A friend of mine once used the metaphor of “The Lords of Hell” to describe most of the world. There are a few people with lots of money and power, a few billion people who live in constant fear of not having enough, and a billion or so who don’t have enough. There is more than sufficient food in the world to feed everyone, but people go hungry. The entire western world has more empty homes than it does homeless people, yet there are increasing numbers of homeless. It costs less to give everyone health care than it does to “optimize returns” yet sick people go without medicine and help, and the disabled at left to rot with the least possible care in many countries. (Britain has literally stopped paying for wheelchairs for many disabled.)
Over the years my writing has had many themes, but they all boil down to one Ur-Theme.
We don’t have to live in hell. It’s a choice.
We have other choices. There are ways to make the economy work for everyone, and ways that we, the human species, can live well without driving mass numbers of other species to extinction. Indeed, by destroying the environment and extincting other species, we damage the very ecosystem which, long term, makes our own prosperity and well-being possible.
The worst lie in the world is always some version of “there is no other option. This is as good as it can be.”
It has many variants. “Capitalism is the only thing that can work.” “Some people must be homeless and poor for the economy to work.” “We need that oil no matter how many species die.” “People will only work if they’re driven by fear.” “Rich people are job creators”. “Human nature means we’ll always be evil and mean.” “Everything has to be owned by someone because commons don’t work.” (They have worked for hundreds of years at a time.)
Many, many more.
They are all lies. As humans we have an angelic nature as well as a demonic one. One of the most useful books to read in this regard is “A Heaven Made In Hell.” The author studied how people act after great catastrophes. Strangely enough behaviour like looting occurs far less than people helping each other, coming together and fixing things. In fact, people who go through this often find it was heavenly: for once almost everyone is taking care of everyone. Trust and community flourish.
There is great joy in helping. Great joy in care. Great joy in not being scared all the time. The best economies are always full of optimism and hope and have a rising tide that lifts all boats. (Rising tides don’t lift all boats unless we make sure that no boats have holes in their hulls.)
China has, recently, proved this yet again, despite some significant flaws. (FDR proved it before, and he was not the first.) We can take care of each other. We can live without fear that one bad bounce means homelessness, misery and death.
It’s a choice. We have made other choices far too often, but we can choose to be happy, prosperous and realistically optimistic because we take care of each other.
And while my writing often seems negative, this is the hope that underpins my criticisms. There is no point in criticizing something if some law of nature means that it must be so. But there is, despite claims otherwise, no law of nature which says we have to be bastards to each other or to the species we share this world with.
And in that is a genuine hope.
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Just minutes ago, I submitted my application to be a volunteer board member of my kid’s soccer club. One of the application questions asked: Why are you interested in being a board member?
My response:
“My interest in the board is simple: AA taught me that we give it away, to ‘get it.’ Experience has verified the wisdom of those words. I’m never happier than when sharing my experience, strength, and hope with those that can benefit from it. As an experienced player, coach, counselor, and attorney, I bring a combination of strengths that I hope can benefit the organization for many years to come.”
Yes, the organization will benefit, but I know that I’ll benefit more.
That we “get it” is the most beautiful double entendre’ in the world. We “get” it by being enlightened to the underlying principle of why we give. And we get “it” because “it” is happiness.
We get neither until we perform the selfless acts of giving ourselves to others.
Thank you Ian, for getting it.
Bob
I don’t understand through what mechanisms can changes be brought about. The ruling class is completely psychopathic and utterly ruthless. What forces are there that could take away their power?
The ruling class isn’t even a unified blob so there are multiple groups that would need tackling from the intelligence agencies, the banking people, hedge funds, corporations, states and so on.
The masses are by and large docile and ignorant of the way things work. Most people would choose denial over awareness and if suddenly the majority of people “woke up” to the reality of our civilisation that its a genocide, ecocide, slavery and destitution creating machine, what are the mechanisms that could unify them to act in a material way to denude the ruling class of its power?
China is just a ruling class faction on its uppers. They are investing themselves so heavily in technology they can only expect things to swing the other way at some point soon. It’s a system that can only burn out. Meanwhile, I don’t understand what’s so brilliant about it except by comparison with the collapsing Western empire. But it’s not a high bar.
Did they take the suicide nets down at the iphone phactory?
Jan Wiklund
I believe that most people would agree with you, Ian, at least among those I have met. It’s only that they have no idea about how to make it.
It requires such an amount of organizing that peope simply get tired before they even start thinking of it. They have seen other attempts in history, and seen how they have failed, and they assume that it is terribly difficult.
I think the mistake we do is to assume that it all has to be thought out in advance, instead of taking small steps and see where they lead. Social movement researcher Sidney Tarrow investigated how movements started in Italy in the 60s, and concluded that they all started as local attempts of solving local conflicts, and if they were successful they spread. Then, when there were a few of them, they would unite and try to do bigger things together.
And even if you ultimtely fail, in Italy because the old ruling class hit back and the movements were utterly divided about how to react, you will have it better if you have taken these steps. Italy, actually, had the best increase in living standards in the whole Europe in the 60s-70s, probably because these unregulated but vigorous movements were as vigorous as they were.
Eric Anderson
Addendum:
Capitalism forces us to give it away, so “they” get it.
Jan:
Have you read “The Ministry For the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson?
There, be blueprints we all need study. The movements of the past all cluster around “them” taking to much of “it.” But once the organizing backlash begins, it’s difficult to stop.
Also see what I call my “sociopath” theory of revolution. The movements largely do a good job of culling the sociopaths from society. Once culled, moral systems can be set in place that endure, for some generations. But, only time enough for the new generations of sociopaths to claw back control over the generally moral masses.
Feral Finster
“I can always hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.” – Jay Gould (I think)
All systems eventually end up being run by sociopaths, because 1. power is to sociopaths what catnip is to cats; and 2. normies are limited by scruples, but sociopaths will do whatever it takes to get power.
It might even be said that the real function of government is to keep power out of the hands of sociopaths. That said, sociopaths will eventually corrupt every system.
Jamie
Just wanted to point out, in case anyone wants to read it (and it is well worth doing so) the book is called A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit.
Christian B.
My mother worked with prisoners when I was a child. I remember thinking; “Man, they could have it so easy of they were only nice to each other.” Later in life I realized our whole culture was a prison.
The rules of capitalism are the bars of our prison. It could be easier, but we also must break out of this prison of capitalism.
For all those asking; “How do we do it?” Well, how did Christ do it? He started with sacrificing himself and everything he owned to show us what was most precious in this world. He started by showing how it is possible and how one can be joyful doing it. So just start doing it. Reliquish your greed, live with much less, give and give and give.
St. Francis followed in Christ’s footsteps, and I follow in his.
Ian, I have no idea of your religious beliefs, but you exemplify my Christ in your writings.
Pax Et Bonum
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I refused to coach any of my son’s teams because … because why? Revolutionary Road, that’s why. Welcome, to the machine. Where have you been? It’s alright, we know where you’ve been. Organized sports are part of the machine. All aboard!!
Hey Bob, did you happen to catch BHO’s recent interview with Marc Maron? I haven’t watched it in its entirety because BHO makes me want to puke. He’s such a poseur. Anyhow, in it he discusses the incivility that’s all about and he says we need to change that and just have conversations with those we demonize. Yeah, sure, that’s the ticket. As if you can have positive, constructive conversations and discussions with the psychopaths who rule the roost. Out of their cold dead hands is the only way and we know that ain’t happening for the astute reasons you list.
DMC
Bob, to put it simply, in Russia and China, they don’t allow their billionaires to become oligarchs, as such. London is full of former Russian billionaires who “got to big for their britches”, while in China they just execute them. Contrast that with the US and “West” generally.
Davianne M Savory
If you read this quote from the book “Beyond Psychology” Talk #3 there is a great insight regarding man’s inhumanity to man.
https://www.osho.com/read/featured-articles/other-myself/mans-inhumanity
Davianne Savory
Joan
Bob, a big way to take power back is through labor unions. Even if you’re not in a union job, research local unions and email them to see what you can participate in as a non-member. They will know when non-members can attend events and what you can do to support them and learn the ropes. People who are active in labor unions are also a fount of knowledge on how they work and how to successfully organize. It’s a really good knowledge base to have for taking back power.
I started as a supportive non-member when my sister-in-law’s union did an unprotected strike after their leadership caved at a critical point in negotiations. It was fascinating to learn the difference between a protected & unprotected strike and what the members were risking because their own union leadership hadn’t fought for them.
I then lucked into my first union job and got to see the incredible difference when your union leadership does fight for you. But a successful and effective union takes a lot of work. I’ve witnessed what it means to be strike ready and how effective a strike can be. Our sister union at my workplace was forced to go on strike because our employer refused raises that keep up with inflation.
Our sister union was extremely organized and like a well-oiled machine. They shut the place down in just one week, made the pigs squeal and sure enough our employer caved after five days. It was incredible to witness and show up in support, but it showed our union wasn’t strike ready, so if our sister union’s strike didn’t work, we were in a lot of trouble. Anyway, I suggest you show up and get involved. It takes work.
mago
Bob makes some good observations. I have no answers as to how we can create meaningful social change on scale.
There exists basic human goodness, and in that I take hope. However, the qualities of universal love and altruistic mind are buried under a slag heap of negative cultural conditioning.
In a competitive and nihilistic society kindness is often seen as a weakness to be exploited, at least by those who would rule.
Compassion requires confidence and humility, but an increasing mass of people are caught up in doubt, fears, confusion and negative emotions, not to mention mental fog.
It’s also true that a crisis situation can bring our better impulses to the fore at least on a local scale. When the US government shutdown the federal food assistance program, individuals and businesses in my neighborhood stepped up to provide aid to those in need. There also exists ongoing grass roots programs for the less fortunate. However, this is a small town with general spiritual values.
So I don’t know. On the one hand there’s aggression and cruelty, and on the other hand there’s kindness, caring and generosity with a whole lot of ignoring and indifference in between.
As our host suggests, it’s up to you and me to choose how we’re going to be, and we can be kind to all beings human and nonhuman alike as best as we are able. There is indeed great joy in that.
cek
Knew what you meant, but just so others can find it, the book is “A Paradise Built in Hell” by the inimitable Rebecca Solnit.
Thanks, Ian, for this piece. This is why I subscribe.
Clonal Antibody
You might like this video
https://youtu.be/EaHeoSSsUBo
Eric Anderson
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Whaaaat? Good lord. Every culture since we were rubbing sticks together to make fire has employed ritualized rites of passage among male adolescents.
See: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C13&q=adolescent+male+rites+of+passage&btnG=
Want to know the best way to raise a school shooter? Marginalize them from these rituals.
Eric Anderson J.D./M.S. / Bully beater
And I’ll add, Mr. Like & Subscribe —
Where have I been? Well, competing all my life. Where I learned valuable lessons such as: working in a team, intestinal fortitude, morals, ethics, humility, charity, how to stand up to bullies, etc.
And, I continue to do it to this day. Everyday I defend people who can’t defend themselves against bullies and stick my foot squarely up the bullies’ @$$. For example, just this past Wednesday I won a judgment of over $400,000.00 dollars for a 68 year old woman who entered a joint tenancy with guy who has promised to marry her. He didn’t, and then domestically abused her forcing her to flee from her own property and live with her kids having only about $8k to her name.
I didn’t do anything magic … I just outworked the opposing lawyer because a life of ritualized competition has instilled such an ethic. I’m privileged to have this calling. Privileged to be a moral, ethical, gentleman who gets to beat the living crap out of sociopaths on the daily.
What did you do last Wednesday? Beside, of course, spout *edgy* comments online.
Bill H.
@Joan
I was a member of the Teamsters when working for a metals processing plant in the 1960’s. We went on strike, for wages, and shut the plant down by blocking the truck gates. The police came along and said we couldn’t do that and we told them to open their eyes, that we seemed to be doing it. They told us they had guns and would fire on us, we replied that we outnumbered them in sufficient numbers that while they would get some of us, we would get all of them. They holstered their guns and left, while we continued to block the gates.
Today’s unions go on strike, announcing in advance that the strike will be for two days. It makes me wonder what the unions think their purpose is.
Dan Kelly
‘Today’s unions go on strike, announcing in advance that the strike will be for two days. It makes me wonder what the unions think their purpose is.’
General Strike in 2028!!!!
In the meantime, please listen to/watch multiple individual podcasts per day and give what you can to each of them because they’re all barely surviving just like you.
The revolution was never going to be televised but things evidently will come together via the internet!
Well, the internet is two-way communication while TV was just them talking to/controlling us.
Are you sure?
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China has plenty of biliionaires. Not as many per capita as other entities, but that hasn’t prevented a 20-25 percent unemployment rate among younger Chinese nor an incredible wealth divide society-wide.
I’ve never seen any videos of China executing billionaires.
Do they do this quietly?
Why would they do that?
If China wants the world to know that such over-the-top sociopathic indivdual wealth accumulation is wrong and not permitted inside China then we woulod be treated to such delightful videos.
I’ve never heard Xi or anyone from the Chinese government talk about executing really wealthy people. These are memes that only exist in certain China-adorers heads.
For its part, if the US could get its hands on a video or two – or even a believable story – of China executng a wealthy person, they would run with it for their own propgaganda purposes:
See, China executes wealth-creators!
None of this has happened on either side which tells anyone paying an iota of attention that it is Chinese propaganda.
Oh yeah: China is an environmental nightmare. Period. End of story.
Of course, none of this is an apologia for Zionist-occupied America. The dis-United States of Zion. Isramerica.
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I agree with Joan. Begin with what we’ve got left and don’t let the union mismanagers cahoot with the enemy – as they are often wont to do.
DMC
Here’s a recent quote;
China has executed several billionaires recently as part of its ongoing anti-corruption campaign, including Bai Tianhui, who was found guilty of accepting over $156 million in bribes. This reflects the government’s strict stance on corruption among high-ranking officials in the finance sector. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=china+executes+billionaire&atb=v431-1&ko=-1&t=ddg_android&ia=web&assist=true
Joan
Bill H., thanks for your comment. Our sister union that shut the place down was the Teamsters. Go union!
Most strikes in the first half of the 20th century were armed. The union members knew they had to have guns or they’d just get murdered. I live in a deep-blue state where nearly everyone owns guns (for hunting) so armed strikes could easily become a thing again. We’re not toothless.
spud
these things go in cycles. we are lucky(sarc) to have it happening to us right now. as IKE was heard speaking as he toured the concentration camps in 1945, talk lots of pictures, because some bastard will come along and say it did not happen.
and before long, that is just what happened.
with today’s youth in america, the new deal, fair deal, Gatt and the great society are distant memories of what they were, and why they were implemented.
and their destruction happened under the eyes of the second and third generations after they were implemented.
can you imagine unions, just about every one of them, and civil society organizations endorsing these creatures as the safe guards against oligarchy were being torn down right before their eyes, and they still stick with them today!
https://www.mic.com/articles/31297/too-big-to-fail-banks-we-have-bill-clinton-to-thank-for-that
“As tempting as it might be for Democrats to pawn the global financial crisis onto George W. Bush, the uncomfortable fact is that it is more directly the result of policies laid down by the DNC’s rock-star-in-residence, Bill Clinton.
“Over the [past] seven years we have tried to modernize the economy … And today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.”
So enthused President Clinton in 1999 as he signed the Financial Services Modernization Act into law, thus eliminating the barriers that had protected the economy from investment bank high-rolling since the New Deal.
Barack Obama, despite initially winning the White House by campaigning on a theme of economic justice, wasted no time in protecting the big banks according to journalist Ron Suskind. “I’m not out there to go after you,” Obama explained to a private meeting of Wall Street CEOs in March 2009. “I’m protecting you. But if I’m going to shield you from public and congressional anger, you have to give me something to work with …”
Optical corrections, gentlemen — nothing to worry about.”
very few revolutions work, the people have so much hate and rage, and have been divided so forcefully, that blood bath and chaos ensue, thus giving the rich the open door to return to power.
the Russian, Chinese ones worked, because Stalin and Mao got rid of a whole lot of financial leeches and parasites.
the American one did also, i have read that Franklin and Paine (buried info that’s hard to find)urged the burning out of homes and business’s of british oligarch boot lickers.
but over time, the financial leeches and parasites under mined all three. it looks like two of them caught on, we did not.
Bob
@L&S I don’t know BHO but the name of Marc Maron rings a bell but I tend to avoid mainstream media. Even mainstream alternative media. But the sentiment, I agree with, being polite is not an answer in itself.
I really don’t know what is an appropriate response but the idea of there’s “we” who can do something seems too nebulous. At the same time, I don’t see how engaging in a kinetic way with the system or its operators will get anyone anything except hurt without achieving anything. A podcast I listened to about the Iraqi resistance which was well trained and armed failing to even slightly disrupt global oil supply, drove home to me how little any “we” can do.
My best guess is that what needs to happen is people stop believing in the system altogether, its institutions, it’s values, technology, hierarchies and so on. But I can’t imagine that’s possible.
@Christian bloke, umm, I’m not quite sure what the material impact this Jesus fellow had. Sure, a lot of people feel something nice in their relationship with him but the world is a horrific sh!t sh0w and has been for at least as far bacl as yer man goes.
@Joan I have zero faith in human institutions, unions included. In England, they are completely corrupt amd don’t represent the interests of ordinary people. But then most ordinary people don’t represent the interests of ordinary people. I am a member of the musicians’ union but they are rabid capitalists and the bureaucrats one can vote for are mostly Z!onists.
Sorry for the verbose reply
Dan Kelly
Thank you for the link, DMC.
China apparently has executed a couple people.
Everyone please note that the executions are for breaking China’s intrenal capitalist rules.
They were not executed for becoming capitalists or ‘great wealth creators’ in the first place.
Because China has no problem with massive wealth divides.
Just like China has no problem with Zionists and their ongoing holocaust.
But hey, we gotta respect their pragmatism, right?
Whatever’s best for China – all else be damned.
We’ve seen this show before.
Isn’t realpolitik grand?
Resistance is futile and their is no alternative.
Thanks again for the link.
Dan Kelly
Sorry for the spelling/grammar errors.
Dan Kelly
‘but over time, the financial leeches and parasites under mined all three. it looks like two of them caught on, we did not.’
Russia is controlled by oligarchs and Chabad Lubavitch.
Xi’s China is not Mao’s.
For their part, both the Russian and Chinese ‘revolutions’ were not grassroots (not that you said they were) rather they were fomented largely by outside forces working with people on the inside for their own dual purposes.
Once power is gained, history is rewritten.
These are elite machinations.
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There is a rather interesting Jewish-Zionist history involving both Russia and China.
Here is some information on the Chinese infiltration, which was a step in their longer range plan for Palestine and the world:
A Jew in Mao’s China
https://forward.com/schmooze/159051/a-jew-in-maos-china/
How two Jewish families shaped modern China
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/06/28/book-review-how-two-jewish-families-shaped-modern-china/41740643/
The Jews of China and their Contribution to the Establishment of the Jewish National Home in Palestine in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
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Bondi Beach in focus, the ‘rise’ of ISIS in Syria and the global Zionist expansion
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=4egvRxR7t4w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4egvRxR7t4w
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Genoa General Strike Against Meloni Militarism & Arming Genocide
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=HQaSeAtsboQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQaSeAtsboQ
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Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi Criticizes Anti-Zionist Jews
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=OzNYShXEWaM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzNYShXEWaM
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Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown
‘Based on leaked emails, we believe these bans may be connected to pressure by pro-Zionist actors and British intelligence related to our reporting. This raises serious questions about government influence over financial platforms.
It is also highly possible that Indiegogo has stopped our funding drive because of pressure from senior management. The company’s CEO and co-founder is Slava Rubin, a Conservative Zionist who has traveled to Israel many times. “I’m a big fan. I’m Jewish. I think Israel is a beautiful place,” he said in 2015. In the wake of October 7 and Israel’s attack on Gaza, Rubin came out publicly in support of Israel in its fight against “terrorism.”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/indiegogo-financial-censorship-mintpress-donations/290602/
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The Zohran Mamdani Count: Keeping NYPD Boss Tisch Looks Like Strike One
‘Weeks after Tisch accepted Mamdani’s offer to remain police commissioner, her brother, Benjamin Tisch, reportedly said at a private charity dinner that the Muslim mayor-elect was an “enemy” of the Jewish people.
The commissioner apologized to Mamdani, but the comments follow a history of tension between the mayor-elect and his new police chief, including Tisch’s family contributing over $1.3 million to the super PAC that supported Mamdani’s main opponent, Andrew Cuomo.
Jessica Tisch’s devotion to Zionist causes has also come up as the elephant in the room, with Tisch calling college campus protests against Israel “despicable” and claiming that student protestors did not target “Israeli policies or geopolitics or even the horrors of war but the Jewish people themselves.”
In the same address — which she gave at the pro-Zionist Anti-Defamation League’s annual conference — Tisch affirmed that the NYPD would continue to “combat antisemitism,” meaning anti-Israel protests across the city, and speaking on behalf of the NYPD, she called anti-Israel rhetoric “vile.”
“Combatting antisemitism” within Tisch’s NYPD includes, as of January 2025, categorizing keffiyehs and watermelons as antisemitic symbols.’
https://scheerpost.com/2025/12/20/the-zohran-mamdani-count-keeping-nypd-boss-tisch-looks-like-strike-one/
Dan Kelly
The Jews of China and their Contribution to the Establishment of the Jewish National Home in Palestine in the First Half of the Twentieth Century by Yossi Katz
https://web.archive.org/web/20211107150621/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20775055
spud
Dan Kelly
‘but over time, the financial leeches and parasites under mined all three. it looks like two of them caught on, we did not.’
Russia is controlled by oligarchs and Chabad Lubavitch.
Xi’s China is not Mao’s.
For their part, both the Russian and Chinese ‘revolutions’ were not grassroots (not that you said they were) rather they were fomented largely by outside forces working with people on the inside for their own dual purposes.
“outside forces are inevitable in the modern world. completely home grown revolutions are probably very rare.
you could say the american civil war was really a counter revolution being financed by britin and france.
Moa, Lenin, and Stalin created modern china and russia.
that does not mean that china and russia are exactly as they were when they came to power.
their oligarchs are under control, just as ours were from 1933-1993.
no matter what trap you build, the mice will always undermine it, and find a way around it.”
Dan Kelly
‘their oligarchs are under control, just as ours were from 1933-1993’
Under control of who? Vladimir Putin? The KGB?
Who funds/controls them?
Of the Russian people?!
I doubt the average ‘man on the street’ inside Russia believes that.
If US oligarchs were under control from the time period you emphasize – ending of course with the uber-Zionized-Epsteined Clinton administration – if that were the case then the country wouldn’t have entered WWII as all wars are a racket as Smedley Butler told us after the bamkers’ WWI atrocity.
Interestingly, rabid Zionist Jewish Supremacist Nahum Goldmann – founder and president of the World Jewish Congress and president of the World Zionist Organization – Goldmann was quite familiar with the Roosevelt administration by way of his friendship with Stephen Wise who himself was very close to FDR.
Remember, Goldmann was a powerful Zionist operative. In his ‘Mein Leben: USA, Europe, Israel’ published in 1981, he reported this about Roosevelt and his administration, having spent intimate time with them:
‘This weakness of the president (Roosevelt) frequently results in failure on the part of the White House to report all the facts to the senate and the congress, the administration’s description of the prevailing situation is not always absolutely correct and in conformity with the truth.
When I lived in America I learned that Jewish personalities – most of them rich donors for the parties – had easy access to the president.
They used to contact him over the head of the foreign secretary and the representative at the United Nations and other officials. They were often in a position to alter the entire political line by a single conversation.
Stephen Wise occupied a unique position, not only within American Jewry, but also generally in America…He was a close friend of Wilson…
He was also an intimate friend of Roosevelt and had permanent access to him, a relationship which naturally affected his relations to other members of the American adminsitration.
Goldmann later relays a more personal intimation he was privy to:
“…the president’s car stopped in front of the veranda, and before we could exchange greetings, Roosevelt remarked, ‘How interesting! Sam Rosenman, Stephen Wise and Nahum Goldmann are sitting there discussing what order they should give the president of the United States. Just imagine what amount of money the Nazis would pay to obtain a photo of this scene…
We began to stammer to the effect that there was an urgent message from Europe to be discussed by us, which Rosenman would submit to him on Monday. Roosevelt dismissed him with the words, ‘This is quite alright, on Monday I shall hear from Sam what I have to do’…..and he drove on.”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nahum_Goldmann,_Stephen_Wise,_Henri_Torres_at_World_Jewish_Congress_conference_in_New_York,_June_1942.jpg
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Here’s a snippet from the Vanessa Beeley-Fiorella Isabel conversation I posted above. The entire conversation is uniquely substantive and is directly related to everything we’re discussing. I hope people listen to it.
‘It’s part of a psychological war. It’s exactly what the Zionists do in Gaza. They talk about ground invasions and then it never happens but it maintains that level of tension and pressure on the country, or on the people, concerned. And so I think that is very much a part of it.
And…Trump is now openly talking about going after the oil, about going after the resources. So it’s no longer “Venezuela is a narco-state” – no, now it’s about the oil…
…And, a number of US oil companies who were in Venezuela – because Trump is saying ‘They kicked us out! They deprived us of access to the oil” as if that’s their god-given right to have access to Venezuelan oil, as if it’s US oil and not Venezuelan oil.
But many of these US companies are saying they don’t want to go back in to Venezuela.
So one has to wonder what it’s really about.
And I think for me the signal is an end to all resistance globally. A world that is effectively multipolar in the sense that there is going to be a number of players at the upper echelon of the transnational ruling elite and the oligarchs and the global capitalists.
The GCC bloc and the Zionist bloc in control, basically.
And so therefore in my opinion that is why China is keeping a foothold in with the Zionist bloc which of course includes the gulf states as well as Israel.
Russia is keeping a foothold for sure. More than a foothold. It has a very strong partnership with Israel and a developing partnership with Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar to a lesser degree.
So I think that’s where we’re heading and I think that Zionization…and for me, Nazism, Neo-Facism, Zionism are inseparable to a huge degree.
And they have collaborated in the past This is well-documented.
And so therefore the Zionization of the Latin American states and the isolation of Venezuela – and I would also include at the moment Columbia and Brazil – is very dangerous.
And it goes beyond a kinetic war against Venezuela.
So this is what I see happening….
And it very much mirrors the policies in West Asia.’
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‘their oligarchs are under control, just as ours were from 1933-1993’
‘Back in the 50’s and 60’s when the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs was laundering money into the US to set up AIPAC they just couldn’t have anticipated how many words from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be falling out of the mouths of politicians like this one.
I have to say that the $360 billion dollars worth of aid that has been funnelled to his Israel (that we know about) by the US is fungible.
Israel has used it to become the leading state sponsor of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and now we’re being given a chance to ‘help’ based on unsubstatianted claims like ‘Iran is helping Hamas’ – which by the way was created by Israel, but anyway – we’re being given a golden opportunity to finish the ethnic cleansing that was launched before 1948 when the state was created.
So it’d be really great if hawkish politicians like this one would pick up a copy of the book ‘How Israel Made AIPAC – The Most Harmful Foreign Ibfluence Operation in America…’
https://inv.nadeko.net/fIu53bvT_fQ?t=79
https://youtu.be/iTm22Y9tJ4Q?t=79
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‘if you are depraved enough to think “who cares, it doesn’t affect me?”, let me assure you that on top of being human filth, you are also stupid and a fool. If they’ll do it to Palestinians, they’d do it to you and yours if they thought it was in their interest and they could get away with it.
Which, so far, they have every reason to believe they could.
Certain actions, like genocide, rape, torture and deliberate child murder have to be off the table entirely for the protection of everyone. You never want to normalize them, even if you are an evil piece of shit, because once something becomes routine, who knows who is next on the table?
Welcome to Hell.
https://www.ianwelsh.net/amidst-everything-else-the-palestinian-genocide-is-picking-up-steam/
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China is keeping a foothold in with the Zionist bloc which of course includes the gulf states as well as Israel.
Russia is keeping a foothold for sure. More than a foothold. It has a very strong partnership with Israel and a developing partnership with Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar to a lesser degree.
So I think that’s where we’re heading and I think that Zionization…and for me, Nazism, Neo-Facism, Zionism are inseparable to a huge degree.
And they have collaborated in the past This is well-documented.
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‘a lot of Chinese companies are sharks. They compete savagely and they are willing to cut profits razor thin to gain market share.’
‘Certain actions, like genocide, rape, torture and deliberate child murder have to be off the table entirely for the protection of everyone. You never want to normalize them…
‘China is keeping a foothold in with the Zionist bloc…
Russia is keeping a foothold for sure. More than a foothold. It has a very strong partnership with Israel…
they have collaborated in the past This is well-documented.
‘Certain actions, like genocide, rape, torture and deliberate child murder…
a lot of Chinese companies are sharks…
…China is keeping a foothold in with the Zionist bloc…
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Welcome to Hell.
spud
Dan Kelly.
what you are describing is what has happened, happening now, and will happen in the future of every country on the planet.
the rich and powerful always, will always undermine any government period, no matter where, and when.
i will take the new deal over today, or the robber baron era.
i bet the average russian, would take todays russia, over yeltsin’s russia.
i am betting the the average chinese will take todays xi’s china, over the preceding series of blundering idiots.
are they utopia’s? far from it.
that said, as soon as china, russia and iran replace us as world leaders, they to will begin to abuse the weak and powerless, and the cycle starts all over again.