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John Day MD's avatar

Egyptian woman BLASTS CNN reporter over SHAMEFUL coverage of Gaza and for falsifying the truth​ (Less than 2 minutes ​of perfectly articulated truth.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ_Upwnjl9w

Robert Billyard's avatar

Trudeau has another very big headache as pro-Palestinian demonstrations are happening across the country. This is truly remarkable as Canadians are a docile apologetic lot. When Ottawa isn't kissing Washington's and Israel's ass it is giving standing ovations to former Nazi's in Parliament. This is what happens when a country becomes the dupe of an empire-- screwed, blued and tattooed.

John Orban's avatar

And don't think for one second the U.S. is not prepared to throw any "ally" under the bus. U.S. politicians don't give a damn about anything except their off shore money laundering accounts.

Dr.Who's avatar

Also Kissinger: "To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”

Dr.Who's avatar

As the Godfather Kissinger once said, America doesn’t have friends or enemies, only interests.

Robert Billyard's avatar

You are so bloody right and they have been doing it for decades and the list only gets longer. NATO countries are so dumb they have no inkling of how thoroughly they are being cannibalized out of existence by their demented imperial master in its desperate rage of collapse. It is both hideous and pathetic to watch self-immolation born of childish spite and endless corruptions. The psychosis runs deep.

moon's avatar

nato countries are ruled by coke' s heads.

Compromized and obedients to rothchild. Selling countries assets to te greed of blackrock and Co.

Robert Billyard's avatar

Trudeau's father was a decent Liberal prime minister who commanded respect from all parties in the Commons. Sadly, the son has disgraced his father's legacy as he is generally considered one of our better prime ministers. Canada's Liberal Party voted the son into the PMO indifferent to the fact he has neither the talent or intelligence of his father. His father's charisma attracted talented men and women to his cabinet, for the son it has been the opposite as he lost some of his best talent by his own ineptness.

The father was Canada's last liberal prime minister, all PMs since have been neoliberal, including the son. Most Canadians aren't even aware of the difference.

Colin Maxwell's avatar

Obviously Robert you are not aware of the fact that Tru Dough Senior sold his country out to the global commercial banking cartel and to the parasitic pump and dump schemes of the BIS.

Yes, Canada became a tragic example of the Western economics wrecking ball too. In the 1930s it used state bank-created credit (aka The Public Banking Solution) right through until the 70s when the treasonous Tru Dough Snr sold out his country’s prosperity to the BIS. In reality, “his” so-called offspring is simply putting the finishing touches to the evisceration that TD Senior began.

William King was the hero of the day – the elected PM in 1935 – and he got the model installed – his famous quote, which describes just how essential this is to any country’s prosperity was just one simple sentence…

“Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognised as the most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.”

The Bank of Canada opened in the wake of the Great Depression, which was deliberately caused by precisely the same model that the Western world uses to this day. The BOC created credit to finance federal, provincial, and municipal projects – this was done with accounting entries without a single cent being borrowed from anywhere, let alone from offshore.

Another Canadian hero Gerald McGeer asked the question of Graham Towers, the first Governor of the Bank of Canada…

“Would you admit that anything physically possible and desirable can be made financially possible?"

… and …

" ...you tell me why the govt with the power to create money should give that power away to a private monopoly and then borrow that which Parliament can create itself, back at interest?"

As William Krehm a Canadian author and political activist wrote…

“In the years 1935 to 1945, Canada’s monetary base – that is the supply of legal tender – was increased from $259 million to $2,017 million. M1 – all currency and non-interest bearing deposits – rose from $742 million to $2.956 million.

Because the CB created most of the money itself and lent it out to the Govt in the form of treasury bills at rates as low as 0.37%, the bank was able to keep the interest paid on Canada Savings bonds bought by the public to 3% or less. Without the low-rate financing provided by the central banks, the Allied powers could not have won the war.”

Remember that the Commonwealth Bank of Australia was also using the public banking solution as well, in not only developing its economy into an economic powerhouse but also helping to defeat the Nazi fascists that fancied themselves to take over most of the globe.

These models are absolutely not inflationary and as such they create a savings culture in society in which public utility savings bank models flourish and more liquidity and capital becomes available for the localised productive economy.

It is high time that the Western world woke up and realised that we are once again the victim of a fascist takeover. This time it is not the Third Reich – but it is a Reich in vey thin disguise nevertheless.

This time around the enemy is ensconced within our own Western system. This modern-day ravenous monster has actually been handed on a plate the complete monetary power to victimise OURSELVES!

The entire mechanism enables outrageously criminal privately owned Western banking institutions, and most notably the central banking system, with the BIS and the Fed occupying pride of place in this gluttonous “human” food chain.

This network, in effect, has been given complete license to prey on the productive labour resource of much of the world – the most important resource of all. In fact, without this resource, all of the others are completely worthless anyway.

This is where the entire Western system has gone wrong – it has allowed the parasitic financial economy to become a ravenous Frankenstein-like monster that preys mercilessly on our productive human resources and as such the productive economy.

The squid-like creature didn’t just crawl out of Jekyll Island but it also mutated out of the City of London, and most certainly from the Swiss city Basil, ever so strategically located right on the border of both France and Germany.

Pierre True Dough was in fact a neo-liberal too and a very poorly disguised one at that. I would suggest you read Ellen Browns epic book "the Public Bank solution and Chapter 16 in particular.

If you read the entire book you will realise exactly why the globe has been plunged into turmoil for at least 75 years. Ellen Brown is one of only two Wesstern based economists in the world that I have found that not only zeros in on the root cause of the global giant sucking squid, but who also offers up the solutions which are actually so incredibly simple. The other one of course is Professor Richard Werner.

These two visionaries between them hold the key to the financial blueprints which could eliminate more than 90% of the misery of he modern world.

Regards from NZ

Colin Maxwell

https://nzflocked.com/

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Dr.Who's avatar

Thank you, Liz, for that hope. Btw its TARDiS and Star TREK. For future digs you may find that handy. You’re welcome 😉

pretzelattack's avatar

I wonder what the nazi so recently lauded in the Canadian Parliament thinks about Trudeau et all supporting Israel. or for that matter, what Chrystia Freenland thinks about that..

Fran's avatar

Did CNN show that clip? Personally I very much like the woman's assessment of what is, and has been going for many, many decades.

John Day MD's avatar

I did not get it from CNN. I suspect that footage got "leaked" by somebody who liked it, but wanted to stay employed, or somebody else with a non-CNN camera running.

Fran's avatar

Personally I hate CNN because of it's total bias on any given issue. No shades of gray, just black and white thinking so they get people not to think at all. Thanks for that footage.

Mike Hampton's avatar

I try look at as much media as possible, even those I don;t trust, believing I can read between the lines, but this week I made the decision to never watch CNN or Fox again unless it involves footage of an American disaster. Everyone here can take John's link and share it to Notes on Substack. Let's be more than commentators.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Nelson Mandela's kickarse Palestinian moment when visiting the USA for the first time after his prison release - https://mikehampton.substack.com/p/nelson-mandela-defended-palestine-right-to-exist

gypsy33's avatar

Let’s remember that Mandela was a “terrorist”….until he wasn’t.

Patricia Blair's avatar

Ralph Nader, Biden just returned a huge bill for the American People, he writes with integrity of Biden’s inhumanity, failures. I do not support any funds to Israel or the Ukraine from America. We’ve damaged other human beings and ourselves enough.⚖️☮️🇵🇸🇺🇸

ChazLB's avatar

Don't forget to sign and date those tax checks like obedient little serfs afraid of state violence if you don't comply.

The one tool to bring this empire to its knees and everyone is too cowardly to even think of using..

Every bit of blood sweat and tears you toil over goes to support Israel's death cult ethnic cleansing.

gypsy33's avatar

Not me, Chaz. I refuse to pay federal income tax again. Let ‘em come after me: I’m a redneck cowgirl complete with a pistol 😉

Starry Gordon's avatar

You do realize, I hope, that it doesn't matter whether you pay your taxes or not. They can just print the money, which they can do because contemporary money mostly doesn't represent value of any substantial kind. Someone can sit at a computer and create or wipe out billions of supposed dollars in a few seconds.

ChazLB's avatar

But you still toil for it..it's still causing you to work and sweat and Labor for free and die to feed the machine...you are just trying to find an excuse not to have to risk getting abused by the state and be a good little obedient citizen... (not attacking you personally) just notice this is a method of avoiding the point. The cowardice of not organizing a tax revolt.

gypsy33's avatar

Just for my own personal satisfaction 😁

ChazLB's avatar

A gal after my own heart. Pistal packing moma.

gypsy33's avatar

Who wears cowgirl boots 😉

BMeowDawg's avatar

But the US again delayed tax 2023 estimated tax payments another month to Nov 15; even in 2020, a crazy and horrible year deferrals wee just three months (April to July). This year the wealthy in blue states (only) have paid nothing this year and just got another month. Absolutely no “crisis” explains these full tax deferrals other than the idea, “why make our friends pay tax when we are in the process of scuttling the ship anyway.” It seems to me that we are watching the intentional destruction of the US republic. Our moral account has been brought to less than zero. The fact that Gaza is waking up a few of the zombies may be too little too late.

hierochloe's avatar

the empire doesn't run on "tax checks", but your local schools do

Orwell's avatar

Lots of truth in this article. One correction, though: If you scratch the surface, Israel has no ideology other than expanding the land from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River, which requires the Palestinians residing there to disappear, one way or another. All the rest is fairy tales. In this way, Israel and the US are all about natural resources, from real estate to oil, nothing else. Really not complicated.

BMeowDawg's avatar

Just like Ukraine. Powers that be want to control the resource rich E UKR and Russia too if possible.

tanya marquette's avatar

I susually like and agree with Caitlin's writing/ideas but on this one she is wrong about the lack of ideology of the US. It is Capitalism which morphed into Corporatism which in fact is fascism. It's exported ideology is hegemony based on the belief in its right to control the world and its resources. The huge propaganda machine is a heavily financed industry with part of its goal being the control of the media and, these days, also Social Media. Covid planning intentionally promoted the goal of repressing any questioning of the formal narrtive in order to "manufacture consent." People wrote about this as the Belgian psychiatrist Mattias calling it Mass Psychosis. There are other terms used but all referring to the same condition of controlled media and controlled thinking of the public forcing consent and a belief system.

Bottom line however you name it the US has an ideology it just is not democracy or justice or fair play in manner. It is self-centered narcissism with the belief that the US has the right to control the world and everything in it including who is to live and die. it is just a nasty ideology and puts the lie to the myth of democracy we were all conditioned to believing.

ChazLB's avatar

It's a death cult and at the helm with Israel at the control center, it's supporters are the deep state.

Starry Gordon's avatar

The ideology of the US (and or its empire): "It is Capitalism." Exactly, or to be more exact, it is liberalism-capitalism. Liberalism is the political system of capitalism, and capitalism is the economic system of liberalism. It hasn't morphed into anything; corporations are a natural, logical development of liberalism-capitalism. When rich people want to control things and obtain profits, they find it advantageous to form corporations instead of fighting one another individually.

tanya marquette's avatar

Absolutely not true and actually quite confused. Your attack on Liberalism is simply a rejection of democratic principles. While correct that one is an economic system (capitalism) and what you call liberalism is a political system they are in fact diametrically opposed to each other in how they function.

Politically democracy is a system that support the voice of the people making decisions on how they will live inn a society and it promotes processes where people can express their voice and have impact. the idea of a public election process is what this country created to allow the people's voice and it works by majority rule--at least on paper.

Economically Capitalism is a belief system (that is what the suffix 'ism' means) based on money and its power and functions by promoting self-serving interests. In fact it opposes democratic principles at all costs which is why we have censorship of people who question or oppose the official narrative of the ruling elite who are always the wealthiest. Their interest in in depriving the public the people of fair wages the right speak freely the right to have autonomy over our own body. The development of Capitalism has attacked all the democratic priniples and civil liberties that were agreed upon in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. But even the Constitution was not crafted to give equal rights and access to all people. That is why we have Movements to demand fairer wages, work conditions, access to education, ability to buy a home, etc. Capitalism as it grew promoted corporate development with the ability of those who owned those industries and the financial industry too, with the concentration of wealth and the power of that wealth to control the political decision-making. In fact Corportism, the belief in the power of the corporation to control government is the very definition of Fascism which is exactly what we see today in this country.

Your confusion about liberalism is simply a lack of knowledge of what has really transpired in this country. It's roots go back to the very beginning of this country when the Upper class of the UK and France invaded this land to make their fortunes as they lost their ownership of land in their home countries due to inheritance laws. Land ownership was the means of power and they came here to create what they lost in Europe. Everything they did was all about developing their power and means of control over the people. There is nothing liberal in that thinking or their goals. Do some serious study of history and learn the difference between the economic and political systems and how they actually work or don;t.

Starry Gordon's avatar

I don't think there's much of a crossover between liberalism and democracy. Liberalism was originally invented to answer the problem of the rich who wanted to avoid the Hobbesian sovereign (who could protect your stuff, but could also take it) and the people, the mob (who could also take your stuff). The solution appeared to be a republican form of government, such as that specified by the U.S. Constitution, which began with a restricted electorate (the rich; you had to own property to vote) and evolved a complex system of political machinery which only rich people or those favored by the rich could (usually) operate. It's not an accident that today, to run for an important, policy-making office, you must have huge amounts of money, or many rich friends and supporters. As the elites learned how to manipulate the political machinery, more kinds of people were allowed to vote. (Although note that when a populist succeeds in politics, for example Trump, it's considered a major crisis even when the populist is pretty tame.

Capialism co-evolved with liberalism. It's easy to see that a system which basically allowed the rich to tell everyone else what to do would synchronized well with a political system devised to secure the wealth and status of the rich.

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tanya marquette's avatar

Yes, I know this. I would go further and call it fascism which is the 'partnership between the corporation and the State. This simply definition from Mussolini and it applies today as well. The details may be more complicated but the power relationship is what is most important.

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pretzelattack's avatar

i dont have to look at Trump's base to see fascism, I can see it in the US support for nazis in Ukraine.

unwarranted's avatar

When I think of what the USG does routinely and cavalierly with no concern for explaining or justifying, it magnifies the moment where the global condemnation, minus the blowback at home, has the messaging and the bravado and the righteous rhetoric out of sync and reduced to leaning on a hollow insistence that the Israelis didn’t destroy that hospital.

Any cursory history of Israel will show how consistent the Gaza hospital bombing is with Israeli policies and practices over the last 75 years, including its bloody founding. And for an American president to double down on this lame argument is both ironic and pathetic.

Fran's avatar

I don't like Hamas, and certainly don't approve of it's killing of innocents, and it most certainly knew what the repercussions would be for those it claims to represent, although most didn't vote for them, too young. I have never supported the Israeli position toward the people of Palestine, not it's unwillingness to create a two state solution, not it's many assaults on the Palestinian people, and certainly not it's open door prison in Gaza.. I have no doubt that Netanyahu supports Hamas. since neither is interested in a two state solution. Certainly the treatment of those in the West Bank where people are thrown out of their homes then taken over by settlers with no consequences have added fuel to the fire and further encouraged Hamas to attack civilians even knowing what the consequences would be. Gallant truly gave it away when he referenced the Palestinians as animals, not worthy of being given food, water or fuel. I think this is going to cause more divisions among countries then anything that has gone on, and continues to go on in Ukraine. I feel sickened by my country's willingness to push an agenda that could ultimately end everything for everyone.

ChazLB's avatar

As far as I see it hamas are the fists that came back to punch the abuser that's been beating the Palestinian for 80 years.

1948movie.com creation and catastrophe how Israel was formed in violence.

Fran's avatar

My issue is that they attacked civilians, not acceptable, and their assault was very provocative, and no doubt done in order to assure that Israel in return would retaliate with a vengeance. Enough of a vengeance for other groups, even countries to enter the fray. Scary, and there is a good possibility that it will trigger a war on a grand scale involving many countries, even causing WWIII. That scares me. Israel is also very responsible for making it very clear they want a one state solution. What is going on in the West Bank, disgusting, and is also making the same claim, your out of here. Thanks for that movie. Really, thanks.

JennyStokes's avatar

What do you say to the fact that Egypt warned Israel of this attack and did nothing? Why?

Hamas WAS in the pockets of the Israelis for years in order to get rid of the PLO.

Just suppose Israel (Netanyahu) saw the Israeli people were against him. They were in the streets for 3 weeks before this happened. He knew he was on his way out.

I truly do believe Hamas attacked because Netanyahu was about to be ousted.

Fran's avatar

Jenny I don't know, but like you I felt there was some conclusion between the two, that is Hamas and Netanyahu, but I just don't know.

BMeowDawg's avatar

One very remarkable point to me is just how much restraint we are seeing from the Muslim countries. We are told that Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia are vicious totalitarian terrorist states and yet they, and everyone else in the region, is reacting to the Gaza provocation a lot like how Putin has reacted to the Ukraine provocation - very slowly, patiently. Perhaps the rest of the world truly recognizes that it is now dealing with deranged hostage takers that have seized the West.

Dr.Who's avatar

This powder keg is about to blow. The deranged hostage takers of the West have no reverse gear. On the contrary, they double down like gamblers. The rest of the world has been far too patient for far too long...

Kojo's avatar

Biden threatened to nuke them if the touched his local attack dog.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/us/politics/us-israel.html

Johannes S. Herbst's avatar

Paywalled. Nothing to see in the First lines about nukes.

Starry Gordon's avatar

They may estimate that the behavior of the US and Israel are self-destructive, and as Napoleon is said to have said, "Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake." I suppose if the US destroys itself, which it seems to be busy doing, Israel could sell itself to another great power, although the great powers I know of would be harder to take to the cleaners than the US.

elettra's avatar

I flew to Cairo on October 6th for work, which happened to be the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, and I was there the day after, when all this started. Egyptians find themselves in a very difficult spot: if they open

the Rafah crossing to let Palestinians into Sinai they will effectively destroy their peace with Israel and invite the war to the Sinai. To your point, though, regarding restraint, taking Egypt as an example: Israel's neighbors have to tread carefully, each country for reasons of its own. What I heard in Egypt was that they did not want to become another Lebanon. But rest assured they are seething.

gypsy33's avatar

Disagree. Egypt knows damn good and well that if they allow the Gazans in, IsraHell will seize their territory, including all those oil reserves off the Gaza coast.

JennyStokes's avatar

Oil which was owned by Gaza!

elettra's avatar

That, too. Your point and mine are not mutually exclusive.

Pancho's avatar

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” ― George Orwell

Pat's avatar

Bless you for this, 🇵🇸💔

ChazLB's avatar

As I see a lot more push back of Israel's propaganda machines but I also see these responce posts giving the usual stock lines of hasbara PR talking points popping up in places like YouTube.

YouTube is doing the dirty fascist censorship work of the empire by deleting and shadow banning all voices like your own. There is a pattern I noticed of these spooks all saying the same thing..Israel belongs to the Jews..all of it they insist and Palestinians don't exist and never had , and Arabs stole the land of Israel hundreds of years ago , and then the idea around conquest comes up..you own what you can take is a very Zionist traditional thinking and I hate to say it a very Jewish cultural thing at least in the nationalistic types.

I have even overheard those setiments laughed at by Jewish business people.."if they get taken they must have deserved it" and of course these things are coined antisemitism if you repeat what came out of their own mouths.

White supremacist have nothing on Jewish supremacist.

And this whole Palestine beat down so parallels every abusive relationship dynamics in the classic domestics as it does in the international politics.

"Why do you make me beat you" is their entire mindset. And sadly this behavior pattern is in perfect alignment with USA empire building. It abuses it's public as if they are its abused children.. All it knows is punishment.

Don't forget to sign and date those tax checks.

John Iversen's avatar

Remember this . . . you need NO prosthetics of ideology / narratives / propaganda or fixations . . .

“I am my mother’s son. All other identities are artificial and recent. Naked, basic, actually, I am my mother’s son. I emerged from her womb and set out on this earth. The earth gave me another identity, that of name, personality, appearance, character, and spirit. The earth is my grandmother; I am the earth’s grandson. The way I comb my hair today has nothing to do with myself, who am my mother’s son and the earth’s grandson. I am put on this earth to prove that I am my mother’s son. I am also on this earth, my grandmother, to be her spokesman, in my chosen and natural way. The earth owns the least to myself; she shall take me back, and my mother too. We have proven the earth’s truth and meaning, which is, simply life and death.”

― Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac: Collected Poems

Robert Billyard's avatar

" Planet Earth is littered with the remains of former empires, born to their own destruction by human folly. History is the great whistleblower and is blowing the whistle on yet another empire, and the ship of fools running it."

gypsy33's avatar

At this point, Robert, Amerikkka is just rearranging chairs on the Titanic.

Jon Olsen's avatar

Indeed! Your perspective is agreed to by this former Israeli soldier:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxJd88xkBU

CarbonCopy's avatar

Thank you so much for this! This is astonishing! The first reaction I had was the amazement that Google allowed this! This is truly a very intelligent and carrying person who you can't just blow off as a dissenter of Israel. Here is the raw truth right from the original source! Thanks again!

CarbonCopy's avatar

I looked into some more from Abby Martin and this link here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xEUIR_JG_b8 tells the real story of the genocide being done for over 73 years. Also the start of Israel and something that has to really stick in the craw of democrats the fact that Netanyahu LOVES TRUMP!

hierochloe's avatar

"Once someone learns about the realities of the Palestinian plight they very seldom abandon their support for it, so every newly-opened pair of eyes stays open on this issue for a lifetime." welcome to the party

Greg Connolly's avatar

Wow

CJ one of your best.

Israel walked/is walking right into the Woke trap!

Racist

Oppressed/ Oppressor

How do they get out of their Mess?

The world turns against Them?

Fascinating………

Boris Petrov's avatar

How to instantly, after two decades of “efforts”, create a two-state solution – NOW?

No need for war but Saudis should reduce oil output by 30% - with consequent price increases.

If in two months a mutually agreed solution is not agreed and implemented, reduce oil output by another 20%.

“Bibi” and his Greater Israel and apartheid extremists, together with US, sabotaged a two-state solution for decades – by terror and “realities created on ground”, i.e., relentless building of settlements in West Bank fully financed (with tax deductions) by extremist groups in the US and – contrary to “official” position of US government..

ENOUGH of that bloody charade !!

hierochloe's avatar

oh my, now this would be some turn of events to happen

Boris Petrov's avatar

See Tucker today -- war with Iran is imminent....

CarbonCopy's avatar

Trump has land in that settlement in the West Bank! His kid is busy making big deals with Netanyahu! This has been a Criminal Elite invasion since Churchill at the end of WW2.