I know that you didn't ask me, but this little bit, "You say that “whitey” has been to the moon." might have influenced this fellow to think that you were pointing fingers at white people.
You are the honest broker, that desires to avoid misunderstanding.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
Some people have difficulty reading beyond seeing things in terms of melanin.
Even those not familiar with Gil Scot-Heron, would be able to hear that the entirety of my PSS, was not about color, but about barbarism.
Shit Mike.
They say that I’m a
Kraut/Irish.
My soul says I’m a redskin.
And, gawd I love me some “colored” blues.
The git-tars, and the from the gut singin’, makes me angry, and sad, and frustrated, imaginin’ what it’s like to git whipped, cuttin’ “cane”, or goin’ to the store for some skittles, and never goin’ back home.
While I understood the comment you made, (I believe I know what you mean), and can dismiss the notion that a broad generalization does not refer to every member of noted "skin color," I find the whole idea of using "deposition of melanin" as a way to speak of people/actions/desires/hopes useless at best unless it really matters.
All one can logically say of such deposition is, "All [fill in relative deposition] people are [repeat earlier brackets]. Any other finish is abjectly untrue unless a recapitulation of earlier bracket.
This makes me want to stay out of much that goes on. White America, black America, hispanic America and such talk do nobody any good. Yes, you can say that there are tendencies among them such as "Black" Americans tend to vote Democrat, or such things, but, so what? Like it? Encourage it. Don't like it, give them a reason to do otherwise.
We do not call blonde a race; we do not call brown/green/blue -eyed a race. Why needlessly separate ourselves by deposition of melanin?
Division by an immutable characteristic does bad people good, and good people bad.
I'm probably done here; my experience is that little good comes of such talk.
I do appreciate your words about being a peacemaker. I do believe we'd all do better together if we were clear in our words.
We cannot know what another means; we can only know what they say. This is why I ask others to say what they mean and mean what they say. Politicians are particularly good at dissembling. Contributions to replace taxes, misspoke to replace lie...
"The rest" didn't come from South America, if that is a category intended as a catch all for non "native American"/"first peoples" who get called "brown", those mostly Spanish speaking people in the parts of North America taken by USA with force from formerly Spanish colonized old Mexico, the Spanish Empire & etc. ("Brown" in USA includes also a few Portuguese speaking people, courtesy of Pope Alexander VI and Brazil) .
Those "rest" are either going to have to return to the Iberian peninsula or take a boat across the Bering Straits to Asia, whence the "first peoples" largely came from (DNA says some Pacific Islanders, Austral-Melanesians and the odd Scandinavian, even Han Chinese! were in the pre columbian immigrant mixture long enough to have children here). That whole "go back to where you came from" policy will need all kinds of qualifiers re: WHAT % ancestry from WHERE? and really, a DNA test all around.
How 'bout we all just agree to get along? Instead of making the transportation companies rich by yelling "go home!" at people who ARE already at the only home they've known.
See... NO easy solution! Best we all return to Africa and that's it. Cause the "we all agree to get along" is absolutely out of the Reality of our current specie capacity.
Now that's funny... So clearly the "red nations, and the brown people of North America." are screwed since the attitude of those animals will never end in returning land.
Eddie: I don't vote. I had my name removed from the voter rolls. Voting is stupid and pointless. The Revolution must come from the grassroots not from the top.
The best way to deal with a monster is to starve it. Don't vote and avoid every tax that you can.
Yes, I'm aware that there are countries that support the atrocities. I also live in the United States. And in the United States, like many other countries, there's these things called elections, you may have heard of those. If you haven't, please buy a dictionary and learn what the word means, sweetheart.
"You are being offered two narratives to choose from:
[1] Palestinians in Gaza are evil orc-like savages who just want to murder Jews and must therefore be caged and killed.
[2] Palestinians in Gaza are thinking human beings who are reacting to intolerable abuses inflicted upon them.
Which is more believable?" ...
... By whom? Let's recognize that, today, unfortunately plenty will choose option [1] -- even when presented with exactly the above language. So we need also to undo the decades of indoctrination of war thinking that generates cartoon characters of any and all opponents, on each of manufactured "sides", for easy dividing-and-conquering.
Strictly judging by the millions of people protesting throughout the world - I don't think that's holds true anymore! This is to barbaric to go unnoticed! Even if people were completely ignorant - there are to many protests not to open people's eye's. It's kind of like the vaccines - even if they were staunch advocates - they had to question why so many people weren't. Don't get me wrong, I see your point - I just think todays generation are much different
"Strictly judging by the millions of people protesting throughout the world - I don't think that's holds true anymore!"
Agreed. I think there is still a majority among the Westerners through our propaganda MSM. But as with COVID as you point out, and also during the Vietnam War (with a more independent MSM at the time), they simply can't hide reality forever.
There were millions protesting around the world before the Iraq invasion and it made zero difference. Most people are too overwhelmed and disconnected in their own lives to pay attention, inform themselves, and care enough to take action.
I totally agree but I think this situation is far different than Iraq. One was about an invasion - this one is about the outright slaughter of people. Don't get me wrong we certainly did kill thousands in Iraq as well and another 2 million were displaced. I just think this one is much more attention grabbing There isn't anyone that doesn't have a Jewish friend or know someone who is Jewish opposed to knowing an Iraqis. Just my opinion though!
I distinctly recall millions of right thinking Humans on Earth everywhere protested the impending illegal US invasion of Iraq lying about WMDs.
US power ignored all those People.
In 2003, the US invaded Iraq in violation of the very same International Law Russia is demonized for violating. US troops are currently in Syria violating that same International Law just to STEAL Syria's oil like COMMON THIEVES!
In 2001, retired US General Wesley Clark, currently a hard-line inciter calling for WAR TO THE END with Russia, in an instance of honest candour 4 years BEFORE it happened, was the highest level whistle blower exposing to the World the US/Pentagon put their WAR PLANS on the table to change the Regimes of Iraq, Libya, Syria and at THE END, Iran.
All the Israeli-US WEST WAR Propaganda is working overtime to convince us Iran caused the Al-Aqsa Flood October 7, just 2 days after
Hamas calls what happened Saturday October 7 'Al Aqsa Flood' Why?
Wednesday October 4, that Israeli Religious government orchestrated a flood of Jewish settlers to force Palestinians to close all their shops in Old Occupied East Jerusalem, preventing Palestinians from ascending to the Mosque and abusing many Palestinians in the process. By the Geneva Convention, an Occupying Army is obligated to protect the Occupied People but the Israeli Army protects Jewish Settlers TERRORIZING Palestinians.
January of THIS year, Israel made an OLD TESTAMENT JEWISH RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT the Government in Israel. It's no secret their goal and objective to to find a way to destroy the Islamic Al Asqa Mosque on Temple Mount so they can build a 3rd Jewish Temple and re-instate repetitive animal blood sacrifice as the Atonement of SIN.
It's the most important FUNDAMENTAL of the Christian Faith to this very Day, Christ Jesus willingly sacrificing his Blood suffering the pain and torture of Crucifixion in his Human Body, by that Act, became the One and Only Atonement for SIN for ALL People for ALL Time. Supporting Israel for that Path they already admit is their Nationalist Goal denies Christ. (he came unto his own and his own received him not-John 1:11
The Israeli government is implementing policies to create facts on the ground, according to THE BIBLE God gave ALL the land to JEWS exclusively 4000 years ago when Jews and Israel didn't exist.
This Israeli government prosecuting this WAR against the Innocent Palestinian Civilians sped up the Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Occupied Palestine we ALL can see on TV.
The nominally Christian US-WEST supports and gives Israel the green light to commit whatever WAR CRIMES Israel commits against INNOCENT Palestinian women, children and BABIES, TERRORIZING those INNOCENT Palestinians dropping hundreds of bombs all night long in the DARK, the daylight showing the 100s of DEAD PALESTINIANS Israel killed in the DARK overnight!
The United Nations Secretary-General spoke the TRUTH when he said, "October 7 didn't happen in a Vacuum." Israel wants him fired for speaking THE TRUTH!
Israeli-US WEST MSM, whose job it is to have as FEW SINS of Historical OMISSION as possible as fallible Humans, reporting on this RELIGIOUS WAR between Judaism and Islam since 1948, dismiss the UN Secretary General as a nobody whose Expertise isn't worth looking into.
What can we do?
I thank God for Caitlin. She does have a platform that reaches more people than most of us can.
I'm also not sure how the continuous bombing of Gaza is allowed to happen with no altercation from the surrounding area? Given the magnitude of all these Countries combined, all of Israel could be wiped out in one day!
Yes yes yes I saw and read all of this. However I don't recall the magnitude of protests against the invasion of Iraq. Not saying they didn't occur and only that I don't recall the intensity. What I do vehemently recall is how Bush ever got elected to a second term. I thought for sure there was no way in hell he'd ever get re-elected once the truth surfaced but then again they got Biden elected didn't they?
I think people are much more cognizant today then they were back then and as I said it's probably because everyone knows or has a Jewish friend. The overall opinion of Israel is not good and getting worse the longer this continues. This is suicide.
Anti-Hip: Starve the beast. Don't vote. Avoid every tax that you can. Ignore government "suggestions" and "recommendations". Disobey every dumb ass regulation you can get away with.
Folks in the SF Bay Area steal, kill, and shoot up drugs on the street with impunity. So why do we, the law-abiding taxpayers, have to follow bullshit rules?
How does not engaging with the system (boycotting it), and behaving as lawbreakers and like dysfunctional people, reform the government?
Do you expect a new, improved, limited government to just rise spontaneously out of the ashes? Or, do think that having no government (an anarchy) will prevent these things?
Anti-Hip: Government is an innately evil institution. There is no reforming it. All we can hope for is to shrink government and make it as powerless as possible.
The US Constitution lays out very clearly what the Federal Government in DC is allowed to do. Congress, the Executive Branch, and even the Judicial Branch, do not follow the US Constitution.
For example: It says very clearly in the US Constitution that ONLY gold and silver can be used as currency. Obviously, the Federal Reserve (which is a private bank) is counterfeiting.
-De jure, not all governments. As you acknowledge here by pointing to the Constitution.
It's the job, perpetually, of "We, the People" to bring the two into alignment. Certainly, in the 21st century, we've been failing badly at it. Not them, but us.
Right on, Caitlin. I listen to Doug Macgregor, Scott Ritter, Jeffrey Sachs, John Mearsheimer, Max Blumenthal, and Jimmy Dore a lot just to remind myself that Americans are not all brainless and/or insane. Incidentally exactly the same is true here in Deutschland, although there is a new ray of hope with the Sahra Wagenknecht Movement.
And Judge Napolitano, Brian Berletic, Richard Medhurst, Glenn Greenwald, Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris, Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson, Phil Giraldi, Gerald Celente... and Caitlin of course but for me she is text not talk. Even though I hear her talking through the writing! And not to forget Clare Daly and Mick Wallace. I've also reposted a few speeches, I think mostly by Sinn Feiners. Roger Waters, and there are even a few sane voices in Germany, e.g. Sevim Dagdelen and Sahra Wagenknecht -- who have even launched a new (movement for a) party.
CJ Hopkins, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Gabor Mate, Dave Smith, the libertarian Institute Richard Grove to name a few more sources of objective views on this topic. Richard Grove's show Grand Theft world has done a 7 hour Deep dive each week into the details of the Middle East over the last couple hundred years. Everything is backed up with documentation. Fantastic place to learn the truth
Well Bob, since you're not familiar with those two gentlemen, consider it your lucky day, that is if you are looking to obtain a balanced perspective on the Middle East. If you're simply commenting to troll my post that's okay too. I believe anyone, regardless of how little they know, should be allowed to speak their mind so we all know what they know or don't know in some/your case. Enjoy your evening chief. 😊
Richard Grove isn't part of the libertarian institute, that I'm aware of anyway.
And Aaron Maté, others at The Gray Zone, Kit Klarenberg, Wyatt Reed, Ben Norton, et al. great young people. Forgot Michael Hudson, by the way. Matt Taibi. Anya Parampil. Michael .... stuck for the last name. Have to keep this list for reference. There's an idea: a list with links and brief descriptions for ready reference.
There doesn't seem to be much "there, there" for Sahra Wagenknecht.
The articles I've read don't say much except that she's not left or right but is working to unite the two poles. There was one article that was a bit more specific calling her anti-immigrant.
"Wagenknecht’s labelling of Olaf Scholz’s government as the most incompetent in the history of the federal republic resonates with a lot of people. "
Well that wasn't hard to determine. Germany, like the rest of the EU, has a political leadership that has sold out to the American Hegemony (just the Oligarchy, politics in America is just puppet theater)
Then it just regurgitates the same left/right talking points that have become meaningless in an era when even the Greens are verging on Fascism. It comes across as "blah, blah, blah".
How long before Wagenknecht takes an unpopular position (like RFK Jr did on Israel) and suddenly the shine is removed to reveal the same rust that most are trying to escape? Is she just Germany's Bernie Sanders or Cornell West gaining immediate following because they utter a few phrases that appear to stand against the Oligarchy?
Latest poll I've seen puts her at 14%, almost equal with the SPD. I was taken aback by her naming the "movement" after herself, but now I think she was right to capitalize on her name recognition. The media like to downplay it, but it's mainly her opposition to the war (against Russia) that has drawn people away from all the other parties to the benefit of the AfD. Immigration is not the biggest issue because by now all the parties have come to see it as a major problem.
RFK took an "unpopular position" on Israel? Unpopular with whom? Not with the powers-that-be, for sure. I think there is more substance to Wagenknecht et al., and remember that unlike the Americans she is trying to build a party, taking the best from the Linke and the AfD. The Linke are dead in the water.
Yes, and when it does get real, as now with the Israeli war, they all cough up the same phlegm., RFKJr being a prime example. I'm hoping Wagenknecht will be different.
“I’m only one person, what can I do?” Said the whole world.
The root problem isn't the people running the show, it is the system itself. Fixing the system itself should be the one place we can all agree on.
We need to fix the entire system from being corrupted - government and all other related systems have lost all trust (government, media, medicine, science, academia, food, etc). The answer lies in building new trustworthy systems, migrating to them, then plugging them in to fix the existing corrupted ones. Like using a plug-in to fix a corrupted computer system.
It starts with understanding Swarm Theory and Human Swarm Intelligence. This is the beginning, but if everyone takes the time to understand this we can fix our corrupted systems and then fix everything else. Transparency + Decentralization + Human Swarm Intelligence = the answer.
It is much worse than that. Our culture is tailor-made for psychopaths to rise to positions of power and control because it is precisely those who desire power and control who will do anything and say anything to obtain it. In reality no one who desires power and control should ever be allowed into a position of power and control.
I have always maintained that elected officials should receive no pay or retirement benefits. They can be given a stipend for housing, food, transportation etc. but NO PAY.
That’s the only way we might possibly obtain elected officials who actually have the country’s best interests in mind.
I’ve said it before: politicians are people who can’t get real jobs.
By what assumptions do those in authority assume to have authority over you? Did you sign a contract with them? I'm not speaking of culture in the grade-school sociology class context, but in the larger context of the assumptions that govern our relationships to each other and "government". It's 180 degrees away from what it should be. We should know everything about them and they should only know of us what they need to know. "Public servants" actually assume domain and control over us and this power makes the jobs extremely attractive to sociopaths and psychopaths.
Israel showed its brutality by causing so much civilian deaths during the October 7th attack. They used tanks, Apache helicopters and air strikes that killed hundreds of Israelis, reports Propaganda&Co in a new video. See also Jonathan Cook.
Actually, if you dig a little deep you will discover things are not always what they appear. In June (according to UK-Telegraph) Hamas received its first shipment of missiles from Ukraine and Israel has been supplying Russia with resources that included artillery munitions. Of course, elections have consequences and stolen elections have even greater consequences. What would you think, if someone told you ALL of this was planned, what if the reason ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed in Bengazi because he discovered guns were being supplied to Isis by friendly fire. What has happened to the American people because of this proxy conflict? The taxpayers have become improvished, The dollar has lost its place as the reserve currency… Then in Afganstain the 17th largest Army in the world was handed over to the Talaban completely intact. What would you think if someone told you this was ALL part of the plan? “There are none so blind as those who will not see.”
"Palestinians in Gaza are evil orc-like savages who just want to murder Jews and must therefore be caged and killed."
To be fair, the West has form in this. Witness demonization of Russian people in recent years, viewing them as thuggish, primitive and stupid on the one paw but at the same time having superpowers that Lex Luthor could only dream of on the other.
For that matter, such ogrish views of Jews were also common currency not so long g ago.
Ya, but for Zionists, EVERYTHING bolsters their argument that they are victims. If no one is killing them they will kill themselves, as happened at that infamous concert.
American Special Forces are "secretly" killing, dying, and directing artillery and airstrikes in Gaza, as Douglas Macgregor was saying last week. How/when will their deaths and injuries be explained?
I forget whose Substack it was - I read it yesterday, where they completely discredited Macgregor. I'm not saying I agree or disagree and just what someone wrote.
One guy? A bunch of guys? Was it written by the ADL? Was it from Nancy Pelosi?
There are two Carrier Groups being deployed in the Eastern Med, there are two more that have left the West Coast and are heading west for a yet-to-be-revealed destination.
Sabres are being rattled on a daily basis and Winken, Blinken and Nod are continuing to make fools of themselves (although I haven't heard much from Nod lately after her disastrous trip to Saudi Arabia in May)
Was it the same people who pooh-pooh Seymour Hersh's report on NordStream?
MacGregor may not always be right, but he's right enough, often enough that there's probably "something" behind his claim.
Gaza is self-ruling and has been for almost 20 years. It was a pilot program into a two state solution and it clearly failed. Almost 20,000 gazans has work permits in Israel. They used them to gather intelligence and murder innocent people. Ask yourself why no other Arab country even wants to let Gazans be refugees? At the same time that some Muslim Arabs were shuffled around in the land of Israel, even more Jewish Arabs were stripped off their property and expelled from surrounding land including Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt. Most settled in Israel. There is no real Jewish community to speak of in other Arab countries, while a large minority of Israeli CITIZENS are Muslim and Christian Arabs with full rights, participation, property ownership, and govt representation. 75 years out, most Israelis are born in Israel, and there is no where else to go, or "return to".
Or fools. It does do one thing tho—gives others the chance to read your well thought out and important information. Thank you for taking the time. But also, forget these pinwheels. Not worth it. 🥰🙏
As a research psychologist, I've spent years studying war, violence, and killing. Tactics of German SS troops on the Eastern Front have been of special interest. For the IDF, "Identification with the Aggressor" is now complete. They ARE the SS, and Gaza is their Warsaw ghetto. US politicians have been a key catalyst in this transformation.
Thank you Caitlin for summing this genocide up perfectly. At first I thought oh no I will be alone in my thoughts this is simply a murder of prisoners and now I know from the global response I am not alone in this thinking. Thank you Caitlin for always here for people of PEACE and LOGIC : )
Dear United States,
STOP electing immoral, war-loving morons or just admit you are not cut out to be a country. Thank you,
The Universe
P.S. Return the land to the Palestinians that was stolen from them.
P.S.S. And, while you’re at it, return the land that you are unwelcome occupiers of, to the red nations, and the brown people of North America.
And, tell the Klanadians to do likewise.
You say that “whitey” has been to the moon.
Pack up your zionazis, and your Azov nazis, and other assorted creeps, and go lunar.
Losers.
You do realize you're on the page of a white Australian? Why are you not calling on her to leave?
exactly !
“That makes me want to stay out of much that goes on.”
“I’m probably done here; my experience is that little good comes of such talk.”
Those sentiments, of yours, are definitely not music to my ears.
Isn’t “little good” preferable to closing yourself off?
I wonder if you aren’t underestimating your size.
I’m thrilled that you came out to play, this morning.
Think about it a “little” longer, will ya?
Please.
How can you be so certain?
It only requires one drop, at least here in the United Snakes.
Actually, I find your response to be one that cries reading comprehension deficiency.
Do you really think that “my preacher” has, or ever would, disposes another creature of their domicile?
If not, then you should know that there was no call for her to board the bus to the sphere of green cheese.
Maybe try reading a little slower.
I know that you didn't ask me, but this little bit, "You say that “whitey” has been to the moon." might have influenced this fellow to think that you were pointing fingers at white people.
I appreciate your input, Mike.
You are the honest broker, that desires to avoid misunderstanding.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
Some people have difficulty reading beyond seeing things in terms of melanin.
Even those not familiar with Gil Scot-Heron, would be able to hear that the entirety of my PSS, was not about color, but about barbarism.
Shit Mike.
They say that I’m a
Kraut/Irish.
My soul says I’m a redskin.
And, gawd I love me some “colored” blues.
The git-tars, and the from the gut singin’, makes me angry, and sad, and frustrated, imaginin’ what it’s like to git whipped, cuttin’ “cane”, or goin’ to the store for some skittles, and never goin’ back home.
Ain’t no races, baby.
Only the rat race.
It is a beautiful song of protest dished with a punch of reality : )
While I understood the comment you made, (I believe I know what you mean), and can dismiss the notion that a broad generalization does not refer to every member of noted "skin color," I find the whole idea of using "deposition of melanin" as a way to speak of people/actions/desires/hopes useless at best unless it really matters.
All one can logically say of such deposition is, "All [fill in relative deposition] people are [repeat earlier brackets]. Any other finish is abjectly untrue unless a recapitulation of earlier bracket.
This makes me want to stay out of much that goes on. White America, black America, hispanic America and such talk do nobody any good. Yes, you can say that there are tendencies among them such as "Black" Americans tend to vote Democrat, or such things, but, so what? Like it? Encourage it. Don't like it, give them a reason to do otherwise.
We do not call blonde a race; we do not call brown/green/blue -eyed a race. Why needlessly separate ourselves by deposition of melanin?
Division by an immutable characteristic does bad people good, and good people bad.
I'm probably done here; my experience is that little good comes of such talk.
I do appreciate your words about being a peacemaker. I do believe we'd all do better together if we were clear in our words.
We cannot know what another means; we can only know what they say. This is why I ask others to say what they mean and mean what they say. Politicians are particularly good at dissembling. Contributions to replace taxes, misspoke to replace lie...
Be well.
Look up and listen to the song that so well describes what is happening all around us.
I hope you're highlighting anti-semitism and not perpetuating it.
That's a fool's hope with this particular troll. Dude thinks I'm like him just because of my longships, if that tells you anything.
This person is not opposing anti semitism.
You were not the brightest torch on the shelf hey James ?.
Do you even know what a semite is ?.
Here, let me help you out ... "a member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a Semitic language, including in particular the Jews and Arabs." ...
Like me calling somebody ANTI-WHITE, ANTI-BRITISH or ANTI-CHRISTIAN, because they did not speak English...
Or go to Mars they seem bizarrely obsesses with that place
the only one obsessed with mars is elon musk and he is south african
fucks sake you need to take your meds
What an enlightened contribution to the discussion/debate/disagreement/banter.
I suggest that you face me, hit your knees, purse your lips, and open wide, hugh.
I wish you well, in your endeavors.
That would mean sending Whites to UK&Europe, Blacks to Africa and the rest to South America! That would be funny to observe.
@voza0db
"The rest" didn't come from South America, if that is a category intended as a catch all for non "native American"/"first peoples" who get called "brown", those mostly Spanish speaking people in the parts of North America taken by USA with force from formerly Spanish colonized old Mexico, the Spanish Empire & etc. ("Brown" in USA includes also a few Portuguese speaking people, courtesy of Pope Alexander VI and Brazil) .
Those "rest" are either going to have to return to the Iberian peninsula or take a boat across the Bering Straits to Asia, whence the "first peoples" largely came from (DNA says some Pacific Islanders, Austral-Melanesians and the odd Scandinavian, even Han Chinese! were in the pre columbian immigrant mixture long enough to have children here). That whole "go back to where you came from" policy will need all kinds of qualifiers re: WHAT % ancestry from WHERE? and really, a DNA test all around.
How 'bout we all just agree to get along? Instead of making the transportation companies rich by yelling "go home!" at people who ARE already at the only home they've known.
For me, I want the folks who want to “get along” to stick around.
As for the “troublemakers”, I don’t want them to “go back where they came from”.
I want them to make a bee line for the moon.
Why dirty up Africa, Asia, South, or North America, Artica, or Ant, by shipping waste to their shorelines?
“Shape up, or ship out.”
Complicated/difficult?
You bet.
Worth it?
What’s the alternative?
More of the same old, same old?
I don’t think I/we can live with that.
I appreciate your thoughts.
At least you’re thinkin’.
See... NO easy solution! Best we all return to Africa and that's it. Cause the "we all agree to get along" is absolutely out of the Reality of our current specie capacity.
They don't struggle at all...
My PSS has gone over your head.
Whitey isn’t a race of people.
It’s an attitude.
Now that's funny... So clearly the "red nations, and the brown people of North America." are screwed since the attitude of those animals will never end in returning land.
“Funny” is not exactly the vernacular I would have chosen.
And even that was excessive!
As a whitey; I second that motion.
William.
Sorry, Wilhelm.
Do you mind if I call you “Billy”?
Far be it from me to question your judgment, but it seems like you might have a “thing” for old Kameltoe.
It seems like she’s in your mouth, all the time.
Careful.
I don’t know where she’s been.
But, I’ve heard stories.
I’m not sure that I get your point.
Are you requesting seats on the moon shuttles for these individuals?
Sorry. I work in hospitality.
I don’t do bookings.
no american thinks that Jews are our salvation. you have no idea what you are talking about but that’s not surprising.
That's some nasty Jew hatred. This page isn't just about condemning Israel's actions. It's full on anti-semitic.
Eddie; LOL! If you think our votes mean anything in the USA you are delusional.
Cool. You can keep on voting for Republicans and Democrats, keep on voting for status quo. See where that goes.
We voters have a responsibility at the voting box and it's time We The People take that responsibility seriously.
Eddie: I don't vote. I had my name removed from the voter rolls. Voting is stupid and pointless. The Revolution must come from the grassroots not from the top.
The best way to deal with a monster is to starve it. Don't vote and avoid every tax that you can.
Clarence: So what's your point?
PS: Did you get your wings yet?
It’s not only the united states doing this. All the colonial countries are having the same problem.
the us isnt the only country that supports israel nor is it the only country that’s war hungry. if you weren’t a moron you’d know that.
Yes, I'm aware that there are countries that support the atrocities. I also live in the United States. And in the United States, like many other countries, there's these things called elections, you may have heard of those. If you haven't, please buy a dictionary and learn what the word means, sweetheart.
you sound like a fucking moron
lmfao you sound like a dumb fuck
"You are being offered two narratives to choose from:
[1] Palestinians in Gaza are evil orc-like savages who just want to murder Jews and must therefore be caged and killed.
[2] Palestinians in Gaza are thinking human beings who are reacting to intolerable abuses inflicted upon them.
Which is more believable?" ...
... By whom? Let's recognize that, today, unfortunately plenty will choose option [1] -- even when presented with exactly the above language. So we need also to undo the decades of indoctrination of war thinking that generates cartoon characters of any and all opponents, on each of manufactured "sides", for easy dividing-and-conquering.
{unfortunately plenty will choose option [1]}
Strictly judging by the millions of people protesting throughout the world - I don't think that's holds true anymore! This is to barbaric to go unnoticed! Even if people were completely ignorant - there are to many protests not to open people's eye's. It's kind of like the vaccines - even if they were staunch advocates - they had to question why so many people weren't. Don't get me wrong, I see your point - I just think todays generation are much different
"Strictly judging by the millions of people protesting throughout the world - I don't think that's holds true anymore!"
Agreed. I think there is still a majority among the Westerners through our propaganda MSM. But as with COVID as you point out, and also during the Vietnam War (with a more independent MSM at the time), they simply can't hide reality forever.
Thank you!
There were millions protesting around the world before the Iraq invasion and it made zero difference. Most people are too overwhelmed and disconnected in their own lives to pay attention, inform themselves, and care enough to take action.
I totally agree but I think this situation is far different than Iraq. One was about an invasion - this one is about the outright slaughter of people. Don't get me wrong we certainly did kill thousands in Iraq as well and another 2 million were displaced. I just think this one is much more attention grabbing There isn't anyone that doesn't have a Jewish friend or know someone who is Jewish opposed to knowing an Iraqis. Just my opinion though!
I distinctly recall millions of right thinking Humans on Earth everywhere protested the impending illegal US invasion of Iraq lying about WMDs.
US power ignored all those People.
In 2003, the US invaded Iraq in violation of the very same International Law Russia is demonized for violating. US troops are currently in Syria violating that same International Law just to STEAL Syria's oil like COMMON THIEVES!
In 2001, retired US General Wesley Clark, currently a hard-line inciter calling for WAR TO THE END with Russia, in an instance of honest candour 4 years BEFORE it happened, was the highest level whistle blower exposing to the World the US/Pentagon put their WAR PLANS on the table to change the Regimes of Iraq, Libya, Syria and at THE END, Iran.
All the Israeli-US WEST WAR Propaganda is working overtime to convince us Iran caused the Al-Aqsa Flood October 7, just 2 days after
Hamas calls what happened Saturday October 7 'Al Aqsa Flood' Why?
Wednesday October 4, that Israeli Religious government orchestrated a flood of Jewish settlers to force Palestinians to close all their shops in Old Occupied East Jerusalem, preventing Palestinians from ascending to the Mosque and abusing many Palestinians in the process. By the Geneva Convention, an Occupying Army is obligated to protect the Occupied People but the Israeli Army protects Jewish Settlers TERRORIZING Palestinians.
January of THIS year, Israel made an OLD TESTAMENT JEWISH RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT the Government in Israel. It's no secret their goal and objective to to find a way to destroy the Islamic Al Asqa Mosque on Temple Mount so they can build a 3rd Jewish Temple and re-instate repetitive animal blood sacrifice as the Atonement of SIN.
It's the most important FUNDAMENTAL of the Christian Faith to this very Day, Christ Jesus willingly sacrificing his Blood suffering the pain and torture of Crucifixion in his Human Body, by that Act, became the One and Only Atonement for SIN for ALL People for ALL Time. Supporting Israel for that Path they already admit is their Nationalist Goal denies Christ. (he came unto his own and his own received him not-John 1:11
The Israeli government is implementing policies to create facts on the ground, according to THE BIBLE God gave ALL the land to JEWS exclusively 4000 years ago when Jews and Israel didn't exist.
This Israeli government prosecuting this WAR against the Innocent Palestinian Civilians sped up the Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Occupied Palestine we ALL can see on TV.
The nominally Christian US-WEST supports and gives Israel the green light to commit whatever WAR CRIMES Israel commits against INNOCENT Palestinian women, children and BABIES, TERRORIZING those INNOCENT Palestinians dropping hundreds of bombs all night long in the DARK, the daylight showing the 100s of DEAD PALESTINIANS Israel killed in the DARK overnight!
The United Nations Secretary-General spoke the TRUTH when he said, "October 7 didn't happen in a Vacuum." Israel wants him fired for speaking THE TRUTH!
Israeli-US WEST MSM, whose job it is to have as FEW SINS of Historical OMISSION as possible as fallible Humans, reporting on this RELIGIOUS WAR between Judaism and Islam since 1948, dismiss the UN Secretary General as a nobody whose Expertise isn't worth looking into.
What can we do?
I thank God for Caitlin. She does have a platform that reaches more people than most of us can.
I'm also not sure how the continuous bombing of Gaza is allowed to happen with no altercation from the surrounding area? Given the magnitude of all these Countries combined, all of Israel could be wiped out in one day!
Yes yes yes I saw and read all of this. However I don't recall the magnitude of protests against the invasion of Iraq. Not saying they didn't occur and only that I don't recall the intensity. What I do vehemently recall is how Bush ever got elected to a second term. I thought for sure there was no way in hell he'd ever get re-elected once the truth surfaced but then again they got Biden elected didn't they?
We were out in force over Iraq. Still the murder of a million happened. That is why we must act now.
I think people are much more cognizant today then they were back then and as I said it's probably because everyone knows or has a Jewish friend. The overall opinion of Israel is not good and getting worse the longer this continues. This is suicide.
It's not up to me to prove it. It's up to you to disprove it.
Searching Google exists for a reason!
Anti-Hip: I choose Door #3; Both sides are assholes.
Sounds as if you believe in "cartoon characters of any and all opponents".
So what is your prescription for our path out?
Anti-Hip: Starve the beast. Don't vote. Avoid every tax that you can. Ignore government "suggestions" and "recommendations". Disobey every dumb ass regulation you can get away with.
Folks in the SF Bay Area steal, kill, and shoot up drugs on the street with impunity. So why do we, the law-abiding taxpayers, have to follow bullshit rules?
How does not engaging with the system (boycotting it), and behaving as lawbreakers and like dysfunctional people, reform the government?
Do you expect a new, improved, limited government to just rise spontaneously out of the ashes? Or, do think that having no government (an anarchy) will prevent these things?
Anti-Hip: Government is an innately evil institution. There is no reforming it. All we can hope for is to shrink government and make it as powerless as possible.
The US Constitution lays out very clearly what the Federal Government in DC is allowed to do. Congress, the Executive Branch, and even the Judicial Branch, do not follow the US Constitution.
For example: It says very clearly in the US Constitution that ONLY gold and silver can be used as currency. Obviously, the Federal Reserve (which is a private bank) is counterfeiting.
"Government is an innately evil institution."
-De facto, too often yes.
-De jure, not all governments. As you acknowledge here by pointing to the Constitution.
It's the job, perpetually, of "We, the People" to bring the two into alignment. Certainly, in the 21st century, we've been failing badly at it. Not them, but us.
Pretty sure we know all about the hate propaganda and indoctrination. We are white terrorists and bigots.
"We Are Ruled By Sociopaths And Morons". Could have ended it there!
The sociopaths hire the uncurious narcissists to stand there and smile and lie comfortably, which they can easily do.
No, go to the part about choosing the puppet rulers...
There ya go!
:-)
Right on, Caitlin. I listen to Doug Macgregor, Scott Ritter, Jeffrey Sachs, John Mearsheimer, Max Blumenthal, and Jimmy Dore a lot just to remind myself that Americans are not all brainless and/or insane. Incidentally exactly the same is true here in Deutschland, although there is a new ray of hope with the Sahra Wagenknecht Movement.
Add to your list Alastair Crooke 😎
And Judge Napolitano, Brian Berletic, Richard Medhurst, Glenn Greenwald, Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris, Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson, Phil Giraldi, Gerald Celente... and Caitlin of course but for me she is text not talk. Even though I hear her talking through the writing! And not to forget Clare Daly and Mick Wallace. I've also reposted a few speeches, I think mostly by Sinn Feiners. Roger Waters, and there are even a few sane voices in Germany, e.g. Sevim Dagdelen and Sahra Wagenknecht -- who have even launched a new (movement for a) party.
CJ Hopkins, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Gabor Mate, Dave Smith, the libertarian Institute Richard Grove to name a few more sources of objective views on this topic. Richard Grove's show Grand Theft world has done a 7 hour Deep dive each week into the details of the Middle East over the last couple hundred years. Everything is backed up with documentation. Fantastic place to learn the truth
Well Bob, since you're not familiar with those two gentlemen, consider it your lucky day, that is if you are looking to obtain a balanced perspective on the Middle East. If you're simply commenting to troll my post that's okay too. I believe anyone, regardless of how little they know, should be allowed to speak their mind so we all know what they know or don't know in some/your case. Enjoy your evening chief. 😊
Richard Grove isn't part of the libertarian institute, that I'm aware of anyway.
And may I add The Katie Halper Show, as well as Useful Idiots for a dose of sanity.
And Aaron Maté, others at The Gray Zone, Kit Klarenberg, Wyatt Reed, Ben Norton, et al. great young people. Forgot Michael Hudson, by the way. Matt Taibi. Anya Parampil. Michael .... stuck for the last name. Have to keep this list for reference. There's an idea: a list with links and brief descriptions for ready reference.
And CounterPunch.org, Also Chris Hedges on Substack
Counterpunch is strictly “limited hangout”.
Pro-Nazi. (Azov)
There doesn't seem to be much "there, there" for Sahra Wagenknecht.
The articles I've read don't say much except that she's not left or right but is working to unite the two poles. There was one article that was a bit more specific calling her anti-immigrant.
This one https://archive.ph/eLuA0, at least says:
"Wagenknecht’s labelling of Olaf Scholz’s government as the most incompetent in the history of the federal republic resonates with a lot of people. "
Well that wasn't hard to determine. Germany, like the rest of the EU, has a political leadership that has sold out to the American Hegemony (just the Oligarchy, politics in America is just puppet theater)
Then it just regurgitates the same left/right talking points that have become meaningless in an era when even the Greens are verging on Fascism. It comes across as "blah, blah, blah".
How long before Wagenknecht takes an unpopular position (like RFK Jr did on Israel) and suddenly the shine is removed to reveal the same rust that most are trying to escape? Is she just Germany's Bernie Sanders or Cornell West gaining immediate following because they utter a few phrases that appear to stand against the Oligarchy?
Latest poll I've seen puts her at 14%, almost equal with the SPD. I was taken aback by her naming the "movement" after herself, but now I think she was right to capitalize on her name recognition. The media like to downplay it, but it's mainly her opposition to the war (against Russia) that has drawn people away from all the other parties to the benefit of the AfD. Immigration is not the biggest issue because by now all the parties have come to see it as a major problem.
RFK took an "unpopular position" on Israel? Unpopular with whom? Not with the powers-that-be, for sure. I think there is more substance to Wagenknecht et al., and remember that unlike the Americans she is trying to build a party, taking the best from the Linke and the AfD. The Linke are dead in the water.
"Unpopular with whom?"
The people who were excited about voting for him. The "PTB" don't like him anyway no matter what his position on Israel.
I'm just suggesting that the "shiny new thing" quickly fades when "real issues" get discussed. ("real" because to me, they are often so trivial.)
Yes, and when it does get real, as now with the Israeli war, they all cough up the same phlegm., RFKJr being a prime example. I'm hoping Wagenknecht will be different.
“I’m only one person, what can I do?” Said the whole world.
The root problem isn't the people running the show, it is the system itself. Fixing the system itself should be the one place we can all agree on.
We need to fix the entire system from being corrupted - government and all other related systems have lost all trust (government, media, medicine, science, academia, food, etc). The answer lies in building new trustworthy systems, migrating to them, then plugging them in to fix the existing corrupted ones. Like using a plug-in to fix a corrupted computer system.
It starts with understanding Swarm Theory and Human Swarm Intelligence. This is the beginning, but if everyone takes the time to understand this we can fix our corrupted systems and then fix everything else. Transparency + Decentralization + Human Swarm Intelligence = the answer.
Never heard of it? Here: https://joshketry.substack.com/p/human-swarm-intelligence-the-most
I wish.
Your swastika's backward. You're using the clockwise, Hindu one, not the tilted, twisted counterclockwise Nazi one.
Very disappointing for someone who claims to be an expert on this stuff.
Just the ones in charge of the mic ,we are not allowed to elect any moral person. The morons,(mtg) are ready to kick out a couple of moral individuals
It is much worse than that. Our culture is tailor-made for psychopaths to rise to positions of power and control because it is precisely those who desire power and control who will do anything and say anything to obtain it. In reality no one who desires power and control should ever be allowed into a position of power and control.
Hi William
I have always maintained that elected officials should receive no pay or retirement benefits. They can be given a stipend for housing, food, transportation etc. but NO PAY.
That’s the only way we might possibly obtain elected officials who actually have the country’s best interests in mind.
I’ve said it before: politicians are people who can’t get real jobs.
They should get Social Security like the rest of us. THEN Soc. Sec would be fully protected!
Good thinkin’ Jeano!
William Jeffreys: What is this "Our culture" bullshit? The USA has so many cultures that I can't keep track of them.
By what assumptions do those in authority assume to have authority over you? Did you sign a contract with them? I'm not speaking of culture in the grade-school sociology class context, but in the larger context of the assumptions that govern our relationships to each other and "government". It's 180 degrees away from what it should be. We should know everything about them and they should only know of us what they need to know. "Public servants" actually assume domain and control over us and this power makes the jobs extremely attractive to sociopaths and psychopaths.
William Jeffreys; When I point out that I never signed a contract with the State, the statists (Satanists) say, "It's an implied contract."
Well, in contracts, nothing is implied or understood. It has to be in writing.
Brilliantly said. I will be reading this at a rally in support of Palestine on Sunday. I can’t bear the both siding, the liars and the murderers.
Dorothy, that’s a great idea!
I will miss sat rally on dc. Bus is full. You go girl❣️
Israel showed its brutality by causing so much civilian deaths during the October 7th attack. They used tanks, Apache helicopters and air strikes that killed hundreds of Israelis, reports Propaganda&Co in a new video. See also Jonathan Cook.
White phosphorus, among other banned munitions.
Actually, if you dig a little deep you will discover things are not always what they appear. In June (according to UK-Telegraph) Hamas received its first shipment of missiles from Ukraine and Israel has been supplying Russia with resources that included artillery munitions. Of course, elections have consequences and stolen elections have even greater consequences. What would you think, if someone told you ALL of this was planned, what if the reason ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed in Bengazi because he discovered guns were being supplied to Isis by friendly fire. What has happened to the American people because of this proxy conflict? The taxpayers have become improvished, The dollar has lost its place as the reserve currency… Then in Afganstain the 17th largest Army in the world was handed over to the Talaban completely intact. What would you think if someone told you this was ALL part of the plan? “There are none so blind as those who will not see.”
Marina Lauer; And us US taxpayers paid for it all!
"Palestinians in Gaza are evil orc-like savages who just want to murder Jews and must therefore be caged and killed."
To be fair, the West has form in this. Witness demonization of Russian people in recent years, viewing them as thuggish, primitive and stupid on the one paw but at the same time having superpowers that Lex Luthor could only dream of on the other.
For that matter, such ogrish views of Jews were also common currency not so long g ago.
From the Zionist point of view, this only bolsters their argument. "See we are so oppressed we deserve special treatment!"
Ya, but for Zionists, EVERYTHING bolsters their argument that they are victims. If no one is killing them they will kill themselves, as happened at that infamous concert.
American Special Forces are "secretly" killing, dying, and directing artillery and airstrikes in Gaza, as Douglas Macgregor was saying last week. How/when will their deaths and injuries be explained?
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/better-facts
I forget whose Substack it was - I read it yesterday, where they completely discredited Macgregor. I'm not saying I agree or disagree and just what someone wrote.
One guy? A bunch of guys? Was it written by the ADL? Was it from Nancy Pelosi?
There are two Carrier Groups being deployed in the Eastern Med, there are two more that have left the West Coast and are heading west for a yet-to-be-revealed destination.
Sabres are being rattled on a daily basis and Winken, Blinken and Nod are continuing to make fools of themselves (although I haven't heard much from Nod lately after her disastrous trip to Saudi Arabia in May)
Was it the same people who pooh-pooh Seymour Hersh's report on NordStream?
MacGregor may not always be right, but he's right enough, often enough that there's probably "something" behind his claim.
Your last line says it all. It is what I've been saying since 2002 when my eyes were opened.
Any ideas about how to stop the spamming? The worst of the comments are the sames ones over and over from the same person.
Susan T: If you are referring to me, all Caitlin Johnstone has to do is refund my subscription money and I'm gone and happily so.
GENOCIDE JOE
HAS GOT TO GO!
By any means possible.
You keep on preachin’ girl.
I loved the sermon.
I wish we had a bigger congregation.
Agree. Ceasefire and allow freedom and sovereignty for Palestinians. Two-nation State and funding for rebuilding.
Gaza is self-ruling and has been for almost 20 years. It was a pilot program into a two state solution and it clearly failed. Almost 20,000 gazans has work permits in Israel. They used them to gather intelligence and murder innocent people. Ask yourself why no other Arab country even wants to let Gazans be refugees? At the same time that some Muslim Arabs were shuffled around in the land of Israel, even more Jewish Arabs were stripped off their property and expelled from surrounding land including Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt. Most settled in Israel. There is no real Jewish community to speak of in other Arab countries, while a large minority of Israeli CITIZENS are Muslim and Christian Arabs with full rights, participation, property ownership, and govt representation. 75 years out, most Israelis are born in Israel, and there is no where else to go, or "return to".
You moron.
The Palestinian people don’t WANT to be refugees in another country. WHAT DON’T YOU GET ABOUT THAT?
They want their land according to the 1967 borders and not to (a) be forced to live in a concentration camp (Gaza) or
(b) be victims of murderous IsraHelli squatters and land theft in the West Bank.
Do yourself a favor and use one of the couple of brain cells you may have remaining.
Hahahahahaha. Love it.
You are utterly deluded.
You are incorrect.
You are misguided. And rudely prolific in Caitlin Johnstone's comments section.
Amazing that every single response here is ad homenim and does not address actual content. Go read your own history. Hint: it didn't start in 1948.
Or fools. It does do one thing tho—gives others the chance to read your well thought out and important information. Thank you for taking the time. But also, forget these pinwheels. Not worth it. 🥰🙏
"Facts" when only viewed from eyes of the oppressor.
Then explain how the facts are wrong. If you can't, then you're not intelligent or clever, you're just a mindless drone.
Fuck off, anti-semite. I don't truck with racists of any kind.
As a research psychologist, I've spent years studying war, violence, and killing. Tactics of German SS troops on the Eastern Front have been of special interest. For the IDF, "Identification with the Aggressor" is now complete. They ARE the SS, and Gaza is their Warsaw ghetto. US politicians have been a key catalyst in this transformation.
Thank you Caitlin for summing this genocide up perfectly. At first I thought oh no I will be alone in my thoughts this is simply a murder of prisoners and now I know from the global response I am not alone in this thinking. Thank you Caitlin for always here for people of PEACE and LOGIC : )