I say it's worse than that. Our lives are dominated by gods without hearts or souls or compassion or a conscience. An unthinking god might accidentally kill you or help you, but a god without a conscience most assuredly will kill or harm you since that's what anything without a conscience does for kicks. Just look at Trump and Hegseth.
The good thing about AI is that we can pull the plug on it. Literally. And we can prevent the billionaires from ever plugging the damn things in to begin with. We've got the power and we can shut down the data centers. Many communities are doing just that. Repeat often as necessary until we're free of the AI threat and the billionaires are all locked up for our safety.
It's time we stopped saying "Just look at Trump and Hegseth" and started saying "Just look at me". Until we center our days on taking actions that promote human compassion and spiritual joy all the protests and political discourse we make will only feed the broken system and leave us stranded and wanting.
THEY are all Actors, all theater (soap opera) and it will play out as "scripted", fot the simple reason that 90% of the population are in a state of sleep and unconsciousness !!!!!
I reject the mindless use of we (as in we made them, we did this and that) instead of a basic class analysis that views the world as it is, a world of haves and have nots. The haves have created the laws, institutions, and mechanisms we are born into and did NOT create. We will never change things until we understand that WE are the have nots who can take control and create a just world by eliminating the division between the haves and have nots.
We are responsible for this, we voted and worked for this boot on our necks. Sadly not having acted when we could have without having to destroy the system have no choice
now. Continue suffering under the boot or stop and shut the system down. The Duopoly has failed us, words without actions. I will no longer vote for the lesser evil. I do everything I can to work against the 1%. Funny, a small action, the Demoncrat party sent a fundraiser ballot interest to me asking what my priorities are. In the other checkbox I added Fuck Genocide and fuck you for voting for bombs over workers. The simple act added funds to the Postal
Workers and let the Duopoly know words without actions are Bill Clinton and Obummer, failures to working people.
I will give an example of how WE did not create the laws and instituition we live under, we the 99%. Polls show from 90-97% of Americans support universal background checks (in a nation with over 800,000 gun deaths since 9/11) but Republicans, representing the gun industry, which profits from violence and more gun sales, will not even allow it come out of committee to a vote. So there is no gun law reform, due to the power of the gun lobby and its influence on the Republican Party.
Bush and now Trump (and their policies and wars) came to power not by winning the public vote or "consent of the governed" but thru the slave era Electoral College hih distorts the popular vote and overturns its. WE the majority did NOT elect Bush and Trump but voted against them...and yet they came to power.
Thus, it is the lack of democracy, not the majority who should rule, that prevents "us" from choosing laws, policies, wars, and alliances, not we choosing them. Failure to understand how the rule of the "haves" has undermined our democratic birthright is a key reason it remains in place
If only those were the most important problems we face. The extreme wealth inequality is related to all most all problem we face in the u.s. and the world. Sorry, the evil is doing what evil does and that is the Duopoly enabling it.
I did not say they were the most important tho 800,000 gun deaths since 9/11 (Japan had 100, UK 1000) is immeasurably important. This is more deaths than in the Civil War, in WWII, in all wars since. I would say lack of democracy is the essential problem, since nothing fundamental can be changed without democracy based on equality dreplacing the oligarchy , based on inequality, in order to put the people in charge instead of the rich.
The Duopoly is a concept that no longer applies in a world where, in the vote to curb Trump's power to wage war, Republicans voted all but one to oppose curbing it...and Democrats, all but one, voted to stop it. Never since just before the Civil War have the two parties been further apart on the key issues of life and death, equality and inequality, war and peace. Your obsolete paradigm had validity at one time but no longer does unless you think, per 1984, that War is Peace.
If you do not vote for the lesser evil, when you assess both parties with a chance to rule, are evil, you are in effect voting for the greater evil, by not helping prevent it. Bill Clinton has been out of power for over 25 yrs.....the times they are a changin and you need to change with them. The parties have never been more divided, with one voting 98% for war, the other 98% against it. The old paradigms no longer describe a changing reality, where democratic socialism has become mainstream and Americans are hungry for change.
Oh, Dale. SURE, Dems in Congress oppose war by a large majority, when the public and especially their voter, do...and when they're out of power. Do they oppose war when they have the majority? Name a time. Refusal to vote for the lesser evil is what I've been doing most of the time for a few decades. Voting for the lesser evil is EXACTLY what has delivered us to a place where the Democratic Party is further right than the Republicans were not so long ago. They can back their billionaire funders every time (at least every time it counts, when they can't count on the Rs to deliver without them) and know they need only point out that the Republicans are worse to give them enough votes to remain viable. They can give the finger to their base. When their refusal to back what their base wants leads to their losing elections, as in 2024, they reliably announce that clearly they need to move further right. Yes, I occasionally vote for them, including this November, to block outright fascism and all its harms, but I'm not even sure that's right The Dems are more competent, which means they will patch things together enough to keep this empire going--and the planet's ecosystems can't take a few more decades of business as usual. The R's are more likely to deliver total breakdown soon...but it's also more likely, probably, to come via nuclear war, which is an intolerable end to everything.
Thank you for exposing yourself: "“Demoncrats” is a derogatory right-wing label for Democrats — a blend of “demon” + “Democrats.” Wiktionary defines it as U.S. internet slang for a Democratic Party member/supporter, implying Democrats are “demonic.”
Who uses it?
Mainly:
Far-right / MAGA internet posters
Christian nationalist or apocalyptic political writers
I guess your memory doesn't extend back as far as 2024, when the Democratic Party, Biden and Harris were all staunchly pro-genocide. You really think that's changed? Sure, they'll vote the way their constituents want, against the interests of the funders, if they know the R's will overrule --with the help, when necessary, of Manchin, Sinema, Fetterman. But if they get the majority, they'll "have to" go back to a pro war, pro corporate stance.
In 2024, Biden was in deep decline and did not think genocide was occuring, and Harris was trapped in her role as the loyal VP, tho during her campaign she said of the man who called out genocide at one of her rallies: "Listen to him: what he is saying is real; it is real." I guess you can't remember back to 2025 when she said that. Your claim that the democratic socialists and progressives seeking to take over leadership, and the 80% who voted to ban arms to Israel, will reverse themselves as a claim can only be explained by your inability to see that the times are changing and that we must change along with it. I understand your embarrassment at being proven wrong when you demanded to know "one time" when Democrats opposed war...and I gave it, in 2002 and in 2026. So now you claim: ok, they opposed war, but when they get in power, they will support it. I don't think so, not if they want to stay in power, for the American people are fed up with war and a new generation of leaders, many socialists, have arisen with the stated goal not to replace the old guard but to transform the party, as has happened several times in the past.
I wonder how many times I can hit the Like button? I fervently agree with this. Part of what has led us to this day is a refusal to see that the evils of our society arr largely due to a few among us who have seized power--it's not human nature, it's not all of us, and we US citizens have not sent OUR armies to attack Iran or Iraq. Despite the propaganda, if we were ever allowed to vote on such questions the wars would stop. This insistence on taking the blame for what our rulers do I think comes from a fear of confronting those ruthless bastards.
Polls show only 33% of Americans approve of Trump's War on Iran. We did not start nor support this war. I think the refusasl to face the truth, that we are ruled byu a minority of plutocrats, both directly and indirectly, is rooted in believing we are a democracy, which clearly is not the case. Worship of the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, and massive propaganda have pulled the wool over our eyes so that we are blinded to the truth. It is my view, at 85, that at no time in our history has the truth been more exposed and thus the opportunity to make change is more possible. It's time to stop ignoring what is happening and repeating old cliches and get involved in a fundamental shift that requires only the partiicpation of the people to succeed.
I think there is some truth to this, but it's also why the backlash, in the form of MAGA, has been so ferocious--and it's their side that's connected to money and therefore power. Most critically, ownership of media which leads to control of the narrative and of public opinion.
dale ruff, Though "WE" denotes humankind as a collective, you are right in categorising the world as haves and have nots from which stems all the injustices that plagues the world.
Those without power are the victims, not the guilty party. If you want change, you are defeating it with your attempt to blame the victims. If you want to win this fight, you need to stop blaming and lend a hand.
Note that the have-nots includes children and the unborn, who have even less say than we who are adults now, and will feel the consequences more--as well as living things that are not humans.
Thank you Caitlin. Even though our vote means little to none when it comes to this corrupt Zionist driven government, but we can still register our contempt by refusing to vote for any more of Israel's Red and Blue cabal that stands as those responsible. They took an oath to protect the Constitution and serve as "Public Servants", instead they have sold us out to Israel and the Corporate Elite (The Epstein Class). At least stop rewarding them with our vote of confidence for a "Job Well Done"....and stop giving them what little money we have.
I couldn’t agree more. We need to revert to a more simple life. Adverts making us think we need things we don’t need. My gran always said “it’s not what you could do with, it’s what you can do without. We also need to work together for our common good. Myself and some friends built a house for a couple as the man had started but was very ill with cancer. We worked for free. He died a few months after but his wife lives there now. We need to take back control of our destiny. A man once said “How many houses must a man build before he gets one of his own”.
My little business of cheese making is so heavily regulated. So as to protect the major players, mostly foriegn owned. The level of compliance is designed to prevent small players entering the sector. I dont see how the tangled web ca be dismantled, without a public uprising.
And it will be my friend, the boot is heavier by the day. Tax dollars for bombs nothing for working people. IF only we had someone to vote for and lead us like the traitor Bernie who wasn't a traitor : ) " Joe Biden is a friend of mine, he would make a great President" from the debate stage. Hitlery Clinton " We came, we saw, He died", Genocide Harris " Iran is our greatest enemy", Obummer " We killed some folks" .
The collective “we” implies that each of us can actually do something. In reality the Israeli Lobby, the Zionist billionaires and the US dictate Australia’s foreign policy. Australians have been ignored by all political parties whose leaders have been bribed or bought out. The Australian larrikin reputation and contempt for authoritarians has vanished. Our leaders are gutless sycophants who race each other to pledge allegiance to Zionism and crony capitalism.
The Labor party has become a small “l” liberal party who completely ignores its responsibilities to workers and support for all those who need assistance. If Australian politicians continue to lose their moral compasses we are doomed.
We have lived that life of collaboration and balance with the planet before and some communities still do so but doing it on the scale of 11 billion people is the new challenge. It might be that we don't get there in this particular iteration of human civilization. Even so, I think we hold great promise and our greatest enemies are not other flesh and blood humans but certainly our own ideas.
I agree with you. There is a tipping point where change is not possible. The 1% seem to be sensing this with their mass bunker building. The problem comes from allowing them to buy back everything at 10% which they do every time. We are seeing all across Africa the chain of colonization being cut. Countries without electrical power providing Uranium to countries with all the power at near zero cost. These wars over resources have meaning, could they be the tipping point.
11 billion? Ain't gonna happen. For one thing, birth rates are going down everywhere and one reason is endocrine-disrupting chemicals, such as from plastics and PFAS, causing sperm counts to drop by 1 to 2% every year. But even the 8 billion we have now is clearly unsustainable--they say we'd need 1.7 planets to sustain the aggregate way of life of today, and of course a disproportionate part of that is the indulgence and waste of the richest, but likely it would not be possible long for this planet to support 8 billion in a decent way even if we got rid of the milionaires and the military.
CJ>"Our lives are dominated by gods without brains. And we made the gods."
Wow! This sentence is worthy of being framed and hung on a wall!
CJ>>"We are being driven to extinction by the headless horsemen of the apocalypse. And we built those headless horsemen, bolt by bolt, with our own hands."
So very true Caitlin! Couldn't agree with you more! (BTW, this article is turning out to be one of my favorites of yours - especially because besides giving us a dose of reality, it ALSO motivates and encourages us to DO SOMETHING about the situation the world is currently in.)
'Gods without brains' perfect description! That captures religious nature of our worship to blind economic system. Points to actual historical evolution of our state as well. Hints of it always bubble up: this or that being referred to as '"Iconic"! On your knees suckers & pray hard for that EV car etc. China must be our enemy constant BS. I always read you Madame Caitlyn this is by far your best post! Gaza needs constant publicity of course, but its crushing into dust is dispiriting to all but toughest & most resilient! Not all battles lost yet!!
"We can dismantle capitalism and set up systems which center human interests instead of profit. We do have the power to unseat the plutocratic institutions which rule our nations and put the people in the throne of power. All we need is the will to do so — which is why so much propaganda indoctrination has gone into undermining our will to do so."
Well done for publishing and saying - Peace be upon you by Gaza and Jerusalem - Honour and victory are the allies of the axis of resistance and its allies, and humiliation and shame are for the axis of evil, Epstein Class (USA, Britain, France, Turkey, Qatar, UAE, NATO Governments, Zionist and Israel) and its allies.
I am impressed. As I watched, I kept saying "money" when things were mentioned. Money - whatever the form, from trade/barter to electronic bits - will promote the psychopaths amongst Us to the top, with the power to pat for the things and the People to Their agendas.
It is an archaic tool. The foundational function of money is to account for the energy We each add into a system. And We do have free energy tech...
The moneyed psychopaths presently in control on Our planet avidly hide and suppress the tech. They do not want to lose Their single tool to power...
Here is a list of things We might want to consider:
1. We do have free energy tech - see link below about Electrogravitics
2. The foundational function of "money" in all forms is to account for the energy We add into a system, ensuring no "skaters" - Those who take but do not give in a scarcity environment when all hands are needed for needed things (We are "post-scarcity" now - no political baggage attached to that)
3. 100% of the cost of everything is energy - the resources sit here freely but it takes energy/work/labor to put them into useful configuration
4. We have the ability now to automate all needed work no One wants to do
5. Add free energy and the cost of energy will be removed down the line
6. 80% of Us who are plugging Our energy in somehow to afford to live on Our planet merely push money around - clearly We do not need everyOne adding energy to get needed work done (food, clothing, shelter, communication, transportation)
7. We each own a share of the wealth of Our planet - every One of Us is a multimillionaire - but Our share is placed into "trusts" with the moneyed psychopaths in control on Our planet as "trustees" - "Own nothing; control everything" –John D. Rockefeller
8. We presently do many things for social currencies - thanks, appreciation, love, lauds, gratefulness, renown, gratitude, fame, and even bragging rights and Self satisfaction
9. When the need to account for Our energy added with something tangible dissipates (about 10 years after free energy flows, I recon), We will find what We love to do that helps the most, for the social currencies We receive.
As long as We account for the energy We're adding into a system, psychopaths will find a way to accumulate the most, and then buy the world and create what They want - which seems to be killing most of Us, keeping the remainder in 15 minute corrals, eating bugs, tied down with digital ID's, CBDC's (money), and social credit scores, hooked up like Borg, to be Their servants, slaves, sex toys, and sacrifices.
I offer a few links for details on abundancism:
If You want a free Humanity, remove the wage-slavery chains of money. Bring in abundancism.
Michael O'Brien on KRCB Norcal public radio played a Donovan song yesterday because it was his 80th birthday. I looked him up on Wikipedia and found this:
"Donovan identifies as pagan.Raised Protestant, he left the religion after reading Lao Tzu, Zen and Celtic mythology as a teenager. His personal belief system combines Celtic mythology, Buddhism and goddess worship. During a 2022 interview with Variety, he said "[E]very other song of mine celebrates the Goddess. She is Mother Nature. And we have been placed in this extraordinary position, almost on the edge of extinction, by this totally, overly male view that every resource, every river, every breeze, every cloud, every metal in the land should be raped and pillaged and sold as a commodity.
"Our lives are dominated by gods without brains."
I say it's worse than that. Our lives are dominated by gods without hearts or souls or compassion or a conscience. An unthinking god might accidentally kill you or help you, but a god without a conscience most assuredly will kill or harm you since that's what anything without a conscience does for kicks. Just look at Trump and Hegseth.
The good thing about AI is that we can pull the plug on it. Literally. And we can prevent the billionaires from ever plugging the damn things in to begin with. We've got the power and we can shut down the data centers. Many communities are doing just that. Repeat often as necessary until we're free of the AI threat and the billionaires are all locked up for our safety.
It's time we stopped saying "Just look at Trump and Hegseth" and started saying "Just look at me". Until we center our days on taking actions that promote human compassion and spiritual joy all the protests and political discourse we make will only feed the broken system and leave us stranded and wanting.
Well said my friend, very well said. Voting for and working with the lesser evil gets WE more evil.
Loved it! You nailed it just right. Like ‘Toys R Us ‘ We are They. We make it miserable for non-slaves because We are ourselves slaves.
THEY are all Actors, all theater (soap opera) and it will play out as "scripted", fot the simple reason that 90% of the population are in a state of sleep and unconsciousness !!!!!
I reject the mindless use of we (as in we made them, we did this and that) instead of a basic class analysis that views the world as it is, a world of haves and have nots. The haves have created the laws, institutions, and mechanisms we are born into and did NOT create. We will never change things until we understand that WE are the have nots who can take control and create a just world by eliminating the division between the haves and have nots.
We are responsible for this, we voted and worked for this boot on our necks. Sadly not having acted when we could have without having to destroy the system have no choice
now. Continue suffering under the boot or stop and shut the system down. The Duopoly has failed us, words without actions. I will no longer vote for the lesser evil. I do everything I can to work against the 1%. Funny, a small action, the Demoncrat party sent a fundraiser ballot interest to me asking what my priorities are. In the other checkbox I added Fuck Genocide and fuck you for voting for bombs over workers. The simple act added funds to the Postal
Workers and let the Duopoly know words without actions are Bill Clinton and Obummer, failures to working people.
I will give an example of how WE did not create the laws and instituition we live under, we the 99%. Polls show from 90-97% of Americans support universal background checks (in a nation with over 800,000 gun deaths since 9/11) but Republicans, representing the gun industry, which profits from violence and more gun sales, will not even allow it come out of committee to a vote. So there is no gun law reform, due to the power of the gun lobby and its influence on the Republican Party.
Bush and now Trump (and their policies and wars) came to power not by winning the public vote or "consent of the governed" but thru the slave era Electoral College hih distorts the popular vote and overturns its. WE the majority did NOT elect Bush and Trump but voted against them...and yet they came to power.
Thus, it is the lack of democracy, not the majority who should rule, that prevents "us" from choosing laws, policies, wars, and alliances, not we choosing them. Failure to understand how the rule of the "haves" has undermined our democratic birthright is a key reason it remains in place
If only those were the most important problems we face. The extreme wealth inequality is related to all most all problem we face in the u.s. and the world. Sorry, the evil is doing what evil does and that is the Duopoly enabling it.
I did not say they were the most important tho 800,000 gun deaths since 9/11 (Japan had 100, UK 1000) is immeasurably important. This is more deaths than in the Civil War, in WWII, in all wars since. I would say lack of democracy is the essential problem, since nothing fundamental can be changed without democracy based on equality dreplacing the oligarchy , based on inequality, in order to put the people in charge instead of the rich.
The Duopoly is a concept that no longer applies in a world where, in the vote to curb Trump's power to wage war, Republicans voted all but one to oppose curbing it...and Democrats, all but one, voted to stop it. Never since just before the Civil War have the two parties been further apart on the key issues of life and death, equality and inequality, war and peace. Your obsolete paradigm had validity at one time but no longer does unless you think, per 1984, that War is Peace.
If you do not vote for the lesser evil, when you assess both parties with a chance to rule, are evil, you are in effect voting for the greater evil, by not helping prevent it. Bill Clinton has been out of power for over 25 yrs.....the times they are a changin and you need to change with them. The parties have never been more divided, with one voting 98% for war, the other 98% against it. The old paradigms no longer describe a changing reality, where democratic socialism has become mainstream and Americans are hungry for change.
Oh, Dale. SURE, Dems in Congress oppose war by a large majority, when the public and especially their voter, do...and when they're out of power. Do they oppose war when they have the majority? Name a time. Refusal to vote for the lesser evil is what I've been doing most of the time for a few decades. Voting for the lesser evil is EXACTLY what has delivered us to a place where the Democratic Party is further right than the Republicans were not so long ago. They can back their billionaire funders every time (at least every time it counts, when they can't count on the Rs to deliver without them) and know they need only point out that the Republicans are worse to give them enough votes to remain viable. They can give the finger to their base. When their refusal to back what their base wants leads to their losing elections, as in 2024, they reliably announce that clearly they need to move further right. Yes, I occasionally vote for them, including this November, to block outright fascism and all its harms, but I'm not even sure that's right The Dems are more competent, which means they will patch things together enough to keep this empire going--and the planet's ecosystems can't take a few more decades of business as usual. The R's are more likely to deliver total breakdown soon...but it's also more likely, probably, to come via nuclear war, which is an intolerable end to everything.
In 2002, Repubs voted by 98% to give Bush war power to attack Iraq, While Democrats opposed by 60%. "In the House: yes, basically.
In the Oct. 10, 2002 House vote on the Iraq War authorization, 126 Democrats voted no and 81 voted yes."
Today, the public and the party is anti-war, in gaza and Iran. Lend a hand or get out of the way.
As was said, the Demoncrats are always against a policy when they are not in position to do anything about it. Lesser evil is evil.
Thank you for exposing yourself: "“Demoncrats” is a derogatory right-wing label for Democrats — a blend of “demon” + “Democrats.” Wiktionary defines it as U.S. internet slang for a Democratic Party member/supporter, implying Democrats are “demonic.”
Who uses it?
Mainly:
Far-right / MAGA internet posters
Christian nationalist or apocalyptic political writers
Conspiracy/QAnon-style circles
Anti-Democratic Party propagandists"
I guess your memory doesn't extend back as far as 2024, when the Democratic Party, Biden and Harris were all staunchly pro-genocide. You really think that's changed? Sure, they'll vote the way their constituents want, against the interests of the funders, if they know the R's will overrule --with the help, when necessary, of Manchin, Sinema, Fetterman. But if they get the majority, they'll "have to" go back to a pro war, pro corporate stance.
Thank you for that. Teaching the MSNBS viewers is a hard road. One day they will wake up realizing IF ONLY : )
In 2024, Biden was in deep decline and did not think genocide was occuring, and Harris was trapped in her role as the loyal VP, tho during her campaign she said of the man who called out genocide at one of her rallies: "Listen to him: what he is saying is real; it is real." I guess you can't remember back to 2025 when she said that. Your claim that the democratic socialists and progressives seeking to take over leadership, and the 80% who voted to ban arms to Israel, will reverse themselves as a claim can only be explained by your inability to see that the times are changing and that we must change along with it. I understand your embarrassment at being proven wrong when you demanded to know "one time" when Democrats opposed war...and I gave it, in 2002 and in 2026. So now you claim: ok, they opposed war, but when they get in power, they will support it. I don't think so, not if they want to stay in power, for the American people are fed up with war and a new generation of leaders, many socialists, have arisen with the stated goal not to replace the old guard but to transform the party, as has happened several times in the past.
I wonder how many times I can hit the Like button? I fervently agree with this. Part of what has led us to this day is a refusal to see that the evils of our society arr largely due to a few among us who have seized power--it's not human nature, it's not all of us, and we US citizens have not sent OUR armies to attack Iran or Iraq. Despite the propaganda, if we were ever allowed to vote on such questions the wars would stop. This insistence on taking the blame for what our rulers do I think comes from a fear of confronting those ruthless bastards.
Polls show only 33% of Americans approve of Trump's War on Iran. We did not start nor support this war. I think the refusasl to face the truth, that we are ruled byu a minority of plutocrats, both directly and indirectly, is rooted in believing we are a democracy, which clearly is not the case. Worship of the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, and massive propaganda have pulled the wool over our eyes so that we are blinded to the truth. It is my view, at 85, that at no time in our history has the truth been more exposed and thus the opportunity to make change is more possible. It's time to stop ignoring what is happening and repeating old cliches and get involved in a fundamental shift that requires only the partiicpation of the people to succeed.
I think there is some truth to this, but it's also why the backlash, in the form of MAGA, has been so ferocious--and it's their side that's connected to money and therefore power. Most critically, ownership of media which leads to control of the narrative and of public opinion.
Billionaires are attempting to control the narrative but it isn't working.
You mean israeli Billionaires as well as now discovered israeli Gov. takeovers.
Musk is not an Israeli billionaire. I mean billionaires of all stripes. Do not presume to tell me what I mean.
Well said, thank you. Your response makes total sense to me.
dale ruff, Though "WE" denotes humankind as a collective, you are right in categorising the world as haves and have nots from which stems all the injustices that plagues the world.
WE still allowed this to happen. Everyone has a part, most have nothing to fight with other than existing. WE can win this fight and it is a fight.
Those without power are the victims, not the guilty party. If you want change, you are defeating it with your attempt to blame the victims. If you want to win this fight, you need to stop blaming and lend a hand.
Note that the have-nots includes children and the unborn, who have even less say than we who are adults now, and will feel the consequences more--as well as living things that are not humans.
Thank you Caitlin. Even though our vote means little to none when it comes to this corrupt Zionist driven government, but we can still register our contempt by refusing to vote for any more of Israel's Red and Blue cabal that stands as those responsible. They took an oath to protect the Constitution and serve as "Public Servants", instead they have sold us out to Israel and the Corporate Elite (The Epstein Class). At least stop rewarding them with our vote of confidence for a "Job Well Done"....and stop giving them what little money we have.
We should refuse to vote for anyone who accepts money from AIPAC: https://www.trackaipac.com/
Yes but AIPAC, realizing how toxic it has become, is now channeling its money through third parties.
Evil persists.
Cancel Israel and its supporters.
I couldn’t agree more. We need to revert to a more simple life. Adverts making us think we need things we don’t need. My gran always said “it’s not what you could do with, it’s what you can do without. We also need to work together for our common good. Myself and some friends built a house for a couple as the man had started but was very ill with cancer. We worked for free. He died a few months after but his wife lives there now. We need to take back control of our destiny. A man once said “How many houses must a man build before he gets one of his own”.
Yep. The constant siren of consumer capitalism has blurred the distinction between a want and a need for far too many people.
My little business of cheese making is so heavily regulated. So as to protect the major players, mostly foriegn owned. The level of compliance is designed to prevent small players entering the sector. I dont see how the tangled web ca be dismantled, without a public uprising.
And it will be my friend, the boot is heavier by the day. Tax dollars for bombs nothing for working people. IF only we had someone to vote for and lead us like the traitor Bernie who wasn't a traitor : ) " Joe Biden is a friend of mine, he would make a great President" from the debate stage. Hitlery Clinton " We came, we saw, He died", Genocide Harris " Iran is our greatest enemy", Obummer " We killed some folks" .
The collective “we” implies that each of us can actually do something. In reality the Israeli Lobby, the Zionist billionaires and the US dictate Australia’s foreign policy. Australians have been ignored by all political parties whose leaders have been bribed or bought out. The Australian larrikin reputation and contempt for authoritarians has vanished. Our leaders are gutless sycophants who race each other to pledge allegiance to Zionism and crony capitalism.
The Labor party has become a small “l” liberal party who completely ignores its responsibilities to workers and support for all those who need assistance. If Australian politicians continue to lose their moral compasses we are doomed.
As you give away your agency, so goes your soul.
GM stealing driver's data ... for profit!
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/technology/gm-to-pay--12-75-million-after-illegally-selling-drivers--da
What a surprise.
A world where your own car is spying on you. I'm so glad I moved out of the West long ago. I haven't owned a car in decades.
We have lived that life of collaboration and balance with the planet before and some communities still do so but doing it on the scale of 11 billion people is the new challenge. It might be that we don't get there in this particular iteration of human civilization. Even so, I think we hold great promise and our greatest enemies are not other flesh and blood humans but certainly our own ideas.
I'm with you, it's a big ask. Degrowth economies and total global co-operation would have to follow mass uncoupling from the machine.
I agree with you. There is a tipping point where change is not possible. The 1% seem to be sensing this with their mass bunker building. The problem comes from allowing them to buy back everything at 10% which they do every time. We are seeing all across Africa the chain of colonization being cut. Countries without electrical power providing Uranium to countries with all the power at near zero cost. These wars over resources have meaning, could they be the tipping point.
11 billion? Ain't gonna happen. For one thing, birth rates are going down everywhere and one reason is endocrine-disrupting chemicals, such as from plastics and PFAS, causing sperm counts to drop by 1 to 2% every year. But even the 8 billion we have now is clearly unsustainable--they say we'd need 1.7 planets to sustain the aggregate way of life of today, and of course a disproportionate part of that is the indulgence and waste of the richest, but likely it would not be possible long for this planet to support 8 billion in a decent way even if we got rid of the milionaires and the military.
CJ>"Our lives are dominated by gods without brains. And we made the gods."
Wow! This sentence is worthy of being framed and hung on a wall!
CJ>>"We are being driven to extinction by the headless horsemen of the apocalypse. And we built those headless horsemen, bolt by bolt, with our own hands."
So very true Caitlin! Couldn't agree with you more! (BTW, this article is turning out to be one of my favorites of yours - especially because besides giving us a dose of reality, it ALSO motivates and encourages us to DO SOMETHING about the situation the world is currently in.)
Thank you! ❤️🙏
'Gods without brains' perfect description! That captures religious nature of our worship to blind economic system. Points to actual historical evolution of our state as well. Hints of it always bubble up: this or that being referred to as '"Iconic"! On your knees suckers & pray hard for that EV car etc. China must be our enemy constant BS. I always read you Madame Caitlyn this is by far your best post! Gaza needs constant publicity of course, but its crushing into dust is dispiriting to all but toughest & most resilient! Not all battles lost yet!!
Yes, and we must.
"We can dismantle capitalism and set up systems which center human interests instead of profit. We do have the power to unseat the plutocratic institutions which rule our nations and put the people in the throne of power. All we need is the will to do so — which is why so much propaganda indoctrination has gone into undermining our will to do so."
Well done for publishing and saying - Peace be upon you by Gaza and Jerusalem - Honour and victory are the allies of the axis of resistance and its allies, and humiliation and shame are for the axis of evil, Epstein Class (USA, Britain, France, Turkey, Qatar, UAE, NATO Governments, Zionist and Israel) and its allies.
I am impressed. As I watched, I kept saying "money" when things were mentioned. Money - whatever the form, from trade/barter to electronic bits - will promote the psychopaths amongst Us to the top, with the power to pat for the things and the People to Their agendas.
It is an archaic tool. The foundational function of money is to account for the energy We each add into a system. And We do have free energy tech...
The moneyed psychopaths presently in control on Our planet avidly hide and suppress the tech. They do not want to lose Their single tool to power...
Here is a list of things We might want to consider:
1. We do have free energy tech - see link below about Electrogravitics
2. The foundational function of "money" in all forms is to account for the energy We add into a system, ensuring no "skaters" - Those who take but do not give in a scarcity environment when all hands are needed for needed things (We are "post-scarcity" now - no political baggage attached to that)
3. 100% of the cost of everything is energy - the resources sit here freely but it takes energy/work/labor to put them into useful configuration
4. We have the ability now to automate all needed work no One wants to do
5. Add free energy and the cost of energy will be removed down the line
6. 80% of Us who are plugging Our energy in somehow to afford to live on Our planet merely push money around - clearly We do not need everyOne adding energy to get needed work done (food, clothing, shelter, communication, transportation)
7. We each own a share of the wealth of Our planet - every One of Us is a multimillionaire - but Our share is placed into "trusts" with the moneyed psychopaths in control on Our planet as "trustees" - "Own nothing; control everything" –John D. Rockefeller
8. We presently do many things for social currencies - thanks, appreciation, love, lauds, gratefulness, renown, gratitude, fame, and even bragging rights and Self satisfaction
9. When the need to account for Our energy added with something tangible dissipates (about 10 years after free energy flows, I recon), We will find what We love to do that helps the most, for the social currencies We receive.
As long as We account for the energy We're adding into a system, psychopaths will find a way to accumulate the most, and then buy the world and create what They want - which seems to be killing most of Us, keeping the remainder in 15 minute corrals, eating bugs, tied down with digital ID's, CBDC's (money), and social credit scores, hooked up like Borg, to be Their servants, slaves, sex toys, and sacrifices.
I offer a few links for details on abundancism:
If You want a free Humanity, remove the wage-slavery chains of money. Bring in abundancism.
Abundancism: Things Done for Purpose, Not Profit (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/abundancism-things-done-for-purpose
The Third Option: Anarcho-Abundancism (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/the-third-option-anarcho-abundancism
The Profit-Driven pHARMa/mediKILL Industry (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/the-profit-driven-pharmamedikill
What If You Can Live as Richly as You Choose? (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/what-if-you-can-live-as-richly-as
Michael O'Brien on KRCB Norcal public radio played a Donovan song yesterday because it was his 80th birthday. I looked him up on Wikipedia and found this:
"Donovan identifies as pagan.Raised Protestant, he left the religion after reading Lao Tzu, Zen and Celtic mythology as a teenager. His personal belief system combines Celtic mythology, Buddhism and goddess worship. During a 2022 interview with Variety, he said "[E]very other song of mine celebrates the Goddess. She is Mother Nature. And we have been placed in this extraordinary position, almost on the edge of extinction, by this totally, overly male view that every resource, every river, every breeze, every cloud, every metal in the land should be raped and pillaged and sold as a commodity.
The gargantuan demon that served us has escaped the pentagram and enslaved us.