Army base in Georgia offers bribe to reenlist

 

This reveals how desperate the US military is these days to keep their war mongering ranks up to snuff. (Especially after the recent debacle onboard the USS Abe Lincoln. That story is enough to scare anyone away from joining the military.)

Personnel in the 9th Engineer Battalion though are being offered four days off in 'honor' of the release of the 'Grand Theft Auto VI'.

This 'deal' only applies to those within the battalion who 'are eligible for reenlistment'. 

Having been in the US Air Force during the US war on Vietnam, I saw my share of reenlistment gimmicks by the command structure. But this one tops the list.

The US is not backing down from its quest to take down Iran, Russia, China, Brazil, Cuba, Greenland and many other nations. The capitalist loving globalists, and their zionist pals, want to dominate the world and intend to keep the terror fires burning as long as they can.

Thus they need all the troops and sailors they can get their grubby hands on.

So they come up with these lame recruitment and reenlistment schemes in order to bribe unemployed, poor, and down and out men and women to join the military and to stay in for the long haul.

And if that doesn't work out they will likely return to a draft or they can take the ugly path that the Ukrainian government has chosen, where they just grab men off the streets.

Think about all the immigrants now being grabbed off the streets by ICE these days. I'd not be surprised if they began offering them 'citizenship' if they join the war machine. We know that many men from Mexico in the past were offered that deal, went to war for the US, and when they'd done their time, expecting to be citizens, were deported anyway. Breaking the promise made of 'citizenship' by Washington. 

The video below shows one man in Kharkov, Ukraine trying to disguise himself as previously injured. Will it work? 

Likely not since Zelensky’s goons now scroll social media for such things as they desperately have quotas to reach or likely be sent to the front themselves.

One other example, sad and horrifying, is the 2nd video below of the Zelensky goons trying to grab a kid who looks about 12 years old in Odessa, Ukraine. The kid fights back against the 'recruitment specialist'.

Bruce 

“Why can’t we see ourselves as we are?”

 

The ‘apocalyptic blindness’ of Americans

By Patrick Lawrence

The other night I watched a documentary called Coup 53, a brilliant treatment of the coup that deposed Mohammad Mossadegh as prime minister of Iran in the year the film notes in its title. Taghi Amirani, the director, has produced a superb piece of work, narrated in part by the estimable Steve Kinzer. Today, 19 August, marks the 73rd anniversary of Operation Ajax, as M.I.–6 and the C.I.A. named their covert assault on Iran’s first democratically elected government. 

How well I recall learning of the Iran coup during my teenage years, when my eyes were just opening upon how, by the mid–1960s, the United States (and in this case Britain) treated those in foreign lands whose misfortune was to possess resources the world’s newest imperium sought compulsively to control. And how well I recall discovering at the same time the remarkably pervasive ignorance of this conduct among all but a very few Americans.

Late one evening, I must have been 18 or so, this topic came up in conversation with my dear mother. “But no, we wouldn’t do that!” she exclaimed in a tone of anxious disbelief.

“But we did, Mother. If you know where to find the record, what we did is in it.”

My mother lowered her eyes and glanced away. I could see her mind was simply incapable of absorbing the information I had put before her. There was a sort of psycho-emotional blockage. The subject never again came up.

I have long been preoccupied, maybe since those days, indeed, with the question of seeing. And just as much if not more, with the question of not-seeing. This is only natural, it seems to me, given that seeing and not-seeing, the latter vastly more prevalent than the former, is so defining of who Americans are and what makes them so different from other peoples. In a recent interview in Consortium News, Patrik Baab, the conscientious and beleaguered-because-conscientious Berlin correspondent, writer, and podcaster, referred to the “apocalyptic blindness” he finds among Germans. I know this is so, especially among West Germans, having traveled among them recently. But in the way of collective blindness, I must suggest to my friend and colleague, no people are more addicted to total darkness than Americans.

What I saw in my mother all those years ago was a refusal—a refusal to see that could not even understand itself as an act of refusal. I cannot say whether this condition has worsened in the decades since the conversation I had with her in the mid–1960s, but I don’t think this matters much one way or the other. If I have to offer an answer, I think it is both: People see more now than then, people see less now than then. The though requires explanation, obviously.

Among those who watch Taghi Amirani’s film, and I hope many do, I imagine few will be as surprised to learn of Operation Ajax as my mother was. America’s lawless barbarism and all its messes are easier to see now. The plain-as-day defeats of April 1975 have something to do with this. So do digital technologies and the emergence of independent media. The invasion of Venezuela and the blockade of Cuba, the killings-from-the-air of fishermen in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, the installation of a murderous jihadist in Syria, the genocides in Gaza and the West Bank, the illegal bombing of Iran: There is no missing any of this.

But there is one failure to see that remains, and its persistence is symptomatic, it seems to me, of an empire in its late, desperate phase. This is the steadfast refusal among most Americans to see their complicity in the imperium’s conduct. The two phenomena, the seeing and the not-seeing, go together in this case. People see more, but few are able to see, are honest enough to see, themselves—to see that Americans comprise “a perpetrator population,” a term I cite with admiration and which I will shortly explain.

~ The rest of this interesting article is pay-walled and found here

Israel & AI

We are all in grave danger if we humans let Israel and it's AI technology get away with murder.

zionists are buying up books and destroying them. They are privatizing source material.

Tools of power and control. Colonization of our minds.

Pay attention.

Spread the resistance.

Large protest at U.S. bomber base in UK that hits Iran

Hundreds united together in protest on Saturday, 15 August, at RAF Fairford (30 miles from Oxford), where the British government has been letting the US carry out brutal bombing raids of Iran.

We're calling on new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham to stand up to Trump and end the use of British bases for this illegal war.

There are huge risks that this war will escalate again - and it is dragging the world deeper into economic crisis.

Burnham needs to redirect the hundreds of billions away from war and nukes into climate action, rebuilding our health service, our education system, our transport network and our emergency services. These are the solutions to the real threats we face today.

The Fairford base hosts US B-1 and B-2 bombers as well as U-2 spy planes.  

History lesson: 'Greater Israel' expansion across Latin America

For years Israel has been successfully expanding its influence in Latin America. 

Its trade volume with the region is growing, and the number of the countries that plan to transfer their embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is expected to increase in the near future. 

This video is a good background primer on 'Greater Israel' operations.

Zionist Argentinian President Javier Milei is sadly just one example among many how Israel has their hooks into the region.

Trump discussing use of Tactical nukes on Iran

RT: Tehran and Muscat (Oman) are discussing a parallel Hormuz deal as talks with Washington stall. US President Trump has threatened to 'bomb the shit out of Oman' if it strikes a separate deal with Iran on control of the Strait of Hormuz, despite Oman’s key role as a mediator between Washington and Tehran. 

• The USS Abraham Lincoln has gone nearly nine months without a port call after Iran's strike destroyed the Navy's Bahrain supply base. Resupply now comes from Diego Garcia, an island 2,200 miles away. Critics says the crew is facing shortages and worsening mental health. Trump dismissed the concerns, saying the carrier would move 'very shortly'. Nine months stranded at sea for a war Israel wanted and America is stuck fighting.  New York Times details how the ailing USS Lincoln will now be replaced by the USS George Washington, hobbling over from INDOPACOM, leaving the 7th Fleet with no forward deployed carriers on the critical ‘Chinese front’. 

• Some have begun to debate the utility of continuing to host large US military installations on their territory. “Trump started this war,” one Gulf official said, “and we are paying the price.” Like others he spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive subject. Anger with the US, the official said, was at its highest point since the US and Israel attacked Iran in February. The Gulf states have relied on Washington as a close security partner and major arms supplier, and Qatar and Bahrain have hosted large US bases. But the frustration is leading some states to consider new arrangements. 

Ben Gvir: "There are people there who are not alive. They don't need to live. They are not people. I'm doing them a favor by calling them people." He is calling for the killing of 30 to 50 people in Gaza every night, pushing Palestinians to emigrate, so zionists can begin building Jewish settlements across Gaza.

 

• Officials in Washington are allegedly discussing the possible use of nuclear weapons against Iran as the months-long conflict continues to escalate, former US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has claimed. Greene, once a prominent MAGA ally, made the allegation in a post on X on Sunday. She said the issue had been raised during strategy meetings, but did not identify those involved. “They are discussing using nuclear weapons on Iran in strategy meetings,” she wrote. “I’m not speculating, I know. And it’s pure evil.” Her warning comes amid reports that Washington has been weighing further escalation in the conflict. The Washington Post reported last month that the US was preparing for a wider war, while the Pentagon has reportedly examined a major ground operation to seize Iran’s enriched uranium.

• A recent YouTube interview with Ukrainian pop star Olya Polyakova has caused national uproar. Famous, outspoken, and uninhibited, Polyakova deplored Ukraine’s oppressive and stifling atmosphere. “Are we in a concentration camp, in a camp for political prisoners?” she asked and predicted that “soon, we will all be terrified, frightened mice that sit in their holes and do not even dare stick out their nose.” Polyakova also fearlessly pushed the Zelensky regime’s single most painful button: “They’ll grab someone from your family, or anyone, in the street and you’ll just walk past” pretending not to see anything out of fear, just to be left alone. The conversation quickly turned to Ukraine’s institutionalized manhunts to feed the meat-grinder war.  

• Yemen military: Saudi Arabia has imported Ukrainian and Colombian mercenaries to operate drones against our forces.  They will all fail, and we will teach them a lesson they will never forget, God willing.

• The Sunday Times in UK reports that Ukraine has used British-made drones to strike targets deep inside Russian territory. The attacks targeted oil refineries in Volgograd and Yaroslavl, marking a "new stage" in military cooperation between London and Kiev. However, retired Air Marshal Greg Bagwell warned that using British drones against Russia could provide Moscow with grounds to consider UK manufacturing plants as legitimate military targets.

• Mysl Polska reported: Zelensky will lose power if the EU stops giving money to Ukraine: “Zelensky will not stop stealing; he has built himself an ideal world in which his corruption goes unpunished,” claims the Polish publication. Zelensky’s political position depends directly on the European Union continuing to provide financial support to Ukraine, adds Mysl Polska. 

• Labor Notes: News broke last week of a sweeping undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security in Minnesota early this year to infiltrate and surveil meetings and obtain the financial records of nonprofit groups and two of the country’s largest unions, the Communications Workers (CWA) and the Service Employees (SEIU). This investigation was behind the indictments of 15 people in June. Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham called the targeting of the labor movement an “unhinged conspiracy theory. Instead of holding federal agents accountable for shooting and killing Renée Good and our union brother Alex Pretti, or addressing the dangerous and deadly conditions within immigration detention facilities,” Burnham said, “the Trump administration continues to weaponize our federal government to intimidate our unions, our communities, and anyone who peacefully opposes their radical authoritarian agenda…They are now bringing back McCarthyism to paint unions and organizations that advocate for workers and families as threats to the nation. It didn’t work in the 1950s when Joseph McCarthy accused anyone he didn’t like of being unamerican and it won’t work for Donald Trump.” 

• US rejected a UN vote last spring to recognize slavery as a crime against humanity, joining only Israel and Argentina. (52 western nations abstained.) The UN General Assembly adopted the resolution with broad international support. US officials said they had concerns about the wording and possible legal or policy implications. The vote has renewed discussion about historical responsibility, education, human rights, and how countries address the lasting effects of past injustice.

• South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Saturday called for dialogue with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) aimed at achieving peaceful coexistence and eventually replacing the armistice that ended active fighting in the Korean War with a permanent peace treaty. Speaking in a speech marking Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule, Lee said the two Koreas should engage in talks to establish mechanisms that could prevent renewed conflict and reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Lee urged the DPRK and other concerned parties to pursue negotiations to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War, which concluded with a ceasefire rather than a peace treaty.

Israelis rampage on Philippine island of Siargao

Island Locals Raise Alarm Over Israeli Tourists 'Colonizing' Protected Land

Israeli tourists are reportedly flocking to the Philippine island of Siargao, and locals are not happy. 

Sharon Reed discusses on Indisputable. 

"Manila: When reports of an assault by Israeli tourists at a restaurant in Siargao made headlines nationwide, it was not the first such incident to take place on the southern Philippine island in recent months.

This time, however, it went viral, with an increasing number of Filipino influencers calling for a crackdown on visitors from Israel to stop harassment and abuse of local businesses and rules."