"Queer people have always existed." - of course, it's natural. What it is not is normal. See the difference?
Jenny Stokes: From what I see in these comments and from how you have responded to my comments, it is you that likes to call names. And it is not quite accurate that before this woke epidemic, "nobody gave a flyinf fuck what the hell you were/are". Don't know what planet you have spent your huge number of years living on.
I legally cannot use the bathroom in many states.
It is physically dangerous for me to use the men's room when I am in a dress. The same goes for Trans Men who would be forced to use the womens restroom.
Trans women also get Sexually assaulted in prison at a 13 times higher rate than other prisoners. Passing additional laws criminalizing Trans people is functionally making the penalty for being Trans Sexual assault in prison.
These laws presuppose that all Trans people are sexually deviant for trying to live safe lives.
Sorry, but we biological women don't want to share our private spaces with biological men. It has NOTHING to do w/ bigotry.
The hormones cease making people biologically a man. That's what hormones do. Even to Cis people. Do you not understand what hormones are?
It's chromosomes. XX or XY & one cannot change them even if they cut body parts off.
Hi Lillian,
If you had said that you were prohibited from relieving yourself in any bathroom I'd have felt a bit sorry for you, though not as sorry as I am for Gazans who not only don't have any public conveniences, nor public services at all, they don't have the right to do anything in safety, which you do. What you mean is that you are not allowed to go where you want; which is into areas designated, with good reason, for girls, women and accompanied young boys, because you are a man.
If you beaten up in the men's loo for wearing a dress then your rights are not being taken away from you, it is illegal. This also is presupposing that men in toilets not wearing dresses care enough to risk arrest and incarceration and are not dudes minding their own business and trying to live their lives in safety.
I suggest that belligerently protesting your rights, such as the Jewish people unnecessarily crossing lines of Palestinian protestors to get to class when another route was clearly available, does not help society to accept behaviour that is different to the patriarchal norms that we've all been conditioned to accept. Society needs time to adjust, such as it did with homosexuality and the influx of Black people with the Windrush generation. The brain also needs time to adjust, such as double taking when seeing people with limbs missing, facial disfigurements or multiracial families. The majority of people are not racist, homophobic, transphobic nor cruel, they just need a bit of slack. I also suggest that BLM and transactivism deliberately creates more tension and division, not less, and will lengthen the time it takes for society to adjust.
You point about prisons is very important as it shows the difference between men and women as well as the need for prison and 'justice' reform on a massive scale.
Just about everyone is beaten up in men's prisons. In March 2000 Zahid Amin was murdered in Feltham jail by his cellmate; who was known by prison guards to be a violent racist. Zahid was 19, on his first offence for stealing a packet of razor blades and was coming to the end of his 90 day sentence. Does this mean that the punishment for being Asian is to be beaten up and murdered? No, the punishment for doing a crime is prison, where people are assaulted, not for being Trans or Asian. Does this mean that Zahid or Trans people should have been allowed into the safety of a women's prison where some, even convicted sex offenders, have been allowed in to assault and rape women? (Women inmates are drug offenders, shop lifters or involved in prostitution, ie more likely to have been abused than abusers.) No, it means that in a so called civilised society locking men up, for non-violent crimes, where they are able to beat and murder each other (and are also malnourished and mentally abused), with the knowledge of prison guards, is a total disgrace. Prison is a racket. It absolutely does not mean that biological men should be allowed into women's protected spaces of prisons, changing rooms, sports and bathrooms.
Hi Jo
As there was a time when Black people were not allowed to use bathrooms, drinking fountains or enter businesses designated for “white people”, and this was in my lifetime.
Not to mention giving up their seats on the bus to whites.
gypsy; Except that women's bathrooms are not 'segregated' because of racism, sexism or transphobia; they are specially protected spaces for women's safety, privacy and dignity.
Please don't confuse these issues to imply that I'm prejudiced.
Difficulty with pronouns I'd guess.
Perhaps if you did not get in other people’s faces about it, there would be no issue?
Only as long as his family profits!
He will MANDATE what he wants us to believe, propagandize the the fools, and silence the rest.
...and of course we'll completely ignore the fact that Congress COULD do something decent IF it wanted to....
Not too much can happen in the worlld without American money......
Rephrase that - certainly nothing good happens WITH American money. Money itself is not good. America is burning and that has got to lead to the total collapse of the current system. Good riddance to the American dream I say, it’s all been a lie anyway.
Yes but you bought the toys and forgot to vote.
That would require the Democrats in Congress and the Senate.
Obama promised to codify Roe v. Wade and had a Dem Congress and Senate. Nada. Biden' single payer, student debt relief, $15 minimum wage, ditto. Vote third party down-ticket too. AOC shows why.
All the J6 supporters that are now wringing their hands at the “horror” on college campuses is so disturbing. And all the Dems calling out the students is infuriating.
And we’ve all lost focus on Gaza and are now discussing the students … they sure moved the shinny ball quickly.
They hysteria is by design. Make this the focus so to take the focus away from the truly horrifying scenes of mass graves being unearthed.
Remember what happened right after the ICJ issued provisional measures? Big bad UNRWA became to centre of attention! Of course the fact that the most moral army in the world barbarically coerced these confessions was ignored. And former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna's report predictably concluded that there is no evidence that the agency is 'brimming' with Hamas.
Distraction and deflection is a time tested strategy to divert attention away from Israel's true motive - to "thin out" population of Gaza while rendering the Gaza Strip completely uninhabitable while inducing a large scale famine so that with time, the Palestinians who survive will face an existence so bleak that they'll have no choice but to up and leave if they want any semblance of a future.
Such a devastating summary but absolutely correct.
So what your saying is Hamas as a governing body has been exposed as grossly negligent towards its constituents by expending its resources on GUNS vs BUTTER , meaning they have ignored infrastructure, economic development, education, in favor of purchasing & procuring military grade hardware & training for decades…resulting in a culture of that thrives on hate of another tribe vs a culture that thrives on its own accomplishments.
sounds like every american administration... truly leading by example...
I agree, the elitist elected ESTABLISHMENT is ignoring what the vast majority of American Citizens want done, like:
-Close the border until we have a sane immigration policy
-No birth right citizenship
-No Subsidies to illegals or aliens or corporations
-Begin eliminating all individual and corporate subsidies, we do not have a labor shortage
-have a foreign policy based on reciprocity…for example, if we can’t own land an resources in China, they can’t own resources or land here!
Need I go on!
Where would they go to?
Most obvious answer seems to be the Sinai. 1.4 million Gazans have been driven to the southernmost governate bordering Egypt, have been sealed off from the rest of the enclave and now the Israelis are bombing Rafah + going to invade. There's only one place left to go when the predictable bloodbath ensues - Sinai.
Satellite imagery on the Egyptian side of the border with Rafah shows some sort of large encampment, tent city holding area being built. Chris Hedges wrote a piece about herding Gazans onto ships and sending them out to the sea to force others to take them (as was done with the PLO during Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, which is how they ended up in Tunisia).
Egypt so far has denied the reports regarding tent cities/encampments and threatened to tear up the 1979 peace treaty if Palestinians get forced into the Sinai. That's hogwash in my opinion. Most Arab regimes are subservient puppets of the neo-imperialist West (which includes Israel) because they're beholden to them both financially and militarily. They're all run by despots who don't have to care about public opinion. Egypt in particular has been in deep economic trouble for years now and is being held together by a combination of IMF loans and American military + financial aid. I suspect if the price is right, Sisi can eventually be bribed to open the gates at the Rafah border eventually (especially when the 'humanitarian catastrophe' that West and Israel supposedly want to avert predictably ensues).
Although this isn't directly related, I think it's imperative to understand in a nutshell the overarching regional dynamics at play for the past ~100 years. Anyone who does wouldn't ask stupid questions such as "why don't the Arab states do more?" What is now the neo-imperialist West has long sought to maintain control of the Middle East, first through direct rule (i.e. full on imperialist) from the early-mid 19th century, and after WWII indirectly (neo-imperialist). At first, it primarily came down to the strategic location of Egypt in particular (Suez Canal) and the land routes from the Levant to India (Britain's crown jewel). Once vast reserves of oil, a resource like no other, were discovered throughout the Persian Gulf by the 20th century, the stakes increased exponentially. Subservient despotic regimes were systematically imposed, either directly (as was the case with the Shah in Iran) or indirectly (Saudi royal family) or bribed (King Hussein of Jordan) to quell Arab nationalism and prevent public opinion from becoming the driving force behind politics in the region. Within this larger framework, Israel is the neo-imperialist West's strategic foothold in region, a last bastion of sorts which provides a land point to deploy military power to subdue the rest of the region in case bribery stops working. Since 1979, only Iran has really revolted and broken out of this frame, but it can't really do much on its own other than use proxies to harass the other side, which doesn't come anywhere close to meaningfully alerting the balance of power in the region. Furthermore, even then, the fall of the Shah was more than adequately offset by the complete pacification of Egypt in 1979. The next real threat emerged in 2011, which again has largely been quashed. Public anger on the Arab streets is palpable, but so far the heavy-handedness of the Jordanian, Egyptian, Saudi regimes seems to be working in keeping it contained.
Hi Jenny
Scott Ritter, mah main man, has suggested that China will most likely rebuild Gaza. Won’t THAT be a kick in the ass to Amerikkka!
I don't know Gypsy................Will there be any Palestinians by then?
I have faith that they will arise like the phoenix from ashes, Jenny…
I hope so Gypsy but we have Rafa coming soon?
It is common knowledge no one in the Arab world wants these malcontents, BUT the reasoning behind that goes a bit deeper…since Hamas has steeped them in such hate for Israel for decades, they are being used as PR & distractive Pawns to harass Israel while keeping their own hands clean, while letting HAMAS & their willing Palestinian duped do the dirty work! Egypt for one wants no part of this terror brigade while benefiting!
So you are saying that the people of Gaza are subhumans.
Where did we hear that one before?
Where did I say that? The Arabs do not want them and are using them as pawns, which has been admitted…not my words, those from their own culture and Muslim brotherhood! This is where everyone is making a huge error and is being “played” by HAMAS and those who wan to rid them selves of the Jews in the region! Suck it up Buttercup, you, Caitlin and your ilk have been taken in by the propaganda, and there is a instigated military action that has been perpetrated. Ask me how you dial back the intent of thousands of missiles?
You are the one calling the residents of Gaza "malcontents". For that matter, if I take over your house at gunpoint, it must be your fault that your neighbors don't want to take you in.
FWIW the Third Reich used a similar argument that nobody wanted to take Jewish refugees as a justification for their crimes.
You can't possibly be this dumb.
Actually, maybe you are. You might be an alumnus of Rush Limbaugh Institute of Trite Shit and currently showering yourself in the Bo Snerdley newsletter farts. Missing those days when Drudge was your source.
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Gene.
Where do you come by this word 'malcontents?'
Where do you live? Have you had your land taken away from you/parents/siblings killed?
I think not. Get some compassion before the devil comes after YOU.
I have no compassion for people who vote monsters into power…including supporters of Biden, Bush, Obama, Merkel, Macron, and many others!
you forgot Netanyahu
boooo
Undesirables,just like the German Jews in the 30s. By the way, Israeli bombs and starvation measures are much more potent radicalisation tools than any hate mongering brainewashing Hamas could come.up with.
HAMAS has been playing the guns vs butter game for over four decades scooter, time to wise up…just like the Dems keeping Blacks on the Welfare plantation & destroying their nuclear families!
"no one in the Arab world wants these malcontents" - so, dimwit, why would they want to leave their homeland? Answer quick, fuckface! 🤡
Why would you stay in a shithole with no economic opportunities run by Terrorists is the better question !
the terrorists are the Israelis, as they are proving day in and day out. If Gaza is a shithole, it is because Israel has been shitting on it for decades.
So what belt are you currently in hasbara? 😉🤣🤡
Malcontents?
FUCK OFF, asswipe.
Yes. IF you look at the History of Egypt in particular. Never a kind or thoughtful country.
HAMAS has already seen to the bleak existence with their Guns over Butter economic development priorities!
EXCEPT that the students seem to have a brain....why are they out there/
Israehell is why they are out there.
Students filled with propaganda!
LOL. You forgot about the BLM riots. The same jerks who cheered them on clutch their pearls about J6.
Vast difference in violence level, very little violence in the J6 crowd.
Thank you!
i remember the extensive cop brutality that set the protests off.
You mean the guy that died of a self inflicted drug overdose?
no I mean the guy who got choked to death by cops. which is why they all got convicted.
Very much disputed by facts, much of the paperwork was done by political hacks…and tell me the jury was not intimidated into a verdict, since the trial should have been moved far away to a separate venue…by the way, it is impossible talk you can’t breath!
Yes, but that wasn't the point.
they didn't cheer them on. they "backed the blue for the most part. Like Amy Klobuchar who reportedly helped Derek Chauvin get off on an earlier complaint of police brutality or excessive force.
Miss bought and paid for based on the client as prosecutor!
Pretzel/ no point talking with Gene.
The left cheered them on. Hell, our VP helped bail out the f--king rioters! I have the tweet where she promoted the Org.
("As a Jew") Blinken Urges Hamas To Take 'Extraordinarily Generous' Ceasefire Deal
Israeli officials have reportedly given Hamas an ultimatum, saying the group has "one last chance" to reach a deal, according to Axios. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday, "If there is a deal, we will suspend the operation" - in reference to the planned Rafah ground offensive...
..According to Al Jazeera, this is ultimately unlikely to sway Hamas negotiators:
Israel wants to "have its cake and eat it too. They want to get their captives back out of Gaza and into Israel. But then they want to be able to continue the war on Gaza after a brief pause," Mohamad Elmasry, media studies professor and political analyst at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, told Al Jazeera.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blinken-urges-hamas-take-extraordinarily-generous-israeli-deal-hostages
UK’s Cameron calls on Hamas to accept ‘very generous’ offer on ceasefire in Gaza
In his opinion, Hamas has been given "a very generous offer of sustained 40 days ceasefire, the release of potentially thousands of Palestinian prisoners, in return for the release of these hostages" https://tass.com/world/1782157
"We can't support", means what, Sir? Same as usual?
Israel is preparing for the invasion of Rafah, which Tel Aviv calls the last stronghold of Hamas. The operation is likely to trigger a new round of escalation in the Gaza Strip and lead to massive casualties.
"We’ve said clearly, and for some time now on Rafah that, in the absence of a plan to ensure that civilians will not be harmed, we can’t support a major military operation in Rafah," Blinken said at the World Economic Forum (WEF) panel on Monday. "And we have not yet seen a plan that gives us confidence that civilians can be effectively protected." https://sputnikglobe.com/20240429/rafah-operation-looms-will-netanyahu-defy-bidens-warnings-1118179825.html
If you kill all the refugees, it is the most effective means to kill all of the "military age men", same as usual.
Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah, source says
Israel is reportedly setting up a 'complex network' of checkpoints to prevent 'military age' men from fleeing Rafah assault, says senior western official https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-israel-planning-ring-checkpoints-prevent-men-fleeing-rafah
Rafah Invasion Will Happen With Or Without Hostage Deal: Netanyahu https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rafah-invasion-will-happen-or-without-hostage-deal-netanyahu-says
World Socialist Website has the video of a large cop crushing his bike down onto tiny, 71 year old Jewish lady Jill Stein, "holding the line", her arms locked with other protesters for Palestinian human rights on Saturday. The arrest of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is an attack on democratic rights https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/29/jenj-a29.html
Funny how not generous their offer really is. They are full of it too if they think the Freedom Fighters will just give up. The terrorist IDF are getting their asses fed to them every day by "Hamas" and they can't stop that from happening. Yemen has costs all these ZioNazis billions (not that it truly matters since this filth prints it) and the Lebanese are destroying their military infrastructure around the region. These Zionist Nazi pigs are shitting themselves and do not know what to do!
Only Kapos support a ceasefire
I'm hitting grocery stores in and around my town of Falmouth Massachuetts trying to get Jill Stein on the ticket for POTUS here in the commonwealth. . Your commentary rings true to what I incounter when trying to get signatures for Jill. In Massacusetts we need 10,000 to get her on the ballot. I met zionists quoting the bible of "god's chosen people'. I get loyal Dems and Repubs that express dismay for I'll be taking votes away from their candidates by voting 3rd party. I could go on and on the way folks rationalize denying me my right to vote for a peace candidate be it Jill or Cornel this election. And we wonder why the same old same old happens when voting for those serving the duopoly. The forever wars, our surveillance state are here to stay and get worse until we citizens realize our current system is broke our leaders sociopaths needing replacing with sentient adults. There are no adults in the room in both chambers of congress. Biden and/or Trump repressent no choice at all IMHO.
Well said.
People must protect their students, enough is enough.
America needs its carnation revolution.
Elections are like Drano trying to unstop our nasty two-party plug-up in the toilet. They won't work. We're gonna have to call Roto-Rooter for this clog.
It's rather you need to change the "piping" - this system doesn't work anymore. Nor I personally believe in it.
Not sure one roto-rooter can do much.....how about asking Biden for 3billion for this project!
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NO EVOLUTION: FASCISM 1968 - Protest, demands for divestment. Zionist-bought university. No negotiation. Occupy bldgs. NYPD violent pig solution. Bust heads.
2024: FASCISM DITTO
When will they ever learn? In a violent settler colonialist racist genocidal state (USA/Israel) basic corrupted ethos precludes fundamental change.
Burn it down.
I think students around the globe will force change in a good way. I believe once the world sees what Israel is doing it will move to the side of sanity. You see when the American politicians are being paid to support Israel, or else, thats what they do, they're cowards, they don't care babies and entire families are being blown to bits in Gaza, because its more important to hang on to your status and money. The day will come when God intervenes, it wont end well for the demons in power around the world.
Well, the Uniparty is working to stomp that out this very minute.
Funny how people complain that Congress is slow and doesn't do anything. Congress is remarkably energetic.
When they want to be.
You're count'n on 'God'? Isn't 'God' is a huge part of this whole equation? I mean, the Chosen People and all that stuff? Sorry, but I'm not interested waiting around to ride someones Rocket to Armageddon...Israel's, American, or anyone else's version. We need people with intelligence, not magic.
Sabbatean Frankists' God is money and land for their own.
"The day will come when God intervene"
God probably has grown tired of his creations asking "him" to do everything for them as if he didn't give them Free Will and a Brain with Common Sense they are suppose to use. It's likely we're suppose to figure out the sadistic genocide of 14,000 children, and destroying the planet because of exploitation and the insatiable systematic greed of the obscenely wealthy- is not a good idea. And we won't learn anything, if "God" - whatever God may be, and who really knows what that is? - if "God" interferes - himself/herself/itself. It would seem, we're on our own - to learn this lesson - if it is a lesson (Maybe it isn't). But in the meanwhile, we probably should try to do something about genocide - and a bunch of cops dressed up in black beating up college kids all over the US and tying them up with plastic handcuffs. We should all learn - before these same cops turn into Israeli sadists who shoot the kids they tie up in handcuffs and then bury them in mass graves - like they are doing in Gaza.
Indeed. Americans could use an excuse "well I can't do anything physically since it's out there in Gaza". Well, now it's right here with your own police and hell knows what other enforcement. Frantically looking for another excuse...wait, here it is, God!
Who is God?
What is God? A question for the ages. In the meanwhile, we probably should do something ourselves about the genocide (and not just thoughts and prayers), as college students are doing all over the world right now.
Nobody, Jenny.
What loving “god” would allow millennia of suffering?
Hannahlehigh, To quote you...
"The day will come when God intervenes, it wont end well for the demons in power around the world".
Won't it be like Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot...
Trans: "My demon is bigger than your demon". - Fixed it.
I hope you're right in your first statements though.
Not by supporting TERRORISTS.
Who are the real terrorists here? You think zip-tying hospital personnel (in the hundreds) and then shooting them one by one, and burying them into mass graves is not terrorism as well?
You are righteous about defending Israel and yet the very obvious (to the rest of the world) IDF sadists you advocate for - are just as much terrorists, as any "terrorist" one could find in human history. Such as the Nazi terrorists one finds depicted in Spielberg's Schindler's List. You argue that you and the Israeli IDF are different. No you're not. You (and Spielberg) ought to be deeply ashamed of your defense of genocide and mass killings taking place right now in Gaza and the West Bank. You condemn terrorism but at the same time are supporting terrorism on an industrial scale - like the German Nazis did. You are an immoral, contemptible hypocrite. You and Steven Spielberg - moral cowards.
Have you ever read what HAMAS has as its objectives? If you did, you would realize that most of the people demonstrating for them, should they show up on HAMAS’ doorstep, would be instantly killed or enslaved as infidels, perverts or Jews…they like women with pretty colored eyes!
Actually, I have. I suggest you do the same. For example sectiion 6. is one of a number of examples:
6. The Palestinian people are one people, made up of all Palestinians, inside and outside of Palestine, irrespective of their religion, culture or political affiliation.
"Irrespective of their religion"
https://israelpalestinenews.org/hamass-2017-charter-full-text/
Please, link to your source for your claim.
Where do the thousand of missiles fit in; and executing Jews and using their heads as soccer balls fit in?
I must have missed that part filed in the Appendix on Slaughtering Hebrew Heathens for recreation and target practice!
"using their heads as soccer balls" = "40 beheaded babies"= systematic rape by Hamas on Oct 7 = just more bullshit to justify genocide and land theft.
Gene, put down the crack pipe and slowly walk away.
There are those who are in the "my side, right or wrong," camp. And there are those who read some actual history, and learn. They might even have to change their opinion if they wish to have their opinion fact-based. I would imagine almost every person, who has come to reject the Zionist line, had to do that. I welcome the day when you too, decide that "the truth shall set you free," and you will join us, and as Lennon said, "And the world will be as one," just as the human genome has shown that we are all 99.9% the same. We are literally killing each other for some difference in the 0.1%. How crazy is that? This species will not survive if we can't learn how to get past this chimera of difference.
Have you heard what Israel’s government has for them objectives? If you did you would see that they want every Palestinian dead. Just today they said they want Rafah razed to the ground and every person they’re dead. Or do you have selective hearing?
It’s where the TERRORISTS ARE!
Similar to asking Willie Sutton why he robbed banks, It’s where the money is!
It’s like a rural neighbor that shoots at you in a regular basis, pretty soon you decide you have had enough and it’s time to clean house!
Are you sane? Seems like you are just making shit up because people are calling you out for your other stupid shit.
Gene. Everyone try and be calm talking to this demented soul who couldn't see truth if he tripped over it.
THIS IS YOU Gene.
How do you keep ignoring thousands of missiles? You must have an AGENDA!
1000 of missiles from where?
An eye for an eye does not mean an eye for 14,000 children's eyes. Sorry Charlie. Your moral arithmetic doesn't add up.
USA is a 'terrorist organisation!'
If the US does not like socialism/communism it invades in the name of democracy..whatever that is.
You are on of those people who probably never sat down and discussed politics/never voted unless it was in your favour.
Stop preaching and get a soul.
God is used as a scapegoat too often. Have you seen him coming to anyone's aid? I sure haven't but maybe I missed it!
I hate getting into these discussions about God but, do you realize when we were all born we were given free choice, it isn't up to God to intervene on anything, He leaves our choices up to us, you can't blame Him because things aren't going your way, I learned that along time ago. He has protected me my entire life, I have listened to His guidance and then I chose my path, we all have that inside us, we just have to listen. Thats all Im saying on this subject, you have your right to believe what yo want. God bless.
Here’s my deep thought for today; This one is about to blow up, IMO. Bottom line is that TPTB are once again using Monopoly money to wipe out an indigenous population and they expect everyone to buy into it, so that they can continue to build their shipping infrastructure and traffic whatever the F they want. Please, stay away from the University’s and cities. My peeps are predicting that it starts to get worse in June. Love you all! Stay safe out there.
Why stay away from Universities and Cities..............everyone should be there supporting these students!
History tends to repeat itself, but “You do you boo.”
“How many people died in the Kent State shooting 1970?
Four students
Kent State University was placed into the international spotlight on May 4, 1970, after members of the Ohio National Guard shot 13 students on campus during a demonstration. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded, including one who was permanently paralyzed from his injury.”
1968, about 300 peaceful protesters including many students were massacred by government soldiers in Tlatelolco plaza, Mexico.
The term Palindrome derives from the Greek palin dromo (“running back again”). Examples of word palindromes include “civic,” “madam,” “radar,” and “deified.” Numerical palindromes include sequences that read the same in reverse order (e.g., 1991), as well as those that can be read upside down and backward (e.g., 1961).The first known palindrome was written in Latin and dates back to Roman times, “sator arepo tenet opera rotas,” which may be translated as either, “The sower Arepo leads with his hand the plough,” or, “The sower Arepo holds the wheels with effort.” They were also found in ancient Sanskrit, as well as in Ancient Greek.
It can also refer to dates throughout history that significantly repeat.
racecar
Four white students.
Does this mean you are only thinking about yourself?
Going to take cases of water and boxes of pizza to the ones at nearby Michigan State, Jenny.
I would come with you if I wasn't so far away.
I would like us all for a moment to concentrate on this pier being built as we speak.
In Bidens address he said very firmly NO US BOOTS ON THE GROUND.
How does one build a pier without boots on the ground?
IF there are Americans building and (supposedly) defending this pier who is to know what might happen? One bomb thrown into the mix and the wailing and crying for American lives will be enormous.
Why are they building this pier when the US could force other routes to be opened?
Is the Biden administration building this for the Israelis when they take over Gaza and Kushner's new condominiums are built?
Or is this a way to put Palestinians on ships to nowhere?
This looks like a VERY dangerous game to me.
It’s going to be a US military base.. that’s all the U.S. cares about. That way, the U.S. not only supplies Israel’s weapons and aid (& pay for its universal healthcare) but also be its police force.
Maybe their plan is to build that pier with wet suits in the water instead of boots on the ground. But then, anything they say they're going to do or not do can easily be rescinded a week or less later when the opposite of what they originally claimed is deemed in our "national interest," which in this case means in Israel's best interest, Israel being the US's 51st state, which essentially dictates US foreign policy.
I agree. How can a pier be built without 'boots on the ground!' Does this pier float?
I have already seen images of bulldozers and other equipment making way for this PIER.
WHO are the contractors?
Everyone knows that the Military in every county are capable of building bridges etc.
I think the first question to the Biden administration would be.............WHO is building this?
The next question is what will he do to prevent another USS Liberty-style attack. It wasn't by the Palestinians.
I have NO idea JOY but this pier is going to be the biggest failure of the Biden regime.
Can you imagine.......boots on the ground US troups building this Pier?
ONE American is killed````````````````?
This is NO different from when Biden decided to pull the troups out of Afghanistan.
Remember the people crowding at the airport to trying to get out and a bomb was dropped on them?
This is Biden's Armageddon without doubt.
Let us hope it isn’t ours, as well.
I’m watching the protest at Fordham on YouTube on Status Coup. Makes me happy to see and hear them.
Superb. I just hoisted my "Even My Cat Hates Biden" flag. It will fly proudly in front of my house through November.
My flag says "Even My Cat Hates Biden and Trump".
This cat hates Biden. And Trump.
Because cats are intelligent beings, Feral.
I’d like a flag that states My Cats Support Jill Stein.
That flag is my tail.
I’m a dog person, can I get one made out for my dog?
Of course you can. I have a dog and 2 cats.
We're in "equal of two evils" depths now. I'm thinking Jill Stein is the only choice now.
Dear Caitlin, It may sound incongruous and heartless on my part - in these horrific times of Palestinian suffering - but the brilliant way you use satire made me smile. Your weapons of justice are words.
"When cops are cracking skulls at Columbia University .... wouldn’t the cracking sound way worse if the president was being all crude and impolite about it? " I am smiling. "Trump....he is the second coming of Adolf Hitler". Sorry I am smiling again!
But Caitlin is deadly serious.She is pointing out the post-truth of America going insane and fascist.The guise of antisemitism is becoming dangerous and frightening. The focus on the plight of the people of Gaza is again shifted with the ferocity and brutality of the police on campus. ( Israeli trained police, I might add). In addition to the violence of the pro-Israeli crowds. And the zionist regime under cover of that darkness is carrying on its sinister agenda unhindered. It is a genocide in every sense of the word, going on for seven long months, though the eminent judges of the ICJ are still deliberating waiting ... for what?
Meanwhile in America feelings of the Jewish lobby, the ruling class, the oligarchs, the compliant media matter more than the lives of Palestinians.
Like Caitlin says ".... then we’ll focus on that to the exclusion of all else".
I still want to differentiate between Zionist and Jewish. This distinction is crucial, now, and I think it may well be more so in the future.
Absolutely. Words are important.
Hello Joy in HK, I have no disagreement with you on that at all. I agree that it's crucial to differentiate between Zionist and Jewish. I have always been very diligent about that - here I was referring to a 'lobby'. Maybe I slipped up in not using the term AIPAC?
Please know that I am not trying to wriggle out of anything. I know what racism is.
This reply is for you too JennyStokes.
Hi Indu
I just finished a portrait of Rachel Corrie. Working on it brought me great comfort. And I signed it “Gypsy33” rather than my given name.
Though my style is very different than Caitlin’s, her art inspired me.
Thank you gypsy33. Those of us who cannot draw a line salute you!