Excellent written piece as all of yr articles are. I am one that had absolutely no idea about the Palestinian plight before 7/10. But my gut was saying immediately something is seriously wrong here. All media sprouting the same thing no matter time zones and that struck me as strange. Time zones i am so aware of as was raised the other side of the world. Immediately felt something is not right. Gut feeling totally. So when someone who had been involved in the Palestinian plight for over 50yrs i listened. And then got working on getting as much info as i could. I have never liked politics as basically they are all liars. The last 8 months i have basically stopped everything in my life (besides my children and grandchildren) but everything on hold. I do not apologise for not knowing beforehand (and because of this i realise this is the biggest mistake of all movements; they assume people know and i say they don’t. Get the info out, tell them the complicity of yr own gov, what this means to the average person-as this is a great tool). We have to become smarter and that means go back to the old-fashioned ways of leaflets on letterboxes as most people watch MSM; don’t blame them but educate them. Tell them facts they can easily look up themselves but show them how. Slogans are great but mean nothing if people don’t know. Nakba meant nothing to me. Also with slogans free Palestine. Why? State it. And saw post of Shihad Bolson and am sure he has his own agenda but the man is incredibly intelligent. So when he says when you demand Ceasefire now or Free Palestine put a consequence to it by adding or else invoke article 6. He is spot on. I freakin know too much about international law already. But point out what article 6 is: expel goddamned US. Pressure is there as all those institutions have played all of us way too long. I agree and yet we need to keep pressuring them. And contrary to the BS of US (and by god i actually H A T E them with a passion) we need to keep adding all these institutions constantly. No matter that we know US is still abusing them. It is the pressure that counts. We have to make it clear either you want to crumble along with US empire or you finally stand for what you are supposed to be
Well said Greet, we are totally on the same page. The past 7 horrible months have been a total revelation to me, l will never see the world the same again.
Like you, but as a person who has been involved in advocacy for Palestine since 1967, the date of the USS Liberty call back by Zionist Lyndon Johnstone, (not knowing at that time of the Zionist involvement in the assassination of JFK), my worst feeling in the whole matter since October has been the way the Israelis and their fellow travellers, the majority of Jewish people, everywhere, have represented the fact that they are almost fighting an impossible battle against an army called Hamas. Must be multi thousands of them everywhere the way the media plays up the word Hamas as though it is an army of millions, thick on the ground, which of course it isn't and never has been. But listening to the media one would never know that.
But the clue is, how seldom do we hear from the propagandists in Israel of how many Hamas they have killed? Never, because there are so few Hamas anywhere, now an undisputed fact.. But on it goes with the same lying Israeli and Jewish mouthpieces spruiking the same rubbish, the media going along for the ride, as the media do these days, non-stop.
Another point that always concerns me is the complete disregard that is shown by Israel in their blocking of food supplies for the Palestinian people, forgetting (or not giving a damn) about the Israeli hostages who also need food as well.
Joseph Goebbels fame as a propagandist in WWII, pales when compared to the liars of Israel, now the most hated country in the world. By far.
If this horror and genocide has done one good thing it is that it has awoken good people like you to the basic and continuing psychopathic behaviour of the Zionists .No longer will they be able to hide in the shadow of a long ago genocide against the Jewish people .
The defeat of all forms of fascism (zionism, aristocracy, nazism, corporatism) is the test of the human species. If we cant defeat it, we don't deserve to continue.
There's also an effect of accumulation. I can remember Reagan's contras and the bloody "freedom fighters" in Honduras and Nicaragua. I can also remember going with a group in Vancouver to a wine store to drop South African bottles onto the concrete. I can remember Bush 1 going into Iraq. And, of course, after 9/11, when we could see what was coming from Bush 2. All the way through this there was the Palestinian struggle. It all collects, accumulates, reaches a critical mass, and finally it seems that - led by young people - everyone is saying "enough."
Your use of the word "idiotic" says a lot about the direction any discussion with you would take. I'll say this, though: I have no idea where you're from, but unless you're Black and on the ground in South Africa, you (like me) probably have no business judging the political process there. The ANC was the prime movement behind the overturning of a thoroughly unjust apartheid regime. Like Hamas in Palestine, they were elected by the people, and if they've bent to the temptation of White business-sourced funding the people will hold them accountable. Which is what has just happened. I'd be careful about joining in the gleeful celebration of their electoral setback, though; it wasn't a repudiation, it was an adjustment. The governance of that country should be left to the majority Black population, not the monied White minority.
Are you defending the anti-White Bantus in South Africa that now call for the genocide of the Whites there, decades after Whites gave up power and are now trying to live equally with everyone? Because that is what is actually happening in South Africa.
Nelson Mandela was a convicted double-murderer, and his wife Winnie and her security guards killed their enemies by "necklacing," which is putting a car tire around someones neck, dousing them with petrol, and then setting them on fire, so that the rubber melts and causes extra pain while they burn to death. I hope you don't idolize those two criminal frauds, simply because they were pushed by the corrupt Western press as peacemakers? (Nelson Mandela was a good actor, I'll give him that.)
Also, are you aware that the Bantu (behind the genocidal ANC) were the last group to inhabit South Africa? It's not "their country" in the way that the Western press sold it to you. The Bushmen are the true natives. The Boers (Dutch) came second, inhabiting the southwest by spreading out from Cape Town and establishing farms. The Bantu came last and are genocidal maniacs who murdered Boers and Bushmen alike. They are also currently destroying what used to be a prosperous, and much safer, developed country.
Racism and racist sentiments and inclinations are typically acquired during childhood -- regardless of skin color -- sometimes even passed down generationally like a communicable virus/sickness. It may be further cemented by a misguided yet strong sense of entitlement, perhaps also environmentally acquired.
Rearing one’s very impressionable young children in such an environment of baseless contempt and overt bigotry amounts to a formidable form of child abuse. It fails to prepare children for the practical reality of an increasingly diverse and populous society and workplace.
It also makes it so much less likely those children will be emotionally content or (preferably) harmonious with their multicultural and multi-ethnic/-racial surroundings.
Children reared into their adolescence and, eventually, young adulthood this way can often be angry yet not fully realize at precisely what. Then they may feel left with little choice but to move to another part of the land, where their own ethnicity/race predominates, preferably overwhelmingly so.
Parents should really do their kids a big favor by NOT passing down onto them such destructive sentiments and perceptions, as such rearing can make life so much harder for one’s own children.
Yes, the Bantu are extremely racist, it's a spiritual sickness, much as self-loathing in Whites is a spiritual sickness. They threaten to genocide the Boers who are trying to live in peace and do their farming; what effect will this hatred have on the next generation of Bantus?
I have been consuming mainstream news for 36 years and tend to notice things that many other people don't. [Or maybe they do notice but feel like they are supposed not to notice and behave accordingly.]
One thing is the thick social-issue politics within the mostly neoliberal mainstream news-media. Notably, when it comes to victimization, there are injustices that the said news-media seem to consider, cover or ignore as though those injustices are increasingly ideologically, socially and therefore politically acceptable.
The Western media (news, social and entertainment) can be mostly credited for the creation and maintenance of the current racial, sexual, gender — and now gender bending — social/political standards and even hypocrisies.
As a good example, anti-Caucasian racism can be expected to not receive coverage by the said neo-liberal mainstream news-media, in particular The New York Times and Washington Post, quite unlike when the victim is non-Caucasian.
Such ‘journalism’ has become systematic, yet many reporters and editors continue to lamely reply to their critics with, ‘Who, me? I’m just the messenger.’ But, whatever the news media may be, they are not ‘just the messenger’; nor are they just a reflection of the communities in which they circulate.
Unlike you I enjoyed South African wine in that country for about four decades. You should have maybe tried it before smashing the bottles? There is so much else that is wonderful about South Africa. Governance should be based on merit, as a principle, in my humble opinion.
"Merit" is undoubtedly subject to definition. I don't believe full-blown apartheid and White supremacy sustained by Euro-American money and weapons to be particularly meritorious.
Dear Peter, I am not black. Are you? You are entitled to believe anything you wish, of course, but this appears to perfectly match the smashing of wine bottles in protest.
So a bottle of wine is worth more than saving thousands and thousands of human lives, eh? I guess no one will ever think of you as worthy then. Must be lonely.
If Israel isn't committing genocide, there's no such thing as genocide. Read the UN definition of genocide:
US and Israeli Zionist officials claim Israel is not committing genocide, while the US gives Israel the tank shells, bombs, bullets, and billions to continue committing state-sponsored genocide.
People say this all the time, it's as if they cannot believe their own eyes and ears but must have the word from some authority. Problem is that any authority is pressured by the powerful not issue such a decree.
People have not been ready to hear just how horrible the US Empire has been. Gaza, being live streamed, and being everything, everywhere all at once, has forced people to see. And it has taken this disgusting, over the top killing by the Israeli military with lots of help from the US to get people to see. I was saying how wrong and colonialist I thought Israel was 40 years ago and was told to go back to grade one. The evidence is there that humans are destroying the earth by war, consumption, and now the threat of nuclear bombs, but people just do not want to see. Gaza is pushing people to a place they have been trying to avoid for decades.
There's none so blind as those that won't see, and that willingness to be ignorant often comes with a benefit: social, financial, or political. We must be steadfast in awakening our fellow human beings in whatever ways we can, especially now, when the Panopticon can as easily be turned on the powerful as the powerless.
. "You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden..." (Holden)
"Is this the test now?" (Leon)
"Yes! You're in a desert and you're walking along in the sand and all of a sudden you look down and..." (Holden)
"What one?" (Leon)
"What?" (Holden)
"What desert?" (Leon)
"It doesn't make any difference what desert. It's completely hypothetical!" (Holden)
"Well how come I'be there?" (Leon)
"Maybe you're fed up, maybe you wanna be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and you see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling towards you." (Holden)
"A tortoise? What's that?" (Leon)
"You know what a turtle is? Same thing." (Holden)
"I've never seen a turtle but I understand what you mean." (Leon)
"You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon." (Holden)
"Do you make up these questions, Mr Holden? Or do they write them down for you?" (Leon)
"The turtoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without for your help. But you're not helping." (Holden)
"What do you mean I'm not helping!" (Leon)
"I mean you're not helping. Why is that Leon? (tense silence) They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response. Shall we continue? Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your mother." (Holden)
"My mother? Let me tell you about my mother!" (Leon)
I was in the American military for most of my early adult life and I didn't wake up until I went to Afghanistan on deployment in 2002. Living amongst the people as part of a special operations unit, I got to see first hand how the western propaganda machine works and I have been fighting it on and off since. Now I am using my podcast platform to call it out as everyone sees it. One more voice among the many. If there are enough voices, things can change. Stand up and be counted.
Jane, I understand (born in 1963)! I started waking up around 2007, and from then, until now, I feel/know, that the country I thought I knew…I don’t know! Where am I?
After getting fired for not complying with the CONvid psyop, I knew something (very spiritual) is happening in the world!
It’s mind boggling! I’m ashamed of “my” government! It’s sickening to me. I consider myself an Earthling-no political party, red/blue, etc. I love God/Creator and I choose not to be a part of this soul crushing evil we are witnessing.
I truly don’t know what to do, except change myself. I think that is the answer. I want to be Light. May God guide me.
Yes, changing our minds is all we can change. Our energy flows where our attention goes. Therefore we need to focus on what we do want and not on what we don’t want. This is the way we can begin to change things. Unity is the way forward. (And violence is never the solution). 💜
What an ugly thing to say. Sure, there are humans who are savage - but all humans? Such a patently false and crass generalization. There is a great deal of light in the world as well, and beautiful human beings. And that beauty is worth fighting for.
"Civilised" came from the Romans, who called the surrounding, much older, wealthier, more egalitarian, more HUMANIST, and considerably more decent civilisations "Barbarians".
The word/concept has been contentious from day 1.
The most "civilised" [at least, according to themselves] are usually the most murderous fuckwits. While the "barbarians" are often quite civilised societies.
Given a choice, who would prefer to live in "civilised" Victorian England, or their "barbarian" victims living relaxed and chilled out lives on tropical islands before the Redcoats and RN arrived?
That sounds like the cruel and vengeful god of the Jewish old testament which thankfully is a very doubtful existential concept. I'm not sure the god of love exists either but in either case it is morally wrong to wish for the destruction of a group of Zionist Jews no matter of misguided and evil their actions are. We must disempower them and protect the suffering Palestinian civilians especially the slaughter of the children. Then deal with the offenders under international law . If that is not now possible we must work to make it possible
Thank you, Caitlin! This piece ties in perfectly with your previous article. I had originally thought this evil Genocide, war on Russia, and China was about a failing u.s. financial system 34.7 Trillion and counting at 2 million a min. BTW, we in the u.s. should cross the 35 Trillion debt level by Aug. 11th. or close. 1 Trillion in interest debt payment this year. With the u.s. dollar as a weapon I assume there is a limit to printed money the world will choke down. You are right there is no government in most countries of the West, only the primary military empire with it's puppet states. I now believe On the Beach is inevitable, escalation continues daily now and at some point Russia will no longer have the space to allow for Morons in washington/nato (yes lowercase) to continue escalation without a punch in the face. That punch will have to be a, we are done with playing games hoping you are intelligent enough to understand nuclear war is not winnable so here is a sample for you.
Australian engineer/writer Nevil Shute wrote one of the darkest books I had ever read. When I was in grade school the Librarian let me read in the adult section. What we are experiencing now leads to this book. The movies are garbage, the book sums it up.
Excellent written piece as all of yr articles are. I am one that had absolutely no idea about the Palestinian plight before 7/10. But my gut was saying immediately something is seriously wrong here. All media sprouting the same thing no matter time zones and that struck me as strange. Time zones i am so aware of as was raised the other side of the world. Immediately felt something is not right. Gut feeling totally. So when someone who had been involved in the Palestinian plight for over 50yrs i listened. And then got working on getting as much info as i could. I have never liked politics as basically they are all liars. The last 8 months i have basically stopped everything in my life (besides my children and grandchildren) but everything on hold. I do not apologise for not knowing beforehand (and because of this i realise this is the biggest mistake of all movements; they assume people know and i say they don’t. Get the info out, tell them the complicity of yr own gov, what this means to the average person-as this is a great tool). We have to become smarter and that means go back to the old-fashioned ways of leaflets on letterboxes as most people watch MSM; don’t blame them but educate them. Tell them facts they can easily look up themselves but show them how. Slogans are great but mean nothing if people don’t know. Nakba meant nothing to me. Also with slogans free Palestine. Why? State it. And saw post of Shihad Bolson and am sure he has his own agenda but the man is incredibly intelligent. So when he says when you demand Ceasefire now or Free Palestine put a consequence to it by adding or else invoke article 6. He is spot on. I freakin know too much about international law already. But point out what article 6 is: expel goddamned US. Pressure is there as all those institutions have played all of us way too long. I agree and yet we need to keep pressuring them. And contrary to the BS of US (and by god i actually H A T E them with a passion) we need to keep adding all these institutions constantly. No matter that we know US is still abusing them. It is the pressure that counts. We have to make it clear either you want to crumble along with US empire or you finally stand for what you are supposed to be
Thank you for your awakening, and for sharing it. I believe we are fast approaching the “Hundredth Monkey” moment!
Well said Greet, we are totally on the same page. The past 7 horrible months have been a total revelation to me, l will never see the world the same again.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Ann,
Like you, but as a person who has been involved in advocacy for Palestine since 1967, the date of the USS Liberty call back by Zionist Lyndon Johnstone, (not knowing at that time of the Zionist involvement in the assassination of JFK), my worst feeling in the whole matter since October has been the way the Israelis and their fellow travellers, the majority of Jewish people, everywhere, have represented the fact that they are almost fighting an impossible battle against an army called Hamas. Must be multi thousands of them everywhere the way the media plays up the word Hamas as though it is an army of millions, thick on the ground, which of course it isn't and never has been. But listening to the media one would never know that.
But the clue is, how seldom do we hear from the propagandists in Israel of how many Hamas they have killed? Never, because there are so few Hamas anywhere, now an undisputed fact.. But on it goes with the same lying Israeli and Jewish mouthpieces spruiking the same rubbish, the media going along for the ride, as the media do these days, non-stop.
Another point that always concerns me is the complete disregard that is shown by Israel in their blocking of food supplies for the Palestinian people, forgetting (or not giving a damn) about the Israeli hostages who also need food as well.
Joseph Goebbels fame as a propagandist in WWII, pales when compared to the liars of Israel, now the most hated country in the world. By far.
By lies we shall do wars. Israhell founders.
If this horror and genocide has done one good thing it is that it has awoken good people like you to the basic and continuing psychopathic behaviour of the Zionists .No longer will they be able to hide in the shadow of a long ago genocide against the Jewish people .
I’ve said for years that we humans are not fully evolved yet. You’ve captured it in this piece.
People are waking up to the institutionalized evil because we see it being unveiled, which is the meaning of apocalypse.
Be the light.
The defeat of all forms of fascism (zionism, aristocracy, nazism, corporatism) is the test of the human species. If we cant defeat it, we don't deserve to continue.
You may ad another ism? Scientist. Paying prostitutes scientists and do tors to lie to us or even kill us?
This is why Israel intentionally targets journalists.
There's also an effect of accumulation. I can remember Reagan's contras and the bloody "freedom fighters" in Honduras and Nicaragua. I can also remember going with a group in Vancouver to a wine store to drop South African bottles onto the concrete. I can remember Bush 1 going into Iraq. And, of course, after 9/11, when we could see what was coming from Bush 2. All the way through this there was the Palestinian struggle. It all collects, accumulates, reaches a critical mass, and finally it seems that - led by young people - everyone is saying "enough."
What a waste of great wine! Such an idiotic action. And look at the country now, after 30 years of ANC destructive rule!
Your use of the word "idiotic" says a lot about the direction any discussion with you would take. I'll say this, though: I have no idea where you're from, but unless you're Black and on the ground in South Africa, you (like me) probably have no business judging the political process there. The ANC was the prime movement behind the overturning of a thoroughly unjust apartheid regime. Like Hamas in Palestine, they were elected by the people, and if they've bent to the temptation of White business-sourced funding the people will hold them accountable. Which is what has just happened. I'd be careful about joining in the gleeful celebration of their electoral setback, though; it wasn't a repudiation, it was an adjustment. The governance of that country should be left to the majority Black population, not the monied White minority.
Are you defending the anti-White Bantus in South Africa that now call for the genocide of the Whites there, decades after Whites gave up power and are now trying to live equally with everyone? Because that is what is actually happening in South Africa.
Nelson Mandela was a convicted double-murderer, and his wife Winnie and her security guards killed their enemies by "necklacing," which is putting a car tire around someones neck, dousing them with petrol, and then setting them on fire, so that the rubber melts and causes extra pain while they burn to death. I hope you don't idolize those two criminal frauds, simply because they were pushed by the corrupt Western press as peacemakers? (Nelson Mandela was a good actor, I'll give him that.)
Also, are you aware that the Bantu (behind the genocidal ANC) were the last group to inhabit South Africa? It's not "their country" in the way that the Western press sold it to you. The Bushmen are the true natives. The Boers (Dutch) came second, inhabiting the southwest by spreading out from Cape Town and establishing farms. The Bantu came last and are genocidal maniacs who murdered Boers and Bushmen alike. They are also currently destroying what used to be a prosperous, and much safer, developed country.
Racism and racist sentiments and inclinations are typically acquired during childhood -- regardless of skin color -- sometimes even passed down generationally like a communicable virus/sickness. It may be further cemented by a misguided yet strong sense of entitlement, perhaps also environmentally acquired.
Rearing one’s very impressionable young children in such an environment of baseless contempt and overt bigotry amounts to a formidable form of child abuse. It fails to prepare children for the practical reality of an increasingly diverse and populous society and workplace.
It also makes it so much less likely those children will be emotionally content or (preferably) harmonious with their multicultural and multi-ethnic/-racial surroundings.
Children reared into their adolescence and, eventually, young adulthood this way can often be angry yet not fully realize at precisely what. Then they may feel left with little choice but to move to another part of the land, where their own ethnicity/race predominates, preferably overwhelmingly so.
Parents should really do their kids a big favor by NOT passing down onto them such destructive sentiments and perceptions, as such rearing can make life so much harder for one’s own children.
Yes, the Bantu are extremely racist, it's a spiritual sickness, much as self-loathing in Whites is a spiritual sickness. They threaten to genocide the Boers who are trying to live in peace and do their farming; what effect will this hatred have on the next generation of Bantus?
I have been consuming mainstream news for 36 years and tend to notice things that many other people don't. [Or maybe they do notice but feel like they are supposed not to notice and behave accordingly.]
One thing is the thick social-issue politics within the mostly neoliberal mainstream news-media. Notably, when it comes to victimization, there are injustices that the said news-media seem to consider, cover or ignore as though those injustices are increasingly ideologically, socially and therefore politically acceptable.
The Western media (news, social and entertainment) can be mostly credited for the creation and maintenance of the current racial, sexual, gender — and now gender bending — social/political standards and even hypocrisies.
As a good example, anti-Caucasian racism can be expected to not receive coverage by the said neo-liberal mainstream news-media, in particular The New York Times and Washington Post, quite unlike when the victim is non-Caucasian.
Such ‘journalism’ has become systematic, yet many reporters and editors continue to lamely reply to their critics with, ‘Who, me? I’m just the messenger.’ But, whatever the news media may be, they are not ‘just the messenger’; nor are they just a reflection of the communities in which they circulate.
You, ‘The Pork Report’ are the anti-white Bantus and you’re trying to kill yourself so that you can be like the Boers & Bushmen?
Unlike you I enjoyed South African wine in that country for about four decades. You should have maybe tried it before smashing the bottles? There is so much else that is wonderful about South Africa. Governance should be based on merit, as a principle, in my humble opinion.
So you're Black?
"Merit" is undoubtedly subject to definition. I don't believe full-blown apartheid and White supremacy sustained by Euro-American money and weapons to be particularly meritorious.
Dear Peter, I am not black. Are you? You are entitled to believe anything you wish, of course, but this appears to perfectly match the smashing of wine bottles in protest.
So a bottle of wine is worth more than saving thousands and thousands of human lives, eh? I guess no one will ever think of you as worthy then. Must be lonely.
If Israel isn't committing genocide, there's no such thing as genocide. Read the UN definition of genocide:
US and Israeli Zionist officials claim Israel is not committing genocide, while the US gives Israel the tank shells, bombs, bullets, and billions to continue committing state-sponsored genocide.
https://progressives.substack.com/p/if-israel-isnt-committing-genocide
People say this all the time, it's as if they cannot believe their own eyes and ears but must have the word from some authority. Problem is that any authority is pressured by the powerful not issue such a decree.
People have not been ready to hear just how horrible the US Empire has been. Gaza, being live streamed, and being everything, everywhere all at once, has forced people to see. And it has taken this disgusting, over the top killing by the Israeli military with lots of help from the US to get people to see. I was saying how wrong and colonialist I thought Israel was 40 years ago and was told to go back to grade one. The evidence is there that humans are destroying the earth by war, consumption, and now the threat of nuclear bombs, but people just do not want to see. Gaza is pushing people to a place they have been trying to avoid for decades.
There's none so blind as those that won't see, and that willingness to be ignorant often comes with a benefit: social, financial, or political. We must be steadfast in awakening our fellow human beings in whatever ways we can, especially now, when the Panopticon can as easily be turned on the powerful as the powerless.
UNICEF Reports Israel Blew the Legs Off 2,500+ children - more than 10 kids a day get their legs blown off with American bombs
US Zionists call it "defending Israel" - Non-Zionists call it what it is: state-sponsored genocide.
https://progressives.substack.com/p/unicef-reports-israel-blew-the-legs
. "You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden..." (Holden)
"Is this the test now?" (Leon)
"Yes! You're in a desert and you're walking along in the sand and all of a sudden you look down and..." (Holden)
"What one?" (Leon)
"What?" (Holden)
"What desert?" (Leon)
"It doesn't make any difference what desert. It's completely hypothetical!" (Holden)
"Well how come I'be there?" (Leon)
"Maybe you're fed up, maybe you wanna be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and you see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling towards you." (Holden)
"A tortoise? What's that?" (Leon)
"You know what a turtle is? Same thing." (Holden)
"I've never seen a turtle but I understand what you mean." (Leon)
"You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon." (Holden)
"Do you make up these questions, Mr Holden? Or do they write them down for you?" (Leon)
"The turtoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without for your help. But you're not helping." (Holden)
"What do you mean I'm not helping!" (Leon)
"I mean you're not helping. Why is that Leon? (tense silence) They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response. Shall we continue? Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your mother." (Holden)
"My mother? Let me tell you about my mother!" (Leon)
----
How to identify a Zionazi.
Love this article Caitlin. Takes me to the heart of an essential matter and instills a soupçon of hope in me
Is soupcon a real word? I've never heard it
No, but soupçon is.
US permanently engaged in state-sponsored occupation, terrorism, land theft against the Palestinian people: "OKEARS" program
1. Occupy, 2. Kill, 3. Expel, 4. Annex, 5. Rebuild for Israel. 6. Sell Gaza oil & gas for Israel.
https://progressives.substack.com/p/us-permanently-engaged-in-state-sponsored
The US is openly saying WE HAVE NO BOOTS ON THE GROUND IN SYRIA? Then they built many military bases in Syria and admitted to STEAL SYRIA'S OIL.
Before October last year, I was blind to the violence and imperialism of the US Empire.
Good that you got wise.
I was in the American military for most of my early adult life and I didn't wake up until I went to Afghanistan on deployment in 2002. Living amongst the people as part of a special operations unit, I got to see first hand how the western propaganda machine works and I have been fighting it on and off since. Now I am using my podcast platform to call it out as everyone sees it. One more voice among the many. If there are enough voices, things can change. Stand up and be counted.
Me too, except that I smelt a big rat concerning Iraq and Afghanistan. Was still too willing to try and see the US as the good guys…. Sadly…
Jane, I understand (born in 1963)! I started waking up around 2007, and from then, until now, I feel/know, that the country I thought I knew…I don’t know! Where am I?
After getting fired for not complying with the CONvid psyop, I knew something (very spiritual) is happening in the world!
It’s mind boggling! I’m ashamed of “my” government! It’s sickening to me. I consider myself an Earthling-no political party, red/blue, etc. I love God/Creator and I choose not to be a part of this soul crushing evil we are witnessing.
I truly don’t know what to do, except change myself. I think that is the answer. I want to be Light. May God guide me.
Yes, changing our minds is all we can change. Our energy flows where our attention goes. Therefore we need to focus on what we do want and not on what we don’t want. This is the way we can begin to change things. Unity is the way forward. (And violence is never the solution). 💜
“CONvid”?
Yep! CONvid…all a lie. I saw it for myself, especially after losing my job of 23 years.
So did miillions of people not die from COVID? Was there not a pandemic the entire fucking world went through.
No, and no. What a psychological operation!
Humans are the dumbest and most savage species on Earth. I laugh when anyone calls us civilized. We most assuredly are not.
And this ties into what Catlin is saying about raising our individual and collective consciousness.. This is what is needed now more than ever
We either evolve and grow in consciousness as a species or we perish.. It's that simple
Absolutely correct🫂
BINGO!!!! We have a winner!
What an ugly thing to say. Sure, there are humans who are savage - but all humans? Such a patently false and crass generalization. There is a great deal of light in the world as well, and beautiful human beings. And that beauty is worth fighting for.
"Civilised" came from the Romans, who called the surrounding, much older, wealthier, more egalitarian, more HUMANIST, and considerably more decent civilisations "Barbarians".
The word/concept has been contentious from day 1.
The most "civilised" [at least, according to themselves] are usually the most murderous fuckwits. While the "barbarians" are often quite civilised societies.
Given a choice, who would prefer to live in "civilised" Victorian England, or their "barbarian" victims living relaxed and chilled out lives on tropical islands before the Redcoats and RN arrived?
I didn't know that. That makes sense. Thank you ☺
For excellent info on it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Terry-Jones-Barbarians-Alan-Ereira/dp/056353916X
There's an accompanying TV series (4 episodes), here's the first: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x72r71p
The book is better though. :)
Cool😎 Thank you☺
May God Damn Israel and all its supporters.
Amen x💯
That sounds like the cruel and vengeful god of the Jewish old testament which thankfully is a very doubtful existential concept. I'm not sure the god of love exists either but in either case it is morally wrong to wish for the destruction of a group of Zionist Jews no matter of misguided and evil their actions are. We must disempower them and protect the suffering Palestinian civilians especially the slaughter of the children. Then deal with the offenders under international law . If that is not now possible we must work to make it possible
It's a relatable sentiment instead of "bombing begins in 5 minutes"
Student Guide to corporate Zionist America
ONLY YOU can end the Occupation!
https://progressives.substack.com/p/student-guide-to-corporate-zionist
Thank you, Caitlin! This piece ties in perfectly with your previous article. I had originally thought this evil Genocide, war on Russia, and China was about a failing u.s. financial system 34.7 Trillion and counting at 2 million a min. BTW, we in the u.s. should cross the 35 Trillion debt level by Aug. 11th. or close. 1 Trillion in interest debt payment this year. With the u.s. dollar as a weapon I assume there is a limit to printed money the world will choke down. You are right there is no government in most countries of the West, only the primary military empire with it's puppet states. I now believe On the Beach is inevitable, escalation continues daily now and at some point Russia will no longer have the space to allow for Morons in washington/nato (yes lowercase) to continue escalation without a punch in the face. That punch will have to be a, we are done with playing games hoping you are intelligent enough to understand nuclear war is not winnable so here is a sample for you.
What is on the beach?
Australian engineer/writer Nevil Shute wrote one of the darkest books I had ever read. When I was in grade school the Librarian let me read in the adult section. What we are experiencing now leads to this book. The movies are garbage, the book sums it up.
“Melkor hated the Sea, for he could not subdue it.”
~JRR Tolkien, #TheSilmarillion
Exactly so.