I'm 75 and was a proto-hippy way back when. I've seen this country go so far to the fascist right that I wake up every morning wondering why I'm still even here. It's like the '60s never even happened. Everything since then has been a Trumpian nightmare. If young people can do anything to turn this asshole country (USA) around, I will throw myself on the altar of their efforts, gladly.
says who? I brought one to a No Kings in Charleston, West Virginia that said Jew Against Genocide on one side and Never Agaian Had No Asterisk on the other.
The "No Kings" mental gymnastics exercise wasn't a protest. It was just a big whine fest from a bunch of white liberals complaining had the Democratic party brand of Eternal War and Immigrant Raids won the election, they would all be having brunch.
wrong. A wide variety of people protested. Maybe some were of the ilk you suggest, but most were ordinary people fed up with the excesses of this regime. Some imagine that things would be better if the Demublicans had won; some don't.
<3 There's also "Shit-eating CIA-Mossad controlled opposition with zero morality to guide the gullible back into the genocidal Imperialist Demonrat Party" too, fx.
If you are not moved by 13 million people in the street, each protesting in their own way, what would move you? Is there a formula that would mean people (the right people?) were protesting the right way? I don't think that's how it works.
“Not allowed” by who? People were carrying them, I’m sure there are some people who wanted them not to but they were doing so regardless. The opposition isn’t some random weirdo organizer who tweeted out a bizarre rule that no one follows—if that was something that even happened—it’s the actual people making up the protest and what they were doing, and that includes people with “No genocide!” posters who were very much there
you'll need receipts for that claim - I never read any such rule and the rallies in my city had multiple booths set up full of material protesting Palestinian genocide, not mention what protestors made - it's like you just made that up
EDIT - I see now where you might have got that idea from omission, still there are no such actual rules that I ever came across
I did look that up after leaving my previous comment. No such rules about "no genocide" posters exist that I can tell. But you are correct that they deliberately left that topic out of their guidance, toolkits, etc. Regardless every 50501 rally I attended (four of them) became progressively more pro-Palestine in the speakers, booths, chants, etc. It was a small voice in Feb but one of the main concerns by June. It arrived anyway.
Throw a wrench instead, no more human sacrifices please, even if you haven`t much time left.
I am glad you wake up in the morning , but it shouldn't`t be a wonder what you or I or anyone should be doing , We have to help fix this mess we in, but lets not be so ignorant to think that anther vulgar slogan will fix anything. Put some flowers in their riffle barrows or somethings.
Perhaps your generation more than any other is more responsible for this mess we find ourselves in. We all know who the architects of this multi-decades long nightmare are, they all in this 70`s and 80`s , not that their children and grandchildren haven`t done their share, Turning On, Tuning in , and Dropping out
The boomers and middle age have sucked blindly on tit of this belligerent empire since birth. And their offspring are so used to suspending reality, that they now deny the reality of biology. That Peace is war, that genocide is defense ?
If it looks like a nightmare for you with in empires walls, what do you think its been like for those outside the wall upon whom we have dropped some many bombs on, sanctioned and ransacked.
Its great that your awake, lets stay awake and not let any doze off again.
Just because I've lived in this society for 74 years doesn't mean I supported or liked it. "Boomers" aren't a monolith. It's class war, not generational. I know full well how we got here: the clown king is the manifestation of what came before, beginning in the 70s. Neoliberalism and financialization have brought us here. We need to figure out how we fight against the big machine - together.
Did my comment make you feel that you were being personally accused? I can see now how my comment might come across that way, as if I myself am free of any sin.
Please forgive me, my thoughts are rarely well conveyed by my words. English is not my native language, I am not professional writer, just a opinionated reader.
You stated important points. But on reflection, perhaps there isn’t one specific era or point in time that we can clearly identify as the turning point. The roots of our complacency and the evil ways we must confront, are very old and run very deep. The phrase “bread and circuses” was coined in Roman times. Our obsession with superiority, divinity, or exceptionalism is ancient, but it was codified 1493 by the Church, in the so-called “Doctrine of Discovery.”
So yes, I agree with you. We need to work together to figure out how we tame this machine that we’re all, in one way or another, a cog within.
Thinking that the world turned to shit when Trump took office is silly.
The western public has, as you say, sucked on the tit of empire propaganda for decades, and now, somehow, Trump is the root cause of all evil. Good Lord.
Like all media, no matter how corrupt, the NYT's requires readers and advertisers. Write, call, post! Anything we can do to bring down these vile media companies will help. Write to advertiser. Make it clear that if they advertise in the NYT's or any of the other Zionist rags, they will suffer - Boycott their products and spread the message. It's all about money - take it away from them!
Agreed re elites. But specifically, it's the psychopathic vs the non-psychopathic elites. Control by the former have abandoned noblesse oblige. Although they have been present in every society, they are now at a possible watershed. Assisted all along by ever-increasing technology, they are on the verge with AI ("Big Brother") of truly running amok.
I don't think it's possible to be that rich and not be a sociopath. The rich are so separate from people; we look like insects to them, as they look out through their tinted windows and down on us from their high-storied towers. We aren't real to them, but we are so many. Thus, like insects, they think we need to die.
Working-class and dirtbag hippies graduated to simply partying and doing drugs with no political cause involved.
College-educated hippies mostly went into white-collar business or government jobs that offered high economic security, and their politics changed to center left and some center right. Most of them horrifyingly have gone along with the neoconservative and neoliberal foreign policies of the Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden admins even though they publicly advocate for peace, love, and understanding.
The activist hippies mostly went into politics or academia. A few went into Law.
A sizable majority of that late Silent, early boomer hippie age cohort were unengaged politically even if they were consistent voters.
My mom and dad were both born in 1947. Both college grads. My dad loved the drugs and partying and free-loving women. My mom thinks hard drugs ruined the Beatles. Not very political, dad was an old southern Democrat and my mom was a small business non-evangelical Republican. Neither talked about politics much when I was growing up.
Some of what you say is undeniable. Not all hippies were dirtbags, however. No generation is pristine and pure as the driven snow. Mine certainly wasn't but neither have any been. Most of my generation went center or right, and I've known this for 40 years. I didn't and lost many erstwhile friends because of it.
Your parents are 2 years older than me, I didn't get much experience in the drugs and free-loving women scene. Long story. I'm fairly well up to what happened in the '60s; my parents never talked politics at all. I was in the exact middle of the Vietnam generation and but for a high lottery number in 1969 and good grades in college, I was fully prepared to flee to Canada. I lucked out. Many of my friends didn't. I was arrested several times for protesting that war and later for protesting cluster bombs made by Honeywell in Minneapolis. Served a few months--ho hum, who didn't back then who resisted the insanity of this warmongering country?
Not all of my generation were sellouts, even if I don't know too many who weren't. I never did, which is why I have exactly one of that generation who doesn't now consider me a whack job.
I've always wanted to get a straight answer from so-called "Leftists" (i.e. Marxists and their descendants, who practice a religion not a democracy) about how they expect to create workers' paradises when all the borders are dissolved and all the totalitarian international organizations run amok? See EU for your test case.
Who, exactly, is going to fill the power vacuum? They (the non-sociopaths not in on the con, that is) actually think that human nature will somehow magically transform once the "right" structure is in place, and we'll all be singing and holding hands. Just as delusional as Libertarians, except that Marxists change their pied-piper music continually as previous campaigns crash and burn.
Marxism - the Opiate of the Intellectuals. Secular Evangelical Christianity; but with "Revolution" instead of "Rapture".
Even so, likely a better deal than what the hard-right offer the public.
You'll never get a "straight answer", because they prefer not to think about such matters, anymore than Xians ponder what a "post-rapture' might look like.
Presumably their Prophet Marx comes down and sprinkles magical pixie dust just like Prophet Jesus.
Anyway, check out that vid. Might need a reload or two, YT is doing a number on it. But it does work.
Title: "The Fascist Core Of The Euro-Atlantic Regimes | Dr. Niall McLaren", on the stream 'Neutrality studies'.
I don't have time to review this now. But my brief scan through content it looks promising. ("The FASCIST Core Of The Euro-Atlantic Regimes | Dr. Niall McLaren": Starts with identifying/critiquing fascism; while at 20 min, McLaren: "Yes, the dangerous bit is an accumulation of power in hierarchy ... When people say "socialism is anti-hierarchical" -- No, it's not. All power is vested in a small inner group who have control of the economic system.")
What you don't know about "Leftists" and/or Marxists would fill volumes.
In fact it has filled volumes, none of which you have read apparently.
Leftists and their union counterparts used to be firmly and vocally opposed to the kind of "Open Borders" nonsense promoted by libertarians, free market capitalists and anarkiddies who think they are "on the left".
The EU is a liberal-capitalist organization that has used social democratic redistribution (NOT a Marxist policy) to keep the left down in Europe for a very long time.
That plus "Eat me" is all you are worth responding with.
I'm going to get out of the weeds about Marxism a moment, instead of continuing a ping-pong match ...
No utopian visions will ever pan out because, at root, they can't. Each ideology consists of a bunch of like-minded individuals thinking that *if only* they can just get their message out, everyone will see the undeniable beauty of their solution, and easily fall in line. But they never will get real buy-in, because people have immutably different worldviews and values (even in the same culture), which are also always *incompatible*, in every setting, at all times. Sure, the ideology promoters can always *con* people, and boy do they, and thus get false majorities. But the eventual and guaranteed blowback is always hell.
Instead, I'd try to get real, and recognize that likely the mixed economies of late 20th century Europe, with their mixes waxing an waning with the times, are as good as it has ever gotten, and possibly ever will. And Europeans, regarding your earlier achievements, please *enforce* your native cultures as the fundamental social and governmental mechanisms on *your* native lands, or it will all go up in flames. Oh, gee, it already is -- how about that? If, *in Europe*, they still scream 'racism' about being European, don't be shy about giving 'em more than an earful. This ridiculous never-ending mind-fuckery has gone on long enough. The vast number of revolutions of the last 200 years tells us what actually works and what doesn't (most of them, short of the immediate orgasms).
Note, one can EASILY be against *all* the evils, of Zionist supremacism; of the enslaving hopium of the Mother-of-all-Psy-ops, the Abrahamic God; of unlimited-accumulation capitalism; of perpetually-delayed-"democracy" Marxist totalitarianism; and, of *actual* colonialism; all at the same time. Stop ALL the goddam wars against us, and stop picking sides against anything but psychopathy!!
Because the ROOT problem is, always, intelligent psychopathy grabbing power, imposing authoritarianism and eventually totalitarianism, in every setting, no matter what the ideology. It's the toxic part of the iron law of oligarchy. We need to get crackin' on *that* studiously-hidden problem, and leave capitalism vs socialism aside for a while. We've certainly been hashing the latter around without resolution long enough
That's why Nationalists HATE Thatcher and the Neoliberal project and Zi0 wars.
Nationalism is anti free market. The nation state must control international finance capitalism, or international finance capitalism will control the nation state.
Nationalism is broadly Third Position on economics.
My part of East London, Newham is only 30% White. The system is built on importing cheap labour. The oligarchs have no intresting in increasing pay and conditions, investing in training, robotics if the can fly labour in. Its a race to the bottom particularly for the working class.
They have pushed Liberalism has the ideology to get control.
Back in the 70s even my Comi teachers we small c conservative on social issues, had high moral standards and dress codes.
Liberalism is like an acid on our civilisation and the Left should of rejected it.
Ultimately Liberalism has destroyed both the Left and the Right.
And it hasn't occurred to you at any point that low wages and low worker-rights, and low unionisation, are all THATCHERITE policies? Now, you could make a case that Thatcher had a couple of liberal ideas, but I think most people would sensibly place her on the hard-right - and I suspect you might too in your hearts of hearts.
Putting liberal lipstick on a fascist pig doesn't make it look any better, unless you're David Cameron.
Thatcherites like high immigration; it destroys working class solidarity, and raises the house prices that they have ensured are their asset incomes and give bankster bonuses for the privately educated.
As MArky Wildfire said "This is a story you've been told, by the Right Wing that is currently ascendant. it is false."
They literally lie to you about EVERYTHING else - why would you take their word for this?
The con, that is, that there are Good/Smart guys and that there are Evil/Stupid guys, where one is "Left" and the other "Right", which is which depending on which fishbowl you swim in.
The only things that actually exist are the intelligent psychopaths and sociopaths continuing to concentrate power, and control or kill everything that moves. And that's non-ideological, no matter how you/we want to fantasize otherwise. There are plenty of power-pigs riding the wave of *every* revolution -- fast and radical, or slow and organic -- and boy do they sink their teeth into it as they win.
Well said, Basil. I'm 76 and live in Australia and agree you're living in a nightmare. Historically, Australia has followed US trends and, to this day, continues to suck up to our 'great and powerful friend'. Additionally, there are too many would-be tRumpsters down here for my liking. It's been observed that as we age, we tend to become more conservative in outlook. I've always been more than a bit lefty-progressive but, if anything, have become an even leftier, angry old man who would gladly join you on that alter. More strength to the arms of these punksters. It's refreshing to see them stirring the pot.
The 60s became the establishment regime. You don't get rainbow flags on Air Force bombers without being the establishment regime. You don't get American flags removed from the white house in favor of rainbow flags if you are not the regime. You don't get to force people into their homes and cover their faces with paper masks for years on end if you are not the regime. You don't get to force people into medical experiments against their will if you are not the regime. You don't get to debank people, get them fired, get them thrown out of school, burn down cities, and beat up randos in the street with impunity if you are not the regime.
You are the culture, MAGA is the counterculture. You were the revolution. MAGA is the counterrevolution. One can only hope that the unwanted 60s mangling of normal life can be erased to the point that no one remembers it ever happened.
Two million people are being starved to death and Trump is hosting UFC fights on the White House grounds tomorrow. The disconnect is astonishing, and the masses are noticing.
So sad. The genocide of Palestine continues, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year,at the hand of the zionist Israeli government and its U.S. government financier. Estimates range from 56.000 up to 200,000 Palestinians killed so far, with more than half women and children. Biden did nothing to stop this. Trump, for all his talk of wanting peace, dares not oppose the zionist Israeli government in its aims, for 95% of the time, also. Trump is a strong, if oft-misguided, leader in many ways, but he bends to the zionist Israeli government's will almost all of the time. Maybe Turmp is Bibi's vice-president in charge of the Americas? Makes you wonder if the zionist Israeli government has something on Trump?
Actually, in this case it does equal a genocide, an intentional and systematic killing of a people deemed undesirable, Palestinians, by the killer, the zionist Israeli government. Russians and Urkranians do not hate each other. They are brothers and sisters, but yes, I agree, that war is also sad and deadly.
Is Putin committing genocide when he levels Ukrainian apartment blocks containing women and children?
If I’m anything I’m a realist. You are too captured by Iranian propaganda to see it for what it is: it’s the same tragic war as any other being fought around the world.
UFC = Ultimate Fighting Championship, a mixed martial arts (cage-fighting) promotion. Like World Wrestling Entertainment, but more violent and ugly. Apparently it's been around for 30 years. Like a slow-growing tumor.
Kneecap and Bob Vylan and others are the vanguard of a new way of dealing with the status quo. Young people no longer will accept what is being thrown at them by sociopathic leaders--they know they can yell "Death to the IDF!" with all their friends and cause consternation. It's music to their ears to hear the oligarchs whine and whinge. I'm looking forward to seeing how quickly they can crash this corrupt system. "Death, death to the IDF!"
Free, free, Palestine. The zionist Israel government has attacked Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran, and can not stop its violence against all of its neighbors. It is a failed state. It practices apartheid. It occupies Palestine, and has done so since 1967, 58 years. It is overdue now to have the UN Security Council enfoce a blockade of the zionist Israeli government through land, sea, and air until it transfers all of its public assets to a new State of Palestine. The five permanent members of the UN Security Council, England, France, Russia, China, and the U.S., need to jointly enforce this blockade until Palestine is free. All people there can remain living where they do now. No one needs to move. The Palestinian people and all non-Palestinians now living there can select a city for the capital. All citizens of the new State of Palestine can vote equally and have equal rights, no matter one's ancestry or religion. The tender of all public assets from what has been Israel to the new State of Palestine, will atone for the 58 years of occuplation, and the 2+ years of genocide, and allow for rebuilding of the devastion Israel forced on Palestine. Jews want peace. Arabs want peace. Let them have it.
>>"The five permanent members of the UN Security Council, England, France, Russia, China, and the U.S., need to jointly enforce this blockade until Palestine is free."
Do you NOT understand YET that this Genocide is supported 100% by the U.S. Empire? (and hence it's support by most Western nations?)
If you REALLY want to STOP this Genocide, figure out a way to combat the U.S. Empire - unfortunately, that seems to be the reality.
"International Law" was (for the most part) a farce - an illusion. What it really was is "Western Law" or "Law by U.S. Empire and its allies" (of course, the status of 'allies' is fickle and changeable according to the whims of the U.S.).
All these agencies - UN, World Bank, IMF, WTO, and so many others ALWAYS served the interests of the Western Empires/nations. It was never really global.
But you know all this already. Hopefully, someone reading these comments might learn something...
Completely agree that the U.S. government has much responsibility here by acting as the financier for the killer zionist Israeli government. That needs to stop. Members of Congress like the money they get from AIPAC (American Israeli Political Action Committee) lobbyists and military industrial complex lobbyists.
I think it would be a good idea for all here to buy music products (CDs, LPs, mpeg's, etc.) from those rock/punk/pop groups (Kneecap, Bob Vylan, etc.) Even if you don't fancy that specific type of music show support.
Sad but true. So many people don't see that freeing Palestine and freeing oneself from Covid1984 official misinformation about the alleged pandemic, and honoring "my body, my choice," for all peoples, are completely aligned. One is health freedom. One is freedom for a distressed, occupied, and genocided population. Freedom is key. People deserve freedom.
P.S. - Just listened to your video - very well-done, and timely, and enjoyable to listen to. Thank you for your work on that and linking it. Two bands you may know of, both from England, are Akala, and Lukas Lion. But if you do not know of them I think you may like their work.
I don't but will check them out. And yes Re Palestine - I will in no way diminish the horror and brutality inflicted on them but I know people (one very close friend included) who suicided over the isolation of lockdowns. And lest we forget the agony of adverse reactions to the shots. It was also a military op top to bottom.
I am an old man now. I lived through the Cold War, Vietnam, the US/wests sponsorship of terrible crimes across the world. The rebellious give me hope. People need to understand the corrosiveness of authority, almost all of which is neither justified nor agreed by ordinary people. We don’t, so to speak, need a Shah yet nor do we need an Ayatollah.
Thanks Nigel. Good to see you have maintained some rage over the many years since so many of us woke up to discover the US war in Vietnam was a vicious, homicidal attempt to install a pro-Washington colony. And we have known to distrust every single war the Washington elites have started since then.
Why Pluto ? Well at 25,000 miles per hour it would take about 10 years to get there… and since it’s the furthest planet in the solar system it’s gravity might not be strong enough for their spacecraft to hold it in orbit, hence they might get lost in Deep Space.. what a shame! Lol
Over the last decade I've come to call mainstream rap 'neo-liberal' rap, promoting money, cars and women. Empty, hollow verses singing the virtue of the pursuit of capital, not community or empathy in the 'I got mine, fuck you' economy.
The Empire might be losing its grip on "Hearts and minds" at home; but it's still very much in control of finance, meedja, policing, the military, courts, prisons, the oligarchy. Prepare for Covid 2.0, probably called "Nipah".
The Empire might also have lost in Ukraine (they don't care about the entirely-avoidable 1,000,000+ deaths of the locals); but now they are starting fires in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Serbia, and preparing the Project Iran to restart - by weaponising the IAEA, they will force Iran OUT of the NPT, and then use that as a pretext for an attack by Israhell... quite likely involving nukes this time.
And once Russia is busy in Ukraine, AND Caucuses, putting out the fires the Empire has started, they will invade Transnistria to start another bloodbath there as well. Not even mentioning the ongoing stupid games in the Baltics and Baltic sea.
A chant of "Death, death to the IOF" is actually the least of their concerns, although it will enable further domestic repression; something they will need when the inevitable impoverishment from all the above polices increases.
The Empire has already long planned a "Depopulation" of the Western publics, our lives are meaningless to them - have less than value or worth.
People need to grasp that, but 80% still want to believe that the system could not be so callous and cruel. They do not realise they are the next Gazans/Ukrainians/Vietnamese/Iraqis/Libyans/Syrians/Malians....
Anyone who stands up is a Dead Man (Person) Walking - even if they come from the Establishment itself.
Guy Fawkes was apprehended on November 4–5, 1605, through a combination of anonymous intelligence, a targeted search operation, and his own actions at the scene. Here’s a detailed breakdown of the events leading to his capture:
🔥 1. Anonymous Warning Letter (Late October 1605)
An unsigned letter was sent to Lord Monteagle (a Catholic member of Parliament) around October 26, 1605. It warned him to avoid attending Parliament on November 5, hinting that the assembly would "receive a terrible blow" and "not see who hurts them".
Monteagle, despite his Catholic sympathies, immediately shared the letter with Robert Cecil, King James I’s Secretary of State. The King interpreted it as a threat of explosion.
🔍 2. Search of Parliament (Night of November 4)
Authorities ordered a search of Westminster Palace. Sir Thomas Knyvett (Keeper of Whitehall Palace) and his associate Edmund Doubleday led the operation around midnight on November 4–5.
They discovered Fawkes—using the alias John Johnson—lurking in an undercroft beneath the House of Lords. He wore a cloak, boots, and a hat, and carried a lantern.
Nearby, 36 barrels of gunpowder (≈2.5 tons), concealed under firewood and coal, were found. This was enough to destroy Parliament and much of Westminster.
⚔️ 3. Fawkes's Arrest and Resistance
When challenged, Fawkes initially claimed he was storing firewood. As Knyvett and Doubleday moved to search him, Fawkes resisted violently, gripping Doubleday’s hand "so hard that he left blood".
Doubleday subdued him by striking his legs, and Fawkes was restrained using his own garters. On his person, authorities found matches, touchwood (tinder), and a watch—tools for igniting the gunpowder.
🕵️ 4. Interrogation and Torture
Fawkes was taken to the Tower of London. Under orders from King James I, he was tortured to reveal accomplices. The King authorized escalating methods: "the gentler tortures are first to be used ... then step by step the harsher".
After days on the rack, Fawkes confessed on November 9, signing a shaky, barely legible statement (extant in the "Bag of Secrets" archives). He admitted the plot but resisted naming conspirators until later.
⚖️ 5. Aftermath and Execution
Fawkes and seven co-conspirators were tried for treason on January 27, 1606. All were sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.
On January 31, during his execution at Westminster, Fawkes jumped from the gallows ladder, breaking his neck to avoid the agony of dismemberment. His body was still quartered, and parts displayed across England.
🎆 Legacy
The foiled plot led to annual Bonfire Night (November 5), marked by effigy burnings, fireworks, and the rhyme "Remember, remember the Fifth of November".
To this day, the Yeomen of the Guard symbolically search Parliament before the State Opening—a tradition born from Fawkes’s capture.
Fawkes’s downfall stemmed from the Monteagle letter’s betrayal and the authorities’ swift response, turning him into an enduring symbol of failed rebellion.
That was an excellent comment, a very accurate assessment of what’s happening geopolitically. Yes, the Empire has an army of arsonists stationed all over the world.
I agree: anyone who dares to stand up is doomed. The Empire has an army of spies and thugs willing to obey its decrees, willing to circumvent the law or violate constitutional rights.
But if we could only stand together, might have our own “I am Spartacus” moment. I’m not aware of any potential Spartacus among us are you? Nor do I believe we can come together to battle for anything without a figurehead, if we did manage to find one, would they, in time, turn and become yet another despot?
Maybe they would, Tre. But then we have to ask ourselves this: Wouldn't they have to be willing to go to nuclear war; to drop biochemical weapons against the global population and then mandate even more lethal 'vaccines'; to deliberately impoverish the 95% for their own already insane wealth; goad the other superpowers by attempting to create a '1000 Year Reich'; be more than happy to arm and fund an active genocide; and do fuck all except make worse several ecological catastrophes all at once - to even BEGIN to be as gadawful as our current bunch?
In short, we would have to be EXTREMELY unlikely to end up with someone as equally bad as what we have now, wouldn't we?
How do you measure how bad the current world leaders are? If we focus on and try measure America Presidents , I can`t say, tell how rate them ?
- Truman administration dropped two atomic bomb on a nation that was already defeated and incapable of threatening America or any other nation
- Reagan administration had a hand in Iraq using chemical weapons against Iran
- Biden administration destroyed Germany`s and Europe`s energy security,
- President Jackson, signed into law the Indian Removal Act in 1830
- Bush Jr kicked off the regime change wars with they invasion of Afghanistan and the WDM - Iraq sham, and Obama added Libya, Syria and Yemen, how many millions killed, wounded? How many made homeless refuges?
From my limited point of view, I`d say we are extremely lucky (even if its bad luck) that we do not have Biden again or that imbecile Harris, but yes, Trump still has plenty of time to make history , he has already taken over from Biden as the enabler of the Genocide in Gaza
I am of course very pessimistic about our world leaders, but having studied some history, I am optimist, because we are actually less at war with each other now then at any other era , but the problem is we can now kill so many with so little effort now.
Humans are a paradox of nature, we are endowed with immense potential for Intelligence but are catastrophically deficient in intellect. We`ll sacrifice our lives to protect our offspring , but we`ll not lift a finger to ensure tour offspring have a future.
But first and foremost, you have to come to terms with the fact that life is a never ending series of tragedies, so make the most of any moment of joy that comes your way, you don`t know, it may be your last.
Neutrality Studies ; good YouTube channel, I like that he has a variety of guests, I was particularly impressed with his interview with Joti Brar last week.
I don't have much time for Pinkerton, or Plunkett, or whatever his name was, claims. If you follow the underground news, all that happened was that much of the violence simply was not reported - at least in the lamestream media. I don't think the global south noticed much of a reduction.
And what there was of a reduction, should be balanced by the fact that ALL humans have been 10mins from annihilation for the past 80 years, the POTENTIAL for violence was the highest it has ever been. And lo! As soon as the USSR left the scene, the 'West' went straight back to its bloodsoaked Imperial ways.
"Humans are a paradox of nature, we are endowed with immense potential for Intelligence but are catastrophically deficient in intellect." :(
We teach maths as school, but not emotional wisdom (Outside of the Danish pedagogy, which prizes that above academic success in their school system).
Our rulers, of course, have done this by design. The LAST thing they want is "Their" stormtroopers being raised to have a conscience and the capacity to express it.
"But first and foremost, you have to come to terms with the fact that life is a never ending series of tragedies, so make the most of any moment of joy that comes your way, you don`t know, it may be your last."
As an Aries, incorrigibly optimistic and not-too-bright in general, I've taken several major planks to the face to begin to understand this sad fact. What is obvious to others is cause for depression for me...
Yes, Pascal is more-than-OK. He's not top of my list to follow - Garland and Judge Nap, and Diesen win those spots - but he's a gentle soul who isn't a hidden psychopath like Haiphong - who it has to be said, also creates very interesting spaces and discussions too.
I've watched Jodi quite a few times on Garland's show, (And man, but she's hot, lol), but started and stopped on that one, was distracted. Is it worth going back to? I find many of these guests become repetitive, a definite curse when you are making long term predictions but time itself cannot be speeded up to see how it actually turns out.
If only the US Army DID have a secret program to freeze people, a la Idiocracy, lollol. :D
If only they could kill everyone who hates them for all the evil they are engaged in. Instead…they’re trying to plug every gaping hole that ruptures in the dystopian Zionist world they are creating, resulting in most people of the world are now considered antisemitic criminals who should be slaughtered like all the little children in Gaza.
Great piece. Here in the UK our entire government has literally been taken over by Zionists and more than half our so called cabinet have been paid to support Israel by, Israel. Meanwhile, while Israel is free, it appears, to attack other countries and steal their land and murder their populations, if anyone shouts Death to the IDF they could be charged with er WHAT, treason. Erm, how have we got into this idiotic and illogical state? Oh, yes, it seems that the UK should now be called greater Israel.
I struggle to come to terms with what has happened to my country, and despair of the current government.
Have you heard, though, that Zahra Sultana will start a new party with Jeremy Corbyn? What a dream team. We just need to make sure they get over the line.
“Facinating times…”? Hmmm 🤔 Maybe it’s because I’m Danish, maybe it’s a matter of perspective, maybe both, but fascinating is not the word I would use. You see, whilst I have yearned for a serious uprising amongst the younger generation, and for artists to come forward in large numbers, Glastonbury and festivals alike all over the west gave my dying wish that bit of air it needed to burn again. At the same time young women in Denmark are now, for the first timer EVER, obliged for conscription when they turn 18, using a kind of a lottery system, because Denmark have the most war-horny Russophobic PM and Cabinet that are fanatic supporters of the NATO/EU warmongering psychopaths spreading public fear and propaganda that in a few months/years we will all speak Russian. So while the “Glastonburies” are rising I am waiting to see what will come of it. My take on the difference between the times during Vietnam (I was young back then) and now is that while the protests back then seemed to have an effect on the powers that be, the cynical cold-hearted fanaticism is so penetrating to the core of the Power Cult and its lackeys that they just don’t give a shit anymore, because nothing will happen to them, no matter what they do. This has been proven time and time again. Back in the Vietnam days a US president would resign—not anymore. Nothing will happen to Netanyahu and his Sugar Dady (former and present). I don’t call that fascinating. To me it is beyond words.
I'm shocked and saddened about conscription in Denmark. May that be short-lived.
I think Caitlin is trying to be a little tiny bit positive. Some of us need to hang into these tiny glimmers of hope, no matter how tenuous, in order to stay alive.
Collective positivity is as important as collective anger and outrage if there is any kind of future to be had, ever, anywhere, so we owe it to ourselves to try...
more specifically than "positivity," what is needed is a VISION of a better future and a path from here to there. Which need to be clearly DEPICTED, not merely spoken of in academic language.
I think both. Outrage, anger, and positivity now plus the clear vision for the future human civilization. Civilization based on justice for all, truth, and facts and not power and greed for the few. Get rid of fake western "democracies and freedoms" BS. All current "international" institutions (UN, IAEA, FIFA, WHO, IOC, ...) will have to be terminated and new ones built. It takes time and great misery and distress to wake up humans unfortunately.
Unfortunately, love does not generate profit, and the entire western civilization is based on profit and exploitation of others (capitalism, colonialism, fascism, zionism, genocides). War is good for the few on top and lickspittles (political elite) around them.
I have read that the success in the protests to stop the Viet Nam war is that "property" was targeted. Historically all other protests with sign waving, speeches and chanting have accomplished little or nothing. Maybe you or other readers know more about the subject than I do, but I found it interesting ...
I am not quite sure about that. I was too young to give it proper attention. You might be right. It is obvious that protest and rallies don’t have any effect. Still I am of the impression that politicians back then were more sensitive to public opinions and that there were political differences among various parties. Today it’s all one uniparty… Yes, Big Business had a power grip, but today I see a fusion between the public and private sphere that didn’t exist back then. Today politics and Big Business are one and the same and ethnic cleansing of Gaza is Big Business.
"... politicians back then were more sensitive ..." - politicians back then were of the war generation - they witnessed it, they didn't want it anymore. Current ones are puppets in all senses of the word. They lack any faculties of their own.
I wish I could share your optimism, Caitlin, but I'm not ready for it yet. That doesn't mean that I'm not cautiously hopeful.
Maybe such movements move at a pace all their own with unexpected twists and turns. Maybe such movements gather enough momentum to ACTUALLY challenge TPTB (the powers that be) meaningfully. Maybe this time will be different (I hope it is).
For the time being, I will observe how events unfold, and do whatever I can to be a part of the force for positive change that is much needed in this world at this point in time.
Thank you for being a voice of optimism (regardless of my opinions on it) and support (and reason). We need optimism very much as we continue to battle the 'power elite'.
I share your passion , but haven’t there been countless revolutions in the past, and look at humanity right now? It’s not a revolution that counts as much as what happens after a revolution… ever hear the expression “ The more things change, the more they are the same”?
I agree fully with you. It is not the revolution but what happens afterwards. The apparatchiks, opportunists, and demagogues take over and destroy the progress of the revolution. Revolution eats its own children. It has always been like that. Again, power attracts the worst kind of people. It has and it will doom humanity. The problem with human civilization is that it is structurally unstable. It takes o lot of effort, sacrifice, blood, and sweat to just keep mouth above water surface.
>>"The more things change, the more they are the same”?"
Do they though? It depends on your perspective and attitude.
You prefer the 'nihilistic attitude' and that 'we the ordinary people are to blame for everything and are the problem' narrative (as is evident in most of your comments).
The narrative I hold is that of 'a minority of psychopaths and sociopaths have figured out how to successfully manipulate the masses'.
Hence, I draw a very stark distinction between the REAL PROBLEM/TROUBLE makers (the 'power elite' minority) and the majority of humans that are attempting to survive within the systems created by TPTB.
When I first moved to British Columbia , although I sensed what the answer would be, I called an agent working for the land registry and asked if it was possible to be given a small parcel of land on which to build a home .
The answer was swift and expected. “You don’t think WE are going to give you a piece of land for free do you?” Even though there was enough land for everyone on the planet.
The agent was not a billionaire, but a person who was part of the 99% of us who struggle to have a roof over our head. It’s not the idea that was disturbing, but the tone of the WE. In a sense, he was protecting the interest of the Crown, or the royalty in England who officially own 6 billion acres of land on the planet. I wanted just one acre.
In a democracy, the people who vote are responsible for the leader they elect, Donald J Trump a shining example. It’s not the elite who elected Trump, but the 99 % who voted for him…
Like I've mentioned to you before John Turcot, you have MAJOR issues with your critical thinking.
Here's something that I hope you can learn from ->
(1) NEVER assume to generalize belief systems based on 'select personal experiences' or 'cherry-picking' of data.
(2) It doesn't matter what your PERSONAL experience may (or may not have been). To create an all-encompassing 'belief' based on a 'small sample size of events' OR 'personal experiences' (called anecdotal evidence - look up 'Argument from anecdote' fallacy) is a sign of WEAK critical thinking skills.
We've had this argument multiple times - and I'm NOT INTERESTED in arguing about the SAME thing for the 100th time with someone who is NOT interested in learning or growing but instead continues to repeat the same things like a parrot or a human with a script to follow.
1 )B. F. Skinner, of Skinner Box fame, disagrees with you. He claims that all reactions in life rise from the environments in which we are raised and learn from each of those experiences.
2 ) I think mr. Skinner has more of a reputation than you do as to how we learn throughout our lives.. but if you wish to think differently, that is the beauty of the freedom you have been given by life to do judt that..
You finish by stating that you are not interested in arguing with me??? Then why are you arguing with me? I am interested in what most people think, and if I disagree with most of what is being said, it stops right then and there. No big deal cause that’s what Freedom is all about.
We need a much more PROFOUND revolution than the ones that just change who sits on the throne. And we need a global revolution, rather than one within a "country."
That would be amazing. But with so much inequality between:nations:, and so much greed, particularly among those in more affluent nations, who are not interested in sharing, I don't see this happening unfortunately
Probably not, but the fact is, even the middle classes and certainly the poor in those affluent countries are getting fracked by the elite. There has been a lot of work to persuade them that it's the poor, or the immigrants, or the women and blacks, who are ripping them off. I think everyone knows it's the elite, but it's attractive to blame a powerless group you can attack, rather than a shadowy and powerful group, What's needed, I'll say it again, is a well-lit, thoroughly depicted PICTURE of a better world and the path to get there. The time is coming when it will be impossible for the MAGA crowd to believe their Lord and Savior Trump or hs minion and allies are on their side. But by then they may have even more power locked in.
The oppressors are by multitudes more powerful than they have been in the past because
a) The national authorities have been degraded to simply carrying out orders and largely removed from the decision-making, which decreases the influence of national uprisings...because the people who make the decision are not tied to any country and don't care about national atrocities.
b) The ethical and moral standard is at an all-time low, and the powerful will not hesitate to use brutal measures previously unthinkable against the uprising, as the genocide in Gaza shows.
I fear the worst.
On the other hand, more and more people sense that this won't stop with Gaza and feel the urgency to stop the monsters now before they get even more out of control.
The biggest danger are sophisticated PSYOPs that deflect the rebellious energy and turn people against each other over superficial emotionally-charged minor issues.
My feeling is that public uprisings and chanting and 70s-style demonstrations, after being seen as ineffective and being manipulated, will push people against the wall, and with no future and nothing to lose, terrorism will explode over the planet.
Unless the elites dircect them and PSYOP them against each other - the mos likely and succesful stratefy to dispel the energy.
If unsuccessful, terrorsim could happen on a big scale, but this time not in the name of some prophet or God against other religions but terrorism of all the oppressed against all the elites.
Individual elites who are seen as responsible will be fearing for their lives like never before.
I think the elites know that this is coming.
Hence the frantic push for the totalitarian surveillance AI state and the deploying of one nudging PSYOP after the other.
All this, as with the Berlin Wall, will build and build and build, and then one last drop event, and all the stored-up frustrated energy and fear will unleash.
It is widespread amongst that generation.
One of my sons, a 31-year-old designer in Sydney with a significant income who never really had a political or rebellious bone in him, said a while ago, "We are one good leader away from a revolution."
He is really pisssed off that despite his good income, he can't afford to buy a flat and is forced to share and they pay over $100.000 in rent for an average two-bedroome flat, shared by two couples.
He clearly feels ripped off, and he has a good idea by whom—the elites.
Saying this, for a while he bought into the PSYOP that it is all the fault of the baby boomer generation deflecting from the elites.
If a guy like him is on board for a revolution, you can imagine how many more people of that generation there are, suffering much more than him worldwide.
Yes, exciting times, but also extremely dangerous and turbulent times, are ahead of us. A big storm is brewing.
I read Keith Richards' autobiography. He wrote that Nixon was serious about refusing the visas on the basis of high-profile drug use. The Stones got in by handing a lawyer with DC connections $50,000 -- a lot of money back then -- and not asking any questions about what he did with it.
Notice that loomer is a jew. Who pays for all of her plastic surgery? How did she get trump to fire members of the national security council? Is she a mossad plant in trump's orbit?
"Trump Ally Slammed For Saying Alligators In Everglades Detention Center Are 'Guaranteed At Least 65 Million Meals': 'Lunatic'
Trump ally Laura Loomer is being slammed online after saying that alligators in the new migrant detention center in Florida, which has been dubbed 'Alligator Alcatraz,' 'are guaranteed at least 65 million meals.'
Pod Save America host Tommy Viettor called Loomer a "lunatic" over the post, claiming that the 65 million figure was a reference to the Latino population in the country.
'What this lunatic and close advisor to President Trump is saying is that every latino currently living in the United States should go to prison and die,' Vietor said in a social media publication."
After the Second World War, a Czech anti-fascist and a Yugoslavian partisan met at a beach on the Adriatic.
Eventually, the inevitable question came up. “What did you do in the war?” the Czech anti-fascist asked the partisan.
“Oh, the usual stuff,” answered the partisan. “We formed underground networks, ran background checks on potential recruits, set up safe houses and clandestine print shops. Then we started sabotaging railways and telephone lines. Eventually, we worked our way up to carrying out raids to seize weapons. With those, we started retaking villages and then whole regions until finally, we ran the Nazis right out of the country.”
“All of that sounds like a great time,” answered the Czech anti-fascist. “Unfortunately, where we were, all of those things were illegal!”
100%. Czechs, Slovaks, and Hungarians (and many others unfortunately) were always coward opportunists. They always worshiped power and changed sides so easily.
West knew that the weak spot of YU was primarily Serbian and Croatian nationalism. Tito was able to control it while he was alive. Balkanization of YU was a typical example of "Divide et impera" that west uses so often (e.g., Sunni vs Shia, Hindus vs Muslims, etc.)
Not like this is some kind of novel comment but of course the moveable feast Islamic Jihadist (tm) were flown in for the usual effect of Peace, Love, Democracy and Human Rights.
I'm 75 and was a proto-hippy way back when. I've seen this country go so far to the fascist right that I wake up every morning wondering why I'm still even here. It's like the '60s never even happened. Everything since then has been a Trumpian nightmare. If young people can do anything to turn this asshole country (USA) around, I will throw myself on the altar of their efforts, gladly.
Note that "No Genocide!" posters are not allowed at the so-called "No Kings" protests.. if kids fall for this scam 'opposition'... :shakes head:
says who? I brought one to a No Kings in Charleston, West Virginia that said Jew Against Genocide on one side and Never Agaian Had No Asterisk on the other.
Good for you!
The two zionazi operatives who run it say so. That amoral couple, darling of the DC set.
I'm more than happy you showed two fingers to them.
so?
who cares what is or is not "allowed".
Do whatever tf u feel
The "No Kings" mental gymnastics exercise wasn't a protest. It was just a big whine fest from a bunch of white liberals complaining had the Democratic party brand of Eternal War and Immigrant Raids won the election, they would all be having brunch.
wrong. A wide variety of people protested. Maybe some were of the ilk you suggest, but most were ordinary people fed up with the excesses of this regime. Some imagine that things would be better if the Demublicans had won; some don't.
No disagreements there.
Except I'd use considerably more vitriolic terms about the Demonrats.
OK, I'll continue to call shit like "No Kings" and the like mental masturbation exercises. Thanks!
<3 There's also "Shit-eating CIA-Mossad controlled opposition with zero morality to guide the gullible back into the genocidal Imperialist Demonrat Party" too, fx.
And that's still just scratching the surface. ;)
A wonderful description of an entire political party in one sentence.
If you are not moved by 13 million people in the street, each protesting in their own way, what would move you? Is there a formula that would mean people (the right people?) were protesting the right way? I don't think that's how it works.
“Not allowed” by who? People were carrying them, I’m sure there are some people who wanted them not to but they were doing so regardless. The opposition isn’t some random weirdo organizer who tweeted out a bizarre rule that no one follows—if that was something that even happened—it’s the actual people making up the protest and what they were doing, and that includes people with “No genocide!” posters who were very much there
you'll need receipts for that claim - I never read any such rule and the rallies in my city had multiple booths set up full of material protesting Palestinian genocide, not mention what protestors made - it's like you just made that up
EDIT - I see now where you might have got that idea from omission, still there are no such actual rules that I ever came across
hierochle, just look who the two organisers of the "No Kings" movement are, and google them and "zionism" if you're still uncertain.
They would literally donate every vital organ to a Gazan charity before allowing any pro-Palestinian messages in their demos.
And yes, organisers DO set the rules - not to say everyone will FOLLOW them, lol, but they set the rules.
I did look that up after leaving my previous comment. No such rules about "no genocide" posters exist that I can tell. But you are correct that they deliberately left that topic out of their guidance, toolkits, etc. Regardless every 50501 rally I attended (four of them) became progressively more pro-Palestine in the speakers, booths, chants, etc. It was a small voice in Feb but one of the main concerns by June. It arrived anyway.
Good. <3
young people?!
get your OLD ASS out into the streets and FIGHT
Older people can do things.
Like sabotage and reconnaisance. Nobody suspects some granny with a walker
I suspect all the grannies: walkers, wheelchairs and all. I will not discriminate in my response to their nonesensery.
Throw a wrench instead, no more human sacrifices please, even if you haven`t much time left.
I am glad you wake up in the morning , but it shouldn't`t be a wonder what you or I or anyone should be doing , We have to help fix this mess we in, but lets not be so ignorant to think that anther vulgar slogan will fix anything. Put some flowers in their riffle barrows or somethings.
Perhaps your generation more than any other is more responsible for this mess we find ourselves in. We all know who the architects of this multi-decades long nightmare are, they all in this 70`s and 80`s , not that their children and grandchildren haven`t done their share, Turning On, Tuning in , and Dropping out
The boomers and middle age have sucked blindly on tit of this belligerent empire since birth. And their offspring are so used to suspending reality, that they now deny the reality of biology. That Peace is war, that genocide is defense ?
If it looks like a nightmare for you with in empires walls, what do you think its been like for those outside the wall upon whom we have dropped some many bombs on, sanctioned and ransacked.
Its great that your awake, lets stay awake and not let any doze off again.
Just because I've lived in this society for 74 years doesn't mean I supported or liked it. "Boomers" aren't a monolith. It's class war, not generational. I know full well how we got here: the clown king is the manifestation of what came before, beginning in the 70s. Neoliberalism and financialization have brought us here. We need to figure out how we fight against the big machine - together.
Did my comment make you feel that you were being personally accused? I can see now how my comment might come across that way, as if I myself am free of any sin.
Please forgive me, my thoughts are rarely well conveyed by my words. English is not my native language, I am not professional writer, just a opinionated reader.
You stated important points. But on reflection, perhaps there isn’t one specific era or point in time that we can clearly identify as the turning point. The roots of our complacency and the evil ways we must confront, are very old and run very deep. The phrase “bread and circuses” was coined in Roman times. Our obsession with superiority, divinity, or exceptionalism is ancient, but it was codified 1493 by the Church, in the so-called “Doctrine of Discovery.”
So yes, I agree with you. We need to work together to figure out how we tame this machine that we’re all, in one way or another, a cog within.
What an underrated comment. Bravo.
Thinking that the world turned to shit when Trump took office is silly.
The western public has, as you say, sucked on the tit of empire propaganda for decades, and now, somehow, Trump is the root cause of all evil. Good Lord.
Like all media, no matter how corrupt, the NYT's requires readers and advertisers. Write, call, post! Anything we can do to bring down these vile media companies will help. Write to advertiser. Make it clear that if they advertise in the NYT's or any of the other Zionist rags, they will suffer - Boycott their products and spread the message. It's all about money - take it away from them!
I'm 61 and sign me up!
If you think that this problem is a left or a right thing, you're woefully underinformed.
The problem is an elite vs the masses issue, not a republican/democrat thing.
This country has been in deep shit for years, under both parties.
I won't even get into how your generation has overseen the downfall of the west.
Agreed re elites. But specifically, it's the psychopathic vs the non-psychopathic elites. Control by the former have abandoned noblesse oblige. Although they have been present in every society, they are now at a possible watershed. Assisted all along by ever-increasing technology, they are on the verge with AI ("Big Brother") of truly running amok.
I don't think it's possible to be that rich and not be a sociopath. The rich are so separate from people; we look like insects to them, as they look out through their tinted windows and down on us from their high-storied towers. We aren't real to them, but we are so many. Thus, like insects, they think we need to die.
Working-class and dirtbag hippies graduated to simply partying and doing drugs with no political cause involved.
College-educated hippies mostly went into white-collar business or government jobs that offered high economic security, and their politics changed to center left and some center right. Most of them horrifyingly have gone along with the neoconservative and neoliberal foreign policies of the Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden admins even though they publicly advocate for peace, love, and understanding.
The activist hippies mostly went into politics or academia. A few went into Law.
A sizable majority of that late Silent, early boomer hippie age cohort were unengaged politically even if they were consistent voters.
My mom and dad were both born in 1947. Both college grads. My dad loved the drugs and partying and free-loving women. My mom thinks hard drugs ruined the Beatles. Not very political, dad was an old southern Democrat and my mom was a small business non-evangelical Republican. Neither talked about politics much when I was growing up.
That’s what happened to the 60s.
Some of what you say is undeniable. Not all hippies were dirtbags, however. No generation is pristine and pure as the driven snow. Mine certainly wasn't but neither have any been. Most of my generation went center or right, and I've known this for 40 years. I didn't and lost many erstwhile friends because of it.
Your parents are 2 years older than me, I didn't get much experience in the drugs and free-loving women scene. Long story. I'm fairly well up to what happened in the '60s; my parents never talked politics at all. I was in the exact middle of the Vietnam generation and but for a high lottery number in 1969 and good grades in college, I was fully prepared to flee to Canada. I lucked out. Many of my friends didn't. I was arrested several times for protesting that war and later for protesting cluster bombs made by Honeywell in Minneapolis. Served a few months--ho hum, who didn't back then who resisted the insanity of this warmongering country?
Not all of my generation were sellouts, even if I don't know too many who weren't. I never did, which is why I have exactly one of that generation who doesn't now consider me a whack job.
We live under hypa Liberalism, degeneracy is be normalised and we being demographically replaced in our ancestral homeland.
The West isn't Right wing at all.
This is a story you've been told, by the Right Wing that is currently ascendant. it is false.
Nationalism is rising but that transcends the old Right v Left paradigm.
I've always wanted to get a straight answer from so-called "Leftists" (i.e. Marxists and their descendants, who practice a religion not a democracy) about how they expect to create workers' paradises when all the borders are dissolved and all the totalitarian international organizations run amok? See EU for your test case.
Who, exactly, is going to fill the power vacuum? They (the non-sociopaths not in on the con, that is) actually think that human nature will somehow magically transform once the "right" structure is in place, and we'll all be singing and holding hands. Just as delusional as Libertarians, except that Marxists change their pied-piper music continually as previous campaigns crash and burn.
You will appreciate this: It puts a lot of scientific bones on your thesis above. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX_71MgkJwg
Marxism - the Opiate of the Intellectuals. Secular Evangelical Christianity; but with "Revolution" instead of "Rapture".
Even so, likely a better deal than what the hard-right offer the public.
You'll never get a "straight answer", because they prefer not to think about such matters, anymore than Xians ponder what a "post-rapture' might look like.
Presumably their Prophet Marx comes down and sprinkles magical pixie dust just like Prophet Jesus.
Anyway, check out that vid. Might need a reload or two, YT is doing a number on it. But it does work.
Title: "The Fascist Core Of The Euro-Atlantic Regimes | Dr. Niall McLaren", on the stream 'Neutrality studies'.
What you say above sounds fine. Thank you.
I don't have time to review this now. But my brief scan through content it looks promising. ("The FASCIST Core Of The Euro-Atlantic Regimes | Dr. Niall McLaren": Starts with identifying/critiquing fascism; while at 20 min, McLaren: "Yes, the dangerous bit is an accumulation of power in hierarchy ... When people say "socialism is anti-hierarchical" -- No, it's not. All power is vested in a small inner group who have control of the economic system.")
What you don't know about "Leftists" and/or Marxists would fill volumes.
In fact it has filled volumes, none of which you have read apparently.
Leftists and their union counterparts used to be firmly and vocally opposed to the kind of "Open Borders" nonsense promoted by libertarians, free market capitalists and anarkiddies who think they are "on the left".
The EU is a liberal-capitalist organization that has used social democratic redistribution (NOT a Marxist policy) to keep the left down in Europe for a very long time.
That plus "Eat me" is all you are worth responding with.
I'm going to get out of the weeds about Marxism a moment, instead of continuing a ping-pong match ...
No utopian visions will ever pan out because, at root, they can't. Each ideology consists of a bunch of like-minded individuals thinking that *if only* they can just get their message out, everyone will see the undeniable beauty of their solution, and easily fall in line. But they never will get real buy-in, because people have immutably different worldviews and values (even in the same culture), which are also always *incompatible*, in every setting, at all times. Sure, the ideology promoters can always *con* people, and boy do they, and thus get false majorities. But the eventual and guaranteed blowback is always hell.
Instead, I'd try to get real, and recognize that likely the mixed economies of late 20th century Europe, with their mixes waxing an waning with the times, are as good as it has ever gotten, and possibly ever will. And Europeans, regarding your earlier achievements, please *enforce* your native cultures as the fundamental social and governmental mechanisms on *your* native lands, or it will all go up in flames. Oh, gee, it already is -- how about that? If, *in Europe*, they still scream 'racism' about being European, don't be shy about giving 'em more than an earful. This ridiculous never-ending mind-fuckery has gone on long enough. The vast number of revolutions of the last 200 years tells us what actually works and what doesn't (most of them, short of the immediate orgasms).
Note, one can EASILY be against *all* the evils, of Zionist supremacism; of the enslaving hopium of the Mother-of-all-Psy-ops, the Abrahamic God; of unlimited-accumulation capitalism; of perpetually-delayed-"democracy" Marxist totalitarianism; and, of *actual* colonialism; all at the same time. Stop ALL the goddam wars against us, and stop picking sides against anything but psychopathy!!
Because the ROOT problem is, always, intelligent psychopathy grabbing power, imposing authoritarianism and eventually totalitarianism, in every setting, no matter what the ideology. It's the toxic part of the iron law of oligarchy. We need to get crackin' on *that* studiously-hidden problem, and leave capitalism vs socialism aside for a while. We've certainly been hashing the latter around without resolution long enough
Whatever happens, your own paradigm will get crushed in between Radical Islam and Nationalism.
Immigration was completely the wrong hill for the Left to die on.
That's why Nationalists HATE Thatcher and the Neoliberal project and Zi0 wars.
Nationalism is anti free market. The nation state must control international finance capitalism, or international finance capitalism will control the nation state.
Nationalism is broadly Third Position on economics.
You can't get your head around that.
Corbyn is an 'Economic Nationalist'.
It's easy to "get my head around".
My part of East London, Newham is only 30% White. The system is built on importing cheap labour. The oligarchs have no intresting in increasing pay and conditions, investing in training, robotics if the can fly labour in. Its a race to the bottom particularly for the working class.
They have pushed Liberalism has the ideology to get control.
Back in the 70s even my Comi teachers we small c conservative on social issues, had high moral standards and dress codes.
Liberalism is like an acid on our civilisation and the Left should of rejected it.
Ultimately Liberalism has destroyed both the Left and the Right.
And it hasn't occurred to you at any point that low wages and low worker-rights, and low unionisation, are all THATCHERITE policies? Now, you could make a case that Thatcher had a couple of liberal ideas, but I think most people would sensibly place her on the hard-right - and I suspect you might too in your hearts of hearts.
Putting liberal lipstick on a fascist pig doesn't make it look any better, unless you're David Cameron.
Thatcherites like high immigration; it destroys working class solidarity, and raises the house prices that they have ensured are their asset incomes and give bankster bonuses for the privately educated.
As MArky Wildfire said "This is a story you've been told, by the Right Wing that is currently ascendant. it is false."
They literally lie to you about EVERYTHING else - why would you take their word for this?
There is no actual Left and Right wing. Today, there are only con artists and dupes for things labeled as such.
"They literally lie to you about EVERYTHING else ..."
Please. EVERYONE lies to us, on ALL "sides", about EVERYTHING. Wake up, the con is dying.
The con, that is, that there are Good/Smart guys and that there are Evil/Stupid guys, where one is "Left" and the other "Right", which is which depending on which fishbowl you swim in.
The only things that actually exist are the intelligent psychopaths and sociopaths continuing to concentrate power, and control or kill everything that moves. And that's non-ideological, no matter how you/we want to fantasize otherwise. There are plenty of power-pigs riding the wave of *every* revolution -- fast and radical, or slow and organic -- and boy do they sink their teeth into it as they win.
i like whitechapel; spitalfields; and shoreditch
To understand Nationalism I'd advise following on Substack Keith Woods.
good i hope they replace you and everyone of your ilk.
Dont let me catch you bitch
Liberalism has been like an acid on our civilisation.
Well said, Basil. I'm 76 and live in Australia and agree you're living in a nightmare. Historically, Australia has followed US trends and, to this day, continues to suck up to our 'great and powerful friend'. Additionally, there are too many would-be tRumpsters down here for my liking. It's been observed that as we age, we tend to become more conservative in outlook. I've always been more than a bit lefty-progressive but, if anything, have become an even leftier, angry old man who would gladly join you on that alter. More strength to the arms of these punksters. It's refreshing to see them stirring the pot.
"It's like the '60s never even happened."
That had already come to pass by the time of "Operation Desert Storm".
What kind of dumb fuck prefers radical Islamic jihadists over America?
Go take some more acid and leave the world to the grown folk.
The 60s became the establishment regime. You don't get rainbow flags on Air Force bombers without being the establishment regime. You don't get American flags removed from the white house in favor of rainbow flags if you are not the regime. You don't get to force people into their homes and cover their faces with paper masks for years on end if you are not the regime. You don't get to force people into medical experiments against their will if you are not the regime. You don't get to debank people, get them fired, get them thrown out of school, burn down cities, and beat up randos in the street with impunity if you are not the regime.
You are the culture, MAGA is the counterculture. You were the revolution. MAGA is the counterrevolution. One can only hope that the unwanted 60s mangling of normal life can be erased to the point that no one remembers it ever happened.
This is what liberalism does to people’s brains
Hallelujah!!!
And the more power to this new counter culture that's being birthed. We desperately need a counter culture.
And a counterpower. I am thinking more particularly about courts. Even the highest one in the US is 100 % trumpiste.
Careful what you wish for, you may just get it
Two million people are being starved to death and Trump is hosting UFC fights on the White House grounds tomorrow. The disconnect is astonishing, and the masses are noticing.
the masses. are wimps and cowards.
Historically only 0.001% of a population resist an occupying force.
Even in Europe where EVERYbodys Granddad was a Maquisard and NOBODYS Granddad was a collaborator.
Regardless: the normies cower in their basements while the .001% get things done.
OK, so what's on *your* agenda?
ohhhh.
i think you know ;)
Jan 6 proved how shitty DC security really is.
If 2000 Q Anons can do that much damage, imagine what a dedicated force could achieve.
Barring that,
peep this FM and its more modern iterations.
https://ciehub.info/ref/FM/31-21_1958.pdf
You seem like an MI6/CIA/NSA/Unit 8200 infiltrator.
So sad. The genocide of Palestine continues, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year,at the hand of the zionist Israeli government and its U.S. government financier. Estimates range from 56.000 up to 200,000 Palestinians killed so far, with more than half women and children. Biden did nothing to stop this. Trump, for all his talk of wanting peace, dares not oppose the zionist Israeli government in its aims, for 95% of the time, also. Trump is a strong, if oft-misguided, leader in many ways, but he bends to the zionist Israeli government's will almost all of the time. Maybe Turmp is Bibi's vice-president in charge of the Americas? Makes you wonder if the zionist Israeli government has something on Trump?
And how many children have died in Ukraine.
In war civilians tend to also die. Tragic but true. That doesn’t equal genocide.
Google Gaza humanitarian fund
Why? it will be Hamas controlled so isn’t credible as a source
How much power do you think Hamas has?
Actually, in this case it does equal a genocide, an intentional and systematic killing of a people deemed undesirable, Palestinians, by the killer, the zionist Israeli government. Russians and Urkranians do not hate each other. They are brothers and sisters, but yes, I agree, that war is also sad and deadly.
No - it’s a war like any other ever. The only difference is your prejudice
"a war like any other ever" must be nice to live in this level of fantasy
Is Putin committing genocide when he levels Ukrainian apartment blocks containing women and children?
If I’m anything I’m a realist. You are too captured by Iranian propaganda to see it for what it is: it’s the same tragic war as any other being fought around the world.
Be honest: you just don’t like Israel.
And that’s exactly my point - thanks for reinforcing it
UFC? Spell out acronyms please.
UFC = Ultimate Fighting Championship, a mixed martial arts (cage-fighting) promotion. Like World Wrestling Entertainment, but more violent and ugly. Apparently it's been around for 30 years. Like a slow-growing tumor.
It’s legal assault as a sport. We live in dark times.
We sure do!
It's monstruous. I could not find a worse word.
Kneecap and Bob Vylan and others are the vanguard of a new way of dealing with the status quo. Young people no longer will accept what is being thrown at them by sociopathic leaders--they know they can yell "Death to the IDF!" with all their friends and cause consternation. It's music to their ears to hear the oligarchs whine and whinge. I'm looking forward to seeing how quickly they can crash this corrupt system. "Death, death to the IDF!"
Death to the IDF. Cancel the made up State and make Palestine Again.
Free, free, Palestine. The zionist Israel government has attacked Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran, and can not stop its violence against all of its neighbors. It is a failed state. It practices apartheid. It occupies Palestine, and has done so since 1967, 58 years. It is overdue now to have the UN Security Council enfoce a blockade of the zionist Israeli government through land, sea, and air until it transfers all of its public assets to a new State of Palestine. The five permanent members of the UN Security Council, England, France, Russia, China, and the U.S., need to jointly enforce this blockade until Palestine is free. All people there can remain living where they do now. No one needs to move. The Palestinian people and all non-Palestinians now living there can select a city for the capital. All citizens of the new State of Palestine can vote equally and have equal rights, no matter one's ancestry or religion. The tender of all public assets from what has been Israel to the new State of Palestine, will atone for the 58 years of occuplation, and the 2+ years of genocide, and allow for rebuilding of the devastion Israel forced on Palestine. Jews want peace. Arabs want peace. Let them have it.
The World wants peace. Make Palestine Again. Help Wanted.
>>"The five permanent members of the UN Security Council, England, France, Russia, China, and the U.S., need to jointly enforce this blockade until Palestine is free."
Do you NOT understand YET that this Genocide is supported 100% by the U.S. Empire? (and hence it's support by most Western nations?)
If you REALLY want to STOP this Genocide, figure out a way to combat the U.S. Empire - unfortunately, that seems to be the reality.
https://www.tiktok.com/@finifilms/video/7504447683885632790 asking for the umpteenth time. let's have another resolution to be vetoed by the us, but in which france and uk will also be forced to again display their hypocrisy.
"International Law" was (for the most part) a farce - an illusion. What it really was is "Western Law" or "Law by U.S. Empire and its allies" (of course, the status of 'allies' is fickle and changeable according to the whims of the U.S.).
All these agencies - UN, World Bank, IMF, WTO, and so many others ALWAYS served the interests of the Western Empires/nations. It was never really global.
But you know all this already. Hopefully, someone reading these comments might learn something...
Completely agree that the U.S. government has much responsibility here by acting as the financier for the killer zionist Israeli government. That needs to stop. Members of Congress like the money they get from AIPAC (American Israeli Political Action Committee) lobbyists and military industrial complex lobbyists.
The Involvement of the U.S. Empire goes MUCH, MUCH deeper than just being 'the financier'.
Israel is more like an extension of the U.S. (and an integral part of the Empire) than a country all on its own.
I think it would be a good idea for all here to buy music products (CDs, LPs, mpeg's, etc.) from those rock/punk/pop groups (Kneecap, Bob Vylan, etc.) Even if you don't fancy that specific type of music show support.
indeed, they'll need it. visa's for us tour revoked, management threw them out, criminal investigation ...
Hi TRC
71 years old, had never heard of Kneecap or Bob Vylan but they have a new fan now 😁
And those of us who came of age in the ‘60’s know all about counterculture. COUNT US IN!
I watched these young musicians become obedient fascists during Covid. I remain unconvinced but continue to put my shit out.
Here's one from 2021
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mmAhPm8deMs&pp=ygUTTW9jayB0aGUgc2V0dXAgc29uZw%3D%3D
Sad but true. So many people don't see that freeing Palestine and freeing oneself from Covid1984 official misinformation about the alleged pandemic, and honoring "my body, my choice," for all peoples, are completely aligned. One is health freedom. One is freedom for a distressed, occupied, and genocided population. Freedom is key. People deserve freedom.
P.S. - Just listened to your video - very well-done, and timely, and enjoyable to listen to. Thank you for your work on that and linking it. Two bands you may know of, both from England, are Akala, and Lukas Lion. But if you do not know of them I think you may like their work.
I don't but will check them out. And yes Re Palestine - I will in no way diminish the horror and brutality inflicted on them but I know people (one very close friend included) who suicided over the isolation of lockdowns. And lest we forget the agony of adverse reactions to the shots. It was also a military op top to bottom.
I am an old man now. I lived through the Cold War, Vietnam, the US/wests sponsorship of terrible crimes across the world. The rebellious give me hope. People need to understand the corrosiveness of authority, almost all of which is neither justified nor agreed by ordinary people. We don’t, so to speak, need a Shah yet nor do we need an Ayatollah.
Thanks Nigel. Good to see you have maintained some rage over the many years since so many of us woke up to discover the US war in Vietnam was a vicious, homicidal attempt to install a pro-Washington colony. And we have known to distrust every single war the Washington elites have started since then.
What we need is freedom, and anyone who takes it from you needs a one/way ticket to planet Pluto.
Problem with the US is you have NO Unions which haven't been bought. Today in France we have very little rail/train travel, striking for a fair wage.
What has my pet planet Pluto done? Why not send them to Uranus?! X
Why Pluto ? Well at 25,000 miles per hour it would take about 10 years to get there… and since it’s the furthest planet in the solar system it’s gravity might not be strong enough for their spacecraft to hold it in orbit, hence they might get lost in Deep Space.. what a shame! Lol
freedom for palestine, that is.
Hi Nigel
“Age” is relative.
I’m 71 going on 30.
old men can wreak havoc.
Pop some viagra Grampa and get down to business
“Old men can wreck havoc” yep.. there’s one sitting in the White House right now.
Yes, and the idiot (aka Genocide Joe) before the current moron too. Let us not forget what shitlibs did to encourage genocide.
well, at least the ayatollah is offering a modicum of resistance ...
Over the last decade I've come to call mainstream rap 'neo-liberal' rap, promoting money, cars and women. Empty, hollow verses singing the virtue of the pursuit of capital, not community or empathy in the 'I got mine, fuck you' economy.
The Empire might be losing its grip on "Hearts and minds" at home; but it's still very much in control of finance, meedja, policing, the military, courts, prisons, the oligarchy. Prepare for Covid 2.0, probably called "Nipah".
The Empire might also have lost in Ukraine (they don't care about the entirely-avoidable 1,000,000+ deaths of the locals); but now they are starting fires in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Serbia, and preparing the Project Iran to restart - by weaponising the IAEA, they will force Iran OUT of the NPT, and then use that as a pretext for an attack by Israhell... quite likely involving nukes this time.
And once Russia is busy in Ukraine, AND Caucuses, putting out the fires the Empire has started, they will invade Transnistria to start another bloodbath there as well. Not even mentioning the ongoing stupid games in the Baltics and Baltic sea.
A chant of "Death, death to the IOF" is actually the least of their concerns, although it will enable further domestic repression; something they will need when the inevitable impoverishment from all the above polices increases.
The Empire has already long planned a "Depopulation" of the Western publics, our lives are meaningless to them - have less than value or worth.
People need to grasp that, but 80% still want to believe that the system could not be so callous and cruel. They do not realise they are the next Gazans/Ukrainians/Vietnamese/Iraqis/Libyans/Syrians/Malians....
Anyone who stands up is a Dead Man (Person) Walking - even if they come from the Establishment itself.
It's crunch time.
Howd Guy Fawkes get caught?
Think about that for a bit
I think it was an accident? Some guard just walked through the area, spotted something unusual, and that was that.
Tbh BOTH sides of that were pretty horrible. Parliament AND the grotesque Roman Church deserved to be blown up with maximum prejudice.
How did he/ I'm a USAn, don't know Brit history.
oh lol
i dont know myself.
But...i think he, and we, have alot in common
deepseek says:
Guy Fawkes was apprehended on November 4–5, 1605, through a combination of anonymous intelligence, a targeted search operation, and his own actions at the scene. Here’s a detailed breakdown of the events leading to his capture:
🔥 1. Anonymous Warning Letter (Late October 1605)
An unsigned letter was sent to Lord Monteagle (a Catholic member of Parliament) around October 26, 1605. It warned him to avoid attending Parliament on November 5, hinting that the assembly would "receive a terrible blow" and "not see who hurts them".
Monteagle, despite his Catholic sympathies, immediately shared the letter with Robert Cecil, King James I’s Secretary of State. The King interpreted it as a threat of explosion.
🔍 2. Search of Parliament (Night of November 4)
Authorities ordered a search of Westminster Palace. Sir Thomas Knyvett (Keeper of Whitehall Palace) and his associate Edmund Doubleday led the operation around midnight on November 4–5.
They discovered Fawkes—using the alias John Johnson—lurking in an undercroft beneath the House of Lords. He wore a cloak, boots, and a hat, and carried a lantern.
Nearby, 36 barrels of gunpowder (≈2.5 tons), concealed under firewood and coal, were found. This was enough to destroy Parliament and much of Westminster.
⚔️ 3. Fawkes's Arrest and Resistance
When challenged, Fawkes initially claimed he was storing firewood. As Knyvett and Doubleday moved to search him, Fawkes resisted violently, gripping Doubleday’s hand "so hard that he left blood".
Doubleday subdued him by striking his legs, and Fawkes was restrained using his own garters. On his person, authorities found matches, touchwood (tinder), and a watch—tools for igniting the gunpowder.
🕵️ 4. Interrogation and Torture
Fawkes was taken to the Tower of London. Under orders from King James I, he was tortured to reveal accomplices. The King authorized escalating methods: "the gentler tortures are first to be used ... then step by step the harsher".
After days on the rack, Fawkes confessed on November 9, signing a shaky, barely legible statement (extant in the "Bag of Secrets" archives). He admitted the plot but resisted naming conspirators until later.
⚖️ 5. Aftermath and Execution
Fawkes and seven co-conspirators were tried for treason on January 27, 1606. All were sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered.
On January 31, during his execution at Westminster, Fawkes jumped from the gallows ladder, breaking his neck to avoid the agony of dismemberment. His body was still quartered, and parts displayed across England.
🎆 Legacy
The foiled plot led to annual Bonfire Night (November 5), marked by effigy burnings, fireworks, and the rhyme "Remember, remember the Fifth of November".
To this day, the Yeomen of the Guard symbolically search Parliament before the State Opening—a tradition born from Fawkes’s capture.
Fawkes’s downfall stemmed from the Monteagle letter’s betrayal and the authorities’ swift response, turning him into an enduring symbol of failed rebellion.
That was an excellent comment, a very accurate assessment of what’s happening geopolitically. Yes, the Empire has an army of arsonists stationed all over the world.
I agree: anyone who dares to stand up is doomed. The Empire has an army of spies and thugs willing to obey its decrees, willing to circumvent the law or violate constitutional rights.
But if we could only stand together, might have our own “I am Spartacus” moment. I’m not aware of any potential Spartacus among us are you? Nor do I believe we can come together to battle for anything without a figurehead, if we did manage to find one, would they, in time, turn and become yet another despot?
Maybe they would, Tre. But then we have to ask ourselves this: Wouldn't they have to be willing to go to nuclear war; to drop biochemical weapons against the global population and then mandate even more lethal 'vaccines'; to deliberately impoverish the 95% for their own already insane wealth; goad the other superpowers by attempting to create a '1000 Year Reich'; be more than happy to arm and fund an active genocide; and do fuck all except make worse several ecological catastrophes all at once - to even BEGIN to be as gadawful as our current bunch?
In short, we would have to be EXTREMELY unlikely to end up with someone as equally bad as what we have now, wouldn't we?
How do you measure how bad the current world leaders are? If we focus on and try measure America Presidents , I can`t say, tell how rate them ?
- Truman administration dropped two atomic bomb on a nation that was already defeated and incapable of threatening America or any other nation
- Reagan administration had a hand in Iraq using chemical weapons against Iran
- Biden administration destroyed Germany`s and Europe`s energy security,
- President Jackson, signed into law the Indian Removal Act in 1830
- Bush Jr kicked off the regime change wars with they invasion of Afghanistan and the WDM - Iraq sham, and Obama added Libya, Syria and Yemen, how many millions killed, wounded? How many made homeless refuges?
From my limited point of view, I`d say we are extremely lucky (even if its bad luck) that we do not have Biden again or that imbecile Harris, but yes, Trump still has plenty of time to make history , he has already taken over from Biden as the enabler of the Genocide in Gaza
Shit Tre, those are good points. :(
The genocidal maniacs who ran the British Empire are also at least as bad; along with all the other European empires too.
It's a rum frikkin World where DONALD TRUMP comes out as potentially better than historical Western leaders, ffs.
Is this REALLY the best we can do??? :'(
Perhaps it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX_71MgkJwg (Link works, might need a reload or two tho) "The FASCIST Core Of The Euro-Atlantic Regimes | Dr. Niall McLaren"
I am of course very pessimistic about our world leaders, but having studied some history, I am optimist, because we are actually less at war with each other now then at any other era , but the problem is we can now kill so many with so little effort now.
Humans are a paradox of nature, we are endowed with immense potential for Intelligence but are catastrophically deficient in intellect. We`ll sacrifice our lives to protect our offspring , but we`ll not lift a finger to ensure tour offspring have a future.
But first and foremost, you have to come to terms with the fact that life is a never ending series of tragedies, so make the most of any moment of joy that comes your way, you don`t know, it may be your last.
Neutrality Studies ; good YouTube channel, I like that he has a variety of guests, I was particularly impressed with his interview with Joti Brar last week.
I don't have much time for Pinkerton, or Plunkett, or whatever his name was, claims. If you follow the underground news, all that happened was that much of the violence simply was not reported - at least in the lamestream media. I don't think the global south noticed much of a reduction.
And what there was of a reduction, should be balanced by the fact that ALL humans have been 10mins from annihilation for the past 80 years, the POTENTIAL for violence was the highest it has ever been. And lo! As soon as the USSR left the scene, the 'West' went straight back to its bloodsoaked Imperial ways.
"Humans are a paradox of nature, we are endowed with immense potential for Intelligence but are catastrophically deficient in intellect." :(
We teach maths as school, but not emotional wisdom (Outside of the Danish pedagogy, which prizes that above academic success in their school system).
Our rulers, of course, have done this by design. The LAST thing they want is "Their" stormtroopers being raised to have a conscience and the capacity to express it.
"But first and foremost, you have to come to terms with the fact that life is a never ending series of tragedies, so make the most of any moment of joy that comes your way, you don`t know, it may be your last."
As an Aries, incorrigibly optimistic and not-too-bright in general, I've taken several major planks to the face to begin to understand this sad fact. What is obvious to others is cause for depression for me...
Yes, Pascal is more-than-OK. He's not top of my list to follow - Garland and Judge Nap, and Diesen win those spots - but he's a gentle soul who isn't a hidden psychopath like Haiphong - who it has to be said, also creates very interesting spaces and discussions too.
I've watched Jodi quite a few times on Garland's show, (And man, but she's hot, lol), but started and stopped on that one, was distracted. Is it worth going back to? I find many of these guests become repetitive, a definite curse when you are making long term predictions but time itself cannot be speeded up to see how it actually turns out.
If only the US Army DID have a secret program to freeze people, a la Idiocracy, lollol. :D
If only they could kill everyone who hates them for all the evil they are engaged in. Instead…they’re trying to plug every gaping hole that ruptures in the dystopian Zionist world they are creating, resulting in most people of the world are now considered antisemitic criminals who should be slaughtered like all the little children in Gaza.
Yes. If you can target and kill children, you are capable of doing everything else.
If it can happen in Gaza , and nothing is done about it, it can happen anywhere, soon to a theatre near you ?
Great piece. Here in the UK our entire government has literally been taken over by Zionists and more than half our so called cabinet have been paid to support Israel by, Israel. Meanwhile, while Israel is free, it appears, to attack other countries and steal their land and murder their populations, if anyone shouts Death to the IDF they could be charged with er WHAT, treason. Erm, how have we got into this idiotic and illogical state? Oh, yes, it seems that the UK should now be called greater Israel.
I struggle to come to terms with what has happened to my country, and despair of the current government.
Have you heard, though, that Zahra Sultana will start a new party with Jeremy Corbyn? What a dream team. We just need to make sure they get over the line.
I am hoping their wil be a lot of support for the two of them.
Count me in for one. A seismic shift is desperately needed!
heard they voted to declare 'palestine action' (that really got some things done) as a terrorist organisation.
They are being paid, by Israel, but with US taxpayers money…
I live for the end of capitalism and I'm in my 97th year so the revolution ud better get a move on
I wish that for you. 🙏
me too!
Luckily, Jack, I reside in Amerikkka where one can own just about any weapon short of an RPG launcher (yeah, I want one-a-those, too.)
My household is well supplied with firearms. Need to GET THIS THING GOIN’!
I hope the last sentence is a grisly joke. If a armed revolution gets going in the USofA it would be a massacre of the guilty and the innocent
“Facinating times…”? Hmmm 🤔 Maybe it’s because I’m Danish, maybe it’s a matter of perspective, maybe both, but fascinating is not the word I would use. You see, whilst I have yearned for a serious uprising amongst the younger generation, and for artists to come forward in large numbers, Glastonbury and festivals alike all over the west gave my dying wish that bit of air it needed to burn again. At the same time young women in Denmark are now, for the first timer EVER, obliged for conscription when they turn 18, using a kind of a lottery system, because Denmark have the most war-horny Russophobic PM and Cabinet that are fanatic supporters of the NATO/EU warmongering psychopaths spreading public fear and propaganda that in a few months/years we will all speak Russian. So while the “Glastonburies” are rising I am waiting to see what will come of it. My take on the difference between the times during Vietnam (I was young back then) and now is that while the protests back then seemed to have an effect on the powers that be, the cynical cold-hearted fanaticism is so penetrating to the core of the Power Cult and its lackeys that they just don’t give a shit anymore, because nothing will happen to them, no matter what they do. This has been proven time and time again. Back in the Vietnam days a US president would resign—not anymore. Nothing will happen to Netanyahu and his Sugar Dady (former and present). I don’t call that fascinating. To me it is beyond words.
I'm shocked and saddened about conscription in Denmark. May that be short-lived.
I think Caitlin is trying to be a little tiny bit positive. Some of us need to hang into these tiny glimmers of hope, no matter how tenuous, in order to stay alive.
Collective positivity is as important as collective anger and outrage if there is any kind of future to be had, ever, anywhere, so we owe it to ourselves to try...
more specifically than "positivity," what is needed is a VISION of a better future and a path from here to there. Which need to be clearly DEPICTED, not merely spoken of in academic language.
Yes. This must be next.
I think both. Outrage, anger, and positivity now plus the clear vision for the future human civilization. Civilization based on justice for all, truth, and facts and not power and greed for the few. Get rid of fake western "democracies and freedoms" BS. All current "international" institutions (UN, IAEA, FIFA, WHO, IOC, ...) will have to be terminated and new ones built. It takes time and great misery and distress to wake up humans unfortunately.
Spot on, Mary. Thank you. We do not need to feed the monster. It’s already enormous. 😱Violence breeds only violence. Violence is never the answer.
We must balance out the energy in a healthy and positive way. 🤗 The world is crying out for more love and integrity.
Make love not war!!!
Jane: what was the Amerikkkan Revolution if not violent?
Or the French ( even better)?
The violence needs to be turned against WESTERN GOVERNMENTS.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.—John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Please identify five successful non-violent revolutions in the entirety of the history of civilization.
If that’s too many, identify at least one.
Unfortunately, love does not generate profit, and the entire western civilization is based on profit and exploitation of others (capitalism, colonialism, fascism, zionism, genocides). War is good for the few on top and lickspittles (political elite) around them.
Good points Chin, bummer about Denmark.
I have read that the success in the protests to stop the Viet Nam war is that "property" was targeted. Historically all other protests with sign waving, speeches and chanting have accomplished little or nothing. Maybe you or other readers know more about the subject than I do, but I found it interesting ...
Best of luck,
~~ Doc
I am not quite sure about that. I was too young to give it proper attention. You might be right. It is obvious that protest and rallies don’t have any effect. Still I am of the impression that politicians back then were more sensitive to public opinions and that there were political differences among various parties. Today it’s all one uniparty… Yes, Big Business had a power grip, but today I see a fusion between the public and private sphere that didn’t exist back then. Today politics and Big Business are one and the same and ethnic cleansing of Gaza is Big Business.
"... politicians back then were more sensitive ..." - politicians back then were of the war generation - they witnessed it, they didn't want it anymore. Current ones are puppets in all senses of the word. They lack any faculties of their own.
Maybe a combination of both?
Good point
I wish I could share your optimism, Caitlin, but I'm not ready for it yet. That doesn't mean that I'm not cautiously hopeful.
Maybe such movements move at a pace all their own with unexpected twists and turns. Maybe such movements gather enough momentum to ACTUALLY challenge TPTB (the powers that be) meaningfully. Maybe this time will be different (I hope it is).
For the time being, I will observe how events unfold, and do whatever I can to be a part of the force for positive change that is much needed in this world at this point in time.
Thank you for being a voice of optimism (regardless of my opinions on it) and support (and reason). We need optimism very much as we continue to battle the 'power elite'.
Chang,
I share your passion , but haven’t there been countless revolutions in the past, and look at humanity right now? It’s not a revolution that counts as much as what happens after a revolution… ever hear the expression “ The more things change, the more they are the same”?
I agree fully with you. It is not the revolution but what happens afterwards. The apparatchiks, opportunists, and demagogues take over and destroy the progress of the revolution. Revolution eats its own children. It has always been like that. Again, power attracts the worst kind of people. It has and it will doom humanity. The problem with human civilization is that it is structurally unstable. It takes o lot of effort, sacrifice, blood, and sweat to just keep mouth above water surface.
Nick, your points are well founded. However, if someone can come up with solutions that are beneficial for all, change can happen.
>>"The more things change, the more they are the same”?"
Do they though? It depends on your perspective and attitude.
You prefer the 'nihilistic attitude' and that 'we the ordinary people are to blame for everything and are the problem' narrative (as is evident in most of your comments).
The narrative I hold is that of 'a minority of psychopaths and sociopaths have figured out how to successfully manipulate the masses'.
Hence, I draw a very stark distinction between the REAL PROBLEM/TROUBLE makers (the 'power elite' minority) and the majority of humans that are attempting to survive within the systems created by TPTB.
Chang,
When I first moved to British Columbia , although I sensed what the answer would be, I called an agent working for the land registry and asked if it was possible to be given a small parcel of land on which to build a home .
The answer was swift and expected. “You don’t think WE are going to give you a piece of land for free do you?” Even though there was enough land for everyone on the planet.
The agent was not a billionaire, but a person who was part of the 99% of us who struggle to have a roof over our head. It’s not the idea that was disturbing, but the tone of the WE. In a sense, he was protecting the interest of the Crown, or the royalty in England who officially own 6 billion acres of land on the planet. I wanted just one acre.
In a democracy, the people who vote are responsible for the leader they elect, Donald J Trump a shining example. It’s not the elite who elected Trump, but the 99 % who voted for him…
Like I've mentioned to you before John Turcot, you have MAJOR issues with your critical thinking.
Here's something that I hope you can learn from ->
(1) NEVER assume to generalize belief systems based on 'select personal experiences' or 'cherry-picking' of data.
(2) It doesn't matter what your PERSONAL experience may (or may not have been). To create an all-encompassing 'belief' based on a 'small sample size of events' OR 'personal experiences' (called anecdotal evidence - look up 'Argument from anecdote' fallacy) is a sign of WEAK critical thinking skills.
We've had this argument multiple times - and I'm NOT INTERESTED in arguing about the SAME thing for the 100th time with someone who is NOT interested in learning or growing but instead continues to repeat the same things like a parrot or a human with a script to follow.
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Chang,
1 )B. F. Skinner, of Skinner Box fame, disagrees with you. He claims that all reactions in life rise from the environments in which we are raised and learn from each of those experiences.
2 ) I think mr. Skinner has more of a reputation than you do as to how we learn throughout our lives.. but if you wish to think differently, that is the beauty of the freedom you have been given by life to do judt that..
You finish by stating that you are not interested in arguing with me??? Then why are you arguing with me? I am interested in what most people think, and if I disagree with most of what is being said, it stops right then and there. No big deal cause that’s what Freedom is all about.
Maybe you missed reading this part? "<End of Discussion>"
Let me repeat it for you -> <End of Discussion>
That's depressing.
We need a much more PROFOUND revolution than the ones that just change who sits on the throne. And we need a global revolution, rather than one within a "country."
That would be amazing. But with so much inequality between:nations:, and so much greed, particularly among those in more affluent nations, who are not interested in sharing, I don't see this happening unfortunately
Probably not, but the fact is, even the middle classes and certainly the poor in those affluent countries are getting fracked by the elite. There has been a lot of work to persuade them that it's the poor, or the immigrants, or the women and blacks, who are ripping them off. I think everyone knows it's the elite, but it's attractive to blame a powerless group you can attack, rather than a shadowy and powerful group, What's needed, I'll say it again, is a well-lit, thoroughly depicted PICTURE of a better world and the path to get there. The time is coming when it will be impossible for the MAGA crowd to believe their Lord and Savior Trump or hs minion and allies are on their side. But by then they may have even more power locked in.
So many here in the UK are just too programmed to tug forelock 😞
I think there are interesting solutions, although trying to convince sheep that there are better pastures is in and of itself a formidable challenge..
I hope you are right. I hope you are right.
And I hope it doesn't get squashed.
The oppressors are by multitudes more powerful than they have been in the past because
a) The national authorities have been degraded to simply carrying out orders and largely removed from the decision-making, which decreases the influence of national uprisings...because the people who make the decision are not tied to any country and don't care about national atrocities.
b) The ethical and moral standard is at an all-time low, and the powerful will not hesitate to use brutal measures previously unthinkable against the uprising, as the genocide in Gaza shows.
I fear the worst.
On the other hand, more and more people sense that this won't stop with Gaza and feel the urgency to stop the monsters now before they get even more out of control.
The biggest danger are sophisticated PSYOPs that deflect the rebellious energy and turn people against each other over superficial emotionally-charged minor issues.
My feeling is that public uprisings and chanting and 70s-style demonstrations, after being seen as ineffective and being manipulated, will push people against the wall, and with no future and nothing to lose, terrorism will explode over the planet.
Unless the elites dircect them and PSYOP them against each other - the mos likely and succesful stratefy to dispel the energy.
If unsuccessful, terrorsim could happen on a big scale, but this time not in the name of some prophet or God against other religions but terrorism of all the oppressed against all the elites.
Individual elites who are seen as responsible will be fearing for their lives like never before.
I think the elites know that this is coming.
Hence the frantic push for the totalitarian surveillance AI state and the deploying of one nudging PSYOP after the other.
All this, as with the Berlin Wall, will build and build and build, and then one last drop event, and all the stored-up frustrated energy and fear will unleash.
It is widespread amongst that generation.
One of my sons, a 31-year-old designer in Sydney with a significant income who never really had a political or rebellious bone in him, said a while ago, "We are one good leader away from a revolution."
He is really pisssed off that despite his good income, he can't afford to buy a flat and is forced to share and they pay over $100.000 in rent for an average two-bedroome flat, shared by two couples.
He clearly feels ripped off, and he has a good idea by whom—the elites.
Saying this, for a while he bought into the PSYOP that it is all the fault of the baby boomer generation deflecting from the elites.
If a guy like him is on board for a revolution, you can imagine how many more people of that generation there are, suffering much more than him worldwide.
Yes, exciting times, but also extremely dangerous and turbulent times, are ahead of us. A big storm is brewing.
I AM the storm
I'm all in for some wholesale terrorism directed solely at elites. Starting with the Israel government and the IOF.
Death, death to the IOF (and others). Asap.
I meant *wholesome*. Damn spellchecker!
Which is precisely why the Establishment is so heavy-handed in trying to stamp it out.
Imagine the outcry if the Nixon Administration had refused visas to The Rolling Stones in 1969 on account of their opposing the War On Vietnam.
Pretend that Johnson were to declare freedom of speech and election outcomes to be permitted, contingent on supporting his war.
I read Keith Richards' autobiography. He wrote that Nixon was serious about refusing the visas on the basis of high-profile drug use. The Stones got in by handing a lawyer with DC connections $50,000 -- a lot of money back then -- and not asking any questions about what he did with it.
Since it's not as if the Stones were the only British musicians to oppose the war and tour the US in '69, I suspect Richards was being romantic.
Edit: to the extent Keith's story had any element of fact, I suspect that The Stones fell victim to a "rainmaker" scam.
Notice that loomer is a jew. Who pays for all of her plastic surgery? How did she get trump to fire members of the national security council? Is she a mossad plant in trump's orbit?
"Trump Ally Slammed For Saying Alligators In Everglades Detention Center Are 'Guaranteed At Least 65 Million Meals': 'Lunatic'
Trump ally Laura Loomer is being slammed online after saying that alligators in the new migrant detention center in Florida, which has been dubbed 'Alligator Alcatraz,' 'are guaranteed at least 65 million meals.'
Pod Save America host Tommy Viettor called Loomer a "lunatic" over the post, claiming that the 65 million figure was a reference to the Latino population in the country.
'What this lunatic and close advisor to President Trump is saying is that every latino currently living in the United States should go to prison and die,' Vietor said in a social media publication."
wtf gtfo with your nazi bullshit you fuck
I think you just pooped yourself again. Maybe take a break before you lose your shit entirely.
that person is straight up talking about jews?
openly?
and u dont think thats a little weird?
What are they gonna say next? Rothschilds? 🤣🫢
they do pop in here once in a while
After the Second World War, a Czech anti-fascist and a Yugoslavian partisan met at a beach on the Adriatic.
Eventually, the inevitable question came up. “What did you do in the war?” the Czech anti-fascist asked the partisan.
“Oh, the usual stuff,” answered the partisan. “We formed underground networks, ran background checks on potential recruits, set up safe houses and clandestine print shops. Then we started sabotaging railways and telephone lines. Eventually, we worked our way up to carrying out raids to seize weapons. With those, we started retaking villages and then whole regions until finally, we ran the Nazis right out of the country.”
“All of that sounds like a great time,” answered the Czech anti-fascist. “Unfortunately, where we were, all of those things were illegal!”
https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/18/postscript-on-legalism
100%. Czechs, Slovaks, and Hungarians (and many others unfortunately) were always coward opportunists. They always worshiped power and changed sides so easily.
Yugoslavia simply had to be balkanized. They were the Houthis of Europe and staunchly socialist for a long time.
West knew that the weak spot of YU was primarily Serbian and Croatian nationalism. Tito was able to control it while he was alive. Balkanization of YU was a typical example of "Divide et impera" that west uses so often (e.g., Sunni vs Shia, Hindus vs Muslims, etc.)
Not like this is some kind of novel comment but of course the moveable feast Islamic Jihadist (tm) were flown in for the usual effect of Peace, Love, Democracy and Human Rights.