Oracle CEO Safra Catz wrote that Americans must be taught (brainwashed) to ‘love and respect’ (kiss their fucking genitals) Israel.
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country.
The first quotation comes from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, the architect of fascism. The second comes from Pete Hegseth during his speech at Quantico. I don’t pair them to suggest Hegseth has read or is consciously borrowing in any way from Mussolini, but rather to highlight a kind of echo. This administration shares, with earlier iterations of fascist politics, an obsession with action, with the kinetic application of power.
Mussolini was obsessed with presenting fascism as a politics of action—a kind of lived politics that expressed its philosophies in flesh and blood. Consider this passage from “The Doctrine of Fascism”:
Fascism wants man to be active and to engage in action with all his energies; it wants him to be manfully aware of the difficulties besetting him and ready to face them. It conceives of life as a struggle in which it behooves a man to win for himself a really worthy place, first of all by fitting himself (physically, morally, intellectually) to become the implement required for winning it.
- The Enemy Within by Kris Lundgaard: A 1998 Christian book with the subtitle “Straight Talk about the Power and Defeat of Sin,” which draws from Puritan theologian John Owen.
- The Enemy Within by David Horowitz: A 2021 political book subtitled “How a Totalitarian Movement is Destroying America,” which argues that the “barbarians are already inside the gates”.
- The Enemy Within by Seumas Milne: A book from 2004 with the subtitle “The Secret War Against the Miners,” which focuses on Margaret Thatcher’s use of the phrase and her government’s actions against the miners’ strike in the 1980s.
One video produced for the Pentagon’s social media plays footage overlaid with a text quotation of Psalm 18:37: “I pursued my enemies and overtook them. I did not turn back till they were destroyed.”
Cunts, Comics, House Niggers, and White Trash in Saudi Arabia:
A comedy festival in Saudi Arabia featuring high-profile American performers is drawing intense criticism from human rights advocates who say the star-studded event helps gloss over the kingdom’s ongoing human rights abuses.
The Riyadh Comedy Festival, which kicked off on September 26, has styled itself as “the world’s largest comedy festival,” with sets from more than 50 star comedians, including Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr and Pete Davidson. Running through October 9, the festival was organized by the Saudi Tourism Authority as part of the kingdom’s push to attract more visitors.
A joint investigation by the Security Force Monitor — a project of Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute — and the Washington Post recently concluded that a “substantial portion” of airstrikes that have killed civilians in Yemen have been carried out by jets developed, sold, and maintained by US companies and flown by US-trained pilots. The researchers, led by Columbia’s Tony Wilson, made the discovery by analyzing thousands of publicly available news stories, photographs, and videos about the Yemen war along with US military contracts. This enabled them to show that particular Saudi, Emirati, Kuwaiti, and Bahraini fighter squadrons that have flown sorties over the country are heavily reliant on US equipment and training. (The Security Force Monitor was founded in 2016 to conduct research that increases the accountability of police, military, and security forces around the world.)
Wilson and Priyanka Motaparthy ’09LAW, a Columbia Law School associate research scholar who contributed to the research, published an essay about the investigation in the online publication Just Security on June 4, the same day the Post ran its story. They expressed hope that their revelations will put pressure on the US government to more thoroughly scrutinize its support for foreign militaries.
“It is high time for the United States to finally spend the time and resources to review whether coalition squadrons that benefitted from U.S. military contracts conducted attacks in Yemen that may constitute war crimes — and to disclose their findings to Congress and the public,” they write. “A continued failure to do so would ensure that the United States remains complicit in ongoing — and perhaps future — serious human rights abuses in a war that has claimed countless lives, with no accountability.”
- Saudi border guards have killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers who tried to cross the Yemen-Saudi border between March 2022 and June 2023.
- Saudi officials are killing hundreds of women and children out of view of the rest of the world while they spend billions on sports-washing to try to improve their image.
- Saudi Arabia should immediately and urgently revoke any policy to use lethal force on migrants and asylum seekers. Concerned countries should press for accountability and the UN should investigate.
You fucking dirty traitors, comics and AmeriKKKans one and all:
The UN has estimated that the war in Yemen, which began in March 2015, had killed 377,000 people by the end of 2021 – through direct and indirect causes. Over 150,000 of these deaths were the direct result of the armed conflict, while far more have died due to hunger and disease as a result of the humanitarian crisis caused by the war. Nearly 15,000 civilians have been killed by direct military action, most of them in air strikes by the Saudi-led Coalition. Air raids frequently targeted civilian gatherings such as weddings and busy market places where there was no military target nearby, often with extremely deadly consequences. Many of these air raids appear to be clear violations of International Humanitarian Law.
On 29 March 2022, the Saudi-led coalition announced that it would cease all hostilities within Yemen to facilitate political talks and peacekeeping efforts. This was shortly followed by a two-month truce. Within a year, peace talks between Saudi and Yemen commenced, and most restrictions on commercial goods were lifted. However, at the time of writing (September 2025) no peace deal has been secured. However, no Saudi-led coalition air raids have been recorded since the April 2022 ceasefire.
Despite the UK government’s claims to have provided training to the Coalition to avoid civilian casualties, there is no sign that the UK’s alleged efforts reduced the deadly toll of the air raids. UK-manufactured weapons have been tied to individual attacks violating International Humanitarian Law.
On 12 January 2024 the US launched strikes in Yemen against the Houthis in response to Houthi attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The UK was the main partner of the US in the coalition bombing campaign with British fighter jets taking part in strikes. Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and New Zealand were named as additional supporting nations under the banner of Operation Poseidon Archer. YDP established a new database when US-led strikes began. The database includes US-led sea-to-land naval bombardments as well as air raids. The bombing campaign ended with the start of the ceasefire in Gaza on 19 January 2024 and the end of the Biden administration. Download the dataset for US-UK strikes from 12 January 2024 to 19 January 2025 here.
“Saudi adds a F-15SA fighting unit to the fighting units participating in the coalition.” Screen capture from Al Arabiya news, a broadcast channel funded by the Saudi government. Video also shows F-15SA plane with tail number 2901. The Scramble database confirms only the 29 Squadron has tail numbers beginning with “29” in the Saudi air force. Video archived with Yemeni Archive by Security Force Monitor.
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As dirty as a prince:
An email from former Oracle CEO Safra Catz to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was revealed in a hack of Barak’s email account and first reported by Responsible Statecraft.
“We have all been horrified by the growth of the BDS movement in college campuses and have concluded that we have to fight this battle before the kids even get to college. We believe that we have to embed the love and respect for Israel in the American culture. That means getting the message to the American people in a way they can consume it,” Catz wrote in February 2015.
TikTok investor pushed to embed pro-Israel content in US culture
Former Oracle CEO Safra Catz wrote that Americans must be taught to ‘love and respect’ Israel.
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This is a war broke back mountain cuntry.
How Hegseth’s newly proposed military fitness standards compare to existing tests
Troops will now be required to take at least two fitness tests per year.
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Ah, those fucking Catholic Cunts:
- Summary
- Conservative Catholics criticise pope over Trump comments
- Leo questioned if Trump’s immigration crackdown was ‘pro-life’
- Pope had been gaining praise from conservatives in first months
- Vatican officials say Leo unlikely to be deterred by criticism
VATICAN CITY, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Pope Leo initially impressed conservative Catholics after his election in May as he embraced traditions shunned by his predecessor Pope Francis and steered clear of hot button social issues that divided the 1.4 billion-member Church.
But his honeymoon with conservatives appears over after he unexpectedly took aim at U.S. President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policies, questioning whether they were in line with the Church’s pro-life teachings.
Ahh, leave it to Jewish and Felony Friendly Forbes to run the banner headline, cunts:
Dave Chappelle’s cousin?
Rep. Cleo Fields bought thousands of dollars’ worth of Oracle stock in the days before the Trump administration announced that the company would be playing a role in the pending U.S. spinoff of TikTok from Chinese company ByteDance.
According to a congressional financial disclosure document, Fields, a Democrat, bought between $80,000 and $200,000 worth of Oracle shares across three different trades on Sept. 17, 18 and 23, which was first reported by NOTUS on Wednesday. The full report can be read here.
The news of Oracle’s involvement with the TikTok deal was reported on Sept. 22, before Donald Trump signed an executive order on Sept. 25 announcing the plan to have a coalition of various American tech companies, including Oracle, which was founded by Trump ally Larry Ellison. The U.S. collective would hold a majority share in TikTok if the deal is approved.
The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, or STOCK Act, says that members of Congress cannot use nonpublic information to inform personal financial decisions. It is not clear whether Fields knew about Oracle’s potentially lucrative deal with TikTok.
Silicon Sicarios: The owners of a fiber-optic provider in eastern Oregon now admit they didn’t tell authorities about their company’s dealings with Amazon in 2018, when they sought state permission to buy the telecom business from a nonprofit on whose board they had served.
Abbott and COstello:
In a joint statement, Jeffries and Schumer said the projects “aren’t political trophies — they are lifelines.”
“They mean tens of thousands of good-paying union jobs. They mean shorter commutes, safer travel and a stronger economy not just for New York, but for the entire nation,” the leaders said. “Choking off these projects out of spite will damage America’s competitiveness and cost working families dearly.”
Asked at the Capitol if he is being targeted, Jeffries said, “The Trump administration is targeting the jobs, thousands of jobs of hard-working Americans. Working-class Americans and blue collar Americans will lose the ability to work at the Second Avenue Subway site or at the other project that has been canceled related to the Cross-Harbor Tunnel.”
Asked about the move, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said, “Vote to open up the government, that issue goes away, right?”
The Senate has failed to approve House-passed legislation to keep the government funded through Nov. 21, sending the country into a government shutdown on Wednesday morning.
The Hudson Tunnel Project is a decadelong effort to build a new two-tube rail tunnel under the Hudson River and rehab the existing North River Tunnels for Amtrak and NJ Transit traffic on the Northeast Corridor, the busiest Amtrak region in the country. The Second Avenue Subway project, which is currently in its second phase, aims to extend the Q subway line into East Harlem and Harlem, as well as add new stations.
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More House Negros: The head of Goldman Sachs Group‘s charitable arm has warned of the challenges the philanthropic world is facing from US President Donald Trump‘s efforts to curb programs that don’t align with his policies
Goldman Philanthropy Boss Says It’s ‘Tough Time’ for Nonprofits
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Thespians:
As journalist Jasper Craven reported in a recent piece for The Baffler, Hegseth has defined himself in opposition to women since he was an undergraduate at Princeton. According to a friend who knew Hegseth during his time in ROTC, the future Pentagon leader feared women “didn’t have the ability, if he was shot, to pick him up and carry him off the battlefield. That rubbed him the wrong way.” A hypermasculine bravado would later shape his time in public life. Hegseth has shown a particular reverence for special operators, defending some against accusations of war crimes, and he complains, often, that “woke” standards are weakening the military. Although Hegseth’s military career “was not especially remarkable,” Craven wrote, he expects his sons “to join the military — specifically, to become certified killers, as Navy SEALs, Army Rangers, or Green Berets.” During his confirmation, a New Yorker investigation uncovered a pattern of sexual harassment at Concerned Veterans for America when Hegseth was the leader of the conservative group. Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that a woman had accused Hegseth of rape. (He reached a financial settlement with the woman but denies the allegation.)
[Steven Simoni, co-founder of Allen Control Systems (ACS), which makes an AI-powered turret for machine guns called the Bullfrog, looks at a circuit board at ACS headquarters in Austin, Texas, U.S]
How a Silicon Valley ‘warlord’ got the Pentagon’s attention
[An AI-powered turret for machine guns called the Bullfrog, developed to shoot down drones and built by Steve Simoni’s company Allen Control Systems (ACS), is prepared for testing outside Austin, Texas, U.S]
[An AI-powered turret for machine guns called the Bullfrog, developed to shoot down drones and built by Steve Simoni’s company Allen Control Systems (ACS), is prepared for testing outside Austin, Texas, U.S]
Steven Simoni’s transformation from Silicon Valley entrepreneur to defense contractor reflects how the tech industry itself is being reshaped by war and geopolitics. Once known for selling a payments start-up to DoorDash, Simoni has rebranded himself as the co-founder of Allen Control Systems, maker of the “Bullfrog” AI-powered autonomous machine gun. With millions in venture capital funding and Pentagon contracts, Simoni is no longer pitching QR codes but lethal weapons for the future battlefield.
The Emergence of Defense-Tech Startups
Simoni is part of a wider trend in which Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are turning toward defense technology. Inspired by figures like Palmer Luckey of Anduril and Alex Karp of Palantir, a new wave of start-ups is building drone swarms, autonomous boats, spy satellites, and AI-guided weapons. The driving forces are clear: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, wars in the Middle East, and a rising China have created demand for rapid, innovative defense solutions that traditional contractors struggle to deliver.
The ‘Warlord’ Persona as a Strategy
What makes Simoni stand out is his brash personal style. Appearing in designer tracksuits, throwing parties for generals, and cultivating a “warlord” image, he has embraced Silicon Valley’s culture of self-promotion. By turning himself into a character, he captures media and Pentagon attention alike. But this blurring of persona and product raises uncomfortable questions: is lethal technology being marketed like a consumer gadget? And can hype-driven branding coexist with the sober responsibilities of arms manufacturing?
Key Issues at Stake
Militarization of Innovation: Civilian entrepreneurs now compete with legacy defense firms, reshaping who controls the future of warfare.
Hype vs. Reality: Silicon Valley’s “fail fast” ethos may be disastrous when applied to weapons systems.
Ethics of AI Weaponry: Developing autonomous systems blurs accountability for decisions of life and death.
Commercialization of War: Defense is increasingly treated as just another sector for start-up disruption.
Hegseth said to his audience on Tuesday,
“…if the words I’m speaking today are making your heart sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign.”
Where’s the anthrax or Neutron bomb?
Fucking Thespians, one and all: Rousseau expresses his belief that actors and actresses themselves are people of an undesirable lifestyle and potentially weak moral foundation. Rousseau describes them as scandalous, hedonistic, and compares them to jesters, who were more blatantly indecent and obscene.
- Undermining authenticity: For Rousseau, an authentic person is transparent and true to their natural self. An actor, by profession, is the opposite—a person who “counterfeits himself” and presents a character different from who they really are. This practice of dissimulation is dangerous because it blurs the lines between one’s real and performed identity, making it easier to adopt a false persona in everyday life.
- Encouraging artificiality in society: Rousseau believed that the theater, far from improving morals, encourages the kind of insincere, artificial behavior that plagued Parisian society. He argued that before the advent of sophisticated arts, people were “rustic but natural.” In contrast, the constant demands for politeness and social performance in civilized society force people into a “vile and misleading uniformity,” where no one “dares to appear as what he is”.
- Corrupting the moral character: The actor’s trade involves performing emotions “in cold blood” and saying things they do not mean for monetary gain. This professional hypocrisy, Rousseau argues, creates a servile and base character. He contrasted this with the ideal civic virtue of a republic, where citizens are transparent and unified.
- Isolating the audience: Rousseau believed that theater isolates the audience instead of uniting them. People gathered together to watch a play are, in fact, experiencing emotions privately and irresponsibly, without any real-life consequences. He famously argued, “People think they come together in the spectacle, and it is here that they are isolated”.
“Religion is for people who’re afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there.”
― Vine Deloria Jr.
“Until America begins to build a moral record in her dealings with the Indian people she should not try to fool the rest of the world about her intentions on other continents. America has always been a militantly imperialistic world power eagerly grasping for economic control over weaker nations.” ― Vine Deloria Jr.
“Some years back Richard Nixon warned the American people that Russia was bad because she had not kept any treaty or agreement signed with her. You can trust the Communists, the saying went, to be Communists. Indian people laugh themselves sick when they hear these statements. America has yet to keep one Indian treaty or agreement despite the fact that the United States government signed over four hundred such treaties and agreements with Indian tribes. It would take Russia another century to make and break as many treaties as the United States has already violated.” ― Vine Deloria Jr.
Paul Haeder, Author 