The Chris Hedges Report with reporter Antony Loewenstein on how Israel tests new weapons and surveillance technology on Palestinians before selling them to countries around the globe.
The Chris Hedges Report with reporter Antony Loewenstein on how Israel tests new weapons and surveillance technology on Palestinians before selling them to countries around the globe.
I sent the following comment to the NYT re. Paul Krugman's column today 12/8/23, "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None" --- which undershoots and does not understand the nature of economic deceit via the great danger unseen and unwanted awareness of 'Negative Externality Cost' Looting:
Paul [Krugman], the way you may well be seeing it — by which I specifically mean ‘seeing it’ too much like the GDP, economically, rather than the entire socio-political economic controlled system on the basis of what Graham Greene should have called —
“The Quiet/Violent American” EMPIRE and which Mark Twain attempted to address with the American Anti-Imperialist League.
America First, along with the few Globalist Wannabe Empires have now, IMHO, fallen into the trap of employing and producing 'power products’ — like weapons, pollution, disinformation, and deceit — through the inverse alchemy of manufacturing — ’Negative Externality Cost’ LOOTING far more than constructively manufacturing ‘Positive Externality Profits’ for ‘we the people’ of the U.S., and all citizens of our small, fragile, waning, and intentionally dying planet.
The unbelievably and arrogantly self-appointed “Masters of the Universe” despite their insane goals of extra-Global luxury homes, eternal-life, and boundless wealth — will not IMHO, as the fabulous and last film ever made, “Don’t Look UP”, ever get-off this mortal coil without God’s Blessing of LOVE over power:
Chris [Hedges] as I commented recently to your Alma Mater, which I frequently note as “these ‘TIMES’ they are a changing” -- but not in a progressive way -- my following and most recent double-sided, ad-hoc, focus-group tested, demonstration and protest signs, which I employ on the sidewalks of Portland Maine and Portsmouth NH. several times per week simply say:
Israel was one of the first to create the covid vaccine pass which was clearly a surveillance tool. The biosecurity state is an expansion of the security state, and doubles and triples the revenue stream. Israel had one of the most draconian covid policies of any country besides China. Ask yourself why? Israel has alot of biotech companies, a lot of ties to Big Pharma, but also to small pharma. Mark my words, its not just about terrorism. Big brother governments in collusion with corporations both large and small, want to keep you safe from everything, for control and profit. They always find or create some reason to take away our freedom. Without freedom, the human being has no dignity, and cannot be fully human.
In recent weeks, Chris Hedges has said much, much more about the plight of the Palestinians than he has ever said about the U.S. working class who have been marginalized into a state of fear, poverty and censorship by COVID tyranny ...
Here's one of his more memorable quotes that no longer rings true ... from his book WAGES OF REBELLION: "I do not fight fascists because I think we will win, I fight them because they are fascists" ... if he really practiced this principle, he never would have thrown the working class under the bus with COVID by quietly refusing to stand with us against the illegal and unconstitutional mandates and passports ... on this topic, he has only said: "it's a tough decision" ... when in fact, he never should have had a second thought about it ...
PITA - I came of age when polio was freaking out parents. Pictures of kids in iron lungs. And crippled. And small pox and measles. The milkman’s son died of polio. His name was Bobby McCann. The USA then had more of a feel “that we’re in this life together” so let’s help each other out. We felt then and I feel now fortunate to have been vaccinated. This society today does not have that quality because the corporate mind washing exalts the individual.Also in my youth science was valued. People paid attention to it. Respected it. We’re grateful for it. Unlike today’s vogue of not valuing it. I’m old now. And have preexisting conditions. And I praise scientists for making a vaccine that has probably saved my life for when I got Covid, Ihad had 3 inoculations before contracting it. And I praise the government for decreasing the probability of my dying from Covid by shutting down the frequency of encountering those unknowingly afflicted and passing it on.Two very different things today than when Inwas younger. My generation had parents who’d gone through the depression and a father or uncle who fought in WW2. In their childhood diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, and other diseases that killed people. The draft was operating. Men came home dead or deeply shell shocked. Their eyes had a blank look. So I am totally inoculated against your anti-vax attitude. By experience .
Whoa. They ALL came out of the woodwork to comment at once! And they know EVERY awful thing about Chris Hedges. Because they regularly and carefully read an author they disagree with, denigrate and despise, as we all do.
Or someone does, anyhow.
When the flak is thickest, it means you're over the target (or you were target fixated enough to immediately take a 2nd low level strafing run on a heavily defended Nakba, er, I mean target).
Chris and his sycophantic followers reveal their anti whatever you want to call it with their fixation on Israel. There is too much overlap between anti-Zionists and anti-Semites at this point to see any meaningful distinction. Just like Roger Waters, his grasp of the issues is incomplete and has been co-opted by his love for the Arab culture. We know you were a correspondent in the Middle East. We know you speak Arabic (although I speak more at my favorite restaurant than I’ve heard him utter).
I am disgusted by the Israeli retaliation. I don’t have to find every kernel of Israeli policy and practice offensive however. Why does he?
Chris, spend a little time on other countries and their flaws, then we will be able to assess your objectivity. I don’t hear you denouncing the huge increase in anti-Semitism in America, let alone the rest of the world. You say there’s a difference between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. There should be, but you and your followers, including the abundance of nuts who comment here, don’t see a difference.
Just wondering listening to this raises a plain and simple question. Does the discount online optical industry with really cheap prescription glasses put our eye ball pictures into the data bank for facial recognition spyware purposes??
Fantastic anti-Israel conspiracy stuff. Just watched a good video documentary on WWII and the Germans of that time would approve of this characterization of those evil dastardly Jews.
Keep informing us Chris. It isn't pretty, but it also isn't just a danger to be human 'over there'. Authoritarian gun toting dominators are rising everywhere. It will be a cruel joke if we kill each other over our tribalisms....just before the greenhouse gases we emit take out all life on earth.......or to be accurate, all life left after we engage in our military solutions for everything.
The Israelis have done such a good job over the last 75 years in containing, murdering, repressing, beating and imprisoning Palestinians that they have become one of the most brutal and dangerous militarist countries in the world: and they are for sale.
They are one of the top ten military contractors in the world and have worked since last century in Latin America training death squads, as in Argentina and especially in Colombia, where the carnage was despicable, for decades.
According to William I. Robinson, professor at Santa Barbara University, regarding the digitalization and techno fascism:
“The expansion of surplus humanity and precariousness is not a result of digitalization as much as an expression of the problem of capitalism.
If capital has no use for labor it will be ghettoized in the so-called grey zone and subject to the new systems of social control and repression in a global police state.
The grey zone refers to spaces in between those of the well off and those of outright warfare, where policing and other forms of containment become normalized against the lumpenprecariat subject to repressive discipline.
Here is where we find the prison-industrial complexes, immigration and refugee control systems, mass surveillance, ubiquitous, often paramilitarized policing, alongside a mobilization of state ideological apparatuses that portray the outcast as dangerous, deprived, and undeserving and that inculcate petty consumerism and flight into fantasy”
This we can call 'repressive accumulation', a stage of financial capitalism.
All of this is occurring in Ecuador right now.
It is being and will be paid for with austerity, privatization of essential services, inadequate if any health care, increased misery, growing poverty, rising unemployment, lack of basic services and collateralized and monetized Ecuadorian bodies.
Ecuador: Collaboration with Israel for Prison Reforms
"As part of a comprehensive response to escalating crime and violence, particularly within the prison system, newly elected, 35 year old billionaire, Daniel Noboa has unveiled a robust plan for what he calls ‘prison reform’.
In a strategic alliance, Israel is set to provide technical assistance to help Ecuador regain control over its tumultuous prisons, notorious for violence and disorder.
This international partnership aims to bring about a paradigm shift in the Ecuadorian prison system, restoring law and order."
And just what composes that ‘technical assistance’?
We know that in Colombia among the assistance asked for were helicopters, trucks, rifles, ammunition, and combat infantry advisors to work at both the “company and battalion level of the Salvadoran Army”
I sent the following comment to the NYT re. Paul Krugman's column today 12/8/23, "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None" --- which undershoots and does not understand the nature of economic deceit via the great danger unseen and unwanted awareness of 'Negative Externality Cost' Looting:
Paul [Krugman], the way you may well be seeing it — by which I specifically mean ‘seeing it’ too much like the GDP, economically, rather than the entire socio-political economic controlled system on the basis of what Graham Greene should have called —
“The Quiet/Violent American” EMPIRE and which Mark Twain attempted to address with the American Anti-Imperialist League.
America First, along with the few Globalist Wannabe Empires have now, IMHO, fallen into the trap of employing and producing 'power products’ — like weapons, pollution, disinformation, and deceit — through the inverse alchemy of manufacturing — ’Negative Externality Cost’ LOOTING far more than constructively manufacturing ‘Positive Externality Profits’ for ‘we the people’ of the U.S., and all citizens of our small, fragile, waning, and intentionally dying planet.
The unbelievably and arrogantly self-appointed “Masters of the Universe” despite their insane goals of extra-Global luxury homes, eternal-life, and boundless wealth — will not IMHO, as the fabulous and last film ever made, “Don’t Look UP”, ever get-off this mortal coil without God’s Blessing of LOVE over power:
Chris [Hedges] as I commented recently to your Alma Mater, which I frequently note as “these ‘TIMES’ they are a changing” -- but not in a progressive way -- my following and most recent double-sided, ad-hoc, focus-group tested, demonstration and protest signs, which I employ on the sidewalks of Portland Maine and Portsmouth NH. several times per week simply say:
CAPITALIST
INEQUALITY
CAUSES
CANCER
and on the other side
EQUALITY
FOR PEOPLE
EMPOWERS
LOVE
Israel was one of the first to create the covid vaccine pass which was clearly a surveillance tool. The biosecurity state is an expansion of the security state, and doubles and triples the revenue stream. Israel had one of the most draconian covid policies of any country besides China. Ask yourself why? Israel has alot of biotech companies, a lot of ties to Big Pharma, but also to small pharma. Mark my words, its not just about terrorism. Big brother governments in collusion with corporations both large and small, want to keep you safe from everything, for control and profit. They always find or create some reason to take away our freedom. Without freedom, the human being has no dignity, and cannot be fully human.
In recent weeks, Chris Hedges has said much, much more about the plight of the Palestinians than he has ever said about the U.S. working class who have been marginalized into a state of fear, poverty and censorship by COVID tyranny ...
Here's one of his more memorable quotes that no longer rings true ... from his book WAGES OF REBELLION: "I do not fight fascists because I think we will win, I fight them because they are fascists" ... if he really practiced this principle, he never would have thrown the working class under the bus with COVID by quietly refusing to stand with us against the illegal and unconstitutional mandates and passports ... on this topic, he has only said: "it's a tough decision" ... when in fact, he never should have had a second thought about it ...
PITA - I came of age when polio was freaking out parents. Pictures of kids in iron lungs. And crippled. And small pox and measles. The milkman’s son died of polio. His name was Bobby McCann. The USA then had more of a feel “that we’re in this life together” so let’s help each other out. We felt then and I feel now fortunate to have been vaccinated. This society today does not have that quality because the corporate mind washing exalts the individual.Also in my youth science was valued. People paid attention to it. Respected it. We’re grateful for it. Unlike today’s vogue of not valuing it. I’m old now. And have preexisting conditions. And I praise scientists for making a vaccine that has probably saved my life for when I got Covid, Ihad had 3 inoculations before contracting it. And I praise the government for decreasing the probability of my dying from Covid by shutting down the frequency of encountering those unknowingly afflicted and passing it on.Two very different things today than when Inwas younger. My generation had parents who’d gone through the depression and a father or uncle who fought in WW2. In their childhood diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, and other diseases that killed people. The draft was operating. Men came home dead or deeply shell shocked. Their eyes had a blank look. So I am totally inoculated against your anti-vax attitude. By experience .
Whoa. They ALL came out of the woodwork to comment at once! And they know EVERY awful thing about Chris Hedges. Because they regularly and carefully read an author they disagree with, denigrate and despise, as we all do.
Or someone does, anyhow.
When the flak is thickest, it means you're over the target (or you were target fixated enough to immediately take a 2nd low level strafing run on a heavily defended Nakba, er, I mean target).
Chris and his sycophantic followers reveal their anti whatever you want to call it with their fixation on Israel. There is too much overlap between anti-Zionists and anti-Semites at this point to see any meaningful distinction. Just like Roger Waters, his grasp of the issues is incomplete and has been co-opted by his love for the Arab culture. We know you were a correspondent in the Middle East. We know you speak Arabic (although I speak more at my favorite restaurant than I’ve heard him utter).
I am disgusted by the Israeli retaliation. I don’t have to find every kernel of Israeli policy and practice offensive however. Why does he?
Chris, spend a little time on other countries and their flaws, then we will be able to assess your objectivity. I don’t hear you denouncing the huge increase in anti-Semitism in America, let alone the rest of the world. You say there’s a difference between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. There should be, but you and your followers, including the abundance of nuts who comment here, don’t see a difference.
Just wondering listening to this raises a plain and simple question. Does the discount online optical industry with really cheap prescription glasses put our eye ball pictures into the data bank for facial recognition spyware purposes??
Fantastic anti-Israel conspiracy stuff. Just watched a good video documentary on WWII and the Germans of that time would approve of this characterization of those evil dastardly Jews.
Keep informing us Chris. It isn't pretty, but it also isn't just a danger to be human 'over there'. Authoritarian gun toting dominators are rising everywhere. It will be a cruel joke if we kill each other over our tribalisms....just before the greenhouse gases we emit take out all life on earth.......or to be accurate, all life left after we engage in our military solutions for everything.
The Israelis have done such a good job over the last 75 years in containing, murdering, repressing, beating and imprisoning Palestinians that they have become one of the most brutal and dangerous militarist countries in the world: and they are for sale.
They are one of the top ten military contractors in the world and have worked since last century in Latin America training death squads, as in Argentina and especially in Colombia, where the carnage was despicable, for decades.
According to William I. Robinson, professor at Santa Barbara University, regarding the digitalization and techno fascism:
“The expansion of surplus humanity and precariousness is not a result of digitalization as much as an expression of the problem of capitalism.
If capital has no use for labor it will be ghettoized in the so-called grey zone and subject to the new systems of social control and repression in a global police state.
The grey zone refers to spaces in between those of the well off and those of outright warfare, where policing and other forms of containment become normalized against the lumpenprecariat subject to repressive discipline.
Here is where we find the prison-industrial complexes, immigration and refugee control systems, mass surveillance, ubiquitous, often paramilitarized policing, alongside a mobilization of state ideological apparatuses that portray the outcast as dangerous, deprived, and undeserving and that inculcate petty consumerism and flight into fantasy”
(https://robinson.faculty.soc.ucsb.edu/Assets/pdf/RobinsonBaker.pdf).
This we can call 'repressive accumulation', a stage of financial capitalism.
All of this is occurring in Ecuador right now.
It is being and will be paid for with austerity, privatization of essential services, inadequate if any health care, increased misery, growing poverty, rising unemployment, lack of basic services and collateralized and monetized Ecuadorian bodies.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/investigation-israel-mossad-colombia-genocide-rafael-eitan/277499/
Ecuador: Collaboration with Israel for Prison Reforms
"As part of a comprehensive response to escalating crime and violence, particularly within the prison system, newly elected, 35 year old billionaire, Daniel Noboa has unveiled a robust plan for what he calls ‘prison reform’.
In a strategic alliance, Israel is set to provide technical assistance to help Ecuador regain control over its tumultuous prisons, notorious for violence and disorder.
This international partnership aims to bring about a paradigm shift in the Ecuadorian prison system, restoring law and order."
https://bnnbreaking.com/breaking-news/crime/ecuadors-battle-against-organized-crime-peace-talks-prison-reforms-and-more/
It is not an international partnership, it is a national partnership done in conjunction with the Israeli Prison Service , an Israeli state agency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Prison_Service).
And just what composes that ‘technical assistance’?
We know that in Colombia among the assistance asked for were helicopters, trucks, rifles, ammunition, and combat infantry advisors to work at both the “company and battalion level of the Salvadoran Army”
((https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2003/6/5/israels-latin-american-trail-of-terror).