Israel is more than some AmeriKKKan pit bull . . . this is a trip wire country of religious zealots working in concert with another country of religious zealots
February 1951 was a busy month for W. E. B. Du Bois, who turned eighty-three and threw himself a huge birthday party to raise funds for African decolonization. He also married his second wife, the leftist writer Shirley Graham, in what the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper called the wedding of the year. And he was indicted, arrested, and arraigned in federal court as an agent of the Soviet Union because he had circulated a petition protesting nuclear weapons.
The Justice Department saw Du Bois’s petition as a threat to national security. They thought it was communist propaganda meant to encourage American pacifism in the face of Soviet aggression. They put Du Bois on trial in order to brand him as “un-American,” to use the language of Joe McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee. Du Bois was not in fact a Soviet agent. He was an American citizen using his First Amendment rights to protest nuclear weapons on his own behalf. A federal judge acquitted him because prosecutors failed to present any evidence.
W. E. B. Du Bois may be our keenest critic of Trumpism today.
Nevertheless, the trial and the publicity around it ruined his career. He was left scrabbling to earn enough money just to buy groceries. And the trial hardly ended the state persecution. In 1952 the State Department illegally revoked Du Bois’s passport to stop him from traveling to a peace conference in Canada (and, implicitly, to prevent him from moving to a friendlier country where he was not blacklisted). The Supreme Court restored passport rights for suspected communists in 1958, and three years later Du Bois used his regained freedom of travel to become an expat in newly postcolonial Ghana. But while he was there, the State Department refused to renew his passport, effectively annulling his United States citizenship. The American civil rights icon became a Ghanaian citizen and died there in 1963.
“Peace is not an end,” Du Bois wrote in 1949. “It is the gateway to real civilization.”
Don’t Be Pesimistic in 2025!
In a statement announcing the operation, Ansarallah said that the attack was successful:
The missile force of the Yemeni Armed Forces, with the help of God Almighty, targeted a military target of the Israeli enemy in the occupied Yaffa area [Jaffa in Tel Aviv] with a Palestine 2 hypersonic ballistic missile.
The missile hit its target accurately and the defences and interceptor systems did not succeed in countering it.
Ansarallah further added that it will continue its operations to support the Palestinian people in Gaza, who are facing a genocidal assault at the hands of the Israelis:
It also salutes the mujahideen in the Gaza Strip and their ongoing heroic operations against the Israeli enemy and emphasises that with the help of God Almighty, it will continue to support them until the aggression stops and the siege on the Gaza Strip is lifted.
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And LaLaLaLandia continues with its CIA rags:
Another, again, behind a pay-wall:
Sure, media, press, Waltons, Amazon, the fucking trusts, man, and now of course, the AI Mafia a la PayPal Mafia, coming together to create a sub-mafia, AKA, consortium, to go up against the legacy and mainstream offensive weapons companies.
Since the emergence of generative artificial intelligence, scholars have speculated about the technology’s implications for the character, if not nature, of war. The promise of AI on battlefields and in war rooms has beguiled scholars. They characterize AI as “game-changing,” “revolutionary,” and “perilous,” especially given the potential of great power war involving the United States and China or Russia. In the context of great power war, where adversaries have parity of military capabilities, scholars claim that AI is the sine qua non, absolutely required for victory. This assessment is predicated on the presumed implications of AI for the “sensor-to-shooter” timeline, which refers to the interval of time between acquiring and prosecuting a target. By adopting AI, or so the argument goes, militaries can reduce the sensor-to-shooter timeline and maintain lethal overmatch against peer adversaries.
Although understandable, this line of reasoning may be misleading for military modernization, readiness, and operations. While experts caution that militaries are confronting a “eureka” or “Oppenheimer” moment, harkening back to the development of the atomic bomb during World War II, this characterization distorts the merits and limits of AI for warfighting. It encourages policymakers and defense officials to follow what can be called a “primrose path of AI-enabled warfare,” which is codified in the US military’s “third offset” strategy. This vision of AI-enabled warfare is fueled by gross prognostications and over-determination of emerging capabilities enhanced with some form of AI, rather than rigorous empirical analysis of its implications across all (tactical, operational, and strategic) levels of war.
Making the old fat boy Trusts and Monopolies seem like benevolent non-profits:
Palantir and Anduril, two leading defense technology firms, announced today they’re creating an industry consortium to address what they see as hurtles impeding the Defense Department’s adoption of AI.
“Our goal is to deliver the technological infrastructure, from the edge to the enterprise, that can enable our government and industry partners to transform America’s world-leading AI advancements into next-generation military and national security capabilities,” the companies said Friday in joint statement.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaigning in 1932. In his 1936 State of the Union address, he said that throughout the U.S., “opportunity was limited by monopoly.”
Quaint fucking times, no?
Because monopoly is back. As concentration has soared to levels not seen in decades, economists are talking about monopoly again; recent scholarship has linked consolidation with rising inequality and other economic ills. Politicians on both the left and right are talking about it, too—the announcement last week that Amazon is planning to buy Whole Foods has refocused some politicians’ attention on the subject.
Sentiments were similar back in the 1920s, the last period of high levels of corporate concentration and inequality. Isolated protests against big business erupted periodically then as they do now. People who lived in small towns fought the grocery giant A&P’s displacement of local retailers; farmers rallied against the control Wall Street banks had over the agricultural industry; and residents of big cities protested the high prices charged by holding companies that had gained control of the electricity supply.
Oh, Jewsades: on CBS, the Jewish Controlled Broadcasting System.
West Virginia native Rachel Braslavi says she moved into her new home so that her family could have more space, and more of a community feel. But she faces bigger questions than she might with a typical home purchase. Their community is the Israeli settlement of Karnei Shomron, located inside the occupied West Bank.
Asked if she sees her family of settlers as impediments to peace, Braslavi replied, “No. I don’t. I really don’t. I feel that we have a right to be here. And I feel that the Palestinians have a right to be here.”
“On this land?” I asked.
“Not this house,” Braslavi said. “But I mean, in the area.”
This settlement, like hundreds of others, is carved into Palestinian land, surrounded by a security fence. The border separating the West Bank from Israel is called the Green Line. It was drawn as part of an armistice agreement following the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, which was sparked when the modern state of Israel was formed.
Ain’t nothing like the good old Golden Gilded Age: Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer gets 150MW power boost despite concerns over grid impact and local power stability.
Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer has taken a major step forward with approval for 150 megawatts of power from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
This approval significantly boosts the facility’s energy supply, enabling it to run all 100,000 of its GPUs concurrently, a feat previously limited by available power.
However, this massive energy demand has raised concerns among local stakeholders regarding the impact on the region’s power grid.
“The developments we see in Big Tech are very similar to the period called the Gilded Age in the 19th century when massive investments in US railroads gave rise to monopolies in banking, oil and steel. Marc Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Jack Ma can easily be compared to the former ‘Robber Barons’ John P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie”, says SOMO-researcher Rodrigo Fernandez.
For this!
The Royal Netherlands Army plans to equip its soldiers with personal drone-protection gear, including targeting lasers and portable sensors, in an effort to counter the threat of small unmanned aircraft systems that has transformed battlefields.
The war in Ukraine and developments in the Middle East show the drone threat is acute, and Dutch troops currently lack the requisite equipment to effectively protect themselves, State Secretary for Defence Gijs Tuinman wrote in a letter to parliament last week. Given the urgency, the Defence Ministry is looking to buy anti-drone kit in the first quarter of 2025.
Russian and Ukrainian troops battle under a constant buzz of drones that observe any movement, while first-person-view drones target individual soldiers on the move, in foxholes or through the hatches of armored vehicles. While Western armies are unfamiliar with such fighting conditions, they are rushing to adapt.
The world’s most immoral army! Gaza appeals for help as Israeli army attacks key hospitals
A cancer? More like a prion, like that of the Mad Cow/Goyim Variety:
“Israel is a cancer on the Middle East.” Resistance leaders across the region have used that metaphor for generations. The Zionists who dominate American politics, finance and media have attacked it as inappropriate.
But is the metaphor inaccurate? Cancer occurs when a diseased cell or cells begin uncontrollably expanding at the expense of neighboring cells and organ systems. Israel, a malignant body of extremist fanatics implanted into the heart of the Middle East, keeps mindlessly and voraciously expanding, not unlike a virulent tumor. Such pathological Zionist growth has caused untold pain, suffering, and hardship for the people of Palestine, the region, and the world.
Soon to be a Hulu-Amazon Prime-Netflix 10 season series: Historic operation: IDF ship cmdr. speaks about attack on Syrian Navy
“We managed to keep the mission a tight secret, even the soldiers didn’t know what mission they were embarking on,” Lt.-Col. Tomer said.
Paul Haeder, Author 