Paul Haeder, Author

Meanwhile, after two years during which big donors and the federal government punished colleges for how they handled pro-Palestinian protests, dialogue and pluralism programs ….

Paulo Kirk

Apr 21, 2026

….Meanwhile, after two years during which big donors and the federal government punished colleges for how they handled pro-Palestinian protests, dialogue and pluralism programs and their funders can generate some skepticism on campus: How much are these programs just political ploys aimed at suppressing campus speech?

Ya think college students can protest their own departments where animal testing goes on or is part and parcel part of the programs?

Almost all of The Chronicle’s interviewees insisted that they didn’t want to eliminate campus protests entirely, but many declined to answer directly what they thought of recent campus pro-Palestinian activism, and what better protest would look like. Murray, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations’ president, was unusually game.

“What we would like to see is protest accompanied by something else,” he said. For example, protesters and counter-protesters could also come together, in a lower-temperature way, to better understand each other, “rather than just putting up signs that protest the caricature.”

According to CNN, as the U.S. and Iran appeared close to a deal, Donald Trump undercut negotiations by publicly discussing and overstating progress on social media, frustrating both Iranian officials and his own team. U.S. officials privately acknowledged his comments were damaging and showed concern about his inability to stay on message during sensitive talks. Conflicting statements from Trump and his administration further eroded credibility, creating confusion and weakening trust in the U.S. position. As a result, momentum toward a deal stalled, leaving negotiations uncertain. Here is a list of some conflicting statements from the President:

• Donald Trump declared the Strait of Hormuz situation “over” but tensions clearly continued right after. Iran has since closed the Strait again. For example, Donald Trump this morning claimed “We totally control the strait, just so you understand. For all the fake news out there,” projecting full U.S. control over a highly contested and volatile waterway.

• He claimed Iran agreed to never close the Strait again but Iran shut it down the very next day.
• He said JD Vance wouldn’t attend the Pakistan talks but his own officials contradicted him almost immediately. And now, Vance is currently on his way to Pakistan.
• He claimed Iran’s military was basically wiped out even though it still has major destructive capabilities. According to reports, Iran has been able to retain a significant portion of its missile capabilities, and is even able to quickly rebuild much of what the United States has bombed.
• He falsely said the pope supported Iran having nuclear weapons even though no such statement exists.

[Speaking at a peace meeting in Bamenda, Cameroon, Pope Leo XIV called out leaders who were spending billions on wars and said that the world “is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants”.



The pope has emerged as an outspoken critic of the United States and Israel’s actions in the Middle East in recent weeks, emphasising that “it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild”.]

• He insisted Iran retaliating against Gulf countries was unexpected, even though it was widely anticipated by officials, according to the Wall Street Journal’s reporting.
• He said U.S. plane losses were mostly due to friendly fire, despite previously discussing Iran shooting one down.
• Trump this morning claimed: “I would’ve won Vietnam very quickly if I were president. Look at Venezuela. I took it over in 45 minutes.”

• Donald Trump is taking part in a nationwide Bible-reading event celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by reading a well-known passage often used by the Christian right. His participation comes at a tense moment, after criticism over a social media post portraying himself as Jesus and ongoing disagreements with the pope. The situation reflects both his outreach to religious supporters and divisions among Christians about his behavior and messaging.

2 Chronicles 7:11-22 records God’s response to Solomon after the Temple dedication, promising to hear prayers and heal the land if the people humble themselves, pray, and turn from wickedness (2 Chron 7:14). God warns that abandonment of his commands will lead to destruction of the Temple and exile, making it a “byword”.

Key highlights of this passage include:

• God’s Promise (v. 12-16): God acknowledges Solomon’s prayer, choosing the Temple as a consecrated place of sacrifice and setting his eyes and heart there forever.
• The Conditional Promise (v. 13-14): If calamities such as drought, locusts, or plagues occur, God promises to “hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land” if His people humble themselves and turn from their wicked ways.
• Conditions for Solomon (v. 17-18): Solomon is commanded to walk in faithfulness like David, with promises to establish his royal throne if he obeys.
• Warning of Disobedience (v. 19-22): If Israel turns to other gods, God warns He will “uproot” them from the land and destroy the consecrated Temple, causing it to become an object of scorn.

All fucking free speech censorship, nanny gate bullshit, full of that admin class and deans and provosts culling critical thinking and engaged debate, and, yes, fucking yelling and fucking protest signs!

Meet the Donors Funding the Civil-Dialogue Boom at Colleges

Among the latest donors to campus efforts, The Chronicle found if not a full spectrum of political beliefs then at least some portion of the middle of it. What the donors shared was frustration at the breakdown in public discourse. Intervening with college students, they believe, can help repair Americans’ ability to debate productively. Examining the work and motivations of a few of these donors offers a glimpse of the kind of future they’re trying to create for higher ed.

The Libertarians

Charles G. Koch is notorious in higher ed for making gifts to university departments that came with what some saw as unacceptable influence over faculty hiring.

The Alumnus With a Named Center

The Kochs may be loud and proud — or at least have publicly known political stances — but in a field that’s about bridging divides, almost all of the donors The Chronicle spoke with declined to describe their politics.

Tom Woodley was no exception. He and his wife, Nancy, established the Woodley Institute for Civil Engagement and Humanistic Dialogue at Gonzaga University late last year, with a $1-million donation. When asked, Woodley said that the couple had no “political agenda or alignment.” But he spent most of his career as general counsel to a large North American union for emergency workers.

In his and Gonzaga’s telling, the gift went like a dream — the ideal big donation, from a college fundraiser’s point of view. Mia Bertagnolli, the provost, and Jeff Geldien, an assistant vice president in the advancement office, had been wanting to start a civil-dialogue program like the ones they had seen at other universities, but they needed donors’ help, Geldien said. Sometime after the Woodleys gave $1 million to the department of political science, which had been Tom’s major when he went to Gonzaga in the ‘60s, they indicated that they wanted to do more. Geldien saw an opportunity.

The Supporter of the ADL and Food Aid in Gaza

The Tepper Foundation was established in 1996 by David Tepper, a hedge-fund manager and billionaire. Traditionally, it funded poverty- and disaster-relief work. Randi Tepper, David’s daughter, became the foundation’s chief executive in 2020 and, working with the board, expanded the foundation’s purview, she said.

The foundation gave out $87 million in grants in 2024, the latest publicly available figure. The biggest recent donations have gone to antipoverty efforts, Jewish charities, and a donor-advised fund.

A few grantees are known to have been critical of the pro-Palestinian student movement. Since 2021, the foundation has donated annually to the Israel on Campus Coalition, which condemned Students for Justice in Palestine, the club that organized the encampments, for “glorifying terror.” Since 2020, the foundation has given at least $1.5 million a year to the Anti-Defamation League, whose president has said demonstrators in the encampments called for violence against Jewish students. (The protests and individual protesters varied in their views and messaging.)

In addition, between 2022 and 2024, the foundation gave about $3 million to World Central Kitchen, which provides food aid in Gaza, Ukraine, and elsewhere.

The Would-Be Leader

One foundation is positioning itself as a leader and convener of these disparate efforts. The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations host regular meetings with the Lumina Foundation for civil dialogue funders; backed a 15-page guide for college leaders looking to start something at their own campuses; and have Murray talking to the likes of The New Yorker andThe Chronicleon the topic. (The foundations are also sponsoring a series of reports on civil-dialogue work on campuses through the Chronicle Intelligence division, whose reporters work independently of The Chronicle’s newsroom.)

Fucking lowest common denominator education — corporate influence, admin class, and the emptiness of a country based on genocide, the bible, land theft, rape, pollution, reservations, internment, ICE-Gestapo, and the Chlamydia Capitalism in its current Pedophile and Rapist in Chief VERSION.

• SJP chapters are holding “National Day of Resistance” rallies celebrating the Hamas jail break as a “historic win.”
• SJP marketing materials celebrate the image of a Hamas armed paraglider headed towards a group of Jews at a desert rave –
• SJP internal materials say the “total return and liberation to Palestine is near… armed struggle… is legitimate, and all of it is necessary.”

• SJP’s toolkits implicitly encourage similar rampages in the United States and Canada, referring to those countries as “occupied Turtle Island” and then saying “necessary struggle against an occupying and colonial state [is] not a “war” or “conflict.” It is a struggle for national liberation.”

• SJP’s social media platforms routinely promote calls to violence such as “Long live the Intifada” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

Yeah, fucking Gonzaga, where I was “fired” for disagreeing with the president about the Vagina Monologues he deemed “not on our campus.” I wrote an editorial supporting the Monologues and questioning the veracity of a priesthood with pedophiles and sexual abusers.

Can I as a faculty (I can’t teach no more cuz they Google me) bring in this shit and ask students to research the depth of the depravity of the military on campuses and associated with departments?

Paul,

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Senior representatives have already confirmed their attendance, including leaders from Echodyne, Joint Air Power Competence Centre (JAPCC), Office of Naval Research, Sykdio, Thales, the U.S Air Force, U.S Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and USSTRATCOM, to name just a few.

To explore the full list of attending organizations, download the early attendee snapshot [here].

Right, think of the dozens of colleges and universities around Arlington that could come out and PROTEST.

On June 23-24, these leaders will gather in Arlington, VA, to discuss the strategies, technologies, and partnerships shaping the future of UAS and operational advantage.

Join newly confirmed keynote speaker, Major General AnnMarie Anthony, Director of the Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Center, at USSTRATCOM, as she explains how the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is shaping control, telemetry, navigation, and surveillance in contested environments.

You think ANY of the colleges and universities in the Arlington Virginia, arena will go and protest? Be allowed to protest there on campus? This fucking event, which is an event that happens dozens of times a month somewhere, in the U$A, dealing with the weapons of death?

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, there are 60 four-year institutions in Virginia. Among these are some of the best colleges in Virginia, which include many different types of colleges.

14 Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C.

The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, is the seat of the United States federal government, the U.S. capitol, and home to 20 colleges and universities. While DC is considered only the 20th most populous city in the nation, hundreds of thousands of commuters flood in from both Virginia and Maryland for work each week to this world political capital. Headquartering 177 foreign embassies, DC hosts the Institute of World Politics, a graduate school of national security and international affairs.

The bulk of the city’s postsecondary institutions fall into two categories, public or private not-for-profit, and are distributed evenly amongst three types: research universities, master’s universities (like the aforementioned Institute of World Politics), or special-focus institutions. The oldest institution in Washington, DC, is Georgetown University, which was founded in 1789, and the same institution also claims the title of the oldest Jesuit and Catholic university in the US.

Civic Fucking Dialogue? Ya think we can teach this on campus without fucking JEWS cancelling the lecture, the course, the faculty? RIGHT!

A report says Israeli soldiers and settlers are using sexual violence and harassment to pressure Palestinians to leave their homes in the Occupied West Bank. Victims have described abuse including invasive searches, threats, and public humiliation, with experts warning these acts are contributing to displacement and disrupting daily life. The report also highlights a lack of accountability, with few prosecutions and growing concerns about a broader culture of impunity.

Oh, shit, can we teach how corrupt the U$A is and throughout its history, and what fucking hell we have unleashed on Mexico since, well, 1800? RIGHT.

Sure, at those dens of CIA-NSA-Legal Thugs, all those universities! Lots of civil discourse on the United Snake$ of Israel…..

Claudia Sheinbaum is demanding a full explanation after two U.S. officials and two Mexican investigators died in a crash following an operation targeting a drug lab in Chihuahua. She said her administration was not informed in advance and warned that any cooperation with U.S. personnel without federal approval could violate Mexican law. Conflicting statements from Mexican officials and the U.S. Embassy about whether Americans were involved in the operation have fueled confusion and suspicion. The incident has intensified tensions over U.S. involvement in Mexico’s anti-cartel efforts, especially as pressure from Donald Trump increases and Mexico pushes to assert its sovereignty.

Civil fucking dialogue on campus my fucking ASS! Anyway we can discuss how broken the USA is, the branches of government, the executive, the Press? RIGHT. Insanity, there you go, Charlie and Erika Turning Point?

“Mainstream media, politicians, and universities are bowing down to the 1%. We’re organizing on college campuses to fight corporate greed and build student power,”

Yeah, PETA on campus? RIGHT. Civil dialogue!

Animal activists swarmed a Wisconsin animal research facility on Saturday in an attempt to free 2,000 beagles from experimentation that continues under the Trump administration.

Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President of the White Coat Waste Project (WCWP), says that since Kennedy took office, more than $126 million in new funding has been awarded to facilities that experiment on dogs and cats.

“Starting over a year ago, at their request, we provided Kennedy and [NIH Director] Bhattacharya’s teams with info on taxpayer-funded grants paying for cat and dog testing, including Fauci-approved experiments on Ridglan beagles,” Goodman wrote. “Instead of shutting down the labs and retiring the survivors, the NIH gave the labs we identified more money. RFK literally lied to Congress about it this week.”

“Since day one of RFK‘s tenure, he has had the authority to cut funding for these grants overnight. He has even admitted this. But instead, he has kept them alive.”

In fact, documents obtained by WCWP show that beagles from Ridglan Farms continue to be used in NIH-funded experiments, including tick bite studies at the University of Missouri (originally approved under Anthony Fauci and continuing under the Trump administration).

Other funding sources include the Department of the Interior, National Science Foundation, and Department of Agriculture.

Involved universities include the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Colorado State University, University of Georgia, Southern Research Institute, Kansas State University, and Texas A&M University.

Unfortunately, as WCWP recently noted, since becoming HHS Secretary, Kennedy’s NIH has “renewed wasteful, deadly tests on dogs, cats, primates, and other animals,” which were first approved and funded by Fauci. To raise awareness of these facts, WCWP recently launched a national “WTF RFK?” ad campaign targeting Kennedy for continuing to fund Fauci-era animal labs.

“I saw compassion met with extreme violence—peaceful protesters met with tear gas, pepper spray, and rubber bullets,” Logan wrote on Instagram. “I saw people show up with courage, love, and nothing but a commitment to peaceful change for the puppies at Ridglan Farms who are criminally abused.”

Not a huge fan of Attenborough, but check this PG-rated documentary. Gorillas have more humanity than, err, Chlamydia Capitalists.

Versus: These fucking animals!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yeah, protests at Wisconsin colleges, allowed? NOPE.

In January 2025, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Rhonda Lanford ordered the appointment of a special prosecutor, noting that the activists had established “probable cause to believe that Ridglan has committed crimes under Wisconsin’s animal cruelty laws, and the district attorney has failed to issue a complaint or commence an investigation into Ridglan’s conduct.”

[More LGBTQ news talking about her partner, that Jewish girl on the left.]

[Key Details About Tim Gruenke:

• Role: La Crosse County District Attorney (333 Vine St., La Crosse, WI).
• Experience: 25-year prosecutor, 13+ years as DA.
• Specialization: Sexual assault and homicide cases.
• Recognition: Twice named “Prosecutor of the Year” by Wisconsin prosecutors and the Wisconsin Association of Homicide Investigators; awarded the “Voices of Courage Award”.
• Recent Activity: Appointed as a special prosecutor regarding investigation into Ridglan Farms dog breeding facility.
• Public Engagement: Appears on WIZM 92.3FM’s La Crosse Talk PM to discuss local legal topics.]

On February 5, 2025, La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke was appointed special prosecutor to lead the investigation. Gruenke reviewed the documents used in the Dane County evidentiary hearing and information from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) regarding their investigations into Ridglan Farms.

The special prosecutor’s report identified five potential areas for charges: “cherry-eye” procedures, devocalization procedures, proper shelter and space requirements, sanitation standards, and improper enclosures causing serious injuries.

The report concluded that most claims lacked strong evidence. For example, when it came to devocalization procedures (removal of the vocal cords), the report found that witnesses had credibility issues, and the “only eyewitness evidence of devocalization was from a former employee who left in 2010.” They found no records, witnesses, or inspections that indicated any devocalization procedures were done within the last six years.

However, the report found strong evidence of violations in “cherry-eye” procedures, which involve removing part of a swollen or prolapsed eye gland.

The report concluded (emphasis added):

“Ridglan Farms routinely allowed non-veterinarians to conduct the surgery. They did not use general anesthesia, which resulted in pain to the animals and potential aftercare pain. Unlike other claims, the procedures were done well within the statute of limitations. The Vet Board and DATCP determined that the way Ridglan Farms personnel did the cherry-eye procedure (until recently) did not meet current standards of veterinary care in Wisconsin. The records provided by Ridglan Farms themselves showed proof of the occurrences. Gruenke concluded this procedure was in fact animal mistreatment as defined under the statute and could be charged.“

The report also notes that the Wisconsin Veterinary Licensing Board was investigating veterinarians employed by Ridglan Farms in connection with cherry-eye procedures. In fact, after the board ordered the emergency suspension of the lead veterinarian and facility manager at Ridglan Farms, Dr. Rick Van Domelen, a judge upheld the decision in September 2025.

Gruenke wrote in his report that despite the evidence of violations of Wisconsin state statutes, “Ridglan Farms made clear they would argue that because they conduct research, and all of the dogs being bred would also be for research purposes, the Wisconsin statutes do not apply to them.”

In the end, Gruenke and Ridglan Farms reached a settlement whereby Ridglan agreed to shut down its dog sale and breeding-for-sale operations and surrender its state breeding license by July 1, 2025, in exchange for no prosecution. The facility continued to deny any abuse or neglect.

The agreement states,

“the State of Wisconsin agrees… all alleged civil and criminal violations referred to in and contemplated by Judge Rhonda Lanford’s referral… will not be brought against Ridglan Farms and are forever barred from being brought in a criminal or civil action.”

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in the end, it’s all about fiddling on the roof and pulling those one-armed bandits, hoping for gold at the end of the lotto rainbow . . .

Paulo Kirk

Apr 19, 2026

Fucking Gas-Land. Hillbillies?

One fucking musical spectacle after another:

Jews, West Side Story was a collaboration created by four main artists: Arthur Laurents (book/script), Leonard Bernstein (music), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), and Jerome Robbins (conception, direction, and choreography).

I got sucked into a 2018 award-winning (wow) documentary, Hillbilly:

Ashley York, and she’s from these here parts, and she wanted to go down during the election cycle of Trump and Hillary. It is, in the end, more fucking middling fucking documentary making. Ashley is, of course, a Hillary fan.

(Documentary Filmmaker)

This Sally Rubin is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and professor at Chapman University.

• Jewish Connection: She has described growing up in a community of middle-class Jewish families in Boston.
• Career: Her work focuses on identity and social issues, including documentaries like Hillbilly, Deep Down, and Mama Has a Mustache.
• Identity: She identifies as nonbinary and queer, and her films often explore LGBT themes.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/5JyEhm9F_9Y?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0

Full Documentary here!

• The “Deplorables” Context: The film features archival footage of Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment, which is discussed as a phrase that “sealed her fate” with rural voters in Appalachia.
• Political Shift: York, a Kentucky native who moved to Los Angeles, returns home to explore why her family and neighbors, who previously voted for Democrats, voted for Donald Trump, with Clinton’s rhetoric and energy policies often cited as reasons.
• Family Reaction: In a poignant scene in the documentary, York discusses her own support for Hillary Clinton with her family, who disagree with her, highlighting the political divide in the region.
• Critique of Stereotypes: The film explores how both the left and right have perpetuated stereotypes of Appalachians, with the “deplorables” comment serving as a key example of the cultural divide.

York didn’t set out to make a film that so closely reflected her experiences and those she interviewed, including family members.

“But this film, as personal as it is, it’s equally political,” she said.

“Hillbilly” was funded by money that the filmmakers raised as well as funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and its performance in competition at film festivals across the country and its enduring legacy, five years after it was released, is proof of its success, York said.

York said she wished that her film had been picked up and produced by streaming service Netflix. Instead, the streamer invested in Ron Howard’s film version of J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy.” “I thought [that film] was so irresponsible.”

“I wish that our film could have been on Netflix. It would have been a perfect companion to ‘Hillbilly Elegy.’ But corporations are going to do what they do, whether it’s how they treat coal miners in Kentucky or writers in this town [in Hollywood] with a writer’s strike going on.’”

Today, York is working on a pair of projects that are very different from “Hillbilly” and focus on true crime and entertainment, respectively.

“If someone said go make ‘Hillbilly 2,’ it would be a great film,” York said. “Just continue the story. But you’d see a much different Ashley York.”

How so?

“I am so livid,” she said. “The truth of this country and the lies we’ve told since its founding, under the delusion we’re all equal and racism doesn’t exist. We’re at a very vulnerable time for our nation … We have to be vigorous and question everything.”

“I never called myself a hillbilly,” York said. But she said that reclaiming the term in her film is a step toward a goal.

“We really wanted to elevate the perspective of people you don’t think about when you think of Appalachia — Silas House, the young people, my dad and his two sisters who are all progressive.”

Anton agreed on the need to make Appalachia and the word “hillbilly” less about menacing “Others” creeping through the backwoods and more about the diversity of the mountain people.

“My goal is to popularize ‘queerbilly,’” Anton said. “I’m proud to see people use it.” She laughed. “I even got a tattoo: ‘Queerbilly Hellion.’”

“Fab-yoo-la-ch-ian.” “Fabulachian” is generally credited to the Racheal Granger article, “Country Queers in Central Appalachia” for Southern Cultures. “We’re fabulous, and we’re Appalachians, so we’re fabulachians!”

Let’s be real clear, though. These two terms are not synonymous. And no shadetree to Racheal, they just don’t mean the same. One has a clear working-class suggestion, while the other has a distinctly upper middle-class, white, Will and Grace affect. It’s counterfeit. Well, it’s that way, for me. I’m 100% sure there are plenty of fabulachians who’d love to say different.”

Country Queers in Central Appalachia

You see, Ashley calls herself a progressive and voted for Hillary. Her granny and her uncle and her kid cousin, they all went full MAGA. And the film is just more goofy time, as Ashley really doesn’t confront those relatives, surely, and the innocence back then of “locker room talk . . . we all do it” is the extent of the critique of Trump by the hillbillies or rednecks are whatever you call them.

Hillary or Donald. Now that’s the marketing, and TV spin, and EDWARD Bernays ticket, no?

Basket of deplorables, what that which got the Kentucky MAGA?

Trump admits his “working class” moments were staged and calls the photo ops “a little bit tacky” and “embarrassing.”

Snake oil, smoke and mirrors, three-card Monty, and the lies of America.

We’re #1! We Americans like to see ourselves as better than others. And research indicates that we are #1. In narcissism. People in the United States are more narcissistic than people in other countries. Narcissism includes being:

• self-centered
• extraverted
• exhibitionistic
• self-satisfied
• self-indulgent
• nonconforming
• dominant
• aggressive
• impulsive

Americans view themselves as being more narcissistic than people in other countries. And people in other countries agree. The United States is the most narcissistic nation in the world and everyone knows it. We are a nation of narcissists.

Why is narcissism a particularly American trait? Americans are particularly individualistic. They are more narcissistic than people in countries that have a greater other-than self-focus. These include Japan and other Asian countries. Not all Americans are narcissists. But our desire to “stand out from the crowd” may make the United States a breeding ground for narcissism.

Narcissists are likable at first

Narcissists can be attractive. They are often popular because of their confidence and assertiveness. Donald Trump, who some mental health professionals describe as narcissistic, was popular enough to be elected President.

Narcissists are likable until you get to know them. We dislike narcissists because they don’t care about others and can become aggressive and antagonistic.

President Trump and America’s narcissism

President Trump has been blamed for making narcissism contagious. But is President Trump more narcissistic than other Americans? Some mental health professionals think so. They believe that President Trump has a pathological level of narcissism. Yet, psychiatrist Allen Frances, one of the authors of the manual for diagnosing mental illness, disagrees. This means that President Trump is not any more narcissistic than many other Americans.

Have we really become more narcissistic since Trump was elected? Researchers reviewed studies from 1990 to 2013 using the Narcissistic Personality Inventory. The results indicate that Americans were just as narcissistic in 2013 as we were three decades ago. It is possible that the United States has become more narcissistic since 2013 but unlikely. So, President Trump hasn’t made us any more narcissistic than we already are. President Trump is a product of a narcissistic society rather than a cause of it. Blaming Trump shifts the focus from our national responsibility for narcissism.

Will these Hillbillies listen in?

WHEN Hillary Clinton recently said that she puts half of Donald Trump’s supporters in a “basket of deplorables”, calling such folk “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic—you name it,” her Republican rival gleefully dubbed this outburst “the single biggest mistake of the political season”. Certainly, Mrs Clinton does seem to have broken a cardinal rule of politics: attack those running for office and their policies by all means, but never blame the voters. As Democrats scrambled to defend their nominee, they urged Americans to consider Mrs Clinton’s remarks in context, and to study the kindlier thoughts that she shared next, about how she puts other Trump backers into a second “basket”, unhappily filled with folk who feel the government and the economy has let them down, leaving them “just desperate for change” and deserving of understanding.

York goes to visit her uncle and beloved grandmother, who voted for Trump despite having supported Barack Obama. Her uncle was a lifelong Democrat who switched affiliations specifically for the current president — he simply believed Trump’s talk of an affinity with downtrodden coal workers. Understandably but unfortunately, York won’t go to the next step, interrogating those beliefs on camera with a perspective journalists from the outside rarely offer. (Though the doc doesn’t discuss it, some of York’s other relatives in the area, including her father, are staunchly anti-Trump.)

From bell hooks to local academics, the picture interviews lots of smart people who’ve thought hard about the threats Appalachia faces from without and within. One scholar notes how the region’s rep took a curious and expedient turn: Right after the Civil War, we’re told, most writers spoke of Appalachians as “quirky, colorful” people who enriched America’s tapestry. But when industrialists discovered the region’s resources and started moving in, a new portrait emerged. Now, hillbillies were mysterious, menacing trash-people “who might threaten civilization itself.” Conveniently, thinking of them as subhuman made it easier to extract the land’s riches and move that wealth to cities.

he 2018 documentary Hillbilly, directed by Ashley York and Sally Rubin, features Silas House, a prominent Kentucky-born writer, who is a gay man featured in the film to discuss Appalachian identity, queer life in the region, and to challenge stereotypes.

• Silas House: He is a key voice in the documentary, acting as a co-writer and appearing on screen to discuss “code-switching” and his experience as a gay man in Appalachia.
• The film focuses on challenging the “hillbilly” stereotype, highlighting diverse voices in the region, including queer and Black individuals.
• Critique of JD Vance: Silas House has deemed JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy as inauthentic, offensive, and a vehicle that relies on ugly stereotypes. House has argued that Vance “condescended to his own family” and Appalachian people in his book.

[Eight years ago today we shot an emotional scene at the voting booth for the documentary HILLBILLY, directed by Ashley York and Sally Rubin, which went on to win the Documentary Prize from the LA Film Festival, the Media Award from the Foreign Press Association,and many other honors before being picked up by Hulu, where it was seen by many around the world, and helped expand notions of what it means to be rural. Today we filmed scenes for the sequel, being directed by Ashley York, and filmed by this great crew. Along the way we voted, full of hope and trepidation, and talked to lots of our neighbors under remarkable blue skies.]

• Political Disillusionment: House has expressed frustration that, despite Donald Trump and JD Vance (through the “Hillbilly Elegy” narrative) not delivering promised economic benefits like the return of coal or rural revitalization, they continued to receive strong electoral support in Eastern Kentucky.

Finally, York dives deep into the progressive subculture that occupies the same space as the Trump worshipping coal mining families. They are articulate, poignant, and fiercely proud of their heritage and the history of the region. One of the subjects is Silas House, a successful writer and defender of hillbilly culture and the region from whence it’s sprang and who also happens to be gay. He spends a good amount of time explaining his reasons for staying and how important roots and how misunderstood his people are. And then Donald Trump wins, and it’s a difficult thing for him to reckon with. Possibly the most heartbreaking moment of the film is watching Silas and his husband work through this.

Reader, I tried. Per an editor’s helpful column idea, I clicked on Netflix’s “Hillbilly Elegy” and I started to watch J.D. Vance’s life story, but in the first 10 minutes, with the frogs croaking in the creek and little J.D. Vance getting beat up by the creek before he’s rescued by his kin in a pickup truck, I just could not.

More bunk, so so American, defending your neck of the woods and criticizing the others, i.e., ‘those damn callifornians and texans are raising the price of everything when they move to our little or medium sized town.’ Source.

The region is roughly the size of Greece with about 16 million inhabitants. To gauge how it’s doing, we have to look at data, and a decent source is the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), which has been coordinating federal investments in the area for nearly 60 years. In that time, there have been some huge changes.

In 1960, over 30% of people in the area covered by the ARC lived in poverty. By 2018-2022, that figure plummeted to 14.3%, just two points above the national average.

(An important sidebar: The ARC covers some areas outside the Appalachian Mountains, including parts of Mississippi, and omits areas that are part of Appalachia, including Roanoke city, Roanoke County and much of the Shenandoah Valley. The politics behind this is an interesting topic for another day.)

Not surprisingly, the counties that still have sky-high poverty rates are concentrated in east Kentucky, southern West Virginia and far southwest Virginia, where communities are struggling to find their footing as the coal market declines.

In the rest of the region, people don’t earn quite as much as the U.S. average but close. Many are making enough to stay in their homeland rather than move away. That alone is a sea change from two generations ago, when the hillbilly highway ushered a stream of people out of the Appalachians in search of work. Today, populations are growing in the mountains of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. This part of Appalachia is experiencing a boom of sorts.

Just look at the Great Smoky Mountains. They comprise the nation’s most popular national park with 13.3 million visits in 2023. Nearby Asheville, North Carolina, has become a tourism mecca and is showered with accolades, including the coveted Beer City USA title four years in a row. That designation and the town’s charms helped win over Sierra Nevada and New Belgium, which now have East Coast breweries there, and Asheville’s success has rubbed off on other mountain cities. Breweries, cideries and distilleries can be found all over now, including the area around my hometown of Roanoke, which has over a dozen breweries and five distilleries, some of which export products across the eastern U.S.

Many people are tempted to dismiss success in places such as Asheville and Roanoke because they were never beholden to King Coal, but even in the poorest parts of Appalachia, there are signs of hope.

In 2020 the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve was created in southern West Virginia, boosting area visitations by over 510,000 people. Today, the park pulls $96 million into a corner of Appalachia that’s been decimated by coal’s collapse.

Over in the far southwest corner of Virginia, the Crooked Road, a bluegrass and old-time music trail, leads tourists from one coal county to another. Since its inception in 2004, travel expenditures in the area have nearly doubled to $1.2 billion.

And in Pikeville, Kentucky, a little company called BitSource is turning stereotypes on their head by training former coal miners to be coders. Their goal is nothing short of rebranding the area as “silicon holler,” a center for coding, data centers, fulfillment houses, customer service facilities and other tech services that could be situated anywhere but that benefit from our affordable land and labor.

Speaking of computing, try Googling the word “visit” and any of these places — Asheville, Shepherdstown, Chattanooga, Greenville, Roanoke, Knoxville, Galax, Berea or Staunton. The results give a peek at the new Appalachian South. From legal moonshine to bands that merge punk rock and bluegrass, we’re using our heritage to innovate, our ready workforce to attract employers, and our natural resources to draw tourists by the millions.

Sure, inside and outside Appalachia, some people are raised like JD Vance, but his story shouldn’t define a region where he never actually lived. Instead, let’s take back some of his spotlight and shine it on the hillbillies who are truly reviving the Appalachian South.

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In 2003, America watched dramatic footage of a young soldier rescued from captivity in Iraq. The story was everywhere, on every news channel, every front page.

Jessica Lynch was portrayed as a fighter who battled Iraqi forces until her ammunition ran out. A warrior who went down fighting. It was heroic. It was cinematic. It was exactly what America needed during an unpopular war.

And it was not true.

Jessica Lynch was a nineteen-year-old supply clerk from Palestine, West Virginia. She had joined the Army to pay for college, dreaming of becoming a kindergarten teacher. She wasn’t infantry. She wasn’t Special Forces. She was a Private First Class with the 507th Maintenance Company, driving supply trucks.

On March 23, 2003—just days into the Iraq invasion—her convoy took a wrong turn near Nasiriyah and drove straight into enemy territory.

The ambush was brutal and swift. Iraqi forces opened fire. Vehicles crashed. Eleven American soldiers were killed. Jessica’s Humvee crashed violently during the chaos. She suffered catastrophic injuries: broken back, broken legs, dislocated ankle, shattered bones throughout her body.

She never fired her weapon. Her M16 jammed. She was knocked unconscious in the crash.

She woke up in Iraqi custody.

For nine days, Jessica Lynch was a prisoner of war, held at Saddam Hussein Hospital in Nasiriyah. She was terrified, in excruciating pain, and didn’t know if she would survive.

On April 1, 2003, U.S. Special Operations Forces launched a nighttime raid on the hospital. The rescue was filmed. Dramatic footage showed commandos storming the building, securing Lynch, and carrying her to a waiting helicopter.

The video was released immediately. America had its hero.

Within hours, the narrative began: Jessica Lynch had fought back ferociously. She had fired her weapon until she ran out of ammunition. She had been stabbed and shot. She refused to be taken alive. Even wounded, she kept fighting.

The Washington Post ran a front-page story: “She Was Fighting to the Death.”

Television networks replayed the rescue footage endlessly. Comparisons to Rambo followed. A female soldier fighting to her last breath became the symbol of American courage in Iraq.

There was only one problem: none of it was true.

And Jessica Lynch knew it.

For months, she stayed quiet. She was recovering from devastating injuries, undergoing surgery after surgery. She was being celebrated as a national hero. The attention was overwhelming.

But the story being told wasn’t hers.

In 2007, Jessica was asked to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform—alongside the family of Pat Tillman, an NFL player turned Army Ranger who had also been the subject of false Pentagon narratives after his death by friendly fire.

Jessica could have stayed silent. It would have been safer. Easier. She was already dealing with PTSD, chronic pain, and the trauma of what had actually happened to her in captivity.

Instead, she told the truth.

She testified that she never fired her weapon, that her rifle had jammed, and that she had been knocked unconscious when her vehicle crashed.

She rejected the heroic narrative built around her: “Stories of ‘a little girl Rambo from the hills of West Virginia who went down fighting’ were not true. I’m still confused as to why they chose to lie and try to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were legendary.”

The backlash was immediate.

Criticizing the military narrative during wartime made some people furious. She was accused of being ungrateful, unpatriotic, even disloyal. How dare she diminish her own heroism?

But Jessica understood something her critics didn’t: false heroism dishonors real sacrifice.

Eleven soldiers died in that ambush. Her best friend, Lori Piestewa, was killed. Those soldiers deserved to be remembered for what actually happened—not overshadowed by a fabricated story created for propaganda purposes.

Jessica insisted the real heroes were the soldiers who died protecting others and the Special Operations Forces who risked their lives to rescue her. Not the manufactured story designed to boost public support for a controversial war.

She said: “They used me to symbolize all this stuff. It’s wrong.”

Her honesty was radical because it rejected something powerful: the seduction of being celebrated, even when that celebration is based on lies.

Most people, given the choice between uncomfortable truth and comfortable fiction, choose fiction—especially when fiction makes them look heroic.

Jessica Lynch chose truth.

She could have accepted the medals, the fame, the narrative that made her a symbol. Instead, she stood before Congress and said: that’s not what happened to me. And the truth matters more than making people feel good about this war.

Her courage didn’t come during the ambush—she was unconscious for that. Her courage came afterward, when she refused to let propaganda replace reality.

The Pentagon Inspector General later confirmed the rescue was legitimate but acknowledged the initial reports were inaccurate. Iraqi hospital staff who had treated Jessica said they had cared for her kindly, and that Iraqi military forces had already left the hospital before U.S. troops arrived.

The “daring raid under heavy fire” had faced minimal resistance.

Jessica Lynch is now 41 years old. She lives in West Virginia. She became a teacher, fulfilling the dream that led her to join the military in the first place. She has a daughter named Dakota Ann—named after her best friend Lori who died in the ambush.

She still has nightmares. She’s had over twenty surgeries. She lives with chronic pain and PTSD. The war never really ended for her.

But she has something many people never find: integrity.

She refused to be a symbol when the symbol was a lie. She rejected heroism she didn’t earn. She insisted that truth mattered more than patriotic mythology.

In a war filled with exaggerated stories and manufactured narratives, Jessica Lynch’s real courage came in saying five words that cost her dearly:

“That’s not what happened.”

And standing by the truth anyway.

Those Christians . . .

Paula White’s boobs Trump lingers on:

Billy Redden was a typical local teen living in Georgia, handpicked by director John Boorman for the role of an odd banjo player in the Oscar-nominated classic DELIVERANCE (1972, R). To Boorman, Redden had the exact look of a country boy, the mannerisms, and something different from the usual qualities needed for a part that could be suitable only for someone who wasn’t trained as an actor: a nonspeaking part in one sequence in which he makes a banjo duel against Ronny Cox. The sequence turned out to be one of the highest points of the thriller – and one of the most memorable moments of cinema.

Redden did not know how to play the banjo, so another teenager was his hand double in the song “Dueling Banjos” while in the soundtrack, [JEWS] Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell were the musicians performing the song. The sequence asked for Billy’s character to show a complete state of contempt for Cox’s character (his on-screen rival), but he couldn’t act in such way with the actor because he was very fond of him. On the other hand, he had a complete dislike for Ned Beatty, so the trick the director used for getting the exact reaction in the shot was to put Beatty next to Cox to make Billy react with disgust and dead-on facial expressions toward Beatty. The rest was all accomplished in the editing room.

Despite widespread rumors and the character’s portrayal in the 1972 film Deliverance, actor Billy Redden does not have a developmental disability or mental impairment. Director John Boorman handpicked Redden, who was 15 at the time, specifically for his unique physical appearance—characterized by a thin frame and almond-shaped eyes—to embody the “backwoods” look described in the original novel. To achieve the unsettling, “inbred” appearance seen on screen, the filmmakers used specialized makeup and lighting.

Recently, he was in the hospital and racked up numerous medical bills. Now 68-years-old, over the last few years Redden has been working as a greeter and janitor at the Walmart in Clayton, GA.

Billy Redden is the so-called “Banjo Boy” from the iconic “Dueling Banjos” scene in the movie “Deliverance”.

This scene enriched all who were involved – the movie was a hit and the song itself won a Golden Globe and a Grammy – but it did not enrich Redden.

Redden was not an actor at the time. He was a local 15-year-old in Clayton, Georgia where the film was made. The Director, John Boorman, chose Redden because he appeared to look like a backwoods boy. He filmed the scene and was largely forgotten.

Redden was not paid very much for his work in the iconic scene. Afterward, he sustained himself as a working man, working menial jobs in his local community to make ends meet. Nothing wrong with being a working man, mind you. Billy isn’t complaining, but some believe there might have been some exploitation of this boy.

JEWS: Arthur Smith, left, was the actual composer of “Feudin’ Banjos”, recorded in 1955 with five-string banjo player Don Reno, right.

When the composition was performed in the 1972 film Deliverance, retitled “Dueling Banjos” and performed by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell, Smith was not credited. “Dueling Banjos” became a hit song.



In what was considered a landmark copyright infringement suit, Smith sued Warner Brothers, winning a substantial settlement, including his being awarded songwriting credit and back royalties.

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“Mischief lurks in the dark or in secret,”

Paulo Kirk

Apr 18, 2026

Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, heavily utilizes deception, subterfuge, and strategic planning—often derived from the philosophy “By way of deception, thou shalt do war” (Proverbs 24:6)—to execute intelligence gathering, counter-terrorism, and covert operations, including manufacturing front companies and fake products to infiltrate adversaries.

We create a pretend world. We are a global production company, we are the directors, the producers, the screenplay writers, the main actors, the world is our STAGE. Oh, those Jews — 60 Minutes clip.

• Deep Cover and Forgery: Agents (katsas) are trained to create elaborate, fabricated identities, fake businesses, and front companies to infiltrate targets or acquire technology.
• The Pager Operation: Mossad fabricated a “pretend world” to sell explosive-laden pagers and walkie-talkies to Hezbollah. They created fake YouTube advertisements and websites for a, fictitious, high-end, premium product to ensure the devices were accepted.
• “By Way of Deception”: The famous, often misunderstood, motto—derived from Proverbs 24:6—is widely understood as “Through wise counsel/stratagems you shall make war,” highlighting the use of cunning rather than just brute force.
• Psychological Operations and Misinformation: In addition to physical operations, Mossad has been linked to spreading disinformation to confuse enemies and using fake accounts to manage public perception, such as during the Israel-Hamas conflict.
• Controversies: Former officer Victor Ostrovsky claimed in his book, By Way of Deception, that the agency has utilized these methods for activities reaching beyond traditional intelligence gathering, sometimes endangering international partnerships.

MAGA MAGA MAGA:

For years, American media fixated relentlessly on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, yet FBI documents reveal a parallel story of Israeli contacts with the Trump campaign that received virtually no scrutiny despite evidence of attempted foreign intervention.

This operation involved high-ranking Israeli officials, secret agents, and a sustained effort to provide Donald Trump’s campaign with what one participant called “critical intel” to defeat Hillary Clinton.

The story only emerged through heavily redacted FBI search warrant documents released in 2020, more than four years after the events occurred. According to these documents, examined extensively by intelligence expert James Bamford in The Nation, Israeli officials conducted a months-long operation attempting to establish covert channels to the Trump campaign, offer foreign intelligence assistance, and secure policy commitments in exchange for intervention in the American electoral process.

Yet despite clear evidence of foreign government officials attempting to influence a U.S. presidential election, this Israeli operation received no congressional hearings, no Justice Department investigations beyond the initial FBI probe, and virtually no sustained media coverage. The contrast with the intense scrutiny applied to Russian activities raises uncomfortable questions about selective enforcement, media priorities, and whether some foreign interference matters more than others.

Rabbi Honored by Israel Lives in Illegal West Bank Home on Private Palestinian Land

[Avraham Zarbiv in Gaza, in December 2023. ‘The Rabbinical Court of Khan Yunis’ is graffitied on the wall behind him.]

An NGO monitoring West Bank construction said Avraham Zarbiv’s home sits on Palestinian land and has been under a demolition order since 2000; the rabbi also boasted of destroying homes in Gaza and called to ‘flatten’ it during his IDF service.

These fucking liars murderers, Nakba neuroperverse cunts, May 13, 2024.

Israel lifts wartime restrictions nationwide, authorizes Independence Day ceremonies

The IDF, Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar, and Defense Minister Israel Katz announced the nationwide lifting of restrictions on Friday, with northern communities seeing them lifted on Saturday.

Brutes, neuroperverse, all of them. Building New Lives in Israel – One Story at a Time. Smiling, profiting from theft, shekel changing, rape, murder. [WATCH: Welcome to Aliyah Stories – Brought to you by The Jerusalem Post and Nefesh B’Nefesh.]

Fucking understatement. They all need to be locked up, starting with 319 Jewish Billionaires and millions of Jewish millionaires. Pope Leo warned the world is in ‘big trouble’ if Elon Musk becomes the first trillionaire.

The sickness of these gamblers: In the final hours of President Biden’s term, a Polymarket trader made around $300,000 correctly betting on Biden’s last-minute pardons, according to new data provided to NPR by an analytics firm that examines cryptocurrency transactions.

As Biden issued a wave of pardons just hours before leaving the White House, the Polymarket trader bet big on four names, with the odds of those pardons occurring rapidly dropping to near zero on the prediction market site.

The trader, whose identity is not publicly known, placed around $64,000 worth of bets that Biden would issue pre-emptive pardons for Jim Biden, the former president’s brother, former Rep Liz Cheney, Sen. Adam Schiff, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger — all prominent critics of President Trump. While none were ever charged with crimes, all four were given pardons to shield them against possible prosecution in Trump’s second term.

Cunts for Capitalism or Inverted Totalitarianism:

Gov. Janet Mills said Friday that she hasn’t decided whether to sign a bill passed by the Legislature to impose a statewide moratorium on new data centers, outlining her critique of the legislation.

“It’s on my desk. I’m going to read it. Read it very carefully,” Mills, a Democrat, said in a wide-ranging interview with NBC News, adding that it doesn’t contain a “carveout” she wanted for a project in the struggling town of Jay in order to boost jobs.

On the Nature of Inverted Totalitarianism (Sheldon Wolin)

“Inverted totalitarianism represents the coming of age of corporate power, where lobbying, political contributions, and the revolving door ensure corporations dominate the government.”

“It works indirectly… encouraging distraction or apathy [and] conditioning an electorate to being aroused for a brief spell.”

“Above all, depoliticization is promoted through society’s being enveloped in an atmosphere of collective fear and of individual powerlessness: fear of terrorists, loss of jobs, the uncertainties of pension plans.”

“We are tolerated as citizens… only as long as we participate in the illusion of a participatory democracy.”

On Economic and Corporate Control (Sheldon Wolin)

• “The virtual reality of the advertiser and the ‘good news’ of the evangelist complement each other, a match made in heaven.”
• “The proliferation of Washington lobbyists… is indicative of a radical change in the meaning of who and what are being represented, and indicative also of the final defeat of majority rule.”

The U.S. Supreme Court is Much More United Than You Think

Dirty dirty dirty: The Supreme Court hands a win to oil and gas companies fighting environmental lawsuits in Louisiana

They are fascists! Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their datacentres, an investigation has found, with demands to block a database of green metrics from public view written almost word for word into EU rules.

The secrecy provision, which the European Commission added to its proposal almost verbatim after industry lobbying in 2024, hinders scrutiny of the pollution that individual datacentres emit. It leaves researchers with just national-level summaries of their energy footprints.

The rise of AI chatbots has spurred a boom in the construction of chip-filled warehouses with a hunger for power that is being met, in part, by burning fossil gas. Legal scholars warn the blanket confidentiality clause may fall foul of EU transparency rules and the Aarhus convention on public access to environmental information.

Mainstream artificial intelligence safety groups moved quickly to distance themselves after a 20-year-old allegedly attacked the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week in what law enforcement officers said appeared to be part of a plot to harm AI executives. But people in some corners of the internet cheered the attack.

One X user compared the attacker to Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a politically motivated attack, in a post calling the two men “heroes.”

Multiple users on X called the attack “justified.”

WHORES for fascism: Student loan collection expected to target thousands of people this summer

The Trump administration’s move would mark the first step in transferring the student loan portfolio to Treasury and the latest action to dismantle the Education Department.

Provo, Utah — Tyler Robinson, the Utah man accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk, appeared in court Friday while his attorneys argued for cameras to be banned from the proceedings moving forward, arguing news coverage of the high-profile case could harm their client’s right to a fair trial.

The defense’s primary argument is media coverage has been largely prejudicial to Robinson, potentially tainting the jury pool. Cameras and audio recording devices should no longer be allowed inside the courtroom or “the defendant’s fair trial rights will be jeopardized,” Robinson’s attorney Michael Burt argued.

Prosecutors, meanwhile, sought to maintain the presence of cameras, saying in part it was the best way to combat misinformation about a case centered on the public assassination of the prominent conservative activist. A coalition of news outlets – which includes CNN – and Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, are also in favor of keeping the proceedings open to cameras.

“Mischief lurks in the dark or in secret,” prosecutor Chad Grunander said in his closing argument. “Conspiracy theories abound, and the antidote is the actual, real proceedings.”

According to FBI affidavits, the operation centered on a mysterious Israeli agent acting under direct orders from someone identified as “PM,” whom the FBI stated refers to “the Prime Minister.” Though the agent’s name was redacted throughout the documents, Bamford’s analysis suggests the profile closely matches Isaac Molho, Benjamin Netanyahu’s top personal aide and confidential envoy.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz described Molho as a “discreet man for sensitive missions”, who operated with “almost complete silence from the media” while undertaking sensitive assignments with Mossad providing logistical support, enjoying what the paper described as extraordinary autonomy on Netanyahu’s most sensitive assignments. The newspaper characterized him as having carried out “the most sensitive missions for Netanyahu,” missions whose full scope, Netanyahu himself wrote, “will not be possible to reveal…for at least several decades.”

The FBI documents describe an agent with authority to direct other high-ranking Israeli officials and who was summoned from the United States to Rome at a moment’s notice to accompany Netanyahu to negotiations with Secretary of State John Kerry over Palestine. This critical role matched Molho’s known responsibilities during this period.

For Netanyahu, the stakes in the 2016 American election could not have been higher. President Obama and Kerry were pressuring Israel on Palestinian statehood, the Middle East Quartet was preparing a report critical of settlement policies, and the Iran nuclear deal represented everything Netanyahu opposed. Trump, by contrast, promised to scrap the Iran agreement, recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital, support continued occupation of Palestinian territories, and eventually take direct military action against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Netanyahu’s solution, according to the FBI documents, involved dispatching his trusted aide to establish a back channel to Trump and offer assistance that would prove remarkably prescient about upcoming WikiLeaks releases and hacked Democratic Party emails.

The Unseen Israeli Election Fix in 2016

• Rapid Growth: The tech sector added 59 new billionaires since 2024, the fastest growth rate of any industry at 17.25%.
• AI Boom: Artificial intelligence is the primary catalyst for new wealth, with 86 AI-specific billionaires identified in 2026, collectively worth $2.9 trillion.
• Concentration of Wealth: Technology is the wealthiest industry overall, with a collective net worth of approximately $3.2 trillion.
• Dominance at the Top: Tech titans represent 8 of the 10 richest people on earth.

Key Statistics on Tech Wealth (2025–2026)

• The Billionaire Class: As of April 2026, there are 3,428 billionaires globally, with the technology sector being the fastest-growing source of new wealth. Approximately 401 billionaires (nearly 14% of the global total) come from the tech industry.
• Employee Millionaires: Large tech companies are massive “millionaire factories.” For example, roughly 76–78% of Nvidia’s workforce are now millionaires due to the company’s surging stock price, creating an estimated 27,000 millionaires at that single company alone.
• AI Surge: The rapid rise of artificial intelligence has created hundreds of new “paper” fortunes. There are now 498 AI unicorns (startups valued at $1 billion+) and over 1,300 AI startups with valuations exceeding $100 million.

Wealth Distribution by Generation

Tech has become the primary path to wealth for younger generations:

• Millennials: Roughly one-third of millennial billionaires made their fortunes in tech.
• Gen X: About 24.2% of Gen X billionaires—including figures like Elon Musk and Larry Page—derive their wealth from the technology sector.

A good one here: Criticism of Israel, which is Right and Just, was not created in a vacuum. The slaughter based upon lies has been on-going for over 125 years. Israel the land is the creation of the West, and supports it, with blood.

“125 years of proud Zionist terrorism — all documented; and never forget the Right to Rape!”

Ahh, I had Laif on a while back: Is Hezbollah Beating Israel in Lebanon? (w/ Laith Marouf) | The Chris Hedges Report

All the Words We Speak Will be Ground Through the Jewish Algorithm Mill to Find All that is Verboten and then we will be Geofenced* into HELL.

Paulo Kirk

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November 11, 2025

The American right has descended into a bitter dispute over U.S. support for Israel. Does this dispute pose an existential threat to Israel? Dimitri Lascaris

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Spying, honey pots, blackmail, extortion, and the basic values of Kosher Nostra from Altman to Ellison, so, just don’t look at the walking hemorrhoid Dershowitz as the only example!

Paulo Kirk

Apr 17, 2026

Jews just don’t ask why Jews are so mean. Why they don’t look in the mirror. I mean, look, sort of like me looking in the mirror every time a teacher — K12 or higher ed — is accused of and found guilty of, well, messing around with students.

College teachers (professors, lecturers, TAs) dating students is generally discouraged or banned due to severe power imbalances and conflicts of interest. While rarely illegal if the student is over 18, it is heavily regulated, often requiring disclosure to HR to eliminate supervision, grading, or influence. Such relationships often violate university policy.

“What you should do is have a definitive policy one way or the other, where faculty and administrators decide which way is the best way to go — not start to carve out situations,” Miltenberg said. “What if it’s a dean with no direct academic role for the student, or a professor in a different department, or an adjunct? There are a lot of questions that will arise, with too many anomalies as far as circumstances.”

A sunset provision might work in the future, when colleges and universities “start to offer a fair, transparent and equitable process” to all parties in a Title IX case, Miltenberg said. Just not now. He recalled a case in which a faculty member taught only a core class, meaning there was no chance he would teach his students twice. But a relationship between the professor and one of his former students “didn’t go well,” Miltenberg said. “There was a complaint, and the faculty member lost his job.”

That’s what happened to John Barrett, an assistant professor of developmental studies at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, in 2017. According to court documents, Barrett sent a student of his a Facebook friend request at the end of the spring 2015 semester, when she was in his class. The two corresponded over the summer about the student’s writing. Back on campus in the fall, the student asked to meet Barrett for coffee, and they began dating. Their sexual relationship lasted through the next summer.

The pair remained friendly for a time after breaking up, but the student eventually confronted Barrett about a relationship he was having with a second former student of his. The first student later filed a complaint with the university, alleging that Barrett had touched her genitals while she was sleeping during their relationship. The university investigated and terminated Barrett based on his poor professional judgment and the alleged touching without consent (which he denied, and which the student never brought up during their relationship).

Barrett filed a grievance with his faculty union, and an arbitrator ordered his reinstatement. Bloomsburg fought the decision, but a state appeals court upheld it last week. Bloomsburg doesn’t prohibit student-faculty relationships unless a supervisory relationship exists, and it no longer did in Barrett’s relationships, the court determined.

OF COURSE I think about my colleagues, my profession, when I read stories about that problem in colleges and even fucking k12!

Now now now, the Jewish religion does permit this shit: retribution, blackmail, bilking, raping, murdering, and starving. Oh, it’s just ‘those Jews’ in Israel?

In August of 2024, CCTV footage was leaked from Sde Teiman, Israel’s torture dungeon for detained Palestinians, showing the gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner by IDF militants.

10 of the IDF militants were arrested for the gang rape , and five were charged in February of last year for causing “broken ribs and a punctured lung” along with stabbing, “the detainee in the buttocks, causing rectal injury.”

Middle East Eye reported that , “Two suspects were found to have failed polygraph tests when asked whether they had inserted an object into the detainee’s anus or were concealing the identity of the person responsible. They denied both, but the examiner concluded they were being deceptive.”

Yoel Donchin, the doctor who examined the victim at Sde Teiman, said , “doctors found intestinal tears and broken ribs,” and that “We saw that he had a stab wound in the anus,” adding, “I saw how the soldiers there behave. I saw how they bring in the detainees and how they force them to sing songs. I saw a wounded person who had been abused and beaten severely.”

After the IDF rapists were questioned by Israeli military police, “right to rape rallies” took place outside of Sde Teiman, where members of the radicalized Israeli public demanded the IDF militants be freed.

In March of this year, the Israeli army dropped the charges against the five IDF militants , a move that was celebrated by Israel’s genocidal Defense Minister, Israel Katz, who said, “The role of the IDF’s legal system is to defend and protect soldiers who are bravely fighting monsters in war – not the rights of Nukhba terrorists”.

Now, the IDF has sanctioned the use of rape against Palestinians by allowing the five IDF militants to return to service.

This week, two lists were published which outed the biggest Zionist tools in US office: one for Republicans and one for Dems, because here in the US we have a bipartisan array of political suckage.

First the Dems: Bernie Sanders introduced a bill in the Senate that would block the sale of bombs to Israel. It failed, in part because of seven Democrats who betrayed their base to side with the AIPAC lobbyists who own them:

The list includes arch-Zionist / Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, who, as the the plummeting of Israel’s reputation spreads to the Senate, has begun facing calls from his colleagues to resign in shame.

The second list shows, after years of being called a foreign agent in the pocket of Putin by corporate spokespeople at CNN and MSNBC, that Donald Trump really is a foreign agent. It’s just not the Russians who own him.

Of this list of Trump owners, 4 of 5 are Jewish, and all are radical Zionists. This is how Epstein-lawyer Alan Dershowitz has now begun blackmailing the president, saying that Israel will

“fight, even if it means confrontation with President Trump. We will take care of Trump. I met with him…and he was very receptive about Iran…and Miriam Adelson has met with him…”

Join Katie and Aaron for a deep dive into the Zionist lobby’s dealings with Trump and greedy Dems, plus Stephen Miller nearly slips up and calls for a “final solution” carried out by Israel, and Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo uses ChatGPT to get some questionable information.

“I have many jobs as leader… and one is to fight for aid to Israel – all the aid that Israel needs. I will continue to fight for it,” Chuck Schumer told a gathering of Jewish groups at the Park East Synagogue in New York in February.

There’s a piece out from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, and the upshot is this: a significant number of senior Trump administration officials are genuinely worried they’re going to end up in prison.

Stephen Miller. Pete Hegseth. Officials spread across multiple departments. According to administration insiders, they’re watching the polling data, they know Democrats are likely to retake the House in 2026, and they’re under no illusions about what that could mean.

They’ve already noticed Democratic politicians making increasingly public calls for aggressive prosecutions of Trump officials. One Trump aide described the trend as, quote, “kind of worrisome.” Many of these officials don’t believe that even presidential pardons will be enough to protect them once the political winds shift.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Trump has promised to sign mass pardons for administration officials before leaving office. But apparently that promise isn’t as reassuring as it sounds. Last year, multiple Trump officials quietly purchased new legal insurance and professional liability coverage in anticipation of future investigations and subpoenas.

The reality is setting in. These people know what they’ve done. And they’re starting to realize that history has a long memory.

Aaron: Noam Chomsky’s wife responds to Epstein controversy

Yeah, Katie and Aaron never question their own rabbis, their own upbringing, their own Jewishness when confronted with the hell on earth Jews seem to be unleashing out of proportion to their global total population.

[Based on the 2025 Forbes billionaire data, approximately 276 to 300+ individuals on the list are identified as Jewish or have Jewish heritage, representing about 9.1% of the world’s 3,028 billionaires. The number varies based on definitions of Jewish identity.]

Israel’s economy is rocking! Lots of Jewish American billionaires, too at Oracle, Nvidia, Google, few others. Great time to be Jewish!!

Numbers and tribal loyalties COUNT:

• The number of Israeli billionaires on the Forbes list has grown rapidly, reaching 52 in early 2026, a 24% increase in combined wealth, with major representation in technology, shipping, and real estate.
• Global Presence: While representing less than 0.2% of the world population, Jewish individuals often make up roughly 20% of the Forbes 400 richest Americans

The initiative is being led by Jewish philanthropists, including Igor Tulchinsky, and is focused on strengthening the work of Chabad representatives on the ground. In Israel, support is going toward families, soldiers, evacuees, and those directly affected by recent events, while globally, additional efforts include sending hundreds of rabbinical students to assist communities in over 300 cities, to make sure Jewish communities everywhere have access to a full and meaningful Passover experience.

Enough of this blasphemy of neuroperversity?

This is a very personal review of recent regional tragedies from Lebanese journalist and mother of three Marwa Osman. She talks about her own personal loss during ‘Black Wednesday’ when the Zionists carried out 150 airstrikes across Lebanon in 10 minutes, massacring civilians even in areas where Hezbollah has no presence. We also delve into the much-maligned Iranian ceasefire and what it means for the region, short, mid, and long term.

Trump declared, “my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran”. He – or the rational part of his regime – actually wants Iran as a client-state where the US dictates how and where the oil flows.

But this war isn’t just about control over oil. It’s about control over the future – a future that otherwise increasingly looks like one without oil or the US at its centre. It’s a war of transition.

Supremacy

Trump’s illegal war on Iran – one of five oil-rich countries attacked by the US in the past year and a half – forms part of a broader assault on the emerging transition economy, one that includes an assault on green policies and renewable energy investments.

Trump’s war on Iran and on the future

Data Data Data Control Control Control:

Item 8 on the agenda for Home Depot’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders — virtual only, 9 a.m. Eastern — is a shareholder proposal filed by Neil Fisher and Meryl Loonin. They are asking the company’s Board of Directors to produce a report assessing the risks to customers’ data privacy rights that result from Home Depot sharing sensitive data with third parties. The data in question includes gender, race, ethnicity, and geolocation.

The vehicle is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Reader cameras — ALPRs, in the business — deployed across Home Depot locations nationwide. According to the proponents’ filing, Flock’s network is accessible to federal law enforcement. The proposal cites what it calls “frequent immigration enforcement raids occurring near its stores” as a source of reputational risk.

That is a careful, lawyerly way of saying something plainly: if ICE wants to know who drove to Home Depot, the infrastructure may already exist to tell them.

The Board of Directors recommends shareholders vote against the proposal. Its position is that existing safeguards and internal risk management programs are sufficient to handle the concern.

That answer will not satisfy everyone who shops at Home Depot.

The company’s customer base includes millions of immigrants — documented and undocumented alike — who buy lumber, pipe fittings, and paint to build and maintain the homes of this country. Those customers have no way of knowing, when they pull off the highway and into the lot, that a networked camera is recording their presence and linking it to a plate that can be queried by federal agents.

The proposal requires a vote because it is considered a non-routine matter under exchange rules. That means banks and brokers holding shares in street name cannot cast a vote on their clients’ behalf without explicit instructions. Shareholders of record as of March 23, are eligible to vote.

Home Depot is not alone in facing this kind of scrutiny. Across corporate America, the question of what data companies collect, who can access it, and under what legal authority is colliding with an immigration enforcement environment that has grown more aggressive by the week. The difference here is that the mechanism — a private surveillance vendor with federal reach embedded in a retail parking lot — has a name: Flock Safety.

Jewish fucking values, dude, Aaron, Katie, Max, et al, Finkelstein:

Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle, advocates for unifying national and personal data primarily to maximize the efficiency of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and enhance societal security. He argues that current data is too “fragmented” across thousands of separate databases, preventing AI from solving complex problems effectively.

His stated reasons for this massive data consolidation include:

• Optimizing AI Performance: Ellison believes AI models can only reach their full potential if they are fed unified national datasets rather than isolated silos of information.
• Improving Public Services: He claims a central database could transform healthcare by unifying medical records and DNA data to find earlier treatments, as well as improve agriculture and infrastructure.
• Preventing Fraud: By using AI to analyze government spending data in one place, he suggests countries could identify “vast amounts of fraud” and waste more effectively.
• Enforcing “Best Behavior”: Controversially, Ellison supports 24/7 AI-powered surveillance of both citizens and law enforcement. He suggests that if everyone is constantly being recorded and reported, they will maintain their “best behavior”.
• Security and National Defense: He has long maintained that such data collection is “essential” for national security, specifically for identifying and preventing threats like terrorism.

How many fucking apps does the average worker have to have on his or her fucking surveillance phone?

Common Types of Work-Related Apps

• Communication & Training: Instant messaging and video training modules (e.g., MindForge, Workday).
• Workflow Management: Apps for shift scheduling, time tracking, and digital project plans (e.g., Raken, Procore).
• Security & IT: Mobile Device Management (MDM) software that creates a secure “work profile” to separate company data from personal files.
• EHS (Environment, Health, and Safety): Safety checklists and incident reporting tools used to build a “culture of safety” on jobsites

What the Law Actually Says

No federal statute prohibits employers from requiring employees to use personal devices for work purposes. Under at-will employment (the standard in all U.S. states except Montana), employers can set conditions of employment including the tools and technology employees must use to do their jobs.

[11 Reasons an employee app is a must-have for your workforce ]

We study mass surveillance for social control, and we see Trump laying the groundwork to ‘contain’ people of color and immigrants

Create a moral panic. Blame it on certain people. Commence monitoring. Deploy droves of security agents. Detain or remove the targets. Sound familiar?

My other fucking hat, a masters in urban and regional planning! Social control through planning and architecture!

Angel, Schlomo (1968). Discouraging Crime through City Planning (working paper no. 68). Berkeley: UC Berkeley Institute of Urban & Regional Development.

One of the earliest works published on crime prevention through urban design, this Jane Jacobs-inspired paper sketches out public space designs that enable mutual surveillance based on increased user density. Angel hypothesized that crime in public space emerged in a “critical intensity zone” between extremely low and high usage. To counter this victimization period, he proposed creating “evening squares” in which an optimally dense user population would prevent crime by mutually monitoring each other’s activities.

Bentham, Jeremy (2005). The Panopticon, or Inspection-House. Available online: http://cartome.org/panopticon2.htm/.

This abridged version of Bentham’s design and management plans for the panopticon prison provided the foundations for Foucault’s pioneering analysis of disciplinary spaces.

Blakely, Edward J. and M. G. Snyder (Spring 1998). “Forting Up: Gated Communities in the United States,” Journal of Architectural and Planning Research vol.15, no.1: 61–72.

Adapted from the authors’ influential book on the same topic, this article examines gated community residents’ desire for social status and exclusivity. The authors argue that the gating reflex is on the rise across the social spectrum, and is no longer a status symbol and defensive feature reserved for the elite.

Borden, Iain (November/December 1996). “Thick Edge: Architectural Boundaries and Spatial Flows,” Architectural Design vol. 66: 84–7.

In this brief but imaginative essay, the author explores the postmodern city’s use of borders and edges as ways to control spatial circulation and social interaction. These boundaries are envisaged as extensions of capitalism’s power to direct spatial and social relations towards consumption.

Boyne, Roy (May 2000). “Post-Panopticon,” Economy and Society vol. 29, no. 2: 285–307.

The author reconsiders the concept of panopticism in the wake of increasing surveillance of public and private life. The author reviews arguments that the panopticon model of centralized surveillance is outdated in a world dominated by the decentralization of knowledge. Acknowledging that the diagram of surveillance has changed, he concludes that new forms of surveillance still adhere to a panoptical impulse.

Bring, Mitchell (May 1978). “TV Surveillance: the Not-So-Hidden Dimension of Public Space,” Landscape Architecture vol. 68: 189–90, 231–2.

This early article discusses what was, at that time, an emerging trend of using closed circuit television surveillance in public space design. The author warned that video surveillance threatens democratic use of public space.

Carter, Michael (1995). “Guerilla Programming of Video Surveillance Equipment.” Available online: http://www.notbored.org/gpvse.html.

Originally published as a pamphlet manifesto, this concise article calls for staging guerilla performances in front of surveillance cameras as acts of resistance. The article is considered a founding document for the growing performance-based surveillance resistance movement.

Crowe, Timothy (1991). Crime Prevention through Environmental Design: Applications of Architectural Design and Space Management Concepts. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann.

One of the most often-cited sources on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, the manual outlines CPTED’s origins, principles, and applications. Written in textbook like prose and complete with several diagrams, maps, and appendices, the book is a helpful desk reference for CPTED-minded planners.

Cuff, Dana (September 2003). “Immanent Domain: Pervasive Computing in the Public Realm,” Journal of Architectural Education vol. 57, no. 1: 43–49.

The author examines how expanding and networked computer technologies are changing the way people experience public space. The author’s take on pervasive computing posits a “double view, utopian and dystopian.” On one hand, pervasive computing facilitates expanded communication and technological innovation; on the other, it increases surveillance capabilities and hastens the loss of privacy. Cuff contends that the future of the public realm is inevitably intertwined with the growth of pervasive computing.

Davis, Mike (2003). “Scanscape,” Quaderns vol. 237: 52–57.

In this brief essay, the author describes how increasing surveillance technologies and the LAPD’s expansion into city planning decision-making have turned downtown LA into a “scanscape,” a heavily surveilled space in which white-collar office workers and tourists are made to feel safe.

Davis, Mike (1992). City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles. New York: Vintage.

In this groundbreaking exposé of a dystopic postmodern Los Angeles, Davis describes and critiques elements of the built environment that make up what he calls “Security-Obsessed Urbanism”: gated properties, surveillance cameras, ‘bum-proof’ benches, panopticon-inspired architecture, privatized security services and militarized police forces.

DeLanda, Manuel (2001). “Panspectron,” in Joy Garnett, Rocket Science, exhibition catalogue, 12.04.01–19.05.01, ISBN 1929032072. Available online: http://www.firstpulseprojects.com/panspectron.html/.

In this brief essay, the author reviews a range of military surveillance technologies, including satellites, spy planes, x-rays, radio waves, infrared systems, multispectral scanning, and night vision systems. Citing their increasing use on civilians and in cities, DeLanda posits that we are transitioning from a panopticon to a wider panspectron model.

DeLanda, Manuel (1986). “Policing the Spectrum,” in Michel Feher & Sanford Kwinter (eds), Zone 1/2: City, New York: Urzone/Johns Hopkins University Press: 177–87.

DeLanda reviews the US military surveillance system’s attempt to police abstract spaces. His review covers crypotology, the covert mapping of Tibet, NSA and CIA surveillance operations, early forms of computer hacking, cellular automata, and the abstraction/extraction of bodily knowledge for the purposes of discipline and control. He envisions a resistance movement in which theorists expand their analyses to identify ways out of this surveillance system.

De Lint, Willem (2000). “Arresting the Eye: Surveillance, Social Control and Resistance,” Space and Culture vol. 9, no. 9: 21–49.

The author opens up the discourse on surveillance by suggesting surveillance technologies are not merely instruments of social control. The article highlights benevolent uses of surveillance technologies that enable governments to understand the needs of a population. Ultimately, De Lint contends that surveillance and social control are not synonymous.

Ellin, Nan (ed) (1997). Architecture of Fear. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

The comprehensive volume includes twenty essays that examine how fear, insecurity, and social anxiety shape contemporary urban space. The Security City, rife with surveillance systems, gated communities, privatized public spaces, defensible houses, etc., developed in response to these fears, and ironically perpetuates insecurity. The authors represent a cross-section of perspectives making for a well-balanced analysis that is, on balance, rooted in architectural criticism.

Fabijancic, Tony (September 2001). “The Prison in the Arcade: A Carceral Diagram of Consumer Space,” Mosaic vol. 34, no. 2: 141–157.

The author synthesizes the writings of Foucault and Walter Benjamin in this examination of the emergence of a carceral diagram in 19th century shopping arcades. The author situates this development in an era of disciplinary transformation that saw Haussmann’s restructuring of boulevards and the birth of crowd psychology.

Farrar, Margaret E. (Fall 2000). “Health and Beauty in the Body Politic: Subjectivity and Urban Space,” Polity vol. 33, no. 1: 1–23.

The author, a political scientist, synthesizes the work of Foucault, Lefebvre, and Kristeva to explain how power and spatial subjectivity informed early 20th century American open space and housing reform policies. The author argues that such spatial planning practices enabled power to be manifested in cities and in the citizenry. The article represents a rare instance in which a political scientist successfully deals with the topic of space, power, and city planning.

Finn, Mary A. and S. Muirhead-Steves (June 2002). “The Effectiveness of Electronic Monitoring with Violent Male Parolees,” Justice Quarterly vol. 19, no.2: 293–312.

The authors assert that electronic monitoring of violent male offenders is an effective deterrent to recidivism. They base their position on a study that showed electronic monitoring reduced return to prison rates and parolee substance abuse rates. The authors maintain that expanded electronic monitoring of high risk offenders should be explored.

Flusty, Steven (September 2001). “The Banality of Interdiction: Surveillance, Control and the Displacement of Diversity,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research vol. 25, no. 3: 658–664.

In this follow-up to his book Building Paranoia, Flusty describes how surveillance, strict codes of conduct, and enclavism have become normalized in Los Angeles. Consequently, says Flusty, the critical literature has diminished and increasing social control seems to be an acceptable, routine function of social and spatial relations.

Flusty, Steven (April 2000). “Thrashing Downtown: Play as Resistance to the Spatial and Representational Regulation of Los Angeles,” Cities vol. 17, no. 2: 149–58.

The article describes the privatization and corporatization of downtown public space and forms of resistance centered on “play.” Recounting his walking tour of downtown LA’s Bunker Hill, Flusty identifies the playful acts of resistance he observed: skateboarding, public poetry reading, and performative “bubble-blowing.”

Flusty, Steven (1994). Building Paranoia: The Proliferation of Interdictory Space and the Erosion of Spatial Justice. West Hollywood, CA: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.

The author categorizes various spatial and architectural typologies that convey insecurity in the built environment, including varying examples of interdictory spaces and models of “paranoid architecture.” Unlike other writers on the critical left, Flusty’s descriptive analysis is less inflammatory, as he is more concerned with situating these typologies in broader public discourse.

Foucault, Michel (1975). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage.

In this pioneering study, Foucault traces modern society’s development into a panopticon-like dystopia characterized by diffuse and pervasive surveillance and spatial control practices. Virtually all criticism of surveillance-centered dystopias stem from Foucault’s lyrical critique of disciplinary urban spaces.

Haggerty, Kevin D. and R. V. Ericson (December 2000). “The Surveillant Assemblage,” British Journal of Sociology vol. 51, no. 4: 605–622.

In this excellent essay, the authors augment the dominant Foucauldian-Orwellian discourse on surveillance society with an analysis of expanding and abstracted systems of surveillance. Citing Deleuze and Guattari’s theory of rhizomatic flows, the authors contend that technological surveillance has become a “surveillant assemblage” of decentralized gazes in real and virtual space.

Heavy Trash (2005). “(internet website).” Available online:

http://heavytrash.blogspot.com/

This website is the virtual headquarters for an anonymous group of architects, artists, and planners who erect large, disposable art objects around fortified city spaces in order to call attention to these exclusive areas. Their resistance art has included a bridge spanning a gate at a public park and viewing platforms erected outside several gated communities.

Howeler, Eric (2002). “Anxious Architectures: The Aesthetics of Surveillance,” Archis no. 3: 9–18, 20–3.

The author describes the assortment of security technologies being incorporated into architectural design, including CPTED and defensible space techniques, remote alarm and surveillance systems, and global positioning devices.

Incirlioglu, Emine O. and Z. Tandogan. (April 1999). “Cultural Diversity, Public Space, Aesthetics and Power,” European Journal of Intercultural Studies vol. 10, no. 1: 51–61.

The authors argue that inclusion and exclusion in public space can be studied through aesthetic criteria. Put bluntly: aesthetically pleasing, civilized and desirable persons are allowed in public spaces; aesthetically undesirable persons, such as the homeless or certain “visible foreigners”, are excluded. The use of such an aesthetic criteria precludes the democratic use of public spaces and mutual coexistence.

Jacobs, Jane (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Vintage.

This groundbreaking opus vilifies modernist city planning for killing pedestrian life at the street level. In response, Jacobs calls for a return to dense, diversified urban environments reminiscent of 19th century cities, where additional “eyes on the street” permit informal surveillance of public space.

Jeffrey, C. Ray (1971). Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.

The book title is somewhat misleading since Jeffrey devotes only one chapter to crime prevention through environmental design in which he talks little about physical security elements and more about socio-psychological factors relating to crime prevention. Nevertheless, in this book Jeffrey coins the term CPTED and establishes the ideological basis for design-based crime prevention which gives rise to the dystopian security city.

Jencks, Charles (March/April 1995). “Aphorisms on Power?” Architectural Design vol. 65: 20–3.

This brief essay by the noted architectural theorist and historian explores architects’ ability to wield positive creative power and negative coercive power. Although coercive power enables a stronger degree of spatial control, it is paradoxically more fragile. Consequently, the author says, coercive power gives way to creative power.

Jones, Peter (1999). “Building the Empire of the Gaze: The Modern Movement and the Surveillance Society,” Architectural Theory Review vol. 4, no. 2: 1–14.

Retracing the trajectory of the modern movement starting from its origins in ocularcentrism, Jones illustrates how modernist architecture’s salient features — glass, the interior, the house, and the factory — contributed to the rise of what Foucault called surveillance society. Jones’ critique is effective but could benefit from more in-depth analysis, including additional evidence and elaboration.

Katyal, Neal K. (March 2002). “Architecture as Crime Control,” 111 Yale Law Journal no. 1039.

This law review article is extraordinary in that it focuses little on law and instead outlines crime prevention through environmental design and its sociopolitical implications for the built environment. Written primarily for law professionals with limited knowledge of the topic, Katyal’s article is thorough, comprehensive, and filled with painstaking detail characteristic of law reviews.

Kawash, Samira (Winter 1998). “The Homeless Body,” Public Culture vol. 10, no. 2: 319–339.

The author analyses the construction of the homeless body as a public discourse and a deviant counterpart to the abstract public body. The placelessness and uncertainty of the homeless body is compared to the fixity and certainty of the public spaces they inhabit. The author catalogs strategies to control the homeless’s use of public space which result in the exclusion of homeless bodies.

Koskela, Hille (2000). “The Gaze Without Eyes: Video Surveillance and the Changing Nature of Urban Space,” Progress in Human Geography vol. 24, no. 2: 243–265.

The article refutes the argument that urban space has become oppressive, dystopic and prison-like through the proliferation of video surveillance cameras. Although Koskela agrees that a surveillance camera’s “gaze” represents a form of invisible power and that cameras create asymmetries of power in space, she ultimately concludes that cities, which are publicly accessible, democratic spaces, cannot reasonably be compared to prisons.

Leman-Langlois, Stéphane (2002). “The Myopic Panopticon: The Social Consequences of Policing through the Lens,” Policing and Society vol. 13, no. 1: 43–58.

The author argues that the police’s reliance on video surveillance technologies is ineffective and inadvisable because surveillance cameras have a “myopic” purview. Monitoring surveilled spaces channels police attention into fixed spatial parameters. Policing, says the author, becomes a reactive activity dependent on observing crimes in progress.

Leong, Sze Tsung (1998). “Readings of the Attenuated Landscape,” in Bell, M. and S. T. Leong. (eds) Slow Space. New York: Monacelli Press.

The author uses Foucault’s tripartite of sovereign power, disciplinary power, and bio-power as well his concept of heterotopia to explain the contours of America’s “attenuated landscape,” that is, postindustrial cityscapes characterized by disorientation and absence. Leong effectively employs Detroit and Houston as models of attenuation.

Levin, Thomas Y. et al. (2002). Ctrl [space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. Karlsruhe, Germany: ZKM Center for Art and Media; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

The anthology is a collection of scholarly essays, interview transcripts, images, and performance art synopses relating to technology and surveillance. The individual works are informative, humorous, creative, and provocative, and provide evocative counterpoints to arguments favoring increased public surveillance. This critical anthology can be read as a catalog of resistance efforts against surveillance.

Litz, Stefan A. (2000). “The Fortified Society: Social Exclusion as a Result of Privatization and Fortification of Space,” Berlin Journal of Sociology vol. 10, no. 4: 535–554.

Focusing on the US, the author discusses the causes, typologies, and implications of exclusionary and fortified urban space. The article includes a thorough discussion of elements of the built environment that enable exclusivity: walls, gated entries, surveillance systems, privatized public spaces, and private police forces. The author contends that, in an advanced capitalist society like the US, the purpose of architectural fortification and social exclusion is to distance oneself from “undesirable persons and social groups.”

Lynch, Mona (October 2001). “From the Punitive City to the Gated Community: Security and Segregation across the Social and Penal Landscape,” University of Miami Law Review vol. 56, no. 1: 89–111.

The law review article examines how society has taken on the characteristics of prisons. The author compares the partitioned-off spaces of gated communities to prisons, attributing this synthesis to cultural, political, economic and structural changes and psychological anxieties in the Security City.

Markus, Thomas A. (March/April 1995). “What Do Buildings Have to Do With Power?” Architectural Design vol. 65: 8–19.

The writer examines how power manifests in buildings. His analysis begins with a discussion of language as a system of explaining and understanding form. He says buildings are constructed using formal architectural languages that communicate operative power constructs such as structure, control, and surveillance.

Nellis, Mike (May 2005). “Out of this World: The Advent of the Satellite Tracking of Offenders in England and Wales,” Howard Journal of Criminal Justice vol. 44, no. 2: 125–150.

This recently published article examines emerging satellite tracking and electronic monitoring technologies in the United Kingdom. The author praises satellite tracking for enabling police authorities to monitor individual offenders’ movements and contends that electronic monitoring will open up avenues to more humanistic approaches to offender supervision.

Newman, Oscar (1973). Architectural Design for Crime Prevention. Washington: National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice.

One of the earliest comprehensive studies on design-based crime prevention, the book outlines Newman’s theory of Defensible Space and describes its application in cities. Defensible Space entails four basic tenets: Territoriality increases residents’ control of public space, Natural Surveillance enables visibility, Strategic Juxtapositions create safe zones, and distinctive Building Images create a sense of spatial and architectural order.

Newman, Oscar (1975). Design Guidelines for Creating Defensible Space. Washington: National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, U.S. Department of Justice.

The book updates Newman’s theory, incorporating socioeconomic and demographic factors absent from his original work. Using less hyperbole, Newman provides several Defensible Space design guidelines for architects, planners, and policy makers. A cynical reading might infer that this work is a “how-to” guide for creating legitimated dystopian security cities.

Nieto, Marcus (June 1997). “Public Video Surveillance: Is it an Effective Crime Prevention Tool,” California Research Bureau, CRB-97–005. Available online: http://www.library.ca.gov/CRB/97/05/index.html/.

This extensive government report assesses the effectiveness of video surveillance as a crime deterrence method and reviews legal and constitutional issues relating to surveillance of public spaces.

Nisbet, Nancy (2004). “Resisting Surveillance: Identity and Implantable Microchips,” Leonardo vol. 37, no. 3: 210–16.

The art review essay explains artist Nancy Nisbet’s installations commenting on surveillance through bodily microchip implantation and recounts how surveillance technologies are influencing identity and subjectivity.

Outtes, Joel (April 2003). “Disciplining Society through the City: The Genesis of City Planning in Brazil and Argentina (1894–1945),” Bulletin of Latin American Research vol. 22, no. 2: 137–164.

The author traces the evolution of city planning in Argentina and Brazil between the years 1894 and 1945. Employing a Foucauldian lens, Outtes interprets planning as a mechanism through which the state achieves spatial and social discipline from the production of orderly and hygienic cityscapes and the promotion of industrial culture. The author also examines how the pursuit of racist eugenics in Brazil ultimately “poisoned the planner’s discourse.”

Reynolds, Bryan and J. Fitzpatrick (Fall 1999). “The Transversality of Michel de Certeau: Foucault’s Panoptic and the Cartographic Impulse,” Diacritics vol. 29, no. 3: 63–80.

The authors synthesize Foucault’s theory of panopticism and de Certeau’s writings on everyday spatial practices to produce a complex and often times confusing framework for challenging spatialized power and subjectivity by undertaking transversal movements across cityspace. In short, transversality is the ability to cut across different spaces, disrupting existing power structures within them.

Rosenberg, Richard S. (1999). “The Workplace on the Verge of the 21st century,” Journal of Business Ethics vol. 22, no. 1: 3–14.

The article discusses how internet tracking, e-mail monitoring, background checks, drug screening, and video surveillance are bringing the Security City into the private realm of the workplace.

Schmidt, Annesley K. (1998). “Electronic Monitoring: What Does the Literature Tell Us?” Federal Probation vol. 62, no. 2: 10–19.

The literature review assesses several corrections programs using electronic devices to monitor the whereabouts and movements of offenders participating in home-based incarceration.

Schneider, Richard and T. Kitchen (2002). Planning for Crime Prevention: A Transatlantic Perspective. London; New York: Routledge.

This comprehensive study reviews design-based crime prevention strategies in the US and the UK. The authors outline the history of defensible urban design, provide thorough reviews of design-based crime prevention methods, and offer several recommendations to advance the general field of planning for crime prevention. Most noteworthy, the authors criticize the general neglect of crime as a planning issue and challenge city planners to take on more active roles in crime prevention.

Sipes, James L. (September 2002). “A New Kind of Scrutiny,” Landscape Architecture vol. 92, no. 9: 58–63.

The article reviews design-based technologies landscape architects are using to achieve spatial control in the Security City. These measures include: traffic bollards and circulation barriers, surveillance cameras, and biometric scanning devices such as facial recognition systems, hand readers, retinal scanners, and voice recognition systems.

Sniffen, Michael (7 July 2003). “US Develops Urban Surveillance System,” Akron Beacon Journal.

The newspaper article explains the Pentagon’s plans to create an urban surveillance system comprised of a network of cameras and satellites that will allow military authorities to monitor activities in non-US cities. The surveillance system will be capable of reading license plates and identifying individual faces in cities. Although the program is being developed for war zones, the author notes that the technology can be modified for homeland use.

Soja, Edward W. (2000). Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions. Oxford; Malden, MA: Blackwell.

The book’s chapter on the Carceral Archipelago synthesizes several critical perspectives on what Soja describes as the “incarceration of cityspace.” Soja argues that globalization and economic restructuring have produced significant sociopolitical and economic imbalances that have created volatility in the contemporary metropolis. According to Soja, this volatility produced the need for security-obsessed urbanism as a means to keep the city from collapsing into chaos.

Sorkin, Michael (March 2003). “Can Architects and Planners use Security Concerns to Create more Humane Cities?” Architectural Record vol. 191, no. 3: 73–4, 76.

The author contends that security-centered urbanism devalues the notion of “the good city” and engenders urban anxiety, paranoia, and a fortress mentality. In the post-9/11 era and with violent crime primarily manifesting in cities, this fear is not completely unwarranted. The author proposes an approach to urban design that tries to balance the need for secure and comfortable spaces.

Surveillance Camera Players (November 1999). “Time in the Shadows of Anonymity: Against Surveillance, Transparency and Global Capitalism.” Available online: https://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html.

This position paper authored by a performance-based surveillance resistance movement advances a theory of surveillance predicated on increasing transparency in political, economic, and social relations. Their take on transparency as a political construct augments the literature on architectural transparency as a surveillant quality.

Whitely, Nigel (May 2003). “Intensity of Scrutiny and a Good Eyeful: Architecture and Transparency,” Journal of Architectural Education vol. 56, no. 4: 8–16.

The article traces the meaning of transparency in modernist architecture. Transparency has been alternately conceived as an emblem of open democracy, a symbol of technological progress, and a motif of capitalist urbanism. In the security centered 21st century, transparency in society and architecture is enabling pervasive surveillance.

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War is Still a Racket and even more so . . . .

Paulo Kirk

Apr 16, 2026

Here’s a mellow and capitalist spin on War is a Racket:

As long as defense contractors can profit from war, and use these large profits to buy influence with politicians, they will continue influencing U.S. foreign policy. The result is a defense policy driven by corporate interests rather than by the genuine security needs of the nation. To effectively combat war profiteering, comprehensive reforms are essential. Adopting a cost-plus model with profit ceilings, regulating defense sector lobbying, prohibiting no-bid contracts, and holding corporate executives legally accountable represent practical measures to dismantle the financial incentives behind military conflicts. Additionally, the influence of corporate money in politics must be ended, and the revolving door between the government and the private sector permanently closed. Only by addressing the root causes of the political-industrial complex can the U.S. hope to avoid future wars driven more by profit than by principle.

During a Pentagon Christian worship service, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recited a prayer referencing “CSAR 25:17,” which closely mirrored the iconic monologue from the film Pulp Fiction. The passage, famously (and incorrectly) presented as Ezekiel 25:17 in the movie, was adapted to honor a recent combat search and rescue mission.

Ahh, how would Jesus cross that river? Walk on polluted and oil-soaked water? Call his son, Pedophile and Rapist in Chief:

Obaida Hitto reports from Tyre in southern Lebanon, where an Israeli strike has destroyed the last operational bridge over the Litani River. ⁠

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The destruction has cut off major routes linking parts of the south to the rest of Lebanon, amid continued targeting of infrastructure in the area.

Was Jesus a fruit eater?

Somewhere, paid for with your tax dollars, are $12,540 worth of three-tiered fruit basket stands. It’s a symptom of a much larger problem.

Buried in the way Congress funds the government is a “use it or lose it” rule that forces federal agencies to spend whatever’s left in their budgets before the fiscal year ends on September 30 or hand the excess money back to the Treasury and potentially lose it in the next year’s allocation.

This happens every year, and every administration does this. But last September shattered every previous record, according to a report released in March by Open the Books, a nonpartisan government watchdog that tracks federal spending.

The Defense Department spent $93.4 billion in September, with $50 billion of that spent in the last five working days. To put that in perspective, only nine countries on Earth have an annual military budget that large.

Yeah, fucking TAX day:

Good morning Paul,

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The shopping list included luxury items like $6.9 million for lobster tail, $15.1 million in ribeye steak, and $2 million for Alaskan king crab, as well as musical instruments ($21,750 for a custom handmade Japanese flute), ice cream machines ($124,000), sushi prep tables ($26,000), and $12,540 for three-tiered fruit basket stands. This is the same administration that created DOGE—an entire department whose sole purpose was to eliminate government waste.

The month after the September splurge, the government shutdown left 42 million Americans—1 in 8—briefly cut off from SNAP food assistance. A federal judge eventually ordered benefits restored, but the disruption was immediate and real for millions of families.

And it may get worse. In July, President Donald Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act restructured SNAP with new work and eligibility requirements and shifted part of the cost to states. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates as many as 4 million people could lose their food assistance permanently as a result.

Trump is now pushing to increase next year’s Defense Department budget by 66 percent, to $1.5 trillion, the largest increase since the Korean War.

More than 40 million food-insecure Americans receive SNAP benefits each month. While the federal government funds the program, the states administer it — which is why Trump is leaning on states to hand over the information.

The Trump administration says many Republican-led states have handed over the data, but more than 20 Democratic-led states have refused to. And now, even as it faces legal obstacles, the administration is trying to twist the arms of officials in blue states by threatening to cut off their SNAP funding.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, “As of next week, we have begun and will begin to stop moving federal funds into those states until they comply and they tell us and allow us to partner with them to root out this fraud and to protect the American taxpayer.”

Yep, tax day, uh? The little guy and gal get breaks!

The Internal Revenue Service, everyone’s favorite tax collector, is facing deep budget cuts — but don’t get too excited. The agency has a bold new plan to audit more of the little people while hiring as few of them as possible.

The agency plans to replace the nearly 30,000 employees it lost to Trump administration cuts with a new army of auditors, one that doesn’t sleep. I’m talking about artificial intelligence, which the IRS has identified as a top priority in its new budget request.

Documents I obtained show that the IRS already has a powerful set of tools to force compliance, from undercover agents to wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance. The collaborates with ICE to monitor the travel of American citizens through. But now, thanks to AI, the IRS’s ultimate goal is for “minimal human contact,” as one document put it.

The centerpiece is Palantir software that allows IRS investigators and auditors to conduct “near real-time data analysis” through a custom tool called the “Selection and Analytic Platform,” or SNAP.

What that means in practice is that millions of middle-income Americans who once fell below the threshold of what scarce human auditors could manage are now within reach. The little guy just became a lot easier to monitor at scale.

The big guy? Not so much.

The budget cuts gutting the IRS’s human workforce were largely engineered by Elon Musk and his DOGE crusade. The beneficiaries are obvious: billionaires who use entirely legal means — offshore trusts, shell companies — to pay little or nothing in taxes. These structures are largely impervious to the IRS’s tools, AI or otherwise. Your cash tips and side hustles are not.

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Sure, Americans are leaning toward Gazans and Palestinians and away from Jews…. RIGHT!

Hollywood is not just entertainment. It is a global propaganda engine that manufactures emotions, shapes who we fear, who we mourn, who we see as fully human, and who is treated as disposable. For Arabs and Muslims, Hollywood has functioned as a hundred-year smear campaign. The Arab or Muslim on screen is overwhelmingly a terrorist, fanatic, oil-hoarding sheikh, oppressed woman, refugee burden, or background extra whose main purpose is to die so that white, usually American or Israeli, protagonists can complete their moral journey.

The attacks of September 11, 2001 became the excuse for everything Washington and Tel Aviv already wanted to do. Israeli officials immediately began framing Israel as the front line in the same war America was now fighting, and U.S. politicians eagerly repeated that line.³⁰ Hollywood responded with a wave of post-9/11 films and television shows that dramatized the War on Terror as a necessary and endless global campaign, centered American and sometimes Israeli suffering while rendering Muslim pain invisible, and turned Arab cities into anonymous backdrops for raids, drone strikes, and heroic special-operations missions.

If one wanted a distilled example of Hollywood’s Islamophobia, American Sniper would be a strong candidate. Based on the memoir of U.S. sniper Chris Kyle, the film portrays Iraqis almost entirely as savages trying to kill Americans for no reason, cowards hiding behind women and children, or legitimate targets to be gunned down from a distance.

Coverage by Al Jazeera pointed out how the movie revives age-old racist roles for Arabs, portraying them as dehumanized and voiceless people existing purely as threats to be eliminated.³⁵ The invasion of Iraq, which was based on lies, goes almost unquestioned. The destruction of Iraqi society is reduced to background noise. Viewers are invited to identify emotionally with Kyle’s trauma, while the Iraqi dead often do not even receive names.

Mossad in Hollywood: Arnon Milchan and the Spy-Producer Era

If this sounds conspiratorial, consider Arnon Milchan. Milchan is a billionaire Hollywood producer behind films such as Pretty Woman, Fight Club, L.A. Confidential, 12 Years a Slave, and Birdman. He has openly admitted that he spent years working as an Israeli intelligence operative and arms dealer, helping secure technology and materials for Israel’s nuclear program while simultaneously building a Hollywood empire.⁴⁷

Investigations and biographies have shown that Milchan’s business network was intertwined with Israeli intelligence, that he used international companies and contacts to acquire sensitive technology for Israel, and that his friendships with powerful Hollywood figures gave him extraordinary soft power.⁴⁸ He is not the only person to bridge these worlds, but he is the most public. His existence destroys the comforting myth that there is a clean line between Hollywood and Zionist state operations. Sometimes that line walks the red carpet.⁴⁹

RE: Hollywood as a Battlefield

Ahh, more Jew News: The Rothschild Nexus

They do not govern, legislate, or command. They have not held high office in two centuries. So what exactly is it that the Rothschilds do?

That’s the question this essay seeks to answer.

The family does not need to control the institutions, the models, the treaties, or the transactions. They need to control the definitions by which those institutions read the world — the instruments by which the system measures itself. Once the instruments are calibrated, the system produces the outputs that follow from the calibration, through mechanisms designed, operated, and enforced by other people, in other institutions, on other continents, across other generations.

The domains are visible to everyone. The paths between them are visible only to those who configured them. The full pattern — the configuration of all paths, the topology of the system as a whole — is visible only from outside.

The system does not require a governor. It requires a calibrator — someone who configures the paths between domains and selects the conditions under which the standards are written. The claim is not that the family controls the institutions that produce the standards. Hundreds of participants sit on those committees. The claim is that members of the family are consistently positioned at the points where input constraint carries the highest leverage — the forum that produces the framework, the scholarship that builds the evidentiary base, the initiative that defines the metric — before any of these enter the institutional architecture.

Other actors populate the institutions. The calibrators configured what the institutions received. The calibrator does not need to be visible, because the calibration, once set, operates through the system’s own logic, producing outcomes that appear institutional, scientific, multilateral, and democratic.

The operating sequence is consistent across every case documented in this series. The family hosts the forum where the standard is developed. The agents carry the standard into the institutional architecture. The architecture, once installed, runs itself. Waddesdon to the TCFD to the NGFS to Basel 3.1. The Rothschild Conference to the WHO Global Health and Peace Initiative. Bellagio to the GIIN to seventeen SDG verticals.

Host, develop, automate. By the time anyone looks, the origin has been removed and the system is running on its own logic.

This is ultimately a description of how value circulates through the architecture of global governance, where the junctions are — and who engineered them.

The Rothschilds do not occupy the clearinghouses. They engineer them.

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LOBOTOMIES: A new Gallup poll released Thursday shows more young men in the U.S. say religion is “very important” in their lives compared to young women — the first time young men have surpassed young women on this measure of religiosity going back 25 years.

Gallup’s latest data shows that 42% of men in the U.S. ages 18-29 said religion is very important to them, a notable increase from 28% in 2022-2023. Over the same time, young women’s attachment to religion has stayed low, at about 30%.

Jesus and his drone women and men, praying on the battlefield or at the Raytheon office:

The word “drone” now stretches to cover everything from hobbyist camera rigs available on Amazon to the Predator and Reaper systems the United States has relied on to fight terrorist organizations over the past 20 years.

[Note: These fuckers equate baby-killing, home-destroying, civilization-maiming death machines made by humans as somehow tied to the evolution of species? We are fucking doomed.]

A common ancestor in the animal kingdom can give rise, under sufficient environmental pressure, to distinct species that demand their own classification. Drones have undergone their own rapid speciation: the one-way attack drone, the medium-altitude, long-endurance and high-altitude, long-endurance drones, the collaborative combat aircraft drone – these share a lineage and a label, but in terms of cost, range and use, increasingly little else.

Nowhere is this variation more consequential than in the category of one-way attack drones: systems designed not to return home like an airplane, but to fly directly into a target and destroy it, like a bullet or a missile. Russia and Ukraine have fired millions of these at each other since 2022, and Iran has launched thousands at United States military bases and embassies, Israel and other countries in the Middle East in 2026.

Because long-range, one-way attack drones are so slow, they are easier to shoot down than, say, a Tomahawk missile, but attackers can fire so many of them that they can overwhelm air defense systems.

The second category of one-way attack drones operates more like traditional artillery – typically from short distances, up to about 100 miles (160 km). Ukraine’s battlefield has showcased these systems extensively, where they generate 60%-70% of the casualties on the front lines.

Jesus’ new vehicle — First Look At What A Night Stalker MV-75 Cheyenne Will Look Like

A new rendering shows an MV-75 with special operations-specific features like a radar, other sensors, and in-flight refueling capability.

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Endless tax dollars for Jesus’ poor: Marines on way to Middle East seen using rifles with anti-drone smart scope

The company that makes the SMASH 2000L advanced fire control system confirmed that a recent series of photos show deployed Marines using the smart scope.

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Endless love from Jesus’ lawyers, a la birth defects, juvenile defects, adult defects, early death death death, RFK Addict Junior!

Stakes high as supreme court set to rule on law involving Monsanto’s weed-killing pesticide

Risks from cancer and other diseases could be hidden with little accountability if justices favor big firms, critics warn

Ahh, Jesus’ Jewish billionaire: Tom Steyer is running the most expensive campaign in America. It might win him the California governorship.

Ahh, Jesus’ arch de Banana Republic: Trump’s design for the Triumphal Arch he wants built at an entrance to the nation’s capital moved a step forward Thursday after a key agency reviewed the proposal for the first time. One commissioner suggested changes, including losing the Lady Liberty-like statue and pair of eagles that would sit on top of the arch and add to its height.

[Projected Cost: Reports indicate a cost of at least $100 million.

• Funding Structure: The White House anticipates a mix of public and private funds.
• Initial Funding: The National Endowment for the Humanities’ 2026 budget includes $2 million in special initiative funds and $13 million in matching funds.
• Details: The 250-foot structure is planned for construction near Arlington National Cemetery.
• Status: A lawsuit was filed in February 2026 to stop the project.]

The arch is one of several projects that the Republican president is pursuing alongside a White House ballroom to leave his lasting imprint on Washington.

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts voted to approve the concept design for the arch. The seven commissioners, all appointed by Trump, will review an updated version of the design before taking a final vote at a future meeting.

Ahh, the people’s house, sure, that Minyan in the White Man’s House. Treating Americans like Gazans, man . . . . What would Jesus do with no ID?

Underground screening center for White House visitors

The U.S. Secret Service, Interior Department, National Park Service, and the Executive Office of the President want to start construction in August on a 33,000-square-foot (3,066-square-meter) center to screen tourists and other visitors to the White House.

It would be built beneath Sherman Park, federal land southwest of the White House, to provide a more secure place to screen those going on White House tours or attending events. The new facility would have seven lanes to ease processing and reduce wait times.

Officials want it operating by July 2028, six months before Trump’s term ends.

According to The Hill, in an article typical of U.S. media, Trump’s war on Iran is totally legal for 60 days if Congress does nothing, after which it becomes illegal, unless Congress has explicitly OK’d it. This is supposedly because of the War Powers Resolution of 1973. And The Hill is not alone in pushing this idea. Fox News agrees with The Hill. So does Time. So does USA Today. So does The Washington Post. So does Roll Call. So does Politico. So does every AI bot infecting the internet.

However, the War Powers Resolution consists of words that you can read for yourself, and here are some of them:

“The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.”

1. There has been no declaration of war by the U.S. Congress since 1941.
2. There has been no authorization to attack Iran, nor to continue attacking Iran.
3. There has been no attack upon the United States or its territories or possessions, and there were no attacks on its armed forces until after said armed forces had begun the war.

The same law says that a president who launches a war in any of those three situations, then has 48 hours to submit his first report explaining himself, and 60 days after that report (62 days total — plus a possible extra 30) to entirely knock it off. But none of those three situations exists. So, the president must immediately knock it off — must, in fact, have never started the war. It is simply not true that the war will become illegal after 60 days; it has been illegal since the instant it was begun. It is factually false that it must be ended after 60 days in order to comply with the law; it must be ended immediately.

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Don’t be fooled by Jewish Power and the Kosher Nostra and the lot of them diversifying. They are all still thugs, from skinny jeans and Brooks Brothers suits, one and all.

Paulo Kirk

Apr 14, 2026

Jews and the Hospitality Industry: A Conversation with Jason Pomeranc: During the holiday of Sukkot, we invite guests to dwell and share a space with us. It comes as no surprise that Jews play an influential role in the hotel and hospitality industry.

The Jeffrey Epstein files continue to spill their secrets. With each new document release, each newly unsealed court record, the spotlight inches closer to a network of Jewish billionaires who operated in the shadows long before the convicted sex trafficker became a household name. The names in Epstein’s black book read like a roster of Jewish power. But behind those individual names lies something even more intriguing, a structure, an architecture of influence that Epstein exploited with devastating effectiveness.

At the center of that architecture stands a mysterious organization that most Americans have never heard of. It was founded in 1991 by two men, one of whom would become Epstein’s most consequential patron, granting him sweeping power of attorney over his billion-dollar fortune. The other was a Canadian-American billionaire whose family name once adorned the world’s largest liquor company and whose philanthropic fingerprints can be found on nearly every major Jewish institution in North America.

His name is Charles Bronfman.

Villains of Judea: Charles Bronfman. A deep dive into how Charles Bronfman and his family shaped a century of shadow politics.

The first time the Bronfman name was uttered in Parliament was June 22, 1922, when senators were debating the Canada Temperance Bill, which would have banned the export of liquor to the United States.

Conservative Nova Scotia Senator Nathaniel Curry stood in the Senate to read a telegram from Abe Bronfman, asking that any such measure be delayed for nine months to give his family time to liquidate its “very large stocks” of alcohol.

“Who is he?” asked Conservative Alberta Senator James Lougheed.

“Abe,” said Curry.

“Champion bootlegger of Saskatchewan,” said Conservative Sen. George Fowler of New Brunswick.

For almost 100 years, the Conservatives—and other opposition politicians—have periodically been standing in Parliament to attack the Bronfman family, accusing them of violating tax laws while the Liberals cover for them and quietly take their money.

In Yiddish, the language of many Eastern European Jews, Bronfman means “brandy man.” The Bronfmans were originally tobacco farmers from Bessarabia (part of modern-day Moldova and Ukraine). The family was not involved in the liquor business until about 1916.

In 1980, Seagram sold Texas Pacific to Sun Oil Company for $2.3 billion. Seeking to invest its earnings, Seagram began to buy shares in American oil company Conoco. At the same time, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont), a major petrochemicals company, was also making a bid for Conoco. In the end, DuPont acquired Conoco in a $7.8-billion cash and stock deal. After that transaction, Seagram was able to trade in its Conoco shares for 25 per cent of DuPont shares, making Seagram the largest DuPont shareholder.

Edgar Bronfman Jr. took Seagram into the entertainment industry in 1993 by purchasing 15 per cent of US media giant Time Warner. However, Seagram’s bid was considered hostile by Time Warner, which did not have a controlling group of shareholders at the time. Seagram sold its shares between 1997 and 1998.

On 6 April 1995, Seagram announced it was selling its stake in DuPont for nearly US$8.8 billion (see also Bronfman Sells DuPont). Three days later, Seagram announced that it was buying MCA Inc. Seagram became a major company in the entertainment field with its 80 per cent ownership of MCA Inc., valued at US$5.7 billion. The sale included Universal Pictures film studios, MCA Television Group, Putnam Berkley Group publishing (which Seagram sold for $330 million in 1996), MCA Music Entertainment Group (later known as Universal Music Group), Universal theme parks, and Spencer Gifts, a chain of gift shops (see Seagrams Buys MCA).

In 1998, Seagram acquired the PolyGram N.V. music company for over US$10.3 billion.

In 2000, Edgar Bronfman Jr. announced that Seagram would merge with the French conglomerate Vivendi (a water and sewage company that had expanded into entertainment and communications) and CANAL+ in a shares exchange for which Vivendi paid $42 billion for Seagram (see Seagram-Vivendi Deal). The Bronfmans retained about 25 per cent of Seagram in the merged company — translating to 8.6 per cent of Vivendi Universal. The company was headed by Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier. Meanwhile, Vivendi Universal sold Seagram’s liquor properties to Pernod Ricard and Diageo for US$8.15 billion.

The Vivendi operation proved to be unstable and the newly merged company began bleeding money within days. Messier began buying more companies over the objections of the Bronfmans. By 2002, Messier had been dismissed, and Vivendi Universal share values had dropped from $77 per share to less than $25. In 2003, Vivendi auctioned the Seagram art collection to pay its debts. Throughout this time, the Bronfman family divested from the company.

The 10 Richest Hotel Moguls In America

A few fucking Jews and their hotels, all wired by Mossad for a little bit of spy cam blackmail.

With his family’s net worth hovering around $20 billion, Thomas Pritzker has a pretty nice cut of the inheritance with his $2.2 billion. The Priztker family inherited their fortune from ancestors A.N. Pritkzer and his sons Jay and David, who co-founded the Hyatt hotel chain. Thomas, son of Jay, may not be the wealthiest Pritzker (that would be his cousin Karen, whose worth rings in at $3.2 billion), but he is the current CEO and executive chairman of the Hyatt Corporation, overseeing the company’s 492 properties worldwide, which include the Andaz and Grand Hyatt Resort brands.

Lawyer-turned-real estate magnate Neil Bluhm made his billions opening shopping malls and hotels across the Midwest. After graduating with a law degree and serving as a partner at a Chicago-area firm, Bluhm broke away from law and co-founded JMB Reality. He has since opened hotel and casinos across the US and Canada, and has owned stakes in the Ritz-Carlton Chicago and the Drake Hotel in Chicago, which allow him, as an avid patron of both, to fund his artistic and political interests.

Another Sin City hotel tycoon, Steve Wynn is largely credited with revamping the Las Vegas Strip. Though Wynn started out his career taking over the family bingo business, the Connecticut-born businessman entered higher-stakes gaming when he moved to Las Vegas in 1967 and renovated the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino. Years later, Wynn erected two of the first mega-resorts on the Strip with the massive, 3000-room Mirage and 3900-room Bellagio, later selling them to MGM. His most recent notable property is the luxe Wynn Las Vegas.

Moving on:

Worse than House Negroes:

Congressional Black Caucus set to back warrantless surveillance reauthorization, Boebert registers objection: Congressional Black Caucus is quietly preparing to support a clean reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) this week, according to The American Prospect, which grants U.S. officials, in theory, the right to collect communications data from foreign targets living abroad, but in practice has been used to conduct warrantless surveillance on Americans and collect troves of their data. The CBC intends to support the law, despite its use to collect the personal data of 130 Black Lives Matter activists in 2020. The caucus’s shift follows behind-the-scenes lobbying by Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who persuaded CBC leadership to drop its push for reforms; CBC chairwoman Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), who had opposed Section 702 as far back as 2010 and voted against its last reauthorization in 2024, appears to have reversed course.

A Jew writing about the Jewish State of Fucking Fascist Mind in the UK?

A shockingly corrupted trial that exposes the British state’s weaponization of censorship and secrecy laws has just begun.

The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal details how six activists from the direct action protest group Palestine Action face terrorism charges and the possibility of long prison terms – but the jury in the case is forbidden from knowing this.

The UK media is similarly banned from reporting on these facts, while the defendants in the case are blocked by court order from explaining their motives for damaging and occupying Israeli weapons factories on British soil.

Blumenthal explains why Palestine Action is being targeted with such a draconian prosecution: because they are effective. Having caused the closure of Israeli factories, they have provided activists around the world with a workable model for raising the cost of occupation and genocide.

Now, he argues, the British state is so determined to prevent their acquittal before a potentially sympathetic jury that it rigging the trial and perverting whatever’s left of democracy, all to preserve its special relationship with Israel.

Read The Grayzone’s exclusive report on the corrupted trial of Palestine Action’s Filton 6 here:

On August 6, 2024, six Palestine Action activists drove a repurposed prison van into an Elbit Systems compound in Filton, near Bristol, England. After breaching security fences, they entered the facility and reportedly inflicted around £1 million ($1.33 million) in property damage. Media coverage of the incident focused on violent confrontations between the activists and security staff and police, which dominated headlines in the UK for weeks.

Nothing Jewish or Israeli should be off limits, dudes:

On September 25, 2025, David McIntosh filed a report to his bosses at Safe Reach Solutions (SRS) detailing an account of Israeli soldiers gunning down a young Palestinian boy as he was getting food at a site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “There’s no way he survived,” McIntosh told Drop Site News and Middle East Eye in his first interview since returning from Gaza five months ago. “He was murdered. He was straight-up murdered.”

[An American soldier @king_david85 who worked at a #GHF aid distribution site in #Gaza has shared videos and a written testimony describing what he witnessed while stationed there. In his statement, he says Israeli forces surrounding the aid sites opened fire on civilians and even toward aid workers, calling what he witnessed “war crimes with ease.”]

At the time, McIntosh was one month into a three month stint working as a contractor with GHF’s logistics partner SRS. Between August and October 2025, he mostly managed Site 4, the only aid site in central Gaza, near the Netzarim corridor. According to McIntosh, Site 4 was more dangerous for aid seekers than its other sites in southern Gaza.

Like thousands of other Palestinians trying to survive an Israeli-imposed starvation campaign on Gaza, the boy—who looked about 12 years old—had come to the site that day looking for food. After he managed to get his hands on an aid parcel, he continued playing atop a sand berm at the site, according to McIntosh.

Members of GHF’s security firm UG Solutions, threw a flash bang grenade to warn the boy to leave the area. Minutes later, Israeli snipers shot the boy in the shoulder near his chest. Severely wounded, he struggled to carry himself to a nearby bridge before collapsing.

“He was doing nothing but laughing and joking, and they killed him,” McIntosh told Drop Site. “There was no reason they shot him. There is no reason on God’s given earth that they shot that lad.” The boy was left to bleed out for around 30 minutes before a “vehicle came and took him away,” according to the report, which was based on eyewitness accounts of two of his SRS colleagues. The report was part of a daily written briefing he was required to send to his superiors at SRS at the end of every day.

Though the report detailed the likely fatal shooting of a child at a GHF site, McIntosh said he never received a response from SRS, and nothing came of it.

McIntosh told Drop Site and MEE that such attacks on Palestinian aid seekers by Israeli soldiers were routine and provided documents and footage to back up his claims. GHF has claimed that the Israeli military has no presence inside its aid sites but the videos McIntosh provided show the Israeli military positioned in close proximity, demonstrating just how intertwined their operations were.

The internal documents McIntosh provided also show that higher-ups within SRS were informed about deadly incidents at GHF aid sites and received several complaints about the conduct of Israeli soldiers who risked the lives of their own contractors.

McIntosh told Drop Site the shootings hindered their aid operations. One time, he said, “We had to stop a well-needed resupply to us because [the Israelis] were firing on our base. So we couldn’t have our logistical lorries come through.”

When GHF suddenly shuttered its sites in October 2025 as part of the so-called ceasefire agreement, McIntosh switched gears to closing out these operations before going back to the UK the following month.

When asked why he hadn’t spoken out sooner, McIntosh said he was waiting to see if there would be another opportunity to go back to gather more documentation. “I wanted to get as much as possible…so the more time there’s for me, the better.”

McIntosh said he was made to sign a non-disclosure agreement as part of his work contract, but said he couldn’t stay silent as a matter of conscience.

“There’s a bigger issue at hand rather than my personal safety…If you document something that is wrong, then you should put it out there,” he said. “I’m exposing war crimes.”

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And Iran is up Shit-Creek:

Iran has won the first battle in the US war of aggression against it. But it is an error to claim, as some genuinely and rightly against the US aggression have done, that Iran has yet won the war. This is based on an underestimation of the strength and ruthlessness of US imperialism. The outcome of the next round depends on the result of the illegal US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. This result, in turn, depends not only on the resistance of the Iranian people but also on countries seeking an independent path of development, and the people of the US itself, refusing to accept the US claim to unilaterally control the high seas and blockade any country it wishes.

The political configuration, which faces the US administration, as a result of its latest policy of blockade is therefore the following. The US is attacking Iran, the economies of all countries in the world, and the living standards of the people of the US itself. The more these forces understand their common interests and coordinate their actions, the more certain it is that this US aggression against Iran, but also against them all, will be defeated. Solidarity must be redoubled in that framework.

RE: Iran won the first battle against the US, but the war is far from over

Dirty religion, Judaism a la Israel: Smoke rises behind palm trees and a McDonald’s “Golden Arches” logo from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Al-Hosh area near the coastal Lebanese city of Tyre on April 14, 2026.

The Last Emperor of Chaos

There are moments when a writer wishes, deeply and sincerely, to have been wrong.

I wrote in November 2025 that Trump was recycling Hitler’s biological lexicon — the poisoned blood, the contaminated nation, the racial enemy dressed as immigrant. I was accused of excess. I wrote in January 2026 that Trump was not merely a problem but a gate — a threshold through which imperial violence passes from embarrassed pretense to open declaration. I was told I was being dramatic. I wrote that he governed not through ideology but through the systematic exhaustion of judgment, the industrialization of outrage, the conversion of chaos into a renewable political fuel.

Then came Easter Sunday, April 5, 2026.

The President of the United States of America — leader of the free world, commander of the most powerful military in human history, inheritor of Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy — opened the holiest morning in the Christian calendar with the following message, posted publicly on his social media platform at 8:03 a.m.:

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”

This is not satire. This is not a parody account. Lead Stories and every major news organization in the world confirmed: this was real, posted from Trump’s verified Truth Social account, still visible at time of reporting.

The President of the United States. Easter Sunday. A profanity-laced ultimatum threatening the destruction of civilian infrastructure, classified by international law experts as war crimes. Closed with a mocking invocation of Allah.

“This was an Easter Sunday message that was an absolute national embarrassment,” one expert observed. “Foreign leaders are not impressed by how loud you can yell or about how many expletives you can use. This is not presidential. This is not American. This is not good for our country.”

I did not want to be right. I was not wrong.

The state documented with the worst genocide in human history ‘marks the Holocaust remembrance day’. Notable is the complete lack of introspection: not one discussion about its own colossal crimes against humanity and the way in which it constantly threatens the future of human existence.

That dirty religion?

In March of 2025, the United Nations Human Rights Office Of The High Commissioner put out a report which found that this was not an isolated incident and that :

Specific forms of sexual and gender-based violence – such as forced public stripping and nudity, sexual harassment including threats of rape, as well as sexual assault – comprise part of the Israeli Security Forces’ standard operating procedures toward Palestinians.

Other forms of sexual and gender-based violence, including rape and violence to the genitals, were committed either under explicit orders or with implicit encouragement by Israel’s top civilian and military leadership, the report said.

Who are they going to blame now? They DO NOT care about goyim.

This is what they bring to the war: Hebrew text reads:

“IDF combatants entering Lebanon carrying the Torah: fighting as well as praying.”

Zionism or Judaism? Judaism is what we see…

Just when we thought it couldn’t get weirder, Trump goes on the attack against Pope Leo, who has been saying some very sensible and peaceful things about the current state of warishness. (Specifically, the US-Israeli war on Iran, even though the Pope has kept his comments fairly broad.)

One party, two names: republican or democrat. The same fucking brown sugary tooth-decay, the UniParty.

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All of them are war criminals and invaders: Oh, of course, POTUS writ large

Paulo Kirk

Apr 12, 2026

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This Israeli soldier’s name is Avraham Zarbiev. He is a military bulldozer driver who participated in the demolition of numerous homes in the Gaza Strip. He called for Gaza’s houses to be razed to the ground and regularly posts videos documenting his role in the destruction.

Israel chose him to light the torch at the ceremony for what it calls “Independence Day,” which is the Palestinian Nakba Day.

Avraham Zarbiv, an ‘Israeli’ soldier who was known for demolition videos in the Gaza Strip, was named as an honorary torchlighter at ‘Israel’s’ so-called “independence day” on April 21.

“Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv is a paragon of deep commitment to the nation of Israel, the Torah of Israel and the Land of Israel,” said a statement by the organizers.

Zarbiv has previously called to “flatten Gaza” and establish settlements there.

Zarbiv operated a D9 Caterpillar bulldozer for the Givati infantry brigade in Gaza, which were used to demolish civilian buildings in the Gaza Strip during the assault.

Noem and his wife, well, there’s a job, and he can STILL crossdress with the IDF: How Israel uses Caterpillar machinery to carry out extrajudicial executions

[An Israeli army bulldozer destroys the house of Zakaria al-Aqra, 24, after he was killed by the Israeli army in Qabalan village near Nablus in the occupied West Bank,]

‘Iran chose not to accept Netanyahu’s demands’ Vance said with the two Real Estate Developers on his side …

PLENTY of room at the Western Wall for Trump LC.

If you ask why the Iranians were willing to negotiate with these two NY Chabbadnik property developers (Kushner and Witkoff)?

My take is as follows:

1. The Iranians know these two by now which is a great advantage in negotiation.

2. The Iranians know that these two Netanyahu’s friends have neither education nor skills in diplomacy.

3. The inevitable failure of the negotiation will further validate the widely acknowledged thought that the USA is controlled by the Jewish State and happy to send its youngsters to die for Israel.

4. Iran accepted the Chabbadniks at the negotiation table because Iran communicates with America, sidelining the dysfunctional administration and the Ginger Caligula at the top.

So you may rightly ask, why Trump is falling into this most obvious trap sending these two Zionist agents as his chief negotiators. Is he that stupid?

The answer is devastatingly simple. The American president is blackmailed. His treacherous acts cannot be hidden anymore. Trump has zero control of the event by now.

In the photos: Witkoff and Kushner at the Wailing Wall: they may not be great in the role of USA diplomatic negotiators but they are spectacularly good in talking to brick walls ..

Israeli court: American protester Rachel Corrie’s death an accident

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We, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, salute the Spanish-speaking peoples for their courage and commitment to justice. We highly appreciate your solidarity against policies of domination. All respect to the noble voices that stand alongside Iran…

The latest issue of the Italian magazine L’Espresso hit the stands with the headline ABUSE. The image of the Israeli soldier on the cover has ruffled feathers in the Israeli government.

Israel’s ambassador to Rome condemned the magazine, claiming the photo “feeds stereotypes and constitutes a hate crime.”

The magazine’s cover also features these words:

“The occupation of the West Bank was carried out alongside soldiers collaborating with settlers. Gaza was obliterated. Advances were made in Lebanon. The border was breached in Syria. War was declared on Iran. Ethnic cleansing and massacres were perpetrated. This is how the Zionist right is shaping Greater Israel.”

Left-leaning L’Espresso is known as one of Italy’s best-selling magazines and most respected publications.

Vance, Witkoff and Kushner leading negotiations after Zio-American overreach. A Thiel-funded cosplay redneck and two asset-stripping rentiers. This descent into absurdity signals neoliberalism’s endgame. If only it would kindly leave the stage without more death and destruction.

Two Podunk Jews and a VD Hillbilly. And they want this to happen to the Goyim:

An enslaved African is hung alive by the ribs to a gallows above skulls of beheaded slaves on posts, Dutch Suriname, 1773.

An incision was made in the victim’s ribs, and a hook was placed in the hole. In this case, the victim stayed alive for three days.

Start saving the historical maps already, in case you need to prove the historical existence of the villages.

• visits the pope → pope dies
• leads Iran negotiations → talks collapse
• flies to Hungary to prop up Orbán → Orbán loses in a landslide
  
  Man’s got a streak.

[Israeli tanks in Beirut in 1982, before Hezbollah existed. There has always been an excuse. It was never their fault.]

Fucking Hero.

Fucking sadists: Japanese scientists at Unit 731 inject Chinese toddlers with Anthrax to observe the reaction in Jilin province, Occupied China . 1930s.

Congratulations, Madame President. Health care is a human right, not a privilege for those who can afford it.

The world’s most beautiful flag ever? Maybe.

*NOTE: Thousands of those killed in Gaza have yet to be identified, and an estimated 8,000 more are still buried under rubble (some sources put the number of missing as high as 14,000); 3,000 more are reportedly missing. Only the dead who are brought to hospitals are included in the official fatality count. Additionally, the numbers of injured are very conservative estimates.

Can you imagine the tribalism and chaos that would consume these European nations (overlaid with the map of Nigeria) if they were to be “forcefully amalgamated” into one country? The true size of Nigeria’s problems.

If we only talked about children and their planet: located in South Africa, this “tree of life” is 1,500 years old. It is considered one of the oldest living beings on the planet!

“Brothers and sisters, I am here to tell you that I charge the white man. I charge the white man with being the greatest murderer on earth. I charge the white man with being the greatest kidnapper on earth. There is no place in this world that this man can go and say he created peace and harmony. Everywhere he’s gone, he’s created havoc. Everywhere he’s gone, he’s created destruction… I charge him with being the greatest robber and enslaver on this earth!…He can’t deny the charges! You can’t deny the charges! We’re the living proof *of* those charges! You and I are the proof.” Malcolm X

It’s ironic many Americans criticize Che Guevara over anti-gay repression he wasn’t personally responsible for, while ignoring that after World War II thousands in the U.S. were arrested, imprisoned, or purged during anti-gay crackdowns later known as the Lavender Scare.

Anti-gay policies in Cuba, like the UMAP camps (1965–1968), emerged after Che left in 1965, and later Fidel Castro acknowledged it as a grave injustice and reforms followed.

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.

You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything. They’re just too poor to make bail.

Your life expectancy is going backwards. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker’s stock to your mates.

Your minimum wage hasn’t moved in 15 years. You’ve got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn’t attack you.

And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.

And you’re calling Greenland poorly run?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.

“NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.” When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn’t even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.

And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins – original author

All of them are war criminals and invaders.

Today’s Black American (Freedmen) inventor is George Alcorn. Alcorn invented the imaging X-ray spectrometer. The imaging X-ray spectrometer uses a focused beam of charged particles to analyze samples, allowing scientists to more accurately separate and identify the elemental and chemical components of a substance. This work earned him recognition such as NASA’s Inventor of the Year.

His other invention was the Airborne LIDAR Topographic Mapping System (ALTMS), which emits light toward the Earth’s surface to collect data that would be challenging to analyze from the ground. This technology is widely used in modern drone-based mapping and surveying.

Ahmed Nashwan — My city, Beit Hanoun, a city once home to 50,000 people, the “green city” that exported citrus and olives to the world.

Its hospitals and clinics, its schools and mosques, its kindergartens and bridges, its homes, streets, and infrastructure, everything was completely bombed. And after it was bombed, it was bulldozed, until the city became a barren desert filled with piles of rubble.

Here, the “most moral” army committed a genocide, leaving not a single house undestroyed, not even an olive tree remains.

23 years ago today in Gaza, British photographer Tom Hurndall was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper while trying to protect Palestinian children. Humanity will never forget him.

About free speech: More people should know that Piers Morgan reported me to the Metropolitan Police for this interview.

Six months ago, so-called free speech champion Piers Morgan reported me to the police for stating in an interview that, in my honestly held opinion, he had functioned as a propagandist for Israel over Gaza. I mentioned that propagandists had been prosecuted at Nuremberg following World War 2. He claimed that he interpreted it as a threat and contacted police about it.

Now, wasting police time led to nothing for him, but when I brought up this simple historical fact on his show, it ended.

Not journalism.

Social media giant Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of a federal effort to unmask anonymous online critics of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

According to a subpoena obtained by The Intercept, Reddit has until April 14 to provide a wide range of personal data on one of its users, whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been trying unsuccessfully to identify for more than a month.

Attorneys for the Reddit user say their client’s posts and their anonymity are squarely protected under the First Amendment and that ICE’s use of a grand jury marks a disturbing escalation for the agency after seeing its previous efforts to investigate political speech quashed in court. The subpoena was issued by federal prosecutors in the capital after ICE’s effort to identify the same user failed in a Northern California federal court. (The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington declined to comment on the case.)

“We should be very, very, very concerned that they’ve now taken one of these to a grand jury.”

Since President Donald Trump returned to office last year, federal agents have increasingly demanded social media companies reveal the users behind anonymous accounts critical of his immigration crackdown, expressing particular interest in those that identify employees of the U.S. Border Patrol and ICE or share real-time information on enforcement activity. The administration claims the accounts are engaged in doxing and endanger officer safety, but they have also targeted social media users seemingly doing nothing more than expressing anger at the government.

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