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Posted by: AGelbert
« on: March 12, 2024, 03:07:17 pm »

Thread Source:

AGelbert > dmorista
I know that I am being rather negative, to put it mind bogglingly mildly, but I agree with Scott Ritter, who does not see how we get out of this existential Box Canyon Human Hubris has doomed humanity with.

SNIPPETS:
For an all-too-brief moment, the insanity of the course we had set became apparent, and we undertook to return the genie to the bottle, to reverse course, to save ourselves and our fellow human beings.

But hubris intervened, and when the source of our nuclear angst—the Soviet Union—faded into the pages of history, we sought to leverage our new-found status as uncontested nuclear-armed global hegemon by proclaiming an end to history, promoting ourselves and our political system, through an intellectual exercise that would have made Darwin proud, into the highest expression of human development. ... ...

We have embarked on a collective journey whose only destination is death and destruction.

We have ignored, at our own peril, the efforts of those, at home and abroad, who have tried to get us to take an off-ramp. ... ...

Alas, I, like all of you who are reading this, am doomed to die in a war that could have been avoided if we just tried a little bit harder to avoid it.

The shame is that, at that moment when the inevitability of our passing hits home, in the millisecond that will follow the flash of light and the comprehension of what it signifies, all of us will think “If I had just…”

But it will be too late because we did not.

We allowed the military industrial complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned us about to become ☠️ manifest.


Full REALITY BASED article:

March 5, 2024
dmorista > AGelbert
Thank you for this reply, and for the links to your extensive articles with their innumerable links to other material. I am sure you are aware that I do not believe the 9-11 "Official Story" but rather see those events as the culminating and most elaborate psy-op in American (and world) history. Endless assassinations and fishy events that always made it possible for the War Party to attack yet another target (whose leader is always the modern day Hitler and the situation is always supposedly akin to Munich in 1938). I didn't fall for that B.S., and I know you didn't either.

March 12, 2024
AGelbert > dmorista
Well said. TPTB are 💵🎩🍌 bound and determined to continue replacing any concept of decency and good will within government with the 👿 mens rea modus operandi integral to their 🦍 morally bankrupt Social Darwinist Ideology.
   
Related, and IMHO quite insidious, is something that happened to me for the first time.

Your reply was 7 days ago. I just happened to find it today because I was checking my spam folder to see if the 🐍 intellimorons shadowbanning me on you-tube comments were also trying to keep me from seeing e-mails that would normally go to my inbox.

I was 😵 aghast that your disqus reply was there! I have NEVER had a disqus reply be put in spam.

That is MORE evidence that ANYONE who says the truth about 9/11, as you did, get's the, uh, 😈 National Endowment for Democracy "treatment". 😠

I also found some from 🗽 Dennis Kucinich, even though I am subscribed to his substack. They want him to go away because he is another voice for truth and justice, though he is not as bold as 🕯️ 🗽 Cornel West.

There were also some from ANH-USA anh-usa.org on (no surprise then why THIS ONE was 😈 googly-placed in "spam") Shadowbans.

I am including the entire body of the ANH-USA message below just ot give disqus a 😁 hard time:
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Imagine you’re looking to improve your health, for any number of reasons: maybe you’re diabetic or pre-diabetic, maybe you’re looking to shed a few unwanted pounds, or improve heart health. Wouldn’t you want access to a wide range of views and information so you can make your own informed choices?

It turns out that those choices are being made for you. Help us stand up to the censorship that is undermining your healthcare and invest in ANH-USA, which is fighting censorship on your behalf!

Big Tech companies are censoring content that doesn’t align with what public health bureaucrats say is “the science.” This extends to topics as seemingly benign as intermittent fasting and ketogenic diets. These are strategies that could improve the health of millions of people, yet they run afoul of medical “misinformation” policies created by the likes of YouTube.

Even worse are the tactics used to ban this information. It isn’t just wiped from the internet; experts that discuss it aren’t kicked off the platforms.

What’s being done is more secretive and insidious. It’s called shadowbanning, and it involves little tweaks to algorithms that have profound effects on what is found on video and social media channels. These tweaks make sure the real experts are de-prioritized in searches and suggestions, while pseudo-experts, warning of the dangers of keto diets and intermittent fasting, are put in their place. Put simply, voices that aren’t aligned with the views of the FDA, CDC, and WHO are de-amplified, and those aligned with them are amplified.

While keto diets and intermittent fasting may be the testing ground for post-pandemic censorship, we know Big Tech’s shadowbanning formula is going to be directed at almost every area of natural health. Unless we raise our voices.

We’re working to expose shadowbanning and other forms of censorship, but we need your help. Invest in us and help fight for free speech!

I will have to check my spam folder more often. I recommend readers here do the same. 👿🎩 TPTB do not want reality based information to see the light of day. Do what you can to twhart their 🦍 fascist tyranny.

Hang in there 🕊️ Brother 🗽 Dmorista, it is gonna get a lot worse, before, or IF, it gets better.


🕯️🕊️ Tolstoy was right.
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: March 03, 2024, 11:45:44 pm »

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. -- Psalm 94:20-21

Washington Dominated by Fantasists - Zelensky's Madness - 🕊️🗽 Aaron Bushnell |🕯️ Capt. Matthew Hoh 👍


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Capt. Matthew Hoh had nearly twelve years experience with the US military and the wars overseas with the United States Marine Corps, Department of Defense and State Department.

He has been a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy since 2010. In 2009, Matthew Hoh resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the American escalation of the war. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew took part in the American occupation of Iraq; first in 2004-2005 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-2007 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander. When not deployed, Matthew worked on Afghanistan and Iraq war policy and operations issues at the Pentagon and State Department from 2002-2008.
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: January 13, 2024, 05:03:27 pm »

MESSAGE to those MORALLY BANKRUPT ZIONISTS ATTACKING MY COMPUTER:

As ☝🏻 GOD, through His Prophet Isaiah, makes clear above, you will not escape PERDITION if you do not REPENT of your EVIL. STOP BEING STUPID!
 
I will continue to 🕊️🕯️ do what I do, AND, I will be making SURE, EACH AND EVERY DAY, that any malicious attempt by you is thwarted, but thanks for letting me know you considered my posts a problem for your Social Darwinists' R' US Zionist toady pusilanimous modus vivendi.
 





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Hear Peled tell me about his journey away from Zionism, about how Palestinians are dehumanised, opposing the revising of history, the prospects of a genuine peaceful answer - and much more.

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Posted by: AGelbert
« on: December 28, 2023, 05:22:33 pm »

AGelbert NOTE: Graphics 🕯️ and emojies by me.



December 27, 2023 By Salvatore R. Mercogliano 👍, Ph.D. (Opinion)

Operation Prosperity Guardian: Whose Prosperity is Being Guarded?

Maersk Gibraltar is not a remarkable containership for 2023.  She pales at 10,100 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) compared to the ultra-large container vessels (ULCVs) of nearly 24,000 TEUs.  Built in 2016 at Jiangsu Yangzi Xinfu Shipbuilding, the ship is Hong Kong-flagged, owned by Greater China Intermodal Investments, and operated by Maersk Lines of Denmark.  On December 15, 2023, the ship was sailing northbound in the Bab el-Mandeb and entering the Red Sea on a voyage from Salalah, Oman to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia when she was the target of attack by the Houthi in Yemen. 

Following Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, Israel initiated a campaign of reprisal against Hamas in Gaza, which has triggered a worldwide reaction to the actions perpetrated by both sides in the conflict.  The Houthi, backed by Iran, opposed the pro-Saudi Arabia-supported Yemen government leading to a bifurcated state, with the Houthi in control of the western half, boarding the Red Sea.  On 14 November, the Houthi announced their intention to target an Israeli-affiliated ship and five days later staged a dramatic helicopter assault and capture of MV Galaxy Leader, capturing the ship and crew and sailing them into the territorial waters of Houthi Yemen. 

HOUTHI DECLARE WAR ON SHIPPING

On December 3, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Carney (DDG-64) on patrol in the southern Red Sea, responded to the distress calls of three vessels.  Back in October, after transiting southbound through the Suez Canal, Carney was in a position in the northern Red Sea to intercept drones and missiles launched by the Houthi toward Yemen.  Much as it did in October, Carney responded to attacks on three ships – Bahamas-flagged bulk carrier Unity Explorer, Panama-flagged containership Number 9, and Panama-flagged bulk carrier AOM Sophie II.  All three of the ships were struck and sent out distress signals. Carney assisted and shot down several drones. 

The Houthi subsequently declared that 📢 all ships sailing to Israel were deemed to be legitimate targets in a further escalation. Between December 12 and 14, two further ships were attacked, along with Maersk Gibraltar, even though Maersk Gibraltar was not Israel-owned or traveling to or from Israel.  It was the attack on the latter that prompted A. P. Moller, the parent company of Maersk to announce, “We are deeply concerned about the highly escalated security situation in the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The recent attacks on commercial vessels in the area are alarming and pose a significant threat to the safety and security of seafarers.” This led to Maersk diverting all its ships, including those of its U.S. affiliate – Maersk Line, Limited – to avoid the Bab el-Mandeb and the southern Red Sea.  This was followed by nearly all other container lines – ZIM, an Israeli-affiliated container line, had already initiated such a detour – and several of the major tanker firms. 

Container lines were more exposed to the danger posed by the Houthi than 🦖 tanker or bulk firms. A Suezmax tanker could carry approximately 1 million barrels of oil.  At $80 barrel, that is a total cargo value of $80 million.  A 💰 10,000 TEU ship, like Maersk Gibraltar, could carry cargo in the range of 💰 hundreds of millions of dollars.  The scale of the Houthi attacks ratcheted up War Risk Insurance from 0.02% of the value of the cargo to 0.7%.  On a ship worth half a billion dollars, that is a cost of $3.5 million, and the exposure to such danger from drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles warranted caution on the part of the container lines. 

As ships of the major container and tanker lines reversed their course and began the long 3,500 nautical mile voyage around Africa, four US-flagged ships 🦍 held their position outside the Bab el-Mandeb.  In the Red Sea, MV Maersk Kensington (6,200 TEUs) drifted in a position between Port Sudan and Jedda, while Maersk Sentosa (6,478 TEU) continued its transit of the Suez Canal southbound as it passed its foreign-flagged sisterships.  In the Gulf of Aden, Maersk Seletar (6,478 TEU) and the Waterman Steamship roll-on/roll-off ship MV Green Bay also stood by before they could sail for the Suez. 

OPERATION PROSPERITY GUARDIAN

On December 18, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III announced the initiation of Operation Prosperity Guardian.  He called upon, “Countries that seek to uphold the foundational principle of freedom of navigation must come together to tackle the challenge posed by this non-state actor launching ballistic missiles and uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) at merchant vessels from many nations lawfully transiting international waters.”  As part of the US 5th Fleet’s Combined Maritime Forces and led by Combined Task Force 153 established in 2022, Prosperity Guardian initially had a total of ten nations committed to the endeavor. As the US moved forces to the area, including swinging the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) and its strike group out of the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Aden, several nations initially wavered in their support. 

Some only provided personnel, while others decided to initiate operations independently while awaiting the US-led project to start. The major shipping companies reported the lack of information and action, along with no visible American effort as their US-flagged ships remained in a holding pattern, they continued their diversions.

However, this proved not to be as problematic for the container lines as they were saying publicly. They faced the twin issues of overcapacity in terms of ships and carrying capacity because of a large building spree funded by the record profits made as a result of the recent supply-chain crisis. Second, they were faced with falling freight rates meaning their revenue was endangered. Xeneta – a freight analytical firm – predicted a stormy 2024 for container companies. With low water issues in the Panama Canal limiting the number and capacity of ships transiting, and now with the Houthi causing a diversion of traffic from the Suez Canal because of a series of strikes against a handful of ships, the container lines, along with the tanker firms, were now looking at much longer, and more profitable operating levels. 

To get containers partially flowing, France utilized the frigate Languedoc to escort ships of the French-owned CMA CGM Group. On the evening of 20 December, the small 1,740 TEU CMA CGM Aqaba sailed southbound from its namesake port, stopped in Jeddah, and when abeam of the northern coast of Yemen, turned off its AIS (automated identification system).  It reappeared the following morning in the Gulf of Aden.  It is believed that this was one of the first ships escorted through by France.  With this test, the French prepared to escort two larger ships – 10,800 TEU APL Salalah and 14,360 TEU CMA CGM G. Washington – northbound on December 22.  At this point, France, Italy, and Spain had initiated independent operations but announced their intent to support security in the region. 

As Languedoc prepared to escort the two French-owned containerships, the US orchestrated the movement of their four US-flagged ships, with some having been drifting in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden for over a week.  The delay proved so long, that MV Liberty of American Roll-on/Roll-off carriers had reversed its course and headed back through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean while Maersk Chicago sailed out of the Gulf of Aden for South Africa. 

With USS Dwight Eisenhower stationed in the southern Gulf of Aden off the coast of Djibouti and Somalia, and with the venerable cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG-58) patrolling between her and the coast of Yemen, Combined Maritime Forces and CTF 153 dispatched aircraft from Carrier Air Wing 3 to provide top cover and the destroyers USS Laboon (DDG-58), Gravely (DDG-107), Stetham (DDG-63), Mason (DDG-87), and Carney served as escorts on December 23.  In a scene reminiscent of Tom Hanks in Greyhound, the twin US convoys were able, through an overwhelming display of force, to sail unharmed against the Houthi.  However, the Houthi did make their presence known with strikes against the Norwegian-flagged tanker MT Blaamanen and the Indian-flagged tanker MT Saibaba, with the latter hit by a drone.  USS Laboon reported downing four drones that were inbound to the ship, possibly the first evidence of a US warship being targeted by the Houthi.

The attacks also widened in scope. The Bulgarian-owned and Maltese-flagged bulk carrier MV Ruen was seized in the Gulf of Aden and sailed into Somali waters. This followed a similar attempt on the Liberian-flagged and Israeli-owned tanker MT Central Park but was thwarted by the crew disabled the ship, seeking shelter in a secure compartment and the rapid response of the US destroyer Mason.  While some have attributed this to the restart of Somali piracy, which has been non-existent since 2017.  More than likely these are Somali privateers, acting in conjunction with the Houthi to disrupt global shipping.  Concurrently, Iran has attacked ships in the Arabian Sea – the Malta-flagged CMA CGM Symi and Liberian-flagged tanker Chem Pluto.  The latter provoked both the Indian and Pakistani navies to establish patrols in the Arabian Sea against further Iranian attacks. 

MAERSK 🎩 MOVES THE NEEDLE

The passage of the three US-flagged Maersk Line, Limited ships led A. P. Moller-Maersk to announce on December 24 that, “Operation Prosperity Guardian (OPG) has now been set up and deployed to allow maritime commerce to pass through the Red Sea / Gulf of Aden and once again return to using the Suez Canal as a gateway between Asia and Europe…we are preparing to allow for vessels to resume transit through the Red Sea both eastbound and westbound. We are currently working on plans for the first vessels to make the transit and for this to happen as soon as operationally possible.”  It cannot go unnoticed that Maersk made this announcement on the completion of a major effort by the US Navy to ensure the safe passage of three US-flagged subsidiary vessels. 

The announcement was followed by the movement of at least a dozen Maersk Line ships in the Mediterranean and around Europe toward Port Said at the northern end of the Suez Canal, while three ships in the Indian Ocean deviated from their transit to South Africa. Except for CMA CGM and MSC moving some ships in the area of the Bab el-Mandeb, no other line reversed course as quickly as Maersk. 

WHOSE  PROSPERITY?
This decision highlights four potential questions regarding the restoration of normal container liner service between Asia and Europe;

The effort exerted by the U.S. was for American-flagged ships, all of which were part of the Maritime Security Program and carrying cargo for the Department of Defense. Should Operation Prosperity Guardian, largely supported by the U.S. Navy, provide the escort service for foreign-flag ships of A.P. Moller-Maersk, based in Denmark and with many of their ships registered in that country, but Denmark’s contribution to the operation is a single staff officer?

Will the defensive convoying (countering the Houthi attacks without striking back) be sufficient to see the resumption of normal traffic through the Red Sea and most importantly mitigate the high War Risk insurance rates caused by the Houthi?

Currently, an entire Carrier Strike Group and the majority of an Amphibious Ready Group are in the area.  But should an incident occur elsewhere, they could be withdrawn and expose any shipping that continued to sail through the region or returned.  How long will, and can, the US Navy maintain this level of escort?
Since the root of this issue is the Israel-Hamas conflict, it does not appear that a purely defensive strategy as practiced so far in Operation Prosperity Guardian will deter Houthi attacks or others that have ranged to the seizure of a ship off the coast of Somali or attacks on vessels by Iran in the Arabian Sea.  Will the conflict expand to other regions threatening trade out of the Persian Gulf?

Operation Prosperity Guardian aimed to ensure that the main ocean artery between Europe and Asia, which carried 15% of the world’s trade, was safe for the major shipping lines.  It was Maersk, along with Hapag-Lloyd that led the charge to abandon the route.  But now, after the successful convoying of Maersk Line, Limited vessels by the US Navy, it appears that Maersk may be resuming their trade, but Hapag-Lloyd is not. 

The large number of ships sailing from Europe and only a handful from Asia may indicate that Maersk sees an opportunity to take advantage of Operation Prosperity Guardian.  The ships from Europe will be returning empty containers to Asia.  With most of the Maersk fleet taking the longer voyage around Africa, this means that the normal return of empty containers, needed for restuffing in Asia could jeopardize cargo bound for Europe and other destinations in the first quarter of the new year. 

The ships sailing from Asia and now heading to Europe on the traditional route could mark the beginning of premium service as we are seeing the ocean carriers laying surcharges on longer routes.  During the supply chain crisis, express service and the ability to move to the front of the line necessitated a substantial payment.

In the weeks to come, we will see the situation between the Houthi, international shipping, and the world’s navies further develop. The goal of Operation Prosperity Guardian is to ensure the prosperity of the world by ensuring the free flow of goods and ships through the international waterways off the coast of Yemen.  If the main beneficiary of the operation is one of the largest shipping corporations in the world, then there is a question of whose prosperity is Operation Prosperity Guardian truly guarding? 👉  
https://gcaptain.com/operation-prosperity-guardian-opinion/

Posted by: AGelbert
« on: December 27, 2023, 09:27:35 pm »


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Time to Talk: Lawrence Wilkerson, Ret. US Colonel

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Posted by: AGelbert
« on: December 21, 2023, 03:53:50 pm »


The USA is an oligarchy: This scholar explained how in 1956 (with historian Aaron Good)


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In his 1956 book "The Power Elite," New Left sociologist C. Wright Mills detailed how decision-making in the United States is not democratic; it is determined by
(1) Wall Street capitalists and large corporations,
(2) the 🦍 Pentagon and 🦕🦖🐍 military-industrial complex, and
(3) 😈 the corrupt political class.


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Posted by: AGelbert
« on: November 24, 2023, 08:07:00 pm »


by Randy Dotinga, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today November 22, 2023

A photo of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s limousine parked at the emergency entrance to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas

A Medical Student, a Dying JFK, and ‘Destiny’: What a Young Doctor Saw 60 Years Ago

A look back at a conversation with one of the last surviving witnesses 👀 from Trauma Room One

SNIPPETS:

Sixty years ago, at the age of just 25, a fourth-year medical student named Joe Goldstrich helped colleagues treat the stricken president of the U.S. in a Dallas emergency department. Then he :-X kept quiet for 3 decades. :o

"I was afraid," Goldstrich recalled. He finally spoke up in a 1993 book and opened up even more in a 2020 interviewopens in a new tab or window with .

Goldstrich shed light on what he saw, including the president's neck wound and the expression on the first lady's face. He also explored his evolving perspective on where the bullets came from, expressed regret about what he didn't do in the moment, and revealed an amazing coincidence. ... ...

In our interview, Goldstrich told meopens in a new tab or window about Nov. 22, 1963, when he was on a neurosurgery rotation and responded to the emergency department in the early afternoon. There, he helped to move the president to the treatment table and undress him.

The president had a massive head wound and a bullet wound in the front of his neck. Goldstrich helped physicians to expand the bullet hole in Kennedy's front neck so a tracheotomy tube could be inserted. He didn't think it was necessary to expand the hole, an act that would mar a crucial bit of forensic evidence, but he also knew he was "the most junior person in the room."

"I didn't say anything," he said. "I regret that."

Why? Because the neck injury would become crucial to conspiracy theories about the assassination: If it was an entrance wound, not an exit wound, there had to have been a second shooter at Kennedy's front – perhaps in the notorious "grassy knoll" -- not just Lee Harvey Oswald to his rear. ... ...

There are, of course, a shrinking number of surviving witnesses from Trauma Room One. In 2013, 7 physicians who treated Kennedy – including Goldstrich – met for a roundtable discussion. The recording of their conversation has finally surfaced in a new Paramount Plus documentary titled "JFK: What the Doctors Saw" Four of those interviewed have since died. Delaney, the surgeon who told me in 2020 about treating Oswald, has also died. ... ...

He added that his thinking about the assassination has evolved again. When we talked in 2020, he said he'd long thought Kennedy's neck wound was an entrance wound. But he changed his mind after examining the Zapruder film and realizing "it would be impossible for someone from the front to shoot Kennedy simultaneously with Oswald shooting from behind the president."

But the Zapruder footage in the new documentary has convinced him otherwise, moving him back to his original theory about a second shooter in front of Kennedy. "I am now almost certain that it is an entrance wound. This should have been obvious to me sooner because the wound at the back of the head was too large to ever be considered an entrance wound. But I was not a ballistics expert in any way, shape, or form."

Read more:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/107504

AGelbert COMMENT:
Another GIANT smoking gun was the fact that the limo was sent to a car crushing facility BEFORE any "investigation" took place. It would have been a bit embarrassing for the "SINGLE bouncing bullet" malicious government sponsored LIARS to have pictures of several bullet holes in that limo (at least one bullet hole was an entrance hole in the  FRONT WINDSHIELD) reach we-the-public...



By the time of the ( PNAC planned since 1998) 9/11 U.S. State Sponsored Terrorism INSIDE JOB by Cheney et al (i.e. Military drone versions of commercial jumbo jets to hit the two lallest WTC towers, a missile to destroy the Pentagon accounting office, you know, that one that had just exposed that 4 trillion or so "missing money"  Rumsfield mentioned on 9/10, AND Netanyahu's Zionazi team of explosive demolition experts rigging WTC 1, 2 and 7 for 💥 implosion weeks before), they figured they could BS us into doubting our own eyes.
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: November 16, 2023, 07:18:47 pm »


I am convinced by empirical evidence and objective observation that the American Experiment with democracy has FAILED

I am convinced by empirical evidence and objective observation that the 🐍 worm in that Constitutional 🌟 Apple promising a Golden Age of ✨ Egalitarian Democracy that caused the failure was the NATIONAL EMBRACE of Social Darwinism. 100's of millions of Americans, most who cannot define Social Darwinism without looking it up on their cell phone, have, for all practical purposes, embraced this socially destructive ideology spawned by Darwin's Capitalist followers.

Thomas Jefferson is not my hero, but I agree 100% with this quote of his, which is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what Social Darwinian 🦍 Ideology Pushes:
Quote
"I consider our relations with others as constituting the boundaries of morality... Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses... The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist had he intended man for a social animal without planting in him social dispositions. It is true they are not planted in every man, because there is no rule without exceptions; but it is false reasoning which converts exceptions into the general rule." --Thomas Jefferson to T. Law, 1814.

FAST FORWARD TO 1945:

BETTER TO 🦍 REIGN IN HELL THAN TO SERVE IN HEAVEN


DOWNHILL ALL THE WAY TO 2001:


Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 28, 2023, 02:26:10 pm »

The Class Struggle
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Saturday, October 28, 2023 by STEVEN BESCHLOSS


AGelbert COMMENT: What Do I Hear When the New House Speaker Says He’s Been Ordained By God?
I hear Mike 🦖 Johnson, a 🐍 😈 "😇 Christian" Trumper Kochroach,  spewing BLASPHEMY!

Belt Buckle for our Military that Mike Johnson et al will soon recommend:


October 26, 2023 By Pam Martens 👍 and Russ Martens 👍





Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 26, 2023, 06:17:22 pm »

Therefore to him that knoweth how to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin. -- James 4:17

AGelbert COMMENT: Mike 🦖 Johnson is a 🐍 😈 "😇 Christian" Trumper Kochroach!



October 26, 2023 By Pam Martens 👍 and Russ Martens 👍



🐘 Christian 👿 nationalism is not 🕊️☝🏻 Christianity

Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 09, 2023, 04:26:51 pm »

😕 The more things change, the more they remain the same...
Listen to this 13 minute insightful narrative from the 19th century by G. K. Chesterton. It could have been published, including the snarky reference to US Newspapers, yesterday. 👀

🔊 The Setback to English Socialism  (in G. K. Chesterton in The Century Illustrated Magazine) by G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 08, 2023, 03:53:01 pm »



October 8, 2023 by CHRIS HEDGES


Fascism comes to America

SNIPPET:

We were warned. The seeds of fascism, like the climate emergency, were apparent decades ago. The leading scholars of fascism told us that unless American society halted its slide to ever greater levels of social inequality and returned democratic power to a betrayed populace, fascism would metastasize and consume the state. The ruling class, blinded by greed, a lust for power and willful ignorance, was as deaf to these warnings as they were to those of climate scientists.

Full article with comments:
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/fascism-comes-to-america/

Reality Based COMMENT agreeing with the Evil of US Fascism BUT totally disagreeing with Chris's allegation that "Christian" (my quotes, not Chris's) Fascists are a large part of the problem. Facsists ARE the problem, but Fascism is ANTI-Christian, not "Christian". The ruling class's Social Darwinist PRO-FASCIST ideology is 100% ANTI-Matthew 7:12.:

Elizabeth Heilman 🕊️
Most people in the plains sates and in rural communities live in what Edward Hall calls "high context" cultures, valuing relationships, hard work, nature and spirituality. Many rural folk are aware of the dangerous the uniparty and fascism and are nobody's fool. The rhetoric of "exclusion, cruelty and intolerance" is from the powerful who manipulate the press and politicians and a small number of emotionally vulnerable people. It is NOT AT ALL how most red state Christian Americans think or feel. It is time for solidarity, Chris, not hysterical demonizations of whole groups Americans.

Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 03, 2023, 02:30:39 pm »

Posted on October 3, 2023 by Ellen Brown 👍

Posted by: AGelbert
« on: September 21, 2023, 01:15:23 pm »

AGelbert NOTE: I fervently pray that Biden's American Climate Corps is not more 😈 "perception managment" Duoploy polluter defending FRAUD, which Biden has a 30 year track record of embracing, but a program that will blossom into a genuine fight to heal our degraded biosphere and bring 🦖 polluters to justice.

Letters from an American

September 20, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

The fight over how we conceive of our federal government was on full display today. The Biden administration announced the creation of the American Climate Corps . This will be a group of more than 20,000 young Americans who will learn to work in clean energy, conservation, and climate resiliencewhile also earning good wages and addressing climate change.

Full article with MANY EXCELLENT comments (Don't miss the responses to the Troll named "🐍 James A."):
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-20-2023/comments

Selected COMMENTS:

J L Graham
"Reaganomics" was about replacing democracy with plutocracy from the get go, which has been on quote a roll for the four decades since.

Said yesterday's Guardian:

" Humanity has 'opened the gates to hell' by allowing the climate crisis to worsen, the secretary general of the United Nations has warned at a climate summit of leaders that saw angry denunciations of the fossil fuel industry but was undercut by the absence of many of the biggest carbon-emitting countries."

That's just one of modern existential threats greatly exacerbated by the deliberate sabotage by big money to block any concerted, rational response. For what? For whom?
   
BC
I wonder if these people with all that money they like to throw around to get what they want realize that climate change doesn't care, at all, about their money. These fools will suffer the effects of climate change along with us poor people. Money won't help.
   
T L Mills
Well, their money will help insulate them from the weather extremes--for a while and only to a point.

But those who depend on this money to save them are classic "focus-on-the-short-term" thinkers who think only in terms of quarterly reports. Not in terms of the survival of the current ecosystems and of humanity itself.

Ally House (Oregon) Writes View From the Back Row
Humanity does not exist in their world view. Only wealth and privilege.

BC
I find that abhorrent. They shall get what they give in the end.

Jim Duffey Writes Jim’s Substack
Yes, but they will be “right” for the time being, and that is what matters most to them. Like the slaves they perceive us to be, they will so own us. Money buys insanity for some.

BC
Yes, I suppose it does buy crazy. Sad.

MLRGRMI
Their money buys a lot of insulating from climate repercussions/ justice repercussions/ social repercussions. They are betting that they can continue that trajectory for them and their friends. And so far they have been able to do that. Multi millionaires and billionaires live in a different, insulated world from “us”. They really see no use for us. The sooner we die and get out of the way and off their “conscience”, the better. They view regular people - the 99%- as cogs, serfs, playthings, or useless, depending on who we are. They believe they are “The Chosen”. And that they deserve dominion over the world. I always ask: Can we have a sane world AND billionaires? I guess not.
   
Virginia Witmer
A group of billionaires is having a lunch of greenbacks. One asks:”Where’s the catsup?” I’ll repeat that until doomsday or a new tax code.

k.paschal
they believe that their wealth will protect them

BC
For a while. Money can do a lot, but can't buy the weather. Their money is what will destroy them and everyone else. Greedy people.

mark cramer Writes mark’s Substack
DITTO ! , BC ! " MAMMONITES !!"

BC
I learned a new word! Thanks! 💐

J L Graham
The former "Party of Lincoln" has become a cult of malignant narcissism, powered by the obsessive love of money.
   
Georgia Fisanick Writes Georgia’s Substack
The narcissistic sociopath in Florida is not the force driving the Republican Party. He is a very useful front man for the billionaire autocrats that fund the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society. They are the ones who since Regan have engineered policies that have driven the increase in wealth disparity in this country and are behind trickle down economics and the drive for less government regulation of business.

When Mitt Romney said that the Republican Senators laughed after Trump left the room they could do that only because they saw him as a front man and were secure in their campaign funding from their big money donors.

It's time to lift the curtain and point to the real puppeteers of the disfunction.

Nancy Fleming
Exactly, Georgia. Trump is too ignorant to have engineered this chaos without explicit direction from people who knew exactly how to orchestrate it. Between our oligarchs and puppeteers and foreign agents, we are currently in an apocalyptical battle.
   
Sharon Stearley
I believe Senator Whitehouse is doing his job to make this known to the public....if only the public would listen or be interested.
   
Richard Sutherland
Georgia, you are correct IMO - the wealthy keep engineering the process for their own financial benefit, and it has paid huge dividends. That $32 trillion that is now the national debt went principally into the coffers of the ultra wealthy, the funders and backers of the Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society and other such groups, such as Mason University. Thomas Frank writes about this in "What's the Matter with Kansas?" For a time these manipulators used wedge issues such as abortion, gay marriage and school prayer to persuade average Americans (social conservatives) to vote against their own best economic interests. After the elections, nothing happened for them. But, but then the "Old South" and the "Old Ku Klux Klan" raised their ugly heads, the catalyst in part being the election of a Black President. So, the billionaire autocrats were handed a gift - Donald John Trump ,who gave the racists just what they wanted, a vicious leader who would punish the "line-cutters," those getting what they don't deserve, hatred of foreigners, Blacks, Muslims and immigrants. It is all in the study, "The Anger Games: Who Voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 Election, and Why?" Google it. The billionaires are slapping their thighs in glee.

Rickey Woody Writes Rickey’s Newsletter -Woodchuck'…
On target. Jane Mayer wrote Dark Money. Kochland takes us through the dark world of the Koch brothers and the stealth infiltration of the libertarian ideas into the republican party. Thom Hartmann documents a lot of this in his hidden history series

Marycat2021
https://soapboxie.com/us-politics/21reasonsReaganwasaterriblepresident

Yeah, what a 😒 😈 guy.
   
Richard Sutherland
I hesitate to say this, but it is what comes to my mind: the Trumpsters, i.e., KKK, are useful idiots. If only they could be put to this test:

Think of something that you believe is true . . . .

1. How SURE are you that it's true? (0-100%)

2. What is the SOURCE of the belief?

3. What are your REASONS for believing it's true?

4. How could you FIGURE OUT if it's true?

5. How would you FEEL if you were WRONG?

6. What facts would CHANGE YOUR MIND?

Harvey Kravetz Writes Harvey’s Newsletter
Good questions. How about; what is the end results of our/your beliefs and who would benefit the most? Who would suffer more or gain more if what you wanted came to fruition? Just asking.
   
Richard Sutherland
Those are questions that have never occurred to the wealthy elite who manipulate the gullible, nor the gullible to want to crush the "undesirables." The one thing that no one ever has enough of is money. The idea that MAGA/KKK Republicans are Christians (Matthew 25:34-46) is an exercise in make believe. and then: Matthew 7: 15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them."

MaryPat Sercu - MI
The cartoon: At a table, a very rich Republican man has a plate stacked with cookies. To his right is a Democrat with a plate of 3 cookies. Across from him is a poor rural man with an empty plate. The Rich man says to the poor man, "The reason you have no cookies is because the Democrats ate them." So, the Republicans "represent" the middle class and poor by conning them. The Democrats lost the middle class and poor by demeaning them. I was a lobbyist when our then Democratic Governor, Jennifer Granholm, announced the party's new plan to have every worker go to college to learn computer science and service our new techy economy. In one fell swoop she denigrated our entire excellent skilled workforce, and they have never forgotten it, nor should they. It's the Democratic party that needs to change its condescending (and, yes, elitist) attitudes and value EVERYONE's gifts and talents and industry. Michigan's current Democratic Governor, Gretchen Whitmer 🗽 is (literally) paving the way for that recovery.

Julie Dahlman Writes Julie’s Newsletter
The democrats that I know are just like myself, just getting by and feel lucky that I have a roof over my head and food to eat and some savings.

Insanity is keep repeating the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome. We've been doing that since Reagan.
   
James A. Writes 🦖💵🎩 James’s Newsletter
What is your point?

Its not the government's job to make you rich. Nothing is stopping you from

starting a business, getting more educated, dreaming bigger.

On the other hand government should weigh you down with high taxes,

a spiraling national debt, and social programs that on their way bankruptcy

Julie Dahlman Writes Julie’s Newsletter
WTF? I did not say I thought the government owed me anything? I am almost 77 years old and collecting the SS I earned since I was 77. During the last decades since Reagan the tax code has given everything to the millionaire/billionaire class and hedge fund managers have bought neighborhoods around this good ole USA that Regan created. My little two bedroom 1 bath home is now world $518,000 and taxed at $4600+ a year and who knows what it will be this year.

Yes those outrageous taxes have been draining my savings along with the corporate gougers for food and medicine and gas et al.  

James A. Writes 🦖💵🎩 James’s Newsletter
You are correct the tax code helps hedge funds and that's supported by both parties.

Property are state and local issue NOT a federal tax problem. That money pays for schools and local services fire/police.

My guess is you AREN'T PAYING any federal income tax - if your

annual income is 25K or less?

WHAT DO YOU WANT the federal government to do?

Julie Dahlman Writes Julie’s Newsletter
I have a BA in Business and Accounting and quite aware of where my tax dollars go. The Federal taxes code is full of loopholes for riches among us which has trickled down to the states.. Giving everything away to the already rich and then us tax payer bail them out when times get tough but not us. UAW strike - we the tax payer bailed out Auto industry/Banks, Insurance who owes who else and the UAW people agreed to a 19% wage tax to further help the industry but there wages have not increased since. And the industry CEO's are making millions.

Read more:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-20-2023/comments
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: September 20, 2023, 06:26:48 pm »



SEP 20, 2023 by CHRIS HEDGES


The United States, like many industrialized countries, has undergone a corporate coup d’état in slow motion, cementing into place a system of control the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls inverted totalitarianism. Inverted totalitarianism retains the institutions, symbols, iconography, and language of the old capitalist democracy, but internally corporations have seized all the levers of power to accrue ever greater profits and political control. Claire Provost and Matt Kennard in their book “Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy,” chart the way the corporate coup d’état was orchestrated. It examines the use of an international legal system to control and plunder the resources in the developing world, including the overthrow of governments that challenge corporate dominance. The authors expose the nefarious alliance between Non-Profit organizations and corporations, one that prioritizes profit rather than justice. The document leading the weakening of labor laws and evisceration of worker’s protections and rights. To enforce this predatory behavior corporations have not only created, in essence, a global supreme court but raised and funded private mercenary militias to crush labor movements and intimidate and even murder activists. The subversion of democracy abroad is accompanied, the authors argue, by the subversion of democracy at home. The mechanisms of control pioneers to plunder the developing world are being used in the industrial world. Joining me to discuss Silent Coup is Matt Kennard, a former staff reporter for the Financial Times and co-founder and chief investigator at Declassified UK, a news outlet that investigates British foreign policy.