Ideology
I could only stomach one minute before nausea started its process. These vile propagandists have to be stopped.
It’s kind of funny watching non-journalists (CNN) accuse Carlson of not being a journalist. Dumbasses, he is the only journalist the US has at the moment. Scum.
VLADIMIR PUTIN: “We are witnessing a disturbing trend where the outcomes of the Nuremberg trials, which unequivocally condemned Nazism, are being revised.
Some countries not only rewrite history and exonerate the executioners: revanchists and neo-Nazis have embraced the Nazi ideology and methods.
Tens of thousands of people in the Baltic states are labelled ‘subhuman,’ stripped of basic rights and persecuted.
The Kiev regime glorifies Hitler’s followers and members of the SS and uses terror against dissenters.
Barbaric shelling of peaceful cities and towns persists, and the killing of the elderly, women and children continues.
Some European countries endorse Russophobia as a state policy.
We will do all we can to halt and eradicate Nazism. The followers of Nazi executioners, no matter what they call themselves today, are doomed. Nothing can deter the desire of millions of people in Russia and across the planet for true freedom, justice, peace, and security.”
Milei is a child in a grown-ups’ playground appearing to challenge power while handing it over to the already super-powerful.
I heard that Milei’s speech at the WEF champions freedom, so I listened. It doesn’t. It seeks to move power and control from governments to corporations if you listen carefully and that’s happening anyway. What he doesn’t say is that governments and corporations are owned by the same global Cult. So either way the same cabal is in control.
The obsession with economic growth for its own sake is a classic free-for-all, child-like economics, in which the strongest, most wealthy and powerful, prevail without the most basic checks and balances.
Economic growth is merely the amount of money spent on goods and services. So all the negative things that we don’t want to happen are ticked as positive by economic growth if money changes hands and profits are made.
‘Freedom’ to be exploited by billionaires without redress is NOT freedom.
Corporate monopolies with unchecked power is NOT freedom. He talks about ‘capitalism’, but what he is describing in truth is cartelism.
It’s barely one-dimensional. It’s the playground. You challenge white with black and black with white while the Cult sits laughing in the shades of grey controlling both.
Milei is a child in a grown-ups’ playground appearing to challenge power while handing it over to the already super-powerful. Which do you want? The ‘free’ (rigged) market tyranny run riot or state-dictated communist tyranny? Neither, thanks. I’m an adult. I want freedom and justice for all, not the few, and whether it’s Milei or Schwab the few get the spoils and the rest get the crumbs and the tyranny.
Conservatives have better quality relationships with their children, leading to better mental health, research has found
https://www.rt.com/news/588401-liberal-parents-mental-illness-teens/
The difference in outcomes was not small, according to the study. Only 55% of the offspring of liberal parents reported good or excellent mental health, compared to 77% of adolescents with conservative or very conservative parents.
Dec 3, 2023
FILE PHOTO © Getty Images / Maskot
Teenage children of liberal parents are more likely to experience mental health problems, according to a study published Thursday by the Institute of Family Studies and Gallup. Liberal parents have poorer quality relationships with their offspring – the most important influence on a child’s mental development, according to the survey.
Explaining that political ideology is one of the strongest predictors of parenting style, study author Jonathan Rothwell noted that “conservative and very conservative parents are the most likely to adopt the parenting practices associated with adolescent mental health.”
“Liberal parents score the lowest, even worse than very liberal parents, largely because they are the least likely to successfully discipline their children,” the survey found. In contrast, it discovered that conservative parents are more likely to mete out discipline effectively while displaying affection and responding to the child’s needs.
As a doctor, I fear our Covid strategy has put young people’s long-term health at risk
The difference in outcomes was not small, according to the study. Only 55% of the offspring of liberal parents reported good or excellent mental health, compared to 77% of adolescents with conservative or very conservative parents.
Regulation, enforcement, and warm responsiveness were the parenting practices most associated with favorable outcomes. According to the study, parents who agreed their child “must complete the priorities I set for them before they are allowed to play or relax” and “follows a regular routine” on school days saw significantly better results. Daily displays of affection and quickly responding to a child’s needs had similarly weighted effects on mental health.
Conversely, parents who said they found it “difficult to discipline their child” saw a significant negative correlation, as did parents who said the child often gets their way in parent-child conflicts.
While avoiding “adverse experiences” such as parental alcohol or drug abuse, death, or abandonment also had a strong predictive effect, it was dwarfed by how parents and teens reported the quality of the overall relationship. Other substantial influencing factors included how often the teen felt safe and protected and whether they lived with someone who was “frequently angry.”
Parents’ relationships with their spouses and favorable attitudes toward marriage were also strong predictors of adolescent mental health. However, demographic factors like income, wealth, and race/ethnicity did not affect the child’s well-being. Education, which accounted for less than 1% of the variation in outcomes, also did not have an impact, according to the pollsters.
Mental illness was surging among American teens even before the Covid-19 lockdowns isolated them from their social support systems, with persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness as well as suicidal thoughts and behaviors increasing 40% in the decade leading up to the pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The ruling class wants to slaughter the Palestinians.
They also want to kill the Iranians, the Chinese, the Russians, the Haitians, and bomb Syria and Somalia some more.
They want to starve the Cubans, Venezuelans, and North Koreans to death The United States sanctions 1/4th of the world’s population but the ruling class is pushing for more.
There is not enough conversation about how we are governed by bloodthirsty international criminals.
Social Security Works said that the new House speaker’s “NUMBER ONE priority is to cut our earned benefits behind closed doors.”
“A week into his tenure, MAGA Mike Johnson is ALREADY calling for closed-door cuts to the Social Security and Medicare benefits American workers have earned through decades of hard work,” warned Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mike-johnson-debt-commission
When Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives elected Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson as speaker last week, critics quickly sounded the alarm about his previous calls to cut trillions of dollars from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—and the GOP leader triggered a fresh wave of fears on Thursday with related comments to a Capitol Hill journalist.
NBC News‘ Sahil Kapur reported on social media that Johnson “says he pitched a debt commission to Senate Republicans yesterday and ‘the idea was met with great enthusiasm.’ He says it will be bipartisan and bicameral. He says he wants ‘very thoughtful people’ in both parties to lead it. He wants this ‘immediately.'”
In response to Johnson’s remarks—which echoed his first speech as speaker—the Alliance for Retired Americans wrote, “Translation: They’re eager to begin gutting Social Security behind closed doors.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla)—who led the ouster of ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)—celebrated Johnson’s rise as a win for the far-right. He declared last week that “MAGA is ascendant,” referring to the “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan of former President Donald Trump, who is the GOP front-runner for 2024.
Critics of the new speaker have similarly framed his election as a display of the far-right’s hold on the Republican Party, and are even calling him “MAGA Mike,” including in response to his comments Thursday.
“A week into his tenure, MAGA Mike Johnson is ALREADY calling for closed-door cuts to the Social Security and Medicare benefits American workers have earned through decades of hard work,” warned Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee.
Social Security Works said that “MAGA Mike Johnson’s NUMBER ONE priority is to cut our earned benefits behind closed doors.”
“The White House has rightfully called this type of commission a ‘death panel’ for Social Security and Medicare,” the group noted. “HANDS OFF!”
Back in February, long before McCarthy struck a deal with President Joe Biden to suspend the country’s debt ceiling, Republicans in Congress and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) were floating the idea of a commission, and White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said that “the American people want more jobs and lower costs, not a death panel for Medicare and Social Security.”
As Republican lawmakers have continued to pursue the idea, others have embraced the “death panel” description.
After Johnson’s mention of the commission in his speech last week, Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik wrote:
On the whole, Johnson’s approach to social safety net programs comes right out of the GOP library of lies about the programs’ finances and their effect on the federal budget.
“The reality is, they’re headed towards bankruptcy,” he said in his July 2022 C-SPAN appearance. “In just a few number of years, Social Security goes belly up. So does Medicare, Medicaid, all of these big-spending programs because we’re drowning in debt.”
The idea that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are going “bankrupt” is standard Republican hogwash. So is the idea that Social Security will go “belly up” in some number of years—even if Congress sits on its hands, the program will still have enough revenue to cover three-quarters of the benefits due.
“The notion that those programs are drivers of the federal debt is also a bog-standard GOP talking point,” Hiltzik added. “A far more significant portion of the federal budget deficit is the lavish tax cut that Johnson’s party gifted to corporations and the wealthy in 2017, a $1.5-trillion giveaway from which the U.S. economy received no significant gain.”
Most House Republicans and a dozen Democrats on Thursday evening voted to pass a bill that would deliver on Biden’s request for $14.3 billion to help Israel wage war on Gaza—which experts are condemning as genocide—and cut Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding.
Analysts and Democrats in Congress have warned that the IRS cut would hamper the agency’s ability to crack down on wealthy tax cheats, bolstered by the Congressional Budget Office finding Wednesday that the measure would reduce federal revenues by $26.8 billion and add $12.5 billion to the deficit over the next decade.
Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.), who opposed the bill and is among the few Democrats demanding a cease-fire in Gaza, said that “the only thing crueller than sending $14 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars for weapons that will result in the deaths of thousands more innocent Palestinian children in Gaza is exploiting that war—exploiting the death of over 1,400 Israeli mothers, fathers, grandparents, children, and hundreds more hostages—to help corporate CEOs and billionaire donors cheat on their taxes.”
Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
Look at who truly is the Axis of evil. It is surprising that the UK, part of that axis, went the other way.
Imagine starving nations on purpose because they don’t buy your fake ideology.
John Whitehead: Filmmaker foresaw America’s descent into fascism
By WND Guest Columnist
Published October 24, 2023
By John & Nisha Whitehead
“But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.” – Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Enough already.
Enough with the distractions. Enough with the partisan jousting.
Enough with the sniping and name-calling and mud-slinging that do nothing to make this country safer or freer or more just.
We have let the government’s evil-doing, its abuses, power grabs, brutality, meanness, inhumanity, immorality, greed, corruption, debauchery and tyranny go on for too long.
We are approaching a reckoning.
This is the point, as the poet W. B. Yeats warned, when things fall apart and anarchy is loosed upon the world.
We have seen this convergence before in Hitler’s Germany, in Stalin’s Russia, in Mussolini’s Italy, and in Mao’s China: the rise of strongmen and demagogues, the ascendency of profit-driven politics over deep-seated principles, the warring nationalism that seeks to divide and conquer, the callous disregard for basic human rights and dignity, and the silence of people who should know better.
Yet no matter how many times the world has been down this road before, we can’t seem to avoid repeating the deadly mistakes of the past.
This is not just playing out on a national and international scale. It is wreaking havoc at the most immediate level, as well, creating rifts and polarities within families and friends, neighborhoods and communities that keep the populace warring among themselves and incapable of presenting a united front in the face of the government’s goose-stepping despotism.
We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, disguised as “the better good,” marketed as benevolence, enforced with armed police, and carried out by an elite class of government officials who are largely insulated from the ill effects of their actions.
For too long now, the American people have rationalized turning a blind eye to all manner of government wrongdoing – asset forfeiture schemes, corruption, surveillance, endless wars, SWAT team raids, militarized police, profit-driven private prisons, and so on – because they were the so-called lesser of two evils.
Yet the unavoidable truth is that the government – through its acts of power grabs, brutality, meanness, inhumanity, immorality, greed, corruption, debauchery and tyranny – has become almost indistinguishable from the evil it claims to be fighting, whether that evil takes the form of terrorism, torture, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, murder, violence, theft, pornography, scientific experimentations or some other diabolical means of inflicting pain, suffering and servitude on humanity.
At its core, this is not a debate about politics, or constitutionalism, or even tyranny disguised as law-and-order. This is a condemnation of the monsters with human faces who walk among us.
Many of them work for the U.S. government.
This is the premise of John Carpenter’s film “They Live,” which was released 35 years ago and remains unnervingly, chillingly appropriate for our modern age.
Best known for his horror film “Halloween,” which assumes that there is a form of evil so dark that it can’t be killed, Carpenter’s larger body of work is infused with a strong anti-authoritarian, anti-establishment, laconic bent that speaks to the filmmaker’s concerns about the unraveling of our society, particularly our government.
Time and again, Carpenter portrays the government working against its own citizens, a populace out of touch with reality, technology run amok, and a future more horrific than any horror film.
In “Escape from New York,” Carpenter presents fascism as the future of America.
In “The Thing,” a remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic of the same name, Carpenter presupposes that increasingly we are all becoming dehumanized.
In “Christine,” the film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel about a demon-possessed car, technology exhibits a will and consciousness of its own and goes on a murderous rampage.
In “In the Mouth of Madness,” Carpenter notes that evil grows when people lose “the ability to know the difference between reality and fantasy.”
And then there is Carpenter’s “They Live,” in which two migrant workers discover that the world is not as it seems. In fact, the population is actually being controlled and exploited by aliens working in partnership with an oligarchic elite. All the while, the populace — blissfully unaware of the real agenda at work in their lives—has been lulled into complacency, indoctrinated into compliance, bombarded with media distractions, and hypnotized by subliminal messages beamed out of television and various electronic devices, billboards and the like.
It is only when homeless drifter John Nada (played to the hilt by the late Roddy Piper [see YouTube clip below]) discovers a pair of doctored sunglasses – Hoffman lenses – that Nada sees what lies beneath the elite’s fabricated reality: control and bondage.
When viewed through the lens of truth, the elite, who appear human until stripped of their disguises, are shown to be monsters who have enslaved the citizenry in order to prey on them.
Likewise, billboards blare out hidden, authoritative messages: a bikini-clad woman in one ad is actually ordering viewers to “MARRY AND REPRODUCE.” Magazine racks scream “CONSUME” and “OBEY.” A wad of dollar bills in a vendor’s hand proclaims, “THIS IS YOUR GOD.”
When viewed through Nada’s Hoffman lenses, some of the other hidden messages being drummed into the people’s subconscious include: NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, CONFORM, SUBMIT, STAY ASLEEP, BUY, WATCH TV, NO IMAGINATION, and DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY.
This indoctrination campaign engineered by the elite in “They Live” is painfully familiar to anyone who has studied the decline of American culture.
A citizenry that does not think for themselves, obeys without question, is submissive, does not challenge authority, does not think outside the box, and is content to sit back and be entertained is a citizenry that can be easily controlled.
In this way, the subtle message of “They Live” provides an apt analogy of our own distorted vision of life in the American police state, what philosopher Slavoj Žižek refers to as dictatorship in democracy, “the invisible order which sustains your apparent freedom.”
Tune out the government’s attempts to distract, divert and befuddle us and tune into what’s really going on in this country, and you’ll run headlong into an unmistakable, unpalatable truth: what we are dealing with today is an authoritarian beast that has outgrown its chains and will not be restrained.
We’re being fed a series of carefully contrived fictions that bear no resemblance to reality.
Despite the fact that we are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack; 11,000 times more likely to die from an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane; 1,048 times more likely to die from a car accident than a terrorist attack, and 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist, we have handed over control of our lives to government officials who treat us as a means to an end – the source of money and power.
As the Bearded Man in “They Live” warns, “They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery.”
We have bought into the illusion and refused to grasp the truth.
From the moment we are born until we die, we are indoctrinated into believing that those who rule us do it for our own good. The truth is far different.
The powers that be want us to feel threatened by forces beyond our control (terrorists, pandemics, mass shootings, etc.).
They want us afraid and dependent on the government and its militarized armies for our safety and well-being.
They want us distrustful of each other, divided by our prejudices, and at each other’s throats.
We are little more than expendable resources to be used, abused and discarded.
In fact, a study conducted by Princeton and Northwestern University concluded that the U.S. government does not represent the majority of American citizens. Instead, the study found that the government is ruled by the rich and powerful, or the so-called “economic elite.” Moreover, the researchers concluded that policies enacted by this governmental elite nearly always favor special interests and lobbying groups.
In other words, we are being ruled by an oligarchy disguised as a democracy, and arguably on our way towards fascism—a form of government where private corporate interests rule, money calls the shots, and the people are seen as mere subjects to be controlled.
Rest assured that when and if fascism finally takes hold in America, the basic forms of government will remain: Fascism will appear to be friendly. The legislators will be in session. There will be elections, and the news media will continue to cover the entertainment and political trivia. Consent of the governed, however, will no longer apply. Actual control will have finally passed to the oligarchic elite controlling the government behind the scenes.
Sound familiar?
Clearly, we are now ruled by an oligarchic elite of governmental and corporate interests.
We have moved into “corporatism” (favored by Benito Mussolini), which is a halfway point on the road to full-blown fascism.
Corporatism is where the few moneyed interests – not elected by the citizenry – rule over the many. In this way, it is not a democracy or a republican form of government, which is what the American government was established to be. It is a top-down form of government and one which has a terrifying history typified by the developments that occurred in totalitarian regimes of the past: police states where everyone is watched and spied on, rounded up for minor infractions by government agents, placed under police control, and placed in detention (a.k.a. concentration) camps.
For the final hammer of fascism to fall, it will require the most crucial ingredient: the majority of the people will have to agree that it’s not only expedient but necessary.
But why would a people agree to such an oppressive regime?
The answer is the same in every age: fear.
Fear is the method most often used by politicians to increase the power of government. And, as most social commentators recognize, an atmosphere of fear permeates modern America: fear of terrorism, fear of the police, fear of our neighbors and so on.
The propaganda of fear has been used quite effectively by those who want to gain control, and it is transforming the populace into fearful, compliant, pacified zombies content to march in lockstep with the government’s dictates.
This brings me back to “They Live,” in which the real zombies are not the aliens calling the shots but the populace who are content to remain controlled.
When all is said and done, the world of “They Live” is not so different from our own. As one of the characters points out, “The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society, and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance. They have made us indifferent to ourselves, to others. We are focused only on our own gain.”
We, too, are focused only on our own pleasures, prejudices and gains. Our poor and underclasses are also growing. Injustice is growing. Inequality is growing. A concern for human rights is nearly nonexistent. We too have been lulled into a trance, indifferent to others.
Oblivious to what lies ahead, we’ve been manipulated into believing that if we continue to consume, obey, and have faith, things will work out. But that’s never been true of emerging regimes. And by the time we feel the hammer coming down upon us, it will be too late.
So where does that leave us?
The characters who populate Carpenter’s films provide some insight.
Underneath their machismo, they still believe in the ideals of liberty and equal opportunity. Their beliefs place them in constant opposition with the law and the establishment, but they are nonetheless freedom fighters.
When, for example, John Nada destroys the alien hypno-transmitter in “They Live,” he delivers a wake-up call for freedom. As Nada memorably declares, “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubblegum.”
In other words: we need to get active and take a stand for what’s really important.
Stop allowing yourselves to be easily distracted by pointless political spectacles and pay attention to what’s really going on in the country.
As I make clear in my book “Battlefield America: The War on the American People” and in its fictional counterpart, “The Erik Blair Diaries,” the real battle for control of this nation is taking place on roadsides, in police cars, on witness stands, over phone lines, in government offices, in corporate offices, in public school hallways and classrooms, in parks and city council meetings, and in towns and cities across this country.
All the trappings of the American police state are now in plain sight.
Wake up, America.
If they live (the tyrants, the oppressors, the invaders, the overlords), it is only because “We the People” sleep.
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His latest books The Erik Blair Diaries and Battlefield America: The War on the American People are available at http://www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.
This explains why these right-wingers with minimal humanity or compassion towards others keep supporting a genocidal state.
There’s a clear reason for the bias… Add the fact that the media is also owned predominantly by Jewish people and getting to the truth of what is happening is virtually impossible
What motivates Israeli war crimes and dehumanization of the Palestinian people?
The Israeli regime does not want peace. Their ethno-religious objective is the total possession of Palestine and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
Michael Hoffman
michaelhoffman.substack.com
Sun, 08 Oct 2023
Populist “heroes” exhibit contempt for the Palestinian people
Last year when Dr. Jordan Peterson, the celebrated self-help/pro-Western psychologist, toured occupied Palestine with Zionist-Talmudist Ben Shapiro, interested observers considered it an ill-omen. Mr. Shapiro is one of many anti-Palestinian bigots and war Zionists roaming the airwaves on Far-Right podcasting.
On domestic policies, Mr. Shapiro is sometimes a champion of commonsensical traditional values. Yet one must ask, how sincere is he about those values when he has contempt for millions of Palestinian people viciously oppressed by his beloved Israeli regime?
Biden’s regime is wicked, but Netanyahu’s regime is virtuous, according to Ben and his sidekick, Jordan Peterson. Those are two thoughts amounting to a bipolar mentation.
Dr. Peterson posted this semi-coherent tweet on X.) Jordan B. Peterson’s tweet to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Oct 7:
“Give ’em hell @netanyahu
Enough is enough”
Give who hell, Dr. Peterson?
In the fog and fever of war, given the past crimes of the Israelis, to issue a general admonition to their prime minister to give “them” (Palestinians) hell, is a warrant for the genocide of the dehumanized Palestinian people, two million of whom are hostage to Hamas, due to being confined by the Israeli military and a U.S. client state (Egypt) — to a tiny concentration camp known as the Gaza strip, 25 miles long and five miles wide.
History shows that when Palestinian innocents die there is comparatively little outcry in the U.S. and much of the rest of the Western world. They are murdered with impunity. Consequences? Almost none, except in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, where people are actually beyond the influence of the Talmudic dictum that Judaic life is more worthy than non-Judaic life.
The hasbara honchos will denounce my statement with salvos about “anti-Semitic tropes” and the “Talmud taken out of context by anti-Semites.”
It’s a slick distraction that is wearing thin. Meanwhile, anti-Arab tropes (Palestinians = terrorists) seem to be perfectly respectable.
I haven’t taken the Talmud Bavli out of context. In fact, it would be difficult to exaggerate the hate speech in its pages, as well as in the authoritative halacha (legal code) of the West’s revered Rabbi Maimonides, in his Mishneh Torah. I wrote an 1,100 page textbook on the subject. Consequently, I am not intimidated by accusations made by know-nothing censors who seek to take down those who challenge Talmudic bigotry, even as they encourage the circulation of harsh evangelical “Christian” critiques of the Islamic Quran and Hadith.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander — no exemptions from scrutiny! Those who tear Islam into little pieces and then stomp on them to the delight of the “liberal media,” subsequently expect dissident scholars to avoid violating a no-go zone — the pious, protective fence the powers-that-be have placed around the Babylonian Talmud.
The Israeli government and military, together with the US government and media, exhibit no concern for the human rights of Arab civilians and no interest in the Palestinian “right to self defense.” Equal protections for all people are inconceivable to those who are under the influence, if only indirectly, of an ideology of contempt, as disseminated in the hate speech of the supremacist Talmud Bavli:
“If a gentile strikes a Jew he is liable for the death penalty.”
— BT Sanhedrin 58b.
“If a Jew kills a gentile the Jew is to go free.”
— BT Sanhedrin 57a.
“Non-Jews are uncompassionate by nature and attacks on them curb their evil inclination.”
— Torat Hamelech (21st-century Israeli settler-rabbinic text based on the Talmud and distributed to members of the Israeli military).
“If a Jew needs a liver (transplant) can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by, to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life.” — Chabad Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg, Jewish Week (New York), August 26, 1996. (Italics added).
What motivates Israeli war crimes and dehumanization of the Palestinian people?
Hate speech taught in the Talmud, in the Birkat Haminim malediction, in Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah and Guide of the Perplexed, in the Tanya of Chabad-Lubavitch’s Rabbi Shneur Zalman, and in the books and teachings of the modern Talmudic gedolim such as Ovadia Yosef, Yitzhak Shapira (Torat Hamelech), and Rabbi Saadya Grama, (“Romemut Yisrael Ufarashat Hagalut, — “The Superiority of Israel and the Question of Exile”) — are largely excluded from the study of what motivates Israeli war crimes and dehumanization of the Palestinian people.
These teachings of contempt do real world harm to the captive civilian population of Palestine who are regarded as little better than demons by the Kahanists and Chabadniks in Netanyahu’s cabinet, in the military and among the settlers (one of the latter was Meir Kahane’s follower, Baruch Goldstein, who machine-gunned to death 40 Palestinians at prayer in Hebron in 1994).
Victor Davis Hanson on X (formerly Twitter), October 7:
“Here we are 78 years after the end of the Holocaust and once again thuggish killers dressed in black are pulling Jewish elderly, women, and children out of their homes and executing them, and then throwing their bodies into the street. But in 1945 we were fighting the SS murderers, now we are sending millions in subsidies to their modern Hamas killer squad counterparts. We the American people should demand not one more American cent to these Gestapo and SS killers.”
Prof Hanson’s hysterical rant is evidence-free. It is so deranged he doesn’t even attempt to explain away Israeli mass murder, dispossession of the Palestinians and racist anti-Arab hatred spewed by the current Israeli regime.
If there is a National Socialist state in the world today, it is the Israeli state, with numerous similarities and parallels with the National Socialism of Germany in the 1930s.
“The role of Nazism in the Zionists’ plans was on Ben-Gurion’s mind when he stopped in Palestine between trips to the United States and England. In Jerusalem, on October 4, 1942 he told Jewish Agency leaders that although Hitler had made Jews suffer, he also ‘revived in assimilated Jews the feeling of Jewish nationalism, and we have exploited this feeling in favor of Zionism.” (Thomas Suárez, State of Terror, p. 77).
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, in a March 10, 2019 post on the social media platform Instagram, boldly articulated the unmistakable racist-supremacist mentality when he wrote, “Israel is not a state of all its citizens,” but rather “the nation-state of the Jewish people and only them.” A law to that effect has been passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament).
This Israeli apartheid doctrine has been verified in lengthy and detailed documentary reports by Amnesty International and Hastings College of Law: “Israel’s Invasion of Gaza in International Law” (2009).
— as well as by Human Rights Watch, “Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.”
These studies are mandatory reading for all fair-minded people who want to learn the truth behind the Israeli media hype.
Where was Prof. Hanson’s outcry when “thuggish killers” of the Israeli army and settlers this year pulled Palestinian elderly, women, and children out of their homes and beat and killed them, and robbed them of their land? The Talmud teaches they are only semi-human (nefesh-deficient), and Hanson shamefully reflects that teaching in his writing.
This year Netanyahu’s genocidal cabinet member Bezalel Smotrich called for the Palestinian village of Hawara to be annihilated. Netanyahu’s genocidal Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, is a follower of Rabbi Meir Kahane, who advocated the mass expulsion of Palestinians and the killing of those who would refuse. The Israeli government has enabled a reign of terror on the part of the so-called settlers — to steal ever more Palestinian land and water, and kill civilians with impunity.
Gaza was invaded by the Israeli military in 20008-2009, with massive loss of civilian Palestinian life. The West forgets everything that the Israelis have perpetrated against the Palestinians and then highlights the terrorism of Hamas in a historical vacuum, lacking all context. It’s a rigged propaganda game and one that only has cachet in Europe and America. The Third World doesn’t buy it and the Third World is the demographic future.
The “state of Israel” was founded by terrorists such as the future Prime Ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, using terrorism to accomplish the creation of “Israel.”
On April 9, 1948 Menachem Begin’s Zionist terror gang, the Irgun, “wiped out the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin. Deir Yassin was not the first Palestinian village to be depopulated by the Zionist armies, and was certainly not the last; but the terror inflicted on Deir Yassin took on iconic significance because of its high visibility in the Jerusalem environs, and the presence of witnesses. The Irgun boasted, surely accurately, that the terror it instilled hastened the evacuation of other Palestinian villages.” (Thomas Suárez, State of Terror, p. 256).
More than 100 Palestinian civilians were butchered in Deir Yassin, including after being taken prisoner. Those taken prisoner by the Irgun suffered incredible bestialities: butchered with swords, hand grenades and machine guns. Yad Vashem, the official Israeli WWII holocaust museum, borders Deir Yassin, though all traces and memory of the Israeli war crime in the village, have been erased.
Meir Soloveitchik is a professor at New York’s Yeshiva University and the doyen of Right wing Conservatives. A regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and other Neconservative publications, in his latest book he praises Menachem Begin as a paradigmatic Judaic statesman.
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, speech to the Knesset: “The Palestinians are beasts walking on two legs.” (Begin and the Beasts,” New Statesman, June 25, 1982).
On October 14, 1953 David Ben-Gurion ordered the Israeli Army’s Unit 101 paratroopers to attack the Palestinian village of Qibya. 60 Palestinian civilians were murdered in cold blood. These atrocities have occurred with regularity over the past 70 years. I point out this particular one because it instructs us in the ways of Israeli hasbara (propaganda):
The liberal media, hand-in-hand with Right wing Conservatives, almost always credit as 100% true, Israeli government denials of its deliberate slaughter of civilians. Five days after the Israeli massacre in Qibya, on October 19,
“Ben-Gurion went on the air with a wholly fictitious account of what had happened in line with past disclaimers of IDF (Israeli army) responsibility… He announced…after the attack… that ‘None deplores it more than the government of Israel…’ But everyone understood that the military was responsible, and that the operation had been authorized by the government.” (Benny Morris, Righteous Victims [1999 edition], pp. 278-279).
In the words of Norman G. Finkelstein, Ben-Gurion was retailing in 1953 one of the countless “myths the Israeli government has propagated to justify its dispossession and displacement of Palestine’s indigenous population.”
Operation Cast Lead:
The Israeli Invasion of Gaza, December 27, 2008
Right wing Conservatives claim to be skeptical toward “the liberal media” yet they take whatever that media says in favor of the Israeli war machine, at face value. Part of this gullibility is due to the amnesia induced in the American people concerning the history of Palestine.
It was only just under 15 years ago, December 2008-January 2009, that the Israelis invaded Gaza and bombed a defenseless civilian population, killing hundreds during 22 days of death and destruction.
In that time period, the Israeli air force bombed more than seven mosques, killing women and children. They bombed a UN shelter for civilians at the Asma Elementary School in Gaza City. On 27 December 2008, Human Rights Watch reported that an Israeli air-to-ground missile struck a group of students leaving Gaza College, adjacent to the headquarters of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in downtown Gaza City, killing eight students and wounding 19 others.
Ma’an news (6 January):
“More than 26 residential buildings and schools were targeted by Israeli fire, causing more casualties amongst women and children, witnesses in Gaza said. Sources at Ash-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said five dead bodies arrived at the medical center in a civilian car after their homes were shelled. The sources asserted that several homes were bombarded in eastern Gaza City, and that ambulances could not access the area to evacuate victims because Israeli forces are shooting at ambulances.
Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (5 January 2009):
“Israeli army firing on first response units in Gaza; Ambulances unable to reach injured persons nor evacuate them from the scene of attacks to Gaza hospitals. Several ambulances have sustained direct artillery or helicopter fire, medical personnel have been killed, others critically injured. There is no possibility for the rapid evacuation of patients; those whose lives could have been saved are left to bleed to death.” Read more here.
Enough is enough!
Please study:
“How Israelis brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian disaster.” By Israeli Army veteran Avi Shlaim, January 7, 2009
“Actual purpose of the Israeli invasion of Gaza” By John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago, January 19, 2009‘
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on X (Twitter), October 7:
“This ignominious, unprovoked, and barbaric attack on Israel must be met with world condemnation and unequivocal support for the Jewish state’s right to self-defense. We must provide Israel with whatever it needs to defend itself — now. As President, I’ll make sure that our policy is unambiguous so that the enemies of Israel will think long and hard before attempting aggression of any kind.
“I applaud the strong statements of support from the Biden White House for Israel in her hour of need. However, the scale of these attacks means it is likely that Israel will need to wage a sustained military campaign to protect its citizens. Statements of support are fine, but we must follow through with unwavering, resolute, and practical action. America must stand by our ally throughout this operation and beyond as it exercises its sovereign right to self-defense.” (Emphasis added).
To Mr. Kennedy:
You’re unconditionally backing the Israeli war machine against the civilian population and terming the Hamas attack on the Israelis “unprovoked.” You are a comedian.
A sustained military campaign, Bobby? You are surely aware of the numerous war crimes the Israelis committed in Gaza in Gaza 2008-2009 and repeatedly before that. Their military has no respect for civilians, any more than Hamas does, and yet instead of working for a cease-fire and negotiations, you are urging the Israeli military to engage in another military offensive that will inevitably result in another massacre of civilians in Gaza.
Instead of pursuing peace, as your father and uncle did, you adopt a monolithic posture, which pointedly excludes concerns for the human rights of oppressed Palestinians. The Palestinians have been robbed of their land, subjected to mass murder, and now live under a regime ruled by openly racist, anti-Arab bigots who have confined two million human beings to a tiny strip of what was Palestine. You have turned a blind eye to all of it.
Hamas is a terror organization, and what they did is wrong on all counts. However, in terms of being provoked — Israeli treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza has been a case of one provocation after another, including the massive slaughter in 2008-2009 by the Israeli military. How could you forget? Read Norman Finkelstein’s Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom, and get an education.
The Israeli regime does not want peace. Their ethno-religious objective is the total possession of Palestine and the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
Tragically, in using Israeli tactics to fight for freedom, Hamas has become what they oppose. Not one single Israeli or Palestinian civilian should be threatened or harmed by either side.
Mr. Kennedy, I haven’t heard you utter one word this October in defense of innocent Palestinians or Palestinian human rights. This leads me to ask whether you are selling out the Palestinian people to salvage your political ambitions? You know that it is a fact, not a “trope,” that the US government is a satrapy of the ethno-religious nationalist colony misnamed, “Israel.”
You know that the US media, whether the AP or Fox News, the New York Times or the Washington Post, are ideological, Zionist-occupied newsrooms.
You are undoubtedly fully aware that both the Democrats and the Republicans, are Zionist-occupied parties, incapable of objectivity toward Palestinian rights.
You know that the Israeli lobby is among the most powerful instruments of political and economic coercion in the United States.
Cognizant of these facts — as you must be as the scion of a storied political dynasty — you understand the degree to which your candidacy for the presidency and nomination by the Democratic party, would be seriously imperilled were you to state the truth about Palestine.
You and others like you — Peterson, Hanson and hundreds of influencers and leaders — have chosen a profile in cowardice, rather than a profile in courage.
Copyright ©2023 Independent History and Research
Michael Hoffman is a former reporter for the New York bureau of the Associated Press and the author of ten books of history and literature, including Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare (2001), The Occult Renaissance Church of Rome (2017) , Twilight Language (2021 ), as well as a textbook (Judaism Discovered), and five other books published in the United States, as well as overseas in Japanese and French translation; and 122 issues of Revisionist History®newsletter, 1997-2022. His truth mission is made possible by donations, paid Substack subscriptions, and the sale of his books, newsletters and recordings. Podcast: here. X (Twitter): here. Rumble here.
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“Palestine’s Martyrdom: The 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Zionist Israeli State”
“This is not sober leadership. She’s a child and this is the tantrum of a child.”
Tucker rips Nikki Haley, Lindsey Graham, and Dan Crenshaw asking for escalation in the Middle East: “This is not sober leadership. She’s a child and this is the tantrum of a child.” “Lindsey Graham hasn’t thought it through. He’s almost 70 years old and he has no children.” “Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw took to social media to call for a ‘war to end all wars’ as if there is such a thing. But of course, there isn’t such a thing. Wars beget more war. The bigger the conflict, the uglier and longer-lasting the consequences. See WW1 for details.”
There’s a reason why the same people who uphold the absurd transgender agenda also back Kiev
https://www.rt.com/news/584098-transgender-ukraine-liberals-war/
Ukraine’s territorial defense force spokesperson, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, in an interview in Kiev, Ukraine, September 7, 2023 © Roman PILIPEY / AFP
Voltaire famously stated, “whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” It is helpful to see the following full quote in which this line appears, to understand the meaning of this oft-cited maxim:
“Formerly there were those who said: You believe things that are incomprehensible, inconsistent, impossible because we have commanded you to believe them; go then and do what is unjust because we command it. Such people show admirable reasoning. Truly, whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. If the God‐given understanding of your mind does not resist a demand to believe what is impossible, then you will not resist a demand to do wrong to that God-given sense of justice in your heart. As soon as one faculty of your soul has been dominated, other faculties will follow as well. And from this derives all those crimes of religion which have overrun the world.”
In other words, being compelled to believe untruths, and indeed obvious untruths which you know in your heart are untrue, and then living your life as if these untruths are true, can have a morally corrosive effect and prime you to conform with terrible crimes.
George Orwell illustrates this phenomenon well in his novel ‘1984’, in which he explains that the dictatorial and brutal government at the center of this story rules the population and gains its buy-in to the awful system in which it lives by forcing the people to believe in and even repeat absurd, nonsensical slogans such as “war is peace” and “freedom is slavery.”
Today, one of the real-life versions of these types of absurdities that large swaths of the population are being forced into believing is that our biological sex does not matter; that whether we have XX or XY chromosomes (or the incredibly rare variation between the two, which is often referred to as being ‘intersex’) is irrelevant to whether we are actually women or men. The most extreme version of this cult-like belief system is that people are merely ‘assigned’ one of the two sexes at birth by doctors and midwives – of course based on obviously visible sex characteristics – but that this designation is ultimately random and subject to change at any time by any individual, including young children whose brains have not fully developed, who may decide they are the opposite gender, or something in between the male-female binary, or even something else entirely.
Many even advocate – and indeed some jurisdictions are passing laws requiring – that birth certificates not include the sex of a newborn baby because we simply cannot know what that is until the individual decides his or her gender at a later stage. And, when this individual makes this decision, it is everyone’s obligation to accept this for every and all purposes, lest one be accused of bigotry.
The chief Orwellian slogan of this belief system is the mantra: ‘transwomen are women’, which means that biological males are women for any and all purposes if they identify as such, which has resulted in women becoming a mere subset of their own sex category. A shorthand for this, then, is that ‘men are women’, at least when they claim to be.
Under this new ideology, men can freely enter into womanhood, and women’s spaces and sports, based simply on how they identify. What’s more, it is not only that ‘transwomen are women’, but that transwomen are somehow superior to biological women who identify as women, the latter being given the additional qualifier of ‘cis women’ whether they accept this moniker or not.
That is, this ideology goes well beyond advocating that trans-identifying people be treated with dignity, respect and fairness – something which I fully agree with – and instead upends the basics of what up until very recently we all believed about the nature of our biology and indeed our very selves.
Taken as one hundred percent true, this mantra leads to absurd and even atrocious results, such as biological male sex offenders being housed in women’s prisons and women’s domestic violence centers, making women vulnerable to abuse and even rape. And if women speak up about such atrocities, they may be labelled ‘bigots’ and ‘transphobes’ and therefore deserving of maltreatment, including beatings and threats of rape and murder.
Here we see the belief in absurdities leading to the commission and defense of atrocities. But this process, as predicted by Voltaire and Orwell, does not end here. Rather, it continues into other realms. Thus, with people primed to accept one set of absurdities and atrocities, it is now easier to make them go along with other absurdities and atrocities.
For example, it is now easier to convince people to go along with what at one time would have been unthinkable – e.g., overlooking or even supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine, applauding a former Waffen SS soldier in the liberal Canadian House of Commons, and even going casually along with a war which could lead to nuclear annihilation.
I do not think it is a coincidence that Western liberals, who historically have been more critical of and oppositional to war than conservatives, but who are more accepting of the new ‘transwomen are women’ slogan, are much more apt than conservatives to approve of support of the Ukrainian military, even if that means supporting literal Nazis.
It is my own observation that there is a very strong correlation between people being critical of gender ideology (whether those people are on the left or on the right) and also being critical of Western support for Ukraine. And often, the two subjects come up quickly in the same conversation, showing that there is more than a tangential connection between these seemingly disconnected issues.
And this brings us to Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, the American identifying as a transwoman who had previously worked as a journalist and combat medic, and until recently served as an official English-language spokesperson of the Ukrainian military.
Some found the choice by the Ukrainian military of Ashton-Cirillo as a spokesperson a bit confounding, given the Ukrainian regime’s less-than-stellar treatment of the LGBTQ community in Ukraine.
However, from the point of view of trying to garner and maintain support in the West – at least among liberals – for NATO’s war effort in Ukraine, this choice makes sense. In the minds of Westerners who accept the prevailing gender ideology, Ashton-Cirillo’s advocacy for Ukraine gives instant legitimacy to Ukraine, even when Ashton-Cirillo advocates for horrendous policies.
One example of this is when Ashton-Cirillo was recently suspended by the Ukrainian military for stating that “Russia’s war criminal propagandists” – that is, journalists who have a different view on the war than the Western establishment press – will be “hunted down.”
Publications such as Advocate – a liberal, LGBTQ advocacy magazine – expressed concern that Republican US Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio had sent a letter to the Biden administration complaining about Ashton-Cirillo’s statements, writing, “I worry American resources could be supporting violence or the threat of violence against people for speaking their mind.” Advocate pointed out Vance’s “history of being anti-LGBTQ+,” but said nothing about the fact that Ashton-Cirillo was advocating for actual war crimes.
Ashton-Cirillo has said other concerning things, such as “Russians are not European… Russians are Asian. Ultimately, they do come from the Mongols, they come from a grouping of people who want to be slaves.” In this and other statements, Ashton-Cirillo repeats the tropes of the Nazis about Russians which they used, and continue to use, to justify mistreating and even killing them. But again, the fact that this casual racism comes from an individual identifying as a transwoman helps this bad medicine go down easier with vast sectors of the West.
Of course, for writing this piece, and stating what I believe to be obvious truths, but truths which we are aggressively urged to deny, I will be attacked and vilified. Possibly, I will be called a ‘fascist’ or even a ‘Nazi’ for questioning the prevailing gender orthodoxy, including by people who themselves have been led into supporting their government in aiding literal Nazis in Ukraine. But it is my belief that we must always tell the truth, no matter how much it hurts. It is only in doing so that we preserve our moral compass and indeed our very soul and that we are able to resist the atrocities we are being led to accept.