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Power-Hungry Desperation (From The Little Boys Who Never Grew Up).

from thefreeonline on 8 Apr 2024 by Lisa Fouweather at Portfolio of Hope

This could be me or you carrying our child’s remains in a body bag,
scrambling through piles of bricks and rubble

When I see photos of our world leaders,

Trump,
and Putin,
and Kim Jong Un,

I am filled with a sense of dread that I can’t quite explain.

Disdain
at how 1% of the population,
(not even that),
is in control of our collective fate…

Little boys who never grew up,
stamping on ants just to see the splat of blood
because it made them feel good
to make the helpless bleed,
to be in power,
when they had no power.

Little boys who never grew up in more than height:
still power-hungry,
still stamping on ants,
their boot soles covered in blood,
(human) souls taken from us.

When now they do have power,
when now we are the ants,
for which, they go out of their way to find the heaviest boot
(it doesn’t matter what colour, they’ll be painted red soon)…

Seeking out the biggest colony
for maximum impact,
just to see the splat of blood,
of mass obliteration,
driven by power-hungry desperation.

‘In control of our collective fate…’

(The more I think about it you know, the more I think, actually, I can explain that sense of dread that I, all too often, try to brush away-
‘I can’t quite explain it.’
*yawn*
let me explain it)…

Let me explain how it feels when the media tries to conceal what is happening in plain sight,

every.
single.
day.

Genocide.

(If you’re gonna be complicit in it, then at least use the right name)…

Let me explain how it feels to be sitting at home,
eyes glued to my phone
just waiting for an update.

The inevitable update;
‘Airstrike’,
again.

Thinking,
‘Will this ever end?’

When I’m 2000 miles away
and there’s nothing I can do,
feeling helpless,
hopeless,
when the breaking news is nothing new,
and with every day that comes, there comes the knowledge that, one day, this could be me or you…

This could be me or you carrying our child’s remains in a body bag,
scrambling through piles of bricks and rubble
desperately searching for our dad,
wishing that we hadn’t wished away
what were the best days we ever had

…

‘The best days we ever had’…

When freedom
is something that we actually had.

When humanity
wasn’t something that we had to beg for.

When the world
didn’t look away when we needed them the most.

When we didn’t have to stand in a graveyard,
laying our children to rest,
all the while our world leaders sat in a meeting room,
how cozy,
voting on who would be next,
making a toast.

‘To the mass destruction of the masses.’

Handing out free passes,
‘tick here to vote.’

‘Which monster
should be in power next?’

Decisions decisions.

*Sigh*

How hard it must be…
to lead a life with zero contrition.

Plan de Fracaso total #OTAN contra #Rusia- España se convierte en blanco-

de thefreeonline 8 de Abril 2024 por Alma Cubanita

Los enemigos de Rusia vienen de siglos atrás hasta formar un grupo que denominaremos “los otanistas”, su primera reunión la tuvieron hace 75 años.

Tanto aquellos anteriores como éstos de 1949 han hecho cuentas siempre, pero no de los resultados sino de sus ilusiones en la manera de dividir y repartirse la piel del oso antes de cazarlo.

ver también..Sin permiso, EEUU coloca 2 destructores de Mísiles Nucleares más, haciendo España el blanco mayor de Rusia. – The Free

Los cuentos populares recogen buena parte de la experiencia humana, y aquí nos podemos referir al cuento conocido como La lechera, una fábula de Samaniego que habla de las ilusiones vanas y sus resultados, en un momento declara “¡oh loca fantasía, que palacios fabricas en el viento!

Modera tu alegría, no sea que saltando de contento, al contemplar dichosa tu mudanza, quiebre su cantarillo la esperanza”, les invito a escucharla en la voz de Paco Ibáñez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0r5o2uEP3w

Ahora bien, ustedes dirán ¿qué tiene que ver La lechera con la OTAN?

El personaje imagina su plan de inversión y se ilusiona con el dinero que calcula va a obtener por la venta de su cántaro de leche, y tanto lo convierte en dólar financiero que cuando se desploma y la leche se derrama en el golpe con el suelo – realidad se pierde no hay qué recoger más que los pedazos del recipiente.

No hay ni piel de oso ni ganancias filisteas de inversionistas, sí hay final inverso al imaginado, solo final inverso, o lo que es lo mismo: la OTAN lleva el parásito en su interior que hace que fracase.

Las ilusiones del imperio yanqui son las de La Lechera, el Plan de Futuro lo constituye la imaginación fantasiosa imperial.

¿Y el régimen monárquico español en qué invierte?, ¿aspira que que el imperio le de un pelo del oso, una gota de leche del cántaro sobre el que en Wall Street hacen cuentas?

Vayamos a las cuentas del primer secretario general otanista, el inglés Lionel Ismay: “Echar a los rusos de Europa, poner a los alemanes abajo, y colocar dentro a los estadounidenses.”

US Democracy is Dead- Every U.S. Senator 100% corrupt – All Took AIPAC Israeli $$ – Biden got over $11 million!

from thefreeonline on 8 Jan. 2024 by Bill Astore at Bracing Views

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US corruption creates Israeli Impunity and validates rising nationalist hysteria, apartheid and Genocide in Gaza

Courtesy of OpenSecrets.org, I saw a chart on AIPAC contributions to U.S. senators that showed that all 100 senators have taken AIPAC money. Leading the way are senate “giants” like Mitch McConnell (nearly two million dollars) and Chuck Schumer (roughly (roughly $1.7 million)

Talk about bipartisanship! I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the U.S. Senate is so strongly pro-Israel. It obviously has nothing to do with the power of AIPAC and all that money.

Israel uses AI to kill civilians en masse

Permitting its army to kill up to 100 civilians per Hamas official

Israel is targeting everyone in Gaza, no one is safe @thegazangirl

Source: +972 Magazine pic.twitter.com/r0uFRl74CZ
— Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) April 3, 2024

Here’s how AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) describes itself on its own web site:

“The Largest Pro-Israel PAC in America

WE STAND with those who stand with Israel. The AIPAC PAC is a bipartisan, pro-Israel political action committee. It is the largest pro-Israel PAC in America and contributed more resources directly to candidates than any other PAC. 98% of AIPAC-backed candidates won their general election races in 2022.“

That last sentence is a killer. AIPAC is reminding Members of Congress that if you want to be elected, or win reelection, you very much want AIPAC on your side.

And if you don’t kowtow to their agenda, they will do everything in their power to defeat you.

Imagine if there was an American Palestine Public Affairs Committee, an APPAC, that contributed hundreds of thousands if not millions to every U.S. senator and that boasted of a 98% success rate in getting APPAC-anointed candidates elected or reelected.

Do you think maybe the U.S. Senate would have a different position on Gaza and the West Bank?

Revolving door CORRUPTION

The US gifts BILLIONS yearly of public money to the tiny Israeli Regime – one way or another a percentage comes back to bribe every single Senator, buy US arms and promote ‘Good Works and Family Values’.

Machiavelli on Twitter: “US funds the #zionist terrorist state $3B …

The cash may come indirectly. AIPAC has raised since Oct. 7, $90 million, much of it via Israeli billionaires, banks and corporations. AIPAC’s PAC has already made more than $18 million in campaign contributions in the 2023-2024 cycle.

Of course the Congress Members are just as bad. FEC Filing Shows AIPAC Made Record Donations to Congress in 2023.

President Biden, ‘Genocide Joe’ a former vice president and senator, has received over $5.2 million in support over the last 34 years, the most of any Congressional recipient, according to OpenSecrets.

Exposed to all of us as a repugnant maze of Corruption and Lies, ‘US Democracy’ and support of ‘Human Rights’ is now totally BROKEN, revealing a terrorist regime, killing, grabbing and sanctioning worldwide for power, greed and personal profit.

No wonder, as top receiver of Israeli funds, that Biden still refuses to stop the Genocide of thousands of civilians, mainly kids and women by JUST ONE PHONE CALL – ordering an end to the gigantic bomb supply, paid for by the US public which opposes the massacre.

Speaking of Gaza, I watched Chris Hedges interview Ilan Pappé, an Israeli historian. Pappé put it simply and clearly: Israel is engaged in “incremental genocide” against the Palestinian people, a genocide in slow motion, a strategy of “displacement and replacement.”

The “displacement” of the Palestinians is done by mass bombing, mass destruction, mass death, and (hopefully for the Israelis) mass migration, and the “replacement” will come when Jewish settlers take possession of Gaza (after a lot of munitions cleanup and infrastructure redevelopment, I suppose, probably paid for by the U.S. taxpayer).

‘‘When you enable war crimes AND systemically oppose any accountability for them you are complicit in them”

There’s an Orwellian term for this. For mass death followed by forced expulsion, Israel is using the term “voluntary migration” (or “voluntary” emigration). But of course there is nothing “voluntary” about any of this.