War is Still a Racket and even more so . . . .
Apr 16, 2026
Here’s a mellow and capitalist spin on War is a Racket:
As long as defense contractors can profit from war, and use these large profits to buy influence with politicians, they will continue influencing U.S. foreign policy. The result is a defense policy driven by corporate interests rather than by the genuine security needs of the nation. To effectively combat war profiteering, comprehensive reforms are essential. Adopting a cost-plus model with profit ceilings, regulating defense sector lobbying, prohibiting no-bid contracts, and holding corporate executives legally accountable represent practical measures to dismantle the financial incentives behind military conflicts. Additionally, the influence of corporate money in politics must be ended, and the revolving door between the government and the private sector permanently closed. Only by addressing the root causes of the political-industrial complex can the U.S. hope to avoid future wars driven more by profit than by principle.
During a Pentagon Christian worship service, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recited a prayer referencing “CSAR 25:17,” which closely mirrored the iconic monologue from the film Pulp Fiction. The passage, famously (and incorrectly) presented as Ezekiel 25:17 in the movie, was adapted to honor a recent combat search and rescue mission.
Ahh, how would Jesus cross that river? Walk on polluted and oil-soaked water? Call his son, Pedophile and Rapist in Chief:
Obaida Hitto reports from Tyre in southern Lebanon, where an Israeli strike has destroyed the last operational bridge over the Litani River.
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The destruction has cut off major routes linking parts of the south to the rest of Lebanon, amid continued targeting of infrastructure in the area.
Was Jesus a fruit eater?
Somewhere, paid for with your tax dollars, are $12,540 worth of three-tiered fruit basket stands. It’s a symptom of a much larger problem.
Buried in the way Congress funds the government is a “use it or lose it” rule that forces federal agencies to spend whatever’s left in their budgets before the fiscal year ends on September 30 or hand the excess money back to the Treasury and potentially lose it in the next year’s allocation.
This happens every year, and every administration does this. But last September shattered every previous record, according to a report released in March by Open the Books, a nonpartisan government watchdog that tracks federal spending.
The Defense Department spent $93.4 billion in September, with $50 billion of that spent in the last five working days. To put that in perspective, only nine countries on Earth have an annual military budget that large.
Yeah, fucking TAX day:
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The shopping list included luxury items like $6.9 million for lobster tail, $15.1 million in ribeye steak, and $2 million for Alaskan king crab, as well as musical instruments ($21,750 for a custom handmade Japanese flute), ice cream machines ($124,000), sushi prep tables ($26,000), and $12,540 for three-tiered fruit basket stands. This is the same administration that created DOGE—an entire department whose sole purpose was to eliminate government waste.
The month after the September splurge, the government shutdown left 42 million Americans—1 in 8—briefly cut off from SNAP food assistance. A federal judge eventually ordered benefits restored, but the disruption was immediate and real for millions of families.
And it may get worse. In July, President Donald Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act restructured SNAP with new work and eligibility requirements and shifted part of the cost to states. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates as many as 4 million people could lose their food assistance permanently as a result.
Trump is now pushing to increase next year’s Defense Department budget by 66 percent, to $1.5 trillion, the largest increase since the Korean War.
More than 40 million food-insecure Americans receive SNAP benefits each month. While the federal government funds the program, the states administer it — which is why Trump is leaning on states to hand over the information.
The Trump administration says many Republican-led states have handed over the data, but more than 20 Democratic-led states have refused to. And now, even as it faces legal obstacles, the administration is trying to twist the arms of officials in blue states by threatening to cut off their SNAP funding.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, “As of next week, we have begun and will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states until they comply and they tell us and allow us to partner with them to root out this fraud and to protect the American taxpayer.”
Yep, tax day, uh? The little guy and gal get breaks!
The Internal Revenue Service, everyone’s favorite tax collector, is facing deep budget cuts — but don’t get too excited. The agency has a bold new plan to audit more of the little people while hiring as few of them as possible.
The agency plans to replace the nearly 30,000 employees it lost to Trump administration cuts with a new army of auditors, one that doesn’t sleep. I’m talking about artificial intelligence, which the IRS has identified as a top priority in its new budget request.
Documents I obtained show that the IRS already has a powerful set of tools to force compliance, from undercover agents to wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance. The collaborates with ICE to monitor the travel of American citizens through. But now, thanks to AI, the IRS’s ultimate goal is for “minimal human contact,” as one document put it.
The centerpiece is Palantir software that allows IRS investigators and auditors to conduct “near real-time data analysis” through a custom tool called the “Selection and Analytic Platform,” or SNAP.
What that means in practice is that millions of middle-income Americans who once fell below the threshold of what scarce human auditors could manage are now within reach. The little guy just became a lot easier to monitor at scale.
The big guy? Not so much.
The budget cuts gutting the IRS’s human workforce were largely engineered by Elon Musk and his DOGE crusade. The beneficiaries are obvious: billionaires who use entirely legal means — offshore trusts, shell companies — to pay little or nothing in taxes. These structures are largely impervious to the IRS’s tools, AI or otherwise. Your cash tips and side hustles are not.
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Sure, Americans are leaning toward Gazans and Palestinians and away from Jews…. RIGHT!
Hollywood is not just entertainment. It is a global propaganda engine that manufactures emotions, shapes who we fear, who we mourn, who we see as fully human, and who is treated as disposable. For Arabs and Muslims, Hollywood has functioned as a hundred-year smear campaign. The Arab or Muslim on screen is overwhelmingly a terrorist, fanatic, oil-hoarding sheikh, oppressed woman, refugee burden, or background extra whose main purpose is to die so that white, usually American or Israeli, protagonists can complete their moral journey.
The attacks of September 11, 2001 became the excuse for everything Washington and Tel Aviv already wanted to do. Israeli officials immediately began framing Israel as the front line in the same war America was now fighting, and U.S. politicians eagerly repeated that line.³⁰ Hollywood responded with a wave of post-9/11 films and television shows that dramatized the War on Terror as a necessary and endless global campaign, centered American and sometimes Israeli suffering while rendering Muslim pain invisible, and turned Arab cities into anonymous backdrops for raids, drone strikes, and heroic special-operations missions.
If one wanted a distilled example of Hollywood’s Islamophobia, American Sniper would be a strong candidate. Based on the memoir of U.S. sniper Chris Kyle, the film portrays Iraqis almost entirely as savages trying to kill Americans for no reason, cowards hiding behind women and children, or legitimate targets to be gunned down from a distance.
Coverage by Al Jazeera pointed out how the movie revives age-old racist roles for Arabs, portraying them as dehumanized and voiceless people existing purely as threats to be eliminated.³⁵ The invasion of Iraq, which was based on lies, goes almost unquestioned. The destruction of Iraqi society is reduced to background noise. Viewers are invited to identify emotionally with Kyle’s trauma, while the Iraqi dead often do not even receive names.
Mossad in Hollywood: Arnon Milchan and the Spy-Producer Era
If this sounds conspiratorial, consider Arnon Milchan. Milchan is a billionaire Hollywood producer behind films such as Pretty Woman, Fight Club, L.A. Confidential, 12 Years a Slave, and Birdman. He has openly admitted that he spent years working as an Israeli intelligence operative and arms dealer, helping secure technology and materials for Israel’s nuclear program while simultaneously building a Hollywood empire.⁴⁷
Investigations and biographies have shown that Milchan’s business network was intertwined with Israeli intelligence, that he used international companies and contacts to acquire sensitive technology for Israel, and that his friendships with powerful Hollywood figures gave him extraordinary soft power.⁴⁸ He is not the only person to bridge these worlds, but he is the most public. His existence destroys the comforting myth that there is a clean line between Hollywood and Zionist state operations. Sometimes that line walks the red carpet.⁴⁹
RE: Hollywood as a Battlefield
Ahh, more Jew News: The Rothschild Nexus
They do not govern, legislate, or command. They have not held high office in two centuries. So what exactly is it that the Rothschilds do?
That’s the question this essay seeks to answer.
The family does not need to control the institutions, the models, the treaties, or the transactions. They need to control the definitions by which those institutions read the world — the instruments by which the system measures itself. Once the instruments are calibrated, the system produces the outputs that follow from the calibration, through mechanisms designed, operated, and enforced by other people, in other institutions, on other continents, across other generations.
The domains are visible to everyone. The paths between them are visible only to those who configured them. The full pattern — the configuration of all paths, the topology of the system as a whole — is visible only from outside.
The system does not require a governor. It requires a calibrator — someone who configures the paths between domains and selects the conditions under which the standards are written. The claim is not that the family controls the institutions that produce the standards. Hundreds of participants sit on those committees. The claim is that members of the family are consistently positioned at the points where input constraint carries the highest leverage — the forum that produces the framework, the scholarship that builds the evidentiary base, the initiative that defines the metric — before any of these enter the institutional architecture.
Other actors populate the institutions. The calibrators configured what the institutions received. The calibrator does not need to be visible, because the calibration, once set, operates through the system’s own logic, producing outcomes that appear institutional, scientific, multilateral, and democratic.
The operating sequence is consistent across every case documented in this series. The family hosts the forum where the standard is developed. The agents carry the standard into the institutional architecture. The architecture, once installed, runs itself. Waddesdon to the TCFD to the NGFS to Basel 3.1. The Rothschild Conference to the WHO Global Health and Peace Initiative. Bellagio to the GIIN to seventeen SDG verticals.
Host, develop, automate. By the time anyone looks, the origin has been removed and the system is running on its own logic.
This is ultimately a description of how value circulates through the architecture of global governance, where the junctions are — and who engineered them.
The Rothschilds do not occupy the clearinghouses. They engineer them.
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LOBOTOMIES: A new Gallup poll released Thursday shows more young men in the U.S. say religion is “very important” in their lives compared to young women — the first time young men have surpassed young women on this measure of religiosity going back 25 years.
Gallup’s latest data shows that 42% of men in the U.S. ages 18-29 said religion is very important to them, a notable increase from 28% in 2022-2023. Over the same time, young women’s attachment to religion has stayed low, at about 30%.
Jesus and his drone women and men, praying on the battlefield or at the Raytheon office:
The word “drone” now stretches to cover everything from hobbyist camera rigs available on Amazon to the Predator and Reaper systems the United States has relied on to fight terrorist organizations over the past 20 years.
[Note: These fuckers equate baby-killing, home-destroying, civilization-maiming death machines made by humans as somehow tied to the evolution of species? We are fucking doomed.]
A common ancestor in the animal kingdom can give rise, under sufficient environmental pressure, to distinct species that demand their own classification. Drones have undergone their own rapid speciation: the one-way attack drone, the medium-altitude, long-endurance and high-altitude, long-endurance drones, the collaborative combat aircraft drone – these share a lineage and a label, but in terms of cost, range and use, increasingly little else.
Nowhere is this variation more consequential than in the category of one-way attack drones: systems designed not to return home like an airplane, but to fly directly into a target and destroy it, like a bullet or a missile. Russia and Ukraine have fired millions of these at each other since 2022, and Iran has launched thousands at United States military bases and embassies, Israel and other countries in the Middle East in 2026.
Because long-range, one-way attack drones are so slow, they are easier to shoot down than, say, a Tomahawk missile, but attackers can fire so many of them that they can overwhelm air defense systems.
The second category of one-way attack drones operates more like traditional artillery – typically from short distances, up to about 100 miles (160 km). Ukraine’s battlefield has showcased these systems extensively, where they generate 60%-70% of the casualties on the front lines.
Jesus’ new vehicle — First Look At What A Night Stalker MV-75 Cheyenne Will Look Like
A new rendering shows an MV-75 with special operations-specific features like a radar, other sensors, and in-flight refueling capability.
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Endless tax dollars for Jesus’ poor: Marines on way to Middle East seen using rifles with anti-drone smart scope
The company that makes the SMASH 2000L advanced fire control system confirmed that a recent series of photos show deployed Marines using the smart scope.
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Endless love from Jesus’ lawyers, a la birth defects, juvenile defects, adult defects, early death death death, RFK Addict Junior!
Stakes high as supreme court set to rule on law involving Monsanto’s weed-killing pesticide
Risks from cancer and other diseases could be hidden with little accountability if justices favor big firms, critics warn
Ahh, Jesus’ Jewish billionaire: Tom Steyer is running the most expensive campaign in America. It might win him the California governorship.
Ahh, Jesus’ arch de Banana Republic: Trump’s design for the Triumphal Arch he wants built at an entrance to the nation’s capital moved a step forward Thursday after a key agency reviewed the proposal for the first time. One commissioner suggested changes, including losing the Lady Liberty-like statue and pair of eagles that would sit on top of the arch and add to its height.
[Projected Cost: Reports indicate a cost of at least $100 million.
- Funding Structure: The White House anticipates a mix of public and private funds.
- Initial Funding: The National Endowment for the Humanities’ 2026 budget includes $2 million in special initiative funds and $13 million in matching funds.
- Details: The 250-foot structure is planned for construction near Arlington National Cemetery.
- Status: A lawsuit was filed in February 2026 to stop the project.]
The arch is one of several projects that the Republican president is pursuing alongside a White House ballroom to leave his lasting imprint on Washington.
The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts voted to approve the concept design for the arch. The seven commissioners, all appointed by Trump, will review an updated version of the design before taking a final vote at a future meeting.
Ahh, the people’s house, sure, that Minyan in the White Man’s House. Treating Americans like Gazans, man . . . . What would Jesus do with no ID?
Underground screening center for White House visitors
The U.S. Secret Service, Interior Department, National Park Service, and the Executive Office of the President want to start construction in August on a 33,000-square-foot (3,066-square-meter) center to screen tourists and other visitors to the White House.
It would be built beneath Sherman Park, federal land southwest of the White House, to provide a more secure place to screen those going on White House tours or attending events. The new facility would have seven lanes to ease processing and reduce wait times.
Officials want it operating by July 2028, six months before Trump’s term ends.
According to The Hill, in an article typical of U.S. media, Trump’s war on Iran is totally legal for 60 days if Congress does nothing, after which it becomes illegal, unless Congress has explicitly OK’d it. This is supposedly because of the War Powers Resolution of 1973. And The Hill is not alone in pushing this idea. Fox News agrees with The Hill. So does Time. So does USA Today. So does The Washington Post. So does Roll Call. So does Politico. So does every AI bot infecting the internet.
However, the War Powers Resolution consists of words that you can read for yourself, and here are some of them:
“The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.”
- There has been no declaration of war by the U.S. Congress since 1941.
- There has been no authorization to attack Iran, nor to continue attacking Iran.
- There has been no attack upon the United States or its territories or possessions, and there were no attacks on its armed forces until after said armed forces had begun the war.
The same law says that a president who launches a war in any of those three situations, then has 48 hours to submit his first report explaining himself, and 60 days after that report (62 days total — plus a possible extra 30) to entirely knock it off. But none of those three situations exists. So, the president must immediately knock it off — must, in fact, have never started the war. It is simply not true that the war will become illegal after 60 days; it has been illegal since the instant it was begun. It is factually false that it must be ended after 60 days in order to comply with the law; it must be ended immediately.
Paul Haeder, Author 