Ralph welcomes Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy to discuss recent attacks by Hamas and the Israeli military in Israel and Palestine. Then, international law expert Bruce Fein speaks with Ralph about the recent violence, America's response, and America's historical culpability.
But as Ralph said - it’s our duty as citizens to “register our opposition”. And what Bruce said “the high water mark of being a citizen is standing up and protesting even if it doesn’t result in anything”.
So whadda ya say we get a few million to march in D.C.?
To help visualize this enormous catastrophe please "google" " Disappearing Palestine maps"--{I can't copy & paste into this comment box} --so, please fellow listeners-- just take a moment to see the sheer shrinkage of the Palestinian world and then wonder how 2.7 million people in 7-mile x 24 mile "reservation(??) were/ are relegated to an under the desert rug existence with only 19,000 jobs in all Israel for them (?) and then imagine how you or we and family would fare under such continual duress...But Massacre was one violent answer followed by more death and destruction (of course)
PLEASE pull up that map(!!) and ponder what other shrinking territories will be fought to death over...
From where I sit, Timothy, "reservation" is an appropriate term. I live next to one and visit it and its people several times per week. The residents are under "continual duress." The oppression is both blatant and subtle and it's getting worse. Most of my border town neighbors could care less. A local, elder, Native American educator I know and respect blames our hypocritical forefathers for the discrimination: as do I. Another, unhoused, Native American told me last month how he had "no desire to be white ... except for maybe six seconds during the job interview." That statement, I thought, says it all.
The disappearing Palestinian land maps Googled at your recommendation reminds me of the Indian land cession maps shown at local gatherings. Thank you for the comparison.
The Latin word (concept) “privare” means “to deprive of”…To privatize Land, deprives the colonized of their Land…. The colonizer defines the colonized as “indigenous people.” This act is massive identity theft...
I know you are critical of NPR and PBS and I tend to agree. Trying to watch NewsHour takes the 1st 10 minutes acknowledging their corporate "supporters." However, referring to the hospital bombing, Nick Schifrin stated "Israelis have bombed hospitals in the past and rockets from Gaza have fallen inside Gaza." I thought that was a measured and sober assessment.
I appreciated everyone's remarks today. In the podcast extra chat, Bruce Fein was asked if the "2-State Solution" was viable today, and his response was to ask for a better alternative. In the discussion on that point which followed, he asserted that the Israelis would never incorporate the Palestinians into their state and thereby lose their majority - a rational observation given history and where we stand. My question for Mr Fein and everyone on that point: How is that working out for the Israelis?
Under what scenario of potential outcomes does Israel's security improve or become "secure"? How is any of this violent response from Israel going to foster peace and justice and, if any, for how long? Actually: what is the criteria that describes the next level up for Israel in terms of living secure lives?
Addressing problems with violence is always a catastrophe. Only if we learn something helpful that reduces or eliminates suffering does violence become mere tragedy.
There are probably many examples in history we could use to define the criteria for troubled people in conflict to come to live together and no longer subjugate or fight or kill each other. What comes to mind for me is South Africa, which finally found an agreeable path out of conflict and injustice toward a way to live together as equals (close enough to stop the violence have everyone working together).
Politically speaking, how will Israel as a people ever come to terms with Palestinians, on whose land they live and possessions they've appropriated? Guns, bombs, fences? How's that working for them? They are forever tied together now, like U.S. white people and African Americans, entwined destiny. If Israelis want to be secure, they have to be just and be equals, and that doesn't use force or violence. That requires reason and consent; and if you cannot find that within yourselves, but you want peace, you have to look outside your thinking and accept, to ask for help. Otherwise, you want something other than peace.
This is certainly a most informative discussion by Mr. Nader and Mr. Fein. I disagree with one statement by Mr. Nader, but I’ll get to that later. Otherwise, I agree with what was stated in this program.
Just to add to what Mr. Fein stated about US politicians, we must consider what happened to Jeremy Corbyn during the 2019 United Kingdom general election. At the time, Corbyn, then leader of the UK Labour Party and someone who moved Labour from a strong orientation of neoliberalism and war crimes under the ‘New Labour’ leaders of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown towards historical Labour goals of improving conditions for the general public and promoting peace, faced nonsensical accusations of antisemitism which hindered his chances in the general election. Obviously, Corbyn was critical of the actions of right-wing Israeli governments and so Zionists and those promoting neoliberalism in the Labour Party, along with Corbyn’s Conservative Party opponents, teamed up to create a false narrative about Corbyn and Corbyn’s leadership. After Labour’s defeat in 2019, Corbyn stepped down and Keir Starmer took over and Starmer, in a quest to prove how anti-Corbyn he is, is in the race to compete with Trump and Biden to prove that he’s Netanyahu’s best and unwavering friend. Corbyn’s continued calls for diplomacy in the Ukrainian conflict and criticism of Netanyahu’s government has made him a pariah in Starmer's neoliberal Labour Party in ways that even the US Democratic Party probably wouldn’t do to one of their members.
The point in saying this is that any credible US politician with national aspirations who opposes neoliberalism and unethical maneuvers by the Israeli government will be treated the way Corbyn was in 2019 and it may even be worse given the power of Christian Zionists in US politics. Mere claims of antisemitism will scare off low-information voters, which are numerous in both parties, even if the claims are completely unsubstantiated. I know there were attempts to portray Bernie Sanders this way during the 2020 primaries, but claims of Sanders being antisemitic are more laughable given that he is Jewish. Instead, it appeared the Zionist groups were looking to portray Sanders as a radical socialist or some other nonsense. Like Corbyn, anyone who isn’t Jewish is likely to be portrayed as an antisemitic radical socialist and anyone going against those false allegations will have to study what happened to Corbyn to try to avoid and counter those traps.
As for where I disagree with Mr. Nader, US taxpayer money is not funding Israel or anything else. Canceled money does not fund anything since, obviously, canceled money is canceled money. Tax returns are simply canceled money. This is fiat money 101. As US citizens, it is bad enough that our democratically-elected government is unquestioningly supporting everything that was discussed in the show. That’s how things should be phrased. There is no need to spin an incorrect narrative that our personal earnings as citizens are funding Netanyahu even if, of course, the US government is financially supporting Netanyahu. Mr. Nader’s monetarist arguments only serve to discredit his otherwise on-point arguments.
Yes, the meme running around MAGAworld, and associated enemies of the current US administration, about 'taxpayers' money funding Israel falls right into the common narrative. It only works because the people who are the target also accept the narrative! Polifact even addressed the question by marking it 'partially true'. That money is being spent in that direction, but no words about the money's actual origin. The legitimate question is indeed: 'should U.S. issue be used and spent in that direction at all?' Which is an entirely different question. The 'taxpayer's money' fiction is an emotional appeal to rally people into believing they are having their personal income 'stolen' to "fund" things against their wishes. The very same argument used against things such as universal healthcare.
"The 'taxpayer's money' fiction is an emotional appeal to rally people into believing they are having their personal income 'stolen' to "fund" things against their wishes. The very same argument used against things such as universal healthcare."
This is absolutely correct. The same myth also fuels the related myth that those who pay more in taxes, which are usually the wealthy/businesses, are more important to government than the less wealthy because the wealthy pay more in taxes.
I would like to assume that Mr. Nader would be abhorred by the notion of the wealthy being more important to government than the less wealthy. If my assumption is correct, it is imperative that Mr. Nader bases his language on how government funding actually works rather than based on right-wing/centrist monetarist misconceptions.
THIS STINKS OF PSYCHO GLOBALIST PARASITE FALSE FLAG OPS TO KEEP THE PROLES KILLING EACH OTHER WHILE THEY (THE RULING SCUM) PLOT TOTAL SLAVERY. AND THEIR MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX GROWS RICHER AND RICHER!
There is no noxious crime that the evildoers desiring to lord it over us won't commit to maintain their stranglehold on power. A groundswell critical mass resistance to their murderous enslavement plans is needed urgently!
THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough! Mistakes were not made, it was always malice aforethought.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN EVEN WORSE FRAUD THAN THE PLANSCAMDEMIC! SO-CALLED GREEN TECH IS A GIGANTIC SCAM! MINING AND MANUFACTURING 'GREEN' PRODUCTS NEEDS COAL, GAS AND OIL AND MINING RARE MINERALS IS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY TOXIC AND DESTRUCTIVE THAN LEGACY PRODUCTS. SCREW YOUR DAMNED AGENDA!
Creative performing arts, fine arts and literary arts are the best part of being human and the thing the globalist predator technocrat megalomaniac total slavery control freaks most want to destroy.
Too many 'sheeple' are brainwashed to blindly obey authority figures on the media or in daily life in corrupt system ruled by control freak psychopaths who use propaganda lies to enslave their subjects and they are dumbed down to be obedient by 'education' institutions. Fortunately I was raised to question everything. This transcends party lines. We need a system that punishes psychopaths and rewards compassion and sharing, we need a system that actually follows The Constitution in reality.
I DO NOT COMPLY! NEVER HAVE, NEVER WILL!
There is a fate worse than death - I would rather die than be a robotized slave of technocratic overlords! This is my hill to die on!
I have a landline and a wired laptop and a wired monitor screen, all the tech anyone should ever want or need. I never had and refuse to ever have one of those infernal mobile devices that are designed to enslave you.
My loathing of AI and all things NANO and digital knows no bounds!
Kudos to Ralph Nader's heroic efforts and success in the struggle. We the People must always be aware of the existential threats lurking behind this fight!
How I stick my thumb in the eyes of the grotesque billionaire bastards pushing their enslavement agenda and how I embrace being fully human.
Fighting the globalist predator technocrat psychopath megalomaniac TOTAL SLAVERY AGENDA one performance at a time!
Amazing Amy: Eccentric Yoga Entertainer!
As an entertainer, I have been devastated and practically destroyed by the closure of all performance venues and then when they reopened, because MY BODY, MY CHOICE - being made a total untermenschen pariah outcast in NAZI NIGHTMARE LAWLESS 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' JAB CROW APARTHEID/DISCRIMINATION/SEGREGATION HELL NYC WHERE THE MAD/DRUNK WITH POWER TYRANT POLS DOUBLE DOWN ON THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES. I am trapped here with zero financial resources to leave or do anything else about this 'wish I were dead' endless misery life has become. The tragic irony is that my SPREAD THE YOGA LOVE performances are all about health, miraculously overcoming age (68) and injury to achieve feats of flexibility few can attain at any age. So BIG PHARMA who wants to addict every person on the planet to their toxic products hate people like me who prove that we do not need them if we eat healthy organic food and exercise daily!
I try and live and embody the creative performing artistic world and life I so fervently want existence to be about.
They can stick their f*cking damned NANO, Digital IDs, AI, jabs and chips up their asses where the sun don't shine!
All manner of lies and propaganda spew forth from the upper echelons in governments worldwide who are completely intertwined with the global criminal ruling class that wants to commit the worst atrocities imaginable and suffer no consequences. And their corruption slithers down the chain of command creating petty tyrants everywhere.
Supporting this excellent post with a statement and useful links. https://virustruth.net
We the People are facing HORRIFYING TECHNOCRATIC PSYCHOPATHY TO DESTROY HUMANITY AND ALL NATURAL LIFE!
It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back!
We must never lose sight of the larger picture of the vile malignance we are fighting against.
There is an insidious global ruling class plot to enslave all life on earth behind all the madness and suffering inflicted on We the People.
How to fight back against this TOTAL SLAVERY!
RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! DITCH THE DAMNED 'SMART' PHONES AND THE DAMNED QR CODES AND GO BACK TO LANDLINES OR FLIP PHONES AND USE CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE! INSIST ON CASH! CBDC IS TOTAL SLAVERY!
Other than getting rid of nuclear weapons which I support 100% the rest of the anti-nuclear peace movement and CLIMATE CRISIS propaganda is parroting UN utter GARBAGE, a complete surrender to the ENSLAVEMENT AGENDA by the diabolical despots of Davos - ruling class criminals who lust for total power and control and all of whom should be tried and jailed for life and their malign organizations dismantled: the UN, the WEF, the IMF, the WHO, the BIS, NATO, Blackrock, Vanguard, The Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, The Bilderbergers, the CFR et al.
There is an evil predator globalist technocratic elite agenda of eugenics/depopulation/genocide using bioweapon poison jabs, war, geoengineering, EMF radiation, starvation and economic collapse - THE GREAT RESET/AGENDA 2030/4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION to get rid of billions of 'useless eaters' and to use nano tech to turn the survivors into ROBOTIZED COMPLIANT SLAVES! WAKE UP AND RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! These are psychopath megalomaniacs who want to play god by turning all life into digitized metaverse mechanistic synthetic biology to be manipulated by their AI algorithms. A more demonic sickening idea is nearly impossible to imagine!
APPALLED AND HORRIFIED AT INSANE TYRANNICAL PROTOCOLS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTH AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! REVERSE THIS NOW!
MAKE THE WORLD AND AMERICA 2019 (comparatively speaking), AND FREE AGAIN!
NO, I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE MORONIC SCARIANT SHMARIANT MONKEYSHINES! WAKE UP ALREADY!
TOTALLY CONDEMN BIDEN AND ALL OTHER POLS WHO HAVE NO POWER TO LAWLESSLY ACT LIKE AN EMPEROR OR DICTATOR AND DECREE JAB CROW 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' FASCIST SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION/APARTHEID VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE NUREMBERG CODES AND EVERY CIVIL RIGHT IMAGINABLE.
NO GREEN NEW DEALS OR BUILD BACK BETTER FROM THE CRIMINAL TECHNOCRAT TYRANTS KLAUS SCHWAB AND HIS CRONIES FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.
STOP THE TERRIBLE TYRANNY OF THE TECHNOCRATS GLOBAL AGENDA OF TOTAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL USING THE VIRUS AS EXCUSE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL!
NO MUZZLING STIFLING MASK MANDATES! NO FORCED VACCINES! END TORTUROUS DEVASTATING LOCK DOWNS NOW! I WANT MY LIFE BACK.
Rather than falling into crackpot 'Soylent Green' and 'reset' theories you'd do better to look at some real data. Clearly everything people like you think is a 'hoax' or a plot to kill off the planet's inhabitants turns out not to be. Covid didn't, instead the authorities vaccinated people (yes yes, you think that's also part of the destruction) and enacted lockdowns. They could have just let everyone mingle and die off. Didn't happen. I notice you cite Naomi Wolf in your 'endnotes'. A woman claiming to be an academic who had to be corrected in her research live on BBC radio 4 and subsequently had to alter part of her book because she can't think properly. Now gone down a conspiracy rabbit hole, because she hasn't got the tools to think about economic or geopolitical questions in a coherent way.
Great program as usual. I must ask who ever that was that asked about a '2-state solution': Have you looked at the map of the West Bank over the last several decades? How would you make a 'state' out of those fragmented bits, dodging settlements and Israeli-only roadways, etc.? Run the settlers out? or make them part of the Palestinian state?
Excellent conversation with attorney Bruce Fein, a well-informed commentator on law and politics. Thank you for speaking boldly about the current situation in Palestine and Israel!
I see that Medicare Open Enrollment is currently in effect, and I thought you might like to be alerted. This is from the Medicare.gov website:
"Explore your Medicare coverage options. Pick your 2024 plan from Oct. 15 - Dec. 7."
I'm concerned that this government web site (the people's web site) does not seem to make clear that Original Medicare offered by the US government is an available Medicare plan. As far as I can see, the option to choose Original Medicare is not shown on the initial screen. One must click for information. If you do that, you get to this page about Original Medicare:
I did not enter anything except my zip code to get the below information. I did not know that different Original Medicare are options available based on where we live. (Can that be equal for all?) That means the information below may not apply to anyone in any other area. Here's what came up for my area:
Standard Part B premium: $174.70
Medigap policy premium range: $34.00-$1,262.00
Drug plan premium range: $0.40-$188.40
Total monthly premium: $209.10-$1,625.10
This is as far as I've ever gone in looking into Original Medicare, which as I well recall, Ralph Nader was in favor of earlier. I'm not sure he still endorses this option. I hope this will inspire others to take a look.
From AARP Bulletin, Oct 2023. Seems two people at the top of Medicare are pro-Medicare Advantage! Who appointed these people? Biden? Trump? Congress?
"I believe it's critical that people have a choice between traditional original Medicare and Medicare Advantage," Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, administrator for the Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that oversee Medicare operations."
and
"I genuinely believe that the future of Medicare lies in Medicare Advantage," said James A.Matthews, executive director of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), established by Congress to analyze the program and provide advice."
Judy, this gives me a sinking feeling. Earlier, I read part of the Medicare and You booklet for 2023, and there was a section on (I believe) the REACH program. (I may have forgotten some of this now.) I remember that it did not mention anything about what The Capitol Hill Citizen had uncovered: that people with Original Medicare were (or perhaps would be) transferred ** without their knowledge ** from their Original Medicare to Medicare Advantage. Instead, the REACH program was being treated as a positive development by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which pubishes Medicare and You. I feared then that our U.S. Government Medicare information source had been hollowed out from inside along with the Medicare (dis)Advantage corporate take over. You make a good point in asking who appointed these people - who is determining Federal policies?
I’ve always respected & voted for you whenever I could. Unfortunately, you are very naive on this issue. Hamas are Salafi Jew, Christian & any Non-Salafi Muslim hating genocidal fanatics (and apparently now East African, Pashtun & Syrian Salafi mercenaries) led by typical cynical, media-savvy political opportunists (living very comfortably in Qatar). Egypt refused when Israel tried to return political control of Gaza to them. Why? Because its full of what they call “landless Arabs” or Palestinians who are more motivated, shrewd, cunning & devious than they are. If your’e not very careful- they’ll try to take over & exploit you by any means available- like they attempted in Jordan & Lebanon.
When Iraq invaded Kuwait- Palestinians working there aided them in looting while Filipino Catholic houseboys & girls were dying in place protecting their Kuwaiti families. Based on past experience- Arab states simply don’t trust them.
Your parents did the best thing possible for you- they left the Middle East. Too many people, too many grievances, far too many corrupt, greedy oligarchs.
I hope you still appreciate the tremendous benefits afforded you by the GI Bill- thank you for your service.
By the way, there already exists a “Palestinian State”- it’s called Jordan.
I so appreciated Bruce Fein's informed perspective... and I was happy to hear at the end of the show that there would be a transcript appearing soon. It's now been a week or so, will there still be a transcript forthcoming?
Today’s Ralph was the best.
My gawd it’s all so depressing. Feels hopeless.
But as Ralph said - it’s our duty as citizens to “register our opposition”. And what Bruce said “the high water mark of being a citizen is standing up and protesting even if it doesn’t result in anything”.
So whadda ya say we get a few million to march in D.C.?
To help visualize this enormous catastrophe please "google" " Disappearing Palestine maps"--{I can't copy & paste into this comment box} --so, please fellow listeners-- just take a moment to see the sheer shrinkage of the Palestinian world and then wonder how 2.7 million people in 7-mile x 24 mile "reservation(??) were/ are relegated to an under the desert rug existence with only 19,000 jobs in all Israel for them (?) and then imagine how you or we and family would fare under such continual duress...But Massacre was one violent answer followed by more death and destruction (of course)
PLEASE pull up that map(!!) and ponder what other shrinking territories will be fought to death over...
From where I sit, Timothy, "reservation" is an appropriate term. I live next to one and visit it and its people several times per week. The residents are under "continual duress." The oppression is both blatant and subtle and it's getting worse. Most of my border town neighbors could care less. A local, elder, Native American educator I know and respect blames our hypocritical forefathers for the discrimination: as do I. Another, unhoused, Native American told me last month how he had "no desire to be white ... except for maybe six seconds during the job interview." That statement, I thought, says it all.
The disappearing Palestinian land maps Googled at your recommendation reminds me of the Indian land cession maps shown at local gatherings. Thank you for the comparison.
The Latin word (concept) “privare” means “to deprive of”…To privatize Land, deprives the colonized of their Land…. The colonizer defines the colonized as “indigenous people.” This act is massive identity theft...
I know you are critical of NPR and PBS and I tend to agree. Trying to watch NewsHour takes the 1st 10 minutes acknowledging their corporate "supporters." However, referring to the hospital bombing, Nick Schifrin stated "Israelis have bombed hospitals in the past and rockets from Gaza have fallen inside Gaza." I thought that was a measured and sober assessment.
I appreciated everyone's remarks today. In the podcast extra chat, Bruce Fein was asked if the "2-State Solution" was viable today, and his response was to ask for a better alternative. In the discussion on that point which followed, he asserted that the Israelis would never incorporate the Palestinians into their state and thereby lose their majority - a rational observation given history and where we stand. My question for Mr Fein and everyone on that point: How is that working out for the Israelis?
Under what scenario of potential outcomes does Israel's security improve or become "secure"? How is any of this violent response from Israel going to foster peace and justice and, if any, for how long? Actually: what is the criteria that describes the next level up for Israel in terms of living secure lives?
Addressing problems with violence is always a catastrophe. Only if we learn something helpful that reduces or eliminates suffering does violence become mere tragedy.
There are probably many examples in history we could use to define the criteria for troubled people in conflict to come to live together and no longer subjugate or fight or kill each other. What comes to mind for me is South Africa, which finally found an agreeable path out of conflict and injustice toward a way to live together as equals (close enough to stop the violence have everyone working together).
Politically speaking, how will Israel as a people ever come to terms with Palestinians, on whose land they live and possessions they've appropriated? Guns, bombs, fences? How's that working for them? They are forever tied together now, like U.S. white people and African Americans, entwined destiny. If Israelis want to be secure, they have to be just and be equals, and that doesn't use force or violence. That requires reason and consent; and if you cannot find that within yourselves, but you want peace, you have to look outside your thinking and accept, to ask for help. Otherwise, you want something other than peace.
So, why bomb Gaza at all? -k
This is certainly a most informative discussion by Mr. Nader and Mr. Fein. I disagree with one statement by Mr. Nader, but I’ll get to that later. Otherwise, I agree with what was stated in this program.
Just to add to what Mr. Fein stated about US politicians, we must consider what happened to Jeremy Corbyn during the 2019 United Kingdom general election. At the time, Corbyn, then leader of the UK Labour Party and someone who moved Labour from a strong orientation of neoliberalism and war crimes under the ‘New Labour’ leaders of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown towards historical Labour goals of improving conditions for the general public and promoting peace, faced nonsensical accusations of antisemitism which hindered his chances in the general election. Obviously, Corbyn was critical of the actions of right-wing Israeli governments and so Zionists and those promoting neoliberalism in the Labour Party, along with Corbyn’s Conservative Party opponents, teamed up to create a false narrative about Corbyn and Corbyn’s leadership. After Labour’s defeat in 2019, Corbyn stepped down and Keir Starmer took over and Starmer, in a quest to prove how anti-Corbyn he is, is in the race to compete with Trump and Biden to prove that he’s Netanyahu’s best and unwavering friend. Corbyn’s continued calls for diplomacy in the Ukrainian conflict and criticism of Netanyahu’s government has made him a pariah in Starmer's neoliberal Labour Party in ways that even the US Democratic Party probably wouldn’t do to one of their members.
The point in saying this is that any credible US politician with national aspirations who opposes neoliberalism and unethical maneuvers by the Israeli government will be treated the way Corbyn was in 2019 and it may even be worse given the power of Christian Zionists in US politics. Mere claims of antisemitism will scare off low-information voters, which are numerous in both parties, even if the claims are completely unsubstantiated. I know there were attempts to portray Bernie Sanders this way during the 2020 primaries, but claims of Sanders being antisemitic are more laughable given that he is Jewish. Instead, it appeared the Zionist groups were looking to portray Sanders as a radical socialist or some other nonsense. Like Corbyn, anyone who isn’t Jewish is likely to be portrayed as an antisemitic radical socialist and anyone going against those false allegations will have to study what happened to Corbyn to try to avoid and counter those traps.
As for where I disagree with Mr. Nader, US taxpayer money is not funding Israel or anything else. Canceled money does not fund anything since, obviously, canceled money is canceled money. Tax returns are simply canceled money. This is fiat money 101. As US citizens, it is bad enough that our democratically-elected government is unquestioningly supporting everything that was discussed in the show. That’s how things should be phrased. There is no need to spin an incorrect narrative that our personal earnings as citizens are funding Netanyahu even if, of course, the US government is financially supporting Netanyahu. Mr. Nader’s monetarist arguments only serve to discredit his otherwise on-point arguments.
Yes, the meme running around MAGAworld, and associated enemies of the current US administration, about 'taxpayers' money funding Israel falls right into the common narrative. It only works because the people who are the target also accept the narrative! Polifact even addressed the question by marking it 'partially true'. That money is being spent in that direction, but no words about the money's actual origin. The legitimate question is indeed: 'should U.S. issue be used and spent in that direction at all?' Which is an entirely different question. The 'taxpayer's money' fiction is an emotional appeal to rally people into believing they are having their personal income 'stolen' to "fund" things against their wishes. The very same argument used against things such as universal healthcare.
"The 'taxpayer's money' fiction is an emotional appeal to rally people into believing they are having their personal income 'stolen' to "fund" things against their wishes. The very same argument used against things such as universal healthcare."
This is absolutely correct. The same myth also fuels the related myth that those who pay more in taxes, which are usually the wealthy/businesses, are more important to government than the less wealthy because the wealthy pay more in taxes.
I would like to assume that Mr. Nader would be abhorred by the notion of the wealthy being more important to government than the less wealthy. If my assumption is correct, it is imperative that Mr. Nader bases his language on how government funding actually works rather than based on right-wing/centrist monetarist misconceptions.
ISRAEL: A pox on both their houses! Recommend Scott Ritter's detailed and incisive essay: https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/why-i-no-longer-stand-with-israel
THIS STINKS OF PSYCHO GLOBALIST PARASITE FALSE FLAG OPS TO KEEP THE PROLES KILLING EACH OTHER WHILE THEY (THE RULING SCUM) PLOT TOTAL SLAVERY. AND THEIR MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX GROWS RICHER AND RICHER!
There is no noxious crime that the evildoers desiring to lord it over us won't commit to maintain their stranglehold on power. A groundswell critical mass resistance to their murderous enslavement plans is needed urgently!
THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough! Mistakes were not made, it was always malice aforethought.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN EVEN WORSE FRAUD THAN THE PLANSCAMDEMIC! SO-CALLED GREEN TECH IS A GIGANTIC SCAM! MINING AND MANUFACTURING 'GREEN' PRODUCTS NEEDS COAL, GAS AND OIL AND MINING RARE MINERALS IS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY TOXIC AND DESTRUCTIVE THAN LEGACY PRODUCTS. SCREW YOUR DAMNED AGENDA!
Creative performing arts, fine arts and literary arts are the best part of being human and the thing the globalist predator technocrat megalomaniac total slavery control freaks most want to destroy.
Too many 'sheeple' are brainwashed to blindly obey authority figures on the media or in daily life in corrupt system ruled by control freak psychopaths who use propaganda lies to enslave their subjects and they are dumbed down to be obedient by 'education' institutions. Fortunately I was raised to question everything. This transcends party lines. We need a system that punishes psychopaths and rewards compassion and sharing, we need a system that actually follows The Constitution in reality.
I DO NOT COMPLY! NEVER HAVE, NEVER WILL!
There is a fate worse than death - I would rather die than be a robotized slave of technocratic overlords! This is my hill to die on!
I have a landline and a wired laptop and a wired monitor screen, all the tech anyone should ever want or need. I never had and refuse to ever have one of those infernal mobile devices that are designed to enslave you.
My loathing of AI and all things NANO and digital knows no bounds!
Kudos to Ralph Nader's heroic efforts and success in the struggle. We the People must always be aware of the existential threats lurking behind this fight!
How I stick my thumb in the eyes of the grotesque billionaire bastards pushing their enslavement agenda and how I embrace being fully human.
Fighting the globalist predator technocrat psychopath megalomaniac TOTAL SLAVERY AGENDA one performance at a time!
Amazing Amy: Eccentric Yoga Entertainer!
As an entertainer, I have been devastated and practically destroyed by the closure of all performance venues and then when they reopened, because MY BODY, MY CHOICE - being made a total untermenschen pariah outcast in NAZI NIGHTMARE LAWLESS 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' JAB CROW APARTHEID/DISCRIMINATION/SEGREGATION HELL NYC WHERE THE MAD/DRUNK WITH POWER TYRANT POLS DOUBLE DOWN ON THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES. I am trapped here with zero financial resources to leave or do anything else about this 'wish I were dead' endless misery life has become. The tragic irony is that my SPREAD THE YOGA LOVE performances are all about health, miraculously overcoming age (68) and injury to achieve feats of flexibility few can attain at any age. So BIG PHARMA who wants to addict every person on the planet to their toxic products hate people like me who prove that we do not need them if we eat healthy organic food and exercise daily!
https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/amazingamycontortionistuniqueyogadancer
I try and live and embody the creative performing artistic world and life I so fervently want existence to be about.
They can stick their f*cking damned NANO, Digital IDs, AI, jabs and chips up their asses where the sun don't shine!
All manner of lies and propaganda spew forth from the upper echelons in governments worldwide who are completely intertwined with the global criminal ruling class that wants to commit the worst atrocities imaginable and suffer no consequences. And their corruption slithers down the chain of command creating petty tyrants everywhere.
Supporting this excellent post with a statement and useful links. https://virustruth.net
We the People are facing HORRIFYING TECHNOCRATIC PSYCHOPATHY TO DESTROY HUMANITY AND ALL NATURAL LIFE!
It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back!
We must never lose sight of the larger picture of the vile malignance we are fighting against.
There is an insidious global ruling class plot to enslave all life on earth behind all the madness and suffering inflicted on We the People.
How to fight back against this TOTAL SLAVERY!
RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! DITCH THE DAMNED 'SMART' PHONES AND THE DAMNED QR CODES AND GO BACK TO LANDLINES OR FLIP PHONES AND USE CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE! INSIST ON CASH! CBDC IS TOTAL SLAVERY!
Other than getting rid of nuclear weapons which I support 100% the rest of the anti-nuclear peace movement and CLIMATE CRISIS propaganda is parroting UN utter GARBAGE, a complete surrender to the ENSLAVEMENT AGENDA by the diabolical despots of Davos - ruling class criminals who lust for total power and control and all of whom should be tried and jailed for life and their malign organizations dismantled: the UN, the WEF, the IMF, the WHO, the BIS, NATO, Blackrock, Vanguard, The Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, The Bilderbergers, the CFR et al.
There is an evil predator globalist technocratic elite agenda of eugenics/depopulation/genocide using bioweapon poison jabs, war, geoengineering, EMF radiation, starvation and economic collapse - THE GREAT RESET/AGENDA 2030/4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION to get rid of billions of 'useless eaters' and to use nano tech to turn the survivors into ROBOTIZED COMPLIANT SLAVES! WAKE UP AND RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! These are psychopath megalomaniacs who want to play god by turning all life into digitized metaverse mechanistic synthetic biology to be manipulated by their AI algorithms. A more demonic sickening idea is nearly impossible to imagine!
APPALLED AND HORRIFIED AT INSANE TYRANNICAL PROTOCOLS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTH AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! REVERSE THIS NOW!
MAKE THE WORLD AND AMERICA 2019 (comparatively speaking), AND FREE AGAIN!
NO, I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE MORONIC SCARIANT SHMARIANT MONKEYSHINES! WAKE UP ALREADY!
TOTALLY CONDEMN BIDEN AND ALL OTHER POLS WHO HAVE NO POWER TO LAWLESSLY ACT LIKE AN EMPEROR OR DICTATOR AND DECREE JAB CROW 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' FASCIST SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION/APARTHEID VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE NUREMBERG CODES AND EVERY CIVIL RIGHT IMAGINABLE.
NO GREEN NEW DEALS OR BUILD BACK BETTER FROM THE CRIMINAL TECHNOCRAT TYRANTS KLAUS SCHWAB AND HIS CRONIES FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.
STOP THE TERRIBLE TYRANNY OF THE TECHNOCRATS GLOBAL AGENDA OF TOTAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL USING THE VIRUS AS EXCUSE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL!
NO MUZZLING STIFLING MASK MANDATES! NO FORCED VACCINES! END TORTUROUS DEVASTATING LOCK DOWNS NOW! I WANT MY LIFE BACK.
https://wrenchinthegears.com
https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com
https://pandemicfacts.info
https://wearehumanwearefree.org/7-days-campaign/
https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/covid-19-roadmap-12-step-plan-to-create-a-totalitarian-new-world-order-were-on-number-8-headed-towards-number-9/
https://questioningcovid.com
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1581-james-corbett-breaks-down-the-great-reset/
http://www.stopcp.com/GlobalResetPSYOP/GlobalResetPSYOPMindMap.html
https://everydayconcerned.net/2020/09/04/breaking-major-investigative-report-by-association-of-french-reserve-army-officers-finds-covid-19-pandemic-to-have-a-hidden-agenda-for-global-totalitarianism-nanotech-chipping-of-all-5g-irradia/
Pam Popper: https://makeamericansfreeagain.com
Del Bigtree: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/highwire
https://www.technocracy.news
Naomi Wolf: https://dailyclout.io
www.nojabforme.info
https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-must-awaken-from-corona-coma-reject-great-reset-robotic-technocracy-assert-common-humanity/5745213
Whoa...
Rather than falling into crackpot 'Soylent Green' and 'reset' theories you'd do better to look at some real data. Clearly everything people like you think is a 'hoax' or a plot to kill off the planet's inhabitants turns out not to be. Covid didn't, instead the authorities vaccinated people (yes yes, you think that's also part of the destruction) and enacted lockdowns. They could have just let everyone mingle and die off. Didn't happen. I notice you cite Naomi Wolf in your 'endnotes'. A woman claiming to be an academic who had to be corrected in her research live on BBC radio 4 and subsequently had to alter part of her book because she can't think properly. Now gone down a conspiracy rabbit hole, because she hasn't got the tools to think about economic or geopolitical questions in a coherent way.
The History of Zionism - An Identity Crisis that Led to Identity Theft with Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro
https://rumble.com/v3p3lte-october-13-2023.html
Ralph & guests - I'm left speechless. Thank you kindly for this sobering "punishment". An American idiot & an appreciative listener.
Great program as usual. I must ask who ever that was that asked about a '2-state solution': Have you looked at the map of the West Bank over the last several decades? How would you make a 'state' out of those fragmented bits, dodging settlements and Israeli-only roadways, etc.? Run the settlers out? or make them part of the Palestinian state?
Excellent conversation with attorney Bruce Fein, a well-informed commentator on law and politics. Thank you for speaking boldly about the current situation in Palestine and Israel!
The less you “are” and the less you express of your life…the more you “have” and the greater is your alienated Life. (Karl Marx).
I see that Medicare Open Enrollment is currently in effect, and I thought you might like to be alerted. This is from the Medicare.gov website:
"Explore your Medicare coverage options. Pick your 2024 plan from Oct. 15 - Dec. 7."
I'm concerned that this government web site (the people's web site) does not seem to make clear that Original Medicare offered by the US government is an available Medicare plan. As far as I can see, the option to choose Original Medicare is not shown on the initial screen. One must click for information. If you do that, you get to this page about Original Medicare:
https://www.medicare.gov/plan-compare/#/coverage-options/options?year=2024&lang=en
I did not enter anything except my zip code to get the below information. I did not know that different Original Medicare are options available based on where we live. (Can that be equal for all?) That means the information below may not apply to anyone in any other area. Here's what came up for my area:
Standard Part B premium: $174.70
Medigap policy premium range: $34.00-$1,262.00
Drug plan premium range: $0.40-$188.40
Total monthly premium: $209.10-$1,625.10
This is as far as I've ever gone in looking into Original Medicare, which as I well recall, Ralph Nader was in favor of earlier. I'm not sure he still endorses this option. I hope this will inspire others to take a look.
From AARP Bulletin, Oct 2023. Seems two people at the top of Medicare are pro-Medicare Advantage! Who appointed these people? Biden? Trump? Congress?
"I believe it's critical that people have a choice between traditional original Medicare and Medicare Advantage," Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, administrator for the Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that oversee Medicare operations."
and
"I genuinely believe that the future of Medicare lies in Medicare Advantage," said James A.Matthews, executive director of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), established by Congress to analyze the program and provide advice."
Judy, this gives me a sinking feeling. Earlier, I read part of the Medicare and You booklet for 2023, and there was a section on (I believe) the REACH program. (I may have forgotten some of this now.) I remember that it did not mention anything about what The Capitol Hill Citizen had uncovered: that people with Original Medicare were (or perhaps would be) transferred ** without their knowledge ** from their Original Medicare to Medicare Advantage. Instead, the REACH program was being treated as a positive development by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which pubishes Medicare and You. I feared then that our U.S. Government Medicare information source had been hollowed out from inside along with the Medicare (dis)Advantage corporate take over. You make a good point in asking who appointed these people - who is determining Federal policies?
Thank You Ralph!
I’ve always respected & voted for you whenever I could. Unfortunately, you are very naive on this issue. Hamas are Salafi Jew, Christian & any Non-Salafi Muslim hating genocidal fanatics (and apparently now East African, Pashtun & Syrian Salafi mercenaries) led by typical cynical, media-savvy political opportunists (living very comfortably in Qatar). Egypt refused when Israel tried to return political control of Gaza to them. Why? Because its full of what they call “landless Arabs” or Palestinians who are more motivated, shrewd, cunning & devious than they are. If your’e not very careful- they’ll try to take over & exploit you by any means available- like they attempted in Jordan & Lebanon.
When Iraq invaded Kuwait- Palestinians working there aided them in looting while Filipino Catholic houseboys & girls were dying in place protecting their Kuwaiti families. Based on past experience- Arab states simply don’t trust them.
Your parents did the best thing possible for you- they left the Middle East. Too many people, too many grievances, far too many corrupt, greedy oligarchs.
I hope you still appreciate the tremendous benefits afforded you by the GI Bill- thank you for your service.
By the way, there already exists a “Palestinian State”- it’s called Jordan.
I so appreciated Bruce Fein's informed perspective... and I was happy to hear at the end of the show that there would be a transcript appearing soon. It's now been a week or so, will there still be a transcript forthcoming?