everywhere in AmeriKKKa, the dark nightmares are fumigating our American Dream, holding sway over our kids, over their kids, and their kids’ kids’ kids
Ocean view:
Young fellow on the mend, on the Meth, here, in Waldport, on the coast, Highway 101, grand sweeping vistas of beaches and cliffs and rollicking waves. Homes go for at least a million bucks, on cliffs, sandstone, packed in sand, you know, the places where ocean expansion and king tides will kick our asses.
The local bridge is now off-limits to other houseless folk, some of whom have set up shop and homes there.
Department of Transportation, coming along and hauling off belongings, and covering up the graffiti — You know, Jesus saves, and Waldport sucks, and, on and on with the childish cries to the world.
And, so, we will get podcast after upload after Substack after alternative media madness, and so articulate speakers like Norman Finkelstein, a political scientist, prolific author, and son of Holocaust survivors, talks about Israel’s latest attack on Gaza and debunks some of the most pervasive talking points used to justify Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Link!
Norman is a broken record, and Danny is not a journalist, not an interrogator, but there you have IT.
Ralph does a better job, interviewing one hero who resigned from his UN post, and then, of course, Medea, the constant interviewee. Jesus, Code Pink, grow the cadre of people who should speak.
Craig Mokhiber is lawyer and specialist in international human rights law, policy and methodology, and he has served the UN since 1992. Until his recent retirement, Mr. Mokhiber served as Director in the New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). He has also served as the UN’s Senior Human Rights Advisor in both Palestine and in Afghanistan, led the team of human rights specialists attached to the High Level Mission on Darfur, headed the Rule of Law and Democracy Unit, and served as Chief of the Economic and Social Issues Section, and Chief of the Development and Economic and Social Issues Branch at OHCHR Headquarters.
What was really at the center of my letter was a sense that in the United Nations, international law had been subverted or pushed aside in favor of an approach to political expediency. That, first of all, ignored the norms and standards of human rights and humanitarian law. And secondly, it’s failed miserably to improve the situation in Palestine and Israel.
Hamas is not just Hamas’s armed wing. Hamas is also effectively a local government that provides services. Hamas is not supported by everyone in Gaza by any means. Palestinians who belong to many different parties have many different perspectives from liberal to conservative. And so, I think this continuous focus on Hamas and an effort to depict Hamas as ISIS, with all sorts of fantastical stories, is an intentional distraction away from the reality—which is the 2.3 million interned civilians in Gaza who have no say over what happens in their lives and who are on the receiving end of the Israeli bombs.
[This $14.5 billion in military aid to Israel] is being called the genocide tax on the American people— who I think if they were polled would say, “Let Israel pay for its own blunders on October 7th.” — Craig Mokhiber
And then, that prostitute, Randi, teachers’ union boss (for decades?) and I had the displeasure of meating her when I was working as adjunct faculty organizer (she knew shit about college part-time slave wager freeway flyers).
“Mark Dimondstein, the president of the postal union, argued that Israel and…Palestin[e]…should be combined into a single state [and] called for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to demand a cease-fire, according to four people familiar with the contents of the meeting.” He also described himself as “[an] anti-Zionist Jew.”
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, asserted,
“Israel’s right to defend itself, [and] said she backed establishing an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel,” Noting “That has been part of the Democratic platform for as long as I can remember.”
Mr. Dimondstein, responded that he is “not part of the Democratic Party.”
Oh, the Jews, man, the rabbi-induced Jews, and they are so so tribal, and, here we are, again, high level and influential positions, steeped in Judaism.
Fuck those Jews:
The site of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing in Jenin has been bulldozed and her shrine desecrated, in an unexplained early-morning operation on 26 October. A surfaced road running between houses has been reduced to huge boulders of broken concrete, and earth dug to over half a meters depth. Vehicles passed up and down the lane. One day after, even walking amid the smashed rocks would be a challenge. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS) in condemning this act of vandalism and recalls on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. (source)
And so we are on the Coast, in the cities, in rural environs, and we have trillions for these dirty people, this ZioAzovNaziLensky. Bibi. Trillions.
Israel’s famous for many things, including religious landmarks, archaeological sites, vineyards, nature reserves and deserts. But what about its waters? Many people think instantly of the Mediterranean Sea if they envisage travelling to Israel for a beach holiday but there’s another option too – and a great one -The Red Sea.
Does this look like a country that needs trillions thrown at them?
Oh, AmeriKKKa.
Oh, poverty and addiction and sickness kills, and PAYS off.
Fucking Israel and Ukraine and the trillions for the Wall Streeters and MIC:
Jail, prison? Fines, bail, probation, parole, court costs, tickets, warrants, and on and on. There are tens of millions in USA with a criminal record. Israel? Any jobs at those Club Meds?
Israel gets universal health care, and the wife beater AmeriKKKans?
Oh, the costs, man:
Yep, the Republican-Democratic-Libertarian shit hole:
Fuck, bring in the PayDay Loan felons:
Payday loan firms have gone to war with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. According to the report, “Powerful financial firms that offer high-cost, short-term loans to poor Americans have blocked at least five federal investigations into their business practices since the start of last year, part of a broad and aggressive campaign by payday lenders to neuter or eliminate their chief watchdog agency in Washington.” These firms have fought the CFPB tooth and nail in the courts, successfully bringing a case to challenge the existence of the Bureau itself to the Supreme Court. As that case winds its way through the legal system, these firms have “cited the pending Supreme Court decision to slow ongoing CFPB investigations or fight off the agency’s recent punishments.”
Lisa Gilbert, the executive vice president of Public Citizen, which filed a briefing with the Supreme Court in defense of the CFPB, noted that “The really big-picture implication is all of the rules of the last 12 years could be called into question.”
Watching out for the people, man, Joe and Ron and Trump and every single Jewish senator and congress person who calls for $15 billion now, more later for the apartheid state.
At the heart of the standoff are short-term lenders that offer a wide variety of loans to low-income Americans with poor credit, urgent financial needs and few other places to turn for help. The loans often feature unforgiving repayment timelines and annual interest rates well into the triple digits, leaving some of the neediest borrowers facing sky-high bills they cannot repay.
For years, the CFPB has heard complaints about such practices. But companies that offer short-term or payday loans — including Ace Cash Express, Advance America, Advance Financial and Check ’n Go — have vigorously opposed federal regulation. Some of the same firms have also supported a lawsuit challenging the future of the CFPB, which could see the nation’s highest court rule that the agency’s funding structure is unconstitutional.
How many of those people who are down and out, hooked on booze, on pain, traumatized, man, who are now wandering the beaches, until of course they get kicked out, fined, shoed away, busted?
Cry for me Ukraine, Israel-Hell, oh cry, UkroNaziLandia.
This $14.5 billion in military aid to Israel] is being called the genocide tax on the American people— who I think if they were polled would say,
“Let Israel pay for its own blunders on October 7th.”
—Ralph Nader
Rand alph calls it a Genocide Tax, man.
But we got those money changers, man!
“Powerful financial firms that offer high-cost, short-term loans to poor Americans have blocked at least five federal investigations into their business practices since the start of last year, part of a broad and aggressive campaign by payday lenders to neuter or eliminate their chief watchdog agency in Washington.”
This is the death spiral of we the people being fucked by those the rich and connected and powerful and pimped out to the MIC and Fortune 10,000 crime syndicates!
[Image: Carl Bloch (1834-1890), “The Cleansing of the Temple”]
Mark 11:15-17 (RSV) And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons; [16] and he would not allow any one to carry anything through the temple. [17] And he taught, and said to them, “Is it not written, `My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
— Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges provides an answer as to why Jesus did this:
the tables of the moneychangers] The Greek word signifies those who took a small coin (Hebr. Kolbon, Grk. κόλλυβος, perhaps a Phœnician word) as a fee for exchanging the money of the worshippers, who were required to pay in Hebrew coin. This exaction of the fee was itself unlawful (Lightfoot). And probably other dishonest practices were rife.
Encyclopedia Judaica (“Money Changers”) confirms that this interest-taking was contrary to Jewish Law:
Paul Haeder, Author 