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Despite the US spending more on its military than the combined amounts of 10 countries ranking below it in terms of military expenditure, the country has nothing to show for it , apart from a crumbling infrastructure , poverty , inaccessible healthcare to the majority of the population , widespread indebtedness etc etc. The opportunity to reap a peace dividend when the Soviet Union collapsed was squandered when the US Military Industrial complex and its lackeys in the government double crossed the Russians and expanded NATO eastwards . In many ways the US has brought this disaster on themselves, and this will further hasten the collapse of the US Empire. Clearly all the defence spending is a waste of money and it should be put to creating a prosperous USA and lifting the world out of poverty. This is the only way to achieve everlasting peace and sustainability .

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Russia is not part of the banking empire of the elite. China is. Most of the world is. The collapse of major democracies is the target of the elite and WHO is using pandemic response and preparedness to take over nations constitutions. We need to wake up fast

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Israeli dual citizen Anthony Blinken is an Israeli operative who grew up in Ukraine . . . The United States government is a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Israeli Political Action Committe . . . Volodymyr Zelensky is an Israel operative, and the Ukrainian parliament is full of Jewish apparatchiks . . . ISIS = Khazar = Kiev junta = Zionist IMF

Jewish Corruption in Ukraine . . . by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.

❝. . . the present conflict is a huge distraction from the fact that, for decades, the biggest threat to Ukraine hasn’t been Russia, but financiers and speculators operating with impunity within Ukraine’s borders to exploit ethnic Ukrainians and plunder their resources.❞

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2023/02/17/jewish-corruption-in-ukraine/

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Going to run you and who you are, really fast you sick, anti-Semitic piece of shit. You want to try me?

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FUCK YOU AND YOUR JEWISH GOD, YOU FILTHY LYING KIKE . . .

Volodymyr Zelensky is an Israeli operative, the Ukrainian parliament is full of Jewish apparatchiks.

Ukraine’s Azov Regiment Visits Israel: ‘Mariupol is our Masada’ . . .

https://nationalvanguard.org/2022/12/ukraines-azov-regiment-visits-israel-mariupol-is-our-masada/

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The price of Freedom is high and people are willing to die for it so their children don't have to. The Soviet Union promises 4 things; Poverty, Enslavement, Starvation, and Death. If you can say that of democratic societies your view may be worth considering. Ukraine is fighting for its life, soul and children. If i had an option I would say they should have surrendered to the invaders and it dictator and terrorized Russia and burned it to the ground however that is not a holy solution. Putin is killing children and babies, aiming for them. I guess you would love to serve a man like him.

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Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. U.S. Warmongers were there to enrich themselves. U.S. Warmongers fought Peace with Russia and continued NATO and this war footing. Our job is to know this history and work for Peace. Everywhere.

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Thanks for the history reminder. AS YOU WROTE: OUR JOB IS TO KNOW THIS HISTORY which helps us be more effective as we work for global peace. Marcia Bedard PhD

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Israeli dual citizen Anthony Blinken is an Israeli operative who grew up in Ukraine . . . The United States government is a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Israeli Political Action Committe . . . Volodymyr Zelensky is an Israel operative, and the Ukrainian parliament is full of Jewish apparatchiks . . . ISIS = Khazar = Kiev junta = Zionist IMF

Jewish Corruption in Ukraine . . . by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.

❝. . . the present conflict is a huge distraction from the fact that, for decades, the biggest threat to Ukraine hasn’t been Russia, but financiers and speculators operating with impunity within Ukraine’s borders to exploit ethnic Ukrainians and plunder their resources.❞

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2023/02/17/jewish-corruption-in-ukraine/

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Marianne's comments reflect the sad truth that we have lost our moral compass. War is soul destroying business. Sadly, the military has become one of the only jobs with benefits that is available to young people seeking a middle class life in America. Therefore, the military industrial complex owns our soldiers as much as it owns our politicians. How can America represent a model of democracy and virtue, when we have become the most profitable killing machine on the planet?

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Israeli dual citizen Anthony Blinken is an Israeli operative who grew up in Ukraine . . . The United States government is a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Israeli Political Action Committe . . . Volodymyr Zelensky is an Israel operative, and the Ukrainian parliament is full of Jewish apparatchiks . . . ISIS = Khazar = Kiev junta = Zionist IMF

Jewish Corruption in Ukraine . . . by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.

❝. . . the present conflict is a huge distraction from the fact that, for decades, the biggest threat to Ukraine hasn’t been Russia, but financiers and speculators operating with impunity within Ukraine’s borders to exploit ethnic Ukrainians and plunder their resources.❞

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2023/02/17/jewish-corruption-in-ukraine/

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Well said Jennifer. I feel the same. How. How is making America good again going to happen. What can those of us who are not part of the 1%, who are caring thinking people, unlike the extremists of Jan 6th, who are funded and fueled by the 1%, actually do ? The weathy dont care.

The extremists dont care. They have their own agenda, and do not care about anyone but themselves. I wonder every day whether there is any country in the world that cares about the wellbeing of their citizens on a whole. The level of greed and lack of humanity is overwhelming. So, yes, I relate to your email, but how do we make people wake up? Our country can no longer be run the same as it was 60 years ago, yet our government keeps trying to do just that.

How? How do you make those in power care, and more importantly how do we get those that care into power without compromise?

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How? This is a great question. We stop profiting off fixing broken people. We begin building generations of children and young adults who live a life of heartfelt thoughts and choices. In positions of power they will be more likely to lead with their loving grace for the well-being of humanity. We create a way of life that empowers their inherent ability to live their greatness.

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I'm not sure what you mean by "profiting off fixing broken people" but for sure our system is broken and needs fixing.

The wealth of money in our society is so shamefully misused in so many ways. that it's destroying us.

We could begin by NOT allowing big corporations to support candidates. Many so-called leaders are bought with corporate campaign dollars making them committed to those that bought them and not those that cast their votes. That might be one way to get people who care into the office. Maybe then, the playing fields can begin to get levelled.

One instance of betterment would be the entire school system. From day one.

EARLY EDUCATION IS EVERYTHING. And far too neglected. I'm not talking about college, screw free college for all. College is way too late, not to mention big business.

Early Education should be the same curriculum across the board, and not determined and discriminated against by districts and tax money. No one gets "pushed" through the system when they are virtually illiterate, so that the school will continue to get funding. That is broken.

I'm talking about the basics. Reading, writing, arithmetic, problem solving, and thinking ! History, Geography and Civics (honestly !!!).

Teaching kids to think for themselves is life or death. Literally. How many people, young in particular, are clinically depressed, and many have taken their own lives because of bullying and shaming on social media. What is really valuable in life ? Is it good relationships, being of service or is it being liked on SM and the stuff you can acquire ? People who can think for themselves are less likely to fall prey to anything cult ish, be it social media or dare I say religion. Teach self respect by learning self care, how to eat healthfully, how to exercise and the benefits of these practices. Self respect is also developing self esteem and maybe lessen the violence we see everyday. How about meditation and yoga to learn focus and calm the nervous system and there might be less dependence on drugs, prescribed or not. Remove stigma from mental health issues. Removing the stigma would promote compassion and lessen judgement.

Communication, without technology. Learn how to navigate conflict with respect. Basic education is at the core of so much destruction in our lives. Destruction of our very core, our families, and our humanity. And for the love of all, pay qualified teachers respectively.

We need a ginourmous shift in priorities, collectively, and Early Ed always comes to my mind first.

I know that this is very complex and don't pretend to have the answers but I know what I would like to see happen, for the betterment of our society. Don't even get me started on housing and health care.

Thanks to those who took the time to read this. I guess I just needed to express my thoughts today.

Karen

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I agree with so much of what you said. That stigma on mental health issues and the lack of space in America for each of us to have a meaningful relationship with our mental & emotional selves. I believe this is directly responsible for a tremendous amount of needless suffering. Too many of our boy's & men are walking around with an untended and overflowing garbage can of emotional experiences that compromise their capacity to love. Thank you for taking the time to write this. I like the idea of early education. I think this is a massive part of the solution.

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It is ironic that I stumbled on your comment and see something stand out. I am a big believer in rising up as well as above. I somehow have ACD(not an official thing) acronym creation disorder. Yesterday I had DAIS come to mind. It stands for Develop an Innovative Strategy. When I googled it, I discovered that it meant, a platform. I was attracted to this platform because she used the word Transform. My God given gift is a very unique type of concept creation and problem solving. I am not one to pray and believe in faith to “fix” things. I believe that there are tens of thousands of people, that are currently unknowns but they have the Vision to develop a winning strategy, to fix the world. I am also tired of sitting on the sidelines and I am ready to enter the game and Win big.

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It would be great if this forum gave us the opportunity to add contacts etc. Are you on any other platforms? I like your acronym and thinking. I was just thinking about how my PEECE acronym is really fitting right now. Each letter stands for a number of things. For ex. P for, Put People first, Peace, Progress, Pragmatic, Practical, Prevention (of pain and suffering) etc. Marianne had her career skyrocket when Oprah endorsed her and had her on her show. She has the ability to help many people that are “unknowns”; launch their initiatives. For example: if I start my own substack, it may be a struggle to get 100 subscribers but my potential for success will skyrocket, if I am grouped with 5-10 other people and promoted by MW. If I use the David and Goliath story as a way to illustrate. I have the slingshot and I know how to use it but I don’t have a stone that will slay Goliath.

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…and a former President of the United States and Secretary of State are praising Putin as a genius! What have we come to as the world (including Putin) watches?

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Democrats will run on that quote in November. And you'll vote for them. Because they won't know how to talk to a "genius" about broken promises, treaties, agreements and lies that created a "red-headed step child" who never had a seat at the table. Regardless of what anyone including Trump says, this is as much of our doing as it is Putin's. And it will get worse because the non-geniuses in the White House right now have no means of diplomacy.

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The United States government is a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Israeli Political Action Committe . . . Volodymyr Zelensky is an Israel operative, and the Ukrainian parliament is full of Jewish apparatchiks . . . ISIS = Khazar = Kiev junta = Zionist IMF

Jewish Corruption in Ukraine . . . by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.

❝. . . the present conflict is a huge distraction from the fact that, for decades, the biggest threat to Ukraine hasn’t been Russia, but financiers and speculators operating with impunity within Ukraine’s borders to exploit ethnic Ukrainians and plunder their resources.❞

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2023/02/17/jewish-corruption-in-ukraine/

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the Ukrainian parliament is full of Jewish apparatchiks

Have you taken a good look at Biden's controllers and cabinet. Between them and Ukraine - you can connect more than just the dots.

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How the 'Grift Right' Gimps for the Left . . . Steven Crowder almost became Mel Gibson and Kanye West by accident . . .

https://cwspangle.substack.com/p/how-the-grift-right-gimps-for-the

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I felt moved to start back at the beginning of Part 2 of the workbook of ACIM in January this year. My lesson today was #265. It's an interesting thing to read in this context. It can be hard not to make the separation real by reinforcing it in the face of seemingly strong evidence. But miracles come from conviction, and there is no order of difficulty in miracles. Correction comes at the level of thought and we have to be vigilant not to confuse the levels. ❤😊

Lesson 265

Creation’s gentleness is all I see.

1. I have indeed misunderstood the world, because I laid my sins on it and saw them looking back at me. ²How fierce they seemed! ³And how deceived was I to think that what I feared was in the world, instead of in my mind alone. ⁴Today I see the world in the celestial gentleness with which creation shines. ⁵There is no fear in it. ⁶Let no appearance of my sins obscure the light of Heaven shining on the world. ⁷What is reflected there is in God’s Mind. ⁸The images I see reflect my thoughts. ⁹Yet is my mind at one with God’s. ¹⁰And so I can perceive creation’s gentleness.

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Fuck you and your Jewish god . . . Jewish messianism has been spreading its poisonous message among us for nearly two thousand years. Democratic and communist universalisms are newer, but only reinforce the old Jewish narrative. These are the same ideals.

The transnational, transracial, transsexual, transcultural ideals that these ideologies preach to us (beyond race, people, culture) and that are the daily sustenance of our schools, in the media, in our pop-culture, at our universities, and on our streets have our biosymbolic identity and our ethnic pride reduced to their minimal expression.

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Yes this is so sad. But there is a bifurcation here. The faithful are joining in the churches, in homes and on zoom. I have never seen so many speak of praying together. I have not heard the beautiful word God be welcomed and popular again. The truth of the matter is that this is God's world. Not Putin's, not Bidens or the US for that matter. It is a place created by Spirit and governed by Spirit. Have we listened so long to the news chatter that we have lost that small voice within? God is a miracle maker. We are as well but not if we are sitting in fear , anger, helplessness. Consider that manifestation is none of our business, our business is that of God. Pray and see peace happen and to me that is the best we can do. We also have power, given to us by our father God., we have choices. Now more than ever we could choose to shift our perspective to that of healing and love. God bless everyone, thank you.

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You say that America must be good again. I have to say that I love America. I am a DAR (although have not officially joined). My ancestors have been here since 1635 and have seen the graveyards with headstones decorated with Revolutionary War medals. I am also listed in a book of my ancestors as 11th generation. I must say that America has always been VERY powerful, and sometimes way ahead in Democratic theories and practices. But there has ALWAYS been the bad elements as well as good. How did we start? By wiping out an entire indigenous population which still suffers the consequences today. We still have not formally made amends or even apologized. And of course, slavery that contributed to making our country strong, to which we still have not made amends. And the far right wing element has always been there trying to sabotage many Democratic institutions and ideals (read "Democracy In Chains" by Nancy MacLean). And I was in Guatemala in the 90's. The home I visited had a poster on the wall of an eagle (symbolizing America) with a gun pointed down, killing the innocent population. Our government contributed in a negative way to their civil war, and also others in Central America. So, my DREAM, and my HOPE is that one day we CAN become a GOOD country. It has not happened yet, but I still believe that it can. I still believe that we have enough good people in this country with the highest ideals of justice and compassion that we still may have the last best chance.

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It takes conviction, deep conviction to write the way you do. I follow you on that path. We are certainly not here for all the 'infractions' you are enumerating. As I was reading the first lines of your exposé I thought something was missing but later on you do not forget to also remind US of our own. If we were (are) supposed to reproduce 'heaven on earth', I would say we are not on the right path :) Nonetheless we have all the tools to get there. It's only a matter of each of us reaching a level of consciousness that would allow this to be. At the pace we are advancing though, it won't be during my current lifetime here. In the other world it's all a matter of retribution, not money, not property rights or nothing that currently makes the socio-political landscape. Unless one wants to reinvent the wheel by going back to a time the discussion consisted of smashing someone's head, there is no such thing as freedom if there is no duty and responsibility towards a modus vivendi and a modus operandi. It is a spiritual journey that is hard to foresee in the forest of misdeeds we are stumbling upon and involuntarily contributing to in the best of case. All that is important is always to do things with the best intention. After alll, the result of what's going on is only the addition of each of us contributing to it.

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Jewish messianism has been spreading its poisonous message among us for nearly two thousand years. Democratic and communist universalisms are newer, but only reinforce the old Jewish narrative. These are the same ideals.

The transnational, transracial, transsexual, transcultural ideals that these ideologies preach to us (beyond race, people, culture) and that are the daily sustenance of our schools, in the media, in our pop-culture, at our universities, and on our streets have our biosymbolic identity and our ethnic pride reduced to their minimal expression.

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This is a sad day indeed. A heavy heart does not start to explain how I feel or how we must all feel collectively. . America has lost its compass … it’s systems of values (even if imperfect). But, it is just not the corporate greed, it is the individual greed or complacency, an immense concern just for our well being…. How can we do less and have more. Our government is a disgrace, our President is weak and tired…. Let’s pray to God for the Ukrainians, for the world, for those committing these horrific acts and for our nation.

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Thank you.

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Very well said, thank you. This is a very sad time indeed.

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You are insane. Make the US a superpower that other superpowers are afraid to mess with? Hey, let's have WWIII.

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Perhaps this is an unpopular belief, but until every single one of us who know better, stop looking "out there" blaming and start looking deeply and honestly within ourselves, peace is not possible. I challenge you all to observe yourselves very closely during the next 7 days. Watch for traces of anger, blame, self-righteousness, pride, envy, lust, greed, anger, sloth, gluttony. Set your fear of seeing these things within yourself aside and watch closely for traces of judgment of others, self-justification, superiority. Upon seeing them, and you will if you're honest, immediately pray, acknowledging, not reprimanding but acknowledging, your own flaws and the energy they create. Admit your own lack of power to change them yourself. This humility invites the TRUE POWER of God to reach into your Soul, granting you deep awareness of any thought, feeling or action that is against peace. Remember on the cross, the criminal who recognized his own faults, was forgiven, not the one begging for Jesus to use his powers to save him. Forgiveness is immediate. We are the ones who judge and decide what's right and wrong not God. God cannot be what It isn't. Give up wringing your hands for peace and take meaningful action. Stop looking "out there" for others to create peace or justice and go deeply within your own Soul. Let your prayers be those of deep gratitude for God's unrelenting compassion, rather than manipulative coy orders for God to do as you believe is right. Refuse to put the responsibility for peace and good will anywhere but within yourself. You have nothing at all to lose but what you don't want.

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Biden could have avoided this by living up to the U.S. promise to never put NATO (U.S.) Nukes on Russia.

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The American Israeli Political Action Committee has become the official religion of the United States government . . .

Jewish Corruption in Ukraine . . . by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.

❝. . . the present conflict is a huge distraction from the fact that, for decades, the biggest threat to Ukraine hasn’t been Russia, but financiers and speculators operating with impunity within Ukraine’s borders to exploit ethnic Ukrainians and plunder their resources.❞

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2023/02/17/jewish-corruption-in-ukraine/

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Is it really necessary to list the faults of the US while President Biden is trying his best to deal with the Russian invasion of Ukraine? How is this helpful? I believe that most Americans are painfully aware of our horrific treatment of people of color and involvement in unnecessary and deadly wars. We can't change our history, but we can be better today and in our future. We can elect leaders who want to unite our Country and who are peacemakers. Please pray for that as well as the people of Ukraine.

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The American Israeli Political Action Committee has become the official religion of the United States government . . .

Jewish Corruption in Ukraine . . . by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.

❝. . . the present conflict is a huge distraction from the fact that, for decades, the biggest threat to Ukraine hasn’t been Russia, but financiers and speculators operating with impunity within Ukraine’s borders to exploit ethnic Ukrainians and plunder their resources.❞

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2023/02/17/jewish-corruption-in-ukraine/

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Doing also for ourselves the right and hard-to do things, conversations, spiritual practices..... that can begin to set things up for light to shine in. I broke in grief, the night of the invasion of Iraq. Victor.

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