Genocide Joe

Joe Biden has a new nickname: Genocide Joe. It is well-deserved. He is the enabler, facilitator and eager funder for the settler State of Israel's ongoing campaign of mass murder and terror against the citizens of Gaza. Israel of course has an excuse for its reign of terror. The October 7 attack by the Netanyahu-created insurgent group Hamas, which killed 1,200 people. So far the number of Palestinians killed is estimated at close to 18,000. And counting. Joe Biden can only lie about the totals, and about everything else related to this genocidal siege. 

Biden's "National Security Spokesperson" John Kirby made a lame attempt to dismiss the use of the term genocide, convincing only himself and fellow travelers on the genocide bandwagon. Here's a definition. Secretary of State Antony Blinken self-identifies as a "Jew," and declared that as long as "America" exists, Israel will never have to defend itself alone. When Israel wages genocide, we will be there, for as long as we exist. We know how to do this.

In order to make this genocide affordable the U.S. has given Israel over $130 billion in military assistance over the past 75 years, and $33 billion in economic aid. As the recipients of genocide, 5,100,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since 1948.

This will continue. Maybe for as long as the "U.S." exists. We get to do this because we can. We have the money and we have the power. I don't think it will be forever, or even for much past this latest madness. Climate change will change everything. It is hard to predict the future. I can make one prediction, though. I won't be voting for Genocide Joe.

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Here's some vintage Genocide Joe.

Here's a song. Here's another. Jimi Hendrix. The Byrds. Billy Roberts. Steve Winwood with Slash. The leaves. Frank Zappa. Genocide Joe should have stayed in the garage. If you can stand it, look at killer Joe.

Whether by diselection or retirement, it will be goodbye Genocide Joe in 2024. One goodbye Genocide Joe isn't enough. Here's another.

Genocide Joe might take a lesson from another Joseph.

Though it may be technically lawful (victor's justice), genocide is a violation of the Law of Karma. Fight this law and the law always wins. A reminder for emphasis. Another reminder. The concept of Karma is also stressed in Christianity, most notably in the "Bible," Galations 6:7, as you sow, so shall you reap. Unfortunately, apparent Christians such as Genocide Joe and his minions don't seem to think this affects them. Such is the mindset of impunity.

A Genocide Joe song. Here's another. And another. Where did you come from, where did you go, where did you come from, Genocide Joe?

Time has come today for Genocide Joe to resign from office and submit himself to the International Criminal Court at the Hague for criminal prosecution for aiding and abetting genocide.

We are in for the long haul. Genocide Joe and his 100% politicianness are but one small episode.

A group of veterans called Task Force Butler Institute is tracking hate groups nationwide, making dossiers of them which they send to attorneys general around the country. The organization is named after Smedley Butler, a former Marine General who exposed the Business Plot in 1933 - a plan to overthrow the government of president Franklin D. Roosevelt and install him as dictator. Butler also wrote (and delivered) the speech and book War is a Racket. Here's the full text. It is likely that antisemitic violence at both pro and anti-Israeli rallies is perpetrated by minions of these hate groups.

I don't like the use of the term "hate groups," but for communication purposes it is what people understand. These various groups may indeed be hateful, but their purpose of existence to themselves is to advance crackpot ideologies of the fascist kind - "white" supremacy, scapegoating of ethnic and religious minorities and other vulnerable populations, authoritarian rule, various forms of terrorism. I look at these people less as political theorists (which would require thought) and more as psychologically impaired. 

The same goes for the various propagandists, demagogues, grandstanders and charlatans who practice their perfidy in the various capitols around the country, and in Washington, D.C. Politics is their platform of operation, but the essence of their being is psychological disease, often sociopathic. Whatever success they have can be attributed to the stupidity and gullibility of the masses. A sucker is born every minute.

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Henry Kissinger, mass murderer, has died. Here's an appropriate obituary. This remembrance of his love affair with mainstream U.S. media explains much of what we are dealing with today. Rolling Stone offers this good riddance. The New York Times presents the mainstream view. Anthony Bourdain had an un-mainstream view. 

For me, the most telling fact of his life is that he escaped Nazi Germany. It is great to escape danger. I have done it many times, sometimes barely. The mass murder, destruction and degradation caused by the Third Reich was on an order that should be a warning in many ways, as we are seeing now. Survivors, escapees and succeeding generations of the Nazi Holocaust might be carrying built-up trauma, bitterness and desire for revenge. Woe are they who find themselves in the path of their rage.

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Israel does not represent all Jews, as Jewish Voices For Peace shows.

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We are becoming friendless. Ahh, but Genocide Joe, 100% politician, doesn't care, as long as his numbers are up. Except, his numbers aren't up. Fewer people, by the day, prefer him for reelection. It should tell him something that deranged criminal sociopath Donald Trump, likely suffering from dementia, leads him in "the polls." 

The money we are wasting on "Israel" could be better spent (duh) providing housing for the millions among us who are shelter deficient.

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Update, December 22: So a U.N. resolution passed, with Genocide Joe's ambassador abstaining. It was a "watered-down" version, avoiding a cease-fire. See Law of Karma reference above. One of the obstacles was the absence of a condemnation of the October 7 attack by Hamas. This is what is known as a red herring. Hamas is not a nation, or even a representative of a nation, since the Palestinians have no nation. U.N. stands for United Nations.

Economist Jeffrey Sachs says U.S. foreign policy is a scam built on corruption. You can see him interviewed on YouTube.

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Andrew Cockburn warned us about Genocide Joe in 2019, 4 1/2 years before he became Genocide Joe. He has lived far down from the warnings.

Update, December 27: Genocide Joe, poseur as human rights hero and man of peace, will have a different legacy. Hint: He will be remembered as Genocide Joe.

Here's a history of the Jewish diaspora from Letters and Politics at KPFA. A history of Zionism and settler colonialism, part 1 and part 2. Here's a discussion of Israel, Hamas and the future of the Palestinian people. And, for a bit more context, an interview about the Biblical "Book of Revelations" and its real world consequences.

Here's an update on how to calculate how much of your money is being spent to kill Palestinians.

It would be helpful to understand the history of the Mideast, and how the State of Israel came to be. Ussama Makdisi, professor of history at UC Berkeley, was interviewed on KPFA's Letters and Politics in December, and provided a broad overview. The interview can also be seen on YouTube.

At least 95 people have been killed in a bomb blast in Kerman, Iran, during an observance of the fourth anniversary of the U.S. (Trump) assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. We can expect more of this. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been mongering for war with Iran for decades. Worthy of mention is that Israel is one of nine nuclear powers on Planet Earth. Netanyahu is supported by Genocide Joe. We are now in a more precarious and dangerous predicament on this planet than any time in human history, greater than during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Jan. 7 update: A former Israeli soldier explains the disastrous complexities of the situation in Gaza.

Israel’s Final Solution – With Our Help

The government of Israel – and its people - should have taken a lesson from Adolf Hitler. Genocide doesn’t work. And, of course, Israel's sponsor – "America" – might have learned the same lesson by now. The genocidic failures of U.S. meddling around the world are numerous, and resulted in many more deaths than THE Holocaust, the one and only holocaust, the one we are reminded of constantly. We are the banker and armorer for Israel's current attempt to eliminate the Palestinian people, and in true American fashion lie about it, obfuscate, pretend, change the subject, and in the end ante-up with more money and weapons.

It is one of the great absurdities of human history, but, sadly, I expect even greater absurdities lie ahead. Climate change is about to kick into high gear, and the leaders of the three greatest powers on the planet – the U.S., Russia and China – are playing around with World War III and its accompanying global thermonuclear, er, holocaust.

The greatest absurdity is that it is all for nothing. Nothing. Land, resources, dominance, the power to kill, imprison, torture, humiliate – all very temporary gains and thrills, and when these gains and thrills are ill-gotten they carry great consequences. The land of the Southern Levant, where purported Israel and Palestine exist, has no preference on who lives there, and what they do there. Thanks to the delusionary exploits of the British empire, it became under "possession" of the royalty of this island off the coast of what we call "Europe." When the declining British empire could no longer possess the region, in came the Zionists to seize control.

Any time there is a mass of people who identify as distinct, and are in turn identified by other masses of people as distinct, prejudices inevitably develop. These prejudices grow into mythologies, and over time can become deadly. Such is the case with "Jews." They are blamed for killing "Jesus," the mythological savior of mankind, according to "Christians." He likely never existed, but that hasn’t slowed the mythology down one bit. Because of a couple of millennia of prejudice, abuse, and ultimately mass murder, it is understandable that people who think of themselves as "Jews" might want to organize and fight back.

I have lived with and around "Jews" for much of my adult life. When I was following a guru I lived in his ashram in the Borscht Belt, the legendary Jewish resort area of the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. I even worked at the most well-known of those resorts, Grossinger's. A disproportionate number of Jews were followers of the guru, Müktananda, and I of course got to know and became friends with many of them. When I worked for a well-known catalog-ordering company in Wisconsin I dealt with a lot of Jews, most particularly a cohort from an Orthodox faction in Brooklyn, zip code 11211. One thing I can say for certain is that they are people, like other people, good and bad, and that the behaviors that they sometimes have in common have more to do with time, separation and culture than anything else. We are all in the same boat.

We don't have the luxury of seeing what would have resulted if Hitler had succeeded with his "Final Solution." We can surmise, though. There would be no end to the killing. Another "other" would be found, then another. And another... Indeed, others were found in the "Third Reich." Gypsies (Roma), homosexuals, disabled people, the infirmed, opponents, communists, Jehovah's Witnesses. Even other Nazis were fair game in the endless machinations of power in this grisly episode in human history.

This new grisly episode in human history wouldn't have been happening without the sponsorship and encouragement of the government of the United States of America. Or, more accurately, the military-industrial-political complex of the United States of America. Since 1948 we have given Israel $233,700,000,000 in direct aid and $130,000,000,000 in military assistance of various kinds. That is a huge chunk of money. As we have done in many other places around the world, we have trained them in torture, imprisonment, state terrorism and various forms of subversion, assassination, suppression and oppression. It is what we do. There is no inherent love for Jews in this country. Israel is just the handiest "ally" in, God knows, profits, hegemony, scaring the region, lust for killing, feeling important, having impunity, stupidity.

And, I repeat, it is all for nothing. Very, very temporary, and thanks to the impending climate collapse, it will be wiped out as if it never happened.What is the answer in "American" broadcast and broadband media? Donald Trump is the front-runner for the 2024 presidential election. We're through, in the words of "Jewish" biologist Paul Ehrlich. Through.

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Here's a song.  Here's another. The Traveling Wilburys. Iris DeMent. Creedence.
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I had this posted on Madison's Cap Times last month, another take on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

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Update, December 6: Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the U.N. is invoking Article 99 of the U.N. Charter, asserting that "The international community has a responsibility to use all its influence to prevent further escalation and end this crisis. I urge the members of the Security Council to press to avert a humanitarian catastrophe...I reiterate my appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared. This is urgent. The civilian population must be spared from greater harm."

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R.I.P. Denny Laine. I wasn't aware that he was in Paul McCartney's group Wings, for me a forgettable band. This, with Ginger Baker's Air Force, is one of my all-time favorite songs. And this, with the Moody Blues, is pretty great too.

R.I.P. Shane MacGowan. Here's a mix of his songs.