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Aunty Jean's avatar

Americans need to get into the streets in large numbers, and I mean leaving walking away from jobs (with exceptions for hospital workers, and a few others). No amount of "pushing" will work short of revolutionary actions. Caitlin Johnstone's words: "We either awaken from our propaganda-induced coma in sufficient numbers to rise up and force the creation of a healthy world, or we get trapped in the status quo by empire managers armed with drone swarms, militarized robots, and total control of our information and financial systems until we are annihilated by ecocidal capitalism or omnicidal nuclear brinkmanship." https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/another-journalist-arrested-in-another

Gregory Laxer's avatar

Thanks for reminding me I left one point off my just-posted comment: In June 1982, I participated in a huge march against nuclear madness in NYC. It felt like a crowd of a million souls, it really was gigantic. (Protest march organizers tend to inflate crowd sizes, while the Establishment deliberately understates them. But this honestly looked and felt like a good million people!) And then what happened? The liberal, Casper Milquetoast (that name again!) leadership of that movement absolutely dropped the ball. There were no follow-up actions whatsoever, and nothing of that magnitude has happened since. There have been very large marches about the Climate Disaster--and rightly so--but nothing like June of 1982. A disastrous failure of "leadership."

Duncan Saunders's avatar

Hi Bill, seeing your link to the horrifying nuclear explosion (probably the most realistic in all movies) and your comments, brings to mind JFK's Peace Speech of 1963. Putting aside for the moment if it was one of the key reasons why he was assassinated, it's a sterling call to reality and peace for the world and not just with rose colored glasses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fkKnfk4k40

Bill Astore's avatar

I love that speech. One of the finest ever made by a U.S. president.

John R Moffett's avatar

Space X has a sign in their mission control room that says "Skynet", because rich people become mentally ill due to their extreme wealth. I have been saying for some time now that money is a drug, and it should be regulated as Schedule 1. Actually, they should make a new schedule, 0, just for money. It is worse than any drug known.

Jazzme's avatar

Is the Israeli government cult crazy enough to do what the Jones cult in Jonestown did? But instead of poison push the Red Button. I think Netanyahu and company are crazy and psycho enought to do it if their existence is in any way threatened. The nations of the world should insist Isreal doesn't have that option. Take away their nuclear armaments. If they can genocide the Palestinians and surrounding Arab states why would they not genocide us all and take us with them. Crazy psycho fanatics they be.

**Happy dreams**

Gregory Laxer's avatar

Briefly (I try, I really do!): 1.) beyond the weapons, we have another problem. The "tech bros," including Bill Gates, have become very enthused for small-scale nuclear reactors to power their energy-hog globe-spanning operations. I don't care how "small" these things may prove to be, nuclear power belongs inside stars. I can't see how it can ever be made actually safe for use down here on the ground; 2.) the newest "threat" from the Evil Chinese: China unveiled news of a new AI system of their development that is perceived as threatening the work of Nvidia and similar companies. Tech stocks are melting down ("China Syndrome"? :-)) on Wall Street today as I write this. "Mr. President, we must not allow an AI-chip gap!" Gen. 'Buck Turgidson' would be shouting in an update of "Dr. Strangelove..."!!

Ray Joseph Cormier's avatar

Until Bill posts a new article, this is an interesting development The Hill reports, 'Ocasio-Cortez embraces role as attack dog against Trump'

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5111319-aoc-fox-news-trump-criticism/

We may find out if the oft repeated saying, "May you live in Interesting Times" is a Blessing or a Curse with Everything, Everywhere, Happening All At Once?

Ray Joseph Cormier's avatar

In my opinion, I think if Trump's Peace Plan opts for "the hard way" with Russia over the US-Ukraine WAR with Russia, Scott Ritter's analysis of the consequences for the US and the American People will be much harder, rings True!

'SCOTT RITTER: Trump’s Doomed Plan for Ukraine'

“The Hard Way” — Special Envoy Keith Kellogg’s proposed oil-price manipulations targeting Russia would actually devastate U.S. oil production and the U.S. economy.

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/28/scott-ritter-trumps-doomed-plan-for-ukraine

Richard Morchoe's avatar

The reality of what the author presents is, of course, terrifying. One would hope the citizenry would heed his last paragraph about an intervention, but is that probable?

Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

Don't you mean "Nuclear Crock"? If there was indeed a crack, then:

"You can add up the parts

but you won't have the sum

You can strike up the march

on your little broken drum

Every heart, every heart

to love will come

but like a refugee

Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack, a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in.

Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack, a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in"

From: "Anthem" by Leonard Cohen

Bill Astore's avatar

Yes, of course I'm using "crack" as in crack cocaine.

Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

Yes, but "nuclear crock" sounds more like Nuclear Clock but with some satire. Yes, they entire military posture is crack cocaine to the MIC

Ray Wilson's avatar

Yes, it is solvable, and here is an approach to that solution. Brand new. I'd say it is THE Solution.

An inexpensive E-Book should be available in 2 weeks. Amazon, and Barnes and Noble have the softcover and hardcover on their pages, not very costly, only 70 pages total.

Ray Joseph Cormier's avatar

The great Old Testament Prophet Isaiah, saw the Age of Nuclear Warfare and consequences. He didn't know the word 'Nuclear' in any variation some 2700 years ago but he knew FIRE.

WE know NUKES bring FIRE, as Isaiah described in the last chapter of his Book in the Book of Books:

'For behold, the Lord shall come with FIRE, and like a tempest,

His chariots, to render His anger with FURY, and His rebuke with flames of FIRE. For with FIRE, will the Lord contend, and with His sword with all flesh, and those slain by the Lord shall be many.' Isaiah 66

This is exactly what Bill, or Willie as his Father called him, is writing about in this latest.

This is the opening salvo as the Trump/US 1st crowd thinks it can control this whole Earth.

Better to see it realistically portrayed in a Movie, than for Real in this Materialistic MONEY Loving and Serving World the LEADING INDICATORS point to: https:/www.youtube.comwatcv=7VG2aJyIFrA

https://rayjc.com/2022/04/13/us-politicians-are-sleepwalking-toward-the-nuclear-abyss/ because of the PRIDE of POWER the old adage says comes before the fall!

We know it's a FACT of History, Trump threatened "FIRE and FURY like the world has never seen" in 2017.

Ray Joseph Cormier's avatar

The Atomic Scientists will be adjusting the Doomsday Nuclear Clock Tomorrow from 90 seconds to....?

Bill Astore's avatar

Let's hope it doesn't strike midnight, Ray.

Ray Joseph Cormier's avatar

Let's hope for sure Bill, but as Paul wrote, 'for now we have faith, hope, love, these 3, but the greatest of these is LOVE.

Hope without action won't stop it striking midnight.

We'll know where the Doomsday Clock will be at Tomorrow?

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Gregory Laxer's avatar

Perhaps it's because challenging the Sacred Military Machine is a self-imposed Political Death Sentence?? "Even" the Pope has spoken out against the cruelty and insanity of today's politics. But as Mussolini reportedly once replied when mildly criticized by the then-sitting Pontiff: "And how many legions can the Pope put in the field? [To oppose Il Duce.]" There aren't all that many "Swiss Guards"! Money talks, God can take a hike!!

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Gregory Laxer's avatar

I'm pretty sure it was actually 1944 when Il Duce got his just comeuppance. Sorry, I am a stickler for accuracy! German troops had to try to hold Italy in their control thereafter, only to be defeated. I have read that the ordinary Italian folk never got overly enthused for murdering Jews in their midst. I can't vouch for that being true, of course.

Bill Astore's avatar

A quick Google search says April 28, 1945 as the date of death.

Italians were not as fanatically anti-Jewish as the Nazis were.

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Gregory Laxer's avatar

Thanks for the correction, fellas. I am a tad shy of perfect, it's true! :-)