Greetings to Young Americans: You are Automatically Registered for the Draft Conscription without Representation? Where and WHY are we sending our Kids to War?
I was diagnosed by a psychiatrist as mentally unfit for service in 1969 because I said that, faced with the prospect of taking another human life, especially someone whose country I had invaded, I would probably kill myself instead. I reasoned that if I killed another it's a burden I'd carry with me my entire life, whereas if I killed myself, whatever happens after that, it would be over and done. Considering the fact that all wars are simply to serve the ruling elite, in this case the corporatocracy that runs our country, and the millions of PTSD cases out there, I stand by my decision.
Thank you Steve Doll for being "Mentally fit" to serve humanity but not murder! This does bring up some interesting 'Right-&-obligation-to-Protect-the-innocent' situations. Probably most Americans Dem&Rep would feel justified to kill a whole platoon of 'foreign murderers', but would they recognize their fellow US soldiers as 'foreign murderers' in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya etc where there were no "weapons of mass destruction" except in the minds of our Zionist Oligarch rulers. We have killed & genocided so many 100s of millions of innocent women & children yet continue to support our sick $$ captured genocidal government representative. It typically takes a couple of years for 50% of every generation of soldiers to realize how they've been lied to & everything they believed was false & opposite, only to 'carry this burden of being murderers for their entire lives'.
ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY was the system of empowerment employed by all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors to maintain sovereignty in the hands of people locally. Real Democracy also includes universal individual business ownership & empowerment in the specialized Domestic, Industrial & Commercial Production-Society-Guilds as well as use of time-based, equivalency accounting on the once worldwide String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island, Quipu in S. America, Cowrie in indigenous Celtic & Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
Forget all the other WMD's, including the farcical nuclear race. Money and the motivation behind it to acquire it at any cost is the most destructive force ever conceived by humans. The essential difference between it and all the others is, like religion, it is born totally of the whole cloth of imagination and continues its power through misinformation, fear, and ignorance of its true nature.
Hey Steve, I agree with you about Oligarch top-down, centrally issued fake 'MONEY' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory'), in fact 'Amnesia'. Most people without digging deep into understanding, are at the point of rejecting human 'memory' of each other's contributions, tragically. I'm 60 years of my 71 years involved in 1st Nation & worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') solidarity, working & living with folks & absorbing what I can. All indigenous humanity's worldwide String-shell is a system of 'memory', accounting celebration & reflection for the contributions, experience, expertise & decision-making acumen, which flows therein. String-shell systematically integrates 'Capital' (L. 'cap' = 'head' = 'collective-intelligence'), 'Currency' ('Flow' or 'recognition for exchange'), 'Condolence' (Social-security in all forms), Collegial mentored-apprentice 'education' (L. 'educare' = 'to-lead-forth-from-within') Credit, time-math Communication, professional Costume for recognition of essential service expertise etc. into one integrated accounting cycle. Such recognition-accounting, celebration & reflection enables people to make wise decisions together as complementary parts of a whole. String-shell is issued from the Bottom-up in each collective Domestic (mostly women), Industry & Commerce (mostly men) sector of 'economy'. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
Each specialized labour or profession is organized in progressive-lifelong or career-long ownership in Production-Society-Guilds. With each person invested, decisional & responsible in his or her specific profession as part of the whole, then decision-making is confidently delegated to each level of expertise. I know the success of progressive-ownership, from having helped implement Multistakeholder Participatory investment, ownership & Board Representation in industry & commerce.
We can understand from reading various sources of history, how 7000 years ago in Babylon, oligarchy & a sect took centralized control of the issue of metal-coin fake 'money', which ceased to have 'Community' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') memory for each person's contributions. Hugely important was the loss of recognition for the Domestic economy (mostly women) as the core of 'economy' & community intelligence, particularly starting in the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). The primary task of men & women should be about recognizing, accounting-for & empowering collective Domestic labours & professions. Organizing ourselves Culturally is far better than waiting in line in inappropriately scaled & detached institutions where people don't know who we are or at the Old-Folks Homes.
BODY AS A MODEL FOR SOCIETY'S INTEGRATED 'ORGAN'IZATION
The mathematics of organization & governance in indigenous society is based in cultural 'fractals' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole'). One can compare this fractal organization with the autonomous organization of the genes, cells, tissue & organs of the human & other animal bodies. Economic Memory with bodily autonomy. Modern neurology has established how each part has both neurons, memory, intelligence & the autonomous mandate to act with their specific knowledge. The brain is considered as one of several body Nexus for the inter-communication of these events & coordinated action by the whole body, often well after the fact. The stomach for its integrated body nourishing functions, has more neurons than the brain. The body is synonymous with the body-politic or society at various levels. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
Without-memory being amnesia, Oligarch rulers imposed centralized linear centralized controls in a whole range of business & government activities, which has led to our present terminal stage war & ecological destruction, pushed by this same lineage of oligarchs.
" I believe it is honorable, a sacred obligation, to serve in defense of one’s country". Mr Kucinich opines.
NOBODY has a a sacred obligation to serve in the defense of one's country, especially as none of the wars since WW2 have been 'defensive'.... all have been offensive, mostly based on a pack of lies from the President, Congress or both.
Even if the war is 'defensive' every individual has the right to be a conscientious objector, to refuse the morally government sanctioned demand to kill another human being, without being persecuted for 'cowardice'.
In the event of a re-introduction of the draft, I hope all within the proscribed age range do everything in their power to avoid any form of service in the military.
The Civil War was a result of the inability of the north and the south to come to an agreement on the declaration of independence. During the declaration of independence, they failed, as in failure, to come to an agreement on whether or not we should get rid of slavery. so they put that issue aside and worked together to do the declaration of independence. That failure to come to an agreement led to the Civil War. Also known as, failure.
This nation has a psychopathic mindset. Obviously anything to enrich the treasuries of the oligarchs, even sending unwilling men and women to be used as cannon fodder. Witness the forced conscription policy of Zelensky , increased age to 50 years old I believe . They think as little of those sent to die for $$$ enrichment or fanatical right side extremism (see neo nazi fascism) . This mandated conscription shit needs to be vigorously opposed in every way. The oligarchic rulers are pressuring our cowardly institutions to do their bidding toward the same mass death and destruction outcome they need to maintain control.
Reply to Percy Groinbrush (below), Thank you for standing up for conscience.
All war is 'Intellectual Cowardice'. actually a condition of fear of SUZERAINTY, which is a position of control by a sovereign or state over another state that is internally anonymous or hidden.
All humanity's once worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') COUNCIL-PROCESS CP prescribes Both-sided, Equal-time, Recorded & Published FORMAL DIALOGUE exactly during times of incomprehension or disagreement. Because these puppets, follow the instructions of their Oligarch owner, campaign financiers so pervasively, they conspire with everything they have to shut you down. They don't have the confidence in their oligarch indoctrinated truths & therefore with Cowardice try to keep all of us & your wonderful voice on all our behalf silent. I was raised in a family with regular frequent equal-time formal family 'debates' (French 'de' = 'undo' + 'bate' = 'the-fight'). I feel nourished & intrigued by the parallel minds of friends, family & even adversaries, because they provide a real view of part of humanity's common mind whether in loving capacity or Oligarch controlled psyche. In your ongoing work & Presidency, I hope restimulating the processes of 'Dialectic-Right' to raise issues & be heard with our fellows (Socrates), 'Satyagraha' (Hindi 'Truth-Search') of Mohandas Gandhi & ultimately restoring the CP of all our indigenous ancestors & 1st Nations here will be one of your ongoing accomplishments. BOTH-SIDES-NOW is a simplified process, which we use to help people engage in CP. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
Mohandas Gandhi stated, "Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Non-violence & cowardice go ill together. I can imagine a fully armed man to be at heart a COWARD." Gandhi is speaking here to the intelligent mind of the soldier as an active contributor to his or her community, society & ultimately to the international conversation of war & peace such as Social Media might afford today if converted from Mono to Dialogue? as westerners failed in stimulating around our travesty in Libya? https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-communication-converting-social-media-from-mono-to-dialogue-libya
That's true. It is absolutely an honorable and sacred obligation to serve in defense of one's country. As a white man, please let me know what country is mine and prioritizes my interests... because it sure as shit isn't the United States.
Stolen? Nah, not at all. Conquered. Conquered by heroic pioneers who drove out the barbarians so they could establish a land of Liberty for all civilized peoples.
The way I see it, anybody that celebrates/venerates that kinda shit, has a few screws loose.
Liberty??
For whom???
The original USA plan, said only a propertied white man can have constitutional rights.
And, it’s goin’ downhill insteada increasin’.
Maybe someday you’ll actually have to exercise one or more of them rights listed in that bill of particulars, and you’ll discover that it’s actually only a list of temporary privileges, that can be taken away.
Just ask the American Japanese in World War Two.
Or any brown colored American CITIZENS after that false flag nine eleven.
Or a white woman in Florida who says deny, defend, depose on the phone the a CEO.
If you actually believe that you have liberty in the USA, you’ve been had by Bernays.
The red man’s been done dirty, and that ain’t justice or liberty.
That’s theft, mass murder, and true barbarity.
Conquering is a piss poor substitute for peacefully coexisting.
The redskins offered it, but the white man lied, and took their land and their lives.
Where I come from, that ain’t right.
I guess I just don’t have no admiration for conquering heroes.
I’m more inclined towards peacemakers and creators, insteada takers and destroyers.
And, this continent was a paradise before ole whitey arrived.
Now it’s mostly a mall and a landfill.
I realize that ya can’t halt progress.
But, I sincerely believe that we coulda blunted its worse aspects, if we woulda coordinated/cooperated with, and learned from, our red brothers and sisters.
The USA has spent its existence burning up the beautiful resources that were stolen from the indigenous peoples, and now we spend a trillion fortunes goin’ around the globe, tryin’ to steal everybody else’s shit.
The jig is up.
Thirty five trillion +++ dollars in debt, and the world is going tied of our shit.
Our credit is shot.
The earth has grown weary of our nonstop war makin’, what some might call conquerin’.
And, now we’re conscriptin’ our kids???!!!
Maybe they don’t wanna be conquerers.
Maybe they’d prefer just bein’ brothers and sisters, and live long enough to be moms and dads, and neighbors, and friends instead of foes.
I don’t know, but it seems so.
How do I know???
Cause the guvamint can’t fit enough kids to volunteer to die and kill, so they’re gonna draft ‘em and compel ‘em against their wills.
If you aren’t as successful as you thought you would be as a white dude in America, then there is absolutely no one to blame but yourself or perhaps your parents. Just because untethered misogyny and racism isn’t an available tool for white guys to be successful doesn’t mean America is against white men. It means white guys finally have to earn their place in society. Pretty easy to understand if you have any moral compass or even a bit of education. The oppression of others is what starts wars and genocide. And the right wing has convinced the white American man that without preferential treatment they once were given, they are not able to achieve anything. A level playing field has to be defeated in order for white male Americans to maintain control.
Why are losers like you such hateful bigots? You're on the wrong side of history and you know it. Evil prejudiced hateful monsters like you will be eliminated from our society and the earth salted so you can never again spread your message of hate and violence.
That is comical. The bigots were just elected into office. None of them self-made. Trump nearly lost all the money he inherited (would have done just as well by parking it in the stock market). The prejudice is coming from inside the Trump administration. And if you think the billionaires are thinking about your small life, you are the useful idiot they count on to make their money grow. Good work
A violent extremist like yourself does not deserve to live in a civilized society. Why are you so full of hate? Why do you insist on being on the wrong side of history? Stop spreading hate and misinformation... being a horrible wretched loser doesn't pay off. Better yourself. Educate yourself.
“Look! I will make those from the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, but are not, but are lying—“
Both versions say the same thing, but I found the one you used harder to parse.
In this case, “lying” includes those who don’t realize what they say is false. Satan loves to convince people that they are doing God’s will, while doing the exact opposite. See: evangelical support for Trump. The master Deceiver, his methods on clear display. Flood the field with manure, bury the truth. Make it struggle to be heard.
You definitely should look into it. It was during the 1967 war. The USS Liberty was a spy ship, clearly marked as American and with a massive American flag flying off the rear. Israeli fighters were flying planes from which the identifying marks had been removed. They flew over the USS Liberty all day, some of the sailors recounting that they flew low enough to wave to. Then the pilots were told to start attacking the Liberty after Israel jammed the radio frequency making it impossible for the Liberty to issue a distress call. The sailors on the liberty were able to get a signal and sent out a distress call. Johnson immediately ordered two rescue ships to go to their aid. Before reaching the Liberty it was confirmed that the attack had come from Israel. When Johnson learned it was Israel who’d attacked he ordered the rescue vessels to turn around, leaving our sailors to die. I believe Israel also attacked with naval vessels, shooting up the lifeboats, and attempting to kill the sailors trying to reach the remaining lifeboats. Many US servicemen died that day and even more were injured. Israel was unsuccessful in sinking the Liberty, an attempt to hide the evidence. Those servicemen have never received recognition and some have stated that they were forbidden to discuss it. One sailor had been on deck filming when the attack began. The film was confiscated and has never seen the light of day.
The theory has been that Israel hoped to create a false flag operation, blaming Egypt for the attack, thereby drawing the US into the war. Israel has tried time and again to draw the US into war with Iran, which would certainly not be in our best interests. They pushed hard for the wars with Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel wants hegemony in the ME and has no concern for the best interests of US. They have spied on us, sold the technology that was developed with US taxpayer money and given to them by the US. Israel isn’t a true ally to anyone. Their exclusive interest is in themselves and they will take advantage and double cross anyone to achieve their goals. Research JFK and Israel’s promises regarding nuclear weapons. Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat to peace in the ME and responsible for any nuclear proliferation in the area.
That's life when you are another country's "bitch". Does ANYONE still believe the USA is not totally Zionist occupied? Anyone who will study 19 and 20th century history will see this pattern repeated again and again...
Thank you, Kathleen, for this historical reminder. It was hazy in my mind & I didn’t remember the details so I had to look it up. It is yet another horrid travesty.
And -"Adjusting for inflation, US aid to Israel from 1951 to 2022 totaled $317.9 billion, making it the largest recipient of American foreign aid since World War II.” And another $18 BILLION + from the U.S. to Israel for this current horror.
We have been sending Israel BILLION$ for YEARS. Yet, stateside, we have homeless—amongst the homeless are our veterans; we cannot help our students with school loans...
And why do we continue funding when the majority of American people do not want their taxpayer dollars going to kill children & families!
And what about Israel giving money (our money) to Hamas for years?
"Israel tacitly encouraged Hamas to stay in power…” NYT
It's well worth looking into, and I will. My instinct is that you're right. If you are, I can't defend it, though I can understand it. I remember The Six Day War. In late May/early June, it looked very much as though Israel faced extinction. Ask yourself what you might be willing to do if you thought your life might depend on it. This is a fallen world, and we are a species which has been known to eat its dead children to stave off starvation.
I'm 72, and consider myself to be of that first generation which had to grapple with the fact of the Holocaust. ( My criterion for membership in that club is that one must remember when Eichmann was tracked down, and I do. ) Human life is individual, not corporal, still, we don't flinch from talking about "Japanese war crimes" or "Irish ruthlessness," and if you've known Holocaust survivors, which I have and which I gather you haven't, your reservoir of what you will give sanction to in Jewish behavior will be huge. Whatever crimes Jews have committed against non Jews can't begin to compare in numbers with the crimes which non Jews have committed against Jews.
No sane country is ever at the behest of another, and that isn't what an alliance requires, anyway. I ask you to remember that Islamicists want you dead only somewhat less than they want Jews dead. From you and possibly me they might accept a meek surrender to dhimmitude, it's true, but I personally would prefer death.
Your idea that Israel's possession of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat to Middle Eastern peace strikes me as so perverse I can't see that I should address it.
I'm a Christian, worship the King of the Jews, and see anti - Semitism as demonic. Romans 9 - 11 should annihilate any trace of anti - Semitism in anyone who takes it as Holy Writ, which, of course, I do.
I'd kindly suggest laying off the western imperial kool aid. Absolute nonsense, with all due respect. I've travelled across Muslim-majority countries and not only did nobody try to kill me (shocker) but they welcomed me at every turn. I'm about the most white, western looking guy you can think of. Or is this all part of their dastardly plan too? 🤦🏻♂️
I am 71. I am horrified by the Holocaust, that it was allowed to continue for so long. There’s no justification for genocide either in law or morality. I oppose antisemitism as I oppose any form of racism or prejudice.
Where we part company is your assumption that having suffered a holocaust the Jewish people, though I would differ and say Zionists, get a pass for atrocities against others because the numbers of victims is less. No individual and no state or non state actor has permission to inflict harm on others. The holocaust was horrific and a blight on humanity. The current genocide in Gaza is also horrific and a blight on humanity. There a reason that genocide enjoys NO JUSTIFICATION in law, because there simply is no justification for committing that level of death and destruction of another people. By your logic, any group who’s suffered a horrible crime has the right to inflict the same or a lesser crime against others. That puts the lie to “never again”. If the world ascribed to your logic revenge would be allowable and all international law would be out the window resulting in chaos and survival of the wealthiest and strongest. That’s not a world that many of us would choose to live in.
Your racism towards Muslims, lumping them all into radical islamists, is very offensive. Every religion has extremists. They don’t represent the entire religion. Hitler was a Catholic but I don’t think any sane person would suggest that he represents all Catholics.
I wouldn’t expect any country to bow to the US, though we do hold many countries hostage through financial aid, etc. We routinely exert undue pressure on other countries to garner their vote at the UN, etc. I dispute Israel’s status as our great ally because of their killing of Americans, some executed, with no accountability. Their willingness to violate US imposed sanctions, selling arms in violation of US prohibition, never honoring the boycott of S Africa during apartheid continuing military cooperation and arms sales. Since George W’s administration they have pushed for bunker buster bombs to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, lobbied hard to avoid the deal with Iran which allowed for monitoring of Iran’s nuclear program and provided our best chance to avoid a nuclear Iran. They know that if they manage to start a war with Iran we’ll be forced into the conflict. It’s one thing to put your country’s needs first, it’s another to try to drag another country into a conflict that definitely not in their best interest.
If you lived in the other Middle East countries, knowing what Israel has done in the last 75+ years with full US support and political cover, I think you’d be uncomfortable. Israel has committed targeted assassinations of many Iranian nuclear scientists, cyberattacks, and the recent bombing of the Iranian consulate in Syria. They routinely bomb Syria, a sovereign nation (regardless of what you may think of them), in violation of international law. With such a ruthless neighbor it’s not a surprise that other countries would seek nuclear deterrence.
Look at Tom’s Substack by Tom Calabretta, June 3, 2024. He writes a great synopsis of events as an eye (or rather “ear”) witness to the liberty fiasco. He was at US radio station and received and forwarded the Liberty’s distress call to Washington DC during the event. He is nonjudgmental, but there were troubling details regarding the US response and also Israeli participation. Don’t miss it.
Can you tell me if any Israel’s fought during the war of terror? Netanyahu wanted Saddam and Gaddaffi gone, but Israeli troops got to stay home and watch Americans die. Some ally.
I'm not sure what to make of this. As for the War on Terror, George W. Bush is a war criminal and an idiot. Cheney, Wolfowitz, Condoleeza Rice and the others are only war criminals.
A superficial take. For example, 9/11 and 10/7 are mirrored events, blatant false flags allowed/abetted/assisted and perhaps outright planned by the “victimized” countries in order to justify the subsequent power and land grabs.
10/7 was not a false flag. N.S. Lyons' Substack has an analysis of the Israeli security failures which made the attack possible. It isn't paywalled. Read it. Israel was vulnerable not because its security was too simple but because it was too complex.
As I read it, I couldn't help admiring Hamas' ingenuity in figuring out that they could breach the surveillance with Big Box store - level supplies. Evil, evil, evil, but very clever.
Again, read it. It will alter your superficial take.
I have little but contempt for the intelligence and decency of people who think 9/11 was a false flag. Do you realize what monsters our leadership, our military, and our intelligence people would have to have been to have done that? George W. Bush waved off an intelligence briefing he was given in the summer of 2001 that Al Qaeda was planning a big terror strike in the United States. He told the C.I.A. intelligence officer, "Okay, Skippy, you've done your job. You can get your butt out of here now."
Bush is a dullard and a 77 year old rich brat. You can't impeach a President for policy failure, though.
You're another useful idiot for anti Semitic propaganda. Tell me, please, what "land grabs" have the Israelis made?
Today, rich israelis with double passports can live in comfort outside israel , in florida for example like netanyahus son, and cheer on the genocide from afar
I was just looking this thread over and was stopped cold by the comment: please tell me that you do understand that for most of their history, the modern Israelis have been the primary target of the terror war. You do get that, right?
The United States first real experience of Islamic terrorism was the bombing of Pan Am 103 in December, 1988. I do not count the attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 or 1984 as a domestic terror attack. Our military was on Middle Eastern land.
Reliable ally? They are making a laughing stock of the US around the world, as Biden feebly pretends to plead with israel, which israel ignores, the US presents an ISRAELI ceasefire proposal which israel denies and refuses to support - a farce if it weren’t so tragic for the Palestinians. Israel us dragging the US into shame and ignominy, and the world is soon to witness the shameful spectacle of the US congress applauding wanted war criminal netanyahu in its congress
That shouldn’t stop you if you really cared. The other Zionist regime in Ukraine 🇺🇦 has sent people with special needs to die on the front lines.
Fighting these forever ♾️ wars in the Middle East has gotten us nowhere and $35T in debt. We weaponized the dollar and that has backfired. No one is suggesting turning on Jews rather suggesting not supporting the Zionist regime… there a big difference although you prefer to conflate the two.
Not sure if you are paying any attention to the UN voting but supporting this Zionist regime, now has us completely isolated.
"Zionist" is just a euphemistic way of saying that you want to finish the job Hitler started. Think, please: you hate God's chosen people, the people who gave us the Savior, The Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Jews.
Israelis are the people who gave the world a livestreamed genocide, starvation, atrocities against trapped civilians - depraved, sadistic nazis. Justice will come, a good day for humanity today with the ICC arrest warrants fir netanyahu and galant
Twisted. And you know it. To borrow Sheldon Vanauken's phrasing, corruption is never involuntary. The Lord God Incarnate, Jesus Christ, is among other things The King of the Jews.
Jew hatred is a virus of the soul, carried by demons. Repent. Jesus live, died, and rose again for you. Read Romans 1 - 5.
Not sure if you've ever paid any attention to the Bible, and to be candid, am pretty sure you have not. I worship the King of the Jews, and see anti - Semitism as the demonic thing which it is.
If you can have witnessed the nightmarish eruption of open anti - Semitism in the last eight months and be oblivious to the evil which it is, your spiritual perceptiveness is dull, indeed. Read The Gospel of John and The Epistle to the Romans, paying special attention in the latter to chapters 9 - 11.
Genesis 12:3 has not been abrogated. It's far safer to be isolated because of our advocacy of Israel than to get crossways with God. Are you aware that the Bible prophesies that in the last days the entire world will turn against Israel? Are we in those days? I think we are in a prelude to them, and things are likely to get only worse.
The nightmarish eruption is the nazi/zionist israeli holocaust of Palestinians over the past 13 months. All the hallmarks of nazism - supreme race, brutal sadistic inhuman cruelty to other human beings, land theft for expansion- AND the israels as willing executioners just as in nazi germany. zionism is pure nazism.
At 72 and severely disabled since childhood, not anytime soon. For what it's worth, I'm America First, too, and part of that is recognizing that we need allies. I hope to live to see the ninety million Iranians who despise the mullahs get rid of them.
An America/Israeli/Iranian alliance would be highly likely to happen, and if you want peace, you should hope it does. There is an Iranian born Londoner, Mahyar Tousi, whose YouTube channel, TousiTV, I urge you to have a look at.
I would have hoped that Globalism's clear pro Hamas affinity would have convinced guys like you that "Jewish Globalism" is a lunatic fever dream. In any event, I believe Genesis 12: 3.
Huey Long didn't live to see World War II. He was shot in 1935. A reporter once asked him what he thought of the Nazis.
Long, not verbatim, but close: "Study history. Any nation which turns against the Jews gets destroyed."
Israel under Netanyahu is not a reliable military ally. They have become a nasty bunch of Nazis who have forced America to become complicit in their genocidal land grab. You mention Kristallnacht. What about Gaza and Southern Lebanon? We’ve gone way beyond broken windows in delicatessens now!
Men from the age of 18 through 25 or 26 have always been required to register with Selective Service, that doesn't mean that there will be a draft. Only that everyone eligible will be registered if a draft is needed. Senior year in high school many of the older boys had to register. I remember seeing the posters which said "a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do." And I thought, wow, we need a men's movement. Imagine if there was a poster that said "a Black's gotta do what a Black's gotta do, " or "A Gay's gotta do what a Gay's gotta do." Our society places no value on men, only as utilitarian pawns in their international chess game.
And women's value, apparently given the Supreme Court, is determined by marriage making babies...otherwise there this " third quarter of 2020 (the most recent national data), women in the United States earned 30% less than men and that pay gap increased with age. "(census.gov)
Oh dear, don't draw me into this debate. You will lose. Here is a stat for you: "Similarly, women made up 8.1 percent (445) of all workplace fatalities" So, let's see, men make up almost 92% of workplace fatalities. And a similarly high percentage of workplace injuries, which may be serious, disabling, and eventually lead to premature death. Why don't women break the glass ceiling of workplace death and start dying in equal numbers?
And do you want to talk about abortion? Because, if I am the father, and let's say I want to keep our child, and even if I'm willing to raise the child as a single dad parent, the woman is like "my body my choice, I'm a gonna kill it." But suddenly, let her decide to have the child, and if I am the father and don't want the child, I will have to pay child support for 20 years, suddenly, it is the father's responsibility and his doing that this life came into existence, and the father is on the hook. I've known guys who had to spend time in jail due to delinquent child support-even guys who were earning a poverty level pay, and the mother earned six figures and had a new husband who earned a lotta cash.
Yeah, don't draw me into a debate on the value our society places on men, vs. the worship it heaps upon women, because I will win. Although I love women, I am right about this. Thanks.
Speaking of abortion and women's rights, where are the so-called right-to-lifers when it comes to their 18-year-olds? Do you see any of them at anti-war rallies, or are these just for the leftists and subversives? They'll die defending the right of the fetus to be born, but wave the flag of perpetual, profit-driven war in front of them and all of a sudden they are uber-patriots, sending these same precious lives off to kill and/or be killed in the name of the freedom of the banks and war profiteers to further gouge the taxpayer. If there's anything unfettered capitalism and blind, unquestioning faith breeds, it's hypocrisy.
What a horrible statement. There are too many women to count who are America first conservatives who hate abortion and war. That’s why we’re voting for Trump. Only candidate in my memory who I trust in both issues. Don’t kill children, don’t send them to war. Period.
Speaking as a man of long-standing (61 years), I'll go to my grave convinced we are by far the worst of the two genders and deserving of limitless contempt.
I agree with your point about the draft, though. I registered when I turned 18 and so did my son. I'm not sure that this 'auto draft' increases the risk for a war. After all, the US has been fighting someone somewhere virtually my entire life...including the years after the draft was no longer mandatory.
You are a gem of a man, imho, & definitely not worthy of infinite contempt, as are so many wonderful men who have given their lives to love & support their families, their friends, their nations. Even the majority of those who died in the wars most never understood!
But you are also correct that the majority of the violence on our Earth has beed committed
by men, conceived by men, enabled by men.
But it is not completely their fault, it is the fault of the twisted & abusive cultures that raised them & took advantage of their natural instincts of aggression to protect themselves & their loved ones. The culture that also raised them with violence, humiliation & psychological abuse & sent them off to be cannon fodder for the "King's" wars of aggression. To dig down deeper into how humanity & children & men & women hot into
this mess read "Saharasia" by James DeMeo, PhD.
Boys raised in Peaceful, Matriarchal societies are completely different. Violance against women, child sexual abuse & violence & war basically did not exist.
The work on Bonobos & Chimpanzees also tells us that peace & plenty brings more peace & plenty, while lack creates aggression & war like behaviors.
One single generation raised without violence & suffering breaks the cycle, which is why in my opinion, the demons are busy warmongering one more.
Blessings to you, and remember, many of us girls really, really love you boys!
This sounds like cope, though. Maybe if you would try to debate and not talk about you. Also, there's a low level percentage of men who raise their children alone without women in their lives (thanks to the USA experiment we have that data!) and that is not because social laws. It's because your male biology. You lack what women have in the field of child rearing, biologically. And that's why every government use men and not women as cannon fodder. Do not need to say anything about my personal relations with people around me to talk about why things are the way they are.
Not sure I am speaking about my personal relationships. I am speaking generally, although I mention someone specifically who spent time in jail due to lapsed child support, he's not the only one. It is just more glaring an example because of the financial disparity.
Nevertheless, you open a new can of worms. Nobody today can say what is a woman. You have to be a marine biologist to determine that. Male biology and female biology is now the same. Men have periods. Women have beards. The progressive agenda blurs that line, so your thoughts about male biology are antiquated, quaint, and irrelevant.
Hello buddy. Again, it's not about you. Also we as a human race know what is a woman. Some of our governments don't, but then the governments are not real either. If human males were biologically intended to care for the young they would not have male sexuality strategy: to make as much children as they can. This is why guys have unlimited amounts of sperm and don't go into menopause as women do. There's no solution to that evolutionarily sexual strategy in humans and if you want to change men in that regard, well, then you're clearly talking from the same social constructivist culture, and you're the same as the people who pretend they don't know what a woman is.
I've been alive for 79 years and never had any doubt whether there is any blurring of the line between male and female. One simple has to look and experience the difference between the male and female 'naughty bits' which conveniently fit together so nicely and pleasurably.
I've never had a period, nor have I had a relationship with a woman who sports a beard.
I think your can of worms is a disinformation fantasy that need to be kept closed.
What an utterly facile comparison. I hope the next woman you say that to has a blunt instrument near at hand, but instead kicks you in your balls and tells you off while you’re writhing on the floor.
I'm not American but I remember when Carter reinstated draft registration. It was in response to the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. At that time 19 and 20 year olds had to register (there had been a lull for several years post Vietnam). But then as time progressed millions and millions of young men simply didn't bother registering. Did this affect their future in terms of say, not being able to get a government job? In any case, lack of registration was never enforced. This bill automaticallly registers the young. Not sure if this is simply a way of streamlining a system that wasn't working or is there's something more sinister at play?
But why are you trying to win? Differing opinions are not about competition, they are just that differing opinions. If you are the only one who determines whether or not you win, does that man you’ve won? If 10 other people disagree and say you’ve lost does that mean you’ve lost?
Also individuals need to be more mindful of who they have children with. There are consequences to our actions and those actions should also be considered within a society that has the laws that it does around children. Too much reckless sex as if by now people don’t know that semen in a vagina can lead to pregnancy.
For what Evil is trying to run our Country, if I were these young people, I would refuse. These scum trying to run our Country need to be put out there.
That is not how it is in Britain. We are all freeborn. But some plummy voices Tories are talking up conscription+ we know every British Prime Minister loves to suck off whichever human spawn of Satan occupied the White House since 1990. I'm sure Sir Never Here is particularly adept.
Here is exactly the reason why the ruling class foments constant conflict and war, and why they MUST always have us fearing and hating an 'evil enemy' (who the scary enemy happens to be can change from generation to generation, but what doesn't change is that the ruling class ALWAYS have a scary boogeyman enemy ready for us to be afraid of and hate (and cling on to them - the ruling class manipulators - to protect and save us from the scary monstrous evil enemy who wants to hurt us for no reason whatsoever, simply because they're evil...) https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies
In my view, this is a MUST READ for every human on the planet, and especially for Americans. If we were all aware of the trick they're playing on us then it wouldn't work for them anymore. So please read this profoundly important essay (that provides full citations and sources) and please share it so that the majority of us wake up to their manipulative tricks on us, and no longer fall for their propaganda. This is when their jig will be up and the ground ready for true change.
Americans crapped their pants over a respiratory infection and tossed out their last remaining rights along with soiled undies. Convince minds like that that they're being tricked?
I hear you, fully understand the frustration and truly thank you for caring. I don't know what else can one do other than try one's best to bring this to humanity's attention so that we may change course through greater and deeper awareness of how the ruling class operate and of the mechanisms they use to maintain their domination over us and profit off of us, such as, for example, the ownership of, control over and manipulation of the flow of information, in order to both affect our psychology as well as keep us ignorant of (and so, not challenging) the stratified unfree nature of our society and economy (detailed in the link I shared above, as well as in this profound and insightful essay https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/why-have-no-rich-and-no-poor).
In my understanding and study of history, this (bringing these things to light and helping people become aware of the nature of the ruling class' control over us) is the factor that historically has lead to change, but of course I could be wrong about this. If there is a better course of action then I'd definitely like to know about it 🙏
When you say humanity, you mean the whole world? My disdain (vs. frustration) I aim solely at "Americans."
One cannot continually laud oneself as "free and brave" and then behave in exactly opposite ways and 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 a person of integrity. Or a country remain free. And that has zero to do with "the ruling class." That has to do with character.
Thus, what the vast majority in this country revealed was their character -- not their lack of knowledge. Oh, maybe that, too, but bottom line? The country got presented with a fundamental question -- one that defines what it means to be American -- and it failed spectacularly. The "shining city on a hill" got an F- -- if that's possible.
I've said elsewhere that Sep 11 was the first test of the 21st century, which Americans failed. The COVID Operation was their final exam...and they failed that, too.
Had the majority acted as our "Marketing" department continually advertises, this latest, most grievous crime would have had nowhere to go...In standing for freedom, vs. trading it for "safety," the people would have saved themselves...and possibly the whole world.
I fully understand and appreciate what you are saying. Thank you for sharing that. From my perspective (which is of course only partial, and therefore limited, as all prespectives are), it seems to me that the question of character is indeed an important and fascinating one, however it seems to me that the character factor comes into play only AFTER a more fundamental issue, and I will explain what I see as the most fundamental issue and why I think that the question of character can only arise AFTER the fundamental issue.
In my understanding, the fundamental issue is having access to CORRECT INFORMATION regarding what is actually happening (and derived for that, having an understading of what prevents our access to correct information. Which means, having an understanding of how the dominant narrative (what we believe to be happening) is constructed, and by whom, and for what reasons
After all, if two people (for example) cannot even agree that they are talking about the same reality, if they don't even have a shared understanding of what the course of events actually is, what reality is, then obviously the question of what to do in relation to reality doesn't even arise, because they don't even have a shared understanding of what reality is, of what is actually happening, so how can they even discuss what to do about the state of affairs, when they don't share the same understanding of what the state of affairs is.
That is why access to CORRECT INFORMATION (knowing what is the truth regrading what is happening, knowing what the reality of the situation actually is) is the most important and fundamental, IMHO
In my understanding, the question of the different character of people only comes into play once the two people are at the stage of deciding how to respond to reality, right? Only then you can talk about their different characters (and like or disdain their characters). But they cannot even reach this stage of deciding how to respond to reality if they don't even have access to CORRECT INFORMATION and don't have a shared understanding of what reality is, if they don't have a shared UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING.
Let me give you an example that might make this clearer. Or actually, lets take the example that you gave, your desdain for the character of some or most americans. I fully understand your desdain, however, surely you can see that the way people responded to a situation (for example, the scamdemic), was based on their UNDERSTANDING of WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING, WHAT REALITY ACTUALLY IS (An understanding that you don't share, and I don't either). In a moment I will say where their (false) understanding came from, and why I see this (the understansding one has of what is actually happening, what reality is, and how this understanding is manipulated) why I see this as the most fundamental issue, but before i get to that, lets first go to the example i started giving, becasue i think it can clarify things.
I think it is important to understand that everyone (including those who we think are very wrong) do what seems the most rational and beneficial from their perspective BASED ON THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS HAPPENING. No one is intentionally evil or bad. Even hitler or stalin did what they thought was the most beneficial BASED ON THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY. From their perspective, and from the perspective of many americans during the time of the so-called pandemic, they were acting in the most rational and beneficial way possible BASED ON THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS HAPPENING.
For example, if you knew with 100% certainy that a room that you usually enjoyed being in (and that you also used as a short-cut to get from one section of a building to another section) if you knew that this room is now filled with poisonous gas, you would obviously avoid going into that room, right? Even though doing so diminshes from your freedoms and creates a lot of inconvenience for you. You would avoid it because YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY is that going into that room severely threatens your life, your very existence, and being alive comes before any temporary diminishment of freedom or inconvenience. You would do this becasue you are acting in way that you believe is most rational and beneficial based on YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS HAPPENING.
Now lets say that later you found out that your previous UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY was wrong, and that the room was actually not filled with poisonous gas at all, even though you thought that it was. You thought that it was becasue you were given INCORRECT INFORMATION about the situation by certain authorities (who told you that it was filled with poisonous gas and that it would be lethal to go in there). And you believed those authorities becasue you had NO AWARENESS of the power relations in society and you had NO AWARENESS that those with the power (ruling class) are very often dishonest and make things up in order to make you scared and further their agenda of more easily dominating the non-ruling-class, dominating those who are not in position of authority and power (domination and power over others from which the ruling class derive many numerous perks, including control over the flow of information and the ability to declare what is the reality of a situation). You had NO AWARENESS that the ruling class (those who hold the power in society) do NOT have your best interests at heart (even though they tell you they do, especially before elections) and that they are working to further their own narrow interests, not yours (as detailed in the profound essay that i shared in tne previous reply). You had NO AWARENESS of any of that, and that ia why you believed them and avoided going into the room, even though in reality there was no poisonous gas in the room.
Now please tell me, in this example that we just described, what is THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE at play here? Is it that you have a character flaw? Is it that you gave up certain freedmos in an irrational way becasue your character is flawed? Is this what actually happened here? Or is it that the MOST FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE at play here is that you had access to INCORRECT AND DECEPTIVE INFORMATION (you were presented with a false depiction of reality) + you had NO AWARENESS of the manipulative nature and of the agenda of those whom you believed to be giving you correct information.
Isn't this the most fundamental issue at play here?
What kind of character you have is a factor that doesn't even come into play here, because your character only matters when you are presented with a situation where there is some room for manouver, but here there was no such question at all, you were plainly told that you would die if you enter that room (if you don't temporarily give up your freedom of movment in order to stay alive). And you believed their assertion because you had NO AWARENESS of how those in power operate, and so you had NO AWARENESS that they might be lying to you, that they might be pushing certain agendas and that it is likely that they are being dishonest with you.
So the fundamental issue here is clearly NOT what kind of character you have, but rather it is the LACK OF AWARENESS of how power operates, the LACK OF AWARENESS that the ruling class in power always trick the have-nots this way. If you had this AWARENESS then you wouldn't have fallen for it, you wouldn't have unquestioningly accepted their DEPICTION OF REALITY, OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING.
So I hope it is clearer and makes more sense now why I said earlier that in my view, the fundamental issue here is one of AWARENESS and UNDERSTANDING of how the ruling class functions.
The question of character only arises if there is lack of certainty about the level of lethality of the gas in the room (should i give up my freedom of movement and inconvenience myself in order to keep safe and not die, or does the level of lethality of the gas in the room not justify such giving up of freedom?), but if you believed that going into the room means certain death (becasue you were NOT AWARE of the manipulative nature of the ruling class who informed you about the situation and described reality to you) then the question of character does not arise at all. You would simply avoid the room, you would react in the most rational and beneficial way you can think of based on the access INCORRECT INFORMATION that you had, and based on your UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE REALITY OF THE SITUATION IS.
Thank you for your attention.
Here again are the two very important and highly recommemded essays shared earlier
How does trying to inform people of the dangers of an infectious disease inform the interests of those doing the warning? If the warners are lying to serve their own interests, as you falsely believe, how does that benefit them?
I suppose you also think the 1918-1920 flu pandemic was also a hoax. And the Black Death in the mid-1300s, for that matter.
Hi there. Thank you for this response. If I may say so, I do fully understand where you are coming from (because i also used to inhabit that same place/echo-chamber, I will say more about this in a moment). The space for a response here is quite limited so i had to divide my response into two parts. Please see part 2 immediately below here. This is part 1:
Before I reply directly to your question, may I first ask if you read the profoundly important research papers (which include full citations) that I shared in my reply above? If you still haven't then please do so becasue these papers beautifully illustrate with numerous examples that the corporate-capitalist billionaire ruling class (and their paid narrative managers in their disinformation corporate propaganda media) are LYING to us constantly, and that - contrary to your learnt belief system- they do NOT have our best interests at heart, but rather have their own narraw selfish interests at heart; and that they have for a long time now been using scary boogeyman "enemies" or "scenarios" to frighten us into docile submission to their minority dictatorial rule (because they are presented in their propaganda media as the ones who will save and protect us from the scary boogeyman enemy or scenario). If you'll read the fully-referenced essay provided above then you'll be able to see that for yourself.
In addition to the essays provided above I also respectfully request that you please read this very wise fully-referenced essay by the brilliant pulitzer prize winner journalist Chris Hedges that sheds much needed light of what is happening in the west today (including on the sham billionaire’s “elections” we just head) where he describes in detail how the billionaire ruling class operates and the two right-wing capitalist billionaire factions of the ruling class (in the DNC and GOP) who are currently fighting among themselves to decide who will be the top dog who will dominate humanity and reap all the benefits of enslaving the 99%. See here https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-choice-this-election-is-between
The nature of the two factions of the elite, as described so skillfully in that essay, really should be basic knowledge for all americans, becasue there is so much mislabelling of the elite's factions that are fighting for supremacy among themselves and so much misunderstading of what is actually going on, misunderstanding which is fully capitalized upon by the both factions of the ruling class and their propagandists to sell us their fake narratives as if this or that faction of the billionaire's elite is on the side of the people. Really a very important and highly recommended essay.
I would also highly recommend this profound essay by the very wise and insightful Caitilin johnstone that skillfully breaks down both the trumpism and anti-trumpism echo-chambers (or 'reality filters') that we're funnelled into by the billionaire ruling class. Half the population into this echo-chamber and half into the other, and pitted against each other by the ruling class and their propaganda media, to make sure we are identified with one or the other of the billionaires' factions, with one or the other of their puppets that they allow us to choose between in their sham ruling class "elections" https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/both-trumpism-and-anti-trumpism-are
IMHO, americans are being profoundly propagandized, emotionally-manipulated, kept ignorant (of the empire's global mechinations), distracted by the partisan theatre and directed to fight over the question of what should be the color of the shoes of the person who rapes, plunders, enslaves, exploits and mass-murders humanity, should it be red or blue? That's the only question we get to have a say over in the american billionaires' sham "elections", to decide over the color of the shoes of the global murderer, thief and rapist. Not whether the murder, theft, enslavement and rape should take place, that's not within the realm of allowed "debate" in the billionaire-owned propaganda media, but only whether he should wear red or blue shoes as he rapes, plunders and facilitates billionaires' domination over humanity..
We're propagandized, deceived and distracted into fighting over which of the billionaire's right-wing representatives we prefer to lead the global capitalist militarized empire and its plunder, mass-murder and rape of life on earth to enrich the few ultra-rich and cement their domination over life...
TRUMP AND HARRIS ARE TWO FACES OF THE SAME GLOBAL CORPORATE-CAPITALIST BILLIONAIRE'S MILITARIZED EMPIRE, THAT TURNS THIS PARADISE PLANET INTO A DIVIDED WARRING HELL, TO BENEFIT NO ONE BUT THE CONTROL OF A FEW ULTRA-RICH OVER HUMANITY AND THE PLANET'S RESOURCES.
Yes, they have differences in temperament, one is a psychologically-undeveloped wounded narcissist bully and the other deceptively speaks of compassion and caring, but beyond their differences in temperament, both of their administrations acted in almost identical ways when it comes to securing the narrow selfish interest of the few ultra-wealthy and the control of their global corporate-capitalist empire over humanity and the planet's resources
Both trump and harris continued 99% of the pro-empire pro-billionaire global terror, plunder, mass-murder and "great reset" domination policies of their predecessors. Yes, despite the massive and intense QAnon/MAGA marketing deception that falsely sells trump as "anti-elite rebel", trump's admin was NOT a deviation from these policies, but a continuation of them. If one looks at his ACTUAL actions (not the fake narrative that was carefully crafted around him but his ACTUAL actions) then it's plain to see. And yes, despite the propagandists in the billionaire's DNC media selling us the corporate-capitalist pro-war pro-empire pro-billionaire pro-C.I.A pro-Wall St pro-Big Pharma right-wing democratic party as supposedly more compassionate and caring, if one looks at the ACTUAL actions of the administrations headed by a capitalist right-wing DNC appointees then it is clear that they are just as murderous as conservatives are and work just as much as conservatives to advance the narrow interests of the ultra-rich corporate-capitalists and their domination over life on earth.
BTW, if there's an interest, I wrote a bit about how the capitalist billionaire's global empire functions (regardless of whether it is the empire's liberal or conservative in the white house) here https://substack.com/home/post/p-150090964
The entire corporate-capitalist two-party system (the two factions of the ruling class) is corrupt to the core and is not here to serve life but only to serve psychologically-undeveloped unconscious Loveless capitalist billionaire abusers (both democrat and republican)
Here are a couple more detailed and fully referenced research essays that will show you exactly who are the ruling class abusers (anti-life selfish billionaire abusers whom you were taught to adore in the manipulative DNC billionaire's echo-chamber as if they are here to protect you from dangerous diseases and as if they have your well-being at heart). See https://www.pdrboston.org/mass-murderers-our-leaders
And see here exactly what are the values that guide most the non ruling class have-nots, and what are the values that drive the ruling class assholes (which you were taught to believe are here to protect your health and that they have your best interests at heart) see https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/the-fundamental-conflict-in-world
And see here for a list of atrocities committed by the billionaire-ruled capitalist american authorities (by both factions of the ruling class, by both democrats and republicans) against americans as well as abroad (the same authorites that you are taught in the clueless and manipulative DNC echo-chamber that they are here to protect your health and well-being) https://dessalines.github.io/essays/us_atrocities.html
There are numerous more research papers i could give you that show you in detail the nature of the people and institutions that you are taught (in the deceptive corporate-capitalist billionares' DNC echo-chamber) are here to protect your health, I could literally fill up an entire book with that, but instead I will arbitrarily stop here and will direct you to my profile page if you wish to learn even more about this, besides the mountains of evidence already provided here (and in my earlier reply to our friend above)
I respectfully ask that you please do read these profoundly wise and important essays that i provided here, read them attentively and sincerely (which means, read WITHOUT wearing the hostile glasses/filters that your echo-chamber taught you to wear and that will prevent you from truly taking in the profundity and gravity of what you are reading)
Space here is finished. Please see continued in part 2 below
Thank you William. May I ask if you are speaking from personal experience because you yourself live in China or in Russia?
May I also ask if you actually read the profound research paper that i linked (which includes full citations and sources) which details at depth exactly HOW and WHY the ruling class play the boogeyman enemy trick on humanity? Here it is again https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies
IMHO this is a MUST READ for every human on the planet who wishes to understand exactly how we are being played and for what end.
And by the way, as the essay shows, it is not only western billionaires who play this trick on the people, but the ruling classes in other countries also play this boogeyman enemy trick on people there.
As one example, both the ruling classes in china and usa use each other as boogeyman enemies to scare their own populations (of the "evil monstrous scary enemies over there who want to hurt our great nation") in order to cement their hierarchical control over their own people and ensure their position at the top of the pyramid (the essay shows exactly how the boogeyman trick helps the ruling classes - in all countries - cement their control over the people).
It is worth noting that the billionaire ruling class across the planet are NOT nearly as divided as we are, and very VERY often cooperate and work together to divide us to further their own shared class interests (again, the essay shows exactly how dividing humanity and keeping us in an eternal state of hostility and war, how this serves the narrow interests of the billionaire ruling class, and why the do everything possible for that divided warring state to never end. Their very existence depends on keeping us in the state forever)
Using each other as boogeyman enemies to scare their respective population into obedience and to incite tribalist hatred of "those evil people on the enemy side" is but one example of how the ruling classes of different countries work TOGETHER to divide us.
Nationalist-religious division, fear, hatred and violence is only for the propagandized 99% of humanity, not for them. They are not divided as we are because their class interests are identical (to make sure the planet's wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, and that the few ultra-rich dominate the many).
One way they accomplish this is by dividing us and pitting us against each and creating boogyman enemies to scare us with so that we do not rebel against their exploitation and domination over the 99% and so that we cling on to them (the billionaire ruling class in each country) to protect us from the evil minstrous scary enemies over there who are coming to get us. Because it is the billionaire ruling class (or more accurately, their paid representitives in parliaments) who deceptively present themselves as the ones who will protect "the people" from "that evil monstrous scary enemies over there who seek to hurt you for no reason other than they are evil people. But don't you worry, we, the patriotic billionaires, really really love you and really want to protect you from that evil monstrous scary boogymsn enemy who is coming to get you. You just need to be sure to keep us in power (which we use to trasfer society's wealth to the ultra rich) and don't rebel and topple us, so that we can protect you from that evil monstrous scary enemy that is coming to you".
Each ruling class in every country tells this story (through the billionaire-owned propaganda media) to their own people. Each ruling class presents to its people the otyer ruling class as evil monstrous scary enemies who want to hurt "our great nation". It's the exact same trick that the ultra-rich in every country play on the people in every country. Full details and numerous examples in the essay i gave you.
If you have indeed read the essay and find something inaccurate about the facts it points out then i'd be curious to learn what that is, if you'd like to share.
Lastly, the first post on my account elaborates on the exact cold war dynamics that the ruling classes are engaged in (especially in the second half of the post) for their own narrow benefit, and for the devastation of the rest of humanity. You're welcome to read it, if there's an interest.
If you build it, they will come, but this is no Field of Dreams, The majority of humans on this planet would prefer cooperation. There is no shortage of food, just mainly distribution problems created out of the greed of a few. Most want to protect this rare and precious planet, Most recognize that we live in a symbiotic system and harming it rather than respecting it, is close to causing our extinction, Most want to be healthy , educated, and happy. How does our species continually believe the lies of the few greedy that believe in profits over people? How many really believe war is an answer? Yet here we are again, and again, and again. I had a high draft # for Vietnam. One of the very few times misogyny worked in my favor.
Have you talked to any Russians lately about their “special military operation?” The ones who are not scared to talk will give you an earful about Ukrainians punishing ppl for talking Russian, or Nazis (like Russian speaking, Jewish Zelenski !) who run the Ukr Gov, etc. Pure propaganda, because if you say anything else, off you go to a penal colony. How likely is it that we will long avoid a war with the bullies and imperialists who run Russia? We’d better get ready, because just like Americans in the 40’s, our wish to live in peace and friendship with others is not a decision we alone get to make.
As much as I have at times warned my fellow Kiwis here in New Zealand that if we continue to worship at the alter of the Transatlantic Imperial Bankers Empire we will end up handing over our kids in exchange for letters in the letterbox to go be cannon fodder for our financial masters, I hoped like hell I would be wrong, but here we are, going to hell in a handcart.
Just wow.
Please Dennis keep up your great work for good exposing this Transatlantic Imperial Bankers Empire for the evil it is.
"Years ago I had a conversation with then-Vice President Biden, who mused, painfully, about his own sons’ lives potentially being at risk in combat. His deep love for his sons is reflective of all Americans’ love for their children.."
'Reflective'? Maybe,.. except in biden's case, just like all other politicians, they pass laws full well knowing they'll use their tremendous influence to keep their own children out of uniformed service.
"Those parents and grandparents with a first-person understanding of the human cost of wars in Vietnam and Iraq may have a powerful aversion to exposing their children and grandchildren to deadly conflict, unless there is a direct threat to the territory of the United States."
Not at all a description of our US government representatives. They have no aversion at all, because it aint their kids going.
"Ukraine understands the price paid for war, having lost hundreds of thousands of its courageous sons and daughters in the ongoing war with Russia."
Zelensky does NOT understand the price paid for war; He has rejected (at the behest of the West) each and every entreaty for peace negotiations on the part of Russia since the start of this 'war', that was provoked by Ukraines' apartheid, and then genocide of Russians in the Eastern Ukraine, since the US invasion in 2014. This slaughter of the Slavs is blood on his hands.
Sir, You are being far too obliging to your pending colleagues; and as a US military veteran, and the mother of a 25 year old son, I resent it.
Rather than see your sons serve as cannon fodder and come home in a body bag, l would recommend conscientious objection as a response to this insanity. War serves no purpose whatsoever !!
Yes, I'm sorry. These tales are nothing new, as you can tell. I don't know how far forward the plans can be carried without much change, but the "3 world wars" thing apparently really does go back to the 1800s. I have seen it forever.
just the mention of ‘a draft’ to fight illegal wars…
certainly not brilliant thinking… but…
i cannot think of a better way to turn several generations of our youth against current corrupt politicians and government with it’s growing participation in current illegal wars…
i also remember how the last draft brought the younger generations into the streets in huge droves…
with their justified rage against that particular corrupt and heinous government…
Required yes but the onus remains on the individual to actually register. Automatic registration, however, would be new. No individuals would be required to do anything - except perhaps die when called to serve.
Every male is sent a letter when he's 18 to register for the selective service. It says that if you don't, you don't qualify for federal student aid or loans, nor can you ever get a government job. So those who want any of that, sign up. So the middle class college boys. The rest ignore it. Now, the database will include everyone, not just our educated males. This is good for those who followed the rules, reduces their chances of being called up.
Thank you for explaining this! I've been trying to figure out why this is different. I knew every 18 yo male was already required to register, but I didn't know it was just a requirement for financial aid / certain jobs. This definitely changes things.
I wonder if the automatical process will account for medical conditions or other prohibitive factors or how that will be handled.
Big difference between being registered with Selective Service and being "automatically conscripted" -- or drafted -- into military service. There are and have been many exceptions/exemptions to being drafted
Even in the Vietnam War you had to register with the draft when you turned 18. It was not automatic. Don't you think this should be announced to the American people rather than buried in a bill? Why do you suppose it was quietly buried? Why do you think the draft was ended after Vietnam and an all professional military was created? Without any price to be paid by Americans (no risk of death, no increased taxes), wars are more easily swallowed. Why do you think that Biden, Blinken, Sullivan, Kriby, Jean-Pierre, Miller, Patel and others always lie to us when addressing the war in Ukraine and Gaza? We no longer have a democracy. it's dead. We are ruled, censored on the internet, spied on. The CIA interfered with the 2016 and 2020 elections. Mainstream media is now the propaganda outlet for the government and each outlet has a go to person to "leak" stories to.
There will be little resistance this time because they have spent decades deliberately making young peoples living lives a miserable one and removing expectations of any kind of future. The road to WWIII was paved with “Learned Helplessness”.
Dennis, I have been writing here about climate change for three years. We are quickly heading for world resource wars. It seems likely to me that's why Biden has allowed Netanyahu to commit genocide in Gaza, and arm it. Consolidating allies for what is to come. Consider the upheaval on the way. Mexico City is on the verge of running out of water. India is experiencing temperatures over 120° F. Land is burning up. Crop failures are inevitable. This is the new world rolling out before our eyes.
Also, there's going to be insane competition for "resources" in the Arctic as it melts, and they become accessible. I uncovered a lot of military reports for this article. I can't prove it, but it all fits together.
Kissinger “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.”
Kissinger was correct in his assessment, but what a dreary and destructive way of viewing our role on Earth, devoid of recognition of her limits or a greater vision of our potential.
The registration of American young men in Selective Service has been going on since 2001. Nothing new here -- except using misleading information to gin up some anger!
Hmm. some anger ginned up sounds healthy - given the USA's provocative aggressive actions and intentions to encircle China - literally - and stuff a wet blanket down their creative and highly productive chimney....how stupido another Iraq type military attack, only this time with much much bigger game...China. Thanks to the likes of Jake Sullivan and that knave hobbled with zero diplomatic skills - American Zionist King Blinken.... inducers of forever wars while our bridges collapse and our homeless population overshadows our urban centers..Not to mention limp dick climate amelioration...Anyone read the most recent marine tests indicating very high temperatures for our oceans? No mind. Just make sure all our young men get that exciting experience that their Ukrainian counterparts have been getting, lost arms, legs, wake up screaming....or, dead.
And blown to pieces in a damp, dirty and rat infested trench. The world is living in a time warp, just waiting for the insane marauders ready to destroy the world for their own evil destiny of population decline.
Yes, it was different, but the overreach was still there.
When my son turned 18 in 2003, he received a mailing from the Selective Service System stating that “Men 18 through 25 years old are require to register.” Following that: “It’s the law. Failure to register is a felony and may result in up to $250,000 in fines, up to 5 years imprisonment or both.” The mailing had his full name, address, social security number and date of birth. Of course, he registered and was never notified of anything after that. I don’t see a substantial difference between “automatic registration” and the system that existed in 2003. The US Government knows who and where you are regardless.
But all this is beside the point made by Kucinich, who has mischaracterized Selective Service registration as a “Draft”. Having lived through the Vietman War era as a draft-age man in the 1960s, I well understand the difference between being registered with the Selective Service and being “drafted” -- meaning being involuntarily conscripted into military service.
Kucinich has mischaracterized Selective Service registration as “the draft” to make the false point that Biden is preparing to send our young men and women to war. That’s deceptive fearmongering. K’s words: “They’re now going to take our children to fight in unnecessary, destabilizing, dangerous, debt-creating wars.”
And “Greetings to Young Americans: You are Automatically Registered for the Draft Conscription without Representation? Where and WHY are we sending our Kids to War?”
Vincent, You are mincing words. IS FOREIGN NATION DRAFT OF US SOLDIERS FOR ITS MURDER PROGRAM NORMAL? From the perspective of young people as sacrifices for Zionist fake-'Money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') Oligarch slaughter of many millions in the Middle-east, Kucinich is right on the mark. 10s of 1000s of US slaughtering-soldiers have been used for Zionist destabilization & impoverishment of Christian & Muslim neighbours as well as overthrowing sovereign nations worldwide, without any justifiable reason, over 100s of years. Here's a summary of Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie's experience with AIPAC CONTROLLED COWARDS IN ALMOST ALL OF CONGRESS 3m49s
Who’s funding AIPAC’s Political Spending Barrage? AIPAC superPAC + United Democracy Project UDP + Democratic Majority for Israel DMFI On Pro-Israel Politicians Tech Industry Founders, Republican, 50 Megadonors listed /c companies by Donald Shaw & David Moore on Global Research 5Mar’24 & Sludge 4Mar’24 https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/whos-funding-aipacs-political-spending-barrage
No, Vincent is not mincing words. As several people have pointed out the registration of 18 year olds is required by law and has been for a long time. It is a felony (carrying a stiff fine and ramifications about future jobs) if you do not register.
This bill puts the responsibility to register back on the government, not the 18 year-old. That is all it does.
If you want to complain about the military/industrial complex and AIPAC writing bills, I hear you, but this particular amendment is not the place to fall on your sword.
CALLING OUT THE UNIVERSAL SOLDIER FOR WHAT 'HE' REALLY IS
In human Psychology, INTELLECTUAL-COWARDICE often has more pull, than physical-cowardice, hence soldiers would rather be killed in a senseless war, than be embarrassed to have revealed they have submitted & are living by our fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') Oligarch system of dependence & lies. In our fake Oligarch system, the higher up one goes, the more dependent one is. Jeffrey Epstein as an Oligarch puppet, used sexual-compromise & reputation-fear to control $$ vulnerable Politicians, Bureaucrats & Business-people into Oligarch agenda.
"I can imagine a fully armed man to be at heart a coward. Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not cowardice. But true non-violence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness." Mohandas Gandhi in Harijan, 15-7-'39, p. 201
Hence most soldiers, who refuse to challenge Oligarchy $$ & politicians, intellectually, are cowards as are the greater part of the Mainstream war & inoculation compliant population.
All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors cultivated COUNCIL-PROCESS or Both-sides-now, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues as a regular popular process among all, before the last 7000 years of Babylonian & Phoenician (Kingdom of Israel + City-states of Tyr, Sidon, Byblos & Beirut) Empire brutality & genocide. Council-Process dialogues create communication for understanding, Constructive Agreements, articulation of Contracts & for Conflict Resolution. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
Then again its up to us adults, to make sure our easily impressionable young men & women are not sacrificed by the Oligarchy which pilfer & run our planet. We need to offer young people good jobs among ourselves, ownership, as well as a decisional voice in their future.
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Agree with everything you said, but the discussion was about whether or not the amendment to the bill was a call to war or simply a way to keep 18 year-olds from unintentionally becoming felons.
I was diagnosed by a psychiatrist as mentally unfit for service in 1969 because I said that, faced with the prospect of taking another human life, especially someone whose country I had invaded, I would probably kill myself instead. I reasoned that if I killed another it's a burden I'd carry with me my entire life, whereas if I killed myself, whatever happens after that, it would be over and done. Considering the fact that all wars are simply to serve the ruling elite, in this case the corporatocracy that runs our country, and the millions of PTSD cases out there, I stand by my decision.
Thank you Steve Doll for being "Mentally fit" to serve humanity but not murder! This does bring up some interesting 'Right-&-obligation-to-Protect-the-innocent' situations. Probably most Americans Dem&Rep would feel justified to kill a whole platoon of 'foreign murderers', but would they recognize their fellow US soldiers as 'foreign murderers' in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya etc where there were no "weapons of mass destruction" except in the minds of our Zionist Oligarch rulers. We have killed & genocided so many 100s of millions of innocent women & children yet continue to support our sick $$ captured genocidal government representative. It typically takes a couple of years for 50% of every generation of soldiers to realize how they've been lied to & everything they believed was false & opposite, only to 'carry this burden of being murderers for their entire lives'.
ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY was the system of empowerment employed by all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors to maintain sovereignty in the hands of people locally. Real Democracy also includes universal individual business ownership & empowerment in the specialized Domestic, Industrial & Commercial Production-Society-Guilds as well as use of time-based, equivalency accounting on the once worldwide String-shell Value System (eg. Wampum on Turtle-Island, Quipu in S. America, Cowrie in indigenous Celtic & Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
Forget all the other WMD's, including the farcical nuclear race. Money and the motivation behind it to acquire it at any cost is the most destructive force ever conceived by humans. The essential difference between it and all the others is, like religion, it is born totally of the whole cloth of imagination and continues its power through misinformation, fear, and ignorance of its true nature.
PEACE AS 'ECONOMY' (Gk. 'oikos' = 'home' + 'namein' = 'care-&-nurture')
Hey Steve, I agree with you about Oligarch top-down, centrally issued fake 'MONEY' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory'), in fact 'Amnesia'. Most people without digging deep into understanding, are at the point of rejecting human 'memory' of each other's contributions, tragically. I'm 60 years of my 71 years involved in 1st Nation & worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') solidarity, working & living with folks & absorbing what I can. All indigenous humanity's worldwide String-shell is a system of 'memory', accounting celebration & reflection for the contributions, experience, expertise & decision-making acumen, which flows therein. String-shell systematically integrates 'Capital' (L. 'cap' = 'head' = 'collective-intelligence'), 'Currency' ('Flow' or 'recognition for exchange'), 'Condolence' (Social-security in all forms), Collegial mentored-apprentice 'education' (L. 'educare' = 'to-lead-forth-from-within') Credit, time-math Communication, professional Costume for recognition of essential service expertise etc. into one integrated accounting cycle. Such recognition-accounting, celebration & reflection enables people to make wise decisions together as complementary parts of a whole. String-shell is issued from the Bottom-up in each collective Domestic (mostly women), Industry & Commerce (mostly men) sector of 'economy'. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
Each specialized labour or profession is organized in progressive-lifelong or career-long ownership in Production-Society-Guilds. With each person invested, decisional & responsible in his or her specific profession as part of the whole, then decision-making is confidently delegated to each level of expertise. I know the success of progressive-ownership, from having helped implement Multistakeholder Participatory investment, ownership & Board Representation in industry & commerce.
Participatory Companies http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/7-participatory-companies
Rateable Corporations (eg. 'B' corporations) https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/3-rateable-non-profit-corporations
We can understand from reading various sources of history, how 7000 years ago in Babylon, oligarchy & a sect took centralized control of the issue of metal-coin fake 'money', which ceased to have 'Community' (L. 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service') memory for each person's contributions. Hugely important was the loss of recognition for the Domestic economy (mostly women) as the core of 'economy' & community intelligence, particularly starting in the ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). The primary task of men & women should be about recognizing, accounting-for & empowering collective Domestic labours & professions. Organizing ourselves Culturally is far better than waiting in line in inappropriately scaled & detached institutions where people don't know who we are or at the Old-Folks Homes.
BODY AS A MODEL FOR SOCIETY'S INTEGRATED 'ORGAN'IZATION
The mathematics of organization & governance in indigenous society is based in cultural 'fractals' ('fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole'). One can compare this fractal organization with the autonomous organization of the genes, cells, tissue & organs of the human & other animal bodies. Economic Memory with bodily autonomy. Modern neurology has established how each part has both neurons, memory, intelligence & the autonomous mandate to act with their specific knowledge. The brain is considered as one of several body Nexus for the inter-communication of these events & coordinated action by the whole body, often well after the fact. The stomach for its integrated body nourishing functions, has more neurons than the brain. The body is synonymous with the body-politic or society at various levels. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/3-economic-memory
Without-memory being amnesia, Oligarch rulers imposed centralized linear centralized controls in a whole range of business & government activities, which has led to our present terminal stage war & ecological destruction, pushed by this same lineage of oligarchs.
Alice's Restaurant 🎶 Goodonya.
Sadly, Alice just passed away yesterday, ironically just before Thanksgiving.
Yes-I heard! I play that song every turkey day!
I was too young but remember telling my parents I would serve but not kill. "I'll drive a truck or something."
It should be an option.
It is in many countries where all serve.
You were young, but light years ahead in wisdom.
" I believe it is honorable, a sacred obligation, to serve in defense of one’s country". Mr Kucinich opines.
NOBODY has a a sacred obligation to serve in the defense of one's country, especially as none of the wars since WW2 have been 'defensive'.... all have been offensive, mostly based on a pack of lies from the President, Congress or both.
Even if the war is 'defensive' every individual has the right to be a conscientious objector, to refuse the morally government sanctioned demand to kill another human being, without being persecuted for 'cowardice'.
In the event of a re-introduction of the draft, I hope all within the proscribed age range do everything in their power to avoid any form of service in the military.
All War is Failure. We need to stop rewarding Failure. That’s how Failure stops.
It may well be failure to you, but tragically, to the arms merchants, war profiteers and oil barons who run this place, it’s their bottom line!
Umm the civil war was worth it, the Revolutionary war was worth it
The Civil War was a result of the inability of the north and the south to come to an agreement on the declaration of independence. During the declaration of independence, they failed, as in failure, to come to an agreement on whether or not we should get rid of slavery. so they put that issue aside and worked together to do the declaration of independence. That failure to come to an agreement led to the Civil War. Also known as, failure.
The Civil War was more about economics I believe. The rest came as a result.
Slavery was all about economics, particularly for the South.
It was about basic rights! Property rights!
Sadly, all wars are bankers wars.
This nation has a psychopathic mindset. Obviously anything to enrich the treasuries of the oligarchs, even sending unwilling men and women to be used as cannon fodder. Witness the forced conscription policy of Zelensky , increased age to 50 years old I believe . They think as little of those sent to die for $$$ enrichment or fanatical right side extremism (see neo nazi fascism) . This mandated conscription shit needs to be vigorously opposed in every way. The oligarchic rulers are pressuring our cowardly institutions to do their bidding toward the same mass death and destruction outcome they need to maintain control.
I keep advocating this. Watch YouTube channel Pavlo from Ukraine,see how many fit young men of fighting age have bought exemption certificates.
Reply to Percy Groinbrush (below), Thank you for standing up for conscience.
All war is 'Intellectual Cowardice'. actually a condition of fear of SUZERAINTY, which is a position of control by a sovereign or state over another state that is internally anonymous or hidden.
All humanity's once worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') COUNCIL-PROCESS CP prescribes Both-sided, Equal-time, Recorded & Published FORMAL DIALOGUE exactly during times of incomprehension or disagreement. Because these puppets, follow the instructions of their Oligarch owner, campaign financiers so pervasively, they conspire with everything they have to shut you down. They don't have the confidence in their oligarch indoctrinated truths & therefore with Cowardice try to keep all of us & your wonderful voice on all our behalf silent. I was raised in a family with regular frequent equal-time formal family 'debates' (French 'de' = 'undo' + 'bate' = 'the-fight'). I feel nourished & intrigued by the parallel minds of friends, family & even adversaries, because they provide a real view of part of humanity's common mind whether in loving capacity or Oligarch controlled psyche. In your ongoing work & Presidency, I hope restimulating the processes of 'Dialectic-Right' to raise issues & be heard with our fellows (Socrates), 'Satyagraha' (Hindi 'Truth-Search') of Mohandas Gandhi & ultimately restoring the CP of all our indigenous ancestors & 1st Nations here will be one of your ongoing accomplishments. BOTH-SIDES-NOW is a simplified process, which we use to help people engage in CP. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
Mohandas Gandhi stated, "Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Non-violence & cowardice go ill together. I can imagine a fully armed man to be at heart a COWARD." Gandhi is speaking here to the intelligent mind of the soldier as an active contributor to his or her community, society & ultimately to the international conversation of war & peace such as Social Media might afford today if converted from Mono to Dialogue? as westerners failed in stimulating around our travesty in Libya? https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-communication-converting-social-media-from-mono-to-dialogue-libya
That's true. It is absolutely an honorable and sacred obligation to serve in defense of one's country. As a white man, please let me know what country is mine and prioritizes my interests... because it sure as shit isn't the United States.
You’re right.
As a white man, this isn’t your country.
This is injun territory that’s been stolen by white men who committed genocide against the indigenous population.
Stolen? Nah, not at all. Conquered. Conquered by heroic pioneers who drove out the barbarians so they could establish a land of Liberty for all civilized peoples.
Barbarians???
Don’tcha mean savages???
Almost genocided, just like the bison.
The way I see it, anybody that celebrates/venerates that kinda shit, has a few screws loose.
Liberty??
For whom???
The original USA plan, said only a propertied white man can have constitutional rights.
And, it’s goin’ downhill insteada increasin’.
Maybe someday you’ll actually have to exercise one or more of them rights listed in that bill of particulars, and you’ll discover that it’s actually only a list of temporary privileges, that can be taken away.
Just ask the American Japanese in World War Two.
Or any brown colored American CITIZENS after that false flag nine eleven.
Or a white woman in Florida who says deny, defend, depose on the phone the a CEO.
If you actually believe that you have liberty in the USA, you’ve been had by Bernays.
The red man’s been done dirty, and that ain’t justice or liberty.
That’s theft, mass murder, and true barbarity.
Conquering is a piss poor substitute for peacefully coexisting.
The redskins offered it, but the white man lied, and took their land and their lives.
Where I come from, that ain’t right.
I guess I just don’t have no admiration for conquering heroes.
I’m more inclined towards peacemakers and creators, insteada takers and destroyers.
And, this continent was a paradise before ole whitey arrived.
Now it’s mostly a mall and a landfill.
I realize that ya can’t halt progress.
But, I sincerely believe that we coulda blunted its worse aspects, if we woulda coordinated/cooperated with, and learned from, our red brothers and sisters.
The USA has spent its existence burning up the beautiful resources that were stolen from the indigenous peoples, and now we spend a trillion fortunes goin’ around the globe, tryin’ to steal everybody else’s shit.
The jig is up.
Thirty five trillion +++ dollars in debt, and the world is going tied of our shit.
Our credit is shot.
The earth has grown weary of our nonstop war makin’, what some might call conquerin’.
And, now we’re conscriptin’ our kids???!!!
Maybe they don’t wanna be conquerers.
Maybe they’d prefer just bein’ brothers and sisters, and live long enough to be moms and dads, and neighbors, and friends instead of foes.
I don’t know, but it seems so.
How do I know???
Cause the guvamint can’t fit enough kids to volunteer to die and kill, so they’re gonna draft ‘em and compel ‘em against their wills.
Don’t sound like liberty to me.
Sounds similar to nazi Germany.
How about,
PERMANENT CEASEFIRE NOW???
Heroic conquest by heroic men. Victory of civilization and peace over simplicity and savagery.
Peace???
The USA is nothing more than perpetual war.
Savagery is what the “S” in USA stands for.
“S” for simplicity would be a welcome change of pace in this shithole, shit show crime, posing as a country.
The USA will perish friendless, by its own words, works, and deeds.
If you aren’t as successful as you thought you would be as a white dude in America, then there is absolutely no one to blame but yourself or perhaps your parents. Just because untethered misogyny and racism isn’t an available tool for white guys to be successful doesn’t mean America is against white men. It means white guys finally have to earn their place in society. Pretty easy to understand if you have any moral compass or even a bit of education. The oppression of others is what starts wars and genocide. And the right wing has convinced the white American man that without preferential treatment they once were given, they are not able to achieve anything. A level playing field has to be defeated in order for white male Americans to maintain control.
Why are losers like you such hateful bigots? You're on the wrong side of history and you know it. Evil prejudiced hateful monsters like you will be eliminated from our society and the earth salted so you can never again spread your message of hate and violence.
That is comical. The bigots were just elected into office. None of them self-made. Trump nearly lost all the money he inherited (would have done just as well by parking it in the stock market). The prejudice is coming from inside the Trump administration. And if you think the billionaires are thinking about your small life, you are the useful idiot they count on to make their money grow. Good work
A violent extremist like yourself does not deserve to live in a civilized society. Why are you so full of hate? Why do you insist on being on the wrong side of history? Stop spreading hate and misinformation... being a horrible wretched loser doesn't pay off. Better yourself. Educate yourself.
No more 👎 wars for Greater Israel & Jewish Supremacy.
It's not Jewish supremacy. It's zionist supremacy. Judaism is used as a front by zionists to justify colonisation and terrorism
The Jewish Talmud says different.
It is the Jewish state of Israel, not the Zionist state of Israel.
Bottom line, Israel has to go bye bye.
It’s a crime impersonating a country.
Revelation 3:9
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie
Kazarians are to Jews like how Mafia is to regular Italians.
From a little more readable translation,
“Look! I will make those from the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, but are not, but are lying—“
Both versions say the same thing, but I found the one you used harder to parse.
In this case, “lying” includes those who don’t realize what they say is false. Satan loves to convince people that they are doing God’s will, while doing the exact opposite. See: evangelical support for Trump. The master Deceiver, his methods on clear display. Flood the field with manure, bury the truth. Make it struggle to be heard.
They're our most reliable and best military ally in the world. Jewish Supremacy. Why aren't you out smashing the windows of delicatessens?
I think the crew of the U.S.S. Liberty who survived and the families of those murdered on that ship by that "ally" might think differently.
You know what? I haven't looked into that. I will.
You definitely should look into it. It was during the 1967 war. The USS Liberty was a spy ship, clearly marked as American and with a massive American flag flying off the rear. Israeli fighters were flying planes from which the identifying marks had been removed. They flew over the USS Liberty all day, some of the sailors recounting that they flew low enough to wave to. Then the pilots were told to start attacking the Liberty after Israel jammed the radio frequency making it impossible for the Liberty to issue a distress call. The sailors on the liberty were able to get a signal and sent out a distress call. Johnson immediately ordered two rescue ships to go to their aid. Before reaching the Liberty it was confirmed that the attack had come from Israel. When Johnson learned it was Israel who’d attacked he ordered the rescue vessels to turn around, leaving our sailors to die. I believe Israel also attacked with naval vessels, shooting up the lifeboats, and attempting to kill the sailors trying to reach the remaining lifeboats. Many US servicemen died that day and even more were injured. Israel was unsuccessful in sinking the Liberty, an attempt to hide the evidence. Those servicemen have never received recognition and some have stated that they were forbidden to discuss it. One sailor had been on deck filming when the attack began. The film was confiscated and has never seen the light of day.
The theory has been that Israel hoped to create a false flag operation, blaming Egypt for the attack, thereby drawing the US into the war. Israel has tried time and again to draw the US into war with Iran, which would certainly not be in our best interests. They pushed hard for the wars with Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel wants hegemony in the ME and has no concern for the best interests of US. They have spied on us, sold the technology that was developed with US taxpayer money and given to them by the US. Israel isn’t a true ally to anyone. Their exclusive interest is in themselves and they will take advantage and double cross anyone to achieve their goals. Research JFK and Israel’s promises regarding nuclear weapons. Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat to peace in the ME and responsible for any nuclear proliferation in the area.
That's life when you are another country's "bitch". Does ANYONE still believe the USA is not totally Zionist occupied? Anyone who will study 19 and 20th century history will see this pattern repeated again and again...
The Balfour Declaration itself supports and confirms your assertion. Humans are able to rationalize nigh-anything to not see this for what it is.
Thank you, Kathleen, for this historical reminder. It was hazy in my mind & I didn’t remember the details so I had to look it up. It is yet another horrid travesty.
And -"Adjusting for inflation, US aid to Israel from 1951 to 2022 totaled $317.9 billion, making it the largest recipient of American foreign aid since World War II.” And another $18 BILLION + from the U.S. to Israel for this current horror.
We have been sending Israel BILLION$ for YEARS. Yet, stateside, we have homeless—amongst the homeless are our veterans; we cannot help our students with school loans...
And why do we continue funding when the majority of American people do not want their taxpayer dollars going to kill children & families!
And what about Israel giving money (our money) to Hamas for years?
"Israel tacitly encouraged Hamas to stay in power…” NYT
https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-security-forces-escorted-suitcases-cash-hamas-qatar-report-2023-12?op=1
Israel drove suitcases of cash to Hamas
https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-security-forces-escorted-suitcases-cash-hamas-qatar-report-2023-12?op=1
“Israel approved millions to Hamas to keep Gaza stable"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-approved-millions-in-monthly-payments-to-hamas-for-years-to-keep-gaza-stable-report/ar-AA1lhyxu
How does ANY of this make sense?
It's well worth looking into, and I will. My instinct is that you're right. If you are, I can't defend it, though I can understand it. I remember The Six Day War. In late May/early June, it looked very much as though Israel faced extinction. Ask yourself what you might be willing to do if you thought your life might depend on it. This is a fallen world, and we are a species which has been known to eat its dead children to stave off starvation.
I'm 72, and consider myself to be of that first generation which had to grapple with the fact of the Holocaust. ( My criterion for membership in that club is that one must remember when Eichmann was tracked down, and I do. ) Human life is individual, not corporal, still, we don't flinch from talking about "Japanese war crimes" or "Irish ruthlessness," and if you've known Holocaust survivors, which I have and which I gather you haven't, your reservoir of what you will give sanction to in Jewish behavior will be huge. Whatever crimes Jews have committed against non Jews can't begin to compare in numbers with the crimes which non Jews have committed against Jews.
No sane country is ever at the behest of another, and that isn't what an alliance requires, anyway. I ask you to remember that Islamicists want you dead only somewhat less than they want Jews dead. From you and possibly me they might accept a meek surrender to dhimmitude, it's true, but I personally would prefer death.
Your idea that Israel's possession of nuclear weapons is the greatest threat to Middle Eastern peace strikes me as so perverse I can't see that I should address it.
I'm a Christian, worship the King of the Jews, and see anti - Semitism as demonic. Romans 9 - 11 should annihilate any trace of anti - Semitism in anyone who takes it as Holy Writ, which, of course, I do.
I'd kindly suggest laying off the western imperial kool aid. Absolute nonsense, with all due respect. I've travelled across Muslim-majority countries and not only did nobody try to kill me (shocker) but they welcomed me at every turn. I'm about the most white, western looking guy you can think of. Or is this all part of their dastardly plan too? 🤦🏻♂️
I am 71. I am horrified by the Holocaust, that it was allowed to continue for so long. There’s no justification for genocide either in law or morality. I oppose antisemitism as I oppose any form of racism or prejudice.
Where we part company is your assumption that having suffered a holocaust the Jewish people, though I would differ and say Zionists, get a pass for atrocities against others because the numbers of victims is less. No individual and no state or non state actor has permission to inflict harm on others. The holocaust was horrific and a blight on humanity. The current genocide in Gaza is also horrific and a blight on humanity. There a reason that genocide enjoys NO JUSTIFICATION in law, because there simply is no justification for committing that level of death and destruction of another people. By your logic, any group who’s suffered a horrible crime has the right to inflict the same or a lesser crime against others. That puts the lie to “never again”. If the world ascribed to your logic revenge would be allowable and all international law would be out the window resulting in chaos and survival of the wealthiest and strongest. That’s not a world that many of us would choose to live in.
Your racism towards Muslims, lumping them all into radical islamists, is very offensive. Every religion has extremists. They don’t represent the entire religion. Hitler was a Catholic but I don’t think any sane person would suggest that he represents all Catholics.
I wouldn’t expect any country to bow to the US, though we do hold many countries hostage through financial aid, etc. We routinely exert undue pressure on other countries to garner their vote at the UN, etc. I dispute Israel’s status as our great ally because of their killing of Americans, some executed, with no accountability. Their willingness to violate US imposed sanctions, selling arms in violation of US prohibition, never honoring the boycott of S Africa during apartheid continuing military cooperation and arms sales. Since George W’s administration they have pushed for bunker buster bombs to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, lobbied hard to avoid the deal with Iran which allowed for monitoring of Iran’s nuclear program and provided our best chance to avoid a nuclear Iran. They know that if they manage to start a war with Iran we’ll be forced into the conflict. It’s one thing to put your country’s needs first, it’s another to try to drag another country into a conflict that definitely not in their best interest.
If you lived in the other Middle East countries, knowing what Israel has done in the last 75+ years with full US support and political cover, I think you’d be uncomfortable. Israel has committed targeted assassinations of many Iranian nuclear scientists, cyberattacks, and the recent bombing of the Iranian consulate in Syria. They routinely bomb Syria, a sovereign nation (regardless of what you may think of them), in violation of international law. With such a ruthless neighbor it’s not a surprise that other countries would seek nuclear deterrence.
Why are White nations being targeted for destruction? And by who?
“I keep six honest serving men, they taught me all I knew. Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.” - Rudyard ...
crushlimbraw.blogspot.com
What say we broaden the perspective by asking questions?
Why is this happening?
https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2024/06/why-are-white-nations-being-targeted.html?m=0
Look at Tom’s Substack by Tom Calabretta, June 3, 2024. He writes a great synopsis of events as an eye (or rather “ear”) witness to the liberty fiasco. He was at US radio station and received and forwarded the Liberty’s distress call to Washington DC during the event. He is nonjudgmental, but there were troubling details regarding the US response and also Israeli participation. Don’t miss it.
Can you tell me if any Israel’s fought during the war of terror? Netanyahu wanted Saddam and Gaddaffi gone, but Israeli troops got to stay home and watch Americans die. Some ally.
I'm not sure what to make of this. As for the War on Terror, George W. Bush is a war criminal and an idiot. Cheney, Wolfowitz, Condoleeza Rice and the others are only war criminals.
A superficial take. For example, 9/11 and 10/7 are mirrored events, blatant false flags allowed/abetted/assisted and perhaps outright planned by the “victimized” countries in order to justify the subsequent power and land grabs.
10/7 was not a false flag. N.S. Lyons' Substack has an analysis of the Israeli security failures which made the attack possible. It isn't paywalled. Read it. Israel was vulnerable not because its security was too simple but because it was too complex.
As I read it, I couldn't help admiring Hamas' ingenuity in figuring out that they could breach the surveillance with Big Box store - level supplies. Evil, evil, evil, but very clever.
Again, read it. It will alter your superficial take.
I have little but contempt for the intelligence and decency of people who think 9/11 was a false flag. Do you realize what monsters our leadership, our military, and our intelligence people would have to have been to have done that? George W. Bush waved off an intelligence briefing he was given in the summer of 2001 that Al Qaeda was planning a big terror strike in the United States. He told the C.I.A. intelligence officer, "Okay, Skippy, you've done your job. You can get your butt out of here now."
Bush is a dullard and a 77 year old rich brat. You can't impeach a President for policy failure, though.
You're another useful idiot for anti Semitic propaganda. Tell me, please, what "land grabs" have the Israelis made?
Two words: Operation Northwoods.
In your mind all land Israel occupies belongs to them, so he cannot prove there were land grabs to you.
https://open.substack.com/pub/nevertrustawizard/p/before-you-argue-with-a-zionist?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1onmwi
Today, rich israelis with double passports can live in comfort outside israel , in florida for example like netanyahus son, and cheer on the genocide from afar
I was just looking this thread over and was stopped cold by the comment: please tell me that you do understand that for most of their history, the modern Israelis have been the primary target of the terror war. You do get that, right?
The United States first real experience of Islamic terrorism was the bombing of Pan Am 103 in December, 1988. I do not count the attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 or 1984 as a domestic terror attack. Our military was on Middle Eastern land.
By comparison, google the following:
post 1970 islamic terror attacks on israel
Reliable ally? They are making a laughing stock of the US around the world, as Biden feebly pretends to plead with israel, which israel ignores, the US presents an ISRAELI ceasefire proposal which israel denies and refuses to support - a farce if it weren’t so tragic for the Palestinians. Israel us dragging the US into shame and ignominy, and the world is soon to witness the shameful spectacle of the US congress applauding wanted war criminal netanyahu in its congress
And I believe it won’t get any better with Trump. If current policy enriches the MIC. Joe’s all for it.
Nice, when are you signing up?
That shouldn’t stop you if you really cared. The other Zionist regime in Ukraine 🇺🇦 has sent people with special needs to die on the front lines.
Fighting these forever ♾️ wars in the Middle East has gotten us nowhere and $35T in debt. We weaponized the dollar and that has backfired. No one is suggesting turning on Jews rather suggesting not supporting the Zionist regime… there a big difference although you prefer to conflate the two.
Not sure if you are paying any attention to the UN voting but supporting this Zionist regime, now has us completely isolated.
Yeah but just think how much money defense companies made and then shared with their shareholders and pilfered back into conglomerates wallets.
"Zionist" is just a euphemistic way of saying that you want to finish the job Hitler started. Think, please: you hate God's chosen people, the people who gave us the Savior, The Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Jews.
The Devil's own. Sleep well.
Israelis are the people who gave the world a livestreamed genocide, starvation, atrocities against trapped civilians - depraved, sadistic nazis. Justice will come, a good day for humanity today with the ICC arrest warrants fir netanyahu and galant
Twisted. And you know it. To borrow Sheldon Vanauken's phrasing, corruption is never involuntary. The Lord God Incarnate, Jesus Christ, is among other things The King of the Jews.
Jew hatred is a virus of the soul, carried by demons. Repent. Jesus live, died, and rose again for you. Read Romans 1 - 5.
Not sure if you've ever paid any attention to the Bible, and to be candid, am pretty sure you have not. I worship the King of the Jews, and see anti - Semitism as the demonic thing which it is.
If you can have witnessed the nightmarish eruption of open anti - Semitism in the last eight months and be oblivious to the evil which it is, your spiritual perceptiveness is dull, indeed. Read The Gospel of John and The Epistle to the Romans, paying special attention in the latter to chapters 9 - 11.
Genesis 12:3 has not been abrogated. It's far safer to be isolated because of our advocacy of Israel than to get crossways with God. Are you aware that the Bible prophesies that in the last days the entire world will turn against Israel? Are we in those days? I think we are in a prelude to them, and things are likely to get only worse.
The nightmarish eruption is the nazi/zionist israeli holocaust of Palestinians over the past 13 months. All the hallmarks of nazism - supreme race, brutal sadistic inhuman cruelty to other human beings, land theft for expansion- AND the israels as willing executioners just as in nazi germany. zionism is pure nazism.
You're sc*m, the Devil's own.
At 72 and severely disabled since childhood, not anytime soon. For what it's worth, I'm America First, too, and part of that is recognizing that we need allies. I hope to live to see the ninety million Iranians who despise the mullahs get rid of them.
An America/Israeli/Iranian alliance would be highly likely to happen, and if you want peace, you should hope it does. There is an Iranian born Londoner, Mahyar Tousi, whose YouTube channel, TousiTV, I urge you to have a look at.
I would have hoped that Globalism's clear pro Hamas affinity would have convinced guys like you that "Jewish Globalism" is a lunatic fever dream. In any event, I believe Genesis 12: 3.
Huey Long didn't live to see World War II. He was shot in 1935. A reporter once asked him what he thought of the Nazis.
Long, not verbatim, but close: "Study history. Any nation which turns against the Jews gets destroyed."
Why do you need a "reliable ally". Youre surrounded by thousands of miles of ocean. Cowards
Always good to hear from an America hater. Did you make this comment in 1898?
They have worked with and armed Mexican drug cartels infiltration of US markets.
Proof, please.
Did you know they also drink the blood of Christian children?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/07/mexico-cartels-drugs-spying-corruption not a mistake. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-30-mn-1305-story.html old but historic precedent. This is around the same time Israel was supporting Hamas as the only viable leadership in Gaza as a hedge against the leadership in the West Bank. Many have a tough time spiritually separating disparate Jewish peoples around the world from Israel proper, yet conflating them helps no one. Mossad is everywhere, whether you wish to believe it or not. And I’m sure none of this is state sponsored... https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-30-mn-1305-story.html Take care
Israel under Netanyahu is not a reliable military ally. They have become a nasty bunch of Nazis who have forced America to become complicit in their genocidal land grab. You mention Kristallnacht. What about Gaza and Southern Lebanon? We’ve gone way beyond broken windows in delicatessens now!
The invocation of Naziism is the lowest of blows, and you lowlifes all know it.
https://original.antiwar.com/matthew_hoh/2024/11/20/stare-into-gaza-the-horror-was-not-what-i-expected/
Sadistic depraved society
Men from the age of 18 through 25 or 26 have always been required to register with Selective Service, that doesn't mean that there will be a draft. Only that everyone eligible will be registered if a draft is needed. Senior year in high school many of the older boys had to register. I remember seeing the posters which said "a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do." And I thought, wow, we need a men's movement. Imagine if there was a poster that said "a Black's gotta do what a Black's gotta do, " or "A Gay's gotta do what a Gay's gotta do." Our society places no value on men, only as utilitarian pawns in their international chess game.
And women's value, apparently given the Supreme Court, is determined by marriage making babies...otherwise there this " third quarter of 2020 (the most recent national data), women in the United States earned 30% less than men and that pay gap increased with age. "(census.gov)
Oh dear, don't draw me into this debate. You will lose. Here is a stat for you: "Similarly, women made up 8.1 percent (445) of all workplace fatalities" So, let's see, men make up almost 92% of workplace fatalities. And a similarly high percentage of workplace injuries, which may be serious, disabling, and eventually lead to premature death. Why don't women break the glass ceiling of workplace death and start dying in equal numbers?
And do you want to talk about abortion? Because, if I am the father, and let's say I want to keep our child, and even if I'm willing to raise the child as a single dad parent, the woman is like "my body my choice, I'm a gonna kill it." But suddenly, let her decide to have the child, and if I am the father and don't want the child, I will have to pay child support for 20 years, suddenly, it is the father's responsibility and his doing that this life came into existence, and the father is on the hook. I've known guys who had to spend time in jail due to delinquent child support-even guys who were earning a poverty level pay, and the mother earned six figures and had a new husband who earned a lotta cash.
Yeah, don't draw me into a debate on the value our society places on men, vs. the worship it heaps upon women, because I will win. Although I love women, I am right about this. Thanks.
Speaking of abortion and women's rights, where are the so-called right-to-lifers when it comes to their 18-year-olds? Do you see any of them at anti-war rallies, or are these just for the leftists and subversives? They'll die defending the right of the fetus to be born, but wave the flag of perpetual, profit-driven war in front of them and all of a sudden they are uber-patriots, sending these same precious lives off to kill and/or be killed in the name of the freedom of the banks and war profiteers to further gouge the taxpayer. If there's anything unfettered capitalism and blind, unquestioning faith breeds, it's hypocrisy.
I don’t think any party is particularly anti-war
What a horrible statement. There are too many women to count who are America first conservatives who hate abortion and war. That’s why we’re voting for Trump. Only candidate in my memory who I trust in both issues. Don’t kill children, don’t send them to war. Period.
Because Trump has such obvious respect for women. Uh huh.
Speaking as a man of long-standing (61 years), I'll go to my grave convinced we are by far the worst of the two genders and deserving of limitless contempt.
I agree with your point about the draft, though. I registered when I turned 18 and so did my son. I'm not sure that this 'auto draft' increases the risk for a war. After all, the US has been fighting someone somewhere virtually my entire life...including the years after the draft was no longer mandatory.
You are a gem of a man, imho, & definitely not worthy of infinite contempt, as are so many wonderful men who have given their lives to love & support their families, their friends, their nations. Even the majority of those who died in the wars most never understood!
But you are also correct that the majority of the violence on our Earth has beed committed
by men, conceived by men, enabled by men.
But it is not completely their fault, it is the fault of the twisted & abusive cultures that raised them & took advantage of their natural instincts of aggression to protect themselves & their loved ones. The culture that also raised them with violence, humiliation & psychological abuse & sent them off to be cannon fodder for the "King's" wars of aggression. To dig down deeper into how humanity & children & men & women hot into
this mess read "Saharasia" by James DeMeo, PhD.
Boys raised in Peaceful, Matriarchal societies are completely different. Violance against women, child sexual abuse & violence & war basically did not exist.
The work on Bonobos & Chimpanzees also tells us that peace & plenty brings more peace & plenty, while lack creates aggression & war like behaviors.
One single generation raised without violence & suffering breaks the cycle, which is why in my opinion, the demons are busy warmongering one more.
Blessings to you, and remember, many of us girls really, really love you boys!
Speak for yourself re: men. Its viewpoints like yours that allow young men to be considered as disposable as they are treated.
Thanks, I will.
This sounds like cope, though. Maybe if you would try to debate and not talk about you. Also, there's a low level percentage of men who raise their children alone without women in their lives (thanks to the USA experiment we have that data!) and that is not because social laws. It's because your male biology. You lack what women have in the field of child rearing, biologically. And that's why every government use men and not women as cannon fodder. Do not need to say anything about my personal relations with people around me to talk about why things are the way they are.
Not sure I am speaking about my personal relationships. I am speaking generally, although I mention someone specifically who spent time in jail due to lapsed child support, he's not the only one. It is just more glaring an example because of the financial disparity.
Nevertheless, you open a new can of worms. Nobody today can say what is a woman. You have to be a marine biologist to determine that. Male biology and female biology is now the same. Men have periods. Women have beards. The progressive agenda blurs that line, so your thoughts about male biology are antiquated, quaint, and irrelevant.
Hello buddy. Again, it's not about you. Also we as a human race know what is a woman. Some of our governments don't, but then the governments are not real either. If human males were biologically intended to care for the young they would not have male sexuality strategy: to make as much children as they can. This is why guys have unlimited amounts of sperm and don't go into menopause as women do. There's no solution to that evolutionarily sexual strategy in humans and if you want to change men in that regard, well, then you're clearly talking from the same social constructivist culture, and you're the same as the people who pretend they don't know what a woman is.
Really?
I've been alive for 79 years and never had any doubt whether there is any blurring of the line between male and female. One simple has to look and experience the difference between the male and female 'naughty bits' which conveniently fit together so nicely and pleasurably.
I've never had a period, nor have I had a relationship with a woman who sports a beard.
I think your can of worms is a disinformation fantasy that need to be kept closed.
You’re conflating sex with gender.
What an utterly facile comparison. I hope the next woman you say that to has a blunt instrument near at hand, but instead kicks you in your balls and tells you off while you’re writhing on the floor.
I'm not American but I remember when Carter reinstated draft registration. It was in response to the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. At that time 19 and 20 year olds had to register (there had been a lull for several years post Vietnam). But then as time progressed millions and millions of young men simply didn't bother registering. Did this affect their future in terms of say, not being able to get a government job? In any case, lack of registration was never enforced. This bill automaticallly registers the young. Not sure if this is simply a way of streamlining a system that wasn't working or is there's something more sinister at play?
Have you been to a local Registry of Motor Vehicles lately?
Non American here. And way too old. Is the vehicle registry an automatic draft reg for the 18-26 set?
Poor, poor men. So oppressed.
She’s not your “dear”, patronizing asshole.
But why are you trying to win? Differing opinions are not about competition, they are just that differing opinions. If you are the only one who determines whether or not you win, does that man you’ve won? If 10 other people disagree and say you’ve lost does that mean you’ve lost?
Also individuals need to be more mindful of who they have children with. There are consequences to our actions and those actions should also be considered within a society that has the laws that it does around children. Too much reckless sex as if by now people don’t know that semen in a vagina can lead to pregnancy.
Oh what a fun Thread this these mortals weft & weave with ?
I pretty much have concluded don’t argue - save my energy - we ‘ve destroyed the planet / we’re all going to HEDouble Hockey Sticks
Zoomer women make more than men (our potential draftees here). Sorry burst your boomer feminist take.
This has been debunked forever
What crock!!!!
Imagine that
For what Evil is trying to run our Country, if I were these young people, I would refuse. These scum trying to run our Country need to be put out there.
I also thought this law was already on the books. I am very concerned about the direction our government is taking us, however.
My body. My choice. In all matters. For everyone.
That is not how it is in Britain. We are all freeborn. But some plummy voices Tories are talking up conscription+ we know every British Prime Minister loves to suck off whichever human spawn of Satan occupied the White House since 1990. I'm sure Sir Never Here is particularly adept.
Yup I signed up but I left the state for college in Chicago - then my dad And I both received notice notices / No Thank You - you’re ineligible
“Always”? Not quite. Selective Service registration wasn’t required of me, because I was born before 1960.
Now it is automated. You won't have to go do it. It is done FOR YOU.
Here is exactly the reason why the ruling class foments constant conflict and war, and why they MUST always have us fearing and hating an 'evil enemy' (who the scary enemy happens to be can change from generation to generation, but what doesn't change is that the ruling class ALWAYS have a scary boogeyman enemy ready for us to be afraid of and hate (and cling on to them - the ruling class manipulators - to protect and save us from the scary monstrous evil enemy who wants to hurt us for no reason whatsoever, simply because they're evil...) https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies
In my view, this is a MUST READ for every human on the planet, and especially for Americans. If we were all aware of the trick they're playing on us then it wouldn't work for them anymore. So please read this profoundly important essay (that provides full citations and sources) and please share it so that the majority of us wake up to their manipulative tricks on us, and no longer fall for their propaganda. This is when their jig will be up and the ground ready for true change.
Americans crapped their pants over a respiratory infection and tossed out their last remaining rights along with soiled undies. Convince minds like that that they're being tricked?
I hear you, fully understand the frustration and truly thank you for caring. I don't know what else can one do other than try one's best to bring this to humanity's attention so that we may change course through greater and deeper awareness of how the ruling class operate and of the mechanisms they use to maintain their domination over us and profit off of us, such as, for example, the ownership of, control over and manipulation of the flow of information, in order to both affect our psychology as well as keep us ignorant of (and so, not challenging) the stratified unfree nature of our society and economy (detailed in the link I shared above, as well as in this profound and insightful essay https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/why-have-no-rich-and-no-poor).
In my understanding and study of history, this (bringing these things to light and helping people become aware of the nature of the ruling class' control over us) is the factor that historically has lead to change, but of course I could be wrong about this. If there is a better course of action then I'd definitely like to know about it 🙏
When you say humanity, you mean the whole world? My disdain (vs. frustration) I aim solely at "Americans."
One cannot continually laud oneself as "free and brave" and then behave in exactly opposite ways and 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 a person of integrity. Or a country remain free. And that has zero to do with "the ruling class." That has to do with character.
Thus, what the vast majority in this country revealed was their character -- not their lack of knowledge. Oh, maybe that, too, but bottom line? The country got presented with a fundamental question -- one that defines what it means to be American -- and it failed spectacularly. The "shining city on a hill" got an F- -- if that's possible.
I've said elsewhere that Sep 11 was the first test of the 21st century, which Americans failed. The COVID Operation was their final exam...and they failed that, too.
Had the majority acted as our "Marketing" department continually advertises, this latest, most grievous crime would have had nowhere to go...In standing for freedom, vs. trading it for "safety," the people would have saved themselves...and possibly the whole world.
I fully understand and appreciate what you are saying. Thank you for sharing that. From my perspective (which is of course only partial, and therefore limited, as all prespectives are), it seems to me that the question of character is indeed an important and fascinating one, however it seems to me that the character factor comes into play only AFTER a more fundamental issue, and I will explain what I see as the most fundamental issue and why I think that the question of character can only arise AFTER the fundamental issue.
In my understanding, the fundamental issue is having access to CORRECT INFORMATION regarding what is actually happening (and derived for that, having an understading of what prevents our access to correct information. Which means, having an understanding of how the dominant narrative (what we believe to be happening) is constructed, and by whom, and for what reasons
After all, if two people (for example) cannot even agree that they are talking about the same reality, if they don't even have a shared understanding of what the course of events actually is, what reality is, then obviously the question of what to do in relation to reality doesn't even arise, because they don't even have a shared understanding of what reality is, of what is actually happening, so how can they even discuss what to do about the state of affairs, when they don't share the same understanding of what the state of affairs is.
That is why access to CORRECT INFORMATION (knowing what is the truth regrading what is happening, knowing what the reality of the situation actually is) is the most important and fundamental, IMHO
In my understanding, the question of the different character of people only comes into play once the two people are at the stage of deciding how to respond to reality, right? Only then you can talk about their different characters (and like or disdain their characters). But they cannot even reach this stage of deciding how to respond to reality if they don't even have access to CORRECT INFORMATION and don't have a shared understanding of what reality is, if they don't have a shared UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING.
Let me give you an example that might make this clearer. Or actually, lets take the example that you gave, your desdain for the character of some or most americans. I fully understand your desdain, however, surely you can see that the way people responded to a situation (for example, the scamdemic), was based on their UNDERSTANDING of WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING, WHAT REALITY ACTUALLY IS (An understanding that you don't share, and I don't either). In a moment I will say where their (false) understanding came from, and why I see this (the understansding one has of what is actually happening, what reality is, and how this understanding is manipulated) why I see this as the most fundamental issue, but before i get to that, lets first go to the example i started giving, becasue i think it can clarify things.
I think it is important to understand that everyone (including those who we think are very wrong) do what seems the most rational and beneficial from their perspective BASED ON THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS HAPPENING. No one is intentionally evil or bad. Even hitler or stalin did what they thought was the most beneficial BASED ON THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY. From their perspective, and from the perspective of many americans during the time of the so-called pandemic, they were acting in the most rational and beneficial way possible BASED ON THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS HAPPENING.
For example, if you knew with 100% certainy that a room that you usually enjoyed being in (and that you also used as a short-cut to get from one section of a building to another section) if you knew that this room is now filled with poisonous gas, you would obviously avoid going into that room, right? Even though doing so diminshes from your freedoms and creates a lot of inconvenience for you. You would avoid it because YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY is that going into that room severely threatens your life, your very existence, and being alive comes before any temporary diminishment of freedom or inconvenience. You would do this becasue you are acting in way that you believe is most rational and beneficial based on YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS HAPPENING.
Now lets say that later you found out that your previous UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY was wrong, and that the room was actually not filled with poisonous gas at all, even though you thought that it was. You thought that it was becasue you were given INCORRECT INFORMATION about the situation by certain authorities (who told you that it was filled with poisonous gas and that it would be lethal to go in there). And you believed those authorities becasue you had NO AWARENESS of the power relations in society and you had NO AWARENESS that those with the power (ruling class) are very often dishonest and make things up in order to make you scared and further their agenda of more easily dominating the non-ruling-class, dominating those who are not in position of authority and power (domination and power over others from which the ruling class derive many numerous perks, including control over the flow of information and the ability to declare what is the reality of a situation). You had NO AWARENESS that the ruling class (those who hold the power in society) do NOT have your best interests at heart (even though they tell you they do, especially before elections) and that they are working to further their own narrow interests, not yours (as detailed in the profound essay that i shared in tne previous reply). You had NO AWARENESS of any of that, and that ia why you believed them and avoided going into the room, even though in reality there was no poisonous gas in the room.
Now please tell me, in this example that we just described, what is THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE at play here? Is it that you have a character flaw? Is it that you gave up certain freedmos in an irrational way becasue your character is flawed? Is this what actually happened here? Or is it that the MOST FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE at play here is that you had access to INCORRECT AND DECEPTIVE INFORMATION (you were presented with a false depiction of reality) + you had NO AWARENESS of the manipulative nature and of the agenda of those whom you believed to be giving you correct information.
Isn't this the most fundamental issue at play here?
What kind of character you have is a factor that doesn't even come into play here, because your character only matters when you are presented with a situation where there is some room for manouver, but here there was no such question at all, you were plainly told that you would die if you enter that room (if you don't temporarily give up your freedom of movment in order to stay alive). And you believed their assertion because you had NO AWARENESS of how those in power operate, and so you had NO AWARENESS that they might be lying to you, that they might be pushing certain agendas and that it is likely that they are being dishonest with you.
So the fundamental issue here is clearly NOT what kind of character you have, but rather it is the LACK OF AWARENESS of how power operates, the LACK OF AWARENESS that the ruling class in power always trick the have-nots this way. If you had this AWARENESS then you wouldn't have fallen for it, you wouldn't have unquestioningly accepted their DEPICTION OF REALITY, OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING.
So I hope it is clearer and makes more sense now why I said earlier that in my view, the fundamental issue here is one of AWARENESS and UNDERSTANDING of how the ruling class functions.
The question of character only arises if there is lack of certainty about the level of lethality of the gas in the room (should i give up my freedom of movement and inconvenience myself in order to keep safe and not die, or does the level of lethality of the gas in the room not justify such giving up of freedom?), but if you believed that going into the room means certain death (becasue you were NOT AWARE of the manipulative nature of the ruling class who informed you about the situation and described reality to you) then the question of character does not arise at all. You would simply avoid the room, you would react in the most rational and beneficial way you can think of based on the access INCORRECT INFORMATION that you had, and based on your UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE REALITY OF THE SITUATION IS.
Thank you for your attention.
Here again are the two very important and highly recommemded essays shared earlier
https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies
https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/why-have-no-rich-and-no-poor?
How does trying to inform people of the dangers of an infectious disease inform the interests of those doing the warning? If the warners are lying to serve their own interests, as you falsely believe, how does that benefit them?
I suppose you also think the 1918-1920 flu pandemic was also a hoax. And the Black Death in the mid-1300s, for that matter.
Hi there. Thank you for this response. If I may say so, I do fully understand where you are coming from (because i also used to inhabit that same place/echo-chamber, I will say more about this in a moment). The space for a response here is quite limited so i had to divide my response into two parts. Please see part 2 immediately below here. This is part 1:
Before I reply directly to your question, may I first ask if you read the profoundly important research papers (which include full citations) that I shared in my reply above? If you still haven't then please do so becasue these papers beautifully illustrate with numerous examples that the corporate-capitalist billionaire ruling class (and their paid narrative managers in their disinformation corporate propaganda media) are LYING to us constantly, and that - contrary to your learnt belief system- they do NOT have our best interests at heart, but rather have their own narraw selfish interests at heart; and that they have for a long time now been using scary boogeyman "enemies" or "scenarios" to frighten us into docile submission to their minority dictatorial rule (because they are presented in their propaganda media as the ones who will save and protect us from the scary boogeyman enemy or scenario). If you'll read the fully-referenced essay provided above then you'll be able to see that for yourself.
In addition to the essays provided above I also respectfully request that you please read this very wise fully-referenced essay by the brilliant pulitzer prize winner journalist Chris Hedges that sheds much needed light of what is happening in the west today (including on the sham billionaire’s “elections” we just head) where he describes in detail how the billionaire ruling class operates and the two right-wing capitalist billionaire factions of the ruling class (in the DNC and GOP) who are currently fighting among themselves to decide who will be the top dog who will dominate humanity and reap all the benefits of enslaving the 99%. See here https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-choice-this-election-is-between
The nature of the two factions of the elite, as described so skillfully in that essay, really should be basic knowledge for all americans, becasue there is so much mislabelling of the elite's factions that are fighting for supremacy among themselves and so much misunderstading of what is actually going on, misunderstanding which is fully capitalized upon by the both factions of the ruling class and their propagandists to sell us their fake narratives as if this or that faction of the billionaire's elite is on the side of the people. Really a very important and highly recommended essay.
I would also highly recommend this profound essay by the very wise and insightful Caitilin johnstone that skillfully breaks down both the trumpism and anti-trumpism echo-chambers (or 'reality filters') that we're funnelled into by the billionaire ruling class. Half the population into this echo-chamber and half into the other, and pitted against each other by the ruling class and their propaganda media, to make sure we are identified with one or the other of the billionaires' factions, with one or the other of their puppets that they allow us to choose between in their sham ruling class "elections" https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/both-trumpism-and-anti-trumpism-are
IMHO, americans are being profoundly propagandized, emotionally-manipulated, kept ignorant (of the empire's global mechinations), distracted by the partisan theatre and directed to fight over the question of what should be the color of the shoes of the person who rapes, plunders, enslaves, exploits and mass-murders humanity, should it be red or blue? That's the only question we get to have a say over in the american billionaires' sham "elections", to decide over the color of the shoes of the global murderer, thief and rapist. Not whether the murder, theft, enslavement and rape should take place, that's not within the realm of allowed "debate" in the billionaire-owned propaganda media, but only whether he should wear red or blue shoes as he rapes, plunders and facilitates billionaires' domination over humanity..
We're propagandized, deceived and distracted into fighting over which of the billionaire's right-wing representatives we prefer to lead the global capitalist militarized empire and its plunder, mass-murder and rape of life on earth to enrich the few ultra-rich and cement their domination over life...
TRUMP AND HARRIS ARE TWO FACES OF THE SAME GLOBAL CORPORATE-CAPITALIST BILLIONAIRE'S MILITARIZED EMPIRE, THAT TURNS THIS PARADISE PLANET INTO A DIVIDED WARRING HELL, TO BENEFIT NO ONE BUT THE CONTROL OF A FEW ULTRA-RICH OVER HUMANITY AND THE PLANET'S RESOURCES.
Yes, they have differences in temperament, one is a psychologically-undeveloped wounded narcissist bully and the other deceptively speaks of compassion and caring, but beyond their differences in temperament, both of their administrations acted in almost identical ways when it comes to securing the narrow selfish interest of the few ultra-wealthy and the control of their global corporate-capitalist empire over humanity and the planet's resources
Both trump and harris continued 99% of the pro-empire pro-billionaire global terror, plunder, mass-murder and "great reset" domination policies of their predecessors. Yes, despite the massive and intense QAnon/MAGA marketing deception that falsely sells trump as "anti-elite rebel", trump's admin was NOT a deviation from these policies, but a continuation of them. If one looks at his ACTUAL actions (not the fake narrative that was carefully crafted around him but his ACTUAL actions) then it's plain to see. And yes, despite the propagandists in the billionaire's DNC media selling us the corporate-capitalist pro-war pro-empire pro-billionaire pro-C.I.A pro-Wall St pro-Big Pharma right-wing democratic party as supposedly more compassionate and caring, if one looks at the ACTUAL actions of the administrations headed by a capitalist right-wing DNC appointees then it is clear that they are just as murderous as conservatives are and work just as much as conservatives to advance the narrow interests of the ultra-rich corporate-capitalists and their domination over life on earth.
BTW, if there's an interest, I wrote a bit about how the capitalist billionaire's global empire functions (regardless of whether it is the empire's liberal or conservative in the white house) here https://substack.com/home/post/p-150090964
The entire corporate-capitalist two-party system (the two factions of the ruling class) is corrupt to the core and is not here to serve life but only to serve psychologically-undeveloped unconscious Loveless capitalist billionaire abusers (both democrat and republican)
Here are a couple more detailed and fully referenced research essays that will show you exactly who are the ruling class abusers (anti-life selfish billionaire abusers whom you were taught to adore in the manipulative DNC billionaire's echo-chamber as if they are here to protect you from dangerous diseases and as if they have your well-being at heart). See https://www.pdrboston.org/mass-murderers-our-leaders
And see here exactly what are the values that guide most the non ruling class have-nots, and what are the values that drive the ruling class assholes (which you were taught to believe are here to protect your health and that they have your best interests at heart) see https://johnspritzler.substack.com/p/the-fundamental-conflict-in-world
See here on who ACTUALLY rules america (including the institutions that you were taught are here to protect you from diseases) https://www.pdrboston.org/who-rules-america
And here on how fake is american so-called "democracy" and who ACTUALLY runs the government institutions and for whose benefit (clue, it isn't for your benefit) https://www.pdrboston.org/proof-we-have-a-fake-democracy
And see here for a list of atrocities committed by the billionaire-ruled capitalist american authorities (by both factions of the ruling class, by both democrats and republicans) against americans as well as abroad (the same authorites that you are taught in the clueless and manipulative DNC echo-chamber that they are here to protect your health and well-being) https://dessalines.github.io/essays/us_atrocities.html
There are numerous more research papers i could give you that show you in detail the nature of the people and institutions that you are taught (in the deceptive corporate-capitalist billionares' DNC echo-chamber) are here to protect your health, I could literally fill up an entire book with that, but instead I will arbitrarily stop here and will direct you to my profile page if you wish to learn even more about this, besides the mountains of evidence already provided here (and in my earlier reply to our friend above)
I respectfully ask that you please do read these profoundly wise and important essays that i provided here, read them attentively and sincerely (which means, read WITHOUT wearing the hostile glasses/filters that your echo-chamber taught you to wear and that will prevent you from truly taking in the profundity and gravity of what you are reading)
Space here is finished. Please see continued in part 2 below
Do you mean the respiratory infection that killed 1.2 million Americans?
Try living in an actual authoritarian country like Russia or China. You’ll find they are not bogeyman stories.
Thank you William. May I ask if you are speaking from personal experience because you yourself live in China or in Russia?
May I also ask if you actually read the profound research paper that i linked (which includes full citations and sources) which details at depth exactly HOW and WHY the ruling class play the boogeyman enemy trick on humanity? Here it is again https://www.pdrboston.org/oppressors-need-bogeyman-enemies
IMHO this is a MUST READ for every human on the planet who wishes to understand exactly how we are being played and for what end.
And by the way, as the essay shows, it is not only western billionaires who play this trick on the people, but the ruling classes in other countries also play this boogeyman enemy trick on people there.
As one example, both the ruling classes in china and usa use each other as boogeyman enemies to scare their own populations (of the "evil monstrous scary enemies over there who want to hurt our great nation") in order to cement their hierarchical control over their own people and ensure their position at the top of the pyramid (the essay shows exactly how the boogeyman trick helps the ruling classes - in all countries - cement their control over the people).
It is worth noting that the billionaire ruling class across the planet are NOT nearly as divided as we are, and very VERY often cooperate and work together to divide us to further their own shared class interests (again, the essay shows exactly how dividing humanity and keeping us in an eternal state of hostility and war, how this serves the narrow interests of the billionaire ruling class, and why the do everything possible for that divided warring state to never end. Their very existence depends on keeping us in the state forever)
Using each other as boogeyman enemies to scare their respective population into obedience and to incite tribalist hatred of "those evil people on the enemy side" is but one example of how the ruling classes of different countries work TOGETHER to divide us.
Nationalist-religious division, fear, hatred and violence is only for the propagandized 99% of humanity, not for them. They are not divided as we are because their class interests are identical (to make sure the planet's wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, and that the few ultra-rich dominate the many).
One way they accomplish this is by dividing us and pitting us against each and creating boogyman enemies to scare us with so that we do not rebel against their exploitation and domination over the 99% and so that we cling on to them (the billionaire ruling class in each country) to protect us from the evil minstrous scary enemies over there who are coming to get us. Because it is the billionaire ruling class (or more accurately, their paid representitives in parliaments) who deceptively present themselves as the ones who will protect "the people" from "that evil monstrous scary enemies over there who seek to hurt you for no reason other than they are evil people. But don't you worry, we, the patriotic billionaires, really really love you and really want to protect you from that evil monstrous scary boogymsn enemy who is coming to get you. You just need to be sure to keep us in power (which we use to trasfer society's wealth to the ultra rich) and don't rebel and topple us, so that we can protect you from that evil monstrous scary enemy that is coming to you".
Each ruling class in every country tells this story (through the billionaire-owned propaganda media) to their own people. Each ruling class presents to its people the otyer ruling class as evil monstrous scary enemies who want to hurt "our great nation". It's the exact same trick that the ultra-rich in every country play on the people in every country. Full details and numerous examples in the essay i gave you.
If you have indeed read the essay and find something inaccurate about the facts it points out then i'd be curious to learn what that is, if you'd like to share.
Lastly, the first post on my account elaborates on the exact cold war dynamics that the ruling classes are engaged in (especially in the second half of the post) for their own narrow benefit, and for the devastation of the rest of humanity. You're welcome to read it, if there's an interest.
If you build it, they will come, but this is no Field of Dreams, The majority of humans on this planet would prefer cooperation. There is no shortage of food, just mainly distribution problems created out of the greed of a few. Most want to protect this rare and precious planet, Most recognize that we live in a symbiotic system and harming it rather than respecting it, is close to causing our extinction, Most want to be healthy , educated, and happy. How does our species continually believe the lies of the few greedy that believe in profits over people? How many really believe war is an answer? Yet here we are again, and again, and again. I had a high draft # for Vietnam. One of the very few times misogyny worked in my favor.
"I had a high draft # for Vietnam. One of the very few times misogyny worked in my favor."
Women were given draft numbers in the Vietnam era?
we still had birthdays... so luckily being female meant we didn't get drafted.
I see, ok, thanks
No
Anti-hip , No. #’s were given depending on your date of birth. According to my DOB, had I been male, I would have gone. Sorry for any miscommunication
56 billion dollar pay package to Elon Musk. That’s some pretty convincing speech from a corporation “person”
Have you talked to any Russians lately about their “special military operation?” The ones who are not scared to talk will give you an earful about Ukrainians punishing ppl for talking Russian, or Nazis (like Russian speaking, Jewish Zelenski !) who run the Ukr Gov, etc. Pure propaganda, because if you say anything else, off you go to a penal colony. How likely is it that we will long avoid a war with the bullies and imperialists who run Russia? We’d better get ready, because just like Americans in the 40’s, our wish to live in peace and friendship with others is not a decision we alone get to make.
Most Ukranians are Azov Nazis
As much as I have at times warned my fellow Kiwis here in New Zealand that if we continue to worship at the alter of the Transatlantic Imperial Bankers Empire we will end up handing over our kids in exchange for letters in the letterbox to go be cannon fodder for our financial masters, I hoped like hell I would be wrong, but here we are, going to hell in a handcart.
Just wow.
Please Dennis keep up your great work for good exposing this Transatlantic Imperial Bankers Empire for the evil it is.
"Years ago I had a conversation with then-Vice President Biden, who mused, painfully, about his own sons’ lives potentially being at risk in combat. His deep love for his sons is reflective of all Americans’ love for their children.."
'Reflective'? Maybe,.. except in biden's case, just like all other politicians, they pass laws full well knowing they'll use their tremendous influence to keep their own children out of uniformed service.
"Those parents and grandparents with a first-person understanding of the human cost of wars in Vietnam and Iraq may have a powerful aversion to exposing their children and grandchildren to deadly conflict, unless there is a direct threat to the territory of the United States."
Not at all a description of our US government representatives. They have no aversion at all, because it aint their kids going.
"Ukraine understands the price paid for war, having lost hundreds of thousands of its courageous sons and daughters in the ongoing war with Russia."
Zelensky does NOT understand the price paid for war; He has rejected (at the behest of the West) each and every entreaty for peace negotiations on the part of Russia since the start of this 'war', that was provoked by Ukraines' apartheid, and then genocide of Russians in the Eastern Ukraine, since the US invasion in 2014. This slaughter of the Slavs is blood on his hands.
Sir, You are being far too obliging to your pending colleagues; and as a US military veteran, and the mother of a 25 year old son, I resent it.
Very well said. It's never their kids or any price for these capricious things.
Rather than see your sons serve as cannon fodder and come home in a body bag, l would recommend conscientious objection as a response to this insanity. War serves no purpose whatsoever !!
The "owners" ( These guys: https://ehden.substack.com/p/the-anglo-saxon-mission ) use herds they own to cull other herds they own.
That's us, though...
It's "useful" in a way.
We need to devise a better way to replace it, right?
Omg, that was a depressing read !
Yes, I'm sorry. These tales are nothing new, as you can tell. I don't know how far forward the plans can be carried without much change, but the "3 world wars" thing apparently really does go back to the 1800s. I have seen it forever.
just the mention of ‘a draft’ to fight illegal wars…
certainly not brilliant thinking… but…
i cannot think of a better way to turn several generations of our youth against current corrupt politicians and government with it’s growing participation in current illegal wars…
i also remember how the last draft brought the younger generations into the streets in huge droves…
with their justified rage against that particular corrupt and heinous government…
i was one of of those young folks.
ps… will it all be televised?
isn’t every U.S. 18y.o. Male already required to register for the draft❓
Required yes but the onus remains on the individual to actually register. Automatic registration, however, would be new. No individuals would be required to do anything - except perhaps die when called to serve.
Every male is sent a letter when he's 18 to register for the selective service. It says that if you don't, you don't qualify for federal student aid or loans, nor can you ever get a government job. So those who want any of that, sign up. So the middle class college boys. The rest ignore it. Now, the database will include everyone, not just our educated males. This is good for those who followed the rules, reduces their chances of being called up.
Thank you for explaining this! I've been trying to figure out why this is different. I knew every 18 yo male was already required to register, but I didn't know it was just a requirement for financial aid / certain jobs. This definitely changes things.
I wonder if the automatical process will account for medical conditions or other prohibitive factors or how that will be handled.
You can always count on you Dennis to be on top of what is going on. We absolutely need you in Congress or the Presidency
Gee, I must have missed the article about automatic conscription in the NYT.
Big difference between being registered with Selective Service and being "automatically conscripted" -- or drafted -- into military service. There are and have been many exceptions/exemptions to being drafted
Even in the Vietnam War you had to register with the draft when you turned 18. It was not automatic. Don't you think this should be announced to the American people rather than buried in a bill? Why do you suppose it was quietly buried? Why do you think the draft was ended after Vietnam and an all professional military was created? Without any price to be paid by Americans (no risk of death, no increased taxes), wars are more easily swallowed. Why do you think that Biden, Blinken, Sullivan, Kriby, Jean-Pierre, Miller, Patel and others always lie to us when addressing the war in Ukraine and Gaza? We no longer have a democracy. it's dead. We are ruled, censored on the internet, spied on. The CIA interfered with the 2016 and 2020 elections. Mainstream media is now the propaganda outlet for the government and each outlet has a go to person to "leak" stories to.
There will be little resistance this time because they have spent decades deliberately making young peoples living lives a miserable one and removing expectations of any kind of future. The road to WWIII was paved with “Learned Helplessness”.
Dennis, I have been writing here about climate change for three years. We are quickly heading for world resource wars. It seems likely to me that's why Biden has allowed Netanyahu to commit genocide in Gaza, and arm it. Consolidating allies for what is to come. Consider the upheaval on the way. Mexico City is on the verge of running out of water. India is experiencing temperatures over 120° F. Land is burning up. Crop failures are inevitable. This is the new world rolling out before our eyes.
https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/will-the-revolution-be-televised
Also, there's going to be insane competition for "resources" in the Arctic as it melts, and they become accessible. I uncovered a lot of military reports for this article. I can't prove it, but it all fits together.
https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/massive-alaska-willow-drilling-project
Things are deteriorating fast now. I hope you can find 20 minutes to read my warnings.
Thank you.
we are witness.
Witnesses and victims.
Kissinger “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.”
Kissinger was correct in his assessment, but what a dreary and destructive way of viewing our role on Earth, devoid of recognition of her limits or a greater vision of our potential.
The registration of American young men in Selective Service has been going on since 2001. Nothing new here -- except using misleading information to gin up some anger!
Hmm. some anger ginned up sounds healthy - given the USA's provocative aggressive actions and intentions to encircle China - literally - and stuff a wet blanket down their creative and highly productive chimney....how stupido another Iraq type military attack, only this time with much much bigger game...China. Thanks to the likes of Jake Sullivan and that knave hobbled with zero diplomatic skills - American Zionist King Blinken.... inducers of forever wars while our bridges collapse and our homeless population overshadows our urban centers..Not to mention limp dick climate amelioration...Anyone read the most recent marine tests indicating very high temperatures for our oceans? No mind. Just make sure all our young men get that exciting experience that their Ukrainian counterparts have been getting, lost arms, legs, wake up screaming....or, dead.
And blown to pieces in a damp, dirty and rat infested trench. The world is living in a time warp, just waiting for the insane marauders ready to destroy the world for their own evil destiny of population decline.
indeed.
it's very different... as someone else pointed out.
registering is responsibility of young men when they turn 18. this new policy automatically registers them.
Yes, it was different, but the overreach was still there.
When my son turned 18 in 2003, he received a mailing from the Selective Service System stating that “Men 18 through 25 years old are require to register.” Following that: “It’s the law. Failure to register is a felony and may result in up to $250,000 in fines, up to 5 years imprisonment or both.” The mailing had his full name, address, social security number and date of birth. Of course, he registered and was never notified of anything after that. I don’t see a substantial difference between “automatic registration” and the system that existed in 2003. The US Government knows who and where you are regardless.
But all this is beside the point made by Kucinich, who has mischaracterized Selective Service registration as a “Draft”. Having lived through the Vietman War era as a draft-age man in the 1960s, I well understand the difference between being registered with the Selective Service and being “drafted” -- meaning being involuntarily conscripted into military service.
Kucinich has mischaracterized Selective Service registration as “the draft” to make the false point that Biden is preparing to send our young men and women to war. That’s deceptive fearmongering. K’s words: “They’re now going to take our children to fight in unnecessary, destabilizing, dangerous, debt-creating wars.”
And “Greetings to Young Americans: You are Automatically Registered for the Draft Conscription without Representation? Where and WHY are we sending our Kids to War?”
Vincent, You are mincing words. IS FOREIGN NATION DRAFT OF US SOLDIERS FOR ITS MURDER PROGRAM NORMAL? From the perspective of young people as sacrifices for Zionist fake-'Money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') Oligarch slaughter of many millions in the Middle-east, Kucinich is right on the mark. 10s of 1000s of US slaughtering-soldiers have been used for Zionist destabilization & impoverishment of Christian & Muslim neighbours as well as overthrowing sovereign nations worldwide, without any justifiable reason, over 100s of years. Here's a summary of Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie's experience with AIPAC CONTROLLED COWARDS IN ALMOST ALL OF CONGRESS 3m49s
https://twitter.com/AFpost/status/1799160371615506812
Every US Senator has taken AIPAC money by Bill Astore from OpenSecrets.org 11Jan’24 https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/every-u-s-senator-has-taken-aipac-money
Who’s funding AIPAC’s Political Spending Barrage? AIPAC superPAC + United Democracy Project UDP + Democratic Majority for Israel DMFI On Pro-Israel Politicians Tech Industry Founders, Republican, 50 Megadonors listed /c companies by Donald Shaw & David Moore on Global Research 5Mar’24 & Sludge 4Mar’24 https://counterinformation.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/whos-funding-aipacs-political-spending-barrage
No, Vincent is not mincing words. As several people have pointed out the registration of 18 year olds is required by law and has been for a long time. It is a felony (carrying a stiff fine and ramifications about future jobs) if you do not register.
This bill puts the responsibility to register back on the government, not the 18 year-old. That is all it does.
If you want to complain about the military/industrial complex and AIPAC writing bills, I hear you, but this particular amendment is not the place to fall on your sword.
Jon 'maddog' Hall,
CALLING OUT THE UNIVERSAL SOLDIER FOR WHAT 'HE' REALLY IS
In human Psychology, INTELLECTUAL-COWARDICE often has more pull, than physical-cowardice, hence soldiers would rather be killed in a senseless war, than be embarrassed to have revealed they have submitted & are living by our fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory') Oligarch system of dependence & lies. In our fake Oligarch system, the higher up one goes, the more dependent one is. Jeffrey Epstein as an Oligarch puppet, used sexual-compromise & reputation-fear to control $$ vulnerable Politicians, Bureaucrats & Business-people into Oligarch agenda.
"I can imagine a fully armed man to be at heart a coward. Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not cowardice. But true non-violence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness." Mohandas Gandhi in Harijan, 15-7-'39, p. 201
Hence most soldiers, who refuse to challenge Oligarchy $$ & politicians, intellectually, are cowards as are the greater part of the Mainstream war & inoculation compliant population.
All humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' (Latin 'self-generating') ancestors cultivated COUNCIL-PROCESS or Both-sides-now, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues as a regular popular process among all, before the last 7000 years of Babylonian & Phoenician (Kingdom of Israel + City-states of Tyr, Sidon, Byblos & Beirut) Empire brutality & genocide. Council-Process dialogues create communication for understanding, Constructive Agreements, articulation of Contracts & for Conflict Resolution. Https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
TRANSFORMING SOCIAL MEDIA FROM MONO TO DIALOGUE https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-communication-converting-social-media-from-mono-to-dialogue-libya
Then again its up to us adults, to make sure our easily impressionable young men & women are not sacrificed by the Oligarchy which pilfer & run our planet. We need to offer young people good jobs among ourselves, ownership, as well as a decisional voice in their future.
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Agree with everything you said, but the discussion was about whether or not the amendment to the bill was a call to war or simply a way to keep 18 year-olds from unintentionally becoming felons.
You also can't get government financial student aid or loans if you don't register.
You also can't get government financial student aid or loans if you don't register.
We can afford billions for prez campaigns & wars, yet nada for schooling (& student loans) & the homeless. Killing is profitable for some.
Evil stops being evil when it's nothing new, yes?