Tim Walz Is Excellent Domestically & Pro-Genocide

At least it wasn’t Shapiro who is actually an IDF veteran. Walz might support a regime that rapes people with dogs but Shapiro has likely raped and murdered men women and children. So it’s bad or worse, just like everything else.

Is Walz possibly the first Duopoly Pres or VP candidate since the 1981-now neoliberal/Reganomics era that is actually a halfway-Social Democratic Net Good & not a Lesser Evil/Reagan Clone?

Who was the last duopoly candidate that was not a Lesser Evil, Lyndon Johnson?

If he is on board with genocide, he’s ok with the security state, surveillance, censorship, rule by the military-industrial complex. Kind of a package deal, no?

I feel like that statement from Walz is a boiler plate political statement. I think practically every politician in America has said the same for decades.
Bruce with the utmost respect for you how many serving politicians in America openly break from the security state?
I think basically none because they can’t. If the best choice that’s available is terrible I can understand not accepting it. As far as I can see the only alternative is to throw your body into the gears.

On the other hand its 5 months to inauguration. 5 months of genocide free-for-all. Gaza genocide could be largely a fait accompli. by Feb 2025. ‘Course we might be talking about west bank and beirut genocide by then.
As for Walz there is a tiny tiny hope in my heart that he’s been keeping his gunpowder dry for when it can make a difference. But most dems like Pelosi just think political capital should never ever be spent, so Im realistic.

Thanks for that Willy!
Problem is, although requiring better emissions standards for new car is good, it is NOT the same as having *emissions standards. Meaning gross polluters are allowed on the roads, and cars do not need to be checked to ensure they aren’t polluting. So essentially, again, this only works for the wealthy, who can buy new cars, EV or otherwise.

From the Star Tribune article
“On its website, MPCA notes the new rule does not apply to existing vehicles or used vehicles for sale, nor does it require emissions testing or the outright purchase of an electric vehicle (EV).”

^^that’s the whole point. It’s just kicking the can down the road, when emissions need to be cut NOW.

Walz doesn’t matter. Harris won’t vacate the office and she won’t be pressured by him. There is a slim chance, however, that weather vane Trump could be influenced by Vance.

Thank you Ian.

It’s not just AIPAC. The Israel Lobby, which used to be called the Jewish Lobby by everyone, including Jews (I’m currently re-reading Charles Levinson’s “Vodka Cola” – written in 1978 – and Levinson, a Jewish man, uses the term “Jewish Lobby”) is multifaceted, sophisticated and ubiquitous. It includes the ADL, B’nai B’rith and the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, in addition to all the USA-y sounding groups like PAC FOR AMERICA! or something similar – which turn out to be clandestine groups using the money for Israel and its communities operating within other nations. No, not ‘the jews’ though they will gladly speak for all Jews and intentionally foment ‘anti-semitism’ for their own ends:

https://annas-archive.org/md5/bd35d3f412ebafaa8e84645f907c6770

“I write this article for the same reason I wrote my book: To tell the American people, and especially American Jews, that Jews from Islamic lands did not emigrate willingly to Israel; that, to force them to leave, Jews killed Jews; and that, to buy time to confiscate ever more Arab lands, Jews on numerous occasions rejected genuine peace initiatives from their Arab neighbors. I write about what the first prime minister of Israel called ‘cruel Zionism.’ I write about it because I was part of it.” – Iraqi Jew Naeim Giladi

https://archive.ph/dH2Oa

Giladi’s book is called ‘Ben-Gurion’s Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews.’

https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Ben-Gurion%27s+Scandals%3A+How+the+Haganah+and+the+Mossad+Eliminated+Jews

Remember, the standard history teaches that David Ben-Gurion was more ‘liberal-minded’ than the much more militant ‘Jabotinsky’ wing of the Zionist movement. The reality is that they worked hand-in-glove to achieve their ends. Their ends were well outlined by Gennady Zyuganov back in 1998:

“Zyuganov said Zionism was not a movement of Jews returning to their homeland. Rather, he said, ‘Zionism has in reality revealed itself as one of the varieties of the theory and practice of the most aggressive imperialistic circles striving for world supremacy.’
Zyuganov observed, ‘In this respect it is similar to fascism. The only difference between them is that Hitler’s Nazism was performing under the guise of German nationalism and sought world supremacy openly. And Zionism, performing under the guise of Jewish nationalism, is operating stealthily, using other people’s hands.'”

The Washington Post couldn’t stand hearing these plainly obvious truths being uttered:

https://archive.ph/T8NJH#selection-731.0-757.323

Personally, I prefer Zyuganov to Putin. Too bad we don’t hear more from/about him from ‘the left’ in the US and around the world. Even the ‘hard left’ or whatever it’s supposed to be.

Political positions of Gennady Zyuganov: https://archive.ph/wJg9m

Gideon Levy on liberal Zionists: https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=MN24hes1PRA

Sound familiar? Good cop-bad cop, good Jew-bad Jew, Carter-Reagan/Bush, Clinton-Bush, Obama/Biden-Trump

“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies… is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.” – Carroll Quigley

AIPAC, founded as a liberal Jewish defense organization with values in line with average American Jews

No it wasn’t. AIPAC has always been a clandestine operation, run by people with Israel-first values. Grant Smith has probably done the best work uncovering this little-known history, via FOIA requests and deep dives beyond the superficial history we’re presented with (the same reason people read Ian’s blog).

A quick primer on AIPAC’s history and ongoing activity can be found in the following audio broadcast and accompanying transcript from March of this year entitled ‘Why AIPAC is STILL Israel’s Foreign Agent:

https://archive.ph/cocEU#selection-341.0-341.41

Here is a presentation Grant Smith gave a few years ago outlining the JFK administration’s attempts at getting Israel and its orgs to play by the same rules every other nation-state was required to follow. Rather than register, they closed up shop and rebranded as AIPAC.

IRmep Director Grant Smith on JFK’s Efforts to Stop Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program:

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=BWCgSSEiQns (1 of 3)

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=0ecbCoZJlgI&listen=false (2 of 3)

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=mqjU4jEHf94&listen=false (3 of 3)

Does AIPAC Have Only Two Major Donors?(!!!!!!!!!!):

“Unlike the far more numerous nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations, which have to continually ‘means test’ that they have a wide public funding base in order for contributor donations to be tax-deductible, contributions to 501(c)(4) organizations such as AIPAC (which actively lobbies Congress, the executive, and numerous government agencies) are not tax-deductible. There are no contribution limits to 501 (c)(4) nonprofit groups. Individuals, foreign nationals, partnerships, associations, and other organizations may contribute whatever amount they like to a 501(c)(4).

Given AIPAC’s oversize clout in U.S. Middle East policy, it’s always informative to see just how many people are giving — and how much. When AIPAC’s founder, Isaiah Kenen, was dispatched in the early 1950s from his job at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs with orders to lobby the U.S. Congress for guns and diplomatic support as an American (rather than the U.S. State Department as an Israeli foreign agent), it was supposed to be only a six-month gig. As that operation morphed into a semi-permanent Washington institution run outside the normal purview of the Foreign Agents Registration Act office, AIPAC was forced to tap a very small base of wealthy donors (some with criminal records) while simultaneously receiving covert support from the quasi-governmental Jewish Agency in Jerusalem.

After that ‘conduit’ foreign- funding ruse was uncovered by a Justice Department investigation, Kenen emerged from the crisis and slowly built back up AIPAC’s donor base, whipping up post-1967 Six-Day War donor fears and anxieties that Israel was in danger of being overrun (it wasn’t) if people didn’t send in their checks. Now, AIPAC is pushing largely the same ‘Israel in danger’ emotional buttons, with Iran as the flashing red light.”

https://archive.ph/PbQQG

I agree that Walz is as good as we’re going to get domestically right now.

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There is a lot of substantive, well-sourced information here. The Invidious links can be refreshed or other Invidious ‘instances’ can be used if the current link isn’t working. If all Invidious are unreachable, the titles can be put into a search engine and the videos will usually be able to be viewed on the original commercial, advertising/spying platforms such as youtube.

The anna’s archive links to books seem to always work for me, albeit slowly at times.

It never ceases to amaze me that so many Americans are so indifferent, not only about paying for active genocide but their entire government being suborned by a foreign power. Until the current monetary form of lobbying is outlawed, we’re going to be getting the corrupt stooges of plutocrats and Zionists. As long as Legislators are for sale, someone is going to buy them.

People getting excited over Walz, over tough gal Kamala, about Vance, like ants in your pants.
Liar liar pants on fire/nose as long as a telephone wire.
It’s theater! Everybody’s talking about it! Extra! Extra!
Everybody’s doing it, doing it/ picking their nose and chewing it, chewing it.
It’s election time!
Whoopee! We’re all gonna die.
Yeah, all right. It’s serious all right. Seriously deluded and distracting.
Talk about laugh about it when you have to choose. Any way you look at it you lose.
Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio, a lonely nation turns its eyes to you.
On a more serious note AIPAC and it’s enablers have got to go. Woe woe woe.

You forgot: I fought the law, and the law won. (or for most, the man.) Lesson learned.

You can be the rightest man in town, always trying to do the right thing and beloved by all. But if the town’s owned by old Mr. Potter, you’re gonna need some help from Frank Capra.

I liked Steven King better. As Andy once said: “Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

More substantive information on ‘the lobby’ with active links. Let’s begin with this question:

“Why did western powers help Israel develop nukes?”

Israel stole both classified nuclear know-how and nuclear materials from the United States. JFK was adamant that Israel not have nukes, as many have written about. Here is a brief clip of Martin Sandler, the editor of “The Letters of John F. Kennedy” talking about it on C-SPAN in November, 2013:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4547313/user-clip-jfk-gurion-mossad-dimona

Here is Grant Smith talking about it in a little more detail back in July of 2010:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWCgSSEiQns

Haaretz reported on this in April 2016, after more documents were declassified – though still, as seemingly always, heavily redacted:

https://archive.ph/pWkBE

Soon after that document release, Grant Smith sued the US government in August of 2016 over foreign aid to Israel because it is obviously a clandestine nuclear power:

https://mondoweiss.net/2016/08/lawsuit-clandestine-nuclear/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/lawsuit-claims-us-aid-to-israel-violates-atomic-pact/

Project Pinto was the Netanyahu-Arnon Milchan smuggling ring that stole nuclear triggers from the US. I bet most Americans would be quite interested in knowing more about this. And talk about a story that would “sell lots of papers” or get a lot of eyeballs to stare at screens. But you won’t see, read or in any way hear about this on any mainstream, nor the vast majority of alternative news organs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23_44sUKt0g&t=185s

Jonathan Pollard was one of the most damaging spies in US history according to our own military:

https://www.military.com/history/jonathan-pollard-was-one-of-most-damaging-spies-us-history.html

Upon his release, which was protested by many government and intel officials, Pollard flew to Israel where he was warmly welcomed by Netanyahu, who said “You’re home,” reciting a Hebrew blessing of thanks. “What a moment. What a moment.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/29/jonathan-pollard-spy-israel-452235

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https://web.archive.org/web/20231219205238/https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/12/the-no-state-solution-becomes-more-and-more-real-as-israels-permanent-nakba-continues.html#comment-3970126

Commenter “Allison” was banned by “Yves Smith” because she said some nasty things, essentially asking to be banned. Too bad, because both she and “Michael Levine” brought much-needed info to the NC commentariat which, for all the good info they provide, sadly never deconstructs things far enough. And NC always descends into silly navel-gazing, though themselves seem totally unaware. Fascinating. But then we all have our blind spots.

“To add to your comment, lobbying and political bribery by foreign governments is supposed to be held in check by the Foreign Agents Registration Act – FARA – which every other country is held to to at least some degree.

Obviously, if something is in the interest of “the empire” then exceptions can be made, though they’re usually done quietly. Israel doesn’t have to even pretend to play by any of the rules.

The ADL isn’t AIPAC (which itself is just one tentacle of this hideous, all-encompassing lobby), but it is an entrenched spy organization operating on behalf of Israel.
B’nai B”rith should be monitored for activity that is against the interests of the majority of the citizens of the country.

Instead, all these organizations and their funders are constantly spying on and monitoring everyone else under the sun, to be sure we don’t utter one word that may shed some light on their diabolical nature.

Most of these powerful Zionist organizations are seen by many as simply “pet Jewish causes.” That is a very big mistake.

https://archive.ph/Pqt23#selection-2035.1-2047.1

Notice the archive.ph selection “Allison” linked to is now just the B’nai B’rith homepage, even though the link shows ‘selection’ which means that there was a specific area highlighted for the readers. Since the archive.ph link no longer highlights that specific selection, it means that the selection has been altered by Wikipedia ‘editors.’ It was obviously some facts that powerful Jewish Zionist interests no longer want people to see on Wikipedia. So it’s gone.

Archive.org can be, and is, ‘scrubbed’ regularly. Archive. ph not so much. Yet.

@shagggz

“Allison” could be rather impatient and had a tendency to go after some of NC’s regulars. Yves Smith told Allison that she liked many of her comments, but that she has to cool it with her quasi-attacks on other commenters (for not seeing what Allison thought was plainly obvious). Allison then went ballistic, ‘unveiled’ herself, and proceeded to attack “Yves Smith” (Susan Webber) personally – in a very bad way.

“Michael Levine” was clearly taken to immediately because of the name. Maybe they were hoping for a donation too.

Both “Yves” and “Lambert Strether” have said all manner of nasty things to people over the years. Yves said “F You” to a commenter. It was a regular commenter who was merely disagreeing – albeit forcefully – with something she said. She then followed it up with, “And you never donate.”

Remember, bruce wilder was banned from NC. bruce wilder! Although I was pleased to see a “brian wilder” allowed to post recently. Very similar writing styles.

Again, what Allison said was much more egregious than any of that and if I was “Yves Smith” I probably would have reacted the same way, though I don’t know that I would have erased everything that Allison, Michael Levine and others wrote.

A pen name is used for a lot of reasons. I don’t think Susan Webber adopted hers simply because she’s worried about retribution for what she writes. It’s so that she can write somewhat ‘outside of herself’ – outside of her birth and environmentally-induced identity.

Regular NC’er “Fresno Dan” said “F You” to Lambert before signing off for good a few months back. NC posted it.

Lambert “reads” to me as very pretentious person. He had an exchange with regular “flora” recently where he was essentially dictating to her what she should and shouldn’t be concentrating on (He used a “should” statement on a grown adult, regular commenter!) Flora handled it well, simply restating what she had originally said (which Lambert never heard – “A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest”) and then ending with “Cheers!”

Had Allison handled things similarly, she might still be around.

@Dan Kelly,
Thanks for that bit of lore! Yes, Yves does at times strike me as a bit harsh but also seems aware of this and tries to keep it in check. Apparently she has a disability which has come with needing to be vocal and standoffish in asserting her rights, so I suspect this is part of that. I think she chose that pen name to counteract the endemic sexism that primes many people to dismiss the ideas being presented. I think the name itself is downright genius, for being a male name that plays on Adam Smith, the folkloric father of capitalism, which sounded like Eve as in counterpart to the biblical Adam. Love me a multilayered pun! As for Lambert, I cannot disagree that he strikes me as the pretentious type, though benignly so and seemingly pretty humble generally.

I’m still left with the question of Allison’s apparently innocuous comments being deleted. Was there a blanket scrubbing of her posts sitewide, due to the ban? That would seem very petty indeed.

@shagggz

I responded to you but my response hasn’t posted. The answer to your question is yes, all of Allison’s comments do seem to have been deleted. Again though, Allison’s statements that led to the banning were not innocuous.

The rest of my post was praise for Yves and Naked Capitalism, a site I’m on regularly. I linked to Yves Smith’s interview in the New York Intelligencer back in 2018.

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I’m 51 years old and I grew up – and currently live in – New Jersey. NJ’s paper for decades was called “The Star Ledger” and, while it was a mainstream US newspaper that obviously adhered to the US establishment line (no Marxist or left or such writers), it nevertheless had in-depth reporting on local and national issues done by good writers. An excellent sports section, including Jerry Izenberg who until quite recently was one of just a handful of writers who had attended and reported from every SuperBowl since the fist one.

The Star Ledger is now NJ.com (Advance Media) and to say it is a shell of its former self doesn’t do the original any justice. The NY Times and Washington Post are essentially unreadable. You can go to all the major papers,, LA Times, the Chicago papers, Miami Herald – they’re all the same. The Boston Globe seems to have an inkling of better reporting.

How many substack writers is a person supposed to subscribe to?

@Dan Kelly,

After you make a post, it’ll say underneath it that it’s currently awaiting moderation. But I appreciate you reposting it! Yeah, the blanket removal of Allison’s posts does seem odd, but for all I know it’s more due to a quirk of how the comments software works than Yves’ personal pettiness. Regardless, I have zero doubt in my mind that she could’ve made at least ten times the money she makes from running NC, but is emotionally intelligent enough to see what is more important in life.

I am not the reverent type generally, but I basically worship her. More recently, Ian too. Intellectual and moral giants. I’ve been an info junkie since 2010 when I got wise to RSS and how to use it, and that has only deepened over time. Since then, my keeping track of mainstream sources has dwindled as their true nature of being bullhorns for the fourth reich (not a term I use ironically or lightly) has dawned on me.

NC and Ian’s blog take up the majority of my time and are the only ones I make sure to read all of the comments (only doable for the latter, given the sheer volume of the former) and it will seriously fuck me up when either of them are no longer around. I find both publications and commentariats to be fiercely intellectually honest, which make the few sources of friction between them that I’ve seen all the more tantalizing to me…

Does Mr. Welsh have a backstory of any involvement there, for instance? God, I could read about this stuff for hours… please forgive the gushy swooning… *blushes*