Why is the USA so into resolving issues with "Shock and Awe" rather than diplomacy. 1.14 trillion od ouw budget feeds the war machine (62%). 38% for other stuff: housing 7%,health 6%, environment & energy 5%, education 5%, transportation 4%, int'n affairs 3%, ...you get the drift. We love war it's our #1 product: killing others that disagree with the neocons.
The bodies of Israeli women are not a weapon of War.! The bodies of Palestinian children are not a weapon of War.! Never, anywhere, on our planet is War a solution...!
‘Apocalyptic’ horror in Gaza called ‘total failure of our shared humanity’
“How is it that these atrocities are beamed across the world for all to witness, and yet so little is done to stop them?”
Humanitarian groups and United Nations officials expressed horror Wednesday at the disaster unfolding in Gaza as Israeli forces stormed the largest city in the southern part of the strip, fueling concerns of a repeat of the appalling destruction that Israel inflicted in the north.
Volker Türk, the U.N.’s high commissioner for human rights, said at a press conference that the “catastrophic situation” in Gaza was “entirely foreseeable and preventable.” He noted that his colleagues on the ground in the besieged strip “have described the situation as apocalyptic.”
“Military operations, including bombardment, by Israeli forces continue in north, middle, and south Gaza, affecting people who have already been displaced multiple times—forced to flee—in search of safety,” said Türk. “But no place is safe.”
Many had fled to Khan Younis from the north in search of safety, only to be told to evacuate again weeks later as the Israeli military closed in.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said earlier this week that its ground offensive now encompasses the entirety of the Gaza Strip, leaving the nearly 2 million people who have been displaced with no viable options to avoid near-constant Israeli bombing, shelling, and firefights that have prevented the delivery of critical aid, including medicine and food.
Virtually the entire population of Gaza is at imminent risk of starvation, the World Food Program has warned.
“The hunger war has started,” one displaced person told The Associated Press, saying that Gazans are now fighting over dwindling food supplies. “This is the worst of all wars.”................
Yesterday President Biden warned all Americans that they'd better send billions more dollars to Ukraine, or the US will have to send US soldiers to die in Ukraine.
And furthermore, he said that we can't let Putin "win" in the Ukraine!
He warns that Putin will then invade Europe and the US's NATO allies.
And then of course, the US will have to send US soldiers to die in Europe. He actually said that!
And Admiral John Kirby, the Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the White House, backed Genocide Joe up! Nikki Haley is on board as well! GMAFB!
Yes, Dennis, isn't it amazing how Biden and the DC blob assured us a few short months ago, "Putin has already lost the war." What went wrong? Were we lied to!? Surely, not.
Too bad Biden doesn't have to explain what good weapons will do for an army being killed off faster than they can be reinforced--and then with 17-70 year olds with almost no training. (None I suspect for all practical purposes.) A real strategy for victory there. I hope for the dying's sake, Ukraine surrenders pronto.
Meanwhile I join the growing chorus....
"Biden, Biden, you can't hide! We charge you with genocide!”
An excellent article Bill! I see what you see in it and you know you have my Spiritual support.
Biden presided over the 2014 US-CIA orchestrated Coup-Regime change of the Democratically Elected Russian Friendly Ukraine government, installing a US-CIA proxy anti-Russian government that started shelling the majority Russian speaking UKRAINIAN Civilians on the border with Russia who voted for that Russian Friendly Ukraine government, and rejected the US Regime Change.
Biden is presiding over Israel's INDISCRIMINATE, INCESSANT, MURDEROUS BOMBARDMENT of the Innocent Palestinian Civilians of Gaza, those US MADE BOMBS actually BEHEADING BABIES.
The World is witness to the Israeli "IN YOUR FACE BLATANT ETHNIC CLEANSING" of Palestinians from their HOMES those with the eyes to see see the MASSIVE DESTRUCTION on TV every Day.
Israel is creating a living HELL for Gaza Palestinians in this Material World we were created to share.
The UN Secretary-General made the rare use of Article 99, calling on the UN Security Council to call for an IMMEDIATE CEASE FIRE. Will the US and England VETO it?
If they do, I expect the LIVING MATERIAL HELL the US-Israel is putting the Gazans through, will come to neighbourhoods everywhere soon enough.
Bill, the Facts of my Curriculum Vitae that started February 1, 1975 I post here is to supplement and confirm what is possible in this World's COMMON FUTURE as you wrote;
"Whereas a month ago, we lived with the risk of nuclear war as an outcome of escalating conflict in Ukraine, we now face the elevated risk of a rightfully feared world war as a consequence of entangling alliances between nuclear-armed Moscow and Washington in the Middle East."
The Kansas City Times did a followup to the September 13, 1976 Historical Record on ALL SOULS DAY, November 2, 1976. I had no editorial control over their Date of making it Public, nor over the picture they chose to accompany the record;
It was 7 years to the month later, the movie 'THE DAY AFTER' Kansas City was incinerated in a Nuclear Holocaust was shown to the World for the 1st Time on November 20, 1983.
Of the 100,000,000 people who watched it on TV that night, imagine my surprise to NOTE at THE END, the movie pauses at the very same picture frame The Kansas City Times used on ALL SOULS DAY, 7 years earlier. That's at the 10 second mark in the clip: https://youtu.be/q7J8eMyK1DI
Those Historical FACTS are the Signs of the Times.
With the War in EUROPE and the Middle East, our Generations have to be ready for the unexpected because everything is possible.
Gaza is only 26 miles long by 5 miles wide, the Divide line Israels drawn between North and South is only 13 miles on either side and Israel has dropped thousands of bombs North and South Day and Night!
CNN & MSNBC I see as Propagandists for the IDF and Israeli Officials and I gag in my anger when I hear an Israeli spokesperson say, Israel takes great care to avoid CIVILIAN casualties. I see the pictures on CNN & MSNBC. I know that Israeli spokesperson is LYING!
The US stands alone with its VETO of the UN Security Council call for an immediate cease fire in Gaza. Shame on America! Shame on Biden! The US has not heard the end of this. There will be consequences for Americans.
England abstained and the other 13 SC Members voted for the cease fire.
The empire is failing & flailing badly. The sooner it goes the way of all empires, the better for the people of the planet. Thank you for your good work!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! We all needed that, and it is beautifully said. I'll forward it to many, and I hope your other readers will too, because we need to get this view out there a ll across America. We get bits and pieces of it, but rarely is it all put together. Our MSM will not say this. No commenter, or reporter in our MSM on either side - Republican or Democrat - will say all of this and it so badly needs to be said. This is why, from my point of view, both Biden and Trump are equally awful. The Dems want to say that Trump will destroy our Democracy and the Republicans want to say that Biden will; the truth is that if we elect either one we will see the end of our so-called democracy, and possibly the planet. We truly need a candidate and a program who will put peace and rational thinking to work in our foreign and domestic policies.
US Defense Sec. Loyd Austin (on the Board of Raytheon) openly threatens Americans over Ukraine.
Send $$$ or "We'll sent your kids to fight".
Lloyd Austin - if that maniac Nazi Putin wins in Ukraine, he will go further and will try to occupy Baltic states and that will result in the war against Russia using NATO troops.
Better stop Putin in Ukraine and "save American lives". Oh dear!
Who is WE eh?
Is the biggest threat to the US its own Army? Is he telling Congress that he'll send American kids to a war that can only be declared by Congress?
EDIT: Watching Al Jazeera as I peck away here in the middle of the night down under. Hamas Military just announced that Israeli bombing has killed some of their Israeli soldier hostages! It's all going to shit eh!
I introduced this excellent writer to the group several articles back with some really enjoyable satire that 1st Time I read him.
Simon Elmer is really smart and he does his research.
This is a very long read but for those History Buffs wanting to know what the UN Secretary-General meant when he said, "October 7 didn't happen in a vacuum" Simon gives us a detailed History that made October 7 inevitable, and well worth the read.
America can never become an example “for liberty and justice” for anyone around the world. The USA’s historical DNA/RNA always was violence coded.
Why is the USA so into resolving issues with "Shock and Awe" rather than diplomacy. 1.14 trillion od ouw budget feeds the war machine (62%). 38% for other stuff: housing 7%,health 6%, environment & energy 5%, education 5%, transportation 4%, int'n affairs 3%, ...you get the drift. We love war it's our #1 product: killing others that disagree with the neocons.
George Carlin. "We like war. We are a warlike people! We are good at it. You know why? Because we get lots of practice."
"We can bomb the shit outa your country".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77dDZOwt20E
The bodies of Israeli women are not a weapon of War.! The bodies of Palestinian children are not a weapon of War.! Never, anywhere, on our planet is War a solution...!
‘Apocalyptic’ horror in Gaza called ‘total failure of our shared humanity’
“How is it that these atrocities are beamed across the world for all to witness, and yet so little is done to stop them?”
Humanitarian groups and United Nations officials expressed horror Wednesday at the disaster unfolding in Gaza as Israeli forces stormed the largest city in the southern part of the strip, fueling concerns of a repeat of the appalling destruction that Israel inflicted in the north.
Volker Türk, the U.N.’s high commissioner for human rights, said at a press conference that the “catastrophic situation” in Gaza was “entirely foreseeable and preventable.” He noted that his colleagues on the ground in the besieged strip “have described the situation as apocalyptic.”
“Military operations, including bombardment, by Israeli forces continue in north, middle, and south Gaza, affecting people who have already been displaced multiple times—forced to flee—in search of safety,” said Türk. “But no place is safe.”
Many had fled to Khan Younis from the north in search of safety, only to be told to evacuate again weeks later as the Israeli military closed in.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said earlier this week that its ground offensive now encompasses the entirety of the Gaza Strip, leaving the nearly 2 million people who have been displaced with no viable options to avoid near-constant Israeli bombing, shelling, and firefights that have prevented the delivery of critical aid, including medicine and food.
Virtually the entire population of Gaza is at imminent risk of starvation, the World Food Program has warned.
“The hunger war has started,” one displaced person told The Associated Press, saying that Gazans are now fighting over dwindling food supplies. “This is the worst of all wars.”................
https://johnmenadue.com/apocalyptic-horror-in-gaza-called-total-failure-of-our-shared-humanity/
Brilliant. Thank you for your superior service then and now.
But ...but...but ...Bill..
Yesterday President Biden warned all Americans that they'd better send billions more dollars to Ukraine, or the US will have to send US soldiers to die in Ukraine.
And furthermore, he said that we can't let Putin "win" in the Ukraine!
He warns that Putin will then invade Europe and the US's NATO allies.
And then of course, the US will have to send US soldiers to die in Europe. He actually said that!
And Admiral John Kirby, the Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the White House, backed Genocide Joe up! Nikki Haley is on board as well! GMAFB!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkzsNWC2bg8
Yes, Dennis, isn't it amazing how Biden and the DC blob assured us a few short months ago, "Putin has already lost the war." What went wrong? Were we lied to!? Surely, not.
Too bad Biden doesn't have to explain what good weapons will do for an army being killed off faster than they can be reinforced--and then with 17-70 year olds with almost no training. (None I suspect for all practical purposes.) A real strategy for victory there. I hope for the dying's sake, Ukraine surrenders pronto.
Meanwhile I join the growing chorus....
"Biden, Biden, you can't hide! We charge you with genocide!”
“Hey hey! Ho ho! Genocide Joe has got to go!"
Yep, so true my friend.
Biden did not say anything about the US being $33-trillion in debt when he suggested America should send billions more dollars to Ukraine! 😩👎👎
An excellent article Bill! I see what you see in it and you know you have my Spiritual support.
Biden presided over the 2014 US-CIA orchestrated Coup-Regime change of the Democratically Elected Russian Friendly Ukraine government, installing a US-CIA proxy anti-Russian government that started shelling the majority Russian speaking UKRAINIAN Civilians on the border with Russia who voted for that Russian Friendly Ukraine government, and rejected the US Regime Change.
Biden is presiding over Israel's INDISCRIMINATE, INCESSANT, MURDEROUS BOMBARDMENT of the Innocent Palestinian Civilians of Gaza, those US MADE BOMBS actually BEHEADING BABIES.
The World is witness to the Israeli "IN YOUR FACE BLATANT ETHNIC CLEANSING" of Palestinians from their HOMES those with the eyes to see see the MASSIVE DESTRUCTION on TV every Day.
Israel is creating a living HELL for Gaza Palestinians in this Material World we were created to share.
The UN Secretary-General made the rare use of Article 99, calling on the UN Security Council to call for an IMMEDIATE CEASE FIRE. Will the US and England VETO it?
If they do, I expect the LIVING MATERIAL HELL the US-Israel is putting the Gazans through, will come to neighbourhoods everywhere soon enough.
Bill, the Facts of my Curriculum Vitae that started February 1, 1975 I post here is to supplement and confirm what is possible in this World's COMMON FUTURE as you wrote;
"Whereas a month ago, we lived with the risk of nuclear war as an outcome of escalating conflict in Ukraine, we now face the elevated risk of a rightfully feared world war as a consequence of entangling alliances between nuclear-armed Moscow and Washington in the Middle East."
The Kansas City Times did a followup to the September 13, 1976 Historical Record on ALL SOULS DAY, November 2, 1976. I had no editorial control over their Date of making it Public, nor over the picture they chose to accompany the record;
https://ray032.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/kansas-city-times-november-2-1976-all-souls-day-2.jpg
It was 7 years to the month later, the movie 'THE DAY AFTER' Kansas City was incinerated in a Nuclear Holocaust was shown to the World for the 1st Time on November 20, 1983.
Establishment Religion says 7 is God's number.
This is that fiery scene:
https://youtu.be/7VG2aJyIFrA?si=aMYfyjBuKFBo4jQ2
Of the 100,000,000 people who watched it on TV that night, imagine my surprise to NOTE at THE END, the movie pauses at the very same picture frame The Kansas City Times used on ALL SOULS DAY, 7 years earlier. That's at the 10 second mark in the clip: https://youtu.be/q7J8eMyK1DI
This is a TV screen shot: https://ray032.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/final-frames-1983-movie-the-day-after-kansas-city-was-destroyed.jpg
Those Historical FACTS are the Signs of the Times.
With the War in EUROPE and the Middle East, our Generations have to be ready for the unexpected because everything is possible.
Gaza is only 26 miles long by 5 miles wide, the Divide line Israels drawn between North and South is only 13 miles on either side and Israel has dropped thousands of bombs North and South Day and Night!
CNN & MSNBC I see as Propagandists for the IDF and Israeli Officials and I gag in my anger when I hear an Israeli spokesperson say, Israel takes great care to avoid CIVILIAN casualties. I see the pictures on CNN & MSNBC. I know that Israeli spokesperson is LYING!
The US stands alone with its VETO of the UN Security Council call for an immediate cease fire in Gaza. Shame on America! Shame on Biden! The US has not heard the end of this. There will be consequences for Americans.
England abstained and the other 13 SC Members voted for the cease fire.
The empire is failing & flailing badly. The sooner it goes the way of all empires, the better for the people of the planet. Thank you for your good work!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! We all needed that, and it is beautifully said. I'll forward it to many, and I hope your other readers will too, because we need to get this view out there a ll across America. We get bits and pieces of it, but rarely is it all put together. Our MSM will not say this. No commenter, or reporter in our MSM on either side - Republican or Democrat - will say all of this and it so badly needs to be said. This is why, from my point of view, both Biden and Trump are equally awful. The Dems want to say that Trump will destroy our Democracy and the Republicans want to say that Biden will; the truth is that if we elect either one we will see the end of our so-called democracy, and possibly the planet. We truly need a candidate and a program who will put peace and rational thinking to work in our foreign and domestic policies.
US Defense Sec. Loyd Austin (on the Board of Raytheon) openly threatens Americans over Ukraine.
Send $$$ or "We'll sent your kids to fight".
Lloyd Austin - if that maniac Nazi Putin wins in Ukraine, he will go further and will try to occupy Baltic states and that will result in the war against Russia using NATO troops.
Better stop Putin in Ukraine and "save American lives". Oh dear!
Who is WE eh?
Is the biggest threat to the US its own Army? Is he telling Congress that he'll send American kids to a war that can only be declared by Congress?
Where have I got this all wrong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzyDUhDRD3I&t=25s
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EDIT: Watching Al Jazeera as I peck away here in the middle of the night down under. Hamas Military just announced that Israeli bombing has killed some of their Israeli soldier hostages! It's all going to shit eh!
I introduced this excellent writer to the group several articles back with some really enjoyable satire that 1st Time I read him.
Simon Elmer is really smart and he does his research.
This is a very long read but for those History Buffs wanting to know what the UN Secretary-General meant when he said, "October 7 didn't happen in a vacuum" Simon gives us a detailed History that made October 7 inevitable, and well worth the read.
10 Questions About Gaza – Part 2
https://off-guardian.org/2023/12/06/10-questions-about-gaza-part-2/
Wonderful essay.