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Caitlin, so many things to unpack in today's article - much food for thought. Thank you for consistently dismantling false narratives and explaining differences (eg. how freedom of speech differs depending on who you talk to).

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******* BREAKING ********

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Moon of Alabama has put himself out there and touched the third-rail.

Moon of Alabama used the term L I H O P !!!

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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/11/oct-7-2023-netanyahoo-knew-the-attack-was-coming-he-let-it-happen-on-purpose.html

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"Really not looking forward to another four years of this shit." Me neither, but I think we would be looking forward to 4 years of some kind of shit no matter who was elected. The right seems to be doing a great job of making sure that any issues that come up that may make anyone in Israel look bad are turned around so that the real problem is antisemitism. This is looking like a global problem inspired by the US and Israel.

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Both parties are ruled by the same warmongering billionaire overlords. Trump or Harris, funding will continue to fuel the genocide in Gaza. The only party that would have put a stop to it is the Green party whose candidate I voted for, and a candidate with a snail's chance in hell of ever being elected.

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true as long as you agree the Dem's are as 'right' as the Repubs.

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I have never connected "left" with the Democrats.

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It took me some time to understand what Democrats mean by 'leftist' . If European parties are actually 'political' (which seems to be a bad word) and US ones are more 'coalitions of special interest groups' then how does left and right apply at all ? When US citizens describe Democrats as left-wing I still do a double-take !

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4 years ? You’re an optimist.

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"Israel" is Genocide.

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Omigosh! Is their any alternative conclusion available for discussion?

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Here's one: Both Democrats & Republicans are complete frauds; they are essentially two-heads of the same warmongering hydra that is the United States empire!

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City of London is also in there. It's like a hydra, maybe.

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israel is taking an exam to prove they belong to the western empire. they passed with 98% approval rate.

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It "could" be different, but Israeli politicians claim that if there were equal rights under the law, and UN resolutions were followed, that "Israel" could no longer exist, right?

It is "Israel" as an apartheid Religious-State which is, by its own political calling, "genocide".

There was an "Israeli" assassination of Yitzhak Rabin for even starting into a peace-process based upon a 2 state solution. Following that, a divisive political party, Hamas, which did not believe in a 2-state solution, was covertly supported by "Israel", and openly advocated by Netanyahu, to prevent any further moves towards a Palestinian state.

What "is" cannot really remain as-it-is, but I think it "is" as I stated for the moment.

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"It depends on what 'is' is.". -- Bill Clinton

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Trump will be the Republican Obama. Captivated 'the base,' offered a transformative promise, but in the end was more of the same.

Once both major parties have had candidates that promised transformation, and yet, after wielding power things just keep getting worse for middle and working class Americans, it is hard to say what the reaction will be.

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Maybe they'll stop voting for the duopoly bastards?

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Minor parties showed no gains. The game has been going on for decades, generations. Voters believe that only winning matters.

In the UK minor parties got 45% of the vote. USA, 2%.

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The brainwashing of the American people remains a feat unparalleled in modern history. Even the DDR did not manage to brainwash its population to this degree And as Snowden showed, the Stasi could only dream of the tools the US uses to spy on every minute of its people’s lives every day.

The are a lost cause. And this is why the global south and the BRICS have moved on and are breaking away.

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But they haven't gone away entirely. There is more to "winning" than numbers on a graph. There is the "winning" that comes from challenging the status quo and opening others' minds to a different way of thinking. Helping to develop critical thinking skills in a populace is a very noble endeavor and one worth working hard to develop. That is, if you truly care about humanity on the whole and want it to live and flourish and you aren't just a whiny self-centered type.

"While there is breath, there is still life."

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Well said TRC!

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The fact that Independents got so low of the vote depresses and discourages me.

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Mass nighilism?

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Nihilism implies you know and don’t care and want chaos.

But these Americans mainly are just oblivious.

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" Israel’s atrocities will continue into the next administration because the Biden administration wants them to."

This is the point we have to get across to all the "distraught" Harris voters. There's no reason for them to cry. Trump is going to continue their beloved genocide in Gaza for them, even if Harris can't be the genocider-in-chief.

Some days, you wish the damn sh*tlibs would surprise you and do something compassionate and selfless like actually stopping the flow of arms to Israel. But they'll prove me right every time. SIGH.

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But it will be a stupid racist genocide instead of a nuanced liberal genocide.

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Is that a double or triple bamboozal?

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Maybe even a quadruple or quintuple...

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I was talking with a conservative leaning friend of mine about the election and he was worried about his brainwashed ‘ultra left’ wife going off the deep end. ‘She’s completely bought into the Rachel Maddow propaganda machine! She can’t see what a horrible candidate Kamala was because she’s a radical left communist, is stupid, gets her talking points from a teleprompter, and would’ve bankrupted the country.’ I said I agree, she was a terrible candidate but I felt she was not a ‘Marxist’ but more like a corporatist. Worse, she was directly supporting the violence in Ukraine and the middle east’. His response was that she wasn’t aggressive enough there and we should be bombing Iran and others because ‘they keep attacking us”. When did they attack ‘us’ ? I asked. He pointed out past terrorist actions , 9/11, oh and remember all the beheading videos. So he just lumped Palestinians with all that. So we should kill them all…babies? Old people? Really dude? I changed subjects. I found it ironic that he was worried about his wife being a victim of propaganda and political psyops. Actually, I was sad for him and for us all.

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This view is common.

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Michael, "Rachel Maddow and Kamala Harris radical left communists" - only in America! Your friend's poor poor wife , what a load of rubbish she has to put up with. And for you Michael, with friends like these...... !

They say " ... people get the governments they deserve .... "

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The Nakba or “catastrophe,” which in 1948 saw Zionist militias drive 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, carry out more than 70 massacres and seize 78 percent of historic Palestine, has returned.

The Western colonialists, USA, UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand with an almost childlike chant of “”Israel has a right to defend itself” try to justify their continued support for Israel’s genocide. They have three things in common. 'Christianity', a shameful history of "colonialism" and they are ‘white’, any one of which has been the reason for inhumane crimes over centuries past. But all together they are the reasons for the disgraceful standards and the continuation of the US supported and encouraged acts of murder, child killing, rape and mass bombings.

Any one of these genocide approvalists is as much to blame for this crime as is Israel and together, they could have brought this whole war to an end a year ago. Even tomorrow. But not one has faced the truth. They are no better that the criminal Israel, modern day Nazis in every regard. Whereas Christian Germany tried to rid the world of Jews, so Israel AND the Western countries are trying to rid the world of Muslims.

Why don't people question the lack of outspoken action by the Western Christian leaders, the lack of suggested visits by Pope Francis to Palestine or the head of the UK Church of England, King Charles. Are we all supposed to put religious inputs, that is any condemnation to the crimes of the world, on the back burner until we all get permission from Netanyahu? Or Biden? Or Trump?

The stolen state of Israel has the world by the vitals, but particularly the Christians, all quiet on the Western front, afraid to utter any comment to offend Jews, Zionists and their uncontrolled, merry band of killers.

What kind of a person do you have to be to sniper kill a baby?

How did we ever get to this stage? We spent years fighting Nazis and just as many years bringing these same Nazis to task for the crimes they committed. And yet this one sided brutal action to kill off a whole country, or two, or three, or more, is giving Israel a clear run to expand their crimes,

WITH America likely to stay in there as a benefactor and major supporter.

The crime of the Century.......and more to come.

The finger points to the USA. They have allowed all this to happen.

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Israel is not a religious state, it's a Zionist state. Huge difference.

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Most Zionists including Herzl are atheist ethnic supremacist materialists. Religion is a convenient cover. When it suits, Jewish is a religion. When it suits, Jewish is an ethnos. Have your cake and eat it too.

I imagine an Israeli can follow the Talmud ethics (or lack thereof, even the absence of ethics are ethics of a sort) without subscribing to the metaphysics of monotheism. Take for example Polish interloper Mileikowicz/Netanyahu. Is one thing yet seems another.

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"What kind of a person do you have to be to sniper kill a baby?"

Chosen. Indoctrinated. Coddled. Pampered. Never held accountable. That kind of pers...I mean society.

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i doubt more and more if the western elites ever were really interested in 'fighting nazis'. when one steps back and takes a look at the bigger picture, the nazi's were doing the bidding of the western elites all along (attacking the biggest threat to their privileged position: the successful example of what seemed a people's revolution in russia).

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To be pro-Israel is to be propagandized.

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Or, to have a closed mind and a hard heart, Diana van Eyk.

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To be pro-Israel is to be complicit in land theft, property theft and mass-murder. The giant albatross around America's neck is called Israel.

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Trump is a salesman. He will say whatever is necessary to make the sale. Everybody does it and expertise thereof is admired and applauded.

This is a foundation stone of US culture.

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Pro-Israhell is not pro-war, but pro-genocide !!!!!

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Unpopular opinion but Caitlin Johnstone needs to hear this out.

To still be pro-Bitcoin is complicit with being pro-Israel and pro-war. The Bitcoin donations link is counterproductive to actually stopping Zionists from still staying relevant albeit digitally.

Advice for Cailtlin Johnstone: Listen to Whittney Webb’s warnings regarding Bitcoin snd cryptocurrency under the current hands of financial institutions such as BlackRock, whom are pure Zionists.

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I'm not a fan of crypto but this seems like the "ethical consumption under capitalism" argument. Caitlin isn't a crypto booster. If she takes contributions in that medium then whatever.

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It's "using the master's tools" to be a dissident. It's icky but so is existing in this world.

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People should use "proof of stake" cryptocurrency if they want to be free of government intrusion in their finances or purchases. Bitcoin is "proof of work" and is terrible for the environment while it benefits those who Golden Monarch mentions.

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Or better still, avoid bitcoin alltogether (a half-baked technology/solution IMHO). What problems in the world has Bitcoin solved?

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“Proof of stake”, “Proof of work”, both are insufficient options when both are still being largely projected by crypto industry fanatics, financial institutions, Wall Street, even the World Economic Forum.

Notable examples of “Proof of Stake”: Ethereum, Cardano, Solana, Avalanche, etc.

Notable examples of “Proof of Work”: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Monero, etc.

Case point: Both are crap. 💩

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>>Case point: Both are crap. "

Agree 100%

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I never stated nor implied Caitlin is a crypto booster. But I am offering advice per what Whittney Webb has studied about digital currency about the current trajectory of Bitcoin/crypto, and whether it’s still wise for anyone to be doing/receiving Bitcoin donations. If the elites and Zionists are going to be using Bitcoin/crypto, why should we? I rather reject any propaganda promoted by billionaires and Zionists than use the enemy’s tools against them.

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>>"use the enemy’s tools against"

Here's the flaw in your logic. Just because Israel/Zionists use something DOESN'T automatically make it a "tool". They use water, oxygen, oil, food, any and all forms of financial securities, computers, microsoft windows, mobile phones, etc.

Does that mean we need to stop using computers, mobile phones, etc. just because THEY use them to perform a genocide? So if they use Gold to fund a part of their operations, you suggest people stop using Gold?

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Short answer: Yes.

Gold is not an essential means of living whereas water, oxygen, food are inevitable essentials per survival.

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What about computers and mobile phones and technology and AI and everything else? Do the rest of the humans on the planet stop using these just because Israel/Zionists use these too?

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Short answer: Yes

And although humans are still nowhere near close to ditching their technology devices (as warned by documentary Zeitgeist), we must all recognize that the longer we continue to vouch and support such devices and technologies, which enable both Big Tech (from the U.S.) and Israel to remain in existence, humanity will continue to be living under a surveillance state, with censorship getting worse than it currently is now, and digital currency and tokenization essentially “manipulating” daily lives of people who still believe the government, backed by Zionism and anyone backing Bitcoin/Crypto/CBDC is a good thing…

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Yeah I think the bitcoin should be dropped

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Golden Monarch, you are conflating many differnt things into simplistic, illogical buckets.

Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies) have NOTHING to do with Israel or War. If you have issues with Bitcoin (as do I), learn to at least understand those issues.

If you feel there is a connection between Bitcoin and war or Bitcoin and Israel, please present a logical/valid argument (other than just simple hatred and irrationality).

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Very ironic for this to come from an “Anti-Technologist” such as yourself.

Ask yourself this: Why are the biggest and wealthiest supporters Bitcoin/cryptocurrency also the biggest advocates of Israel and War?

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Dude, I'm NOT for Bitcoin (or cryptocurrencies). I'm against them (in every which way - especially its impact to climate change and wastage of energy and resources).

The point is: Your comment above has NO valid logic to it - NO correlation. You assert something out of your arse without making ANY case for it. You have NO argument here, nothing to stand on.

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BlackRock, MicroStrategy, Coinbase, Binance, the list goes on…

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What is the connection between Bitcoin/cryptocurries and Israel? And what is the connection to WAR?

Bitcoin/cryptocurrencies came into existence since 2009 (after the global financial crisis). Wars (and Israel) have been present way before that.

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Since the founding of Israel, U.S. has advanced in technology. They went through gold standard, only to drop gold standard, go further down the petrodollar route, all while the CIA and NSA albeit cypher punks were devising a way for U.S. to modernize past credit, dubbed “electronic cash”.

During which, U.S. for decades has continued vehemently support Israel’s war through its corporate media propaganda, Big Tech, and yes, even politicians. Ever hear of BlackRock or Vanguard?

And now that both Big Oil and Crypto Industry have largely bought up the 2024 election, the U.S. government through its Zionist backed AIPAC are going to ensure wars can continued to be carried out without having to worry about the depreciating value of the petrodollar.

Besides religious reason, the U.S. still supports Israel because through Israel invading other nearby countries, the U.S. needs more oil to generate more electricity to generate/mine cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin.

Freaking Larry Fink, Dark Lord of Bitcoin Zionists, is calling all the shots whether it be a Kamala administration or a Trump administration.

https://open.substack.com/pub/goldenmonarchnews/p/bitcoin-has-become-zionist-bitcoin?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

https://open.substack.com/pub/goldenmonarchnews/p/zionist-bitcoins-creator-is-cryonically?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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I read your first piece and it never makes any actual connection between Bitcoin and the Zionist project or Israel's genocide. Please explain here in your own shorter form if possible.

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Sorry, your comment does NOT make any valid argument of the relationship of Bitcoin/cryptocurrencies to Israel or War.

Also, this has NOTHING to do with the Gold Standard. There was a reason (actually multiple) that the US had to go off the Gold standard - and it would have happened sooner or later anyways (and followed by all other nations).

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A-Men-Men ....not a proper use exclamation. But I used it to agree wholeheartedly. I wish to see reasoned in truth conversations about this. I believe I am double bamboozled!!! Help me!

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Trump hasn't stepped back into office yet and already his cult is justifying his love of eternal war. Donald Trump is Kamala Harris in a suit.

Is America going to ever leave the Dark Ages? And the Dems want to front Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg, or Israel lover Josh Shapiro for their next installed candidate for 2028; so the entire "defend democracy" thing was all bullshit.

Time to break up the country.

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Trump has rotated back into th engineer's seat of the Israeli-controlled train speeding to the inevitable mother of all train wrecks over Israel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_pH_SroB2c

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"Really not looking forward to another four years of this shit." Nor am I. Thanks, Caitlin.

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Damn. It's now I appreciate the amount of research you've put into your writings, I doff my Hat to you Mademoiselle 🙇🏽‍♂️

And you've been warning the Trumpists that you'd come for their man if he won the election so fire away Madamè 😅

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