from promoting lessers, to recrujiting from other countries, the Billionaires will get their pound of flesh and eat it too!
Biden is run by Israel, and so, Bomb Yemen, with no oversight, as 15 percent of global trade goes through this chokepoint. The Yemenis are no strangers to war and bombing. They withstood the pressure of neighboring countries and, with the aid of Iran, became stronger in military terms. Despite its modern weapons and considerable investments into the effort, the anti-Houthi coalition has not been able to defeat Ansar Allah. The group even managed to organize missile defense units, attack an area near the Riyadh international airport, and strike Saudi military bases.
And now Yemen’s Houthis are defying the United States and Israel.
These ships have to go around Africa. Bad for business. Capitalism: When did capitalism begin?
Modern capitalist theory is traditionally traced to the 18th-century treatise An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Scottish political economist Adam Smith, and the origins of capitalism as an economic system can be placed in the 16th century.
Jeffrey Sachs and his “capitalism” short definition.
LINK to Richard Medhurst’s piece.
The fate of the Ukrainian lands is now at the epicenter of the confrontation between Russia and the West. However, there are growing reasons to believe that the current confrontation is only the beginning of a new phase in relations, which have never been particularly friendly. Several factors are contributing to the return of Russia and the West to the usual rut of systemic confrontation that has been going on for centuries: the inability of the Americans and their allies to recognize the decline of their power to influence the fate of the world, the general crisis of the global market economy, and the very independence of Russia, which has remained a challenge for the US and Western Europe.
What form this confrontation will take remains to be seen. It will certainly not be like the Cold War, when East and West were separated by the so-called Iron Curtain. It’s also unlikely to be as elegant as it was in the 18th and 19th centuries: The current times are more prosaic. But we can be relatively sure that an important part of the relationship will be a very different reading of historical events, including those about which there seems to be little factual basis for argument. We already see examples of this at every turn, to a ridiculous degree – like the recent statement by an elderly American politician that the US liberated Ukraine from Nazism during the Second World War.
In a sense, different peoples have different histories, and it is extremely rare for individual events of the past to be viewed identically on different sides of state borders. History is the interpretation of facts, the determination of the significance of each of them, and the placement of specific events in the general path taken by a state throughout its existence. Those who write textbooks and scientific monographs decide for themselves which facts deserve to become historical events. And they do so on the basis of their own considerations, which may be patriotic or subordinated to the current political situation. But in all cases, when history is written independently, it is inevitably state history. (By Timofey Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Club)
Recall — Britain rules the world: UK boasts of leading aid to Ukraine. London has touted its “100-year alliance” with Kiev while ignoring Washington.
Britain has trained tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers since 2014 and led the Western effort to aid Kiev, Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said on Monday. Shapps spoke at Lancaster House in London about the UK’s place in a “more dangerous world.” He painted Britain as a leading global military and industrial power, without once mentioning the US.
Millions now have been infected with war, that Proxy War, that Maidan War, and the Anglo-American-British complicity is the monster of humanity. But we do not get the on-the-ground reports. Here:
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (15 January 2024)
- In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces supported by helicopters and artillery repelled one attack of the AFU 60th Mechanised Brigade’s assault group close to Sinkovka (Kharkov region).
In addition, the Zapad Group of Forces inflicted a fire damage on AFU manpower and hardware clusters close to Petropavlovka, Berestovoye (Kharkov region, Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).
Up to 20 servicemen, three armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system have been eliminated.
- In Krasny Liman direction, the Tsentr Group of Forces’ units, aviation, and artillery repelled one attack of the AFU 63rd Mechanised Brigade’s assault group close to Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People’s Republic), and inflicted fire damage on strongholds of the 5th National Guard Brigade near Serebryansky forestry.
More than 160 servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system have been eliminated.
- In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery inflicted fire damage on AFU manpower and hardware near Vesyoloyeloye, Razdolovka, Kleshcheyevka, Andreyevka, and Kurdyumovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
More than 200 servicemen, one tank, three infantry fighting vehicles, one armoured personnel carrier, 13 motor vehicles, and two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems have been eliminated.
One artillery ordnance depot of the AFU 46th Airmobile Brigade was destroyed near Kurakhovo (Donetsk People’s Republic).
- In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery hit units of AFU 72nd, 79th air assault brigades near Novomikhailovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
More than 140 servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system have been eliminated.
- In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces supported by artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of AFU 65th mechanised, 3rd,14th National Guard brigades close to Verbovoye, Rabotino, and Novoprokopovka (Zaporozhye region).
Up to 20 servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer were destroyed.
- In Kherson direction, as a result of the systematic fire impact, the AFU suffered losses of 40 servicemen, eight motor vehicles, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
- Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Group of Forces have engaged one POL base and 109 AFU artillery units at their fire positions, manpower, and military hardware in 142 areas during the day.
- Russia’s Air Defence shot down 25 unmanned aerial vehicles close to Kremennaya, Belogorovka, Krivosheyevka, Nikolayevka, Verkhnekamenka (Lugansk People’s Republic), Spornoye (Donetsk People’s Republic), Pshenichnoye (Zaporozhye region), and three Tochka-U tactical missiles.
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Pretty boring stuff, not fit for the mainstream muck media.
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The Rich and Their Portfolios are murdering the world:
“The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405 billion to $869 billion since 2020 —at a rate of $14 million per hour— while nearly five billion people have been made poorer.”
(In case you’re wondering, the top five are Bernard Arnault and his family, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Larry Ellison and Elon Musk.)
“You might think there would be little that could surprise us,” says Oxfam’s Riddell. Indeed, their report in 2022 made a very similar point. As NPR’s headline observed: “Oxfam says the rich got richer in the pandemic, and the wealth gap is killing the poor.”
Ahh, so you get some fucking push back: “I’m not such a fan of the five-billion-people-are-worse-off number,” says Charles Kenny, a senior fellow with the Center for Global Development think tank.
“But they’re not worse off in terms of their life outcomes,” explains Kenny. “They’re not worse off in terms of how much they can afford to eat or are they getting decent health care? They’ve just borrowed more.”
Oxfam pushes back, saying these moneyed individuals with debt represent a small fraction of the 5 billion who are worse off. Most “ordinary people,” they say, are really struggling to get by.
Where are the Houthis for these pedophile boats?
Yemen’s Houthi militants struck an American container ship with a ballistic missile on Monday, US Central Command said in a statement. The militants have vowed to target merchant shipping in the Gulf of Aden in response to Israel’s war on Hamas.
Of course I am calling for these ships and boats to be missiled and droned out of the water, or sunk.
Interesting, I have been talking with Anthony James Hall. I’ll have a few pieces up here about our interview, upcoming in two days. Why was he called onto the carpet? Why did he get in trouble with University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada ?
Ahh, 9/11 and questioning the Holocaust Industry? Hall’s recent books include The American Empire and the Fourth World (Part I) as well as Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism (Part II). Both are peered reviewed academic texts published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Prof. Hall is a contributor to both books edited by Dr. Barrett on the two false flag shootings in Paris in 2015.
Part II was selected by The Independent in the UK as one of the best books of 2010. The journal of the American Library Association called Earth into Property “a scholarly tour de force.” One of the book’s features is to set 9/11 and the 9/11 Wars in the context of global history since 1492.
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From Veterans Today: Largely as a result of comparing the predicament of Palestinians to the treatment of Indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere since 1492, Dr. Hall faced the ire of the Israel Lobby in Canada.
Ahh, so Hall was part of a false flag, a fabricated swatting?
Veterans Today: “In 2016, the Canadian branch of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith mounted one of its notorious campaigns aimed at destroying the livelihood, reputation, and academic career of Dr. Hall.
The campaign was initiated on the basis of a joint operation linking Facebook Inc. with B’nai Brith Canada. Some have referred to this operation as a digital false flag event. It involved the publication of hateful fabricated posts whose malicious purpose was to defame Dr. Hall.
The Israel Lobby used the hoax to initiate a high-octane smear campaign in the international media. The Lobby persuaded the administration of the University of Lethbridge to join the smear campaign resulting in the illegal suspension of Dr. Hall, then a senior full professor with tenure. On the basis of a ruling by an Alberta Court, Dr. Hall was reinstated to his professional duties in 2017.
In 2018 Dr. Hall retired in good standing from his teaching responsibilities. Based on his academic record the University of Lethbridge granted him the title of Professor Emeritus. Professor Hall continues to live in Lethbridge where he spends much of his time conducting research and writing for various publications.”
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WE all are anti-Jewish/anti-Israel/anti-Zionist when we doubt “their” words?
“On Namibian soil, Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most inhumane and brutal conditions,” Hage Geingob, president of the southwest African nation, said on Saturday. “The German government is yet to fully atone for the genocide it committed on Namibian soil.”
“In light of Germany’s inability to draw lessons from its horrific history,” Geingob sharply denounced Berlin’s “shocking decision” to reject “the morally upright indictment brought forward by South Africa before the International Court of Justice that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”
“The German government has chosen to defend in the International Court of Justice the genocidal and gruesome acts of the Israeli government against innocent civilians in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories,” the Namibian leader said.
“Germany cannot morally express commitment to the United Nations convention against genocide, including atonement for the genocide in Namibia, whilst supporting the equivalent of a holocaust and genocide in Gaza,” Geingob added.
Germans? All thugs? All genocide coveting murderers? Am I in trouble yet with those rhetorical questions?
Ahh, the world is run by the global elite, by the monopolies, the parasites.
The Urban U.S. could look very different in the year 2100, in part because thousands of cities might be rendered virtual ghost towns. According to findings published in Nature Cities, the populations of some 15,000 cities around the country could dwindle to mere fractions of what they are now.
“In the Northeast and Midwest, urban cities with lower median household income are more likely to experience depopulation over time,” the study authors wrote.
“Such trends could exacerbate socioeconomic challenges experienced by lower-income households in these regions, given that population decline can create affordability concerns with infrastructure services.”
Fees, man, while the wild wild west of Casino Capitalism allows massive die offs. None of this fucking makes sense, but it does in a society that sees no concerted socialism as management style for a nation, a state, a region, a community. Dog eat dog and sink or swim.
But fees for gas production, but no fees for weapons production? Or, Jesus, how the fuck do those fucking accelerants and explosives and fuels and bombs get manufactured?
OIL. GAS. FUEL.
Shit, Al, where are you when we need you, Inconvenient Truther, you good old boy?
Al Gore is stepping down from Apple’s Board of Directors – but only because he’s too old to be renominated.
But there are some dual-use methods to keep Gore and all the other old people relevant: Animal bones ground into an edible paste could help reduce food waste: A Finnish start-up has developed a method of grinding up chicken or fish bones into a nutritious paste to make meat production more efficient. New Scientist conducted a taste test with mixed results (The Fucking Finns and their Soylent Green experiment!)
Come on Professor Hall, here is a class-action lawsuit you might be able to glom onto!! Harvard University is being sued by students for what they claim is an “antisemitism cancer” growing on campus, accusing the institution of “hir[ing] professors who support anti-Jewish violence” and “ignoring students’ pleas for protection.”
“Harvard and its administrators… directly and intentionally discriminate against… Jewish Harvard student[s],” the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit was filed Wednesday by Kasowitz Benson Torres (KBT), a major New York City law firm that has been investigating colleges for allegedly violating Jewish students’ Title VI civil rights.
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Hall knows what alternative facts are, for sure. Looking at the Jewish State of Jewish Occupied Palestine, man oh man, even Jeremy Scahill is looking hard at that racist state:
A TEAM OF Israeli lawyers and officials presented their defense at The Hague on Friday in the second day of the genocide case brought before the International Court of Justice by the government of South Africa. The lawyers portrayed Israel as the actual victim of genocide, not Gaza, accused South Africa of supporting Hamas, and painted South Africa’s government as functioning as the legal arm of the Palestinian militants who led the deadly raids into Israel on October 7.
Israel benefitted greatly from the fact that there was no cross examination permitted or debate allowed during these proceedings. It embarked on a bold mission to do in a court of international law what its military and political officials have done day and night throughout the course of this war against Gaza: unleash a deluge of what was known within the Trump administration as “alternative facts.”
Related — In Genocide Case Against Israel at The Hague, the U.S. Is the Unnamed Co-Conspirator
Israel’s defense was the inverse of South Africa’s case yesterday, and as weak in offering documented facts as South Africa’s was powerful. History began on October 7, the Israelis seemed to say, South Africa is Hamas, South Africa did not give Israel a chance to meet up and chat about Gaza before suing for genocide, and actually the Israel Defense Forces is the most moral entity on Earth. As for the voluminous public statements by senior Israeli officials indicating genocidal intent, those were just “random assertions” by some irrelevant underlings. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statements invoking a murderous story from the Bible about killing the women, infants, and cattle of your enemies? The South Africans just don’t understand theology and presented Netanyahu’s words out of context.
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Image: Antisemitic through and thorugh, right? Jew, ugly face, scowl, on the ground for all to step on? Whew.
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Who needs Harvard or any college when we have these fucking monster billionaires dialing for scientists? The Billionaires Spending a Fortune to Lure Scientists Away From Universities — Arena BioWorks is promising big paydays to nearly 100 researchers from Harvard, M.I.T. and other prestigious institutions.
In an unmarked laboratory stationed between the campuses of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a splinter group of scientists is hunting for the next billion-dollar drug.
The group, bankrolled with $500 million from some of the wealthiest families in American business, has created a stir in the world of academia by dangling seven-figure paydays to lure highly credentialed university professors to a for-profit bounty hunt. Its self-described goal: to avoid the blockages and paperwork that slow down the traditional paths of scientific research at universities and pharmaceutical companies, and discover scores of new drugs (at first, for cancer and brain disease) that can be produced and sold quickly.
Braggadocio from startups is de rigueur, and plenty of ex-academics have started biotechnology companies, hoping to strike it rich on their one big discovery. This group, rather boastfully named Arena BioWorks, borrowing from a Teddy Roosevelt quote, doesn’t have one singular idea, but it does have a big checkbook.
Fucking Grade Inflation in the All You Can Be US Mercenary Army: Dozens of noncommissioned officers received fast-track promotions for graduating the Army‘s recruiting school in recent weeks — part of a controversial move by the service as it desperately grapples with a depleting pool of NCOs interested in serving in the role.
Of the 145 soldiers who attended the Army Recruiter Course, 56 NCOs were automatically promoted from sergeant to staff sergeant, according to the service. The graduation and promotions occurred Dec. 21, but the Army widely announced it on social media only Thursday.
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Job growth. Same in Australia: Calls To Allow Foreigners To Enlist In Australia’s Military: “Facing workforce challenges”!
Oh, the people’s armies? Nope.
These people the Billionaires shit upon:
JewJabs make billions:
Good paying jobs, NOT:
By the numbers:
Billionaires looking out for their minions:
Coal, copper, cocaine, CocaCola, anyway to make a cool billion?
Billionaires will be calling the cops for this demonstration. Cool idea, no?
My people, on the chopping block and in the line of the sniper fire:
“The Israel-Gaza war is the most dangerous situation for journalists we have ever seen, and these figures show that clearly…The Israeli army has killed more journalists in 10 weeks than any other army or entity has in any single year. And with every journalist killed, the war becomes harder to document and to understand.”
– Sherif Mansour, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ’s) Middle East and North Africa program coordinator. [1]
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The fucking sun never sets on the decaying British Empire!
Between the cost of burial or cremation, the price of a memorial service, and expenses like legal fees, the “cost of dying” hit an average of £9,658 ($12,296) in the UK last year, the report stated. This represents an increase of £458 since 2022, and is the highest such figure ever recorded by SunLife.
Paul Haeder, Author 