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DocSue's avatar

And they have done NOTHING to stop the normalization of Jew hatred that is raging across the country

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Mario A Leblanc's avatar

Netanyahu is destroying Israel. He should have been arrested long time ago.

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On the contrary, he is SAVING Israel AND the West right now from the spread of radical Islam (Hezbollah is also involved with sex trafficking and drug trade). Netanyahu has become a MODEL for strong leadership -something sorely lacking in Western leaders right now who keep trying to appease terrorists!

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AIPAC b0t blocked.

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Mario A Leblanc's avatar

It's not me who has removed my posts. Censorship at is best. So Marianne, was it you?

So it's ok for DocSue to say that I am ¨All bullshit anti-Israel, Jew hating propaganda.¨

I am defending you for at least 12 years on social media to see this?

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Marianne Williamson's avatar

Mario, this page is not a public platform; it's my writer's room.

I welcome respectful criticism, as well as conflicting opinions. But I do not welcome hatred and the propaganda that goes with it.

To those of you who say about anti-Semitic comments, "It's not anti-Semitic!", I say this: just as white people don't get to tell a Black person what is and what is not racist, a non-Jew does not have the right to tell Jews what is and what is not anti-Semitic. I'm definitely on the record as opposing Netanyahu's policies - as I have been for years - but I also know when something crosses the line into bigotry, racism, and plain old anti-Semitic Jew hatred. Particularly when it's masquerading as a concern for social justice, if I see it I will remove the comment.

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Mario A Leblanc's avatar

For the record, I never wrote hatred and propaganda. You are misleading information here.

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Mario A Leblanc's avatar

Are they anti-semites those refuseniks? And what about you when you were against the Vietnam War. Where you anti american?

Please watch Colonel (Res.) Joel Piterberg's comment - IDF Helicopter Pilot at 7:15 and other comments. He is comparing Gaza with Warsaw Ghetto in WW2.

Refuseniks and Israeli Soldiers speak out 10:30 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ga0s936ldU

Warsaw Ghetto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto

https://allthatsinteresting.com/warsaw-ghetto

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/warsaw-ghetto-uprising

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AmylouiseDonnelly's avatar

Thank you for addressing this man's comments. I have been wondering when you might notice how far off topic and unmannerly he can become.

I don't want to dislike him, but recently I find myself avoiding his comments bc I find them to be unselltling, sometimes untrue and sometimes irrational. In my opinion.

Thank you for setting healthy boundaries on destructive speech on your page.

THANK YOU. ❤

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Marianne Williamson's avatar

Anti-semites not welcome here. Period. You can criticize Israel all you want, if it's fair. I do too. For a year and a half I offered an alternative to U.S. policy in this area, so it's not like I haven't spoken out. You might not know - but I assure you, the Iranian sponsors of such propaganda as I have seen on this thread do know - the exact notes you're hitting to make a Jew know code when we hear it. As far as what I "really" think: https://marianne2024.com/israel-and-palestine/

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Mario A Leblanc's avatar

I am not anti-semite Marianne. I have a lot of Jewish friends. I have been to Israel before. In fact, the picture that you see here, the only one of me that I have ever posted on social media, was taken in Jerusalem.

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OMG, there is NO GENOCIDE IN GAZA. That is an ABSOLUTE blood libel, once again, directed against Israel. The corrupt UN, the mainstream media, AND the Islamic Republic of Iran are ALL complicit in this propagandist blood libel! I could present so many facts showing this (such as the many pieces written by John Spencer, head of urban warfare at West Point, or the interviews with the brilliant British journalist Douglas Murray or the pieces by Colonel Richard Kemp - all showing that NO OTHER ARMY in the world has taken the precautions that the IDF has taken to AVOID civilian casualties which are the LOWEST in the world when it comes to THIS kind of guerrilla warfare where the enemy (Hamas) uses their OWN people as human shields and where every other building had an entrance to an underground tunnel - the ENTIRE Gaza strip was a vast underground terrorist network using BILLIONS of global money (including our own). Thank GOD Marianne is removing these blatant anti-Israel, Jew-hating posts that are RAMPANT throughout social media and extremely dangerous.

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Christopher Anderson's avatar

No genocide in Gaza. Right.

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DocSue's avatar

Look how the whole world is focused on Gaza when Muslim-on-Muslim violence throughout the Middle East (such as Syria where hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed, Yemen where MILLIONS are at risk of starvation) and Muslim-on-Christian violence (Sudan) gets NO PRESS- NO 'anti-Syria' protestors running around calling for an 'intifada' against Syrians, no anti-Yemen protestors, etc. ONLY Israel, which is fighting an existential war for its very survival against Radical Islamists, triggers worldwide condemnation- why? because NO JEWS, NO NEWS!

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All bullshit anti-Israel, Jew hating propaganda. I have learned not to even engage with people like you, Mario. There are thousands like you on social media. Meanwhile, tiny Israel is all alone fighting a war against radical Islam on all fronts, all fuelled by the Islamic Republic of Iran. And Qatar has spent BILLIONS FOR DECADES funding our American universities to brainwash our youth who now support terrorists! The world has gone mad and the West is asleep to the danger.

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You have absolutely NO IDEA what you are talking about. There is NO ethnic cleansing going on in Gaza- the IDF has done more than ANY OTHER ARMY in the world to avoid civilian casualties. If you were not so brainwashed by mainstream media, you would know that.

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DocSue's avatar

The Dems have become the party of censorship

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Marianne Williamson's avatar

I think the problem is systemic - neither party has clean hands.

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Rebecca's avatar

Agreed no party has clean hands. But sincerely the censorship and media take over is scandalously all the DNC. The amount of air time Bobby Jr. was awarded during his independent run was atrocious. It is a clear signal that independent thinkers are flocking towards the "republicans". What do you have to say of these dems who have moved over to team Trump while Kamala continues with her diatribes and the Obamas continue their racist pleas to black men to "vote black". Just let the republican party have this moment of transformation while the corruption of the DNC can lay itself down.

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Marianne Williamson's avatar

I like Bobby. I consider him a friend. But while I agree with much of what he says about food, etc (just as I said in my own campaign), I cannot in good conscience make the move to Donald Trump. While Bobby would do some good things if allowed to under a Trump administration, I do not see it as a "moment of transformation" for the Republicans as a whole.

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Rebecca's avatar

And I just want to thank you for responding. I've reached out to a few public figures who never had an answer. I appreciate yours, and your truth.

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Rebecca's avatar

I hear you, I have a lot of family in the US. It's just instrumental for me to see so many ex Dems move "right" even though it's centre seeming to me. I wish everyone peace during the next four years and hope people can stop thinking about this and find freedom and health in their lives (despite Trump - who the left used to love as you are probably aware). Canada is worse, maybe move here and run.

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Kathy Osmus's avatar

It’s true that neither party have clean hands, materialism and greed is pervasive. The divisiveness of the news media is outright propaganda. These are times of great change. Astrologically we’ve not been at this place since the revolution and founding of our country. And the cyclical history repeats or rhymes on schedule.

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DocSue's avatar

Of course, but I do not recognize the Democratic party anymore

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gortroe's avatar

After 60 years, I have left this party that has become such a big part of the problem of destroying democracy.

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Renee Michelle's avatar

For ever, the majority of all registered voters in the US are UNAFFILIATED with any party! Fifty years ago, government took over education in this country and STOPPED teaching people civics and how to think. I don't know why the PTOs didn't protest. Distraction is a plague.

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Alan Collinge's avatar

Censorship AND SURVEILLANCE by both government AND corporate entities is the most important issue to everyone at this time, I am convinced. So glad to see this interview.

And what was evinced here is just the tip of the iceberg... Scary!

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Mario A Leblanc's avatar

End Tribalism in Politics @EndTribalism

RFK Jr’s campaign manager, Amaryllis Fox, discusses Biden/Harris’s actions to try and prevent political candidates from being on the ballot.

“Dean Phillips, Marianne Williamson, Robert Kennedy Junior, President Trump, No Labels, and Jill Stein. There's nobody that, as far as I know, that didn't face some kind of a lawsuit to try to challenge their actual ballot access.”

“The ability for an American to turn up and exercise their own sacred individual sovereignty of thought and choose whether or not to vote for them. Every single one of them was attacked in court to get their name off of the ballot.”

“It's like, ‘We believe in democracy. You can vote for anyone as long as it's me.’”

“I think the challenge is that we are evolutionarily designed to retain the approval of our group.”

https://x.com/EndTribalism/status/1849876528680612307

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ERIN REESE's avatar

Thrilled to see this match-up. Two great humans that need to have more shared, long-form conversations. Glad you're introducing Matt to more of your readers, Marianne!

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gortroe's avatar

Best idea of the conversation was to get the big money out of politics, or at least out of campaigns..to think that we were deprived of candidates like Marianne and RFK is unbearable.

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Kathy Osmus's avatar

There have been many revelations lately. My politics have changed drastically in just a few months. I can no longer support a Democratic Party that is attempting to destroy the first amendment and have become the party of war for profit. Neo cons backing the dems is the final straw to these revelations.

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Alan Collinge's avatar

I wish Marianne was still in the race as an independent...

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Corey Smith's avatar

It was a great conversation: in depth, articulate, thought provoking, and intelligent. Thank you, Marianne.

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Pear Street's avatar

‼️Big Fan of Matt, Racket News and ATW w Walter Kirn ‼️

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DocSue's avatar

Very dangerous. And the West is asleep at the wheel.

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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

Epic conversation between two legends!

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gortroe's avatar

If government was less centralized and the taxes that fund it were retained more at local levels we would move closer to real democracy. We have outsourced our responsibility for governance to the federal government. How many of us attend our local town board meeting?

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Caroline's avatar

This dilemma is not a morality issue - it is a complete lack of critical thinking by the public.

Firstly - people are busy. It is much easier to NOT to be a critical thinker.

Also - People do not want to realize that they are being manipulated , even by an effective reality TV star.

Lastly - People want to believe, not question their so-called news media, even if it is now owned

by profit-motivated corporations.

YES - Get the BIG money OUT of politics!

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Kathy Osmus's avatar

People are depending on their media consumption to program their thought process. Why do you think they call it tell a vision programming?

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Sharon Massey's avatar

Most of my online comments for mainstream news segments are subversive. I haven't said much about Kamala Harris, though, until lately. First it was waiting to get through the "rah, rah, joy" phase. Then it was seeing reams of unconditional, blind support in comments, ironically just like Trumpsters, so that didn't seem like a good time. The only speech she's made that I've listened to in its entirety is the convention speech. Since then, on the few occcasions that I have clicked on something, I've found myself quitting within the first five minutes or so, and what I clicked on today was no different.

Harris spoke in Philadelphia, and the only reason I clicked on the MSNBC clip is because a browsing feature showed that she was talking about God. She sounded preacher-like, and got high praise in the comments. Within the first few minutes, someone in the crowd said something subversive, which was not audible, and she spent a few minutes on that, the atmosphere being that she was the "right" one and the subversive person was the "wrong" one. That was enough for me, and I posted the following:

"If 'every voice is important,' as was repeated a number of times, why was that voice censored? I'll assume it was about Palestine. Actually, everything I hear from Harris is through a Palestine filter, so the hypocrisy is difficult to take, including her refusal to allow any Palestinian American to have a voice at the 'joy' convention.

But since Harris is talking about God, this line from an old tv show I watched a few weeks ago is appropriate and hasn't left me. A terrorist being interrogated admitted to certain crimes, but not all, when he added: 'There is no greater insult to God than to kill one of his babies.' The Biden/Harris administration has a lot to answer for."

Harris needs to win, but I feel no enthusiasm about it at all. I don't know how much of a factor the genocide is, because mainstream ignores it, ignores the uncommitted category, only talks about the so-called undecided, and makes everything about Trump. Non-mainstream sources tell a different story, and it's very possible that the genocide may be a bigger factor in the election than Harris is willing to acknowledge. So because she needs to wake the hell up and win...is the Republican/Cheney lovefest still going on?...I've posted twice in the last few days, "I don't know how more right-wing one can be than to fund and arm a genocide."

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Sharon Massey's avatar

It's not Harris' intrinsic self I was thinking of, but much more her basic political ambitions. She wants to win. What she has the power to say is all that the uncommitted voters need to hear, that an arms embargo will be applied to Israel. Presidents have done it before. And relatively few, uncommitted or not, seem to put much stock in Biden's ever-moving and latest "red line". Also, his "legacy" is toast, this genocide will be it, so Harris could perhaps do something about that, as well.

[I posted this as a reply to American Zoetroper, but it appears as a reply to myself.]

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Pangia Macri's avatar

Thanks for a good conversation Cannot vote for someone who arms extremists committing genocide, and is not bringing the country forward but backwards to genocide, apartheid, occupation on which this land was founded. Democrats have brought us to this point just as much as the Republicans have, neither stand for democracy, neither party offers moral sanity -we have far to go to truly earn our democracy

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