The other day, I got into a discussion with someone about the internet, which gives me a lot to do in my latter years, I can play chess and bridge there whenever I wish, and I can shoot off my mouth there, but it also looks to me that for many people the internet has replaced God. Then, something happened in a public forum where I have been my usual ornery old self for a while.
After Donald Trump was sworn in in 2017, it was in the news that Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia for life, and I saw Trump say on TV that he liked that idea, president for life. Of course, that had nothing to do with:
A while back at Australian Caitlin Johnstone’s bash Israel, President Biden and America internet cult, I had a number of conversations with a fellow who said he had lived in the Donbass part of Ukraine and was fluent in Russian and spoke passable Ukrainian, who convinced me that he is great admirer of Vladimir Putin.
We dueled the past couple of days at Caitlin’s dark castle, and at his invitation the duel shifted to a more recent post at Caitlin’s version of Pravda.
Israel Accuses The ICJ Of (You Guessed It…
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
JAN 26
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The International Court of Justice rejected Israel’s request to dismiss the genocide case brought against it by South Africa on Friday, ruling by a massive majority that the case shall proceed and instructing Israel to refrain from killing and harming Palestinians in the interim.
Read →
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-accuses-the-icj-of-you-guessed
Sloan Bashinsky
In fact, The World Court tossed South Africa a few animal crackers and cut the Gaza baby in half.
While...
More Countries Halt Aid to U.N. Agency Amid Claims Staff Involved in Israel Attack — The Wall Street Journal
U.K., Finland, Italy join U.S., Australia and Canada in freezing funding for Palestinian refugee aid agency
russian_bot
The countries you listed don't matter as they don't have sovereignty and are the US' (and hence Israel's) puppets. The "Wall Street Journal" rag doesn't matter even more.
Why are you hanging out here, "Sloan"? Besides your having been invited by Caitlin, that is?
Sloan Bashinsky
One of the countries is Caitlin’s country, Australia.
Interesting, though, you did not dispute UN workers took part in the Oct 7 raid. I wonder how that news sits with Israel mood to allow UN relief into Gaza.
russian_bot
I don't recall Caitlin bring up her country as a beacon of independence or democracy.
And would I be the one to claim or dispute as a fact re any ongoing conflict? No, I'm not that stupid. I'll leave that to the gullible/manipulative likes of you, "Sloan" ;-)
Sloan Bashinsky
Well, from a far great distance, Caitlin’s been pounding Joe Biden and America, so let’s see if she pounds her own country?
russian_bot:
As a service for my dear friend "Sloan”:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/archive?sort=search&search=Australia
I especially like this title: "Australia Isn't A Nation, It's A US Military Base With Kangaroos”:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/australia-isnt-a-nation-its-a-us
Sloan Bashinsky
Good for her! But I wonder when she will pound Australia about supporting Israel and opposing the UN, which seems to be serving shit sandwiches in Gaza?
russian_bot
The night is young, "Sloan". She's not under your command, even if Australia is under the US'.
To add to your disliking of the UN see how it helps facilitate the movements of migrants into the US. The latest Kim Iversen: "It's An Invasion. 100%" The Border Crisis Is MUCH Worse Than You Think | Chris Martenson’s Trip To The Darien Gap
"It's An Invasion. 100%" The Border Crisis Is MUCH Worse Than You Think ...
Chris Martenson, PhD (Duke), MBA (Cornell) is an economic researcher and futurist specializing in energy and res...
Sloan Bashinsky
I figured, if Caitlin subscribed to my Substack, she had read some of what I publish there and she liked it, and then she invited me to subscribe to her Substack, because she wanted me to read her stuff and join in the discussion.
I don’t dislike the UN, but it seems to have shat and sat in it in Gaza, while Israel is being slammed for interfering with UN relief in Gaza, and now Caitlin’s own country is in league with Joe Biden and America. Kinda reminds me of a Stephen King thriller, and I really do hope to see Caitlin tear into Australia and the UN as much as she tears into President Biden and America. I need help with the latter, thank you :-)
I cannot abide Trump, and of late, because Biden did not abandon Israel, I cannot abide him, either. I belong to no political party (cult).
Regarding the southern border of America, it is my view that Biden should bring the US Military home to peacefully as possible defend the southern border, and Biden should stop all products and labor coming into America from Mexico, and stop Americans from going to Mexico, and stop private money transfers from people in America to people Mexico, until Mexico stops the invasion through and from it to America.
And, Biden should put soldiers in American schools to defend them from domestic National Rifle Association/US Supreme Court-enabled domestic terrorists.
Rumble is a right-wing version of YouTube. MAGAs love it. I heard Rumble allowed so much violent speech that it got run out of Canada and now is operating from the Bahamas.
I’ll get back to Rumble further along,
A friend does the tech work for a podcast where he is heard but not seen , whereas I am seen and heard. Our last published episode about a month ago re America having become a nation of death threats, if you piss off Trump, did not clear YouTube’s filter, so far, but my friend seeded that episode into the Torrent system, where we also seed the podcast, and it so far that episode got about 330,000 complete watches worldwide.
My friend just happened to visit Rumble and saw that a number of Rumble clients found that podcast episode cut clips out of it and posted the clips on their Rumble channels, and they laughed at and cut up my friend and me. Rumble took it all down, because of death threats against us. I told my friend that maybe Rumble also didn’t want its clients hearing what we said in that podcast.
Because of my friend's political activism where he grew up, contracts were taken out on his life, and then bad men tried to kill him and left him for dead, and after he recovered from that, he created his own safe house somewhere else and took his computers, tech stuff and his guns with him, and we still do podcasts from time to time. We did one last night, in which I painted bullseyes all over me.
About 2 months ago, we did a podcast, couched as a law school exam question and answer, on Amendment 14, Section 3, bars Trump from holding public office again, A satellite radio station in Denver, Colorado found that episode and had a federal judge discuss it on the air with the radio station’s host. The Judge tore me up, but he admitted Joe Biden should have brought the 14/3 lawsuit, which was what the podcast was about.
Th at podcast went viral in Colorado, and the radio station was inundated with death threats and lost its insurance bonding company and went off the air. The Colorado Supreme Court then ruled 14/3 barred Trump from being on the Colorado ballot. The court was inundated with death threats. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the Colorado appeal. The 7 SCOTUS justices know, if they side with the Colorado decision, they will be inundated with death threats.
Our podcast was banned in Russia, Belarus, Red China and half of India, before my tech friend started seeding it into the Torrent universes, where Big Brother doesn’t have much sway.
Long before we started doing podcasts, I was a very active blogger and political activist where I then lived in America. I pissed off a lot of people, So brave heart hiding behind a fake name, you are at the end of a v-er-y l-o-n-g line of people, who don’t like me :-), and if you still have a problem with me showing up here, you should blame Caitlin for inviting me here, knowing who she had invited :-)
russian_bot
Wow, a long one, "Sloan", but I managed to read it!
First off, I'm not after you physically, but I enjoy poking at your vanity which you've put on full display with this your comment - great job! Stay safe, you don't want to end up like your friend, I don't wish physical harm to anybody.
As to your rumble-phobia, I assume you didn't go to Kim's episode. She has YouTube too but that one censors much of her stuff so just puts clips of her full shows. There's a short one re the rumble's episode I mentioned here:
I haven't watched it so don't know how fully it reflects the complete one. If you become curious then I suggest go to rumble for just that one time - you won't be assassinated.
Podcast banned in Russia? How, where? I'm surprised somebody bans podcasts in Russia. Let me know details and I'll let you know it's bullshit ;)
Anyway, "Sloan" - I've posted a comment on Caitlin's latest mentioning you. Get over there and start responding. Besides me I'm sure a few more folks appreciate the humor as you're a funny guy:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/commemorating-a-past-holocaust-while/comments
Sloan Bashinsky
It never occurred to me that you were gunning for me physically. But be my guest, I wake up each morning wondering why I’m still here? Then, I craw out of bed and greet the day and what it brings. At 81, I’m limited to what I can engage. The internet has replaced a lot of things I no longer can do :-)
I have no Rumble phobia, I applied for membership and got no reply. We investigated seeding our podcast there, and we did not meet their right wing criteria. Companies like Youtube, Rumble, Spotify, Facebook, X, have to deal with national governments, and it was the governments of those countries that blocked us.
That was when we first started podcasting, on Spotify, audio only, but after Joe Rogan did his racist stuff, Spotify required all of its clients to present written scripts, to be adhered to, except, it seemed, for Rogan. We didn’t do scripts, it ain’t in us, so we didn’t do podcasts for a while. My friend tried to move to another country and that didn’t work out. Then, we started using YouTube, and then he learned about Torrent, and we started using it, too. We found people who use Torrent are far more interested in something fresh, different, especially if it’s free :-).
The odd thing is, I agree with nearly everything Caitlin writes on her Substack, except she missed the entire point of the October 7 attack, as did Chris Hedges, which I think its truly tragic, because Caitlin and Chris have a lot of readers, and, so far, I have only met one person at Caitlin’s place, who saw that Hamas got the response it wanted from Israel, and, so strange, he and I attended the same elementary school, and we did not cross paths again for 70 years, online. He lives in the Caribbean.
russian_bot
I don't think you have to have an account on rumble to watch videos. Have you tried to click on the Kim's link I gave you?
Sloan Bashinsky
I opened that link, I could watch the video, but to sign in to comment and get the same shit back I get from you, I have to sign in, and to sign in, I have to have an account, which Rumble declined to give me. Maybe I should contact the ACLU? :-)
russian_bot
To comment you need an account, true. But what does it have to do with "getting shit back I get from you"? You can throw your own shit at me here, no need to have an account at Rumble. Besides, I don't comment there and you wouldn't know what I am there anyway.
"Sloan" doesn't fail to entertain!
Sloan Bashinsky
Got over yourself, Rumble ain’t about you.
I think you missed the point. Why would I watch the right wing shit Rumble offers, if I could not poke it with a sharp stick, even an electric sharp stick? :-)
russian_bot
That's right, forgot about your vanity. You think somebody cares what you think.
Sloan Bashinsky
Heh, if nobody cared what I think, such as yourself, they wouldn’t give me the time of day at Caitlin’s place, they wouldn’t threaten my life at Rumble,.or a radio station’s employees lives. They wouldn’t watch our podcast at 200,000 plus complete watches an episode, or read my books at the free internet library, archive.org, in far greater numbers than my early books published by a New York publishing house, when I was winding down my law practice and was widely interviewed my American radio and television and printed media, and reviled by the residential real estate industry and the legal profession, which my books had poked and laid bare. Back then, I had no clue that I was headed into a searing course in mirrors looking at the endless beams in my own eyes, forced upon me by beings from another realm, who have tried to help humanity since it began. Tried.
Meanwhile, in my online news this morning are various articles re the UN fired a bunch of its employees involved in the Oct 7 attack and opened criminal investigations. So far, I see no mention of that by Caitlin or Chris Hedges, whom I also read daily. They, you, their other readers missed the entire point of Oct 7, but The World Court did not miss it, and that’s why they didn’t deliver what Caitlin and Hedges’s and their many readers wanted delivered.
I have a theory for why Caitlin, Hedges, and their fans cannot see what Oct 7 is all about. Deep down inside, they are deeply wounded little children, who unconsciously identify with the people of Gaza, as if they are the people of Gaza, and for that reason, they cannot blame Hamas for provoking Israel to precisely what Hamas wanted Israel to do. They cannot believe Hamas wanted all of then killed by the IDF, and Gaza leveled by the IDF, so that the entire world would turn against Israel, but The World Court didn’t buy it, and now the UN is complicit in the Oct 7 attack, and that is the UN's worst nightmare come true. Stephen King, stand up and take a bow.
I went to Caitlin’s more recent post, as requested by russian_bot, and found:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/commemorating-a-past-holocaust-while/comments
Russian_bot
"There ought to be a limit on how many lies you can get caught circulating before the entire political/media class just starts laughing at you whenever you make any claim about anything."
No such limits exist for guys like "Sloan Bashinsky", of the "I was invited by Caitlin" fame. He just sqealed about this particular topic on Caitlin's previous post.
"Sloan", you've been heard - release the hounds!
Sloan Bashinsky
You invited me here from Caitlin’s previous post, after you brought up there, again, that I was invited by Caitlin to subscribe to her newsletter, after she had subscribed to my Substack, so having read some of my stuff, she had to know who she was inviting to her stuff, so once again, if you have a problem with what I say here, unleash your hounds on Caitlin :-).
Unlike Caitlin and you and the rest of the people whose comments about the destruction of Gaza by Israel’s IDF for quite a while now, the Court understood Hamas tried to provoke Israel to do the very things it did in Gaza, while Hamas hid behind and beneath unarmed civilians, to try to turn the world against Israel, and that’s why the Court cut the Gaza baby in half, and told Israel to investigate its IDF committing genocide and told Hamas to release its October 7 hostages.
I’m a lawyer, who has been in court trying cases before judges and juries. I can read legal opinions and understand what a court is saying in its opinions. The Court tossed South Africa a few animal crackers and cut the Gaza baby In half. The next day, news broke that UN workers in Gaza had participated in the October 7 attack, which left the UN with shit all over its face, and how do you think Israel feels about anything that comes out of the UN’s mouth now?
I told you yesterday, and I say it here again, I have agreed with nearly everything Caitlin wrote about Israel, and about President Biden and America helping Israel destroy Gaza. Where I have consistently disagreed is, Caitlin and you and the rest of the people here have yet to grasp what Hamas pulled off in plain view, which Caitlin and Chris Hedges and their readers did not see or did not want to see, and either way, Hamas is grateful for their support against Israel, President Biden and America.
I also I told you yesterday that I have a theory for why Caitlin, Hedges, and their fans cannot see what Oct 7 is all about. Deep down inside, they are deeply wounded little children, who unconsciously identify with the people of Gaza, as if they are the people of Gaza, and for that reason they cannot blame Hamas for provoking Israel to do precisely what Hamas wanted Israel to do. They cannot believe Hamas wanted all of those Gaza civilians killed by the IDF, and Gaza leveled by the IDF, so the entire world would turn against Israel, but The World Court didn’t buy it. And now the UN is complicit in the Oct 7 attack, and that is the UN's worst nightmare come true. Stephen King, stand up and take a bow.
russian_bot
Given your Stephen King infatuation - enjoy his talking to "President Zelensky". What a stupid fuck your idol is :-)
Sloan Bashinsky
I’m no fan of King, who writes ongoing about the horrors in his own psyche. Nor am I a fan of Zelensky. However, I think he is a tad less threatening to humanity than the fellow you seem to like, Vladimir Putin.
russian_bot
Awesome job, "Sloan" - indeed I did invite you and feel obligated to respond. Although I have to reprimand you for your tardiness as I'm sure Caitlin's about to come up with another post and this exchange will be more like wasted than not.
As to your UN bashing - it deserves, and has for a while, more than that. For the benefit of commenters I'll post a link here to the Kim Iversen's show documenting what the UN does to facilitate the "migration" into the US. Obviously, it doesn't do it free of charge, somebody's paying for it:
Hence, "Sloan", if indeed the UN was involved in Oct 7 that was not done out of altruism. You, being a lawyer, should be a cynical SOB, aren't you?
As to Hamas provoking Israel etc - of course, "Sloan"! Wake up. Read Ilan Pappe's book and then maybe you'll understand.
Good luck, and stay up-to-date with Caitlin's posts. Your input is valuable in some ways - I can't quite come up with a definition, but I'm sure there is one.
Stay safe!
Sloan Bashinsky
You talk in circles. I said the UN had shit on its face, which was, I suppose, altruistic on my part, because the UN should have been brought before the same Court with Hamas, as co-defendants for acts of terrorism on October 7.
I don’t need to read anybody’s book to know Hamas got precisely the result it wanted the October 7 attack to produce, and maybe someday you, Caitlin, and her fans will admit Hamas and Israel are equal monsters :-), and equally responsible for the genocide in and the destruction of Gaza.
russian_bot
Nope, not equally. The timeline - hence the context - matters, "Sloan”.
Sloan Bashinsky
October 7 was a systems jump, a paradigm shift, which Hamas wanted, because it had admitted to itself that it could not beat Israel militarily, so Hamas set out to provoke Israel to destroy Gaza, trying to destroy Hamas. In Allah’s Court, In Yawheh’s Court, in God’s Court, both Hamas and Israel are equally guilty of destroying Gaza after the October 7 attack. So, file your argument and appeal in those Courts, because The World Court cannot do anything about what Israel and Hamas are doing :-)
russian_bot
I don't like anybody, "Sloan", including you. I look at things strictly based on facts and historical context.
Sloan Bashinsky
So do I, and I like a lot of people :-).
If you want to drag history into this, go back to Abraham and his sons Ishmael, from whose bloodline became Mohammed, and Issac, from whose bloodline came Moses and Jesus.
As long as the state of Israel exists in Palestine, there will be trouble there. Islam, Israel and Christendom will see to it :-).
russian_bot
See, you have to read historians who researched the stuff, had access to archives, quote numerous references. Like Ilan Pappe. Your particular musings don't impress me at all.
Sloan Bashinsky
Heh, then why do you spend so much time trying to impress me that my musings don’t impress you? :-)
russian-bot
You're a funny guy, "Sloan", and I'm very much Into human character studies. I can't stop being amused by the species.
Sloan Bashinsky
You swam around and swallowed your tail :-)
russian_bot
Think of a better bait ;-)
Sloan Bashinsky
I’m headed elsewhere.
russian_bot
Stay safe! Watch for those righties. They might be wearing rumble t-shirts.
Sloan Bashinsky
True, and they might be wearing MGA, Biden, Israel, Putin, Caitlin or Hedges T-shirts.
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