 Friends         | L'Internationale. English Translation: Arise, ye workers from your slumber, Arise, ye prisoners of want. For reason in revolt now thunders, and at last ends the age of cant! Away with all your superstitions, Servile masses, arise, arise! We'll change henceforth the old tradition, And spurn the dust to win the prize! So comrades, come rally, And the last fight let us face. The Internationale, Unites the human race. So comrades, come rally, And the last fight let us face. The Internationale, Unites the human race. No more deluded by reaction, On tyrants only we'll make war! The soldiers too will take strike action, They'll break ranks and fight no more! And if those cannibals keep trying, To sacrifice us to their pride, They soon shall hear the bullets flying, We'll shoot the generals on our own side. So comrades, come rally, And the last fight let us face. The Internationale, Unites the human race. So comrades, come rally, And the last fight let us face. The Internationale, Unites the human race. No saviour from on high delivers, No faith have we in prince or peer. Our own right hand the chains must shiver, Chains of hatred, greed and fear. E'er the thieves will out with their booty, And to all give a happier lot. Each at his forge must do their duty, And we'll strike the iron while it's hot. So comrades, come rally, And the last fight let us face. The Internationale, Unites the human race. So comrades, come rally, And the last fight let us face. The Internationale, Unites the human race. View all 7 posts  EYEOFTHEDESERT: excute justice not people 9 days ago • Report 1  Him_over_there: For those who rely on their News from mainstream media sources - this is what you are missing: namely the truth. Israeli Zionism’s true face; IDF Devils violently assaulting unarmed mourners, carrying the body of a 51 year old journalist, shot in the face the day before by that artificial terrorist state’s army of cowardly snipers.    John4466: Yes, it's shameful abuse. Even if people would have thrown stones...those carrying the coffin were attacked too and that was totally unnecessary. The soldier(s) who did that should be charged for unlawful abuse but then, they are a law to themselves. No wonder people walk out of the IDF.  Him_over_there: I’m looking at a Reuters article, with the headline: “Biden seeks $33 billion war chest to support Ukraine, Zelensky wants quick approval” So who the Hell is this selfie-loving, diminutive character, that appeared on the World stage in a puff of frenetic aggressive energy, dressed in a green costume, like some mischievous Zionist Leprechaun, demanding unending monies from Western tax-payers? https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-looks-congress-oligarchs-more-cash-help-ukraine-2022-04-28/  Adite: So I have read that article and then did a quick Google. 1. People are dying. It includes humanitarian aid. "$8.5 billion in direct economic assistance to the Ukrainian government and $3 billion in humanitarian aid." (From your reference). 2. It makes it easier for the US to seize Russian assets. "Biden's proposal would also let U.S. officials seize more Russian oligarchs' assets, give the cash from those seizures to Ukraine, and further criminalize sanctions dodging." (From your reference). 3. It includes measures and funding to limit the direct impact of shortages on the US. "Additionally, the request includes funding to support the production of United States food crops that are experiencing a global shortage due to the war in Ukraine, for example, wheat and soybeans helping to address rising food prices here at home and around the world. The request also would help increase domestic production for strategic minerals and materials produced in Russia or Ukraine and respond to global shortfalls and reduce price pressures." (From: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/28/letter-to-the-speaker-of-the-house-of-representatives-on-fiscal-year-2022-emergency-supplemental-funding/) 4. The US officials are keen to dissuade Russia from acting further. Money spent now can save plenty in the future. (From: https://www.state.gov/united-with-ukraine/) The US, as always, is acting to protect its own interests. Him_over_there in reply to Adite: The thing is [Adite], there's only so many blankets, medical supplies and packed lunches one can supply to a people in the name of Humanitarian Aid - and even this would leave a great deal of spare change, within the first Billion. (China already have that angle covered btw.) they have wisely decided not to to send lethal supplies, because doing so is like pouring petrol on to a fire. You mention how this gigantic sum of American money will somehow help seize Russian properties in the West. This makes no logical sense, but we should take note, that such actions are completely without due process. There is no legal merit to assuming possessions, or someone's private property, purely on the grounds that they are part of an ethnic minority. This is something that occured during Hitler’s Germany by the way; to Jews; during the whipping up a similar type of chauvinistic enthusiasm within reactionary layers of the German public’ Also. I see you mention the ‘criminalisation of sanctions dodging’, as if it were a good thing. We should remember that Sanctions are designed to initiate a war of attrition against a people. Criminalising any objection to being part of this act of violence is in itself criminal coercion Him_over_there: UPDATE: ⅘ of Ukrainian armour destroyed according to Russian Air Command - Ukrainian Nationalist Troops increasingly using soft-skinned civilian vehicles - hundreds of Images - of bodies - young uniformed Ukrainian Men - litter the Runet - while Zelensky poses for selfies Him_over_there: The choice at hand for proletarians has always been between an emancipation of the whole of Humanity, through democratic Socialism ..or the continuation of a divisive Capitalist World, which is in constant conflict.  duncan124: Oh! I thought it was going to be a witty saying against "...isms " , Militarism, Capitalism, Socialism and so on. Stamp out ...isms NOW!! That's what we need. View all 9 posts  Baldizar: They say it is of the old way of showing that we don't abide be the body but of the mind and the foresight of the extemporaneous provisions of the countries before our time as a witnessed and calibrated cultists.  bellerauhaar23: Karl Marx was a hypocrite, lived off the money of Engels, made off the profits of his factories. He exploited and never paid his loyal servant all her life. He treated his wife like shit as did Gandhi.Based his dry writing on the basis of others and on the observation of the vineyard workers in the Moselle valley. He wasn’t a genius, just a middle class guy. He was born in the town where I live. . There’s a museum in the house where he was born. Think for yourself and don’t follow any dogma. Follow your own conscience and speak the truth. You know what’s right and wrong. Dogma means death. Don’t have heroes. Nobody has the answers. All written religious texts were once oral, passed down and filtered through generations of MEN with their own agendas of their present times. What you believe is entirely dependent on where you are born geographically and temporally. That applies to all of us. Time plus location equals belief. See your own context and culture. It’s always been this way. There is no ultimate truth. We just kill and suppress out of lack of self reflection. Him_over_there: Today - Biden and Harris announced their $13.6 billion Ukraine 'aid' package - like they were good Samaritans - giving out sweets to children - and the assembled audience cheered with moral certitude View all 6 posts  TJ_TANG: Drone strikes replaced cruise missiles. Cruise missiles replaced carpet bombing. This trend is easily surmised as so. Away from large scale warfare with it's mass indescriminate killing with much loss of innocent life, collateral damage, etcetera. Absolutely horrifying in scale. For example see carpet bombing below. Towards tactical remote piloted warfare. Squadrons of drones and swarms of support drones. Teams of remote pilots control it all . Targets are identified before being engaged. This is warfare conducted with a SWAT team attitude and this is absolutely horrifying on another level. For example see remote controlled machine gun. Carpet Bombing. From 1964 to 1973, as part of the Secret War operation conducted during the Vietnam War, the US military dropped 260 million cluster bombs – about 2.5 million tons of munitions – on Laos over the course of 580,000 bombing missions. This is equivalent to a planeload of bombs being unloaded every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years – nearly seven bombs for every man, woman and child living in Laos at that time. Remote Controlled Machine Gun The U.S. Military and intelligence community have been undertaking targeted killings for more than a decade, but the use of AI and an unmanned ground weapon system is different. In particular, AI could be used not only to ensure the target is killed, but to strike with such accuracy that other nearby civilians and innocent bystanders are spared. Israeli agents used only 15 machine gun bullets to kill the scientist in a moving vehicle, without harming those around him. The Fakhrizadeh killing shows that we are now firmly in the age of remote-controlled warfare, and that time and distance place few restrictions on killing. The restrictions, if any, will have to be put in place by people. My two cents. Warfare is violence, the danger I see here is the public becoming more desensitized to endless warfare. The public only tends to react if troops are coming back en'masse, and the "Nintendo Pilots", as the late philosopher George Carlin tagged them back in 1991', are getting further from the frontlines all the time eventually being a military will carry all the risk of an office job. If a highly lethal and accurate system is put in place with the "good notion" of a "cleaner" war. Meaning less innocent bystander casualties, less collateral damage, less blowback; taken alone seem worthy of attention marketed as "Warfare Lite: only 2% of the death vs. Regular War." Suppose, in such a system the targeting identification "filter" is shut off, or never installed in the first place, it's now an indescriminate killer. Like this one! https://www.wired.com/2008/12/israeli-auto-ki/ Him_over_there: Everyone who supports either 'All Lives Matter' or 'Blue Lives Matter' is just a shy Racist, or a willing pawn of the Police State View all 8 posts Him_over_there: 20th Oct 2020: Killed for reversing a motor car: Taffara Williams (20) ended up with serious injuries in hospital after being shot in her stomach by Waukegan Police. Her boyfriend Marcellis Stinnette (19) died in the violent assault. Neither were armed, nor did they break any law.. but they were Black: #BLM: Chatroom: Black Lives Matter  View all 6 posts Him_over_there: the 'Trump on Trial Room is now open - All Welcome - a Free Speech Room: Chatroom: Trump on Trial Him_over_there to myname2: Hi - you are welcome to join our alternative: Chatroom: America for Americans Him_over_there to elbertaynestein: you are welcome to join our alternative: Chatroom: America for Americans |
