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“Every time we lifted a stone, we increased our sense that we might succeed in saving a life, or that we might find someone who could not be saved.”

Paulo Kirk

Mar 11, 2026

Read the DropSite News piece below and see the very real consequences of these arms dealers, these button-down Boeing cunts, these Andril Luckey fucks, all those Jerry Garcia tie-wearing heathens, those eyesores of humanity hunkering down in their Eichmann rationalizations that a job is a job, and, “hey, I am not pulling the trigger or detonating the bombs or launching the missiles . . . I just make parts for them to feed and clothe, and outfit my family.”

The top employer of mathematicians in Tucson, Arizona — this blue dot in a red state, this self-proclaimed sanctuary city, this place where we put “hate has no home here” signs in our front yards — is Raytheon, the weapons manufacturer now rebranded as RTX. They employ approximately 13,000 people in Tucson and generate a $2.6 billion annual economic impact on Arizona. That number — $2.6 billion — is the gravitational force that keeps Tucson’s economy from being just a university town and a retirement destination. It funds our tax base, our university partnerships, our job market for the most mathematically gifted graduates the UA can produce.

It underwrites our progressive self-image.

And it is built entirely on one product: weapons. Tomahawk cruise missiles. Each one costs over two million dollars. Each one is designed to kill things with extraordinary precision. Each one, when it was fired toward southern Iran on February 28, 2026, had a Tucson return address.

Our city has a Latina mayor, Regina Romero, who has spoken passionately about immigrant rights and fighting ICE raids that terrorize brown families in our streets.

We march.
We protest.
We put rainbow flags and Aquí Estamos banners on the same city blocks where Raytheon engineers commute to work.

And yet — search as you might — you will not find a statement from Mayor Romero about the girls of Minab and Tucson’s role in it. Not one word. El silencio también es una declaración.

If you are going to be outraged about ICE agents terrorizing brown children at the U.S.-Mexico border — and you should be, that outrage is righteous and correct — then you must also be willing to look into the Smoking Mirror and ask: what about the brown children on the other side of our missiles?

Consistency is not optional. Moral clarity doesn’t come with a geographic exception.

RE: From a Tucson Factory Floor to a Girls’ School in Iran: The Raytheon Supply Chain Nobody Wants to Trace | 170+ Brown Youth Killed

An Amazon AI Picked the Target. A Raytheon Missile Finished the Job. | Project Blue, Claude, and 175 dead schoolgirls

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Tucson 🌵☀️ calls itself a progressive sanctuary city 🕊️🤝🏙️ — but it sits on a $2.6 billion 💰 weapons economy 🔫🏭 built by Raytheon ⚙️, the maker of Tomahawk cruise missiles 🚀💥 now confirmed to have been used near a girls’ elementary school 🏫👧📚 in Iran 🇮🇷 where 175 people were killed 💔🪦, mostly children aged 6 to 12 🧒🩸. 🚀

The same AI model 🤖🧠 that Amazon 📦 nearly brought to Tucson’s Project Blue data center 🖥️🔵 — Anthropic’s Claude ✨ — was used by the Pentagon 🏛️🇺🇸 to select over 1,000 targets 🎯 in the first 24 hours ⏱️ of the Iran war 🇮🇷⚔️, and investigators 🕵️‍♂️🔍 believe outdated AI intelligence 📉💾 may have sent a $2 million 💸 Tucson-built missile 🚀🌵 into a classroom 🏫✏️💥. 🇾🇪

This isn’t the first time 🔄📅: in 2016, a Raytheon bomb 💣 from Tucson 🌵 killed 31 people 🪦 at a Yemeni water well 🇾🇪💧🚰, a story the New York Times Magazine 📰🗞️ traced step by step 👣 from our desert factory 🏜️🏭 to a village of farmers 🛖🌾. 💀

The girls of Minab 👧🇮🇷 have names 🏷️ — Hana, Zahra, Athena, Mahna 🗣️📝 — and Tucson’s progressive leaders 👔🏛️ have not said them 🤐🔇❌. The Smoking Mirror 🪞💨 doesn’t care whether you mean well 🤷‍♂️🚫❤️. It shows you what is 👁️🔍📠. 🧮

Well, this kind of super gun market sweep?

Trump Says Iran Has Tomahawk Missiles When Asked About Deadly School Strike

“The only other countries using Tomahawks are Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Netherlands,” said Mark F. Cancian, a senior adviser for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a national security-focused think tank. “Iran has none, though it has lots of missiles of different kinds.”

Tomahawk cruise missiles (particularly modern variants) possess advanced guidance systems that allow for mission aborts or rerouting after launch, rather than a traditional “kill switch” that instantly destroys them. Newer Block IV/V missiles can loiter, change targets, or be diverted, providing significant control over the weapon.

Now, of course, Israel has that ability to kill switch helicopters and cars and planes and trains and automobiles and projectiles.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and seven other people (eight total) were killed when their helicopter crashed in a remote mountainous area of northwestern Iran on May 19, 2024. The crash, attributed to poor weather conditions including thick fog, killed all occupants, including Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian.

The largest consumer gun show in the world is Wanenmacher’s Tulsa Arms Show in Oklahoma, featuring over 4,000 tables. For industry professionals, the SHOT Show in Las Vegas is the largest, with over 60,000 attendees. Other major events include the NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits.

Oh, this one, can you imagine, running around putting stickers on the baby and woman- and boy-murdering weapons for your local militia or army?

One of the World’s Largest Arms Fairs Has Arrived in London – and Artists Are Fighting Back

Activists aim to whip up a protest as weapons buyers flock to the Defence and Security Equipment International trade show

1,600 international exhibitors and military delegations – from Hong Kong to Saudi Arabia – for a weekend of sales negotiations and networking. To set the scene, picture yourself at an art fair but imagine you are met with weapons and warmongers rather than a tired Jeff Koons sculpture.

Representatives from some 2,000 companies will this week evaluate the latest defence technologies at France’s Eurosatory weapons show in northern Paris. Notably absent this year are Israel and Russia, who were excluded because of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

Funeral of the victims of the terrorist attacks carried out by the United States and Israel.

A tsunami of people, a crowd of people, has invaded Tehran during the funeral of the martyrs of the terrorist attacks carried out by the United States and the Israeli regime, shouting slogans calling for revenge and expressing their unwavering support for the Iranian armed forces.

The United States and Israel have carried out over 2,000 strikes inside Iran since February 28th. This war began without a congressional declaration, without a UN mandate, and against a country that the IAEA confirmed had not built a nuclear weapon and that had, in the days before the bombs fell, signaled willingness to sign a comprehensive nonproliferation agreement.

The Trump administration walked away from that deal and chose bombs. Netanyahu described it as something he’d been wanting to do for 40 years. Good to know.

Now two girls’ elementary schools have been blown up.

On the first day of strikes, the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, in southern Iran, was hit during the school day — struck three times by three separate missiles.

AMeriKKKan Evangelical Weapons — Crusaders

  • Tomahawk Land-Attack Missiles (TLAM): Launched from Navy destroyers and submarines, these long-range cruise missiles have been used to strike high-value targets, including IRGC facilities and air defenses. New versions with a glossy black low-observable coating were observed for the first time.
  • Precision Strike Missile (PrSM): Confirmed by CENTCOM for use in this conflict, these land-based missiles launched from HIMARS units provide long-range precision fire (range >499km) and have replaced older ATACMS in some roles.
  • Hellfire Missiles: Carried by MQ-9 Reaper drones to target “high-value, fleeting” personnel and equipment.
  • Standoff Weapons: Undisclosed long-range munitions launched from B-2 stealth bombers and F-22 Raptors to engage targets from outside the reach of Iranian air defenses.

I love the Jewish people and Israel will exist until the end of time w my full support. The Bible reigns above and fascism should dissolve in the bosom of hell. Anyone who pushes Nazism is not welcome @CPAC

Jew Weapons — Jewsaders.

Rampage: Long-range, supersonic air-to-ground missiles used to strike hardened targets like missile silos and command bunkers.

  • SPICE-250: “Smart” standoff glide bombs with satellite and electro-optical navigation used for precision strikes on UAV factories and military headquarters.
  • JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munitions): 2,000 lb GPS-guided bombs dropped by F-15 and F-35 aircraft.
  • Air-to-Air Missiles: F-15 escort packages are equipped with AIM-120 AMRAAMAIM-7 Sparrow, and Python 4 missiles to maintain air superiority.

Shabbat at CPAC: The Jewish conservatives who want to ‘Make America Great Again’

Despite media reports of “Nazis” at the conference, JNS found a very conspicuous and proud Jewish presence.

Two Jewish men meet in a buffet line and start arguing about whether Jews should move from New York City to Oklahoma.

“What’s the weather like?” one asks. “Better than New York!” says the other.

Others join in. Is it even possible to get a good bagel in Oklahoma, one wonders. “That’s why we need a community!” says the architect of the Oklahoma exodus.

This isn’t the setup of a joke. It’s Shabbat dinner conversation at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual gathering of mostly American right-wingers that has been a fixture on the political calendar of the Republican Party for decades.

Repeat attendees said that this year’s CPAC, held in National Harbor, Md. just a few miles south of Washington, D.C., seemed to have fewer attendees and less star power than previous years. (CPAC denied that there was any drop in attendance.)

U.S. President Donald Trump at a dinner for the nation’s governors in the East Room of the White House, Feb. 21, 2026. Credit: Daniel Torok/White House.

Trump’s keynote address on Saturday was the only one of the events at the three-day conference that JNS attended where the main hall was fully packed to its capacity of about 5,000 people. This year, just 12 members of Congress and one governor spoke, compared with 32 who spoke at the 2012 election-year CPAC, prior to the Trump presidency.

RE; The U.S. Homicide Rate is 60% Higher than Iran’s; Yet The U.S. Calls Iran“Barbaric”

World’s biggest arms bazaar has fight on its hands

Craftsmen in the Pakistani town of Darra Adam Khel have been making and selling weapons for 150 years. Now they are staring down the barrel of red tape and legal regularization!

Well, this is fucking bullshit. We should have LAWS and grenades and rocket propelled grenades, dudes.

There are more than one billion firearms in the world and the majority are owned by ordinary people, according to the Small Arms Survey. It estimates that 85% are in civilian hands, 13% are in military arsenals and 2% are owned by law enforcement agencies.

The Arms Bazaar - Wikipedia

The Arms Bazaar: From Lebanon to Lockheed is an investigation and anatomical study of the international arms trade by Anthony Sampson (1926–2004).

  • Total Jobs: Approximately 2.4 million jobs are tied to the aerospace and defense industry.
  • Major Employer Breakdown: The top 5 U.S. aerospace and defense companies (Lockheed Martin, RTX, Boeing, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman) employed over 800,000 people collectively as of 2021.
  • Sector Breakdown (Approximate):
    • Aircraft Systems: ~543,760 jobs.
    • Land & Naval Systems: ~138,370 jobs.
    • Space Systems: ~80,830 jobs.
    • Cyber Systems/Surveillance: ~79,950 jobs.
  • Defense Industrial Base: Comprises over 60,000 companies.

Top Institutions with Robust Dual-Use Military Programs

  • Arizona State University (ASU): Known for its massive online presence, extensive Yellow Ribbon program, and the Pat Tillman Veterans Center, which assists with military education benefits and career services.
  • University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC): Enrolls over 55,000 military-affiliated students, offering online degrees and in-person classes at military installations worldwide.
  • Purdue Global: Offers specialized online programs that convert military training into college credit (up to 54% for associate degrees), with a focus on leadership, business, and health sciences.
  • Oregon State University (OSU): Provides military-friendly online programs (Ecampus) that allow flexibility for active-duty personnel, featuring a specialized Beaver Vet Community and veteran resources center.
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Worldwide): Specializes in aviation, aerospace, and security, with programs tailored to military personnel and veterans looking for careers in these sectors.
  • George Mason University (GMU): Features a Military Alliance Program (MAP) that trains staff to support veterans and allows military academy credits to be applied toward degrees.
  • Bellevue University: Recognized for military-friendly, flexible online programs and a dedicated military/government outreach team.
  • Drexel University: Offers a strong Yellow Ribbon program with no cap on the number of veterans, providing 10–54% tuition reductions for military families.

Senior Military Colleges (SMC) & Specialized Institutions
These schools offer a “dual track” (military leader or civilian leader) and are authorized by the U.S. Army to host ROTC programs:

  • Texas A&M University (College Station): Features the Corps of Cadets.
  • Norwich University (Vermont): Often considered the birthplace of ROTC.
  • The Citadel (South Carolina): A military college focused on leadership development.
  • Virginia Military Institute (VMI): Focuses on military discipline and academic study.
  • Virginia Tech: Hosts a Corps of Cadets alongside a civilian university.
  • University of North Georgia: Recognized as a senior military college in the Georgia system.

Key Characteristics of These Programs

  • Credit for Military Experience (ACE): Institutions like Purdue Global and Troy University heavily credit training from Joint Services Transcripts (JST).
  • Tuition Assistance (TA) Coverage: Many schools, such as American Military University (AMU), Columbia Southern University, and Trident University, fully cover tuition at the $250/credit hour rate.
  • Flexibility: Programs are designed for high mobility, offering 100% online or hybrid, self-paced, and asynchronous courses, as seen in Western Governors University (WGU) and Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU).
  • Industry-Relevant Skills: These schools offer degrees in cybersecurity, intelligence, emergency management, and leadership, which are directly applicable to both defense and private-sector jobs.

2026 Best Military-Friendly Online Colleges

The Army hopes to lure civilian tech workers by letting some join as captains

“In this case, the direct commissioning program, we’re really focused on folks coming in at the lieutenant and the captain level to help us in the technical areas in our operational units.”

The Tech Bros Now Have Military Ranks — What Could Go Wrong? | by Carlyn Beccia

Quoting Beccia— Money buys you government subsidies, “gold card” immigration status, or even a meeting with Trump. Throw down enough meme coin and you can buy your way out of regulations, and into DOGE(y) fictitious government agencies with exclusive briefings.

And, now, money buys you a rank in the US military.

Take, for example, Shyam Sankar, Palantir’s Chief Technology Officer, who was recently awarded the position of Lieutenant Colonel. He only had to ask.

“I want to join the Army. I want to wear the cloth of the nation.”

Well, soldier boy, ask and you shall receive.

Sankar is not the only officer pulled from the pantheon of tech’s elite into the position of Lieutenant Colonel. There’s also Andrew “Boz” Bosworth — a Facebook veteran turned Meta’s CTO. From OpenAI, we have two new military recruits — Kevin Weil (product chief) and Bob McGrew (former research head).

Each of these four men is a multi-millionaire several times over. They certainly aren’t chasing an Army stipend. Nor are these your average fresh-faced cadets. Typically, direct commissions into the Army Reserve — common for doctors, lawyers, chaplains — come in at the Captain or Major level. But these tech titans waltzed in at Lieutenant Colonel — a rank usually earned after 16+ years in uniform, commanding hundreds of troops. It’s the brass without the slog.

Rescue Efforts in Tehran After a Triple Strike Hit Apartment Buildings, Killing 40

TEHRAN, IRAN—Less than an hour before a deadly airstrike tore through a residential neighborhood in Resalat Square in eastern Tehran late Monday evening, Hassan Sharifi was walking through the area on his way home. He passed by the mid-rise apartment buildings that housed bakeries, shops, cafes, and small grocery stores on their ground floors. When the missile struck, he immediately ran back to the square.

“I didn’t think about myself,” Sharifi, a 40-year-old accountant, told Drop Site News. “I ran toward the collapsed buildings to help whomever I could. I felt that every minute mattered.”

What he found was devastating. The building facades had been blown away. Balconies had collapsed. Windows shattered. Rubble was everywhere. Inside, where families lay buried under the broken concrete, screams began to fill the air.

At least 40 people were killed, according to official reports. Most of the victims were civilians who had been inside their homes when the strike hit, Iranian media reported.

The bombing was a concentrated attack, with several blasts hitting buildings in the area in short succession, according to the spokesperson for the Iranian Red Crescent, Mujtaba Khalidi. “Three residential buildings were bombed simultaneously and on the same street a missile struck a building belonging to the Iranian police,” Khalidi told Drop Site.

At least 460 people have been killed and over 4,300 wounded in Tehran alone since the launch of the war, the deputy head of Tehran Emergency Health Department Mehr Soroush told public broadcaster IRIB News. Monday’s strike was one of the deadliest attacks on Tehran since the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran that has killed over 1,300 people across the country.

The strike hit at 1:00 a.m. on March 10, according to Khalidi. But during Ramadan, shops are open late into the night for people to gather and eat. Grocery stores had their lights on, bakeries were serving Ramadan bread and pastries to customers, and men were sitting in the local café, talking and waiting for the late night meal ahead of another day of fasting.

Laila Brahimi was still awake preparing the late night meal for her three children when the missiles struck. “The buildings shook violently. Windows and doors trembled. Objects fell from shelves,” said Brahimi, a 39-year-old high school philosophy teacher who lives across the street from the bombing site. She rushed outside to help walking towards the rising dust and smoke. Neighbors, some in sleepwear and holding their phones, were on the scene before the first ambulance arrived. They pulled at the concrete with their hands.

“The explosion turned our lives upside down,” Brahimi told Drop Site. “I saw buildings collapsing in front of me, I heard the screams of the neighbors. I couldn’t sit still.” She ran toward the nearest damaged building, afraid with every step that more of it would collapse to the ground. “Every minute that passed might mean the loss of a life.”

Emergency workers with the Iranian Red Crescent arrived a short while afterwards. “The rubble spread into every corner, the collapsed walls, the destroyed cars,” one of the rescue workers, Ali Rezaei, 28, told Drop Site. “We immediately began opening paths through the debris to reach the injured.”

They followed the sound of survivors crying out for help. “The continuous noise of screaming and calling for help filled the place,” he said. His team moved from case to case, working to save the injured before additional equipment arrived. “Every movement you make could be the difference between life and death for someone trapped under the concrete. The first minutes were decisive.”

جمعیت هلال‌احمر ایران@Iranian_RCS

در این ویدیو #امدادگران#هلال_احمر جان چند نفر از هموطنان را که در یک طبقه از ساختمان #مسکونی به دنبال حملات امروز رژیم صهیونیستی و آمریکایی در میدان رسالت گرفتار و محروح شده بودند، #نجات می دهند.

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Video posted online by the Iranian Red Crescent of rescue efforts at the site of the Resalat Square bombing in Tehran. March 10, 2026. Source: X.

Fatima Kadhemi, a 25-year-old paramedic, described one apartment where two children were trapped under the ruins of a collapsed wall while their mother screamed outside. “I felt helpless for a moment,” Kadhemi told Drop Site. Her colleagues helped lift the heavy concrete slab and get the children out. “I saw the mother crying bitterly, and I felt that my work is not just treating a body, but psychological support as well.”

Neighbors helped move the injured to ambulances. The wounded were rushed to Gandhi Hospital, which had also been badly damaged in airstrikes last week and partially evacuated. Dr. Ali Moradi, 55, said the injured arrived in waves, many with severe fractures and acute hemorrhaging. Some cases were life-threatening. “We had to make very rapid decisions, and coordinate between surgery, the emergency department, and intensive care,” Moradi told Drop Site.

Rescue operations continued through the night and into the early morning. Heavy machinery was brought in and emergency workers kept calling out for survivors under the rubble. Kazem Najafi, 32, a Red Crescent coordinator, said the cooperation between professional rescue teams and residents of the neighborhood was a decisive factor in how many people survived. “Seeing the local teams and the community working together was very moving,” Najafi said.

Teams also swept surrounding buildings for structural damage and evacuated some as a precaution.

Mohamed Haidari, part of a Red Crescent search and rescue team, described the conditions: dense debris, heat from smoldering fires, and the ever-present risk of structural collapse. “Every time we lifted a stone, we increased our sense that we might succeed in saving a life, or that we might find someone who could not be saved,” he told Drop Site. “This mixture of hope and fear accompanied us constantly.”

The hardest moments, he said, came when they found people motionless beneath the wreckage. “In some cases, we had to make difficult decisions: which person to try to save first, and how to distribute the team to cover as many damaged buildings as possible.”

By dawn, the lights of emergency vehicles still filled the narrow streets around Resalat Square. Pavements were grey with dust. In one apartment whose outer wall had partially collapsed, an entire living room was visible from the street, with an overturned sofa, a small table, and a torn curtain hanging from a broken window.

Hassan Sharifi, the accountant, wandered the streets for hours after the explosion. He moved between the rubble, looking for anyone who might still be trapped. It was psychologically painful,” he said. “But seeing a person come out from under the rubble alive was a reward that cannot be described. I felt that we were all—residents and paramedics—living a moment of real human unity.”

Kadhemi, the paramedic, agreed the community’s efforts were essential. Hours into the rescue operation “we began to feel that we were regaining some control over the situation,” she said. “I felt that we, despite everything that happened, gave everything we could, and that every effort, no matter how small, has value,” Kadhemi added.

“But the psychological pain and fear did not disappear, especially seeing the great destruction in the surrounding buildings, and the blood spread in the streets.”

This story was published in collaboration with Egab.

Do not believe a WORD. Trump says that the conflict in Iran is “very complete, pretty much”, but with a few big asterisks

Paulo Kirk

Mar 10, 2026

“Don’t Iraqi Women Weep?” — Tony Benn Asked It in 1998. Nobody Answered. Now Look.

On February 25, Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi stated publicly that a deal was within reach. Israel had been lobbying Washington hard for months. The decision was not made in the Situation Room weighing threat assessments. It was made in Tel Aviv and whispered into the ear of a president who demanded unconditional surrender from a nation of 90 million people. This was a war of choice — Israel’s war, rented to Washington, paid for in Iranian and American blood, with the invoice still running.

Ahh, I know the revolution will not be won with the HR Department and Nanny State: Here, my account, suspended until I mea culpa for commenting, too much volume, and consenting to my stuff being removed!

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This is the poll the war mongers look to:

Key Takeaways

  • Recent US polls conducted in early March 2026 show that only about a quarter of Americans support military action against Iran.
  • European public opinion also leans strongly against intervention, with majorities opposing military escalation in several countries.
  • Israeli polls show overwhelming domestic support for the war, with more than 80 percent backing military action.
  • Across the Arab world, a major regional survey released in February 2026 shows overwhelming rejection of normalization with Israel.
  • The polling gap highlights a stark divide between Israeli public opinion and attitudes across much of the world.

“But, but, Biden lied. But, but, Obama lied.”

"Father, I Can Not Tell a Lie: I Cut the Tree," engraving by John C. McRae, 1867.

The cherry tree myth is one of the oldest and best-known legends about George Washington. In the original story, when Washington was six years old, he received a hatchet as a gift and damaged his father’s cherry tree with it. When his father discovered what George had done, he became angry. Young George bravely said, “I cannot tell a lie…I did cut it with my hatchet.” Washington’s father embraced him and declared that his son’s honesty was worth more than a thousand trees.1

Origin

This iconic story about the value of honesty was invented by one of Washington’s first biographers, a traveling minister and bookseller named Mason Locke Weems. After Washington’s death in 1799, people were anxious to learn about the first President. Weems explained to a publisher in January 1800:

“Washington you know is gone! Millions are gaping to read something about him…My plan! I give his history, sufficiently minute…I then go on to show that his unparalleled rise and elevation were due to his Great Virtues.”

Weems’s biography, The Life of Washington, was first published in 1800. It became an instant bestseller due to its approachable style. However, the cherry tree myth did not appear until the book’s fifth edition in 1806.

Weems had several motives when he wrote The Life of Washington. Money was certainly one of them. He rightly guessed that if he wrote a popular history book about Washington it would sell.

[Cover page of the 1840 edition of Weem’s Life of Washington. The book’s subtitle shows how important Weems thought the anecdotes were to his book’s central purpose to make Washington a role model for his “Young Countrymen.”]

Cover page of the 1840 edition of Weem's Life of Washington. The book's subtitle shows how important Weems thought the anecdotes were to his book's central purpose to make Washington a role model for his "Young Countrymen."

A Federalist admirer of order and self-discipline, Weems also wanted to present Washington as the perfect role model, especially for young Americans. The cherry tree myth and other stories told readers that Washington’s public greatness was due to his private virtues. Washington’s achievements as a General and President were familiar to people in the early nineteenth century, but little was known about his relationship with his father, who died when Washington was only eleven years old.3 There is almost no surviving historical evidence about Washington’s relationship with his father, and Weems’ claims have never been verified.

The Atlantic is laundering Netanyahu’s reputation as a “conflict-averse” leader while he tells the world this war lets him do what he’s “yearned for” for 40 years. Bari Weiss is tweeting fire emojis at pro-war clips, falsely suggesting Iran has nuclear weapons, and devoting journalistic resources to tracking the Instagram likes of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife. CNN is giving unchallenged airtime to ICC-indicted Israeli officials claiming American soldiers have an “obligation” to die for Israel. And that’s before the cable news network is taken over by Paramount, the Weiss operation run by the nepo-son of Larry Ellison, the single largest donor to Friends of the IDF. The BBC, meanwhile, leads with nine dead in Israel while relegating some 180 children killed by the U.S. in a girls’ school in Minab to a footnote.

This is what the legacy media machine looks like in wartime. It has always looked like this. And it is exactly why we launched Drop Site less than two years ago.

[Smoke rises after Iran carried out a missile strike on the main headquarters of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet in Manama, Bahrain in retaliation against U.S.-Israeli attacks, on February 28, 2026.]

[Jewish hands holding the invisible puppet strings on his left, our right!]

“Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel & ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource grabbing, bomb dropping imperial power & its allies, who are trying to bully the whole world into submission.”

Arundhati Roy

Versus:

This is Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner’s dad. Who does this remind you of? Where did he learn these tricks?

“Kushner admitted to retaliation against his brother-in-law, William Schulder, who was cooperating with federal investigators… He plotted to hire a sex worker to seduce Schulder and have video evidence sent to his sister, Esther, Schulder’s wife. Chris Christie, then the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, has called the case “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes” he’d prosecuted.

Kusher was sentenced to two years in prison. He served 14 months at a federal prison in Alabama and completed his sentence at a halfway house in Newark, N.J., until his release in August 2006. A graduate of Hofstra University School of Law, he was also disbarred and prohibited from practicing law in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania after becoming a convicted felon.” – Meredith Kile – People

When one hears or sees Trump and his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaking about America’s military capabilities with immense pride and boastfulness, claiming that it possesses the strongest army in the world and has the most advanced and sophisticated warships and air weapons globally, you find yourself facing what seems like little children bickering and bragging among themselves about the video games in their hands, with each one claiming to own the best, most beautiful, and most valuable games, flaunting them in each other’s faces.

We are facing a new model of a ruling class that is trivial, superficial, and fanatical, lacking even the minimum conditions of wisdom, rationality, and sobriety. — Dr. Rafik Abdessalem. د. رفيق عبد السلام Writer and former Foreign Minister of Tunisia

Coming up, another anniversary next week:

The matter of the U.S. army murdering children goes way back.

On March 16, 1968, the My Lai Massacre took place, where more than 500 unarmed women and children were slaughtered in Vietnam by soldiers of the U.S. Army.

The United States government has never formally paid reparations to the victims or survivors of the 1968 My Lai Massacre. While some private individuals and veterans involved in the rescue efforts sent personal funds to survivors, there has been no official government restitution

[Captain fucking Colin Powells

As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George HW Bush, Powell oversaw Operation Desert Storm in 1991 – or what former University of Texas journalism professor Robert Jensen has referred to as the “massacre we call the Gulf War”.

Writing in the Los Angeles Times in May of 2000 – nearly three years before the blot to beat all blots – Jensen observed that the massacre in question had thus far been “one of the most concentrated attacks on an entire society in modern warfare”, comprising targeted as well as indiscriminate bombing of civilians.

In both cases, Jensen emphasised, the bombing constituted “war crimes under the Geneva Conventions”.

In 1989, too, Powell presided over all manner of bomb-based devastation in the Central American nation of Panama, where an untold number of mainly impoverished Panamanian civilians were slaughtered by the US military as it carried out “Operation Just Cause” against longtime US ally and CIA asset Manuel Noriega.

This operation, which served as a test run for the Gulf War, was – surprise, surprise – predicated on a fabricated and sensational narrative, which only got better when the US army triumphantly announced that it had discovered a stash of cocaine in a house Noriega was known to visit.

Never mind that the “cocaine” was subsequently revealed to be tamales wrapped in banana leaves.

Anyway, it was all apparently in a day’s work of “intellectual honesty” and “grounding in reality”.

The man was “so popular” that people in both US political parties had “begged him to run for president for decades”.

As a part of a two-day conference in 2006, “Vietnam and the Presidency”, former US president Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) gave his well-known account of the war and its effects on his presidency. Carter, one of the post-war presidents who least advocated an aggressive US foreign policy, stressed the importance of moving “beyond the Vietnam War to better things.” Carter laid special emphasis on what he called a “healing process” — for Americans, needless to say — and claimed that under his administration “that healing process made major strides forward”.

He even said that process was “complete [when] the Vietnam heroic monument, one of the most popular places in Washington” was erected, soon after the Carter presidency ended. The inscription on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial says that “[o]ur nation honors the courage, sacrifice, and devotion to duty and country of its Vietnam veterans.” Not a word about the Vietnamese.

Carter’s commentary served as an unpleasant but illustrative reminder of thinking in the US political culture. It was time to move “beyond the Vietnam war to better things”.

Even more revealingly, Carter said: “I don’t feel that we ought to apologize or to castigate ourselves or to assume the status of culpability”, stressing that “the destruction was mutual”.

In 2000, then Secretary of Defence William Cohen expressed similar sentiments towards US actions in Vietnam. “I don’t intend to go into any apologies, certainly, for the war itself,” Cohen declared on a visit to Vietnam. “Both nations were scarred by this. They have their own scars from the war. We certainly have ours.”

Fifty-two years later, the official US position towards crimes by the US military in Vietnam has not changed: there have been no apologies for US conduct during the war, no reparations, no intentions of prosecuting US government officials or military personnel for war crimes in Vietnam. Instead, there is a romanticizing and glorification of the overall performance of the US military.

[The foundation of a hut in My Lai village, destroyed by US troops on March 15, 1968. The marker in front lists those who lived there and died in the My Lai massacre.]

Almost 22 billion American tax dollars spent to wipe out a population of 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza.

Israel already controls the African Diamond industry, soon they will expand – and dominate all raw mineral exports. The Greater Israel Project is bigger than the Middle East…

He’s seen the High Definition Spy Cam viedo of him getting oral sex (forced, pedophilia, rape) and fingering girls vaginas and golden showers and and and . . .

  • Amateur Recordings: While many actual murders and suicides have been filmed and uploaded to the internet (e.g., by mass shooters, cartels, or terrorists), these are typically released for sensationalism, propaganda, or personal satisfaction rather than for commercial profit.
  • Documentary Footage: Authentic footage of war crimes or executions exists but is not classified as snuff because the deaths were not staged for the purpose of being filmed for entertainment.

Britain is a key link in the biggest ever international investigation into the production and supply of paedophile ‘snuff’ movies – in which children are murdered on film – an Observer investigation can reveal.

The key suspect in the inquiry, a Russian who was arrested last week in Moscow for distribution of thousands of sadistic child porn videos and pictures, was traced following the seizure of his products from British paedophiles.

British authorities yesterday confirmed that scores of Kuznetsov’s videos, produced in his small flat in Moscow’s rundown Vykhino district, have been found in the UK. They are concerned that ‘snuff’ movies in which children are killed may have also been imported.

Around a dozen British men have already been arrested and charged with offences alleged to be connected to the Russian tapes. A second Russian child porn ring, which allegedly had a British distributor, was broken up earlier this year. The investigation into the importing of violent Russian child porn which led to the identification and subsequent imprisonment of Kuznetsov started about 15 months ago after Customs seized material coming into the country. Since then there have been dozens of other finds.

‘We have seen some very, very nasty stuff involving sadistic abuse of very young children, but actual deaths on film takes it a whole step further. That is very worrying,’ said one senior customs officer this weekend.

British paedophiles were paying between £50 and £100 for Kuznetsov’s tapes, the officer said. Further fees were paid for access to a website that features pictures of extremely violent abuse.

Though two men arrested with Kuznetsov have also been imprisoned by Moscow authorities, only one of the three remains behind bars. Dmitri Ivanov was sentenced to 11 years for actually participating in the abuse that was being filmed. The others were released under an amnesty aimed at clearing Russia’s overcrowded prisons.

When officers from the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department raided Kuznetsov’s flat they found two boys in a makeshift studio. They seized a huge quantity of films and other pornographic material as well as lists of clients in Italy, Germany, America and Britain.

Last week Italian detectives moved in, following months of inquiries, and arrested eight people. The police searched more than 600 homes and say they now have evidence against about 500 people. Among the suspects were businessmen, public employees and a university student. Several of them were married, with children of their own. Hundreds of people are also under investigation in Germany.

The Russian videos, which had been ordered over the internet, were intercepted when they came into Italy by post, repackaged and then delivered by undercover police officers. They cost between £300 and £4,000, depending on what type of film was ordered.

Covert film of young children naked or undressing was known as a ‘SNIPE’ video. The most appalling category was code-named ‘Necros Pedo’ in which children were raped and tortured until they died.

Police in Russia and the UK believe that Kuznetsov and his associates have been in business for more than two years in which time they are believed to have recruited around 100 boys – aged between nine and 15 – to be filmed.

‘Most of the children were rounded up from railway stations. A lot of them came from the suburbs, or surrounding regions and were from deprived, problem families,’ said Kiril Mazurin, a police spokesman.

‘Usually when children like this arrive in the capital, they’ve got no idea where to go and hang around in the station. It’s very easy to entice this kind of teenager – with a promise of a warm bed or a trip to the cinema.’

Many were lured away from orphanages. ‘Children are not locked in,’ said Mazurin. ‘Anyone can come along and promise them a meal at McDonalds. It doesn’t take any more than that.”

Some children were paid a commission to find other boys willing to be filmed, according to reports in the Russian press, for a fee of between 100 and 300 roubles (£2.50 – £7).

Kuznetsov had given up his job in 1998 to devote himself to the lucrative pornography industry. A self-taught computer expert, he was in the process of upgrading his equipment to allow him to e-mail videos directly to clients when police raided him.

Many customers repeatedly ordered videos from him. The Naples newspaper Il Mattino published a transcript of an alleged email exchange between a prospective client and the Russian vendors.

‘Promise me you’re not ripping me off,’ says the Italian.

‘Relax, I can assure you this one really dies,’ the Russian responds.

‘The last time I paid and I didn’t get what I wanted.’

‘What do you want?’

‘To see them die.’

Ahh, the UN, the new snuff movie perps, letting Israel murder-rape-torture-starve-kill:

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a phone conversation with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, during which he outlined the consequences of the recent American-Zionist aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Araghchi described multiple aspects of the attacks carried out by U.S. and Israeli forces, stressing that civilian locations were deliberately targeted. According to the Iranian foreign minister, the strikes hit schools, hospitals, residential neighborhoods, and historical buildings and monuments.

He emphasized that such actions represent a clear violation of international law and the fundamental principles of humanitarian law.

Referring to the human toll and the extensive destruction caused by the attacks, Araghchi called on the international community and relevant global institutions to take a firm and explicit stance in condemning these crimes.

America! This is yet another perfect reason as to why we had to end Iran’s diabolical stretch across the globe. From stealing our nuclear technology (Jon Pollard), to blackmailing our President and Congress (Epstein), to this (the Alexander brothers). Despicable! We took action just in the nick of time!

Oooooh, wait. Well that’s awkward. I read that wrong. It wasn’t Iranians. It was Israelis. Why are we dying for Israel, again?

If you feel useless, remember that it took 20 years, trillions of dollars, and 4 American presidents to replace the Taliban… with the Taliban. »

This is why we say Haiti is an imperial laboratory. Drones supplied by Canada, private contractors & foreign surveillance tech tested under a U.S. security architecture. The militarization spreading across the hemisphere didn’t appear out of nowhere.

Expel the Indians from the Chabahar development plan and replace them with the Chinese. It is in war that friend and foe are recognized. The blood of 104 young sailors of Noshch Dena is dripping from the clutches of the Indians.

This is the demand of a nation… Mida Pezeshkian, PhD

“As long the Iranian ship remained in Indian waters they remained protected but when they crossed the international waters, as Israeli strategic allies it was our duty to inform Israel about their exact location” — Gen Upendra Dwivedi

These women were liberated now.

“No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language, I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and they would put an end to it.”

―Akira Kurosawa

According to the decision of Iran’s new leader, all leaders of the Zionist regime will be targets for Iranian missiles in the coming hours and days.
Follow the news closely.

New Pentagon budget reports show Pete Hegseth spent $93 billion in one month, making it the highest monthly expense since 2008.

This budget report included spending $2 million on Alaskan King Crab.

he Pentagon has spent lavishly on luxury food: 6.9M on lobster tail, 2M on Alaskan king crab, 15.1M on ribeye steak, plus 124K on ice cream machines and 139K on doughnuts. Meanwhile, millions of Americans lost SNAP benefits with new restrictions on their food assistance.

Mississippi, Goddamn.

What would she be saying about ICE, or Gil Scott Heron?

Life, man: An ex-U.S. embassy employee has been sentenced to life in prison for raping minors in Burkina Faso.

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No one knows how bad the global fuel situation is right now.

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  • Vietnam has asked its citizens to work from home due to fuel shortages.
  • Bangladesh has begun rationing fuel – limiting the amount of fuel allowed to be filled per vehicle.
  • Gasoline prices in Asia are rising sharply – even traders can’t find alternative sources.
  • Thousands of flights canceled – airlines are rerouting all flights, carrying extra fuel, and making emergency stops to refuel.
  • Parent company of British Airways down 6%. EasyJet shares down 4%. Airlines reviewing all expansion plans.

    The parent company of British Airways is crashing 6%. –
  • U.S. airlines stopped hedging against fuel price fluctuations years ago, and now they’re paying $120 per barrel of crude
  • Fuel prices rising in Australia, Asia, and Europe, and no end in sight anytime soon
  • Ruwais refinery in the UAE (922,000 barrels per day) shut down after a drone strike
  • Saudi Arabia’s largest refinery shut down
  • Qatar’s largest LNG facility closed
  • Strait of Hormuz one step away from total closure
  • JPMorgan: Production cut by 4.7 million barrels per day if the strait closes by day eighteen

    G7 holding emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss releasing oil reserves

    France preparing military mission to reopen shipping lanes

    Countries are rationing fuel. Airlines are canceling flights. Entire economies are urging people to stay home.

    And this is just day eleven.

    Prepare well.


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DON’T STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE AND SUDAN.

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Final word?

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“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don’t mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation’s problems would be another 100 Year War.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

Nah, let’s end with “left-wing white nationalism” per Dr. Horne’s analysis:

You work for Raytheon, you do your electrical and civil and materials engineering degrees? All Good? You are part and parcel in the engine of the great Satan, the great Reaper of Children’s Deaths.

Paulo Kirk

Mar 10, 2026

Raytheon Company executives, along with federal, state and local officials, and local business leaders, dedicated new facilities at Raytheon Missile Systems. This is part of a large-scale expansion and modernization project to increase capacity and capability at Raytheon’s Tucson operations.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony took place in front of newly-built structures that will house many of the 2,000 new employees the company is hiring to support business growth.

New buildings scheduled for completion this year include an advanced testing facility, a multi-purpose building and a customer access center. The expansion is planned for completion in 2020 and includes:

  • New buildings
  • Infrastructure upgrades
  • Engineering and manufacturing enhancements
  • High-powered computing capabilities

Raytheon Missile Systems is designing, engineering, testing and manufacturing some of the most advanced aerospace and defense technologies of today and the future, including missile defense systems, hypersonic missiles and space vehicles. Arizona’s supportive environment for business investment and growth is an enabler of Raytheon’s success.

“Our expansion supports the nation’s military, the security of America’s allies and the U.S., state and local economies. This project validates Southern Arizona’s strengths in innovation, technology and quality of life for our growing workforce, and has been made possible by the strong collaboration and support of government and private sector partners,” said Dr. Taylor W. Lawrence, Raytheon Missile Systems President.

Raytheon’s recent expansion is expected to result in billions of dollars of economic impact throughout Arizona over 10 years. Partners in the expansion include Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, Arizona Commerce Authority, Pima County, City of Tucson, Sun Corridor Inc., Tucson Airport Authority and Tucson Electric Power.

“With more than 500 suppliers around Arizona and a workforce of nearly 12,000 people, Raytheon continues to have a positive economic impact throughout our state. Increasing Raytheon’s infrastructure and job growth in Arizona is a major win for all of us, and the result of solid partnerships statewide,” Ducey said.

“Pima County works with our regional partners to create an environment supportive of innovation and opportunity for Raytheon. Raytheon has been a terrific partner in boosting the economy of Pima County and we appreciate its commitment to our community. These are the high-paying, high-tech jobs every community strives to have,” said Pima County Supervisor Sharon Bronson.

Tactical retreats: Why Venezuela’s revolution still stands: [Once again on the right of poor and oppressed nations to self-determination and sovereignty]

Much more is now known about the events of January 3 than was initially clear. Contrary to the narrative imposed by Western media and repeated mindlessly by some on the left, there was resistance. Testimony from survivors and statements from President Trump himself confirm that the presidential security detail, alongside Venezuelan military units and a contingent of Cuban internationalist fighters, engaged the attacking forces in a firefight. Thirty-two Cuban combatants fell alongside more than 50 Venezuelans in the security forces and presidential guard, who defended the president with their lives.

First, US electronic warfare systems totally disabled the country’s air defenses and communications infrastructure. According to Venezuela’s defense minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, the US used Venezuela as a “laboratory” for weapons technologies never used before. Padrino is well-known as the military leader who consistently exposed US efforts to corrupt and bribe the military to turn on Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution, as well as prior US assassination attempts. He personified the country’s “military-civic union” that blocked years of regime change efforts under the banner of “always loyal, traitors never.”

An official Venezuelan account of January 3 still has not been released, given that the country remains militarily surrounded (more on that later). But unofficial reports from witnesses and survivors back up Padrino’s comments. They recount that with all their communications and air defenses knocked out and all electricity in the area blacked out, Venezuela military forces were hit with drones and some kind of sonic weapon that incapacitated soldiers. Instantaneously, they were subjected to rapid and overpowering firepower that resulted in a one-sided massacre, even as they shot back.

In Trump’s State of the Union, he honored the pilot of the first Chinook helicopter, which landed at the presidential compound, carrying the Elite Delta Force units that then conducted the ground operation and kidnapped the president. The helicopter took heavy fire, severely injuring the pilot. The US has also admitted there were additional US casualties, although no deaths.

In preparation for this operation, it has since been revealed that the raid was rehearsed on a full-scale, exact replica of Nicolás Maduro’s compound, built in Kentucky. For weeks, Delta Force commandos practiced “blowing through steel doors at ever-faster paces” and memorizing the layout of corridors and safe rooms. Because Maduro was known to rotate between locations, they launched the operation only after he was confirmed to be at that specific site. Specialized nighttime aviation was provided by a group known as the “Night Stalkers.

The violence did not simply end, though. In leaked communications that have since been confirmed by multiple sources, Delcy Rodríguez revealed that from the first moments of contact on January 3, the Trump administration issued an ultimatum. Rodríguez stated, “The threats started the moment they kidnapped the president. They gave Diosdado, Jorge, and me 15 minutes to respond, or they would kill us.” Any refusal to negotiate, she said, would result not just in kidnapping, but the decapitation and annihilation of the remaining leadership of the Venezuelan state. They also were told that the US military would continue to surround the country. Every statement and every decision they made would be scrutinized as either a sign of compliance or resistance, and their lives could be taken at any moment.

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The heavy jowls, that’s the Democratic Politician’s ticket! Proving grounds, or crash test dummies? On Wednesday, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) told CNN that he would support new funding for the U.S. war with Iran — but only if Israel and Arab Gulf states help pay for it.

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Gilad Atzmon: As I predicted, when the Ginger Caligual runs out of options, he would blame his NY Jewish developers (Kushner & Witkoff).

Oh, so Jews are the only ones allowed to be part of DEI, woke ideology? Jews and Zionists?

Former Goldman Sachs CEO says DEI programs are ‘counterproductive,’ arguing ‘you’re branding the people in that program’

Ahh, Jews get the brass ring: As of March 2026, 37 U.S. states have adopted or endorsed the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism through legislation, executive orders, or proclamations. While proponents argue these laws are essential for identifying and combating Jew-hatred, critics often describe them as “draconian” due to concerns that they could be used to suppress free speech or legitimate criticism of the Israeli government.

Trump said he is “not happy” with Iran’s choice of a new supreme leader but that early results from Operation Epic Fury have been “way beyond expectation.”

Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been installed as the next supreme leader.

“I don’t believe he can live in peace,” Trump said

Guadalajara is nicknamed the “Mexican Silicon Valley” due to the high concentration of electronics and IT companies based in the city, including multinationals like Intel, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, which has given rise to a robust industrial and supply cluster. This is further enhanced by the large number of engineers graduating from its universities, the growth of startups in semiconductors and artificial intelligence (AI), as well as research centers and state policies aimed at attracting investment. These factors have transformed the capital of Jalisco into an innovation hub comparable — more symbolically than literally — to the Californian ecosystem.

Ahh, that ecosystem: Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff

As Department of Agriculture employees return to the office, it needs ‘real-time analytics to optimize employee seat assignments’

You can never trust a Jew or a Turk? Using the regional turmoil sparked by the war against Iran’s clerical regime as a cover, Turkey has deployed six F-16 fighter jets to the occupied part of Cyprus.

Turkey’s March 9 action represents a significant escalation in the militarization of the Eastern Mediterranean. It also raises serious legal questions over the export and end use of U.S.-made military equipment.

Turkey has occupied approximately one-third of Cyprus since its 1974 invasion of the island. The self-declared “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” (TRNC) is only recognized by Turkey. The international community, including the United States and the European Union, recognizes the Republic of Cyprus as the island’s sole legitimate government.

Turkey’s deployment of combat aircraft adds another layer to its already large military footprint in the occupied zone of Cyprus. This consists of tens of thousands of troops, combat drones, and missile capabilities.

[A worker harvests coffee at the El Espino co-operative in Santa Tecla, El Salvador. In the mid-1970s, El Salvador ranked among the world’s leading coffee producers, with harvests exceeding 5 million quintales. Now, national production struggles to hit 1 million]

You like that cuppa coffee with a huge spoonful of exploitation? ‘Everyone feels like they are being scammed’: can Central America’s small coffee growers survive as global prices fall?

[The fiery aftermath of an airstrike on an oil depot in northeast Tehran in a still from a video shared on social media Sunday and verified by NBC News.]

Exporting the feces of a Pedophile and Rapist in Chief’s Minyan running the White Man’s HOUSE.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said the attacks amounted to no less than intentional chemical warfare.

“The aggressors are releasing hazardous materials and toxic substances into the air, poisoning civilians, devastating the environment, and endangering lives on a massive scale,” Baqaei wrote on X.

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Trump the Epstein HD video star — golden showers, blowjobs by children, feces gouging, more — touches everything, not like Midas, but like Honey Bucket Man:

Cuban officials are preparing to withdraw the nation’s medical brigade from Guyana after it moved to provide full salaries to doctors and nurses from the island instead of sending most of the payments to the Cuban government.

Cuban doctors have worked in African, South American and Caribbean nations for decades under diplomatic agreements that earned the Cuban government money while providing medical care in places where it was otherwise scarce. But the Trump administration has sharply criticized it, with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio describing it as forced labor.

Guyana Health Minister Frank Anthony told reporters Monday that Cuban authorities have chosen to end the program after nearly 50 years and recently asked their brigade of more than 200 doctors to prepare to leave the South American nation.

My buddy from North Arkansas, Wisconsin, has a daughter, a nurse, moving to Duke: Dredging up a toxic past in the Cape Fear River

Everything, I mean EVErYTHING, touched by capitalism is poison, toxins, heavy metals, body-killing and body/mind-dredging HELL!

A proposed $1.3-billion U.S. Army Corps of Engineers port expansion in North Carolina threatens to unearth decades of “forever chemicals.” The government’s initial plan: don’t test the mud

Taking a blood sample from a wild American alligator is not a clinical procedure. North Carolina native Kemp Burdette describes the process as an “all-hands-on-deck” situation. After rolling up on the gator in a boat and tossing a hook and a lead weight tied to a heavy-gauge fishing line across the beast’s backside, you reel until the hook catches and flips the creature. Then comes the all-hands part. Ideally a small group of people tag-team to hold the animal down—it will chill out, but just watch for the tail—drape a towel over its eyes, duct tape its mouth, and prick between the thick armor with a needle.

“Alligator jaws have an incredible amount of crushing force but not very many pounds of opening force,” Burdette says. “You can actually hold an alligator’s mouth shut, even a big one.”

Burdette knows this because the Cape Fear River is his jurisdiction. A former Navy search and rescue swimmer who grew up sloshing around swamps and backwaters, he’s a Riverkeeper, the local leader of the national Waterkeeper environmental organization dedicated to saving the region’s 200-mile riverine ecosystem.

He wrestles these apex predators not for sport but to hunt for a microscopic threat: PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Burdette worked with a team of North Carolina State University scientists who measured PFAS concentration in the blood of alligators and found that it was correlated with immune issues in the animals—another worrying sign in a decades-long history of PFAS poisoning in Cape Fear.

Trigger warning: the evil Chlamydia Encrusted Spawn of Epstein’s/Mossad’s Pedophile Porn Videos:

And they just continue to scam AmeriKKKa. A golf club company backed by the sons of Donald Trump is merging with drone manufacturer Powerus in a deal designed to take the drone technology company public.

The merger with Aureus Greenway Holdings is the latest in Eric and Donald Trump Jr’s growing investments in the drone sector, following last month’s $1.5bn tie-up between Israeli drone maker XTEND and Florida-based JFB Construction Holdings. Drones have become a major procurement priority for the Pentagon and are widely used in Ukraine, where dense air defense systems near the frontlines limit the deployment of conventional aircraft.

Back to the right-wing wing nuts, a la Chile: Fears for women’s rights in Chile as anti-abortion president set to take office

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José Antonio Kast, who voted against legalising divorce in 2004, has pushed for return to total abortion ban

More machete factories are needed!

Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla predicts education will be free, and the future of college is ‘a real question’

THe death of cities — no newspapers, no colleges, no industries, no downtowns thriving . . .

Portland State declares financial crisis, reveals plan to cut or reduce 19 departments

Portland State’s announcement Monday lays the groundwork for a process that could result in a massive restructuring of the university.

And, of course, art and transportation make a city.

Dozens of crow sculptures, each 6 feet tall and individually designed by artists from Portland and across the Pacific Northwest, will be positioned throughout downtown as part of a free, self-guided art trail. Not that you’d mix it up with, obviously, the thousands of crows that take over downtown Portland every winter.

The new art installation is called “Wildwood: Follow the Crows.” The sculptures are inspired by LAIKA’s upcoming stop-motion film “Wildwood.” The trail will be part gallery, part scavenger hunt and part civic celebration. The installation encourages people to wander throughout the city to discover the art along walkways, plazas, parks and street corners.

Every child in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Palestine needs to have a year off and plenty of popcorn and sun and outdoor exercise and a chance to see this film:

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Kids around the world should be out here, in yurts, for thousands, studying mother nature: Are Velella velella dangerous?

At first, Velella velella — also known as by-the-wind sailors — can be striking to look at. But as they dry and decay, they begin to smell fishy and turn brittle, like potato chips that crunch underfoot. They generally do not sting people who touch them, but Oregon State University advises against walking barefoot through fresh strandings and touching your eyes or mouth after handling them.

Why do Velella velella wash up on beaches?

University of Washington researchers say Velella can wash ashore in staggering numbers — sometimes in the trillions — on beaches around the world, including along the West Coast. In a 2021 study published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, the researchers analyzed 20 years of observations collected by COASST, the university’s citizen-science beach survey program.

I’ll help escort them along my wrack line!

If you don’t hate the uniformed mercenary services, the fucking Delta Cartel Forces, the Hegseths and Generals, and all of them, privates on up, then you are a fucking child abuser.

And so, Boom or Bust? You think you have problems?

More and more Oregon companies are being lured to invest elsewhere, either by expanding their out-of-state presence or relocating operations entirely, according to a recent study.

States often compete with one another to attract big employers, and the study’s findings suggest that efforts to recruit companies from Oregon are working.

  • U.S.–Israeli strikes on a residential complex in eastern Tehran late Monday killed at least 40 people, according to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency, in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital since the start of the war. The attack hit apartment blocks near Resalat Square, a densely populated area of the capital, with rescue crews searching the rubble for survivors.
  • Three school students were killed after U.S.–Israeli strikes hit residential areas in Lorestan Province in western Iran, according to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency. The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported that the attack also destroyed the Intelligence Department building in the city of Kuhdasht. The blast reportedly leveled nearby homes and commercial buildings, with sources saying both intelligence personnel and civilians were among the dead.
  • A U.S.–Israeli drone strike hit a two-story residential building in the central Iranian city of Arak shortly after midnight Tuesday, killing five people and injuring one, according to Iran’s Mehr News. State media reported heavy damage to the residential structure following the strike.

Palestinians continue to suffer in the inhumane Israeli prison system, with no hope of release or intervention from international authorities, as the Israelis continue to act as they please with their minds and bodies.

Paulo Kirk

Mar 09, 2026

Map by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification of the proportion of degraded land over total land area in 2019.

Bombing oil tankers, man — the US has started attacking Iranian oil tankers in the Persian Gulf.

Oh, “that” country posing as a gas station, or is it a gas station, posing as a country?

Putin stated the need to completely stop energy supplies to Europe, with the exception of Hungary and Slovakia:

Russia is a reliable supplier of energy resources. It has always been so. We will certainly continue to supply oil and gas to those countries that are themselves reliable partners. I mean not only our partners in the Asia-Pacific region, but also in Eastern European countries, such as Slovakia and Hungary.

At the same time, I want to remind you that EU countries plan to introduce additional restrictions on the purchase of Russian hydrocarbons, including LNG, from April 25, up to a complete ban on such supplies in 2027. In this regard, the government has already been tasked with assessing the possibility and feasibility of stopping our energy supplies to the European market. We should not wait until they deliberately slam the door in our face.

Oh, that’s right, mom, baseball and apple pie . .. Baseball First, that’s right!

The dirty, dirty Jews and Yankees.

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This is the face of a dying but dangerous like a rabid pack of fucking billion rats AmeriKKKa: License mother fucking plates!

Specialty license plates for the Arizona Life Coalition, an anti-abortion group, and the conservative Christian group Alliance Defending Freedom have been approved with a similar structure for donations.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) vetoed a bill that would have honored the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk on license plates in the Grand Canyon State.

But then, EuroTrash is hard at its infantilization of life on earth, too, Spain with the only cojones?

Most European leaders have trodden a fine line between offering limited support for US military action against Iran and warning of a regional conflagration.

Not Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. He has been outspoken in his criticism of US strikes, provoking anger and threats from the White House. But rather than back down, Sánchez and his government have doubled down.

Spain has significant trade and investment ties with the United States and a fellow member of NATO. Last year 4 million Americans visited the country. And just this month, Amazon said it would expand its investment in data centers in Spain to total nearly $40 billion.

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State of Extremism watchlist?

Britain’s role in the recent machinations of the US empire has been central, despite going underreported and little criticised. Britain has a significant hand in the ongoing US war of aggression against Iran and their recent invasion of Venezuela. Britain’s empire and overseas bases, and associated intelligence and surveillance capabilities, are cornerstones of its contribution to these ongoing wars. Just as Britain’s colonial bases in occupied Cyprus served an intelligence and surveillance role in the Gaza genocide, so too did they help surveil Iran and prepare intelligence in preparation for US attacks, and are now being used as a staging post for those attacks. The ongoing UK-Mauritius Chagos Islands deal and subsequent US-UK rift over Diego Garcia’s use in the attack on Iran shows the potential for decolonial practice in international law and is a case that the US-UK Bases off Cyprus campaign can learn from.

“We must listen to people’s concerns about growing divisions and take action to bring our communities back together,” Reed said.

As well as a new whistleblowing service, the plan will include a new Campus Cohesion Charter to strengthen respect and shared values across universities.

The strategy will also introduce an annual State of Extremism report setting out the nature and scale of the threat facing the UK and the government’s response, while the Visa Watchlist Taskforce will be strengthened to block hate preachers and extremists from entering the country.

Princess Eugenie at a carol service at Westminster Abbey in London

God, these fucking inbreds, man. Princess Eugenie has stepped down as patron of the UK charity Anti-Slavery International, the world’s oldest human rights organisation.

The decision follows the release by the US Department of Justice of millions of documents and emails relating to Jeffrey Epstein’s role in sexual abuse and trafficking women around the world, which have disgraced her father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Eugenie’s profile has been removed from Anti-Slavery International’s website, which previously hailed her work “across the board with leaders in the fight against modern slavery”.

The faggotry of Jewish forked and quadruple tongues: International law and cluster munitions: The case of Israel and Iran – interview

Neither Israel nor Iran is a party to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions. Thus, the case against Iran rests on whether its use violates the principles of distinction and proportionality.

Iran says more than 4,000 civilian buildings damaged since beginning of US-Israeli attacks

4,000 civilian buildings damaged since the beginning of US-Israeli attacks. Hundreds of commercial units were destroyed, and several hospitals were forced out of service.

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Schizoid Pedophile and Rapist in Chief: You are fired, but, come back again!

For decades, federal jobs helped Black women build stable middle-class lives. Trump’s purge of the federal workforce stripped thousands of those jobs away. If this administration is hiring again, start by hiring those Black women back.

  • Burkina Faso has launched a $64 billion National Development Plan for 2026–2030 to reshape its economy and foster inclusive growth.
  • The plan marks a significant increase from previous budgets, aiming for economic transformation with 34.5% of funds dedicated to investment and capital transfers.
  • Four key priorities are security and social cohesion, governance reform, human capital development, and expanded infrastructure.
  • The government will implement program-based budgeting, enhance state coordination, and encourage community involvement, alongside innovative financing like citizen shareholding.

Hero: Burkina Faso unveils $64 billion 5-year roadmap to transform economy

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What to know on the 10th day of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran

  • President Trump told CBS News that he believes the war is “very complete, pretty much” and that he doesn’t have a message for Iran’s new supreme leader.
  • Speaking later Monday to reporters from his Miami-area golf club, Mr. Trump said he expects the war to end “very soon,” and warned that Iran would get hit “much, much harder” if it blocks the oil supply.
  • Benchmark oil prices briefly surged past $100 a barrel for the first time since 2022 on fears that the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran will drag on. Barrels of Brent and U.S. crude are still 36% and 42% more expensive, respectively, than before the war started on Feb. 28.
  • As the U.S. military announced a seventh fatality from the war, the death toll from Israel’s blistering assault in Lebanon neared 400, according to the country’s health ministry.
  • Thousands of Iranians poured into the streets overnight to celebrate the selection of Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new Supreme Leader, following the killing of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. One analyst told CBS News the younger Khamenei has now stepped into the “highest risk job.”

Those death birds will be looking for him:

AmeriKKKa, the final capitalist showdown!

Key Takeaways

  • South Carolina saw the largest net migration gain per 10,000 residents in 2025.
  • The South and Mountain West attracted the most new residents overall.
  • Meanwhile, high-cost states like California and New York continued to see net population outflows.

Nearly 15 million Americans moved in 2025, with many relocating across state lines in search of lower costs, job opportunities, and warmer climates.

Forget about the oceans, man: DeSmog reveals thousands of tonnes of fish are illegally turned into fishmeal and oil off the coast of Guinea-Bissau

The only ice factory on Bubaque, an island in west Africa’s Guinea-Bissau, is out of service. Local fishers, such as Pedro Luis Pereira, are forced to source ice from factories on the mainland, about 70km away – a six-hour round trip by boat.

“The machines have been broken for months,” Pereira says, as he pulls in his nets on the shore of the island inside the protected Bijagós archipelago. “We’ve alerted the ministry of fisheries, but so far, no one has come to fix them.”

Wooden canoes are the only fishing boats allowed among the cluster of 88 islands that make up the archipelago. Its shallow waters are a rich breeding ground for silver flat sardinella, which Pereira, racing the tropical heat, sells fresh for 250 CFA francs (£0.33) a kilo at the market in Bissau, the capital of this tiny west African republic.

[Artisanal fishers take their catch to Bissau, where it will be sold at Bandim port.]

The tides dictate when fishers can navigate the shallow waters of the archipelago. Its sandbars are a nursery for countless species, leading some scientists to refer to it as “the Galápagos of west Africa” for its populations of endangered turtles and manatees. It is also why the area has been designated as protected from everything but small-scale fishing.

A group of six Turkish seiners – including the Ilhan Yilmaz 3 – appear to be supplying the two factory vessels at sea, according to satellite records from Global Fishing Watch (GFW), a nonprofit organisation that monitors fishing activity.

These Turkish purse seiners are licensed to fish within Guinea-Bissau’s exclusive economic zone. This is an area of water extending 200 miles (322km) from the coastline where all fishing is allowed with a government licence and where the Hua Xin 17 and the Tiia Ye He 6 are floating. But they are not authorised to transship at sea in this area – or to fish inside the protected Bijagós waters.

The video footage, which is supported by the boats’ GPS records from Global Fishing Watch, suggests that tonnes of pelagic fish are being processed aboard. It appears to capture two Turkish boats in the illegal act of transshipment.

The apparent scale of the offshore fish processing operations are a double blow to food security and income in Guinea-Bissau, one of the world’s poorest countries. Fish are the source of a third of animal protein consumed, and the informal fishing industry employs 225,000 people from a population of 2.2 million, according to the Coalition For Fair Fisheries Arrangements (CFFA).

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“The fishmeal industry is expanding in a context where small pelagic fish are already overexploited and illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is widespread,” says Béatrice Gorez from CFFA, which supports artisanal fishers in west Africa. “This threatens artisanal fishers, women fish processors and food security in the entire region.”

The omega-3 fatty acids contained in low-cost sardinella, and other pelagic fish, are irreplaceable in local diets, in a country where 22% of people are malnourished.

DeSmog traced fishmeal from the Tian Yi He 6 to a subsidiary of fish feed giant Skretting in Ecuador, the world’s largest shrimp exporter. Credit: AP photo/Fernando Vergara

Report=Read it.

Fucking upside-down cunt of a world. Amazon, which has killed publishing: Amazon Veteran to Lead Simon & Schuster

Greg Greeley, who once ran Amazon’s books and media business (19 years!), will succeed Jonathan Karp as chief executive at one of the largest book publishers in the U.S.

Musk didn’t need a coup after all: Latin America’s lithium triangle is now in the hands of the right

Trump’s losing? RIGHT.

The Lithium Triangle is a lithium-rich region in the Andean southwest corner of South America, spanning the borders of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile and forming a geographic triangle of lithium resources underneath their salt flats. Approximately 58 percent of the world’s lithium resources are found in these three countries, according to the 2021 USGS Mineral Commodity Summary.

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Shit, how are they going to fix the Nimitz?

Authorities move to cancel permits for 350 Mexican steel importers

Mexican authorities have suspended import activities and begun canceling permits for 350 companies involved in steel imports.

The move arrives after the government identified alleged irregularities in importer operations as part of a nationwide crackdown on smuggling and misuse of government trade programs.

Mexico’s Ministry of Economy said the companies were among 750 firms flagged for suspicious activities related to the manufacture and sale of steel products following inspections coordinated with multiple federal agencies.

The investigation is part of a government enforcement effort known as “Operation Clean-Up,” which involves the Ministry of Economy, Mexico’s Tax Administration Service (SAT), the National Customs Agency of Mexico (ANAM), and the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency.

The probe was launched after industry group CANACERO, Mexico’s National Chamber of the Iron and Steel Industry, identified companies suspected of irregular trading practices.

Authorities said procedures have begun to cancel the companies’ participation in Mexico’s Manufacturing, Maquiladora and Export Services Industry Program (IMMEX) — a key government program that allows manufacturers to temporarily import raw materials and components duty-free for export-oriented production.

Steel is a critical input for industries driving North America’s nearshoring boom — including automotive, appliances, construction materials and heavy equipment manufacturing across the country

Mexico’s crackdown on allegedly irregular steel imports could tighten oversight of raw material flows used by export manufacturers operating under the IMMEX program, potentially creating short-term disruptions for factories that rely on imported steel

[USS Nimitz has been deployed to the Middle East. This aircraft carrier is 50 years old and is scheduled to be decommissioned next year. Get ready for an Israeli false flag attack on this old ship (to be falsely blamed on Iran) for the US to get involved in the Israel-Iran war even more than we already are. It’s the Gulf of Tonkin all over again! Same playbook.]

The tragedy of USS Liberty — On June 8, 1967, during the height of the Six-Day War, the American intelligence ship USS Liberty sailed calmly in international waters near the Sinai Peninsula. The ship was lightly armed, clearly identified, and flying a large U.S. flag. Her role was observation and signal collection—not combat.

Without warning, Israeli aircraft approached and opened fire. Rockets and cannon rounds struck the ship, crippling communications equipment and igniting fires across the deck. Soon after, Israeli torpedo boats joined the assault. One torpedo hit the hull, opening a massive breach and flooding compartments where sailors were stationed.

Amid smoke, fire, and chaos, the crew fought desperately to keep the ship afloat. Wounded sailors helped one another, fires were battled by hand, and emergency signals were sent under extreme conditions. When the attack ended, 34 American sailors had lost their lives, and more than 170 were injured. USS Liberty survived, but the damage—both physical and human—was profound.

Israel later described the incident as a tragic mistake caused by misidentification and issued an official apology. U.S. and Israeli investigations concluded similarly. However, many survivors and analysts have continued to question these findings, citing the ship’s clear markings and the length of the attack.

Today, the USS Liberty incident stands as one of the most controversial and sorrowful episodes in U.S. naval history—a reminder of the fog of war, the cost paid by sailors, and a tragedy that still raises unanswered questions

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Pedophile and Rapist in Chief Trump and his Glosser-Miller still got money to burn….. One of the most controversial new ICE facilities in the country this afternoon, an 825,000 square foot warehouse built with the hopes of being used or sold to a logistics company like Amazon, but which was recently purchased by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a million dollars to hold people instead of boxes.

Although often described as the “Hagerstown facility”, (Maryland) the building is actually in the much smaller town of Williamsport, home to 2,000 people. If ICE uses this facility at (or over) its stated initial capacity of 1,500 people, the population of the town will effectively double in size.

The building currently has four toilets and two water fountains. It was designed as a logistics hub, allocated just six Equivalent Dwelling Units of water by the city of Hagerstown, a measure meant for a warehouse where trucks come and go, not a facility where 1,500 human beings are supposed to live. Given the size of the facility, I can’t imagine they will stop at 1,500 if they actually manage to open this facility.

Hagerstown has said it doesn’t have the water capacity for a project like this. County commissioners have floated the idea of drilling wells or trucking water in, but even the volunteer researchers tracking this project have pointed out that trucking water for a facility of this size would be, to put it mildly, quite a task.

The federal government has now spent at least $215 million on the site. The $102.4 million purchase in January was followed last week by a $113 million build-out and operations contract awarded to KVG LLC, a firm based in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. That contract has options to grow to $642 million over three years.

The Jews will do anything to kill Goyim.

Leila, a 27-year-old teacher in Tehran, said the air was “unbreathable.”

“Something like a black monster has swallowed the sky over Tehran,” she told TIME. “It’s as if all the cars and the street pavement have been coated in black paint.”

“Today I was in the car for just 15 minutes, breathing this air. I don’t even know what it is, and now I have a headache. The skin on my face, especially my lips, is sore and raw. It burns and feels like diluted tear gas is in the air. It irritates my eyes, and I keep needing to clear my throat,” she added.

Atmospheric chemist and chemical engineer who researches air pollution, Gabriel da Silva further documented the effects of this poisoning , writing:

To me, this black rain indicates toxic pollutants such as hydrocarbons, ultrafine particles known as PM2.5, and carcinogenic compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have made their way into the rain.

He added:

In the short term, people exposed to this black smoke in Iran might have headaches or difficulty breathing, especially if they have asthma or lung disease.Vulnerable populations – such as older people, young children and people with disabilities – are more at risk. Exposure to toxic air pollution during pregnancy can also lead to lower birth weights.In the longer term, exposure to the compounds in the air and in this black rain is potentially increasing people’s cancer risk. When ultrafine particles (PM2.5) are inhaled, they can get into your bloodstream. This has been linked to a range of health impacts, including cancers, neurological conditions (such as cognitive impairment), and various cardiovascular conditions.Once these heavily polluted plumes of air have their pollutants rained into natural waterways, they can also start to affect aquatic life, as well as human drinking water sources.Another issue is that this black rain is depositing these compounds on buildings, roads and surfaces, which means they can make their way back into the air when disturbed by strong winds.

The Conflict and Environment Observatory documented :

Acute air pollution episodes disproportionately affect people with existing health conditions. Individuals with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cardiovascular disease and diabetes are consistently identified as being at greater risk during short-term spikes in particulate pollution. Studies of wildfire smoke — a useful analogue — show same-day increases in respiratory emergency visits, hospital admissions and mortality, particularly among older adults and those with underlying respiratory or cardiovascular disease.In Tehran these risks may be compounded by the city’s high baseline pollution, where average PM₂.₅ levels exceed WHO guidelines by up to 4.5 times. Chronic exposure can leave residents with airway or cardiovascular stress, increasing the likelihood that acute smoke exposure triggers exacerbations of asthma, COPD and cardiac events.

The organization also noted that it will likely contaminate Tehran’s water supply, writing:

There are reports that spillages from the Shahran oil storage site entered the storm drains in Tehran and explosively ignited. Tehran has a large and complex network of storm drains to carry runoff from rainfall and snowmelt off the surrounding mountains. It is difficult to forecast exactly where spilled oil products — or the deposited contaminates that were later washed into the storm drains — may be discharged. However, it would be expected to follow Tehran’s north-to-south slope and may enter natural water bodies or agricultural soils, where in turn shallow groundwater could become contaminated.

Israel’s poisoning of Tehran shows that the real U.S./Israeli goal in Iran goes beyond regime change and, in reality, is state collapse, with the goal of destroying Iran as a functioning society, for greater Israel. —The Dissident, With U.S. Backing, Israel Has Poisoned Tehran. Through Bombing Fuel Depots, Israel Has Unleashed Deadly Toxins On Tehran.

And it’s all about Gaza, still: 72 female Palestinian detainees face constant violence, abuse, and humiliation in Israeli prisons

Palestine Will Be Free

Palestinians continue to suffer in the inhumane Israeli prison system, with no hope of release or even intervention from international authorities.

As of March 2026, Israeli occupation authorities are currently imprisoning 72 Palestinian women, most of them held in Damon Prison in the country’s north. Among them are three minors and 32 mothers, who collectively have 130 children.

Nearly two and a half years into the genocide, “to this day, there is no available data indicating that women from occupied Gaza remain in detention.”

This also applies to male detainees from the Gaza Strip, as the Israelis have not revealed the number of Palestinians they have either kept in detention or killed in their dungeons after abducting them. They have occasionally released unidentified dismembered and disfigured bodies into the Gaza Strip.

Discussion about this post

I’ve seen court evidence in pedophilia video marketing, and snuff movies, as a reporter, so believe you me, Pedophile and Rapist in Chief Trump does NOT want high definition tapes released.

Paulo Kirk

Mar 09, 2026

These are the places where the scent of our ancestors still lingers.

Alexander the Great notoriously burned down the Persian ceremonial capital of Persepolis in 330 B.C.E.. While sometimes considered a deliberate act of retribution for the Persian invasion of Greece, historical accounts also suggest it was a drunken, impulsive decision encouraged by, for example, the courtesan Thaïs.

The fire’s origin in the Hadish Palace, the living quarters of Xerxes I (also known as Xerxes the Great), and its spread throughout the city suggest a targeted act, possibly aimed at erasing the symbols of Persian authority and demoralizing any potential resistance.

A painting by French artist Georges Rochegrosse entitled “The Burning of Persepolis”, depicts the fire incident.

Greek and Roman sources, including Arrian and Quintus Curtius Rufus, attribute the idea to burn Persepolis to Thaïs, an Athenian courtesan and companion of Alexander.

In some accounts, it is said that during a drunken celebration Thaïs – the mistress of Ptolemy I Soter – proposed the burning as a symbolic act of revenge for Xerxes’ destruction of Greek sanctuaries.

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Here is the American Tomahawk missile, made in Tucson, Arizona, and paid for by me and you, right before it obliterated the bodies of nearly 200 children at an elementary school in Iran.

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A view of the debris of a school, where many students and teachers lost their lives on the first day of the wave of attacks launched by the United States and Israel against Iran, in Hormozgan, Iran, on March 05, 2026.

The first time I saw white phosphorus was in 2008. I was returning home from school when suddenly the sky was filled with falling fire and thick white smoke. It was suffocating beyond description.

We were just children who knew nothing of life except playing and having fun, but they forced us to watch and witness their deadly weapons, which are internationally prohibited. That image has never left my mind; we were like a testing ground for these weapons.

Today, when I see the same scenes in beloved Lebanon, I realize the magnitude of this catastrophe, something only a person who has lived in Gaza can truly understand.

I have nothing to offer Lebanon and its people except prayers. The world has abandoned you, just as it abandoned Gaza years ago. My heart breaks for you, for your suffering and your wounds.

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Tehran plunged into darkness by smoke from burning oil

All because of this =

Barron Trump buys $50 million worth of oil stocks two days before Trump started the war in Iran.

– He bought before the bombs fell
– He bought before Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz
– He bought before 20% of global oil supply was choked
– He bought before crude oil prices reached levels not seen since 2008

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And this:

Stormy Daniels: A man threatened me and my daughter over Trump story in  2011 | CNN Politics

We are a world run by fucking freaks. We need her by the tens of thousands:

“I don’t think it’s necessary to prove ourselves as women by imitating men.
I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother…Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.” 
– Leila Khaled

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We need this image to morph into tens of thousands of those Yankee-Confederate flags:

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Dudes. SNuff movies. Pedophile high definition moving pictures, videos, digital recordings, none of this bullshit still image crap. Spy Cams and Mossad Movie Making.

Do you think the moving pictures (to use a Trump term) with naked Trump getting a blow job, live action, from a child, sex slave, is going to play well even with Maggot MAGA?

Do you not think Mossad and the other various cyber punk outfits of the Jewish State of Terror haven’t shown the fucking Semen Drip Trump what could be released if the fucking USA hadn’t carpet bombed Iran?

Key Video Categories & Where to Watch

  • “The Epstein Tapes” (Data Set 10): This specific batch contains 14 hours of footage seized from Epstein’s personal devices. It is hosted and summarized by The Free Press, which published the footage to ensure public access.
  • Prison Surveillance: Footage from theMetropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), including the “missing minute” and angles near Epstein’s cell, has been analyzed and shared by CBS News and WIRED.
  • Estate & Island Walkthroughs:
    • Little St. JamesHigh-quality walkthroughs recorded by authorities in 2020 were released by the House Oversight Committee and are viewable via PBS NewsHour.
    • Palm Beach Spy Camera: Granier footage from hidden cameras inside Epstein’s Florida home was recently uncovered and verified by Channel 4 News.

Note on Redactions: Many released videos are heavily redacted to protect the privacy of victims, which can sometimes mask the high-definition quality of the original files.

The FBI’s Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

US-Israel war on Iran is creating a steady growing number of amputees in Iran

Investigation says US-Israeli strikes in Iran damaged hospitals near targets, killing hundreds: CNN analysis cites satellite images and videos showing impact on civilian sites.

Several fuel depots in the southeast, western, and eastern parts of Tehran were hit by Israeli and US attacks, sending flames and heavy toxic smoke high into the sky. The toxic smoke has engulfed the capital and is drifting towards neighboring cities, raising fears over air quality. RELATED READING: Attacks on Iran’s oil facilities may cause ‘serious environmental, health disaster’.

The Iranian Red Crescent Society has warned civilians to take precautions, saying rain could become toxic after explosions at oil facilities. Such rain could cause chemical burns to the skin and damage to the lungs, it said. RELATED: ‘Intentional Chemical Warfare’: Toxic Black Rain in Tehran After US-Israel Bomb Oil Facilities

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Pirhoussein Koulivand, head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society, says 65 schools and 32 medical facilities, hospitals and pharmacies have been attacked since the US and Israel launched the war.

They are among the almost 10,000 civilian sites that the Red Crescent said earlier have been damaged in the country. The announcement came after the Israeli military said it struck more than 3,400 targets in Iran.

[An explosion at the 2,000-year-old Temple of Baalshamin in Palmyra, as posted on a website linked to ISIS.]

Hundreds of cities have been intentionally burned down or destroyed in wars throughout history, with the most intense examples occurring during World War II, where over 60 major Japanese cities were firebombed, and numerous German and Soviet cities (e.g., Hamburg, Dresden, Stalingrad, Warsaw) were decimated

The intentional destruction of cities, often referred to as “area bombing” or “city killing,” was strategically designed to break morale and destroy industrial capabilities

[The morning after a German air raid on Coventry, which lost its entire city centre to one night of bombing]

More than a quarter of Tokyo was laid waste during three years of bombing of the Japanese capital.

[More than a quarter of Tokyo was laid waste during three years of bombing of the Japanese capital]

[The German city of Dresden photographed in 1952, as workers remove bomb debris in front of the ruins of the Frauenkirche.]

[The white marble minaret of a 250-year-old mosque lies on its side in southern Lebanon, following an Israeli strike.]

[Lebanese officials say eight people were killed in an October airstrike on this 19th-century Greek Catholic church in the village of Derdghaya. The Israeli military confirmed the airstrike, but said it was targeting what it calls terrorists, who embed near or underneath cultural heritage sites.]

[Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly and Kamel Jaber document the destruction of Lebanon’s antiquities in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, where a 13th-century Mamluk-era market was destroyed, along with hundreds of newer buildings. “These are the places where the scent of our ancestors still lingers,” Jaber says.]

Dozens of US lawmakers demand a probe into Pentagon officials saying Iran war ‘God’s divine plan’The request follows hundreds of reports that officers told troops the campaign against Iran is “divinely ordained” and that President Donald Trump has been “anointed by Jesus.”

‘It’s Sickening’: US Catholic Cardinal Calls Out White House for Social Media Posts Making Light of Iran WarThe White House has posted several videos splicing together scenes from movies and video games with footage of US strikes in Iran.

Decorated Navy SEAL accused of killing teen Islamic State prisoner in his custody | US News | Sky News

Our boys in mercenary uniforms:

Iran IS LOSING . . . as America and Israel also loses “some things,” but not the ranch:

Jon Elmer, contributing editor at The Electronic Intifada, joins the show to analyze the military dynamics of the US-Israeli war on Iran — including Iran’s strategy, the effectiveness of Israeli and U.S. defenses, and who appears to have the strategic advantage so far.

Then Mike Prysner, Executive Director of the Center on Conscience and War and a U.S. Army veteran, discusses widespread opposition to war on Iran among American soldiers and what it reveals about morale, public opinion, and the limits of U.S. war-making power.

My comment here and a fellow following up: Stop Zionising Us. Bassem Youssef debating with former Israeli spokesman Jonathan Conricus

Zionising? Gaza-fication? Scholasticide? Come one, do not hide behind the cross-dressing of Judaism……………..

https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/ResearchAndStudies/Pages/The_Kings_Torah_and_the_Killing_of_Palestinians.aspx

The danger of this book does not lie in the adoption and preaching of these ideas, even though it is very dangerous. Rather, large sectors of the settlers turn from the adoption of these ideas into putting them into action. Under the auspices of the Israeli government and the protection of the occupying Israeli army, the settlers have been assaulting Palestinians, their property, and holy places. The rabbis and yeshiva students, who revere the ideas of The King’s Torah and deal with it as their original Torah, represent the spearhead of settlers and the occupation. They abuse the Palestinians, ravage their towns and villages, cut down their trees, and burn their farms, crops and mosques, thus turning their lives into a hell as a prelude to deportation. In this context, a secret, Jewish military organization named Tag Mehir emerged in 2009 from the ranks of those rabbis and their West Bank settlement yeshiva students, representing the military power of The King’s Torah-guided settlers

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“Every child in Gaza is the enemy. We need to occupy Gaza and settle it, and not a single Gazan child will be left there. There is no other victory.”

"Every child in Gaza is the enemy. We need to occupy Gaza and settle it, and not a single Gazan child will be left there. There is no other victory."

[Approximately 800,000 to 900,000 Israelis, or about 10% of the population, hold dual citizenship.]

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“Every child in Gaza is the enemy. We need to occupy Gaza and settle it, and not a single Gazan child will be left there. There is no other victory.”

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This Doha Institute link is great, thank you. I have been wanting to read more about that heinous book.

Wrt “scholasticide”, yeah there is an industry springing up, of trying to give every affinity group its own exaggerated trauma-drama, and it is a counterproductive activity and, crucially, a Jewish approach learned in postwar academia applied to the (“unfair, mean, soi disant biased, cancellation-deserving, etc”) world.

This sort of activity reifies the identitarian argumentation which underpins the demands for special treatment which Jews always make, and should be kicked to the curb.

But “Zionising” I propose is onto something although he might not know it.

In the 1800s, the Jews of west Asia and east and central Europe were faced with the success of what they had been whinging for, for so long, which was an increase in civic welcome. This was destabilizing for them, as they were in fact comfortable simply being totally separate and complaining about it. So as a subculture, they responded in 3 ways: assimilation, ascetic retreat and depressive hibernation, or the Zionist response which was newly aggressive and outwardly aimed.

The Zionists aimed at much more than merely demanding that the world give them Palestine and commit to ensuring their safety in their newly established invasive cyst (yes even in the mid 1800s, they knew they would need to use force, and they wanted to demand that other countries send their young to be killed in service of their greed for Palestine).

The Zionists also aimed to reshape the entire world, so that societies and governments would give them their “due” and pay them the respect these Gamma malcontents decided they deserved.

In late 1800s Vienna, they even glommed onto Nietzsche for a psychodramatic approach to refashioning themselves, and it has been observed that the Zionists took this approach because they were ego-bruised by modernity and by not being given aristocratic social rank. Essentially they had talked themselves into ressentiment.

Their goals encompassed attacking all social milieus to establish their primacy. This is apparent in their writings; the American Zionist journal The Maccabaean, published in the first 1/5 of the 20th century, is a goldmine for expressions of this goal.

I don’t think this guy on Piers’ show is in touch with this whole history, and he might be using “Zionist” as a stand-in for “aggressive Jewish”. But as it happens, if we look back 150-110 years, we can see what he’s talking about as a particular Zionist aggression, even though, yes it also shows up in the general Jewish approach to Gentile society, throughout history.

So what do you think?

I think there is probably some use for the concept, although it probably needs to be fleshed out and given structure, not just used as a comedic wordplay.

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Chuck Schumer: Man of Peace

March 9, 2026

By David Swanson, Progressive Hub

For many years, Senator Charles Schumer demanded tougher and tougher sanctions on the people of Iran, as he shamelessly documents on his own website. He insisted on a Cuba-like blockade, punishing and deterring any company or nation from providing life-support to Iran. He predicted, ludicrously but proudly, that such punishing sanctions might lead to an overthrow of the Iranian government.

Like all Congressional supporters and opponents of the Obama-era nuclear deal, Schumer pretended that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons, but never pretended his only goal was to prevent that fictional behavior:

“The actual Iranian people are secular and pro-American. And they are not poor. They are rising into the middle class…If we can squeeze them economically you might get them to take to the streets again and at the very minimum put pressure on their government to back off their nuclear escapade and at the very best overthrow the government.”

For Schumer, the long-enjoyed imaginary nightmare of a nuclear Iran was always a justification for lawless U.S. actions because it was a threat to Israel — while meanwhile always pretending (with one exception obtained via great persistence) that Israel had no nuclear weapons and was a threat to no one.

During the debate over a nuclear deal with Iran, the two common positions in Congress were (1) we need this deal because Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons, and (2) we need no deal and ideally a war because Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. Schumer opposed Obama’s deal.

When Trump 1.0 wanted to tear up the deal, Schumer claimed to oppose that, even while relentlessly demanding more sanctions in apparent violation of the deal. Even when admitting that Iran was not violating the deal, Schumer never stopped denouncing Iran as the enemy of the United States engaged in behavior that he claimed required ever more sanctions in (unstated) violation of the deal by the United States.

Nine months ago, Schumer posted a video solemnly accusing Trump 2.0 of being too “chicken” to take on Iran. When Israel has attacked Iran (or done anything else ever whatsoever) Schumer’s focus has been on praising Israel.

As of February 24 and 25 of this year, we could read reports on how Schumer and other leading Democrats were working to avoid a vote on a war powers resolution until the war could be begun.

And once the war was begun, Schumer and gang didn’t denounce mass murder, but mumbled about procedures, as if a Congressional vote could have legalized a blatant violation of the UN Charter, or as if proper planning could turn slaughter and destruction into respectable acts. Schumer published a statement mixing together opposition to Trump’s war with tougher-on-Iran-than-thou rhetoric and insistence on knowing the supposed goals of the war — were they tough enough?

This was followed by a new statement claiming to support a war powers resolution and to oppose the war because of a handful of U.S. deaths, without a word for the many Iranians killed or the rule of law — and another statement about how unpopular the war should make Trump, and yet another about how senators should vote yes on war powers — but not a word in public or, as far as we know, in private about Democratic Senator John Fetterman who was already publicly saying that he would vote no.

After the failed vote, Schumer focused on Republicans and gas prices, with still never a word for those killed or the likely long-lasting consequences of all this large-scale violence, never a word on the need to block efforts to give Trump an Iran War Slush Fund of $50 billion, never a word on the need to block Congress from giving the Pentagon $1 trillion a year or upping it to $1.5 trillion, never a word on the need to close U.S. bases in Gulf region dictatorships, never a word on the need to cosponsor and pass the Block the Bombs Act to finally halt the illegal shipment of weapons to Israel — shipments still passionately and proudly supported by Schumer despite the genocide he loves having been joined by the new war on Iran that he claims to oppose.

I’ve talked with a number of people about this latest war who oppose it — people I don’t think have ever before opposed any of the hundreds of endless U.S. bloodbaths of recent history. While I find this vaguely encouraging, I’m struck by their usual next comment: “Well, at least the Democrats are trying their hardest.”

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Iran has the highest female-to-male ratio in universities among all of the sovereign nations. More than 70% of students in engineering and pure sciences are women.

Paulo Kirk

Mar 08, 2026

Scenes from Twitter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Having laid the groundwork for the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran that is currently resulting in civilian deaths in Iran and putting US service members in harm’s way, Jared Kushner took to the town to celebrate Rupert Murdoch’s birthday!

They’re not like us.

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In 1960, ADL’s National Discrimination Director, Harold Braverman, told a Black audience at Fisk University in TN that Black ppl who support Black businesses are “anti-semitic” because supporting Black businesses hurts the profits of Jewish business owners in Black areas.

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This International Women’s Day we call for support to the Iranian women and girls resisting the dirty colonial war onto them.

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Happy International Women’s Day!

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Holy shit… my eyes are about to go blind!

Hundreds gather outside the Zorro Ranch for Sunday’s Women’s March.


Attendees hold signs with various messages, including those demanding justice for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.

Here is the Conservative Party of Canada deputy leader proudly posing with Jewish terrorists connected to the notorious Jewish Defense League. Canada, we have a huge Zionist problem that needs to be dealt with.

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Message from the old Irishman!!

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Eric Trump calls the Ayatollah’s son an incompetent moron who only got his position through nepotism. Irony is dead

Dear @realDonaldTrump


We know you’ve created this ‘war’ to distract attention from the evidence of your sex-offending.

We loathe and detest you and everything you stand for.

This ‘war’ is all on you. You’re a fucking disgrace to the US.

The UK.

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This pig is named Lindsey/Linda/Lady Graham and is one of the top culprits behind everything we’re witnessing.

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Hegseth embodies everything that people hate about America.

India officially confesses it backstabbed Iran and shared the location of an Iranian ship with Israel.

Indian Army Chief explains how he gave the Israelis the exact location of the Iranian Navy ship and how it was targeted — a disgusting act by Indians.

Happy International Women’s Day, Palestine Resistance:

Palestinian Resistance in Lebanon, 1973.
DFLP military training for women in Gaza, 2022.
Female Guerrilla fighters of Saraya Al-Quds during a military parade, 2018.
Female fighters of Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades (PFLP) undergoing military training, 2023.

‘Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.’ – Assata Shakur

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Versus…………………….. Moheba Khorsheed. 1948

A female Palestinian fighter who formed the first armed women’s organisation against colonialism. 🇵🇸

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The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran.

He is waving goodbye to his mother.

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Erdogan’s son-in-law Selcuk Bayraktar, owns Baykar, Turkey’s leading drone manufacturer. While Erdogan was publicly announcing a trade suspension with Israel and making speeches defending Palestinians, Baykar was co-sponsoring arms exhibitions alongside Israeli manufacturers and exporting over $608,000 in weapons and $436,000 in explosives to Israel. This hypocrisy and endless greed for dollars will be the death of the entire Muslim world.

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Note: Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei lost his father, mother, wife, son, his niece, his nephew, his sister, and his brother-in-law in only one week.

May God give him patience.

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Extraordinary email from Paul Bremer, the US bureaucrat who ran Iraq from 2003-4, to his wife

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Paul Bremer ran Iraq for Bush. His emails show what really happened

Every year, the Palestinian woman is a symbol of sacrifice and strength

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This is what the first boots on the ground in Iran should look like.

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Gaza in 2014.

Americans have never been carpet bombed and have no idea what is the mass loss of life inflicted by warmongers. Any American who wonders why any part of the world shouts “Death to America” is seriously deluded about their own history, crimes, and practices. Your taxes kill babies.

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Marine, Kevin Melendez 19. 7th soldier killed in Trump’s Iran war.

Asked today if our dead soldiers give him pause about his war, Trump said:
“Not at all, not one bit.”

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I’d say the biggest mistake anyone can make is putting a learning-impaired, dry-drunk manbaby in charge of the largest military in the world.

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170 children killed in Iran, 83 children killed in Lebanon in Israeli airstrikes in just one week. Imagine a world where the blood of young children, their decapitated bodies, does nothing to our conscience, we are still debating the ‘context’ of their murder

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This is Baal, the god of the Zionists. This is the demon; now I understand why they bombed schools and killed many Palestinian children. It is a tribute to that beast. What a horror!!

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Michael Manley’s love for Jamaica and his friendship with Castro is why the CIA destabilized Jamaica. They did it by sending in an “economic hitman” (there’s a documentary about it on YouTube) and by arming inner-city youths with guns, which helped spark a bloody political election. Before that, there were no guns in Jamaica, and the Jamaican dollar was equal in value to the U.S. dollar.

That eventually cascaded into a CIA-backed drug trade involving Jamaican gangsters who were given visas to New York. This later fueled the “Posse Wars” between Black American drug lords and rival Jamaican factions (Shower Posse and Spranglers Posse). There’s also an episode on the show American Gangsters on this. Shower Posse alone were responsible for 1500 murders in NY and Miami in the 80s during the height of the drug trade.

Some of those same factions were also involved in the attempted assassination of Bob Marley, shooting him several times (Jim Brown is the culprit. Long story on him, who the government ended up double-crossing and killing). Bob Marley was pushing unity and peace in the midst of the CIA-orchestrated political violence. Right as he planned a peace concert between the two warring political factions, he was shot the day before the concert. A plot to silence a respected voice that the people would listen to.

The violence and destabilization of so many Third World countries isn’t accidental. It’s often a system engineered to create dependence on the United States, steal their resources and keep people focused inward, fighting each other, which ultimately weakens both the population and the country itself.

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International Women’s/Girls Day:

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**Photograph taken in Ireland in 1972, of a girl firing her wounded boyfriend’s gun in a battle against the British army (he survived after being transported to a safe place, covered by his girlfriend, who confronted the British soldiers until she was killed).


The photo was chosen for Women’s Day in Ireland, along with the phrase: “Don’t be afraid to be associated with a strong woman. The day may come and she will be your only army.”

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“Every Baby In Gaza Is An Enemy” . . .”Every baby in Iran is an Enemy.” “Every Muslim Baby in the World is an Enemy.”

Paulo Kirk

Mar 08, 2026

[Approximately 800,000 to 900,000 Israelis, or about 10% of the population, hold dual citizenship.]

Yair Golan, a retired IDF deputy chief of staff and head of the newly formed political party The Democrats, accused Israel of “killing babies as a hobby.”

In a press conference, Golan lashed out at the Benjamin Netanyahu government’s actions in Gaza. “Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country,” he said.

“A sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not engage in mass population displacement,” Golan added. He accused the current leadership of being “full of vengeful types with no morals and no ability to run a country in a time of crisis. This endangers our existence.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back at Golan, calling his remarks “wild incitement” and a “blood libel.”

[Moshe Feiglin. His ancestors moved to Palestine from Imperial Russia.

The history of the US border is full of even more hypocritical

duplicity than the shifty Australian border. Even before the

United States came into being, its border had been invoked,

dismissed, drawn and redrawn for over a century: from the

hastily defined and competing imperial claims by the British,

French, and Spanish empires, the “wall” of the Appalachian

mountains, to the Proclamation Line of 1763, as set by King

George III when he declared that it was “essential to our

interest, and the security of our colonies, that the several

nations or tribes of Indian with whom we are connected, and

who live under our protection, should not be molested or

disturbed.” The proclamation set the then-westernmost border

of the colonies.

The king’s demarcation of the border was one of the principal

but often-overlooked sparks of the Revolutionary War: the

colonists’ desire—their “destiny”—to push west and fill the land

with white people (“populate or perish”)—their refusal to be

hemmed in, to be beholden to any border. Indeed, one of the

charges against the British in the Declaration of Independence

was that the king was restricting immigration: “He has

endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that

purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners;

refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither,

and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.”13

The colonists valued freedom (for some) over and against the

idea of borders and territorial limits.

Instead of respecting borders that they often themselves drew

and defended, the invaders released their invasive hogs into

Native hunting grounds, clear-cut forests, plied Natives with

liquor, tempted them with baubles, infected them with diseases,

and, when that wasn’t enough, formed mobs or militias and

went on the attack, always pushing beyond the

westward-creeping border—land-grabbing and resource-gobbling

as much as they could along the way. —

The Case for Open Borders, John Washingotn

Eight of the ten largest desalination plants on earth sit on the Arabian Peninsula coast. Together, the Gulf states account for roughly sixty percent of global desalination capacity. A hundred million people drink what these facilities manufacture from seawater every single day. Kuwait gets ninety percent of its drinking water from desalination. Oman eighty-six. Saudi Arabia seventy. Without these plants, the most powerful petroleum states on earth would become uninhabitable within days. Not weeks but days.

A leaked 2008 U.S. diplomatic cable concluded that Riyadh “would have to evacuate within a week” if the Jubail desalination plant or its associated infrastructure were seriously damaged. That was 2008. The population is larger now. The consumption is higher. The alternative freshwater sources remain exactly zero.

On March 2, Iranian strikes on Dubai’s Jebel Ali port landed roughly twelve miles from one of the world’s largest desalination complexes — a facility producing more than 160 billion gallons of the city’s water each year. The Fujairah power and water complex was damaged. Kuwait’s Doha West desalination plant was damaged. Neither was destroyed. Both appeared to be collateral — nearby port attacks, interceptor debris.

That distinction was the most important signal in this war. Emphasis on was.

Because Washington couldn’t leave well enough alone. On Friday, the United States destroyed a freshwater desalination plant on Iran’s Qeshm Island — reportedly with missiles launched from its Jufair base in Bahrain. Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi responded immediately: “The US committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. The water supply in 30 villages has been impacted. Attacking Iran’s infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The US set this precedent, not Iran.” Washington denied it. Of course, they did. U.S. Navy Captain Tim Hawkins called the claim false, calling Iran “the same terrorist regime that has attacked 12 different countries.” The plant on Qeshm Island, meanwhile, remained destroyed.

If you want Americans and Jews in Israel and dual citizen Israelis protected, then you are on fucking crack:

Videos shared by citizen journalists showed massive flames over the Tehran sky overnight and smoke still billowing over the oil storage facilities. As rain poured down on the city of 10 million people on Sunday morning, authorities warned of toxic acid rain and many residents woke up with pain in their throat and eyes burning.

Firefighters at the Shahran oil depot in Tehran after it was struck.

Strikes near the Azadi tower, close to Tehran’s Mehrabad International airport on Saturday night.

A fire after an airstrike on an oil storage facility in Tehran

How many Muslims? Two billion? How many majority-Muslim countries? Fifty-five?

The Persian Gulf’s ‘saltwater kingdoms’ rely so much on desalination that damage to the infrastructure could force evacuations

You lost, man, to point two percent, the .2 percent solution — Jews.

Everything, Arabs, or Muslims, everything. Vaseline? Bend over and think Sriracha liquid because the Jews are ready to bugger you and your children. U.S. considers the idea of a special operation to seize Iran’s uranium

There will be no resistance in the USA, just enlistment into the uniformed mercenary services: Gen Z graduates who majored in ‘AI-proof’ careers like pharmacy, biology, and education are making less than $50,000 after graduation

Going, going, GONE: An iconic swathe of old growth forest in west Polk County is among the 2. 5 million acres the Bureau of Land Management has proposed for a logging ramp-up meant to expand domestic timber production.

The Valley of the Giants, home to some of the largest and oldest trees on Oregon’s Coast Range, is renowned for the titanic Douglas firs and Western Hemlocks that compose its canopy. It was recognized as an Outstanding Natural Area and an Area of Critical Environmental Concern by the BLM in 1976.

A BLM spokesperson described the area as “a pocket of Coast Range forest that time forgot“ in a 2013 interview.

  • clearcutting forests
  • clearcutting jobs
  • clearcutting nations
  • clearcutting resistance
  • clearcutting hope

Trump has won, for the Jews, too.

A person in camouflage gear leans over a blue-green projectile in a dusty landscape near a large, two-wheeled weapon.
U.S. military personnel with a round of white phosphorus in Afghanistan in 2011.Credit…Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

When President Trump issued an abrupt order last month compelling the production of glyphosate, the controversial weedkiller known as Roundup, he angered health activists who have long campaigned to ban the product for its links to cancer.

But largely overshadowed in the furor was the order’s mention of something contentious in another way: the manufacture of munitions used by the United States military.

Bayer, which makes glyphosate, is also the only company in the United States that manufactures a form of elemental phosphorus called white phosphorus, which it uses to make the weedkiller. That white phosphorus is also used to make munitions deployed as smoke screens and incendiary devices that can violently burn property or people.

Winning everywhich way, idiots who see Iran as a force to stop the Empire. FUCKS.

Trump calls for more aggressive responses to cyberattacks in long-awaited cyber strategy

The text includes lots of braggadocio — and little detail on actual plans to deter top cyber adversaries, including Russia and China.

Something about the cunt Pedophile and Rapist slowing down? FUCK: President Donald Trump is set to gather with Latin American leaders on Saturday at his Miami-area golf club as his administration looks to demonstrate it’s still committed to sharpening U.S. foreign policy focus on the Western Hemisphere even as it deals with five-alarm crises around the globe.

As the US and Venezuela mend relations, Trump touts it as a model for regime change

The gathering, dubbed the “Shield of the Americas” summit, comes just two months after Trump ordered an audacious U.S. military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and whisk him and his wife to the U.S. to face drug conspiracy charges.

Looming even larger is Trump’s decision to join with Israel to launch a war on Iran one week ago, a conflict that’s already left hundreds dead, convulsed global markets and unsettled the broader Middle East.

Trump’s time with the Latin American leaders will be limited: He is also set to fly to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, to be on hand for the dignified transfer of the six U.S. troops killed in a drone strike on a command center in Kuwait, one day after the U.S. and Israel launched their military campaign against Iran.

Winners and losers: ‘I am trying to live’: Haitians in Mexico seek community despite broken immigration systems,

As thousands of other Haitians continued to arrive in Tapachula, the main entry point for migrants traveling north through Central America, many have found themselves trapped in a tangle of hostile or dysfunctional immigration systems involving Mexico, the US and the UN. There are few smooth paths forward, whether they are aiming to settle there or head for central or northern Mexico, or the US.

[An asylum-seeking migrant from Haiti who did not give her name out of fear, cleans a kitchen at a shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico]

[A Mexican immigration official speaks to migrants as they line up for their appointment with US immigration officials to apply for asylum.]

The Nobodies

Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping
poverty: that one magical day good luck will suddenly rain down on
them—will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down
yesterday, today, tomorrow, or ever. Good luck doesn’t even fall in a
fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their
left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day with their right
foot, or start the new year with a change of brooms.

The nobodies: nobody’s children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the
no ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life,
screwed every which way.

Who are not, but could be.
Who don’t speak languages, but dialects.
Who don’t have religions, but superstitions.
Who don’t create art, but handicrafts.
Who don’t have culture, but folklore.
Who are not human beings, but human resources.
Who do not have faces, but arms.
Who do not have names, but numbers.
Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the police
blotter of the local paper.
The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them.”

― From Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Can we just fucking put these cunts out of their misery – John et al?

The University of Chicago has a superb extension program called the Graham School. On 3 March 2026, I did a lengthy interview with Jennifer Lind, who teaches at Graham. We talked about various big issues involving the past 250 year of US foreign Policy.

Note: This Jew is Jew advertising Goldman Sachs, crypto coins on the YouTUbe feed I have of Johnny boy.

[Migrants at a house funded by the Catholic Church in the neighborhood of Iztapalapa in Mexico City.]

Skipping Jews and Mossad and NeoCon Insider Jobbers and September 11 . . .

Since 9/11, virtually every American war in the Middle East, from Iraq to Libya to Syria to Yemen, has been the product of Israel in partnership with hardline Zionist neo-conservatives in the U.S. who desire to destroy states that get in the way of Israeli domination of the region.

Through a combination of the powerful Israel Lobby, ideologically committed Zionists in the U.S., and Neo-conservatives who believe an Israeli-dominated Middle East will allow the American foreign policy elite to project power over the region, all of these wars have had the same primary motive: to benefit Israel and make Israel the hegemon over the Middle East.

This undeniable fact for years, haa been taboo in the mainstream media ,and almost never discussed.

But the current war on Iran- and the fact that the Trump administration and Benjamin Netanyahu have not hidden that it is for Israel- has forced the mainstream media to acknowledge this fact.

Benjamin Netanyahu boasted at the beginning of the war that ,“This combined effort allows us to do what I have hoped to achieve for 40 years: to crush the regime of terror completely. That’s my promise, and this is what is going to happen”.

You think?

Mary Costello: ‘I write to become conscious.’

Author Mary Costello:

‘Gaza has disabled me. I think, how could I go into a room and make up stories?’

As her latest novel is published, the acclaimed Irish author has turned her attention to non-fiction, still writing ‘what obsesses, consumes and distresses’ her.

The writer Mary Costello is sitting in the plush lobby of a Galway city-centre hotel. She is diminutive in stature, smartly dressed, with impeccable long, blonde hair hanging neatly around her shoulders. She drinks mint tea as we discuss her new novel, A Beautiful Loan, an intimate portrait of one woman’s journey towards self-discovery.

“Like many authors, I draw on aspects of my own life, my reading, my passions”. Carl Jung “has been a pivotal influence,” she says, praising his “all-encompassing approach to the human psyche”, which incorporates science, philosophy, rational and irrational behaviour and all world cultures”. Joyce has long been an influence on Mary and the French-Algerian philosopher and novelist Albert Camus is another hero.

“He was flawed but had such a deep concern for the suffering of others.”

Mary, originally from Menlough, lived in Dublin for many years, settling in Kinvara with her husband Martin 10 years ago, where she continues her own journey of self-discovery.

“Becoming conscious is the most important thing we can do. The more conscious we get, the better it is for us. I write to become conscious.”

She’s lucky, she says. “I write in a warm room and there’s food in the fridge.” However, she hasn’t written a word of fiction since Israel’s invasion of Gaza in October 2023, having become “absolutely paralysed by the genocide”.

The “shameful behaviour” of western countries hasn’t helped.

“I had not expected that the West would tolerate such depravity from Israel. I thought ordinary people would be on the streets,” she says.

And while Irish people have been protesting, the country is as complicit as anywhere else, as we’ve let Shannon Airport be used as a “de facto military base. Innocent people in tents in Gaza have been hammered by bombs, have been vaporised so that there isn’t an atom left, and nobody is searching the planes going through Shannon”.

Does any of this shit matter? These two fuckng infants epitomize what dirty dirty AmeriKKKa is.

Nah, Jews are fucking born liars: Forwarded this email? More like 9.9 out of 10, and this 57 percent shit? Make that 8 out of 10.

9 in 10 Israeli Jews back war against Iran, as poll reveals unprecedented support

57 percent of Israeli Jews want to continue barbarism in Iran even after military objectives are achieved.

Is that 9 out of 10 or 57 percent?

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how many ways can you skin that cat . . . the 130 Jewish Billionaires and Jewish Eichmann/ Epstein Class are Winning!!!!

Paulo Kirk

Mar 08, 2026

Private First Class took over the world for a while:

Now?

Jerusalem Cross (Crusaders’ Cross)

The tattoo covering his chest dates back to 1099 and symbolises the Crusader kingdom in Jerusalem.

Hegseth was ordered to stand down from National Guard duty for Joe Biden’s inauguration over concerns raised by the Jerusalem cross tattoo.

The symbol, according to academics, has been popularised by the far-Right.

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The Daily Heller: This is Why T-Shirts Were Invented – PRINT Magazine

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Netflix is already casting Brad Cooper to play Admiral Cooper:

Hours after the first bombs dropped, CENTCOM, which oversees the military’s Middle East operations, said its Scorpion Strike task force had used one-way attack drones for the first time in combat.

[Cross with sword with Hebrew — The cross cum sword with Hebrew lettering beneath it on his right forearm was reportedly the first tattoo that Hegseth got while on holiday. The Hebrew lettering spells out Yeshuah, which can symbolise Jesus among Christian groups.]

  • The US military has employed several new weapons to carry out strikes against Iran.
  • These include short-range ballistic missiles and cheap attack drones.
  • Observers also spotted what may be a new ship-launched cruise missile variant.

The US military is launching new ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and attack drones at Iran, using the conflict to test experimental weapons in combat for the first time.

Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of US Central Command, confirmed on Tuesday that US Army units fired the Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM, at Iranian targets, calling it “a historic first” and “an unrivaled, deep-strike capability.”

GIRALDI: Maybe attacking Iran was not such a good idea

How many times do you all have to hear this:

West Asia is the proving grounds for more and more weapons of slaughter, more and more weapons of fear, more and more weather manipulation tools, more and more economic hitmen running around in all sorts of disguises.

All these fucking people talking about “no exit plan”? Read military news . . . .

“The cost imbalance is shifting,” Patrycja Bazylczyk, an associate director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Missile Defense Project added. “The employment of LUCAS drones against Iran demonstrates that the US is willing to give Iran a taste of their own medicine.”

Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones are positioned on the tarmac at a base in the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) operating area, Nov. 23.
The LUCAS drones cost roughly $35,000 apiece.US Central Command photo

Dan Rice, a former US Army artillery officer who served as a special advisor to Ukraine’s military leadership, said that the PrSM and LUCAS were likely selected for their strikes based on “proper targeting,” rather than the US trying to show off its capabilities.

“Targets have been planned for a long time in most cases,” Rice told Business Insider, adding that a thorough planning process matches the right weapons with the desired combat effects. “These new weapons are part of our platform and are doing their role.”

We gotta get this guy off the Podcasts:

NOPE: GIRALDI: Maybe attacking Iran was not such a good idea

Trump also expressed himself in a post on Truth Social how Americans will die against Iran, elaborating that “the lives of courageous American heroes may be lost” in what the Pentagon dubbed “Operation Epic Fury… We may have casualties.”

As Trump’s entire family has avoided military service, the ultimate price for his warmaking will consist of using other American families’ sons and daughters as cannon fodder and he may be preparing for a political backlash by demonstrating now how much he cares about the average Americans who will be impacted by his policies. Of course, he clearly does not care unless your name is Adelson or Netanyahu.

Trump’s memo authorizing this action seems designed to sidestep the Posse Comitatus Act, which normally bars federal armed forces from conducting domestic law enforcement. The apparent plan is to let the military act as a de facto border police force, with soldiers apprehending, searching, and detaining people who cross the border unlawfully.

It was October 2012. Roei Elkabetz, a brigadier general for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was explaining his country’s border policing strategies. In his PowerPoint presentation, a photo of the enclosure wall that isolates the Gaza Strip from Israel clicked onscreen. “We have learned lots from Gaza,” he told the audience. “It’s a great laboratory.”

Elkabetz was speaking at a border technology conference and fair surrounded by a dazzling display of technology—the components of his boundary-building lab. There were surveillance balloons with high-powered cameras floating over a desert-camouflaged armored vehicle made by Lockheed Martin. There were seismic sensor systems used to detect the movement of people and other wonders of the modern border-policing world. Around Elkabetz, you could see vivid examples of where the future of such policing was heading, as imagined not by a dystopian science fiction writer but by some of the top corporate techno-innovators on the planet.

Swimming in a sea of border security, the brigadier general was, however, not surrounded by the Mediterranean but by a parched West Texas landscape. He was in El Paso, a 10-minute walk from the wall that separates the United States from Mexico.

Just a few more minutes on foot and Elkabetz could have watched green-striped US Border Patrol vehicles inching along the trickling Rio Grande in front of Ciudad Juarez, one of Mexico’s largest cities filled with US factories and the dead of that country’s drug wars. The Border Patrol agents whom the general might have spotted were then being up-armored with a lethal combination of surveillance technologies, military hardware, assault rifles, helicopters, and drones. This once-peaceful place was being transformed into what Timothy Dunn, in his book The Militarization of the US Mexico Border, terms a state of “low-intensity warfare.”

You know the Trump-MAGA maggots and Republicans are winning: What Does War with Iran Have to Do with Elections?

More braying, man, braying: Trump’s Iran Strikes Are Unconstitutional. Congress must act.

Nah, Israel and its gangs are striking feat in the world. DOnroe Doctrine is also assisting:

Israel’s war on Iran reveals a deeper crisis: the collapse of a psychological doctrine built on fear and invincibility.

Key Takeaways

  • Israel’s military strategy has long relied on psychological dominance and deterrence built on overwhelming violence.
  • Massacres during the Nakba helped establish fear as a strategic tool to weaken Palestinian resistance.
  • Doctrines such as the Dahiya Doctrine and “mowing the grass” reinforced Israel’s image of invincibility.
  • The Gaza genocide and regional escalation have severely weakened Israel’s psychological deterrence.
  • The war on Iran may accelerate the collapse of Israel’s most important strategic asset: fear.

[Bharat Petroleum Corp. (BPCL) oil refineryin Mumbai. The US government has temporarily eased sanctions to allow India to buy Russian oil currently stranded at sea, amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. Nearly half of India’s crude oil imports pass through the Strait of Hormuz.]

Oh, that 1.3 billion person questions? Nah, Trump is WINNING:

A well-honed tool in the United States’ diplomatic box is to rub the noses of its vassal states in the dust occasionally to remind them they are a lower form of life, while also proclaiming to the world at large that once a vassal state, always a vassal state. The sabotage of Germany’s Nord Stream gas pipeline in September 2022 is a brazen example. More recently, India is also being subjected by the US to similar harsh treatments.

Exceptionally rude statements and remarks poured out of Trump administration officials demanding that India should fall in line with the American diktat to terminate its oil imports from Russia. The alibi was that India’s oil trade generated additional income for Russia, which helped finance the Kremlin’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

The Trump administration knew it to be a patently absurd argument, but the purposive decision had a three-fold objective: one, to reverse the rising curve of Russian-Indian trade and erode the relationship between the two countries at the present transformative period in international politics; two, replace Russian oil with US supplies (at much higher prices) in the lucrative Indian market that is expected to be a huge guzzler of energy for decades to come and, thereby, also gain control over India’s energy security, which of course has huge strategic implications; and, three, demonstrate that the present Indian ruling elites’ grandstanding flaunting an ultra-nationalist apparel and its self-proclamation of a civilisation state—“Vishwaguru” [world teacher] and all that, is bunkum to the core, and the strategic autonomy and independent foreign policies that the Indian government claims to have are, in reality, highfalutin jargon.

Simply put, the US exposed the present Indian ruling elite as frauds and comprador elements—basically, cowards and cynics. At one point, when Trump’s theatrics reached the high noon, he even boasted he could “end” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political career.

[This Is Netanyahu’s War, Stupid — How Modi’s Pro-Israel Tilt Is Costing India Its Strategic Autonomy/

Like an obedient lion in the circus tent, at the sound of the whip cracking, we have been trained to perform. There seems to be no sense of shame on the part of our ruling elites that they are being treated so openly and brazenly in front of the world audience as the brokers of a vassal state that is at Washington’s bidding.

What would Gandhiji make out of all this? Is this the “tryst with destiny” that Nehru once dreamed about? For the sheer freedom to make salt, Gandhiji asserted his will in Dandi in the state of Gujarat.

India’s present-day rulers too should exercise their prerogative to take independent decisions. But, for that to happen, as Rabindranath Tagore wrote, the mind should first be without fear and the head held high.

Hegseth insists the Iran conflict is 'not Iraq' and is 'not endless'

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth described the scorched-earth strategy in a Pentagon press briefing on March 4.

“This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be”, Hegseth boasted.

He added with pride that the US and Israel are raining upon Iran “death and destruction from the sky, all day long”.

Hegseth noted that, in the first four days of the war on Iran (named Operation Epic Fury), the US military employed “twice the air power” that it had used in the “shock and awe” invasion of Iraq in 2003.

In another press briefing on March 2, the US secretary of war condemned international organizations like the United Nations and proclaimed, “America, regardless of what so-called international institutions say, is unleashing the most lethal and precise air power campaign in history”.

Hegseth bragged that the US is fighting with “no stupid rules of engagement”. By his admission, the Pentagon is purposefully targeting civilian areas, and does not care about the rules of war.

[Oh no, Ben is on the job. This guy has to shut up to. Yammering how Hegseth has no background as a military officer and was a host on Fox TV? What the fuck/]

Adolf Hitler served as an infantryman in the Bavarian (German) Army during World War I, enlisting in 1914 despite being an Austrian citizen. As a decorated volunteer in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment, he served primarily as a dispatch runner on the Western Front, winning the Iron Cross First Class. He was wounded in 1916 and temporarily blinded by gas in 1918, ending the war in a hospital.

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Key details of Hitler’s military background include:

  • WWI Service: He enthusiastically joined the German army in August 1914, serving as a Gefreiter (lance corporal).
  • Role: He was a message runner (dispatch runner) for his regiment, a position considered dangerous as it involved traveling between company headquarters and the front lines.
  • Combat Experience: He participated in major battles, including the First Battle of Ypres (1914) and the Battle of the Somme (1916).
  • Decorations: He was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class (1914) and the rare Iron Cross First Class (1918) for bravery.
  • Injuries: Hitler was wounded in the leg in 1916 and blinded by a British mustard gas attack near Ypres in October 1918.
  • Post-War: While recovering from the gas attack, he learned of Germany’s defeat, which, according to History.com, profoundly shaped his later political trajectory.

Although some contemporaries suggested he avoided the hardest combat, {Link: 12 Facts About Adolf Hitler – History Hit and the Holocaust Encyclopedia} verify his active service and injuries. In 1919, he briefly worked for the Bavarian military intelligence, focusing on political indoctrination.

The History Place - Rise of Hitler: Hitler in World War I

[On the right, with the bigger moustache! Hitler’s highest rank in the Army? Gefreiter, roughly equivalent to a Lance Corporal or Private First Class.

Seems like a challenge? Not sure how Bradley Cooper and Delta Force will track down some 16-year-old in Mexico or in German or in India will actually get tracked down for tossing acid at some fucking fat American tourists or dousing them with a lit Molotov. Machetes? A hoodie and a carving knife?

You think Cap’n Crunch is coming in with Apaches?

Ya think it would be difficult kniving some of these turistas?

Oh, god, more Year of the Fire Horse declarations?

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Yep! Jeremy Corbyn: “Look at the disgraceful way Francesca Albanese has been treated by the right in the United States and the right all over Europe. It is important to stand by people like her when they’re going through that sort of horror.”

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What’s this cunt up to?

Barack Obama: a textbook Uncle Tom with a talent for public speaking whose actions from a position of privilege within the white man’s parasitic system wiped out entire generations of his fellow Africans.

A tale as old as colonialism itself.

The house negro who destroyed Africa's most prosperous country.

Israeli army radio reports on Netanyahu:


“After the defeat of the Iranian regime, Israel will impose a ‘code of conduct’ on Arab Islamic countries regarding armament, security, and educational curricula.”

The most dangerous statement directed at the people since World War II,
A constitution for Arab Islamic states written in Tel Aviv, not mentioning any intervention in Iran at all, the project targets Arab countries, and the Islamic religion, and it is bigger than the fall of the Iranian regime, which fights on behalf of the Arabs!!

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Remember the good old war crimes days?

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Fun and games outside Travis AF Base:

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That’s about all they, the resistance, can muster.

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Endless on Twitter!

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Is this Beverly Hills?

From Twitter: The Gulfis are calling on the Americans and saying that they spread peace and democracy in the world. This picture is from an American invasion in 2003 of an Iraqi family’s home.

An ordinary family with no weapons or anything, sitting in their home like any normal people, and the Americans bursting in on them with rifles raised in the faces of the children and in their eyes, and in their eyes is terror and fear. Is this the peace and democracy you talk about, oh Gulfis? These are the ones you ally with and seek help from against the Muslims and defend—did this come to defend you and spread peace with bullets in the faces of children!

Anyone who slaughters and raises a weapon in the faces of children is a filthy terrorist and occupier, and all their tails and those who praise them are partners in this terrorism.

Last word?

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“Our embassies and military bases are used for trafficking children. We breed children for pedophilia and child sacrifice.

The right of passage for our political leaders is to abuse children, engage in pedophilia and kill them.

Pedophilia is the induction glue. It is how the deep state recruits and control people….it is also the Achilles heel. I believe that once the public is fully aware that the government isn’t interested in protecting their children, everything about the government would be called into question.

I am on record as a former CIA operations officer saying, that our bases overseas are not there for national defence, they are there to serve as lily pads for the smuggling of guns, gold, cash, drugs and small children.”

Robert David Steele.

(1952-2021)

Former CIA case officer
Cofounder: U.S Marine Corps Intelligence Activity.
Pioneer: Open Source Intelligence.
Board Member: International Tribunal for Natural Justice (ITNJ).

the powerful don’t need no badges and don’t give no shit, man.

Paulo Kirk

Mar 07, 2026

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Mirror neurons are specialized brain cells that activate both when you perform an action and when you observe someone else doing the same action. Psychologists believe these neurons play a key role in emotional contagion, empathy, and social learning. When you spend time around others, your brain is constantly mirroring their facial expressions, tone of voice, body language, and emotional states without conscious effort.

This process explains why moods spread quickly in groups. If someone around you is anxious, calm, motivated, or joyful, your brain partially recreates that emotional state internally. Over time, repeated exposure strengthens these neural patterns, shaping behavior, attitudes, and even habits. This is why environments matter so much for mental health and personal growth.

Mirror neurons also help humans learn efficiently. Children acquire language, social norms, and emotional regulation largely through observation rather than instruction. Adults continue using the same system to adapt to social circles, workplaces, and relationships.

Psychology research links strong mirror neuron activity to higher empathy and social awareness. However, it also means prolonged exposure to negativity can increase stress and emotional fatigue. Being mindful of who you surround yourself with is not just advice; it is neuroscience. Your brain is wired to adapt, reflect, and align with the emotional world it experiences daily.

The 2025 Paris book festival.

Amazon has withdrawn from the Paris book festival after a boycott by France’s booksellers’ association prompted a row over the company’s sponsorship of the event.

The festival, due to take place from 17 to 19 April, will now go ahead without the backing of the US retail company, after a mutual decision by organisers and Amazon to end their partnership.

The dispute started after the French booksellers’ association Syndicat de la Librairie Française (SLF) announced it would boycott the festival in protest at Amazon’s involvement.

The SLF has been sharply critical of Amazon, arguing that it destabilises the book trade. In a statement reported by the Bookseller, it accused the company of seeking “to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, [which are] promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [and rise] to the top of fake rankings”. It also criticised the publishers’ association and the festival organisers for what it described as an “irresponsible” decision to collaborate with Amazon, taken in the name of short-term financial interests.

2014?

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Amazon.com is facing another PR backlash over its ongoing dispute with publisher Hachette as a group of more than 900 authors have signed a letter demanding that the Seattle online retailer resolve the fight, and live up to its corporate mantra of “Earth’s most customer-centric company.”

The group, operating under the name Author’s United, plans to reprint the letter in a full page ad in The New York Times this Sunday. The letter reprints the email address of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and asks readers to email him with their thoughts.

“It is not right for Amazon to single out a group of authors, who are not involved in the dispute, for selective retaliation,” the letter reads. “Moreover, by inconveniencing and misleading its own customers with unfair pricing and delayed delivery, Amazon is contradicting its own written promise to be “Earth’s most customer-centric company.”

Author Douglas Preston, who initially penned the letter and is published by Hachette, tells The New York Times that Amazon.com has “turned its back” on authors.

Amazon.com issued this statement to The New York Times about the latest salvo from the authors, many of whom are not published through Hachette.

“First, Hachette was willing to break the law to get higher e-book prices, and now they’re determined to keep their own authors in the line of fire in order to achieve that same end. Amazon has made three separate proposals to take authors out of the middle, all of which Hachette has quickly dismissed.”

Comedian Stephen Colbert— whose books are published through Hachette — blasted Amazon earlier this year. In the June episode, Colbert ripped Jeff Bezos — comparing him to Lord Voldermort, the villain in Harry Potter — and finished the piece by giving Amazon.com the middle finger through a packaging box. With both hands.

He has not signed the letter, but many other notable authors have joined fight, including Jon Krakauer, Sherman Alexie, Scott Turow, Nora Roberts and Malcolm Gladwell.

Yeah, the cocksuckers in the world are not protesting, man. No Kings Day plenty of Ukrainian flags and sunflowers while ZioNaziAzov Lensky is sending drones and soldier to Israel.

Trump’s demands for ending Iran war shift as US military works through its target list

Now what is this about Adolph Bibi and Pedop;hile and rapist Trump LOSING?

NEW: The Trump administration declared an emergency over Iran to bypass  Congress to sell more than 20,000 bombs to Israel valued at $660 million.  The State Dept. hasn't publicly disclosed the sale

Cuba is going: There have been protests in darkness in Cuba, as thousands of people still remain without electricity after a huge blackout hit the western part of the island on Wednesday. Authorities blamed the outage on US sanctions and a lack of fuel for energy facilities.

Oh Iran: Global fertiliser supplies could be disrupted by Middle East conflict. Around a third of fertiliser raw materials pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route now affected by tensions.

Iran is winning? Iran’s air force was the most powerful in the Middle East in 1979, and nothing about it has changed since then. That’s a big problem for Tehran.

Operation Epic Fury has exposed the limitations of Iran’s aging air force. Within the first days of the campaign, US and Israeli forces achieved air superiority over Iranian air space—a contest during which Iranian fighters were largely absent from the skies.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) has sometimes been described as a “flying museum,” as much of it dates back to the pre-1979 era. Following the 1979 revolution, Western nations blocked Iran’s attempts to buy new aircraft, leaving the country reliant on 50-year-old American jets and a small number of Soviet aircraft. As a result, the IRIAF has struggled to match modern fifth-generation fighters such as the F-35 and the F-22.

Trump is losing the Donroe Doctrine? Trump vows to use US military force against cartels across Latin America

Seventeen countries signed onto a joint security declaration as Trump convened his closest hemispheric allies in Florida for an inaugural Shield of the Americas Summit.

Sure, one fucking Amazon plant: The Tech Download: Data centers become military targets in Iran war

Iranian drones strike Amazon data centres in Bahrain, UAE

Yeah? Are you sure they do anything? Iran has deployed a new missile variant called “Etemad” during the 25th wave of operations.

Missiles such as Kheibar Shekan and Fattah, which have been used in recent operations, generally have a range of about 1,400 to 1,450 kilometers.

An upgraded version of the Kheibar Shekan, known as Kheibar Shekan-2, has a range of up to 1,800 kilometers, although the images released so far mainly show the standard versions.

Yeah, you sure about that? Venezuela’s Humiliating Retreat May Be Temporary.

Happy? Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez and U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum stand together as they attend to deliver statements at Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela, March 4, 2026.

Since January 3, when the U.S. bombed Caracas, killed over 100 people, and kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, acting President Delcy Rodríguez has cordially hosted numerous U.S. officials in Caracas, and now fully restored diplomatic relations with Washington.

At gunpoint, the U.S. now decides who can receive Venezuelan oil and how much oil revenue Venezuela can receive. On Truth Social the other day, Trump essentially patted the acting president of Venezuela on the head telling her she was doing a fine job. Delcy (as everyone calls her) replied on X by thanking the genocidal monster, rapist and probable pedophile. It seems likely that Delcy will soon host Trump himself in the city where he very recently spilled Venezuelan and Cuban blood – perhaps without Trump even bothering to release Maduro and his wife from prison beforehand.

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Going going GONE, Chavez.

Delcy’s foreign minister, Ivan Gil, made a disgraceful statement after the U.S. initiated a war of aggression against Iran on February 28. The statement – which was promptly deleted – failed to name the U.S. and “Israel” as aggressors, but criticized Iran for how it defended itself. The statement was essentially rebuked by elements of the Chavista movement (named after former President Hugo Chavez) that was President Maduro’s, and now Delcy’s, support base.

Iran’s government has been a courageous ally of Venezuela’s for many years. It has played a significant role in helping Venezuela survive the murderous sanctions the U.S. has imposed since 2017. In 2015, Obama imposed illegal economic sanctions that were damaging, but Trump made them truly lethal.

Yeah? News? The Brains of Ultra-Powerful People Experience an Altered State of Reality, Research Suggests

“The neuroscience is pretty uncomfortable. People in positions of power show reduced activity in mirror neuron systems, the circuitry responsible for empathy and perspective-taking.” –Shonna Waters, PhD

I had to say, Odabo (Oh-dah-boh) in Yoruba, Ka emesia (Kah-eh-meh-she-ah) or O ga adika in Igbo, and Bye-bye or We go see later in Nigerian Pidgin to an old old acquaintance

Paulo Kirk

Mar 07, 2026

Bringing freedom to Iranian girls and women…

“Freedom … ? The land of the free! This the land of the free! Why, if I say anything that displeases them, the free mob will lynch me, and that’s my freedom. Free? Why, I have never been in any country where the individual has such an abject fear of his fellow countrymen. Because, as I say, they are free to lynch him the moment he shows he is not one of them.”


D.H. Lawrence (Studies in Classic American Literature)

A female Israeli soldier walks along the beach with her assault rifle

Sure, jerk off, Epstein-Eichmann class:

I had to say adios to a guy, Madu, from Nigeria, who I met in 1990 in El Paso, as he was making the rounds in our English department (UTEP) looking for new books to buy, from us poor ass adjunct who would request dozens of examiner and publisher’s copies, and then sell the fuckers for a few shekels to keep us in tequila and chile rellenos.

He fucking ran into me at Gonzaga fucking in 2002. Same solicitation for books.

He and I chatted it up, and he is diaspora in Houston, and he’s gotten rabid, gotten so anti-Muslim he is sucking the dick of Linda Graham, all republicans in Texas, and Trump and Company:

Fucking Facebook new profile photo!

He’s fucking trash, man, Nigerian Christian with the Rasta Fucking Fake TRASH:

I Don’t Care What Any Black Arab Or His Like Thinks Or Says About Me,…

“I Love The United States Under Donald Trump Because It Is Doing The Job That Useless African Union And United Nations Are Not Able To Do In Nigeria, No Matter How Badly It Is To Being Done By Those Who Truly Don’t Want The Good Of Nigeria And The Nigerian People”.

..Smart Madu Ajaja, Convener Of Open Nigeria And Africa United

Is this wrong to say sayanora with the fellow? Of course it is. What the fuck do we talk about, uh, then, with this sixth-grade knowledge of the USA and his Christian Missionary hate of Muslims? Celebrating bombing Iran illegally, no matter WHAT the fuck he thinks about them.

Ya think he would listen to this Arab?

Joint Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei, who famously rejected George Bush’s nuclear claims about Iraq, says history is repeating itself.

Very few people have the credibility to speak on Iran’s nuclear capabilities like Mohamed ElBaradei can. The former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1997 to 2009, and of the key figures who tried to prevent the illegal invasion of Iraq on spurious WMD grounds in 2003, ElBaradei joins Mehdi to discuss the biggest and most concerning aspects of the Israel-American war on Iran, the credibility of the nuclear justifications for the attack, and how this conflict will make countries more, not less, likely to obtain nuclear weapons.

“The message right now that we have countries, A, who are protected by nuclear weapons, or nuclear weapon umbrella. And new countries, B, who have to be left in the cold and fend for themselves,” says ElBaradei, warning that this will push more countries to seek nuclear deterrence. One country that already has that covered, however, is Israel, and ElBaradei is not blind to the irony of that.

“Israel, who is supposed to have, according to report, 90 nuclear weapons, Mehdi, is attacking Iran because Iran might develop nuclear weapons in the next 10, 20 years,” ElBaradei tells Mehdi, adding that the claims about Iran’s supposed nuclear weapons program are based on “bogus evidence.” “I go by what the IAEA says… there is no nuclear weapon program.”

This is the shit he runs (above and below) on his Fuck Muslims Book:

He and his dirty Houston Nigerian ilk are fine with this:

I’m reading Steppling’s latest, The Messenger of God

The U.S.under the titular leadership (sic) of Trump, just decided to attack Iran. Illegal on several fronts. But of course this has long been a wet dream of the Zionist fanatics and Bibi Netanyahu. This is the ‘Greater Israel’ project. And it includes elaborate covert ops and false flags (see Gulf monarchies). But never underestimate the labyrinthine mind of the Mossad. They may well have wanted the false flags recognized as such. But there are plenty of others writing about this illegal Imperialist war. I wanted to more look at the less discussed influences involved, and how culture and art have been changed.

And that the Evangelical Christians now in U.S. government present a problem. Not just their desire for the Second Coming, but the general provincialism and lack of education. Many were taught in Christian schools. Trump plays along. Maybe, though, he has come to believe it. Believe he is anointed by God. The messenger of Divine instruction.

As always, he does a great job of philosophizing and drilling in on some tethered ideas. I am sure he thinks I am antisemitic for calling the shots, blaming the Jews, the 130 Jewish billionaires and their mostly but not all Jewish Eichmann-Epstein class millionaires.

He gives us Joyce Carol Oates:

“American exceptionalism makes our imperialism altruistic, our plundering of the world’s resources a healthy exercise of capitalism and “free trade.” From childhood, we are indoctrinated with the propa­ganda that America is superior to other nations; that our way of life, a mass-market “democracy” manipulated by lobbyists, is superior to all other forms of government; that no matter how frivolous and debased, our American culture is the supreme culture, as our language is the supreme language; that our most blatantly imperialistic and cynical political goals are always idealistic, while the goals of other nations are transparently opportunistic. { } Perhaps the most pernicious of American ideas is the revered “My country, right or wrong,” with its thinly veiled threat of punishment for those who hesitate to participate in a criminal patriotism. “ — Joyce Carol Oats (The Human Idea, Atlantic 2007)

Now now, replace American with Jewish, or Israeli, and what do you get? Here, Gilad:

Gilad Atzmon

In my early days, I had many questions regarding the Holocaust, how it could happen, and more than just once? What led to it? Why didn’t the Jews run for their lives? Why didn’t they learn their lesson? Why did they follow their rabbis to face the bitter end?

Witnessing the fatal moral collapse of the Jewish ghetto in occupied Palestine, following the Israeli human sacrifice orgy in Gaza, examining the way in which Israel incites violence globally, the way it is spreading death and carnage, the way it attempts to normalise genocide, while, at the same time, the Israeli society express wall to wall enthusiasm about it all, I don’t have many unanswered questions left. I also don’t have the slightest hope for this situation to change and for the people ever to find a harmonious path to humanity.

We are dealing with a tragic lost case.

The fastest-growing religion in Latin America and Africa is Charismatic. The belief centers on a connection to the Holy Spirit which is found with the speaking in tongues, a belief in prophecy and in miracles, in healing, and accompanied by music and physical movement. One can see cross-over with earlier Southern Baptist revivals. Immigrant communities in the US tend to have charismatic churches, often just converted storefronts. This is a decidedly lower working-class movement.

I mention it because 62% of all charismatics voted for Trump. And this suggests resentment as a huge, huge factor in Trump’s win.

[Cadet Chapel, Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs. 1962 Walter Netsch, architect.]

Steppling always inserts great visuals:

The Evangelical today, so I have come to believe, actually has no mystical sense of God. They have only the performance of a God. And this is why an absurdity like Trump as a messenger of God has any traction at all. Trump has accrued all televangelists into one perfect orange/yellow sweep of hair. He is the first public figure to appear souless that I can think of. And this accounts for the appeal he holds within the Evangelical community. You cannot go from Jimmy Swaggert or Pat Robertson to Ho Chi Minh or Mao, or Sankara. The cultural background today has been gutted. It is denuded and barren. It is the neighborhood of the Giant, the monster at the top of the beanpole. That is the land of the Hungry Ghosts and Naifs (Sufi version of same).

The fanatics in Israel made Gaza into this landscape. The near sexual appeal of war to these people is obvious. Some, like Lindsay Graham or John Bolton are visibly aroused when discussing it. The Evangelicals surrounding Trump are believers in dispensationalism, and premillenialism — believe in ‘the Rapture’, and the Second Coming (again literalizing what should be symbolic). And hence the Evangelical attachment to Israel. Again, literalizing Biblical text. In one way, these beliefs are not that important (in spite of the Evangelicals themselves being fanatically attached to them).

Again, the children, the mothers, the girls, the kiddos, the grandparents, the sick and disabled:

Iran is pursuing a multi-layered strategy—military, economic, political, and diplomatic—to raise the cost of war and prevent regime change.

Key Takeaways

Iran is pursuing a strategy of overwhelming the battlefield, targeting US assets, Israeli infrastructure, and intelligence systems across the region.

Tehran is deploying selective economic warfare, disrupting energy flows while preserving trade with key Asian partners.

Domestically, Iran is emphasizing political cohesion and mass mobilization to counter expectations of internal collapse.

Iran is maintaining carefully calibrated diplomacy with Arab states, distinguishing between US bases and host governments.

Weak global messaging and limited international protest movements remain two major challenges for Tehran’s broader strategy.

God, if you just don’t want to see machetes cutting up all these fucking white faces, from Klanada to USA to UK to EuroTrashLandia to Ukraine to Russia? ‘Payback’ Time: Russia Enters the Iran War Quietly — Report

Brotherhood: Executive Secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA-TCP, in Spanish) Rander Peña rejected hegemonic U.S. interference on Cuba this Friday, March 6, calling for equal standing among nations as the global order shifts toward multipolarity.

The official underscored the deep-rooted brotherhood between Cuba and Venezuela, pointing to the political legacy of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. He described their vision as a lasting fusion of ideals that transcends political circumstances—one that gave birth to the ALBA-TCP alliance 21 years ago and continues to guide its mission today.

How’s this going to play in the Texas Nigerian community?

March 6, 2026 – The Green Party of California rises in solidarity with the Iranian people with our respect for their sovereignty and their right to self determination and to be free of war, intervention and occupation by the U.S. or any other foreign government.

We categorically condemn the military attacks by Israel and the U.S. on Iran and the assassination of the Iranian religious leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.

We demand the U.S. government immediately:

  • Implement a ceasefire and stop all military attacks in Iran that have already cost hundreds of civilian lives, including children.
  • Return to the existing diplomatic negotiations with Iran with the goal of long-term peace in the region.
  • Lift the 50-year economic warfare by sanctions on Iran that have devastated the country’s economy.
  • Respect the sovereignty of all nations according to the UN Charter and international law.
  • Abide by the War Powers Act that requires Congressional approval for the use of U.S. armed forces.
  • Comply with the Leahy Law and halt the illegal funding and shipments of all weapons to Israel, which have been used to attack Iran and neighboring countries.

The Green Party opposes ALL U.S. military and economically coercive actions that have destabilized countries across the world, subjecting millions of people to displacement, dispossession, injury, and death.

Iran has been no exception. Throughout its recent history, Iran has endured U.S. interventions by deposing leaders, manufactured coups, and brutal economic sanctions. The empire’s plan for Iran goes back 72 years when a CIA plot overthrew a democratically elected Iranian socialist leader who planned to nationalize Iran’s oil. Empire could not allow that!

The recent domestic unrest in Iran was sparked as a result of a 50-year economic warfare of sanctions that collapsed Iran’s economy in December of 2025 The people of Iran rightfully took to the streets in protest, demanding better living conditions, economic relief, and accountability from the Islamic Republic of Iran’s leadership.

As early as June 2025, an Israeli-funded propaganda campaign was at work manufacturing support for Reza Pahlavi, the son of the deposed Shah of Iran, a U.S. resident for 47 years, and a strong ally to Israel.

Reports of Mossad agents and agitators working in Iran during 2025 started surfacing in recent months and eventually BOTH Israeli Officials and former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have proudly admitted that Mossad agents were operating in Tehran and walking beside Iranians in the streets.

The U.S. CIA playbook is the same in many countries where indigenous people’s legitimate movements against their own governments are co-opted to destabilize, exploit, and fracture the country to profit the U.S. war machine and foreign interests.

First, the war and surveillance industrial complex rakes in billions of tax dollars for military operations, followed by Western vulture capitalists who come to plunder resources and reap the spoils of war.

The Green Party of California believes that:

– No U.S. government military intervention, orchestrated coups, or warfare has ever benefited the people.

– No democracy has ever been exported from the U.S. because the U.S. government has been suppressing democracy right here at home.

– No bombs destroying precious infrastructure and taking innocent lives have ever solved poverty and scarcity in countries whose resources have been plundered by multinational corporations.

Protests erupt in Nigeria over Trump's military intervention threat

Protests erupt in Nigeria over Trump’s military intervention threat

Houston boasts the largest Nigerian population in the United States, with estimates ranging from over 60,000 to nearly 200,000 residents and descendants, often earning it the title of the most “Nigerian” city in America. Centered in areas like Alief, Missouri City, and Sugar Land, the community is deeply rooted in the energy, healthcare, and education sectors.

Hakeem Tijani, a Richmond resident, said the reaction online reflects that feeling.

“If you check online, you see a lot of Nigerians saying, ‘thank you Trump! Thank you, U.S.!” Tijani said. “It’s not that everything is fixed, but it gives people hope.”

I guess that this is what israel doesn’t want you to see …

The cocksuckers won’t listen, for sure:

A fake, but oh, would it be so fucking COOL: Iran’s official Islamic Republic TV is showing photos of 180 American soldiers from Delta Force captured after they reportedly tried to carry out a landing operation inside Iranian territory.

March 1, 2026

The Butch Ware for Governor campaign unequivocally condemns the attacks on Iran led by the United States and Israel and calls for an immediate ceasefire.

We call for an immediate de-escalation and for the US to negotiate with Tehran in good faith.

We condemn the illegal attempts by the U.S. government to enact a regime change and denying the people of Iran the right to self-determination, sovereignty and autonomy.

We call upon the United Nations to hold the US and Israel accountable for violating Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, specifically their failure to settle “international disputes by peaceful means” and refrain from “threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.”

We extend our solidarity with the Iranian people who are rightfully protesting the failures of their government and are saddened by the loss of over 200 innocent lives in the attacks on Saturday, February 28th.

One might ask, how does the governor’s race in California have anything to do with Iran or politics in West Asia (or as Americans like to call the region, an outdated orientalist term, the Middle East)?

Some Americans may believe that local and state politics have nothing to do with foreign policy or global politics. In reality, that is far from the truth.

The California state government sends billions of tax dollars to Israel so it can continue to carry out its genocide in Palestine. Local ports such as the Port of Oakland are key in sending fighter jets to Israel, a key partner in the illegal attacks on Iran.

The bombs falling on Tehran are being paid for by the billions of tax dollars stolen from our communities here in California. While the Trump administration claims it has “no choice” but to strike abroad, it is making a very deliberate choice at home: to defund SNAP (food stamps), cut Medicaid and Medicare, and instead heavily fund and unleash ICE agents like a paramilitary force in our neighborhoods, America’s own brand of state-sponsored terror.

From the Central Valley to the Bay Area, we are seeing families torn apart by the same brutal military policies used to justify the invasion of sovereign nations. Whether it is a drone strike in West Asia or an ICE raid in East L.A., the message from Washington is clear: your life is disposable if it serves the interests of the U.S. empire.

Global politics are incredibly important in our race. Acknowledging this is not leftist purity testing or peddling to policy wonks. Rather, it’s a very clear litmus test that tells you whether your elected officials in California are willing to use YOUR tax dollars to starve, maim, displace, and murder innocent families abroad, while our families struggle to pay rent and make ends meet in California.

When Butch Ware is elected as Governor of California, he will completely divest the state of California from Israel and redirect those funds to Californians. We will:

  • Build affordable social housing
  • Fund a single-payer healthcare system (CalCare or Medicare for All in California)
  • Expand public transit
  • Make state and community colleges tuition-free
  • Abolish ICE in California by closing detention centers and outlawing local law enforcement cooperation with ICE, as New Mexico has
  • Fund worker-owned cooperatives and demand a living wage for all workers

Getting Dr. Ware elected doesn’t just mean a better life for Californians, but it means pulling back the unwarranted and illegal financial and political support for the brutal policies of U.S. empire in Iran and in all of western Asia.

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