So "Israel relies on Western Islamophobic pretenses to further its foreign policy agenda in delegitimizing Palestinian grievance, leaving the occupied state’s colonization unquestioned. It dismisses responsibility for historical crimes committed against Palestinians such as ethnic cleansing, collective punishment and apartheid because the victims of the crimes are either part of a homogenous group of radicalism or - are subhuman. If the Palestinians were a Euro-Christian people then we can rest assured the West wouldn’t have stood idly by, as Israel dropped chemical weapons on Gaza in 2008 and then - also bulldozed over 28,000 Palestinian homes since 1967.
And - "Zionism needs the Western sympathizing countries to remain Islamophobic. Despite Netanyahu’s plea that ... “it’s not Islam. Its militant Islam” - his country continues to benefit from the proliferation of the doctrine. As long as Israel floats in its “sea of red-Arab Muslim terror”, it'll remain in perpetual victimhood while simultaneously being a colonial-occupying power in Palestine." FROM:
please note how the ... "Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze, and leaving corpses on the streets - all with their commanders’ permission."
This^is a Totally Devastating Reprise .. by Jeremy Cahill, Ryan Grim and DemocracyNow!'s Amy Goodman, of Israel's 'rape' claims and requires urgent attention of all true journalists worldwide!!
As: "Decades after Kach's founding & Rabbi Meir Kahane's death, the radical Jewish supremacist movement may be even more influential today than during its inception"!!
"I've realized that a lot of the difference between me and my less radical friends - is that they are less capable of imagining a better world than I am."
From which:"University students across the country, facing mass arrests, suspensions, evictions and explusions are our last, best hope to halt the genocide in Gaza"!
and note: "Columbia Professor Rashid Khalidi says student protesters are ‘on the right side of history’"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz2VcELqF7s - and further please try to carefully note:
"Hamas: How Israel created its own nemesis w/Paola Caridi | The Chris Hedges Report": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79-43bBUGsU (52m - an essential video for the curious) &
"'There was crazy hysteria and decisions started being made without verified information': Documents and testimonies obtained by Haaretz, reveal the Hannibal Operational Order, which directs the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken into captivity - was employed at three army facilities infiltrated by Hamas, potentially endangering civilians as well"!
and note: "Ronen Bergman is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, based in Tel Aviv. His latest book is “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations” published by Random House, via the New York Times".
NB "The Grayzone has obtained slides from a confidential Israel lobby presentation based on data from Republican pollster, Frank Luntz. They contain talking points for politicians and public figures seeking to justify Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip."
& - https://youtu.be/fs34Mos1wsE - as "Prof. John Mearsheimer reacts to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s description of the cease fire status & determines that he is “not telling a true story”!!
Where "Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze, and leaving corpses on the streets, (& all this) with their commanders’ permission"!!! WARNING: This last link above, is a long, detailed and utterly horrific read!
And note "Israeli scholar Maya Wind’s new book - 'Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom'.. documents how Israeli universities directly constrain Palestinian rights by supporting & even developing the policies of occupation and apartheid used by the Israeli state.“In the West, Israeli universities are considered bastions of pluralism and democracy. But in fact … they are a central pillar of the Israeli regime's of oppression against Palestinians,” says Wind. She also discusses Israel’s “scholasticide" in Gaza, the "intentional destruction of Palestinian education” - & the movement of conscientious objectors to Israel’s mandatory conscription, in which she took part when she refused to enlist in the army at age 18 and served 40 days in a military prison."
It looks like Crimea will return to Ukraine. Where's Russia's Black Sea fleet fleeing to in order to avoid being droned? Venezuela (which has the world's largest proven crude oil reserve) for refueling the Black Sea fleet?
Woman living in tent with 3 premature babies. This is the reality that is Gaza. The suffering is unbearable. Why is the world looking away? So much for the Right to Lifers!
Entity 1 borrows $110M from Bank 1.
Entity 2 borrows $100M from Bank 2.
Entity 3 borrows $100M from Bank 3.
Each Bank marks debits on their ledgers.
Entity 1 cashes the check from Bank1 at Bank2
Entity 2 cashes the check from Bank2 at Bank3
Entity 3 cashes the check from Bank3 at Bank1
At the end of the day Banks 2&3's ledgers balance
or in the black but Bank 1 is $10million in the red.
Bank1 borrows $10M from the FED to balance
its books. Both mark their ledgers appropriately.
In the morning the ledgers are marked and the loan
is repaid. Eventually Bank1 has a big day and
everything is balanced again. Every bank wins.
Only the people suffer from the inflation wrought
with the money created out of thin air every day.
The carbon tax would be refundable and therefore help with wealth inequality as well as carbon, none of our puny efforts will turn around the problem untill we have a carbon tax.
the fascist have taken over X I no longer post there because I refuse to do anything that enriches Musk, I use Threads now, I have used X to flame Musk but not so much, I just don't go there anymorer I don't understnad why anyone does,
The exponentially [at the rate of compound interest] growing personal debt is ultimately self destructive. This has been known for thousands of years. Thus ancient Debt Jubilees. The destruction may be minimized by public operation of the FIRE sector on a non-profit basis. Then regular "clean slate" Jubilees can facilitate our survival.
Absolutely! The concentration of wealth and exponentially [at the rate of compound interest] growing personal debt is ultimately self destructive. This has been know for thousands of years. Thus ancient Debt Jubilees. The destruction may be minimized by public operation of the FIRE sector on a non-profit basis. Then regular "clean slate" Jubilees can facilitate our survival.
"Becoming a billionaire is a matter of extreme luck, often experienced not by any one individual but rather spread out, over generations — it is, after all, a lot easier to accumulate one billion dollars if you start out, as Kylie Jenner did, with family wealth (and a family media platform). And what is more: your good luck, in becoming a billionaire, must simultaneously be felt — often directly, and perhaps very violently — as the bad luck, of possibly hundreds of millions of others, whom your wealth exists as theft from."
Americans really need to quit worshiping the wealthy and start fighting for their own interests.
Small businesses can't make it these days because regular people have no money to spend at small businesses that have to keep prices high enough to cover their ever skyrocketing costs. People, with their low wages and huge living expenses, themselves, are forced to go to the cheapest place for their goods, places such as Walmart and Amazon that are able to offer the lowest prices because of the volume that they sell.
The joys of going into a local store are slipping away quickly, maybe to never return.
Several businesses have shuttered. Soon, it will be a ghost town for regular people and be servicing only the very rich. No quality of life for working people.
So, couldn't agree with you more. Our economic system is set up to help only the wealthy and corporations.
"The letter comes in response to a letter back on May 3 from Democrats to Biden - warning him that “Israel” is breaching US law that prevents sending weapons to parties blocking American aid."
As "A suspension of Israel’s rights and privileges by the United Nations General Assembly would put much more pressure on its government than Palestine’s full membership."
The Israeli state is openly allied to the far right in Europe and the US and beyond. It proudly sees their electoral success as fundamental to Israel’s strategy. This alone tells us all we need to know about the Israeli state.
Which ends with this: "Does the wholesale killing of their families – in Israeli bombings that, with the approval of IDF legal advisers, kill 20 or 30 people including women, children and elderly, to kill one “legitimate” target – deter other young people?
"How many of them are motivated by it to join the Hamas army? The failure of a total victory doctrine does not derive from Netanyahu’s personal motivations to endlessly continue this cruel war. It comes from most Israelis' refusal to grasp that the oppressed Palestinian people . . . are no longer willing or able, to go along with its oppression. And that includes many opponents of the war and of Hamas."
NB "All decent Israelis must ask themselves the following questions: Is their country committing war crimes in Gaza? If so, how should they be stopped? How should the culprits be punished? Who can punish them? Is it reasonable for crimes to go unprosecuted and criminals to be exculpated?"
Today the Matrix spectrum spreads from low energy MAGA to lukewarm left in America. Most continue to energize dominance by the economic elite with ordinary brain dead echos of the thoughts of their oppressors.
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 hours ago
Re.'Nukes For Nakba' and per the OP, try to closely consider:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6sQTqzfu48 [11m]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5CTbGAdjnk [9m]
&, try to consider this site: https://ifamericansknew.org/
Further note this https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/
Also it's noted how you have nothing to say re. my prior^reply!
And 'What role do US tech giants play in powering Israel?'
Further try to note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_Day and
https://www.afcfp.org/2024-joint-nakba-remembrance-ceremony
Finally per the OP - Daniel Ellesberg RiP, & Julian Assange NB:
https://www.the-berliner.com/politics/daniel-ellsberg-wikileaks/
ad iudicium?!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 21 hours ago
So "Israel relies on Western Islamophobic pretenses to further its foreign policy agenda in delegitimizing Palestinian grievance, leaving the occupied state’s colonization unquestioned. It dismisses responsibility for historical crimes committed against Palestinians such as ethnic cleansing, collective punishment and apartheid because the victims of the crimes are either part of a homogenous group of radicalism or - are subhuman. If the Palestinians were a Euro-Christian people then we can rest assured the West wouldn’t have stood idly by, as Israel dropped chemical weapons on Gaza in 2008 and then - also bulldozed over 28,000 Palestinian homes since 1967.
And - "Zionism needs the Western sympathizing countries to remain Islamophobic. Despite Netanyahu’s plea that ... “it’s not Islam. Its militant Islam” - his country continues to benefit from the proliferation of the doctrine. As long as Israel floats in its “sea of red-Arab Muslim terror”, it'll remain in perpetual victimhood while simultaneously being a colonial-occupying power in Palestine." FROM:
"How Israel relies on Islamophobia"! by Paul Racco: https://mondoweiss.net/2014/10/israel-relies-islamophobia/ (from Oct. 2014) - & also try to further consider:
"The Denationalization of American Muslims"! - by Peter Beinart: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/frank-gaffney-donald-trump-and-the-denationalization-of-american-muslims/519954/ (from March 2017) - and ...
Further - "What the Mainstream Media Never Told You About Palestine"! [audio + transcript] https://truthout.org/audio/what-the-mainstream-media-never-told-you-about-palestine/ (from May 2021 & still highly relevant!)
Finally "‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza"! https://www.972mag.com/israeli-soldiers-gaza-firing-regulations/ - AND ...
please note how the ... "Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze, and leaving corpses on the streets - all with their commanders’ permission."
respice; adspice; prospice - et spero meliora!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 days ago
See how "New Film Examines American Jews’ Growing Rejection of Israel’s Occupation"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuBnzzGmH7c (19m 30s) via+with: DemocracyNow!
Also - "NETANYAHU’S WAR ON TRUTH"! by Jeremy Scahill: https://theintercept.com/2024/02/07/gaza-israel-netanyahu-propaganda-lies-palestinians/
"Israel’s Ruthless Propaganda Campaign to Dehumanize Palestinians" Also consider these vids:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/7/israel_propaganda_gaza 17m DemocracyNow!
& https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/7/israel_hamas_negotiations_daniel_levy [24m]
also: "The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7"!
This^is a Totally Devastating Reprise .. by Jeremy Cahill, Ryan Grim and DemocracyNow!'s Amy Goodman, of Israel's 'rape' claims and requires urgent attention of all true journalists worldwide!!
Further: "What REALLY Happened on Oct 7" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mxfnya3ZRc
A clear, concise & clinical deconstruction of the events from 6 months ago and a precis of this vid:
'October 7: Al Jazeera Investigations' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0atzea-mPY
Now note 'What will happen When the Holocaust No Longer Prevents the World from Seeing Israel as It Is?' https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2024/05/16/what-will-happen-when-the-holocaust-no-longer-prevents-the-world-from-seeing-israel-as-it-is/13/ Hagai Elad
Finally: "Itamar Ben-Gvir and Israel's Pandora's box of violent extremism"! by Philippe Pernot: https://www.newarab.com/analysis/israels-pandoras-box-violent-extremism - and ...
while noting "The rise to prominence of Itamar Ben-Gvir and other extremists has placed a radical ideology at the heart of political power in Israel."
As: "Decades after Kach's founding & Rabbi Meir Kahane's death, the radical Jewish supremacist movement may be even more influential today than during its inception"!!
e tenebris, lux?!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 days ago
"I've realized that a lot of the difference between me and my less radical friends - is that they are less capable of imagining a better world than I am."
Aaron Bushnell RiP, would have been 26 on the 30th of June 2024.
And also see https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/aaron-bushnell-self-immolation-what-we-know.html
and further note .. "Aaron Bushnell Was the Tip of the Iceberg. Now US Troops are Quitting the Military Over Gaza"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWdPNABjAqk (12m 42s)
Also: https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-forces-dropped-8-2000-pound-bombs-on-gaza-safe-zone-killing-90/ by Sharon Zhang and by the same author, further try to closely consider the following...
https://truthout.org/articles/oxfam-israel-has-reduced-water-access-in-gaza-by-94-percent-since-october/
& https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-forces-post-pictures-of-stripped-detained-palestinian-children-online/
fiat lux, adspice et prospice!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 days ago
So clearly "Everybody Wants Gaza's Gas"! by Rachel Donald:
"The $500 billion windfall shoring up EU supplies" and please also try to see ...
https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics/status/1723051649722130862 (4m 30s video)
and also closely consider this https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-genocide
Now try to please consider: "Gaza War: Creating Facts for the Ben-Gurion Canal?!!!" https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/11/15/gaza-war-creating-facts-for-the-ben-gurion-canal/
Further note "Industrial Killing of Civilians in Gaza Won’t Defeat the Armed Insurgency"!! https://theintercept.com/2023/12/20/gaza-israel-biden-netanyahu-war-strategy/ -Jeremy Scahill
Finally consider this "'Pure evil' – Dr. Mads Gilbert on Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s hospitals"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLDnZ1OYR9w&t=1262s {Almost unbelievably horrific details}
PS: https://twitter.com/CensoredMen/status/1736461692970688675 [Very Relevant Short Video!]
ergo - cui bono?!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago
'‘Israel is a Lying Machine, Palestine has the right to defend itself’'! [first broadcast - May 2021]
https://rumble.com/v44cmyr-rip-john-pilger-1939-2023-israel-is-a-lying-machine-palestine-has-the-right.html {28m} - This was rebroadcast again after JP died on the 31st of December 2023.
& as "THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE IT STARTED ON OCT 7", then please reprise this list: https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1777297587986481598 and now ...
further "What Really Happened on Oct 7" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mxfnya3ZRc
Also note: "Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: Gaza and Free Speech" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJKLT5Y9Os
Further consider "Revolt in the Universities" https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/revolt-in-the-universities-read-by - audio and full transcript.
From which:"University students across the country, facing mass arrests, suspensions, evictions and explusions are our last, best hope to halt the genocide in Gaza"!
and note: "Columbia Professor Rashid Khalidi says student protesters are ‘on the right side of history’" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz2VcELqF7s - and further please try to carefully note:
"Hamas: How Israel created its own nemesis w/Paola Caridi | The Chris Hedges Report": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79-43bBUGsU (52m - an essential video for the curious) &
"Israel’s starvation policy in Gaza is forcing people to eat tree leaves"! by Tareq S Hajjaj: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/israels-starvation-policy-in-gaza-is-forcing-people-to-eat-t and
"Newly Released Gaza Hospital Director Alleges 'Daily Torture' in Israeli Detention"! by Edward Carver https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-hospital-director-released + finally:
"IDF Ordered Hannibal Directive on Oct. 7 to Prevent Hamas Taking Soldiers Captive"!!! https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-07/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-ordered-hannibal-directive-on-october-7-to-prevent-hamas-taking-soldiers-captive/00000190-89a2-d776-a3b1-fdbe45520000 by Yaniv Kubovich
"'There was crazy hysteria and decisions started being made without verified information': Documents and testimonies obtained by Haaretz, reveal the Hannibal Operational Order, which directs the use of force to prevent soldiers being taken into captivity - was employed at three army facilities infiltrated by Hamas, potentially endangering civilians as well"!
fiat lux et respice; adspice; prospice ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago
9+ months on, note: "Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan Over a Year Ago - The New York Times"!
https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2023/12/01/israel-knew-hamass-attack-plan-over-a-year-ago-the-new-york-times/ by Ronen Bergman (Text and video)
https://youtu.be/vu4Txxw9bOo (a 11m stand alone video link)
and note: "Ronen Bergman is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, based in Tel Aviv. His latest book is “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations” published by Random House, via the New York Times".
Also "Documents expose Israeli conspiracy to facilitate October 7 attack"!! https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/02/klox-d02.html - by Andre Damon & now, consider:
"Israel Is Losing this War"!!! Tony Karon & Daniel Levy: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-gaza-war/ & ...
as "Despite the violence it has unleashed on Palestinians, Israel is failing to achieve its political goals!"
Further "This Is Not a War Against Hamas"! https://theintercept.com/2023/12/11/israel-hamas-war-civilians-biden/ by Jeremy Scahill
"The notion that the war would end if Hamas was overthrown or surrenders is as ahistorical as it is false"
NB "The Grayzone has obtained slides from a confidential Israel lobby presentation based on data from Republican pollster, Frank Luntz. They contain talking points for politicians and public figures seeking to justify Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip."
Further, consider this tweet .. https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1799119035491295443
Finally & in keeping the 1st^2 links "Reckoning: Israel and Gaza"!!! with Ben Swann https://x.com/Truth_InMedia/status/1798006776211677634 (an essential 14m 25s vid)
PS, NB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1i0UbAyrpk 30m of important infomation
e tenebris lux?!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 6 days ago
Now consider "To those who are afraid - reflect on the roots of your fear"! .. by Jacob Engelberg:
"Zionism depends on a terrified diaspora. But a Jewish ethnostate that subjugates Palestinians in our name does not make anyone safe"!!!
Further try to consider: https://tomdispatch.com/the-military-industrial-complex-is-killing-us-all/
Also ... https://truthout.org/video/a-former-israeli-peace-negotiator-dissects-the-new-ceasefire-proposal/ DemocracyNow!'s Amy Goodman with ex-Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy (19m video)
& - https://youtu.be/fs34Mos1wsE - as "Prof. John Mearsheimer reacts to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s description of the cease fire status & determines that he is “not telling a true story”!!
& https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2024/06/14/why-the-senate-must-reject-the-dangerous-antisemitism-awareness-act/15/ - by Richard Eskow
Further: "Exclusive: Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war"! https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/israel-fund-us-university-protest-gaza-antisemitism - by Lee Fang and Jack Poulson
And finally, please consider: "‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s approval of free-for-all violence in Gaza"! https://www.972mag.com/israeli-soldiers-gaza-firing-regulations/ and ...
Where "Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops shooting as they please, setting homes ablaze, and leaving corpses on the streets, (& all this) with their commanders’ permission"!!! WARNING: This last link above, is a long, detailed and utterly horrific read!
fiat lux et fiat justitia - ruat caelum!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 6 days ago
"Towers of Ivory & Steel" Jewish Scholar Says Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom"!
And note "Israeli scholar Maya Wind’s new book - 'Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom'.. documents how Israeli universities directly constrain Palestinian rights by supporting & even developing the policies of occupation and apartheid used by the Israeli state.“In the West, Israeli universities are considered bastions of pluralism and democracy. But in fact … they are a central pillar of the Israeli regime's of oppression against Palestinians,” says Wind. She also discusses Israel’s “scholasticide" in Gaza, the "intentional destruction of Palestinian education” - & the movement of conscientious objectors to Israel’s mandatory conscription, in which she took part when she refused to enlist in the army at age 18 and served 40 days in a military prison."
this ^ via U$A's only left/progressive national daily news show: https://www.democracynow.org/
Further via same source: "“Resist the Normalization of Evil”: Israeli Reporter Amira Hass"; https://youtu.be/DIILcoPSNQs (42m)
Also - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tax-dollars-need-not-genocide-israeli-bond-buying-sparks-backlash
and https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-day-west-defined-success-massacre-270-palestinians
Finally please note: "We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable"! https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697 .. AND
et veritas vos liberabit!
[-] 1 points by grapes (5232) 1 week ago
It looks like Crimea will return to Ukraine. Where's Russia's Black Sea fleet fleeing to in order to avoid being droned? Venezuela (which has the world's largest proven crude oil reserve) for refueling the Black Sea fleet?
Maybe global cyberwar has already started: https://abcnews.go.com/US/american-airlines-issues-global-ground-stop-flights/story?id=112092372
[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23799) 1 week ago
Woman living in tent with 3 premature babies. This is the reality that is Gaza. The suffering is unbearable. Why is the world looking away? So much for the Right to Lifers!
Read this article, if you have the guts.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jul/15/living-in-a-tent-with-premature-triplets-how-fear-and-anxiety-haunt-gazas-new-mothers
[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23799) 1 week ago
"Only the people suffer from the inflation wrought with the money created out of thin air every day."
That bears repeating.
[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23799) 1 week ago
Imagine had a 3rd party emerged in 2016, how much farther along we would be with mitigating climate change.
What you say is true, though.
[-] 1 points by grapes (5232) 1 week ago
BBC report: https://youtu.be/Sut9pcNvTUs?si=kZT_7HSNCssNee5P
[-] 2 points by agkaiser (2526) from Fredericksburg, TX 1 week ago
Entity 1 borrows $110M from Bank 1. Entity 2 borrows $100M from Bank 2. Entity 3 borrows $100M from Bank 3. Each Bank marks debits on their ledgers. Entity 1 cashes the check from Bank1 at Bank2 Entity 2 cashes the check from Bank2 at Bank3 Entity 3 cashes the check from Bank3 at Bank1 At the end of the day Banks 2&3's ledgers balance or in the black but Bank 1 is $10million in the red. Bank1 borrows $10M from the FED to balance its books. Both mark their ledgers appropriately. In the morning the ledgers are marked and the loan is repaid. Eventually Bank1 has a big day and everything is balanced again. Every bank wins. Only the people suffer from the inflation wrought with the money created out of thin air every day.
[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23799) 2 weeks ago
"Israeli weapons packed with shrapnel causing devastating injuries to children in Gaza, doctors say"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/11/israeli-weapons-shrapnel-children-gaza-injured
This is moral turpitude, a crime against humanity!
[-] 2 points by factsrfun (8314) from Phoenix, AZ 2 weeks ago
The carbon tax would be refundable and therefore help with wealth inequality as well as carbon, none of our puny efforts will turn around the problem untill we have a carbon tax.
[-] 2 points by factsrfun (8314) from Phoenix, AZ 2 weeks ago
the fascist have taken over X I no longer post there because I refuse to do anything that enriches Musk, I use Threads now, I have used X to flame Musk but not so much, I just don't go there anymorer I don't understnad why anyone does,
[-] 2 points by agkaiser (2526) from Fredericksburg, TX 2 weeks ago
The exponentially [at the rate of compound interest] growing personal debt is ultimately self destructive. This has been known for thousands of years. Thus ancient Debt Jubilees. The destruction may be minimized by public operation of the FIRE sector on a non-profit basis. Then regular "clean slate" Jubilees can facilitate our survival.
[-] 2 points by agkaiser (2526) from Fredericksburg, TX 2 weeks ago
Absolutely! The concentration of wealth and exponentially [at the rate of compound interest] growing personal debt is ultimately self destructive. This has been know for thousands of years. Thus ancient Debt Jubilees. The destruction may be minimized by public operation of the FIRE sector on a non-profit basis. Then regular "clean slate" Jubilees can facilitate our survival.
[-] 2 points by beautifulworld (23799) 2 weeks ago
"Becoming a billionaire is a matter of extreme luck, often experienced not by any one individual but rather spread out, over generations — it is, after all, a lot easier to accumulate one billion dollars if you start out, as Kylie Jenner did, with family wealth (and a family media platform). And what is more: your good luck, in becoming a billionaire, must simultaneously be felt — often directly, and perhaps very violently — as the bad luck, of possibly hundreds of millions of others, whom your wealth exists as theft from."
Americans really need to quit worshiping the wealthy and start fighting for their own interests.
https://theoutline.com/post/8187/billionaires-are-not-people
[-] 2 points by beautifulworld (23799) 2 weeks ago
Small businesses can't make it these days because regular people have no money to spend at small businesses that have to keep prices high enough to cover their ever skyrocketing costs. People, with their low wages and huge living expenses, themselves, are forced to go to the cheapest place for their goods, places such as Walmart and Amazon that are able to offer the lowest prices because of the volume that they sell.
The joys of going into a local store are slipping away quickly, maybe to never return.
Several businesses have shuttered. Soon, it will be a ghost town for regular people and be servicing only the very rich. No quality of life for working people.
So, couldn't agree with you more. Our economic system is set up to help only the wealthy and corporations.
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 weeks ago
Also note: "How Israel indoctrinates its people - w/Miko Peled; via The Chris Hedges Report"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU0Uc-PKe9Y [44m; ESSENTIAL VIDEO INFO] and, NB
"The Occupation of the American Mind": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP0-YohJR-g
& note, this shorter 45 minute version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmoYoiMgpWU !!
Narrated by Roger Waters, made in 2018 & totally relevant/applicable to events in Israel/Palestine!!!
Furthermore consider this and other entire threads to see just how long the War On Gaza has run!!!!
Moreover: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-children-who-lost-limbs-in-gaza !!!!!
and - "What Really Happened on Oct 7?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mxfnya3ZRc
A clear, concise & clinical deconstruction ^ of the events from 6 months ago - and a precis of this vid:
''October 7: Al Jazeera Investigations'' ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0atzea-mPY
FURTHER NOTE: "US Democrats seeing red after Israeli letter reprimands lawmakers"! https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2024/05/16/us-democrats-seeing-red-after-israeli-letter-reprimands-lawmakers/14/ AND CONSIDER THAT ...
"The letter comes in response to a letter back on May 3 from Democrats to Biden - warning him that “Israel” is breaching US law that prevents sending weapons to parties blocking American aid."
As "A suspension of Israel’s rights and privileges by the United Nations General Assembly would put much more pressure on its government than Palestine’s full membership."
ALSO WtF's Nkkie Hailey up to n' really revealing here?! https://x.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1795495026795200880
FINALLY 'Israel Expects Far-right Gains in European Parliament Will Rebuff Criticism of Gaza War' https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-06-10/ty-article/.premium/israel-expects-far-right-gains-in-european-parliament-will-improve-its-standing/00000190-01eb-dd57-abb4-7beb32460000
The Israeli state is openly allied to the far right in Europe and the US and beyond. It proudly sees their electoral success as fundamental to Israel’s strategy. This alone tells us all we need to know about the Israeli state.
et veritas vos liberabit?!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 weeks ago
"What do you call People Who Fight on Their Own Land Against Foreign Soldiers?" by Amira Hass:
Which ends with this: "Does the wholesale killing of their families – in Israeli bombings that, with the approval of IDF legal advisers, kill 20 or 30 people including women, children and elderly, to kill one “legitimate” target – deter other young people?
"How many of them are motivated by it to join the Hamas army? The failure of a total victory doctrine does not derive from Netanyahu’s personal motivations to endlessly continue this cruel war. It comes from most Israelis' refusal to grasp that the oppressed Palestinian people . . . are no longer willing or able, to go along with its oppression. And that includes many opponents of the war and of Hamas."
NB "All decent Israelis must ask themselves the following questions: Is their country committing war crimes in Gaza? If so, how should they be stopped? How should the culprits be punished? Who can punish them? Is it reasonable for crimes to go unprosecuted and criminals to be exculpated?"
Further consider this info https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-05-21/us-house-leader-moves-toward-inviting-netanyahu-to-address-congress and ...
Also note this .. https://truthout.org/articles/israel-to-punish-west-bank-after-3-more-countries-recognize-palestinian-state/ by Mike Ludwig
as - "Israel’s finance minister would build three illegal settlements for every nation that recognizes a Palestinian state"!!
& https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-minister-calls-to-reduce-humanitarian-aid-as-palestinians-starve-in-gaza/ - by Julia Conley and then these ...
https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-police-detain-palestinian-journalist-attacked-by-settler-mob/ +
https://truthout.org/articles/israel-has-used-white-phosphorus-on-17-towns-in-lebanon-since-october/ both - by Sharon Zhang
FINALLY, NOW THIS: https://www.palestinechronicle.com/protecting-security-israel-approves-smotrichs-plan-to-legalize-five-settlements/
FFS!!!
[-] 2 points by agkaiser (2526) from Fredericksburg, TX 3 weeks ago
Today the Matrix spectrum spreads from low energy MAGA to lukewarm left in America. Most continue to energize dominance by the economic elite with ordinary brain dead echos of the thoughts of their oppressors.