A former Justice Department attorney, “Nearly 80% of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficked underage girls came from the Balkans.” Epstein’s still-censored travel log shows over a dozen flights to the region in the mid to late 90s. This is the time period when Epstein and his Israeli partners began cultivating pedophilia and sex-trafficking-based relationships with key UN insiders. Over the following years, members of Epstein’s network took positions within the highest echelons of the United Nations.”
Gilad Atzmon
What do we get of the Jewish State?
Epstein files
Genocides
Constant global conflicts (Ukraine included)
Financial turmoil
Energy crisis
Constant interference in global affairs and nations’ politics by means of Lobbying, Think Tanks, media control and various methods of blackmail.
If at one point Israel was regarded as an instant of ‘Western stability’ in the ‘volatile’ Middle East, by now this violent Ghetto on the Mediterranean seashore is by far the greatest danger to human survival on this planet.
The big challenge, accordingly, is to dismantle this wound in an harmonious and peaceful manner. This I believe, is the Iranian/dissident’s doctrine. It is moderate, skillful, and careful. It is there to deliver a message to the Israelis: ‘your time in our region has come to an end’!
It is the success of the Iranian deterrence doctrine that made it a necessity for the Jewish State and its lapdog the USA to destroy Iran.
Yet, for humanity to prevail or even just survive. Iran victory is a must!
These are the Israeli ‘demands’ from Iran as they were delivered to Witkoff a few minutes ago:
1: Iran must pass its enriched uranium to a third party state.
2. No further enrichment
3. The Ballistic missile production must come to an end
4. Iran’s support of regional proxies must also come to an end.
From the demands we learn that Israel acknowledges that it didn’t fulfil a single military objective during the 12 days war. If anything it learned to admit to itself that it is actually the Iranian ballistics , rather than nukes, that can turn Tel Aviv into dust .. the truth of the matter is that neither the USA nor the Jewish State posses the means to encounter Iran’s military technology. Israel knows it, the USA military knows it, Iranians know it and even I know it…
In 1993 journalist and writer Michael Collins Piper published his contentious book Final Judgement.
Pooling a large amount of circumstantial evidence, Collins Piper’s premise was that the hidden author of the assassination was, in fact, the security services of the state of Israel. The bastard cousin of all JFK assassination conspiracy books, Final Judgement was notable both for the silence it generated (to this day, almost all serious JFK researchers fail to acknowledge it even exists) and the reported fact that it sold around 100,000 copies through mail order, ‘under the counter’ and other alternate means.
Gilad: And while we are at it, the Sodomites just continued their human sacrifice orgy in Gaza. What stops the Ginger Caligula from deploying his ‘armada’ west of Tel Aviv?
In a 1948 letter to Zionist leaders, Albert Einstein raged that they were ‘terrorists and criminals’, and predicted that colonising Palestine would set up what he called ‘a final catastrophe’ for the Jews.
Last week, an Israeli soldier posted a ‘sunset’ photograph from Rafah on his Instagram. This is what they are proud of. This is what we paid for. This is what support for Israel means. This is Zionism.
Yahu vs. Xstein
Yesterday’s feud between Israeli PM and Biden top adviser exposes the level of Israel’s control over America and the level of American complicity in the worst documented genocide in human history.
In a press conference yesterday Netanyahu accused Biden of IDF fatalities during the Israeli human sacrifice orgy in Gaza. He said IDF ‘didn’t have enough ammunition,’ due to ’embargo’.
However, Amos Hochstein, one of Biden’s Witkoffs in duty insisted that Netanyahu was lying.
“Netanyahu is both not telling the truth and ungrateful to a president that literally saved Israel at its most vulnerable moment.” In further remarks on X, Hochstein wrote that “After more than $20 Billion military support, largest in Israel[i] history, two aircraft carriers rushed to the region, deterring a massive regional war, defeating Iran missile and drone attack twice, defending Israel at most vulnerable moments, after SAVING countless lives of Israelis – only acceptable response to US president Biden and American people is THANK YOU.”
This is pretty much everything you need to know. America is Israel’s most subservient colony. When its youngsters don’t die for Israel its tax payers’ money funds the Israeli genocidal crimes. If Netanyahu is expected to thanks “Biden and the American People” as Hochstein suggests, it only means that in Hochstein’s mind the American people are partners in the Israeli crime against humanity. I am sure that many Americans are upset by the idea and it is down to them to emancipate themselves of their Middle Eastern Mother State.
The Jewish state is beyond a doubt a disaster but the USA being the No 1 most subservient Israeli colony facilitates this disaster.
PS here is the Early Life Wikipedia section about Biden’s Top Adviser Amos Hochstein: Hochstein was born in Jerusalem, the child of American Jewish immigrants to Israel. He studied at Yeshivat Netiv Meir High School and the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces and served in Armored Corps. Following his service, he left Israel and moved to New York City to work at Bankers Trust. While Hochstein’s immediate family continue to live in Israel, he does not maintain dual citizenship, having renounced his Israeli citizenship.
This photographic sculpture was featured in an exhibition in Spain.
A Muslim Arab complained, and when asked why, he replied, “Because it’s scandalous.”
A white Christian complained, and when asked why, he replied, “Because I mustn’t be considered inferior to the Jew.”
A white Jew also complained, and when asked why, he replied, “Because if the Arab rises up, we all fall.”
This is a fascinating, thoughtful Lorenzo Galbiati ‘s interview with Hanna Hoffman. Rarely in your life you will come across a genuine Jewish dissenting voice brave enough to look at the J word and its meaning, let alone admitting the depth of theological morbidity that made the Jewish state into what it is. In fact the entire mission of the Jewish solidarity movement is to divert attention from the J word. Hoffman is different. She isn’t shy of the question.
Hoffman defines herself as Trans Zionist, her rational is fascinating . And I wonder is she a trans Zionist or maybe a trans Jew. I wonder , in the light of Hoffman’s elaboration, whether I myself am an ex Jew, a trans Jew, a proud self hater or a lamb of Christ. I wonder because I have never managed to emancipate myself of the battle with the tribe: its ideology, culture and politics. In that sense, I of course failed as a Christian.
INTERVIEW with Hanna Hoffman (Second Part – the First Part was published on January 14th)
1. Do [Did] you consider yourself an anti-Zionist Jew? And if so, what do you mean by anti-Zionism?
– I consider myself a “Trans-Zionist”, a term I coined. In other words, I was raised a zionist by definition, since I grew up in Israel and for the early 3 or so decades of my conscious life I accepted the absolute righteousness of israel’s existence – despite its somewhat checkered history. Said acceptance incalcated as part of my identity, almost as a god given right, never mind I did not believe in said god.
For me, as an Israeli and for quite a while after I left, this was something not even worth questioning. Mind you, as Israelis we did not refer to ourselves as zionists but as Israelis, which to us meant that this country, with whatever borders it had, even if drawn by outright conquest, was OUR country by divine right, much as France belonged to the French. None of the Israelis I knew and still know to this day, even accepts that israel as founded was an obvious colonialist-settler enterprise.
I was personally surprised by the debates about “zionism” raging in the US when I first arrived and used to vehemently defend israel against all critiques, since as I said, that was an embedded part of my very identity. It took more than a decade and considerable exposure to other thoughts and numerous literary works and historical works that were new to me, before I woke up one day and seemingly out of the blue no longer felt that “zionism thing” to be an inseparable part of my identity. I could for example see the both the first and second Intifada as natural forms of resistance by an occupied, much oppressed people, rather than something absolutely criminal as most Israelis viewed those and still do to this day.
I should add that among israelis and ex-Israelis this state of “transcending” zionism as I refer to it, is considered the worst kind of betrayal since it implies a radical departure from the tribal gestalt. In certain ways to be “trans” is worse than being “anti” as it implies losing the “love” of Israel and indeed the “love” of Jews and Jewishness in general. In a deep sense such an attitude represents an irrevocable parting of the ways from the tribal identity with its built-in belonging to a chosen and superior people at its core, an outright declaration of “not being there” any longer. To put it more simply as one ex-Israeli who long ago left that country and is genrally liberal on most issues said “Israel is in her blood” which is why she felt obliged to sever our 50 year friendship. Basically, once they believe you are truly a “trans-zionist” it is viewed as a step every bit as radical as eg not just identifying with the opposite gender – but excising one’s own biological gender altogether, meaning a deliberate altering of something that is profoundly fundamental to one’s nature.
By contrast, an “anti zionist” may be harshly critical of Israel’s actions and indeed go as far as to deny that Jewish people have exclusive right to that land, but still they retain a love of the IDEA of Jewishness as a state of being and/or maintain belief in Judaism as a supreme value that can justify separateness from classes of non-Jews (like Arabs? Or muslims in general?). An anti-zionist for example may advocate a “2 state” or even a “1 state solution” yet deep at heart they still believe that those Palestinians, and indeed most Arabs, will rise to kill the Jews of israel, if given half a a chance.
In other words, some so-called anti-zionists are just zionist-light, ie, they’d rather Israel behaved much better and was a lot less crudely and visibly violent than it is not so much because they really stand in solidarity with the Palestinians quest for justice and freedom, but because “it’d be good for the Jews”. Other self-described anti-zionists may go much further and proclaim that Israel absolutely does not represent Jews or Jewish values and has no right to call itself THE Jewish State (even as it may remain A STATE for Jews). And still others, who perhaps thought much more deeply about the underlying national, ethnical and religious issues advocate severing any overt connection between Jews at large and Israel. This last class of anti-zionists is probably closer to my concept of trans-zionist as they are willingly “othering” themselves from both Israel and Jewishness as a tribal state.
2. What do you think of Zionism? How do you explain the fact that it historically became established to the point of becoming hegemonic in the Jewish world?
– Answering this querstion would take far longer than the time I have available but I can refer to some of the excellent books I mostly agree with (and have benefitted from in forming my own views).
Books such as “The General’sSson” by Miko Peled which closely reflects my own views, “Being in Time” by Gilad Atzmon (who is even more trans zionist than I am), “The Invention of the Land of Israel” by Shlomo Sand, “The Tragedy of Zionism” by Bernard Avishai, “The Israelis” by Amos Elon, and “Beyond Tribal Loyalties” a collection of essays edited by Avigail Abarbanel who also has a personal essay in the book explaining why she left both Israel as well as Zionism and Jewish tribalism behind (themes that rather resonate with me). Note that all these books are by Israelis and/or Ex-Israelis, the part of the larger community I am most familiar with.
3. Israel is the Jewish state, recognized as such by most Jews around the world. Amos Goldberg has stated that the genocide in Gaza will remain an indelible stain in the history of the Jewish people. What do you think of this statement?
– I would agree with that statement up to a point as I have issues with the concept of collective guilt. In particular, the Jewish establishment, as we refer to it, the one that felt and continues to feel obliged to defend Israel no matter what, does bear quite a bit of responsibility for what happened in Gaza as well as for the dreary blockade and siege of Gaza over the 2 decades that led up to the Oct 7 events. The Gaza genode may well serve as a punctuation mark on the many decades of criminal oppression, persecution and expulsion of Palestinians from their native land, a history that, taken as a whole, will indeed leave a huge stain upon any claim Jewish people – in general – have upon that “high moral ground” their culture and religion were presumed to bestow upon them.
Of course, most of the Israelis I know orwhose comments I read, do not even acknowledge that a genocide was committed in the first place, something they can do given the their lingusitic insulation from the accounts seen by the rest of the world, as well as the wall-to-wall censorship in Israel, both self-imposed and dictated by the government. With Israel comprising one half of the total Jewish population in the world, to which we should add the many diaspora co-religionists who lend their support despite overwhelming evidence of crimes against humanity, I’d say that it will be difficult for Jewish people of the future to wash their hands off the guilt and responsibility for the horrific massacres and mayhem unleashed upon the people of Gaza, as well as many residents of the West Bank.
I’d go even further and maintain that the studied apathy of most Israelis towards the killing of so many men, women and children in gaza – has all but soiled the religion of Judaism itself, in all its forms – from orthodox to reform. It will be difficult, if not impossible to remove this particular stain when, say, defending or advocating Judaism as a religion that has built-in caring and universal ethical concern for human welfare. Sadly, Gaza may well mark the end point of that lovely Tikun Olam movement to which most liberally minded Jewish people in the US subscribe.
4. Alon Mizrahi, an Israeli anti-Zionist Jew, believes that, given the close ties between Israel and the Diaspora, political responsibility for the crimes of Zionism, and therefore also for the genocide in Gaza, should be collectively assumed by the international Jewish community. What do you think of this idea?
– I think the answer is similar to what was given for #9 just above. Unfortunately, one can advocate for such responsibility but that doesn’t mean that the ones who shirked it in the first place (I am refering again to the well-endowed Jewish “establishment” as well as to movements like Chabad that have grown increasingly more extreme in their views) will ever accept it.
5. Antisemitism is the only form of racism theorized in various declarations (for example the IHRA and the Jerusalem Declaration) that encompass numerous behaviors—explicit, implicit, cryptic, and so on. People often also speak of unconscious or unintentional antisemitism. Mere doubt about the legitimacy of a Jewish state in Palestine is often considered antisemitic. But even talking about the many positions of power held by Jews in finance, the media, etc., leads directly to accusations of antisemitism. Do you consider this fair? What is antisemitism for you, in concrete terms? Shouldn’t antisemitism be called “anti-Jewish hatred” and placed on the same level as all other forms of racism?
– I have written a long essay about this very subject, built upon the thesis that, according to my own reading and personal experience with other Jews and Israelis, anti-semitism is something nearly ALL Israelis and a majority of Jews consider as something universal, ubiquitous and unending. They all seem to share a deep belief that one can never exorcise the anti-semitism from the gentile, even if said gentile never as much as met a Jew or even heard of one in their life (like an isolated tribe in the Amazons?).
It is somehow assumed to be effectively an inborn trait of all humans. Sounds silly? Not to most Jews, who seem to live in a state of perpetual fear that Nazis are just around the corner. I claim that in part, this is less of a tacit accusation and more of a projection of their own psyche. Something that is obvious now more than ever before, as the bad behavior of israel appears all but determined to invite the very rebukes and opprobrium they have been dreading all this time.
Of course the cultured Jews of the Anglo countries will not admit to such projections though even they, at least among themselves, may carry – and even profess – such beliefs to various degrees. The difference from the more toxic carrying on about anti-semitism we see coming from various official and unofficial corners such as the ADL, etc, is that these more “cultured” and of course “liberal” Jews do allow for exceptions to that universal principle of never-ending antipathy towards “The Jews” (exceptions, say for Asians? Or Eskimos? Or a non-Jewish spouse?).
6. Do you think there exists a form of racism rooted in Jewish culture? Or one rooted in Jewish Zionism?
– Absolutely. I already elaborated in my response to #4 that traditional Judaism includes within its very core a form of sanctioned racism towards non-Jews (cf goys or gentiles) which in many ways is similar to the caste like system of India, with its many gradations. Indeed, overt racism exists even among Jewish people, certainly so in Israel where Ashkenazi Jews look down on Mizrahi ones (who hail from Arabic countries whose culture – and language – are regarded as inferior), who in turn are generally angry and feel insecure in Israel (ingesting something of a Stockholm syndrome, no doubt). Naturally the Mizrahis as a class then look down on Arabs as a still lower class, effectively relegating them to the status of “untouchables”. Not only that, but Israelis look down upon black people in general and openly claim them as intellectually inferior. So a new class of immigrants to israel, such as the Ethiopians, will occupy a rang somewhere between the lower branches of the Mizrahis and Arabs (a caste which is, in turn, further divided into sub-castes such as Druz, Chrisian Palestinian cand the lowest of the low – “the Muslim Arabs”).
This deep core of racism, which is a direct result of the choseness complex (as some of us call it) is not something many of the more cultured Jews outside israel will admit openly, except strictly among themselves, and only under duress. Of course some otherwise well educated Jewish people may proclaim their tribal superiority quite openly – witness certain columns written in the past by the likes of eminent commentators such as David Brooks and Thomas Friedman who merrily cited Jewish economic clout and historical accomplishments in the past century or so (especially in the US) as decisive evidence for innate intellectual prowness. Naturally, Reform and Conservative denominations of Judaism in the US will fiercely disclaim such racist views, as best exemplified by enlightened, highly erudite individuals such as Peter Beinart. But deep deep at heart, they all know even if they’ll never admit to knowing, much less feeling.
Gilad: Finkelstein exposes the reality of the “Jewish” White Supremacist State over in the Middle east + a few other all too real elephants in the room. The truth of such deeply held supremacist attitudes (not just among Israelis either) are not news to me of course (I mean, as a “tribal” insider I’ve known the score for a long time) but many, way too many are still in denial.
The part Finkelstein does not go into in this interview is the really dangerous part — the one about the infectious toxicity of this supremacist virus gnawing at the heart of the American Empire, now led by a Caligula-like, Might makes Right clown who adores himself above all else (so much so he neglects to see the deep shadows walking right alongside him, whispering sweet nothings in his ear).
In the past political commentators used to analyse USA foreign policies taking into consideration American national interests, geopolitical complexities, American economy, USA defence needs etc.
No one is doing that anymore. All we see instead is acceptance that the ginger Caligula at the helm is a malignant narcissist, a pathological case who is also subject to blackmail by his Jerusalem puppeteer. Accordingly, not one commenter is even trying to identify a rational in American current politics and actions
We must never forget the Palestinians have always been test subjects for western weapons of war and that the drone tech tested in Gaza is now surveilling us in our towns and cities.
We must never forget ICE and US Border Control agents now visiting terror on US cities are trained by the IDF.
We must never forget that there is no talk whatsoever of justice, no talk of holding Israel to any kind of account, no discussion of rebuilding Gaza beyond the criminal Trump mafia racket known as the Board of Peace.
We must never forget that France, the UK, Canada and other western states recognised a Palestinian state not out of a genuine belief in Palestinian statehood or because they consider the Palestinians to be people worthy of a state, but to try and silence critics of their pro-Israel, pro-genocide policies.
Israeli strikes kill over 20 Palestinians in Gaza, including five children. Children die from lack of medical care as medical evacuations through Rafah remain at a trickle. UN says Rafah reopening far from sufficient in daily briefing. Israel imposes strict limits on Gaza returnees at crossing, as one returnee describes abuse at Rafah crossing. Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian man in Jericho. Israeli troops arrest over two dozen Palestinians in West Bank raids. European diplomats urge EU action against Israel. UAE denies plans to administer Gaza’s civil society.
HRW director resigns after report on right of return shelved: Human Rights Watch’s Israel-Palestine Director Omar Shakir resigned Monday after leadership halted publication of a vetted report characterizing Israel’s decades-long denial of Palestinian refugees’ right of return as a crime against humanity. The decision was made by incoming Executive Director Philippe Bolopion two weeks before release, and the intervention bypassed the organization’s established legal review process, Shakir said, and reflected what critics called an “Israel exception.” Senior figures, including former HRW Chief Ken Roth, defended blocking the report, while dozens of staff protested internally.
“Israel/Palestine has been the litmus test for every major institution,” Shakir wrote in his resignation email, warning that “Palestine exceptionalism often opens the door to other unprincipled compromises.”
Shakir and Milena Ansari, who contributed major research to the report, submitted their resignations on January 15.
“Throughout my tenure, the review process ensured we published the facts as we documented them and the findings that derived from our principled and consistent application of the law,” Shakir wrote in the email sent to Middle East and North Africa (MENA) leadership and human resources. “I can no longer say that.”
Over much of the past year, the consortium of journalists — with support from FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative and the AP’s Local Investigative Reporting Program — reviewed thousands of pages of documents and court depositions and interviewed former regulators and industry insiders, as well as doctors, scientists and people who have the kinds of illnesses that researchers have linked to PFAS contamination. The carpet industry has long insisted it’s not to blame for PFAS getting into the environment and noted that chemical companies obscured the risks and assured them the products they were supplying were safe. But the recently reviewed records also show that executives from two of the largest carpet companies received warnings dating back decades about potential harms of some types of PFAS.
What the team found unfolds in full in Contaminated and related reporting from our partners, illuminating how carpet mills contaminated Southern communities with PFAS that take decades or more to break down.
Jolly polluted England, too: Environmental campaigners have criticised a “crushingly disappointing” UK government plan to tackle “forever chemicals”, which they warn risks locking in decades of avoidable harm to people and the environment.
The government said its Pfas action plan set out a “clear framework” of “coordinated action … to understand where these chemicals are coming from, how they spread and how to reduce public and environmental exposure”.
But campaigners described the plan as “incredibly weak” and criticised its failure to match tough action taken in Europe, where national governments are already banning chemicals on the grounds of public safety before EU-wide action.
Already thought to be in the blood of every person on the planet, man-made per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (Pfas) – a family of thousands of chemicals – are used in a huge range of consumer products, from waterproof clothing to electronics.
Brazilian large companies withdraw from the ‘Soybean Moratorium.’
On Monday, international environmental organizations warned that the withdrawal of major soybean traders from the Soy Moratorium could lead to the deforestation of up to 9.2 million hectares in the Brazilian Amazon.
EPA? Under Jew Zeldin?? EDA. Not Epstein Dysfunction Affliction. Environmental Destruction AGENCY.?
Lee Zeldin seems confused. Recently, he decided that the mission of EPA was to: “lower the cost of buying a car, heating a home, and running a business.” That is not EPA’s mission, that is the job of the Commerce Department and several other federal agencies. Here in New York City, the Fire Department puts out fires, the Police Department arrests criminals, and the Sanitation Department picks up garbage. All have different uniforms, different organizational capabilities, and different functions. Each department focuses on their assigned mission. It’s easy to understand. I guess we should be grateful that Zeldin isn’t New York City’s Mayor. The EPA’s job is to protect the environment. It is not trying to raise the cost of living and does not really do that. If you look at all EPA’s programs, the financial benefits are far greater than the costs. It does you little good to buy a car that costs $1,000 less if poisons from environmental pollution keep you out of work or put you in a hospital where your co-pay can be far greater than the cost of a car. Lee Zeldin and the Trump administration apparently do not understand the financial value of a clean environment. If one of President Trump’s golf courses had to close for a week due to the type of air pollution we used to see in China, perhaps he’d better understand the economic value of clean air. There are plenty of agencies involved in promoting the economy, EPA’s job is to protect the environment. In the New York Times on March 13, Lisa Friedman and Hiroko Tabuchi reported that:
“In a barrage of pronouncements on Wednesday the Trump administration said it would repeal dozens of the nation’s most significant environmental regulations, including limits on pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks, protections for wetlands, and the legal basis that allows it to regulate the greenhouse gases that are heating the planet. But beyond that, Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, reframed the purpose of the E.P.A. In a two-minute-and-18-second video posted to X, Mr. Zeldin boasted about the changes… Nowhere in the video did he refer to protecting the environment or public health, twin tenets that have guided the agency since its founding in 1970.”
Fucking NEWS? Donald Trump told the New York Post last month that he isn’t planning to attend this Sunday’s Super Bowl in the Bay Area because it is “just too far away.” It was a transparently flimsy, fake-sounding excuse given that planes exist, he frequently travels long distances, and he went to last year’s Super Bowl.
What the president didn’t say in his Post interview is that some of his administration officials and advisers had privately assessed that if Trump were to attend Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, California, the crowd at the stadium would likely aggressively boo him.
Fucking stop calling it ZIONISM. 19 million Jews, dude: From Jabotinsky to Epstein: Zionism and the Cult of Cruelty. Israel now admits Gaza’s death toll—but only after years of denial. Mouin Rabbani joins to explore what this shift means, and how media and political elites helped enable genocide. We look at US complicity, the BBC’s Gaza coverage collapse, and the ideology of Jewish supremacy inside Israel’s government. Plus: the Epstein files, vice as political currency, and Arab states scrambling to prevent war with Iran.
JUDAISM!
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp defended the firm’s surveillance technology as it reported a big jump in sales on Monday, saying it has safeguards to prevent government overreach, without mentioning US immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota that have drawn widespread protests.
The data analytics company said revenue derived from the US government spiked 66 per cent in the fourth quarter from the year-ago period to US$570 million. Total sales of US$1.41 billion exceeded analysts’ estimates and the firm anticipates a big jump in sales, in part due to government contracts in 2026.
Companies working with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are attracting more scrutiny as Americans have turned solidly against ICE’s aggressive tactics following the fatal shootings of two US citizens in separate incidents in January. The company won a contract last year with ICE to develop surveillance systems for immigration enforcement.
If only we could execute 130 Jewish Billionaires and . . .
China has executed four people found guilty of causing six Chinese citizens’ deaths and running scam and gambling operations out of Myanmar worth more than $4bn.
The Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in southern China announced the executions on Monday morning in a statement. However, the timing of the executions was not clear.
[People from China, Vietnam and Ethiopia, believed to have been trafficked and forced to work in scam centers, sit with their faces masked while in detention after being released from the centers in Myawaddy district in eastern Myanmar]
The executions of 11 other people convicted of running scam centres in Myanmar had been announced last week.
The Shenzhen court sentenced five people accused of running a network of scam centres and casinos to death in November. One of the defendants, group leader Bai Suocheng, died of illness before the sentence was carried out.
The group had established industrial parks in Myanmar’s Kokang region bordering China, from where they allegedly ran gambling and telecom scam operations involving abductions, extortion, forced prostitution, and drug manufacturing and trafficking.
They defrauded victims of more than 29 billion yuan ($4.2bn) and caused the deaths of six Chinese citizens and injuries to others, the court said.
Their crimes “were exceptionally heinous, with particularly serious circumstances and consequences, posing a tremendous threat to society”, the court’s statement said.
The defendants appealed the verdict, but the Guangdong Provincial High People’s Court dismissed their applications, it added.
FUCKING CLOWNS.
What started as a meeting between frequent foes ended with Petro walking out of the Oval Office with a MAGA hat, altered with a pen to say “Make Americas Great Again.”
Trump hosted Petro, a former Marxist revolutionary, at the White House for the first in-person meeting between the two leaders. It was also Trump’s first sit-down with a head of state from the region after the U.S. captured then-President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela exactly one month ago.
The bilateral meeting ended in an unexpectedly positive tone, with both leaders saying afterward that it went smoothly. Ahead of the meeting, former Colombian and U.S. officials had expressed apprehension, citing both Trump’s and Petro’s unpredictable and fiery tempers.
“We got along very well,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon. “He and I weren’t exactly the best of friends, but I wasn’t insulted, because I’d never met him. I didn’t know him at all. And we got along very well.”
From Marxist to MAGA, what a fucking brain dead fucking Tio Taco. Has he been talking to Jason Hinkle?
In the last few years, a self-styled political movement that sounds like a contradiction in terms has gained ground online: “Maga communism”.
Promoted by its two most prominent spokespeople, Haz Al-Din, 27, and Jackson Hinkle, 24, Maga communism comprises a grab bag of ideas that can seem lacking in coherence – ranging from a belief in the power of Donald Trump’s followers to wrest power from “global elites” to an emphasis on masculine “honor”, admiration for Vladimir Putin and support for Palestinian liberation.
Hinkle frequently distorts Marxist theory, claiming that Mao Zedong encouraged people in Japan and the United States to be patriotic[1] (when in fact Mao condemned the patriotism of Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany),[6] that communists do not support the abolition of private property, and that Communism/Marxism has always been conservative and supported patriotic education. The goal of Communists, according to Hinkle, is more Capitalist enterprises.[7] Hinkle has also engaged in slavery apologia.[8] In an interview with Alex Jones, Hinkle denounced the pro-Palestinian student protestors as “extremists” and admitted that he had friends among the anti-Palestinian reactionaries.
“And now we have ‘all white people are bad and they owe me money, based upon something I have no knowledge about’ and I must have missed in that song — I didn’t hear them talking about how, you know, when we brought the slaves over here, there was [sic] active slave trades in Africa that we actually purchased them from, but… maybe that’s the next episode.”
Black History Month! Don Lemon says agents sent to arrest him despite offer to turn himself in
Former CNN anchor faces charges over coverage of an anti-ICE protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service.
Don Lemon says about a dozen federal agents came to his Los Angeles hotel to arrest him overnight on 30 January, even though the former CNN anchor’s attorney had told authorities he would turn himself in to face federal civil rights charges over his coverage of an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service.
Lemon on Monday told the ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel that sending the agents was a waste of resources because law enforcement would not have had to dispatch agents to follow him if he had been allowed to turn himself in.
In the wake of his executive order, the Defense Department issued guidance declaring “identity months dead” and said that working hours would no longer be used to mark cultural awareness months such as Black History Month, Women’s History Month and National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
That seemed to clash with a National Black History Month proclamation signed the same day by Trump, which called for “public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.”
While the White House has issued its position, agencies of the government have discretion on whether to continue to recognize Black History Month, according to the official.
On February 1, the first day of Black History Month, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that his department “will no longer participate in celebrations based on immutable traits or any other identity-based observances.” And in a diplomatic cable, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the agency’s removal of DEI policies would dovetail with “eliminating our focus on political and cultural causes that are divisive at home and deeply unpopular abroad.”
The administration has issued a deadline to schools and universities to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money. Major corporations have backtracked on DEI policies in hiring, promotion and workplace culture in recent months, with many citing potential legal challenges from the administration.
Meanwhile, multiple artists have canceled scheduled performances at the center since Trump’s takeover. Maria Shriver, a niece of the former president, theorized those cancellations were the reason for the pending renovation project.
“Translation: It has been brought to my attention that due to the name change (but nobody’s telling me it’s due to the name change), but it’s been brought to my attention that entertainers are canceling left and right, and I have determined that since the name change no one wants to perform there any longer,” Shriver wrote on X of the president’s announcement.
“I’ve determined that due to this change in schedule, it’s best for me to close this center down and rebuild a new center that will bear my name, which will surely get everybody to stop talking about the fact that everybody’s canceling… right?”
New documents and emails to and from the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein detail his connections to some professors, putting pressure on those named to explain their communications.
The Department of Justice released more than 3 million documents and thousands of videos and images Friday in its latest, largest and reportedly last release of the so-called Epstein Files, a trove of information related to Epstein, who pled guilty to solicitation of prostitution with a minor in 2008 and was sentenced to 18 months in a minimum-security prison. As was true in previous file drops, prominent higher education figures are named in the files as Epstein’s correspondents, friends and colleagues.
The new documents have prompted action in the higher ed space; the US-Ireland Alliance announced Sunday that its George J. Mitchell Scholarship will no longer bear Mitchell’s name. The former senator from Maine appears to have met frequently with Epstein, according to the latest files.
The 68th Grammy Awards last night, which comedian Trevor Noah helmed for the sixth and final time, was filled with firsts — and proved to be a political hot spot.
Bad Bunny made history when “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” was crowned album of the year, the first time an all-Spanish-language album won the coveted category. The Puerto Rican artist also made perhaps the biggest statement of the evening against the Trump administration’s immigration operations across the country.
“Before I say thanks to God, I gotta say: ICE Out,” he said during one of his acceptance speeches. “We’re not savage. We’re not animals. We’re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.”
It’s all about rootedlessness in America, and cheap lattes and 3,000-square-foot homes.
Move over, Florida and Texas. The United States has new hot spots for growth, and they both have Carolina in their name.
North Carolina last year attracted more new residents, 84,000 people, from other parts of the country than any other state, a title held by Texas in 2024 and Florida in the two years before that. South Carolina had the highest overall growth rate last year at 1.5%, a distinction among states held by Florida in 2024, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released this past week.
Domestic migration, or people moving within the U.S., slowed in Texas. The 67,300 domestic migrants heading to the second most populous state year over year barely squeaked by South Carolina, which had the third highest number of domestic migrants at 66,600.
The appeal of Florida, the nation’s third most populous state, dimmed. It dropped to No. 8 for state-to-state migration, as more U.S. residents preferred to move elsewhere, including Alabama.
Sabrina Morley and Steven Devereaux sold their Tampa-area house last year, moved out of Florida and landed outside Valencia, Spain. Growing up in the 1990s, they both enjoyed Florida’s diversity and being able to run around freely outdoors. But in recent years, as they planned to have children, they had grown wary of the state’s costs, regular threats of mass shootings at schools, the quality of education and political divisiveness. They are expecting a daughter in the spring.
“I had a pretty good childhood, but I don’t think we’d be able to give our child the same quality of life because of the cost of living, food quality, and guns have become more prevalent,” Devereaux said. “We think where we are now, it’s the best decision we could make to give any future children the best quality of life.”
North Carolina state demographer Michael Cline credited the state’s growth to high-paying jobs in banking and tech, the topographical diversity and having smaller big-cities than Florida and Texas.
“North Carolina is attracting younger folks because we have so many nice areas in North Carolina — the mountains and beaches and lakes in between — that we’re benefiting from younger people who decided they can work from anywhere and would rather be in a nice area,” Cline said. “One of the things about North Carolina, our cities are not huge, and that may be attractive to folks, too.”
Dirty dirty three-faced Republicans!
But audience questions quickly turned to recent events in Minneapolis and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s tactics.
Just days before, Rep. Mike Lawler had published a guest essay in The New York Times saying that the country’s current immigration policy is not working and calledfor a “a common-sense bipartisan solution.”
“I think what happened in Minneapolis is tragic,” Lawler said Sunday. “I believe it was entirely preventable.”
Lawler told the town hall audience that he supports certainreforms of ICE tactics and immigration policy. He said he supports equipping ICE agents with body cameras and a ban on masks. The congressman said he also wants to create a path to legal status for immigrants who’ve worked in the U.S., pay taxes and have no criminal record.
“ That does not mean citizenship, but it does mean that they come out of the shadows and that they can participate in our economy and in our community without fear of being deported,” Lawler said.
While Lawler called for a thorough federal investigation into the shootings of Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minnesota, he faced jeers and insults from many in the room.
“What is the line that you won’t cross?” one audience member could be heard asking at a microphone set up for constituents. “What can Trump do that you’ll say that’s wrong?”
Many people in the audience also demanded that Lawler be more forceful in his response to the recent fatal shootings in Minneapolis and immigration enforcement tactics in general.
Oh shit, the Jerusalem Post calls them Jews: From Gaza to Iran, Israel readies space ‘surprises’ for next conflicts – exclusive
Israel’s space capabilities play a key role in the Jewish state’s strategic military capabilities, and now the space industry is moving toward dual-use and commercial roles as well.
Research of David McGowan, author of the 2004 crime book Programmed to Kill, becomes essential to understanding how our political order works. Going off of information that’s already public, McGowan discusses how U.S. State Department officials are supplied with a consistent stream of underage sexual slaves—not because all of the officials who pass through this system personally participate in crimes against children, but because just by putting them into contact with this abuse system the war machine is able to render its ranks compromised. Being complicit in child sexual assault is a requirement for being a member of the U.S. empire’s top leadership. With this context about the fundamental workings of American foreign policy, every other pedophilic crime that the foreign policy infrastructure produces makes total sense.
Yikes: Cardio Rehab three times a week, TV sound off, Friends reruns on, and the illustrative lobotomy session, just 1 hour, of that Holly-Dirt and Chosen People’s Power of Persuasion/Brain Harvesting
A bit too daft British Sweet: Bernays was more than a MONSTER.
Makes me want to vomit and then get the machetes out and chop chop chop this Jewish fucking TV Qualudes!
Creators: Marta Kauffman, who was raised in a Conservative Jewish household, and David Crane were the main creators, writers, and executive producers.
Production: The show was produced through Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions.
Jewish Elements: While not heavily focused on religion, the show featured notable moments like the “Holiday Armadillo” (Ross teaching his son about Hanukkah) and the Geller family, with actress Christina Pickles (Judy Geller) and Elliott Gould (Jack Geller) playing Jewish parents.
Cultural Context: The show is often analyzed as a reflection of the “Jewish American dream” and assimilation during the 1990s.
Who’s Jewish on “Friends” by Nora Lee Mandel
So, nu? Which “Friend” do you think is Jewish? My unscientific, all-ages sampling of the huge audience for “Friends” uniformly responded this way: “Well, Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) is definitely Jewish, so that would make his sister Monica (Courtney Cox) Jewish.” Then what about Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston), Monica’s best friend from a Long Island childhood and Ross’s long-sought objet d’amour? Uniform confusion was the response. This isn’t just a stab at Jewish geography or tribal conspiracy theory. If both Ross and Rachel are Jewish (and, more importantly, perceived as Jewish), for as long as their TV relationship lasts they will, therefore, be the first young, sizzling Jewish couple on television. An impressive first, let alone on such a popular sitcom, where the demographics include the impressionable 12-15 set.
[Julianna Margulies, David Schwimmer and Over 260 More Implore Academy to Include Jews in Inclusion Standards | Exclusive]
[“Jewish people being excluded from the Motion Picture Academy’s Representation and Inclusion Standards is discriminating against a protected class by invalidating their historic and genetic identity,” the letter read. “This must be addressed immediately by including Jews in these standards.”
Other notable signees on the letter’s growing list of supporters are Ginnifer Goodwin, Tiffany Haddish, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Brett Gelman, Michael Rapaport, Iliza Schlesinger, Nancy Spielberg and “Friends” cocreator Marta Kauffman and producer Kevin Bright.]
Like so many other Jewish sitcom writers, creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman, buddies from their Brandeis days, backpedal from having their characters perceived as too Jewish. Crane was recently quoted in the Boston newspaper The Phoenix as rationalizing the confused perceptions, “In our minds, the back story is that Ross is half-Jewish because Elliott Gould (as Ross’s father) is, and Christina Pickles (as Ross’s mother) sure isn’t. So he and Monica are half-Jewish. And I suppose Rachel is Jewish, though that’s not an aspect we’ve done much with. Now her mom’s Maria Thomas. We’ll see who we end up casting as her dad, and that will give us a better clue.” Ron Leibman was cast as her dad. Dr. Leonard Green, seeming to clarify that Rachel too is “half-Jewish,” though, like the Geller siblings, she yearns to celebrate a traditional family Christmas. The ambiguous entrails of the show can be further picked apart for contrary indications: wasn’t that a mezuzah at Ross’s parents’ front door? Virtually half of all TV watchers in the country are glued to NBC watching “Friends” every Thursday night. Could it be something other than Monica and Rachel’s possibly non-Jewish mothers that keeps viewers from perceiving them as Jewish women? Are these women too thin, too sexy, and too struggling in their nondescript professions to be considered Jewish? Quick, how many actresses playing Jewish women can you name who’ve posed nude on the cover of Rolling Stone as Aniston did?
At a time when more and more women writers/producers—particularly Jewish women—are getting a chance to show how successful they can be, we are barely creeping closer to breaching the last taboo on television—an appealing Jewish couple who are more than just “Friends.”
Doing an hour of cardio workouts while endless Friends reruns play, and the endless artery-clogging foods of AmeriKKKa are hawked on TV. . . . Oh, the fucking Pizza Hut shit, all the Chipotle, all the Princess Cruises line promos, all the fucking pet foods and allergy meds, all of the antidepressant fucking crap, Lazy Boys and at-home hospital beds:
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) legalized drug commercials on TV in the mid-1980s, and pharmaceutical companies view them as an increasingly effective way to reach viewers, especially older Americans, who often need long-term or life-saving treatments.
Common Categories of Daytime Ads
Health and Wellness: A high volume of ads for pharmaceuticals, weight-loss brands like GOLO and WW, and over-the-counter medications.
Legal and Financial Services: Frequent “call now” spots for personal injury lawyers, J.G. Wentworth (structured settlements), and debt relief services.
Household Products: Commercials for cleaning supplies (detergents, dish soap), kitchen gadgets (as seen on TV), and grocery delivery services like Instacart.
Insurance: Heavy rotation of car and life insurance ads, often featuring recognizable mascots like the GEICO Gecko.
Educational Services: Advertisements for online colleges and vocational training programs
And they have the most fucked up mixed marriage-relationship actors EVER:
Skyrizi (Risankizumab-rzaa): Used for Crohn’s disease and psoriatic arthritis.
Dupixent (Dupilumab): Used for eczema, asthma, and eosinophilic esophagitis.
Rinvoq (Upadacitinib): Used for rheumatoid arthritis, eczema, and Crohn’s.
Keytruda (Pembrolizumab): A major cancer immunotherapy.
Mounjaro (Tirzepatide): Used for Type 2 diabetes and weight management.
Vraylar (Cariprazine): Used for bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder.
Eliquis (Apixaban): Used for blood clots and stroke prevention.
Sotyktu (Deucravacitinib): Used for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis.
Jardiance (Empagliflozin): Used for Type 2 diabetes and heart failure.
Biktarvy (Bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir): Used for HIV treatment.
Death or Major Cardiovascular Events: Some drugs, particularly those for dementia in the elderly or specific diabetes medications, have warnings for increased risk of death, stroke, or heart attack.
Severe Infections and Immune System Issues: Drugs targeting autoimmune conditions (like arthritis or psoriasis) often warn of serious infections, tuberculosis, fungal infections, and cancer (lymphoma).
Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors: Many antidepressants and treatments for chronic conditions (e.g., Lyrica, Chantix) include warnings about new or worsening depression and suicidal ideation.
Severe Skin Reactions: Some medications can cause rare but fatal skin conditions, such as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), which involves blistering, peeling, and shedding of the skin.
Severe Allergic Reactions: Anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reaction, is a commonly listed risk.
Compulsive Behaviors: Certain dopamine agonists used for Parkinson’s or restless legs syndrome (e.g., Requip, Mirapex) can cause intense, uncontrollable urges to gamble, binge eat, or spend money.
Internal Organ Damage: Potential risks include liver failure (hepatotoxicity), kidney failure, severe gastrointestinal issues, or pancreatic damage.
Severe Neurological or Movement Disorders: Some medications, such as antipsychotics (e.g., Abilify), can cause uncontrollable movements, such as tardive dyskinesia.
Nah, just more rumors:
The Dark Ages were rife with plague, fanaticism, and accusations that Jews secretly fed off the blood of children. In 2020, we too are beset with plague, rampant medical misinformation, and a persistent rumor that “global elites” torture children to harvest the chemical adrenochrome from their blood, which they then inject in order to stay healthy and young.
Chuck Schumer (D-New York) said on Sunday that one of his most important jobs as Senate minority leader is to “fight for aid to Israel,” as the Trump administration’s masked federal agents continue their deadly raids of the U.S. with little to no pushback from Democrats.
In remarks at a breakfast gathering of Jewish leaders in New York City, Schumer said, “I have many jobs as leader … and one is to fight for aid to Israel, all the aid that Israel needs.” Part of the remarks at the UJA-Federation of New York gathering were posted online by The Forward reporter Jacob Kornbluh. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) also spoke at the event.
Schumer went on to brag that the U.S. has sent Israel more military funding under his leadership “than ever, ever before,” referring to “many” threats that Israel faces in the region that Schumer does not specify.
More Jewish Criminals: The philanthropic organization, formed by Meta cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, is cutting about 70 jobs, or roughly 8% of its workforce, a CZI spokesperson confirmed to Fortune. The layoffs happened primarily at the organization’s Redwood City headquarters in San Mateo, Calif.
Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are raising their children in the Jewish faith. Despite Chan having a Buddhist background, the couple holds weekly Shabbat dinners and incorporates Jewish traditions, including having Zuckerberg recite prayers in Mandarin to their daughters.
French tech giant Capgemini to sell US subsidiary working for ICE
The next frontier of work is here, where AI agents are the new coworkers and algorithms operate as office assistants. The advanced tech is already causing a wave of layoffs, resulting in more than 54,000 announced job cuts last year alone. Now, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser is joining the list of bosses who are stepping in to make sure their staffers can weather the storm.
The power of the fucking billionaires: As AI wipes out desk jobs, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser says the company is training 175,000 employees to ‘reinvent themselves’ before their roles change forever
Mor white trash: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department’s release of more than 3 million pages from the department’s files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as survivors and lawmakers criticize the disclosure as insufficient and filled with redaction errors.
A group of Epstein survivors issued a statement Friday slamming the latest release, and demanding accountability for others they say either enabled Epstein or have been accused of abuse by victims as well.
A cunt and her Semen Drip: The propaganda film is eager to present the First Lady as a benevolent political force, and pretend she isn’t part of her husband’s racist, authoritarian project. It fails at both.
Newly released documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files include an email summarising a complaint alleging that child “auctions” were held at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home – accusations denied by the White House.
Donald Trump has been told to pay the six-figure legal costs of a company he sued over claims of “perverted” sex acts and bribes to Russian officials.
Mrs Justice Steyn threw out the case against Orbis Business Intelligence, a consultancy founded by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, last month.
She found that Mr Trump’s compensation claim was “bound to fail”.
In a new ruling she also ordered Mr Trump to pay Orbis’s costs “of the entire claim”.
The order, obtained by the PA news agency on Thursday, also said Mr Trump has made no attempt to bring an appeal.
Mr Steele, who previously ran the Secret Intelligence Service’s Russia desk, was the author of the so-called Steele dossier.
This included uncorroborated intelligence claims, denied by Mr Trump, that the former US president had been “compromised” by the Russian security service, the FSB.
Earlier this month (2021), Donald Trumpannounced to a room full of Republican donors that his sexual kinks do not involve being peed upon. Why did he do this? Had someone in the audience raised their hand during a Q&A session and asked, “I was just wondering, do you enjoy having women pee on you?” According to a report from The Washington Post, the ex-president offered the information totally unprompted, which, it has to be said, is a very odd thing to do if you’re trying to assure people you don’t enjoy being treated like a toilet.
Church mother fucking freedom? Fuck the cunt churches far and wide:
Don Lemon’s arrest balances freedom of religion vs. freedom of the press, Todd Blanche says. Cunt White SLavers.
‘[ under the Trump administration, these guidelines were rescinded, allowing ICE to enter churches with a proper warrant ]
ICE officials lacked a search warrant. Community activists took Aguirre to Augustana Lutheran Church in Northeast Portland, which gave him refuge. He spent his first few nights sleeping under the altar. Church leaders had to get him a portable shower so he could bathe.
“Living for 81 days in the church, it’s not easy,” Aguirre said. “You can’t sleep. You always think that anytime they can break in and take you.”
The Rev. W. J. Mark Knutson of Augustana Lutheran Church on Jan. 26, 2025. The pastor says it’s a key tenet of the church’s philosophy of social justice to provide sanctuary to undocumented immigrants who seek refuge
.The memo suggests the rules are designed to give ICE greater flexibility to quickly arrest unauthorized immigrants who are not the original targets of an operation but are nonetheless encountered and found to have violated U.S. immigration law. Those detentions are known as “collateral arrests,” and typically involve immigrants accused of civil immigration violations but who lack serious criminal histories or any at all.
The memo was issued by acting ICE director Todd Lyons on Wednesday and submitted to a federal court in Minnesota on Friday. Its contents were first reported by The New York Times.
From Bone Spurs, Pussy Grabbing, Pedophile, Rapist and Thief Semen Drip Trump. MAGA MAGA MAGGOTS:
‘We heard the call, we came running’: Trump’s NATO troop remarks have shaken allied veterans
President Donald Trump partially walked back his claim that NATO troops in Afghanistan stayed “off the front lines,” but veterans aren’t likely to forget the remarks.
But then his memory of that day in May 2011 fractures. One moment he was walking through an unsecured compound with his patrol, the next he was on his back, staring into swirling dust and black smoke, his body unresponsive. He had been hit by a blast from an improvised explosive device that had been buried underground for months.
“I felt like I had dust from my tonsils to my prostate,” Little, 44, told NBC News this week in Peterborough, a cathedral city 75 miles north of London. As a trained medic, Little pressed a fellow Royal Marines commando to be honest about the damage to his right leg. Eventually, he received the reply: “It’s gone.”
The same explosion killed two of Little’s friends and an interpreter as their patrol pushed into a hostile area not yet controlled by NATO — part of the same allied mission that President Donald Trump denigrated last week.
“They’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan, and they did,” Trump said. “They stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.”
Taking long pauses as he spoke and appearing to rein in his frustration, Little responded to Trump’s comments that cast doubt on whether NATO allies would be there for America “if we ever needed them.”
“When I was hit, I was so far in front of the front line that I couldn’t see the front line in my rearview mirror,” he said.
Trump’s assertions about NATO forces not coming to the United States’ defense are incorrect: More than 1,000 NATO troops from over 25 countries, including 457 British service personnel, died in Afghanistan. Double that number were seriously wounded. Around 2,400 U.S. service members died in the conflict between 2001 and 2021.
Many Haitians may soon not be able to work in the US. That will make caring for the elderly much harder
Fred Trump III calls uncle Donald Trump ‘atomic crazy,’ says he used racial slur decades ago
“I was in the Oval Office 12 times about. And that was our mission: to advocate for people with complex disabilities,” Fred Trump III said.
He added, “It culminated in May of 2020 in the Oval Office. Donald was there, and he was very gracious. Several other folks were there, including the group that we brought down. We dispersed. I was asked to go back and see Donald. He greeted me with his familiar, ‘Hey, pal. How’s it going?’”
He says he “sat down for a bit” with his uncle.
“And he just came out with, ‘These people, all the expenses. They should just die,’” Fred Trump recalled. “He’s talking about human beings who have complex issues, and the first thing he could say was they should just die.”
Send ICE home in body bags.
ANd these people? Hunt them down, hunt their friends and family down, save the world:
Buried within the Epstein Files is the partial guest list of , the “Dialog” conference in 2014, a secretive meeting run by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel and SafeGraph CEO Auren Hoffman- a self-described, “two-day bipartisan retreat discussing how to change the world.”
Axios, reporting on this secretive retreat reported in 2025, “Dialog, often compared to a tech-era Bilderberg, has quietly become one of the most elite, and mysterious, gatherings for CEOs, elected officials, and intellectual heavyweights.”
Axios noted that, “Dialog has no public-facing website and avoids media coverage — it has never publicly shared a list of participants” and added “Past Dialog participants, who cut across a wide swath of elite influencers, include Elon Musk, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Larry Summers, Chamath Palihapitiya, Henry Kravis, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D), Eric Schmidt, Grover Norquist, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Robert Hur and Sophia Bush. Also, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Jared Kushner, Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Reema Al-Saud, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, European Commission Vice Chair Kaja Kallas, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, chess champ and activist Garry Kasparov, pastor and author Rick Warren and CFR president emeritus Richard Haass.”
But now, thanks to the DOJ released Epstein Files, a partial list of participants in the 2014 “Dialog” meeting has now been revealed , through multiple emails within the files where participants Ian Osborne and Lisa Randall shared their invitation to the conference and a partial list of attendees.
High-profile attendees of the 2014 retreat at Sundance Resort, designed to “help implement the plans we develop,” include:
-Jason Bordoff: the Senior Advisor for Energy and Environmental Policy to U.S. President Obama.
-Stephen Cohen: another Palantir co-founder
-Adam D’Angelo: the CEO of Quora and former Facebook CEO
-Lanny Davis: the former Special Counsel to the President (under Clinton)
-Jeff Epstein (not to be confused with Jeffrey Epstein)- the former CEO of Oracle.
-Niall Ferguson: the British neoconservative historian and now CBS News contributor.
-Richard Haass: the president of the Neo-Con Council on Foreign Relations.
-Reid Hoffman: the co-founder of LinkedIn.
-Garry Kasparov: the former World Chess Champion turned Neo-con activist.
-Joe Lonsdale: Another Palantir co-founder.
-General Stan McChrystal: a retired 4-star U.S. General.
-Wes Moore: the former Special Assistant to Secretary of State Susan Rice.
-Bret Stephens: the Neo-con Zionist mainstream media writer.
The full list of attendees of the Dialog conference in 2014 listed in the innovation are:
Susan Athey – Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Chief Economist, Microsoft. 2007 Winner of John Bates Clark medal.
Byron Auguste.– Director and Head of Social Sector Office, McKinsey & Co. Chm, Hope Street Group.Boards: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Pacific Council on International Policy; Center for American Progress.
David Barron. — Professor, Harvard Law School. Fmr Acting AsstU.S. Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel.
Kirsten Bartok.– CEO, AirFinance. Fmr CFO of XOJet. Fmr GP at Alpine Investors.
Evan Bayh— Sr Advisor, Apollo Management. Partner, McGuireWoods. Fmr U.S. Senator (D-IN) (1999-2011). Fmr Governor of Indiana (1989-1997). Author, /From Father to Son/.
Tom Bedecarre— CEO, AKQA.
Nick Beim.— GP, Matrix. Boards: Gilt Groupe, TheLadders, Care.com, Conductor, Intent Media, BuyWithMe.
Nicolas ’Berggruen— President, Berggruen Holdings.
Charles Bests—CEO, DononrsChoose.
Elizabeth Blackburn.— Prof of Biology and Physiology, UCSF. 2009 Winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine. President, American Association of Cancer Research.
David Bonderman. — Founding Partner, Texas Pacific Group (TPG). Founding Partner, Newbridge Capital. Boards: Continental Airlines, Bowe Bell & Howell, Ducati Motorcycles, Credicom Asia, National Education Corp, Beringer Wine, Carr Reality, Virgin Cinemas, CoStar Group, GemAlto, RyanAir Holdings, Wilderness Society, World Wildlife Fund.
Jason Bordoff.— Senior Advisor for Energy and Environmental Policy to U.S. President Obama.
Erik Brynjolfsson— Prof of Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management. Director, MIT Center for Digital Business. Chair, /MIT Sloan Management Review. / Author, /Race Against the Machine/.
John Burbank—CEO, Passport Capital.
John Burbank. — President, Nielsen Strategic Initiatives. Fmr CEO of Online, Nielsen. Fmr CMO, Nielsen. Fmr CMO, AOL.
Mark Colodny.— Managing Director, Warburg Pincus. Boards: CAMP Systems, GlobalSpec, MLM Information, i Paradigms, Multi View, A Place for Mom, EVIDON, eCert, Spigit, OnTargetJobs.
Boykin Curry. — Managing Director, Eagle Capital. Creator of Playa Grande. Cofndr, Girls Prep. Boards: Alliance for School Choice, Democrats for Education Reform.
Adam D’Angelo— CEO, Quora. Fmr CTO, Facebook.
Mitch Daniels — President, Purdue University. Governor, State of Indiana (2005-2013). Fmr Director, Office of Management and Budget (2001-2003). *
Lanny Davis.– FmrSpecial Counsel to the President (under Clinton).Author of Scandal and The Emerging Democratic Majority.
Ken Denman.— CEO, Machine Perception Technologies. Fmr CEO of Openwave. Fmr CEO of iPass (IPAS). Fmr CEO, AuraSery Communications. Fmr SVP MediaOne. National Markets.
Marc Ecko—Chief Creative Officer, Marc Ecko Enterprises. Award-winning artist.
RP Eddy -CEO, Ergo. Fmr Director, White House National Security Council. Fmr Chief of Staff to U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Sr Fellow, Manhattan Institute.
Juan Enriquez.— CEO, Biotechonomy. Founding Director of the Life Sciences Project, Harvard Business School. Boards: Cabot Corp, Craig Venter Institute. Fmr CEO, Mexico City ‘s Urban Development Corporation.
Jeff Epstein. — fmr CFO, Oracle. Fmr CFO, DoubleClick. Fmr CFO, King World Productions. Boards: Priceline.com, Stanford University Hospital.
Niall Ferguson.— Prof History, Harvard. Author of /The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild/,/The Cash Nexus/,/Empire, Colossus/,/The War of the World, The Ascent of Money/, and others.
Brad Garlinghouse.— CEO, YouSendlt.
Julius Genachowski— Chairman, Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Jared Genser. — MD, Persesus Strategies. Founder, Freedom Now. International lawyer for Aung San Suu Kyi.
Jeff George— Global Head, Sandoz. Member of Exec Committee, Novartis.
Dave Goldberg. — CEO, SurveyMonkey.
Tom Goldstein.— Partner, Goldstein & Howe. Fmr Partner and head of Supreme Court practice, Akin Gump. Has argued over 20 cases before Supreme Court. CEO, SCOTUSbIog.
Richard Haass.— President, Council on Foreign Relations. Fmr Director of Policy Planning, U.S. State Department. Fmr U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland.
Victor Halberstadt’— Prof of Economics, Leiden University (Netherlands). Fmr President, International Institute of Public Finance. Mbr, Investment Committee, ABP Pension Fund. Boards: RHJ Internationall.
Janet Hanson’— CEO, 8SBroads.
‘Hollie Moore Haynes.— MD, Silver Lake Partners.
Bob Hertzberg. — Chairman, G24 Innovations. Partner, Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw. Fmr Speaker, California State Assembly (200O-2002). Fmr Regent, University of California. Fmr Chm, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa transition team. Board: Solar Integrated Technologies (Chm), California Historical Society, MALDEF, Town Hall Los Angeles, Century Housing.
Jim Himes’— U.S. Congressman (D-CT).
‘Auren Hoffman’– CEO of LiveRamp. Chm, Rapleaf. Curator, Dialog Retreat. Board: Retargeter.
Daisuke Iwase— cofounder and COO, Lifenet Insurance (top life insurance company in Japan).
Christian Johansson’— Secretary of Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED), State of Maryland. Fmr CEO, Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore.
David Kamenetzky.— Group Head, Mars & Co.
PV Kannan— CEO, 24/7 Customer.
Andy Karsner— CEO, Manifest Energy. Fmr U.S. Asst Sec of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (2005.2009). Fmr Managing Director, Enercorp. Boards: Applied Materials, Conservation International.
Garry Kasporovs— Fmr World Chess Champion. Chm, United Civil Front of Russia.
Neal Katyal— Partner, Hogan Lovells. Fmr Acting Solicitor General for the United States (2010-2011). Professor of Law, Georgetown U. Lead counsel for the plaintiff in Supreme Court case Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld. Terry Kawaja CEO, Luma Partners.
Juliette Kayyem— Foreign Affairs Columnist, Boston Globe. Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard. Asst Sec. for Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security.
Jeff Kearl.— Chm, SkullCandy.
Peter Kellner— MD, Richmond Management. Cofounder, Endeavor. Fmr partner, VectisGroup.
Chris Kelly— Fmr Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Global Public Policy at Facebook . Fmr Chief Privacy Office, Excite@Home.
Pradeep Khosla— Chancellor, UC San Diego. Fmr Dean of College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon.Boards: Quantpoint, BioMatricore, BitArmor, Children’s Institute, IIT Foundation, Mellon-Pitt Corp.
Charlie Kim— CEO, NextJump.
David Kirkpatrick— Author, /The Facebook Effect/. Fmr head technology writer, FORTUNE.
Henry Kravis— Co-CEO of KKR. Chm, First Data. Boards: Claremont McKenna College, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Council on Foreign Relations, Columbia Business School, Rockefeller University, others. Fmr Chair, Partnership for New York City.
Marie-Josee Kravis— Boards: Publicis, LVMH. Boards: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Robin Hood Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, Qatar Museum Authority. President, Museum of Modern Art board of directors. Fmr Board: Ford, IAC, CIBC.
Laura and Gary Lauder— General Partners, Lauder Partners. Cofndrs, Socrates Society.
Jenna Lee. — Anchor, Fox News. Host, /Happening Now/ on Fox News.
Jorge Lemann— Fmr Owner, Am Bev (largest brewery in Latin America) and now one of the largest shareholders in Anheuser-Busch InBev. Boards: Lojas Americanas, Gillette, Swiss Re, Burger King.
Max Leychin. — fmr CEO, Slide. Fmr co-founder, PayPal.
Jonathan Levin. — Prof and Chair of Dept of Economics, Stanford. 2011 Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.
Ann Lewis — President, NoLimits. Fmr Director of Communications to the U.S. President (1997-2000).
Rob LoCasio.— CEO, LivePerson (NASDAQ: LSPN).
Jeremy Liew.— GP, LightSpeed Venture Partners. Investor in: Bonobos, CarDomain, Flixster, Focus, Kixeye, Kongregate, LivingSocial, Playdom, RockYou, ShoeDazzle, and others.
Joe Lonsdale— CEO, Adepar. cofounder, Palantir.
Doreen Lorenzo — President, Frog Design.
Bob Luskin— Partner and Co-Chair of Litigation Dept, Patton Boggs.Attorney to Karl Rove and Lance Armstrong. Fmr Chief Counsel to the Organized Crime & Racketeering Section of DOJ
Jorn Lyseggen.— CEO of Meltwater.
John Maeda— President, Rhode Island School of Design. Author, /Laws of Simplicity./
Divesh Makan.— CEO, Iconiq Capital.
Meyer Malka— co-CEO, Lemon.’
Andy McAfee— Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Digital Business, MIT. Author of /Race Against the Machine. /
General Stan McChrystal.— Ret. 4-star U.S. General. Led all U.S. forces in Afghanistan. *Fmr Commander, Joint Special Operations Command.*Current Principal, *McChrystal*Group. Sr. Fellow, Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.*
Andrew McLaughlin’ s— Fmr VP, Tumblr. Fmr Deputy CTO of the United States, White House. Fmr Dir of Public Policy, Google. Boards: Public Knowledge, Code for America. •
Dmitri Mehlhorn**— COO, *StudentsFirst..*
Lenny Mendonca— Director, McKinsey. Head of McKinsey’s strategy practice. Chm, McKinsey Global Institute. Chm, Bay Area Council. Board: McKinsey & Co, Economic Institute of the Bay Area, Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium, The New America Foundation, Common Cause, Committee for Economic Development, ChildrenNow, and DonorsChoose.
Eugene Meyer.— President, Federalist Society.
Chris Michel’— GP, Nautilus Ventures. Award-winning photographer. FmrCEO, Affinity Labs. •Fmr CEO, Military.com. Boards: International Data Group, Dale Carnegie, Kixeye, Castlight’Health, USO, Marine Corps University Foundation.
Katie Mitic — Fmr Head of Platform Marketing, Facebook. Fmr SVP, Palm. Fmr VP Product Strategy, Yahoo! Fmr Fndr and CEO, Fourll. Boards: eBay, Special Olympics International. *
Wes Moore’– Author, “The Other Wes Moore”. Fmr. Special Assistant to Secretary of State Rice. Fmr Director of Information Operations, 82nd Airborne Division, US Army, Afghanistan 2005-2006.
Nader Mousavizadeh— CEO of Oxford Analytica.
Luke Muehlhauser’— Exec Director, Singularity University.
‘Matt Mullenweg — Founder, WordPress.
Roger Myerson’— Prof of Economics, U of Chicago. 2007 winner of Nobel Prize in Economics.
‘Scott Nathan’— Partner, Baupost Group.
Meghan O’Sullivan’– Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Govt. Fmr Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, President George W. Bush. Mbr, Trilateral Commission.
Chamath “Palihapitiya— CEO, Social+Capital. fmr VP Growth, Mobile, and International at Facebook. Fmr GM of AIM at AOL. Boards: SecondMarket, FixYa, Lemon, Integrated Plasmonics. Co-Owner, Golden State Warriors.
‘Eli Pariser—Fmr President, MoveOn.Cofndr, Avaaz.org. Boards: MoveOn, Avaaz, New Organizing Institute and Simon’s Rock College.
‘Mark Penn’— Corp VP of Strategic Projects (reports to the CEO), Microsoft. Fmr CEO, Burson-Marsteller. President, of polling firm Penn, Schoen and BerlandAssociates. Fmr Chief Strategist, Hillary Clinton for President 2008. Author, Microtrends. Fmr pollster to President Clinton. Fmr pollster to Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Lois Quam’— Executive Director, Global Health Initiative — part of the State Department and she reports directly to Secretary Clinton. Fmr CEO of Public and Senior Markets, UnitedHealth Group ($30 billion division).
‘Robert Rubin’—Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations. Fmr U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1995.1999). Fmr Director, National Economic Council (1993.1995). Chm, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). Fmr Co-Chairman, Goldman Sachs.
‘Sal Russo’— Founder, Tea Party Express. Partner, Russo Marsh.
‘Ken Sawyer’– CEO, Saints Ventures (manages over $1 billion in capital). Selected to Forbes Midas List. Boards: Continuous Computing, HK Systems, Cleargauge, Travel Intelligence, Envivio, Alliance Consulting, Acsis and Laureate Pharmaceuticals.
Barry Silbert ‘1— CEO of SecondMarket.
Josh Silverman’— President of US Consumer Services, American Express. Fmr CEO, Skype. Fmr CEO, Shopping.com. Fmr CEO and Fndr, eVite.
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy— Chm, JOYUS. Fmr CEO, Polyvore. Fmr President of Asia Pacific and Latin America, Google. Boards: TripAdvisor (TRIP) and Formspring.
Megan Smith— VP Business Development, Google. Fmr CEO, PlanetOut.
Charles Songhurst-– GM and Head of Strategy and M&A, Microsoft. MD, Katana Capital.
Angelo Sotiras— CEO, DeviantArt.
Bret Stephens’– Member of Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal. Main Foreign Affairs Columnist, Wall Street Journal. Fmr Editor-in-Chief, Jerusalem Post.
Simon Stevens— EVP, UnitedHealth Group. Fmr CEO, Ovations (revenues of $31 billion). Fmr Health Policy Director to British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Henry Sweica’— CEO, Talpion Fund Management. Fmr co-founder, Highbridge Capital Management.
Alexander Tamas– Partner, DST. Boards: Forticom, mail.ru
Peter Thiel.– CEO of Thiel Capital. Managing Director, Founders Fund.Fmr founder and CEO of PayPal. Boards: Facebook and Palantir.
Steve Wayne’— CEO, Jensen Group.
Will Wechsler— Deputy Asst. Sec of Defense for Counternarcotics and Global Threats.
Adam Weiss’‘—co-CEO, Scout Capital. *
Katharine Weymouth”— Publisher, Washington Post.*
Michael Wolf’—CEO, Activate. fmr President and COO, MN Networks. Fmr Prtnr, McKinsey. Former Senior Partner, Booz Allen & Hamilton.
Paul Wolpes— Director, Center of Ethics. Prof of Bioethics, Emory. Sr Bioethicist, NASA. Co-Editor, American Journal of Bioethics.
Jed York’— CEO of San Francisco 49ers.
Lauren Zalaznick’— Chairman, Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media, NBCUniversal. She oversees Bravo, Oxygen Media, Style, PBS Sprout, Telemundo, iVillage, Swirl, Daily Candy, and Fandango.
Eric Zinterhofer — co-CEO, Searchlight Capital. Chm, Charter Communications. Fmr Sr Partner, Apollo Management. Boards: Central European Media Enterprises, Dish TV India.
‘Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg’— fmr Minister of Defense, Germany. Fmr Minister of Economics and Technology, Germany.
You can watch this video on YouTube here.
The world still looks American.
But power no longer moves the way it used to.
Empires rule through armies, territory, and conquest.
Today, Israel rules through leverage, institutions, surveillance, and proxy control.
This video explores the idea of Pax Judaica — not as a slogan, but as a framework for understanding how power now operates in the modern world. Why Israel’s influence appears disproportionate to its size. Why regional actors court Jerusalem before Washington. Why resistance hasn’t disappeared — but no longer has a path to victory.
From historical Pax systems to proxy rule, from geopolitical judo to surveillance and artificial intelligence, this is a breakdown of how dominance is enforced without occupation — and why the next phase of empire won’t announce itself.
Whether you see this as analysis, warning, or speculation, one thing is clear:
Power has changed.
And most people are still looking in the wrong place.
Why so many Jews involved with Epstein?
George finally asks. Don’t expect Aaron, Katie, Max, Norman, Glen, et al to ask that question.
“Almost 40 years later, members of the Jewish establishment in France (on the right and left), still consider that it is not good to describe the misdeeds of these elite figures under the Nazi occupation.
‘Professional’ Jews were the most vehement in denouncing the publication of this book, judging that this could only do harm to the Jewish community as a whole, at a time when anti-semitic activities are sometimes regaining a certain vigour”.
The French state is apparently very keen to ensure accurate memories of traumatic historical events – since 1990 “the denial of the existence of crimes against humanity”, such as the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War, has been a criminal offence.
But, for reasons which are perhaps best explained by Jacob Cohen in his 2010 book Le Printemps des Sayanim or by Jean Bouvier in his 1983 tome Les Rothschild, ] this same rigorous commitment to truth sometimes seems to waver, depending on the identity of those regarded as having committed such crimes.
A new law on the way through – known as the Loi Yadan because it is being pushed by Zio-Macronist government minister Caroline Yadan – sets out to criminalise criticism of Israel and Zionism.
Based on the absurd IHRA expansion of the definition of “anti-semitism,” it aims in particular to penalise any suggestion that Israel’s actions are similar to those of Nazi Germany. [5]
This therefore, seems like an appropriate moment to write about a 1980 book by Maurice Rajsfus on elite Jewish collaboration in the WW2 deaths of what he estimates at 75,000 Jews living in the country.
A shudder of recognition ran down my spine when I read the account of how, in July 1944, Brünner, commandant of the Drancy camp, refused to spare Jewish children’s lives because “these children were future terrorists”.
Well, the Christ thing, and what will you say to god thing, but this is the Marvel Comics books about it ALL.
The Central Intelligence Agency reportedly hadcredible evidence that at least 10 members of its staff, some of whom were contracted employees, committed sex crimes involving children, but only one individual was ever charged.
Senior investigative reporter Jason Leopold and investigative reporter Anthony Cormier with Buzzfeed News detailed their findings in an article after combing through hundreds of internal agency reports they obtained throughFreedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits.
Leopold and Cormier say the declassified reports “show a pattern of abuse and a repeated decision by federal prosecutors not to hold agency personnel accountable.”
The featured reports detail 14 years of accusations against several CIA employees and contracted employees.
One employee was accused of having sexual contact with both a 2-year-old and a 6-year-old before he was fired. Another employee resigned after being accused of purchasing sexually explicit videos of “young girls” filmed by their mothers. A contractor had his contract revoked after allegedly arranging to have sex with an undercover FBI agent who was posing as a child.
Sexual crimes involving children, including the viewing of images of abuse, have been uncovered at other agencies that handle sensitive information. In a November 2009 report, the Department of Defense acknowledged that dozens of Pentagon staff members or contractors had such images. In 2014, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community found that two officials from the National Reconnaissance Office, which oversees America’s spy satellites, acknowledged viewing images of child sexual abuse during polygraph examinations.
At a symposium in 2016, Daniel Payne, a top Pentagon security official, said that when workers’ computers were examined, “the amount of child porn I see is just unbelievable.”
Bernays, where oh where are you?
Three U.S. Olympic winter sport national governing bodies have changed the name of their Milan hospitality space over concerns about ICE protests in Italy during the Olympics, a person with direct knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY Sports on Sunday afternoon. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
U.S. Figure Skating, USA Hockey and U.S. Speedskating decided to change the name of The Ice House to The Winter House.
An Italian volunteer restorer has been accused of painting PM Giorgia Meloni’s face into angel on church fresco.
Authorities are investigating whether the fresco was faithfully restored, as restorer denies the likeness.
Amid public and political outcry, Meloni has also denied the comparison.
While GAZA burns, this shit: This investigation will enable it “to determine not so much who the restoration resembles, but whether any changes have been made, because the restorer would have had to follow the original lines,” a spokesperson explained.
If the authority finds that Valentinetti has altered the image, hiding a portrait of Meloni in the fresco, the artwork will be returned to its original composition. Those judged responsible may also receive a penalty.
Valentinetti has claimed that the original fresco is too contemporary to be protected by heritage law. He claimed in La Stampathat the Soprintendenza had approved his work on the fresco after the parish shared his qualifications.
The Gaza Genocide, West Bank, and Israel
Casualty counts: At least five Palestinians were killed and four injured in Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 71,800 killed, with 171,55 injured.Since October 11, the first full day of the ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 526 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 1,447, while 717 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, according to the Ministry of Health.
Israeli attacks on Gaza continue Monday after bloody weekend: At least three Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to Al Jazeera, including a three-year-old child in Al-Mawasi, who was killed by machine gun fire from an Israeli gunboat, as well as Israeli attacks in Khan Younis and Jabaliya.
Rafah crossing opens to extremely limited numbers: The Rafah border crossing with Egypt opened on Monday for limited traffic in what some have described as a largely symbolic development. The crossing will reportedly only operate for six hours a day and the numbers allowed to cross will be limited to 50 medical evacuees per day permitted to leave Gaza, accompanied by two people escorting them, while 50 Palestinians can return to Gaza per day, according to the AP citing Israeli and Egyptian officials. The Gaza Health Ministry has said around 20,000 sick and wounded Palestinians need treatment abroad. Health authorities have said at least 1,268 Palestinians have died in Gaza while waiting for medical transfer after Rafah was closed by Israel in 2024. Before the war, Rafah was Gaza’s only gateway to the outside world not controlled by Israel and it was the main crossing for Palestinians moving in and out of the enclave.
Deadly night of Israeli attacks across Gaza: At least 32 Palestinians were killed on Saturday as Israeli forces carried out sustained airstrikes and artillery fire across Gaza, and 30 more were wounded, according to Gaza’s Civil Defense. The attacks included a strike on a family tent west of Khan Younis and a bombing of an apartment near the Abbas intersection in Gaza City, while additional strikes hit eastern Al-Bureij and areas near Jabaliya. Women and children were included among the dead.
Israel strikes Gaza police station: Another Israeli airstrike on Saturday hit the Sheikh Radwan police station in western Gaza City, killing about 13 people, including six Palestinian police officers—four of them women—according to Palestinian media and Drop Site reporting. Gaza’s Interior Ministry said at least 15 police personnel were wounded and others are believed missing under the rubble, while detainees and civilians present at the station were also among the casualties. Drop Site correspondent Abdel Qader Sabbah provided footage of the attack and its aftermath, available here.
Mladenov adopts Israeli narrative on killings in Gaza: Nickolay Mladenov, the Director-General of Trump’s “Board of Peace,” said he is deeply concerned by reports that Hamas fighters emerged from a tunnel in Rafah, which he implied were responsible for the subsequent Israeli strikes which killed civilians, warning both events could undermine the ceasefire’s progress. Senior Hamas official Basem Naim rejected Mladenov’s framing, saying Israel has rejected a negotiated exit for the trapped fighters, and used their sightings as pretext to launch strikes on company targets across rest of Gaza.
Egypt, Qatar, and league of Muslim and Arab states condemn Israeli ceasefire violations: Egypt condemned repeated Israeli ceasefire violations after strikes killed at least 32 people across Gaza, warning the attacks risk inflaming the situation and undermining efforts to restore stability, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. Qatar also condemned Israel’s repeated ceasefire violations on January 31, saying the attacks constitute a “dangerous escalation” that undermines mediation efforts. And later, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, and Saudi Arabia issued a joint statement to the same effect, which also noted the need to respect Palestinian self-determination and statehood. All statements urged adherence to the ceasefire agreement.
Hamas warns ceasefire cannot hold: Hamas said it held intensive discussions with mediators and international parties to condemn Israel’s continued ceasefire violations and attacks across Gaza, warning the agreement cannot hold unless Israel is compelled to comply, with Khalil al-Hayya, head of Hamas in Gaza, stressing that “the resistance’s commitment to and respect for the agreement requires obligating the occupation to abide by it and preventing it from continuing its crimes.”
UAE in talks to run Gaza civilian administration: The United Arab Emirates is holding advanced talks with Israel and the United States on a proposal for Phase 2 of the so-called ceasefire, with Abu Dhabi offering billions in investment in exchange for control over the Strip’s civilian infrastructure, according to Israel’s Channel 12. The proposal would place markets, trade, aid distribution, and logistics under Emirati management using Israeli suppliers and contractors, backed by Emirati armed forces and U.S. private security firms.Israeli officials say the government supports the move, describing the UAE as Gaza’s future “civilian patron” and that the plan would impose a foreign-run civilian system that sidelines Palestinian authority, with daily life, trade, and security, all managed by outside states and private forces.
Epstein advised Barak on Palantir, audio reveals: Drop Site’s Ryan Grim shared newly released U.S. Justice Department audio, which shows that as Ehud Barak was leaving Israeli government service, he sought guidance from Jeffrey Epstein, who pointed him toward Palantir, a data company founded byPeter Thiel. Listen to the audio here.
In February 2024, just over three months into Israel’s war on Gaza, U.S. ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, and his deputy, Stephanie Hallett, blocked an internal cable intended for wider distribution among senior officials in the Biden administration that warned northern Gaza had turned into an “apocalyptic wasteland,” according to Reuters. Lew and Hallett reportedly blocked the cable, which described the consequences of Israel’s assault in harrowing detail, because they believed it lacked balance.
Edward Bernays was Freud‘s nephew, born in Vienna in 1891. His father, Freud’s wife’s Martha’s brother and his mother was Freud’s sister. The Bernays emigrated to America, and returned to have holidays in the Alps with the Freuds, which they had done before.
Freud sent his nephew his Introductory lectures as a gift, in return for the gift of Havanna cigars his nephew had sent him. Ernest Bernays used his understanding of Freud’s unconscious as a foundation for his 1928 book Propaganda, on how to manipulate people’s behaviors, without them realising it. Bernays saw that linking products with emotions could cause people to behave irrationally.
The president of a tobacco company asked him how he could increase his sale by getting women to smoke. It was taboo for them to do so at that time. Bernays consulted AA Brill a NY psychoanalyst. Brill told him that cigarettes were a symbol of male power. Freud had said women wanted a penis and felt the lack. This led to a campaign by Bernays, which he called ”Torches of Freedom” He got debutantes to walk down 5th Avenue at the Easter parade with this banner and at a given time they took, hidden under their skirts, the cigarettes and lit up. Press was there and it was the beginning of women smoking in public and it increased sales. It was sold as a symbol of liberty.
This was a time when America produced more than they could sell. Bernays was instrumental is changing how the public bought, from needs to desire. The consumer became vital, not just the worker.
The next change was to increase bacon sales for Beechnut company. Americans should eat hearty breakfasts. Freudian group psychology to repeat a stimulus and create a habit, inundate the consumer with advertisements and follow up with more ads and discounts and rewards. Film stars were used to sell cars, symbolizing, sexuality, power,fashion.
President Coolidge asked for Bernays’s help with his image, as he was seen as dull. Bernays arranged for him to be visited by 34 film stars and it was in all the newspapers that the president entertained actors & his image changed.
Edward Bernays was rich and famous.
How much Freud was aware of his nephew’s use of his psychoanalytic ideas we do not know. He responded to his nephew sending him his book ”Crystalising Public Opinion 1923. “ I have received your book” as a truly American production it interested me.” Freud asked his nephew for help when facing financial ruin in Vienna. His nephew arranged to have his uncle’s work published in America, so Freud could get American dollars. Freud was appalled by his nephew’s proposal that Freud write popular articles for the Cosmopolitan. Freud disliked America.
Here are some quotes from Bernays:
“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.”
“Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government, which is the true ruling power of our country.”
The engineering of consensus is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.”
“We are dominated by the relatively small numbers of persons who understand the mental processes of social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the moves which control the public mind.”
“Small groups of persons can and do make the rest of us think what they please about any given subject.
“Propaganda will never die out.”
Edward Bernays’ influence to make people want things they did and do not need to satisfy a desire to be happy, dominates much of the world today.
These quotes are sobering, as their implementation are alive with us even more now.
Vamik Volkan quoted the Turkish saying” the fish that lives in water does not know what water is.” We are in danger of not being aware of our own embededness in the social climate.
The war in 1914 Freud saw his theory of aggressive instincts confirmed, he disliked America and was depressed at the state of the world and group behaviour. He saw more dangerous forces that were submerged being unleashed. These needed to be controlled. Bernays thought there was a need for an elite to manage social control of these animal drives. Edward Bernays had developed techniques to manage crowds the masses, by “engineering for consent”, enlightened despotism tapping in to fears and desires.”
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Edward Bernays was involved with setting up a Committee of Public Information when America joined the war and went to the peace conference in Paris with Woodrow Wilson. He saw how Wilson was received and how propaganda could and would be used to sway the masses in peace. He set up The Council of Public Relations instead of using the word propaganda.
By 1928 it was seen that Bernays had created consumerism as a mainstay of American life and a key to economic progress. There was a constant stimulation of the irrational self, with desire to have things to make him-her happy & to feel good.
Edward Bernays dominated politics and was among the rich and famous, like a magician who made things happen. His view of those around him and the masses was that they were stupid. His children spoke of how he told them they were stupid,
The financial crash in 1929 affected the boom time, not only in America, also in Europe.
Freud’s Civilisation and its Discontents saw individual freedom as impossible, he was pessimistic. The Nazis were coming to power, chaos and instability of the market. Goebels , Minister of Propaganda, was interested in Edward Bernays work and used it.
I hope to say something about leadership, before we stop, as how they are able to use their influence for good or ill is crucial. The use of scapegoats in group behaviour comes into this, too. This may be developed in our discussion
In 1932, there was a new president in America, who had a new way of dealing with the masses. Roosevelt wanted what was good for the whole country, the people, not just big business. His new deal, was created. He called in George Gallup to arrange small groups to gauge what people wanted, trade unions were set up. Roosevelt believed people could be talked to and could be trusted and could know what they wanted.
This was different to Bernays’ view and all he and big business stood for and feared to lose. He and big business were opposed to Roseveldt and fought back with ideological warfare against the new deal. Bernays believed people were stupid and irrational and should be manipulated.
The National Association of Manufacturers’ campaign was launched. Bernay’s campaign behind the scenes, corrupting and deceiving the public, was no match for the government.
Goebels was impressed and saw this as the way the government should take on the problem. He learnt from Bernays propaganda ideas and implementation.
1939 Bernays was behind the creation a world fair in NY, Democracy and American Business a large white dome created by general motors. Capitalism was seen as capable of doing anything with a vision of successful passive consumerism capturing desires. Bernays believed people were not capable of decision-making power and just should be controlled.
This was different from Roosevelt, who set up trade unions and had a different view.
The 2nd world war confirmed Freud’s view even more, with an increased pessimism and hatred of the crowd.
A Hobbsian view, man’s lust for power & self interest.
Bernays then worked for the CIA to manage the masses and control the minds of the people. To suppress the savage barbarism that lurked under the surface.
Politics turned to these consumer rules, responsive to whims of market, as business sold products, politicians can do the same, understand uncs.. ads on tv target worries of swing voters, ultimate goal to be elected.
It was the end of Roosevelt’s view of social beings with concern for welfare systems, rather a pandering to desires. New left used what worked for business, ‘96 Clinton got in Blair followed these ways and also got in ‘97, copying America.There was no protection from greed of business. A way of controlling not liberating, initiated & developed by Edward Bernays using Freud’s ideas of the unconscious. In 1953, there was added fear of the bomb and heightened Cold War. Bernays, working for the CIA, & consultant to President Eisenhower, ramped up the fear and propaganda against Russia in the Cold War.
The way Bernays used power to get what businesses wanted had no scruples. It was clear the ends defeated the means.
United Fruits had banana plantations in Guatemala. A new president saw all the profits going to them in America and not to his people and the workers and wanted to change this. He wanted the land to belong to them. Bernays, came in on behalf of United Fruits & made it seem like an attack on American democracy. It was said Abends the president was a Communist threat. Bernays organized the campaign.(They were nothing to do with Russia at all.) CIA organised a coup and it was said they had toppled a Marxist regime. Nixon was shown Marxist literature planted there in the president’s palace. The CIA took his work much further and we know of various coups, in South America, I remember Chile, & over the world, including Ukraine, 2014, organized by them for their interest.
Leadership externally and internally needs to be more than this.
JFK was assassinated when he wanted to change the banking system. Vamik Vlokan reminded us of an example of collapsed time, of how Slobodan Milosovic reactivated a chosen trauma in the history of Serbia in the 1389 Battle of Kosovo & on 600th anniversary of this battle, exhumed the remains of Prince Lazar killed in that battle and took it round the country for a year. He had been killed by Ottoman Muslims. Bosnian and Albanian Muslims became to be seen as extensions of those Muslims in 1389 and created an opportunity for revenge for humiliation 600 years previously, Serbs felt entitled to rape and kill Muslims. In Yugoslavia before, they had all lived peacefully together. We can think of other examples. Ireland and over the world where the feelings of the past become condensed in the present, often at times of uncertainties, economic and political anxieties creating scapegoats.
(The story of the destruction of use of hemp products an example of vested interest.)
Gathering this & aware of what has transpired socially over the last 2 years, I thought of Eric Fromm & his book Fear of Freedom published in 1941, at the time of totalitarianism in Europe. I think it is relevant now. The propaganda , lies and censorship has penetrated through technocracy and our digital world. The information and advertisements flood our consciousness more than newspapers and radio of the time of Eric Fromm.
He saw our dependency and lack of security within and need to belong to the group, as a vulnerability in our fear of not being safe and in danger. This is when a ”strong” authoritarian outside leader & system can be adhered to. The sado- masochistic vertex relationship feels safer than being alone, without protection, powerless & actually in danger from the totalitarian state.
Fromm believed we need to understand the context of the culture the individual was molded by.
(Once again, the fish does not know what water is that he is swimming in.)
There has been a history of compliance in religions. Luther and Calvin saw man as evil, needing submission to god. Escaping from freedom, we fuse with the outside, belong and feel safe. Danger of what happens to those who do not conform, in any group is real.
To quote Fromm, “Modern man lives with the illusion he has what he wants, while actually wants what he is supposed to want.”
Exactly what Edward Bernays has created in our social sphere.
I had a neighbour here who was part of Mussolini’s Black Shirt youth when young. He said it was the best time of his life, belonging and being part of something he felt proud of and larger than his puny little self. I had a similar conversation with a German man who was in the Hitler Youth. He said he was stronger than my mother. His father had been damaged in the First World War and a passive figure. That was a relief to be away and part of a group, singing songs, being in the countryside. Ayan Hirsi Ali described her relief in being part of the Muslim Brotherhood, also as an adolescent. Feeling protected, also by being covered totally, being protected from an arranged marriage and one’s own feelings, to be part of an ideology bigger than yourself that you could aspire to.
A patient who was distressed when they heard news of a dictator being ousted and actually stumbled & fell, also adhered to this strong authority inwardly, as she felt weak and powerless.
Another patient was paralyzed with fear in the face of strict inner elders of her religious upbringing. How to reach the imprisoned self?
A child patient told me when I asked why she could not tell me news, that we both knew, said, “You would be upset and run out of the room and leave me alone with the monsters.”
I think we can all think of examples in our daily work. How can we be perceived as strong enough to protect the vulnerable self who is in the thrall of a different kind of protection.
I brought Edward Bernays today as his legacy has multiplied massively in our technocratic age. There is a danger we lose our minds and capacity to discern how polluted the water we are swimming in is.
When we are aware of how the masses have been duped, we will be needed to help with the grief that emerges.
I heard Sherri Mitchell, a North American Indigenous elder, tell of the myth of the cannibal giant who ate and destroyed everything. Hannah Arendt wrote that the next totalitarian state will be led by bureaucrats & that the totalitarian state is a monster that devours her children. The cannibal giant maybe more alive among us than we can admit.
Edward Bernays, using Freud’s work, sowed social seeds beyond “The Hidden Persuaders”, Vance Packard and “Amusing Ourselves to Death”, Neil Postman, creating a way of life that is to be pursued at all costs. This has relevance to our practice and bringing this awarenesss today I hope to trigger further thought and discoveries.
GREED.
Money for Gestapo. Brownshirts, Uniformed Paid Mercenary Services, the BIllionaires, but . . . . . A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells
The Ahlstrom paper mill in Rhinelander, Wis. Rhinelander’s water utility first tested for PFAS in 2013 to comply with federal rules. By 2019, the city shut down two utility-owned public wells to protect customers.
Tom LaDue baits a hook with his grandkids in 2022 before PFAS contamination was discovered in Snowden Lake in Stella, Wis.
The Cape Fear River flows over Lock and Dam No. 1 at Riegelwood, N.C., on Jan. 18, 2025.
Faye Jackson gets her blood tested at a medical clinic in Calhoun, Ga., on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, as her daughter Marie waits outside for her turn. Their blood tests revealed they have PFAS levels above the safety threshold outlined by national health experts.
Construction is underway on a reverse osmosis treatment facility which is designed to filter out PFAS from local drinking water in Gadsden, Ala., on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025.
Snowden Lake in Stella, Wis., seen on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, is contaminated by PFAS and officials say the fish is no longer safe to eat.
Associated Press writers Todd Richmond in Madison, Wis., Jason Dearen in Los Angeles and M.K. Wildeman in Hartford, Conn., contributed. Dylan Jackson and Justin Price of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution contributed from Atlanta.
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Allegations of mistreating employees (such as low wages and poor benefits).
Driving small businesses out of business.
Contributing to environmental degradation.
Accusations of contributing to increased local crime rates due to store policies that require frequent police calls for petty incidents.
His body became so bloated that on one occasion he tried riding on a cart through a gate, and being too large to fit through, he hit the gate, his body exploded, and maggots spewed all over the wall
Here, some interesting news from Minn. … Somewhere between 50,000-100,000 people participated in a general strike and marched the streets in Minneapolis for the second week in a row.
We have had large-scale protests for 25 days straight here in Minnesota.
These are just a few things that may not be making the national or international news.
a beloved local donut shop Glam Doll Donuts across the street from where Alex Pretti died turned into a warming house and medic center for protestors building and maintaining the memorial site.
a 70yo independent bookstore owner DreamHaven Books down the street expressed his pain on camera, walked through a tear gas cloud, and his website crashed less than 24 hours later from too much business and donations.
the day after tear gas bombs destroyed a N-Mpls neighborhood sending a 6mo old baby to the hospital, at daybreak, a small church community cleaned up the mess of pepper balls, tear gas containers and trash so the neighbors didn’t have to wake up to the memories.
a local independent journalist Mercado Media pounding the streets everyday reporting things from the ground had a testicle removed and showed up two days later to walk with 75,000+ community members to walk the streets in -20 degree weather.
a local sex-positive adult-store The Smitten Kitten has completely transformed into a donation and distribution center.
a local pizza place Wrecktangle Pizza raised over $83K in less than a few days to support families that are sheltering in place.
tow-truck companies are donating their services to clean up the accidents and abandoned vehicles left by ICE and the city is waiving impound fees.
local multi-faith spiritual leaders are spearheading sit-ins at corporate headquarters such as Target and USBank to have deeper conversations with CEOs and boards of directors about community relief.
social workers are taking in children who came home from school with both their parents “disappeared.”
animal shelters and pet-fostering agencies are rescuing pets left alone for days or weeks after their humans were detained.
every restaurant, church, karate dojo, dance studio, school, barber shop, and other small business has created their own underground grassroots supportive network to protect their neighbors, get people to and from work, and raise funds to pay everyday bills.
women who are moms and work full-time jobs are donning reflective vests in shifts to stand watch at bus stops, city parks, and grocery store parking lots ini sub-zero temps to bear witness before going home to tuck their babies in at night.
the MN National Guard offered donuts, coffee, and hot cocoa to peaceful protesters the day after Alex Pretti died, reminding community that we are all in this together and they are here to keep the peace.
These are just a few examples. Stories like this are happening in the hundreds here, every single day!
Community is EVERYTHING!
This Substack community and the MN-Strong resistance has saved my mental health these last weeks.
Thank you for reading.
Thank you for giving a shit.
I love you.
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The fucking perverted billionaires, the power to buy or not to buy, or to sell or not to sell . . .
Canadian Tycoon Nixes Plan to Sell Warehouse for Use as ICE Jail . . . but only with a THREAT of boycott.
The threat of a boycott was also percolating; the leader of the Green Party in Pattison’s home province of British Columbia said before the sale was abandoned that she hoped consumers would spurn other businesses owned by the 97-year-old billionaire, which include grocers and automotive dealers.
Pattison’s is now the third company to say it won’t sell a property to DHS, which intends to turn them into Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers. The warehouses under consideration are in 23 different municipalities around the country, and many of them were originally designed or marketed for e-commerce distribution.
ALTMAN, man, Jew all the way through to his fucking anus: Josh Altman sounds alarm on California wealth tax, says workers would pay the price
Josh Altman tells FOX Business that hundreds of thousands of workers could suffer from ‘trickle-down’ effect [ Josh Altman was born to a Jewish family on March 10, 1979, in Newton, Massachusetts. He had a Bar Mitzvah in both the US and in Israel. He has a brother, Matt Altman. ]
“You know what a billionaire said to me once? He said, ‘You know what the difference is between 100 million and a billion? Nothing.’ They’ll be fine. It’s people that need them that are not, and we’re running them out of California.”
Altmans? All Judas’s
Oh, those House Negroes: Blood and Genocidal MONEY, those Obamas!
Alongside Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky [ Brian Chesky, the CEO and co-founder of Airbnb, is of Jewish-American descent.], the Obamas have established the Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship program for second-year undergraduate students and community college transfer students who are entering their junior year in the fall. The program will provide scholarship winners with real work experiences rooted in “understanding, empathy, and cooperation,” with hopes of establishing long-lasting change, according to a statement shared from the Obama Foundation on LinkedIn.
“We are looking for young people from every corner of this country who share a curiosity about the world and the conviction to want to make positive change within it—just like the scholarship’s founders. Students should have a passion for helping others, experience serving in or building community, and an expansive view of what’s possible through public service,” a statement on the scholarship program’s website reads.
It is a two-year leadership development and scholarship program that will provide students with access to powerful leaders and mentors, as well as global travel to engage with new communities. Students can receive up to $50,000 for their junior and senior years, per the scholarship’s website.
Furthermore, participants will be awarded a $10,000 stipend and free Airbnb housing for work-related travel during the summer between their junior and senior years. Students can curate this summer voyage to gain exposure to specific communities or build experience in their chosen field. There is also an optional in-person convening where students can connect with others in the program, build leadership skills, and gain access to expanded learning opportunities with leaders in public service, notes the scholarship website.
Beyond the program, students will join the Obama Foundation’s global community and also receive a $2,000 Airbnb travel credit each year for 10 years after graduation.
[Now it’s 5,000 years, and, what, 6 million Jews Dead in Germany, Poland, Ukraine?]
Settlement Listings: Al-Haq reported that in 2019, Chesky did not reply to requests to remove listings in illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
Policy Reversal: After initially announcing the removal of West Bank settlement listings in 2018, Airbnb reversed this decision in 2019 due to lawsuits from hosts. As part of a settlement, Airbnb agreed to donate proceeds from these listings to humanitarian causes.
Legal/Ethical Criticism: Human rights groups and organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace have criticized the company for enabling the “dispossession” of Palestinian land.
Continued Activism: As of 2025, campaigns continue to demand the removal of listings in Israeli settlements, with advocates calling the ongoing presence of these listings in violation of international law.
Stop the Genocide is Antisemitic, don’t ya know.
Members of Italy’s right-wing League party, part of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government, have criticised the choice of Ghali to perform at the event in the San Siro stadium on February 6.
What is Ghali criticised for saying about Israel?
Ghali was at the centre of a political spat two years ago during the popular Sanremo song contest, when he called for a “stop to the genocide” in reference to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
A League party source called Ghali a “pro-Palestinian fanatic” who hated Israel and the centre-right, in comments to the Italian media.
Aya Nakamura hits back in new single at racist abuse over Olympics rumour
Ghali, who has not commented on the dispute, is likely to appeal to a younger audience more than other performers at the opening ceremony, who will include tenor Andrea Bocelli and US pop singer Mariah Carey.
Franco-Malian pop star Aya Nakamura was the target of racist abuse online when it emerged that she would sing at the opening of the Summer Olympics in Paris in 2024.
New track features lyrics ‘It’s them that don’t like me’ after far-right backlash against the idea she could cover Édith Piaf song
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Blood on her fucking Hispanic HANDS . . . U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez denied a request from Minnesota officials for a temporary restraining order, despite acknowledging what she described as “profound and even heart breaking” consequences for communities in the state.
She said “those are not the only harms to be considered,” however.
“The Eighth Circuit has recently reiterated that entry or injunction barring the federal government from enforcing federal law imposes significant harm on the government,” the judge wrote.
Why it matters: The decision is a win for the Trump administration, which has argued that “Operation Metro Surge“ has “succeeded” with thousands of arrests.
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Shoot — Gasoline, a la Molotovs. Spray them evenly, and then just a match, or a celebratory bottle rocket.
Age 76, Bruce, age 73, Lucinda!
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Press freedom groups are warning that the arrests of two independent journalists, including the veteran former CNN anchor Don Lemon, signal a chilling new crackdown on US media by the Trump administration.
Lemon was taken into custody on Thursday night by federal agents in Los Angeles, despite a magistrate judge declining to sign off on charges against him a week ago in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church against violent government immigration enforcement actions.
Georgia Fort, another reporter who covered the 18 January protest at the Cities church in Saint Paul, posted a live stream of her arrest early on Friday on Facebook.
“The justice department’s arrest of journalists reporting on anti-ICE protests is extremely alarming, especially given that multiple judges refused to approve arrest warrants just last week,” Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said.
“Reporting on protests isn’t a crime – it’s protected by the first amendment. We are especially concerned about these arrests because they take place against the background of a broader effort by the Trump administration to tighten the vise around press freedom.”
Scott Griffen, executive director of the International Press Institute (IPI), echoed a similar fear in a statement that called for the release of Lemon and Fort.
“The arrests of two independent journalists doing their jobs is a shocking and disturbing escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign against the free press in America. This is an unequivocal attack on the first amendment and the American people’s right to know,” he said.
“The outcome of this case will have direct consequences for the future of free media and free information in America. IPI condemns the Trump administration’s attempts to criminalize journalism and calls for the immediate release of both journalists with all charges dropped.”
Nearly 300 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza in 26 months of genocidal war – or about 12 journalists every month – according to a tally by Shireen.ps, a monitoring website named after Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in 2022.
Jew Jew Jew:
It accused Seidman of launching “insulting attacks” against South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on social media as well as “a deliberate failure” to inform the ministry “of purported visits by senior Israeli officials”.
“Such actions represent a gross abuse of diplomatic privilege and a fundamental breach of the Vienna Convention. They have systematically undermined the trust and protocols essential for bilateral relations,” the department said in a statement.
“We urge the Israeli Government to ensure its future diplomatic conduct demonstrates respect for the Republic and the established principles of international engagement.”
The Fucking Nazi White Face EYES. Look at their EYES.
Elon Musk had more extensive – and more friendly – communications with the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein than previously publicly known, according to documents released on Friday by the Department of Justice. Emails in the files appear to show the two cordially messaging each other on two separate occasions to make plans for Musk to visit Epstein’s island.
The documents include Musk and Epstein emailing in both 2012 and 2013 to determine when Musk should make the trip to Little St James. Neither exchanges appear to have resulted in Musk visiting the island, due to logistical issues.
“Will be in the BVI/St Bart’s area over the holidays. Is there a good time to visit?” Musk states on 13 December 2013.
And this abomination?
SpaceX seeks federal approval to launch 1 million solar-powered satellite data centers
SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a constellation of up to 1 million solar-powered satellites that it said will serve as data centers for artificial intelligence.
The company’s filing lays out a grandiose vision, not just describing these planned satellites as “the most efficient way to meet the accelerating demand for AI computing power” but also framing them as “a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization — one that can harness the Sun’s full power” while also “ensuring humanity’s multi-planetary future amongst the stars.”
a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped female ants or termites specialized, as with powerful jaws, to defend the colony from invaders.
a similar member of a caste of worker bees, specialized to protect the hive.
a brick laid vertically with the narrower long face out.
Informal. a person who avoids work or pretends to work; loafer; malingerer.
Uniformed Soldiers of Fucking Dirty Murderous FORTUNE:
Congress has authorized an increase of more than 30,000 active-duty service members across the force, with the largest gains concentrated in the Army and Navy. The move coincides with the Pentagon’s newly released 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS), which calls for sharper priorities: defending the homeland first, deterring China in the Indo-Pacific, pressing allies to shoulder more responsibility, and accelerating the defense industrial base.
On paper, growth looks simple. Add people. Add capability.
In practice, expanding end strength stresses nearly every system that turns a recruit into a mission-ready service member: recruiting pipelines, training seats, schools, housing, childcare, medical readiness, maintenance, and, critically, unit leadership. The real question facing the force isn’t whether it can recruit more people. It’s whether the system can absorb them without hollowing itself out.
Niggerized fucking female whores. No health care for US, no secure housing for US, but plenty of perks for the mercenaries.
Air Force Gen. Adrian L. Spain, left, commander, Air Combat Command, and Air Force Staff Sgt. Tory Steen, a loadmaster assigned to the 418th Test and Evaluation Squadron, observe the landscape in the western region while seated on the ramp of an HC-130J Combat King II at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Jan. 10, 2026
Airmen assigned to Flights 081-097 march in the 737th Training Group’s graduation parade, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, January 8, 2026. The 37th Training Wing, known as “Gateway to the Air Force,” is home to BMT.
The 2026 end-strength increases are targeted, not uniform:
Army: 454,000 active-duty (+11,700)
Navy: 334,600 (+12,300)
Air Force: 320,000 (+1,500)
Space Force: 10,400 (+600)
Coast Guard: 50,000 (up from 44,500)
Marine Corps: 172,300 (no change)
Ignorant, Costco-ized, Infantilized, Wannabe Killers, one and all:
[Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, at a media briefing in July.]
Pentagon Defends Restrictions on Media Outlets
The purpose of the new rules is to “stop activity that could compromise national security,” the Defense Department said in response to a New York Times lawsuit.
The masters of the Department of War Crimes:
I don’t think that the national brand is transforming itself into ‘Resilience’ and I don’t think that it should be our guiding star in 2026 and onward,” says Avi Feldman, Managing Partner at Mobilion Ventures. “2025 shows that eventually resilience is a supportive stratum for our main brand of innovation and scale despite obstacles.” According to Feldman, the term should not be the primary draw for investment, but rather an “insurance certificate” for the Israeli tech ecosystem proving that even in bad times, the sector can still perform well.
Following the turbulence of recent years and the stabilization of 2025, the Israeli tech ecosystem is entering a new era: The Next Leap. Feldman joined CTech to share insights for its VC Survey 2026, which invites prominent investors to discuss the topics, trends, and “leaps” expected in the year ahead.
Back to Charlie Kirk and Semen Drip Trumplandia — look at this fucking white ghoul’s fucking face. Lipless cunt.
The necessary terms include:
Issue a public statement to the SJSU community that SJSU will adopt biology-based definitions of the words ‘male’ and ‘female’ and acknowledge that the sex of a human – male or female – is unchangeable;
Specify that SJSU will follow Title IX by separating sports and intimate facilities based on biological sex;
State that SJSU will not delegate its obligation to comply with Title IX to any external association or entity and will not contract with any entity that discriminates on the basis of sex;
Restore to individual female athletes all individual athletic records and titles misappropriated by male athletes competing in women’s categories, and issue a personalized letter of apology on behalf of SJSU to each female athlete for allowing her participation in athletics to be marred by sex discrimination; and
Send a personalized apology to every woman who played in SJSU’s women’s indoor volleyball (2022–2024), 2023 beach volleyball, and to any woman on a team that forfeited rather than compete against SJSU while a male student was on the roster—expressing sincere regret for placing female athletes in that position.
Batie-Smoose says that, to her, those terms are “the bare minimum.”
“It’s a starting point,” Batie-Smoose said. “They still have to pay a big price for what they’ve done.”
Hero: San José State women’s volleyball player Blaire Fleming was named an All-Mountain West Conference honorable mention Tuesday despite an ongoing lawsuit about her participation on the team.
Fleming is the focus of a lawsuit filed earlier this month by seven women’s volleyball players, including one of Fleming’s teammates, who compete in the Mountain West Conference. The players asked a federal judge to block Fleming, a transgender woman, from participating in women’s volleyball in the conference, alleging her participation is a violation of Title IX and the U.S. Constitution.
The lawsuit also asked for adjustments to the Mountain West Conference’s Transgender Participation Policy and how the 2024 conference standings are calculated.
JewLandia, a la Unit 8200/Mossad/Epstein: They will receive ALL gifts from Jew Trump. Why do they/Jews need LTV’s in their small occupied Palestine? Greater Israel, man, blood libel.
US approves more than $6.5 billion in potential military sales to Israel, Pentagon says
The U.S. State Department approved a potential sale of Joint Light Tactical Vehicle and related equipment for an estimated cost of $1.98 billion, and another sale of AH-64E Apache Helicopters for $3.8 billion, the Pentagon said in separate statements.
MONEY. Oh, that fucking lackey: U.N. Says It’s in Danger of Financial Collapse Because of Unpaid Dues
The world body warned it would run out of money by July and have to close its New York headquarters if countries, namely the United States, did not pay annual dues that amount to billions of dollars.
Shut this fascist state DOWN.
From Fucking BLow Jobs for Semen Drip Trump and Gestapo in our Land Fox Un-News: Lawmakers in the Senate struck a deal on Friday to advance funding for the departments of Defense, Education, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services while passing a short-term extension for the Department of Homeland Security, the piece of the puzzle holding up funding for 2026.
Always fucking Jews in the mix of this fucking country’s downfall: Noodles, including the niggerized dude in the background:
Rep. Nicholas Begich, R-Alaska, right, pictured next to the Anchorage airport.
Back to the Jew News:
People who are exposed to certain forever chemicals may be at greater risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to new research.
No one knows why that is, but it could help explain why, over the past 30 years, the prevalence of MS has increased by an average of 26 percent globally. In some nations, cases have more than doubled since 1990.
MS is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system with no known singular cause and no known cure.
This new study from Sweden suggests that forever chemicals may be an overlooked contributing factor.
A Year of Betrayal: EPA Under Lee Zeldin
Administrator Zeldin has put the agency to work for polluters, putting our health and that of our children at risk.
{The Israeli and the Heroin Addict . . . A Love Story.]
So the story goes, from the beginning: AD 30 or AD
Betrayal: Judas identified Jesus to authorities in the Garden of Gethsemane by kissing him, allowing them to arrest him.
Identity: He was one of the Twelve Apostles, serving as their treasurer. The name “Iscariot” may indicate he was from Kerioth in Judea, or potentially connected to the Sicarii, a group of radical Jewish nationalists opposed to Roman rule.
Motivation: Theories vary, ranging from greed (thirty pieces of silver) to disillusionment that Jesus was not the warrior-king Messiah who would overthrow Roman rule. Some interpretations suggest he was trying to force Jesus to act, while others, based on the Gospels of Luke and John, suggest possession by Satan.
Death: Following the betrayal, Judas felt immense remorse, attempted to return the money, and subsequently died by suicide, either by hanging or by falling in a field he bought.
THE EYES, MAN.
The nose, MAN.
The Gospel of Mark gives no motive for Judas’s betrayal but does present Jesus’s predicting it at the Last Supper, an event also described in all the other gospels. The Gospel of Matthew 26:15 states that Judas committed the betrayal in exchange for thirty pieces of silver. The Gospel of Luke 22:3 and the Gospel of John 13:2 and 13:27 suggest that he was possessed by Satan. According to Matthew 27:1–10, after learning that Jesus was to be crucified, Judas attempted to return the money he had been paid for his betrayal to the chief priests and hanged himself.[2] The priests used the money to buy a field to bury strangers in, which was called the “Field of Blood” because it had been bought with blood money. Acts of the Apostles 1:18 quotes Peter as saying that Judas used the money to buy the field himself, and he “[fell] headlong … burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.” His place among the Twelve Apostles was later filled by Matthias.
Judas Iscariot, who betrayed the Son of God with a kiss, has become the most despised person in the annals of human history. His personality is the darkest in the chronicles of the world, and the name Judas itself bears a stigma, reflecting the scorn for him that burns within us. The New Testament writers disdain Judas to such a degree that in every list of the disciples given in the Gospels, Judas is listed last, with a note of contempt after his name.
Hatred for Judas was so deep in the years following the closing of the New Testament that several incredible legends about him evolved. They describe bizarre occurrences, characterizing Judas as ugly, evil, and totally repugnant. One, in the apocryphal Coptic Narrative, said that Judas, having betrayed Christ, was infested with maggots. Consequently, his body became so bloated that on one occasion he was trying to ride on a cart through a gate, and being too large to fit through it, he hit the gate, his body exploded, and maggots spewed all over the wall. Obviously, that story is not true, but it shows the high level of contempt for Judas in the early centuries.
When I was in seminary, I wrote my dissertation on Judas Iscariot. During the year that I spent working on it, and since then, I have found it extremely difficult to write or speak on. Sin is never more grotesque than it is in the life of Judas. When we study Judas and his motivations, we are prying very close to the activity of Satan. But there are valuable reasons for examining Judas and his sin. For one thing, to understand Jesus’ love in its fullness, it helps to look at the life of Judas, because despite the awfulness of Judas’ sin, Jesus reached out to him in love.
Jesus and Judas
In John 13:17-30, Jesus and Judas come head to head. We see clearly at this point the evil of Judas contrasted with the absolute purity of Jesus Christ. The diabolical deed that had been festering in the heart of Judas—the treachery he had already begun to perpetrate—was pushed to its climax, and Judas was unmasked as the betrayer.
Jesus speaks at the beginning of this powerful passage:
“If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’ From now on I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am He. Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”
When Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit, and testified and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray Me.” The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking. There was reclining on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. So Simon Peter gestured to him, and said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking.” He, leaning back thus on Jesus’ bosom, said to Him, “Lord, who is it?”
Jesus then answered, “That is the one for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him.” So when He had dipped the morsel, He took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
After the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him. For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, “Buy the things we have need of for the feast”; or else, that he should give something to the poor.
So after receiving the morsel he went out immediately; and it was night.
There we see Jesus and Judas—the epitome of opposites: the Perfect One and the absolutely wretched; the best and the worst. The purity of Jesus and the vileness of Judas, by contrast, became very obvious.
Judas was an ultimate tragedy—probably the greatest tragedy that ever lived. He is the perfect and prime example of what it means to have opportunity and then lose it. He becomes all the more terrible because of the glorious beginnings he had. Judas followed the same Christ as the others. For three years, day in and day out, he occupied himself with Jesus Christ. He saw the same miracles; heard the same words; performed some of the same ministries; was esteemed in the same way the other disciples were—yet he did not become what the others became. In fact, he became the very opposite. While they were growing into true apostles and saints of God, he was progressively forming into a vile, calculating tool of Satan.
For three years, he moved and walked with Jesus. Initially, he must have shared the same hope of the Kingdom that the other disciples had. He likely believed that Jesus was the Messiah. He too, had left all and followed Jesus. Certainly he became greedy, but it is doubtful that he joined the apostles for what money he could get, because they never really had anything. Perhaps his motive at the outset was just to get in on this Kingdom that Jesus would bring.
Whatever his character at the beginning, he gradually became the treacherous man that betrayed Christ, a man who had no thought for anyone but himself, a man who finally wanted only to get as much money as he could and get out.
Greed, ambition, and worldliness had crept into his heart, and avarice had become his besetting sin. Perhaps he was disappointed because of unfulfilled expectations of an earthly Kingdom. Maybe he was tormented by the unbearable rebuke of the presence of Christ. Surely it created a great tension in his heart to be constantly in the presence of sinless purity, and yet be so infested with vileness. Perhaps, too, he began to sense that the eye of the Master could see who he was and what he was. Or it may be that all those things had begun to eat at him.
Whatever the reasons, he ended in absolute disaster, the greatest example of lost opportunity the world has ever seen. On the night he betrayed Jesus, he was so prepared to do Satan’s bidding that Satan was able to enter him and take complete control of him. A few days before this in Bethany, he had met with the leaders of Israel and bargained for thirty pieces of silver, the price of a slave—about twenty to twenty-five dollars. Now his evil deed comes to full fruition on the eve of the crucifixion.
Jesus and his disciples (including Judas) were in the upper room. The vile traitor was sitting there, having already made his bargain to betray Jesus for money. He had already initiated the plan, and now he had returned to spend these moments with the disciples, looking for the right moment to betray Jesus’ presence to the Jewish leaders.
Jesus had revealed in verse 10 that He knew Judas’s heart, saying, “’You are clean, but not all of you.’ For He knew the one who was betraying Him” (vv. 10-11). Judas had been sitting there all through Jesus’ wonderful lesson on humility and washing of the disciples’ feet. Jesus had even washed his feet. He sat there, the wretched hypocrite, letting the blessed Lord wash his feet, while in his head he was plotting the betrayal of Jesus, hardly able to wait until he could get his hands on the thirty coins.
Even though Jesus knew what Judas was about to do, He washed his feet. It was only one example of the marvelous love of Jesus Christ and the way He reached out to Judas. The measures He took to win Judas even at this late hour made His love all the more wonderful. One would think the experience of having Jesus wash his feet would be enough to break any man’s heart. But not Judas’s, so cold was he. He was determined to sell the Master to the executioners.
New testimonies detail torture and abuse of Gazan detainees in Israeli jails, detention centres.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. —Emiliano Zapata
The installation of the floating barrier is in clear violation of the U.S.-Mexico water treaty, which requires both countries to agree to any structure that can potentially divert the course of the river. For years, Mexico has filed diplomatic protests regarding violations of the U.S.-Mexico binational treaty as more wall barriers, shipping containers and other construction has taken place in the river’s floodplain.
In 2023, the Biden administration sued Texas after it installed a different chain-like type of buoy barrier near Eagle Pass, claiming among other violations in the lawsuit, that the installation had damaged diplomatic relations with Mexico.
Last week, The Border Chronicle requested access from DHS to fly a drone to film the installation from the US-side of the Rio Grande and was denied by the agency, which said it was placing “a media hold” on requests. The entire section of the river was placed under a National Defense Area designation, and military control in September 2025. The only way to document the U.S. government’s actions on the binational river was from Mexico. Several stories were published yesterday and today in the Mexican media about the installation of the barriers.
[Burning coffee sacks in Chiapas: Desperate farmers protest against Nestlé’s low purchase prices]
The nurse reportedly suggested medical providers carry syringes with an anesthetic in them to cause short-acting muscle paralysis in ICE agents. She also reportedly suggested putting poison ivy in a squirt gun to aim at ICE agents, among other things, she called “sabotage tactics.”
Common “Accidental” Scenarios
Accidental toxin production typically happens when people unknowingly create an “anaerobic” (oxygen-free) environment for low-acid foods:
Improper Home Canning: Using a boiling water bath instead of a pressure canner for low-acid vegetables like green beans, asparagus, or potatoes.
Infused Oils: Storing homemade garlic-in-oil or herb-infused oils at room temperature for more than a few days.
Foil-Wrapped Potatoes: Leaving baked potatoes wrapped in aluminum foil at room temperature for several days; the foil creates an oxygen-free seal around the potato.
Traditional Fermentation: Specific cultural practices involving fermented fish or marine mammal meat (common in Alaska).
My friend, Tassos, where I learned how to cook Greek food and where one of my marriages hosted a wedding dinner.
EL PASO, Texas, April 12, 1994 — Fourteen people who ate a garlic and potato-based dip at a Greek restaurant remained hospitalized Tuesday in what officials said may be the worst outbreak of botulism in Texas history.
The 14 were among 30 people who ate the dip at Tassos Greek Cuisine and Seafood Restaurant, said El Paso city-county Health and Environmental District director Dr. Laurance Nickey.
Four of the victims are in serious condition and breathing with the aid of ventilators, hospital officials said.
The outbreak was believed to involve more people than any single food-borne botulism episode in state history, said Dr. L. Bruce Elliott, director of microbiology services at the Texas Department of Health.
Food-borne botulism stems from toxins in food that is inadquately cooked or improperly stored. The undercooked foods become toxic after they are canned or placed in another type of oxygen-free environment.
Even though all the victims said they ate the dip, several other dishes served at the restaurant containing various ingredients are also being tested, Elliott said.
Bob Howard, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, said ‘We would classify this as a major or unusual outbreak’ due to the unusually high number of victims.
The CDC sent a representative to El Paso to join local experts and Texas Department of Health experts in the investigation, officials said.
Skordalia, a dip consisting of potatoes, garlic, cucumbers and sometimes yogurt, was served Friday and Saturday at the restaurant, which voluntarily closed pending the completion of an investigation.
Symptoms of botulism include blurred or double vision, headache, difficulty swallowing or talking, fatigue and respiratory difficulty. The fatality rate is 10 to 20 percent, the CDC said.NEWLN: (Written by Dick Kelsey in Dallas; edited by Phil Magers in Dallas)
The nurse reportedly said her ideas were not meant to kill or seriously harm anyone, but she wanted to “make their lives miserable.”
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Make a Homemade Stink Bomb
A stink bomb is a device usually used as a practical joke that produces a highly unpleasant odor.
Leonardo da Vinci invented a stink bomb that could be delivered to enemies using arrows.
Most stink bombs contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Compounds that contain sulfur (such as thiols) are particularly effective.
Homemade Stink Bomb Ingredients
You’ll only need three materials for this project. The smell in the stink bomb comes from the reaction between the chemicals in the matches and the ammonia. While any container that can be sealed will work, a plastic bottle is recommended because it won’t break. However, another option is to use a plastic zip-top baggie.
Use scissors or a knife to cut the heads off of a book of matches. Be careful not to cut yourself.
Place the match heads inside the empty 20-ounce bottle. Add about 2 tablespoons of household ammonia.
Seal the bottle and swirl the contents around.
Wait three to four days before uncapping the bottle to give the chemical reaction enough time to take place. After 72 to 96 hours, your stink bomb will be ready.
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Jew Jabs, Jew Stink: It’s called Skunk, a type of “malodorant,” or in plainer language, a foul-smelling liquid. Technically nontoxic but incredibly disgusting, it has been described as a cross between “dead animal and human excrement.” Untreated, the smell lingers for weeks.
The Israeli Defense Forces developed Skunk in 2008 as a crowd-control weapon for use against Palestinians. Now Mistral, a company out of Bethesda, Md., says they are providing it to police departments in the United States.
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The Israelis first used it in 2008 to disperse Palestinians protesting in the West Bank. A BBC video shows its first use in action, sprayed by a hose, a system that has come to be known as the “crap cannon.”
Mistral reps say Skunk, once deployed, can be “neutralized” with a special soap and only with that soap. In another BBC video, an IDF spokesman describes how any attempt to wash it via regular means only exacerbates its effects. Six weeks after IDF forces used it against Palestinians at a security barrier, it still lingered in the air.
The urban environment offers a multitude of large objects that allow defending forces the ability to create obstacles both inside and outside of buildings. Vehicles can be repositioned to block streets, furniture can be thrown into staircases, and concertina wire and remotely detonated explosive devices can be added to hinder easy movement between floors and into entryways of buildings. Concrete barriers, cars, buses, construction vehicles, dumpsters, furniture, and tires can be moved into streets and flipped over to channel, divert, or halt enemy armored fighting vehicles or dismounted personnel.
Sorry, more house negroes:
At Georgetown, a senior administrator reported, “The freshmen are much more radical than the seniors, and I’m told the high school students coming up are even more so.” Though the underground paper The Berkeley Barbput it more colorfully: “Che Guevara is thirteen years old, and he is not doing his homework.”
Operational Counter-Tactics Tactics used to counter militarized police operations in urban areas include:
Documentation and Monitoring: Utilizing cameras and apps to record police actions, especially concerning the deployment of armored vehicles, drones, and riot gear, to ensure accountability.
Creating Safe Zones: Establishing community areas designated as safe from police intervention to foster community support and resilience.
Recruiting Local Informants: Sociology Professor Julian Go notes that tactics similar to “search and destroy” used against indigenous populations in the 1800s, including surveillance and informant recruitment, have been adapted in modern urban policing.
Utilizing Concrete Barriers: Existing concrete barriers in cities, such as those used for infrastructure protection, can serve as defensive fortifications. Steel-reinforced concrete is a significant obstacle, as demonstrated by the defense of Mosul.
Fortifying Buildings: Reinforcing existing robust structures like government buildings or apartment complexes can create strongpoints. These fortified buildings act as mini-fortresses and can be further strengthened with materials and obstacles like sandbags, wire, and mines to hinder attackers. Historical examples, such as “Pavlov’s House” in the Battle of Stalingrad, show the effectiveness of using fortified buildings with good lines of sight and obstacles to hold off attacks.
Creating Rubble Barriers: Intentionally destroying buildings or using existing rubble to block streets and create obstacles can channel attacking forces into disadvantageous areas and impede their movement and the use of supporting vehicles. German forces used this tactic extensively during the Battle of Ortona to restrict Canadian movement.
Placing Heavy Weapons in Buildings: Positioning disassembled heavy weapons on higher floors of buildings provides superior firing angles and protection, creating formidable defensive positions. Examples include the Japanese using naval guns in Manila buildings and German forces using antitank guns in Ortona.
Using Concealment: Simple materials like wood, tin, tarpaulins, or cloth sheets can be used to create cover from aerial surveillance, hiding obstacles and personnel in urban environments. This has been observed in cities like Aleppo.
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You’re alive right now because of 90 seconds in 1962 when one man said “No”—and saved 7 billion people who hadn’t even been born yet.
October 27, 1962. Black Saturday. The day the world came within a heartbeat of ending.
Deep beneath the Caribbean, invisible to the world above, Soviet submarine B-59 had become a steel coffin. The air conditioning had failed days earlier. Internal temperature: 122°F. Men were collapsing from heatstroke, one after another, “falling like dominoes.” Carbon dioxide levels had reached the point where breathing felt like suffocation. The crew hadn’t heard from Moscow in nearly a week. For all they knew, World War III had already started.
Then the explosions began.
Eleven US Navy destroyers had surrounded their position. They started dropping depth charges directly overhead—practice charges meant as warning signals to force the submarine to surface. But the Soviets had no way of knowing that.
To the crew of B-59, trapped in darkness and unbearable heat, each blast sounded like death arriving. The metal hull screamed. Equipment shook loose. Vadim Orlov, a crew member, later described it: “It felt like you were sitting in a metal barrel, which somebody is constantly blasting with a sledgehammer.”
Captain Valentin Savitsky snapped.
Oxygen-deprived, heat-exhausted, convinced war had begun, he started screaming orders: “Maybe the war has already started up there, while we are doing somersaults here! We’re going to blast them now! We will die, but we will sink them all—we will not disgrace our Navy!”
He ordered his crew to arm the Special Weapon.
A nuclear torpedo. Fifteen kilotons. Roughly the power of the Hiroshima bomb. Enough to vaporize the American fleet overhead instantly. And if that weapon launched, the United States would assume nuclear war had begun. Moscow would be struck within hours. The Soviets would retaliate. London. Paris. New York. Hundreds of millions dead in the first day. Billions more in the aftermath.
But there was a technicality. A bureaucratic detail that saved the world.
Soviet protocol required unanimous consent from all three senior officers aboard to launch a nuclear weapon. On other submarines, only two signatures were needed. But B-59 was the flagship. It had three command officers.
Captain Savitsky screamed his approval.
The Political Officer, Ivan Maslennikov, gave his.
Two votes for annihilation.
They turned to the third man.
Vasili Arkhipov. Age 34. Flotilla Commander. The man who had survived the K-19 submarine disaster a year earlier—a near-nuclear meltdown that killed eight crewmates and left him with radiation poisoning. The man who understood, perhaps better than anyone else aboard, what nuclear weapons actually did.
Every fiber of logic and instinct pointed toward yes. The explosions were real. The threat felt immediate. His captain was ordering him. His crew was watching. His country seemed under attack.
Arkhipov looked at the faces around him. He heard the explosions. He felt the crushing heat.
And then he said one word:
“No.”
His voice, impossibly calm in the chaos. “These are not attacks. These are signals. Warnings to surface. If we launch this weapon, we end the world. We cannot know if war has started. We must surface and confirm.”
Captain Savitsky exploded. A screaming match erupted in the suffocating control room. Officers argued. Men shouted. The pressure was crushing. Minutes felt like hours.
But Arkhipov would not move. He would not turn his key. He would not give his vote.
Without unanimous approval, the launch was impossible.
Gradually, impossibly, Arkhipov convinced Savitsky to reconsider. They would surface. They would make contact. They would find out the truth before ending civilization.
The submarine rose through the dark water and broke the surface. American destroyers surrounded them. Tense moments passed as searchlights blazed. One destroyer even had a jazz band playing on deck—a surreal detail that probably saved even more lives by easing the tension.
But there were no missiles. No attacks. No war.
B-59 was escorted away. The crew went home. The world continued turning, completely unaware of how close it had come to ending.
When B-59 returned to Soviet waters, they faced disgrace. They had been detected. Forced to surface by Americans. In the Soviet military hierarchy, this was failure. Arkhipov spent the rest of his career in obscurity. He never sought recognition. He died quietly in 1998 at age 72, from radiation exposure suffered during the K-19 accident.
The world had no idea what he had done.
Not until 2002—40 years later—when Soviet files were declassified and a conference was held in Havana. For the first time, the full story emerged. American officials sat in stunned silence as they learned how close they’d come. Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara admitted: “We came very, very close to nuclear war, closer than we knew at the time.”
Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, spoke the words that would define Arkhipov’s legacy:
“The guy called Vasili Arkhipov saved the world.”
Think about that for a moment.
One man. One word. One decision made under unimaginable pressure, in unbearable heat, surrounded by chaos.
He didn’t save a city. He didn’t save a nation. He saved every person born after October 27, 1962. Every child who grew up in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s. Every baby born this year. Every dream realized. Every love story. Every scientific discovery. Every sunrise.
All of it exists because a man nobody had heard of chose reason over panic.
In 2017, the Future of Life Institute finally honored Arkhipov posthumously with the first Future of Life Award, presenting it to his daughter Elena and grandson Sergei. The award recognizes “exceptional measures, often performed despite personal risk and without obvious reward, to safeguard the collective future of humanity.”
Vasili Arkhipov proved something profound about human nature. That true courage isn’t about how quickly you can pull a trigger—it’s about the strength to keep your hand steady when everything around you is screaming for action. It’s about choosing reason when panic feels justified. It’s about understanding that some decisions are too important to make in rage.
Every breath you’ve ever taken. Every person you’ve ever loved. Every moment you’ve experienced. Every tomorrow you’ll wake up to.
All of it exists because on one suffocating afternoon in October 1962, beneath the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, a soft-spoken Soviet officer decided that humanity deserved one more chance.
Street tactics are used to fight the enemy in the streets, utilizing the participation of the population against him.
In 1968, the Brazilian students used excellent street tactics against police troops, such as marching down streets against traffic and using slingshots and marbles against mounted police. Other street tactics consist of constructing barricades; pulling up paving blocks and hurling them at the police; throwing bottles, bricks, paperweights and other projectiles at the police from the top of office and apartment buildings; using buildings and other structures for escape, for hiding and for supporting surprise attacks. It is equally necessary to know how to respond to enemy tactics. When the police troops come wearing helmets to protect them against flying objects, we have to divide ourselves into two teams—one to attack the enemy from the front, the other to attack him in the rear—withdrawing one as the other goes into action to prevent the first from being struck by projectiles hurled by the second. By the same token, it is important to know how to respond to the police net. When the police designate certain of their men to go into the crowd and arrest a demonstrator, a larger group of urban guerrillas must surround the police group, disarming and beating them and at the same time allowing the prisoner to escape. This urban guerrilla operation is called “the net within a net”.
When the police net is formed at a school building, a factory, a place where demonstrators gather, or some other point, the urban guerrilla must not give up or allow himself to be taken by surprise. To make his net effective, the enemy is obliged to transport his troops in vehicles and special cars to occupy strategic points in the streets, in order to invade the building or chosen locale. The urban guerrilla, for his part, must never clear a building or an area and meet in it without first knowing its exits, the way to break an encirclement, the strategic points that the police must occupy, and the roads that inevitably lead into the net, and he must hold other strategic points from which to strike at the enemy. The roads followed by police vehicles must be mined at key points along the way and at forced roadblocks. When the mines explode, the vehicles will be knocked into the air. The police will be caught in the trap and will suffer losses and be victims of an ambush. The net must be broken by escape routes which are unknown to the police. The rigorous planning of a withdrawal is the best way to frustrate any encircling effort on the part of the enemy. When there is no possibility of an escape plan, the urban guerrilla must not hold meetings, gatherings or do anything, since to do so will prevent him from breaking through the net which the enemy will surely try to throw around him.
Street tactics have revealed a new type of urban guerrilla who participates in mass protests. This is the type we designate as the “urban guerrilla demonstrator”, who joins the crowds and participates in marches with specific and definate aims in mind. The urban guerrilla demonstrator must initiate the “net within the net”, ransacking government vehicles, official cars and police vehicles before turning them over or setting fire to them, to see if any of them have money or weapons.
Snipers are very good for mass demonstrations, and along with the urban guerrilla demonstrator can play a valuable role. Hidden at strategic points, the snipers have complete success using s
Does American law enforcement treat The Anarchist Cookbook as “contraband”? One definition of contraband is an item that is not permitted in prison. It seems that the book is generally not permitted in American prisons, judging by cases in which individual prisoners unsuccessfully litigated their right to possess the book in their cells. Another common definition of contraband is something that has been imported or exported illegally. If, as Grimm suggests, border officials can be expected to seize the book during searches, The Anarchist Cookbook might qualify.
It is not illegal for Americans who are not incarcerated to possess the book, nor to buy it or download it. It might not be “contraband” in this sense. However, if you are suspected of being involved in some crime involving guns or explosives or drugs, it is very dangerous to have a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook at your house or on your computer. If you do, it could well be seized by law enforcement and used against you in your criminal trial. In this sense, literate criminals are prosecuted in part for their particular reading habits, if those habits include this particular book.
Indeed, not a single American court opinion has taken issue with law enforcement’s seizure of The Anarchist Cookbook during a raid, even when judges are reluctant to ultimately admit the book into evidence. Courts have consistently blessed the practice of seizing this book during an investigation, almost as if The Anarchist Cookbook qualified as contraband.
Books as Contraband: The Strange Case of ‘The Anarchist Cookbook’ — Another shitty school and another shitty course: Jeff Breinholt is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School, where he teaches a course on trying terrorists. The views in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Justice.
“I won’t give you my name but put that I am Maniguas so that “El Chayo” sees where I am and how I will receive him when he comes looking for me,” this vigilante tells EL PAÍS.
The peasant rebels took up arms in 1994, and now number 300,000 in centres with their own doctors, teachers and currency, but rarely answer questions – until now
The following excerpt is from the introduction to Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories:
After visiting us several times, they began to explain the struggle: what they were fighting for and whom they were fighting against. They told us there was a word we could use to show our respect for each other, and that word was compañeros or compañeras. Saying it meant that we were going to struggle together for our freedom. —ARACELI and MARIBEL, Zapatista women from the La Realidad region
In the 1980s, outsiders dressed as doctors or teachers arrived in Araceli and Maribel’s jungle community and began asking the peasants why they were paid such low prices when they sold their coffee or corn. These outsiders talked about the fundamental injustices between rich and poor, and about the mistreatment their indigenous community had endured for more than five hundred years. They said that women had rights too. Villagers like Araceli and Maribel took a risk and joined “the organization.” They attended secret meetings at night and recruited their neighbors. Some left home to live in the mountains and become insurgents – joining a scrappy indigenous army that was growing in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.
On January 1, 1994, the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN) captured the world’s imagination when it rose up to demand justice and democracy – taking on the Mexican government and global capitalism itself. The EZLN is named after Emiliano Zapata, a hero of the Mexican Revolution, and it took up his rallying cry of tierra y libertad (land and freedom). From its formation in 1983 until the 1994 uprising, the EZLN was a clandestine organization. Since that brief armed insurrection, the EZLN has become known primarily for its peaceful mobilizations, dialogue with civil society, and structures of political, economic, and cultural autonomy. During the decade leading up to and the decade after the uprising, women from the indigenous Mayan villages that belong to the EZLN experienced dramatic transformations in their lives, their communities, and their level of political participation and leadership.
(Image: Seven Stories Press)People around the world have been inspired by images of Zapatista women: Major Ana María wearing a black ski mask and brown uniform, leading indigenous troops during the uprising; Comandanta Ramona standing next to Subcomandante Marcos during peace negotiations with the Mexican government, the top of her head barely reaching his shoulder; Comandanta Ester, draped in a white shawl with embroidered flowers, addressing the Mexican Congress to demand respect for indigenous rights and culture. The dignity with which these women carried themselves, set against a backdrop of centuries of racism and exploitation, embodies what the Zapatista movement has come to represent – the resistance of the marginalized and the forgotten against the powerful. Peasants turned warriors, mothers turned revolutionary leaders – dozens, hundreds, thousands of Zapatista women gather, tiny and dark-skinned, with red bandannas covering their faces and masking their individual identities, long black braids hanging down their backs, their fists in the air. They have marched, they have organized, and they have planted seeds – both real and symbolic. They have stood up to the Mexican army and to their own husbands. They have changed their own lives and they have changed the world around them.
From the civil rights movement in the United States to the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, from the campaign against apartheid in South Africa to the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East, women have fought side by side with men for their people’s freedom. Women have been important actors and made invaluable contributions to grassroots social movements and national liberation struggles all over the world. Many of these, while not women’s movements per se, have created new opportunities for women and catalyzed changes in their lives. At the same time, women almost invariably face discrimination within their own organizations, and have often had to fight for women’s rights to be included in the vision of a just society. This dual and interdependent relationship between women’s liberation and social revolution illustrates that popular struggles cannot achieve collective liberation for all people without addressing patriarchy and, likewise, women’s freedom cannot be disentangled from racial, economic, and social justice.
The indigenous communities that make up the EZLN have historically confronted extreme inequality: economic, because of the legacy of colonialism and the concentration of land and wealth in Chiapas; political, because of their exclusion from state, national, and local decision making; and social, because of racism against indigenous people and the lack of basic services such as health care, education, electricity, and potable water. Women have also faced gender-based discrimination. In the words of Comandanta Ester, from a speech she gave in Mexico City’s central plaza in 2001, “We are oppressed three times over, because we are poor, because we are indigenous, and because we are women.” This history of marginalization serves as a backdrop for the striking changes that have taken place in Zapatista territory.
Today, the Zapatista movement has a presence throughout eastern Chiapas, with most of the EZLN’s support base living in rural indigenous villages. The Zapatista support base refers to the civilians – individuals and communities – who belong to the EZLN. The Mexican newspaper El Universal reports the Zapatista support base to be approximately 250,000 people, representing about 22 percent of the indigenous population of Chiapas.
Zapatista territory is not “liberated territory” in the traditional sense that a guerrilla army has complete control over a certain area. The Mexican military has an intense presence throughout the region, and within Zapatista territory there are Zapatista and non-Zapatista villages, and some that are divided between the two. There are clear boundaries of Zapatista territory, however, and this is meaningful because in this small corner of the world, the Zapatistas are experimenting with self-government that functions independently from the existing state and federal system, alternative education and health care infrastructure, and an economic system based on cooperation, solidarity, and relationships of equality.
A small Zapatista village might have a dozen families, whereas larger villages have a hundred families or more. Zapatista communities are organized into autonomous municipalities, which function as something like counties. Each autonomous municipality is made up of anywhere from a dozen to a hundred villages. The EZLN has drawn its own geographical lines, corresponding to where its support base resides and often defined by geography: all the villages along a particular canyon, for example.
The EZLN’s approximately forty autonomous municipalities are organized into five regions, which the Zapatistas call “zones.” Each region or zone is commonly referred to by the name of the five villages that house the Caracoles (previously called Aguascalientes), the seat of each regional autonomous government. Morelia, La Garrucha, and La Realidad are in the canyons that run eastward to the Lacandon Jungle, and correspond roughly to the official municipalities of Altamirano, Ocosingo, and Las Margaritas, respectively. Oventic is in the central highlands of Chiapas, near the colonial city of San Cristóbal de las Casas, and Roberto Barrios is in the northern zone, near the Mayan ruins of Palenque.
January 2014 marked the twentieth anniversary of the Zapatista uprising and thirty years since the EZLN’s formation as an underground organization. Over the past three decades, the impact of the Zapatista movement can be seen at the local, national, and international level. Land takeovers carried out after the 1994 uprising – where large ranches were occupied by the Zapatistas and reapportioned to landless peasants – impacted the distribution of wealth in eastern Chiapas and continue to affect living conditions for those Zapatista communities farming on reclaimed land. Most Zapatista villages are still poor, but have experienced some concrete material improvements. The Zapatista construction of indigenous autonomy has meant that rural villages in Chiapas have gained access to rudimentary health care and education, which they were previously denied. They exercise self-determination through autonomous village and regional governments, and generate resources back into their communities through economic cooperatives that organize the production of goods.
At the national level, the EZLN signed the San Andrés Accords with the Mexican government in 1996, which recognized indigenous rights and promised indigenous autonomy. The Zapatista movement arguably helped bring an end to seventy years of one-party rule in Mexico when the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI), which had monopolized state power since the Mexican Revolution, lost the presidential elections in 2000. And, through its national mobilizations and dialogue with other sectors of the population, the EZLN is also credited with the strengthening of Mexican civil society.
Around the world, the Zapatistas catalyzed a wave of solidarity that inspired a generation of young activists to organize for social justice in their own contexts. The repercussions of the Zapatista movement at the international level may be difficult to measure, but should not be underestimated. International gatherings organized by the EZLN fostered the burgeoning global justice movement. Events inspired or influenced by the Zapatistas include the World Social Forum, an annual global forum for grassroots activists and organizations, and demonstrations against global capitalism, such as the protests in Seattle in 1999 against the World Trade Organization. Evo Morales, a Socialist and the first indigenous president of Bolivia, has often referred to the Zapatistas in his speeches and writings. Antiwar activists in San Francisco, trying to stop the second Gulf War in 2003, cited the Zapatistas as an inspiration. With its ideological critique of neoliberalism and its internal emphasis on participatory democracy, the EZLN was also a precursor to the Occupy and “We Are the 99 Percent” movements that emerged almost two decades after the Zapatista uprising. Perhaps most importantly, the EZLN offered one answer to the question of what the next wave of liberation struggles might look like after the end of the Cold War.
While the EZLN is rightfully known for these contributions, there is another, often less celebrated piece of the story. Women’s leadership within the organization is one of the most compelling aspects of the Zapatista movement. Zapatista women have served as insurgents, political leaders, healers, educators, and key agents in autonomous economic development. Women’s participation in the EZLN has helped shape the Zapatista movement which has, in turn, opened new spaces for women and led to dramatic changes in their lives. A woman who was abused as a teenager at the hands of a husband chosen by her father would later join a caravan of thousands of Zapatistas marching on Mexico City to demand indigenous rights. Along the way, she would meet with other Mexican women and urge them to fight for their liberation as she had. Compañeras documents these changes through the voices of women who lived them.
Copyright (2015) by Hilary Klein. Not to be reprinted without permission of the publisher, Seven Stories Press.
“The Dirty Business of Israelization of the World”
The phrase “our American Israel” comes from a Puritan expression of colonial American exceptionalism. In 1799, Abiel Abbot, a Massachusetts minister, preached a Thanksgiving sermon titled “Traits of Resemblance in the People of the United States of America to Ancient Israel.” The sermon starts by noting common usage at the time: “It has been often remarked that the people of the United States come nearer to a parallel with Ancient Israel, than any other nation upon the globe. Hence, ‘our american israel,’ is a term frequently used; and common consent allows it apt and proper.” This parallel with biblical Israel conferred an exceptional identity on the United States right from the start.
After World War II, similar parallels again made the modern state of Israel appear exceptional in American eyes. The phrase “our American Israel” originally used the biblical nation metaphorically to refer to the United States, yet the possessive construction also expresses how Americans have made Israel their own. This process in the twentieth century involved projection—of desires, fears, fantasies—onto the modern state of Israel. It also entailed concrete exchanges and intimate interactions fueled by the circulation of individuals and institutions between the two countries. This combination of identifcation, projection, and possession has contributed abundantly to ideas of American national identity, and to support for Israel as well.
Abbot’s eighteenth-century sermon grounded the unstable identity of the new American nation-state in the known typology of the biblical Israel. The sermon helped to constitute the new nation as an “imagined community.”8 The word “our” conveyed a sense of national belonging to the community of white Protestant settlers, now citizens of the new nation, in part by excluding outsiders from the circle of possession. It not only distinguished the United States from “any other nation on the globe” but also effaced the memory of the Native communities that had been exterminated by warfare, disease, commerce, and agriculture to make way for the divinely chosen nation.
“The Dirty Business of Capitalism”
Rather than dismissing Trump and his crew as “evil,” “wrong,” or “stupid,” Du Bois’s careful delineation of the motives of both sides of capital in the Reconstruction struggle encourages us to think about what this political moment says about the dead-end crisis of capitalism as a whole. Like then, the politicians of the two-party system, with different tactics, have one goal in mind — the preservation of the system of capitalism.
Despite broad public opposition, on Jan. 22 National Park Service (NPS) workers carried out orders from President Donald Trump to remove over a dozen display panels about the history of enslavement in the U.S.
Ahh, Black History Month:
Last May, all 433 National Park Service installations and other Interior Department holdings were given a mid-September 2025 deadline to “rid exhibits, signs, films and bookstores of statements and literature” that Trump and Burgum determined unduly focused on “how bad slavery was.” (New York Times, Aug. 19, 2025)
But covering up the U.S. racist history was not their only goal.
[Trump’s racist, white supremacist executive order called for Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to “ensure” that content which “inappropriately disparages” U.S. individuals past or living ceases to exist at national parks, including Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. In 2026, this park will be at the center of the celebration of the country’s 250th anniversary.]
In California, at Muir Woods National Monument, they ordered a plaque removed that described the beneficial relationship of the planet’s tallest trees in slowing down global warming. They ordered the Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts to stop showing films about the women and immigrants exploited in that city’s textile mills.
Native News Online noted Sept. 8 that the National Museum of the American Indian — with locations in New York City and Washington, D.C. — was one of eight Smithsonian institutions under audit with Trump’s order. The goal was to sugarcoat history while glorifying the crimes of white European settler colonialists.
The Indigenous news service reported that at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, D.C., in early September, U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) gave voice to a far-right, settler-colonial false narrative that “America was founded by and intended for Europeans.”
Alluding to the Manifest Destiny doctrine, Schmitt claimed: “We’re a nation of settlers, explorers and pioneers — born on the ocean waters that carried the first ships to our shores and forged in the crucible of a wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization from the wilderness and wrote our nation’s name in history.”
But the true history that Trump, Schmitt and other neo fascists want to wipe away is the genocidal attacks that these settler colonialists carried out against Indigenous peoples, equating Indigenous resistance to “barbarism,” much like Israel does today with the Palestinian Resistance.
As horrific as the public executions of white Minnesotans Renee Good and Alex Pretti are, they were preceded by the murders of Keith Porter, Jr, Brayan Garzón-Rayom, Marie Ange Blaise, Jesus Molina-Veya, and dozens more under the latest regime’s immigration policies. That the deaths of white people spurred the demands for accountability and even abolition among a larger portion of the population, after the deaths of more than 30 non-white people were not responded to in the same way if at all, is also a by-product of the racial bias inherent in this country’s history that has been ingrained in the psyche of its people. Even the good white people who do want change do not realize how they have been conditioned to not care about the repression of “the other,” and only respond when that repression shows up on their door or the door of someone they can personally identify with. — Continuity of Social Control From Slave Patrols To Policing To ICEJacqueline Luqman
Here we go now: Is ICE a Crack in Trump’s Mussolini Project? – Gerald Horne, Jonathan M. Katz, Paul Jay
To Be Published in the Local Rag Sometime in Feb. 2026 (without all the graphics and asides0 : White Guy Paulo Kirk writing yet another Black History essay for the local rag:
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Black History is American History
by Paul Haeder
The 2026 National Black History Month theme, designated by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), is “A Century of Black History Commemorations.” This theme marks the 100th anniversary of the first Negro History Week, established in 1926 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson.
By the time this is published, many will have missed an insightful guy’s talk on York, Feb. 9 at the Edgefield in Gresham: Zachary Stocks, executive director of Oregon Black Pioneers, who has been both in Yachats and in Waldport.
York was an enslaved man who took part in the Lewis and Clark Expedition from 1803-1806. But what is known about York besides his participation in this journey? Zachary Stocks of Oregon Black Pioneers will present a detailed biography of York which reveals his experiences during the expedition, his life before and after, and his place within national African American history.
Zachary Stocks is the executive director of Oregon Black Pioneers, a public historian and interpreter. He previously served as program director of Grays Harbor Historical Seaport and visitor services manager of the Northwest African American Museum. Zachary is a former intern of Colonial Williamsburg and Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and a former park ranger at Lewis & Clark National Historical Park. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the College of William & Mary with a certificate in public history from the National Institute for American History and Democracy, and a master’s degree in museology from the University of Washington.
In Waldport, Stocks was here to dedicate the bronze statue of this community’s best kept secret: Louis Southworth
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Louis came to Oregon in 1853. Slavery was not legal in Oregon, but African Americans had been prohibited from settling in Oregon. The Oregon State Constitution, passed in 1859, contained an exclusion clause making it illegal for African Americans to live in Oregon (the clause was not repealed until 1926, and the population of African Americans in Oregon did not surpass one percent until 1960).
Southworth was born into slavery in Tennessee on July 4, 1829. His owner, James Southworth, brought him to Oregon. James deemed Louis to be his property. He and his brother William Southworth petitioned the Oregon territorial government to protect slave property.
James Southworth caught gold fever, so he, his family and Louis went to California. Louis Southworth made money playing his violin for dance schools, and by 1858, he had raised $1,000 (equivalent today to $39,527.07).
He purchased his freedom.
“In 1879, Louis Southworth and his family homesteaded in the Alsea Valley. He cleared ten to twelve acres per year over a six-year period, using animal power and a wooden plow, hunted with a homemade rifle, and fished to supply food for the family. He also built a sawmill and ferried people up the Alsea River. Southworth was an active member of the community. He donated land for a school, taught his horse tricks for a show at the Oregon State Fair, and played his fiddle for dances in Waldport.”
Now, Zachary and Oregon Black Pioneers have a new talking-visual tour: York, an enslaved man, who took part in the Lewis and Clark Expedition from 1803-1806.
Black History month isn’t good enough to erase the outright ignorance and blatant racism of this country, especially under Racist in Chief Trump.
How many teachers know that York was crucial to Lewis and Clark’s success? He was a skilled hunter, successfully negotiated with Native Americans, and cared for ill soldiers. Few know that York was a naturalist who helped describe new plants and animals. However, York has never been formally acknowledged for his contributions to natural history. No plants or animals bear York’s name like those of Clark and Lewis.
Fast forward now, with the Department of War (Crimes) and Cap’n Crunch Hegseth’s racism. Hegseth has insisted that, instead of letting the military evolve like it usually does, to reimpose old policies that will adversely affect Black service members more than any other group.
Hegseth wants to kick people out because they get razor bumps. One thing that I noticed and my 32-year military veteran father observed starting in boot camp is that many Black service members have issues with shaving every day. Disposable razors cause nasty ingrown hairs, and Black men will suffer more than the rest of us from shaving every day. Pseudofolliculitis barbae is the medical term.
We are in this Anti-Black Everyday Celebration under conservatives: Hegseth has found a way to rename bases back to Confederate generals by using non-Confederate heroes’ names, and to rename ships and scrub Jackie Robinson from DoD. Accused rapist Hegseth has removed programs for women service members that Trump had enacted. He’s disrespected the Navajo code talkers.
[Also wiped in the purge — albeit temporarily — were the Navajo Code Talkers, as many as 420 enlisted Marine Corps men who transmitted encrypted messages during World War II by using a code based on their Diné language.
While the Pentagon blamed artificial intelligence for scrubbing websites that have since been restored, the agency’s actions still lingerthroughout the Navajo Code Talker community.]
I’ve heard Professor Gerald Horne talk and I am attempting to get him on my KYAQ show.
Here’s what I heard him open up with — “The thesis of my talk this evening is simple: black lives do not matter and have not historically because the settler colonialism that formed the basis for the resultant U.S.A. was structured this way,” said Horne, the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston.
In Lincoln County, for this paper’s readership, learning curves are steep. It is not just MLK Junior road signs.
[There are at least 955 streets named after Martin Luther King Jr. in the United States. These thoroughfares are located in 41 states, as well as Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Beyond the U.S., there are more than 1,000 streets named after King worldwide, including locations in Italy, Israel, Haiti, and South Africa.]
Dang, a whole lot of history you have to catch up on: Angela Davis, Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, Fred Hampton, Assata Shakur, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Robert F. Williams, W.E.B. Du Bois, Audre Lorde, Amiri Baraka, George Jackson.
There are thousands of Black, African and African-American thinkers and activists, scholars and artists. But Gerald Horne sets down a cornerstone for all of us to consider:
“If black lives are to matter in the United States, we’re going to have to engage in an agonizing reappraisal of our present plight, critique the path that has brought us to the precipice of fiasco in recent decades and embark on a new path.”
Here are three pieces of advice for white teachers who want to become accountable allies:
a.) Examine your relationships with Black colleagues and parents;
b.) Avoid performative allyship;
c.) Do more than pay lip service to a culturally sensitive curriculum.
“My advice to those colleagues, and to other white teachers who care about equity and justice, is to look inward as critically and intentionally as you look outward, and commit to tangible change within yourselves. If there is an unwillingness among our white colleagues to interrogate their complicity in white supremacy, our culture is not and will never be a fit. Education is the praxis of freedom. Our fight requires individuals who are willing to go the marathon distance; sprinters are not needed,” says LaTrina Johnson, assistant principal of curriculum and instruction at RePublic High School in Nashville, Tennessee.
“Terror Tuesdays” refers to regular meetings in the Obama White House where top officials reviewed and approved targets for lethal drone strikes targeting militants in Pakistan , Yemen, and Somalia,
As Donald Trump assumes office today (January 20, 2017), he inherits a targeted killing program that has been the cornerstone of U.S. counterterrorism strategy over the past eight years. On January 23, 2009, just three days into his presidency, President Obama authorized his first kinetic military action: two drone strikes, three hours apart, in Waziristan, Pakistan, that killed as many as twenty civilians. Two terms and 540 strikes later, Obama leaves the White House after having vastly expanding and normalizing the use of armed drones for counterterrorism and close air support operations in non-battlefield settings.
Minnesota ICE live: Protests erupt nationwide as Bruce Springsteen performs at fundraiser for Renee Good and Alex Pretti
Springsteen reportedly had the words ‘Arrest the President’ on his guitar as he took the stage Friday
Psychosis of Whiteness — “There’s nothing more important than what we’re doing right now, in my opinion,” the president said at the signing ceremony in the Oval Office. “Today, I’m signing a historic executive order to combat the scourge of addiction and substance abuse — big deal in this country and probably in every country. We’re calling it the Great American Recovery Initiative.”
The initiative will be chaired by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kathryn Burgum, both of whom joined Mr. Trump for the ceremony. Kathryn Burgum, who is married to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, struggled with alcoholism before becoming sober 22 years ago and is a vocal advocate for addiction recovery.
Talk about psychosis? Apologies? Fucking reparations and land back, cunts. Calls for King Charles to formally apologise for slavery after research shows crown’s role
Book The Crown’s Silence details how crown profited from and protected trade in enslaved African people for centuries
Who the fuck cares? “I will never run for an elected office again. Never again,” Walz, the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, said in an interview with MS NOW.
ICE launches nationwide program for covert surveillance of immigrants
A subsidiary of the French company Capgemini signed a contract for some of the work, but after pressure from French officials, Capgemini now says it is no longer executing the contract.
[Trigger Warning: Yet another fucking House Nigger for MAGA.]
Does it fucking matter? Fickle and lobotomized and rah-rah-rah for our pigs and uniformed soldiers/mercenaries of fortune?
President Trump’s approval rating is slipping, with more than two-thirds of Americans saying they disapprove of how the president is handling his job, according to a new Pew Research Center poll.
The poll, released Thursday, found that Trump’s approval rating fell 3 percentage points from last fall and now stands at 37 percent. Trump’s support among Republicans remains high at 73 percent approval, though that figure is down slightly from a poll conducted last September.
Wanted: All Heroic AMericans. Bondi announces $1M reward for whistleblower who reported antitrust crime
Oh, the fucking hip Cun-Tree. Portugal builds Europe’s first dedicated drone carrier, D João II
References to Portugal’s epic, seafaring past like these litter this city – there is even a Vasco da Gama shopping mall. But until now, there has never been a single explicit reference, memorial or monument in Portugal’s public space to its pioneering role in the transatlantic slave trade, nor any acknowledgement of the millions of lives that were stolen between the 15th and 19th centuries.
This is the task that has brought Kiluanji Kia Henda, Angola’s most successful contemporary artist, here from his hometown of Luanda. The forthcoming Memorial-Homage to the Victims of Slavery that he designed will be the first memorial of its kind in Portugal and, he says, “the greatest challenge I’ve faced as an artist”.
That the memorial’s artist comes from Angola, the country that suffered the most catastrophic loss of lives during the trade in enslaved people at the hands of the Portuguese, is poignant. By the 19th century, Angola had become the largest source of enslaved people taken to the Americas. “For me, it is about building a bridge to the past as a way of establishing a dialogue about these historical cycles of violence,” says Kia Henda.
[The front cover of a 1931 monthly propaganda magazine heralding the virtues of Portugal’s colonies, produced by the Portugal Colonial company and edited by Henrique Galvão, who went on to become an opponent of Portugal’s dictatorship and outspoken critic of violence in the colonies]
“The modern world would not exist if it was not for enslavement,” he says. “The modernity you see here was built on the backs of Black people. It’s important that there is awareness about that.”
Project
“Plantation – Prosperity and Nightmare” is intended to address the memory of slavery as the presence of an absence, as we do not believe it is possible to directly and realistically represent such transnational trauma.
We then turn to the raw material, sugar cane, the white gold that was at the origin of the compulsory slave trade.
The project is a representation of a sugar cane plantation consisting of 540 feet of black aluminum sugar cane, each 3 meters high and 8 centimeters in diameter. Between the cane feet there are regular breaks, inviting for walking and reflection. An experience is presented between the sacred, the contemplative, and the everyday banal. As if sugarcane became the image of urban repetition itself. Until a small amphitheater appears in the middle of the plantation, as a meeting point. Maybe a quilombo of runaway slaves. Maybe just a void, a gap of intervals, where something new can come up.
This is expected to be a socializing point for the most varied cultural events, from music to small street shows, from academic dialogues to theatrical readings. The historical link between monoculture and slavery is narrated, in a monument that deals with the relationship between excess wealth and the inhuman exploitation of life. The project aims to build a place of memory, open to reflection. It is sought that in the center of the anguish the avenues of encounter are open, pointing to new creations and new possibilities for coexistence.
Fucking MAGA cunts: WITH the 2026 tax season officially open and Americans scrambling to submit their returns by the April deadline, taxpayers may experience some frustrating delays this year.
The disruptions may come as the IRS braces for another government shutdown in just days.
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” —Maya Angelou
It is a time of being sorted by skin and hair, by mother tongue, as being from here or there, as pepper spray fills in the air until the whole city stinks of it, and the men who arrived in rented cars with out-of-state plates, with faces covered, begin their hunt for carpenters, house maids, dish washers, kindergarten kids, for anyone who, to them, looks like they aren’t from here. They’ll pull you through the window of your car. They will not tell you who they are, who is in command. They wear a little of the alphabet and do not know that ice out also means the date in spring when it is forbidden any longer to fish on the lakes. They tackle and beat and cuff. It is never enough. This is where the people make their stand. These are the city’s barricades and fires, leaf blowers blowing the tear gas back. Here are the bouquets left in the snow for the dead, candles in glass jars guttering out, hymns once sung in church. Anyone may be taken, and those who stand in the way are shot in the head. This is what should be said to the coming cities: you’ll need gas masks, goggles, armbands, milk for your eyes, the name of someone who will search if you disappear. When the time comes, take in anyone who needs to hide, bring pots of food to front lines everywhere, hot soup and cocoa, a roast potato to warm the hands. When the time comes, listen to the whistles, the car horns, the cries in the air.
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“On Living in the Hour of Cities Under Siege” is forthcoming from Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026, to be published by Scribner Books in September 2026.
Some strangers mistake the pest-control company manager for Latino, he said, and he fears getting caught up in ICE raids.
Like Mantz, many Native Americans are carrying tribal documents proving their U.S. citizenship in case they are stopped or questioned by federal immigration agents. This is why dozens of the 575 federally recognized Native nations are making it easier to get tribal IDs. They’re waiving fees, lowering the age of eligibility — ranging from 5 to 18 nationwide — and printing the cards faster.
Here, the Cuntology, again, those fucking white ghouls, man: Trump was joined by IndyCar owner and chairperson Roger Penske, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy in the Oval Office to announce efforts to organize an IndyCar race in Washington. D.C., later this summer. The event highlights another sporting event organized by the Trump administration in honor of the United States’ 250th anniversary.
“We’re celebrating ‘Greatness with American Motor Racing,’ that’s going to be the name of the event,” Trump said, adding that the event will take place from Aug. 21-23.
Oh, those Jewish Values . . . Fucking victims victims victims while their fucking Jewish Dirty Hands are Outstretched for more fucking Welfare . . . Roughly two million people, including 880,000 children and 150,000 elderly citizens, were living below the poverty line in Israel in 2024, according to an annual National Insurance report published on Friday morning.
Making up 21 percent of the population, the figure marks an increase of 0.3% from 2023, the report for which was published in December 2024. The rate of children living in poverty is at 28%, slightly worse than the 27.9% recorded a year earlier.
With around one in four children living in poverty, Israel has the second-highest rate of child poverty among OECD countries, after Costa Rica. However, the rate of food insecurity suffered by children in Israel dropped from 36% in 2023 to 31.7% in 2024.
Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bull Dum Diversas on June 18, 1452, which granted King Alfonso V of Portugal the right to “invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever” and to “reduce their persons to perpetual slavery”.
We grant you [King of Portugal …] by these present documents, with our Apostolic Authority, full and free permission to invade, search out, capture, and subjugate the Saracens and pagans and any other unbelievers and enemies of Christ wherever they may be, as well as their kingdoms, duchies, counties, principalities, and other property […] and to reduce their persons into perpetual servitude.
Natalie Avalos, a Chicana scholar of Apache descent, writes that settler colonialism needs to be understood as a structure, not a past event. Colonial projects “must be continually re-inscribed” in order to justify ongoing injustices.
The white, Eurocentric worldview is still imbedded in our politics, culture, and art today, one reason Columbus statues are being toppled along with Confederate monuments. These are symbols of oppression.
Minnesota is an example of how difficult it is to change the narrative. The state Capitol went through a major renovation in the mid-2010s. The state created a subcommittee to review Capitol art. Some troubling paintings were removed or relocated to less prominent spaces in the Capitol. However, through back channels, the Minnesota Senate made it clear that the art subcommittee couldn’t touch the Senate Chamber’s art. That included a particularly offensive mural called “The Discoverers and Civilizers led to the source of the Mississippi.”
Instead of removing it, the state restored it.
The mural’s central element depicts a half-naked Native man and woman trapped by the advance of white explorers, settlers, and their protective angels. A priest extends a cross, behind him another man restrains two attack dogs. The message is clear: convert or die.
What’s so hard about changing the art every century or so? What’s so hard about admitting today that this is an offensive painting and acknowledging the harm it’s done? The devotion state leaders showed this mural reflects white supremacy thinking, and Doctrine of Discovery thinking.
The Doctrine of Discovery predated the Reformation and Protestant churches. In the 15th Century, to be Christian was to be Catholic. Today, many mainline Protestant Christian denominations and other religious communities have adopted formal statements repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery and committed to make repairs.
The Doctrine of Discovery isn’t official Catholic Church policy and hasn’t been for centuries. Subsequent popes issued bulls overriding such things as the Inter caetera of 1493. But the Catholic Church has never formally revoked that bull, either. Native rights activists, such as Doctrine of Discovery authority Steve Newcom (Lenape), have been pushing the Catholic Church to formally repudiate it.
[The Thirteenth Amendment purported to abolish chattel slavery, along with what an 1883 Supreme Court decision called its “badges and incidents.” But the amendment left some infamous carve-outs: Namely, it remains legal to enslave people who have been convicted of a crime. But there is another remaining “badge and incident” of slavery that we must uproot: the police’s use of K9 units. The police’s practice of using dogs to attack human beings derives from enslavers’ practice of using slave hounds to attack enslaved people. This coercive history harms human beings and animals in order to perpetuate the racial and economic interests of people in power. One way we can honor the Thirteenth Amendment’s promise to rid our society of slavery—all of its badges and incidents—is by getting dogs out of policing.]
The lash and shackles remain two primary symbols of material degradation fixed in the historical memory of slavery in the Americas. Yet as recounted by states, abolitionists, travellers, and most importantly slaves themselves, perhaps the most terrifying and effective tool for disciplining black bodies and dominating their space was the dog. This article draws upon archival research and the published materials of former slaves, novelists, slave owners, abolitionists, Atlantic travelers, and police reports to link the systems of slave hunting in Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, and the US South throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Slave hounds were skillfully honed biopower predicated upon scenting, hearing, sighting, outrunning, outlasting, signaling, attacking, and sometimes terminating, black runaways. These animals permeated slave societies throughout the Americas and bolstered European ambitions for colonial expansion, indigenous extirpation, economic extraction, and social domination in slave societies. as dogs were bred to track and hunt enslaved runaways, slave communities utilized resources from the natural environment to obfuscate the animal’s heightened senses, which produced successful escapes on multiple occasions.
[Alon Reininger (photographer), Police academy dog training under Apartheid, March 1976. Photograph. Pretoria, South Africa.]
James Drake, Police Dog Attack, (1993). Bronze and steel sculpture, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama.
Thomas Moran, Slave Hunt, Dismal Swamp, Virginia, (1861-62). Oil on canvas, 86.4 × 111.8 cm. Philbrook Museum of Art.
Oh, man, they want me to take some, err, Jew Jab and other poisons!
Do we fucking CARE? Sure, this one . . . a Jew telling Goyim stories about the Israeli Judicial System (sic). Interesting. But he did represent Hamas and Palestinians. Called a self-loathing Jew. Listen up.
The Runnymede Trust, which in September published Reparations, a report offering a blueprint for reparative justice, said King Charles offering an apology would be “a welcome, symbolic first step”, but must be supported by action.
They added: “Reparations is not about exacting collective punishment or confessions of guilt – a Crown apology should only be offered if there is an accompanying governmental promise to engage with the systemic work that needs to be done to see how the legacies of slavery have coded our economic and financial infrastructures, and to genuinely commit to their reform and transformation.”
Liliane Umubyeyi, the director of African Futures Lab, also argued that recognition “cannot be sufficient on its own”, saying there was a “legal as well as moral obligation for reparations, as slavery has been formally recognised as a crime against humanity under international law”.
Reparations are not just about the past – they are about the present we live in and the future we hope to build. There is an impressive Grade A listed property in Fife, Scotland, which was acquired through wealth extracted, in part, from my father’s natal village of Chattak in what was then India in the eighteenth century. That property remains an asset in the family that benefited from the process of extraction dating back some 250 years. There is no blue plaque or public acknowledgement of that historical or geographical connection.
But this is no exception. Across Britain, the proceeds of empire and slavery that provided the resource for the country that we know today are buried in plain sight. Slavery, colonialism and imperial power engineered the racial inequalities that we still experience and confront. Whether it is wealth, health, policing or education – all inequalities that the Runnymede Trust has written extensively about and worked tirelessly to address – the genealogical roots of all of these inequalities stretch back to this period. And while the past cannot be undone, it can and must be addressed.
The word ‘reparations’ still sparks discomfort in public debate. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has framed discussions of reparations as merely ‘spend[ing] a lot of time on the past’, and Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch has dismissed them as ‘a scam’. But neither of these perspectives align with those of experts and leaders who have committed careful, informed thought to the issues.
To insist on a conversation about reparations is not an effort to impose a backwards-looking collective punishment on a nation. Reparations should be understood as a commitment to the future: a commitment to repair, to restore dignity, to rebalance the uneven scales and to build a more just society for all. In this light, reparations are not about blame but about responsibility. They are not about division but about collective renewal. Those that take the discussion and caricature it quite literally in blackand-white terms betray a deep ignorance about a society’s journey to justice and liberation for all.
This project does not offer easy answers. Rather, it offers something more honest and thoughtful. It offers an invitation to all of us – citizens, communities, institutions and governments – to take the question of reparations seriously. And it gives us the knowledge we need to respond to that question with integrity, courage and care. — Dr Shabna Begum
[City firm Lloyd’s of London has said it is “deeply sorry” for its links to the slave trade. An independent report found the 335-year-old insurance market had played a “significant role” in enabling the transatlantic trade.]
Dr Shabna Begum, CEO of the Runnymede Trust, said:
“This report rejects assertions that reparations are a far-fetched ideal not rooted in reality. Instead, it highlights how relevant the processes of enslavement and colonisation have been to shaping present day inequalities, the reparatory justice efforts that are already active in the UK and, critically, that a reparations lens can help us to build a fairer economic model that prioritises prosperity for all, rather than profit for some.
“It is not that we cannot afford the cost of reparations. What we cannot afford is to continue avoiding core issues regarding wealth, inequality and the climate, whilst people get poorer and the planet teeters towards climate catastrophe.”
Dr Kojo Koram, academic and co-author of the report, said:
“This report makes an urgent intervention in the reparations debate, both domestically and internationally. It should be read by all those who seek to better understand how our collective past informs the inequalities we see in the present.”
“The state of Israel put the public, normative dimension back into Jewish life. Without this having ever been defined, and maybe it cannot be defined, it can be said that to be Jewish means—more than anything else—feeling attachment to the State of Israel.”
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich bragged about the possibility of a “real estate bonanza” on the ruins of Israel’s genocide in Gaza on Wednesday, saying that Israel is already in talks with the U.S. to divide up the land.
“The Gaza Strip is becoming a real estate bonanza,” Smotrich said in Hebrew at a real estate conference in Israel, per Israeli media.
[Fucking Ukrainians . . . Smotrich’s last name is derived from the town of Smotrych in western Ukraine, where he has stated his ancestors lived.]
“The demolition phase is always the first phase of urban renewal. We did that, now we need to start building”.
Based on Jeremy Bentham’s concept—a structure where the observed cannot know when they are being watched, leading to self-censorship and total control—the Israeli surveillance system is described as turning the occupied Palestinian territories into an “open-air panopticon”.
Components of the Surveillance Regime
Facial Recognition (Red Wolf): In Hebron and other parts of the West Bank, AI-powered facial recognition technology known as “Red Wolf” is used to map, identify, and track Palestinians, often without their knowledge or consent, at checkpoints and throughout public spaces.
Mass CCTV Surveillance: Extensive networks of cameras, including those on “smart fences” and surveillance towers, create a “double panopticon” effect in areas like Silwan, where private security and state cameras are combined.
Digital and Cyber Surveillance: This includes the hacking of smartphones, monitoring of social media, and use of Pegasus spyware against human rights defenders, journalists, and officials.
Data Aggregation: The surveillance gathers massive amounts of data to, in effect, create a “panspectron”—a system that surveils everyone at all times, making every Palestinian a potential target.
The “Lab” and Export Model
The “Palestine Laboratory”: The occupied territories act as a testing ground where surveillance technologies are developed, tested, and “proven” on Palestinians before being exported globally.
Exported Technology: Israel is a world leader in security, drone, and AI-driven surveillance technology, which is then marketed internationally.
Implications and Impact
Stifling Resistance: The constant awareness of surveillance forces residents to limit their movements, speech, and actions, effectively curbing resistance and daily life.
Violation of Rights: The system is viewed as a violation of fundamental human rights, including privacy and freedom of movement.
“Double Standard”: While these technologies are widely used against Palestinians, their deployment inside Israel proper has met with resistance from Israeli citizens and politicians.
The “panopticon” metaphor highlights how technology has deepened the military occupation, making control not only physical but digital and constant.
Oh, organ theft, data theft, Shekel wallets, total control of every step, every blink, every idea, every dream, every internet search, every watt of energy used, every bite of food, every fucking thing read, and of course, the Jews want their curriculum rammed down Palestinian child’s throat.
The mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel show signs of expert organ removal, likely for organ harvesting, renowned British-Palestinian plastic and reconstructive surgeon Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah has said.
Speaking to Al Jazeera earlier this week, Abu Sittah shared his professional opinion on images of the deceased Palestinians shown to him by the Qatar-based news outlet.
“The first observation is that, in all the bodies that organs were harvested or removed are those that are now routinely transplanted: the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys and corneas,” Abu Sittah, who spent more than a month working in Gaza’s hospitals during the war, said.
The plastic and reconstructive surgeon added that the precision with which the organs were removed indicated a professional hand.
“The method of extraction – the rib cage and ribs were clipped with a sharp saw – a medical saw, a bone saw – and the sternum, along with the central part of the ribs, was lifted to allow for the removal of the heart and lungs without damage to the organs being taken,” he said, noting that the skin of all the victims appeared to be burnt by liquid nitrogen – a chemical used to preserve tissue.
ICE’s kidnapping of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and other kids echoes the US’s long history of child snatching.
Israel? Pedophilia and sadism: Israel Detaining Record Number of Palestinian Children Without Charges
There are at least 300 Palestinian children held in Israeli prisons and torture camps.
Another fucking naive Indian:
Imagine this.
You leave your apartment on a Tuesday morning.
As you step onto the pavement, a camera mounted on a streetlight swivels silently, locking onto your face. It runs your features against a national database, logs the exact time you left home, and notes that you look slightly more tired than yesterday.
You walk to the metro station.
Three more cameras track your gait. You buy a coffee with a tap of your phone, the transaction is instantly linked to your location history.
By the time you sit at your desk at 9:00 AM, your government and a dozen private corporations knows more about your morning routine than your spouse does.
This isn’t the opening scene of a Black Mirror episode. It’s probably just your commute.
For a long time, I tried to ignore the creeping sensation of being watched.
I am Indian, I’m used to crowds, zero personal space, and nosy aunties wanting to know my business.
Privacy always felt like a western luxury, something you traded for the convenience of modern life.
When UPI (Unified Payments Interface) revolutionized digital payments here, I cheered. It was fast, easy, and brilliant.
When airports introduced facial recognition for seamless travel, I signed up, grateful to skip a queue.
But lately, that gratitude has soured into a low-grade, persistent anxiety. The realization hit me somewhere between reading about smart city initiatives and seeing yet another new CCTV tower go up in my friends place in Bangalore.
We aren’t just using technology anymore. The technology is using us.
We are sleepwalking into an era of unprecedented state control, lured by the twin promises of convenience and security.
And while we were busy staring at our screens, governments around the world, democratic and authoritarian alike began turning our cities into open-air digital prisons.
Hmm, a Dangerous Idea?
Seattle, in its current state, feels like the ghost of a promise — an uncanny blend of technological optimism and visible collapse
American meritocracy — rooted in IQ and STEM aptitude — produced not just McNamara, but Gates, Jobs, and later Brin, Page, Thiel, Zuckerberg, Musk. Visionaries, certainly. Builders of systems. But also, inheritors of a blind spot: phronesis — or what Aristotle called practical wisdom. It is the kind of intelligence that knows how to act well when rules run out. It cannot be taught in a classroom, measured on a test, or programmed into a machine. It asks, not “How do we make this faster?” but “What do we want this for?”
And so here we are: A Shift for NOAA’s Surveys: From Science to Mining — A $20 million agency project will aid companies prospecting the sea for critical minerals.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is shifting from science to prospecting as it surveys a region of the Pacific Ocean to help private companies find mineral deposits buried on the ocean floor.
Deep-sea mining holds the promise of harvesting vast quantities of potato-sized nodules that contain manganese, cobalt, nickel and copper used in high-tech equipment like electric vehicle batteries and weapon systems. Commercial seabed mining has not yet started and conservation groups and scientists warn it could significantly damage marine environments.
But the Trump administration is fast-tracking the nascent industry and has urged NOAA to prioritize processing the first commercial seabed mining permits. On Thursday, the agency announced a survey that, beginning next month, will map the seafloor near American Samoa to find minerals for industry.
“What an exciting time to know that within the next few years, under this administration, there will be companies pulling deep sea nodules out of the ocean and bringing them to the U.S.,” said Erik Noble, a NOAA deputy assistant secretary who oversees deep sea minerals, at an industry conference in Washington.
And so they ALWAYS sell out, these fucking scientists:
And so criticising NOAA and Trump’s mining plans, against academic freedom?
In 2024, the chair of the statewide University of North Carolina Faculty Assembly and the UNC state system embarked on a fraught mission at a fraught time: writing “a consensus definition” of academic freedom for the entire university system.
Academic freedom scholars have themselves long disagreed over what academic freedom does and doesn’t protect. And UNC’s mission came at a time of increased attacks on the concept from the federal and state governments as well as institutions. (The UNC system itself has been accused of infringing academic freedom.)
Now, late next month—more than a year after the effort began—the UNC Board of Governors is set to vote on a lengthy definition. It promises many of the protections contained in other descriptions of academic freedom, but it’s drawn opposition from the state’s American Association of University Professors arm over both the express limits it places on that freedom and what the AAUP calls vague language that could be used to further restrict classroom teaching.
“Part of higher education is connecting ideas learned in the classroom to other disciplines and current events,” they wrote. “An ethnomusicology instructor exploring the musical traditions of the Middle East may deepen their students’ knowledge and understanding by exploring how political conflicts in the region affect the culture of the people who live there.”
And as for the student academic freedom protections, the AAUP said it’s concerned the language “could be weaponized against faculty members with whom a student or an outside actor disagrees,” noting particularly that there’s no definition of what a student taking “reasoned exception” means.
Abbey Hatcher, who resigned from her associate professor position at UNC Chapel Hill on Dec. 31 but who remains an AAUP member, took issue with both the policy-development process and its result.
Hatcher noted that the Faculty Assembly never voted on the added parameters around academic freedom, which she said essentially require pledging “fealty to the institutional mission.” She said, “All the parameters are basically threats to what faculty should or should not do.”
“They’re trying to be as imprecise as they can about what might be disfavored one day because it gives them leeway to retaliate in different ways,” she said, adding that “there was no additional value of the academic freedom ‘consensus definition,’ and there’s a clear downside in that it was co-opted to add additional language around parameters.”
These cocksuckers will break into a faculty member’s office. No belief in most Amendments, including the Fourth:
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared before a bank of television cameras in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night to blame the man who had been shot to death by federal agents in Minneapolis that morning for his own death, claiming without evidence that he had intended “to kill law enforcement” and had been “brandishing” a weapon. Behind her stood the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Rodney Scott, sending a silent message of unity.
But behind the scenes, the senior ranks of the Department of Homeland Security were divided. Until minutes before they walked in front of the cameras, Noem and Scott had not spoken to each other that day, even as Noem took charge of her department’s response to the shooting and coordinated with the White House and other officials in Scott’s agency, two people familiar with their interactions told us.
Fucking Semen Drip Trump’s mosh pit:
Donald Trump has said over the years that he welcomes and even encourages rivalries in his administration, and delights in watching aides compete to please him. But for the past year, the president has allowed a rift to widen within the team tasked with delivering on the mass-deportation plan that is his most important domestic-policy initiative. That has led to months of acrimony and left many veteran officials at DHS—including those who support the president’s deportation goals—astonished at the dysfunction.
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Slaver’s fucking soil? Soil from Washington’s ancestral home taken to US!
More White Man’s House slave news: Lisa Cook lawsuit is ‘the most important legal case’ in Fed history, Powell says
The central bank chief defended his decision to attend the Supreme Court argument on Trump’s move to fire his Fed colleague.
We are really working on global problems, right? One-Third of Pacific Island Fish Contaminated With Microplastics
Ahead of February’s Global Plastics Treaty negotiations, new data reveals the contamination rate of Fijian fish far exceeds worldwide averages. Report.
Jew News of Monumental Proportions. Zeldin the Shekel Boy:
After a tumultuous year under the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a new, almost unrecognizable guise – one that tears up environmental rules and cheerleads for coal, gas-guzzling cars and artificial intelligence.
When Donald Trump took power, it was widely anticipated the EPA would loosen pollution rules from sources such as cars, trucks and power plants, as part of a longstanding back and forth between administrations over how strict such standards should be.
But in recent weeks, critics say the EPA has gone far further by in effect seeking to jettison its raison d’etre, forged since its foundation in 1970, as an environmental regulator. The EPA is poised to remove its own ability to act on the climate crisis and has, separately, unveiled a new monetary worth assigned to human lives when setting air pollution regulations. The current new value? Zero.
“The EPA was designed to protect public health and the environment and did a remarkably effective job of that,” said William Reilly, who was EPA administrator under a previous Republican president, George HW Bush.
“That record is now at risk and we will see the degradation of air quality in major cities. The administration seems to conceivethe purpose of the agency as solely promoting business, which has never been the agency’s mission. That’s revolutionary – it’s not been seen before.”
A vivid illustration of this, Reilly said, was when the EPA asked businesses last year to simply email a request to be exempt from air pollution rules. “The notion you could be excused from a black letter law just by asking for it was startling to me,” he said. “I thought it was a spoof. But it did happen.”
You gotta use ONE story an hour to think deeply how corrupt, criminal, carnival like this CUNT-tree is:
The restrictions placed on Maher Tarabishi will haunt him long after his 30-year-old son, Wael, is laid to rest.
For decades, Maher, 62, had cared for his son as he struggled with a rare genetic condition called Pompe disease, which causes muscle weakness and severe respiratory problems.
But Maher was abruptly separated from Wael last year, as part of United States President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Last Friday, when Wael drew his final breath, Maher was not there to hold him. When Wael’s funeral is held on Thursday at a mosque in Arlington, Texas, Maher will once again be absent, unable to say his final goodbyes.
That is because Maher remains in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and in each instance, his requests for a temporary release have been denied.
“Wael’s last wish was, ‘Let me at least just see my father. Let me at least hold his hand,’” Shahd Arnaout, Wael’s sister-in-law, told Al Jazeera.
Every FUCKING MAGA Cunt needs to be euthanized: On my walk on the ocean in Yachats.
This is what these scum love — ICE:
Nearly 100 Twin Cities area food shelves have signed off on an open letter calling for an immediate end to the surge in Minnesota’s federal immigration efforts.
In a letter released Wednesday morning, organizations like Second Harvest Heartland, 360 Communities, The Sanneh Foundation and dozens more say Operation Metro Surge has brought “chaos and violence” to the communities they serve, leaving many too afraid to leave their homes.
In the letter, the organizations say they’ve seen federal agents follow volunteers making food deliveries, stand outside food shelf entrances, stage in food shelf parking lots, and in one instance, detain a food shelf volunteer.
Again, man, again and again, these white ghouls get no pushback, and it always goes back to Biden? l”Look, Americans should be worried about affordability. The Biden administration destroyed affordability,” he told ABC News on Wednesday, contending inflation under the Biden administration was the worst in 49 years.
Hedge Fund Management: Before entering public service, he was the founder and CEO of Key Square Group, a global macro hedge fund launched in 2015.
Soros Fund Management: He spent over 15 years at George Soros’s firm, serving as managing partner of the London office (1991–2000) and later as Chief Investment Officer (2011–2015). He was a key figure in the 1992 bet against the British pound that earned the firm over $1 billion.
Other Roles: He held positions at Brown Brothers Harriman, Kynikos Associates, and Protégé Partners.
He lives in Washington, D.C., and Charleston with his husband, John Freeman, and their two children.
Continuing Criminal Enterprise: Trump officials awarded Venezuela oil-sale contracts to firms tied to bribery
Both firms have previously settled high-profile bribery cases with the Department of Justice. In 2020, Vitol paid $135 million to resolve schemes in Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico, while in 2024, Trafigura pleaded guilty and paid $126 million for bribing Brazilian officials.
Two global trading houses that brokered an opaque deal with the Trump administration this month to sell Venezuelan oil were previously prosecuted for bribery schemes involving oil sales elsewhere, court records show, underscoring concerns by anti-corruption experts and lawmakers that the arrangement is vulnerable to abuse.
This guy does get shit wrong. Calling Maduro a dictator and saying Trump left the dictators in power in Venezuela. Fucking New/Jew York City cunts.
Oh, more Jew Patrol: His father’s family is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, specifically from Romania and Poland.
“Reaction” is really the right word. It’s more a reaction than a choice. And when you look back on it later, you second-guess absolutely every single move that you made without really understanding what happened. Because in the aftermath of sexual harassment, of sexual assault, you’re always looking to give the benefit of the doubt, especially when it’s someone you know. You don’t want this horrible thing to have happened. You want things to be OK. So you blame yourself as a way of convincing yourself you were in control the whole time.
On using the word assault and not rape
Rape is a word I hardly ever use because when you hear the word rape, you think of a guy in a ski mask in the dark alley and fighting for your life. And that’s just not the reality of how sexual assaults happen when most of the time it’s someone that you know and trust. So we don’t really have language to talk about this and we certainly didn’t in 2017 when I was reporting it. It takes a very long time to really process and get to the point where you can talk about it in those terms, and those terms are devastating. When you say sexual assault, when you say rape, your life changes. You have a target on your back. Every single thing that you say or that you don’t say becomes evidence.
“He came over and sat with us, and I felt like it couldn’t possibly be real,” she says. “These were two people [Lauer and Vieira] that I had admired as journalists, as people, since I was a little girl. And I truly could not believe I was sitting there with a seat at the table with them. And I think I got carried away.”
Nevils says Lauer ordered vodka shots, which she drank. She says he invited her back to his hotel room and then sexually assaulted her. They had additional sexual encounters after they returned to New York following the Olympics. In a 2019 statement, Lauer wrote that his interactions with Nevils were “completely mutual and consensual.”
Jew Patrol: Blackstone’s Gray Sees AI Disrupting Industries as Biggest Risk
Born to a Jewish family in Highland Park, Illinois, he has frequently integrated his heritage into his large-scale charitable work. Historic Gift to Israel: In May 2025, Gray and his wife, Mindy, donated $125 million to Tel Aviv University’s medical school, the largest gift in the university’s history. The faculty was renamed the Gray Faculty of Medicine.
The dichotomy between the social worker as a nine-to-five state agent and five-nine activist is a crucial one. The question can be summarised as: is there space, willingness and scope within social work to engage with broader structural issues that affect the lives of the people we work with?
I spent an hour with the Revolutionary Social Worker, who has a couple of Podcasts.
The radio broadcast comes to Lincoln County and Internet listeners on March 4, 6 PM, Pacific, over at KYAQ.org, 91.7 FM, my show, Finding Fringe. Listen to it. What follows below is me riffing with the subject matter, not a transcript of the interview, which is worth it’s weight in gold.
Christian Ace Stettler is a professor, podcaster, father, and founder of Revolutionary Social Work. My work is rooted in the belief that meaningful social transformation begins with personal transformation. I teach, speak, and write at the intersection of critical pedagogy, Indigenous knowledge, trauma healing, and social work practice.
I currently teach at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and co-host two podcasts: The Critical Social Worker and The Revolutionary Social Work Podcast, where I facilitate deep dialogue with guests from around the world exploring healing, justice, and becoming more fully human.
I also lead dialogic talking circles rooted in relational accountability, critical reflection, and kinship. These circles are not only a pedagogical tool but a personal and communal practice for liberation.
We are still in Dickensian times: Claims of the Charity Organisation Society, which in the 19th century insisted on portraying poverty as an issue exclusively linked to people’s feeble and manipulative personalities. [Sounds like EVERY single fucking one of the Semen Drip Brownshirt Trump’s Gang of Ghouls.]
This quote below is antithetical to the Trump Bigotry and Racism Doctrine as well at the Republican Party’s 50 Years of Hate ethos.
The idea of a settlement—as a colony of learning and fellowship in the industrial slums—was first conceived in the 1860s by a group of prominent British reformers that included John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Kingsley, and the so-called Christian Socialists, They were idealistic, middle-class intellectuals, appalled at the conditions of the working classes, and infused with the optimism, moral fervor; and anti-materialist impulses of the Romantic Age: people who read the soaring poetry of Wordsworth and Tennyson, the conscientious novels of Dickens, the liberal political thought of the Utilitarian philosophers Bentham and Mill. They were alarmed by a number of aspects of industrial capitalism: the growing gulf between the classes; the materialist ethos of the Industrial Revolution, and the emphasis on self-interest in classical economics; the terrible poverty of the average factory worker, and the brutal routinization of work, as the factory system replaced the individual craftsperson.
Jane Addams was a famous activist, social worker, author, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, and she is best known for founding the Hull House in Chicago, IL. Hull House was a progressive social settlement aimed at reducing poverty by providing social services and education to working-class immigrants and laborers (Harvard University Library, n.d.).
Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, IL in 1860, and she graduated from Rockford College in 1882. In 1888, while traveling in London, Addams visited the settlement house Toynbee Hall (Harvard University Library, n.d.). Her experiences at Toynbee Hall inspired her to recreate the social services model in Chicago. In 1889, she leased a large home built by Charles Hull, which she chose for its “diversity and variety of activity for which it presented an opportunity.” In her essay, “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements,” Addams stated that the settlement movement existed to add social function to political democracy, to assist the progress of humanity, and to express Christianity through humanitarian action (Tims, 1961).
Thus, with Hull House, Addams proposed to “provide a center for a higher civic and social life, to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts in Chicago” (Harvard University Library, n.d.). Addams sought to foster a place where social progress, education, democracy, ethics, art, religion, peace, and happiness could all be daily experiences (Tims, 1961). Hull House offered kindergarten and day care for children of working mothers, an art gallery, libraries, music and art classes, and an employment bureau. By its second year of operation, Hull House served more than 2,000 residents weekly. By 1900, Hull House expanded to include a book bindery, gym, pool, cooperative for working women, theater, labor museum, and meeting space for trade unions (Harvard University Library, n.d.).
Martín-Baró argued that by considering psychological problems as primarily individual, “psychology has often contributed to obscuring the relationship between personal estrangement and social oppression, presenting the pathology of persons as if it were something removed from history and society, and behavioral disorders as if they played themselves out entirely in the individual plane” (p. 27). Instead, liberation psychology should illuminate the links between an individual’s psychological suffering and well-being and the social, economic, political, and ecological contexts in which he or she lives. At Pacifica we work to widen the original focus of liberation psychology to include the ecological, and thus we speak of eco-liberation psychology and practices, in our Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, Indigenous Psychology, and Ecopsychology.
While liberation psychology is most strongly established in Latin America, Martín-Baró’s work has become a rallying call to psychologists and cultural workers on all continents to place into conversation their theories and liberatory practices.
16 November marks the 37th anniversary of the killing of Ignacio Martín-Baró, the founder of Liberation Psychology in Latin America, along with 5 other priest-academics and two women workers by the Salvadorean army at their residence on the campus of the Unversidad de Centroamérica, San Salvador. It is fitting that today we bring you a typically beautifully written piece by Mohamed Seedat, in which he draws parallels between the work of Martín-Baró and Steve Biko, prominent leader in the Black Consciousness movement in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
New radicalism in social work has been based on five main pillars: democracy, empathy, militancy, anti-oppressiveness and structural practice. These pillars form the acronym Demos, a powerful concept which refers to “the populace of a democracy as a political unit”. Contrary to dominant social work narratives which claim that social workers’ legitimacy stems from their identity as creatures of the statute, radical social work has earned its recognition through an ability to grasp and utilise the transformative political power of the people we work with.
Ace:
Many of my core values as a human being and person are centered around family. I involve my wife and children in everything I do. We never go anywhere alone. For example, if I am invited to a conference to speak, I bring along one of my little apprentices (my children) and we often go as a family. I work with Alicia (my wife) on all of my creative projects and my children are often co-facilitators of my talking circles.
My writing, speaking, and teaching are grounded in Revolutionary Social Work values:
Kinning | Challenge the Status Quo | Non-Partisan Commitment | Relational Grounding | Indigenous and African-Centered Wisdoms | Transformative Reflection | (Re)Connection | Love as Praxis | Unity | Social Work Beyond the Profession
The revolution must begin with ourselves. I’m committed to an education and practice that centers humanity, story, presence, and place.
I got turned onto Ace’s work while doing some research on Tiokasin Ghosthorse:
Ace and I covered a lot of territory, and we set down the foundation of genocide and the lack of response from his own brethren as a death by 200,000 dead Palestinian cuts.
Two years ago, Truthout: In a recent column for The New York Times, Pamela Paul described a shift in Columbia University’s School of Social Work toward a “radicalized” social justice framework. The piece has unearthed significant tensions within and outside the social work community, sparking heated debate about the role of social justice and a response decrying the so-called deterioration of social work.
What both pieces fail to recognize is the reality of social work’s historical and ongoing complicity in oppression and, to borrow a phrase from Martin Luther King Jr., “the fierce urgency of now,” especially during a genocide. Social work students like myself are organizing for a free Palestine in response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. As we watch on-the-ground reporting from Palestinians sharing images and videos of their now-destroyed homes as they pull dead loved ones out from under the rubble, our profession fails to mobilize. This inaction reflects the failure of our leading social work institutions — most notably the National Association of Social Workers and the Council on Social Work Education — and of individual social workers who remain silent.
If our calling as social workers is to help those in need, we must support the 2.2 million Palestinians struggling to survive as the Israeli state relentlessly starves, bombs and displaces them before our very eyes. It is too late to help the tens of thousands of men, women and children killed by Israeli forces since October 7. But it is not too late for social workers to stand in solidarity with Palestine.
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Dear National Association of Social Workers,
The situation in Palestine and Israel is top of mind for many people right now, especially your Jewish, Muslim, Palestinian, and Arab members, and many other fellow social workers.
We, the undersigned, are writing to express our deep disappointment regarding the recent statements made by the NASW[1] concerning the recent violence between Israel and Gaza.
We are social workers. Our profession is rooted in social justice[2], identifying oppression, and being courageous on behalf of the vulnerable. That’s why NASW released its Antiracism Statement[3] – not because it was easy, but because it was and is right. That’s why we center the dignity and worth of our clients[4] in the work that we do.
Today we need to find our courage again: to hold empathy for those who have lost their lives no matter which country or ethnicity they are part of, while also holding accountable those who are acting oppressively. Policies of supremacy and apartheid have and always will harm the oppressed, disadvantaged groups and those they claim to advantage. They separate us from the dignity and worth of every human and prevent us from building a better future.
When our profession is silent in the face of documented human rights violations and what Amnesty International has labeled apartheid[5], it calls into question our commitment to our stated values both on the international stage and among refugee, immigrant, Muslim, Arab, and other communities of color living in the United States. It also alienates our colleagues who hail from these groups and perpetuates the idea that social work as a profession is not inclusive of communities of color.
We call on all social work organizations to call for Israel to uphold international law by stopping the genocide of Palestinians and collective punishment of Gazans, and to call for immediate cessation of the siege and destruction of Gaza.
We call on all individual social workers to learn about the antecedents of the current wave of violence[6], the international law on this issue[7], and the growing violations of international law[8], as documented by Human Rights Watch. Culturally sensitive care is critical, and for those of you who work directly with refugee, immigrant, and diaspora communities who are impacted more directly by the ongoing violence, please take the time to read more deeply. Haymarket books has provided some options for your edification: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/495-free-ebooks-for-a-free-palestine and https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/subjects/33-palestine
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My own work in social services, working with Central American refugees in El Paso, as a case manager for foster youth/ homeless veterans/ just released inmates/ substance abuse citizens, employment specialist and direct support professional for adults with developmental disabilities, as well as being a teacher at community colleges and universities, well well, I have five PhDs worth of on-the-ground experience.
Most social workers at the county or state or VA level are not deep thinkers, never deeply critical of capitalism, and certainly are tied into the punishment and tokenism and redemption formula plied hard in this society.
Defund the Police/ Defund the Criminal Incarceration For-profit system.
Abolitionist social work is a theoretical framework and political project within the field of social work and an extension of the project of carceral abolitionism more broadly. Abolitionists seek to abolish punishment, prisons, police, and other carceral systems because they view these as being inherently destructive systems. Abolitionists argue that these carceral systems cause physiological, cognitive, economic, and political harms for incarcerated people, their families, and their communities; reinforce White supremacy; disproportionately burden the poor and marginalized; and fail to produce justice and healing after social harms have occurred. In their place, abolitionists want to create material conditions, institutions, and forms of community that facilitate emancipation and human flourishing and consequently render prisons, police, and other carceral systems obsolete. Abolitionist social workers advance this project in multiple ways, including critiquing the ways that social work and social workers are complicit in supporting or reinforcing carceral systems, challenging the expansion of carceral systems and carceral logics into social service domains, dismantling punitive and carceral institutions and methods of responding to social harms, implementing nonpunitive and noncarceral institutions and methods of responding to social harms, and strengthening the ability of communities to design and implement their own responses to social conflict and harm in the place of carceral institutions. As a theoretical framework, abolitionist social work draws from and extends the work of other critical frameworks and discourses, including anticarceral social work, feminist social work, dis/ability critical race studies, and transformative justice.
forward . . . partial: Paulo Freire’s invigorating critique of the dominant banking model of education leads to his democratic proposals of problem-posing education where “men and women develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves; they come to see the world not as a static reality but as a reality in the process of transformation.” This offered to me—and all of those who experience subordination through an imposed assimilation policy—a path through which we come to understand what it means to come to cultural voice. It is a process that always involves pain and hope; a process through which, as forced cultural jugglers, we can come to subjectivity, transcending our object position in a society that hosts us yet is alien.
It is not surprising that my friends back in Cape Verde—and, for that matter in most totalitarian states—risked cruel punishment, including imprisonment, if they were caught reading Pedagogy of the Oppressed. I remember meeting a South African student in Boston who told me that students would photocopy chapters of Pedagogy of the Oppressed and share them with their classmates and peers. Sometimes, given the long list of students waiting to read Freire, they would have to wait for weeks before they were able to get their hands on a photocopied chapter. These students, and students like them in Central America, South America, Tanzania, Chile, Guinea-Bissau and other nations struggling to overthrow totalitarianism and oppression, passionately embraced Freire and his proposals for liberation. It is no wonder that his success in teaching Brazilian peasants how to read landed him in prison and led to a subsequent long and painful exile.
Oppressed people all over the world identified with Paulo Freire’s denunciation of the oppressive conditions that were choking millions of poor people, including a large number of middle-class families that had bitterly begun to experience the inhumanity of hunger in a potentially very rich and fertile country. Freire’s denunciation of oppression was not merely the intellectual exercise that we often find among many facile liberals and pseudocritical educators. His intellectual brilliance and courage in denouncing the structures of oppression were rooted in a very real and material experience, as he recounts in Letters to Cristina:
It was a real and concrete hunger that had no specific date of departure. Even though it never reached the rigor of the hunger experienced by some people I know, it was not the hunger experienced by those who undergo a tonsil operation or are dieting. On the contrary, our hunger was of the type that arrives unannounced and unauthorized, making itself at home without an end in sight. A hunger that, if it was not softened as ours was, would take over our bodies, molding them into angular shapes. Legs, arms, and fingers become skinny. Eye sockets become deeper, making the eyes almost disappear. Many of our classmates experienced this hunger and today it continues to afflict millions of Brazilians who die of its violence every year .
all unforms + guns + cartel mentality + badges + military equipment + perverse bigotry/ racism/ misogyny/ Gestapo Behavior = ALL ARE BASTARDA WHO Need Euthanizing = AABWNE
Indigenous leader Nick Tilsen is set to face trial in Pennington County, South Dakota, starting Jan. 26, as he maintains that the case against him is politically motivated and aimed at suppressing Indigenous organizing.
Tilsen is the founder and CEO of NDN Collective, the largest Indigenous-led philanthropy and power-building organization in the U.S. He is also Oglala Lakota, born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Tilsen is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault of a police officer, and obstruction of a police officer. If found guilty, Tilsen could face up to 26 years in prison. The trial comes nearly four years after an encounter with the Rapid City Police Department, which Tilsen and the department recount differently.
Tilsen told Prism that on June 11, 2022, he had attempted what he called a routine “cop watch”—a kind of informal civilian observation of police officers. He observed Rapid City police officers detaining an unhoused man, whom Tilsen believed to be Indigenous. The officers surrounded Tilsen’s car and ordered him to get out, he said. He refused, saying his actions were legal. Shortly after, Tilsen said that he requested to speak to a police supervisor, who then instructed the officers to allow him to leave.
More than a year after the encounter, the Pennington County prosecutor brought charges against Tilsen and issued a warrant for his arrest. The warrant was issued days before a July 4 protest led by NDN Collective addressing police killings of Indigenous peoples in South Dakota and speaking directly to the impunity of the Rapid City Police Department and the Pennington County Sheriff’s Department.
On Jan. 12, 2026, two weeks before Tilsen’s trial date, a grand jury approved a third charge of simple assault of a law enforcement officer.
“You can’t say these [charges] are not politically motivated,” Tilsen told Prism during a recent call. “They wanted to discourage me from organizing. They wanted to try to paint me to be a criminal. They wanted to try to paint me to be something that I’m not.”
Over a loudspeaker, federal agents announced that all detainees have been released and ordered the remaining protesters to disperse, or else they will use chemical deterrents and make arrests.
Most protesters had left the area, but about a couple dozen were still in the courtyard near the Eugene Federal Building’s front entrance.
Polls? Fuck them. President Trump’s support from independent voters has dropped to a new low across both terms in office, according to the latestEconomist/YouGov poll.
The survey, conducted over the weekend, shows Trump’s net job approval among independents at negative 40 percentage points, with 27 percent approving and 67 percent disapproving.
The cuntology of capitalism: SHUT OUT Social Security confirms 315 offices are abruptly CLOSED for full 24 hours,
Gaza Gaza Gaza: ‘We are reliving the Nakba’: A Palestinian community says it’s being erased as Israeli settler violence intensifies
Suleiman Ghawanmeh is tired of talking. For over 10 years, he talked himself hoarse until he realized his words could not save his community from being driven out. After his final appeal for help came to nothing, he, too, left.
“I am angry with the world… nobody listens to us… it’s as if we are not human beings,” he told CNN.
His village of Ras Ein al-Auja in the occupied West Bank has now been erased – emptied of its Palestinian residents after a years-long campaign of relentless settler harassment that has intensified over the past two years.
Local officials confirmed to media that ICE is expected to deploy for the game between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations team has long worked the Super Bowl and other major sporting events, largely focused on preventing human trafficking and stopping the sale of counterfeit goods, but immigration operations would be unusual.
“We have heard from the administration that they intend to have ICE at the Super Bowl. I don’t know how much of that is rhetoric,” Matt Mahan, the San Jose mayor, told KTVU.
A high-stakes hearing Friday will bring the immigration crackdown in Minnesota to a head in the courts, as the nation’s top Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official will be forced to take the stand to explain the agency’s aggressive surge.
“The Court’s patience is at an end,” Patrick Schiltz, the chief judge of Minnesota’s federal district court, wrote Monday.
Happy Fucking Pork Barrel Days Are Here to Stay: Trump’s National Guard deployments could cost over $1 billion this year, CBO projects.
So Osama can do 9/11, but his followers can just fucking frag this cunt?
A judge is ruling whether a case involving ex-Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill, the man who claims to have shot and killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, will remain in federal court or be remanded to state court. Lawyers for both sides, as well as O’Neill, spoke to Military.com about the current state of the litigation.
In November, O’Neill filed a $25 million defamation lawsuit against Tyler Hoover and Brent Tucker—hosts of The Antihero Podcast—claiming that the pair engaged in a years-long effort to disparage the veteran’s name and efforts associated with bin Laden’s demise during Operation Neptune Spear.
He’s claimed that the repeated barbs by Hoover and Tucker, both veterans, goes beyond accusations of stolen valor but is inciting veteran-on-veteran “hate” meant to monetize on the tarnishing of his reputation.
Hoover was an Army airborne infantry veteran and former sheriff’s deputy. Tucker began his military career within the 75th Ranger Regiment, then 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), before spending the remainder of his career in Delta Force.
The Antihero hosts based an August 2023 podcast titled, “Rob O’Neill—The Web of Lies,” in part on Bissonnette’s recounting of events. O’Neill, who has garnered large speaking fees due to his background, has in his own appearances on other podcasts called Bissonnette’s side of things “not the truth.”
“If you read both books and you say, ‘You know what, I think this book is more believable,’ there’s nothing wrong with that,” Parlatore said. “Everybody’s entitled to their opinion that one book is more believable than the other. So, you can’t possibly make out actual malice when there’s another book like that.”
“Add on top of that, there is not a single person that corroborates Rob O’Neill’s claims. Yeah, there’s other people on the team that have said, ‘No, he didn’t [kill bin Laden].’ But there’s not a single person who said, ‘Yes, he did,’ other than Rob O’Neill.”
“Worst-case scenario for Rob, if this thing went to trial, a jury would find that Rob O’Neill did not shoot bin Laden. … He has to prove that he did. I don’t have to prove that he didn’t,” Parlatore added.
Cuntology a la Rapists Trump and Hegseth:
Relatives of two Trinidadian men killed in an airstrike last October are suing the U.S. government for wrongful death and for carrying out extrajudicial killings.
The case, filed in Massachusetts, is the first lawsuit over the strikesto land in a U.S. federal court since the Trump administration launched a campaign to target vessels off the coast of Venezuela. The American government has carried out three dozen such strikes since September, killing more than 100people.
Never EVER trust a JEW: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday her government has at least temporarily stopped oil shipments to Cuba, but struck an ambiguous tone, saying the pause was part of general fluctuations in oil supplies and that it was a “sovereign decision” not made under pressure from the United States.
Sheinbaum was responding to inquiries on whether the state oil company Pemex had cut off oil shipments to Cuba in the wake of mounting pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump that Mexico distance itself from the Cuban government, though U.S. officials have not publicly requested that Mexico stop the oil.
“Pemex makes decisions in the contractual relationship it has with Cuba,” Sheinbaum said in her morning news briefing. “Suspending is a sovereign decision and is taken when necessary.”
Never ever TRUST a Jew backed by billionaire Jews. Look at this mitzvah fucking verbal neuroperversity.
During her first address to CBS News employees as editor in chief, Bari Weiss acknowledged that there had been “a lot of noise” about her tumultuous tenure and said that some staffers might decide they don’t support her or want to continue working at the company.
“I just want to start by saying: I get it. And I get why, in the face of all this tumult and noise, you might feel uncertain or skeptical about me and about what I’m aiming to do here,” Weiss said on Tuesday morning, according to an audio recording of her comments obtained by the Guardian.
“So I’m not going to stand up here today in front of all of you and ask for your trust: I’m going to earn it, just like we have to do with our viewers. What I can give you is what I’ve always tried to give my readers and listeners as a journalist: and that is transparency, clarity and straight talk.”
Bone spurs and pedophilia talk with this Semen Drip Trump:
The U.S. Embassy in Denmark removed 44 Danish flags honoring Danish soldiers killed in Afghanistan outside the building, drawing outrage from the country’s veterans amid heightened tensions between Copenhagen and Washington.
The Danish people put them back up…people were stopping a replacing the flags!
Political MESSAGING? Faggotry of Semen Drip and his MAGA and RHINO and Conservative sycophants: Republican lawmakers are caught between the powerful gun lobby and top Trump officials over the deadly shooting of Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Pretti.
Why it matters: The GOP has a long, mutually beneficial history with influential Second Amendment rights groups. The tragedy in Minneapolis is complicating their political messaging.
Give me fucking Pussy Riot anyday: Putin, Still Harboring Assad, Welcomes New Syrian Leader to Moscow Again
This is the second time that President Vladimir V. Putin has hosted President Ahmed al-Sharaa since the fall of the Russia-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Oh, those fucking bosses, billionaires and their fascism: Fortune 500 CEOs are no longer giving employees an A for effort. Now they want proof of impact.
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