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Ahmad Ibsais's avatar

I would greatly appreciate everyone's thoughts and insight!

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Marian Gillis's avatar

Yes.

Our response to the daily: maiming, killing, Starvation of 60k+ Palestinians and their infrastructure to rubble- serves as a labratory for authoritarian's worldwide.

That means You and Me, too.

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Pithy Pragmatist's avatar

Correction - the globalization or Jihadist terror and the civilized world fighting back.

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Follow the Silence's avatar

Thanks for this excellent and well written analysis.

“The rhetorical template is identical to Israel’s: act first, justify later. Or don’t justify at all. The words “terrorist hideout” and “precision strike” have become talismans, magic phrases that absolve responsibility. The world hears them and turns the page.”

“From Kashmir to Gaza, the struggle is not isolated. These are not regional conflicts. They are symptoms of a global architecture of impunity, one that must be named, dismantled, and resisted.”

These statements are spot on!

These are NOT regional conflicts and can happen anywhere: Bahawalpur, Venice, Italy, or Boston, Massachusetts.

What is left of our humanity is slowly being eviscerated. It has taken us millennia, but we have finally devolved into a species of technocratic slaves on a hamster wheel driven by compliance and willful ignorance and headed for self-destruction. Our greed, narcissism, and endless need for consumption and mindless distraction is equaled if not exceeded by our compulsion to surrender our sovereignty and personal autonomy and to remain psychologically handcuffed to a soulless, unelected cabal of global elites.

Peace, love, and understanding now more than ever.

🙏

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J C's avatar

I agree for the most part. However, it's the monied people that control everything. We THE real people have little control in these matters. Voting in the west means pick your preferred preselected criminal.

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Follow the Silence's avatar

JC

Thanks for your comment.

My reference to “unelected” global elites was meant to be rhetorical.

Below is an excerpt from my post: “Stargate: The Final Frontier.”

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There is a collective delusion that US presidents are elected fairly and that your vote counts in that process. If voting actually worked as intended and improved the lives of citizens, the process would be made illegal. US presidents are not elected; they are installed. They are anointed by powerful corporate and banking interests and charged with the specific task of maintaining the status quo, be it endless wars, a corrupt debt-based financial system, or a fraudulent healthcare system designed to keep people sick, dependent on vaccines, and addicted to costly prescription drugs. In addition to malfeasance in electronic voting systems, a key mechanism to further ensure voting outcomes is the Electoral College, a magical system that allows carefully selected state officials to override a state’s popular vote in US elections.

To underscore what little impact your vote has on the outcome of a presidential election, one would only have to listen carefully to the words of Larry Fink, the billionaire CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest investment management firm handling $11.5 trillion in assets.

Prior to the 2024 election, Fink spoke to an audience of his financial associates:

“I’m tired of hearing this is the biggest election in your lifetime. It really doesn’t matter. We work with both administrations and are having conversations with both candidates.”

Link: https://followthesilence.substack.com/p/stargate-the-final-frontier

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J C's avatar

I'm an aware US person. And these installed whores for empire don't care what we think or want.

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Sarah May Grunwald's avatar

Thank you for this.

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anton siebrits's avatar

The complicity of legacy media is integral to the success of this: "The rhetorical template is identical to Israel’s: act first, justify later. Or don’t justify at all. The words “terrorist hideout” and “precision strike” have become talismans, magic phrases that absolve responsibility. The world hears them and turns the page."

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J C's avatar

I am about to Google where both groups here buy their weapons. I'd bet India gets some from the US. I'll have to research this more. Your assessment seems reasonable. ✌️

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A stands for privacy's avatar

In germany isnt silence about indian attack on Pakistan.They reported on that and that india started first to be fair. At least they are fair on these issue😒but gazs...

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Pranav Ramakanthan's avatar

Pakistan are no saints here though they harbour terror groups

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A stands for privacy's avatar

Do u think its fair of india to attack civilian infrastructure. They hitva mosque and school. Army against army ok, but not civilians

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Pranav Ramakanthan's avatar

They were terror bases and the same mosque area has been evacuated prior. Sky News has itself done an analysis. The Pakistan army killed 12 Indian civilians as well along the LOC.

https://youtu.be/Dz_kkFMHXHQ?si=ior5x28U4n-pbFJ-

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A stands for privacy's avatar

So Terror bases in a mosque and school, do u listen to yourself? India started first, killed civilians and pakistan striked back and now you are crying? Yeah, civilian casualities are always bad but you cant say that pakistan is the bad on. We all saw who started this, that was india

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Pranav Ramakanthan's avatar

It was started by Pakistan when terrorists supported by their army entered and killed 26 tourists.

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J C's avatar

I'm aware of the farce that is US/Western elections. Citizens United (2010), US Supreme "Activist" Court gave the consent for corporations to buy elections here. 🙄

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Tom Prendeville's avatar

It's crystal clear now that 'israel' and its citizen army is actually a giant terror organisation. And, the population of 'israel' are 100% behind the genocide, they all want the annihilation of the Palestinian people. Hamas are justified in defending themselves aginst their terror. The next phase of the campaign to destroy 'israel' is to keep outing their mass murder genocide. It's been happening for the past month or so. People aren't fooled by them anymore. Eventually the resistance against them will reach a tipping point and uncover the layer upon layer of War Crimes the zionists commit every day. TP

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