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$31-34 billion from USA tax coffers to the Jewish State of Murder/Rape/Starvation/ Maiming since Oct. 2023???? . . . But there’s hundreds of billions more flowing in, man . . .

Paulo Kirk

Feb 15, 2026

First, my fucking hero:

CIA agent Felix Rodriguez left, and Bolivian soldiers pose with Che Guevara moments before his execution, Bolivia, 9 October 1967…

This is one of the most studied photographs from the Cold War in Latin America. The man in the center had gone from revolutionary guerrilla fighter in Cuba to a symbol of global anti-establishment revolt. His capture in Bolivia was the result of coordinated intelligence support and local military operations. He was wounded, captured, interrogated, and ultimately executed the next day, but this photograph is the last image of him alive.

The shot feels at once casual and chilling because the men around him treat it almost like a trophy moment. The Cold War was not only fought by nuclear doctrine. It was fought in the jungle, the mountains, and small villages where ideology was enforced bullet by bullet and body by body.

After the execution, his hands were severed and preserved for identification records before the rest of his remains were hidden in an unmarked grave until they were found decades later.

Apple has paid nearly $2 billion for a ‘pre-speech’ tech company whose employees helped Israel commit genocide in Gaza.

And Apple has paid this money, the second-biggest deal in its history, for a company that doesn’t have a product, doesn’t have any revenues, and whose website is a single page containing 15 words.

The company, Q.ai, is developing sensors that map the imperceptible movements of a human face to determine the words someone is thinking before they’re spoken.

They call it silent speech.

Or pre-speech.

Smartphone displaying Google’s logo held up against background featuring the Wiz logo

Oh, the billions flow . . .

Last year, Google bought Israeli cybersecurity Wiz for $32 billion, which, at 64 times Wiz’s annual sales, was widely seen as an inflated price and far in excess of the sales-to-valuation ratio for similar companies.

At this price, however, Israel received a huge $5 billion tax windfall. At the time Zionists crowed it would help the country buy more warplanes and missiles to commit genocide.

A few days after the Q.ai deal, the head of neurotechnology at Israel’s directorate of defense research and development, the country’s equivalent to the US’s DARPA programme, gave her first-ever interview to Israeli media. In the interview she referenced Q.ai and said the Israeli military is working on similar technology. The US has a DARPA project known as Silent Talk which is also working to develop pre-speech sensing and non-verbal control technologies.

Once the technology is developed, and pre-speech established as a legitimate biological human function, how far behind will pre-crime be?

“I’ve had protestors at the Capitol about it,” Michaelson Jenet said. “I still believe it’s one of best things I did.”

Michaelson Jenet not only spoke publicly about her son’s mental health struggles, but her own. She received vicious attacks from some Coloradans but says she doesn’t regret opening up.

“I think that being authentic and being vulnerable are very important leadership traits,” she said.

She now hopes to be a vehicle for change. She is leaving to take a job at the David Merage Foundation for Confronting Antisemitism.

“I absolutely needed to do this,” the state senator said. “I thought, ‘This is the time; this is the time that I need to stand up for my community and my Jewish community, and take the leadership that I have learned in this role and put it to use to stamp out hate.’”

Yep, from child abuse to mind warping.

Here, she’ll be tapping in with her Talmudist warped thinking with the other Jewish Mind Warping Cunts: Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.

  • The Vulcan Salute: This split-fingered hand gesture was adapted from the Priestly Blessing (Birkat Kohanim) Nimoy witnessed as a child in an Orthodox synagogue. The shape represents the Hebrew letter Shin (ש), symbolizing Shaddai (Almighty God).

In a move bound to draw opposition from the Orthodox establishment, feminist activists are planning to hold a first-ever priestly blessing ceremony at the Wailing Wall for and by women. And the estate of the late Leonard Nimoy is helping fund it.

The event, scheduled to be held during the Passover holiday, is being organized by Women of the Wall, the multi-denominational prayer group that holds a monthly prayer service at the Jewish holy site. The blessing will be led by women who trace their lineage to the priestly class known as the “cohanim.”

For the first time in global legal history, a country has recognized the legal rights of insects, and it is the stingless bees of the Peruvian Amazon that are taking the first step toward a new model of coexistence between nature and the law

Stingless bee species in the Peruvian Amazon now recognized as legal subjects with environmental rights

Fucking HELL: Peru’s position regarding the conflict in Gaza has been characterized by a, at times, cautious diplomatic approach that contrasts with stronger actions taken by some of its South American neighbors, while simultaneously taking concrete legal steps against individuals involved in the conflict. While Peru has generally voted in favor of humanitarian relief for Palestine at the United Nations and called for a ceasefire, it has not officially adopted the term “genocide” to describe Israel’s actions, unlike countries such as Colombia or Bolivia.

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte speaks at a ceremony marking the 42nd anniversary of the National Police of Peru's Counter-Terrorism Directorate, DIRCOTE, on July 5, 2025. (Photo: Flickr/Presidencia Perú)

In the Peruvian Andes, on Pukamoqo hill, stands a 26-foot-tall statue of Jesus Christ, named the Protector of Cuzco. It was a gift given to Cuzqueños by a group of Palestinian refugees who had fled to Peru during World War II, as a symbol of gratitude for the community’s acceptance. The first stone was laid on June 24, 1944, coinciding with Inti Raymi, a Quechua celebration of the sun god Inti. It was the first public Inti Raymi celebration since the Spanish colonial government had outlawed the practice in the late 16th century. It has been celebrated every year since.

In 2023, both communities– indigenous Peruvians and Palestinians– faced a sharp escalation in violence from the governments that rule them. Between late December 2022 and March 2023, nearly 70 indigenous dissidents were murdered by the Peruvian police and armed forces at protests across the country. As a result, Peruvian President Dina Boluarte would be investigated for genocide and crimes against humanity. For the bloodshed, the public christened her “Dina Asesina.”

Peru recognized Palestinian statehood in 2011. Like most of its fellow United Nations member states, Peru regularly votes against Israeli occupation and in favor of humanitarian relief for Palestine. As recently as June 12, 2025, the Peruvian delegation voted in favor of a permanent and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza.

Four days later, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese released a report on the economy of genocide in Gaza, naming Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace as two of the biggest benefactors in the ongoing genocide. Just two days after that, FAME (Fábrica de Armas y Municiones del Ejército,) Peru’s state-owned munitions company, began a private international competition to determine a strategic partner for their artillery systems. The competitors were Israel’s Elbit Systems, Turkey’s Roketsan, and China’s Norinco, with Elbit emerging as the winner on July 14, 2025.

If signed, this contract would undoubtedly make Peru a party to two genocidal crimes– its own and Israel’s. As Albanese wrote, “International partnerships providing weaponry and technical support have enhanced Israeli capacity to perpetuate apartheid and, recently, to sustain its assault on Gaza.”

Jews infect EVERYTHING: The Nasser Hospital Complex has condemned aid group Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, for pulling out of operations, alleging the presence of armed men and weapons at the facility.

In a statement on Sunday, the hospital said the MSF allegation was “false, unsubstantiated, and misleading” and “posed a serious risk to a protected” civilian medical facility – one of southern Gaza’s last functioning large hospitals.

“Such statements are not neutral. They foreseeably endanger Nasser Hospital Complex, serving over one million civilians, by undermining its protected status under international humanitarian law. MSF is aiding in manufacturing consent for attacks against the hospital,” it said.

Genocidal WHORES.

Fucking Mel Brooks and Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld all rolled up into these fucking JEWS: Genocide Pornography.

Meet the settlers of Instagram, the photogenic West Bank women documenting pastoral life

As the war of opinion rages on amid an Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire, these influencers beyond the Green Line seek to win hearts and minds while documenting their rustic lifestyles.

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“We, States of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom condemn the approval by the Israeli security cabinet of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank,” according to a joint statement.

“We recall our clear opposition to any form of annexation and to the expansion of settlement policies,” the countries said, adding: “We call on Israel to reverse this decision, as well as the expansion of settlements.”

“We are resolute in our support of Palestinians’ right of self-determination. We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to a comprehensive, just and lasting peace based on the Two-State solution.”

Crypto ZioChristianity on the march: Trump has chipped away at the long-standing wall between church and state. It’s just the beginning. What’s good for the Jewish vermin in Occupied Palestine, Good for the Lobotomized Goy in the UnUnited Shekels of AmeriKKKa.

And you thought there were good guys with fucking white hats on. Motherfucking ACAB.

Roy Rogers turned Billy the Kid into a good guy in Billy the Kid Returns.

Homeland Security watchdogs who were forced out of their jobs warn that the Trump administration’s “alarming” rush to deputize hundreds of local police departments to enforce federal immigration law – while gutting independent oversight – risks “a threat to civil rights nationwide.”

When the experienced civil rights watchdogs had their jobs cut last year by the Trump administration, they were in the process of scrutinizing the controversial federal program allowing local police to conduct federal immigration enforcement work, an investigation by the Guardian can reveal.

Tom Mix often wore a white hat

The vexed program gives local, county and state law enforcement officials unusual powers to detain, arrest and interrogate immigrants and turn them over to federal immigration authorities – a system critics say is open to abuse and risks alienating communities from local police.

[Joe Arpaio and Donald Trump in 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona]

One of the most striking examples was in Maricopa county, Arizona. Federal investigators in 2011 found Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his agency were violating constitutional civil rights by racially profiling Latinos, and illegally detaining people. After a lengthy lawsuit, Arpaio was convicted in 2017 for refusing to stop his anti-immigration patrols. Trump pardoned Arpaio soon after.

Following the Arpaio civil rights controversies, among others, the task force model was discontinued in 2012, leaving intact other 287(g) partnerships allowing local officials to hold immigrants for ICE.

[Fucking White Albino Ghouls, man, it never ceases to amaze me how DNA warped the fucking supposed “white” race is.]

The U.S. ambassador to NATO on Saturday expressed the need for “strong allies, not dependents” in response to a question about NATO defense spending contributions at the Munich Security Conference.

The Czech Republic has refused to increase the country’s defense spending above 2 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP), in violation of NATO’s new requirements for its member states to contribute 5 percent of their GDP to core defense spending by 2035.

This is the fucking carnival cunt of a country: Two golfers in Washington, D.C., sued the federal government on Friday to try to prevent the Trump administration from overhauling a more than 100-year-old public golf course, accusing the administration of violating environmental laws and polluting a park that is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The suit is the latest in a series of legal battles challenging President Donald Trump’s extraordinary efforts to put his mark on public spaces in the nation’s capitol, including shuttering the Kennedy Center.

That’s right, the Jews are losing. In 2025 Elbit Systems more than doubled its previous annual sales for its Laser Target Designator (LTD) systems, reflecting rising demand as militaries across the world increasingly rely on precision-guided targeting and networked battlefield systems.

LTDs use laser beams to precisely mark a target, allowing compatible weapons to lock onto and strike it accurately. All six of Elbit’s LTD systems for use on land and in the air “meet NATO laser‑coding standards, enabling smooth coordination among coalition forces,” the company stated.

“Targeting with laser designators is something that takes place a lot on the modern battlefield,” an Elbit official told Defense & Tech by The Jerusalem Post, pointing to the growing need to strike mobile targets and fleeting target opportunities. “This is the main advantage of using a laser designator.”

It’s the old Oppen-Monster-Heimer thing: fucking can’t stop these cocksuckers once the genie is out of the fucking bottle?

Experts are already warning against technology going out of control. Researchers with some of the most prominent AI companies have quit their jobs in recent weeks and publicly sounded the alarm about fast-paced technological development posing risks to society.

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The latest resignation was from Mrinank Sharma, an AI safety researcher at Anthropic, the AI company that has positioned itself as more safety cautious than rivals Google and OpenAI. It developed the popular bot, Claude.

In a post on X on February 9, Sharma said he had resigned at a time when he had “repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions”.

The researcher, who had worked on projects identifying AI’s risks to bioterrorism and how “AI assistants could make us less human”, said in his resignation letter that “the world is in peril”.

“We appear to be approaching a threshold where our wisdom must grow in equal measure to our capacity to affect the world, lest we face the consequences,” Sharma said, appearing to imply that the technology was advancing faster than humans can control it.

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Later in the week, Zoe Hitzig, an AI safety researcher, revealed that she had resigned from OpenAI because of its decision to start testing advertisements on its flagship chatbot, ChatGPT.

Robots

“People tell chatbots about their medical fears, their relationship problems, their beliefs about God and the afterlife,” she wrote in a New York Times essay on Wednesday. “Advertising built on that archive creates a potential for manipulating users in ways we don’t have the tools to understand, let alone prevent.”

Separately, since last week, two cofounders and five other staff members at xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company and developers of the X-integrated chatbot, Grok, have left the company.

Yoshua Bengio

Suleyman added that machines are only months away from reaching AGI status – which, for example, would make machines capable of debugging their own code and refining results themselves.

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“White-collar work, where you’re sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person, most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months,” he said.

Mercy Abang, a media entrepreneur and CEO of the nonprofit journalism network, HostWriter, told Al Jazeera that journalism has already been hit hard by AI use, and that the sector is going through “an apocalypse”.

“I’ve seen many journalists leave the profession entirely because their jobs disappeared, and publishers no longer see the value in investing in stories that can be summarised by AI in two minutes,” Abang said.

“We cannot eliminate the human workforce, nor should we. What kind of world are we going to have when machines take over the role of the media?”

Oppenheimer: the banality of evil and self-portrayal of Hollywood moral bankrupcy, it’s a tale told by an idiot.

How to make a movie about one of history’s greatest war crimes, which is really the only reason the vast majority of the moviegoing audience gives a fig about that man in the first place, and glossing over the deed itself and its effects while delving endlessly about trivialities like his sex life, meaningless political discussions, stupid self-aggrandizing quotes from a raving megalomaniac and petty personal vendettas. We are left with the portrayal of a soulless man, a monster, an empty shell, with whom paradoxically we are expected to sympathize.

Depicting a war criminal (by his own admision made in private, although he never had the guts to confess it in public) as a “tormented genius”, as if he was Vincent van Gogh or somebody else like that. Had this movie be made in 1972 Don McLean would have called his song “Oppie” instead of “Vincent”. The movie is abysmally campy in his turgid sanitization attempt of a irreedemable historical figure.

The supreme irony of giving at the same ceremony the best international fillm to a movie about Rudolf Höss, while failing to notice the close paralels between his story and that of Oppenheimer. Casting a light over Hollywood monstruos hypocrisy and utter lack of self-awareness.

At the core of the film, USA phallic obsession with big guns and big bombs, as well as their customary glamorization and sanitization of war, bombings, shootings, explosions and wanton destruction.

The idea of calling this monster “American Prometheus” is of such flabbergasting stupidity and tastelessness, and the usual USA megalomania, as if the atomic bomb was a precious heavenly-sent gift, while ignoring the more obvious appropiate parallel with the myth of Faust is another proof of their lack of self-awareness.

All form, no substance. At the end the famous quote by Shakespeare could be applied to this movie: “ A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing”.

Fucking Dumb as fucking Lemmings, Goyim.

In farm bill, GOP takes another swing at pesticide protections loathed by MAHA

Yep, the good guys over at fossil fuel-plastics: Polluting the environment for all eternity—and still sticking our heads in the sand by Hilde Ervik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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Plastic pollution is more than just trash on the beach. Marine plastic waste releases PFAS and heavy metals into the water of small freshwater lakes and ponds, at levels exceeding the threshold limits. Birds and animals drink this water. PFAS are “forever chemicals” that threaten both the natural environment and human health.

Norway is home to fantastic natural places that provide us with outdoor recreation and learning. Everyone says they want to protect the environment, but do they actually do anything? The reality is brutal: the environment is being degraded, species are disappearing, and populations are declining sharply. This does not just happen by itself—it is the result of human choices.

Before an environmental problem becomes acute, we call it an environmental challenge. At that point, we still have the opportunity to act. One of the biggest environmental challenges of our era is plastic pollution. Plastic that ends up in the ocean and along the coast does not disappear—it breaks down into microplastics and remains in the environment. It threatens marine life, birds, animals and, ultimately, us humans. It is not a problem that we can keep putting off—it must be solved. Now.

Every year, more than 19 million metric tons of plastic make their way into rivers, lakes and oceans. The experience of volunteers and professional clean-up organizations is clear: large volumes of marine plastic waste are cleaned up from coastal areas, but more continues to flow in from the sea and is washed up onto the land. This process continues year after year.

We are facing a “compound interest” effect in the amount of marine litter in the coastal landscape. With the current system, however, neither volunteers nor professional organizations are able to deal with what is already in the environment or what will continue to be added. This will be a problem for many decades to come.

[Soldiers select their taco toppings out of gleaming, blue Le Creuset cookware at 42 Bistro, the Army’s first privately run dining facility, at Fort Hood, Texas, on Feb. 12, 2026.

Faggotry a la Uniformed Mercenaries: Excitement and a little confusion filled the main atrium of Fort Hood’s new privately run dining facility Thursday as soldiers got their first look — and taste — at the future of Army dining. With four stations lining the walls and a self-serve, pay-by-the-weight salad bar down the center, diners can choose from burgers and grilled chicken sandwiches, deli sandwiches and wraps, pizza and pasta, or smoothies and blended bowls. A rotating station featured chicken or beef tacos with rice and beans out of gleaming, blue Le Creuset cookware.

[Pfc. Allen Nguyen and Spc. James Reeves use an ordering kiosk at 42 Bistro, the Army’s first privately run dining facility, at Fort Hood, Texas, on Feb. 12, 2026.]

“The food quality is higher,” said Spc. Mitchell Wilcox, who was eating at 42 Bistro for the second day in a row. “They’ve got things I didn’t even know about. You can get tofu on the salad bar.” His tray held a salad piled high with toppings — such as eggs, sliced peppers and cucumbers — a grilled chicken sandwich with bacon and cheese, and a protein smoothie. It cost $23, which is higher than the $15.86 available through the meal entitlement he’s afforded for living in the barracks. But he was able to put some of his breakfast and dinner money toward the larger lunch meal. Each day, barracks soldiers’ meal entitlements allow them to access up to $39 in food broken down over three meals.


After a soldier pays, a receipt shows how much of the entitlement, referred to as “freedom dollars,” was spent and how much remains. This can also be spent in a traditional dining facility so long as they have not already dipped into funds allocated for that meal.

Freedom Turbines: Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is continuing to fuel its datacenters with unpermitted gas turbines, an investigation by the Floodlight newsroom shows. Thermal footage captured by Floodlight via drone shows xAI is still burning gas at a facility in Southaven, Mississippi, despite a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling reiterating that doing so requires a state permit in advance.

[xAI’s Colossus 2 datacenter in Southaven, Mississippi, powers the company’s controversial chatbot, Grok.]

State regulators in Mississippi maintain that since the turbines are parked on tractor trailers, they don’t require permits. However, the EPA has long maintained that such pollution sources require permits under the Clean Air Act.

Any exemption for these machines “could leave these engines subject to no emission standards at all”, the agency wrote in a January final ruling.

Note: Don’t believe a fucking word Amazon states. Sorry to subject you to these fucking plastic robots, but Good Morning AmeriKKKa shows it like it isn’t? Amazon’s smart doorbell maker Ring has terminated a partnership with police surveillance tech company Flock Safety.

The announcement follows a backlash that erupted after a 30-second Ring ad that aired during the Super Bowl featuring a lost dog that is found through a network of cameras, sparking fears of a dystopian surveillance society.

But that feature, called Search Party, was not related to Flock. And Ring’s announcement doesn’t cite the ad as a reason for the “joint decision” for the cancellation.

Ring and Flock said last year they were planning on working together to give Ring camera owners the option to share their video footage in response to law enforcement requests made through a Ring feature known as Community Requests.

“Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated,” Ring’s statement said.

Judge Orders ICE to Let Clergy Give Communion to Detained Migrants on Ash Wednesday

A Catholic nonprofit and several clergy said immigration authorities had unlawfully blocked its members for months from providing pastoral care at an ICE facility in Broadview, Ill.

A crowd of people, many wearing yellow T-shirts, marching down a road holding a white banner.

“The whole world has seen the injustices of our federal immigration system,” Father Leandro Fossá, a member of the nonprofit, said. “We are eager to see how the federal government responds to the injunction and restores the fundamental religious rights of people in detention to receive pastoral visits, rights that had been honored previously.”

God’s chosen people:

Services cut. Staff laid off. New Trump cuts hit schools in 11 states, D.C.

Halfway through the academic year, the administration canceled $168 million in community schools grants.

MAGA MAGA MAGA.

The Education Department canceled 19 of roughly 70 ongoing five-year Community Schools grant awards, according to a list obtained by Education Week.

Those 19 grants—spread across 11 states and the District of Columbia—amounted to nearly $61 million in funds that were due to flow Jan. 1, and another $107 million that was due to flow by 2028.

The loss of those funds could lead to layoffs for dozens of public school educators nationwide within weeks. In Idaho alone, 60 community schools coordinators across 47 rural school sites have salaries funded in part or in full with the now-excised grant funds.

[Her wealth is primarily tied to her husband, Vince McMahon, whose net worth is also estimated at $3.2 billion. While the couple is reportedly separated, they remain legally married, and their fortunes are often cited collectively due to their shared founding of WWE and holdings in its parent company, TKO Group Holdings. ]

“These schools are the beating heart of their rural communities,” said Laura Roghaar, project manager for the Idaho Coalition of Community Schools. “To invest in them in the way they deserve, and then suddenly disinvest in them, is wild.”

We gotta end with more Jew News, the virus that is Judaism, whichever fucking angle you want to sit on those pointy fucking stars of david . . .

Jeffrey Epstein’s Sinister Shadow Over West Asia

Thiel was well-placed to know this was the Obama administration’s strategy. Birthed with seed funding from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, Palantir made vast sums serving as the War On Terror’s “Secret Weapon”. It was used to hunt “bad guys” at war with the US, and Israel – the key beneficiary of West Asia being set on fire during this period. Not coincidentally, the Zionist entity has for years employed a variety of Palantir products. Thiel commented in July 2024, the Gaza Holocaust well-underway:

“My bias is to defer to Israel.”

That month, Barak’s wife emailed Epstein while visiting New York demanding an “urgent short meeting” between Epstein and her husband. One day later, Donald Trump withdrew from the Iranian nuclear agreement, in favour of a “maximum pressure” campaign. In July 2018, Barak’s private surveillance firm Toka broke cover publicly for the first time, announcing it had raised $12.5 million in seed funding from investors including venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Andreessen Horowitz invested in several ventures also backed by Jeffrey Epstein, including CoinBase. It is unknown whether Epstein invested in Toka, although his interest in such a company would be clear. The firm is stacked with former Israeli cyber spies, and has patented technology capable of locating security cameras and webcams, hacking into them, then altering their live feeds without trace. Such a resource removes any need for real-life individuals to oversee “honey trap” operations, and targets to take the bait.

[Ashkenazi Jewish descent. While the firm itself, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is a private venture capital entity rather than a religious organization, its leadership and investment activities frequently intersect with the Jewish community and Israel.]

[Benjamin Abraham Horowitz[5] was born in London, England and raised in Berkeley, California, the son of Elissa Krauthamer and conservative writer and policy advocate David Horowitz. He was one of the few white players on the Berkeley High football team.[6] He is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Horowitz’s great-grandparents were Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire who arrived in the U.S. in the mid-19th and early 20th centuries.]

Magazine cover of a woman in a pink dress

Ben Horowitz has publicly endorsed Donald Trump and — in partnership with co-founder Marc Andreessen — plans to give a “significant” amount of money to his campaign. Felicia appears to be on board with the decision, retweeting her husband’s Trump endorsement and scrubbing her social media of all photos with liberal politicians. Through May 2024, she has donated 11 times to Republican politicians and PACs, including Trump’s running mate Sen. J.D. Vance.

How the Horowitzes arrived at this point, however, is a bit of a mystery. For close friends and longtime followers of the couple, the astonishing about-face has left them scratching their heads.

Both had been Democratic donors for decades, pledging nearly $300,000 combined between 2008 and 2023 to candidates on the left, including Barack Obama, Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, and Sen. Cory Booker. Felicia donated $1,000 to Joe Biden’s 2020 election campaign; Ben donated more than $33,000 to Obama-related entities in 2015.

The couple’s philanthropic foundation, the Horowitz Family Foundation, gave more than $1 million to the American Jewish World Service, a human rights organization with which Felicia traveled to advocate for sex workers in Cambodia and the transgender community in Uganda, and to the T.D. Jakes Foundation, a self-described “DEIA organization” (diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility) founded by a prominent Texas pastor. The foundation has also given more than $500,000 to organizations associated with anti-recidivism and prison outreach.

[Felicia Horowitz (née Wiley) is a Black woman. She was born and raised in Compton and Carson, California]

Felicia took a special interest in Glide, a nondenominational church in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district known for its services for homeless people and its commitment to social justice. Horowitz donated nearly $1 million to the organization and was a familiar face at both its prep kitchen and its star-studded galas. In 2016, she received one of the church’s top awards, named after late co-founder Janice Mirikitani, which honors a “local change agent who embodies Janice’s spirit and commitment to transforming lives.” Mirikitani and her husband, the late Glide co-founder Cecil Williams, were also guests at the Horowitz’s 2018 CEO BBQ.

Felicia Horowitz with Ruth Messinger in Uganda, 2010.

Fucking Jews, man . . . .

Felicia: About 10 years ago, I met Ruth Messinger for the first time. She was impressive. She was CEO of the American Jewish World Service (AJWS) and before that she served 12 years in the New York City Council and 8 years as the Manhattan borough president. Among her numerous accolades, she has been named one of the 50 most influential Jews of the year. She was super accomplished and I was a woman from Compton trying to raise my kids. To this day, I really don’t know why she singled me out and focused her attention my way, but she said: “I want to be your mentor. I want you to join me in my quest for Tikkun Olam — to repair the world. I want you to see the world through my eyes.” Say what? Me? Compton shorty? Repair the world? I’m trying to get my daughter Sophia to dance class. I am not a thought leader. I am not even Jewish. You must have the wrong person.

Ruth was not hearing my hesitation. She pressed further. “Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel said, ‘An honest estimation of the moral state of our society will disclose: Some are guilty, but all are responsible.’” She then said: “’Never again’” cannot be reserved for only Jews.” Ahem, are you listening, Ruth? I am NOT Jewish.

Ultimately, after several months of this pursuit, I relented and agreed to go on a trip with her in 2010. Ruth selected a journey to Uganda to advocate for the rights of LGBTI people and sex workers. OK, I was not sure that I was signed up for this. I had never even met a sex worker let alone advocated for one, but Ruth was insistent, so I went.

I Want You to See the World through My Eyes

More on the money thieves:

A recurrent phenomenon in the newly-released documents, emails and text messages is Epstein and his grand global nexus seeking to profit from Western-inflicted misery the world over. On March 18th 2014, in the Maidan coup’s immediate, violent aftermath, he emailed Ariane de Rothschild, a French banker and CEO of the Edmond de Rothschild Group since March 2023, due to her marrying into the famous, powerful Jewish family. Epstein was exhilarated. “Ukraine upheaval should provide many opportunites [sic],” he wrote.

De Rothschild was drained after a “very long day sitting on bank board,” but delighted to hear from her close friend. “Miss our talks and hope you’re well,” she gushed. “Will be at home tomorrow night, will you be free? And let’s discuss Ukraine.” The “opportunities” Epstein perceived in the shattered post-coup country, as it plunged into Western-sponsored civil war, could’ve ranged from an untapped reservoir of young girls and vulnerable women, to pillaging the country’s vast resources.

In July 2011, Epstein emailed associate Greg Brown, declaring “the Libyans now are legit, but need real help,” adding “they must be careful there will be many claims on that money.” He was referring to Tripoli’s frozen overseas assets, seized by Western powers in March that year, after the country plunged into insurrectionary violence. Epstein fired off this missive right when NATO’s bombing of Libya graduated from striking government forces to actively supporting rebel advances, as foreign fighters closed in on the country’s capital.

Brown excitedly responded, “there are already $80 billion in frozen funds/assets internationally,” and perhaps “three to four times this number in sovereign, stolen and misappropriated assets.” He was working with MI6 and Mossad veterans to “identify stolen assets and get them recovered.” If they could “identify/recover 5% to 10% of these monies and receive 10% to 25% as compensation,” the Anglo-Israeli private spying network could reap “billions of dollars”.

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Americans are obsessed with public safety. AI companies believe they have the solution.

Of course, Whitney….

Minority Report?

Herman DeBoard is the founder and CEO of Airez, a small AI start-up pitching a revolutionary real-time security system that uses AI neural networks to spot potential crime.

Real-life ‘Minority Report’: AI hopes to stop crime before it starts



I posed the Minority Report comparison to DeBoard. “That’s pretty close to what we’ve created here,” he said, although they normally get compared to Skynet, the malevolent superintelligence system from the Terminator series. He said PreCrime’s human overseers in Minority Report, who have to vote on whether or not to act on a crime ball, mirror the agentic system they’ve set up.

Here’s how it actually works: A client, say a Vegas casino or an NFL stadium, reaches out to Airez about streamlining their security systems. The Airez team runs a non-invasive pilot, which involves the client sending over facility sensor data (mainly video footage, but eventually audio recordings, security systems, environmental or biometric information, you name it), which is then run through the Airez model. Airez scans through the information, flagging any pieces of data that stand out as anomalous.

“We give you contextual stories of what’s happening. Everything from an emotional evaluation of the people involved, how tall they are, what their cultural makeup is, what they’re wearing, to what direction they’re walking and what they actually did.” They’re looking at how the environment around them changed too, DeBoard explains. “We paint these pictures in little 60-second clips, and then we send them to a security operations center or someone who’s monitoring this.”

Herman DeBoard: From Veteran to Tech Entrepreneur, Making the World Safer One Event at a Time

To paraphrase DeBoard: Airez is merely looking for things that are out of place.

If the facility likes what Airez finds and signs on, the company launches a full integration, connecting the Airez software and dashboard to the facility’s existing security system. The company can provide additional sensors, like infrared cameras or Airez’s multi-patented FoRi (Fiber Optic Ring Interferometer) system, which captures vibrations or audio signals and determines precise geographic locations. It was designed by a former lead scientist at Halliburton and expands on existing fiber optic tech for listening to oil leaks in the ocean — it’s mainly deployed in parking garage pilots, for now. Airez is ready to start monitoring right away, no acclimation period needed.

An illustration of a city surrounded by a glowing bubble. A neon, futuristic head floats above it.

She’s merely looking for things that are out of place.

The AI is a “true agentic AI system,” DeBoard says, utilizing real machine learning built on multiple Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs). He explains it as a proprietary blend of in-house and external models that form a super-powered GPT with contextual intelligence, fusing data from cameras, sensors, and external feeds. The company is currently running active pilot programs with three transportation networks — an interstate public transit provider and two inner-city public transit systems — and an international oil and gas company.

He speaks of “her” — DeBoard describes the AI as female — with a sense of awe.

“This is going to sound a little creepy. It does to me, and I’m the creator, but she’s currently cognitive,” DeBoard says, insisting he’s not delusional. “She has the five senses. She even can smell. We do gas sensors and ammonia sensors. And then she makes sense of it in a way that she can then speak to you.”

Minority Report full novella.

All that isolation, all that anguish and yearning and poverty, made his life hell but fed his creativity. Dick was just marginal enough to look under the rock of postwar prosperity. His best books—including The Man in the High Castle, Ubik, and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch —reveal an American Orwell, updating the British novelist’s unyielding despair with a dose of California mellow dystopianism. Also, a sense of humor.

Orwell explained in 1984 that with the advent of television, and the subsequent ability of each set to both send and receive signals, “private life came to an end. Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for twentyfour hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed.”

In Dick’s world, it is hard to keep the police separate from the corporations or distinguish the state’s propaganda from capitalism’s. Or maybe they’re all space aliens. The idea isn’t so much to crush the citizens—Orwell’s notion of “a boot stamping on a human face— forever”—as letting them know who is boss, and getting another buck out of them. Consider, for instance, the scene in Ubik (1969) where the down-at-his-heels Joe Chip is trying to get out of his “conapt,” which is to say his apartment:

The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”

He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”

“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”

In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.

“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.

From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.

“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”

Better than any other SF writer of his era, Dick nailed a future where machines are neither masters nor tools but both at once. On the Internet, he is celebrated as a prophet. “There will come a time,” he predicts in a quote that circulated widely post-Snowden, “when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me.’ ”

This brilliantly sums up a future that is just about here, when your technology will track you so it can order more toilet paper when you are running low, but the truth seems to be that Dick never said it. In a twist the writer would have appreciated, the lines accurately mirror his beliefs but are not his words. A real fake, that is to say. The machines in Dick’s universe have the power to console, too.

From millions of Iranians to the free nations:

Stand with Iran against the Great Satan.

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