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Thread: Can't Look Up
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 9 hours ago

"The only hope to save ourselves from Trump’s authoritarianism is mass movements. We must build alternative centers of power — including political parties, media, labor unions and universities — to give a voice and agency to those who have been disempowered by our two ruling parties, especially the working class and working poor."

"The Democratic Party and its liberal allies decry the consolidation of absolute power by the Trump White House, the repeated constitutional violations, the flagrant corruption and the deformation of federal agencies — including the Justice Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — into attack dogs to persecute Trump’s opponents and dissidents. It warns that time is running out.

"But at the same time, it steadfastly refuses to call for mass mobilizations that can disrupt the machinery of commerce and state. It treats the handful of Democratic Party politicians who address social inequality and abuses by the billionaire class — including *Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani — as lepers. It blithely ignores the concerns and demands of ordinary Democratic Party voters reducing them to disposable props at rallies, town halls and conventions.

"The Democratic Party and the liberal class are terrified of mass movements, fearing, correctly, that they too will be swept aside. They delude themselves that they can save us from despotism as they cling to a dead political formula — mounting vapid, corporate indentured candidates such as Kamala Harris or the Democratic Party candidate and formal naval officer running for governor in New Jersey, Mikie Sherrill."

"A “year out from the 2026 midterm elections, there is little evidence that negative impressions of Trump’s performance have accrued to the benefit of the Democratic Party, with voters split almost evenly in their support for Democrats and Republicans,” the Washington Post summary reads.

"The liberal class in a capitalist democracy is designed to function as a safety valve. It makes possible incremental reform. But, at the same time, it does not challenge or question the foundations of power. The quid-pro-quo sees the liberal class serve as an attack dog to discredit radical social movements.

"The liberal class, for this reason, is a useful tool. It gives the system legitimacy. It keeps alive the belief that reform is possible."

"Clinton’s welfare reform bill, which was signed on Aug. 22, 1996, threw 6 million people, many of them single mothers, off the welfare rolls within four years. It dumped them onto the streets without child care, rent subsidies and Medicaid coverage. Families were plunged into crisis, struggling to survive on multiple jobs that paid $6 or $7 an hour, or less than $15,000 a year.

"But they were the lucky ones. In some states, half of those dropped from welfare rolls could not find work. Clinton also slashed Medicare by $115 billion over a five-year period and cut $14 billion in Medicaid funding. The overcrowded prison system handled the influx of the poor, as well as the abandoned mentally ill.

"The media, owned by corporations and oligarchs, assured the public it was prudent to entrust life savings to a financial system run by speculators and thieves. In the meltdown of 2008, life savings were gutted. And then these media organizations, catering to corporate advertisers and sponsors, rendered invisible those whose misery, poverty, and grievances should be the principal focus of journalism.

"Barack Obama, who raised more than $745 million — much of it corporate money — to run for president, facilitated the looting of the U.S. Treasury by corporations and big banks following the 2008 crash. He turned his back on millions of Americans who lost their homes because of bank repossessions or foreclosures. He expanded the wars begun by his predecessor George W. Bush. He killed the public option — universal health care — and forced the public to buy his defective for-profit ObamaCare — the Affordable Care Act — a bonanza for the pharmaceutical and insurance industries.

"If the Democratic Party was fighting to defend universal health care during the government shutdown, rather than the half measure of preventing premiums from rising for ObamaCare, millions would take to the streets.

"The Democratic Party throws scraps to the serfs. It congratulates itself for allowing unemployed people the right to keep their unemployed children on for-profit health care policies."

"Our captured institutions, subservient to the rich and the powerful, are capitulating to Trump’s authoritarianism. All we have left is sustained non-violent, disruptive civil disobedience. Mass movements. Radical politics. Rebellion. A socialist vision that counters the poison of unfettered capitalism. This alone can thwart Trump’s police state and rid us of the feckless liberal class that sustains it."

et veritas vos liberabit ...

Thread: The AI Catastrophe
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 10 hours ago

Try to consider: "‘Lavender’ - The AI machine that directed Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza"!!!

This AI 'Killgorithm' - is one of the present & future horrors to emerge from ISR's 2+ year genocide!!

prospice et caveat!

Thread: Contented Classes
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 12 hours ago

"Boom time for US billionaires: why the system perpetuates wealth inequality"!

"As the super rich grow even richer, inequality expert Chuck Collins says the system is broken - but it can be fixed"! Further perhaps consider ...

radix omnia malorum - est cupiditas!

Thread: Conservative False Flag?
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 13 hours ago

I have a view on, and have often commented on the biggest (Climate Change); the bigger (International Geo-Politics) and, "the big picture" (U$A's demoCRAZY deMOCKERYcy) but was (and still am) sticking to the subject of your OP here. Ergo and for the standing record - further perhaps please try to consider

This schism over the truth of what happened to Charlie Kirk is an important matter in the USA now imo & the implications are huge & ongoing for the internal politics of the US. So do watch this space everyone!!

e tenebris - lux?!

Thread: Conservative False Flag?
[-] 1 points by agkaiser (2590) from Fredericksburg, TX 1 day ago
Thread: Conservative False Flag?
[-] 1 points by agkaiser (2590) from Fredericksburg, TX 1 day ago

Civilization is the story of ruling elite classes that measure the progress of our human community by their increases in wealth.

When climate change ends civilization, the Earth can heal. To bad for most of US but then the ruling classes have always stolen most of what we produce. Who knows? Maybe people will revolt and we will diverge from this dead end path?

Thread: Conservative False Flag?
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 day ago

"Charlie Kirk and The Powerful Network of Pro-Israel Billionaires | Max Blumenthal"!!!

Politically I'm not a fan of Owens but my views aside an examination of facts is needed, and

SO DARE WE WATCH THESE VIDEOS?!

Thread: Wake Up Now America!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 day ago

"Cenk Uygur trashes Stephen Miller’s wife Katie for crying ‘anti-Semitism’

AND - "Nobody said Jews, you just said it, we say Israel, you say Jews”!!!

ad iudicium?!

Thread: No War, Not Now, Not Ever
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 day ago

"Epstein saga exposes Israel’s iron grip on US power"! by S.Ghannoushi [incl. audio option]

"Leaks show how a Foreign Influence network governs the world’s most powerful nation through seduction, dependence and capture." [+ Link placed here to - accompany all Epstein info above]

As "Having acquired Paramount and CBS and eyeing TikTok and CNN - the Ellisons are now constructing a pro-Israel information empire with unprecedented reach." Captured, co-opted and corrupted, this conspiracy of cold calumnies n' crass canards, can't continure much longer USA!!

e tenebris lux?!!!

Thread: Occupy Zionism
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 days ago

NOTE "Father Jack Abed, priest of the Melkite Catholic Church in the Christian village of Taybeh, speaks about the dangers of establishing a new illegal settlement outpost on the village’s land - warning that the plan is to ethnically cleanse Christians from Palestine." FROM:

As - "Former CIA officer John Kiriakou, Tucker Carlson & a number of media personalities on how Israel has destroyed Christianity in the Holy Land."

And consider .. "Israel continues to target Christian Palestinians just as they target Muslim Palestinians"!

et ergo - oremus!

Thread: Occupy Zionism
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 days ago

Amazon and Google .. have agreed to a highly irregular "handcuff" contract, making it impossible for them to deny services to Israel, even if Israel used their services for illegal purposes.And via a special "wink mechanism", the tech giants have promised to tip Israel off - probably in violation of USA law; IF foreign jurisdictions secretly ordered Israeli data be handed over, as part of any future investigations!!!

Sadly Silicon Valley just can't stop conspiring in Israeli lawbreaking. Now please read the rest here:

et fiat lux!

Thread: Occupy Zionism
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 days ago

"The Israel lobby is melting down before our eyes"; Philip Weiss, a longtime US Jewish Anti-Zionist:

"The American Jewish community is in open crisis over its support for Israel after two years of genocide in Gaza. The key issue in the crisis is a topic once considered too taboo to criticize: The Israel Lobby"!!!

ad iudicium?!

Thread: Occupy Zionism
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago

Now note how - "Israel wants to implement the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners. Here's what you need to know" ...

As: "Israel is advancing a dangerous bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners. Right-wing leaders want to go even further .. and use the bill to give Israeli forces the authority to carry out extrajudicial killings." Also consider ...

solitudenum faciunt; pacem appellant!

Thread: Occupy Zionism
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago

"The Genocide in Gaza is far from over"! by (Jewish Holocaust and Genocide scholar) .. Raz Segal:

"We live, not in a post-Holocaust world of 'Never Again' but in a same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of 'Again and Again'"!

*respice et adspice!

Thread: Occupy Zionism
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 5 days ago

"Witch Hunt: The Heretic and the Inquisition - Why the West Fears Francesca Albanese"!!! .. by Michael Leonardi:

"Francesca Albanese is the “witch” being hunted by the Western powers - because she represents the truth of international law against the brute force of the geopolitical narrative. She dismantles the fiction that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East” ... revealing instead that the actions of the Israeli genocide and occupation & the complicity of many of the world’s most powerful countries including the neofascist Italian government & the Agnelli-owned media are the ultimate negation of civilization itself."

fiat lux et fiat justitia ...

Thread: Occupy Zionism
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 5 days ago

"How Zionism was sold to the world" by Eleanor J. Bader:

"Harriet Malinowitz’s new book, "Selling Israel: Zionism, Propaganda, and the Uses of Hasbara" reveals how Israeli propaganda, and public relations promoted Zionism while concealing Palestinian oppression & dispossession." This situation won't be changed by Larry Ellison's purchase of CBS! +

e tenebris, lux?

Thread: Occupy Zionism
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 5 days ago

"The destruction of Gaza City is a crime against history"! by Baker Zoubi:

respice; adspice; prospice ...

Thread: Occupy Zionism
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 6 days ago

NB: "International tribunal finds Israel guilty of genocide, ecocide ... and the forced starvation of the Palestinians in Gaza"!

And as: "The International People’s Tribunal on Palestine held in Barcelona presented striking evidence of Israel’s forced starvation of the Palestinian people & deliberate destruction of food security in Gaza"!!

As .. "The Security Council's backing of the Trump plan for Gaza ignores international law, punishes the Palestinians, and rewards those responsible for genocide."

et veritas vos liberabit!!!

Thread: Occupy Zionism
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago

"New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since October 7"! .. by Yuval Abraham:

"Post-mortems of the deceased and testimonies from former detainees suggest many died from torture, medical neglect, and food deprivation. According to a leaked Israeli intelligence database, dozens were civilians." Meanwhile, in an alarming exposure of the connection of things in USA & there in Gaza, note:

"One of Israel’s biggest companies is taking over huge swaths of US real estate and tenants are paying the price."

et fiat lux...

Thread: Occupy Zionism
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago

Consider "The billionaire family poised to rewire U.S. media in Israel’s favor"! by Will Alden:

As ... "Having acquired Paramount and CBS and eyeing TikTok and CNN ... the Ellisons are now constructing a pro-Israel information empire with unprecedented reach." Captured, co-opted and corrupted; the conspiracy of cold calumnies n' crass canards, can't continure much longer USA!!

caveat!!!

Thread: Occupy Zionism
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago

"PALESTINIANS - AND THE RIGHT TO RESIST"!

So "DO PALESTINIANS HAVE A RIGHT TO RESIST ACCORDING TO THE UNITED NATIONS? Yes, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has explicitly affirmed the right of Palestinians to resist Israel’s military occupation, including through armed struggle. This right was affirmed in the context of the right to self-determination of all peoples under foreign and colonial rule."

"The right of Palestinians to resist their occupation - is enshrined in international and customary law, a fact that is denied and violated by Israel and wilfully overlooked by the rest of the world."+Further note:

"President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars .. outlines why Israel has NO defence against the charge of genocide in Gaza"! Furthermore now consider:

as the "Ex IDF soldier - and son of an Israeli General, Miko Peled explains the situation inside the Gaza concentration camp pre Oct 7."

As "We are living in denial and in that denial we gave ourselves a license to do anything.” [Gideon Levy]

respice, adspice et spero meliora ...

Thread: Occupy Zionism
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago

"The SHOCKING Truth About Israel’s War on Journalism"!

This^11m 11s vid, is actually ESSENTIAL VIEWING, as is this:

"Why does a tiny country, the largest foreign aid recipient, who

can't survive without their US funding - have so much outsized

influence on American politics?" Also important 33m19s video!

fiat lux et fiat justitia - ruat caelum!

Thread: Occupy Zionism
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago

"Jewish Historian DESTROYS Zionist LIES, w./ Zachary Foster" & Owen Jones:

This^is 45m 47s of VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION! &..

"Imagine there was a Violent Cult Committing Atrocities With Impunity; If someone made a movie about such a thing I’d stop watching halfway through because I would find it too unbelievable."Reading by Tim Foley.

As, "For thousands of Palestinians, the war hasn’t ended; it will only truly end when we can return to our lands."

NB "The State Department has a bespoke process for probes into Israel that is deferential to its military."

et veritas vos liberabit ...

Thread: Venezuela
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago

As "A peace prize winner calling for war .. nothing to see here"!!

She's actually a RW fanaric and shame on the Nobel Commitee! And

Final^vid here is a very important insight into New US Neocon idiocy!

fiat lux et fiat pax ...

Thread: ANTIFA
[-] 2 points by agkaiser (2590) from Fredericksburg, TX 2 weeks ago

The Bella Ciao version is the WWII partisan anti-fascist adaptation. The original dates from the 1890s. It was farm workers protesting oppressive owners. Both are relevant in today's USA.

Mussolini said Fascism should be called Corporatism, because its a marriage of corporate and state power.

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