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Thank you. Although I'm primarily a reader, I find that Tim's narrations have some je ne sais quoi aspect to them that drives your prose more deeply and richly into my mind. As long as I'm using foreign-language descriptors, perhaps it's better described by the Italian solennità, a noun that means both solemnity and majesty -- a royal depth or profondità, a profoundness almost always conferred by your prose itself, but further enhanced by his delivery. I look forward to more listening.

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Thank you Caitlin! You work to hard , but I love you for it : )

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Thank you for all the options, Caitlin and Tim. As my vision worsens, the spoken word/closed captioning videos will let more of us "read" your work for years to come.

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Speaking of videos...

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Here is Macron getting owned by the French version of AIPAC.

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The host of the AIPAC conference grabs Macron's wrist and raises it so as to say,

"look what I brought you!"

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Macron is clearly displeased, he does not like being presented as a possession.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zmtnTe-PHw

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The Israeli newspapers are telling a significant half-truth (lying by omission).

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Haaretz

Times of Israel

Israel Hayom

and the NYT

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All these tell you that Israel had Hamas' detailed Oct 7th plan a full year ago

and determined that the plan could not work...

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The above is the half-truth.

The whole truth they are not telling you is that

Israel determined that Hamas's plan would not work...without Israel's help.

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Israel removed the majority of it's troops around Gaza just before Oct 7th.

After Hamas' jail break IDF troops were delayed in arriving in force for several hours.

Israel slaughtered their own people, implementing the Hannibal Directive.

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Israel wanted it to happen, they implemented the Hannibal Directive so as to

escalate the casualty numbers and the outrage. They wanted support for Genocide.

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They and their newspapers are lying by omission.

Israel wanted the jail break to happen and made it possible.

Israel betrayed and slaughtered their own

and are now committing Genocide.

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“They deem him their worst enemy, who tells them the truth”

Plato, The Republic, c. 380 BC

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I depend on SoundCloud audio to keep me up-to-date with your output. I can do the housework whilsts listening, but can't do that if it's Video. Please continue with SoundCloud too!

✊🏻🇵🇸

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I am happy with your writing Caitlin...........don't need anything else.

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Mar 16·edited Mar 16

Yes, Jenny. Ditto.

As you may know Caitlin's writing also gets good coverage in Consortium News, USA

But in the cloud cuckoo make believe land of the AUKUS submarine (due in 2040), i.e. little Australia....a.k.a. the US 51st State, we swill continue playing 'follow-the-leader' for 365 days of every year. Feeble Joe Biden being the so-called friend of Wong ,Marles and Albanese. What a trio, known as the UNRWA deceivers. Dancing to the Israel dictates.

On the bright side and known as the best source of commentary in Australia is a most respectable publication named 'Pearls and Irritations’, with quality writers, which also uses Caitlin’s material, as well you would know.

To be a reader of anything else in Aussie, you need to believe in right wing politics as well as multiple marriages as per Australian, oops, sorry…..US citizen Rupert Murdoch, owner of at least 50+% of Australian media and currently on his very last wild fling, #5; football of all varieties, ad nauseam; the ancient game of cricket and whatever floats out of other media sources, most of which wouldn't recognise the truth from the best writings of Hans Christian Andersen.

These are the people who think America is a friend ("we have no friends"-Kissinger) and genocidal Israel is a democratic and truthful state and not a hated arrogant bunch of misfits now applying all they learnt from Germany in 1939-1945 with enthusiastic gusto against unarmed Palestinians women and children. Starving now being the order of the day, all with American approval, of course. They supply all the death dealing material and loving it. ($’s)

Our politicians love to grovel to the Melbourne Zionist brigade. They buy favours as in the USA and everywhere else.

So in so many ways in past years, as a country, we were able to bat well above our weight (even with a foreign family of a Queen and now a King overseas somewhere); we had a strong possibility of becoming an independent friend to all, but today, happily content to fulfil the role of just another US puppet.

A White /Anglo /Christian puppet. Independent?…..we can’t even spell the word.

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SO? What's new?

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I can’t afford to subscribe every month. Do you have a one off option?

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If money's tight for you don't worry about supporting me. All my stuff's always free, I just have the option to sponsor my work open for those who are willing and able to.

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There is a "free" subscribe option, and it's exactly the same as the paid subscriptions. Gets you all the same articles.

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Do you appreciate Plato?

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What if you let us donate subscriptions?

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OH BOY I’M FOR SURE GOING TO FACEBOOK JAIL FOR THIS ONE! 😂 😝 😆 But F Yeah It’s Worth It!!!!!! 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hUSxYq0yhTY&si=CV00qqXPkLdYy93v

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Mar 22·edited Mar 22

This is the third or fourth time there is no notification of a post from Substack for Caitlin;s Post no other, just this particular post. Can someone help with this, or is this purposely done. Not in spam either. If it happened once I would think it's an accident, but no more.It happened before and started up again . I don't know where to complain about this.

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If normally you continue receiving notifications (like the last one or two) then it could just be a glitch on the substack's side. It's not been particularly reliable.

Complaining to them is unlikely to help. They have some sort of automated AI help system which is basically useless.

If you hate missing Caitlin's posts, just go to her site once or twice a day. There's another way too - her posts are duplicated on podcasts platforms. So if you have a podcast app, then just subscribe to her podcast. Those notifications will coincide with the new posts. Here's hers on apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/johnstone/id1333112416

Or you can subscribe to her youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@CaitlinJohnstone

Other forms are available on her this site, if you scroll all the way down where you'll see various icons for twitter etc: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/about/

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Mar 22·edited Mar 22

I'm really not computer savvy the way many are, ,just on somethings. This has happened I think for the third time to me and no one else has made reference to this and on no other substack post has this happened. It's disturbing, and you do wonder why? I rejoined twice, I think and it was the only way I found to get notification. I'm not doing that again. Thanks so much for responding. How come I got you response? I wonder why this is happening?

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I'm not getting a response or any notifications since I don't rely on them hence do not subscribe. I used to and I found it unreliable.

Bottom line - I wouldn't worry about any nefarious happenings, if you're thinking that. Likely just glitches from the substack. To be sure, just go periodically to the site and you won't miss anything: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/

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In the beginning I joined a few people, some I left and tried others, and on no other site did this happen. However I'll take your advice and check in. Funny that is started when they put her in spam which didn't happen initially. I'll just check in like you said, and use your link. Thanks so much for your help. I appreciate it.

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"and on no other site did this happen" - it doesn't happen all the time, and it could if it coincided with either the substack's glitch or whatever your internet service provider is.

The very nature of internet and various software services is such that it cannot be 100% reliable, especially in non-critical services like substack.

I'd just like to stress I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with any nefariousness. Even though Caitlin is slamming the system, she cannot be considered so dangerous they would try to do these little tricks to disrupt her.

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Thanks, I have the link you sent and I'm use that if things don't change. However on no other sire has this happened. So late in the day and just found out about the attack on the Russian concert. I hope this was no planned attack by Ukraine.

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Thank you Caitlin. I'm a reader since your articles are very readable, succinct and to the point. But for placing as an FB post I think many of my contacts may like the type of You Tube format.

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The video's are great! The insights of great value for those who want to see the world as it is.

We might also acknowledge that NATO is a pathetic collection of said "banana republics" and until they grow up and start behaving like real people , real governments, the west is totally screwed.

Running from reality is a losers game. The longer and harder we run the harder the bite in the ass when it inevitably catches up. This fundamental rule of life is one troglodyte west politicians have yet to learn.

The longer we indulge in war and atrocity the deeper grave.

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"If they are, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel and view my articles that way from here on out if you prefer."

You will be restricted on YouTube.

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