The US 'Assured' Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand one inch eastward. They also agreed that Taipei is part of China, yet they now threaten to go to war with China over a suddenly professed concern for the independence of Tiapei.
Nobody on this planet would trust any 'Assurance' uttered by Amerika.
The Native Americans knew the US Government spoke with a forked tongue 2 centuries ago. Nothing has changed. Besides always speaking with a forked tongue, the US Government is the largest purveyor of violence in the world. Assange's case demonstrates that clearly.
As an Australian, I’m ashamed. The US are killing him through a slow execution process that the whole world has allowed it to happen. Julian is one individual Gaza are thousands. Identical parallels and we’ve sat back and let it happen
Australia indeed is uniquely positioned in all this and in the worst way possible. Its citizen is being mauled by its best allies and it acts like it's none of its business.
Hey, come on Botty. The footballs on, that's far more important than our sovereignty, wtf that means ( sarcasm ). It seems that the only part of the Aussie mythology that has survived is the "She'll be right mate" bit' - i.e. We don't give a fck. The 'stand by your mates, stand up for the underdog' bit seems to have been fogotten
"The footballs on" - indeed, if they tried to take that away from you, then the mythical Aussies might show up.
"Enough is enough" they'll say and poke the offending eyes for real. Even if it means from Five Eyes down to Two (NZ would submit to you guys readily, their only real threat is haka from all blacks, and even that is fake I hear).
I fear that the 'mythological Aussie' has been stupefied by the propaganda that Caitlin writes about and that propaganda include Hollywood movies, TV shows and an avalanche of Amerikan culture.
Discaimer: I'm currently listening to Linda Ronstadts' rendition of 'Desperado'.
I'm not sure Dundee was ever a real Aussie - go to Youtube and search the Paul Hogan Show. Meanwhile, don't underestimate the Kiwis. They not only won a treaty with the British Empire, but David Lange told Amerika to shove their nukes and piss off home. Something almost no other country's dared to do.
Are we? Many of us are demonstrating, signing petitions, yelling out in public--okay none of that is very effective, but even if we formed an army to try to pull him out of Belmarsh, they'd just send enough cops or the army against us, and imprison us as well as him.
as a country? I live in the US. Our country--the US--well, "our" government--is the entity we're fighting against. I suppose if the demonstrations were bigger it could intimidate the enemy but I kinda doubt it, and I think one reason demos have such poor participation is that we've seen how ineffective they are. The millions who turned out of Feb 15, 2003, didn't stop the Iraq war. More effective would be a general strike--against BUYING ANYTHING as well as going to work or school--but only if we could get tens of millions onboard Right now that's impossible be cause the enemy controls communications, controls media, and has been able to divide us into two opposing camps. Breaking through to educate the public is therefor the first step--something Caitlin is certainly doing her part in.
All true. Except we are intentionally divided in as many camps as they can create. I see it as; People vs Hierarchial Government . They only respond to extreme force, and we are to comfortable to use any force.
Here in the US, it's mostly the Red Team (Republicans/MAGA) versus the Blue Team (Dems/liberals/left).. And it seems to me there are similar divisions elsewhere. As for "they only respond to extreme force, name a violent revolution that led to something better, rather than just a different set of thugs on top. Maybe Cuba. I've maintained most of my life that violence can't win the world we want, since it's pretty much the opposite of what we want, so it's like trying to get east by walking west. But in the last 20 years I've found it harder and harder to cling to this nonviolence stance--every day I read something that has me fuming, snarling "Just line em up and shoot them!" or the like. I don't think anarchy can work in heavily overpopulated world with all sorts of complexity. We could have much better governance than we do, with much better rules, if we 1) got around the fact that the sociopaths have control of the means of communication and 2) set up better structures particularly designed to keep sociopaths away from power. This could be done even if we don't have a clear way to identify sociopaths, I can think of two ways: sortition--citizens assemblies with the delegates chosen from a randomly selected pool, chosen to be representative in terms of gender, age, race, income, religious affiliation, whatever else people get worked up about The other is to have no perks for government service--a minimal salary, no extra privileges, focus on how the job is done (like, how the person votes on proposals) not any ego-gratifying bullshit. Most important is that here too the reps should be dragooned into service, no volunteers need apply.
As an American myself I understand the situation. First. April 19 1776 some farmers were attacked by the most powerful Army in the world at Concord Bridge. They won the war and America was born. Unfortunately it was short lived due to the Coup that replaced the Articles of Confederation. See https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/spooner-no-treason-no-vi-the-constitution-of-no-authority-1870. Several years before that was written several states In Accordance with that Constitution attempted to leave which lead to the Civil war. Despite all the misinformation Americans list that war as instead of ending slavery it created a whole new kind, Conscription, and a UNION by force of arms that has gotten worse and brought We, the people to Where we are today. In my opinion and a lot of other Americans, the Bill of Rights is meaningless because people are under the mistaken belief that government gave them and protects those Rights. Nonsense! Those are innate natural rights possessed by every human alive, and crushed by Government because those Rights threatened the people who wish to control others. The 2nd amendment that everyone is told is evil because it has guns for everyone. They are mistaken, again it is every humans right to self preservation through Defense. NOT the initiation of force. So everyone is entitled to defend against governments that are initiating force against them. Using any means necessary weapons are of course knives, guns, clubs, and also Internet, print media, and as sanctions including economic sanctions are being used as weapons by government, we, the people can and should also by rejecting their fiat currency, central banks cartels, use barter, crypto and other currencies, boycotts. We are being spied on so Encryption, and other means of obfuscation should be used. No weapon that is used by a government cabal is out of reach of The people to free themselves. If one reads the Declaration of Independence not as a historical document that describes the situations that justify Defending against Regimes, cartels, cabals, and tyrants in todays standard it will be enlightening. Religion has always been used by government just as media has, yet the most dangerous religion of all is the belief in government. The belief that people are NOT capable of sane, peaceful existence, that some winner of a rigged popularity contest with pre chosen contestants must control everything. So I say NO! Even if we have to break into county size pieces or smaller to be able to have control of our own lives. Voluntarism, is one thought. In addition keep in mind that North Korea is smaller than Maryland, that Switzerland is the size of West Virginia, that the 5 smallest US states fit in a 2 county area of California, and that Bill Gates bought a larger piece of American farmland than the 5 smallest European countries area combined..the number 1 weapon of a warrior is between their ears. This is war, and has been war both economic, and psychological as well as violent for quite some time. Until Americans understand what Ronald Reagan said " the government is not your friend". Stop supporting it's, Police,military, schools, MIC, Banks. People need to help themselves, or get out of the way. There is no middle ground. Support freedom or support slavery, genocide, war. Free Assange, Free Palestine. End Central banking and central government.
A really deplorable aspect of his persecution is that the British court system has shown how utterly corruptible it is and vulnerable to political pressure.
There is talk negotiations are in progress for a plea bargain which would free him. We can only hope this is so.
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 172: Israel continues raids on Gaza hospitals following UNSC ceasefire resolution
The UN Security Council finally passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, with the U.S. abstaining from a vote. Netanyahu, however, has vowed to continue the war, with Israeli forces currently attacking two major hospitals in Gaza.
[Image]
A PALESTINIAN CHILD, SAJA JUNAID, AGE 3, RECEIVING TREATMENT IN THE AL-AQSA MARTYRS HOSPITAL IN DEIR AL-BALAH, ON MARCH 26, 2024. JUNAID SUFFERED DEEP BURNS ON HER FACE AS A RESULT OF AN ISRAELI BOMBING THAT TARGETED HER HOME IN THE JABALIA REFUGEE CAMP
I watched a video on The Grayzone today about Israeli citizens blocking the gates into Gaza so the relief trucks couldn’t enter. I would call that using “human shields” to hasten the destruction of Palestians to aid in the war effort by Israel.
They know who it is precisely; that they’re bombing, shooting, and starving. Mostly innocents. War Crimes with no effective way to prosecute. USA aid and abetting. Tax dollars, yours and mine.
PS, they are coming for your social security money.
Today I am weeping with Caitlin. After waiting for Assange's ruling and UN Security Council resolution on a ceasefire for Gaza, why do I feel so hopeless...
Caitlin ( also Jonathan Cook ) has the answer here - the obvious truth of how the global superpower manipulates the whole world. Most of us by now ought to know how they do it. As Caitlin said in a previous Newsletter, they are not hiding what they do. It is not only for us to see through the smoke and mirrors but to care, empathise and organise.
Assange is made to languish in Belmarsh; at the UN Security Council the US takes out the word "permanent" from ceasefire; the Nazis in Ukraine are made to fight a proxy war; making them and Russia bleed; the diminishing of China project is gathering speed; so many countries are under US/West sanctions that stunts their growth, and on and on... it goes.
You should not feel optimistic. The sociopaths have accumulated more power than a Hitler or Mao ever could have dreamt of.
Romantic fantasies and Les Miz aside, revolutions do not happen when the 99% rise up against the 1%, because the 1% will do whatever it takes to retain power. Nor do the Good Guys win because they deserve to win.
Rather, revolutions happen when the ruling factions turn on each other.
You said it all :::: "It is not only for us to see through the smoke and mirrors but to care, empathise and organise." The question is... Who runs the empire, and why do empires exist? Maybe another way to put it is:::::: 'Aren't WE the empire?' ,
Hello John Turcot, I like the way you look at the bigger picture. It is of course the human condition to be full of greed, hatred and delusion. But we humans do have a better side - to be virtuous, generous, compassionate, and caring. Being wise.
But what we are facing right here and now is a very bleak landscape devoid of that better nature.
So, when has the U$A not been empire of lies, empire of chaos, empire of thievery, empire of hate, and empire of terror? Korean Conflict. Vietnam? Panama? Nicaragua? Iraq? Afghanistan? Puerto Rico? El Salvador? Guatemala? Chile? Columbia? Mexico?
And then the other white races, latching on like dirty wimpy leeches?
Assange is every real hardworking, honest, truth to power JOURNALIST. He is for me, a real journalist mucking about HERE with polemics.
Ahh, mix in religious zealotry, supremacism, perversion, neurosis, inbred tap dancing at the Wailing Wall, and then put a few viral Queens and Princes in the mix, and we have the weakest of the weak ruling over the masses, because it's more than power. Fear, that deep primal scream fear, running through the Eichmann's and Bernays and other trip-wires for cultural implosion.
Takers versus leavers. Mother Culture does prevail.
Paulo, "Inbred tap dancing at the Wailing Wall"....., has to be the most intellectually sound judgment call of the last decade......
In essence, your comments mirror my perception of all the social moving parts that stir the masses. Yes, "more than power" is also my take... probably resulting from lost links to a long line of superior primates.
Just look at those eyes, man. Look, I'm 67, real journalist, on the ground, small and mid-sized towns, newspapers, grabbing stories on all beats. Bottom line is I get misathropy and madness. Everywhere. I've hit the road all over, Mexico, C.A., USA, Vietnam, UK, EuroTrashLandia.
It's in the eyes, man: Look at the neurotic and anti-human eyes.
The Jewish extremist responsible for concocting some of Israel’s worst atrocity propaganda about 7 October has admitted that one of his stories about Hamas executing children was untrue.
Yossi Landau of the group ZAKA concedes in a new interview with Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit that dead bodies he previously claimed to have seen in Kibbutz Be’eri were “not children.”
In the interview he admits: “When you look at them and they’re burned you don’t know exactly the ages. So you’re talking about 18-year-old, 20 years old … you just don’t look on the spot … to see the ages or something like that.”
The interview is part of Al Jazeera’s new documentary, October 7, which confirms that Israel itself killed a number of the Israeli dead that day – as The Electronic Intifada has reported all along.
In the documentary, Landau is pressed by producer Richard Sanders to explain a story he repeatedly spread to journalists last year.
“You’re talking children,” Landau claimed to Sky News in October. “Piles of 10 children each were tied to the back, [then] burned [in] the bed. Something behind this is next level … it’s indescribable.
Yeah, it's terrible! Look how it murdered my Hollywood fella filmmaker multimillionaire Gonzalo Lira, who died in Nutzie Ukraine prison, after having exposed the whole United Satanic America's Bidumb administration! Despite Tucker Carlson and even Elon Musk's efforts to free him! In vain, the Empire decides ...
I loved this guy, he was a brave man telling it as it was! Yet I knew it was suicide. Before his definite arrest, he told me he thought he would get away with his Hollywood stunt, he was a showman, a businessman. I told him they would kill him, or help him die. And it just happened! I will never forget him!
All the State Dept. had to do was tell the Z man to put Gonzalo on a plane to Chile. The U.S. government has become a truly nefarious, dark organization. Sorry for the loss of your friend. I feel for his family and children who are fatherless.
The Hegemon would prefer to extradite Assange to one of its torture specialisation prisons where they can keep him in isolation where they slowly torture him to death. Slowly is the operate word for they want him to live for as long as possible in those conditions. They want to make sure that all and any potential whistleblowers against their murderous regime get the message in full. If it takes many years we will hunt you down and then we will Assange you.
Gaza.Ukraine and Assange urgently need the "slow suffocations" to stop. Also urgent is what these wars are doing to the environment as well as destroying all of Gaza, costing thousands of Palestinian lives and thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives. All so that a few people in Russia, Ukraine, Israel and the US can keep their power and control or even expand that control
Susan T, I mostly agree with you. But can't you see that Russia is fighting an existential war. Otherwise Russia will get balkanised ( just like Yugoslavia ), and become the empire's new vassal states.
I didn't express myself very clearly. I was thinking of the Ukrainian people being used by the US in a proxy war with Russia. I do see that Russia was backed into a corner by NATO and the US. In the end all the people on both sides of that war are suffering and dying in a power struggle between the US and Russia with the US recently being the major provokers.
If only exposing the elephants stomping around in the rooms of the empire changed the landscape of the human condition, it might be worth every word ever written about the empire. But, as the sayin goes, 'The more things change, the more they seem to be the same'. What is the point of telling the truth if the truth does nothing to change the status quos. Where are the outcries that lead to revolutions to bring down empires? But, there have been thousands of social revolutions in the past, and the empires still rule... What's with that?
Wow! First comment from you where you don't flaunt France and Europe as something exceptional re the human element. I can even call it a sober reflection. What happened?
The US 'Assured' Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not expand one inch eastward. They also agreed that Taipei is part of China, yet they now threaten to go to war with China over a suddenly professed concern for the independence of Tiapei.
Nobody on this planet would trust any 'Assurance' uttered by Amerika.
The Native Americans knew the US Government spoke with a forked tongue 2 centuries ago. Nothing has changed. Besides always speaking with a forked tongue, the US Government is the largest purveyor of violence in the world. Assange's case demonstrates that clearly.
Any "assurance" is a figleaf.
As an Australian, I’m ashamed. The US are killing him through a slow execution process that the whole world has allowed it to happen. Julian is one individual Gaza are thousands. Identical parallels and we’ve sat back and let it happen
Australia indeed is uniquely positioned in all this and in the worst way possible. Its citizen is being mauled by its best allies and it acts like it's none of its business.
Hey, come on Botty. The footballs on, that's far more important than our sovereignty, wtf that means ( sarcasm ). It seems that the only part of the Aussie mythology that has survived is the "She'll be right mate" bit' - i.e. We don't give a fck. The 'stand by your mates, stand up for the underdog' bit seems to have been fogotten
"The footballs on" - indeed, if they tried to take that away from you, then the mythical Aussies might show up.
"Enough is enough" they'll say and poke the offending eyes for real. Even if it means from Five Eyes down to Two (NZ would submit to you guys readily, their only real threat is haka from all blacks, and even that is fake I hear).
I fear that the 'mythological Aussie' has been stupefied by the propaganda that Caitlin writes about and that propaganda include Hollywood movies, TV shows and an avalanche of Amerikan culture.
Discaimer: I'm currently listening to Linda Ronstadts' rendition of 'Desperado'.
Would you say Crocodile Dundee was the last real Aussie?
I'm not sure Dundee was ever a real Aussie - go to Youtube and search the Paul Hogan Show. Meanwhile, don't underestimate the Kiwis. They not only won a treaty with the British Empire, but David Lange told Amerika to shove their nukes and piss off home. Something almost no other country's dared to do.
"We've sat back and let it happen"
Are you old enough to remember The Gillies Report? His Reagan impression?
"I love the Australian people, especially your Prime Minister, Mr. Yes"
Are we? Many of us are demonstrating, signing petitions, yelling out in public--okay none of that is very effective, but even if we formed an army to try to pull him out of Belmarsh, they'd just send enough cops or the army against us, and imprison us as well as him.
Have we really applied the pressure necessary as a country to have him brought home? That’s the question you need to answer.
as a country? I live in the US. Our country--the US--well, "our" government--is the entity we're fighting against. I suppose if the demonstrations were bigger it could intimidate the enemy but I kinda doubt it, and I think one reason demos have such poor participation is that we've seen how ineffective they are. The millions who turned out of Feb 15, 2003, didn't stop the Iraq war. More effective would be a general strike--against BUYING ANYTHING as well as going to work or school--but only if we could get tens of millions onboard Right now that's impossible be cause the enemy controls communications, controls media, and has been able to divide us into two opposing camps. Breaking through to educate the public is therefor the first step--something Caitlin is certainly doing her part in.
All true. Except we are intentionally divided in as many camps as they can create. I see it as; People vs Hierarchial Government . They only respond to extreme force, and we are to comfortable to use any force.
Here in the US, it's mostly the Red Team (Republicans/MAGA) versus the Blue Team (Dems/liberals/left).. And it seems to me there are similar divisions elsewhere. As for "they only respond to extreme force, name a violent revolution that led to something better, rather than just a different set of thugs on top. Maybe Cuba. I've maintained most of my life that violence can't win the world we want, since it's pretty much the opposite of what we want, so it's like trying to get east by walking west. But in the last 20 years I've found it harder and harder to cling to this nonviolence stance--every day I read something that has me fuming, snarling "Just line em up and shoot them!" or the like. I don't think anarchy can work in heavily overpopulated world with all sorts of complexity. We could have much better governance than we do, with much better rules, if we 1) got around the fact that the sociopaths have control of the means of communication and 2) set up better structures particularly designed to keep sociopaths away from power. This could be done even if we don't have a clear way to identify sociopaths, I can think of two ways: sortition--citizens assemblies with the delegates chosen from a randomly selected pool, chosen to be representative in terms of gender, age, race, income, religious affiliation, whatever else people get worked up about The other is to have no perks for government service--a minimal salary, no extra privileges, focus on how the job is done (like, how the person votes on proposals) not any ego-gratifying bullshit. Most important is that here too the reps should be dragooned into service, no volunteers need apply.
As an American myself I understand the situation. First. April 19 1776 some farmers were attacked by the most powerful Army in the world at Concord Bridge. They won the war and America was born. Unfortunately it was short lived due to the Coup that replaced the Articles of Confederation. See https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/spooner-no-treason-no-vi-the-constitution-of-no-authority-1870. Several years before that was written several states In Accordance with that Constitution attempted to leave which lead to the Civil war. Despite all the misinformation Americans list that war as instead of ending slavery it created a whole new kind, Conscription, and a UNION by force of arms that has gotten worse and brought We, the people to Where we are today. In my opinion and a lot of other Americans, the Bill of Rights is meaningless because people are under the mistaken belief that government gave them and protects those Rights. Nonsense! Those are innate natural rights possessed by every human alive, and crushed by Government because those Rights threatened the people who wish to control others. The 2nd amendment that everyone is told is evil because it has guns for everyone. They are mistaken, again it is every humans right to self preservation through Defense. NOT the initiation of force. So everyone is entitled to defend against governments that are initiating force against them. Using any means necessary weapons are of course knives, guns, clubs, and also Internet, print media, and as sanctions including economic sanctions are being used as weapons by government, we, the people can and should also by rejecting their fiat currency, central banks cartels, use barter, crypto and other currencies, boycotts. We are being spied on so Encryption, and other means of obfuscation should be used. No weapon that is used by a government cabal is out of reach of The people to free themselves. If one reads the Declaration of Independence not as a historical document that describes the situations that justify Defending against Regimes, cartels, cabals, and tyrants in todays standard it will be enlightening. Religion has always been used by government just as media has, yet the most dangerous religion of all is the belief in government. The belief that people are NOT capable of sane, peaceful existence, that some winner of a rigged popularity contest with pre chosen contestants must control everything. So I say NO! Even if we have to break into county size pieces or smaller to be able to have control of our own lives. Voluntarism, is one thought. In addition keep in mind that North Korea is smaller than Maryland, that Switzerland is the size of West Virginia, that the 5 smallest US states fit in a 2 county area of California, and that Bill Gates bought a larger piece of American farmland than the 5 smallest European countries area combined..the number 1 weapon of a warrior is between their ears. This is war, and has been war both economic, and psychological as well as violent for quite some time. Until Americans understand what Ronald Reagan said " the government is not your friend". Stop supporting it's, Police,military, schools, MIC, Banks. People need to help themselves, or get out of the way. There is no middle ground. Support freedom or support slavery, genocide, war. Free Assange, Free Palestine. End Central banking and central government.
Julien Assange: the point person in America’s terrorists attack on journalists
A really deplorable aspect of his persecution is that the British court system has shown how utterly corruptible it is and vulnerable to political pressure.
There is talk negotiations are in progress for a plea bargain which would free him. We can only hope this is so.
FREE Assange! Hasn't he suffered enough.
For the freest countries in the world, the tallest beacons of democracy, enough will be when he dies there.
Enough? It’s like in the ott Israeli Bible. Forty eyes for an eye, and 4 entire mandibles for a tooth.
Dead man walking...
FOR REVEALING THE TRUTH!
they always told us, the truth shall set you free...
if he goes to America they'll execute him.
By Epsteining him….
Perhaps.
I don't think there has ever been a time when I thought Julian would be free. Maybe if Biden wasn't the President perhaps.
This old man is revenge mad. The ongoing delays will kill him which is what was decided some time ago. Methinks.
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 172: Israel continues raids on Gaza hospitals following UNSC ceasefire resolution
The UN Security Council finally passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, with the U.S. abstaining from a vote. Netanyahu, however, has vowed to continue the war, with Israeli forces currently attacking two major hospitals in Gaza.
[Image]
A PALESTINIAN CHILD, SAJA JUNAID, AGE 3, RECEIVING TREATMENT IN THE AL-AQSA MARTYRS HOSPITAL IN DEIR AL-BALAH, ON MARCH 26, 2024. JUNAID SUFFERED DEEP BURNS ON HER FACE AS A RESULT OF AN ISRAELI BOMBING THAT TARGETED HER HOME IN THE JABALIA REFUGEE CAMP
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-172-israel-continues-raids-on-gaza-hospitals-following-unsc-ceasefire-resolution/
I watched a video on The Grayzone today about Israeli citizens blocking the gates into Gaza so the relief trucks couldn’t enter. I would call that using “human shields” to hasten the destruction of Palestians to aid in the war effort by Israel.
SW, Any links to the video clip?
https://youtu.be/LqRzfb2oMaM?si=jwddKdYoDS7gPf7E
Sad!
https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/24/kill-them-all-inside-the-israeli-blockade-on-gaza-aid/
They know who it is precisely; that they’re bombing, shooting, and starving. Mostly innocents. War Crimes with no effective way to prosecute. USA aid and abetting. Tax dollars, yours and mine.
PS, they are coming for your social security money.
Today I am weeping with Caitlin. After waiting for Assange's ruling and UN Security Council resolution on a ceasefire for Gaza, why do I feel so hopeless...
Caitlin ( also Jonathan Cook ) has the answer here - the obvious truth of how the global superpower manipulates the whole world. Most of us by now ought to know how they do it. As Caitlin said in a previous Newsletter, they are not hiding what they do. It is not only for us to see through the smoke and mirrors but to care, empathise and organise.
Assange is made to languish in Belmarsh; at the UN Security Council the US takes out the word "permanent" from ceasefire; the Nazis in Ukraine are made to fight a proxy war; making them and Russia bleed; the diminishing of China project is gathering speed; so many countries are under US/West sanctions that stunts their growth, and on and on... it goes.
Why do I not feel optimistic?
The key word is, "Organise!". Spread the word!
You should not feel optimistic. The sociopaths have accumulated more power than a Hitler or Mao ever could have dreamt of.
Romantic fantasies and Les Miz aside, revolutions do not happen when the 99% rise up against the 1%, because the 1% will do whatever it takes to retain power. Nor do the Good Guys win because they deserve to win.
Rather, revolutions happen when the ruling factions turn on each other.
Yes I think this is very true.
Indy,
You said it all :::: "It is not only for us to see through the smoke and mirrors but to care, empathise and organise." The question is... Who runs the empire, and why do empires exist? Maybe another way to put it is:::::: 'Aren't WE the empire?' ,
Hello John Turcot, I like the way you look at the bigger picture. It is of course the human condition to be full of greed, hatred and delusion. But we humans do have a better side - to be virtuous, generous, compassionate, and caring. Being wise.
But what we are facing right here and now is a very bleak landscape devoid of that better nature.
Love you Caity xoxo
So, when has the U$A not been empire of lies, empire of chaos, empire of thievery, empire of hate, and empire of terror? Korean Conflict. Vietnam? Panama? Nicaragua? Iraq? Afghanistan? Puerto Rico? El Salvador? Guatemala? Chile? Columbia? Mexico?
And then the other white races, latching on like dirty wimpy leeches?
Assange is every real hardworking, honest, truth to power JOURNALIST. He is for me, a real journalist mucking about HERE with polemics.
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/daily-multiple-times-a-day-jew-world
The trouble with power is that it corrupts, and corrupts absolutely. Do alpha wolves step down from their perch,...
Just a thought... If power did not corrupt, would there be empires?
Ahh, mix in religious zealotry, supremacism, perversion, neurosis, inbred tap dancing at the Wailing Wall, and then put a few viral Queens and Princes in the mix, and we have the weakest of the weak ruling over the masses, because it's more than power. Fear, that deep primal scream fear, running through the Eichmann's and Bernays and other trip-wires for cultural implosion.
Takers versus leavers. Mother Culture does prevail.
Paulo, "Inbred tap dancing at the Wailing Wall"....., has to be the most intellectually sound judgment call of the last decade......
In essence, your comments mirror my perception of all the social moving parts that stir the masses. Yes, "more than power" is also my take... probably resulting from lost links to a long line of superior primates.
Just look at those eyes, man. Look, I'm 67, real journalist, on the ground, small and mid-sized towns, newspapers, grabbing stories on all beats. Bottom line is I get misathropy and madness. Everywhere. I've hit the road all over, Mexico, C.A., USA, Vietnam, UK, EuroTrashLandia.
It's in the eyes, man: Look at the neurotic and anti-human eyes.
https://youtu.be/6ZzPA2OfUKc?si=4-0njeMKovk4EH-X
Most are extremists. Not the exception!
[...]
The Jewish extremist responsible for concocting some of Israel’s worst atrocity propaganda about 7 October has admitted that one of his stories about Hamas executing children was untrue.
Yossi Landau of the group ZAKA concedes in a new interview with Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit that dead bodies he previously claimed to have seen in Kibbutz Be’eri were “not children.”
In the interview he admits: “When you look at them and they’re burned you don’t know exactly the ages. So you’re talking about 18-year-old, 20 years old … you just don’t look on the spot … to see the ages or something like that.”
The interview is part of Al Jazeera’s new documentary, October 7, which confirms that Israel itself killed a number of the Israeli dead that day – as The Electronic Intifada has reported all along.
In the documentary, Landau is pressed by producer Richard Sanders to explain a story he repeatedly spread to journalists last year.
“You’re talking children,” Landau claimed to Sky News in October. “Piles of 10 children each were tied to the back, [then] burned [in] the bed. Something behind this is next level … it’s indescribable.
Like a big constrictor kill-squeezing …
Yeah, it's terrible! Look how it murdered my Hollywood fella filmmaker multimillionaire Gonzalo Lira, who died in Nutzie Ukraine prison, after having exposed the whole United Satanic America's Bidumb administration! Despite Tucker Carlson and even Elon Musk's efforts to free him! In vain, the Empire decides ...
https://liborsoural.substack.com/p/suffer-well
https://liborsoural.substack.com/p/rome-never-fell-the-empire-never
Never forget Gonzalo LIra.
I loved this guy, he was a brave man telling it as it was! Yet I knew it was suicide. Before his definite arrest, he told me he thought he would get away with his Hollywood stunt, he was a showman, a businessman. I told him they would kill him, or help him die. And it just happened! I will never forget him!
All the State Dept. had to do was tell the Z man to put Gonzalo on a plane to Chile. The U.S. government has become a truly nefarious, dark organization. Sorry for the loss of your friend. I feel for his family and children who are fatherless.
The Hegemon would prefer to extradite Assange to one of its torture specialisation prisons where they can keep him in isolation where they slowly torture him to death. Slowly is the operate word for they want him to live for as long as possible in those conditions. They want to make sure that all and any potential whistleblowers against their murderous regime get the message in full. If it takes many years we will hunt you down and then we will Assange you.
Gaza.Ukraine and Assange urgently need the "slow suffocations" to stop. Also urgent is what these wars are doing to the environment as well as destroying all of Gaza, costing thousands of Palestinian lives and thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives. All so that a few people in Russia, Ukraine, Israel and the US can keep their power and control or even expand that control
Susan T, I mostly agree with you. But can't you see that Russia is fighting an existential war. Otherwise Russia will get balkanised ( just like Yugoslavia ), and become the empire's new vassal states.
I didn't express myself very clearly. I was thinking of the Ukrainian people being used by the US in a proxy war with Russia. I do see that Russia was backed into a corner by NATO and the US. In the end all the people on both sides of that war are suffering and dying in a power struggle between the US and Russia with the US recently being the major provokers.
If only exposing the elephants stomping around in the rooms of the empire changed the landscape of the human condition, it might be worth every word ever written about the empire. But, as the sayin goes, 'The more things change, the more they seem to be the same'. What is the point of telling the truth if the truth does nothing to change the status quos. Where are the outcries that lead to revolutions to bring down empires? But, there have been thousands of social revolutions in the past, and the empires still rule... What's with that?
What matters is power, and what one does with that power.
I wrote an essay on 'power' many years ago mostly because I understood it very well.
As a once powerful person in a small community I watched with fascination and horror at how easy it was for just one person to change people's minds.
Eventually another person comes into power and the game changes and so on and on.
I don't think the people can do anything to change things (except think for your self and don't prostitute your self).
When the people are dumbed down the next game begins...the powerful start fighting themselves. I am waiting.
Wow! First comment from you where you don't flaunt France and Europe as something exceptional re the human element. I can even call it a sober reflection. What happened?
As long as he's alive and suffering, the ongoing humiliation ritual amuses and otherwise pleases Satan.