{"id":202683,"date":"2024-01-01T09:03:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T13:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=202683"},"modified":"2024-01-02T07:54:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T11:54:32","slug":"the-indelible-stain-on-the-soul-of-america-only-gets-bigger-and-uglier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=202683","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">THE INDELIBLE STAIN ON THE SOUL OF AMERICA ONLY GETS BIGGER AND UGLIER<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_202746\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202746\" class=\"wp-image-202746 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_e39371b2-bef4-11eb-8144-d3653cd81e51-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_e39371b2-bef4-11eb-8144-d3653cd81e51-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_e39371b2-bef4-11eb-8144-d3653cd81e51-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_e39371b2-bef4-11eb-8144-d3653cd81e51-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/methode_times_prod_web_bin_e39371b2-bef4-11eb-8144-d3653cd81e51.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-202746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaza in the wake of unrelenting bombing by Israel<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_202748\" style=\"width: 880px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202748\" class=\"size-full wp-image-202748\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/GettyImages-1757066339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"870\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/GettyImages-1757066339.jpg 870w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/GettyImages-1757066339-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/GettyImages-1757066339-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-202748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaza in the wake of unrelenting bombing by Israel<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_202750\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202750\" class=\"size-large wp-image-202750\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/10911300-1696953831-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/10911300-1696953831-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/10911300-1696953831-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/10911300-1696953831-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/10911300-1696953831.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-202750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaza in the wake of unrelenting bombing by Israel<\/p><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>IN OUR NAME &amp; USING OUR TAX MONEY:<br \/>\n<\/strong>SoS Antony Blinken unilaterally gives<br \/>\n&#8216;$147.5 million of 155 mm artillery shells<br \/>\nto Israel&#8217; to commit genocide against<br \/>\nPalestinian women and children, elderly<br \/>\nand the infirm throughout Gaza.<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>SOTN Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/strong> Think about it: While we here in the USA celebrate New Year&#8217;s Day, our country is sending more artillery shells to the apartheid Zionist State of Israel which will be purposefully dropped on Palestinian women and children, elderly and the infirm.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Really, how utterly evil and despicable and sick and malevolent<br \/>\nand wicked and hideous and vile and vicious and ugly and<br \/>\nand immoral and odious and nefarious is that?!?!?!<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>If Americans have one Achilles&#8217; heel, that will most assuredly bring about their downfall as a nation, it is this:<\/h3>\n<h1>They lack compassion.<\/h1>\n<h2>The vast majority lacks empathy.<\/h2>\n<h3>In fact, they are so self-absorbed and selfish as a group of people that there simply is no time or space to care about anyone but themselves.<\/h3>\n<h3>This is the fatal national character flaw that, more than anything else, will bring about the collapse of the American Republic.\u00a0 And, yes it&#8217;s coming &#8230; as you, reader, well know from visiting this website.<\/h3>\n<h4><strong>*Yes, there are many good Americans with conscience like you folks who are reading this article, but we are far and few between, and getting scarcer by the day.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3>And, yes, it&#8217;s entirely true that the US citizenry has been more systematically socially engineered and subjected to the most intense mind control programs in human history to become like the callous clods that they have become, but that&#8217;s no excuse for what we allow to be perpetrated <strong>IN OUR NAME &amp; WITH OUR MONEY<\/strong>.<\/h3>\n<h3>For example, this very telling account was sent to us years ago by a longtime Integrative Health Consultant:<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Because the American Healthcare System is based solely on the Allopathic Model of Medicine, people across the USA have been pushed into habitually using pain relievers, both prescription and over-the-counter, for decades.\u00a0 Those powerful and addictive pain meds inevitably desensitize the individual to their own pain &#8230; and to everyone else&#8217;s pain.\u00a0 The addicts eventually no longer have the capacity to feel for anyone; they have anesthetized themselves for so long that the pain and suffering experienced by others no longer affects them in a normal way.\u00a0 Hence, they come to lack compassion toward the plight of their fellow human beings&#8230;especially those faraway peoples whom they have mentally treated with great cruelty cruelly and\/or inhumanely.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Lastly, it&#8217;s completely accurate to say that this premeditated outcome was the result of a long-planned and highly organized scheme to turn the whole world against US and what was once <em>&#8220;the land of the free and the home of the brave&#8221;<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0As follows:<\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=202526\">\u201cHatred is their monopoly,<br \/>\nand creed\u2026\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>KEY POINT:<\/strong> All the hard evidence has now proven that Netanyahu\u2019s government not only knew about the 10\/7 \u2018surprise attacks\u2019 by Israel-controlled Hamas in advance, the IDF and MOSSAD closely coordinated every single aspect of that false flag terror operation.\u00a0 In other words, Zionist Israel carried out those terrorist attacks so as to fabricate a false justification to launch the Palestinian Holocaust and Gaza Land Grab.\u00a0 Which means that so much pain and suffering, loss and deprivation during this Gaza genocide right now is taking place because of this fanatical scheme to advance the <em>Greater Israel<\/em>\u00a0project. See:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=201028\">\u2018Greater Israel\u2019 map displayed by Israel\u2019s finance minister not only provoked anger across the Mideast\u2026it was also a calculated foreshadowing of the 2023 Palestinian Holocaust &amp; Gaza Land Grab.<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Surely the gravity and profundity of that <strong>&#8220;KEY POINT&#8221;<\/strong> hit home.\u00a0 That the Israeli military machine is relentlessly pulverizing a powerless and defenseless civilian population based on the patently false pretext of the 10\/7 &#8216;surprise attacks&#8217;, which were really carried out by the IDF and MOSSAD&#8230;if they happened at all and were really staged by Zionist crisis actors and deceitful videographers.<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=202683\">State of the Nation<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 1, 2024<\/h3>\n<h3>P.S. How does one guy &#8212; the thoroughly corrupt Secretary of State Antony Blinken &#8212; who was strategically installed as an obvious Khazarian-directed plant, get to steal our taxpayer dollars and use them to drop bombs on innocent civilians?<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 class=\"ArticleFull_title__FDrpw\">Blinken Again Bypasses US Congress To Send Munitions To Israel<\/h1>\n<h3>The US Secretary of State approved the emergency sale of 155 mm artillery shells as Israel wages the most devastating war on civilians this century<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_202685\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202685\" class=\"size-large wp-image-202685\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8ac2904c-a711-11ee-986a-00163e02c055-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8ac2904c-a711-11ee-986a-00163e02c055-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8ac2904c-a711-11ee-986a-00163e02c055-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8ac2904c-a711-11ee-986a-00163e02c055-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8ac2904c-a711-11ee-986a-00163e02c055.webp 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-202685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks in Tel Aviv, Tuesday Oct. 17, 2023, after an overnight meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Photo credit: Jacquelyn Martin\/Pool via REUTERS\/File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Cradle<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken used emergency authority to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/12\/30\/us-weapons-sale-israel-blinken\/\">approve<\/a>\u00a0the sale of\u00a0<strong>$147.5 million of 155 mm artillery shells to Israel<\/strong>\u00a0on Saturday,\u00a0<strong>bypassing the standard congressional review<\/strong>\u00a0for arms sales for the second time since the start of the war on Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>A State Department spokesman said on Friday that &#8220;given the urgency of Israel\u2019s defensive needs, the secretary notified Congress that he had exercised his delegated authority to\u00a0<strong>determine an emergency existed necessitating the immediate approval of the transfer<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/blinkenisraelfile.jpg?itok=6DRhCVq4\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"e041ddc4-b37d-4f9d-a6da-7c573f1994fb\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>Via AFP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this month, Blinken used the same emergency process to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/national-international\/blinken-defends-bypassing-congress-to-sell-weapons-to-israel-and-presses-lawmakers-to-help-ukraine\/3490804\/\">approve<\/a>\u00a0the sale of\u00a0<strong>14,000 tank shells<\/strong>, worth more than $106 million, to Israel. The emergency sale of artillery shells comes as Israel\u2019s military intensifies its bombing campaign in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, on Christmas Eve, Israeli forces bombed the Meghazi camp, killing 86 Palestinians in one strike.\u00a0 Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/israel-admits-airstrike-that-killed-86-people-at-gaza-refugee-camp-was-regrettable-mistake-13038929\">excused<\/a>\u00a0the death toll by telling\u00a0<i>Sky News<\/i>\u00a0the army had used an\u00a0<strong>&#8220;incorrect munition.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But he refused to apologize for the loss of life and did not say what type of munition was used, despite being pressed several times by\u00a0<i>Sky News<\/i>\u00a0presenter Niall Paterson.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has\u00a0<strong>regularly used 2,000 lb US-made bombs<\/strong>\u00a0to target residential neighborhoods in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Continued instances of this sort cast doubt on the sincerity of the White House\u2019s rhetoric calling for Israel to refrain from killing Palestinian civilians in such huge numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Paul, a former State Department arms expert who resigned in protest in October,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2023\/12\/30\/us-weapons-sale-israel-blinken\/\">told<\/a>\u00a0<i>The Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0that Blinken\u2019s decision to rush these unguided munitions enables Israel to continue the type of operations in Gaza that have &#8220;led to so many Palestinian civilian deaths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is shameful, craven, and should frankly turn the stomach of any decent human being,&#8221; he said. A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/interactive\/2023\/israel-war-destruction-gaza-record-pace\/\"><i>Washington Post<\/i><\/a>\u00a0analysis found that Israel\u2019s war against Gaza has been\u00a0<strong>more devastating than any other 21st-century conflict<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1741087446731825234&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fblinken-again-bypasses-us-congress-send-munitions-israel&amp;sessionId=27faca230a9d9cf283978e5867f88ed4619dbe2a&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1741087446731825234\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>International outrage continues in response to the Israeli bombing campaign, with South Africa invoking the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice the same day Blinken approved the additional weapons sale.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/new.thecradle.co\/articles\/blinken-again-bypasses-us-congress-to-send-munitions-to-israel\">https:\/\/new.thecradle.co\/articles\/blinken-again-bypasses-us-congress-to-send-munitions-to-israel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sotn-special"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}