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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

There must be an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Pope Francis has said what is needed, now he must do what is needed by going to Gaza and standing for peace, justice and freedom.

Please sign the petition and share widely.

https://chng.it/CRQ7qw4Gzn

Code pink

https://www.codepink.org/cnngaza?utm_campaign=12_15_pali_update_alert_3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink

Let us also support UNRWA. If our governments won’t act in accordance with humanity, then we will. https://www.unrwausa.org/donate Let us do it to honor Aaron Bushnell, or in memory of Hind Rajab.

Let us call for a No Fly-Zone over Gaza!

These are a few small things we can do. If we can do more, let us do more.

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

Nothing is going to happen until Americans recognize the power of the Plutocracy and do something about it other than share petitions that the Plutocracy just laughs at.

I don't see a peaceful solution. I'm not advocating for anything.

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notBob's avatar

lots of well meaning people trying to find the peaceful solution don't want to accept the reality that neither side wants peace. Yes innocent people are caught in the middle but they have been for a long time.

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Silvia's avatar

I disagree with your opinion about that “neither side wants peace.” I believe Palestinians, the indigenous ppl of Palestine want to live in their country with peace and dignity and it’s obvious Israel doesn’t want to achieve any agreement since it constantly rejects anything Hamas agrees with.

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Mike Fish's avatar

“Neither side” implies TWO.

That’s binary brain….retardation???, and part of the problem.

How does the idea of “third party/person” fit into your thinking???

Neutral observer???

I get the impression that you are content to have this nightmare continue to a lopsided conclusion.

How about CEASEFIRE NOW???

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Michael's avatar

We should push for as much localization of power and governance as possible.

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Kathlean J Keesler's avatar

Thank you for sharing the petition.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

You are welcome. Please sign and help share it as well.

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Kathlean J Keesler's avatar

Signed & sharing.

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blackbird's avatar

He won't go to Gaza and he will do nothing. as he is one of them.

“Fake Justice” at The Hague. https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-icj-requires-netanyahu-to-prevent-and-punish-those-responsible-for-the-genocide/5847666

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John Day MD's avatar

I signed your petition, Joy.

​It is a good idea to get some cash and get shopping done during the day today. This will likely disturb power grids and electronic transactions; the biggest event since 2005.

SIX SOLAR STORMS ON THEIR WAY TO EARTH | S0 News May.10.2024​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGlGCIiyZE

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

How about deploying Pope Francis (or his double) along with his bullet- & mine-shatter-proofed papa-mobile DIRECTLY to Rafah via US-supplied parachutes (like the ones they used to supply ISIS with new ammo and forage in Syria, you know!!) ??? ...

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Contrarian 33's avatar

He won't fly to Gaza, Joy. The US President is one of his flock, sins forgiven every Friday at Confession, approved for a clear run to heaven as a Catholic Christian, but not one who supports "thou shall not kill". He is allowed to choose his own Commandments, as written in the Torah this time.

Get ready America. Your new Bible is the Torah being shipped across from Israel and with your new Senate passed legislation it will soon be illegal to read anything else.

Progress in America.

Stay tuned for a date for the "Burning of the Books". Another Nazi tradition .

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

If he doesn't go, that's on him. If we don't ask, that's on us.

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Contrarian 33's avatar

Fingers crossed, Joy.

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peta's avatar

In honor and recognition of all the grandmothers, mothers, and pregnant women who have been murdered, maimed, injured, and/or starved in Gaza, we won't be celebrating Mother's Day in my house (we live in USA and Mother's Day is this Sunday). We will add the amount of cake, dinner, etc., to our monthly donation to Doctors Without Borders.

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gypsy33's avatar

That’s beautiful, Aleta. You’ve just inspired me to do the same. Thank you.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

That is a wonderful idea, Aleta. Bless you and yours.

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Dr. BigFinger DickHead's avatar

terrorist value system, leads to terrorist action, which starts wars and leads to suffering and death....cause and effect...until muhammedians leave their terrorist ideology, nothing will ever change.

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Susan T's avatar

It is completely nuts that the New York Times rag would get a Pullitzer prize for it's shoddy reporting. I guess I haven't been listening to the news enough because I hadn't heard that one. Probably a good thing. I might have broken my computer screen when I threw a pot at it. I did hear the one about sending student protesters to Gaza. I thought I must be hearing things, but it said it again in the next hour. I did hear our esteemed PM say that Canadians have to be tolerant of Zionism. Sent him an email suggesting he read a bit more and did he want to make an idiot of himself yet again after welcoming a former Nazi into parliament. At least I assume he was a former Nazi. He lives somewhere in Canada. Yep, we let those people in, but not Jews who were trying to escape them way back at the beginning of WW2. The good old days were never really very good and the new days have even more threats to offer our planet and whatever manages to survive on it.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Members of the Biden administration should be made to consider 18 U.S. Code § 1091 the law that brought the genocide convention into US law. Put this statute in their faces, up front and center at every protest at every meeting, press conference, briefing, and trips home and abroad.

They may feel they are immune now, but let's get them considering what is possible when they leave office, given they have set the precedent of charging former presidents. They should have visions of prison all the days of their lives.

The propagandists in the Mainstream Media need to be encouraged to think about their culpability as well.

Let us find the way!

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Back to exceptioinalist folly. The French "leadership", their Napoleonic hubris on display, seem to want to join the list of extreme cultural narcissist ubermenschen -- aux armes citoyens. Append themselves to the German Nazis, Ukrainian Nazis, John Bulls, American Manifest Destiny Exceptionalists, and of course god's-chosen-people Zionists in a competition for who can offer the most effed-up version of the song "My Dog's better 'N your Dog". Unless this shite-filled attitude is purged from the human psyche as the quintessential ethno-racist sickness of the species, how can there ever be an end to madness of the caliber we are currently witnessing? The root of the bloody problem is us. Take a long look in the mirror of history, Homo sap.

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djean111's avatar

I pretty much despair of "the masses" understanding anything.

I don't live very far from a very large US air base. The other day, someone on a localized social media website complained about some jets doing maneuvers over their neighborhood, as this was not in the regular flight path. Evidently there was an air show or demonstration the next day, and the errant flight path had been assigned for practice purposes.

Bunch of replies, informational and also some condescending ones - but also lots of "That's the sound of freedom" drivel.

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Sam's avatar

"That's the sound of freedom"

I have heard this drivel my whole life. I live by an Air Force base and the jets will do touch and goes for hours and fly over my house. There used to be a noise ordinance in place, but with the newer jets it’s pointless.

I inherited my parent’s home, but it was in the flight path so I sold it. I grew up with jets flying over the house every evening coming in from the west desert. Just as the 2 hour movie was ending I’d miss it because of the noise.

But people always say "That's the sound of freedom"

No it’s a waste of money. 1 hour flying takes as much fuel that families use all month.

Yeah, this is a rant.

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gypsy33's avatar

A good rant, Sam.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Yeah, that "sound of freedom (tm)" drivel is VERY irritating. The National Guard here is loud as f*** and they could go and practice over the lake, but they choose to buzz close over our houses when they're more than 15 miles out from their landing strip. I flip them off whenever I'm working in my garden and they interrupt my morning solace.

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gypsy33's avatar

Biggest source of carbon emissions on earth, TRC: the Amerikkkan military.

Maybe you could moon ‘em as well.

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Sam's avatar

Heh….

"I flip them off whenever I'm…"

I do too when they fly over while I’m walking. I just hope they can see me!

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Me too! I figure I'm already on the alphabet agencies' lists of n'er-do-wells, so I might as well have my satisfaction at telling them where they can go. ;-)

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Ismaele's avatar

Just a minor correction:

"Because of reckless comments from London approving the use of British weapons to attack Russian territory, Moscow has formally warned that if this happens it could directly attack British military installations in Ukraine AND BEYOND"

...meaning that Russia has threatened to attack not just British military bases within Ukraine, but also outside, i.e. in UK, as reported in the AntiWar link provided and as I also wrote in one of my previous posts, citing Maria Zakharova: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/its-getting-hot

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JennyStokes's avatar

I don't know how Putin has remained sane against this constant barrage of 'red lines' crossed.' IF he is pushed much further we are in danger caused by many countries in the West.

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russian_bot's avatar

Being "sane" for so long is what's been enabling the west to continue pushing. The "insane" part should have been invoked much earlier on smaller things, just to show he could be insane. Then these bigger things would not be happening.

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Feral Finster's avatar

What Russia sees as reasonableness and humanitarianism, the sociopaths ruling the West see as contemptible weakness.

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russian_bot's avatar

Absolutely. And leaders should recognize this and act accordingly despite whatever their personal values are. As sticking to those values ends up costing real human lives in their charge.

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Contrarian 33's avatar

I doubt if on these pages there has ever been a more accurate assessment on this subject, Feral. A big mistake in judgement, in my opinion. "Contemptible weakness" it isn't.

NATO, an American invention will eventually be the loser.

I wonder if Genocide Joe, if he ever sits down to think for himself as opposed tb taking advice from his surrounding Netanyahu's parasites, considers that while all his little wars, proxy of course, are proceeding, what it is that China is doing every day.

Back in the old days, the Korean War, I remember the support that was China's to give and how, based on their population numbers they were prepared to sacrifice numbers for results. These days they are not a collection of farmers and agricultural workers but an amazing country with staggering results in building communities and cities, exports, standards unheard of in their history before. People should somehow find a way to look at that country today, its achievements and the progress made in a relatively short time ,and then by adding that to Russia's technology and weapons base, consider that an expansion by the US proxies will spell disaster for any enemy.

And the USA these days, is everybody's enemy. Their choice entirely and that includes all their sycophantic vassal states soon to realise that the US has no friends, including their current bunch of short term supporters. The Anglo whites will then be left alone, targets in the making.

The US has made its bed with Israel as their motivation for evil deeds and their puppet master.

Now they must lie in it.

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Feral Finster's avatar

The question remains whether Russia has the stomach to do it.

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russian_bot's avatar

Highly likely it's not just about the stomach. Rather it's lack of capability to be effective without resorting to nuclear right off the bat. Which would start the end of all.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Had Russia acted with appropriate force from the outset, the point would be academic.

At every stage, Russia has catastrophically underestimated western sociopathy.

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JennyStokes's avatar

IF Russia had 'acted with appropriate force from the outset' I fear that the West would have become more unhinged than they already are.

Unlike the west I don't think Russia wants to cause overwhelming distress.

What Russia has learned, according to many people I have read with regard to warfare is :

They have learned different strategy's.

They have managed to use new/old weapons with increasing accuracy.

They have had time to build up weapon supplies + they have more troops.

IF they had gone faster this could not have happened.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Maybe. I suspect that they would have treated the overrunning o fUkraine as a fait accompli. Sort of like the Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. "Thoughts and prayers!" but not much else.

Instead, the West has invested so much material and non-material support into Ukraine that they cannot be seen to lose now and keep on doubling down.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Yes.........this is the problem. I see it too.

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Feral Finster's avatar

When the Establishment is that evil, that insane, that dishonest, that openly sociopathic, no wonder people start looking for alternatives that would have been considered nut-fringe a little while ago.

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Giuseppe Corvo's avatar

FF,

I suspect that any hope of reform is futile….that’s why building parallel structures will serve free peoples in the future. None of the entities in these conflicts has a pure set of motives, but only one side enjoys a monopoly on control of classic propaganda channels……their challenge relates to the effective obsolescence of said modes of propaganda……they are losing control for certain of the overwhelming under thirty demographic hence the TikTok ban and cancellation of dissent…..it’s not working. Many of my friends (we are ancient) are falling for the propaganda but as I point out to them…..we are the past and it’s past time to let young people thrive…

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

It has become so bad that I'm beginning to hope that Russia and China -do- invade Europe and the US.

The economic crash that is coming is being engineered by the Plutocracy. They have "cop city" all set up to destroy any dissent.

The USA couldn't be more ready for collapse no matter how hard foreign agents might have tried.

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Klonda56's avatar

Russia and China are DEFENSIVE powers. They are capable of deterring a threat on their sold and directly next to it. That’s it. Not more.

That there is a many years narrative of them invading and occupying the U.S. or Europe is insane. It speaks to a state of mass stupidly among the population of the “west” , and of the utter contempt that the rulers of these countries have for the low intellect of their populations.

The RAND Corp - Pentagon strategy arm - wrote an extensive study saying so and pointing out that Russia could only be pretended to be a “threat” by deliberately and credibly threatening them on their own border!

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html

See the NY times public confession for the rest:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html

The same is the case for China - a long running story since the Obama-era “pivot to Asia”.

I’ll tell you who the real invasion threat is in this world. It’s the U.S.

https://theintercept.com/2024/02/10/erik-prince-off-leash-imperialism-colonialism/

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Susan T's avatar

The US has been demonstrating it's willingness to invade wherever they see fit in order to take "democracy" to the world. They don't just threaten. They do.

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Klonda56's avatar

The difference is Eric Price is now talking about moving in and settler colonising. Mass slavery. Not just bombing.

He is yet another Zionist suffering from megalomania. And another one using the United States government to further a Zionist colonial agenda.

These people are dangerously globally. Not just to Palestinians. They want to use the U.S. to enslaved entire nations.

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Susan T's avatar

And the US does not at all mind being used for such purposes.

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Klonda56's avatar

The «US» is not a monolithical entity. Nor even a democracy. So most people have no say at all.

The U.S. is an oligarchy and Eric Prince is among the billionaires oligarchs steering the U.S. to do the work of the Zionist “neocon” movement. They are megalomaniacs. Pure and simple.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Hello Susan. According to many wise people the US does not have enough weapons having used them in Afghanistan/Israel/Ukraine/Yemen etc.

The minute Biden or whoever puts 'boots on the ground' the already angered masses will not comply.

This is already happening here in France.

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russian_bot's avatar

"... Russia and China -do- invade Europe ..." - that "invasion" will have to happen in some form. At least as far as Baltic countries who have gone totally berserk in their Russophobia that threatens Baltic Sea access and cutting off Kaliningrad. So measures will have to be taken.

That's why the west is crying "Putin will not stop" because they know Russia will have to do something in those terms indeed. Nothing else is needed in Europe, but Baltic Sea is vital. It's somewhat similar to what happened with Finland in 1939-40.

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Elisabeth's avatar

Totally agree, scary and crazy, but what to do?

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russian_bot's avatar

"This was the first time in US history that a minority from either party has ever intervened to stop the majority party from removing their own speaker ..." - and partisans would still insist there's a difference. And that Something Horrible 2025™ is uniquely evil so Biden all the way.

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Jay Spencer's avatar

Now I know what my parents must have felt when they got the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor, except no one’s declared war on us—yet. Any war on this scale could make WWII look like a picnic, no matter who lights the spark off. When will this madness end, and will we survive it? The rematch between Biden and Trump seems inevitable, and both of their policies favor war. Suppose you had another choice, a peace candidate? You do, if you want it badly enough—Jill Stein (Green Party). Help make her a choice in November.

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Howard Pearce - Libertarian's avatar

What many people do not know is that Japan was PROVOKED into attacking the U.S. (even if the target was not yet known)

Opposition to another war was strong in the U.S. at that time and finding a way around it needed.

FDR had already promised Churchill the U.S. would enter the war on its side

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That a similar procedure using NATO base building was used for provoking Russia into attacking the Ukraine should provide some backup to that.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

People, Planet and Peace! Let's stick it to the warmongering genociders in DC. Vote Green! https://jillstein2024.com

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Elisabeth's avatar

Indeed, the sickness, that thanks to our employees (the government) we have to be afraid of being killed off by these morons!

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Sari Tähtinen's avatar

Thank you Caitlin🙏

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Lou Pintada's avatar

I'm very glad to see this post. Nice, short, sharable, paragraphs to post on some apologist site! Yummy.

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bill wolfe's avatar

Caitlin - you and your readers might be interested in this essay:

A Sick, Dystopian System Worth Overthrowing

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/10/a-sick-dystopian-system-worth-overthrowing/

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Indu Abeysekara's avatar

Thanks, bill wolfe. Paul Street is always good to read. In spite of his colourful turn of phrase or because of it more like - never fails to make one smile!

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Leon Brown, Jr.'s avatar

Thanks for the link to the Paul Street article at Counter Punch. It was excellent!

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Suzanne J's avatar

Use your platform to boost Dr Jill Stein. She is a real alternative to the binary of the lesser of 2 evils.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Yes, that's what Americans all need to do. Jill is gaining more and more traction in the polls--in spite of the mainstream media ignoring her for the most part because of her pro-Palestine/anti-genocide stance. Help her out if you're able in New York state this week, as the ballot access rules there are beyond draconian (as set up by former Dem governor Cuomo, of course). https://jillstein2024.com

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Thank you, Caitlin. As always a voice for true moral clarity, and without enwrapping it in the bindings of religion.

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