Thanks for so diligently doing your part in the information war, Caitlin! May we all do what we can to reveal what's really going on, and counter the spin.
Fine article! However, the Einstein article was published in the first issue of the Monthly Review of 1949. The magazine is still around doing fine work of challenging monopoly capitalism!
Sometimes public opinion gets past what the "owners" can control, or even manipulate adequately, and it can even get past what they can plausibly or implausibly, or desperately vote-rig.
2024 feels like 1968 to me. I'm not alone in that.
The "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" report was tabled in the year of my birth and it gave clear warnings about global warming and the other ~80% of the diverse destruction we have caused with accellerating abandon ever since.
Just like 1968 but in a much angrier, collapsing biogeosphere.
A lot of remediation of industrial pollution, and cleanup operations, were done in the 1970s. Things really were improved a lot. Still, we create waste/pollution on our finite planet as we use up limited resources with our life-support-system
Powell claimed the Bank of America was attacked 39 times. I find the Isla Vista branch was burned to the ground in a protest over South African apartheid. So we can see who's "side" Powell was on.
Also watch Aaron Good's outstanding youTube series on "Empire and the Deep State:
The "ownership" of this nation was always in the hands of the Plutocracy.
The one thing that maybe has changed is the membership of the Plutocracy or Billionaires. Jews make up less than 3% of the US population, yet how many Billionaires are Jews? Why is this so?
Jared Kushner provides an example. His father, worth over $1B, was (is) a crook who Chris Christy (another crook) put in jail. Donald Trump pardoned him and had his daughter marry Kushner.
Once "the mob" was identified as Italian. Now it is Jewish.
There are plenty of Jews who oppose the mob, but they are often prevented from speaking out, like Raz Segal who had his job offer withdrawn at the University of Minnesota because he acknowledged the Gaza Genocide.
There are many examples. The point though is to recognize the "Jewish Lobby" for what it is. They fund AIPAC and ADL which cry "Anti-Semitism," and "Self-Hating Jew" anytime anyone (like Norman Finkelstein or Max Blumenthal) expose their crimes.
Blumenthal has clearly shown that the "Jewish Lobby" is very much in control of the coming Presidential election. They have both Biden and Trump beholding to them for their current positions and wealth. What is the alternative?
The American Empire is on an increasingly steep slope to irrelevance. If we want the dream of the USA (and Australia) to survive, we must combat this evil force.
Oddly enough, I shall probably vote for (Jewish) Jill Stein MD again, who came out against the genocide in early December and has been arrested for protesting it.
You failed to mention Bobby Kennedy Jr., whose father was murdered with the mark of the Mossad, egregiously framing Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, with the "motive" that Bobby "supported Israel", when the fact was that he wanted to wrest their atomic bomb from them, which he and JFK had worked to keep them from getting, but LBJ secretly gave them plutonium to create.
I bear some hope that Bobby Jr. or even Trump might turn the tables on Zionism at some point, but "hope" is not a plan, not at all.
RFK Jr, has proclaimed his unwavering support for Israel and is ignoring the genocide. Max Blumenthal has explained how the "Jewish Lobby" owns both Trump and Biden so don't "hope"
I agree that RFK's murder (like JFK's murder) was part of a much larger conspiracy. Anyone that wants to follow this should refer to Aaron Good and his "American Exception" and "Devils Chessboard"podcasts.
I just made sure I'm registered to vote so I can support Jill Stein.
Exactly! The end of the "Petro Dollar" has just happened (Saudi Arabia did not renew!) and the MSM is more concerned about what some stupid idiot in Hollywood was wearing or some other completely pointless bullshit propaganda. Americans can kiss your new cars and food right off the cliff that you were clueless was in front of you!
Other improvements our generation brought about were Roe V Wade, civil rights and affirmative action, the medical establishment finally removing homosexuality from their list of mental illnesses. It was a generation of hope when protests by the man in the street could bring about change. Like to see "4 Dead in Ohio" get air play today (if there were still such a thing as radio). The world wasn't perfect by any means back then, but it was definitely BETTER.
By the 1990s our society had achieved a good place,a good balance between the needs of industry and thus jobs for people (who aren't "creatives"),and "the environment". Yes,there were genuine concerns that the Green Movement originally brought to attention and that was good but by the early 1990s sensible legislation had dealt with the worst issues. I'm not sure exactly when the Green Movement got taken over but it did and then it all started to get silly and even nasty.
The actual turning point was when Paul Volcker at the Fed. cranked interest rates on T-bills up over 20%, in order to maintain the price of the $US, and its reserve-status, but those high interest rates began the gutting and hollowing out of US industry, which has continued, because no honest business can pay high interest from profits earned.
The Zionist movement offered Albert Einstein the presidency of Israel. Einstein refused. He knew he would be only a figurehead place there to aid fundraising. He also wrote that the treatment of the Palestinians would lead to big trouble in the future, and he wanted no part of that. Smart guy, yes?
His wife was smarter but he kept her doing his laundry. He wasn't such a nice guy as those zany photos teach us. It was he who instituted the Atomic Bomb research in order to,as I am now learning not end WW2 because the Japanese were already seeking to capitulate but to bring in The Cold War,that was actually a CIA created thing just as the war in Ukraine today is,and the Shooting Fish in a Barrel in the Unholy Land is. Einstein was one of THEM. But it helps if you can look comical and say funny things. He said "God does not play dice" and Christians gleefully cry," see he believed in God really". But only just lately I've come to see a more sinister meaning in this saying. He is actually SAYING ... NOTHING HAPPENS BY CHANCE.
Some have extrapolated on that with, "...everything government does is for a reason." Not sure that is entirely true, but I am certain nearly always true.
For me, this is the most clarifying article you have written. It gets right to the basic issue. You make it really clear on why we should not, can not, rely on mainstream media for all of our information. The main function of mainstream media from my perspective is that it keeps us informed about the lies the powerful are spreading around and therefore about how people are being misled from so many angles.
Anyone working for media giants who talks about Jews on the U.S media for any reason, most especially its ownerships, is looking for another job the very next day.
I am pretty sure it is AOK to say things like Jews are suffering from all the antisemitism being directed at them (due to the fact that Israel is committing genocide)......not the part in brackets
The "founders" of the US were genocidal psychopaths. The world is run by the psychopaths. Corporations run the world and psychopaths run the corporations. The UK is being sold off to them now.
The "founding fathers" were fighting the exact same fight we are fighting right now. Unfortunately, there were traitors who sold out the country for filthy lucre...just like now. The American Dream had a good start and from time to time true patriots arose amongst us. You know who they were because they were assassinated. At least eight Presidents, many presidential advisors, businessmen and it still goes on today. The same cabal we defeated in 1776 (and their Satanic collaborators) are still trying to erase any trace of the American Dream. We can’t let that happen. We must re-educate the People so they can see through the lies and deceit. It’s a full-time job!
Be careful in such generalizations. Some of the founders tried to rid slavery from the start. Jefferson originally included anti slavery statements directly in the Declaration of Independence... but others demanded it removed and had the political capital to see it done. Some of America's founders were flawed but Nobel men who shared an idea for a better world for all human beings. Unfortunately, even from the start, there was enough resistance from power to prevent their ideas from manifesting for long. This nation began decaying immediately, to the point where you and I as citizens are both irrelevant. Considering this, one should see why narrative managers attempt to condition people into thinking all of the founders and their ideas were bad.... this is because at the core of the American idea are concepts that are truly dangerous to power. Some of those ideas still exist today but in name only, their meanings being transvaluated. We have the intellectual tools to beat the system, but we must first stop with cannibalizing each other for the amusement of power.
Funny enough, both the neo-Confederates AND Communists push the whole "America was founded on slavery" bull for "dualistic" reasons. Racist Confederate revisionists want to portray the national foundation of the U.S. as ideologically akin to their pro-slavery worldview to justify their racialism from a historical basis, and Communists use the *exact same argument* to push anti-Americanist propaganda and sow anarchist division.
There are No "Neo-Confederates" any more. The KKK peaked under the NWO democrat Wilson. Overwhelming Majority of Southern Whites are the least racist Americans to be found and Are MAGA.
Blacks nationwide are shifting to MAGA as well up to 25% currently and Growing.
btw, The USA "Republic" has devolved into a Demoncrazy. Some "Confederation" to limit this Feral DC Grub-Mint is way overdue.
Re "Satanic". You know most of the FF were freemasons, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaNvoO7TTqU (Every word in that vid is carefully and historically true, if provocative).
Some FF wanted to end slavery, others to keep it, some to end WAGE-slavery, others to keep it. Did any of them want to make peace with the native inhabitants and stop expanding through military and ethnicidal means though?
They had many good ideas, and the best seem filched from the Native Americans themselves - and that is a GOOD reflection on the US FF.
Militias, and no permament Standing Armies - awesome!!
It is more a crying shame they were not as radical as they could ha'e been, putting in place several levels of Rentierism for the lazty wealthy to exploit the populations.
No, pal, the Founding Fathers fought to end the British-controlled slave trade economic monopoly. The "American founders were slaveowner shills" canard is British, neo-Confederate, and Communist propaganda to discredit and slander the patriotic, liberty-heralding beginning of the United States of America.
Great Britain made it illegal to abolish slavery in its colonies. That was a stupid fight, hey? Fighting to keep what they already had and could not abolish?
Judging people from 1700's early 1800 society by 2020 standards is typical Bolshevik insanity.
How about judging this current "Society" of Sex Trafficing (Slavery) , Abortion (Murder in the Womb), Transsexual Surgery/Medication of Children (???) you name it.
Einstein's words that stood out for me were the fact big capitalist money was/is out to separate the people from the legislature. Never before have I witnessed such a separation. My two Senators - Murray and Cantrell - completely ignored my (and others') appeals to cut funding for Israel's genocide and pressure Biden for a permanent ceasefire....never heard one word back from them in response to almost daily communication TO them (emails and telephone calls). Then they voted to send piles of money etc to Israel. In the face of the genocide. With that the veil fell from my eyes. And realized the meaninglessness of my efforts, except for my own conscience. Neither one held a single town meeting. Not one single town meeting to cull the majority of opinion and the range of opinions re Israeli genocide. And Cantrell put the cherry on the sundae when she with two others voted to make airline customers required to pursue airlines for recompense for canceled airline flights. She obviously has a reserved seat on Boeings money lush lap. What must the citizenry do when our so-called and pretend Representatives ignore our voices?
As along as economic agendas continue to determine who lives or who dies, "they" will always choose a puppet whose strings are well attached. Reminds me of Noam Chomsky's recent statement suggesting that there are three things that are most important in world affairs. The First is Money, the second is Money, and said that he couldn't remember the third... That is Who "they" want... a well behaved Money facilitator. If the most important three things Chomsky stated change, so will most, if not all, 800 numbers.
With the present state of world tensions however, it looks like the ownership of the planet is not about to change anytime soon,
Before we can convince others that they are mind-numb manipulated and that we are not, we need to explain how they and we, all subject to inescapable manipulation, are not all of the same mind. My neighbor and I, manipulated by the same powerful people agree on nothing of importance. 1.) How do I tell my neighbor he is clueless but I grasp reality?
If you figure out the solution, please do let me know. I think this is a perennial problem that many people face and are searching for answers to it. I know I am - just as you are.
Well, you are talking to a pragmatic athiest, so the God argument doesn't really work. Maybe human evolution like in a million years if the planet still exists?
you don't, probably in the most troublesome instances = the least empirically, scientifically verificable instances, one can only find some sort of solance and pragmatic cooling realizing that.
i mean at some level all reasoning will meet its wall and while regarding hard science some kind of universal agreement based on universality of our epistemological apparatus will be fairly easy to achieve, there is the ethical field where something like that won't be possible or won't be felt 'natural', 'organic', will be a matter of solely subjective conviction/faith or intersubjective, culture-based consent.
beside that and in any setting we can still be, objectively, funny little brains in our funny little vats. Although i've seen somewhere a promising refutation of this claim, that i definitely must eventually get familiar with! /but haven't as of now/.
Well before Einstein, the first systemic critique of US media corruption was by Upton Sinclair in his classic 1919 book "The Brass Check" - read it for free here:
Very well stated! Noam Chomsky’s « Manufacturing Consent » does an excellent job describing how our society’s attitudes are shaped. Chris Hedges is another author who has written books on the forces at work that are leading to the US’ downfall. Non-mainstream media sources are being either co-opted to repress vital information. It takes effort to find sources that don’t act as scribes for the political elite. I hope you will continue to inform!
Caitlin Johnstone says >> "but unless you also take away the ability of the capitalist class to psychologically manipulate the public into supporting a political status quo that has been artificially shaped by the powerful for the benefit of the powerful, nothing meaningful will change. The wars will continue, the oligarchy will continue, the inequality and injustice will continue, the exploitation and extraction will continue, the ecocide will continue."
So VERY TRUE! Every single word of it. It took me a while (and painful real-life experiences) to come to this realization for myself.
Thank you Caitlin Johnstone - sometimes it feels like you can read my mind...
What is really ludicrous is they are shaping wars and foreign policy around a presidential election that means nothing. They can't admit that Russia has won the war in Ukraine until after the election. It is all about saving face and controlling the narrative.
If people only realized the damage neoliberalism and other ideologies allowed free rein in our societies have done . The betrayal of the political classes leaves one speechless.
Actually they have NO plans to do that. Only to escalate.
The Stooge-General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, came out today to declare that NATO has readied its nuclear weapons in Europe to give out to all NATO countries to “counter the nuclear threat from Russia and China”.
Now Russia only said it would defend itself of NATO attacked them. And China actually never made any nuclear threat at all.
So clearly the US, which runs NATO, is only interested in further escalation to a global nuclear war. Not admitting defeat.
Worse yet no one in Europe has asked itself, even if it successfully completed an unanswered first strike…..what would be the radiation and environmental consequences for Europe of nuclear explosions in Russia? Such aactions would expose the entire EU population to catastrophic levels of radiation annd all food and water supplies would be poisoned. So WTF would anyone sane do this basically self-genocidal action? On behalf of the U.S. too ?
What drugs are the politicians and administration stooges taking in Brussels and other European capitals? Must be some seriously hallucinogenic sh£&….
Two things I definitely agree with: 1.) We outnumber the oligarchs, and we have the power to turn things around in our favor, and 2.) Einstein was right! We need to end this disease called capitalism. Today.
True democracy. No elites. No classes. No genocide. No wars for oil/resources. True equality and compassion for all. Call it whatever you like, but it's what the world needs now.
"True democracy" does not necessarily lead to desirable changes. The good thing about democracy for instance is that WE get to choose leaders, the bad thing is that it shows what leaders are capable of... or not capable of.
"No elites... No classes" sounds nice, but are we nice?
"No wars"... Easy to say..... not so easy to achieve....
To change, we also need to understand what needs to be changed... ? as in Why do we have wars?
Your rhetoric resonates, but how do you (we) change, unless we know what needs to change... Bear with me.... In your opinion, what is the most important changes that would benefit all?
The most important changes that would benefit all would be to follow the simple directive: "Love your neighbor as yourself." It's simple yet a so very effective change if practiced by all. The first step is to see everyone you meet or could meet as "your neighbor." The second step is to look in the mirror and truly love yourself as yourself, not as a cog in the wheel of a sick capitalist society that only values "productivity" and "output," but to love yourself truly as a person made in the image of the Creator of the universe. Once you realize that harming yourself and all those other precious images of the Creator isn't "loving" yourself or them, you will do what needs to be done, both individually and collectively. Simple, yet very effective. It's why those with the money and weapons now always want to kill the messengers of such a simple message of love and peace.
"Love thy neighbor as yourself".... Do we stop at the neighbor next door, or further down the road? I live in Canada's Northwest, where there is enough public lands to house everyone on the planet. There is a homeless encampment a few miles from my house in which people are obliged to sleep in tents, even in winter when the temperature can dip below - 20 degrees C. Every winter, there are people who are found frozen to death in their tent. It's not simple Rev.... but actually anything but a simple "step".
In your second step, you mention the "Creator of the Universe" as the guiding principle of good deeds. BUT, isn't the Creator the GUY wo created this mess in the first place, where survival in the Nature that 'HE' created is meant for the Fittest? There exists a large discrepancy between what you perceive as desirable and the '"simplicity" that you suggest could prevail.
Why would our Creator be limited to a gender such as a "guy". Don't put limits on the limitless! Your neighbor is every sentient being on the planet. Stop getting caught up in your head and get in touch with your heart/conscience. Love is the answer. Peace enables love. Live in peace with all your neighbors on the planet. Serve them as best as you're able. In your case, go down the road a few miles and see what you can do to find those homeless folks some better accommodations. Perhaps you can build them some cabins? Help them with rent somewhere? One step at a time bringing peace and love of neighbor to life into the world... Multiply that by billions and see how beautiful everything can be.
UK élections are also not democratic! FPTP system ensures that you don't need a majority to be in power. Seats are allocated to very small areas, who's boundaries are constantly being moved, in order to include one exclude particular streets. The latest trick is to introduce voter ID, but make it difficult to obtain, ensuring the very poor probably won't bother, and those who live in caravans and boats will be excluded.....
The system is strong and its manipulative power is awesome. But it can be broken through. I have been saying and writing for many decades that our democracy is a false and fake version of the real thing. And the original version in the Demos of Ancient Greece were also defective. If Women and Slaves or not enrolled then that is over 50% of the Athenaeum populace and fatally flawed. We no longer have an offical slave cast and mostly women in spite of the best effort of the Patriarchy can and do vote. But of course the hidden power of the system makes sure that neither viable and supported Party A nor Party B are any basic threat to the system. The hidden power and as Caitlin points out the very public power of its controlled media. I think Cuba probably has a fair dinkum democracy (constantly under threat) but I don't think it flourishes anywhere else in the world
Thanks for so diligently doing your part in the information war, Caitlin! May we all do what we can to reveal what's really going on, and counter the spin.
Fine article! However, the Einstein article was published in the first issue of the Monthly Review of 1949. The magazine is still around doing fine work of challenging monopoly capitalism!
Oh shit I wrote "National Review" lol. Fixed. Thank you.
Lol. I had to look twice!
If that is the worst thing you did all day, then you had a pretty good day, I'd say.
I read that too and thought WTF, since when would Bill Buckley allow such a piece in his CIA financed rag?
Sometimes public opinion gets past what the "owners" can control, or even manipulate adequately, and it can even get past what they can plausibly or implausibly, or desperately vote-rig.
2024 feels like 1968 to me. I'm not alone in that.
I was 3 years old in 1968.
The "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" report was tabled in the year of my birth and it gave clear warnings about global warming and the other ~80% of the diverse destruction we have caused with accellerating abandon ever since.
Just like 1968 but in a much angrier, collapsing biogeosphere.
A lot of remediation of industrial pollution, and cleanup operations, were done in the 1970s. Things really were improved a lot. Still, we create waste/pollution on our finite planet as we use up limited resources with our life-support-system
We are in a pickle.
It was a better world back then. We ran things in the 1970s. Ownership of this country changed hands sometime in the 1990s and we're all screwed now.
I suggest you read the Powell Memo: https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/
Powell became a member of the US Supreme court.
Powell claimed the Bank of America was attacked 39 times. I find the Isla Vista branch was burned to the ground in a protest over South African apartheid. So we can see who's "side" Powell was on.
Also watch Aaron Good's outstanding youTube series on "Empire and the Deep State:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL
The "ownership" of this nation was always in the hands of the Plutocracy.
The one thing that maybe has changed is the membership of the Plutocracy or Billionaires. Jews make up less than 3% of the US population, yet how many Billionaires are Jews? Why is this so?
Jared Kushner provides an example. His father, worth over $1B, was (is) a crook who Chris Christy (another crook) put in jail. Donald Trump pardoned him and had his daughter marry Kushner.
Once "the mob" was identified as Italian. Now it is Jewish.
There are plenty of Jews who oppose the mob, but they are often prevented from speaking out, like Raz Segal who had his job offer withdrawn at the University of Minnesota because he acknowledged the Gaza Genocide.
There are many examples. The point though is to recognize the "Jewish Lobby" for what it is. They fund AIPAC and ADL which cry "Anti-Semitism," and "Self-Hating Jew" anytime anyone (like Norman Finkelstein or Max Blumenthal) expose their crimes.
Blumenthal has clearly shown that the "Jewish Lobby" is very much in control of the coming Presidential election. They have both Biden and Trump beholding to them for their current positions and wealth. What is the alternative?
The American Empire is on an increasingly steep slope to irrelevance. If we want the dream of the USA (and Australia) to survive, we must combat this evil force.
Oddly enough, I shall probably vote for (Jewish) Jill Stein MD again, who came out against the genocide in early December and has been arrested for protesting it.
You failed to mention Bobby Kennedy Jr., whose father was murdered with the mark of the Mossad, egregiously framing Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, with the "motive" that Bobby "supported Israel", when the fact was that he wanted to wrest their atomic bomb from them, which he and JFK had worked to keep them from getting, but LBJ secretly gave them plutonium to create.
I bear some hope that Bobby Jr. or even Trump might turn the tables on Zionism at some point, but "hope" is not a plan, not at all.
RFK Jr, has proclaimed his unwavering support for Israel and is ignoring the genocide. Max Blumenthal has explained how the "Jewish Lobby" owns both Trump and Biden so don't "hope"
I agree that RFK's murder (like JFK's murder) was part of a much larger conspiracy. Anyone that wants to follow this should refer to Aaron Good and his "American Exception" and "Devils Chessboard"podcasts.
I just made sure I'm registered to vote so I can support Jill Stein.
Didn’t realize Palestine was pulled into the CIA/Mossad operative this far back.
No one is reporting on BRICS. This is the future..
I agree with everything you say BUT please tell me why the Mainstream Media is not reporting on BRICS?
The MSM is not reporting (or is mis-reporting) on the BRICS.
Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson and
Scott Ritter
Ben Norton
"Dialogue Works"
Judge Napolotano.
The Duran
"Inside China Business"
and many more report on it almost daily.
Why would you want to read what the billionaire owned NYT or the Bezos owned WaPo has to say? Their job is to lie to you about everything.
Exactly! The end of the "Petro Dollar" has just happened (Saudi Arabia did not renew!) and the MSM is more concerned about what some stupid idiot in Hollywood was wearing or some other completely pointless bullshit propaganda. Americans can kiss your new cars and food right off the cliff that you were clueless was in front of you!
These several comments remind me of...Ralph Nader. He just turned 90 yo...we need another RN, stat.
Marci... We ran things in the 70s ??? Really ???? You may have valid points, but what ownership are referring to?
Agree, Marci, at least in part.
Our generation stopped a WAR. I get a little fucking bit tired of people stereotyping us Boomers as warmongers.
Other improvements our generation brought about were Roe V Wade, civil rights and affirmative action, the medical establishment finally removing homosexuality from their list of mental illnesses. It was a generation of hope when protests by the man in the street could bring about change. Like to see "4 Dead in Ohio" get air play today (if there were still such a thing as radio). The world wasn't perfect by any means back then, but it was definitely BETTER.
Correct, Marci. Our generation changed Amerikkka.
I feel privileged to have evolved in the ‘60’s. There’s never been another decade like it, nor will there ever will be.
Better for whom?
By the 1990s our society had achieved a good place,a good balance between the needs of industry and thus jobs for people (who aren't "creatives"),and "the environment". Yes,there were genuine concerns that the Green Movement originally brought to attention and that was good but by the early 1990s sensible legislation had dealt with the worst issues. I'm not sure exactly when the Green Movement got taken over but it did and then it all started to get silly and even nasty.
The actual turning point was when Paul Volcker at the Fed. cranked interest rates on T-bills up over 20%, in order to maintain the price of the $US, and its reserve-status, but those high interest rates began the gutting and hollowing out of US industry, which has continued, because no honest business can pay high interest from profits earned.
We are very late in that hollowing-out now...
That's because they started all this A LONG TIME AGO knowing it needed several generations and decades to bed in.
Not quite sure I understand the gist of your post? Are you saying that the manipulators lost control at some point... 1968 ???
Hi Dr. John
Cannot WAIT to see Chicago this August!…Deja vu all over again 😁
Kinda feels like what I figure 1775 felt like, in my never humble opinion.
I would say that The Iron Law Of Oligarchy is an iron law for a reason.
What we are seeing now is just the reversion to the mean, except that today's rulers have powers that a Goebbels or a Vyshinskii never dreamed of.
The Zionist movement offered Albert Einstein the presidency of Israel. Einstein refused. He knew he would be only a figurehead place there to aid fundraising. He also wrote that the treatment of the Palestinians would lead to big trouble in the future, and he wanted no part of that. Smart guy, yes?
Source : Albert Einstein, Life and Times.
His wife was smarter but he kept her doing his laundry. He wasn't such a nice guy as those zany photos teach us. It was he who instituted the Atomic Bomb research in order to,as I am now learning not end WW2 because the Japanese were already seeking to capitulate but to bring in The Cold War,that was actually a CIA created thing just as the war in Ukraine today is,and the Shooting Fish in a Barrel in the Unholy Land is. Einstein was one of THEM. But it helps if you can look comical and say funny things. He said "God does not play dice" and Christians gleefully cry," see he believed in God really". But only just lately I've come to see a more sinister meaning in this saying. He is actually SAYING ... NOTHING HAPPENS BY CHANCE.
NOTHING.
Some have extrapolated on that with, "...everything government does is for a reason." Not sure that is entirely true, but I am certain nearly always true.
For me, this is the most clarifying article you have written. It gets right to the basic issue. You make it really clear on why we should not, can not, rely on mainstream media for all of our information. The main function of mainstream media from my perspective is that it keeps us informed about the lies the powerful are spreading around and therefore about how people are being misled from so many angles.
Susan,
Anyone working for media giants who talks about Jews on the U.S media for any reason, most especially its ownerships, is looking for another job the very next day.
I am pretty sure it is AOK to say things like Jews are suffering from all the antisemitism being directed at them (due to the fact that Israel is committing genocide)......not the part in brackets
Susan... I stand corrected...
See correction below...
Regarding long-term media employment. When using the word 'Jew' , exercise extreme caution.
Nor can/should we rely on partisan media. Or alternate media? How about ProPublica?
The "founders" of the US were genocidal psychopaths. The world is run by the psychopaths. Corporations run the world and psychopaths run the corporations. The UK is being sold off to them now.
The "founding fathers" were fighting the exact same fight we are fighting right now. Unfortunately, there were traitors who sold out the country for filthy lucre...just like now. The American Dream had a good start and from time to time true patriots arose amongst us. You know who they were because they were assassinated. At least eight Presidents, many presidential advisors, businessmen and it still goes on today. The same cabal we defeated in 1776 (and their Satanic collaborators) are still trying to erase any trace of the American Dream. We can’t let that happen. We must re-educate the People so they can see through the lies and deceit. It’s a full-time job!
They were fighting to keep SLAVERY. THEY WERE GENOCIDAL PSYCHOPATHS.
Be careful in such generalizations. Some of the founders tried to rid slavery from the start. Jefferson originally included anti slavery statements directly in the Declaration of Independence... but others demanded it removed and had the political capital to see it done. Some of America's founders were flawed but Nobel men who shared an idea for a better world for all human beings. Unfortunately, even from the start, there was enough resistance from power to prevent their ideas from manifesting for long. This nation began decaying immediately, to the point where you and I as citizens are both irrelevant. Considering this, one should see why narrative managers attempt to condition people into thinking all of the founders and their ideas were bad.... this is because at the core of the American idea are concepts that are truly dangerous to power. Some of those ideas still exist today but in name only, their meanings being transvaluated. We have the intellectual tools to beat the system, but we must first stop with cannibalizing each other for the amusement of power.
Take it easy on the mind-numb believer of AllThingsAmericaBad.
She doesn't take reality well.
Now that I see who I spent the time on I see it was time wasted. Perhaps someone else can gain from my comment.
Not time wasted. Fine comment properly addressed.
I found much val[u]e in your comment.
Thus did Franklin warn, "A republic, if you can keep it." Right away, the tyrants started right back in...
https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/there-is-a-grand-conspiracy-to-reduce-the-people-under-absolute-despotism/
Thus did Franklin warn, "A republic, if you can keep it." Right away, the tyrants started right back in...
https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/there-is-a-grand-conspiracy-to-reduce-the-people-under-absolute-despotism/
Funny enough, both the neo-Confederates AND Communists push the whole "America was founded on slavery" bull for "dualistic" reasons. Racist Confederate revisionists want to portray the national foundation of the U.S. as ideologically akin to their pro-slavery worldview to justify their racialism from a historical basis, and Communists use the *exact same argument* to push anti-Americanist propaganda and sow anarchist division.
There are No "Neo-Confederates" any more. The KKK peaked under the NWO democrat Wilson. Overwhelming Majority of Southern Whites are the least racist Americans to be found and Are MAGA.
Blacks nationwide are shifting to MAGA as well up to 25% currently and Growing.
btw, The USA "Republic" has devolved into a Demoncrazy. Some "Confederation" to limit this Feral DC Grub-Mint is way overdue.
Also, the Confederacy was a Satanic cesspool of Jesuitry, Masonry, and Anglo-Rothschild despotism. You might want to read some actual history: https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1978/eirv05n39-19781010/eirv05n39-19781010_050-the_rothschild_roots_of_the_ku_k.pdf
"There are No "Neo-Confederates" any more" Oh really? https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/us/poll-southern-republicans-secede-union-b1884912.html
Re "Satanic". You know most of the FF were freemasons, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaNvoO7TTqU (Every word in that vid is carefully and historically true, if provocative).
Some FF wanted to end slavery, others to keep it, some to end WAGE-slavery, others to keep it. Did any of them want to make peace with the native inhabitants and stop expanding through military and ethnicidal means though?
They had many good ideas, and the best seem filched from the Native Americans themselves - and that is a GOOD reflection on the US FF.
Militias, and no permament Standing Armies - awesome!!
It is more a crying shame they were not as radical as they could ha'e been, putting in place several levels of Rentierism for the lazty wealthy to exploit the populations.
Shame Shay's Rebellion failed, tbh. :/
No, pal, the Founding Fathers fought to end the British-controlled slave trade economic monopoly. The "American founders were slaveowner shills" canard is British, neo-Confederate, and Communist propaganda to discredit and slander the patriotic, liberty-heralding beginning of the United States of America.
Great Britain made it illegal to abolish slavery in its colonies. That was a stupid fight, hey? Fighting to keep what they already had and could not abolish?
Which side of manipulated media are you on?
No🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ They left England to KEEP SLAVERY. They came here and slaughtered the indigenous people and stole their land.
Wait, they slaughtered people who slaughtered other people and then enslaved people like in every other culture?
I think I have this figured out.
The problem is the unregenerate human heart.
Fuck off 🤡
Judging people from 1700's early 1800 society by 2020 standards is typical Bolshevik insanity.
How about judging this current "Society" of Sex Trafficing (Slavery) , Abortion (Murder in the Womb), Transsexual Surgery/Medication of Children (???) you name it.
They committed GENOCIDE 🤦♀️
Thus did Franklin warn, "A republic, if you can keep it." Right away, the tyrants started right back in...
https://republicbroadcasting.org/news/there-is-a-grand-conspiracy-to-reduce-the-people-under-absolute-despotism/
Einstein's words that stood out for me were the fact big capitalist money was/is out to separate the people from the legislature. Never before have I witnessed such a separation. My two Senators - Murray and Cantrell - completely ignored my (and others') appeals to cut funding for Israel's genocide and pressure Biden for a permanent ceasefire....never heard one word back from them in response to almost daily communication TO them (emails and telephone calls). Then they voted to send piles of money etc to Israel. In the face of the genocide. With that the veil fell from my eyes. And realized the meaninglessness of my efforts, except for my own conscience. Neither one held a single town meeting. Not one single town meeting to cull the majority of opinion and the range of opinions re Israeli genocide. And Cantrell put the cherry on the sundae when she with two others voted to make airline customers required to pursue airlines for recompense for canceled airline flights. She obviously has a reserved seat on Boeings money lush lap. What must the citizenry do when our so-called and pretend Representatives ignore our voices?
Selena,
If you want to know who will win the next U.S. elections, just call 1-800-ISRAEL
So, can we figure out whom they want?
Mike,
"So can we figure out whom they want?"
As along as economic agendas continue to determine who lives or who dies, "they" will always choose a puppet whose strings are well attached. Reminds me of Noam Chomsky's recent statement suggesting that there are three things that are most important in world affairs. The First is Money, the second is Money, and said that he couldn't remember the third... That is Who "they" want... a well behaved Money facilitator. If the most important three things Chomsky stated change, so will most, if not all, 800 numbers.
With the present state of world tensions however, it looks like the ownership of the planet is not about to change anytime soon,
What I meant is, since we know the criteris, we should be able to figure out who will win/be chosen?
Who will win/be chosen?
Before we can convince others that they are mind-numb manipulated and that we are not, we need to explain how they and we, all subject to inescapable manipulation, are not all of the same mind. My neighbor and I, manipulated by the same powerful people agree on nothing of importance. 1.) How do I tell my neighbor he is clueless but I grasp reality?
2.) How do I know that my reality is "real?"
3.) Brain in a vat comes to mind.
If you figure out the solution, please do let me know. I think this is a perennial problem that many people face and are searching for answers to it. I know I am - just as you are.
I always ask questions instead of stating my case. One question leads to another question.........sometimes it does make people think.
Perennial problem? Not to argue, you understand, I say eternal problem.
Only solution I know is regenerate heart.
But that presumes much.
You have any idea?
What do you mean by "regenerate heart" ?
A heart renewed by God.
Well, you are talking to a pragmatic athiest, so the God argument doesn't really work. Maybe human evolution like in a million years if the planet still exists?
Well, I'm gonna miss that. Best wishes to those a million years from now. Why would the planet not exist then?
you don't, probably in the most troublesome instances = the least empirically, scientifically verificable instances, one can only find some sort of solance and pragmatic cooling realizing that.
Your observation/admonition intrigues me, but I must admit that I do not follow it.
Do you mean that I do not convince my neigbbor? Am unable to use empiricism to do so? Empiricism is a tough, high standard in subjective things.
Best we can do is reason it out with him as Caitlin has with us.
i mean at some level all reasoning will meet its wall and while regarding hard science some kind of universal agreement based on universality of our epistemological apparatus will be fairly easy to achieve, there is the ethical field where something like that won't be possible or won't be felt 'natural', 'organic', will be a matter of solely subjective conviction/faith or intersubjective, culture-based consent.
beside that and in any setting we can still be, objectively, funny little brains in our funny little vats. Although i've seen somewhere a promising refutation of this claim, that i definitely must eventually get familiar with! /but haven't as of now/.
When you come across the refutation, again, please post it.
You can't fix stupid.
Well before Einstein, the first systemic critique of US media corruption was by Upton Sinclair in his classic 1919 book "The Brass Check" - read it for free here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64657
Very well stated! Noam Chomsky’s « Manufacturing Consent » does an excellent job describing how our society’s attitudes are shaped. Chris Hedges is another author who has written books on the forces at work that are leading to the US’ downfall. Non-mainstream media sources are being either co-opted to repress vital information. It takes effort to find sources that don’t act as scribes for the political elite. I hope you will continue to inform!
Caitlin Johnstone says >> "but unless you also take away the ability of the capitalist class to psychologically manipulate the public into supporting a political status quo that has been artificially shaped by the powerful for the benefit of the powerful, nothing meaningful will change. The wars will continue, the oligarchy will continue, the inequality and injustice will continue, the exploitation and extraction will continue, the ecocide will continue."
So VERY TRUE! Every single word of it. It took me a while (and painful real-life experiences) to come to this realization for myself.
Thank you Caitlin Johnstone - sometimes it feels like you can read my mind...
What is really ludicrous is they are shaping wars and foreign policy around a presidential election that means nothing. They can't admit that Russia has won the war in Ukraine until after the election. It is all about saving face and controlling the narrative.
If people only realized the damage neoliberalism and other ideologies allowed free rein in our societies have done . The betrayal of the political classes leaves one speechless.
Actually they have NO plans to do that. Only to escalate.
The Stooge-General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, came out today to declare that NATO has readied its nuclear weapons in Europe to give out to all NATO countries to “counter the nuclear threat from Russia and China”.
Now Russia only said it would defend itself of NATO attacked them. And China actually never made any nuclear threat at all.
So clearly the US, which runs NATO, is only interested in further escalation to a global nuclear war. Not admitting defeat.
Worse yet no one in Europe has asked itself, even if it successfully completed an unanswered first strike…..what would be the radiation and environmental consequences for Europe of nuclear explosions in Russia? Such aactions would expose the entire EU population to catastrophic levels of radiation annd all food and water supplies would be poisoned. So WTF would anyone sane do this basically self-genocidal action? On behalf of the U.S. too ?
What drugs are the politicians and administration stooges taking in Brussels and other European capitals? Must be some seriously hallucinogenic sh£&….
Robert Billyard, I like what you have written.
Have you ever hears anyone in power admit they were wrong?
Two things I definitely agree with: 1.) We outnumber the oligarchs, and we have the power to turn things around in our favor, and 2.) Einstein was right! We need to end this disease called capitalism. Today.
Power to the people!
Yes! Revolution Continues, Power to the people. We are the many; they are the few.
But the truth is the many are powerless. The few have all the power.
We have the power because we ARE the many! Never let anyone tell you that you are powerless--then you are giving it away.
The Revolution'
"End this disease called capitalism"... and replace it with ???? I'm all ears....
True democracy. No elites. No classes. No genocide. No wars for oil/resources. True equality and compassion for all. Call it whatever you like, but it's what the world needs now.
The Rev....
"True democracy" does not necessarily lead to desirable changes. The good thing about democracy for instance is that WE get to choose leaders, the bad thing is that it shows what leaders are capable of... or not capable of.
"No elites... No classes" sounds nice, but are we nice?
"No wars"... Easy to say..... not so easy to achieve....
To change, we also need to understand what needs to be changed... ? as in Why do we have wars?
Your rhetoric resonates, but how do you (we) change, unless we know what needs to change... Bear with me.... In your opinion, what is the most important changes that would benefit all?
The most important changes that would benefit all would be to follow the simple directive: "Love your neighbor as yourself." It's simple yet a so very effective change if practiced by all. The first step is to see everyone you meet or could meet as "your neighbor." The second step is to look in the mirror and truly love yourself as yourself, not as a cog in the wheel of a sick capitalist society that only values "productivity" and "output," but to love yourself truly as a person made in the image of the Creator of the universe. Once you realize that harming yourself and all those other precious images of the Creator isn't "loving" yourself or them, you will do what needs to be done, both individually and collectively. Simple, yet very effective. It's why those with the money and weapons now always want to kill the messengers of such a simple message of love and peace.
The Rev......
"Love thy neighbor as yourself".... Do we stop at the neighbor next door, or further down the road? I live in Canada's Northwest, where there is enough public lands to house everyone on the planet. There is a homeless encampment a few miles from my house in which people are obliged to sleep in tents, even in winter when the temperature can dip below - 20 degrees C. Every winter, there are people who are found frozen to death in their tent. It's not simple Rev.... but actually anything but a simple "step".
In your second step, you mention the "Creator of the Universe" as the guiding principle of good deeds. BUT, isn't the Creator the GUY wo created this mess in the first place, where survival in the Nature that 'HE' created is meant for the Fittest? There exists a large discrepancy between what you perceive as desirable and the '"simplicity" that you suggest could prevail.
Why would our Creator be limited to a gender such as a "guy". Don't put limits on the limitless! Your neighbor is every sentient being on the planet. Stop getting caught up in your head and get in touch with your heart/conscience. Love is the answer. Peace enables love. Live in peace with all your neighbors on the planet. Serve them as best as you're able. In your case, go down the road a few miles and see what you can do to find those homeless folks some better accommodations. Perhaps you can build them some cabins? Help them with rent somewhere? One step at a time bringing peace and love of neighbor to life into the world... Multiply that by billions and see how beautiful everything can be.
Went to see the captain
Strangest I could find
Laid my proposition down
Laid it on the line
I won't slave for beggar's pay
Likewise gold and jewels
But I would slave to learn the way
To sink your ship of fools
Ship of fools
On a cruel sea
Ship of fools
Sail away from me
It was later than I thought
When I first believed you
Now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of fools
Saw your first ship sink and drown
From rockin' of the boat
And all that could not sink or swim
Was just left there to float
I won't leave you drifting down
But whoa, it makes me wild
With 70 years upon my head
To have you call me child
Ship of fools
On a cruel sea
Ship of fools
Sail away from me
It was later than I thought
When I first believed you
Now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of fools
The bottles stand as empty
As they were filled before
Time that was in plenty
But from that cup no more
Though I could not caution all
I still might warn a few
Don't lend your hand to raise no flag
Atop no ship of fools
Ship of fools
On a cruel sea
Ship of fools
Sail away from me
It was later than I thought
When I first believed you
Now I cannot share your laughter
Ship of fools…
UK élections are also not democratic! FPTP system ensures that you don't need a majority to be in power. Seats are allocated to very small areas, who's boundaries are constantly being moved, in order to include one exclude particular streets. The latest trick is to introduce voter ID, but make it difficult to obtain, ensuring the very poor probably won't bother, and those who live in caravans and boats will be excluded.....
The system is strong and its manipulative power is awesome. But it can be broken through. I have been saying and writing for many decades that our democracy is a false and fake version of the real thing. And the original version in the Demos of Ancient Greece were also defective. If Women and Slaves or not enrolled then that is over 50% of the Athenaeum populace and fatally flawed. We no longer have an offical slave cast and mostly women in spite of the best effort of the Patriarchy can and do vote. But of course the hidden power of the system makes sure that neither viable and supported Party A nor Party B are any basic threat to the system. The hidden power and as Caitlin points out the very public power of its controlled media. I think Cuba probably has a fair dinkum democracy (constantly under threat) but I don't think it flourishes anywhere else in the world