“What we are talking about here is an Israeli establishment that is aiming at the extermination of the Palestinian people. In every possible way. Not only in Gaza but in the West Bank.”
— Mustafa Barghouti, interview, @MEEunapologeti
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That GOD?
Since the “ceasefire” of last October, Israel has slaughtered more than 1,150 Palestinians, having violated the supposed truce over 3,700 times.
That Fucking GOD: Gates of Hell!!!
Across Lebanon, over 1.2 million people were forced from their homes by the Israeli assault, with more than 700,000 people in Lebanon still displaced despite a so-called “ceasefire,” according to the United Nations.
“Everything has been put on standby. The war has prevented us from dreaming,” Shehemy said.
THAT GOD BLESS America:
President Trump has not ruled out using ground forces, including seizing Kharg Island—Iran’s main oil export terminal. He has repeatedly threatened to hit Iranian power plants and bridges next week unless Tehran resumes negotiations.
Iran has responded in kind. An Iranian military official warned of “obliterating all remaining infrastructure in the region” if Trump’s threats are implemented. The IRGC has stated that oil, gas, and chemical fertilizer exports will not resume while U.S. attacks continue.
As one Gulf diplomat put it: “It’s likely to get worse before it gets better.”
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring met with Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche this week at the insistence of a retiring Republican senator, but they emerged from the sit-down describing Blanche as “condescending,” “arrogant” and unwilling to commit to pursuing cases against powerful men named in the disgraced financier’s files.
The meeting, arranged as a condition for Sen. Thom Tillis’s vote to advance Blanche’s nomination out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, came more than a year after victims began requesting an audience with the Department of Justice. Tara Palmeri, a journalist who has covered the Epstein story for years, told Cenk Uygur on The Young Turks that Blanche never wanted the meeting.
“He was forced to. This is part of confirmation politics. He has no regard for them. He has no interest in hearing from them or speaking to them,” Palmeri said in an interview with Cenk. Palmeri noted that Blanche, according to reporting in the book “Regime Change,” had previously suggested offering a pardon to Ghislaine Maxwell in exchange for clearing President Donald Trump.
Tillis, a North Carolina Republican who is not seeking reelection, told Blanche he would not vote for him unless he met with the survivors. The sit-down happened at 4:30 p.m. on a recent afternoon — a last-minute, check-the-box exercise, Palmeri said, that left victims feeling “worse.”
“He was condescending. He was arrogant. He deflected blame and basically told them to go to the FBI and re-report their stories of abuse, retraumatizing them, which they’ve already done,” Palmeri said.
One survivor pushed back directly, asking whether Blanche wanted her to go to the FBI and point out the sworn testimony she had already given agents — files that already exist in the bureau’s Epstein database. Blanche, according to Palmeri, acknowledged the FBI “handled this badly” but acted as if he had no control over the agency, even though the FBI reports to the Department of Justice.
“A priest arrayed in white vestments climbs the tree and, with a golden sickle, cuts down the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloak… They believe that mistletoe given in drink will impart fertility to any animal that is barren and that it is an antidote to all poisons.”
Brookweed (Samolus) likewise had to be picked in very precise conditions. Pliny says it had to be taken with the left hand by somebody who was not allowed to look behind them. [24] Markale suggests that the very careful way in which the druids handled the plants points to their use of homeopathy, in which the slightest interference with their natural qualities could undermine their effect.
As far as trees were concerned, he explains:
“The yew, the hazel, the service tree and the oak are druidic trees, used by the druids” – indeed, Maximus of Tyre, a Greek philosopher of the late second century BC, wrote that the druids regarded the oak as a “visible representation of divinity”.
Paul — “Mistletoe is, in fact, an extraordinary plant. It is a parasite. It is, in a way, a vegetal vampire which feeds on the blood of others. In truth, it survives by drinking the sap of the tree: it is really an ‘oak-water’. Moreover, we know that mistletoe is one of the oldest plants on our planet, perhaps one of the first to have appeared and, in any case, that it is a survivor of a distant era in which conditions of life were not like our own.
“We have to conclude that mistletoe has survived different phases of evolution and that it adapted to new circumstances: it was a matter of life and death. No longer being able to draw its vital energy from the earth, like other plants, it fixed itself to other vegetation and takes that vital energy as its own. In this way, the mistletoe liberates the energy of the oak and makes use of it”.
“Since the oak represents the divine force, cosmic energy, even when it is symbolically replaced by another tree, mistletoe, oak-water is the very essence of divinity.”
A Minnesota business owner left CNN host Jake Tapper stunned Friday after he compared federal immigration enforcement’s detention facilities to concentration camps.
A handful of Minnesota businesses closed to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, including Moon Palace Books, whose co-owner Jamie Schwesnedl appeared on “The Lead with Jake Tapper.” Tapper pushed back during the interview after the Minnesota business owner used the term “concentration camp” to describe immigration detention facilities, saying the phrase carries a specific historical meaning.
[Fucking Jake Tapper, man oh man . . . . ]
“Just one note, I’m not here to defend ICE, but I’m not a big fan of people using the term ‘concentration camp’ to describe detention camps. That has a very specific meaning,” Tapper said.
Schwesnedl responded.
“I understand that, but they take people to Fort Snelling here, which literally was built as a concentration camp, and Alligator Alcatraz, which I think we can all agree is a concentration camp. I’m not saying they’re Dachau. I’m not saying they’re putting people in ovens — yet — but these are concentration camps. I don’t need to argue with you about that,” Schwesnedl said.
Prior to that conversation, Schwesnedl claimed Minneapolis had been “invaded by masked gunmen” sending neighbors to “concentration camps.”
“We can’t do business as usual right now, anyway, because our city has been invaded by masked gunmen kidnapping family members and friends and neighbors of ours to send them to concentration camps,” Schwesnedl told Tapper when asked about the importance of closing their business. “Additionally, there’s a lot of businesses in our area that have staff or customers or owners who are afraid to come to work, afraid to come in and shop. People are closing down today, and we felt like it wouldn’t be kind or fair for us to stay open, so we’re closing in solidarity to help send a message.”
Much of Al-Mansouri lies in ruins, with the Israeli-occupied village of Majdal Zoun just across the valley. Despite the destruction and continued Israeli attacks, around 100 residents have chosen to remain. Al Mansouri, Lebanon. July 16, 2026.
God’s Chosen PEOPLE.
Last month, Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets over Al-Mansouri, declaring the area a “threatened zone,” telling residents to “stay away” and warning that anyone who approached Israeli forces would “put themselves in danger.” Despite the threats, around 100 people have chosen to remain in the village, according to Yousef Shehemy, the mayor of neighboring Majdal Zoun, who has been displaced from his home by the occupying Israeli forces.
“People here believe their souls belong to this land,” Shehemy told Drop Site as he drove past a row of destroyed houses in Al-Mansouri. Shehemy was in the village when the leaflets fell from the sky. “They want to control people’s lives from above with leaflets, drones, sound grenades—all of it to frighten civilians.”
Across Lebanon, over 1.2 million people were forced from their homes by the Israeli assault, with more than 700,000 people in Lebanon still displaced despite a so-called “ceasefire,” according to the United Nations.
“Everything has been put on standby. The war has prevented us from dreaming,” Shehemy said.
You gotta hate Americans, who are all happy go luck about giving Larry Ellison and Oracle and Palantir and Mossad every fucking kernel of caramel corn eaten or shat out in a public bathroom. Look at this fucking Internet “story,” and alas, there is ZERO pushback, ZERO people decrying this Dystopian SHIT.
When the Los Angeles Clippers opened their $2 billion Intuit Dome in 2024, team chief technology and digital officer George Hanna figured roughly one in three fans would opt into the venue’s facial authentication system, which has fans upload a selfie ahead of time and stroll into the building without pulling out their tickets. “On a good day,” he said recently, “That’s kind of what I was hoping for.”
He was wrong.
Last season, by the end of an average game, close to 75% of fans were enrolled in Game Face ID, Hanna said, more than doubling his expectations.
“The curve of adoption was crazy,” he said. “We’re thrilled, and that allows us to sort of keep going and keep pushing.”
LA fan buy-in likely only accelerated the installation of facial scanning tools nationwide—a trend born out of COVID-fueled digitization drives, improved algorithms and growing consumer acceptance. But the developments also raise questions about just how much biometric observation people are willing to allow, both inside and outside The Tampa Bay Buccaneers added a facial recognition-powered “express entry” lane this year, following the Atlanta Falcons’ adoption of similar technology a year prior. The entire NFL now uses the tech to secure the playing fields, locker rooms and press boxes.
MLB, meanwhile, continues rolling out its facial authentication entry options across ballparks. Face-based ticketing came to Ohio State and the University of Florida in 2025 too, as schools looked to speed up student journeys from tailgate to seat.
In total, facial authentication technology provider Wicket says it supports more than 50 pro teams across the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, NWSL, WNBA and Australian Football League, as well as golf and tennis tournaments.
Wicket’s first major sports foray came in 2020, when the Cleveland Browns turned to the technology to limit fan-employee contact during the COVID-19 pandemic. The system decreased entry times and food lines, including by reducing the number of fans packing the remaining traditional pathways. As the tech has improved, the company has been able to install its tablet-based scanners in more locations, such as club-level entrances. One of the biggest hurdles each time the tech debuts, Wicket COO Jeff Boehm said, is explaining to fans that, No, you don’t have to pull out your phone or credit card. Your face is all you need.
“It’s almost so little friction that fans are almost confused by how easy it is,” he said.of ballparks.
“Churches are using it to see who is coming to the pews. Roller rinks have used it to decide whether or not someone has had too many fights and doesn’t get to come in anymore. Stores are using it to try to identify shoplifters,” he added. “I can’t give you a kind of quantitative answer, but what I can say is that it is increasingly common across public accommodations in America.”
Ahead of the 2026 World Cup, Kansas City is piloting facial recognition technology on local buses. Add that to the list.
Internationally, biometric surveillance is becoming increasingly commonplace. A new Premier League program will leverage “intelligence-led facial recognition in London to identify and prevent serious offenders attending matches,” the league announced earlier this month. In Brazil, stadiums with capacities beyond 20,000 seats are required to install biometric tracking systems. Palmeiras has a deal with local police to share some of that information, which has reportedly led to the arrest of more than 200 people who entered the venue.
“We know exactly who is in each seat,” club executive Oswaldo Basile said in October.
Fears over facial tracking are compounded by how the information could be combined with increasingly sophisticated forms of online monitoring and individualized messaging, now supercharged by generative AI tools.
“The targeted ad industry is incentivizing a pervasive economy of surveillance of us at all times,” Schwartz said.
Early facial ticketing pilots were met with some protests. And energy still exists to create more state or federal oversight. But as the technology’s penetration has expanded, pushback seemingly hasn’t. A demand for security is leading venue operators to test out the newest tech, while a desire for convenience and personalization has seen fans increasingly getting in line.
2025 was the year facial recognition went mainstream. For now, privacy crusaders are left to wait.
Real-Time Bidding: Personal data is continuously broadcasted to thousands of advertisers through real-time bidding, creating deep privacy and security risks.
Behavioral Tracking: Invisible trackers, cookies, and pixels build detailed psychological and behavioral profiles.
Offline Integration: Online monitoring is increasingly paired with real-world surveillance, such as facial recognition scanning in public spaces and sporting venues.
Surveillance Pricing: The infrastructure used to target ads is also being used to determine the prices consumers are charged based on their personal data.
These fucking millionaires and billionaires need to be pitchforked into mulch . . . “Landmaxxing Has Billionaires Buying Up All the Homes Around Them”
THESE PEOPLE NEED TO BE SHOOT, GUTTED, SPLAYED!
“It’s about controlling their lifestyle and their surroundings,” explains agent Angel Nicolas of Serhant. Some clients buy neighboring properties to create a larger estate, while others hold onto them for future development or to pass down to the next generation.
“Your home isn’t just the four walls you live in—it’s the entire experience of the neighborhood around you,” he says. “If you have the chance to own what’s next door, it can give you both peace of mind and flexibility for the future.”
An ongoing search at the site of a US airstrike on a school in southern Iran has recovered further remains belonging to 32 of the child victims, but authorities say no trace has yet been found of Makan Nasiri, a boy who has been missing for almost five months.
Officials in Hormozgan province said on Tuesday that weeks of recovery work at the Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab and the surrounding area had led to the discovery of 62 body fragments, which DNA testing identified as belonging to 32 of the students killed in the February 28 attack.
This guy is yammering and yammering . . . .
Blackhawk Down . . ..
Blackhawk downer costs a lot.
New reports confirm a massive $70 billion discrepancy regarding the true financial burden of the U.S.-Iran conflict. While Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified that direct military costs have reached $37.5 billion, independent experts estimate the actual ongoing economic impact is over $100 billion when factoring in hidden costs like supply chain strain and soaring consumer energy prices.
President Donald Trump’s administration sought phone records of several New York Times journalists and even those of some of their relatives, according to a motion unsealed Monday — an unusually aggressive attempt to unmask the confidential sources of reporters who wrote about Trump’s Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet.
The efforts by the Republican president’s administration to compel the identity of sources in the form of additional subpoenas come at a time when the executive branch’s relationship with the press is increasingly contentious. The efforts, described in a letter-motion filed by the Times over the weekend, were more expansive than previously known, the newspaper noted. They also covered a time frame that exceeded the news articles in question.
“Two of the subpoenas seek records beginning on January 1, 2026, long before the events that are purportedly the basis for the Department’s investigation,” lawyers for the Times wrote in the letter. “That timeframe strongly suggests that the Department is using this investigation not to focus on any purported concerns arising from the July 8 and 9 articles, but instead to forage for information about the Journalists’ source relationships more broadly.”
Crap headline from Al Jazeera.
The Houthis may soon discover the limits of Saudi strategic patience
Saudi Arabia has so far ignored provocations to preserve regional stability. But it may soon be pushed into action.
Independent analysts and opposition lawmakers accuse the Trump administration of severely understating the true cost of the U.S. war in Iran.
While U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified to Congress that the conflict has cost $37.5 billion so far, independent tallies from groups like Moody’s Analytics and defense analysts place the total economic and operational cost upward of $100 billion to $132 billion.
Critics argue that the White House is using a narrow accounting framework and invoking operational security to obfuscate the full financial burden and growing casualty numbers from the American public
The supreme international crime according to 2017 U.S. media reporting is interfering nonviolently in a democratic election — at least if Russia does it. William Blum, in his book Rogue State, lists over 30 times that the United States has done that. Another study, however, says 81 elections in 47 countries. France 2017 makes that total at least 82. Honduras 2017 makes it 83. Russia 2018 makes it 84. The 2020-revealed 1964 coup in British Guiana makes it 85. Somalia 2022 would be 86. In 2025 Trump’s blatant interference in Argentina and Honduras would make it 88. There are clearly dozens more.
Paul Haeder, Author 