so one guy who is being prosecuted by Germany calls whatever he sees as anti-semitic crap . . . . When Germany Supplies Nazi Bombs to Nazi Israel and there it is.
Mbembe:
Colonies are similar to frontiers. Inhabited by “savages,” colonies are not organized as a state form and do not create a human world…. They do not establish a distinction between combatants and non-combatants or again between an “enemy” and a “criminal.”
In Africa especially, but in many places in the Global South, energy-intensive extraction, agricultural expansion, predatory sales of land, and destruction of forests will continue unabated. The powering and cooling of computer chips and supercomputers depends on it. The purveying and supplying of the resources and energy necessary for the global computing infrastructure will require further restrictions on human mobility. Keeping the world at a distance will become the norm so as to keep risks of all kinds on the outside. But because it does not address our ecological precariousness, this catabolic vision of the world, inspired by theories of immunization and contagion, does little to break out of the planetary impasse in which we find ourselves. — Mbembe
To me? Or my Pablosharkman? I am banned….. “Unfortunately, I need to explain this again. If you post anti-Semitic or other types of bigoted garbage in my replies, and I see it, I will ban you. I won’t argue with you, or otherwise interact with you. I’ll just ban you and delete your garbage. That will take me about 3 seconds. Then I’ll forget you ever existed”. CJ Hopkins.
What have you, and in the end, who gives a fuck. Here, from the dirty Atlantic:
Quoting more middling mush: Then the latent libertarian side of Hopkins’s leftism emerged as he became a vociferous critic of lockdowns and an opponent of vaccinations, both of which he claimed were elements of a nefarious GloboCap plot. In posts titled “The Germans Are Back” and “The Covidian Cult,” Hopkins blasted what he termed the “New Normal” of mass obedience, “pathologized totalitarianism,” and demonization of dissenters like him. Hopkins inevitably brought his writings over to Substack, and though not the movement-joining type, he expressed sympathy toward the Querdenker, a group of fringe self-styled “lateral thinkers” whom Germany’s domestic-intelligence service placed under surveillance for their sometimes-violent anti-lockdown protests. A self-published 2022 collection of his essays, The Rise of the New Normal Reich, features a blurb on its cover from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praising Hopkins as “our modern Jeremiah.”
More controversial than this endorsement was the image accompanying it: a face mask that bore the very faint image of a swastika.
Read: Is Germany capable of protecting its Jews?
Bowing to national laws prohibiting Nazi insignia, Amazon banned the sale of the book on its platform in Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria. (“The book is clearly also banned in actual German bookstores,” Hopkins claimed, because “numerous readers have tried to order it in person at bookstores, and have been told it is ‘unavailable.’”) The author was perturbed but unrepentant, publishing his correspondence with Amazon’s content-review team on his site. In August 2022, Hopkins posted an image from the cover of his book on X (formerly Twitter), with a message in German declaring that “masks are ideological-conformity symbols.” Three days later, in a tweet responding to an article featuring a quote from the German health minister endorsing the use of face masks, Hopkins republished the image.
Then, this past May, Hopkins received a letter from the Berlin state prosecutor’s office announcing that it had launched an “investigative procedure” against him for violating the German penal code, namely article 86a, which prohibits the dissemination of “propaganda, the contents of which are intended to further the aims of a former National Socialist organization.” The investigation led to charges, and Hopkins’s case goes to trial on January 23, according to his Substack. If found guilty, he faces either a fine of 3,600 euros (about $4,000) or 60 days in jail.
Hopkins sees his ordeal as part of a broader “criminalization of dissent” sweeping the Western world. “Basically anyone prominent, halfway prominent, and even little fish like me, if you get on the radar of challenging the official ideology, the program of the day, they’re making examples of people is basically what it is,” he told me. Against his lawyer’s advice, Hopkins republished the tweets in his Substack newsletter—sparking, as he reported, a second criminal investigation, this time for minimizing Nazi crimes.
“They can silence me for a while if they want,” he wrote defiantly. “But they cannot make me silence myself.”
Fucking childish and hackneyed same old bullshit? First amendment for, that, even if it is offensive stuff??? Jesus, 3rd grade debate points. “… freedom of expression is tested by speech that we hate . . . . “ We? Which fucking WE?
“Even if some find Hopkins’s views and the way he expresses them offensive, that does not lessen the danger that his prosecution represents. A society’s commitment to freedom of expression is tested not by the easy cases but by the hard ones—by protecting, as the Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once wrote, “freedom for the thought that we hate.” Hopkins may have turned his back on America, but he has gained a new appreciation for America’s founding principles.”
That Atlantic shit rag.
Caitlin Johnstone:
Quoted: Israel Apologists Relentlessly Gaslight And Attack Our Sense Of Reality
The Atlantic has a new Israel apologia article out titled “The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False” — a noticeable change in tone from the outlet’s “Decolonize Russia” sentiments of last year.
The entire article has been picked apart paragraph by paragraph by a commentator named Sana Saeed (see below), but for my purposes here I’d just like to focus on one specific sentence in it about Israel’s ongoing massacre in Gaza:
“The Israeli goal in Gaza — for practical reasons, among others — is to minimize the number of Palestinian civilians killed.”
If you didn’t know that The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg is a former IDF prison guard who in 2002 said that “the coming invasion of Iraq will be remembered as an act of profound morality”, it would astonish you that such a sentence ever went to print.
One need only look at the before and after satellite images of the bombing campaign in Gaza to see immediately that Israel is doing nothing at all to minimize the number of civilians killed.
One need only look at the fact that nearly 70 percent of the people killed in these airstrikes have been women and children to see immediately that Israel is doing nothing to minimize the number of civilians killed.
One need only listen to Israeli officials themselves saying “the emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy” and “Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents; there will be no buildings” to see immediately that Israel is doing nothing to minimize the number of civilians killed.
You don’t get to openly declare that you’re going to do a ton of damage with no regard for accuracy, carpet bomb entire neighborhoods into gravel killing mostly women and children, and then say you’re trying to minimize civilian casualties. That’s not a thing.
But that’s exactly what The Atlantic instructs us to believe. They demand that we ignore what’s right in front of our faces and mistrust what we are seeing with our own eyes.
You see this kind of thing over and over again from Israel apologists. They tell you things you absolutely know to be false in your own direct perception, over and over and over again, in the hope that they can overwhelm your mind. That’s what’s happening when they tell you Israel is “defending itself” and “targeting Hamas” when they’re mostly killing women and children and bombing entire city blocks into powder, and that’s what’s happening when they tell you over and over again that you hate Jews and love terrorists even when you know for a fact that you don’t.
The term “gaslighting” has been frequently misused in modern political discourse lately; you’ll often see people using that term to describe someone lying, or even someone just saying something they don’t agree with. But that’s not what the term gaslighting historically means.
Merriam-Webster defines gaslighting as “psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories”. It’s when you attack someone’s perception of reality with such sustained aggression that the victim’s psyche just kind of gives up and assumes they’re not mentally competent enough to interpret reality for themselves.
And that’s exactly what you see Israel apologists doing day in and day out with regard to this conflict.
They tell you to doubt your own eyes when you see mountains upon mountains of evidence that Israel is raining high tech military explosives upon areas known to be packed full of children.
They tell you to doubt your own ears when Israeli officials spout genocidal rhetoric.
They tell you to doubt your own intelligence when you talk about the many gaping plot holes in what we’re told to believe about October 7.
They tell you to doubt your own sanity when they demand that you accept unverified allegations about beheaded babies and babies cooked in ovens while ignoring the thousands of children that are being massacred in Gaza.
They tell you to doubt your own beliefs when they tell you repeatedly that you’re an anti-semite for criticizing Israel even when you know you have nothing but good will toward Jewish people.
They tell you to doubt your own motives when they tell you repeatedly that you support terrorism and want Jews to be killed even when you know nothing could be further from the truth.
They tell you to doubt your sense of reality when they tell you Hamas is responsible for all the death and destruction that you can plainly see is being inflicted by Israeli bombs.
They’re never just telling you what to believe about the world, they’re also telling you what to believe about yourself. This is always a telltale sign that you are being psychologically manipulated. Anytime you find yourself involved with someone who continually works to change your perception of yourself in a negative way, you would be well-advised to dis-involve yourself from them as quickly as possible.
Israel apologists need to do this because they don’t have truth on their side, and they don’t have morality on their side, so all they’ve got is manipulation. They work so hard to distort your perception of reality because a lucid perception of reality is highly unfavorable to Israeli information interests.
Don’t let them do this to you. Whenever you get the sense that you are being manipulated by someone, just start ignoring their words and watch their actions instead. Their words can deceive you, but their actions, examined objectively, will tell you everything you need to know about them.
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Oh, a fucking playright in Berlin. Fuck Hopkins.
“The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories serves as a laboratory for a number of techniques of control, surveillance, and separation that are today proliferating to other places on the planet. We are increasingly faced with the question of what to do with those who’s very existence does not seem to be necessary for our reproduction, those whose mere existence or proximity is deemed to represent a physical or biological threat to our own life.
Paradigmatic of this matrix of rule is present-day Gaza in Palestine. On the one hand, it is the culmination of spatial exclusionary arrangements that existed in an incipient state during the early phases of modern settler or genocidal colonialism. Such was the case of Native American reservations in the United States, as well as island prisons, penal colonies, camps, and Bantustans in South Africa in the not-so-distant past. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 2016
So, this dirty society, this dirty hateful driven society, this dirty society of zealots, this dirty society of neo-Nazi’s, this dirty dirty virus that is USA Wailing Wall White House, all those monstrosities, the sickness?
An Israeli attack on an emergency response center in Lebanon killed seven people. Another set of strikes on Syria killed several soldiers and an Iranian military adviser.
Sickness, the Minyans of Murder, Final Solution Biden and Zyklon B.B.B. Blinken. This is how the fucking u$A-I runs the show?
Twelve people drowned trying to reach aid dropped by plane off a Gaza beach, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday, amid growing fears of famine nearly six months into Israel’s military campaign. [ Military Campaign? Fucking Genocidal Campaign. Starvation Campaign. Death Campaign. ]
Video of the airdrop obtained by Reuters showed crowds of people running towards the beach, in Beit Lahia in north Gaza, as crates with parachutes floated down, then people standing deep in water and bodies being pulled onto the sand.
Russia on Wednesday said it sent over 29 tons of humanitarian aid for the besieged Gaza Strip, where more than 32,400 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 74,800 injured since Oct. 7 last year.
A statement by Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said on Telegram that a special flight it dispatched earlier in the day has delivered the 20th batch of humanitarian aid to representatives of the Egyptian Red Crescent in the city of El-Arish, who will then redirect the aid to Gaza residents.
The ministry said earlier that the humanitarian aid consists of cereals, flour, sugar, and other long-term storage products, as well as personal hygiene products, most of which were collected at the initiative of authorities from the Russian Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia.
“In total, since the beginning of the humanitarian mission, 20 flights of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations have delivered more than 480 tons of cargo,” it further said.
Paul Haeder, Author 