USrael Empire is a bloody brothel run by a gang of criminals whose sole purpose is to plunder their own country and the world for their own benefit, using every imaginable criminal means to do so. To describe this monster as the cancer of the planet is an understatement.
Vietnam war had military draft lottery. US elites desperately wanted to stop anti-war protests. They figured out the way to stop protests was to stop the draft. On the other hand, everyone I know who was anti-war in those days (liberal left) has no problem with endless wars today. The same people were knee-jerk anti government in those days but now think government is fine. Even anti-Trump people have no problem with his wars (or his Covid lockdowns). My experience w. today's pro-gov. people is that they remain in the same closed mindset they've always had. They may be very high IQ but they have no interest in reading outside their bubble.
Excuse me, but I was anti-war in the 1960s and protested and also helped the underground railroad that got guys out of the U.S. to Canada. I have never changed my anti-war and anti-capitalist beliefs. I was 19 when I marched against war. I am now 77 and too ill to physically march, but I am opposed to every single U.S. imperialist war now and forever.
Carolyn, I'm glad to know you're out there and haven't done a flip flop as others of the Vietnam era have. Like you I'm age 77. One of my brothers is a year younger than I am and was caught in the Vietnam draft, number 167 I believe, and I was horrified he'd be called (he wasn't). All my brothers and other relatives are lifelong liberal democrats, are anti-Trump, but have no problem with Trump's endless wars, won't even discuss the subject. Likewise they all ran out and got Covid shots and boosters, never questioned any part of it. How did they come to accept a government injection without the slightest question, doing no research? There isn't the slightest chance I'd accept a government injection, PCR test, or the like.
You are a bit extreme. The absolute mess that was the COVID pandemic emanated from the incompetence and greed of neoliberal government. Trump and Biden literally ignored sound epidemiology, well-established principles that if followed would have saved too many lives to count (vaccines are way down the list). Instead, we got masks, lockdowns, and an insufficiently tested vaccine whose main virtue was that it was quickly produced and eminently monetizable, but it was supposed to be the 'silver bullet' that would make the bad thing go away.
There was no incompetence; the plandemic was deliberately designed in advance (read, for instance, this: https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/2006-ralph-baric-paper-describes ), and the social engineering it allowed was the goal, not an accident. "Sound epidemiology" was irrelevant. The vaccine was never seriously meant to work; it was meant to teach the population obedience in the face of invasive genetic intervention.
I agree 100% with you that living under the wrong government resulted in whatever was forced upon us during the Covid era. If that's an extreme view I guess I'll have to live with it.
There is no "right" government; both sides are puppets of the same Talmudist/Mammonist Cabal, and either government would have implemented the Cabal's directives with equal eagerness. Your apparent choice is an illusion.
I am right with you, Carolyn. We specialized in getting AWOL soldiers to safety. We would hide them in a 'safe house' in the hills. I remember that they all smelled of fear.
Neither Clinton, nor Bush, Cheney, Biden, & Trump dared to be in the trenches. The Epstein class is bloodthirsty because their blood is not in danger.
"Joe Biden received criticism during his 2020 presidential campaign for his five student draft deferments. Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump all received criticism for deploying the armed forces in combat while having not served in that capacity themselves."
I spent quite a few years of my youth protesting that war, months on the road, and almost one year in jail. I was never a 'liberal left'. One old boy in Nevada said when I was telling about the true cause of the Vietnam War, "You sound like a communist!" I didn't know if that was a compliment or a criticism, so I just smiled.
I recall the "communist" label being attached to Vietnam war opponents. I don't like political labels such as "right" or "left" because it means there are only two choices. I used the term "liberal left" because "liberal" or "left" is how the people I described and have observed over the past 55+ years described themselves. You were clearly against the Vietnam war. I'm sorry you had to spend a year in jail.
The 'liberal left' turns out to be not very liberal at all. For me, opposition to war is definitive although I am aware of defensive wars such as that waged by Russia, Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah. I suppose I am not very liberal!
Liberal is an odd term whose definitions have changed over its history. I recall the fun Gilbert & Sullivan had with it in their Librettos. Same goes for the term Progressive. I prefer the terms Humanist & Communitarian.
I like Lee Camp's "I'm not an -ist, it's too restrictive." The labels are meaningless, used by people who don't even know what they mean to dismiss people rather than to describe them, like people on the right calling Biden a communist. Whuh?
Utter nonsense. That the virus was deliberately released and not escaped is another question. But Western response was entirely neoliberal. Whether or not those in charge followed that philosophy does not matter. The result was a catastrophe for ordinary Westerners —note that non-Western countries did much better for the most part.
I live in France and there is a small chink of hope that the current government is trying to shake off some of the shackles of US dominated 'tech'. All govt systems are now planned to move to entirely French or EU tech. Or open systems at least if there is no European system available. It is possible here to almost completely operate individually online without using a US tech system, but it would require an effort that currently I haven't done.
For initially PR reasons the Spanish PM has opened up his nation to freely express their horror of Israeli activities that so appall any right minded person. Others are now beginning to follow at last. Some of course like UK and Germany try to lock down any such public reaction.
Amazon etc are alive and kicking in France, but there is a continuous effort to ensure the 'social contract' is not corrupted too much which provides some protection against exploitation and monopolistic tendancies.
"There is a city inside London that is not London.
One square mile. Its own police force. Its own courts. Its own laws. Its own flag. Its own government that predates the United Kingdom by several hundred years. The Mayor of London has no authority there. Parliament has no authority there. The Prime Minister has no authority there.
It has a charter from 1067.
Nobody alive remembers who founded it.
That is not an accident.
The City of London Corporation owns one of the surviving copies of the Magna Carta. The 1297 copy. With Edward I’s seal. The document that stated the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties by land and by water. The City is the only entity in the Magna Carta named as specifically protected. In 1215, King John was losing a rebellion. Hoping to win the Londoners to his side, he granted them the right to choose their own mayor annually. Weeks later, the same rebellion forced him to sign Magna Carta. The City used the chaos to extract permanent protections for itself. The document that became the foundation of individual liberty in the English-speaking world contains a clause written specifically to protect the City of London from ever being touched."
The article goes through the financial power over the centuries including the World Economic Forum and recently being bailed out by the Gulf monarchies who now are in financial crisis.
I would appreciate it if someone could validate this article and link it to Michael Hudson's work
The City That Owns Everything and Answers to No One
Vivify Mariposa
Apr 21, 2026 By Vivify Mariposa 🦋 No Filter. Just Facts.
Mass de form a tion is our only hope, or the help of God if we can humble ourselves to not be that God...
Further, everything has to eat. Which will be the demise of the mass formation, simple hunger.
I use the term mass formation as per Mattias Desmet, and mass deformation as per Grasshopper Kaplan....make up your own words, but they better be good, not merely ideas but realities
Mind only! It is good to read you again, Karl. I share your disgust and concern. As for algorithms, the most basic is the 'Plus One' algorithm, the secret of counting. More advanced is long division and even more advanced is calculating square roots. We humans are algorithm makers and users, but these days when people speak of "the algorithm" they mean automated content control that the tech lords use, or the means to control or contain populations.
In time, people will tire of AI novelty and overreach and be glad of its use in automating tasks that numb the mind or tirelessly running factories too complex for one manager. BTW, this use of AI is localized and does not require 'data centers'.
A great depression is just around the corner for the USSA. If anything will wake up the murican idiots, being deprived of their vices and essentials, should do it. Karma is a bitch.
Don't paint the U.S. with a broad brush. Most people here are opposed to imperialist wars and want the money spent on free health care, free education, affordable housing and a living wage. The ones responsible for the imperial destruction are the oligarchs and I think they should all be strung up on lamp posts. That's just my personal opinion, of course.
Reading the comments here with people asserting that they are 'liberal left' or whatever and being anti-war doesn't matter one jot.
Politically I would be right of center, but I'm dead against NATO, loathe every single one of our governments for being conniving, thieving bastards, and would happily burn down our institutions if that's what's needed to restore rule of law and the rights of We the People.
It's not about right or left. It's about right and wrong. TPTB want to keep us distracted and divided, whether that's by race, religion, faux political beliefs, and anything else that keeps their power intact.
Get past the artificial divides and start coalescing around all the things we share in common. We are not tribes: we are human beings first and foremost. There is a moral dimension to everything, and if that's the hub about which we can all turn then that's the focal point for our resisting Trump, Biden, and any other face representing the Deep State and its owners.
I was always critical of the concept of neofeudalism, but the insight from Guancha article is really important. One can put it slightly differently: the traditional community versus the Anglo-Saxon toxic individualism. Mind you, John Rawls’ Theory of Justice is erected on individuals behind the veil of ignorance — no community, but individuals.
“This article was published in Guancha yesterday and deals with technofeudalism; its author aims to convey the following:
This article will argue two points. First, algorithms determine which enterprises can survive, which workers can get jobs, and which opinions can enter the public eye, which has substantially constituted the "basic structure of society" defined by the political philosopher Rawls, but is completely free from the public legitimacy scrutiny that the basic structure should be subjected to. Second, unlike medieval feudalism, which at least had churches, guilds, and free city-states as checks and balances with independent legitimacy, there was no heterogeneous authority within techno-feudalism that could restrain the "lords of the clouds". These two structural flaws are mutually exclusive and explain why traditional tools have been tried and failed.”
It's all so depraved, Karl. We need an international resistance movement.
Agreed.
USrael Empire is a bloody brothel run by a gang of criminals whose sole purpose is to plunder their own country and the world for their own benefit, using every imaginable criminal means to do so. To describe this monster as the cancer of the planet is an understatement.
Welcome back, Karl.
Vietnam war had military draft lottery. US elites desperately wanted to stop anti-war protests. They figured out the way to stop protests was to stop the draft. On the other hand, everyone I know who was anti-war in those days (liberal left) has no problem with endless wars today. The same people were knee-jerk anti government in those days but now think government is fine. Even anti-Trump people have no problem with his wars (or his Covid lockdowns). My experience w. today's pro-gov. people is that they remain in the same closed mindset they've always had. They may be very high IQ but they have no interest in reading outside their bubble.
Excuse me, but I was anti-war in the 1960s and protested and also helped the underground railroad that got guys out of the U.S. to Canada. I have never changed my anti-war and anti-capitalist beliefs. I was 19 when I marched against war. I am now 77 and too ill to physically march, but I am opposed to every single U.S. imperialist war now and forever.
Carolyn, I'm glad to know you're out there and haven't done a flip flop as others of the Vietnam era have. Like you I'm age 77. One of my brothers is a year younger than I am and was caught in the Vietnam draft, number 167 I believe, and I was horrified he'd be called (he wasn't). All my brothers and other relatives are lifelong liberal democrats, are anti-Trump, but have no problem with Trump's endless wars, won't even discuss the subject. Likewise they all ran out and got Covid shots and boosters, never questioned any part of it. How did they come to accept a government injection without the slightest question, doing no research? There isn't the slightest chance I'd accept a government injection, PCR test, or the like.
You are a bit extreme. The absolute mess that was the COVID pandemic emanated from the incompetence and greed of neoliberal government. Trump and Biden literally ignored sound epidemiology, well-established principles that if followed would have saved too many lives to count (vaccines are way down the list). Instead, we got masks, lockdowns, and an insufficiently tested vaccine whose main virtue was that it was quickly produced and eminently monetizable, but it was supposed to be the 'silver bullet' that would make the bad thing go away.
We just lived under the wrong government.
There was no incompetence; the plandemic was deliberately designed in advance (read, for instance, this: https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/2006-ralph-baric-paper-describes ), and the social engineering it allowed was the goal, not an accident. "Sound epidemiology" was irrelevant. The vaccine was never seriously meant to work; it was meant to teach the population obedience in the face of invasive genetic intervention.
I agree 100% with you that living under the wrong government resulted in whatever was forced upon us during the Covid era. If that's an extreme view I guess I'll have to live with it.
There is no "right" government; both sides are puppets of the same Talmudist/Mammonist Cabal, and either government would have implemented the Cabal's directives with equal eagerness. Your apparent choice is an illusion.
I am right with you, Carolyn. We specialized in getting AWOL soldiers to safety. We would hide them in a 'safe house' in the hills. I remember that they all smelled of fear.
Neither Clinton, nor Bush, Cheney, Biden, & Trump dared to be in the trenches. The Epstein class is bloodthirsty because their blood is not in danger.
"Joe Biden received criticism during his 2020 presidential campaign for his five student draft deferments. Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump all received criticism for deploying the armed forces in combat while having not served in that capacity themselves."
I spent quite a few years of my youth protesting that war, months on the road, and almost one year in jail. I was never a 'liberal left'. One old boy in Nevada said when I was telling about the true cause of the Vietnam War, "You sound like a communist!" I didn't know if that was a compliment or a criticism, so I just smiled.
I recall the "communist" label being attached to Vietnam war opponents. I don't like political labels such as "right" or "left" because it means there are only two choices. I used the term "liberal left" because "liberal" or "left" is how the people I described and have observed over the past 55+ years described themselves. You were clearly against the Vietnam war. I'm sorry you had to spend a year in jail.
The 'liberal left' turns out to be not very liberal at all. For me, opposition to war is definitive although I am aware of defensive wars such as that waged by Russia, Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah. I suppose I am not very liberal!
Liberal is an odd term whose definitions have changed over its history. I recall the fun Gilbert & Sullivan had with it in their Librettos. Same goes for the term Progressive. I prefer the terms Humanist & Communitarian.
I like Lee Camp's "I'm not an -ist, it's too restrictive." The labels are meaningless, used by people who don't even know what they mean to dismiss people rather than to describe them, like people on the right calling Biden a communist. Whuh?
Wars of choice are a US specialty. The one positive thing about Trump is that he changed the name of Dept. of Defense back to Dept. of War.
Honest, at least. I still want to see Dennis Kucinich’s Department of Peace.
Trump most positive contribution is the fact that he unknowingly pulled back the Wizards(capitalism) curtain for all to see what a sham it is`
Capitalism/neoliberalism/globalism is just the names given to the Mafia's actions against the people
Utter nonsense. That the virus was deliberately released and not escaped is another question. But Western response was entirely neoliberal. Whether or not those in charge followed that philosophy does not matter. The result was a catastrophe for ordinary Westerners —note that non-Western countries did much better for the most part.
Good to have you back Karl.
I live in France and there is a small chink of hope that the current government is trying to shake off some of the shackles of US dominated 'tech'. All govt systems are now planned to move to entirely French or EU tech. Or open systems at least if there is no European system available. It is possible here to almost completely operate individually online without using a US tech system, but it would require an effort that currently I haven't done.
For initially PR reasons the Spanish PM has opened up his nation to freely express their horror of Israeli activities that so appall any right minded person. Others are now beginning to follow at last. Some of course like UK and Germany try to lock down any such public reaction.
Amazon etc are alive and kicking in France, but there is a continuous effort to ensure the 'social contract' is not corrupted too much which provides some protection against exploitation and monopolistic tendancies.
Green-Shoots
America is becoming less relevant by the day.
I thank Trump for hastening its demise.
Good riddance.
Beware the wounded elephant thrashing about in the garden as the West shares the same fate as America.
Funny how Borrell & Macron & Other EU Scum are desperate to recolonize the jungle until we realise it pays for their garden.
Elephants graveyard springs to mind!
I'm refusing to share my tinned sardines, mackerel, tuna and corned beef with my neighbours when the time comes.
Future Europeans will be digging up those tins and not Roman coins.
AI really is GIGO…garbage IN… garbage OUT and PALANTIR crowd scares me to death..! They should disappear off the earth
Teleport them to deep space like Nomad. If you’re a Trekkie, you’ll understand.
The power and entanglements of the City of London
"There is a city inside London that is not London.
One square mile. Its own police force. Its own courts. Its own laws. Its own flag. Its own government that predates the United Kingdom by several hundred years. The Mayor of London has no authority there. Parliament has no authority there. The Prime Minister has no authority there.
It has a charter from 1067.
Nobody alive remembers who founded it.
That is not an accident.
The City of London Corporation owns one of the surviving copies of the Magna Carta. The 1297 copy. With Edward I’s seal. The document that stated the City of London shall have all its ancient liberties by land and by water. The City is the only entity in the Magna Carta named as specifically protected. In 1215, King John was losing a rebellion. Hoping to win the Londoners to his side, he granted them the right to choose their own mayor annually. Weeks later, the same rebellion forced him to sign Magna Carta. The City used the chaos to extract permanent protections for itself. The document that became the foundation of individual liberty in the English-speaking world contains a clause written specifically to protect the City of London from ever being touched."
The article goes through the financial power over the centuries including the World Economic Forum and recently being bailed out by the Gulf monarchies who now are in financial crisis.
I would appreciate it if someone could validate this article and link it to Michael Hudson's work
The City That Owns Everything and Answers to No One
Vivify Mariposa
Apr 21, 2026 By Vivify Mariposa 🦋 No Filter. Just Facts.
nofilterjustfacts.substack.com
https://nofilterjustfacts.substack.com/p/city-of-london-hidden-power
Mass de form a tion is our only hope, or the help of God if we can humble ourselves to not be that God...
Further, everything has to eat. Which will be the demise of the mass formation, simple hunger.
I use the term mass formation as per Mattias Desmet, and mass deformation as per Grasshopper Kaplan....make up your own words, but they better be good, not merely ideas but realities
Mind only! It is good to read you again, Karl. I share your disgust and concern. As for algorithms, the most basic is the 'Plus One' algorithm, the secret of counting. More advanced is long division and even more advanced is calculating square roots. We humans are algorithm makers and users, but these days when people speak of "the algorithm" they mean automated content control that the tech lords use, or the means to control or contain populations.
In time, people will tire of AI novelty and overreach and be glad of its use in automating tasks that numb the mind or tirelessly running factories too complex for one manager. BTW, this use of AI is localized and does not require 'data centers'.
A great depression is just around the corner for the USSA. If anything will wake up the murican idiots, being deprived of their vices and essentials, should do it. Karma is a bitch.
Don't paint the U.S. with a broad brush. Most people here are opposed to imperialist wars and want the money spent on free health care, free education, affordable housing and a living wage. The ones responsible for the imperial destruction are the oligarchs and I think they should all be strung up on lamp posts. That's just my personal opinion, of course.
Glad you are back , do you read Julian Macfarlane on substack?
Juliane and I have known each other for 10+ years. I read his stack occasionally and whenever he comments at MoA.
Yes Julian should be required reading. Unfortunately given his age and housing problems he might not be with us for long.
Reading the comments here with people asserting that they are 'liberal left' or whatever and being anti-war doesn't matter one jot.
Politically I would be right of center, but I'm dead against NATO, loathe every single one of our governments for being conniving, thieving bastards, and would happily burn down our institutions if that's what's needed to restore rule of law and the rights of We the People.
It's not about right or left. It's about right and wrong. TPTB want to keep us distracted and divided, whether that's by race, religion, faux political beliefs, and anything else that keeps their power intact.
Get past the artificial divides and start coalescing around all the things we share in common. We are not tribes: we are human beings first and foremost. There is a moral dimension to everything, and if that's the hub about which we can all turn then that's the focal point for our resisting Trump, Biden, and any other face representing the Deep State and its owners.
Glad to see words again from you Karl. Stop The Machine. Power to the People. Keep on...
Thiel & Karp - the Epstein class biggest protectors
Wonderful to have you back!
I was always critical of the concept of neofeudalism, but the insight from Guancha article is really important. One can put it slightly differently: the traditional community versus the Anglo-Saxon toxic individualism. Mind you, John Rawls’ Theory of Justice is erected on individuals behind the veil of ignorance — no community, but individuals.
“This article was published in Guancha yesterday and deals with technofeudalism; its author aims to convey the following:
This article will argue two points. First, algorithms determine which enterprises can survive, which workers can get jobs, and which opinions can enter the public eye, which has substantially constituted the "basic structure of society" defined by the political philosopher Rawls, but is completely free from the public legitimacy scrutiny that the basic structure should be subjected to. Second, unlike medieval feudalism, which at least had churches, guilds, and free city-states as checks and balances with independent legitimacy, there was no heterogeneous authority within techno-feudalism that could restrain the "lords of the clouds". These two structural flaws are mutually exclusive and explain why traditional tools have been tried and failed.”