From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun Oct 2 23:29:10 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 18:29:10 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Who blew the pipelines? Message-ID: https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/16307?utm_campaign=The%20Cradle%20&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter From moboct1 at aol.com Mon Oct 3 01:30:27 2022 From: moboct1 at aol.com (moboct1 at aol.com) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2022 01:30:27 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace-discuss] Tom: Re: Who blew the pipelines? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <496136251.2015614.1664760627524@mail.yahoo.com> TOM:? Don't know if you can open this; they blame Poland and Danish intelligence (CIA were the first to plead not guilty-LOL).? It closes with some interesting observations:?"Blowback will be inevitable as Europe becomes increasingly Ukrainized and Polandized; an intrinsically neo-fascist, unabashed puppet of the US as predator, not partner..."?? ? ? "And now, what will become of us, without any barbarians [reference to the fall of the Roman Empire to the barbarians]("those people were some kind of solution)."? --C.P. Cavafy poem: "Waiting for? the Barbarians." The Barbarians are not at the gates...they are inside." Mom P.S.? Thanks for fetching milk for me yesterday; I appreciated having milk on my cereal for breakfast this morning. as Europe will bbe increasingly -----Original Message----- From: C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss To: Peace Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net Sent: Sun, Oct 2, 2022 6:30 pm Subject: [Peace-discuss] Who blew the pipelines? https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/16307?utm_campaign=The%20Cradle%20&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter _______________________________________________ Peace-discuss mailing list Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Tue Oct 4 23:33:49 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 18:33:49 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. I've got some family matters to tend to so I won't be able to vet & send in links like these for a while. As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your video pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members video pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's video pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's video pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. Enjoy. -J News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air ================================================== Consortium News Is Julian Assange a Hacker? https://youtube.com/watch?v=JneFmoIO5_8 BreakThrough News This is What Got Katie Halper Censored & Canceled By The Hill: Israel Is An Apartheid State https://youtube.com/watch?v=_3xLOxx1ggQ RT NATO's fight for the right to dictate legitimacy of referendums https://rumble.com/v1md7wo-natos-fight-for-the-right-to-dictate-legitimacy-of-referendums.html https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/nato-referendums:d Groundless accusations | Western media blame Russia for Nord Stream sabotage https://rumble.com/v1mdfk8-groundless-accusations-western-media-blame-russia-for-nord-stream-sabotage.html https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/cnnfake:a ?Don?t pay energy bills?: Londoners strike against soaring prices https://rumble.com/v1mcesm-dont-pay-energy-bills-londoners-strike-against-soaring-prices.html https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/UK-PROTEST:0 Never enough? | US imposes more sanctions on Iranian oil exports https://rumble.com/v1m9p1g-never-enough-us-imposes-more-sanctions-on-iranian-oil-exports.html https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/iran-yt:2 West resists formation of new multipolar world order https://rumble.com/v1m9ov0-west-resists-formation-of-new-multipolar-world-order.html https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/world-order-yt:f International observers react to Donbass referendums https://rumble.com/v1m5ajc-international-observers-react-to-donbass-referendums.html https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/International-observers-referendums:6 'US not interested in ending the war' | Ukraine to receive more military aid https://rumble.com/v1m4xww-us-not-interested-in-ending-the-war-ukraine-to-receive-more-military-aid.html https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/ukraine-more-military-aid:7 The Chris Hedges Report The Chris Hedges Report: Pink Floyd's Roger Waters on Ukraine, Palestine, music & more https://youtube.com/watch?v=_8n51xlrMy8 The Chris Hedges Report: Julian Assange's father, John Shipton, speaks out https://youtube.com/watch?v=7gajwvBzI9g The Chris Hedges Report: Why did Democrats give this pro-Trump GOP primary candidate $425,000? https://youtube.com/watch?v=C66ok151B38 The Chris Hedges Report: Ukraine and the crisis of media censorship https://youtube.com/watch?v=N0H7PIJcEP0 Labor's World View TV ================================================== RT 'We are hated by the state' | Hundreds of French workers go on strike https://rumble.com/v1m3wre-we-are-hated-by-the-state-hundreds-of-french-workers-go-on-strike.html https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/france-unions-strike:2 More Perfect Union Trader Joe's Shutters Unionizing NYC Wine Store In The Middle Of The Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_CJKIxVI-o Texas's Corrupt Attorney General Got Paid While Texans Suffered. This Candidate Could Unseat Him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTGlmuW0s7k Beer Makers are Threatening to Strike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAZFqfWbBE8 How the Sacklers Got Rich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JREyK5HZXE Election To Watch: White Nationalist Sympathizer vs. Auto Shop Owner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6NKU4bbN9o Home Depot Workers are Unionizing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX3UWoRKDq4 UPS Trucks Have No AC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvoXnCGy_Is One Bill Could Help Farmworkers Unionize. Why Won't Newsom Sign It? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxyBHuw7KvQ How One Family Made Billions While KILLING Half A Million | The Class Room ft. Second Thought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmndYa0lFzw From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed Oct 5 18:16:17 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 13:16:17 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: [New post] Patrick Lawrence: The Strong, and the Merely Powerful References: <174340743.25613.0@wordpress.com> Message-ID: <428E7345-82D6-477B-8E6F-37BCA01CDAFA@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "scheerpost.com" > Subject: [New post] Patrick Lawrence: The Strong, and the Merely Powerful > Date: October 5, 2022 at 1:13:19 PM CDT > To: cgestabrook at gmail.com > > scheerpost.com > Patrick Lawrence: The Strong, and the Merely?Powerful > Editor > Oct 5 > > Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, with Russian President Vladimir Putin during visit to Moscow in 2019. (Kremlin) > By Patrick Lawrence / Consortium News > Vladimir Putin?s speech from the Kremlin last Friday, delivered to the nation and the world as four regions of Ukraine were reintegrated into Russia, was another stunner, in line with numerous others he?s made this year, demonstrating a fundamental turn in the Russian president?s thinking over the past eight months. > > The implications of this new perspective warrant careful consideration. Putin has taken to looking forward and seeing something new, and in this he is hardly alone. > > ?The world has entered a period of a fundamental, revolutionary transformation,? Putin said while standing beside the leaders of the Luhansk and Donetsk republics and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Phrases such as this bear the weight of history. By way of magnitude, presidential speeches do not get any larger. Here is how the Russian leader expanded on the thought: > > ?New centers of power are emerging. They represent the majority ? the majority! ? of the international community. They are ready not only to declare their interests but also to protect them. They see in multipolarity an opportunity to strengthen their sovereignty, which means gaining genuine freedom, historical prospects, and the right to their own independent, creative, and distinctive forms of development, to a harmonious process.? > Putin has been speaking in this register since Feb. 4, 20 days before Russia launched its intervention in Ukraine and on the eve of the Winter Olympics in Beijing. In the Joint Declaration?on?International Relations Entering a New Era and Global Sustainable Development , issued with Xi Jinping, Putin and the Chinese president declared, ?Today the world is going through momentous changes,? > > ?and humanity is entering a new era of rapid development and profound transformation. There is increasing interrelation and interdependence between the States; a trend has emerged toward redistribution of power in the world.? > Putin?s rhetoric has grown markedly sharper from February to last Friday. He has attacked the European Union for its ?selfishness? and cowardice, the U.S. for its hegemonic aggression, including the genocide of Native Americans, and the West altogether for the ?neocolonial? character of its relations with the non?West. Putin and his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, used to refer to Western nations as ?our partners.? As of last Friday, yesterday?s partners are Russia?s ?enemies.? > > ?Irreversible Changes? > > All very grim. Putin has made this turn toward confrontation reluctantly and out of frustration with the West?s obstinate refusal to negotiate the new security order that Europe so obviously needs. He is angry at the spectacle of wasteful violence and prolonged disorder. This is my read. But there is a certain brightness to his outlook that we must not miss amid the bleak, evident animosity. > > ?Global politics and economy are about to undergo fundamental and irreversible changes,? Putin asserted again, this time at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Council, held in Samarkand last month, ?not based on some rules forced on [us] by external forces and which nobody has seen, but on universally recognized principles of the rule of international law and the U.N. Charter, namely, equal and indivisible security and respect for each other?s sovereignty, national values, and interests.? > > In his Moscow address, he said: ?They do not wish us freedom, but they want to see us as a colony. They want not equal cooperation, but robbery. They want to see us not as a free society, but as a crowd of soulless slaves.? > > ?Western countries have been repeating for centuries that they bring freedom and democracy to other peoples. Everything is exactly the opposite: instead of democracy ? suppression and exploitation; instead of freedom ? enslavement and violence. The entire unipolar world order is inherently anti-democratic and not free, it is deceitful and hypocritical through and through. > Let me also remind you that the United States, together with the British, turned Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities into ruins without any military necessity during World War II. And this was done defiantly, without any, I repeat, military necessity. There was only one goal: just like in the case of the nuclear bombings in Japan, to intimidate both our country and the whole world. ? > The US dictate is based on brute force, on fist law. Sometimes beautifully wrapped, sometimes without any wrapper, but the essence is the same ? fist law. The collapse of Western hegemony that has begun is irreversible. And I repeat again: it will not be the same as before.? > This kind of talk is daring. It is a million miles from anything you will hear from any of America?s purported leaders, lacking all vision as they do. What is Putin talking about if not a new era in world history, the kind that gets its own chapters in the history texts of the future? What will distinguish this new era, we have to ask. > > There are various ways to interpret what Putin, Xi, and their allies among non?Western nations are working toward. In my view, they draw a distinction none has put into words but which is nonetheless essential to their vision: There are strong nations and there are the merely powerful. In the world order as we have it the powerful dominate ? ever more evidently by force alone. In the world order now emerging, it is genuinely strong nations that will at last prevail over those reliant on power alone, and force will have little to do with it. > > I have distinguished between the strong and the powerful since my years serving as a correspondent in East Asia, long back. The Vietnamese, the South Koreans, the Chinese in their way, even the Japanese in theirs: In these nations I saw a durability and coherence that had nothing to do with the size of their armies and air forces. > > What was it that made them strong? The answers, of which many, came to me only after years of considering the question. I do not consider the answers anything like complete. > > Strong nations serve their people as their primary responsibility. This is where I begin as I characterize them. They have a purpose, a telos, as the ancient Greeks put it, and a shared belief in the worth of their ideal. They have a commitment to advancing the well-being of their citizens ? to constructive action in the interest of the commonweal. They value their cultures, their histories, their memories. > > These common characteristics confer on strong nations solid but flexible social fabrics and an assumed sense of shared community. They are a source of identity and at the same time expressions of identity. > > Ironically, strength of the kind I describe tends to generate power. But it is power judiciously deployed. Genuinely strong nations have no need to dominate others. They are ungiven to subterfuge or subversion, seeing no purpose in it. They value mutual benefit in their relations with others simply because this is the surest way to stability and a peaceful order. > > Let us not traffic in impossible ideals or in the thought of nations as pure as snow. There are none. A strong nation may have many things about it that are not to be admired ? awful things, even. A strong nation may also be powerful. China is such a case. I am of the view ? and I realize there are others ? that China does not use its power to malign purpose. Remove the Sinophobia and anti?Chinese paranoia, and the record supports this. > > Power Alone > > In the same unscientific fashion, let us consider the merely powerful. > > Nations dependent on power alone lack the coherence found among the strong. In them you find that all relations are power relations. The social fabric is in consequence frayed. There is an evident atomization among the citizens of these nations, leaving them with no social bonds or common purpose and nothing to believe in. > > When a nation?s ethos tips toward the pursuit of power, the polity is hollowed out. All the familiar social ills proceed from this ? inequality, corruption, greed, and the collapse of mediating institutions through which people are able to express their political will. > > The rampant, perverse corporatization of every aspect of life in unduly powerful nations represents the institutionalization of these characteristics. When everything is measured according to its potential to turn profit, we have to say that Margaret Thatcher was horribly right when she asserted, ?There is no society. There are only individuals.? This is a key feature of nations that are merely powerful. > > They are gatherings of survivors in constant struggle against one another. > > The merely powerful consume what remains of their strength in the course of exercising their power. An example of this is the censorship regime that descends upon America like a long, dark cloud. > > As digital media corporations act at Washington?s behest to control what can be said in public, they do more, much more, than impose an information monoculture upon Americans. This is the use of power to intrude on the full range of our interpersonal relations. > > They are telling me what I can and cannot say to you. In this way they are destroying public discourse, and, in nations where we find it? not all ? a vibrant public discourse conducted in public space ranks among the important sources of strength. They are also destroying people?s abilities to discern, to think, and to judge for themselves ? another source of a nation?s strength. In strong nations that curtail free speech ? and there most certainly are some ? culture and tradition nonetheless strengthen communities, and leadership often uses them for this purpose. > > This is how the exercise of power leads to the disintegration of the nation wherein power alone counts. > > The US: A Once Strong Nation > > Maybe it is obvious by now that I count the United States the premier example of a nation that is powerful but lacking in strength. There is no anti?American sentiment in this. It is simply because the exercise of power at the expense of strength is more advanced in the U.S., with its excessive corporatization and its excessive dependence on technology as an instrument of power, than anywhere else on earth. > > When Jefferson and the signers wrote, debated, and sent the Declaration of Independence to George III to advise of their intent, they were announcing a strong nation, bound together in purpose and faith in itself ? strong but hardly powerful. It has been this nation?s long, persistent abandonment of its founding ideals, ever accelerated as its pursuit of power came to dominate, that has rendered it weak. > > The paradox: As America determined to make itself a world power, beginning with the Spanish?American War in 1898, it has steadily lost its strength in the way I use the term. > > Power, as exercised by the merely powerful, acts primarily in the cause of its own self-preservation. It is thus put to malign purpose, deployed to the detriment of others, and is almost invariably a destructive force. Among its objectives is the destruction of the strengths of others. > > Vietnam is a clear case. As they waged war against the Vietnamese people, U.S. forces infamously set about ?destroying the village to save it??that is, to shred the fabric of Vietnamese society so as to defeat it. American forces have since done the same elsewhere ? in Syria, for instance, in Libya, in Iraq. You don?t have to approve of any given feature of these societies to recognize that what has been fundamentally at issue was their coherence, those ineffable things that bound them together as one even if it was a fractious unity. This is why we can now speak of these nations as ?broken.? > > We should consider the Ukraine conflict from this perspective ? the wanton, useless destruction, I mean. And we should think about what it is the U.S. most wants to destroy as it presses its campaign to destroy Russia. > > Then we can think again about Putin?s speeches over these past months, and the sentiments in them that many other nations??the majority!??share. I have long found Putin?s speeches, all available on the Kremlin web site, worth reading: Whatever else one may think of him, he has an excellent grasp of history and the dynamics of international relations. > > In my read, the change that has come over the Russian leader dates to last December, when the U.S. threw sand in his face in response to his effort, via those two draft treaties Moscow sent to Washington and NATO headquarters in Brussels, to fashion a new security order in Europe. That is when his anger arose. > > That is when he said in effect, To hell with them. We will have to build a new world order on our own. China, by that time, had already given up on the West, and it was then the Russians and Chinese took their great leap forward together. > > I am sure they share large measures of bitterness and anger as they look back over their deteriorated relations with the West. It is what they see looking forward that interests me far more. They are not talking about power as the principal feature of the order they now appear fully committed to realizing. They are talking about a world built by strong nations with shared purposes. > > These are all in the speeches: the freedom of nations one to the other, the right to choose ?forms of development,? interdependence, the authority of international law. > > What is the raw pursuit of power next to these? > > > Patrick Lawrence > Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune, is a media critic, essayist, author and lecturer. His most recent book is Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century. His web site is Patrick?Lawrence . Support his work via his Patreon site . His Twitter account, @thefloutist, has been permanently censored without explanation. > > Author Site > Comment > Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from scheerpost.com . > Change your email settings at manage subscriptions. > Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: > <>https://scheerpost.com/2022/10/05/patrick-lawrence-the-strong-and-the-merely-powerful/ > Powered by WordPress.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Thu Oct 6 14:02:43 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 09:02:43 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] US splitting up Russia and Germany Message-ID: <92E45352-14CA-4992-BA27-648B6A3C7907@newsfromneptune.com> https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/16307 From carl at newsfromneptune.com Thu Oct 6 15:55:12 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2022 10:55:12 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: FBI charges multiple individuals for peaceful protests at abortion facility References: <1665071399400.1895b2d2-900d-4491-a57e-05191441aaa6@bf10x.hubspotemail.net> Message-ID: > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Live Action News > Subject: FBI charges multiple individuals for peaceful protests at abortion facility > Date: October 6, 2022 at 10:51:25 AM CDT > To: carl at newsfromneptune.com > Reply-To: info at liveaction.org > > > Hi Friend of Life, > > We hope your Thursday is going well! > > > Will you be one of the 120 needed? > > Abortion is not only still happening, but it is even expanding in certain states. Every American needs to see Live Action content that has proven to change hearts and save lives. For every dollar given, 34 more people can be reached with the truth about abortion. We are looking for 120 new monthly donors by October 14 to ensure we can reach 5 million more people within the next year. > > We must reach people with the truth before the abortion industry reaches them with its lies. Will you join us in this life-saving work as a monthly donor today?Your loving gifts are the only reason we are able to continue our critical work. Click the button below to begin. Thank you! > > - The Live Action Team > > FBI Charges Multiple Individuals for Peaceful Protests at Abortion Facility > > In early March of 2021, a group of pro-life individuals visited the Carafem abortion facility in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, as part of a ?rescue?. Yesterday, that event of more than a year ago culminated in a visit from the FBI to at least one of the activist?s homes. These FBI arrests are the most recent in a line of targeted attacks against pro-life individuals who peacefully participate in activities at or outside abortion facilities in the United States. > > > Can?t Stay Silent: Ginger Succumbed to Pressure to Abort, but Later Experienced God?s Mercy > ?I would say I was terrified, heartbroken, and hopeless feeling,? Ginger says of the time surrounding her abortion. She noted that while time heals a lot of wounds, the wound of abortion does not subside, saying, ?If anything, I think it gets a little bit harder as time goes on.? > > > Pro-Life Pregnancy Center Helps Reunite Afghan Refugees With Their Young Son > Afghan refugees Benafsha and her husband Mustafa were reunited with their 22-month-old son Jasoor after more than a year of separation. The reunion was able to take place because of the efforts of a pro-life pregnancy resource center. > > > Woman Sues Planned Parenthood After Tragic Ordeal That Resulted From a Botched Abortion > A 25-year-old New York woman is suing Planned Parenthood, claiming the facility botched her abortion and then abandoned her afterwards, leaving her with weeks of pain and blood loss ? and then, a premature delivery of her baby. > > > > Live Action is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Gifts are tax-deductible in the United States. No goods or services are offered or given in exchange for contributions. > Live Action, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Suite 102 PMB 111, Arlington, VA 22201, 323-454-3304 > Unsubscribe Manage preferences -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun Oct 9 16:27:10 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2022 11:27:10 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: As Biden warns of 'Armageddon, ' more off-ramps explode References: <20221009162015.3.34b348ee02744534@mg2.substack.com> Message-ID: > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Aaron Mat? from Aaron Mate > Subject: As Biden warns of 'Armageddon,' more off-ramps explode > Date: October 9, 2022 at 11:20:15 AM CDT > To: cgestabrook at gmail.com > Reply-To: Aaron Mat? from Aaron Mate > > > Open in app > As Biden warns of 'Armageddon,' more off-ramps explode > While President Biden claims that he's pondering an "off-ramp" for Russia, the White House is escalating the proxy war at every pass. > > Aaron Mat? > Oct 9 > > > > > SAVE > > > At a Manhattan fundraiser, President Joe Biden shared with Democratic donors that, from his vantage point, the world faces ?the prospect of Armageddon ? for the first time ?since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.? > > Vladimir Putin ?is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons, because his military, you might say, is significantly underperforming,? Biden added. > > The Commander-in-Chief?s comments inevitably stoked an already elevated global panic over a Ukraine proxy war that pits the world?s top nuclear powers on opposing sides. In US media, there was virtually no acknowledgement that Biden?s characterization of how Putin ?talks? was false. Although Putin has made bellicose comments, he has never threatened the ?use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons,? as Biden claimed. > > Biden?s alarmism overshadowed what could be taken as encouraging news. For the first time, the US president suggested that his administration is as least pondering a diplomatic path that could bring the Ukraine conflict to an end. > > ?We?re trying to figure out: What is Putin?s off-ramp?,? Biden said. ?Where does he get off? Where does he find a way out? Where does he find himself in a position that he does not ? not only lose face, but lose significant power within Russia?? > > Biden?s remarks offer a sharp contrast to his declaration in March that Vladimir Putin ?cannot remain in power.? On the other hand, there is no indication that US policy has undergone any significant change. If anything, the recent actions of the White House and its client government in Kiev are blowing up off-ramps at every pass. > > ?White House and military leaders are transitioning to a sustainable model Kyiv can depend on for an open-ended war with Russia,? the?New York Times reports . That?sustainable warfare will be ?roughly modeled on U.S. train-and-assist efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past two decades,? ? a model that, while highly sustainable for weapons contractors, was the opposite for the nations subjected to it. > > The ?open-ended war with Russia? will be waged with a $12.3 billion package newly approved by Congress, bringing the total US commitment so far to more than $66 billion. With that most recent vote,?the Times notes , ?Congress has now committed more military aid to Ukraine than it has to any country in a single year since the Vietnam War, reflecting a remarkable bipartisan consensus in favor of pouring huge amounts of American resources into the fight.? > > As the audacious truck-bombing of the Kerch Strait bridge shows, Ukraine is bringing the fight to Crimea, home to Russia?s most important naval base. In June, a Ukrainian commander identified the Kerch bridge as a ?number one target ,? and a Ukrainian official has now taken credit for Saturday?s successful operation. Days earlier, senior Pentagon official Laura Cooper signaled that the US has given Ukraine the green light to use US weaponry there. ?We think they can reach the vast majority of targets, including Crimea,? Cooper said . ?And just to be clear, Crimea is Ukraine.? > > For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is explicitly rejecting any off-ramp for Putin. Zelensky greeted Russia?s annexation of four Ukrainian regions with an application for fast-tracked NATO membership. When that was swiftly rejected, Zelensky signed a decree ruling out peace talks with Moscow so long as Putin is in power. Not content with calling for regime change, Zelensky followed that up with his most direct plea for World War III to date, urging NATO to launch ?preemptive strikes ? inside Russia. (After an uproar, a spokesperson claimed that Zelensky meant preemptive sanctions.) > > Meanwhile, the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines has ensured, for now, that NATO members have no off-ramp from the proxy war coalition ? nor, it seems, from the economic crises that they face as a result. > > When he greeted the Nord Stream sabotage as a ?tremendous strategic opportunity ,? Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged some pitfalls. > > Cut off from their traditional cheap Russian gas supply, ?European allies,? Blinken said , will now ?prepare for a difficult winter ahead.? To address that difficulty, he vowed, ?we?re determined to do everything we possibly can to make sure that the consequences of all of this are not borne by citizens in our countries or, for that matter, around the world.? > > But the United States? European allies are quickly learning that there are limits on what the US can ?possibly? do for them... > Keep reading with a 7-day free trial > Subscribe to Aaron Mate to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. > > Start trial > A subscription gets you: > > Subscriber-only posts and full archive > Post comments and join the community > ? 2022 Aaron Mat? > 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 > Unsubscribe > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun Oct 9 16:36:48 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2022 11:36:48 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] As Biden warns of 'Armageddon, ' more off-ramps explode Message-ID: <1153A35A-10A9-484F-9152-EC11D24C3CEC@newsfromneptune.com> https://mate.substack.com/p/as-biden-warns-of-armageddon-more?r=692a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Oct 10 21:50:53 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 16:50:53 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_=27It=E2=80=99s_Time_To_Tell_Bi?= =?utf-8?q?den_We_Say_=E2=80=98NO!=E2=80=99_To_Nuclear_War!=27_-_Ron_Paul?= =?utf-8?q?=27s_10_Oct_Column?= References: Message-ID: <72D9C5B0-2AC4-4DE5-B68F-8F940F1CC1D2@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Ron Paul Media > Subject: 'It?s Time To Tell Biden We Say ?NO!? To Nuclear War!' - Ron Paul's 10 Oct Column > Date: October 10, 2022 at 4:47:40 PM CDT > To: > Reply-To: Ron Paul Media > > Is this email not displaying correctly? > View it in your browser . > > > Get your tickets to RPI's Nov 5th Lake Jackson Conference! > > It?s Time To Tell Biden We Say ?NO!? To Nuclear War! > Oct. 10 - Last week the New York Times ran a shocking article claiming that the US intelligence community believes the Ukrainian government to be responsible for the August attack that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of a prominent Russian philosopher. > > Surely the established narrative that Ukraine is a model western democracy standing strong for our shared values against an aggressive Russian invader is damaged with reporting that Kiev conducted an al-Qaeda style attack on an innocent civilian inside Russia. The murder of Dugina was a textbook definition of terrorism, which is, ?the use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.? > > Just over a month later, the Nordstream pipelines were blown up, seemingly ending at least in the near term the possibility that Germany may find a way to save its economy by mending fences with its main energy supplier. A leading Polish politician thanked the US for doing the job. > > Then over the weekend, the bridge connecting mainland Russia to Crimea was bombed, killing at least six civilians and leaving part of the bridge under water. Traffic was restored hours after the attack, but Russian President Vladimir Putin placed the blame on Ukraine?s intelligence service. We all know that Ukraine relies on its US masters, so we can assume the US provided the intelligence allowing the targeting of the bridge. > > There is a pattern here. More and more brazen attacks are being launched against Russia and Washington is doing little to hide US fingerprints. Why? > > The Biden Administration seems to be moving us closer to nuclear war over Ukraine and Biden himself seems to know it. Last week he said, Putin ?is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons?? For the ?first time since the Cuban missile crisis, we have a direct threat of the use [of nuclear weapons] if in fact things continue down the path they are going.? > > So the question is if he knows that his proxy war against Russia is moving us closer to the unthinkable ? nuclear annihilation ? why does his Administration persist in crossing red line after red line? Apparently, Biden?s ?experts? believe that Putin is bluffing and will do nothing about the Dugina assassination, the Nordstream pipeline sabotage, and the Kerch Bridge attack. > > But what if they?re wrong? > > Normally foreign policy action should be weighed on a cost/benefit basis. Will adopting one particular policy benefit the United States more than the risks involved? In this case there is absolutely nothing on the positive side of the ledger. Will the security and prosperity of the United States benefit more from regime change in Russia than it would suffer should nuclear war break out? > > It doesn?t seem all that hard. No. > > So what?s going on here? Why does the US Administration ? with the support of most Republicans in Congress ? continue to send tens of billions of dollars in military aid and move us toward nuclear war over a conflict that has nothing at all to do with the United States? > > The time to end US participation in this war is yesterday. And if it takes millions of Americans in the streets peacefully protesting while demanding that their representatives stop this madness, then bring it on. Tomorrow may be too late. > --- > > Read more great articles on the Ron Paul Institute website . > Subscribe to free updates from the Ron Paul Institute. > > Copyright ? 2022 by Ron Paul Institute. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit and a live link are given. > > > > > 3GBe2oTXNxa7vUjRKAz6B2YNNo7ADyppq9 > Donate with Bitcoin > > > Our mailing address is: > PO Box 1776, Lake Jackson, Texas 77566 > unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Wed Oct 12 01:38:32 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 20:38:32 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Tulsi Gabbard left the Democratic Party In-Reply-To: <1d3b1c86-5740-7664-b41e-25069b7426e7@forestfield.org> References: <1d3b1c86-5740-7664-b41e-25069b7426e7@forestfield.org> Message-ID: <193cc902-33e9-bce5-39d5-3196614486b7@forestfield.org> Her statement: https://rumble.com/v1nhd94-why-im-leaving-the-democratic-party..html https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1579788950696185859 Coverage includes: https://www.rt.com/news/564475-tulsi-gabbard-leaves-democrats/ Gabbard leaving the Democratic Party is a step in the right direction and I concur with her assessment of the Democratic Party from her statement. I remain suspicious that she's a firm believer in the duopoly (given what she told Primo Nutmeg years ago), and I think that it would be interesting to hear her reconcile her previous (somewhat self-contradictory) statements endorsing drone war given to The Intercept. Her endorsement of Joe Biden for US President makes her objections to war all the harder to take seriously. After all, Biden famously voted for the AUMF for invading Iraq under G.W. Bush, so it's not like we didn't know Biden was such a hawk when he later ran for POTUS. One of the major reasons why she's leaving is that that party is pro-war ("I can no longer remain in today?s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers...") so it would be useful to know if she's reconsidered what she told The Intercept in 2018 which is still online at https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/intercepted-podcast-white-mirror/ in an interview with Jeremy Scahill, "[...] with these terrorist cells, for example, yes, I do still believe that the right approach to take is these quick strike forces, surgical strikes, in and out, very quickly, no long-term deployment, no long-term occupation to be able to get rid of the threat that exists and then get out and the very limited use of drones in those situations where our military is not able to get in without creating an unacceptable level of risk, and where you can make sure that you?re not causing, you know, a large amount of civilian casualties.". Drone war always "[causes] a large amount of civilian casualties" as both Daniel Hale told us (shortly before he went to prison for telling us details on this) and former US Air Force analyst Heather Linebaugh told us. Both were featured in the documentary "National Bird" two years before Gabbard gave that Intercept interview. Linebaugh said, "Hearing politicians speak about drones being precision weapons, being able to make 'surgical strikes', to me it's completely ridiculous, completely ludicrous to even make those statements. It's as flawed as it can be with those people operating it from across the world. If they really think they can send a bomb through a window of a compound and hit one militant then why are we seeing so many civilians die of collateral damage? I'd like to ask those politicians have they not been notified of that? Do they not know what's going on in their own war that they're controlling?". That's what I like to call a 'prebuttal' to Gabbard's Intercept interview -- a rebuttal that comes before the statement it rebuts. So I'll give Gabbard credit for leaving a neocon party. I'll withdraw this credit if she later joins the Republicans because they're also a neocon party (these parties agree on all of the biggest issues of the day, issues that cost the most money and lives, because both of those parties are funded by same people/organizations). Gabbard told Primo Nutmeg (in what appears to be a now hidden video -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkdl-QbtS1U ) that she wouldn't run outside of the Democratic Party because she didn't see any chance to win that way. She was going to remain a loyal Democrat throughout. And she was exactly that, even to the point of endorsing neocon Joe Biden as she left the presidential race. From carl at newsfromneptune.com Thu Oct 13 00:35:03 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 19:35:03 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Tulsi Gabbard on leaving the Democratic party Message-ID: https://tulsi.substack.com/p/why-im-leaving-the-democratic-party From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed Oct 19 17:42:19 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 12:42:19 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Listen to This Article: "They Crush Our Song for a Reason" Message-ID: <203BC9BF-6927-4D93-8D6D-0FDD50FD462D@newsfromneptune.com> https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/listen-to-this-article-they-crush?r=692a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email From carl at newsfromneptune.com Fri Oct 21 02:41:38 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:41:38 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Pretending To Seek Peace In An Unwinnable Proxy War: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Message-ID: https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/pretending-to-seek-peace-in-an-unwinnable?r=692a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed Oct 26 01:39:49 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 20:39:49 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Suggested videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV References: <362a27ec-c84b-f8a5-ae1f-45658961d361@forestfield.org> Message-ID: <0D3EA8F4-665C-4B9D-A3BA-99832D053A73@newsfromneptune.com> > Date: October 24, 2022 > An excellent list of news videos prepared by J.B. Nicholson for UPTV programs > > ================================================== > > > Don DeBar interviews Prof. Francis Boyle in relation to articles of impeachment being circulated against Biden > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kboRT9S-8dE > > > > RT > > EU seeks to lower its dependency on China | No backup plan? > https://rumble.com/v1plgs1-eu-seeks-to-lower-its-dependency-on-china-no-backup-plan.html > https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/china-yt:8 > > Pelosi be like: US inflation hits 40-year high, but let's change the subject > https://rumble.com/v1pkjhn-pelosi-be-like-us-inflation-hits-40-year-high-but-lets-change-the-subject.html > https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/blind-yt:d > > CrossTalk | Home Edition | Geopolitical Shift > https://rumble.com/v1pjlmj-crosstalk-home-edition-geopolitical-shift.html > https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/crosstalk-geopolitical-shift:0 > > Washington Post calls for US military intervention in Haiti, for the ninth time > https://rumble.com/v1p8qgq-washington-post-calls-for-us-military-intervention-in-haiti-for-the-ninth-t.html > https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/haiti_un_2210:a > > Ukraine far from top issues that concern average Americans ? poll > https://rumble.com/v1p6ivb-ukraine-far-from-top-issues-that-concern-average-americans-poll.html > https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Poll_Priorities_22:e > > American journalist?s tweet with alleged photos of Ukrainian soldiers giving Nazi salute withheld > https://rumble.com/v1p21v5-american-journalists-tweet-with-alleged-photos-of-ukrainian-soldiers-giving.html > https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/tweets_2110:b > > Emmy-winning journalist missing following FBI raid > https://rumble.com/v1p2y85-emmy-winning-journalist-missing-following-fbi-raid.html > https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/james_meek_2110:7 > > > > ScheerPost > > Kevin Gosztola Interview: Do People Know Assange? > https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=LVa1SjFIBXs > > > > The Gaggle > > TG 901: The Gaggle Talks To Pepe Escobar > https://invidious.sethforprivacy.com/watch?v=wnNqrBUrVWo > > > > > Labor's World View TV > ================================================== > > More Perfect Union > > Amazon Workers At SIX Facilities Stage Mass Walkout > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOP_AlDaYiQ > > ?Controversial? Policies Most Americans Want > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uusKsD-qs20 > > These Workers Endorsed Their Boss's Opponent For Congress. Here's Why. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3CdHQZOPqs > > Police Arrested Striking Sysco Workers > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usdP8W5EDMo > > How Ticketmaster Is Destroying Live Music > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfPiqgLPro8 > > Amazon Is Firing Union Supporters With Disabilities & Illnesses > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMA1nRhJ0q4 > > Race To Watch: Montana Lawyer vs. Trump's Interior Secretary > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPGgRZmq6Uw > > Incarcerated People are on Strike in Alabama > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsWjhFOndcU > > Starbucks Instructed Managers to Punish Pro-Union Workers > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dMG65xGyv0 > > The Election Argument That Democrats Aren?t Making, But Must to Win > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n-NqBr7-H4 > > Amazon Didn?t Let Workers Leave During Fire > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6X7BAkEy-Q > > Amazon Workers Given Chips Instead of Raises > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHQqgnq7Spc > > Strippers Get Union Election > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9PUS_BMxaA > > How DC Restaurant Workers Could Get A HUGE Raise > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABdpAqVJkWY > > Republican Corruption EXPOSED In the Closest U.S. Senate Race > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mxmgvtMBkg > > Police Violently Attack Striking DHL Delivery Drivers > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSfhDCW7DSs > > Trader Joe's Shutters Unionizing NYC Wine Store In The Middle Of The Night > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_CJKIxVI-o > > Texas's Corrupt Attorney General Got Paid While Texans Suffered. This Candidate Could Unseat Him. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTGlmuW0s7k > > Beer Makers are Threatening to Strike > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAZFqfWbBE8 > > How the Sacklers Got Rich > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JREyK5HZXE > > Election To Watch: White Nationalist Sympathizer vs. Auto Shop Owner > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6NKU4bbN9o > > Home Depot Workers are Unionizing > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX3UWoRKDq4 > > UPS Trucks Have No AC > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvoXnCGy_Is > > One Bill Could Help Farmworkers Unionize. Why Won't Newsom Sign It? > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxyBHuw7KvQ > > > > laborvideo > > The Life & Struggle Of UFWA Founder Al Rojas: Presentations At 2022 Oral History Ass LA Meeting > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXvFQT3LJ0E > > Bosses & Managers In SF Using Restraining Orders To Shut Workers Up > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyUcBE6y5SU > > Labor Speak Out At Port Of Oakland To Defend Railroad Workers Health & Safety, Strike/Labor Rights > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT4gM4pbMGA > > "Town Destroyers" & The Victor Arnautoff GWH Murals With Alan Snitow & Deborah Kaufman > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfnVpKC2kpM > > Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad! Rally In Oakland At US Federal Building > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlw9KFLa12Q > > The War In Ukraine & A Labor Party With Past ILWU President Brian McWilliams > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GvGHEztBY4 > > S. Africa Nat Dockers Strike Of Transnet With RTUSA JV Dube, David Hemson & Namibia Workers Struggle > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq20jE-qpws > > Union Busting & Class Struggle in Namibia with MUN Rossing Branch Secretary George Martin > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyZ_Zfgan7U > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sat Oct 29 20:19:07 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:19:07 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Our civil liberties are under attack References: <20221029160825.3.53b4cd1fefd41d70@mg-d0.substack.com> Message-ID: > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Tulsi Gabbard > Subject: Our civil liberties are under attack > Date: October 29, 2022 at 11:08:25 AM CDT > To: cgestabrook at gmail.com > Reply-To: Tulsi Gabbard > > > Open in app or online > > Our civil liberties are under attack > TULSI GABBARD > OCT 29 > > > > > > ???LISTEN > SAVE > > ?Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded.? > > These prophetic words were spoken by none other than the Father of the Constitution, James Madison. America?s fourth President had the wisdom to see beyond the litany of challenges facing our founders and innately understood how the power of fear could be weaponized against future generations to erode the very freedoms they had fought so hard to obtain. Madison was fully aware of the primal human need for safety, and that perceived threats to this safety could be used one day to justify attacks on our fundamental liberties. > > > Unfortunately, just one century later, our country?s leaders would begin to ignore his warning. At the pinnacle of World War I, the United States government would make its first such betrayal, passing the ill-conceived Espionage Act in 1917 to purportedly safeguard against spying and bolster our national security at a time when Americans felt especially vulnerable. However, it was used to silence and target the free speech of those who spoke out against the war. > > Tulsi Gabbard is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. > > Upgrade to paid > > Our founders declared certain rights to be self-evident and inalienable because they understood the corrupting influence of power. They could envision how legislation like the Espionage Act would be antithetical to freedom. But politicians disregarded their foresight, and it passed under the auspices of security. > > Those in power immediately used the newly passed legislation to begin jailing dissidents of the war, like Charles Schenck and Elizabeth Baer, charging them with violating the Espionage Act for handing out pamphlets that opposed the draft. These were not spies for our adversaries leaking sensitive intelligence that endangered our servicemembers. No - they were merely anti-war protesters exercising their First Amendment right to free speech. Yet, even with our system of checks and balances, the Supreme Court affirmed the conviction of Schenck and Baer, ruling that Congress has more latitude in limiting speech during times of war. A dangerous precedent was set that has continued to undermine liberty to this day. > > > The Espionage Act remains law today, and in recent years, it has been used as a blunt instrument to attack a free press and critics of those in power. During the Obama presidency, eight people were charged with leaking security details to the media under the Espionage Act ? more than all previous administrations combined and most notably included Edward Snowden. This whistleblower bravely exposed the unconstitutional mass surveillance and human rights abuses being carried out by the NSA. Instead of receiving the whistleblower protections we were told are essential for democracy, Snowden faces 30 years in prison if extradited from Russia. > > Upgrade to paid > > The unconstitutional mass surveillance he exposed was only made possible due to another dreadful example of wartime legislation known as the Patriot Act. Our country was still on edge following the jihadi terrorist attack on 9/11 and the American people were being encouraged by those in the media and in Washington to constantly be suspicious. Remember ?if you see something, say something?? We were repeatedly told that the next terrorist attack was imminent and that everyone was a suspect. The Bush administration and Congress leveraged this fear to drastically expand the scope of executive power. > > > Bush, Cheney and the warmongers of both parties who enabled them normalized this idea that as long as a president claims to be acting in the interest of national security, they can trample all over our God-given freedoms. The Bush administration insisted that a president has the power to designate American citizens suspected of being terrorists as ?enemy combatants.? This classification means they can be imprisoned indefinitely and denied all of their constitutional rights without even a conviction ? mere suspicion will suffice. The Bush administration established a precedent that the principles of due process could be suspended in the name of national security. And it was in this climate of extreme fear, that the Patriot Act was passed. > > > The Patriot Act allowed law enforcement agencies to conduct warrantless surveillance of Americans in direct violation of our Fourth Amendment rights to privacy. Any American can now be wiretapped, and the rights of Habeas Corpus are no longer guaranteed. The Patriot Act allows our government to operate deep in the shadows of secrecy as the American people sacrifice their liberty. Naturally, one would expect this highly intrusive, anti-constitutional piece of legislation to have barely found the votes to pass, if at all, and then surely get phased out quickly. Not the case. It passed the Senate with a vote of 98-1, very little debate, has been easily and blindly reauthorized numerous times, and remains in effect to this day. > > > While serving in Congress, I introduced legislation that would repeal many of the Patriot Act?s most egregious violations to the Constitution and end the secret FISA courts. Speaker Pelosi refused to even allow for a vote. There was no room for debate, and any attempt to siphon away power from the party elites and restore it to the people was seen as a betrayal of the Washington establishment. Members of Congress take an oath to defend and uphold the Constitution, but with limited exceptions like Senator Rand Paul, those on Capitol Hill seem to ignore how legislation like the Espionage Act and Patriot Act run counter to this promise. The time to repeal is now. > > > Benjamin Franklin famously said, ?Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.? > > Upgrade to paid > > As the Biden administration continues to escalate tensions with Russia, what freedoms will they demand we sacrifice in the name of national security? What will we sacrifice under the threat of nuclear war? > > > We?ve already seen this administration attempt to deploy a ?Ministry of Truth? to censor voices it doesn?t like ? but the American people stood together, and we did not allow it. I hope and pray that we find this same courage under the threat of WWIII and nuclear annihilation. > > Ready for an ever deeper dive on this critical issue? > > In Episode 3 of The Tulsi Gabbard Show , Dr. Ron Paul and I discuss the greatest threats to our civil liberties and what we must do to defend them. We don't hold anything back, and I think you'll enjoy our frank discussion on this timely issue. > > Listen Now (You can also find it on YouTube, Rumble, or anywhere you listen to podcasts.) > > If you found this post to be informative and of value, please subscribe to my Substack , where at least once per week, I?ll get into the issues that impact our everyday lives, and share things that are important to me. My hope is that what we talk about here on Substack will help bridge the divide, increase understanding, and remind us of how important it is that we uphold our God-given rights and freedoms enshrined in the Constitution. > > Upgrade to paid > You?re a free subscriber to Tulsi Gabbard . For the full experience, become a paid subscriber. > Upgrade to paid > > LIKE > COMMENT > SHARE > > ? 2022 Tulsi Gabbard > P.O. Box 1401 Honolulu, Hawaii 96807 > Unsubscribe > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For instance, more than half > of people with disabilities (55%) find it difficult to afford their energy bills, > and 36% have problems paying for housing. > > Renters and people with lower incomes face more difficulties with their bills than > others. About 60% of those who do not own a home said they struggle to pay their > energy bills, compared with 43% of homeowners. > > Half of those with a personal income of less than ?20,000 ($22,620) per year have > trouble paying their energy bills, while only 23% of those earning ?50,000 or more > reported the same problem. [1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/expenditure/articles/impactofincreasedcostoflivingonadultsacrossgreatbritain/junetoseptember2022 Apparently this is going on while the UK goes along with the US in the US/NATO-led war against Russia and Europe. And the UK has the NHS (so one would not expect the medical bankruptcy problems the US faces). Relatedly, the UK Foreign Office has said: > From 1 January 2023, the UK is ending all imports of Russian liquefied natural gas > and supporting countries around the world in reducing their own dependency Source: https://twitter.com/FCDOGovUK/status/1585998385563471872 https://www.rt.com/business/565567-uk-russian-lng-imports-ban/ has a report on this. How much more would they be able to afford if they were still buying cheaper Russian fuel (instead of the US-supplied liquified natural gas which is said to cost 4X the amount Americans pay according to Harley Schlanger in a recent interview in https://lbry.bcow.xyz/@RT:fd/WA_759_Harley-Schlanger:f or https://rumble.com/v1ql1d3-worlds-apart-free-to-be-chained-harley-schlanger.html)? Or not sending money to Ukraine? From jbn at forestfield.org Mon Oct 31 04:36:28 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 23:36:28 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: <24703c51-c12c-7652-1497-c44611e0e2df@forestfield.org> Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. I've got some family matters to tend to so I won't be able to vet & send in links like these for a while. As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your video pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members video pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's video pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's video pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. Enjoy. -J News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air ================================================== The Grayzone Western media ignores Ukrainian atrocities in Donbas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5qAAqCL-1w How NAFO troll farm fundraises for war criminals and extremists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iaJVTieFCU On the ground in Donbass under Ukrainian fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJuE0stcXi8 RT Demand for diesel soars in US amid price surge and dwindling supplies https://odysee.com/diesel_2910:f9cf51bf5425d11b3202b0161cf61e12e7af3106 Russia suspends participation in grain deal after Ukrainian attack on Crimean naval ships https://odysee.com/grain_bn_2910:90e72f1173d5b0b88db7eccf55a30dbe4064c834 Plane engine catches fire during takeoff in New Delhi https://odysee.com/plane_ablaze_29:faaa343c9f597fa3849b239a594e1a44f723dc28 The price of EU going full green: labor rights abuses, eco-problems in Global South https://odysee.com/green_2910:d7fae828c3def943613ff5e19964fa1328f5c996 Police remove tent camp near Prosecutors General?s Office in Chisinau https://odysee.com/moldova_tents_29:e7f287d9dfb98ea3c7632e58154ee7adf855db6c Sevastopol repels mass Ukrainian drone attack https://odysee.com/Sevastopol_2910-yt:5acf8e8a50052c6625c56aef9bb486ca58d839d1 Stones, tear gas and water cannons: Protesters clash with cops in Bogota https://odysee.com/COLOMBIA-PROTEST:90ef4e6af325d7d0dcd52a9326c7b9802a4d9d53 History making Haitians question US troop deployment https://odysee.com/Haiti_2910:fd7815a26ce9ee5691611cad3c7be6596691789a Devastating damage: Floods ravage Venezuela?s streets https://odysee.com/VENEZUELA-FLOODS:c57e5b840df842b78e58f3b4f96b8e7258546a05 Kiev preventing Kherson residents from returning home ? Washington Post https://odysee.com/Kherson_2810-yt:0b166d125b71d00c5151295d5e76024ec3acc8ca Whereabouts of American journalist still unknown after FBI raided his house https://rumble.com/v1qm92p-whereabouts-of-american-journalist-still-unknown-after-fbi-raided-his-house.html Worlds Apart | Free to be chained? - Harley Schlanger https://rumble.com/v1ql1d3-worlds-apart-free-to-be-chained-harley-schlanger.html https://lbry.bcow.xyz/@RT:fd/WA_759_Harley-Schlanger:f Al Jazeera The Labour Files? The Purge I Al Jazeera Investigations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elp18OvnNV0 The Labour Files ? The Crisis I Al Jazeera Investigations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTMF0MSXng Aaron Mat? (guest hosts the Jimmy Dore Show, no swearing) Is Russia Poised To Win The Ukraine War? https://rumble.com/v1qfhik-is-russia-poised-to-win-the-ukraine-war.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=EyXhwbj6_yA The Days Of U.S. Hegemony Are OVER Says Putin https://rumble.com/v1qfhj4-the-days-of-u.s.-hegemony-are-over-says-putin.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=gglfpWS686c Is Obama Spreading Putin Talking Points? https://rumble.com/v1qfhks-is-obama-spreading-putin-talking-points.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=oNhkbUrovY0 Ukraine WON?T Negotiate Says U.S. Advisor To Zelensky https://rumble.com/v1qfhlc-ukraine-wont-negotiate-says-u.s.-advisor-to-zelensky.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=tdr-d4Wesy8 Dirty Bomb Accusations Fly Between Russia & Ukraine https://rumble.com/v1qfhmg-dirty-bomb-accusations-fly-between-russia-and-ukraine.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=TVc8VGgfLq4 U.S. RACES To Deploy Nuclear Weapons To Europe https://rumble.com/v1qfhnk-u.s.-races-to-deploy-nuclear-weapons-to-europe.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=M_GV6aLy-Jg Mass Casualties Necessary To Depose Putin Says U.K. Financier https://rumble.com/v1qfhoo-mass-casualties-necessary-to-depose-putin-says-u.k.-financier.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=c2PguE6WaaM PROOF Antisemitism Accusations Against Corbyn Were Labour Party Lies https://rumble.com/v1qfhps-proof-antisemitism-accusations-against-corbyn-were-labour-party-lies.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=O0Y5bWybKww Ilhan Omar Latest Squad Member HECKLED Over Ukraine Stance https://rumble.com/v1qfhqm-ilhan-omar-latest-squad-member-heckled-over-ukraine-stance.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=E7ZHHCqp5hA Jan 6 Worse Threat To Democracy Than 9/11 Says Fmr FBI Agent Peter Strzok https://rumble.com/v1qfhrg-jan-6-worse-threat-to-democracy-than-911-says-fmr-fbi-agent-peter-strzok.html FBI Offered Christopher Steele $1 Million For Proof Dossier Was Real https://rumble.com/v1qfhsu-fbi-offered-christopher-steele-1-million-for-proof-dossier-was-real.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=kDWbq1TQoto COWARDLY House Progressives Retract Letter Calling For Ukraine Negotiations https://rumble.com/v1q3zm0-cowardly-house-progressives-retract-letter-calling-for-ukraine-negotiations.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=WAIUdGIOdMY Ukraine War Is For LGBTQ Rights Gushes Democrat Jamie Raskin https://rumble.com/v1q3zne-ukraine-war-is-for-lgbtq-rights-gushes-democrat-jamie-raskin.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=37TuahrWXtM MSNBC Host FLIPS OUT Over Possible Ukraine Negotiations https://rumble.com/v1q3zqg-joe-scarborough-flips-out-over-possible-ukraine-negotiations.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=ARulqKlDhwg Elizabeth Warren HECKLED Over Support For Nuclear War https://rumble.com/v1q3zts-elizabeth-warren-heckled-over-support-for-nuclear-war.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=3guKLjId2T8 Web Summit BANS Grayzone Journalists For Ukraine Truth Telling! https://rumble.com/v1q3zxe-web-summit-caves-to-pressure-and-bans-grayzone-journalists.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=YjxmXvnEU8A How The U.S. Learned To Love Neo-N at zis In Ukraine https://rumble.com/v1q3zzc-how-the-u.s.-learned-to-love-neo-nzis-in-ukraine.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=mRi-A4WskYI How The U.S. Learned To Love Neo-N at zis In Ukraine https://rumble.com/v1q4146-how-the-u.s.-learned-to-love-neo-nzis-in-ukraine.html AOC Gets In Bed With Obama Neoliberals/AOC Snubs Progressives To Cozy Up To Neoliberal Podcasters https://rumble.com/v1q403i-aoc-snubs-progressives-to-cozy-up-to-neoliberal-podcasters.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=rkG4xR-xjcQ Consortium News Nuclear Risk in Ukraine - with Former Australian Ambassador to Poland & Diplomat in Russia https://youtube.com/watch?v=WD6laenrdmg Jennifer Robinson on Assange - Australian National Press Club https://youtube.com/watch?v=q_cYJ25-In0 Stella Assange AMA Noisyleaks https://youtube.com/watch?v=NTydLRxaq9c Chris Hedges Report The Chris Hedges Report: Dr. Gabor Mat? on trauma, addiction, and illness under capitalism https://invidious.sethforprivacy.com/watch?v=3HF7BONxLCs The Chris Hedges Report: Noam Chomsky, Pt 1 https://youtube.com/watch?v=O7Vueji6LQo The Chris Hedges Report: Noam Chomsky, Pt 2 https://youtube.com/watch?v=bdRLyshuWQg Labor's World View TV ================================================== laborvideo Fighting Privatization, Court Restraining Orders & Union Busting-SLAP San Francisco Education Meet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsIY8VvpsfA Free Mumia Now! Rally In Oakland To Stop The Frame-up Of CWA NABET Journalist & Political Prisoner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk239Efd6KM Payroll Chaos Kills At SFUSD: UESF SEIU 1021 Workers Fed Up With "Empower" Program That Is A Wreck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrqaxUOR_ro The Life & Struggle Of UFWA Founder Al Rojas: Presentations At 2022 Oral History Ass LA Meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXvFQT3LJ0E Bosses & Managers In SF Using Restraining Orders To Shut Workers Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyUcBE6y5SU Labor Speak Out At Port Of Oakland To Defend Railroad Workers Health & Safety, Strike/Labor Rights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT4gM4pbMGA "Town Destroyers" & The Victor Arnautoff GWH Murals With Alan Snitow & Deborah Kaufman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfnVpKC2kpM Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad! Rally In Oakland At US Federal Building https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlw9KFLa12Q The War In Ukraine & A Labor Party With Past ILWU President Brian McWilliams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GvGHEztBY4 S. Africa Nat Dockers Strike Of Transnet With RTUSA JV Dube, David Hemson & Namibia Workers Struggle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq20jE-qpws Union Busting & Class Struggle in Namibia with MUN Rossing Branch Secretary George Martin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyZ_Zfgan7U Free Julian Assange! Global Day Of Action In San Francisco At Harry Bridges Plaza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv2bdkIdZeA UAW Socialist Presidential Candidate Will Lehman & The Issues In The UAW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkXq_vQjO4k Brazil, Bolsonaro, The Rise of Fascism & The Working Class with Fabio Bosco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HqQZjD4sjQ SF Sheriff Blockades Laguna Honda To Stop Press Conf On Hospital Closures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hp4iYbqEkE Free Assange, Mumia and Palestine-Rally in Berkeley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VXdpS0MnnM Union Busting Kaiser Takes Hardline On NUHW Workers While Gov Newsom Is MIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lR9yDVKZMY Apple Toxic Is It Above The Law? With Whistleblower Ashley M. Gj?vik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvxNLu7BhaI On Strike At SFO! $17 An Hour Wages & $20 Hamburgers: Unite Here 2 Workers Speak Out For Justice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G95X8SiPyIA UAL AFA Flight Attendants March Against Union Busting & Join SFO Unite Here Local 2 Strikers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cU8SlR1ar0 No Honors For Denialist & Warmonger Former Japan PM Abe Say Protesters In San Francisco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9VDpplH9o SF Chronicle No Silence On Assange! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDHd_mo0cY LA Protest Shuts Down FCMAT Meeting As Protesters Demand Stop Closures, Charters & Privatization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGmtI6OawzY Enough Is Enough! 125,000 Railworkers Want A Life: Report By Gabe Christenson Co-chair RWU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syUgtIFdl-k Barbara Lee & "Pete" Get An Earful In Oakland Over Tax Dollars For GAP A's Owner John Fisher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udd0e0Pswgk SF Protest Google/Amazon Support For Apartheid Isreal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g45pE1eVcHo US Rail Workers Fed Up & On Verge Of National Strike Over Working Conditions, Health & Safety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3N_lKLZ6P0 Terrorism, Racism &Union Busting Against SEIU1021 SF General Hospital Workers By CCSF HR/DPH & Mayor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUpZqFxFplI Chile's 9/11 & The Rise Of US Fascism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMRrZWbaIOk CWA AWU Google & Amazon Tech Workers & Community Demand No Tech For Apartheid! Cancel Project Nimbus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUg9UglBlzY More Perfect Union Why Gas Prices Are So High Right Now | Ft. Jessica Burbank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sN6MMAfoMU Right-Wing Midterm Candidates are Bankrolled by Billionaires https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCR03bNjlhY Could Kentucky Be The Next State To Reject An Abortion Ban? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LiNFO7jzUo Amazon Workers At SIX Facilities Stage Mass Walkout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOP_AlDaYiQ Why These Workers Endorsed Their Boss's Opponent For Congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3CdHQZOPqs How Ticketmaster Is Destroying Live Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfPiqgLPro8 Amazon Is Firing Union Supporters With Disabilities & Illnesses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMA1nRhJ0q4 Race To Watch: Montana Lawyer vs. Trump's Interior Secretary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPGgRZmq6Uw Incarcerated People are on Strike in Alabama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsWjhFOndcU Starbucks Instructed Managers to Punish Pro-Union Workers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dMG65xGyv0 The Election Argument That Democrats Aren?t Making, But Must to Win https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n-NqBr7-H4 How DC Restaurant Workers Could Get A HUGE Raise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABdpAqVJkWY Republican Corruption EXPOSED In the Closest U.S. Senate Race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mxmgvtMBkg Police Violently Attack Striking DHL Delivery Drivers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSfhDCW7DSs Trader Joe's Shutters Unionizing NYC Wine Store In The Middle Of The Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_CJKIxVI-o Texas's Corrupt Attorney General Got Paid While Texans Suffered. This Candidate Could Unseat Him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTGlmuW0s7k