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Diana van Eyk's avatar

When is foreign interference not really foreign interference? When Israel does it and Trump brags about it. At least in Crazyland.

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@realRodster's avatar

No surprise who owns who as the list of journalists in the alternative media have been repeatedly saying for some time now that Israel is the tail that wags the US dog. The US does as Israel says with money given to Israel from US taxpayers. If you go against Israel's wishes, they will do their best after the vetting process to fund another candidate.

And yes, it is widely known that the Israel Lobby patrols the halls of congress making sure candidates who are up for reelection are Pro Israel.

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Jon Olsen's avatar

Note my comment about that as well. Then there'sthe USS Liberty which was bombed and nearly sunk.

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Jo Waller's avatar

Of course candidates have to be pro- US aircraft carrier in oil rich west asia and pro aggressive US attack dog proxy ready to fight Iran!

It's absurd to think that this means the tail wags the dog.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Miriam reminds me of this hag bitch in Brooklyn who always screamed at us when our stick-balls bounced in her driveway up against her precious garage door. She and Trump deserve each other.

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SafePlace's avatar

😜😜😜

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Jo Waller's avatar

Women in politics, Ursula, Kamala, Hilary, are referred to by their first not family name to highlight their female sex and to diminish and infantalize them.

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dacoelec's avatar

Trump is easily the most corrupt president we've ever had.

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@realRodster's avatar

News Flash!!! They are all equally corrupt. They just arrive with a different promise to end all of the corruption. The most recent example is Joe Bidet getting his crackhead son on the Ukrainian energy board. Then of course there's the alleged money from China to the Biden's.

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Bill D.'s avatar

Rodster, many are corrupt, but the current one is at least a couple of decimal points more corrupt !

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Paula's avatar
4hEdited

Oh, and so much more. The corruption is long and deep. if you know the history that's been hidden from you. And if current history in the making tells you anything, Israel is trying to change our minds about what all of us witnessed. We are the United States of Israel.

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Whatistobedone's avatar

For one reason only....israyhell owns ALL the money bags.

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Paula's avatar

Indeed.

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Jon Olsen's avatar

Makes bio-regional secession look like a"good deal."

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Paula's avatar

Only, but not. My study is about religions and how one introduced usury and the other thinks it a sin. Imagine a world that didn't have interest on the dollar and one that does. One can easily see why a religion that finds interest to loans from your brothers and sisters a great threat to our current financial system. But then again, Muslims might imitate Jews and charge others who are not Muslims and thereby elevate their religion and operations the in world of finance to create an opposition to base of usury charging Western domination.

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Loam's avatar

Which means breaking extraordinary previous records.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Based on what I know of other U.S. Presidents (and US political history), I'm inclined to agree with you.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

CJ>>"This is because mainstream western politics and media understand that we are living in an unofficial oligarchic empire to which both the US and Israel belong. They never acknowledge it, they never talk about it, but all high-level politicians, pundits and operatives in the western world understand that they serve a globe-spanning power structure run by a loose alliance of plutocrats and empire managers."

🎯💯 THIS!

Thank you Caitlin & Tim ❤️🙏

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Rhys Stanley's avatar

True, Chang.

Mainstream Western politics and media never acknowledge the unofficial oligarchic empire because they have learned to live with it, being part of it beforehand and consequently they also are now among the beneficiaries. They have set their sights on all the anticipated next steps, easy to guess even after only 8 months of this narcissistic president of the USA.

Must make you all proud.

He is getting to be so readable. A little boy in a man's world. The USA is his new toy.....

next to golf.

Whereas the outlandish praise displayed in his grovelling homage to the Adelsons, both dead and alive, was not anticipated in my earlier offer on these pages to identify beforehand the likely content of his speech in the Knesset, one could be confident in thinking that a little more of a twist by the wrist of Netanyahu on the delicate parts of this bumbling and ludicrous buffoon may have been seen to be needed as well, capitalising on this hastily but well planned circus event. The last one being the 80th Anniverary of Auschwitz earlier this year. A PR special.

Who else would admit in public in the main room of the new Head Office of the United States of America, now called The Knesset, that his election was as the result of bribery and corruption........saying in effect to Adelson herself, "keep at it, baby. Come the the White House again, soon and I'll put on a big spread"

Taxpayer's cost, of course.

Must have missed the illegality of that kind of action in my reading of the Constitution.

Still, in America, anything goes.

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dale ruff's avatar

Today, on the radio, on tv, and in the press, we have been presented dozens of stories of the emotion that greeted the release of the 20 living Israel hostages. We saw cheering, tears, celebration, and we only then remembered that there were hundreds of Palestinians also released, many held as hostages without charges or due process, and that there was not one story of the joy of the families that greeted their fathers, brothers, in some cases, wives who had been arrested without an legal status. Zero.

Is it that the media only thinks Israelis are human, full of grief and joy, that their tears and glee are the only ones worth our attention? I was sickened by this display of media happiness for the Israelis and the total ignoring of the hundreds of Palestinians returning to their families, equally overjoyed, equally human.

This is the asymmetry of war: the enemy must be dehumanized, either labeled a savage, an animal, or something we feel justified in exterminating...or ignored, unseen, as tho his existence were unworthy of being noted.

This is not journalism, the reporting of what actually happens This is a form of propaganda, which grants humanity to only one side in a conflict, deeming the other side, too unimportant to even notice.

And so among the happy cheers and laughter and joy and emotion that is blanketing the media today, I am sharing my joy with the Palestinians liberated, with their families, and my tears are for a media which is not reporting the fact but cheerleading the release of a small group of hostages, as though it were rooting for the home team. this is not journalism; this is a subtle form of propaganda.

On the same day, as Hamas delivered only 4 dead bodies, with the rest either in the hands of other groups or leeching rotting in the rubble, killed by Israeli bombs, Israeli has already begun it sabotage of the "peace" agreement, accusing Hamas of violating the agreement by not returning all the dead hostages, setting up their case that Hamas had sabotaged the peace arrangement in preparation, now that hostages are home and public pressure on the war mongers is off, to resume the genocide, blaming Hamas and with Trump, who is a servant of the Adelsons, a hired gun, giving his approval.

I hope I am wrong but given the irreconcilable differnences about Hamas disarming, it is virtually certain Israel will use this as a justification to resume military action, having retreated not out of Gaza but still in control of the majority of the region with tanks, machine guns, and bombs ready to use as soon as the blame is fixed on Hamas for not disarming, which hit never agreed to and has said it will only do when Israel recognizes Palestine as a state in a two state solution, which Netanyahu and his band of murderers have opposed for many decades. The Peace plan, which is called this despite the war crimes of Israel occupying Gaza and its naval blockade, is about to hit a brick wall, and that will be the signal, once Trump signs on, which as a pawn of the Adelsons, he will, to "finish the job." That is my prediction, the logic that the current disagreement about arms and the Zionist endgame leads to, and my fear, tho I wish I were wrong.

But I would wager I am not. This is no peace agreement; it bails out the Zionist regime from public anger with the hostages released, and it sets up a justification , to resume the genocide.

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Whatistobedone's avatar

My regards are extended ONLY for the Palestinians...the victims of vicious, fascist terrorists. ONLY Palestinians.

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Francis/Clare's avatar

And they always threaten the Palestinians not to celebrate their loved one's release or they'll be arrested again.

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CK's avatar

Consider the very few oligarchs who own the mass media.

Adelson owns Trump, by his own confession. Who owns the rest of the GOP and much of the DNC?

Congress has the legal and moral authority to remove Trump from office. What will Congress do?

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Wren's avatar

President Trump is old. He's not well. This is the second term. He survived when a bullet grazed his ear. That makes him believe he has a God-given go-ahead to accomplish some undefined mission.

His base will explain away and forgive anything he does, putting it in the most favorable light. He is the dream come true, and any dirty reality isn't going to damage that belief! "There will never be another like him". "This is what I voted for". "I trust him". "That's OUR president!".

Put all of this together and he believes he can do anything. The sky is the limit. The imagination isn't expansive enough. The money-making opportunities are everywhere. And, yes, he can admit to anything and walk away smiling.

For now. The truth is the wheel keeps turning.

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Whatistobedone's avatar

The f* will probably outlast us. NO justice in this life. MLK Jr.'s arc is not bending toward justice and good will.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Well said Wren. You describe the attitude of his MAGA cult members quite accurately (especially their defense of him no matter what).

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Loam's avatar

Miriam Adelson, bored one day with shopping for whatever she fancied, decided to buy herself the president of the United States. So she headed to that boutique called The White House and satisfied her whim. Knock, knock. Is this where the great president of the "land of the free" lives? I've come to buy him and the country he claims to represent. And so it was. One more puppy for his collection. And that's how the United States became Genocidal Israel... The "Land of the Corrupt."

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Jo Waller's avatar

As if.

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Francis/Clare's avatar

Yeah, but it's been like that since the Nakba.

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Hannahlehigh's avatar

I watched his little speech and it was puke worthy, he will never be America first, Israel owns and operates him fully.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Trump seems like the easiest person to own (by anybody that has enough money/resources). Just shower Trump with money (and apparently young girls), and he's owned by you.

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dale ruff's avatar

Short version: the Adelsons, with Israel First, paid Trump half a billion to put Israel first and continue funding and arming the genocide. Even neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes is burned up about Trump putting America second! Time for the Night of the knives!

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

"The only thing I like about Donald Trump is his infantile tendency to say the quiet part out loud."

It's his only strength. He acts like a toddler who can't keep a secret. And we need to know these secrets--we can't afford to stay in the dark any longer. We need to expose the oligarchs and shut down the empire. Yesterday.

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Paula's avatar

If you know where he came from; his great grandfather in Alaska started a brothel. His relative was sent back to Germany, but Germany would not have him. Trumps historical relative, following the grifters in their family, went to Alaska during the gold mine era and started his wealth in trafficking women and alcohol. That's the source of his wealth along with buying up properties refusing to rent black people. His brother Fred Jr, was given a property to managed, and because the people in that property requested that Fred Jr. replace the windows to keep the cold of a New York winter out which Fred Jr was compassionate enough to listen to, Fred Sr. took that property management away from him. What happened to Fred Jr after that is a story yet to be told in full, but Fred Jr makes a great case, in my estimation, for the understanding of alcoholism every where. If you are not part of the grifters of our tax paying community, you are labeled as alcoholic, antisemitic, or too poor to know what effects you. One of the reasons, in my humble estimation of the genocide against Muslin nations is their religion that opposes usury, also known as charging interest to those who need a loan. Jews in total and not just Zionists are known to support their own with no interest. But when it comes to the goyim, on which the global banking system is upheld, interest is what makes them rich and powerful. When nations seek to own their own resources and make their own currency, the West is quick to step in and do a regime change in their favor; certainly not in favor of the people the west places sanctions on. However you feel about WWII Germany, what scared the hell out of usury demanding central banks was that Germany brought its country from the devastation of WWI in six short years to a powerhouse by minting their own currency and having their own banks. Hitler was actually on the front page of Time Magazine as Man of the Year for doing so.

What a wicked web we weave and how actual history has been denied.

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Veraduerga's avatar

I appreciate Trump's transparency. He shows openly the Israeli influence on our government..

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

His 'transparency' is a 'communication strategy' that he deploys to project the illusion of Trump being 'a truth-teller'/honest/etc. Most people haven't developed sufficient critical thinking skills to separate 'fact from fiction', hence MANY are fooled/conned by Trump's 'style of communication'. Remember, the best lies are those that are mixed-in with a certain amount of truth, half-truths, and ommissions.

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CK's avatar
4hEdited

“…the best lies are those that are mixed-in with a certain amount of truth, half-truths, and ommissions.” That’s called “propaganda”.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Propaganda is not necessarily only about lies/misinformation/etc. There can also be good/honest/truthful propaganda, though it is more often used with a negative connotation.

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CK's avatar

From Merriam Webster: “The Congregatio de propaganda fide(“Congregation for propagating the faith”) was an organization established in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV as a means of furthering Catholic missionary activity.”

I am not old enough to have had personal experience with Pope Gregory XV. History tells us that some Catholic missionary activity was good and some was evil.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Not sure what relevance your comment has to the meaning of propaganda.

American Heritage Dictionry of the English Language (5th Edition) ->

(1) The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.

(2) Material disseminated by the advocates or opponents of a doctrine or cause.

Like I said before, propaganda is not necessarily bad. It can be good or bad. The intent, motive, and methods of propaganda determine its usage.

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CK's avatar

Pope Gregory’s intentions may have been good.

In my own lifetime, to date, my experience with propaganda is that it is used for deception.

Edward Bernays literally wrote a book — Propaganda— about propaganda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)

I have no doubt that you are familiar with some of that history. That should be taught in all high schools, along with critical thinking skills. 😀

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SafePlace's avatar

And. Admits he’s never gonna see heaven. What a f’cking maniac.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Heaven? He's not even going to see Hell (meaning, even Hell is too good for the likes of Trump and Netanyahu).

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SafePlace's avatar

Good point

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SW's avatar

Trump’s colossal stupidity never fails. I do wish he’d added that the entire Congress is also on the payroll and they might have to put the genocide on hold so the US can attack Venezuela. But once BiBi gets his pardon for corruption and there’s a news blackout in Gaza, they’re back in business. TikTok will be purged of everything but cat videos and women applying makeup and Bari Weiss will purge anyone with an original thought at CBS.

How much food, clean water, tents, gasoline, medical supplies, baby food and doctors have actually gotten in to Gaza?

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Jim's avatar
4hEdited

I am so goddamned sick of israel.

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Whatistobedone's avatar

EVIL TERRORIST FAKE MAKE BELIEVE STATE. (Sorry for shouting)...

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