"Genocide creates US jobs" may not be a healthy slogan, but it is precisely the justification that is provided. It's sick in the extreme. Only certified psychopaths and sociopaths could think in such terms. As for paying for all the weapons we ship to Israel (and Ukraine), they are all charged to the national credit card adding to the gargantuan debt, which will then be used to further gut and/or privatize all social programs because thay are roundly denounced as "entitlements"--Social Security, Medicare, EPA, HUD, Education, etc.
Netanyahu will go down in history as the person most responsible for ending Israel as we know it now. Israel is on the path to self destruction in their desperate attempt to rid the region of the indigenous population. The world will not forget.
When it comes to Israel, there is little (if any) light between Biden, Trump and RFK Jr., and certainly little between them and Congress. Ignore US voter will; genuflect to AIPAC.
“The Twenty-Five Lessons” contained in Mark Kurlansky’s NONVIOLENCE: THE HISTORY OF A DANGEROUS IDEA are as follows:
1. There is no proactive word for nonviolence.
2. Nations that build military forces as deterrents will eventually use them.
3. Practitioners of nonviolence are seen as enemies of the state.
4. Once a state takes over a religion, the religion loses its nonviolent teachings.
5. A rebel can be defanged and co-opted by making him a saint after he is dead.
6. Somewhere behind every war there are always a few founding lies.
7. A propaganda machine promoting hatred always has a war waiting in the wings.
8. People who go to war start to resemble their enemy.
9. A conflict between a violent and a nonviolent force is a moral argument. If the violent side can provoke the nonviolent side into violence, the violent side has won.
10. The problem lies not in the nature of man but in the nature of power.
11. The longer a war lasts, the less popular it becomes.
12. The state imagines it is impotent without a military because it cannot conceive of power without force.
13. It is often not the largest but the best organized and most articulate group that prevails.
14. All debate momentarily ends with an “enforced silence” once the first shots are fired.
15. A shooting war is not necessary to overthrow an established power but is used to consolidate the revolution itself.
16. Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.
17. Warfare produces peace activists. A group of veterans is a likely place to find peace activists.
18. People motivated by fear do not act well.
19. While it is perfectly feasible to convince a people faced with brutal repression to rise up in a suicidal attack on their oppressor, it is almost impossible to convince them to meet deadly violence with nonviolent resistance.
20. Wars do not have to be sold to the general public if they can be carried out by an all-volunteer professional military.
21. Once you start the business of killing, you just get “deeper and deeper,” without limits.
22. Violence always comes with a supposedly rational explanation—which is only dismissed as irrational if the violence fails.
23. Violence is a virus that infects and takes over.
24. The miracle is that despite all of society's promotion of warfare, most soldiers find warfare to be a wrenching departure from their own moral values.
25. The hard work of beginning a movement to end war has already been done.
The hard work ahead now is to take a movement to end war to the next level, and to begin to make that happen.
CNBC’s Michelle Fox’s 1 Mar 24 piece THE U.S. NATIONAL DEBT IS RISING BY $1 TRILLION ABOUT EVERY 100 DAYS needs to get Somebody’s attention. Is anybody in Swampland or among its Wannabes giving any thought to this at all? Is anybody in America giving any thought to this at all?
KEY POINTS
1 ~ The nation’s debt now stands at nearly $34.4 trillion, as of Wednesday.
2 ~ Since June, the last two $1 trillion jumps occurred in about 100 days.
3 ~ Moody’s lowered its Ratings Outlook on the U.S. Government from “Stable” to “Negative.”
The debt load of the U.S. is growing at a quicker clip in recent months, increasing about $1 trillion nearly every 100 days.
The nation’s debt permanently crossed over to $34 trillion on Jan. 4, after briefly crossing the mark on Dec. 29, according to data from the U.S. Department of the Treasury. It reached $33 trillion on Sept. 15, 2023, and $32 trillion on June 15, 2023, hitting this accelerated pace. Before that, the $1 trillion move higher from $31 trillion took about eight months.
U.S. debt, which is the amount of money the federal government borrows to cover operating expenses, now stands at nearly $34.4 billion, as of Wednesday. Bank of America investment strategist Michael Hartnett believes the 100-day pattern will remain intact with the move from $34 trillion to $35 trillion.
“Little wonder ‘debt debasement’ trades closing in on all-time highs, i.e. gold $2077/oz, bitcoin $67734,” he wrote in a note Thursday.
Spot gold is currently hovering around $2,084 an ounce, while bitcoin was recently around $61,443. The cryptocurrency in February closed out its best month since 2020, briefly trading above $64,000 on Wednesday before pulling back. Inflows into crypto funds are on course for a “blowout year,” with an annualized inflow of $44.7 billion so far this year, Hartnett noted.
MOODY’S INVESTORS SERVICE LOWERED ITS RATINGS OUTLOOK ON THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO NEGATIVE FROM STABLE IN NOVEMBER DUE TO THE RISING RISKS OF THE COUNTRY’S FISCAL STRENGTH.
“IN THE CONTEXT OF HIGHER INTEREST RATES, WITHOUT EFFECTIVE FISCAL POLICY MEASURES TO REDUCE GOVERNMENT SPENDING OR INCREASE REVENUES,” THE AGENCY SAID. “MOODY’S EXPECTS THAT THE US’ FISCAL DEFICITS WILL REMAIN VERY LARGE, SIGNIFICANTLY WEAKENING DEBT AFFORDABILITY.”
Scott Ritter concludes his 2 March 2024 piece THE SILENT EULOGY as follows:
So here is to the American experiment.
Born July 4, 1776.
Died…we’ll never know.
An imperfect union, it strove to be better, fighting a revolution to free itself from the tyranny of the British crown while preserving slavery as a constitutionally approved institution. America fought a bloody Civil War to end the evil of slavery and preserve the Union, all the while implementing its self-anointed God-given “manifest destiny” which drove into near extinction the indigenous people who populated the continent we conquered. We came to the aid of Europe not once, but twice, over the course of a century, helping defeat the forces of fascism and imperialism, before becoming fascist-like in our domestic policies that supported our imperialistic foreign policies.
America, the beautiful.
God shed his grace on thee.
This is the eulogy I will never be able to deliver, because like the rest of you, I am fated to die in a nuclear holocaust of our own making. We have embarked on a collective journey whose only destination is death and destruction.
We have ignored, at our own peril, the efforts of those, at home and abroad, who have tried to get us to take an off-ramp.
I would have liked to have had the epitaph on my gravestone read, “Here lies a warrior for peace, who dedicated his life to the cause of making the world a safer place to live.”
Alas, I, like all of you who are reading this, am doomed to die in a war that could have been avoided if we just tried a little bit harder to avoid it.
The shame is that, at that moment when the inevitability of our passing hits home, in the millisecond that will follow the flash of light and the comprehension of what it signifies, all of us will think “If I had just…”
But it will be too late because we did not.
We allowed the military industrial complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned us about to become manifest.
We remained indifferent to the reality of its pervasiveness, even as our own government informed us that the reason for pursuing our suicidal path of destruction with Russia in Ukraine was so that our defense industry could profit.
But there is no profit in death.
Rest in peace, America.
And may God damn us all to hell for destroying that which he had bequeathed us.
Austin's crocodile tears are so disingenuous. His comments on feeding the war machine here in the States and feeding IDF shows his depth of rational thinking. He's in the echo chamber of Washington elitist ass holes.
If that isn't bad enough, Austin also said this, "US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says if Ukraine falls he really believes NATO will be in a fight with Russia"
US government leadership surely believes that its citizenry lacks access to the Internet and the ever increasing number of independent journalists who courageously report on the horrors of the US/Israel genocidal project. (I write "courageously" because these journalists face a determined assault from a plethora of zionist-controlled media, propaganda organizations and lawmakers.) The often first hand reporting and videos explicitly contradict the "official" state media narrative presented during the various press events and nightly news. It becomes readily obvious to me that the "invisible" (deep) state controls our government.
Excellent point, Bill and I don't think there is any kind of responsible way to use a weapon in war, at home or anywhere else, unless you have to defend your family and it's your only choice left.. Linking once again @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
"... these weapons are often paid for by the American taxpayer..." [and invested in by the American lawmaker].
According to Sludge, Ro Khanna's wife held up to $100,000 in Honeywell shares and up to $50,000 in Leidos shares as late as 2021. This is what passes as a "progressive" in American politics.
"Genocide creates US jobs" may not be a healthy slogan, but it is precisely the justification that is provided. It's sick in the extreme. Only certified psychopaths and sociopaths could think in such terms. As for paying for all the weapons we ship to Israel (and Ukraine), they are all charged to the national credit card adding to the gargantuan debt, which will then be used to further gut and/or privatize all social programs because thay are roundly denounced as "entitlements"--Social Security, Medicare, EPA, HUD, Education, etc.
Netanyahu will go down in history as the person most responsible for ending Israel as we know it now. Israel is on the path to self destruction in their desperate attempt to rid the region of the indigenous population. The world will not forget.
The way they use language is so bizarre. Perhaps next we will be told that Hiroshima was destroyed by a "peaceful" atomic bomb.
When it comes to Israel, there is little (if any) light between Biden, Trump and RFK Jr., and certainly little between them and Congress. Ignore US voter will; genuflect to AIPAC.
“The Twenty-Five Lessons” contained in Mark Kurlansky’s NONVIOLENCE: THE HISTORY OF A DANGEROUS IDEA are as follows:
1. There is no proactive word for nonviolence.
2. Nations that build military forces as deterrents will eventually use them.
3. Practitioners of nonviolence are seen as enemies of the state.
4. Once a state takes over a religion, the religion loses its nonviolent teachings.
5. A rebel can be defanged and co-opted by making him a saint after he is dead.
6. Somewhere behind every war there are always a few founding lies.
7. A propaganda machine promoting hatred always has a war waiting in the wings.
8. People who go to war start to resemble their enemy.
9. A conflict between a violent and a nonviolent force is a moral argument. If the violent side can provoke the nonviolent side into violence, the violent side has won.
10. The problem lies not in the nature of man but in the nature of power.
11. The longer a war lasts, the less popular it becomes.
12. The state imagines it is impotent without a military because it cannot conceive of power without force.
13. It is often not the largest but the best organized and most articulate group that prevails.
14. All debate momentarily ends with an “enforced silence” once the first shots are fired.
15. A shooting war is not necessary to overthrow an established power but is used to consolidate the revolution itself.
16. Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.
17. Warfare produces peace activists. A group of veterans is a likely place to find peace activists.
18. People motivated by fear do not act well.
19. While it is perfectly feasible to convince a people faced with brutal repression to rise up in a suicidal attack on their oppressor, it is almost impossible to convince them to meet deadly violence with nonviolent resistance.
20. Wars do not have to be sold to the general public if they can be carried out by an all-volunteer professional military.
21. Once you start the business of killing, you just get “deeper and deeper,” without limits.
22. Violence always comes with a supposedly rational explanation—which is only dismissed as irrational if the violence fails.
23. Violence is a virus that infects and takes over.
24. The miracle is that despite all of society's promotion of warfare, most soldiers find warfare to be a wrenching departure from their own moral values.
25. The hard work of beginning a movement to end war has already been done.
The hard work ahead now is to take a movement to end war to the next level, and to begin to make that happen.
Slightly Off-Topic, but definitely On...:
CNBC’s Michelle Fox’s 1 Mar 24 piece THE U.S. NATIONAL DEBT IS RISING BY $1 TRILLION ABOUT EVERY 100 DAYS needs to get Somebody’s attention. Is anybody in Swampland or among its Wannabes giving any thought to this at all? Is anybody in America giving any thought to this at all?
KEY POINTS
1 ~ The nation’s debt now stands at nearly $34.4 trillion, as of Wednesday.
2 ~ Since June, the last two $1 trillion jumps occurred in about 100 days.
3 ~ Moody’s lowered its Ratings Outlook on the U.S. Government from “Stable” to “Negative.”
The debt load of the U.S. is growing at a quicker clip in recent months, increasing about $1 trillion nearly every 100 days.
The nation’s debt permanently crossed over to $34 trillion on Jan. 4, after briefly crossing the mark on Dec. 29, according to data from the U.S. Department of the Treasury. It reached $33 trillion on Sept. 15, 2023, and $32 trillion on June 15, 2023, hitting this accelerated pace. Before that, the $1 trillion move higher from $31 trillion took about eight months.
U.S. debt, which is the amount of money the federal government borrows to cover operating expenses, now stands at nearly $34.4 billion, as of Wednesday. Bank of America investment strategist Michael Hartnett believes the 100-day pattern will remain intact with the move from $34 trillion to $35 trillion.
“Little wonder ‘debt debasement’ trades closing in on all-time highs, i.e. gold $2077/oz, bitcoin $67734,” he wrote in a note Thursday.
Spot gold is currently hovering around $2,084 an ounce, while bitcoin was recently around $61,443. The cryptocurrency in February closed out its best month since 2020, briefly trading above $64,000 on Wednesday before pulling back. Inflows into crypto funds are on course for a “blowout year,” with an annualized inflow of $44.7 billion so far this year, Hartnett noted.
MOODY’S INVESTORS SERVICE LOWERED ITS RATINGS OUTLOOK ON THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO NEGATIVE FROM STABLE IN NOVEMBER DUE TO THE RISING RISKS OF THE COUNTRY’S FISCAL STRENGTH.
“IN THE CONTEXT OF HIGHER INTEREST RATES, WITHOUT EFFECTIVE FISCAL POLICY MEASURES TO REDUCE GOVERNMENT SPENDING OR INCREASE REVENUES,” THE AGENCY SAID. “MOODY’S EXPECTS THAT THE US’ FISCAL DEFICITS WILL REMAIN VERY LARGE, SIGNIFICANTLY WEAKENING DEBT AFFORDABILITY.”
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/01/the-us-national-debt-is-rising-by-1-trillion-about-every-100-days.html; EMPHASIS added.
Scott Ritter concludes his 2 March 2024 piece THE SILENT EULOGY as follows:
So here is to the American experiment.
Born July 4, 1776.
Died…we’ll never know.
An imperfect union, it strove to be better, fighting a revolution to free itself from the tyranny of the British crown while preserving slavery as a constitutionally approved institution. America fought a bloody Civil War to end the evil of slavery and preserve the Union, all the while implementing its self-anointed God-given “manifest destiny” which drove into near extinction the indigenous people who populated the continent we conquered. We came to the aid of Europe not once, but twice, over the course of a century, helping defeat the forces of fascism and imperialism, before becoming fascist-like in our domestic policies that supported our imperialistic foreign policies.
America, the beautiful.
God shed his grace on thee.
This is the eulogy I will never be able to deliver, because like the rest of you, I am fated to die in a nuclear holocaust of our own making. We have embarked on a collective journey whose only destination is death and destruction.
We have ignored, at our own peril, the efforts of those, at home and abroad, who have tried to get us to take an off-ramp.
I would have liked to have had the epitaph on my gravestone read, “Here lies a warrior for peace, who dedicated his life to the cause of making the world a safer place to live.”
Alas, I, like all of you who are reading this, am doomed to die in a war that could have been avoided if we just tried a little bit harder to avoid it.
The shame is that, at that moment when the inevitability of our passing hits home, in the millisecond that will follow the flash of light and the comprehension of what it signifies, all of us will think “If I had just…”
But it will be too late because we did not.
We allowed the military industrial complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned us about to become manifest.
We remained indifferent to the reality of its pervasiveness, even as our own government informed us that the reason for pursuing our suicidal path of destruction with Russia in Ukraine was so that our defense industry could profit.
But there is no profit in death.
Rest in peace, America.
And may God damn us all to hell for destroying that which he had bequeathed us.
Full article at: https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/the-silent-eulogy .
Austin's crocodile tears are so disingenuous. His comments on feeding the war machine here in the States and feeding IDF shows his depth of rational thinking. He's in the echo chamber of Washington elitist ass holes.
If that isn't bad enough, Austin also said this, "US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says if Ukraine falls he really believes NATO will be in a fight with Russia"
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-chief-if-ukraine-defeated-war-nato-will-be-war-russia
Mine is the last longest comment on the Prophecy Austin confirms Today, these 48 years later.
America does not exist.
When did it fade away?
US government leadership surely believes that its citizenry lacks access to the Internet and the ever increasing number of independent journalists who courageously report on the horrors of the US/Israel genocidal project. (I write "courageously" because these journalists face a determined assault from a plethora of zionist-controlled media, propaganda organizations and lawmakers.) The often first hand reporting and videos explicitly contradict the "official" state media narrative presented during the various press events and nightly news. It becomes readily obvious to me that the "invisible" (deep) state controls our government.
Excellent point, Bill and I don't think there is any kind of responsible way to use a weapon in war, at home or anywhere else, unless you have to defend your family and it's your only choice left.. Linking once again @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
"... these weapons are often paid for by the American taxpayer..." [and invested in by the American lawmaker].
According to Sludge, Ro Khanna's wife held up to $100,000 in Honeywell shares and up to $50,000 in Leidos shares as late as 2021. This is what passes as a "progressive" in American politics.