@TheOtherMaven

Thanks for sharing it.

There is no peace on Earth, I said,
For hate is strong and mocks the song
Of peace on Earth good will to men."
(HW Longfellow, Dec 25, 1863)

@Funkygal

decades. Thanks for your additions. It’s always good to see you here. Don’t be a stranger.

What if Jesus was born today? pic.twitter.com/0AK2VGP7uW

— uncivilized media (@uncivilmedia) December 24, 2022

Today Joseph and Mary would have to pass through 15 illegal checkpoints setup by the Israeli apartheid regime on occupied Palestinian land to get from the Palestinian town of Nazareth to the Palestinian town of Bethlehem. pic.twitter.com/jersDBVUof

— #Africa4Palestine (@Africa4Pal) December 24, 2022

#Apartheid has crushed the spirit of #Xmas pic.twitter.com/05TMZAek4j

— tim anderson (@timand2037) December 25, 2021

Yeah, Merry Fcking Christmas or whatever. Heard a lot on NPR about Ukraine celebrating Christmas like the West (and not in Jan like Russia any more). Not as much about the lack of Xmas cheer in Bethlehem where the anarcho/Commie/socialist was born. When it was covered, it was reported in a "neutral" tone.

@snoopydawg

Why Is It So Hard to Finnish Nazism? NATO’s Growing Suicide Pact Threatens to Light the World on Fire

The decision recently expressed by the Finnish and Swedish governments to join NATO’s collective suicide pact shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to the growth of Nazism over the past 77 years.

Not only is this growth taking the form of a renewal of swastika-tattooed, black sun of the occult loving, wolfsangel-wearing Azov, C14, Svoboda and Aidar neo-Nazis in Ukraine today, but a whole re-writing of WWII history which has taken an accelerated dive into unreality during the 30 years since the Soviet Union collapsed.

Across the spectrum of post Warsaw Pact members absorbed into NATO such as Lithuania, Estonia, Albania, Slovakia, and Latvia, Nazi collaborators of WWII have been glorified with statues, public plaques, monuments, and even schools, parks and streets named after Nazis. Celebrating Nazi collaborators while tearing down pro-Soviet monuments has nearly become a pre-condition for any nation wishing to join NATO.

In Estonia, which joined NATO in 2004, the defense ministry-funded Erna Society has celebrated the Nazi Erna Saboteur group that worked with the Waffen SS in WWII with the Erna advance Guard being raised to official national heroes. In Albania, Prime Minister Edi Rama rehabilitated Nazi collaborator Midhat Frasheri, who deported thousands of Kosovo Jews to death camps.

In Lithuania, the pro-Nazi Lithuanian Activist Front leader Juozas Lukša who carried out atrocities in Kaunas was honored as a national hero by an act of Parliament which passed a resolution dubbing “the year 2021 as the year of Juozas Luksa-Daumantas”. In Slovakia, the ‘Our Slovakia Peoples Party’ led by neo-Nazi Marián Kotleba moved from the fringe to mainstream wining 10% of parliamentary seats in 2019.

There is so much more to this article and I hope people will look at it if interested how the Nazis that people think were defeated by the allies never were. And it isn’t just the countries listed here, but the uk and other European countries were also involved with them. And let’s not forget how many American companies helped Hitler get back on his feet after the First World War. In fact there’s a good chance that the 2nd one might not have happened except for their actions.

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2023 – The Year the World Saw the U.S. Emperor as Naked… and Grotesque

American President Joe Biden likes to talk about “inflexion points” when he is lecturing about world affairs and the supposed superiority of the United States. This year is indeed an inflexion point.

It was the year that the entire world saw the truly hideous and criminal nature of U.S. power.

Washington’s fuelling of the futile conflict in Ukraine and the despicable slaughter in Gaza is a wake-up call for the entire world. The United States stands barefaced and grotesque as the primary purveyor of war. There can be no doubt about that. For many it is shocking, scandalous and frightening.

However, this year seems to be unique. The year ends with a horrendous massacre in Gaza that is unprecedented and perpetrated by Israel with the full support of the United States. The scale of deliberate mass killing in Gaza makes it a genocide. The fact that this abomination is occurring at Christmas time when the world is supposed to celebrate the divine birth of Jesus Christ – the Prince of Peace – in the very place where he was born some 2,000 years ago makes the abomination all the more profane and damning.

What is particularly wretched is that the heinous destruction of children is happening in full view of the world. There is no remorse or pretence. It is full-blown premeditated murder done with cruelty and sickening impunity.

Virtually the whole world is horrified by the devastating, relentless violence and absolute violation of international law. The butchery by the Israeli regime cannot in any way be rationalized by the previous attack on Israel by Palestinian militants on October 7. Those killings by Hamas have been cynically used as a pretext for the subsequent and ongoing annihilation of Palestinian civilians.

This week saw the U.S. once again obstructing calls at the United Nations for a ceasefire and the urgent supply of humanitarian aid to more than two million people. The World Food Program has declared a catastrophic famine in the coastal enclave after more than 70 days of bombing and blockade by the Israeli regime. More than 20,000 people – mainly women and children – have been slaughtered with up to 7,000 more missing, presumably dead. Israeli troops are carrying out mass executions of terrified and traumatized human beings, according to UN rights monitors.

This genocide has Israeli fingers on the triggers but it is ultimately an American-sponsored genocide. Based on Nuremberg principles, Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu would be both in the dock, accompanied by Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lloyd Austin and their counterparts in Tel Aviv.

Decades of duplicity and dissembling as a peace broker in the Middle East have been blown away by the horrendous massacre that has culminated at the end of 2023. Israel is carrying out a Final Solution that is comparable to the atrocities of Nazi Germany. The Zionist regime has cynically used the Holocaust against Jews as a cover for its genocide against Palestinians. And many decent Jews around the world, including Holocaust survivors, are rightly mortified by the depraved association exploited by the Zionist regime.

What is happening in Gaza may be seen as a shocking revelation for the world of historic proportions. It is an eye-opener of the violence and lawlessness that the U.S. emperor has been systematically engaged in since it became the dominant world power almost a century ago. Following the Second World War and the defeat of European fascism – largely by the Soviet Union – the United States has taken up the fascist mantle, albeit unspoken and disguised with pretensions claims of democratic virtue. No other nation has waged as many wars and conflicts over the past eight decades as the U.S. The death toll from American imperialism runs to tens of millions of people with victims on every continent.

The latest war in Ukraine is purportedly to defend democracy and sovereignty (of a Nazi Waffen SS-adulating regime in Kiev installed by the CIA!).

Nonetheless, the genocide in Gaza is the culmination, the final act. This is where all the history of U.S. crimes and fraudulence as a “noble exceptional democratic leader” finally comes unstuck.

It is an infernal climax for a global power, arguably the world’s first and last imperialist global hegemon. The whole of humanity can now see that all the American rhetoric and vanity is nothing but an ugly lie. The emperor is naked in all his crimes. The blood of children on his hands, his mouth drooling with lies. It was always so, but now universally evident.

U.S. imperial power is damned. There’s no going back or reform. The capitalist economic system – evolved as oligarchic fascism and its two-party puppet show – driving imperialist barbarism must be called out and overturned. Biden is doomed, and Trump and so on are just more false prophets.

These are just the highlights of the article and I think it’s worth a full read.

Russia may have defeated fascist Germany, but long before the war ended America started importing some of the worst Nazis and installed them in our organizations and many were installed as the leaders. And here we are again supporting and arming the very Nazi regime that the world fought a war to defeat. And the Nazis haven’t just reappeared in Ukraine, but in many countries that once were included in the USSR. I’ll post an article on this shortly.

As Pluto once asked;

How is that working out for us?

My idea is to boycott this election because it’s apparent that no matter who we vote for we can’t vote out the CIA, the FBI, the many neocons that run behind the scenes no matter which party is in power and of course all the think tanks that the defense industry funds. And all the people and organizations that we don’t know about. My other idea to stop the genocide of the Palestinians is a general strike where people who can afford to just stay home and starve the capitalist regime and the oligarchs who are in control of the government. This way no cop can violently break up the protest. Big wish i know, but what else will work?