As someone from Latin America who grew up in the US my entire life and often traveled to LATAM & have now been to West Asia, Russia & beyond, I find it extremely arrogant & on cue with Western exceptionalism, for US & Western pundits to blame “Arabs,” Palestinians, & Syrians or Assad for not getting their shit together & for what’s happened.
I miss the convo couch Fiorella. for a time yours and I think kit cabellos show were my main go to's for a while; and I very much valued your opinions and perspectives… … lol EVEN the Fi rants… … lol. Just sending a supportive note. and although I don't know you personally. I have attended social functions here in l.a in the past related to this work where you and Pasta also attended. so yes… … I'm also very emotionally invested my heart and thoughts are thinking of you as well.
I agree with you but would like to add that the dynamic of "little brown brothers" turning on themselves and each other is the same thing as the dynamic within the Western countries which we call "internalized racism" among communities of color. In Iran, I called it "cultural rape". But mostly I think they are choosing to believe the bullshit propaganda the Western governments and media (and educational institutions, which is why pundits specializing in the M.E. are so often clueless) have put out forever. Why would ANY Syrians believe the propaganda these Western outlets have been pushing? Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iran have ALL been around far longer than any European or modern American country. She who laughs last, lasts.
With much respect of what you've written here, most I fully agree with, the only thing I'm still not sure of, you write "Most couldn’t figure out Covid was manipulated to make us sicker", but what exactly is your source for that statement? You should provide sources and links that corroborate that, because seriously, this narrative has been so strong for many of us, they're simply unable to take anything you write seriously on the basis of that one statement alone. Please write a strongly supported piece on SARS-CoV2 to eliminate that narrative, to help clear up the fog there.
The statisics I've seen in many places is that, at minimum, 2/3rds of the population did not figure it out while it was happening. 1/3 did. Those are the ones who insist on thinking for themselves. Some kind of recessive gene, no doubt, that gets us labeled as the black sheep of the family. (FYI, black sheep are so named because their wool CANNOT BE DYED. Something a lot of people should ponder on but, no doubt, won't. Their need to be approved of is too strong...and self-destructive.)
''Yet most US Americans can’t even figure out that our government is a failed state headed toward fascism, our elections are selections, corporations run our lives, ''
Too late, it is already, the merger between government and business has been completed.
Not sure what you mean by this. Although my childhood was spent in the Middle East, and I'm of color (mixed race), I am descended from at least one black sheep failed second son of British nobility. In the 1600's when he had run through his sizable inheritance in just three or four years by the age of 21 (debts his father had to cover), he was sent to the colonies with a grant of I can't remember how much land--I think it was probably two or three states' worth--where he could fund his gambling addiction with the profits from selling furs, lumber, and god knows what else that he paid other people--hunters, Native Americans, poor Whites, et al.--to procure and send to the U.K. where they processed it and sold to other colonies for incredible profits. This is how this country started. (The other side of that trade was sending kidnapped Africans to the colonies for free labor.) The people who did the grunt work at first, among the immigrants from Europe, were the poor and petty criminals who were living in the debtors' prisons in Europe (probably explains the lack of ethics among so much of the American population). So this new world order really isn't all that new. It's just tethered to new technologies. But many of the same families are behind the new world order as were behind the old world order. In fact, they still own the Bank of England (and control the banks that make up the Fed and are behind the theft of Palestine, as well) and are well-positioned to do to Ukraine what they did to the New World several centuries ago (and elsewhere). They have bought Ukraine's debt ($161 billion last I looked--peanuts to them) and are going to have to be paid with precious minerals underground, the most lucrative I know of being lithium. They're going to rape Ukraine now the population has been subdued through trauma.
But you know as the world turns--there will be justice. You just have to be patient. Yesterday the US Congress passed a military budget of $895 billion, just under ONE TRILLION DOLLARS, which Biden will no doubt sign, if he can remember how to write his name. This morning while I was wondering whether I should get up or burrow further into my bedclothes (ah, HEAVEN), I realized that ten years ago two of my high school teachers were urging me to invest in gold because it was $700! Whoo-ee. Now it's closer to $3000. That's not because gold got more valuable. It is a good way to figure out how much the US dollar has LOST VALUE. So today, almost 2025, the dollar is worth ONE QUARTER what it was worth only 10 years ago. Why? Because we keep "spending" money we don't have. One investment advisor in an interview I recently watched (very interested in economics now because it's so instructive re geopolitics) stated that when Americans understand this, the country will collapse. I have been calling inflation a war tax all this time and I think that's what it is. One trillion dollars spent next year only on the military (half going to privately-owned contractors) will bring the dollar near the brink and when Trump gets in and starts his nutty tariff program, I wouldn't be surprised if the American economy crashes. When that happens, Israel will die because they're still here only because of the life support we're giving them.
And Palestine will be free.
Last night I dreamed a mysterious ship was found at dawn floating towards the Vietnamese shores. On board? The dead, starving, and dying left of the Palestinians left in the Gazan concentration camp. Let's hope the dollar crashes before Netanyahu gets his wet dream in truth. He's on his way out anyhow.
Nature hates a vacuum and it also hates imbalance. Things will balance themselves. US/Israel are way too top heavy and will collapse.
Disengage your Caps Lock, Krista, so we can hear what you have to say.
I miss the convo couch Fiorella. for a time yours and I think kit cabellos show were my main go to's for a while; and I very much valued your opinions and perspectives… … lol EVEN the Fi rants… … lol. Just sending a supportive note. and although I don't know you personally. I have attended social functions here in l.a in the past related to this work where you and Pasta also attended. so yes… … I'm also very emotionally invested my heart and thoughts are thinking of you as well.
I agree with you but would like to add that the dynamic of "little brown brothers" turning on themselves and each other is the same thing as the dynamic within the Western countries which we call "internalized racism" among communities of color. In Iran, I called it "cultural rape". But mostly I think they are choosing to believe the bullshit propaganda the Western governments and media (and educational institutions, which is why pundits specializing in the M.E. are so often clueless) have put out forever. Why would ANY Syrians believe the propaganda these Western outlets have been pushing? Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iran have ALL been around far longer than any European or modern American country. She who laughs last, lasts.
Racist PSY OP.
With much respect of what you've written here, most I fully agree with, the only thing I'm still not sure of, you write "Most couldn’t figure out Covid was manipulated to make us sicker", but what exactly is your source for that statement? You should provide sources and links that corroborate that, because seriously, this narrative has been so strong for many of us, they're simply unable to take anything you write seriously on the basis of that one statement alone. Please write a strongly supported piece on SARS-CoV2 to eliminate that narrative, to help clear up the fog there.
The statisics I've seen in many places is that, at minimum, 2/3rds of the population did not figure it out while it was happening. 1/3 did. Those are the ones who insist on thinking for themselves. Some kind of recessive gene, no doubt, that gets us labeled as the black sheep of the family. (FYI, black sheep are so named because their wool CANNOT BE DYED. Something a lot of people should ponder on but, no doubt, won't. Their need to be approved of is too strong...and self-destructive.)
BULLSHIT PSY OP TO DISCOURAGE AND SQUASH OUTRAGE. FRIEND SPEAKS MY MIND❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
''Yet most US Americans can’t even figure out that our government is a failed state headed toward fascism, our elections are selections, corporations run our lives, ''
Too late, it is already, the merger between government and business has been completed.
IT'S NEVER TOO LATE!
For what?
My point here is that the US has already turned fascist, so it's too late.
Read American history. This is how it began. And so it continues.
In the context of things that doesn't make sense, the point is that the US is already fascist, it's been that way for quite some time.
No argument here.
WHAT PART OF 'NEW WORLD ORDER' DO YOU NOT GET?
Bingo !
Not sure what you mean by this. Although my childhood was spent in the Middle East, and I'm of color (mixed race), I am descended from at least one black sheep failed second son of British nobility. In the 1600's when he had run through his sizable inheritance in just three or four years by the age of 21 (debts his father had to cover), he was sent to the colonies with a grant of I can't remember how much land--I think it was probably two or three states' worth--where he could fund his gambling addiction with the profits from selling furs, lumber, and god knows what else that he paid other people--hunters, Native Americans, poor Whites, et al.--to procure and send to the U.K. where they processed it and sold to other colonies for incredible profits. This is how this country started. (The other side of that trade was sending kidnapped Africans to the colonies for free labor.) The people who did the grunt work at first, among the immigrants from Europe, were the poor and petty criminals who were living in the debtors' prisons in Europe (probably explains the lack of ethics among so much of the American population). So this new world order really isn't all that new. It's just tethered to new technologies. But many of the same families are behind the new world order as were behind the old world order. In fact, they still own the Bank of England (and control the banks that make up the Fed and are behind the theft of Palestine, as well) and are well-positioned to do to Ukraine what they did to the New World several centuries ago (and elsewhere). They have bought Ukraine's debt ($161 billion last I looked--peanuts to them) and are going to have to be paid with precious minerals underground, the most lucrative I know of being lithium. They're going to rape Ukraine now the population has been subdued through trauma.
But you know as the world turns--there will be justice. You just have to be patient. Yesterday the US Congress passed a military budget of $895 billion, just under ONE TRILLION DOLLARS, which Biden will no doubt sign, if he can remember how to write his name. This morning while I was wondering whether I should get up or burrow further into my bedclothes (ah, HEAVEN), I realized that ten years ago two of my high school teachers were urging me to invest in gold because it was $700! Whoo-ee. Now it's closer to $3000. That's not because gold got more valuable. It is a good way to figure out how much the US dollar has LOST VALUE. So today, almost 2025, the dollar is worth ONE QUARTER what it was worth only 10 years ago. Why? Because we keep "spending" money we don't have. One investment advisor in an interview I recently watched (very interested in economics now because it's so instructive re geopolitics) stated that when Americans understand this, the country will collapse. I have been calling inflation a war tax all this time and I think that's what it is. One trillion dollars spent next year only on the military (half going to privately-owned contractors) will bring the dollar near the brink and when Trump gets in and starts his nutty tariff program, I wouldn't be surprised if the American economy crashes. When that happens, Israel will die because they're still here only because of the life support we're giving them.
And Palestine will be free.
Last night I dreamed a mysterious ship was found at dawn floating towards the Vietnamese shores. On board? The dead, starving, and dying left of the Palestinians left in the Gazan concentration camp. Let's hope the dollar crashes before Netanyahu gets his wet dream in truth. He's on his way out anyhow.
Nature hates a vacuum and it also hates imbalance. Things will balance themselves. US/Israel are way too top heavy and will collapse.
Disengage your Caps Lock, Krista, so we can hear what you have to say.