but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life’s sacred spontaneity.
They can’t trust life until they can control it.
This fucking Brown Stain = Kash Patel was born on February 25, 1980, in Garden City, New York, to Indian immigrant parents. His parents come from the Indian Gujarati community, and immigrated to the United States from East Africa via Canada. His father worked for an aviation firm as a financial officer. Patel’s family has an ancestral background from India, and he was raised with Hindu values.Patel graduated from Garden City High School on Long Island.
“We’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections,” Remnick quoted Patel as saying, on a podcast with Steve Bannon last year. “Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out.”
In the mid-2010s, The Intercept reported on secret FBI policies allowing agents to obtain journalists’ phone records with only internal (as opposed to judicial) oversight, rules that Trevor Timm, of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, described at the time as “incredibly weak and almost nonexistent”; last year, Timm’s group noted that the FBI has spied on journalists via the “backdoor” of a provision that allows intelligence agencies to view Americans’ communications without a warrant if they’ve been swept up in surveillance of a foreigner. Earlier this year, an FBI agent visited Ken Klippenstein, an independent journalist who had just published an internal Trump campaign document that was likely hacked by Iran, ostensibly to warn him that he’d been the target of a foreign influence operation (even though Klippenstein had clearly reported on the document’s likely provenance). “No subpoena, no search warrant, no prior announcement, no claim of illegality,” Klippenstein wrote at the time. “America’s most powerful law enforcement agency wants me to know that it was displeased.”
It is no exaggeration to say that the planet could be inches away from nuclear annihilation. The lame duck Joe Biden Democrat administration in the United States of America (US) is pulling out all stops to bind the incoming Donald Trump Republican administration into a world war, despite Trump’s pledges to wind down or end the Ukraine proxy war on the Russian Federation. Out of malevolent intent, it seems the Democrats would rather the permanent incineration of human civilisation than allow their coveted NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) armed Nazi brigades in Ukraine hand over sections of the devastated nation, which Russia has won on the ground. Make no mistake, Western imperialism is entirely to blame for the perilously close destruction of human life on Earth. The whole world can see that US imperialism and its European NATO allies are the sole source of the relentless aggression and endless military provocations against Russia – a nuclear armed superpower. Ukraine is but fodder for Washington and Brussels, and the world could be next.
Here we are, and it will all get amped up with Kushner-Trump-Talmudist LLC: Eye in the sky: The feds have quietly built surveillance towers along the Canadian border in Vermont, New York.
Overall, the feds plan to install more than 1,000 new towers across the country’s northern and southern borders by 2034, The Intercept reported earlier this year. The plans come as national leaders on both sides of the political aisle, including president-elect Donald Trump, have pitched tough border enforcement policies in recent years.
And the Cunts continue on: Kushner-Trump-Talmudist LLC will be sending poisons, toxins, heavy metals, plastics, micro-pesticides-insecticides-fungicides-fumigants into your/our babies gestation harbors.
Donald Trump’s allies have fired the opening salvoes of his coming administration’s attack on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the federal agency that enforces and regulates laws on air, soil, and water quality among other crucial environmental and health issues.
In a letter from Republican House leadership to the EPA administrator Michael Regan, Republicans trained their sites on the agency’s scientific integrity policies that are designed to insulate scientists and research from political interference.
Meanwhile, the incoming chair of the Senate environmental committee in a hearing last week promised to target portions of new PFAS regulations put in place over the last year, a top priority for Trump’s chemical and water utility industry allies.
Yeah, that West Texas sludge. Amazing how many heavy metals and other toxins in it other than PFAS. Texas farmers say sewage-based fertilizer tainted with “forever chemicals” poisoned their land and killed their livestock
The fertilizer was promoted as an environmental win-win for years. An untold number of farmers and ranchers across Texas have spread it on their land.
The university in New Hampshire runs trips to the wilderness for new students to help them get them off their phones and learn how to have conversations and work as a team.
“There’s pretty clear data about the harms involved in social media,” Beilock said. “We’re seeing that students aren’t practised at having conversations with people who disagree with them, in part because social media puts you towards people who agree with you.
“Our young people, across the US and the UK, have some of the highest levels of depression, anxiety and loneliness that we’ve seen. To do well, you have to feel OK. Resilience and taking care of your own anxiety give you the skills to go out and be a leader.
“We’ve made a commitment that students have access to counsellors and support, but also that they learn how to have dialogue with people who are different from them when they do their orientation.
“Learning to talk to people who are different from you is a muscle that you build with training.
It’s not just youth, in college, for sure, WHO CAN’T CARRY ON A CONVERSATION. This is a mean country, and it always has been that. Big White Patriarchal Father Figure Loving Shit Hole, and alas, now, we have the non-debates debates (sic) and these fucking losers with billions and now over the past 50 years, involved in derailing free speech and democracy. Capitalism is more than just perdatory or penury or casino or zombie or disaster or shock CAPITALISM.
It’s a prion eating into the brains of youth, even gestating zygots.
It’s more than a dying empire. This is a ragtag dirty Mafia Run society, with the Point Zero Zero One Percent running the fucking freak show, and the youth are destined to fucking vote (what the fuck is that, voting) for Trump.
“We are flabbergasted that after three weeks of strike, bargaining every day but two over Thanksgiving break, and nearly securing a full agreement today over the entirety of the contract except one appendix, this District’s bad faith power plays have now cost us an agreement,” said Dana Lovejoy, an Albany math teacher and President of the Greater Albany Education Association. “The people of our community have waited long enough for GAPS to take action on the deplorable conditions within our schools and act in good faith to get our kids back to class. After repeatedly violating federal labor law throughout the strike, the District’s arrogance and the unending incompetence and anti-teacher vitriol of this School Board will now unnecessarily keep students out of classes even longer.”
[FBI Director Christopher Wray made an unannounced trip to Israel in February 2024, where he met with Israeli intelligence. “The FBI’s partnership with our Israeli counterparts is long-standing, close and robust,” he said. (source)]
By Alison Weir: On November 12th I received a sudden visit at my home from two FBI agents. As I posted in a tweet.
FBI agents suddenly showed up at my home recently. They asked me about a person whose name I didn’t recognize. I asked to have a family member present and ascertained from the agents that one of their offices had asked them to check in with certain people in regard to something to do with Press TV.
This is an Iranian outlet that has interviewed me on various occasions over the years. (During my 20+ years writing and speaking about Palestine, I have taken as many opportunities as humanly possible to get the facts out via any traditional and alternative, domestic and international media outlets available. I don’t attempt to vet media outlets and try to reach as many audiences in the U.S. and around the world as I can with the facts about Palestine.)
I have since found out that other individuals who have a history of working for a just peace for Palestinians and Israelis have also been visited by the FBI. I understand the agency has been weaponized in the past to try to silence groups and people that some members of government oppose.
It would appear someone is now trying to set the stage to silence dissent on Israel-Palestine in the United States by trumping up “connections with Iran.”
Since my tweet, there have been several articles on the incident. These also pointed out the Palestinian connection.
(It’s important to keep in mind that this is in the context of over a year of Israel starving and slaughtering Palestinians; seventy percent of those killed have been women and children. Even a growing number of mainstream American commentators such as Ambassador Chas Freeman, Professor John Mearsheimer, Col. Douglas Macregor, Judge Andrew Napolitano, and Col. Daniel Davis have spoken out about the situation.)
Press TV published a report saying that the FBI visit to my home was “seen as part of a broader pattern of opposing voices that shed light on the Gaza genocide and US backing of Israel.”
The article stated:
The FBI’s investigation into individuals linked to Press TV has sparked alarm among advocates for Palestinian rights, highlighting a growing debate over the limits of dissent and the implications of US government oversight on those exercising their free speech rights.
As the narrative unfolds, questions arise about the implications of such investigations on freedom of expression and activism in the United States.
In September, the United States Department of the Treasury added Press TV to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)’s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List.
The US government has enacted stringent sanctions against the Tehran-based news channel, which has been on air since 2007. Operating under the slogan “The Voice of the Voiceless,” Press TV aims to highlight significant regional and global issues that are often overlooked or misrepresented by mainstream media.
Observers say the US government’s move to pull the plug on Press TV is part of Washington’s attempts to silence Iranian media because they “debunk US lies.”
A website called InformationLiberation published an article that said:
The FBI now operates as the ADL’s intimidation arm.…
Attorney General Merrick Garland brazenly seized Press TV’s 14-year-old web domain PressTV.com in June, 2021 Israel lost the propaganda war over their May, 2021 bombing of Gaza.
Last month in the UK, pro-Palestine journalist Asa Winstanley had his home raided by police and his electronic devices seized under the “terrorism act” despite not being charged with any crime.
As I reported on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is moving to try and silence criticism of Jews and Israel as hate speech and empower the federal government to crack down on anti-Israel protests on college campuses through the ADL-backed “Antisemitism Awareness Act.”
There is a bipartisan effort to take away the First Amendment rights of the American people in order to silence criticism of the genocide Israel is committing in Gaza.
Oh, those fucking AmeriKKKans:
SHIFTING RIGHT
Why Did More College-Educated Young Men Vote for Trump This Year?
By Amanda Friedman
In 2020, 62 percent of them voted for President Biden. In 2024, 52 percent supported Trump — a swing of 19 percentage points.
Neutering? Dirty racist and bigoted and misogynistic Americans? YEP. Pacification?
By the time the parties converged at a “die-in” at Towson University’s central quad on a chilly day last November, campus-police officers and administrators almost outnumbered the handful of pro-Palestinian activists who were trickling in.
The police chief, a few student-affairs officials, and about six other police officers who’d been tipped off that an unauthorized demonstration was about to happen watched as eight to 10 students stretched out on a patch of the 21,000-square-foot lawn. The students surrounded themselves with dolls wrapped in white shrouds splattered with red. Some held Palestinian flags and signs decrying genocide and demanding that the university divest from any companies connected to the war in Gaza.
A land of pigs and pig-loving fucking white fucking mother fucking pieces of patriarchal stain:
If the students had followed the rules, they would have first secured university recognition of their group, a process their supporters say could take weeks or even months. Then they would have registered their protest at least three days prior and met with an administrator and an event coordinator, who would have helped the students come up with a customized plan that wouldn’t get anyone in trouble. Using a bullhorn? That’ll require a sound monitor to make sure protesters stay below 96 decibels. Expecting counterprotesters? Campus police will likely be on standby, possibly with barriers to keep people apart.
Given the oppositional nature of student activism — the protesters were, after all, accusing the university of being complicit in genocide — it’s unclear whether the students would have heeded that guidance. But that hasn’t stopped universities like Towson from trying to insert themselves early, and often, into activists’ circles. Where some see a campuswide commitment to free speech, others see an attempt to sanitize and stifle speech.
In 2020, Owen Girard was all in for Bernie Sanders. The high-school junior couldn’t vote just yet, but he liked the pro-worker, anti-establishment policies championed by the progressive Vermont senator during the presidential campaign.
“I was fully embracing the ‘democratic socialist’ title of my beliefs,” he said.
Four years later, Girard, now a junior at Florida State University, found himself in a starkly different place — voting for Donald J. Trump and leading his campus’s chapter of Turning Point USA, a conservative student group.
[Donald Trump is openly running a Great Replacement Theory campaign]
Melissa Deckman, a political scientist who studies the impact of gender, religion, and age on political behavior, believes young men voted with their pocketbooks in this election. Weighed down by student debt and high costs of living, many saw little relief under the Biden-Harris administration, she said.
“Clearly, in this election, that vote for Trump, especially for young people, was a referendum on who was currently in power, and Harris was just too close to Biden,” Deckman said.
Thomas Pyle, a University of Wisconsin-Madison senior and president of his College Republicans chapter, voted for Trump. He said he doesn’t like Trump’s divisive rhetoric and believes it’s contributing to political polarization. He opposes Trump’s repeated claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
But his presidential vote came down to who would take the most action on issues like the economy, he said.
“I thought about who would be able to come into the White House and actually solve problems and not have to play on the defense,” Pyle said. “I think it’s very clear from Trump’s economic and foreign-policy record that he is the person able to do that.”
AmeriKKKan boy-men are dangerous cunts, and are under the spell, man, of the dirty ugly rotting Trump.
But the reality for the rest of the world is murdered journalists. Heroes, these journalists:
A Mexican journalist exiled in Southern California receives a threatening message from an organized-crime boss. A reporter investigating clandestine timber-harvesting in a Mexican forest encounters a masked logger brandishing a chain saw. A newsman in the cartel-dominated city of Culiacán laments that Mexican journalists have bull’s-eyes on their chests.
These are some moments from the documentary “Estado de Silencio” — “State of Silence” — which debuted Thursday on Netflix in the United States and Latin America.
The movie examines the experiences of four Mexican journalists to illustrate the parlous state of the press in Mexico, where at least 165 journalists have been killed or gone missing since 1992. That makes Mexico one of the most dangerous places for journalists, apart from active war zones such as the Gaza Strip.
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The Times spoke with the director, Santiago Maza. The conversation has been edited for clarity.
(Toumani Camara / La Corriente del Golfo)
Why a film about journalists?
Journalists are fundamental in allowing Mexico and other countries to have functional, well-informed societies. In recent years, some in power have tried to discredit the image of the journalist. This documentary seeks to remind everyone of the great work that each journalist does, even as many face great peril.
The original concept was a series about individual journalists?
Yes. Diego loved the idea, but we couldn’t secure the financing. Then the pandemic came, and in 2022 we decided to convert the project into a feature and I took over the directing reins.
Tell us about the four protagonists: Juan de Dios García Davish and María de Jesús Peters, a husband-and-wife team reporting in the southern state of Chiapas; Marcos Vizcarra, based in Sinaloa state, home turf of Mexico’s largest cartel; and Jesús Medina, who operates out of Mexico City.
These four represent a grand ensemble of voices who can speak of violence that is systemic: They allowed us to create a portrait of something that affects hundreds and thousands of journalists in Mexico.
(La Corriente del Golfo)
Drug cartels’ turf war in Mexico’s Chiapas state sends villagers fleeing to Guatemala
Aug. 22, 2024
What are their areas of specialty?
Jesús examines environmental exploitation and the manipulation of resources on a national level. María de Jesús and Juan de Dios report on the violence that migrants suffer along the southern border with Guatemala. And Marcos Vizcarra accompanies families of the “disappeared” and the victims of organized crime violence in Sinaloa.
How difficult was it to mesh together the backstories of these four very distinct storytellers?
This was one of our great challenges. Each person’s story is very powerful, very complex. And there are moments when the tension grows, and they have to leave their homes, hide, reinvent themselves. It took a year to edit the material. But, at the end, it was worth it: We feel that, yes, one feels a unified emotional journey.
(La Corriente del Golfo)
In one scene, Juan de Dios sits in an empty coffee shop in Riverside — to where he, his wife and teenage daughter have fled — and replays a recorded phone call with a self-proclaimed “commander” of the Zetas cartel who vowed to dispatch thugs to snatch his family. Meanwhile, his wife learns that her mother back in Mexico is gravely ill. It seems you sought to portray both the professional and personal sides of your subjects?
At the epicenter of the Mexican drug trade, a deadly power struggle shuts down a city
Oct. 7, 2024
Mari and Juan were living a very tense moment at a family level. They didn’t want to leave the United States and return to Chiapas because they still faced danger. But they also had a personal situation that put pressure on them to return home. It became an element in the film because it showed that the violence continued, and it was necessary to show it.
Were there moments of danger for you and the crew?
The filming had its risks. We followed a security protocol. We were also very careful with the information because we had sensitive material. But we never had an incident. The best security was sticking with the journalists and local teams that helped us.
How did you manage to film Medina’s interview with an illegal logger in the pine forest in Morelos state?
We had to leave and return on several occasions, because the loggers didn’t want us there. But we explained what we wanted to do so that they would give us permission to film Jesús doing his work in the woods.
Mexico has instituted a mechanism to protect at-risk journalists and human rights defenders, providing police protection and other measures. But it falls way short, no?
I think what is lacking is a much more humanistic approach, plus a recognition on all levels of government that this crisis of violence exists, that the numbers are real. Journalists will keep doing their day-to-day work, but they need to know that the government, and the public, has their back.
Of course the challenges facing journalists in “State of Silence” go way beyond Mexico.
This is a situation that, sadly, is not limited to Mexico. For many people in power, it is not convenient to have a critical, independent press, a press that can make people feel uncomfortable, apart from their political ideology. Leaders from Trump to Putin have tried to diminish the role of journalism. It is a subversive treatment, and it has had an effect on society worldwide. I believe that now, more than ever, we should all be conscious of the fact that the value of the journalist is essential.
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So no matter what these fucking Bernie Bro’s say, what these fucking infantile fucking Americans say, they are still, well:
In 1923, the British novelist D. H. Lawrence offered a grim assessment of America and Americans: “All the other stuff, the love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
The American Soul Is a Murderous Soul — Guns make America more lethal than other countries. But getting rid of the Second Amendment won’t make Americans any less violent. By Patrick Blanchfield
We are a dirty Nazi –Judaic Nazi now — country:
Volker Ullrich quotes Hitler as saying in 1942 that
“I openly admit that I’m a fool for technology. Anyone who comes to me with some surprising technological innovation will have an advantage.”
Goebbels kept the Fuehrer up to date on the progress of television, which he believed had a “great future” since people were on the threshold of “revolutionary innovations” – a local Nazi newspaper noted in 1938 that television would soon be as commonplace as radio. The model Volksempfanger VE 301 – the “people’s receiver” wireless – was unveiled at the Berlin Radio Trade Fair in August 1933, and 57 per cent of all German households owned a receiver by the start of Hitler’s war in 1939.
What primarily connects the world of Nazi propaganda and the tweet, however, is grammar – and anonymity (of which more later). What, for example, do the following have in common?
“Blood and honour”, “One people, one country, one leader!” (Ein volk ein Reich ein Fuehrer!), “Strength through joy”.
And “Big media con job”, “FAKE NEWS!”, “Corrupt media”, “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!”, “No Collusion. No Obstruction”.
The answer is obvious, although I still remember when the de-semanticisation of language was first brought home to me – by a former member of the Irish parliament whose lonely voice argued, during the Second World War, that Ireland should abandon its neutrality and fight for the Allies.
[Hitler, tweets and Trump: What do they have in common? The internet and social media would have fascinated the dictator, who was a fool for technology. So is the president. But it’s the anonymity of hatred that make online trolls and Nazis so comparable, writes Robert Fisk]
GRT was central to the official Nazi motivation for the genocide of the Jews of Europe. Hitler blamed the loss of World War I on Jewish betrayal of Germany. But this betrayal, for Hitler, was intimately connected to the Great Replacement Theory, via the introduction of Black soldiers in the French army subsequently occupying the Rhineland, the so-called “Black Horror on the Rhine.” In Mein Kampf, Hitler writes:
It was and is the Jews who bring the Negroes into the Rhineland, always with the same secret thought and clear aim of ruining the hated white race by the necessarily resulting bastardization, throwing it down from its cultural and political height, and himself rising to be its master.
“Forty-Five wanted us unalive,” Yusef Salaam said at the DNC, referring to Trump, the nation’s 45th president. “Today, we are exonerated because the actual perpetrator confessed and DNA proved it. [Trump] still says he still stands by the original guilty verdict. He dismisses scientific evidence rather than admit he was wrong.”
Why are the Central Park Five suing Trump?
At the September debate, Trump said that at the time of the interrogation process in 1989 the teenagers “admitted – they said, they pled guilty. And I said, well, if they pled guilty, they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately.”
However, no one was killed in the 1989 attack. Meili was severely battered, left in a coma, and is still dealing with long-term effects from the attack, but she survived.
Trump was also wrong in his claim that the Central Park Five pled guilty: Throughout the trial, they all insisted that they were innocent, as their lawyers pointed out in their lawsuit.
The lawsuit says Trump’s debate comments were given “negligently” and “with reckless disregard for their falsity”.
Four of the Central Park Five did say, in statements to the police during questioning, that they were involved in the assault. But many legal experts have accused the interrogators at the time of putting the five young men under duress and in effect, coercing four of them into falsely confessing to attacking and raping Meili.
Their sentences ranged from six to thirteen years.
In 2002, the Central Park Five were exonerated after Matias Reyes, a convicted serial rapist already serving a life sentence for unrelated crimes, confessed to Meili’s assault.
Reyes’s DNA matched the evidence collected at the crime scene which led Justice Charles J Tejada of the Supreme Court of the State of New York to grant a motion to vacate the convictions of the Central Park Five. In 2014, the five men sued the city of New York in a civil suit. The city agreed to a settlement worth $41m.
Paul Haeder, Author 
This is the dirtiest regime in history and these white ghouls exemplify it all …..
While Biden is busy issuing a decade-long pardon for his son Hunter, members of his administration are finally responding to the ongoing attacks by extremist groups in Syria, with National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan saying, “We don’t cry over the fact that the Assad Government backed by Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, are facing certain kinds of pressure.”
A reminder that even though the U.S. has classified Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the rebranded version of Al-Qaeda, as a terrorist organization, the Biden Admin has no problem with the group attacking the Syrian people, because they still can’t get over the fact that the U.S. Establishment failed to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power a decade ago.
Sullivan also said the Biden Admin wasn’t surprised by the attacks in Syria, because Assad’s allies such as Russia, Iran and Hezbollah have all been “distracted” by other conflicts. Notably, all of those “other” conflicts are ones in which the U.S. plays a key role.
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