Want to understand what’s really going on in Israel/Palestine?
Read this…
Want to understand what’s really going on in Israel/Palestine?
Read this…
One man’s awakening:
Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
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Wisdom itself is a minority.
A must read.
Thank you for sharing.
Humanity is all of us, the evil and the good.
May the good in all peoples prevail, and may its light one day shine from all as it did from this man.
One of the best items I’ve read of late—the insights of an entrepreneurial American billionaire, oddly enough.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014
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What a wall of talk. At what time is the actual event under discussion presented?
“What the Biden administration has done is the opposite. They’ve always hesitated, always delayed, always placed limits. So it conveys to Putin that we don’t really have the resolve, or the will, or the capacity.”
Biden to a ‘t’. Another of his enormously damaging global strategic failures.
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spot on:
“I hope what Trump does is tell Putin not only to stop the war but if you don’t, we’re going let Ukraine borrow as much money as they need, and they can buy whatever they want to buy, and use it however they want to use it. That would be the right message to convey to Putin that Ukraine and the West are in a position of strength compared to Russia and they can outlast them.”
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With Gaetz stepping back from his AG nomination, Trump has lost his clone of Stalin’s Beria.
Beria, it is said, would offer flowers to the fathers of the underage daughters he abused upon returning them at the gates of Lubyanka (which could be anywhere, btw).
If the flowers were accepted, all good.
If refused, the resistor would be arrested…
So is ‘cunt’.
‘Arbeit macht frei,’ wasn’t it?
The battles outnumber us; this is an excellent snapshot of one that’s key to the rest of them.
My feeling on the US election is this:
Kamala browbeating the undecided or calling out Trump’s various lunacies is preaching to the choir.
He can deflect all of it just by lying.
But…
If she can make America laugh—at him—he’s a dead man walking.
He’ll have no answer that won’t expose his desperation and lame-ass vapidity.
Voters love saying yes to a strong (or funny) person and no to a loser.
They’re in that kind of mood.
She needs to tap it.
IDF:
“We are not done in Gaza.
“We will not stop until every last Hamas man, woman, child, infant, disabled and elderly person is dead.
“Hamas must be wiped out.
If that means every Gazan must die, so be it.”
“But others support Netanyahu's strategy of maintaining relentless military pressure on Hamas, the militant group behind the Oct. 7 attack into Israel that triggered the war.”
Just don’t expect Canada’s #CBC to tell you they are hardline far-right Jewish religious extremists (akin to backcountry Afrikaners farmers) opposed by millions of Israelis themselves.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-strike-ceasefire-hostage-deaths-1.7311111
That Israel’s foundation and sustenance has rested and rests upon the support of three of the most historically racist nations on earth—the United States, Great Britain and (formerly Nazi) Germany—tells you all you need to know.
When you need to exterminate a bunch of Arabs, this is just the thing.
Israel is a racist apartheid state, as remains USA.
I wrote this to someone today and it kind of encapsulates my take on life:
The trees have been a comfort to me as well. They remind us the world is what it is, and to expect it to change to conform to our wishes and dreams, however valid they may be, is a conceit of our own. Buddhism tells us to look within, to look at who is doing the looking, and to see that both the cause of our suffering and the pain it brings are externalities to that inner point of…
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You know, it occurred to me today there’s very likely a certain class of German citizen—not the government or mainstream media, I’d not go that far at this point—who from the shadows will be saying, aloud where he feels safe:
“Let the Jews hang themselves. Keep the support, funding and arms flowing, by all means! When they’ve finished with Gaza and the crime is finally exposed and recognized, they’ll know how it feels...”
#gaza #israel #germany #usa #canada #shame #judaism #mastodononline
‘Since 1948, the US has provided more than $141 billion in weapons to the Israeli government to fund the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, including $17.9 billion since October. Netanyahu’s apartheid regime has already slaughtered over 39,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including over 15,000 children.’
A useful reminder. Undisputed facts.
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