Otherwise "intelligent" people in my neck of the woods think Biden is doing a great job!! I talk with so few people now. Don't get me wrong, I try, but they are too far gone.
I stopped talking to others a long time ago, except for the people I meet in these chat lines.
I am so grateful to Caitlin for writing extensively about the propaganda that the US government uses on US citizens. She has helped me understand why people are so blind and, at the same time, to recognize the bullshit when I see it.
Israel 'Coerces' UN Workers - By Outright Torturing Them
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Every time one thinks that the depravity of Zionist fanatics has finally reached a limit they will proudly present even worse behavior.
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UNRWA report says Israel coerced some agency employees to falsely admit Hamas links - Reuters, Mar 9 2024
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The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks.
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Coerced, pressured, ... Maybe they had a harsh talk?
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No. They outright tortured, Abu Graibh like, these UN workers. Some of them to their death:
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The document said several UNRWA Palestinian staffers had been detained by the Israeli army, and added that the ill-treatment and abuse they said they had experienced included severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members.
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In addition to the alleged abuse endured by UNRWA staff members, Palestinian detainees more broadly described allegations of abuse, including beatings, humiliation, threats, dog attacks, sexual violence, and deaths of detainees denied medical treatment, the UNRWA report said.
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Reuters could not independently confirm the accounts of coercion of UNRWA staff and mistreatment of detainees, although the allegations of ill-treatment accord with descriptions by Palestinians freed from detention in December, February and March reported by Reuters and other news media.
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Remi Brulin @RBrulin - 0:44 UTC · Mar 9, 2024
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“We tortured some folks” is pretty bad
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“We tortured some folk so we could destroy a huge relief organization that’s indispensable in dealing with a huge humanitarian crisis that we created in the first place” is…. something else
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What are civilized people supposed to do with these miscreants?
"So what is your solution? Interested parties would like to know."
That is just a bullshit cop-out. Every day for months, this newsletter has stated the same thing over and over again, and all the replies are the same goddamn thing... hand-wringing. Tens of thousands of people are being maimed and killed. And your answer is, 'What is your solution.'
One solution would be a revolution.
Now all the dumbass comments like 'you go first' or 'how would you do that?' start rolling in.
Unfortunately I have to agree to your REALIST standpoint - it is over (besides the 'french revolution' solution, which could happen after the markets crash or we go in sack and ashes, I have NONE - you can tell I am rather down on humans!) - just compared the 2009 attack on Gaza to now (and so many other conflicts that the rules based international order painted as 'benign' or whatever and the ones of the 'enemies' were called genocide or 'we have to intervene - R2P' - always hypocrisy and double standards - DISGUSTING, only difference is that with the internet we have direct access to 'other' sources - will it help?) - ALWAYS the SAME BLUEPRINT!
Thank you. I have been through this before, receiving many derogatory replies on this blog and others. Everybody wants to piss and moan but do nothing.
Caitlin and other journalists keep us updated on events. The first thing we need to do is inform ourselves. It is not pissing and moaning to inform people.
we need a whole new way of doing politics and that will not happen overnight. Nor is there one simple solution that will work for everyone. I guess the first thing would be to somehow get the power out of the few hands at the top who have become rich and powerful by manipulating the rules in their favour and who have brainwashed those who are not them to believe that the way they are is "successful" while those of us who are not so sure that represents any kind of real success at all are ridiculed and ignored.
My MP is a staunch supporter of Israel. I have emailed him several times and he has actually responded. He told me that I didn't understand, that what is happening in Palestine is not a genocide and he denied his complicity when I said he was complicit. I don't know if he really believed what he is saying, but he is a zionist, I think, so he has probably been brainwashed, altho he said it is me that has been brainwashed, not him. He told me that I only see one side of the story. He blames Hamas. He did not mention the suffering of the Palestinian people or the destruction of their infrastructure. I was careful not to insult him. I don't even know if I hate him. I just do not understand his incredible deficit of humanity.
Well, many of us have been cured of Catholicism which is quite the brainwashing ritual. And I met a young man who had given up Zionism after many years of brainwashing and went on to convince his mother that it was not a good ideology. So I think it is possible.
I remember my freshman year in Notre Dame H.S in 1964 and Sister Magdalen was my Latin teacher. Everyone's blood pressure went up by 20 points in that class. Poor woman was horribly frustrated and toolkit out on us...The unbelievable insults she said back then...Today that would be the2nd biggest scandal in the church...She would go up and down the rows and I would always be left having to stand the whole class.. She even told the class once about what kind of woman I would marry...
I went to a Catholic summer school and the nuns always told us we risked burning in hell if we did things the Catholic Church or they did not approve of. A couple of decades later, I found out that summer school was sitting on a pile of uranium tailings. They were sitting on top of hell and didn't realize.
I survived Catholic school for nine years ( attended public high school.)
We lived in abject terror of some of those nuns, although a few were big marshmallows.
I was always in trouble for setting up a book in front of me and drawing pictures of horses behind it. But I still got straight A’s, so I guess I fooled them 😉
I don't think medication cures any mental illness without so many side effects, it might be considered better just to continue on with the mental illness. Therapy helps a lot of people. Change of diet. Change of living conditions. Those things have not been tried on a large scale since medications have become the shortcut for dealing with mental health issues.
"It's called 'sociopathy'. A total lack of empathy."
I'm curious about finding an analogous actual psychological diagnostic term which applies to this attitude toward out-group members, where one is simultaneously not sociopathic to the in-group members. It is worse than ordinary status-based racism. The out-group in this case is purely objectified, while in dealing with in-group members, normal human empathy exists. It is below dealing with, e.g., a pet dog, and more like the attitude of dealing with a snake or shark, empathically a "thing" -- listen to many of the most extreme cases among Israelis.
Deena Stryker; Anti semitism, racism, anti feminism etc are all part of the same mindset which is created in huge part by patriarchy. Men are negatively affected by the patriarchy too. It is an oppressive system of control.
Congratulations. It's not every day a woman admits to supporting gang rapists and baby beheaders who filmed their war crime atrocities with glee and livestreamed themselves setting fire to children they'd tied up. Baking babies in ovens, slicing fetuses put of mothers. Good job, Susan. You must be so proud
You think you're being smart. Which is tragic. There is ample proof that Hamas commited sexual torture the likes of which have rarely been seen in this world. Metal nails stuffed into genitals. Breasts sliced off. Babies beheaded and Hamas laughing about all this on camera. Kidnapping and slaughtering babies, the elderly. The saddest thing is how you people know so little that you dont even understandwhat Hamas does to the Palestinians, how they rule the enclave and abuse their own, steal aid by the billions and use Palestinians as pawns and human shieldsnd martyrs for the cause of earning them more billions. Hamas hang gay people from cranes shoot anyone in their way and are vile ISIS level terrorists. Their rise to power is well-documented as is their charter, their brutality and their sickening actions on Oct 7th. And yet there are mobs of gullible morons walking around saying they support actual terrorist nazis because you've bought a well honed narrative that makes you hate Israel and scapegoat the one country that can help liberate the Palestinians from Hamas. Find me proof that Isrsel has ever tortured civilians, gang raped, mutilated, kidnapped, beat snd starved and raped like Hamas has.
The issue here is your education or lack thereof and inability to distinguish between right and wrong or even have a client about the co plexity 9f the issues here. It's a toddler's cartoon understanding.
Or maybe he’s being blackmailed. There was a reason why Epstein was allowed to do what he did for so long even though governments knew what he was doing.
I've read repeatedly that the majority of Israelis are not calling for an end to this genocide, and do not even view it as one, and are not voicing any opposition to it. No doubt they are blinded by their own prejudice, and perhaps many find it difficult to acknowledge that their country is carrying out a genocide when it is the very thing that gave the Jewish people Israel, a land that belonged to another. Sometimes let some truth in, and your whole belief system can fall apart which can be very psychologically disturbing.
Israel has been militarily occupying palestine and brutalising and killing the palestinians for many decades now. Those “israelis” have been the beneficiary. if they majority of them did not object in all these decades and happily benefited from dispossession, murder, occupation and apartheid.…..what exactly are you expecting suddenly now? A magical about face?
Yes what was done in the past was bad, but what is going on now is far worse, a genocide and those that are not dead when they are finished will be removed from the land. Yes they should make their voices heard
His office is in a very Jewish neighbourhood and I would feel (and probably be) intimidated by standing there with that sign. I don't think that would change his mind anyway. He has not dealt with the brainwashing about zionism that he has had during his life.
I really wish people would stop repeating '30,000 Palestinians'. Ralph Nader tore that apart recently and explained how 300,000 was closer to the truth. Same goes for calling it 'a war'
Today with Caitlin is seriously depressing news. .What a disgraceful example we saw with Biden and his address to the like-minded puppets, almost saying at times that it was a bad scene and then paying his dues to the Zionists in the next sentence. He is totally afraid to move too far away from where his electoral support will come from, money-wise and sticks close to the script.
What a world we have become with all the white Western governments paying their dues in one way or another for past services rendered to or by the sadistic Israelis and for those ahead. What they consist of would vary from one compliant country to the next. It is the most disappointing development outside of Gaza itself to see the likes of Norway, Denmark and so many others throwing in their moral support for such a country as Israel.
The reason, perhaps is a fear that without their current stolen land, they would want to expand their devious activities into other countries taking over complete governments as in the case of America. Now as is known by all, a slave to Zionists and their dirty deeds.
But other once decent countries, what a great pity to see them succumb to Israeli / US pressure.
Joe is inviting the Israelis up his electoral backside because Mossad has the absolute filthy goods on him. I'd bet my next three social security checks.
Ralph Nader really was right about the Corvair being dangerous...I remember my uncle Frank had 2 of them and he always complained how both cars would fishtail....My aunt Josie cracked both of them up in 1963
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the person saying that was gorging themselves on caviar, Pâté de Foie Gras and Wagu beef, while enjoying a bottle of Grange Hermitage.
And it was as much bullshit then as it is now, but B.S. has become the common language of all western Govts. It devolved from what used to be known as Diplomacy.
The biggest surprise of the night was there were no surprises from Uncle Joe. A bit of a disappointment. Was hoping for some highlights from the freak show. Apparently they applauded Genocide Joe through half of it. My God - this country is so totally ... fucked. And people think whomever becomes the next POTUS will make a difference. What a mad house.
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Israel is hoping for an epidemic of cholera. This water borne disease causes diarrhea so severe that it kills within hours. Such epidemics were greatly feared in eastern Asia for millennia. Thrifty Israel would save on bullets and bombs and could claim that the epidemic was the wrath of God upon unbelievers.
"could claim that the epidemic was the wrath of God upon unbelievers." - and the militant atheist shitlibs will believe in God if only just for that little moment.
Joe is now lying in state in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber in an induced semi coma as he is being slowly brought down from the stimulant induced mania that was maintained for several hours last night...
Eisenhower had 10,000,000 men behind him when he fought the National Socialists in Europe.....He would have had nobody behind him if he had chosen to fight the MIC when he became pres. in 1952...If he had chosen to fight the MIC it would have been the greatest battle of his life and he knew it and he also knew he would have probably lost...He chose to take the easy way out. He chose to let the good times of the 1950s roll on and spared the country the anguish of that battle with the MIC. He played golf for 8 years during one of the most idyllic presidential terms in history, and gave his famous MIC warning as he was going out the door. He chose to let the next guy fight the MIC and look how that ended.
"he fought the National Socialists in Europe" - he didn't fight Nazis, he was making sure USSR didn't advance as far as they would have. The Nazis just happened to be in the way.
would have liked to see how Ike would have performed if he had exchanged places with Model at the battle of the Hurtgen forest in 1944. It is true that the Russians would have gone all the way to Portugal if the allies hadn't been there to stop them...Yes...it was Russia that destroyed nazi Germany
Actually, the Nazis killed millions of Russian civilians and they fought back in guerilla groups. I really think that the whole country fought the Nazis. For example, when they had to evacuate, they burned their crops and killed their farm animals rather than leave them for the Nazi troops to use.
Exactly. My point being that the country was the Soviet Union, not just Russia. That’s not to say the RSFSR didn’t suffer the brunt of the losses, or lead the charge that defeated the Nazis. I’m a firm believer that words matter, although I may overdo my passion for clarity. I don’t feel it does anyone a service to conflate the two nations, as is being done constantly on MSM.
They (Churchill and Roosevelt) were to step in a lot earlier, but they kept fooling Stalin with excuses. Which, of course, could be justified at any time as one can never be ready or willing to incur damages. They had to eventually once the defeat of Nazis was assured and the USSR started rolling in.
"The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt" is a worthy read.
I think I still have my Dad’s, “I Like Ike” Campaign Pin someplace! My Mom was a Republican, so I have her Goldwater & Tricky Dick Pins. I came dangerously close to disowning her and my Aunt over that Tricky Dick one.
I was 19 & in the 1970 Draft lottery and that to me was a Mortal Sin!
"Such a tactic is not meaningfully different from lining up children on their knees on the battlefield and shooting them one by one in the back of the head until the enemy unconditionally surrenders."
Caitlin really knows how to paint an accurate picture of what is happening... Genocide Joe and his buddy Bibi have no intention of saving the starving people of Gaza--that much is certain. Because of this, we must act to put these sociopaths out of action as soon as possible. Now is the time. Our brothers and sisters in Palestine can't wait any longer. Be brave like Aaron and shout #FreePalestine!
One thing we can do is to have a General Strike now. If we stop helping the system to work, it will stop immediately. The system relies on the functioning of all its parts which we supply with our [willing or unwilling] participation.
We can remove that participation. That is within our power.
I read the article by Mate and it was very informative. Someone responded to my post and referenced Biden as a sociopath. I can't offer a definitive diagnosis but I think that is true. When referring to the young nursing student recently killed by an illegal alien he offered his sympathy but got her name wrong, He called her Lincoln Riley instead of Laken Riley, and some might dismiss this, but the mother felt deeply hurt and angry. Often when Biden offers his condolences he will reference his personal tragedies in a half hearted way that falls flat and is without feeling, and you wish he would just shut his trap, Personally I don't think this man feels much if anything for people and certainly not those who died in all the wars he advocated and pushed on his fellow democrats when he was the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He lied about his school grades, stole other people's speeches and had to step down from his presidential run in the eighties, integration oh yes, but no busing he said, and you cannot have one with out the other, especially in the sixties. He even claimed his first wife was killed by a man who was drinking, lies, not drunk and she almost killed him. Bottom line he is a man who is not empathetic and doesn't give a damn about how many Palestinians die. I'm sure Biden and Netanyahu, are joined at the hip in their lack of feeling for their fellow human beings, so to hell with them both.
I got interested some years ago in sociopaths, especially those who come from wealthy white families and have high IQs and thus end up in corporate boardrooms and Congressional seats instead of prisons. I saw various estimates of what percentage of the population are sociopaths, but one thing I never saw acknowledged is the likelihood that there is a sociopathic SPECTRUM--from the extreme cases where the person is incapable of any concern for anyone outside his own skin, to--well, the best book on the subject was The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo, who detailed hundreds of experiments following the Milgram shocking experiment and his own Stanford Prison experiment--and what they found was that while only about 3% of us are sociopaths, over 90% will ignore our own moral feelings or our own judgement (some of the experiments had no moral component) if either under orders by an authority figure, OR given the impression that "everyone else" thinks it's okay, or thinks that line is longer. only a similar percentage, maybe 3%, will stick to their principles or the evidence of their lying eyes in the face of majority opinion.
A list of the top 100 CEOs profiting off global murder and theft.
A sickening beginning: "Over the past year, these CEOs have distinguished themselves through their exceptional leadership qualities. Each individual on this list has demonstrated a unique blend of strategic foresight, innovative thinking, and an unyielding commitment to their organizations. They have navigated complex global dynamics, including political upheavals, economic shifts, and technological advancements, to ensure their companies not only survive but thrive in these challenging times."
The kinds of companies getting rich on mass murder also include the likes of Caterpiller making bulldozers, Amazon, Google etc who are selling cloud computing and data services used by the military, it include chemical companies making substances that are used to burn people alive, it includes hi-tech companies selling the chips used in weapons, it includes small companies like Elbit making autonomous robots and mini helicopters that are repurposed for flying and crawling drone warfare.
You are 100% correct about the weapons companies. But that’s the only the half of it - It’s quote broad.
You know that lobbies run everything right? The world politicians are owned by the lobbies. Politicians are just mere puppets. Money runs & moves things.
But if we just give more tax breaks to the billionaires and let them own everything - that will fix everything, right? After-all, they earned it fair and square!
I hear Biden also vowed to return Abortion front and center if he gets re-elected. Maybe even do a constitution amendment to match France. The standing ovation rivaled that which accompanied promising to stand with Ukraine.
I think this should be sufficient for the forum's shitlibs to vote Biden. It trumps everything including that little genocide on that little sliver of land somewhere in the middle east. Middle finger to the middle east - let's abort everybody!
If a failed track record on protecting women's rights to choose and supporting genocidal maniacs is what the Democrats want to run on, well, guess that means they got nothing.
We horrible deplorables in Ohio and Kansas have a far better track record on abortion than Democrats anyway--we simply voted the right into our state constitutions.
After this speech I fear the worst for the Palestinian people. These still „living“ in the center of Gaza will die by starvation and disease. The 1.5 million cramped in Rafah will soon be bombarded massively and then share the same faith if they don’t flee to the Sinai desert. And this is all done by the support and complicity of most western governments. Unbearable!
In the part I heard Biden basically spelled it all out completely legitimizing it. Like saying, yes, we know that's what's happening and, well, what can we do, it's just the way it is. And the People's Servants acknowledged it with standing ovation. I can only imagine Bibi's excitement watching it.
What else does anyone need to know? At this point no number of Aaron Bushnells would make any difference, I'm afraid. The so called west is rotten to the core.
Please! Acknowledge that "people's servants" as you call them, do not represent the people of this country. They, along with the "mainstream" media, do as they're told by the empire managers. With a handful of exceptions (the Squad) who are mostly young and female and all POC, and all come from very "blue" districts--but are being targeted by the Israel lobby with millions going to any opponent of any of them, which will likely suffice to knock out a couple of the few who dare to speak up. But we're worried about RUSSIAN interference in US elections?
If I have to answer this question Russian bot, I must ask whether you live in the US and how old you are. Because if you live here and have been paying attention for a few years or decades, you should realize that the elections game is quite thoroughly rigged. A fine example is the upcoming election. We can vote for Trump, an utterly unacceptable choice. Or we can vote for Joe Biden, an utterly unacceptable choice. Or we can vote for a third party candidate if there is one on the ballot, or write it in if allowed a paper ballot (no paper ballots where I live). Even if you can vote for a third party candidate, the two parties and the media have colluded to ensure they can never get enough votes to win. We also have the choice of not voting at all. Regardless of which of these four choices I made, either Biden or Trump will win, unless one dies first. I live in West Virginia--Trump will win by a landslide here so my vote is irrelevant, as with the electoral college, all WV's delegates would go to him if he won by two votes. In 2016, how many of WV's 55 counties went to Sanders? 55. How many to Hilary? 0. Nonetheless, WV sent more Hilary delegates to the convention because of Superdelegates, like Joe Manchin. A friend who went to the convention had shocking stories about how the Sanders delegates were excluded. Soooo--are we responsible for whoever "wins"? The Page and Gilens study looked at over a thousands issues over the past several decades where polls indicated popular will, and the outcome and said public opinion had "near zero" influence--but special interests often got whatever they wanted. Two thirds of Americans want a ceasefire in Gaza, and about 5% of "our representatives" do. Similar numbers about healthcare. So NO. Those people do NOT represent their constituents, they represent their contributors.. Moneyed interests, billionaires and corporations, have plenty of representation. I recently heard the joke, Why Israel doesn't want to become the 51st state--"because then we'd only have two sentaors!"
"If I have to answer this question Russian bot, I must ask whether you live in the US and how old you are." - I don't understand how it is so.
Either you decide to participate, get a ballot, mark people off, thereby assuming your acceptance of the procedure and legitimizing it, or you do not participate for whatever reason, including one where you say you do not acknowledge the fraudulent system.
I do not see any ambiguity there at all. You consider the system fraudulent, you unregister to vote thereby maximally excluding any possibility of using your registration for nefarious purposes. And you, when asked, openly declare that you do not take part in the fraud.
For those too thick to understand the above you can even say you're claustrophobic and cannot be in tight spaces. Or your internet speed is too slow. Or you ran out of postal stamps (if it's a mail-in vote, which is a scam right there).
I disagree. Refusing to vote does not discourage the powers that be--it only makes it easier for them if most people stop participating. I may vote in the upcoming election, if there's anyone to vote for. I don't think that makes me complicit--it's not as though a refusal to vote makes any difference, stops the harms. Your last paragraph makes little sense to me--it implies that one who chooses to stop participating will be harassed and need excuses. My neighbors refuse to register to vote, don't believe in it--nobody harasses them over it.
I only saw a little however at one point Kamala Harris, well I never saw an inhuman being get upright so quick, I’m pretty sure she was giving Biden a standing ovation before he began to say what she was applauding, which was ‘I won’t bow down! (for less then $1M)’
The Dems are thoroughly corrupt. There is no one in their top ranks who is not compromised by AIPAC and the war industries. Even a supposed dems reformers like Ocasio-Cortez is now taking that AIPAC money and refusing to say the word “genocide”.
You didn't understand my comment. Replacing Biden in no way even implies that the Dems are not "thoroughly corrupt" (or that I support Newsom). But they are desperate to keep Trump out and they KNOW Biden will lose to him.
Until we learn to stop calling the empire the democratic west and name it as it is the truth will be glazed over . It is actually a large group of capitalist countries most of whom were captured by America in 1945.Its junior partner UK ceased to have that position in reality in the early'50s. The only real partner is actually senior to the US but officially nor even a partner. That country is Israel whose Zionist founders have long had De Facto çontroll over the US and therefore over its empire. Democracy is a wonderful ideal but it is just a mock name for systemised selfishness which is actuality of capitalism and those were made globally tragic when the powerful psychopaths of the cult Zionism got control of the entire western empire including of course its media and education systems . Its a dystopia but don't tell anyone they will consider you an insane conspiracy theorist
I argue only on your failure to note that the people of the United States have also been captured by that Empire. And that Israel is the heart of the Empire--I think the seat is mostly in DC but perhaps it's some of both.
Folks, it’s the same US that wiped out native Americans. Nuked Japan - twice. Carpet-bombed Laos, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. Invaded Syria and still occupying it NOW.
When will it sink in that that this is a white nationalist empire, stretching from North America to Europe to Israel to Australia and New Zealand?
Yes they kill natives en masse. Yes they expect them to take the knee. No they don’t care if it’s kids or women. This is what the west does.
They don’t know any other way. Because they are deeply racist, a culture that inherently devalues everyone else. The Israeli talk about “human animals “ it’s simply saying western policy out loud is all. Wake up!
As the author James Baldwin reflected in 1986 as he neared the end of his life: “We’re all at the mercy of the European vision of the world - and that vision is obsolete”
I am so glad I found you Caitlin, we need strong voices like yours in these diabolical times to reassure ourselves we are not going insane…
Otherwise "intelligent" people in my neck of the woods think Biden is doing a great job!! I talk with so few people now. Don't get me wrong, I try, but they are too far gone.
I stopped talking to others a long time ago, except for the people I meet in these chat lines.
I am so grateful to Caitlin for writing extensively about the propaganda that the US government uses on US citizens. She has helped me understand why people are so blind and, at the same time, to recognize the bullshit when I see it.
I did find a small group of like minded people in my town and we get together occasionally. Good for the soul.
Israel 'Coerces' UN Workers - By Outright Torturing Them
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Every time one thinks that the depravity of Zionist fanatics has finally reached a limit they will proudly present even worse behavior.
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UNRWA report says Israel coerced some agency employees to falsely admit Hamas links - Reuters, Mar 9 2024
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The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks.
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Coerced, pressured, ... Maybe they had a harsh talk?
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No. They outright tortured, Abu Graibh like, these UN workers. Some of them to their death:
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The document said several UNRWA Palestinian staffers had been detained by the Israeli army, and added that the ill-treatment and abuse they said they had experienced included severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members.
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In addition to the alleged abuse endured by UNRWA staff members, Palestinian detainees more broadly described allegations of abuse, including beatings, humiliation, threats, dog attacks, sexual violence, and deaths of detainees denied medical treatment, the UNRWA report said.
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Reuters could not independently confirm the accounts of coercion of UNRWA staff and mistreatment of detainees, although the allegations of ill-treatment accord with descriptions by Palestinians freed from detention in December, February and March reported by Reuters and other news media.
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Remi Brulin @RBrulin - 0:44 UTC · Mar 9, 2024
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“We tortured some folks” is pretty bad
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“We tortured some folk so we could destroy a huge relief organization that’s indispensable in dealing with a huge humanitarian crisis that we created in the first place” is…. something else
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What are civilized people supposed to do with these miscreants?
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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/israel-coerces-un-workers-by-outright-torturing-them.html
"I am so glad I found you Caitlin, we need strong voices like yours in these diabolical times to reassure ourselves we are not going insane…"
Talk is cheap...nothing changes.
Virtue signaling is easy...a solution is hard.
So what is your solution? Interested parties would like to know.
"So what is your solution? Interested parties would like to know."
That is just a bullshit cop-out. Every day for months, this newsletter has stated the same thing over and over again, and all the replies are the same goddamn thing... hand-wringing. Tens of thousands of people are being maimed and killed. And your answer is, 'What is your solution.'
One solution would be a revolution.
Now all the dumbass comments like 'you go first' or 'how would you do that?' start rolling in.
Unfortunately I have to agree to your REALIST standpoint - it is over (besides the 'french revolution' solution, which could happen after the markets crash or we go in sack and ashes, I have NONE - you can tell I am rather down on humans!) - just compared the 2009 attack on Gaza to now (and so many other conflicts that the rules based international order painted as 'benign' or whatever and the ones of the 'enemies' were called genocide or 'we have to intervene - R2P' - always hypocrisy and double standards - DISGUSTING, only difference is that with the internet we have direct access to 'other' sources - will it help?) - ALWAYS the SAME BLUEPRINT!
Thank you. I have been through this before, receiving many derogatory replies on this blog and others. Everybody wants to piss and moan but do nothing.
Caitlin and other journalists keep us updated on events. The first thing we need to do is inform ourselves. It is not pissing and moaning to inform people.
many of us do what we can. What, exactly, do you do?
we need a whole new way of doing politics and that will not happen overnight. Nor is there one simple solution that will work for everyone. I guess the first thing would be to somehow get the power out of the few hands at the top who have become rich and powerful by manipulating the rules in their favour and who have brainwashed those who are not them to believe that the way they are is "successful" while those of us who are not so sure that represents any kind of real success at all are ridiculed and ignored.
My MP is a staunch supporter of Israel. I have emailed him several times and he has actually responded. He told me that I didn't understand, that what is happening in Palestine is not a genocide and he denied his complicity when I said he was complicit. I don't know if he really believed what he is saying, but he is a zionist, I think, so he has probably been brainwashed, altho he said it is me that has been brainwashed, not him. He told me that I only see one side of the story. He blames Hamas. He did not mention the suffering of the Palestinian people or the destruction of their infrastructure. I was careful not to insult him. I don't even know if I hate him. I just do not understand his incredible deficit of humanity.
Everything We do is good.,
Everything They do is bad,.
See? It's not that hard.
So thankful to be set straight.
It's called "sociopathy". A total lack of empathy. I just wonder if Zionists can be cured of it.
Well, many of us have been cured of Catholicism which is quite the brainwashing ritual. And I met a young man who had given up Zionism after many years of brainwashing and went on to convince his mother that it was not a good ideology. So I think it is possible.
I remember my freshman year in Notre Dame H.S in 1964 and Sister Magdalen was my Latin teacher. Everyone's blood pressure went up by 20 points in that class. Poor woman was horribly frustrated and toolkit out on us...The unbelievable insults she said back then...Today that would be the2nd biggest scandal in the church...She would go up and down the rows and I would always be left having to stand the whole class.. She even told the class once about what kind of woman I would marry...
I went to a Catholic summer school and the nuns always told us we risked burning in hell if we did things the Catholic Church or they did not approve of. A couple of decades later, I found out that summer school was sitting on a pile of uranium tailings. They were sitting on top of hell and didn't realize.
Hi Susan
I survived Catholic school for nine years ( attended public high school.)
We lived in abject terror of some of those nuns, although a few were big marshmallows.
I was always in trouble for setting up a book in front of me and drawing pictures of horses behind it. But I still got straight A’s, so I guess I fooled them 😉
you went to a Catholic school in Utah ????
no, in Ontario
Well said, lol!
https://liborsoural.substack.com/p/a-luv-phield-trap
https://liborsoural.substack.com/p/the-nun-and-the-punk
NO, its incurable.
This is why PSYCHIATRISTs REFUSE TO TREAT SOCIOPATHS / PSYCOPATHS.
This class of "beings" always believe they are right and must win.
Don't believe what they say, there's always a cure, if not The Cure!
https://liborsoural.substack.com/p/lets-get-sure-happy-bra
https://liborsoural.substack.com/p/a-luv-phield-trap
No they don't fucking care.
As Caitlin rightly pointed out if Russia was doing this....................they would be bombed out of existence! Hypocrites
No, TRC, sadly sociopathy is not curable. There is no medication that can eradicate it.
I don't think medication cures any mental illness without so many side effects, it might be considered better just to continue on with the mental illness. Therapy helps a lot of people. Change of diet. Change of living conditions. Those things have not been tried on a large scale since medications have become the shortcut for dealing with mental health issues.
"It's called 'sociopathy'. A total lack of empathy."
I'm curious about finding an analogous actual psychological diagnostic term which applies to this attitude toward out-group members, where one is simultaneously not sociopathic to the in-group members. It is worse than ordinary status-based racism. The out-group in this case is purely objectified, while in dealing with in-group members, normal human empathy exists. It is below dealing with, e.g., a pet dog, and more like the attitude of dealing with a snake or shark, empathically a "thing" -- listen to many of the most extreme cases among Israelis.
Anti-Semitism went on for too long to hope for that.....It will take generations.
Deena Stryker; Anti semitism, racism, anti feminism etc are all part of the same mindset which is created in huge part by patriarchy. Men are negatively affected by the patriarchy too. It is an oppressive system of control.
I wonder if you can be cured of it. Denying and ignoring the reality on the ground takes a lot of effort. Do you support Hamas?
Yes
Congratulations. It's not every day a woman admits to supporting gang rapists and baby beheaders who filmed their war crime atrocities with glee and livestreamed themselves setting fire to children they'd tied up. Baking babies in ovens, slicing fetuses put of mothers. Good job, Susan. You must be so proud
Why are you talking about Israelis.
She said Hamas.
You think you're being smart. Which is tragic. There is ample proof that Hamas commited sexual torture the likes of which have rarely been seen in this world. Metal nails stuffed into genitals. Breasts sliced off. Babies beheaded and Hamas laughing about all this on camera. Kidnapping and slaughtering babies, the elderly. The saddest thing is how you people know so little that you dont even understandwhat Hamas does to the Palestinians, how they rule the enclave and abuse their own, steal aid by the billions and use Palestinians as pawns and human shieldsnd martyrs for the cause of earning them more billions. Hamas hang gay people from cranes shoot anyone in their way and are vile ISIS level terrorists. Their rise to power is well-documented as is their charter, their brutality and their sickening actions on Oct 7th. And yet there are mobs of gullible morons walking around saying they support actual terrorist nazis because you've bought a well honed narrative that makes you hate Israel and scapegoat the one country that can help liberate the Palestinians from Hamas. Find me proof that Isrsel has ever tortured civilians, gang raped, mutilated, kidnapped, beat snd starved and raped like Hamas has.
The issue here is your education or lack thereof and inability to distinguish between right and wrong or even have a client about the co plexity 9f the issues here. It's a toddler's cartoon understanding.
"I think, so he has probably been brainwashed"
Or maybe he’s being blackmailed. There was a reason why Epstein was allowed to do what he did for so long even though governments knew what he was doing.
I've read repeatedly that the majority of Israelis are not calling for an end to this genocide, and do not even view it as one, and are not voicing any opposition to it. No doubt they are blinded by their own prejudice, and perhaps many find it difficult to acknowledge that their country is carrying out a genocide when it is the very thing that gave the Jewish people Israel, a land that belonged to another. Sometimes let some truth in, and your whole belief system can fall apart which can be very psychologically disturbing.
Israel has been militarily occupying palestine and brutalising and killing the palestinians for many decades now. Those “israelis” have been the beneficiary. if they majority of them did not object in all these decades and happily benefited from dispossession, murder, occupation and apartheid.…..what exactly are you expecting suddenly now? A magical about face?
Yes what was done in the past was bad, but what is going on now is far worse, a genocide and those that are not dead when they are finished will be removed from the land. Yes they should make their voices heard
Fran: all that is at least in part a product of the extreme brainwashing of Zionism. Watch the documentary "Israelism" at kinema.com
Thanks for that link Susan will do.
Hating is just something bad we do to ourselves, when we think someone else has done something bad.
Susan, I suggest that you tell him you’re going to stand outside his office with a large sign that states So-and-So Supports Genocide!
That’s what I told my US Congressman I was going to do but he beat me to the punch and signed onto Rep. Cori Bush’s ceasefire proposal!
His office is in a very Jewish neighbourhood and I would feel (and probably be) intimidated by standing there with that sign. I don't think that would change his mind anyway. He has not dealt with the brainwashing about zionism that he has had during his life.
Standard Israeli-speak.....
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I really wish people would stop repeating '30,000 Palestinians'. Ralph Nader tore that apart recently and explained how 300,000 was closer to the truth. Same goes for calling it 'a war'
Yes. 200,000 is closer to the mark so it seems.
Today with Caitlin is seriously depressing news. .What a disgraceful example we saw with Biden and his address to the like-minded puppets, almost saying at times that it was a bad scene and then paying his dues to the Zionists in the next sentence. He is totally afraid to move too far away from where his electoral support will come from, money-wise and sticks close to the script.
What a world we have become with all the white Western governments paying their dues in one way or another for past services rendered to or by the sadistic Israelis and for those ahead. What they consist of would vary from one compliant country to the next. It is the most disappointing development outside of Gaza itself to see the likes of Norway, Denmark and so many others throwing in their moral support for such a country as Israel.
The reason, perhaps is a fear that without their current stolen land, they would want to expand their devious activities into other countries taking over complete governments as in the case of America. Now as is known by all, a slave to Zionists and their dirty deeds.
But other once decent countries, what a great pity to see them succumb to Israeli / US pressure.
Genocide is providing great cover and diversion from the remarkably poor judgement, strategic error, and defeat in the Ukraine proxy war.
Just think if LBJ could do something similar to avoid the Vietnam horrors.
Joe is inviting the Israelis up his electoral backside because Mossad has the absolute filthy goods on him. I'd bet my next three social security checks.
Ralph Nader really was right about the Corvair being dangerous...I remember my uncle Frank had 2 of them and he always complained how both cars would fishtail....My aunt Josie cracked both of them up in 1963
Jack, wouldn’t he have made an outstanding leader? A man who dedicated his life to the safety of the Amerikkkan people! I voted for him three times.
They probably would have blown his head off even quicker than JFK
Thought the same when I read this morning that the official count of those who have starved to death is 23.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the person saying that was gorging themselves on caviar, Pâté de Foie Gras and Wagu beef, while enjoying a bottle of Grange Hermitage.
Why not? It has been called “war” when the US pummelled Afghan peasants with bombs from the air and drone mass executions for 20 years straight….
And it was as much bullshit then as it is now, but B.S. has become the common language of all western Govts. It devolved from what used to be known as Diplomacy.
Old jacked up Joe sure has perfected speaking out of both sides of his mouth even when slurring.
The biggest surprise of the night was there were no surprises from Uncle Joe. A bit of a disappointment. Was hoping for some highlights from the freak show. Apparently they applauded Genocide Joe through half of it. My God - this country is so totally ... fucked. And people think whomever becomes the next POTUS will make a difference. What a mad house.
Amphetamines are wonderful?
I think they gave him Adderall, David 😂
Nice
Adderall is a prescription medication that contains a combination of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine—two central nervous system (CNS) stimulants that work by altering the chemicals, such as dopamine and norepinephrine, in the brain. It’s commonly prescribed to reduce the symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which is characterized by symptoms including inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. It’s also indicated for narcolepsy, a chronic neurological condition that can affect the brain’s ability to regulate sleep-wake cycles.
Or maybe AI?
Or Hologramps
LOL
the guy was speedin' pretty fast
Israel is hoping for an epidemic of cholera. This water borne disease causes diarrhea so severe that it kills within hours. Such epidemics were greatly feared in eastern Asia for millennia. Thrifty Israel would save on bullets and bombs and could claim that the epidemic was the wrath of God upon unbelievers.
I'm afraid this is probably their plan. Starvation and disease saves bullets and bombs. Truly evil on their parts.
"could claim that the epidemic was the wrath of God upon unbelievers." - and the militant atheist shitlibs will believe in God if only just for that little moment.
Joe is now lying in state in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber in an induced semi coma as he is being slowly brought down from the stimulant induced mania that was maintained for several hours last night...
Actually...Adderall?
Eisenhower had 10,000,000 men behind him when he fought the National Socialists in Europe.....He would have had nobody behind him if he had chosen to fight the MIC when he became pres. in 1952...If he had chosen to fight the MIC it would have been the greatest battle of his life and he knew it and he also knew he would have probably lost...He chose to take the easy way out. He chose to let the good times of the 1950s roll on and spared the country the anguish of that battle with the MIC. He played golf for 8 years during one of the most idyllic presidential terms in history, and gave his famous MIC warning as he was going out the door. He chose to let the next guy fight the MIC and look how that ended.
"he fought the National Socialists in Europe" - he didn't fight Nazis, he was making sure USSR didn't advance as far as they would have. The Nazis just happened to be in the way.
would have liked to see how Ike would have performed if he had exchanged places with Model at the battle of the Hurtgen forest in 1944. It is true that the Russians would have gone all the way to Portugal if the allies hadn't been there to stop them...Yes...it was Russia that destroyed nazi Germany
I just a reminder, it was the Red Army, the Soviets, not solely Russia.
Actually, the Nazis killed millions of Russian civilians and they fought back in guerilla groups. I really think that the whole country fought the Nazis. For example, when they had to evacuate, they burned their crops and killed their farm animals rather than leave them for the Nazi troops to use.
Exactly. My point being that the country was the Soviet Union, not just Russia. That’s not to say the RSFSR didn’t suffer the brunt of the losses, or lead the charge that defeated the Nazis. I’m a firm believer that words matter, although I may overdo my passion for clarity. I don’t feel it does anyone a service to conflate the two nations, as is being done constantly on MSM.
true
That's an interesting perspective.
They (Churchill and Roosevelt) were to step in a lot earlier, but they kept fooling Stalin with excuses. Which, of course, could be justified at any time as one can never be ready or willing to incur damages. They had to eventually once the defeat of Nazis was assured and the USSR started rolling in.
"The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt" is a worthy read.
I think I still have my Dad’s, “I Like Ike” Campaign Pin someplace! My Mom was a Republican, so I have her Goldwater & Tricky Dick Pins. I came dangerously close to disowning her and my Aunt over that Tricky Dick one.
I was 19 & in the 1970 Draft lottery and that to me was a Mortal Sin!
"Such a tactic is not meaningfully different from lining up children on their knees on the battlefield and shooting them one by one in the back of the head until the enemy unconditionally surrenders."
Caitlin really knows how to paint an accurate picture of what is happening... Genocide Joe and his buddy Bibi have no intention of saving the starving people of Gaza--that much is certain. Because of this, we must act to put these sociopaths out of action as soon as possible. Now is the time. Our brothers and sisters in Palestine can't wait any longer. Be brave like Aaron and shout #FreePalestine!
I wish I had Aaron's courage but I don't.
One thing we can do is to have a General Strike now. If we stop helping the system to work, it will stop immediately. The system relies on the functioning of all its parts which we supply with our [willing or unwilling] participation.
We can remove that participation. That is within our power.
This is like the Punch and Judy show,,Biden's Judy and Nettys Punch.. And this is all for the brain dead western audience in the cheap seats..
I read the article by Mate and it was very informative. Someone responded to my post and referenced Biden as a sociopath. I can't offer a definitive diagnosis but I think that is true. When referring to the young nursing student recently killed by an illegal alien he offered his sympathy but got her name wrong, He called her Lincoln Riley instead of Laken Riley, and some might dismiss this, but the mother felt deeply hurt and angry. Often when Biden offers his condolences he will reference his personal tragedies in a half hearted way that falls flat and is without feeling, and you wish he would just shut his trap, Personally I don't think this man feels much if anything for people and certainly not those who died in all the wars he advocated and pushed on his fellow democrats when he was the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He lied about his school grades, stole other people's speeches and had to step down from his presidential run in the eighties, integration oh yes, but no busing he said, and you cannot have one with out the other, especially in the sixties. He even claimed his first wife was killed by a man who was drinking, lies, not drunk and she almost killed him. Bottom line he is a man who is not empathetic and doesn't give a damn about how many Palestinians die. I'm sure Biden and Netanyahu, are joined at the hip in their lack of feeling for their fellow human beings, so to hell with them both.
He's pretty much the same as most politicians these days. Nothing that comes out of their mouths can be accepted as any kind of truth.
I agree, but I have always, always disliked him, so I'm biased. He is phony SOB and always was. He does't give a damn about anyone.
you aren't biased. you are just seeing him for what he is, was, will be
Perhaps the forked tongue
I got interested some years ago in sociopaths, especially those who come from wealthy white families and have high IQs and thus end up in corporate boardrooms and Congressional seats instead of prisons. I saw various estimates of what percentage of the population are sociopaths, but one thing I never saw acknowledged is the likelihood that there is a sociopathic SPECTRUM--from the extreme cases where the person is incapable of any concern for anyone outside his own skin, to--well, the best book on the subject was The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo, who detailed hundreds of experiments following the Milgram shocking experiment and his own Stanford Prison experiment--and what they found was that while only about 3% of us are sociopaths, over 90% will ignore our own moral feelings or our own judgement (some of the experiments had no moral component) if either under orders by an authority figure, OR given the impression that "everyone else" thinks it's okay, or thinks that line is longer. only a similar percentage, maybe 3%, will stick to their principles or the evidence of their lying eyes in the face of majority opinion.
Humans are herd animals, more even than sheep or dogs for humans are better at rationalization.
I.would like to think I would be part of that 3%.
A list of the top 100 CEOs profiting off global murder and theft.
A sickening beginning: "Over the past year, these CEOs have distinguished themselves through their exceptional leadership qualities. Each individual on this list has demonstrated a unique blend of strategic foresight, innovative thinking, and an unyielding commitment to their organizations. They have navigated complex global dynamics, including political upheavals, economic shifts, and technological advancements, to ensure their companies not only survive but thrive in these challenging times."
Just so you know who's really holding the knife:
https://ceoworld.biz/2023/12/08/top-100-ceos-leading-the-worlds-largest-arms-producing-companies/
It’s far broader than that.
The kinds of companies getting rich on mass murder also include the likes of Caterpiller making bulldozers, Amazon, Google etc who are selling cloud computing and data services used by the military, it include chemical companies making substances that are used to burn people alive, it includes hi-tech companies selling the chips used in weapons, it includes small companies like Elbit making autonomous robots and mini helicopters that are repurposed for flying and crawling drone warfare.
You are 100% correct about the weapons companies. But that’s the only the half of it - It’s quote broad.
That's a good point. We have bit-part makers and tech assists where I am. It's a big part of why our PM is the first off the ICC rank.
https://johnmenadue.com/australian-prime-minister-referred-to-icc-for-complicity-in-genocide/
most from the US and two from Russia. quite a few from China. Who are the warmongers here?
You know that lobbies run everything right? The world politicians are owned by the lobbies. Politicians are just mere puppets. Money runs & moves things.
But if we just give more tax breaks to the billionaires and let them own everything - that will fix everything, right? After-all, they earned it fair and square!
Well…..the billionaires rule & own everything including politicians & law makers. They run the world. All others are just spectators & consumers.
Oh ... what a wonderful world ...
I hear Biden also vowed to return Abortion front and center if he gets re-elected. Maybe even do a constitution amendment to match France. The standing ovation rivaled that which accompanied promising to stand with Ukraine.
I think this should be sufficient for the forum's shitlibs to vote Biden. It trumps everything including that little genocide on that little sliver of land somewhere in the middle east. Middle finger to the middle east - let's abort everybody!
If a failed track record on protecting women's rights to choose and supporting genocidal maniacs is what the Democrats want to run on, well, guess that means they got nothing.
We horrible deplorables in Ohio and Kansas have a far better track record on abortion than Democrats anyway--we simply voted the right into our state constitutions.
As we did in Michigan, OB.
"protecting women's rights to choose" the equivocal language that we mock when it comes from the governments and MSM re wars makes me want to puke.
and he is catholic
After this speech I fear the worst for the Palestinian people. These still „living“ in the center of Gaza will die by starvation and disease. The 1.5 million cramped in Rafah will soon be bombarded massively and then share the same faith if they don’t flee to the Sinai desert. And this is all done by the support and complicity of most western governments. Unbearable!
In the part I heard Biden basically spelled it all out completely legitimizing it. Like saying, yes, we know that's what's happening and, well, what can we do, it's just the way it is. And the People's Servants acknowledged it with standing ovation. I can only imagine Bibi's excitement watching it.
What else does anyone need to know? At this point no number of Aaron Bushnells would make any difference, I'm afraid. The so called west is rotten to the core.
Please! Acknowledge that "people's servants" as you call them, do not represent the people of this country. They, along with the "mainstream" media, do as they're told by the empire managers. With a handful of exceptions (the Squad) who are mostly young and female and all POC, and all come from very "blue" districts--but are being targeted by the Israel lobby with millions going to any opponent of any of them, which will likely suffice to knock out a couple of the few who dare to speak up. But we're worried about RUSSIAN interference in US elections?
" do not represent the people of this country" - are you saying they're not voted in? If they are, who voted for them? With what purpose?
If I have to answer this question Russian bot, I must ask whether you live in the US and how old you are. Because if you live here and have been paying attention for a few years or decades, you should realize that the elections game is quite thoroughly rigged. A fine example is the upcoming election. We can vote for Trump, an utterly unacceptable choice. Or we can vote for Joe Biden, an utterly unacceptable choice. Or we can vote for a third party candidate if there is one on the ballot, or write it in if allowed a paper ballot (no paper ballots where I live). Even if you can vote for a third party candidate, the two parties and the media have colluded to ensure they can never get enough votes to win. We also have the choice of not voting at all. Regardless of which of these four choices I made, either Biden or Trump will win, unless one dies first. I live in West Virginia--Trump will win by a landslide here so my vote is irrelevant, as with the electoral college, all WV's delegates would go to him if he won by two votes. In 2016, how many of WV's 55 counties went to Sanders? 55. How many to Hilary? 0. Nonetheless, WV sent more Hilary delegates to the convention because of Superdelegates, like Joe Manchin. A friend who went to the convention had shocking stories about how the Sanders delegates were excluded. Soooo--are we responsible for whoever "wins"? The Page and Gilens study looked at over a thousands issues over the past several decades where polls indicated popular will, and the outcome and said public opinion had "near zero" influence--but special interests often got whatever they wanted. Two thirds of Americans want a ceasefire in Gaza, and about 5% of "our representatives" do. Similar numbers about healthcare. So NO. Those people do NOT represent their constituents, they represent their contributors.. Moneyed interests, billionaires and corporations, have plenty of representation. I recently heard the joke, Why Israel doesn't want to become the 51st state--"because then we'd only have two sentaors!"
"If I have to answer this question Russian bot, I must ask whether you live in the US and how old you are." - I don't understand how it is so.
Either you decide to participate, get a ballot, mark people off, thereby assuming your acceptance of the procedure and legitimizing it, or you do not participate for whatever reason, including one where you say you do not acknowledge the fraudulent system.
I do not see any ambiguity there at all. You consider the system fraudulent, you unregister to vote thereby maximally excluding any possibility of using your registration for nefarious purposes. And you, when asked, openly declare that you do not take part in the fraud.
For those too thick to understand the above you can even say you're claustrophobic and cannot be in tight spaces. Or your internet speed is too slow. Or you ran out of postal stamps (if it's a mail-in vote, which is a scam right there).
Something like this: https://youtu.be/qIsSbtQ3hug
I disagree. Refusing to vote does not discourage the powers that be--it only makes it easier for them if most people stop participating. I may vote in the upcoming election, if there's anyone to vote for. I don't think that makes me complicit--it's not as though a refusal to vote makes any difference, stops the harms. Your last paragraph makes little sense to me--it implies that one who chooses to stop participating will be harassed and need excuses. My neighbors refuse to register to vote, don't believe in it--nobody harasses them over it.
The Squad sold out the minute they got into the Capitol building. "Mama Bear" Pelosi, etc.
Not entirely. Who's speaking out against genocide? Cori Bush, Rashida Tlaib, Bowman...
I only saw a little however at one point Kamala Harris, well I never saw an inhuman being get upright so quick, I’m pretty sure she was giving Biden a standing ovation before he began to say what she was applauding, which was ‘I won’t bow down! (for less then $1M)’
Satanyahu was jacking off as he watched…
Biden is toast. He either pulls an LBJ, or the Dems will invoke the 25th amendment. California Kamala won't resist the installation of Newsom.
Or they pull a JFK on Trump.
Something's gotta give.
You dont understand the scale of the problem.
The Dems are thoroughly corrupt. There is no one in their top ranks who is not compromised by AIPAC and the war industries. Even a supposed dems reformers like Ocasio-Cortez is now taking that AIPAC money and refusing to say the word “genocide”.
You didn't understand my comment. Replacing Biden in no way even implies that the Dems are not "thoroughly corrupt" (or that I support Newsom). But they are desperate to keep Trump out and they KNOW Biden will lose to him.
For sure. At some point things break down and this election season might be it.
Until we learn to stop calling the empire the democratic west and name it as it is the truth will be glazed over . It is actually a large group of capitalist countries most of whom were captured by America in 1945.Its junior partner UK ceased to have that position in reality in the early'50s. The only real partner is actually senior to the US but officially nor even a partner. That country is Israel whose Zionist founders have long had De Facto çontroll over the US and therefore over its empire. Democracy is a wonderful ideal but it is just a mock name for systemised selfishness which is actuality of capitalism and those were made globally tragic when the powerful psychopaths of the cult Zionism got control of the entire western empire including of course its media and education systems . Its a dystopia but don't tell anyone they will consider you an insane conspiracy theorist
I argue only on your failure to note that the people of the United States have also been captured by that Empire. And that Israel is the heart of the Empire--I think the seat is mostly in DC but perhaps it's some of both.
Folks, it’s the same US that wiped out native Americans. Nuked Japan - twice. Carpet-bombed Laos, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. Invaded Syria and still occupying it NOW.
When will it sink in that that this is a white nationalist empire, stretching from North America to Europe to Israel to Australia and New Zealand?
Yes they kill natives en masse. Yes they expect them to take the knee. No they don’t care if it’s kids or women. This is what the west does.
They don’t know any other way. Because they are deeply racist, a culture that inherently devalues everyone else. The Israeli talk about “human animals “ it’s simply saying western policy out loud is all. Wake up!
As the author James Baldwin reflected in 1986 as he neared the end of his life: “We’re all at the mercy of the European vision of the world - and that vision is obsolete”