Amanorman

aka david compton amanor - former BBC journalist, musician, ex-Selecter, football fanatic, a sinner saved by grace alone.

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“In the current moment, the biggest danger for journalists is not getting a story wrong - it is appearing unwilling to tell it at all” https://t.co/spjXtMZ5NL

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@stevenmarkryan What for?

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Do you know your family tree? https://t.co/9FAoUJz19j

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🇳🇦 BREAKING: Namibia just paid off its entire IMF debt. Zero balance. $23.8 million repaid. No new loans. No new conditions. Freedom.

While other nations drown in IMF austerity, Namibia walked out. No more structural adjustment. No more neoliberal lectures. No more foreign control over economic policy.

This is what sovereignty looks like. Paying your debts. Refusing new ones. Charting your own path.

Namibia is free. Other African nations should take notes.

Question for the timeline: Which African country should be next to tell the IMF goodbye?

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@narendramodi Really? Your “friend” Donald Trump? So kindly ask him to stop blockading Hormuz. And Cuba too. Also kindly advise him to quit supporting the genocidal regime in Israel.

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@BarackObama Didn’t know you know him so well, good luck with that analysis.

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This was recorded 13 years ago, like it’s encouraging to know that sense isn’t the preserve of one race or another, just wonder why so many Brits and Americans don’t get it? https://t.co/qFgijNjy5B via @YouTube

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Why would someone from a left field black lives social political background vote for a lunatic for Trump? Answer: Better the devil you know! Liberals perpetuate racism and social inequality, Conservatives force us to confront it (Malcom X)

[حيدر | Haydar @chronicalihere]

Please understand that Trump is not the exception nor is he unique to American history; he is a byproduct of it. He is the unfettered, morally bankrupt rotten core of American white supremacism/ imperialism staring back at us. It's always been there, its just more unmasked now.

Deep down I think the liberal corporate media/ establishment doesn't actually have a problem with Trump's policies per say (look at Pelosi, Schumer and other Dems comments on ravaging Iran), but rather that he's exposed the facade of America. That's what they find so difficult to stomach and contend with. He doesn't care to mask the true face of America's horrific violence or disregard for human life.

American imperialist hegemony built itself upon a veneer of moral supremacy that legitimized it's violence as necessary and good. America was a brand, a business, with a very specific image that needed to be sustained.

Marketed through its media, corporations and propaganda expeditiously— it depended upon upholding an illusion (myth) of moral and civilizational superiority, that covered over its true evils. That always gave it the upper hand because it was inherently benevolent.

This justified it's global dominance, even though it was always maintained through such unforgiving brutality. Yet Trump routinely exposes this with both his incompetence and variable honesty, even though he's not actually trying to be honest.

Hence they purposefully make Trump seem like an outlier to the presidency. Recall the years long obsession with the Russian collusion narrative, because of the optics.

His victory over the neoliberal feel-good, female empowerment candidate (Clinton), made America, the self-anointed bastion of democracy and progressivism in the world, look bad. That it couldn't actually elect a borderline fascist or overt racist when racism had just ended with the first Black President previously. That it must have been that some foreign entity that helped him win.

People today laud war criminals like Bush and Obama because they perceive the US presidency through the expectation of a performance. Trump lacks the relative decorum of his predecessors to mask the fallout of policies which are just as destructive as theirs, if not more.

Trump is only an exception to American history in that he doesn't outwardly behave *presidentially* because he wasn't coming off of the traditional, cookie-cutter DC establishment politician conveyor belt.

He doesn't possess the charm, wit or likeablity of his predecessors to paint over America's horrors. He has laid it all bare; gloves off, mask off.

He's given them permission to show their true essence and not be ashamed of it. There is no need to hide it any longer— the violent white supremacy— unleashed to maximum capability. Maximum lethality, not tepid legality; as Hegseth put it.

He's told them to take pride in it; to do it boldy. No fanciful language or need to spin the reality of what they're actually doing or believe in; unrelenting and unabashed; not restricted by or accountable to, any entity or semblance of morality. Just raw power.

He is America's true face.

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How else can you describe the behaviour of Israel today other than Nazis? Why is Adolf Hitler a villain but Benjamin Mileikowsky aka Netanyahu legit? Mad world, cruel world, killed 40,000 women and children with impunity in Gaza last year, and still not satisfied

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Watch| In an interview on Channel 14 about aid to Gaza, Israeli MK Moshe Feiglin stated, “Every baby in Gaza is an enemy.” He claimed the real enemy is not Hamas but the entire Gaza entity, including its children.
#Israel
#Gaza

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It used to be hard to help westerners see the depravity of the US empire. Now it’s just right in everyone’s face with raw genocide footage and insanely evil warmongering of direct economic consequence.

It took a lot of work to help the average westerner understand that NATO aggressions actively provoked the war in Ukraine, or that western interventionism played a major role in the violence and chaos in Syria, or that US economic warfare was largely responsible for the suffering of Cubans and Venezuelans. The murderous savagery of the empire was hidden behind layers of obfuscation, allowing the propagandists to frame the western power structure as a passive witness to the abuses of foreign regimes.

Now the propagandists have very little to work with, so those obfuscations can no longer take place. There’s no way you can spin a school full of children blown up by an American double-tap airstrike as anything other than what it is. There’s only so much narrative manipulation you can exert on raw video footage of a western-backed genocide playing out in full view of the entire world day after day for years. There’s no way to propagandize westerners into believing they want to pay a lot more more money for their fuel and groceries.

I saw former EU parliament member Luis Garicano complaining on Twitter that Trump’s actions are making it look as though leftists have been correct about the US empire this whole time, saying “Many of us, liberal Europeans, spent decades pushing back against the European extreme left’s cartoon version of America ( it’s all oil/ imperialism/getting rich at the expense of others) and then one dumb administration walks in and performs the caricature to perfection.”

Garicano’s entire worldview depends on his ability to avoid recognizing the obvious truth: that the so-called “extreme left” has always been correct, and that the empire he worships has always been evil. It’s just having a harder and harder time masking its true nature, because of the very evils it has tried to conceal.

Everything’s becoming more and more revealed. More and more transparent. What was once done solely by whistleblowers, investigative journalists, activists and dissident media is now being done by the empire itself, because there’s only so long you can hide the truth about something so malignant. An empire that is held together by lies, corruption and endless slaughter was never going to remain unseen. The brutality necessary to dominate the planet had to come out into the light eventually.

“May all be revealed” has been my prayer for our world for many years now. That dearly held wish is now being answered, and the truth is looking every bit as ugly as expected.

May all be revealed. May all that is hidden become seen. In the empire. In our governments. In our culture. In our community. In our interpersonal relationships. In ourselves.

All abusiveness ultimately boils down to a lack of clear seeing. Governments are able to abuse people because the dynamics of corruption and tyranny aren’t clearly seen by the public, who would violently revolt if they truly understood what their leaders are doing to them and to their world. Domestic violence and family sexual abuse can only continue when the rest of the community doesn’t see and understand what the abuser is doing. Our own abusive tendencies can only persist for as long as our trauma responses and maladaptive coping mechanisms remain hidden in the shadows of our subconscious mind.

All of these dysfunctional dynamics will lose their durability as we become more and more conscious of what’s really going on, in ourselves and in our world. Things look ugly now because the truth is ugly, but it is only by truth revealing itself that we can move toward health and harmony as a species.

If you’ve ever done deep inner work on your own psychology you have seen this play out in your own personal experience. You can heal your inner woundedness if you can gather up the courage to plunge into your own darkness and face with uncompromising honesty the uncomfortable realities you’ve been avoiding within yourself throughout your entire life — but you kept those things unconscious for a reason. They’re scary. They’re painful. They’re shameful. Facing them can feel like the end of the world. Yet it is only by coaxing them into the light of consciousness that they can be fully seen, reconciled, and healed.

The whole world is like that. Humans as a collective cannot fix problems which we don’t clearly see and understand. Our rulers pour so much energy into maintaining influence operations like news media propaganda, Hollywood psyops, Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation and government secrecy in order to obstruct our clear seeing and understanding.

But it’s all coming tumbling out into the cold light of day now. More and more is becoming visible.

May the lies and obfuscations continue to unravel. May the truth continue to reveal itself.

[Enoch Burke @EnochBurke]

BREAKING: Enoch Burke’s mother and sister arrested and jailed

Martina and Ammi Burke were arrested by Gardaí today at Castlerea Prison after visiting jailed schoolteacher Enoch Burke, their son and brother.

Judge Brian Cregan sentenced them to two weeks in prison after they spoke out against his lies and unlawful actions in the case of Enoch Burke.

Martina and Ammi Burke had been teaching in Castlebar this morning before travelling to Castlerea for their scheduled visit at 2.15pm.

As they left the prison after concluding the visit, Gardaí were waiting outside to arrest them.

Lies have been told from the bench since September 2022 when Enoch Burke was first taken from his teaching post at Wilson’s Hospital School and thrown into a jail cell.

He refused to call a student by a new name and the “they” pronoun. He was subsequently suspended and has now spent over 600 days in prison.

Ireland’s church leaders have maintained a treacherous silence on this issue. Archbishops Eamon Martin and John McDowell speak frequently about battlefields far away - Gaza, Ukraine, the Middle East - but are silent on the battlefields in the schools of Ireland, on their own doorstep. Children in the classroom are being educated in every form of sexual perversion.

Martina and Ammi Burke have now been sent to Mountjoy Women’s Prison because they refused to be silent in the face of gross injustice from the bench.

Parents, rise up and speak out for your sons and your daughters.

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@gilmcgowan You came up with a title and AI did the rest?

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Robert David Steele a former CIA case officer who boldly exposed the Clintons. Wikipedo describes him as “conspiracy theorist”. He died of Covid (allegedly) in Aug 2021.

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@elonmusk Take heart Elon, hear the gospel truth: My Worth Is Not In What I Own https://t.co/Ewg7zGwJsx

[Farida Bemba Nabourema @Farida_N]

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Trump threatens military force to protect Iranian civilians and the same military force to kill US citizens? https://t.co/gmnY0NHZGE