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Something about Judaism, no? Jewish?
The second annual JNS International Policy Summit is scheduled to get underway on Sunday in Jerusalem, just days after the United States signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran.
The three-day conference, which will take place at the Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem, includes keynote addresses by top Israeli government leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, alongside U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Fox News host Mark Levin and the head of the World Jewish Congress–Israel Region, Sylvan Adams.
“Israel continues to manage hostilities with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. Diplomatic relations and the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship are constantly being tested. Antisemitism is rising dramatically. And yet Israel’s economy is strong, and the Jewish state is emerging as a regional superpower,” said JNS CEO Alex Traiman.
No Zionism in their fucking dirty titles?
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Vance is set to lead a delegation that includes special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kusher, the pair tasked with spearheading U.S. diplomacy efforts in the president’s second term.
The vice president said during a Fox News interview on Saturday morning that Witkoff and Kushner had already been on the ground in Europe for several hours “dealing with some of the technical elements” of the impending negotiations and that “things are going well.”
The 14-point memorandum of understanding signed electronically earlier this week extends the ceasefire and restores unrestricted navigation through the Strait of Hormuz for a 60-day period.
Senate panel considers vote to shield special education from RFK Jr.’s agency
Bill Cassidy, the Republican chairman of the Senate’s education committee, said he agreed with Democrats that special ed programs should not be moved to the Health and Human Services Department.
Robert Kennedy, Jr. tours Puerto Rico, April 18, 2000, to Examine the environmental Impact of US Navy training operations on the island of Vieques. Kennedy is planning to file a lawsuit against the Navy on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Democratic presidential hopeful Vice President Al Gore (L) speaks as environmental activist and lawyer Robert Kennedy Jr.(R) listens during a speech to the Iowa Earth Year 2000 conference in Des Moines, Iowa Jan. 21, 2000.
Robert Kennedy Jr. speaks at a press conference upon his arrival at Miami International Airport on Feb. 19, 1996, after visiting Cuba with his brother Michael (L) and a delegation of US environmental and energy experts.
All over this Southeast Asian city are vestiges of the multibillion-dollar online scam industry, which thrived here for more than half a decade until a recent government crackdown.
There are luxurious high-rise towers overlooking the Mekong River, where entire floors are now deserted following police raids that cleared out the illicit operations hidden there. Disintegrating cardboard boxes and bits of Styrofoam litter the entrance of a branch of Prince Supermarket, after its parent company—the massive Cambodian conglomerate Prince Holding Group—was slapped with U.S. sanctions for allegedly running industrial-scale scam compounds.
But the crackdown has created a secondary crisis: thousands of stranded foreign workers transported to Cambodia by the online scam operators and forced to work as hostage employees are now roaming the streets of Phnom Penh, after being freed when the scam operations closed. NGOs, including Amnesty International, say many of the workers are victims of human trafficking. They are now at the center of a silent humanitarian crisis in Cambodia, aid workers say, left with few options and abandoned amid the highly-publicized government crackdown.
[A man who worked in scam compound in Cambodia shows the only evidence he managed to document on his phone, a photo of dozens of phones that he was given to reach out and recruit potential scam victims.]
“The government has only addressed half of this problem,” said Mark Taylor, a consultant on human trafficking issues who previously led a USAID-backed program in Cambodia. “But it is totally ignoring what fueled that problem,” he added, namely the tens of thousands of vulnerable migrants that were lured into the scam industry and are now at risk of being re-trafficked.
[A group of Ugandan men and women line up to board their flight back home, after being released from scam compounds in Cambodia and then enduring compounding hardship on the streets of Phnom Penh.]
In response to questions from NPR, Interior Ministry spokesman Touch Sokhak rejected the criticism, saying authorities have “rescued” hundreds of thousands of scam workers, including trafficking victims, and repatriated them “with the utmost care, in accordance with the law.”
But accounts from inside Cambodia’s detention system tell a starkly different story. In a text message shared with NPR by aid workers, a former scam worker described conditions inside one facility: free drinking water is available for only one hour a day and otherwise costs $2. He asked not to be named for fear of reprisal.
“I don’t know how we will survive here,” he wrote.
Back to the cunt: Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is standing firm in his defense of a White House executive order to ramp up production of the weedkiller glyphosate.
That’s the very herbicide Kennedy once condemned in court as a “probable carcinogen.”
RFK Jr. Calls Ultra-Processed Foods a “Genocide” Against Native Americans in Congressional Testimony.
“If we want to talk about justice, we must start by returning autonomy over health and food back to Native people,” Kennedy said.
Despite his promises, Kennedy has come under fire from tribal leaders and Native health advocates for contradictory actions. The administration recently cut $32.5 million in funding for the CDC’s Healthy Tribes program, which supported chronic disease prevention and traditional medicine. Over 30 positions were eliminated, including 11 directly linked to tribal initiatives.
For many Native leaders, these cuts undermine Kennedy’s words and raise questions about the federal government’s commitment to fulfilling its trust and treaty obligations.
RFK Jr says there is a ‘genocide against Jews,’ not Gazans
Jews are cancerous as any Round-Up Ready spray party:
Abstract: Agro-industries should adopt effective strategies to use agrochemicals such as glyphosate herbicides cautiously in order to protect public health. This entails careful testing and risk assessment of available choices, and also educating farmers and users with mitigation strategies in ecosystem protection and sustainable development. The key to success in this endeavour is using scientific research on biological pest control, organic farming and regulatory control, etc., for new developments in food production and safety, and for environmental protection. Education and research is of paramount importance for food and nutrition security in the shadow of climate change, and their consequences in food production and consumption safety and sustainability. This review, therefore, diagnoses on the use of glyphosate and the associated development of glyphosate-resistant weeds. It also deals with the risk assessment on human health of glyphosate formulations through environment and dietary exposures based on the impact of glyphosate and its metabolite AMPA—(aminomethyl)phosphonic acid—on water and food. All this to set up further conclusions and recommendations on the regulated use of glyphosate and how to mitigate the adverse effects.
RFK Jr. Says Son Conor ‘Talked His Way’ onto Ukraine War Unit Despite Lacking Combat Experience
“He said to me, when he heard maybe a little bit of anger and concern, ‘Dad, this is what you taught me to do: to stand up for what I believe in,'” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells PEOPLE
Among these incarcerated children are 65 general secondary school students who, according to data from the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education, have been prevented by the Israeli authorities from sitting their general secondary examinations this year.
People talk about the women and the babies — and of course they should — but Palestinian men are always pushed to the side. Either demonized, labeled, or treated like they don’t count because they’re “men.” As if being a man somehow makes your death less tragic or your suffering less real.
These are the same men digging their families out of rubble with their bare hands. The same men watching their kids starve and feeling the kind of helplessness most people will never understand. The same men carrying trauma that nobody even asks about because the world has already decided who they are.
They’re painted as threats, as suspects, as “maybe Hamas,” instead of human beings who love their kids, who protect their families, who break down when no one is looking. They’re the pillars of their homes, and yet they’re the ones the world refuses to mourn.
So this is for them.
For the men who are still standing in Gaza, and for the men who should still be here but aren’t.
Happy Father’s Day to the Palestinian men — the ones the world overlooks, but we don’t.
May the Jews just curl up with their cancer of the bowels and develop glioblastoma forever.
REM singer Michael Stipe has spoken out in support of British band Radiohead.
The Oxfordshire rock five-piece, whose guitarist Jonny Greenwood is married to an Israeli, have been subjected to criticism over their decision to play a concert in Tel Aviv.
Stipe, whose own band played in Israel in the 1990s with Radiohead as their support act, published an Instagram post which said:
‘I stand with Radiohead and their decision to perform. Let’s hope a dialogue continues, helping to bring the occupation to an end and lead to a peaceful solution. Sincerely, Michael Stipe’
R.E.M.‘s Michael Stipe has urged his social media followers to join him in a temporary boycott of Meta and its associated products to protest their part in “helping advance the far right in America”.
Stipe shared his intentions via a post on Instagram on Sunday (Jan. 19), outlining the “Lights Out Meta” campaign which would take place from Jan. 19 – 26, and asked users to log out of all Meta platforms for the week. As Stipe added, this includes the likes of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Messenger, WhatsApp, Giphy, Meta Quest, and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.
Cunts:
“I believe that boycotting artists will not bring any solution. I believe that banning songs, movies, plays, books etc, is not going to fix the world’s problems.”
Erez has rejected ultimatums demanding she condemn Israel or publicly state her views. She has emphasized that boycotting artists based on their nationality will not solve world conflicts. While noting her own desire for peace in the region, she has expressed frustration over the atmosphere of intense polarization that forces artists to take sides.
A botched reflecting pool renovation, a capitulation to Iran, and an embarrassing spectacle at the Kennedy Center… Will the U.S. president finally give up?
“It is very much the latter days of a dictator who is on his way out,” says CNN host turned independent journalist Jim Acosta to Zeteo’s John Harwood. The two discussed Trump’s recent embarrassing endeavors in a Substack live conversation, in which they answered questions from an audience of subscribers.
So, will Trump call it quits? Will he throw JD Vance under the bus over Iran? How worried should we be about people like Stephen Miller and Peter Thiel? Watch the full video above to hear Acosta’s take on all that and more – and let us know what you think in the comments below.
You’ve probably heard of Russia’s “Dead Hand” system, also called Perimeter. It’s been around since the Cold War; it shows up in movies, and people reference it whenever nuclear tensions spike. The basic idea is that even if Russia gets completely obliterated in a nuclear strike and there’s nobody left alive to push the button, the missiles still launch automatically.
Scary, right? But here’s the thing, it actually makes a twisted kind of sense as a deterrent, and we’ll get to why in a second.
Now, North Korea just passed a constitutional amendment that sounds like the same thing, but it isn’t. And the difference between what Russia built and what Kim Jong Un just wrote into his constitution is one of the most dangerous gaps in nuclear policy on the planet right now.
Perimeter was developed in the 1970s and placed on combat duty in January 1985, at the height of the arms race. Its core problem was a legitimate one: if the United States launched a first strike sophisticated enough to simultaneously destroy Russia’s entire leadership, its communications infrastructure, and its command nodes, how would the surviving missile forces know to retaliate? The answer was an automated fallback loop, a system that monitors for the electromagnetic, seismic, and radiological signatures of a mass nuclear strike; attempts to reach the General Staff, then the presidential command system (”Kazbek”), and only if both fail, autonomously launches command missiles that relay the strike order to nuclear forces across Russian territory.
Perimeter was engineered to respond to the signature of a civilization-ending nuclear exchange, not to a single event.
It requires multiple sensor confirmations across multiple spectra. It attempts human contact before going autonomous. The 1984 test that first tipped off US intelligence involved a command missile transmitting launch orders to a waiting ICBM at Baikonur, which then struck a target range in Kamchatka, a complete validation of the chain:
command missile,
combat missile,
target.
What North Korea Just Built
Kim Jung-Un’s constitutional amendment has no such architecture of restraint.
Jew-oogle: J. Robert Oppenheimer consistently defended the wartime development of the atomic bomb, arguing it was an inevitable scientific progression and a necessary military tool to end World War II. However, he deeply opposed an arms race and strongly advocated against the development of the vastly more destructive hydrogen bomb.
How can scholars and scientists balance moral and ethical dilemmas that can potentially arise in the application of their work?
When Oppenheimer refused to sign the letter that Leo Szilard, the physicist who created the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and others wrote opposing dropping the bomb on Japan, Oppenheimer said that the scientists who invented the atomic bomb have no greater rights or responsibilities than others about how to use the weapon. I disagree with that. I think scientists and social scientists who have expertise in this area have grave responsibilities to express their opinions about nuclear strategy, and how we respond could be used in a war or used for deterrence. I think there can be worrisome tendencies for scholars to fall in line with what is the current rage or received wisdom about what the best national security policy should be. We’ve got to constantly challenge the status quo and think carefully about alternative policies.
Oppenheimer envisioned the tactical use of nuclear weapons. Putin now threatens it. And the Jews of Israel have already used the weapon, so-called tactical nuke, and the depleted uranium shells? The gift that keeps on giving.
Jewified, man, this cunt of a monster, Oppen-Monster-Heimer:
Based on the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, largely drafted by Oppenheimer, Baruch’s plan eliminated the provision for international control of uranium deposits and emphasized instead the punishment of countries that sought to use atomic energy for military purposes. Baruch insisted that the United States maintain its monopoly on nuclear weapons until intrusive inspection procedures had assured that no other countries possessed them—clearly a nonstarter for the secretive Soviet Union.
Oppenheimer was disappointed at the failure of international negotiations to control the bomb but was still eager to maintain his privileged access to policy circles in Washington. He devoted his attention to accelerating US production of fissile material and developing bomb designs that would use it more efficiently. As chair of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), he oversaw three major expansions of atomic production facilities in 1949, 1950, and 1952. The Sandstone series of nuclear tests in April and May 1948—a follow up of the 1946 Operation Crossroads—had demonstrated the success of new designs of smaller, more efficient nuclear weapons than had previously been available. At this point, US strategy for a potential war with the Soviet Union—including a feared invasion of western Europe—focused entirely on attacking Soviet cities with atomic weapons. But Oppenheimer preferred that nuclear weapons play a more direct role in defense. He chaired a panel on “long-range objectives” for the Pentagon’s Research and Development Board that recommended in August 1948 that nuclear weapons be developed for use on a battlefield. Norris Bradbury, Oppenheimer’s chosen successor as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, accordingly, submitted a request in October “that a complete small weapon be readied for test early in 1951.”[2] He relayed an order to the Sandia Laboratory, responsible for the weaponization of nuclear devices. Sandia was already at work on the “Mark 4” bomb, which consisted of an improved version of the Mark 3 “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The Mark 4 was the first US atomic weapon to go into mass production and eventually came in a variety of yields, including one kiloton (1,000 tons of TNT equivalent), considered at the time small enough to use for tactical purposes.
Birth defects in Iraq are part of an evidentiary ecology of war brought to political and moral attention through the practices of archiving and documenting.
When Iraqi scholars and doctors catalogue incidences of birth defects and note that their rates exceed that of Hiroshima, or when epidemiologists conduct studies to mark where, when and how a population experiences birth defects, they highlight the connections between militarism and public health, global inequalities and environmental racism.[4]Majid, a physician who treats children with heart defects in Falluja, said in an interview, “When people see birth defects, there is no avoiding the issue. Birth defects say, ‘Something is wrong here,’ in a way that other medical problems do not.”[5]
Applied to the Middle East, the term ecologies of war often refers to environments transformed by decades of intensive militarism. In Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Syria, such ecologies are not always accidental side effects of military operations but are instead central components of military strategy.[6] For example, Iraqi president Saddam Hussein drained the marshes of southern Iraq as a direct counterinsurgency tactic to suppress the Marsh Arabs, whom he accused of disloyalty during the Iran-Iraq war (1980 –1988).[7] When the Iraqi marshes were reflooded in the name of ecological restoration after 2003, it was part of a broader restructuring of Iraq’s environment and economy, alongside other mechanisms of spatial control like the use of T-walls (portable concrete walls).[8]
Beyond deliberate spatial and social transformations, chemical pollution also shapes Iraq’s war ecologies. While living and working with internally displaced farming families from Anbar province in 2014 and 2015 I witnessed plant crops and livestock with malformed parts or tumorous growth. Many farmers kept photographs and told stories of destroyed irrigation systems, contaminated water and hypersalinized soil. Infertility, cancers and birth defects prevented them from having and raising healthy children. They described birth defects as just one consequence of the environmental damage they witnessed in all aspects of their lives.
Many Iraqis I spoke to described these enduring environmental maladies as intentional. Ahmed, the father of a child who died within a few hours of her birth from multiple birth defects, said, “The Americans wanted this. If they didn’t, they would have cleaned up from their wars. They starved us during the sanctions; now they are poisoning us.”[9] When Ahmed speaks of being poisoned, he refers to both the enduring life of toxic war materials embedded and abandoned in Iraq’s landscape and the destruction of the human resources needed to cope with public health crises.
US military intervention heavily damaged Iraqi infrastructure and ecologies that sustain human survival, especially during the initial invasion in 2003 but also later during the occupation (2004–2011). Adhering to a “shock and awe” strategy, the United States launched 800 cruise missiles within the first 48 hours of the invasion in March 2003 —more than double the number of missiles launched in the entire Gulf War.[10] Between 2002 and 2005 alone, the US armed forces expended 6 billion bullets—roughly 200,000-300,000 bullets per individual killed in Iraq.[11] This number of shells, full of lead and mercury, does not include larger ordinances or other metal remnants from after 2005, or from previous wars: the Iran-Iraq war (1980–1988), the First Gulf War (1990–1991), the sanctions era (1991-2003) and the 2003 occupation’s instigation of a further decade of militia warfare. The most recent military intervention in Iraq was accompanied by unprecedented waste abandonment and waste burning: discarded vehicles, excess weapons, discarded clothing and much more were all left in Iraq’s land, water or air.
Given the onslaught of military toxic dumping in Iraq, from spent bombs and bullets to base-making, burn pits and junkyards, it is no surprise that widespread cancers and congenital anomalies, along with other major health issues in the civilian population, abound.
Edward Bernays, the “father of public relations,” leveraged Cold War paranoia to manipulate American public and political opinion. His most famous operation during this era was orchestrating a massive propaganda campaign for the United Fruit Company (UFCO), painting the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz as a communist puppet.
A Palestinian baby losing their legs at two months old does not shatter the world into action. Our genocide is sustained by weapons deals, colonial land theft, Zionist ideology, and a bottomless apathy. Even those who offer solidarity give only a fragile grief, one TikTok cat video away from being forgotten. We chew on glass while they scroll past.
Yet this wall of indifference is finally cracking. The Zionist state is hemorrhaging support in the United States. Americans want accountability, not branding. In a panic, the Israeli government has poured resources into American PR campaigns to launder its image. But the effort is not stopping the shift. The boycott is working. Campus occupations, BDS campaigns, and grassroots defiance have pierced the armor of the settlers. They do this not because pressure magically stops bombs, but because it makes denial harder to sustain.
This shift matters. The US and Israel remain entangled, but their alignment is strained by competing priorities. It does not signal restraint, but it exposes the friction between two colonial projects. As a direct result of global boycotts and BDS campaigns, economic costs are rippling outward. The Zionist entity has lost over fifty-seven billion dollars. Tech giants are laying off thousands, shutting down research centers, and fleeing the apartheid state. The empire and its outpost bicker, but the violence rolls on without pause.
Watching them now feels like witnessing a toxic marriage unraveling. It is not a clean ending, just mutual accusations as shared interests fracture. They are two settler projects built on stolen land and sustained by elimination, turning on each other in public while our bodies pile up. The empire is starting to see its mirror image as a liability, and that fracture offers a rare opening.
I love this fellow’s writing, BUT . . . . He’s Palestinian in Ireland. He is not seeing the forest for the fucking Judaic World Sucking Chlamydia TREE.
A Palestinian baby losing their legs at two months old does not shatter the world into action. Our genocide is sustained by weapons deals, colonial land theft, Zionist ideology, and a bottomless apathy. Even those who offer solidarity give only a fragile grief, one TikTok cat video away from being forgotten. We chew on glass while they scroll past.
Yet this wall of indifference is finally cracking. The Zionist state is hemorrhaging support in the United States. Americans want accountability, not branding. In a panic, the Israeli government has poured resources into American PR campaigns to launder its image. But the effort is not stopping the shift. The boycott is working. Campus occupations, BDS campaigns, and grassroots defiance have pierced the armor of the settlers. They do this not because pressure magically stops bombs, but because it makes denial harder to sustain.
This shift matters. The US and Israel remain entangled, but their alignment is strained by competing priorities. It does not signal restraint, but it exposes the friction between two colonial projects. As a direct result of global boycotts and BDS campaigns, economic costs are rippling outward. The Zionist entity has lost over fifty-seven billion dollars. Tech giants are laying off thousands, shutting down research centers, and fleeing the apartheid state. The empire and its outpost bicker, but the violence rolls on without pause.
Watching them now feels like witnessing a toxic marriage unraveling. It is not a clean ending, just mutual accusations as shared interests fracture. They are two settler projects built on stolen land and sustained by elimination, turning on each other in public while our bodies pile up. The empire is starting to see its mirror image as a liability, and that fracture offers a rare opening.
How Israel Improves the World: Technology Edition
I liked the title “How Israel Improves the World” so I wanted to create another like it.
First let me present the core metric that explains almost everything else: Israel spends more on R&D as a percentage of GDP than any country in the world. Not the US. Not South Korea. Not Germany. Israel. About 6% of our GDP goes straight into research and development.
What’s even more unusual is where that R&D happens. Israel has the highest share of R&D done by the private sector in the OECD. It’s in companies, startups, spin-outs, and small teams solving problems because someone needs a solution now, not in ten years.
Further Israel leads the world in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) per capita. More than half of private-sector R&D in Israel is funded by foreign companies. The rest of the world is literally wiring money into Israel so Israelis can solve their hardest technical problems for them.
Israel also ranks #1 in the world for scientists and engineers per capita in the workforce. Number one. Which explains why so much of the world’s core technology quietly originates here.
Take cybersecurity. Despite being a tiny fraction of the world, Israel consistently captures around 20% of global private cybersecurity investment. That’s absurd when you remember our country’s population. A huge chunk of the world’s encryption, network defense, endpoint security, fraud detection, and cyber-resilience tooling has Israeli DNA in it. Look at Wiz, the hugest M&A in history. An Israeli company.. Banks, hospitals, power grids, and governments all over the planet are running on systems designed by Israelis.
Then there’s medical technology. Israeli companies pioneered capsule endoscopy (a literal camera you swallow), advanced imaging systems, remote patient monitoring, robotic surgery components, and AI-assisted diagnostics. Hospitals worldwide use Israeli-designed devices every day without ever seeing Hebrew.
Water and climate tech is another massive contribution. Israel essentially industrialized desalination and made it cheap, reliable, and scalable. Countries facing water scarcity depend on Israeli desal tech, leak-detection systems, and smart irrigation. Drip irrigation is now a global standard and it was invented in Israel. That one innovation alone reshaped agriculture on multiple continents.
In semiconductors and deep tech, Israel punches way above its weight too. Israel designs most of the world’s most advanced chips, and Taiwan builds them. Critical CPU and GPU architectures, chip validation tools, hardware security modules, and low-level systems software are designed here. If your laptop, phone, or cloud server feels faster or safer than it did ten years ago, odds are good an Israeli engineer is why.
And then there’s AI. Computer vision for industrial inspection, AI for drug discovery, optimization engines, anomaly detection, edge AI, and infrastructure and tooling. Israel is consistently one of the top countries in the world for deep-tech outside the US, especially in areas where the problems are ugly and the data is messy. Which is where real value usually lives. Let me not forget to mention the former Chief Scientist of OpenAI is Israeli and the reason why ChatGPT “thinks”. He is now running a multi billion dollar AI company out of Israel. To add, if not Israeli, all major AI companies in the USA are founded and ran by Jews.
Israel builds foundational tech underpinning much of modern civilization. Stuff that becomes invisible once it works. Stuff other countries rely on without thinking about where it came from.
The metrics tell the story: #1 in R&D, #1 in scientific talent, #1 in private-sector investment, and dominant position in multiple strategic tech verticals.
So, Israeli spends an awful lot of time improving the underlying machinery of the modern world. The code, the chips, the water systems, the medical devices, the security layers, the AI. Many things you take for granted. In fact, why Israel is even a rich country is due to our technology exports. Like the Arab countries export oil, our industry is science and technology. All powered by the immense talent of our people.
– Israel was humiliated on Oct. 7, is taking revenge from innocent people and civilians, Miko Peled tells Anadolu
ISTANBUL
Israeli activist and writer Miko Peled, the grandson of a signatory to the Jewish state’s 1948 Declaration of Independence, has criticized Israel’s policies towards Palestine, asserting that “they cannot defeat the Palestinians.”
The author, whose father served as a general in the Six-Day War of 1967, spoke to Anadolu about his journey as an activist advocating for the rights of Palestinians, and evaluated the current conflict that started on Oct. 7.
“I come from a very prominent Zionist patriotic family … I grew up as a patriot, a strong supporter of my country, my state, and of course, Zionism,” said Peled, who was born in Jerusalem in 1961.
He was greatly influenced by his father’s ideas in the early years of his life, and served in the military for a while but later regretted it and left.
“My father, while still in uniform right after the war, said: ‘Look … we are here forever, our existence is no longer uncertain or in danger. We must allow the Palestinians to have their small state in a small part of Palestine.’ … As soon as the war ended, they started building massive cities in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.”
‘According to Zionism, there is no such place as Palestine’
Emphasizing that there is no place called Palestine in the fundamental philosophy of Zionism, Peled said: “According to Zionism, that is Israeli land, and those lands belong not to the Palestinians living there, but to all Jews in the world. If you have a supremacist ideology, that is, if you argue that one group has more rights than another, then you must use violence. You must have an apartheid regime for this racist ideology to be realized. That is the Israeli state,” he said.
Peled, pointing out that the Israel-Palestine issue did not start last month, but 75 years ago with the establishment of Israel, said: “As a movement, Zionists and then the state born from this movement declared war on the Palestinian people. In this war, we saw ethnic cleansing, genocide policies, and a racist apartheid regime.”
Describing Israel as a “terrorist state,” Peled drew attention to the oppression that Palestinians have been experiencing for years.
“Palestinians are exposed to terrorism every day. You don’t know whether you will be beaten or killed while walking on the street, whether your children will be safe going to school, whether your house will be demolished, whether your brothers will be taken or abducted and disappeared by the Israeli army or Israeli intelligence,” he said.
‘I realized I lived in a kind of colony, a superficial, artificial reality’
The Israeli-American said he started questioning the existence of Israel after the death of a family member more than two decades ago.
“In 1997, my sister’s little daughter was killed in a suicide attack in Jerusalem. She was 13 years old. This was a tragedy that fundamentally shook a person; you know, after such an event, you cannot look at the world with the same eyes. This led me to examine the reality of what was taught to me, the existence of Israel.” he said.
He then embarked on a journey to Palestine to find answers.
“When I started the journey, I realized that the country I thought was mine was someone else’s country. I was living in a kind of colony, a superficial, artificial reality that was not real. It did not rely on reality. It was based on an apartheid state built on lies, and these lies legitimized the existence of the Israeli state,” Pelod said.
‘Condemning a nation under oppression for resisting is the height of hypocrisy’
On Israel’s ongoing attacks in Gaza, which started after a cross border attack by Palestinian group Hamas, Peled said: “Palestinians who have nothing to do with this event are paying a heavy price. Israel was humiliated, and now it extracts all its revenge and anger from innocent people and civilians who have nothing to do with the attack.”
Israel’s air and ground attacks on the besieged enclave has since killed more than 14,000 people, most of them women and children.
Pointing out that in Western media there is a tendency to condemn Hamas in every comment on the conflict, Peled said: “It is absurd to condemn those who emerged to resist, people who have been under pressure for so long. This was expected. If we want to eliminate resistance, then we must eliminate pressure. Resistance is always a reaction against oppression. The Palestinians’ response to greater violence that has been going on for more than 75 years has mostly been non-violent.”
“If there is something to condemn, it is to condemn the apartheid regime. It is necessary to condemn the violence, brutality that Palestinians face every day, the thousands of Palestinians being arrested and killed in the West Bank while we speak, the racism practiced by Israel against Palestinian citizens. It is necessary to condemn the Israeli doctors who signed the petition approving the bombing of hospitals in Gaza, the students who demand the expulsion of Palestinian Israeli citizens from university dormitories, and many more. But condemning a nation under oppression for resisting is the height of hypocrisy and meaningless.”
Which countries buy the most from Israel?
Israel sold $61.7bn worth of goods in 2024. The biggest importers of Israeli products were the United States with $17.3bn, Ireland with $3.2bn and China with $2.8bn. Hong Kong, a semiautonomous region of China that trade databases treat as a separate entity, imported an additional $2bn in products from Israel. Add that to China’s tally, and the country becomes the second-largest importer of Israeli products.
The United States primarily imported diamonds, high-tech electronics, including integrated circuits and telecommunications equipment, as well as chemical products.
Ireland was the largest buyer of Israeli integrated circuits in 2024, importing some $3bn billion worth of electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies. These components are widely used in Ireland’s pharmaceutical, medical device and tech manufacturing sectors.
China imported a range of Israeli products including optical equipment, electronic components and chemical products.
Which countries sell the most to Israel?
Forbes Israel presents the definitive ranking of the world’s wealthiest individuals of Jewish heritage- an exclusive annual project documenting extraordinary achievement, innovation, and wealth creation at the highest levels of global capitalism.
This year’s list features 319 billionaires with a combined net worth exceeding $2 trillion, including six individuals who rank among the 15 richest people on Earth. From Silicon Valley’s technological titans to Wall Street’s financial masterminds, from shipping magnates to media moguls, these entrepreneurs and business leaders have fundamentally reshaped industries, built iconic companies, and accumulated unprecedented fortunes through vision, ambition, and relentless execution.
The 2026 edition reveals remarkable shifts at the very top: Larry Page reclaims the crown as the wealthiest Jewish billionaire following Google’s AI-driven resurgence, while fellow founders Sergey Brin and Larry Ellison battle for position amid dramatic market swings. Meanwhile, Israeli billionaires achieve record representation, with 52 citizens appearing on the list – their combined wealth surging 50% over two years to $308 billion.
This is more than a wealth ranking. It’s a chronicle of transformative impact.
Then this piece of shit, Paul Craig Roberts, trickle down cunt of RayGun years:
From another cunt using his mercenary rank to sell crap: Capt. Roy Harkness
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Jun 21
From the old James Bond movie, “Live and Let Die”: A white woman about to be sacrificed during a Voodoo religious rite. It works well enough for the topic.
Paul Craig Roberts
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It turns out that a number of British governments not only turned a blind eye to immigrant-invader gang rapes of ethnic British children for 30 years–and the gang rapes and other horrors are still ongoing– but also enabled and financed the gangs with the raped girls’ parents’ taxes.
The anti-white British governments and the anti-white British presstitutes dismissed the legitimate complaints of white parents and raped kids as “far-right racist agitation.” The British governments were determined to protect the open borders policy at the expense of the ethnic British population, proving themselves more insidiously evil than open borders US Democrats. As Janice Gassam Asare said, “The most insidious form of oppression is that which comes at the hands of your own.”
The New Color Line: How Quotas and Privileges Destroy Democracy is a provocative but frustrating book. The heart of the book is a well-researched history of how civil rights litigation and legislation ultimately led to today’s ubiquitous racial quotas and preferences. No boring academic tome, The New Color Line is well-written and concise. It is likely to be the leading conservative study of affirmative action for some time.
Paul Craig Roberts, who played a crucial role in enacting the tax cuts of the 1980s and in forging the political emergence of supply-side economics, reflects on his experience in Washington. He emphasizes that intra-party power struggles, not economics, are the main influence on policy.
Until YOU KIND READER, discover the term “Israeli” is the same as JEW, and Zionist? Another forked tongue mumbo jumbo to get Goyim Gooey with Mitzvah Fluids!!
Not only are the Israelis relentlessly killing genocide survivors in the Gaza Strip, but their continued blockade of the enclave has once again brought besieged Palestinians to the brink of famine. Long lines persist outside community kitchens as people struggle to secure adequate meals for themselves and their families amid widespread deprivation.
“In Palestine, conditions in Gaza remain fragile despite some improvements after the October 2025 ceasefire,” a report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) stated earlier this week. “More than 1.6 million people were previously assessed as needing urgent food support.”
Shit dawg, more “defeat for Trump” bullshit. Do these people get it? The USA a la Is-RAW-Hell are just ramping up for the next stage.
I was interviewed by Mondoweiss about the regional and strategic ramifications of the US-Israeli war against Iran. Text and link below: Mouin Rabbani
This week, President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a memorandum of understanding outlining terms for an end to the U.S./Israeli war on Iran. After months of bombing, the United States has achieved none of its stated war aims.
What does Trump’s defeat mean for the future of U.S. designs in the region? Will the U.S. relationship with Israel change in any way going forward? What does the Iranian victory mean for the country?
I’d start with a few comments. The first is that the United States has suffered an unambiguous defeat.
The second is that any responses to U.S. diplomacy have to be considered tentative, because Washington has repeatedly demonstrated itself to be a thoroughly dishonest, untrustworthy, and unreliable negotiating partner. Most recently, it launched two unprovoked words of aggression, using diplomacy as camouflage, just in the past year. As you just mentioned, this is not a peace treaty, and so we have to keep the very real possibility in mind that the u.s is simply not serious about any commitments it has made under this agreement, but having said so
There are important indications that the U.S. recognizes its defeat and that it will prove extremely costly for the U.S. to try to overturn it. Let’s briefly go through the history. In 2015, the United States and Iran signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action JCPOA. The Iranian nuclear agreement, which ensured that Iran could never develop a nuclear weapon, established the most intrusive monitoring and inspections regime in the history of the nuclear age, and basically fulfilled each of Washington’s explicitly stated objectives with respect to Iran.
What we found is that the United States was very slow to meet its own commitments, and the agreement turned out to be a bad deal for Iran because of the benefits Iran was supposed to get from it, including trade and the lifting of sanctions. So they were quite limited, but that wasn’t enough for the United States. In 2018, the U.S. unilaterally renounced an international agreement and replaced it with a policy of maximum pressure, a policy that made things much more difficult for Iran.
However, the U.S. failed to achieve any of its objectives in terms of either fomenting regime change in Tehran, reducing Iran’s regional footprint, or affecting its ballistic missile program. More importantly, Iran viewed itself as no longer bound by its own commitments under that agreement, which, according to everyone who has looked at it, Iran was scrupulously observing until that agreement.
Then in 2021, Washington renewed negotiations. I’m not talking about Obama and Trump and Biden, because it’s important to understand we’re talking about the policies of a state, of a country, not those of different individuals. That’s why I’m referring to Washington and the United States, rather than the individual leaders involved.
In 2021, recognizing the failures of maximum pressure, Washington reopened negotiations with Iran to rejoin the agreement, but rather than simply admitting its failure or its mistake or whatever, however you want to describe the unilateral renunciation of an international agreement,
The U.S. tried to impose a new agreement on Iran rather than seeking to resolve issues that arose as a result of the renunciation of that agreement and the subsequent Iranian violation of its own commitments. Here I’m referring primarily to Iran’s decision to begin enriching uranium to increasingly high levels. Washington sought to impose a new and entirely different agreement that would have compelled Iran to make commitments that had nothing to do with the original 2015 agreement.
I’m talking about, for example, Iran’s regional policy, its relationships with its partners in the so-called “Axis of Resistance”, and its ballistic missile program. Needless to say, Iran rejected these illegitimate demands, which set the stage for the issues we’re discussing today.
I would like to add a personal note: in late 2020, after U.S. presidential elections, I got a call from a researcher at Chatham House in the UK. They were conducting a study on how the incoming administration should handle the Iranian file.
I made a very simple point. The U.S. has essentially two choices. It can either unconditionally admit its mistake and rejoin the JCPOA, then raise any objections it has to Iran’s conduct under this agreement, or it can take a different path, like trying to impose new conditions on Iran, and that’s not going to work. It’s going to end badly for everyone concerned. If I say so myself, I’ve been proven right by the Biden administration’s refusal to uphold U.S. obligations under the JCPOA. The Biden administration’s insistence on continuing with Trump’s policies towards Iran, without altering them in any way, in other words, maintaining maximum pressure, even adding new sanctions, set the stage for war.
So you can’t just say Trump is horrible and it’s all his fault. We have to look at the consistencies in U.S. policy over the past several decades, and particularly the last one. We had the 12-day war last year. It achieved nothing. Then we had the unprecedented, unprovoked war of aggression launched by the United States and Israel against Iran on February 28 this year. Now the objectives of that war were laid out very clearly, openly, explicitly word for word by the leaders concerned: regime change, a comprehensive end to Iran’s nuclear program. In other words, Iran would no longer have a nuclear program as opposed to having one under proper international supervision with monitoring, you know, every single reactor would be decommissioned, missile material would not be so much be moved out of the country as seized by the United States and taken to the United States. Iran’s ballistic missile program would be comprehensively dismantled. Iran would not be allowed to have any more regional alliances and so on. There was also an unstated Israeli war objective that may or may not have been shared by the United States. And that was essentially a state collapse to make Iran a carbon copy of Iraq during the first decade of the century and Syria during the second decade.
It failed. Not a single one of these objectives was achieved. On April 8, the United States, recognizing its failure and the increasing cost of pursuing success, concluded a ceasefire agreement with Iran, mediated by Pakistan in close coordination with Saudi Arabia and with additional input from Egypt, Turkey, and perhaps others.
The ceasefire agreement ultimately didn’t resolve any of the issues that led the United States to accept it. What I mean is that you had a global economic crisis caused by this war. Energy prices were increasingly high. What was being termed a price shock was threatening to become a supply shock. In other words, the issue wasn’t so much that you had to pay so much for these things, but that they wouldn’t even be available on the market. A whole bunch of secondary impacts were observed in terms of petroleum byproducts, inputs for agricultural fertilizers, and other products that were prominently exported from the Gulf.
None of these issues were resolved because a ceasefire in and of itself was not, for example, sufficient for Lloyd’s of London to begin bringing down maritime insurance rates to a reasonable and acceptable level. In other words, the trade didn’t get back on its feet.
Now, the difference here is that, um, the U.S. was not only dealing with damage to itself but also with damage it had inflicted on the global economy. Whereas for Iran, which the United States had spent nearly half a century seeking to disconnect from the global economy, yes, it was suffering and enduring a very punishing reality, but it was much less affected by these things.
So, to resolve this, the problems that it had created for itself as a result of its decision to launch an unprovoked war of aggression against Iran and in partnership with Israel, the United States essentially had two options, because a ceasefire in and of itself didn’t resolve those challenges. It was left with two options.
The first was to sign a diplomatic agreement with Iran, on the understanding that it would reflect Iran’s strengthened position and Washington’s weakened one. The second option would have been to resume full-scale military hostilities, and that would have required the commitment of substantially larger U.S. military and other resources than had been committed at the beginning of the war. Those are resources that, in key respects, the United States either no longer possessed or was unwilling to commit, and even then, without any guarantee of success.
Faced with these two options, Washington’s initial policy was to seek to create a third option by instituting the blockade of Iran and beginning what was essentially a war of attrition against Iran. The United States hoped to sufficiently weaken Iran and reduce its leverage by forcibly reopening the Strait of Hormuz and compelling Iran to sign a diplomatic agreement that would be much more advantageous to the U.S.
Initially, this approach worked to Washington’s advantage. The problem was that Iran retained the capacity to respond and retaliate, and it began retaliating with increasing force, so that things were rapidly escalating once again, leaving the U.S. facing a fork in the road. It either had to reach a rapid, conclusive diplomatic agreement or, failing that, rapidly escalate once again towards full-scale war.
It chose this diplomatic agreement because it was unprepared, unable, and unwilling to once again commit to full-scale war, bearing in mind, as I said at the outset of this very long-winded response, that the United States has repeatedly proven itself to be a thoroughly dishonest, untrustworthy, and unreliable negotiator. We should by no means conclude on that basis that this is over now.
What we have now is a diplomatic agreement; it’s not a peace treaty. It’s a framework agreement; it sets forth the issues that need to be resolved and those that the United States and Iran have mutually agreed to either implement or negotiate.
If you look at the memorandum, what is as important as the issues that are included in that document are the issues that are excluded. And the issues excluded encompass every single objective proclaimed at the outset of this war regime change. Not only is regime change not on the agenda, but Washington has committed not to interfere in Iran’s internal affairs. Iran’s ballistic missile program, Iran’s regional alliances, these are not even up for discussion. The only issues that are up for discussion are Iran repeating, as it has for decades, that it will not acquire nuclear weapons, and the issues of enriched uranium in Iran, basically, its violations of the 2015 agreement that are on the agenda only because the U.S. unilaterally renounced that agreement. Beyond that, no element of Iran’s nuclear program is even up for discussion.
So, if you look at this agreement, it represents an unambiguous victory uh for Iran, and the reason that I’ve referred to this war as Washington’s Suez Moment, and i’m leaving Israel outside the analysis for the moment, is that just as how in 1956 Britain and France going to war in the Middle East to reassert themselves as global powers in the aftermath of the Second World War and being confronted with the limits of that power, making unambiguously clear that they were in fact declining powers, so in 2026, the United States went to war in the Middle East to reassert its global primacy, and as a result of its failure, has confirmed its decline as a global empire.
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The video is hard to watch. Little Zeina pleading over her father’s body, “Father, father, my beloved father, come to me…. Why did you leave me? Why?”
Zeina, of course, knows her father didn’t leave her. He and her brother were taken from her by Israel. They were killed while collecting water.
Zeina’s father, Mohammad Al-Habeel, and her brother, 5-year-old Mousa, are two of the more than 1,000 Palestinians killed since the so-called “ceasefire” agreement last October. “What ceasefire?” as Zeteo contributor Diana Buttu recently asked.
I have always hated the use of the term “ceasefire” when it comes to Palestine. The Cambridge English dictionary defines the term as “an agreement, usually between two armies, to stop fighting in order to allow discussions about peace.” For clarity, Palestinians do not have an army; we are not “fighting” (Israel is committing genocide), and of course, there are no “discussions about peace” (nor prospect of it, given that Israel continues to steal land).
And before anyone misconstrues my words, let me be clear: Palestinians were the happiest to see Israel’s mass killings stop when the so-called “ceasefire” was announced in October 2025. From October 2023 to October 2025 – the height of Israel’s genocide on Gaza – Israel was killing, on average, over 100 Palestinians a day. Israeli forces were gleefully bombing nearly all of Gaza’s 36 hospitals, and more than 200 schools and universities (we saw the TikToks). Israeli soldiers viewed children, journalists, and medical personnel as legitimate targets. Israel and its U.S. backers derived sick pleasure in seeing Palestinians scramble for food, only for Israeli soldier’s to gun them down or bomb them.
So why do I hate the term “ceasefire”? Because “ceasefire” doesn’t mean the end of genocide – at least not for Israel. So let’s examine what it doesmean for Israel.
When a foreign government has:
– Direct access to your classified intelligence
– Co-production rights on your weapons systems
– Influence over your defense procurement
– A dedicated executive agent in your Pentagon
– The ability to create jobs to buy political support
– A ‘critical’ espionage rating from your own intelligence agencies
At what point do you stop being a sovereign nation?
The Jews are getting it all, man — USA, Canada, most of EuroTrashLandia, AU, NZ, UK — wherever their murder tools are sold.
Part of the genius of Section 224 is how it’s designed to make opposing it politically impossible. The provision allows Israeli defense companies like Rafael to expand or establish co-production plants in U.S. states, creating jobs in American districts.
The mechanism is simple and it works:
1. An Israeli company opens a facility in, say, Alabama.
2. People in that district get jobs.
3. That district’s representative now has a material interest in protecting the relationship.
4. The representative votes to keep the money flowing.
THEY ARE WINNING:
Call your representative at (202) 224-3121 and tell them you see what they’re doing.
References
1. The Intercept. “Congress Is Trying to Permanently Integrate U.S. and Israeli Defense Tech.” June 7, 2026.
2. Consortium News. “Fusing the US Military and the IDF.” June 4, 2026.
3. Pew Research Center. “Most people across 36 countries have negative views of Israel and little confidence in Netanyahu.” June 3, 2026.
4. ThePrint. “Israel ‘spied’ on US negotiators working on Iran deal, Pentagon raises threat perception—NYT report.” June 6, 2026.
5. The Independent. “Trump pushing through law to massively expand US intelligence sharing with Israel.” June 8, 2026.
6. The Jerusalem Post. “Khanna, Massie join to strip US-Israel tech cooperation from defense bill.” June 1, 2026.
7. Newsweek. “NDAA Section 224 alarms progressives and conservatives—Here’s what it says.” June 8, 2026.
8. PressTV. “2027 NDAA Section 224: Inside the deepening integration of American, Israeli military systems.” June 18, 2026.
9. Responsible Statecraft. “Pro-Israel voices win out, kill bill to stop US-Israel military integration.” June 4, 2026.
10. Middle East Eye. “Negative views of Israel soar across 36 countries since Iran war, survey finds.” June 4, 2026.
And, again, more fucking tripe with more fucking ex-Colonels. This is reality, the US Mercenary Diservices: Unfortunately, the War is a Racket and the Middle East/West Asia is Paying the Price, Not USA Ex-Colonel is correct. PROVING gorunds. Stress TESTS.
So Donald Trump’s “little excursion” to Iran—which he assured everyone would be a quick two-week romp—somehow stretched into a 100-day slog of death, destruction, and economic chaos. But don’t worry! They’ve now “settled” the war with “the Red.” (Iran? The Reds? Who knows, who cares—victory lap time!)
Our host Mehdi Hasan sat down with retired Colonel David D. Ro, a man so dedicated to defending the indefensible that he literally had to consult a thesaurus to redefine “imminent,” “massacre,” and “success” into something resembling English.
His conclusion? Operation Epic Fury is a success! Never mind that Iran still has 70% of its missiles, 90% of its underground storage, and enough enriched uranium to make a reactor blush. And sure, they replaced the Supreme Leader with… another Ayatollah.
But David has a four-point checklist, people!
Air defense? Check!
Nuclear program? Kind of check!
Missiles? Well, they’re not firing many *effective* ones, so check!
Internal security degraded? Maybe? The metrics are flexible!
When confronted with 1,700 dead civilians, 120 children blown up in a school, and dozens of hospitals and universities reduced to rubble, David’s response was truly Olympic-caliber mental gymnastics. Massacre? That implies *intent*! It wasn’t a massacre—it was just… 120 kids getting recklessly deleted. And the school was *near* a military base, so really, it’s the children’s fault for being in the wrong place. Also, the Pentagon’s weapons are apparently so precise they accidentally bomb volleyball teams *and* sports halls simultaneously. But don’t worry—David is *unfamiliar* with that incident. Because his crack research team clearly works from the Pentagon’s PR department.
Barak Cena, an associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, joined to explain that 120 dead Iranian children are merely “collateral damage”—and he was *so* careful to say it’s all tragic while simultaneously calling it completely legitimate. The UN War Crimes Tribunal is presumably taking notes.
Meanwhile, Muhammad Ali Shabbani pointed out that Iran’s military budget is 130 times smaller than America’s, yet somehow they’re still fighting. Almost like bombing knowledge, scientists, and universities doesn’t actually work. But who knew?
The highlight reel: David arguing that 1953 Iran wasn’t *really* a democracy because the prime minister was appointed by the king (like the UK’s prime minister!), so therefore the CIA-MI6 coup was fine. And he *still* wouldn’t fully admit the US helped Saddam gas Iranians in the 1980s—just a “little bit” of help targeting Iranian troops with chemical weapons, not *really* endorsing the gassing itself. The distinction was clearly lost on the dead Iranians.
When asked about Israel ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon (a million displaced!), David suddenly couldn’t see the ethnic cleansing. It’s just… temporary Shia relocation? And he insists Israel won’t keep them out permanently—despite the Israeli foreign minister saying exactly that. But David’s “on record” predicting they’ll return. Because his track record of predictions has been so spotless!
The audience poll showing 44% of Arabs see Israel as the biggest threat, 21% the US, and Iran a distant 6%? David’s response: “I’m surprised we only got 21%—we’re a superpower, we get blamed for everything.” And the JCPOA was bad, apparently, because it gave Iran planes that they used to fly militias into Syria—except Iran already had planes and sanctions didn’t actually stop them. But hey, let’s bomb schools instead!
In the end, David’s parting defense: “The burden of being a superpower is we’re blamed for everything we do and everything we don’t do.” A philosophy the families of 1,700 dead Iranians would surely find reassuring.
The Jews have colonized the colonizers:
‘I’ve finally found God without all the extras’: behind the surge in people converting to Progressive Judaism
Despite an increase in antisemitism and anti-Jewish feeling in the UK, adult conversions are on the rise
[Elizabeth Arif-Fear was born Christian, then converted to Islam and was Muslim for 14 years and has now converted to Judaism.]
[Rabbi Jonathan Romain is convener of the Reform Beit Din, the rabbinic court for Progressive Judaism.]
“We’ve found several times people have said to me, ‘Somebody gave me a DNA test as a Christmas present and it turned out I was Jewish,’” he says. “For some people, that’s just a matter of information. But other people, it intrigues them, or maybe it even answers something deep inside them.”
A mercenary in another man’s land, another child’s land, another aunty’s land, a mother’s land, and this is fucking celebrated?
Estimates indicate that several million people—including soldiers and civilians—were killed in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia as a result of the Vietnam War and associated U.S. military operations. The total death toll is heavily debated, but the most widely accepted historical estimates place the combined casualties for all sides between 2 million and 3.8 million deaths. [1, 2]
More than 54 years after he crawled beneath the Dong Ha Bridge to stop a North Vietnamese armored invasion, Marine Col. John Ripley entered the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes on Thursday.
For generations of Marines, the moment represented recognition of one of the most legendary acts of battlefield leadership in the Vietnam War. But for Ripley’s son, Tom, the ceremony was about far more than a medal.
In an exclusive interview with Military.com following the ceremony, Tom Ripley said the Medal of Honor awarded to his father represents the Marines who fought beside him, the military spouse who held their family together through two Vietnam tours, and the generations of service members who carried the story forward for more than half a century.
“This is not my award,” Ripley said. “When people would stand up and clap, I would clap too.”
Fighting for our freedoms to be slipped away… The San Francisco Police Department said an audit of its automated license plate reader camera network shows it was improperly accessed by out-of-state and federal agencies.
Data from the SFPD’s ALPR network, manufactured by Flock Safety, was improperly searched nearly 300 times by over roughly one year, representing about 0.005% of all searches during that period, the department said. The audit found no searches related to immigration enforcement or reproductive rights investigations, according to police.
It’s not greenwashing. It’s green sadomasochism. Green Porn. Green Snuff.
The ocean is home to some of the richest biodiversity on Earth. From coral reefs and mangrove forests to the deep sea, marine ecosystems sustain countless species, support coastal communities, regulate the climate and underpin global food security.
But these systems face growing pressure from overfishing, habitat loss, pollution and climate change.
In response, nations have adopted an ambitious global goal to conserve at least 30% of the world’s ocean by 2030 – known as 30×30. This target has expanded marine protection worldwide, particularly through marine protected areas.
But what happens after protection is announced?
[Marine heat waves can trigger coral bleaching.]
Decades of experience have shown that effective marine protection requires consistent rules, regulations and oversight, along with financing and meaningful collaboration with local governments, industries and communities. Without it, these areas risk becoming paper parks: lines on a map without real-world impact, where marine life may continue to face overfishing and other threats.
The Strait of Hormuz has reopened to international shipping after Iran and the US signed a memorandum of understanding this week, but a CNN Business analysis warns that the diplomatic breakthrough may have arrived too late to stop global oil reserves running critically short this summer.
Crude has not moved freely out of the Gulf for nearly four months. According to analytics firm Kpler, the war has cost the world some 1.15 billion barrels of oil supply, a shortfall that has pushed the market towards what the outlet describes as a breaking point even as diplomats celebrate the truce.
Even if global production outpaced demand by close to 5 million barrels a day, the surplus the International Energy Agency currently forecasts, it would take roughly a year to recover the 1.15 billion barrels lost during the Iran-US conflict.
By Watson’s own account, these men were terrified that his uncompromising history would frighten off the governmental partners they were so desperate to court. The tactic of aggressive non-violence that Watson developed in 1977 was rejected as being too controversial, despite having been the very approach that made Sea Shepherd the successful movement it became.
Watson’s account of the split makes clear this was not a disagreement about tactics. It was a disagreement about what the organisation fundamentally was. The new leadership wanted a mainstream conservation NGO. Watson wanted what Sea Shepherd had always been: a direct-action force that answered to no one.
Following the removal of Watson and Essemlali, Sea Shepherd France, Brazil, and the UK remained loyal to the original objectives of the movement. The new Sea Shepherd Global subsequently sued Watson and Sea Shepherd France, charging that they had no legal right to use the name Sea Shepherd — the name Watson himself created — or the logos that he had designed. An organisation suing its founder for using his own name. The symbolism was not subtle.
The Yamasec Problem: Mercenaries at Sea
This is where the story moves from disappointing to genuinely troubling.
According to reporting by L’Impertinent, the Israeli company Yamasec, based in Uganda, had been hiring security personnel to operate on Sea Shepherd Global boats for approximately seven years. On board Sea Shepherd’s ship the Sam Simon in Gambian waters, two hired Israeli security personnel from Yamasec trained Gambian Navy officers in military boarding procedures: how to carry their weapons while climbing rope ladders, how to check ships for contraband, weapons, or hidden workers, and how to board moving vessels that refused to stop.
Let that sink in. An organisation founded on non-violent direct action, celebrated for its scrappy, civilian-crewed ships standing between whalers and whales, had quietly become a platform for military-trained contractors to run boarding operations with armed naval officers.
Sea Shepherd France’s Lamya Essemlali says she and Watson were entirely unaware of the Yamasec collaboration: “It sounds crazy, but no, we didn’t know. It was never discussed during board meetings, and we never approved any contract.” According to Essemlali, internal documents including the Yamasec contracts were kept hidden from them, which is precisely why Sea Shepherd France filed a lawsuit against Global in Amsterdam — to access the internal documents that had been concealed.
A crew member who spoke to L’Impertinent described the dynamic aboard ship in terms that should alarm anyone who remembers what Sea Shepherd was supposed to be: “They are there to help us in case of pirate attacks and to manage the local soldiers who board with us and give us the legitimacy to dock fishing vessels. One of Yamasec’s bosses has privileged contacts with governments. I was told that without Yamasec, we wouldn’t be able to be there — which surprised me, since they’re the ones working for us, not the other way around. There’s a link I find unhealthy between a private security company and local presidents.”
A former crew member, writing under their own name, corroborated this: “I witnessed an Israeli security team on board — paid obscene amounts — who later returned to participate in operations against Palestinians.” This is a single, unverified account, and it deserves to be treated as such. But it is the kind of account that demands a response from Sea Shepherd Global — one that has not been forthcoming.
The Paul Watson Foundation’s FAQ lays out the founding philosophy with striking clarity: direct action, operational independence, no government partners, complete transparency with the public. These were not aspirational values — they were the operational DNA that made Sea Shepherd effective. Governments do not board illegal fishing vessels at three in the morning in a storm. Radical, non-violent civilians who answer to no flag will.
By choosing legitimacy over autonomy, the new Sea Shepherd Global traded away the only thing that made it powerful. You cannot hold governments accountable while those same governments are signing your contracts and vetting your security personnel. You cannot claim to protect the ocean while your board suppresses internal documents to conceal which military contractors are running your ships. And you cannot pretend to be a grassroots movement while suing your own founder for using his name.
The Captain Paul Watson Foundation carries the original mandate forward, operating independently without government partnerships or security contractors. Whether that is enough — and whether “working within the system” can achieve what defiance could not — is the question the ocean itself may eventually answer.
The rest, as they say, is fancy paperwork for the extinction of the seas.
THREE years of spinlessness and complicity:
So, the Jews are losing? Christ. 320 Jew Billionaires and their Cartel of Tech Billionaires and Eichmann millionaires. Jews are not humanity’s or Earth’s friends.
My mom’s name is Mona, so a little bit of triggering here, but I don’t need many more examples to understand the value of Goyim to the Rabid Rabbi Raunchy Cult of Mitzvaha
Lebanese journalist and analyst Marwa Osman writes:
They knew exactly who Mona Khalil was.
They knew the bright orange house in Mansouri, south Lebanon. They knew it was not a military site, not a command center, not a battlefield position. It was one of the most recognizable symbols of environmental conservation on Lebanon’s southern coast; a sanctuary dedicated to protecting endangered sea turtles and preserving life.
Mona spent her years defending the most vulnerable creatures of the Mediterranean, teaching generations that every life matters, that nature is not a casualty to be discarded, and that humanity has a duty to protect what cannot protect itself.
Yet the same orange house that stood as a beacon of conservation became a target for terrorist Israel.
This was an assault on a woman whose life’s work was devoted to safeguarding life itself. A woman known internationally for her environmental activism, whose name had become synonymous with the protection of Lebanon’s coastline and its endangered sea turtles.
The murder of Mona Khalil sends a chilling message: even those whose only weapon is compassion, whose only mission is preservation, are not spared.
Al Mayadeen reported:
Environmental activist Mona Khalil, widely known as the “guardian of the turtles” of Mansouri in the Tyre district, South Lebanon, has succumbed to injuries sustained in an Israeli strike that directly targeted her home on June 4.
The 76-year-old founder of the Orange House Project spent more than 25 years protecting sea turtles and preserving Lebanon’s marine turtle life along Tyre’s coast, refusing to abandon her home despite repeated wars.
After leaving her career in the Netherlands, she dedicated her life to turning Mansouri Beach into a sanctuary for marine life.
According to L’Orient Le Jour, after Israeli occupation forces withdrew from South Lebanon in 2000, Mona founded the Orange House Project to protect this nesting site and ensure the survival of baby turtles until they returned to the sea.
The Orange House, just meters from the beach, was transformed into an eco-guesthouse whose revenues funded the preservation of a 1.4-kilometer stretch of coastline. This stretch of sand, which became her daily field of action, is home to turtle nesting as well as broader biodiversity.
Mona’s death has been widely mourned.
The Green Southerners association described the Israeli attack on her home as a reminder that “highlights the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation in the South, which spare neither people nor the environment.”
Jews are liars, deep, deep in their fucking Marvel Moses Comic Book paedophile brains:
On 16 March 2003, Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old peace activist from Olympia, Washington, was crushed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Rafah, southern Gaza, where she had been living for the past seven weeks as a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Wearing a bright orange jacket of the sort donned by ISM volunteers during “human shield” work, Corrie, along with other ISM activists, was trying to block demolitions of Palestinian homes.
In its initial statement dated 17 March, the IDF noted that the incident occurred while IDF forces were “taking down shrubbery along the border between Israel and Egypt” and that “as the windows of the bulletproof bulldozer are very small, the visibility is very limited and the bulldozer operator did not see the woman.” But while the initial Israeli statement indicated that “an IDF bulldozer apparently ran over a protester accidentally,” the “full” investigation, led by the chief of general staff of the IDF and completed during the second week of April 2003, concluded that Corrie had not been run over by an “engineering vehicle” after all, “but rather was struck by a hard object, most probably a slab of concrete which was moved or slid down while the mound of earth which she was standing behind was moved.” The report exonerated Israeli forces of any responsibility.
According to eyewitness reports by ISM volunteers on the scene, however, the army’s description of events bore little resemblance to what they saw. In the words of Joe Smith, an ISM activist present at the time, “Rachel was kneeling 20 meters in front of the bulldozer on flat ground. There was no way she could not have been seen. We only maintain positions that are clearly visible. She had been doing this all day, but this time the driver did not stop. Once she had fallen under the bulldozer, the driver stopped when she was under its middle section and reversed.” Photographs of the incident confirm the ISM accounts.
Fucking Thespians. Mandy just skirts over his fucking dirty religion, and again, once again, the Holocaust Industrial Complex, as he cites “Bibi” Mileikowsky, often spelled Mileikowski, as the cunt culprit? Your entire Jewish racists, dude, Israel, that Jewish State of Hate . . .
This is their fucking psychopathic “religion,” liar, err, thespian:
Israel is making clear that it wants war with any regional country that even mildly pushes back against the Greater Israel Project , now stating that it intends to “ be at war with Syria sooner or later” and fabricating a “Sunni axis of evil” which includes “Pakistan, Türkiye and Qatar”
In the delusional minds of the Israelis, sabotaging the MoU will cause a spring effect that will cause the United States to bomb Iranian energy infrastructure and carry out regime change and the collapse of Iran.
Before the signing of the MoU, when Israel bombed Dahiyeh, Beirut, the Israeli paper Ynet reported that , “A source familiar with the details claims that as early as last Thursday, Israel really wanted to bomb Tehran, perhaps as a last-ditch attempt to thwart the bad agreement that was emerging with Iran. Trump pressed for it not to happen, and the attack was indeed called off. Israel saw Hezbollah’s firing into the Galilee as an opportunity to put the plan back on the table, and thought of a domino effect: Israel would attack Dahiyya, Iran, which is trying to create an equation, would attack with missiles – and Israel would have justification to attack. In Jerusalem, they thought that this would be an opportunity to settle scores with the Iranians and strike infrastructure and energy targets, which would accelerate the overthrow of the regime.”
[Here’s a target right here, Mandy, not you fav enemy, Adolph Bibi! Middle East Eye reports that Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli said that Israel “will be at war with Syria sooner or later” and “outlined what he considers to be a new anti-Israel alliance made up of Pakistan, Turkey and Qatar”, suggesting “that Pakistan and Turkey were part of this axis after playing a major role in negotiations between the US and Iran.”]
Jews, Mandy, JEWS.
Karim gets it right here:
The function of the Trump-Netanyahu melodrama is not to restrain Israel. The function is to manage Western opinion. Audiences that might otherwise be roused to outrage by the sight of mothers digging their children out of pulverized concrete can be soothed by the suggestion that someone, somewhere in Washington, is angry on their behalf. The leaked profanities and the off-the-record briefings give the appearance of conflict between a reluctant imperial sovereign and his runaway client, and the appearance is the product. The bombs continue. The corpses pile up. But the conscience of the empire has been served, the moral hygiene of the consumer class preserved.
This is the oldest ritual of power: the performance of remorse without its substance. The Roman senate could weep over the destruction of Carthage even as the salt was poured into its fields. The British parliament could pass humanitarian resolutions during the Bengal famine while the grain ships sailed for Europe. The same arts are practiced today by a class of professional regretters who occupy our cable news desks and the deputy assistant secretariats of Foggy Bottom. They are very sorry about what they cannot, in good conscience, stop doing.
And so we are asked to believe the unbelievable. We are asked to believe that the most militarily dependent state on earth, a country whose air force flies American jets and whose treasury floats on American grants, is conducting a campaign of regional destruction in defiance of the express wishes of its sole patron. We are asked to believe that the empire’s wishes are unenforceable because Bibi (god, I hate that teddy bear name)will not pick up the phone. We are asked to look at the visible flow of nine billion dollars in expedited munitions and to conclude that the rupture is real.
One Mona is worth 100,000 Jews. One sea turtle is worth 1 million Zionists:
And what would this prostitute do? Sell Genocide Property: Gwyneth Paltrow faces online backlash for starring in luxury Israel real estate ad
And so the death trap with the ZioAzovNaziLensky continues . . . Jews, Queen’s Gambit!
Zelensky gave Lukashenko one week to remove air defenses and drone relay transmitters along their joint border otherwise Ukraine will do it for him. This comes amidst their growing tensions that have been boiling since spring after Zelensky implied that Ukraine could capture Lukashenko like the US captured Maduro on the pretext of preempting a supposedly imminent Belarusian invasion of Ukraine. This closely resembles their summer 2024 crisis which readers learn more about here, here, and here.
Here you go, over the pond, where my mom Mona’s family hails from. She’s spinning in her grave . . .
Britain can now let out a sigh of relief. We can all breath again, having held our breath for weeks, anxious that Reform UK would light the fuse to a Fascist Britain.
But is there reason to be cheerful? Reason to be optimistic?
Andy Burnham said it himself in his victory speech: “Everyone knows that politics isn’t working”.
And Andy Burnham is one of the politicians that has brought us all to this dysfunctional Britain.
Everyone will point to their own historical moment for when the rot set in. I’m of a generation that would put that date to 1983, when Margaret Thatcher should have lost the General Election, for everything she had done to the country – the legacy of which is with us to this day.
But the Falklands saved her.
Everything pointed to a Thatcher defeat until the Falklands victory. The war saved Thatcher; a precedent that future Prime Ministers would remember and emulate.
But another more recent example of when the rot began has to be the Iraq War and the “War on Terror”, and Tony Blair.
Let us not forget that Andy Burnham is a Blairite. Like his Lord and Master, Burnham has mastered the art of sincerity and appearing authentic; a man of the people; relatable.
But Burnham backed the Iraq war and all the lies that came with it.
Saddam was behind 9/11. No?
Well Saddam supports al-Qaeda. No?
Well he’s a despot, and the world will be a better place without him.
What? There are other despots we support? And what’s that you say? We helped him attack Iran and then gave him chemical weapons? What’s that? We gave him weapons of mass destruction?
Aha! There! You see! Saddam has weapons of mass destruction and he can launch them at us in just 45-minutes. QED!
Let the bombing begin! Let curtains go up in this theatre of war! Let’s watch the spectacle of a life-time. The Shock and Awe of it all!
That is what Burnham supported.
Did he learn from the experience?
Hell, no!
The world has watched a genocide unfold, and Burnham didn’t see it. Or he can’t “judge things of that enormity”.
But he saw Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. They were very real. Real enough to start a war. Clearly, he was able to judge on “little” things like war.
Burnham was, and probably still is, a member of Labour Friends of Israel.
Would things have been different if Andy Burnham had been Prime Minister? Perhaps. But not with regards the genocide – because Burnham does not see a genocide. And he is a “friend of Israel”.
Burnham has the political insight not to have said that Israel has the right to stop water, food and fuel to Gaza, but he would have provided Israel with the diplomatic cover and the military intelligence that Starmer has been giving during the genocide. Of that there is no doubt.
Wes Streeting comes out better than Burnham over Gaza. Streeting has said that Israel has been using the “language of ethnic cleansing” and has committed war crimes – something that Burnham has not done.
So, I’m supposed to be grateful that Burnham won?
More than half (55%) of the people in Makerfield voted for this man who refuses to call a genocide a genocide.
And more than one-third (34%) voted for a racist and a misogynist. Let’s put the racism to one side and focus on what Rob Kenyon thinks about 50.7% of the UK.
He doesn’t believe that women can drive or give directions. He has admitted to being a sexist: “I’m sexist. Sorry, but I am”.
Female sports commentators “aren’t up to the job and only there to tick a box”.
Women get abortions for “vanity purposes” and use it as a “secondary form of contraception”. Kenyon claimed women rely on abortions so they can “shag anyone they want.”
Kenyon is impressed by European women’s bodies, but of English women’s bodies, he said they “don’t care” and “just walk around with their fat bellies and odd shapes pushing a pram at 16.”
One in three people in Makerfield thought that Kenyon is representative of their town. Presumably all were men.
In a word. No. Not the 55% who voted for Burnham. Not the 34% who voted for Kenyon.
The only thing that would have given me hope would have been returning Count Binface to Westminster, and showing the bastards there just how contemptible they are for allowing a genocide to take place under their very noses. And for steering this country towards a Fascist Britain.
The two are very much related.
a whole lot of talking going around . . . . You have two hours to pop the popcorn, chill the Bud, grease your recliner, cheer your fav footballers, and wait for more slop from the sloppy Danny Boston Haiphong.
So so easy to hate Jews, man . . .
She stood firm through two wars, refusing to abandon her home in Mansouri just a few meters from the beach and the sea turtles she watched over for a quarter century.
Environmental activist Mona Khalil, 76, founder of the Orange House Project and a prominent figure in marine turtle protection along the Sour coast, succumbed to her injuries Friday caused by an Israeli strike that directly hit her family home on June 4.
She regained consciousness the day after the attack before her condition gradually deteriorated. She had been hospitalized for two weeks at AUBMC in Beirut, after being transferred from Jabal Amel Hospital in the south, according to Fadia Joumaa, an environmental activist from Sour, contacted by L’Orient-Le Jour. “Doctors tried in vain to save her in recent days,” she added.
‘Today, I’m living my dream’
A leading figure in wildlife protection in Lebanon, Khalil dedicated more than two decades to saving the sea turtles of the southern coastline. Her commitment began in 1999 when, one night in May on the Mansouri beach, she discovered a turtle laying its eggs. Soon after, she left her career as an art restorer in the Netherlands and settled in the family house located about a hundred meters from the shore, built by her father and where she spent her childhood summers. In 2000, after the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon, she founded the Orange House Project to protect this nesting site and ensure the survival of the baby turtles until they returned to the sea.
The house, just meters from the beach, was transformed into an eco-guesthouse whose revenues funded the preservation of a 1.4-kilometer stretch of coastline. This stretch of sand, which became her daily field of action, is home to turtle nesting as well as broader biodiversity. Over the years, Khalil became a local environmental reference and the guardian angel of the Mansouri turtles.
“I started with a friend. We were two women, alone. I knew nothing about turtles. I wrote to the Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles to ask for help. They sent us a marine biologist who taught us everything. Today, I’m living my dream,” she told L’Orient-Le Jour.
She was known for her staunch opposition, over the years, to any projects that threatened to cement “her beach,” which had become a sanctuary for sea turtles. She succeeded in having the beach designated as a “hima,” a type of reserve managed by individuals and local authorities.
The Israeli strike that wounded and then killed her hit her house directly. The shell landed on the side where her bedroom was, according to witnesses of the strike. “Mona barricaded herself inside her home, letting in no one and believing she was safe because she was a civilian, Fadia Joumaa told us two weeks ago. She absolutely refused to be displaced, and that was truly worthy of someone so determined.”
Mansouri is located just north of what the Israelis call the “yellow line,” which marks a de facto buffer zone inside which they occupy dozens of villages, but the destruction there is nonetheless immense.
The New Trump-Kushner-Minyan promoted Jewish postage stamp!
This is Trump donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor John Cafaro who got the no-bid contract to install a water purification system for the reflecting pool. He has 2 prior convictions, one for bribing a member of Congress and another for an illegal loan that violated campaign finance laws.
Hereo:
The Israeli soldier who responsible for the killing of Palestinian child Hind Rajab with 335 bullets was killed in Lebanon
Jews
Hedges gets it right!
The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for satire. It is easy, as late-night comics do — and as the cabarets did for the Nazis in Berlin — to pillory the goons, misfits and mediocrities who hold power and spew fascist bile. But this form of satire blinds opponents to its destructive power and murderous core. It ignores the real centers of power. It does not engender resistance. It engenders disdain and cynicism. It furthers the social and political divide between us, the “enlightened” and “educated” elite, and them, the despised and ridiculed “basket of deplorables.”
There are two forms of satire. That of the educated elites, which dominates the commercial media, ridicules the foibles and pretensions of Trump and his hapless followers. This satire does not attack corporations or the war industry. It ignores the decay and rot within our political institutions, including the Democratic Party, which created Trump. It pretends we live in a democracy. It breeds cynicism, not resistance. It is characterized by a repugnant moral and intellectual superiority and heartless demeaning of the underclass. It fosters the social divisions and alienation that feeds fascism.
Antonio Gramsci warned that elitist satire is counterproductive. He called for a “passionate sarcasm,” which targets the machinery of power. Satire, he wrote, must excoriate the dominant myths and ideologies which buttress capitalism and fascism. It must expose not only the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of fascism, but acknowledge the legitimate grievances of those under its spell. It must focus on the institutions that perpetuate injustice and social inequality.
“Trump has also been necessary to expose the plastic progressives, the liberal anti-Trump imperialists who, in their opposition to Trump’s deal with Iran, can only look like warmongering imperial psychopaths,” writes Nate Bear. “From all those sharing memes on social media about surrender, from the Democrats and CNN talking heads decrying the deal, to Jimmy Fallon dragging Trump for giving Iran back the money the US stole, there is no articulation of an alternative to endlessly bombing Iran. There’s no anger from liberals over dead Iranians, or at the imperial state, at Zionism or the embedded death machinery that made this violence possible. No, they’re just embarrassed for empire. And they don’t want to recognise the limits of that empire.”
It begins with a movement that divides society into two: the ‘real people’ versus the ‘corrupt elite’, and with a leader who insists they alone embody the ‘real’ people. The next step is the dissolution of truth and the prioritisation of loyalty above decency. Then shame is dismantled. The leader breaks the long-standing political and moral consensus with unprecedented relentlessness. The longer they remain in power, the boundaries of what is acceptable begin to stretch. What once felt unthinkable or despicable gradually becomes normal. As the institutions that hold democracy together are quietly hollowed out and the very definition of democracy is rewritten as being simply majority rule, universal values — human dignity and the rule of law — are replaced with a fierce nationalism, a proud victimhood, and a rewriting of history. Cruelty and ruthlessness are deemed just, not only in the highest echelons of politics but also trickling down to daily life. The circle of who counts as ‘us’ grows smaller, while millions of fellow citizens are recast as permanent suspects.
As Temelkuran warns, Americans, like those in other nations that have been down this path, “…soothe their fears by repeating the same illusionary line, ‘The institutions will hold.’ They do not yet dare to recognize their future country, and soon, they will not be recognized as citizens unless they follow the new rules in Trump’s America.”
What is Ho Chi Minh Thought In Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh Thought isn’t a watered-down nationalist gloss on Marxism-Leninism. It’s the most fully worked-out version of Vietnamese communism there is
And no, the label “Vietnamese communism” doesn’t explain itself.
Versus . . .
He’s been catholic, Mormon, Baptist, anti-Trump, pro-Trump, pro-immigrant, anti-immigrant, anti-Iran war, pro-Iran war…
The man has no identity outside of opportunism.
There’s a saying passed down from earlier generations of Black Texans who were there for the first Juneteenth: “It was not a piece of paper that freed the slaves, but the men with the guns.”
In Libya, black men are captured and sold in an open air market like vegetables.
Dr. Walter Edmondson taking a blood sample from an unidentified and unknowing participant in the Tuskegee Syphilis study, 1932.
The study existed from 1932 to 1972 and was designed to observe how syphilis would destroy their bodies and eventually kill black patients.
American President Ronald Reagan hosted a dinner at the White House in 1987 after becoming President of the United States.
During the reception, the First Lady circulated among the guests to greet them. Her attention was drawn to a Black man, dressed modestly. Among the white guests, she hadn’t recognized him.
She approached him, with a politeness tinged with condescension, and said to him:
“Sir, may I know what you did to deserve this invitation to the dinner?”
He replied to her:
“I changed the course of music five or six times… And you, what have you done to become First Lady, other than marrying the president?”
The man was Miles Davis, one of the greatest jazz musicians in United States history.
He was a composer, trumpeter, bandleader, arranger, autobiographer, jazz musician, actor, songwriter, and film score composer, and he neither accepted nor tolerated humiliation for the color of his skin.
Did you know the Soviet Union was brought down by an NED Color Revolution?
Jew Jab:
PFIZER HAS PUBLISHED THE LIST OF SIDE EFFECTS FROM COVID VACCINE
1) Blood clot,
2) Acute kidney injury,
3) Acute flaccid myelitis,
4) Positive anti-sperm antibodies,
5) Brainstem embolism,
6) Brainstem thrombosis,
7) Cardiac arrest (hundreds of cases),
8) Heart failure,
9) Cardiac ventricular thrombosis…
10) Cardiogenic shock,
11) Central nervous system vasculitis,
12) Neonatal death,
13) Deep vein thrombosis,
14) Brainstem encephalitis,
15) Hemorrhagic encephalitis,
16) Frontal lobe epilepsy,
17) Epileptic psychosis,
18) Facial paralysis,
19) Fetal distress syndrome,
20) Gastrointestinal amyloidosis,
21) Generalized tonic-clonic seizure,
22) Hashimoto’s encephalopathy,
23) Hepatic vascular thrombosis,
24) Shingles reactivation,
25) Cancer reactivation…
26) Turbo cancers,
27) Immune-mediated hepatitis,
28) Interstitial lung disease,
29) Jugular vein embolism,
30) Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy,
31) Liver damage,
32) Low birth weight,
34) Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children,
35) Myocarditis,
36) Neonatal seizure,
37) Pancreatitis,
38) Pneumonia,
39) Stillbirth,
40) Tachycardia,
41) Temporal lobe epilepsy,
43) Testicular autoimmunity,
44) Thrombotic stroke,
45) Type 1 diabetes mellitus,
46) Neonatal vein thrombosis,
47) Vertebral artery thrombosis,
48) Pericarditis,
Oh fuck you. There is no way the guy who got the no-bid contract for using bottom shelf Home Depot sealant on the reflecting pool looks like this. Come the fuck on.
On June 19, 1953, the couple Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed in the electric chair for being communists in the USA, during the paranoid anticommunist persecution of McCarthyism.
It was the first public execution of communists after Hitler’s fall in 1945 and it took place in the country of the “Statue of Liberty,” under a campaign of mass persecution against professors, scientists, actors… devised by the anticommunist senator McCarthy.
The arrest of Ethel and Julius came about due to the “confession” of Ethel’s brother, the American sergeant David Greenglass, who accused his own sister and his brother-in-law of being “Soviet spies” out of pure hatred toward her… in 2001, David confessed that he had made it all up and had murdered his sister by lying to the FBI.
After learning of the death sentence, Ethel said: “I die with honor and dignity, knowing that my husband and I will be vindicated by history.”
Happy Juneteenth!!
Anal penetration: Trump struggles to clasp the Medal of Honor to Major Nicholas Dockery — and then ties it?
It’s a single snap…
While the World Cup is being played in the US, Trump’s Gestapo, ICE, gases civilians in the face for protesting against the kidnapping of immigrants and the repression against the American people who are fighting to prevent it.
The World Cup of shame, if this happened in Cuba or another enemy country of the West, it would be a scandal.
United States…
Bombs schools in Iran, supports the genocidal Israeli, backs the continuation of the war in Ukraine with weapons, carries out summary executions in the Caribbean, turned Argentina and Venezuela into 1950s-style Sub-Saharan extractivist colonies, wields…
I opened up a retired Air Force Colonel’s Substack, and I what do I get? Deja vu, as he waxes orgasmic over space exploration and the great photos of earth from Artemis
But without a healthy Earth, none of it matters. Artemis II astronaut Victor Glover captured this beautifully in his viral message. From deep space, he said:
“You are special, in all this emptiness. This is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe. You have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together.”
Fucking 1,000 words later, and the rationale is typical of the closed mind:
On July 21, 2021, billionaire Jeff Bezos rocketed about 65 miles above the Earth’s crust. Another billionaire, Sir Richard Branson, did the same nine days before, but his vehicle could only climb to 53 miles—some do not consider that a space flight, really.
Clearly, this was not the first time man ventured into space. However, in all earlier cases, explorers pursued a publicly defined mission and were paid from the public purse. Whereas Bezos and Branson were motived by private interest. Although Bezos thanked his company’s workers and customers for “paying for his trip,” it was, nonetheless, a privately financed venture. These two aspects, private interest and private financing, make these billionaires the world’s first space barons.
There is more to both sides of this argument than meets the eye, and further inquiry is warranted. For starters, I shall rule out an otherwise interesting, but notoriously complex, dimension that gave economists a headache for decades. That is the problem of interpersonal comparison of utility. In this case, can we really compare the utility gained by Bezos from his $5.5 billion trip with that of 37 million people had the money been used to end their hunger? The question may seem rhetorical, but it is not.
The problem remains an interesting one even after Bezos, and thus the need to compare his well-being with that of others, is taken out of the picture. Let us look exclusively from the viewpoint of potential beneficiaries in the developing world. Would a transfer of cash to them be better than using the money on space tourism? Surprisingly, the answer is not necessarily affirmative.
Conspicuous consumption or an incubator for innovation?
Nobel laureate economist Angus Deaton suggests that technological innovations like antibiotics, pest control, and vaccines have been the primary drivers of humanity’s escape from destitution, including in developing countries, far surpassing development aid in impact. By this logic, space tourism could muster moral support, in addition to cash, if it also facilitates significant technological advances (in addition to conspicuous consumption).
So far, blasting billionaires off to the edge of space has not exactly been earth-shattering, technically. Mankind had previously stepped onto the moon on six separate occasions; astronauts and cosmonauts have visited space routinely, often without such commotion; and Mars is already inhabited by robots. The NASA Voyager, built half a century ago, has become the first man-made object to exit our solar system—currently drifting at 14.2 billion miles away from us—that is about 21 hours of light-travel time from Earth (solar light reaches us in about eight minutes).
Previous research on space technology has undoubtedly improved life on earth. Modern water filtration systems, solar cells, firefighting equipment, insulin pumps, and artificial limbs are all reported to have been initiated by space research. It is too soon to see such impact from the new billionaire-driven space race. However, Bezos’ company Blue Origin is reported to hold at least 19 patents, whereas Elon Musk’s SpaceX has followed a different path: The company has not submitted any patent applications to avoid technological disclosure. Yet, there are some obvious advances including reusable rockets, which have reduced the cost of space flight dramatically.
Jew-oogle this: “space programs are not helping the poor” And this is what you get from the Satan of Google et al =
The debate regarding space funding versus alleviating poverty involves specific arguments and benefits:
Terrestrial Technology Transfer: Space research yields practical spinoffs that improve global living standards. Innovations like water purification systems, advanced telemedicine, and portable solar energy were all developed to support space missions but are now widely used in impoverished and remote regions. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Earth Observation & Agriculture: Agencies use Earth science satellites to monitor droughts, optimize crop yields, and track water resources. For example, the NASA Earth Applied Sciences program directly partners with organizations globally to improve food security and manage natural disasters. [1, 2, 3]
Budget Proportions: Space exploration represents a very small fraction of national expenditures (for instance, NASA receives around 0.5% of the US federal budget). Experts argue that diverting this funding would not resolve systemic poverty because the problem lies primarily in resource allocation and political priorities, rather than a lack of capital. [1, 2, 3]
Socioeconomic Mobility: The aerospace sector drives significant job creation and technological development, acting as a powerful engine for economic growth. Some economists suggest that space-based innovations, like internet constellations, offer better long-term improvements in developing nations than hypothetical cash transfers of equivalent size
And just down the road, we see at U of Oregon, more attacks: Community to Corporate — The University of Oregon is consolidating department offices and the Department of Earth Sciences says it could harm students
Faculty members say the University of Oregon is closing the Department of Earth Sciences office in Cascade Hall, a space they describe as a hub where undergraduate and graduate students meet with advisors, build community and manage internal administrative tasks with ease.
The office is being closed in line with a “shared services” model across the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) that some describe as impersonal and filled with unnecessary corporate bureaucracy.
Faculty such as Earth Sciences professor Marli Miller tell Eugene Weekly that the office closure will erode the department’s sense of community and ability to support students. She says the shared services model is causing the loss of “institutional knowledge,” as staff members who’ve been working within one specific department for years are being moved into roles where they work with several departments at once, or they’ve left entirely.
How will it impact the already diminished populations of phytoplankton which provide up to 70% of the oxygen in the atmosphere? How will it impact the already diminished populations of krill, the foundation of the food pyramid in the sea? How will deep sea mining influence the climate, the movement of currents, and the migration and viability of sea life? The industry has not answered these questions because there is no answer that they will acknowledge—because such answers will expose them as harbingers of global destruction.
Scholars estimate that a vast majority (up to 95%) of modern space tech has both civilian and defense applications. For example, a synthetic aperture radar used to monitor deforestation and climate change can also be used for military reconnaissance and espionage.
Double Dual-Use Dilemma: Private space companies are increasingly integrated into national security efforts, leading to debates around how commercial infrastructure like satellite internet constellations become military targets in times of conflict. [1]
I. Space X: an emblematic example
No single example better illustrates the problem than SpaceX. Holding approximately $22 billion in U.S. government contracts, its satellite internet service Starlink is described by analysts as “an indispensable asset throughout the entire government sector, from U.S. embassies to the battlefield.” Starlink accounts for 97% of Space Force program task orders, and its military variant, Starshield—a hardened, government-controlled version of Starlink offering encrypted communications and intelligence capabilities—is built on the same underlying technology to support national security operations. As the California Coastal Commissionhas noted, for many U.S. Government users, the two are indistinguishable. SpaceX thus exemplifies a private company whose technology simultaneously underpins consumer internet, battlefield communications, and classified intelligence programs—a convergence that existing legal frameworks were never designed to govern.
Union of Concerned Scientists? Bulletin of Atomic Scientists!
Unlike the traditional military-industrial complex, space companies fluidly shift between civilian and military roles. Their expertise in launch systems, satellites, and surveillance infrastructure allows them to serve both markets, often without clear regulatory oversight. Companies like Walchandnagar Industries in India, SpaceX in the United States, and the private Chinese firms that operate under a national strategy of the Chinese Communist Party called Military-Civil Fusion exemplify this trend, maintaining commercial identities while actively supporting defense programs. This blurring of roles, including the possibility that private space companies may develop their own weapons, raises concerns over unchecked militarization and calls for stronger oversight to preserve space as a neutral domain.
Dual use of space companies. Countries like the United States and China have already shown a willingness to use commercial space entities for military purposes. China encourages private entities to participate in space activities as part of its Military-Civilian Integration Strategy. Similarly, the 2021 United States Space Priorities Framework outlines how new commercial space capabilities and services can be leveraged to meet national security needs. In a 2021 interview, the then-head of the US Space Force discussed the importance of using the space industry for national security.
Researchers and security analysts are increasingly concerned that the dual use of private space companies is not limited to their space technologies, such as the satellites they launch. In some cases, a company may appear to be a civilian space entity while actually maintaining close links with defense sectors.
For instance, take the example of India, which has seen phenomenal growth in its space sector in recent years. The leading companies of the Indian Space Association have worked closely with the Indian Ministry of Defence on various contracts.
Furthermore, the association’s leadership maintains a close connection with the Indian army and defense organizations. For example, the first chairman, Jayant Patil, was also the senior vice president for defense business at Larsen and Toubro, an Indian company involved in the space industry. The company has collaborated with India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation since the mid-1980s.
The usefulness of space companies goes beyond their existing technologies. Military organizations can use expertise gained through civilian cooperation programs to develop other critical technologies. India’s intercontinental ballistic missile program, based on the SLV-3 vehicle, was initially developed under civilian space cooperation with NASA. India’s Agni-V ICBM, which is capable of carrying multiple warheads and has a range exceeding 5,000 kilometers, has also benefited from technological cooperation with NASA.
Indian private space companies such as Walchandnagar Industries are also defense contractors producing aerospace, defense, missile, and nuclear power technologies. These companies collaborate with India’s Defence Ministry and the Defence Research and Development Organisation to produce strategic articles, tactical missiles, and critical platform-based equipment. The expertise gained from private space launches and technological developments can be leveraged to improve missile technology.
There is a serious risk that civilian companies in India and elsewhere, having gained expertise through cooperation with the military, might start developing their own weapons. The table below shows how specific types of space expertise can be used to develop missiles, drones, precision missiles, hypersonic missiles, and other loitering munitions.
The Outer Space Treaty, which forms the basis of international space law, should be expanded to include specific provisions for the dual use of space technologies. For example, countries could be required to declare the intended uses of their satellites, with periodic inspections to ensure compliance. International space governance must ensure that expertise gained through civil cooperation does not translate into new weapons programs.
the exploration and use of outer space shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and shall be the province of all mankind;
outer space shall be free for exploration and use by all States;
outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means;
States shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner;
the Moon and other celestial bodies shall be used exclusively for peaceful purposes;
astronauts shall be regarded as the envoys of mankind;
States shall be responsible for national space activities whether carried out by governmental or non-governmental entities;
States shall be liable for damage caused by their space objects; and
States shall avoid harmful contamination of space and celestial bodies.
Furthermore, partnerships between governments and private corporations should be regulated to prevent the misuse of commercial space capabilities. The European Union’s Space Surveillance and Tracking network is an example of regional cooperation to monitor space activities and ensure that space assets are used for their declared purposes. This type of cooperation should be extended globally to include major space-faring nations and emerging space players.
In the United States, the Space Force has already begun leveraging commercial space capabilities for national security purposes. For instance, the National Reconnaissance Office has contracted with commercial satellite companies to provide imagery for intelligence purposes. Such partnerships highlight the need for clear guidelines to differentiate civilian and military applications and to ensure that commercial space activities do not escalate geopolitical tensions.
DUH. So, you do the YouTUbe addiction, the BLack Mirror Screen Addiction, the fucking SLOP of AI, all that time pushing robotics olympics and coding school, and then you watch Silicon Valley and Silicon Wadi suck the life from humanity, and this is what we get:
Universities attempt to justify these cuts as dwindling student numbers make courses less profitable. However, decreasing student numbers often follow drastic cuts in government funding in a vicious positive feedback. In Australia, a 29% reduction in 2020 funding for Earth science courses, equivalent to about AU$10,000 per student per year, necessitated decreases in course size, in turn, triggering further drops in enrolment and profit in 2021. Funding reductions also inevitably lead to lower-quality student experiences amidst lecturer, field-course and lab equipment constraints. Academics found themselves stranded, postgraduates were left without supervisors, and undergraduates faced transfers to other institutions.
Two distinct categories of dual-nature space objects: what are dual-use and dual-purpose objects? Therefore, there are two distinct categories of space objects that States have expressed concerns about: dual-use on the one hand, and dual-purpose on the other hand. This distinction is important as the concerns stemming from the use of these objects are also different. They are perceived as two different threats, which therefore require different approaches.
The terms dual-use and dual-purpose are derived from the distinction established between use and purpose in the law of targeting. Under targeting regulations, only military objectives can be targeted. Military objectives can be identified by their nature, location, purpose or use. Purpose and use are the relevant identifiers in this case. “Use” is concerned with the present function of an object, while “purpose” is concerned with its intended future use. • Dual-use space objects: they can have a military and security function, as well as a civilian or commercial one (either simultaneously or alternating.
Alternate use is sometimes known as dual-capable). They can be operated by the military, even to provide services to civilians (examples include certain GNSS services). And they can also be operated by civilian or commercial actors, even to carry out military functions, as militaries can sometimes outsource certain services, particularly for satellite communications or remote sensing.
These objects are known as “dual-use” precisely because they are intended to serve military and civilian functions. • Dual-purpose space objects: they are designed to fulfil a benign objective (such as debris removal or on-orbit servicing), but they could potentially be repurposed to harm other space objects. They are generally operated by civilian entities, as well as commercial actors. They are generally developed with no military objective in mind, and are not intended to serve any aggressive function. However, their characteristics or capabilities —such as the possession of a robotic arm, for example— have raised concern that these 4 objects could be repurposed to be used against another satellite.
It should be noted, however, that the capabilities themselves are not what make these objects be perceived as a threat. In this sense, the term “capability neutral” has been used by some delegations, accurately reflecting that the capabilities of dual-purpose objects alone pose no danger to space actors.
It is the challenge of discerning an operator’s intent when utilising these assets what has led many to perceive the assets themselves as a threat, even when they are used in a relatively transparent manner. Although dual-use and dual-purpose objects are different, they can share characteristics that could, in theory, cause them to qualify as both dual-use and purpose at the same time. For example, a dual-use satellite with manoeuvring capabilities could be repurposed to act as a counterspace weapon by causing it to manoeuvre so that it collides with another satellite. In practice, however, such situations would be relatively unlikely as it would be impractical and very costly.
War is a racket. Those words were written in 1935 by Major General Smedley Butler, a decorated veteran who had spent his career fighting America’s foreign wars and came to recognise that he had been nothing more than a “muscle-man for the protection of business interests” (1). Butler’s conclusion was simple: war is a deception conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the very many. Nearly a century later, despite all the technological advances and rhetorical shifts, the fundamental mechanism he described remains intact. The weaponry has changed, but the racket persists.
The ongoing buildup of an AI arms race with China and Russia has spurred significant defence investments in artificial intelligence and large-scale infrastructure projects. Tech firms that once maintained an arms-length relationship with the military are now deeply entangled with the US security apparatus.
Notably, a crucial aspect of Eisenhower’s comment appears to have fallen by the wayside in the decades between the two speeches, namely, the military. In this Forum Article, we recenter the focus on the pivotal role of the US military in the formation of today’s tech oligarchy while simultaneously demonstrating how the tech oligarchy is reshaping the defense domain in line with its own beliefs and political-economic interests, accumulating ever more informational, sociotechnical, and political-economic power.
In doing so, we highlight the historical role of the US military in funding the core technologies on which today’s tech oligarchy has built its power, as well as the broader role of military spending in supporting the rise of tech firms. At the same time, we argue that there is an urgency and specificity to the current (re-)entanglements between the US military and Silicon Valley’s tech oligarchy that cannot be fully captured by a historical focus on the state’s role in capitalist accumulation. We are witnessing a moment in which Big Tech firms, such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, complemented by Defense Tech companies like Palantir and Anduril, are becoming prominent military contractors in their own right; in some cases, overtaking the traditional defense primes in competitive bids, and pushing for new regulations for procuring software designed to eliminate restrictions on how the Pentagon can contract with private sector companies (Dunne and Sköns, Citation2021).
Leading tech figures of Palantir, OpenAI and Meta being sworn into the Army’s Executive Innovation Corps.
That the military, as the center of state power and a disciplining force both internally and externally, has become subject to the tech oligarchy’s scaling and expansion efforts should not surprise us. However, it should concern us.
Yah think less science, less Cap’n Crunch Hegseth, Zelensky, Putin, Xi, DoD, DoW, and more LIBERAL FUCKING ARTS? Diplomacy? Political depth? Higher social and empathetic IQ training?
The world is erupting this morning. U.S.-Iran peace talks scheduled for Friday in Switzerland were abruptly postponed after Iran demanded guarantees that Israeli military operations in Lebanon would stop. The delay came as Israel launched a new wave of strikes in southern Lebanon, killing at least 18 people, while four Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes with Hezbollah. Vice President JD Vance canceled his planned trip to Switzerland as diplomats worked behind the scenes to keep negotiations on track. The talks were intended to begin a 60-day process aimed at reaching a permanent end to the conflict that began earlier this year. Officials say the postponement is temporary, but it underscores how fragile the agreement remains.
Vance publicly defended the U.S.-Iran agreement and argued that Israel should respect a peace process he described as beneficial for both Israel and the broader region. He also criticized Israeli officials who have attacked the deal, saying they should not undermine their strongest international ally. Iran, meanwhile, warned that it may not abide by the agreement if Israeli operations in Lebanon continue, raising the stakes for future negotiations.
Former President Barack Obama said the United States may be “worse off” now than before President Donald Trump launched the war with Iran, arguing that billions of dollars were spent, significant lives were lost, and the conflict appears to have ended with little change from the prewar status quo. While welcoming the ceasefire and expressing hope that it holds, Obama questioned the rationale for the war and pointed to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement negotiated during his administration, arguing that Iran had agreed not to develop nuclear weapons before the U.S. withdrew from the deal. Speaking ahead of the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, he also warned that the country is experiencing a period of political polarization and democratic strain, while urging Americans to remain engaged in civic life and hold elected officials accountable. This is Trump’s response:
“We knowed what was goin’ on in [the war] all the time,” said Felix Haywood, dismissing the notion that his fellow Texas slaves were ignorant of the Emancipation Proclamation.
“Ending slavery was not simply a matter of issuing pronouncements, but of forcing rebels to obey the law.”
One hundred fifty years ago, the U.S. Army took possession of Galveston Island, a barrier island just off the Texas coast that guards the entrance to Galveston Bay, and began a late-arriving, long-lasting war against slavery in Texas. This little-known battle would endure for months after the end of what we normally think of as the Civil War. This struggle, pitting Texas freedpeople and loyalists and the U.S. Army against stubborn defenders of slavery, would become the basis for the increasingly popular celebrations of Juneteenth, a predominantly African-American holiday celebrating emancipation on or about June 19th every year.
The historical origins of Juneteenth are clear. On June 19, 1865, U.S. Major General Gordon Granger, newly arrived with 1,800 men in Texas, ordered that “all slaves are free” in Texas and that there would be an “absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves.” The idea that any such proclamation would still need to be issued in June 1865 – two months after the surrender at Appomattox – forces us to rethink how and when slavery and the Civil War really ended. And in turn it helps us recognize Juneteenth as not just a bookend to the Civil War but as a celebration and commemoration of the epic struggles of emancipation and Reconstruction.
By June 19, 1865, it had been more than two years since President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, almost five months since Congress passed the 13th Amendment, and more than two months since General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate army at Appomattox Court House. So why did Granger need to act to end slavery?
To answer that question, we have to look back at slavery, the Civil War, and Texas’ peculiar place in both histories. During the Civil War, white planters forcibly moved tens of thousands of slaves to Texas, hoping to keep them in bondage and away from the U.S. Army. Even after Lee surrendered, Confederate Texans dreamed of sustaining the rebel cause there. Only on June 2, 1865, after the state’s rebel governor had already fled to Mexico, did Confederate Lieutenant General Edmund Kirby Smith agree to surrender the state. For more than two weeks, chaos reigned as people looted the state treasury, and no one was certain who was in charge.
“The idea that a proclamation would still need to be issued two months after the surrender at Appomattox forces us to rethink how and when slavery and the Civil War really ended.”
In that chaos, many African-Americans fled, some across the river in Mexico, a less-remembered pathway to freedom in the decades before the Civil War. Others launched strikes or refused to work. But in a state where whites outnumbered slaves more than two-to-one, planters and ranchers did everything in their power to sustain slavery wherever they could.
Granger’s arrival on June 19 marked the first effective intervention of the United States in Texas on the side of ending slavery. So when Granger issued his proclamation in Galveston, it was no abstract or symbolic statement against slavery and rebellion; he was striking a blow against slavery itself in the place where it remained most firmly entrenched in June 1865.
But what did Granger’s proclamation mean? One oft-told myth has it that Texans simply did not know that slavery had ended. What Granger brought, in this telling, was good news. But if we listen to the words of someone like Felix Haywood, a slave in Texas during the Civil War, we see that this was not so. “We knowed what was goin’ on in [the war] all the time,” Haywood later remembered. At emancipation, “We all felt like heroes and nobody had made us that way but ourselves.”
If Haywood and other enslaved people knew about the Emancipation Proclamation, what exactly did the events of June 19, 1865 mean? Here we face a key forgotten reality about the end of the Civil War and slavery that has been shrouded in the mythology of Appomattox. The internecine conflict and the institution of slavery could not and did not end neatly at Appomattox or on Galveston Island. Ending slavery was not simply a matter of issuing pronouncements. It was a matter of forcing rebels to obey the law. To a very real extent, the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment amounted to promissory notes of freedom. The real on-the-ground work of ending slavery and defending the rudiments of liberty was done by the freedpeople in collaboration with and often backed by the force of the US Army.
“The Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment amounted to promissory notes of freedom.”
Granger’s proclamation may not have brought news of emancipation but it did carry this crucial promise of force. Within weeks, fifty thousand U.S. troops flooded into the state in a late-arriving occupation. These soldiers were needed because planters would not give up on slavery. In October 1865, months after the June orders, white Texans in some regions “still claim and control [slaves] as property, and in two or three instances recently bought and sold them,” according to one report. To sustain slavery, some planters systematically murdered rebellious African-Americans to try to frighten the rest into submission. A report by the Texas constitutional convention claimed that between 1865 and 1868, white Texans killed almost 400 black people; black Texans, the report claimed, killed 10 whites. Other planters hoped to hold onto slavery in one form or another until they could overturn the Emancipation Proclamation in court.
Against this resistance, the Army turned to force. In a largely forgotten or misunderstood occupation, the Army spread more than 40 outposts across Texas to teach rebels “the idea of law as an irresistible power to which all must bow.” Freedpeople, as Haywood’s quote reminds us, did not need the Army to teach them about freedom; they needed the Army to teach planters the futility of trying to sustain slavery.
Against that resistance, and in response to freedpeople’s complaints, the Army acted as if the Civil War had not in fact ended. Relying upon its broad war powers to exert control over civilians, the Army attacked slavery by arresting judges and sheriffs, taking control over court cases, running military commissions, and suspending habeas corpus. As Texas’ provisional governor—a white loyalist—tried to build a new state, the Army provided crucial support against a developing insurgency.
Slowly, slavery itself ended. By the winter of 1865-1866, freedpeople, the Army, and white loyalists had extinguished the ‘peculiar institution’ in Texas. Under the threat of continued military occupation, President Andrew Johnson coerced former Confederate states into inscribing this change into the Constitution by ratifying the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.
“Between 1865 and 1868, white Texans killed almost 400 black people; black Texans, the report claimed, killed 10 whites.”
But the victory over slavery was only one in a series of battles to determine the meaning of freedom. Over the next few years, freedpeople’s rights and their power expanded, along with the Army’s authority to protect them. Responding to planters’ efforts to create a hardened racial caste system and to freedpeople’s testimony, the U.S. Congress in 1866 tried to create defensible rights through the 14th Amendment that created birthright citizenship, established equal protection under the law, and guaranteed due process. When rebel states did not accept that amendment, Congress reasserted military control and charged the Army with registering freedpeople to vote. In 1869 Congress also passed a 15th Amendment prohibiting denial of the vote on grounds of race or previous condition of servitude. New biracial governments in the South helped write both amendments into the Constitution, thus remaking basic rights not just for African-Americans but for all Americans.
Reconstruction created a new world in Texas. Almost 40,000 black Texans, mostly former slaves, voted to call the state’s new constitutional convention. The new state government in Texas, as elsewhere, established statewide public schools, protected small homesteads from foreclosure, and created a tri-racial state police. Among the leading black politicians to emerge were freeborn teacher George T. Ruby and the previously enslaved Matthew Gaines. On the ground, freedpeople built vibrant families, constructed churches, opened schools, and elected African-Americans to less-remembered but crucial local offices.
But these gains did not endure. Over the 1870s, as the Army lost its hold on many rebel states, Democrats re-established control. Through a poll tax in 1902 and an all-white primary in 1903, African-American voter turnout in Texas dropped from about 100,000 in the 1890s to fewer than 5,000 by 1906. Along with disenfranchisement came Jim Crow segregation and exclusion from equal access to public services like education, public transportation, and the justice system.
“African-American voter turnout in Texas dropped from about 100,000 in the 1890s to fewer than 5,000 by 1906.”
Texas freedpeople kept alive the memory of emancipation and Reconstruction in ceremonies that eventually became named Juneteenth. Begun in 1866, the year after the proclamation, and growing dramatically after an 1867 parade in Austin, Juneteenth festivals spread to towns and churches across Texas. At Houston’s aptly named Emancipation Park, freedpeople flew flags, sang patriotic songs, paraded in uniform, and defended the memory of Reconstruction. As African-Americans moved north and west, Juneteenth moved with them to hundreds of towns and cities. With other, often regionally based, holidays like Watch Night, Eighth of August, Memorial Day, and Fourth of July, Juneteenth became a way for African-Americans to celebrate their gains, sustain their hopes, assess their defeats, and plan paths forward.
Their efforts should be models for our own, fledgling struggle to remember the gains and promise of Reconstruction. Despite wide-ranging efforts to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Civil War battles, there have been thus far only scattered efforts to mark the approaching anniversaries of Reconstruction.
In part this is because Americans remain confused about the period after the Civil War’s battles ended. Although historians—none more so than Columbia University’s Eric Foner—have shown the extraordinary political, economic, and legal gains of Reconstruction, many Americans either cling to outdated stories of corruption or have virtually no sense at all of what happened once the battles ended. A false story of Reconstruction spread by propagandists for Jim Crow segregation and disseminated in popular culture through Birth of a Nation continues to shape the national imagination.
But this Juneteenth, there is reason to hope that’s changing. Recognizing the importance of the 13th, 14th, and 15th constitutional amendments passed during this era, the U.S. Senate last week termed the period the nation’s “Second Founding,” though without using the word Reconstruction. Recently, the National Park Service commissioned a National Historic Landmark Theme Study on Reconstruction to identify landmarks that capture the dramatic story of the era.
Now, as we approach the 150th anniversary of the events that ended slavery and constructed meaningful rights for all Americans, we should look to Juneteenth as a model for commemorating Reconstruction. By grappling publicly—in parks and in programs—with the accomplishments of ending slavery and constructing equal rights, as well as the overthrow of Reconstruction and equal rights in Jim Crow, we can begin to wrestle with the impact that events like Juneteenth had upon the nation we live in. While the stories that begin with Granger’s proclamation on Galveston Island 150 years ago today may not conclude as neatly as the battlefield stories of the Civil War, they are just as crucial to the story of the nation we are today.
For more information, see:
Sowandé Mustakeem, “Juneteenth,” in Junius P. Rodriguez, ed., Encylopedia of Emancipation and Aboliiton in the Transatlantic World
Randolph B. Campbell, Grass Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-1880
Carl H. Moneyhon, Texas after the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction
William L. Richter, The Army in Texas during Reconstruction, 1865-1870
James Smallwood, Barry A. Crouch, and Larry Peacock, Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas
Elizabeth Hayes Turner, “Juneteenth: Emancipation and Memory,” in Gregg Cantrell and Turner, eds., Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas
Gregory P. Downsis a professor of history at the University of California, Davis, and author of After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War and The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic.
[Emancipation Day Celebration, June 19, 1900. Photo from Grace Murray Stephenson. Public domain from the University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, from the Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.]
[Emancipation Day Celebration band, June 19, 1900. Photo from Grace Murray Stephenson. Public domain from the University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, from the Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.]
[Juneteenth celebrated in Emancipation Park, Houston, Texas in 1880] As we approach Juneteenth, Black Agenda Report is republishing this article from 2022, written by our Executive Editor, Margaret Kimberley.
Juneteenth was a people’s holiday with deep meaning for the descendants of enslaved people. But the declaration of an official federal holiday has turned it into an opportunity for corporate exploiters and cynical politicians to show pretend concern for Black people. At best Juneteenth provides a history lesson and an opportunity for much needed political education.
“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.” General Order Number 3, June 19, 1865
The fact that members of the United States Senate voted unanimously to make Juneteenth a federal holiday proved that the commemoration is of no political value. Turning what was a peoples’ celebration into an occasion for opportunism and window dressing has actually damaged the cause of Black liberation and the understanding of history.
On June 19, 1865 Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas and issued General Order Three, a declaration that slavery had ended. The fact that this event occurred two months after the Civil War ended took on an understandably mythic quality, including a belief that the news had been deliberately kept from enslaved people, or that the person carrying the message had been killed.
In reality, enslaved Texans were well aware that the war had ended. But they also knew that the absence of federal troops who could enforce the law made any legalities moot. They knew better than anyone else that the people who forced them to labor without compensation would not end their system unless they were forced to do so.
A drone is photographed in front of a poster depicting portraits of Iran’s late and new Supreme Leaders, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, during a nightly pro-government rally at Enghelab Square in downtown Tehran, on June 5, 2026.
JEWS:
“Regarding Lebanon, we have warned both the mediators and the American side that if the regime fails to comply with the existing agreement, Iran will respond with substantial military measures without prior public notice,” said the Iranian official, who is not authorized to speak publicly. “Should the United States intervene, conditions particularly those related to the Strait of Hormuz could rapidly revert to a wartime environment.”
On Friday, reports emerged that a ceasefire agreement had been reached between Israel and Hezbollah, but an Israeli official said that even with a ceasefire, Israel would not withdraw its forces from Lebanon. Another Israeli official told Channel 12 that Israel retains the right to strike against perceived threats, a common Israeli claim used to systematically violate ceasefire agreements in Gaza and Lebanon.
Over the past week, Israel has continued to relentlessly attack Lebanon, and its forces remain deeply entrenched in the south. In a barrage of more than 20 airstrikes on Thursday night, Israel killed at least 47 people, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. Since March, when Hezbollah entered the war alongside Iran, Israel has killed more than 3,900 people in Lebanon and displace over 1.2 million. Hezbollah has continued to ferociously retaliate against Israel’s military campaign and has stunned Israel with its ability to inflict losses on its occupation forces. More than 30 Israeli troops have been confirmed killed in action since March 2.
NOTE: The CUNT is using more censorship tools on Substack:
I was six years old when astronauts first walked on the moon. I had a poster on my bedroom wall illustrating the Apollo mission, featuring its orbital trajectories along with diagrams of space suits and similar equipment. That was what inspired me to want to join Air Force Space Command in 1985, not images of satellites being shattered by ASAT missiles. Not violence in or from space. — Air Force Bombing Mercenary, William Astore
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Space? Man in the Can? Satellites in the 60,000 range? Surveillance of all humanity? Space? And how do those overpriced space missions get to the moon? Jesus thrusters? Hmm, the earth sciences are underfunded, and forget about ecology and marine sciences and, well, the deep sea mining schemes are already underway. And what’s under the sea, in Davey Jones’ locker? A million lawyers? Ninety percent of Israelis? Nah, those strategic metals, nodules, for, you know, “peaceful space.”
The space programs have always been dual use (military) and now triple use (for the corporate trillionaires).
And we still have cloth tents for millions on earth, as the dirty Westerners, the Psychosis of Whiteness prevails.
We have big issues on that beautiful photo model you blather about — earth.
The sea is acidifying, heating up, and alas, the abyssal plane, man . . . for those data centers (running the space programs) and the thrusters (Not those of Jesus) and the telemetry.
Ahh, even little things kill earth sciences: The University of Oregon is consolidating department offices and the Department of Earth Sciences says it could harm students
The lie is that technology gained from shooting polluting and strategic, and rare earth metals into space will help planet earth. RIGHT.
It all goes through the Offensive Weapons War Lords’ Fucking Bank Accounts. We are an earth on deep deep war footing, as this extractive taker society is turning the planet into one giant sludge pile and desertification experiment.
the confused masses, the unbearable light of, hmm, Judaism repackaged, reappropriated, retrofitted and reduced to mass goyim circumcision and lobotomies — Comic Books Are Jewish Literature!!!
But I have quickly seen their sort of folly though they get tons of people on their show. Again, they are NOT journalists, and they believe in Judaism as a fine fine religion.
Systems of power built the Dutch, the British, and now the American empire. White supremacy and Zionism are the ideologies forged to sanctify their conquest. Not “the Whites.” Not “the Jews.”
Juliano Mer-Khamis, who identified himself as “100% Palestinian and 100% Jewish,” was born to Arna Mer-Khamis, a Jewish-Israeli human rights activist, and Saliba Khamis, a Palestinian Christian leader of the Israeli Communist Party. He founded the Freedom Theatre in Jenin refugee camp and gave the children of the occupation a stage, a script, a camera, a way of being human that the checkpoints could not confiscate. He was murdered outside its doors in April 2011 by a masked gunman.
Disclaimer: if you are the kind of reader who fires off a comment after the headline, the objection forming in your mind (”but they call themselves Jews!”) is answered below. Read first. Vent second. Or do not vent at all.
The children buried beneath collapsed apartment blocks in Rafah, the mothers shot through the chest while clutching white flags in Khan Younis, the doctors bound and executed in the courtyards of Al-Shifa, the journalists incinerated in their press vests, the infants left to rot in the maternity wards after Israeli soldiers ordered the staff out at gunpoint, the starved boys with their ribs jutting through their skin like the bowed staves of broken instruments, all of them are the harvest of Empire. They are not the harvest of a people. They are the harvest of a system, and the system has a name, and the name is not “the Jews.”
For two years, I have watched a sickness drift into the discourse of the anti-imperialist sphere, a sickness as old as the pogroms of the Pale and as recent as the Islamophobia of the War on Terror. It is the seductive whisper that says the slaughter in Gaza is the work of some occult Hebraic power, that Congress kneels before AIPAC because of the cunning of a tribe (a race, even) rather than the obvious and savage logic of military Keynesianism and American hegemony in the Levant, that the genocide unfolding before our eyes is a Jewish project rather than an imperial one. Karim
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I, of course, have changed my mind about Karim and Peter, for sure . . .
Gilad Atzmonm:
Our AZZ caricature Ian Berman won’t give up. He still tries against all odd to push the insane and irrational old out-of -context quote by Nurit Peled-Elhanan, suggesting that “Israeli evil has nothing to do with Judaism … or Jewishness”..
As a person with some advanced degrees in philosophy, I am still waiting for anyone to point at the ‘deductive logical procedure’ that may lead to that ‘conclusion’.
I actually asked Nurit Peled-Elhanan to explain her position the last time Berman misquoted her. Peled couldn’t, of course, point at the logical procedure because there isn’t one available; what she did instead was refer to the Judaism of Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and indeed she is correct on that.
Leibowitz was a rare philosopher as well as a Jewish scholar. He is the one who coined the notion ‘Judeo-Nazis,’ and he was also the first to grasp that the Holocaust had become the new Jewish religion. Yet, Leibowitz had zero following anywhere except Nurit, myself, and just a few others.
I would point out in support of Peled that even if she held the position stated in the screenshot 15 years ago, she (most likely) wouldn’t repeat it now. I recently read an interview with her delving into Jewish supremacy in Israeli textbooks. Peled surely sees a connection between Judaism, Jewishness and the acts of the Jewish state.
However, by all means, I thank Berman for reminding us about the dedicated AZZ in our midst. AZZ is a Jewish political sect that utilizes the Palestinian suffering to vindicate everything J related to the crimes committed by the Jewish state in consistency with the Judaic holy scriptures.
Ian Berman when she dismissed my narrative? 12 years ago, when she mistakenly thought Judaism had nothing to do with Israeli barbarism..? Since then, she speaks and writes openly about Jewish supremacy in Israel,, it is you who is left behind as a comic statue of Jewish-controlled opposition ..
Ian Berman but Israel IS old Judaism in action! Have you not read your Tanakh? they are fulfilling God’s command to destroy men, women, and children who did not know their “god”’s name.
I can’t believe how poorly read American jews are. Really now, what the heck is Judaism to you anyway if not the Tanakh and Talmud?
OK, people have the right to invent their own religion/culture/whatever – but why do you insist on connecting it with Judaism?
Connect it with something else – like perhaps the barbaric past of humanity – and then you won’t have to have these arguments…
I have always found it bizarre and part of Jewish supremacy that the zionists are the evil creatures, and the jews are wonderful.
Except that many of the zionists claim to be Jewish, and I believe them.
I became an atheist at age 8, so I believe any god-centered religion is simply a cult.
The jews believe in an insane god that believes in collective punishment and genocide
I think I know a country that believes in those things.
And, I remain shocked that many progressive anti-Zionists still have this bizarre love for passover, an incredible faux fantasy where the assembled folks chant for the deaths of Egyptian children.
Gilad: An ex-Israeli friend applied recently for an Israeli birth certificate. He was shocked to find out that it isn’t just his religion that is defined by birth as Jewish, his nationality is also ‘Jewish’, not an Israeli…
I would assume that a person born in Britain to British parents is British, a person born in France to French parents is French. Yet in the Jewish State, despite the Zionist promise to make the Jews a nation like all other nations, all they managed to create was a shtetl like all other shtetls.
Oh, the Jew Max, he just can’t say, the Jewish Israelis . . . . Turning Point is about that Judeo-Christian Marvelous Marvel Comic Book god who gave us . . .
Top Global Killers (Total Number of Deaths)
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are responsible for the vast majority of deaths worldwide.
Ischemic Heart Disease (Coronary Artery Disease): The number one cause of death globally, blocking blood vessels to the heart.
Stroke (Cerebrovascular Disease): Disrupts blood flow to the brain, frequently causing permanent damage or death.
Cancers (Malignant Neoplasms): Leading types include lung, colorectal, pancreatic, and liver cancer.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Progressive respiratory disease making it difficult to breathe, often linked to smoking.
Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementias: Progressive, fatal neurological diseases that degrade memory, thinking, and bodily functions.
Diabetes Mellitus: Chronic metabolic disease that can lead to fatal heart, kidney, nerve, and eye damage.
Lower Respiratory Infections: Highly fatal, encompassing bacterial pneumonia and other acute chest infections.
[Evidence of smallpox has been found as far back as 1570 BCE in Egypt, but as will be seen, the existence of a disease is only one part of what it takes to make an epidemic. The earliest major smallpox epidemic was the Antonine plague, estimated to have killed 5–10 million people, between a quarter and a third of the Roman population.]
These are caused by pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, or fungi, and can be spread directly or indirectly from one person to another.
Tuberculosis (TB): One of the world’s oldest and deadliest infectious killers.
COVID-19: A severe respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which became a leading global cause of death.
Diarrheal Diseases: Leading global killer of young children. They lead to fatal dehydration and are frequently caused by rotavirus or bacterial infections.
HIV/AIDS: Attacks the body’s immune system and, without treatment, leaves it highly susceptible to fatal opportunistic infections.
Malaria: A life-threatening parasitic disease transmitted through the bite of infected mosquitoes
Rabies: A viral disease that infects the central nervous system, resulting in near 100% fatality once clinical symptoms appear.
Marburg Virus: A viral hemorrhagic fever closely related to Ebola, with mortality rates ranging from 24% to 88%.
Ebola Virus: Causes severe internal and external bleeding, with fatality rates varying widely depending on the strain.
Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (Naegleria fowleri): A rare but nearly universally fatal infection caused by an amoeba that destroys brain tissue. [1, 2, 3, 4]
[The Plague of Justinian, 541–549 C.E., Bubonic Plague, 15–100 million dead. In 476, the Western Roman Empire would collapse partly due to the expansion of Germanic tribes. However, the Eastern Empire would continue and, later, be known as the Byzantine Empire.]
[Written accounts of smallpox date back to as early as the fourth century in China. Smallpox reached Japan in the sixth century, having been introduced by merchants and Buddhist missionaries from the Korean kingdom of Paekche. Once introduced, it recurred in waves. Increased trade across the Sea of Japan and the Korean Straight resulted in more frequent outbreaks.]
[The Spanish conquest of 16th-century Mexico resulted in one of the most dramatic population collapses in human history. At the time of the Spanish arrival, there were 15 million to 30 million native inhabitants, but the native population would be decimated by the end of the century.]
The third plague pandemic began in Yunnan, China, in the 1840s. Aided by the transition from slower sailing ships to faster steamboats in merchant fleets, the plague reached Europe in 1899 and would quickly go global.
[Often referred to as “Russian influenza,” the first cases of the 1889 flu pandemic were reported out of Turkestan.]
[Known as “The Great Influenza Pandemic,” the first recorded cases of the 1918 influenza pandemic occurred at Fort Riley, Kansas. At the time, the United States was preparing to send thousands of soldiers to fight in World War I. The movements of troops between bases and close quarters helped the first wave of the disease to spread quickly and broadly across the United States.]
[Typhus thrives in unsanitary conditions, and multiple wars allowed the disease to flourish in Russia in the early 20th century. Fueled by the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918, there was ample opportunity for typhus to spread.]
[Aided by air, sea, and rail transport, a new virus emerged from China in the winter of 1957 that would be referred to as the “Asian flu.”]
[The third influenza pandemic of the twentieth century began in Hong Kong in 1968. Known as the “Hong Kong flu,” the H3N2 influenza was less deadly than the previous Asian flu but highly contagious.]
As David Quammen notes in Spillover, “We should recognize that [outbreaks] reflect things that we’re doing, not just things that are happening to us.” In other words, it’s foolish to think that epidemics occur randomly and spread without help. Climate change, conflict, and environmental degradation are all contributing factors.
THAT GOD of BIBLICAL WARS, PLAGUES, FAMINES, DEATH.
YHWH: The Kenite God of Metallurgy
The Bible describes YHWH as glowing (kabod), and YHWH’s heat as melting mountains, imagery connected with volcano gods, the divine patrons of metalworkers such as the Kenites, who lived in the Negev region. Indeed, the description of Israel’s encounter with YHWH at Sinai portrays a volcanic eruption, with smoke “as if from a furnace” (Exodus 19:18).
Divine Retribution: Wrath (charon) is most often a reaction to the breaking of the covenant, specifically through idolatry, injustice, or the violation of moral laws. It is meant to call the people back to righteousness.
Earthly Consequences: In the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), God’s anger results in tangible, historical events such as exile, famine, or military defeat.
Metaphorical Language: Rabbis and scholars generally understand descriptions of God’s anger as metaphorical. They are human ways of understanding God’s absolute holiness and the serious consequences of human actions.
The Kenites appear to have been a society of metalworkers. The story of Cain in Genesis 4 describes how one of his descendants, Tubal-Cain “forged all implements of copper and iron” (לֹטֵשׁ כָּל חֹרֵשׁ נְחֹשֶׁת וּבַרְזֶל), i.e., he is described as a smith, the craftsman producing implements from raw metal. Indeed, the Semitic cognates קין (Arabic قين, Syriac ܩܝܢܝܐ, Aramaic קֵינָאָה) suggest that the root ק.י.נ designated activities belonging to the field of metallurgy, smelting (metal production from ore) and smithing (the working of raw metal).[17]
Cain himself, then, rather than his descendant Tubal-Cain, should be understood as once having played the role of the forefather of metallurgy and the South-Levantine society of metalworking Kenites, both smiths and smelters, i.e., producers of the raw metal from ore. This helps explain their connection to YHWH, a deity with volcanic attributes.
In antiquity, volcanoes were typically identified with the gods sponsoring metallurgy. For example, Hephaestus was called the “prince of Etna” in ancient Greece, and the term “volcano” derives from Vulcain, the name of the divine patron of the metallurgists at Rome.[18]
The superhero genre was pioneered in the 1930s by Jewish creators (like Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, and Jack Kirby) who channeled the immigrant experience and the fight against fascism into their work. Consequently, Jewish allegories, religious archetypes, and explicit cultural symbols remain heavily baked into mainstream comic books. [1, 2, 3]
GOYIM, the fucking child of comic books:
Superhero comics are fundamentally Jewish literature. In the 1930s and 1940s Jewish immigrants in New York were kept out of most respectable industries, so publishers, writers and artists created an industry of their own, comics. They also created its proprietary genre, superheroes, which they infused with various levels of Jewish signification.
Less known is that the comic book itself is a Jewish invention. In 1933 an unemployed schoolteacher from the Bronx named Maxwell Gaines (né Ginsburg) came up with the idea of licensing old newspaper strips and reprinting them in a magazine format. (It’s why they’re called “comics,” they were originally all humor strips.) Gradually new content was needed, and five years later, in June 1938, Superman debuted.
The Man of Steel was the first superhero, and the mold from which all others will forever be cast. He’s also a heavily Jewish character. Not canonically but metatextually, as a metaphor and as an avatar of his Jewish creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
He was given the birth name Kal-El, El meaning god in Hebrew, and the same origin story as Moses; a baby whisked to safety in a small vessel, found amidst thick vegetation, renamed and raised by people not his own, who grows to become a great savior. In several versions he travels across the North Pole and learns of his special heritage from the hologram of his father Jor-El, mirroring Moses’s journey across Midian and the burning bush.
Siegel acknowledged being inspired by Samson, the super-strong Israelite judge who fought in the name of truth and justice, whom he regularly references in the early comics. He was also inspired by the golem of Prague — particularly the 1920 film — in creating an indestructible champion of the oppressed. (In 1958 the golem legend was used wholesale for the origin of Bizarro, one of Superman’s most famous adversaries.)
Siegel and Shuster based Superman’s alter-ego, Clark Kent, on themselves. They were both bespectacled, gawky and neurotic, but also cerebral, inventive and wisecracking — a checklist of Jewish stereotypes.
Superman is essentially the story of the Jewish refugee Kal-El who came over from the old country and anglicized his name to Clark Kent. He’s an alien who can pass for human but can only interact freely with society through a disguise, a Jew passing for a non-Jew. His costume is made from the Kryptonian fabrics his mother wrapped him in as a baby, and he wears it under his clothes like a tallit, giving him the ability to change identities at whim.
Other superheroes from the period reflect their Jewish creators’ background and preoccupations as well. Captain America, for example, created in 1941 by Joe (Hymie) Simon and Jack Kirby (Kurtzberg), is about a young weakling of strong resolve who volunteers to become a super-soldier to fight the Nazis, equipped with a star-spangled shield. It echoes the story of King David, a genteel youth of unwavering faith who volunteers to fight the giant enemy of his people, later fashioning a hexagram shield, the Star of David.
The Charlie Kirk Show is now distributed by a federally registered agent of Israel tasked with seeding American media with Zionist propaganda. It is part of a whopping $46 million dollar annual contract between the Israeli government and Brad Parscale, the former chief of staff for Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign. This may be the largest lobbying contract in the history of foreign influence operations in the US.
On September 10, 2025, Kirk was assassinated during the first stop on his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley State University. Eight days later, Parscale registered as a foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, assuming responsibility for a propaganda blitz “tailored to Gen Z audiences across platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, podcasts, and other relevant digital and broadcast outlets.”
Oh, shit, those Jews:
In this startling investigation into the suppressed history of America in the 1800s, Xaviant Haze reveals how the powerful Rothschild banking family and the Central Banking System, now known as the Federal Reserve Bank, provide a continuous thread of connection between the War of 1812, the Civil War, the financial crises of the 1800s, and assassination attempts on Presidents Jackson and Lincoln.
The author reveals how the War of 1812 began after Congress failed to renew a 20-year charter for the Central Bank. After the war, the ensuing debt forced Congress to grant the central banking scheme another 20-year charter. The author explains how this spurred General Andrew Jackson–fed up with the central bank system and Nathan Rothschild’s control of Congress–to enter politics and become president in 1828. Citing the financial crises engineered by the banks, Jackson spent his first term weeding out Rothschild agents from the government. After being re-elected to a 2nd term with the slogan “Jackson and No Bank,” he became the only president to ever pay off the national debt. When the Central Bank’s charter came up for renewal in 1836, he successfully rallied Congress to vote against it.
The author explains how, after failing to regain their power politically, the Rothschilds plunged the country into Civil War. He shows how Lincoln created a system allowing the U.S. to furnish its own money, without need for a Central Bank, and how this led to his assassination by a Rothschild agent. With Lincoln out of the picture, the Rothschilds were able to wipe out his prosperous monetary system, which plunged the country into high unemployment and recession and laid the foundation for the later formation of the Federal Reserve Bank–a banking scheme still in place in America today.
The 1500s (Name Origin): The family name itself traces back to Isaak Elchanan Bacharach, who built a house in the Frankfurt ghetto in 1567 named the zum roten Schild (at the sign of the red shield). Family members took this German phrase as their surname.
“My husband isn’t here to say whether or not we should be at war with Iran,” Erika Kirk said in response to a question at a May 2026 TPUSA event. “I would love for him to be here right now and tell us if we should or should not.”
Blumenthal, the Jew Protector:
On September 6, 2025, an arch-Zionist centi-millionaire named Robert Shillman denounced Kirk from the dais at a private gala in Los Angeles, expressing regret for showering his fortune on TPUSA now that its founder had turned against Israel. As The Grayzone revealed, Shillman had just withdrawn a $2 million donation to TPUSA as punishment for Kirk’s heresy.
Four days later, Kirk was shot through the neck by a sniper in front of thousands of attendees of his so-called American Comeback Tour.
Just over a week after the shocking assassination, the Israeli Foreign Ministry effectively took control over the Charlie Kirk Show through its lobbying contract with Parscale’s Clock Tower X. Given the statements Kirk made both publicly and in private to confidants about Israel in the weeks before his killing, it seems unlikely he would have consented to any agreement that gave a registered lobbyist for Israel responsibility for distributing his show.
Robert Shillman is a Jewish American Zionist tycoon who owns the Cognex Corporation which produces machine vision systems, sensors and industrial ID readers.
The Zionist tycoon uses his wealth and influence to further Zionist interests, with a specific focus on conservative media and talking points.
In 2008, Shillman accompanied George W. Bush to Jerusalem to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Israel.
Shillman, a believer in the Israeli ethno-state, has an effective role in shaping more-or-less mainstream anti-Islamic and anti-immigration movements in the US and Europe. This kind of phony opposition functions as a way to attract support for Israel as an anti-Islamic state among European and Americans who have been disillusioned by Liberal immigration policies.
Shillman is consequently a board member of the conservative anti-Islamic David Horowitz Freedom Centre. He also funds several well-known anti-Islamic or right-wing figures and outlets such as Brigitte Gabriel´s ACT! (which promotes Islamophobia in the US), James O’Keefe‘s Project Veritas, Frontpage magazines (David Horowitz anti-Islamic magazine) and Rebel News (right-wing news outlet owned by Zionist media personality Ezra Levant).234
Shillman has also funded overt Zionist agitators such as the British Tommy Robinson5 (Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon) and Dutch politician Geert Wilders.6 Such figures have had a defining role in promoting pro-Israel sentiment among immigrant-weary communities.
This month, 404 Media — a technology and privacy investigative outlet — obtained and published a product sheet for a surveillance system called ELSAG SignalTrace, built by Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, the American arm of Italian defense giant Leonardo S.p.A. The report is spreading fast through privacy, civil liberties, and press freedom communities, but has yet to be covered by mainstram US news outlets. What it describes is a terrifying product that is now available for purchase by American law enforcement, in existence for at least two years — built quietly, patented quietly, marketed quietly — while the public had no idea it existed.
On March 26, 2024, Leonardo received US Patent 11,941,716 B2 for “Systems and Methods for Electronic Signature Tracking.” The company issued a press release. Almost nobody noticed. By 2025, the technology had a formal product name — ELSAG SignalTrace — and an active marketing campaign aimed at law enforcement agencies across the country. General Manager Jason Laquatra described the system’s purpose plainly: “The future of LPR [license plate reader] advancements is reliant on enhancing LPR data sets with additional information from various electronic devices to find the individuals police are looking for.”
Translation: It is no longer enough for Big Bro to record your car everywhere it goes. They want to know who is inside that car. Down to your pets.
Leonardo S.p.A. is headquartered in Rome, Italy. The product it is selling to American law enforcement would almost certainly be illegal to deploy in its home country, or anywhere else in Europe.
European law — the General Data Protection Regulation, known as GDPR — requires companies to get your permission before collecting your personal data. It forbids storing that data indefinitely. The EU AI Act, which took effect this year, restricts technology that identifies and tracks people in public spaces.
The United States of America has no such laws and, in fact, has a federal administration trying to make such laws themselves illegal. Totally normal.
‘Is there anything more ethically reprehensible than collaborating with a criminal government that openly violates international law and whose crimes against humanity are blatant and well-known?’
Military Hardware & Exports: Leonardo produces critical components for military aircraft used by the Israeli Air Force. The company supplies technologies for the F-35 (for which Leonardo UK is a key producer) and parts for F-15 fighter jets. It has also historically supplied remote technical assistance and systems for armored bulldozers used by the Israeli military. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Corporate & Legal Pressure: Italian civil society and human rights organizations have filed legal actions attempting to annul Leonardo’s armament contracts with Israel, citing constitutional breaches. Additionally, various Italian labor unions and plant workers have petitioned the company to halt military supplies and agreements. [1, 2]
Corporate Leadership Response: Leonardo’s Chief Executive Officer and General Manager, Roberto Cingolani, stated that the company has not authorized new exports to Israel since the outbreak of the conflict. However, protesters and activists argue that pre-existing export licenses and long-term service agreements have allowed technological and maintenance support to continue. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Past Technology and Startup Partnerships: Prior to the recent escalation in Gaza, Leonardo had active innovation partnerships in Israel. This included agreements with the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) and Tel Aviv University’s Ramot to scout and develop local startups. [1]
Acquisition of Israeli Tech: Leonardo’s U.S. subsidiary, Leonardo DRS, finalized a major merger with Rada Electronic Industries, an Israeli defense company specializing in tactical radars, to expand its global capabilities in force protection and counter-UAS (unmanned aircraft systems). [1]
Then you have this piece of shit in AmeriKKKa.
A real fucking loser, on my radio station!
When the Trump administration announced the Iran deal, the White House called it historic. Israel is calling it something very different.
David Horovitz, the editor of The Times of Israel, used the phrase “catastrophic capitulation” in a headline. Nir Dvori, an analyst for Channel 12 News in Israel, called it a diplomatic October 7th, referring to Hamas’ killing of roughly 1200 Israelis. Yaakov Amidror, who served as national security adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said the Americans “paid with cash and got, at the maximum, a letter of intent.”
Why is Israel sounding the alarm? Start with Iran’s nuclear program, which Netanyahu has spent decades framing as an existential threat to Israel. It’s the same issue Trump cited when he announced the first strikes against Iran back in February. And under this agreement, it’s been punted to “a later stage” of negotiations. Meaning it’s completely unresolved.
Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal is still intact. Trump even told reporters this week that it would be “unfair” if Iran weren’t allowed to keep “some” ballistic missiles. Let’s also remember this is the same president who promised to “raze their missile industry to the ground.”
Additionally, nothing in the agreement addresses Iran’s support for Hezbollah and the Houthis, though the deal requires Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon. Israeli analysts say this leaves them in a worse position than before the war.
Meanwhile, Iran is expected to get hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief, unfrozen assets, and reconstruction aid, all of which could end up funding the same networks that have spent years attacking Israel.
Chuck Freilich, a former Israeli deputy national security adviser, argued “Iran came out stronger,” having successfully stood up to “the global superpower.” Freilich added that this is simply “an Iranian victory over the U.S. and Israel.”
Iran’s own top negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, agreed, saying on state television that the deal gave Iran “several times more” than they set out to achieve through military action. It’s not hard to see who exactly won here.
Even the Jews state:
The Air Force was carrying out “the Sword of Damocles” operation – a code name only being revealed on Thursday for the first time – to attack many Hamas commanders and their headquarters around 10:30 a.m. on October 7, 2023, just as it was carrying out the “Hannibal Directive” of gunning down anything that moved around the Israel-Gaza border.
The Air Force has been questioned about if the forces it had invested in attacking Hamas commanders deep in Gaza would have been better used to defend the Gaza border and to attack Hamas invaders in Israeli villages.
Air Force sources hoped air power had been used ‘differently’ on October 7
Air Force sources have said that they wish this air power had been used differently on October 7, given that protecting the villages and the border should have been a higher priority than killing top Hamas officials.
One former Israeli officer, Air Force Colonel Nof Erez, told a Haaretz podcast the directive was not specifically ordered but was “apparently applied” by responding aircrews.
Panicked, operating without their normal command structure and unable to coordinate with ground forces, they fired on vehicles returning to Gaza, knowing they were likely carrying hostages.
“This was a mass Hannibal. It was tons and tons of openings in the fence, and thousands of people in every type of vehicle, some with hostages and some without,” Colonel Erez said.
Air force pilots described to Yedioth Ahronot newspaper the firing of “tremendous” amounts of ammunition on October 7 at people attempting to cross the border between Gaza and Israel.
“Twenty-eight fighter helicopters shot over the course of the day all of the ammunition in their bellies, in renewed runs to rearm. We are talking about hundreds of 30-millimetre cannon mortars and Hellfire missiles,” reporter Yoav Zeitoun said.
“The frequency of fire at the thousands of terrorists was enormous at the start, and only at a certain point did the pilots begin to slow their attacks and carefully choose the targets.”
One survivor of Kibbutz Nir Oz, a Gaza border community, described being fired upon by the Israeli military as Hamas members tried to take her and other hostages across the border in an electric wagon.
The IDF review also contradicts testimony from one of the two survivors of Pessi’s house, Yasmin Porat, who told Israel’s Kan radio on October 15 that the Hamas gunmen had not threatened the hostages and had intended to negotiate with police for their safe return to Gaza.
She said an Israeli police special unit had started the gun battle by firing upon the house, catching “five or six” kibbutz residents outside in “very, very heavy crossfire”.
In the interview, she was asked: “So our forces may have shot them?”
“Undoubtedly,” she replied.
“They eliminated everyone [in the house], including the hostages.”
Israeli philosopher Asa Kasher told the ABC the directive did not apply to civilian hostages
“That’s a new situation, and all the considerations are different,” Professor Kasher said.
“Killing the civilian in order to foil the attempted abduction is really … everyone understands that that’s way outside of what is allowed in a democracy.”
Professor Kasher said he was dismayed by reports soldiers had applied the Hannibal Directive on October 7.
“They acted on very low professional standards,” he said.
“That’s insane, it’s not the nature of a democracy, it’s not the nature of the IDF, it’s not the nature of the command.”
This is what the dirty Jews, Ruthie, has to say: Asa Kasher’s unkosher disloyalty
While the Israeli military is conducting a valiant effort to destroy Hamas and rescue the hostages, the “purity of arms” author might have exercised discretion before voicing his extremist positions.
Ruthie Blum [Ruthie Blum, a former adviser at the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is an award-winning columnist and a senior contributing editor at JNS. Co-host with Ambassador Mark Regev of the JNS-TV podcast “Israel Undiplomatic,” she writes on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. Originally from New York City, she moved to Israel in 1977. She is a regular guest on national and international media outlets, including Fox, Sky News, i24News, Scripps, ILTV, WION and Newsmax.]
“We were born into a state that wanted to be democratic; for decades, we were a democratic country,” he said. “And now they want to turn us into a different sort of a country, which will cease being democratic.”
The new government“will continue to call itself democratic, in the way that communist regimes called themselves ‘popular’ democracies.”
“[O]ur culture is one of lies and pretense [in which people say] whatever they want with no relation to facts. … We won’t be a democracy. We’ll be something else—the kind [of entity] that there’s no moral justification to honor.”
Forked fucking Jewish TONGUES: 2014…..
“Operation Protective Edge,” as Israel calls its 51-day-long assault, killed 2,257 Palestinians. Some seventy percent of them were identified as civilians by the United Nations, including at least 519 children. In stark contrast, actions by or engagements with Palestinian resistance fighters killed 66 Israeli soldiers and seven civilians.
Both Kasher and Halbertal defended the lopsided death toll by stressing that the law of proportionately is not measured by body count.
Kasher explicitly rejected the civilian death count put out by the United Nations, maintaining that the majority of the dead were ”terrorists.” As far as he was concerned, Israel went above and beyond to avoid killing “the neighbors of the terrorists.”
Convened by the liberal Zionist New Israel Fund and moderated by Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the liberal The Jewish Daily Forward, the event was advertised as a discussion about “‘moral armies’ and the challenges of defensive wars in today’s new Middle East.”
Kasher and Halbertal co-authored the Israeli military code of ethics, which has guided the army’s conduct during Israel’s increasingly ferocious military assaults against the Palestinians it occupies as well as its neighbors over the last two decades.
The atmosphere was cozy and intimate, with randomly assigned dinner table seating. Each table was decorated with wine bottles and elegant food platters that aimed to foster “a new kind of conversation about Israel,” according to the program.
As the generally Israel-friendly crowd of mostly older New Yorkers sipped on Merlot and munched on pita chips from the comfort and safety of the JCC, they listened to the ethicists doing what they do best: twisting international law to sanctify Israel’s “right” to inflict limitless suffering on the 1.8 million Palestinians, the vast majority refugees, confined to the Gaza Strip solely because they are not Jews.
The ethicists
Appealing to right-wing Zionist sensibilities, Kasher dominated the discussion, arguing that Palestinian civilians—or as he calls them, “the neighbors of the terrorists”— had to die to protect the lives of Israeli combatants.
In an exclusive interview following the panel, Kasher’s extremism reached new heights. He told me that Givati Brigade commander Ofer Winter was right to carpet bomb the southern Gaza City of Rafah to prevent the capture of an Israeli soldier, an order that killed the soldier and 190 Palestinians in a matter of hours, though Kasher insisted that “only forty” were killed.
“Killing forty civilians” is “reasonable,” he told me.
Moshe Halbertal, a law professor at Hebrew University and visiting professor of law at New York University, was less extreme in his rhetoric and allowed for some criticism of Israel’s behavior in Gaza. But he chalked up Israeli atrocities, like the wiping out of dozens of families in Gaza, to “sporadic” mistakes. “War is messy,” he said.
Despite the pretense of ideological disagreement, Kasher and Halbertal were advancing the same agenda. For two hours, they explained why and how the massacre of defenseless Palestinians who have nowhere to flee is ethical, and in Kasher’s case, a moral imperative.
I reminded him that 190 Palestinian civilians were killed in Rafah on Winter’s order.
Shaking his head in disagreement, he said, “Forty. The UN is meaningless. Palestinian reports are meaningless. It was forty.”
“Where did you get that number?” I asked.
“The IDF,” he replied. “Killing forty civilians, where your arguments are that you avoided strategic catastrophe, is reasonable,” he added.
Asked if he was worried he might one day be charged with war crimes for writing the code of conduct that guides the Israeli army’s behavior in Gaza, Kasher scoffed, “I don’t worry at all. Public opinion is meaningless.”
He continued: “What counts is the president of the United States, the prime minister of England and the president of France, the head of Russia and the head of China. They count because they are the five members of the [UN] Security Council. The only thing internationally of importance is the Security Council. Those five have veto power, so they count. Most importantly, the president of the United States, he counts.”
When asked if he was alarmed by the calls for genocide emanating from Israeli lawmakers including Ayelet Shaked and Moshe Feiglin, Kasher said that Shaked was not in the Israeli government (her party, Jewish Home, is part of the ruling coalition) and dismissed Feiglin, who is deputy speaker in the Israeli parliament, as a “marginal” figure.
Kasher went on to excuse Ofer Winter’s declaration of Jewish holy war against Palestinians in Gaza on the eve of the Israel’s ground invasion.
“Colonel Winter was mistaken in expressing himself as if all the troops are as religious as he is. Many of them are not,” said Kasher. “He mistakenly spoke in terms of ‘we’ instead of ‘I.’ But that’s it. Otherwise I don’t see a problem in his speech.”
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The mpost immoral, more PR spinning, biggest lying, most rapist-centered, starving-lusting, maiming-seeking, poisoners of the realm, the Jewish Military!
The Spirit of the IDF
The Spirit of the IDF outlines our values and together with the practical rules derived from it constitutes our ethical code, guiding our soldiers and commanders in their day-to-day and operational activities.
Our 4 Fundamental Values
Defense of the State of Israel and its residents
The purpose of the IDF is to protect Israel and its independence and ensure the security of its residents.
Patriotism and loyalty to Israel:
Patriotism commitment and devotion to the State of Israel and its people are at the very core of service in the IDF.
Human Dignity
The IDF and our soldiers are obligated to protect human dignity. Every individual is of inherent value, regardless of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender, or status.
Statehood
The IDF is the people’s army, the State of Israel’s military, subject to the law and government of the State of Israel. IDF soldiers will operate with their mission, the IDF’s values and the security of Israel as their priority. They will operate with integrity, practicality and presentably.
There are ten additional values derived from these fundamental values:
Perseverance in the Mission and Pursuit of Victory
An IDF soldier will act and operate with courage in the face of every danger and challenge presented. The soldier will persevere in their mission with determination and wisdom, even if it means risking their life.
Responsibility
An IDF soldier will see themselves as an active partner in ensuring the security of the State of Israel and its residents. The soldier will show continuous involvement, initiative and diligence and operate within the framework of their authority, and will be willing to accept consequences for their actions if need be.
Reliability and Trustworthiness
An IDF soldier will present things entirely and precisely as they are. They will do so throughout all stages of operation including planning, execution and reporting. The soldier will operate in a manner that will enable their commanders and fellow soldiers to trust them when completing tasks.
Personal Example
An IDF soldier will conduct themselves in the manner that is required of them and in the manner they expect their fellow soldiers to act. They will do so out of recognition of their ability and responsibility as an IDF soldier and outside of it, to be worthy role model to those around them.
Human Life
An IDF soldier will recognize the critical importance of human life and behave in a safe and measured manner at all times. During combat, the soldier will put themselves and their fellow soldiers at risk only to the extent required to fulfill their mission.
Purity of Arms
An IDF soldier will only exercise their power or use their weapon in order to fulfill their mission and only when necessary. They will maintain their humanity during combat and routine times. The soldier will not use their weapon or power to harm uninvolved civilians and prisoners and will do everything in their power to prevent harm to their lives, bodies, dignity and property.
Professionalism
An IDF soldier will aspire to gain the professional knowledge, skills and expertise required to fulfill their position in the IDF. The soldier will implement these while engaging in their role to continuously improve their personal achievements and the achievements of their unit.
Discipline
An IDF soldier will operate to the best of their ability to fulfill what is required of them in a complete and successful manner and in accordance with the orders they were given and the values of the IDF. The soldier will ensure they are only giving out legal orders, and do not follow illegal orders.
Camaraderie
An IDF soldier will operate out of commitment and devotion to their fellow soldiers. The soldier will always extend other servicemembers a helping hand when they are in need of assistance or dependent on it and they will do so despite any difficulty or risk.
A Sense of Mission
An IDF soldier will see their service as a vocation; they will be intent on contributing as much as possible to defend the State of Israel and its residents. They will do so as a representative of the IDF who is operating within the authority given to them according to IDF orders.
Woman plunges 164 feet to death in tragic bungee-jumping accident
Florida beaches turning dangerous into peak spring break.
In 7 days:
• 500+ rescues
• 70 rescues at Fort Lauderdale Beach
• 2 deaths (Pompano Beach and Juno Beach)
A wild melee broke out at a tailgate party just before the Browns’ game Sunday … with several Cleveland fans rockin’ each other in the face with violent punches.
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) reported 3,887 recreational boating incidents nationwide. These accidents resulted in 556 deaths, 2,170 injuries, and approximately $88 million in property damage. The national fatality rate dropped slightly to 4.8 deaths per 100,000 registered vessels, which is the lowest recorded baseline in over 50 years.
Alcohol use is the leading known contributing factor in fatal boating accidents; where the primary cause was known.
As of 2026, the average American pet-owning household spends between $880 and $1,700 annually on their animals, while the total U.S. pet industry has reached a massive $158 billion per year.
Jurisdictions in 84 countries regulate pit bulls and other dangerous dog breeds. In 74 of those countries, the regulation is a national-level law.
Countries Worldwide that Restrict Dangerous Dog Breeds by DogsBite.org, 2025
The big pit was chewing the man’s arm off. It was horrible. I’ve never seen anything like that. Jennifer Walker
federal lawsuit
She suffered the amputation of both legs due to sepsis, endured additional surgeries, including a second amputation above the stump of her left leg, and extensive skin grafts on her arms, which were chewed to the bone.
biological father
I just woke up and my daughter is dead. There’s blood everywhere, I don’t know what happened … My baby is dead. This has got to be a f—ing nightmare.
911 caller
Caller just received a call from her uncle who was watching her kids at this residence. He thinks her 6-year old son is dead. That the dog ate his face.
search warrant
Soon after the first dog attacked, a second pit bull started attacking [Covil]. There were adults in the area that started to defend [Covil] by using hammers and pickaxes to get the dogs off [Covil].
shauntaye phillips
The dogs bit a pretty big hole out of his arm and tore his artery, so he lost a lot of blood. He is on dialysis. He has to keep getting transfusions. They cut off his right arm.
chief deputy county attorney lori zucco
This is one of the most gruesome homicides that has come through our office.
fort dodge police officer
Pieces of her everywhere. They were eating her. I bet if they did autopsies, she’s in their guts.
shauntaye phillips
The dogs bit a pretty big hole out of his arm and tore his artery, so he lost a lot of blood. He is on dialysis. He has to keep getting transfusions. They cut off his right arm.
captain michael crumley
[Our 911 caller] saw the dogs dragging around an object and turned around and then discovered that that object was a human being.
taylorsville police
All of the dogs had blood on and around their mouths and appeared to be in a frenzy … He also observed that her leg had no flesh on it and only the bone remained.
federal lawsuit
The attack was nothing short of horrific, inflicting excruciating, boneexposing bites and tearing skin and muscle from his arms and other parts of his body.
chuck sutton
No flesh. No muscle. Nothing. No arm left but bone … Have you ever seen what a bear can do to a human body? That’s about the best I can describe it.
sheriff mason bynum
We noticed the injuries were severe trauma to the head so we did think that there was a high powered gunshot wound to the head…
adrian arispe
He was laying there face down, naked — all torn up like a shark ate him. He had his shoes, socks, shirt ripped, and his whole body was just from head to toe diced and sliced. They were tugging him. All five ways.
arrest affidavit
Deputies saw the man lying on the ground with both ears detached, along with his nose and left eye detached.
emma willis
It was like someone skinned him. I’ve never seen anything like that before.
tya lucas
I had six surgeries … been in the hospital for 13 days now … I basically got eaten by our family dog.
gelena kelly
He had her by the neck and was dragging her body into the second room … At that point, he was pretty much eating her alive.
police commissioner patrick ryder
The wife was on the ground, mutilated by the dog … We don’t know what time the attack took place but there was obviously a lot of mutilation on the body and the arm, the face, the legs.
melvina moore
The dogs ate him up to the point where his body was decayed. They can’t show me his body.
yahir martinez
Being a baby and having pampers on, it was jaw-dropping. I guess part of his face was missing, that’s what really got me.
john durand
800 to 1,000 bites around her body. Her ears, nose, upper lip and face, from cheek bone to cheek bone, were pulled off of her face.
victim’s mother
She got attacked by my sister’s pit bull … she has coded twice and has stopped breathing … she is showing signs of severe brain damage.
shannon pingel
She told Shane who found her, “I have no arms, and I’m dying.” She lost so much blood on the way to the hospital her heart stopped.
medical staff
Medical staff described her injuries as severe, noting her calf was “ripped off” and her arms were “barely attached to her body.”
william plyler
He saw that one dog with Jayden shaking her with only her hands and her knees touching the ground by the neck, unconscious.
police officer blake dicello
Those dogs were not defending their property. They were viciously attacking and mauling two defenseless people.
carteret fire department
Do we have an update on the condition? Medic answered: “I have a 3-year old with total evisceration, open to the face, head and thighs.”
matthijs van leeuwen
Right at that moment, the pitbull that held my dog at his neck, turned around came back and lunged at my head biting a large chunk out of my forehead … I felt a portion of skin hanging over my right eye and the wound was bleeding profusely.
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This issue of our societal permissiveness toward dangerous dogs recently came up at work. During his tenure, President Joe Biden has brought two violent dogs into the White House, where thousands of people go to work every day. Last month, a conservative watchdog group released records showing that Biden’s German shepherd Commander attacked Secret Service members 10 times between October 2022 and January. And in 2021, Major Biden, another German shepherd, was exiled to Delaware after his own biting spree. When my colleague Inae Oh surveyed Mother Jones readers about how the Bidens should handle the situation, I was baffled by the responses.
DO YOU GET IT YET?
The Spanish colonizers and slave raiders used war dogs (greyhounds and mastiffs) to terrorize and subjugate the Natives. The use of vicious dogs by the Spaniards in the borderlands helps explain how the Manso Indians from the El Paso del Norte region got their names (See second photo). According to Franciscan priest Alonso de Benavides, the local Natives would try to pacify the slave raider dogs by telling them “manso! manso!” Manso means “tame” or “peaceful” in Spanish. The European invaders started calling the local Natives “Mansos” as a way to mock them. But the local Natives were not at all tame or pacified throughout their history. One of their leaders, Capitan Chiquito, joined the Apaches (Nde people) in the late 1600s and waged guerrilla warfare against the European colonizers for three decades. Today dogs are still being used around the world to terrorize and subjugate indigenous and non-white people.
America is a wasteland of excess, lobotomized thinking (sic), consumerism on freebase, and a dirty dirty country that opened its doors to the kings of marketing and lies, the Jews.
We also claim that students are “held to a higher moral standard,” which suggests zero or low tolerance of wrongdoing. But the current emphasis on reducing attrition means that, as many midshipmen have told me, students get one “freebie,” such as a DUI. Held to a higher moral standard? The students know that’s a joke.
What else justifies our existence? Our most consistent justification is that we teach “leadership.” We even make students take classes in the subject. Midshipmen roll their eyes. Leadership can’t be taught; it can only be modeled.
The central paradox of the service academies is that we attract hard-charging “alpha” types and then make all their decisions for them. Students are told when to study and when to work out, whom they can date (nobody in their company), and when they can wear civilian clothes. All students must attend football games and cheer, and go to evening lectures and cultural events (where many sleep in their seats). The list goes on.
The academies are the ultimate nanny state. “When are they going to let me make some decisions?” one student asked in frustration. “The day I graduate?” This infantilization turns students passive-aggressive, and many of them count the years, months, and days until they can leave.
The U.S. military-service academies—at West Point (Army), Annapolis (Navy), Colorado Springs (Air Force), and New London (Coast Guard)—are at the center of several debates, both military and civilian. The military is downsizing, and the federal budget is under scrutiny: Do the academies deserve to continue?
They’re educational institutions, but do they actually educate, and furthermore, do they produce “leaders” as they claim to? And are they worth the $400,000 or so per graduate (depending on the academy) they cost taxpayers?
After all, we already have a federal program that produces officers—an average of twice as many as those who go to the academies (three times for the Army)—at a quarter of the cost.That program is ROTC, the Reserve Officer Training Corps, which has expanded considerably since World War II, when the academies produced the lion’s share of officers.
No data suggest that ROTC officers are of worse quality than those graduating from the academies, who are frequently perceived by enlisted militaryas arrogant “ring-knockers” (after their massive old-style class rings). The academies evoke their glory days by insisting that many more admirals, say, come from Annapolis than from ROTC. But that is no longer true. Between 1972 and 1990 (these are the latest figures available), the percentage of admirals from ROTC climbed from 5 percent to 41 percent, and a 2006 study indicated that commissioning sources were not heavily weighted in deciding who makes admiral.
Another officer-production pipeline is Officer Candidate School, which is about as large a source of officers as the academies. It gives a six- to 12-week training course for mature enlistees and college graduates who paid for their educations on their own (that is, did not participate in ROTC), and it costs taxpayers almost nothing. It could be expanded by pitching it to college students who might want to become officers when they graduate.
So the service academies are no longer indispensable for producing officers. Their graduates now make up only about 20 percent of the officer corps in any given year.It’s clear that we don’t need the academies in their current form—versions of a kind of military Disneyland. These institutions do produce some fine officers, even some leaders. But the students I respect the most tell me that those who succeed do so despite the institutions, not because of them.
How Fun and Games for Grownups Are Driving the Profitability of Play
Businesses ranging from entertainment and hospitality to toys are leveraging the spending power of this key consumer group.
Adult consumers are spending billions on toys, games, and collectibles each year, and that spending is expected to continue to grow. In 2024, toy purchases by consumers ages 13 and up surpassed toys purchased for 3- to 5-year-olds for the first time.
A recent global survey found that 87% of people believe play can cure isolation and loneliness, and that 79% believe it can bring different groups of people closer together.
Gen Z adults increasingly are seeking out the kinds of in-person, non-digital experiences that games and play provide.
The “Child Races” Narrative: Colonial powers frequently framed African, Asian, and Indigenous populations as “child races” who were emotionally volatile, primitive, and lacking in reason. This pseudo-scientific framing provided a moral excuse for colonialism, known as the “White Man’s Burden”.
The French Maghreb: French colonial doctors and psychiatrists explicitly diagnosed North African populations with “mental infantilism”. They claimed these populations were biologically or culturally incapable of governing themselves, using it to legally justify continuous French control.
The American South: Enslaved Africans were systemically infantilized (e.g., calling grown men “boy”) to maintain the hierarchy of slavery. Slave owners asserted that freed Black people would be “lost” or unable to survive without paternalistic supervision.
Hello everyone. As I write this article on America’s Thanksgiving holiday, I can’t want to note that all colonized groups have been infantilized in some way, shape, or form. This article does not take away from the colonial experiences of others, but instead, focuses on a continent whose diverse people, particularly those categorized as Sub-Saharan, have and continue to be reduced to less than.
Infantilization can appear in many forms, but the result is always the same; the reduction of a group’s status. This is done by discrediting the accomplishments or components of a group, or simplifying them. Evidence of this exists in today’s view of African diasporic languages and dialects (AAVE, Gullah Geechee, Jamaican Patois, Haitian Creole, etc) as well as African traditional and diasporic religions, as when these are not demonized, they are simply reduced to animism and shamanism.
Infantilization has effected every part of Africa and its people, from culture to philosophy and beyond. It is the part of the reason why African Catholics still answer to a white Pope. It is part of why slavers in the American South fought to continue slavery, for “fear” that Africans would…
“Oh my God, that pisses me off. This is public information. This is water.”
We are fucking children, man: Last Year, a Corpus Christi Cryptomine Guzzled over 11 Million Gallons. Now, Its Water Usage Is Being Kept Secret.
Amid its water crisis, the city declined to supply public records on the Bitcoin mine’s usage, citing a state law that allows nondisclosure of an individual customer’s account.
The drought-stricken City of Corpus Christi is withholding how much water a controversial cryptocurrency mine is siphoning away from surrounding residents.
The Texas Observerreported on the facility’s water burden last year in a series examining the cryptomine and artificial intelligence data center boom unfolding across the state. From May to August last year, the Bitcoin mine consumed 11,563,000 gallons, according to water utility records that the Observer previously obtained via a local resident’s public information request.
Together, the records pointed to an average of about 127,500 gallons a day, well over the 100,000-gallons daily rate that the city uses to label a “high-volume user.” Moreover, records obtained last year showed the city already added a new 4-inch water pipe to the site to help the mine cool its computing hardware with a technique known as liquid immersion.
City Council member Roland Barrera, in whose district the mine is located, said city staff told him the mine is still guzzling about 100,000 gallons a day, or about 3 million gallons a month. Other industrial users, like the city’s petrochemical refineries, use as much as 90 million gallons monthly.
But now, as Corpus Christi faces an ever-deepening water crisis, in response to the Observer’s public information request, the city is refusing to release the latest 2026 records of the mine’s water usage. The city is appealing the Observer’s request for those records to the Texas Office of the Attorney General, citing a section of the Texas Utilities Code that allows nondisclosure of an individual customer’s account. That’s a change from just last year, when the city provided water-usage records.
One of my favorite comedy sketches of all time is 2007 bit from The Whitest Kids U’ Know called “It’s Illegal to Say…” If you’ve never seen it, do yourself a favor and watch it before you read the rest of this.
The whole thing is Trevor Moore, sitting on a stool in front of a blank backdrop, delivering the most deadpan public service announcement you’ve ever seen. “Did you know,” he asks, “that it’s illegal to say ‘I want to kill the president of the United States of America’? It’s a federal offense. One of the only sentences you’re not allowed to say.” And then, of course, he spends the next minute saying it, over and over, in increasingly elaborate forms, while insisting the entire time that he’s only informing you that it’s illegal, not actually saying it
By the end he’s talking about mortar launchers and the best vantage point for hitting the White House and an “illustrated diagram,” each one “extremely illegal,” “ridiculously, horribly felonious,” and he’s letting you know all of this purely as a public service. The comedy is in how straight he plays it. He’s not winking. He’s basically your local news anchor warning you about a scam.
WKUK was a great show, and Moore was the engine of it. He died in 2021, at 41, after a fall from his balcony. (Fun fact, and a sad one: Zach Cregger, who made last year’s Weapons, was a founding member of the troupe alongside Moore, and he’s said in interviews that the movie came out of his grief over losing him. There’s a lot of Trevor Moore buried in that film if you know how to look for it.
Owen Jones did the bit on live TV
Which is roughly where things stood when I watched a clip from an episode of Jeremy Vine on Channel 5. The journalist Owen Jones was on the panel, and when Palestine Action came up, he did something I recognized right away.
He started saying the sentence. “You can’t now say, ‘I support Palestine Action,’” Jones said. “That’s an illegal offense. You can’t say, ‘I support Palestine Action with all my heart.’ You can get arrested and sent to prison for 14 years for doing that.” Vine, looking like he wanted to be anywhere else, cut in: “You’re skating around it, aren’t you?” And Jones, who was not skating around anything, kept right on going. “No, I’m not. I’m saying it’s illegal to say, ‘I support Palestine Action, and they are fighting to stop a genocide.’ You can get arrested and sent to prison for 14 years for saying that. And retired vicars are now being arrested and face prosecution for holding a placard saying, ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.’ This is absurd, and everyone knows it.”
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Now now now, we have the right to mention machetes and Molotovs in the same sentence as Jews of Israel, Zionists of the World, Billionaires, Goyim 3,100 pr 320 Jew Billionaires.
Do they need their heads on pikes, chopped off? Billionaires? Trump LLC? Jews? Israelis? The Rich? ICE? ACAB? US Mercenaries?
When Charles II returned to England in 1660, he had a few bones to pick with the folks who had offed his dad. The first thing he did was have all official documents remove the previous decade from the record, amending them so it seemed as if he had immediately succeeded his father in 1649. After the paperwork was in order, Charles II had Cromwell’s body exhumed from Westminster Abbey (where it had been given an official state burial alongside deceased kings and queens). He then publicly executed it on the site where his father had been put to trial – (re)death by hanging. It was then placed on a spike above Westminster Hall, where it would ominously watch over London for the next 25 years.
So, can we say:
“Let’s do what Charles II did with Cromwell to the Murderers of Mitzvah!”
One of your 2014 poems, “Before I Was A Gazan,” reads like it was written this year. What’s the backstory?
It’s not a new poem. It’s 10 years old. At that time, there were some literacy programs out of Gaza that were inviting me and some other writers I know to be with the children, be with the students, and talk about writing and story, and why we need story, and why we need to believe in our own voices. Shortly after one of my sessions with these beautiful, beautiful kids who never ever complained about anything, there was a horrible, genocidal bombing of Gaza. … I just kept picturing these kids and thinking about their names, and what had happened to them, how many were still living, were any still living, were any of them killed, and I kept trying to get through to their teacher and find out if they were. That poem was from a horrible sleepless night.
They were just human beings. They were kids; they were proud—just like the boy in the poem is proud of his math homework. I was just thinking how horrific it is that children have to suffer these disasters, and I felt like I needed to write something in their honor. That’s how that poem came to be—but the weird part about that poem is, it’s not obsolete; it’s continued to be relevant all these years.
As poets, our minds reel and give us images. I just kept thinking, What would it be like to be a child who goes off to school or loses your homework, or something so pedestrian? And then your whole house disappears before you can even get home.
transactional, troubled, terrified — the American mind-scape is like a nightmare in slow motion with all the bells and whistles of the Holly-Dirt chlamydia capitalism a la Mission Impossible
Your background in teaching and journalism could be a strong fit for this Senior College Admissions Counselor role at PathIvy. If you’re interested in guiding students through the college admissions process, you can apply now or view the job description for more details.
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We are seeking a creative, knowledgeable, and student-centered Art Portfolio Admissions Counselor to support students applying to top art and design schools. This role combines expert guidance on college admissions with specialized mentorship in portfolio development. The ideal candidate has a background in fine arts or design, experience guiding students through competitive application processes, and a passion for helping young artists showcase their talent effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide strategic college admissions counseling to students applying to top art and design programs (e.g., RISD, Parsons, Pratt, SAIC, CalArts, UCLA).
Guide students in developing a cohesive, competitive portfolio that meets each school’s specific requirements.
Offer detailed critique and mentorship on student artwork across a range of media (e.g., drawing, painting, sculpture, digital art, photography, animation).
Support students in crafting compelling artist statements, resumes, and visual submissions (e.g., SlideRoom).
Help students research and select programs that align with their creative goals and academic aspirations.
Advise on summer programs, art competitions, and extracurricular activities that strengthen student profiles.
Coordinate with PathIvy admissions counselors to align portfolio preparation with the overall college application strategy.
Conduct virtual meetings with students and families to track progress, build rapport, and offer consistent support.
Lead occasional workshops or webinars on portfolio development and applying to creative colleges.
Minimum Qualifications & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Design, or a related creative discipline from a competitive school.
Experience supporting students through portfolio-based admissions processes.
Familiarity with application requirements and portfolio platforms used by leading art and design schools.
Strong mentorship skills and the ability to give constructive, inspiring feedback.
Comfortable working with high school students and families in a virtual setting.
Excellent communication and organizational skills.
Preferred Qualifications & Experience:
MFA or advanced degree in a creative field.
Alumni or admissions experience at a top art/design college.
Proven track record of students admitted to competitive creative programs.
Knowledge of diverse artistic practices, including digital media, animation, video, or fashion design.
Experience conducting group workshops or public presentations.
Core Admissions Counseling Packages: Clients and prospective students report being quoted between $5,000 and $6,000 for academic and extracurricular planning packages. [1]
“You are leaving Microsoft – Are you really sure? “This is one of the multiple questions I was asked numerous times last month when I submitted my resignation. Don’t get me wrong, Microsoft is a great company focused on #technology, #innovation, digital transformation, #diversity and employee wellness and growth. I have learned a lot at Microsoft – product management, product marketing, developing vision and strategy, presenting business plans, and building and leading diverse high performing teams.
I have loved working for #Microsoft. I have fond memories of the lunches, the coffees, the Christmas parties as well as Microsoft picnics where I took my kids when they were young. It has been a home for me. I have friends in every single division of Microsoft. Even in this unexpected COVID times, the Microsoft community and my team has provided me with unbreakable support.
In Microsoft, apart from my day job leading global Advocate Experience team, responsible for increasing productivity, security and transforming infrastructure for 30,000 agents who provide customer service for all Microsoft products, I volunteered as a University Recruiting Champion for Microsoft Digital where we hired 500+ fulltime and interns in the last 2 years. As a part of Microsoft Digital Workforce community, we initiated multiple programs so that our interns and newly minted undergrads have a good start and develop confidence and skillset to succeed in the workforce. This experience at Microsoft helped me discover and reinforce my 2 passions:
1. Help younger generation achieve their true potential.
2. Encourage younger women to study and pursue a career in STEM.
In parallel, on personal side, when my kids were in high school, I realized that there is need for personalized college admissions counseling. Each and every kid is different – they have #different strengths, different interests, different personalities and would be interested in exploring different majors and different colleges. Currently in US the counselor to kid ratio is 1:457. So, there is a need to provide the kids with the right, personalized guidance in a nurturing environment. I provided the guidance to my own kids – my older daughter is at #Yale and the younger one is #Stanford. Over the last several years I have been working on weekends and the weekday evenings to help many high schoolers navigate the process of identifying and getting admitted to their dream school. However, my bandwidth constraints put some capacity constraints. Therefore, I had to make a decision.
Resigning was a difficult decision. For last few months, I have been going back and forth. Finally, after postponing the decision several times, I made the decision last month to leave my family at Microsoft to pursue my passion and launch my own company PathIvy.
PathIvy provides personalized guidance to high school students in a nurturing environment to enable them to get into their dream school as well as discover dream careers. The ultimate vision is to build data driven AI platform to streamline and make admissions process easy and streamlined with great user interface and multiple access points enabling high school success.
Follow PathIvy to track our progress and get admission insights.
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Do you get it yet? Do you see the course of how Zombie and Penury and Casino and Usury and For-the-Rich Capitalism works? Pay for an Ivy League coach, to bring to Johnny or Janey all the inside tricks to get into a Poison Ivy School?
Hollywood actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are among 50 people charged in a $25 million college entrance exam cheating scheme, according to court documents unsealed in Boston on Tuesday.
The alleged scam focused on getting students admitted to elite universities as recruited athletes, regardless of their athletic abilities, and helping potential students cheat on their college exams, according to the indictment.
Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, agreed to a pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team – despite the fact that they were not rowers, the complaint says.
If there’s an illegal scam, find your local Jew:
William “Rick” Singer ran a for-profit college counseling and preparation company called The Key (Edge College & Career Network). He also operated an affiliated fraudulent charity called the Key Worldwide Foundation. [1, 2]
While Singer famously coached a middle school basketball team at a Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Omaha, Nebraska, early in his career (2001), his business itself was not a religious organization. Instead, it served as the front for the massive “Operation Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal.
By 1994, Singer was running a business called Future Stars and was making a living helping high school juniors and seniors navigate the college application process.
“It’s not that school counselors don’t want to help,” Singer told the Bee. “It’s just that they often don’t have the time.”
Evidently, Singer quickly made a name for himself in that business.
“For a long time, he was the go-to person in Sacramento,” a consultant who asked not to be identified told the Bee.
It was not immediately clear when exactly Singer set up shop in Newport Beach, a tony oceanfront community south of Los Angeles, in Orange County. But the Newport Beach-based KWF charity was established in 2012 and Singer was ticketed twice in 2014 for minor traffic offenses in Newport Beach, records show.
Singer, who lives in Sacramento and Newport Beach, California, was arrested after the FBI investigation that was dubbed Operation Varsity Blues exposed a network of well-heeled parents who allegedly paid Singer millions to boost their kids’ chances of getting into elite colleges such as Yale University, Georgetown University and Stanford University.
FUCKING THESE KINDS OD JEWS:
New Business Venture: Singer is working as the “master coach and lead advisor” for ID Future Stars, an admissions consulting company owned by his sister. His consulting work has also expanded to advising organizations on which campuses provide the best environments for Jewish students. [1, 2]
Court-Ordered Disclaimers: Under the terms of his three-year supervised release, Chief District Judge Denise Casper ruled that Singer can consult college hopefuls only if he prominently displays a 270-word criminal disclaimer on his company website and provides it directly to prospective clients. The disclaimer details his role as the mastermind of the “Operation Varsity Blues” scandal, the $25 million he took in bribes, and his resulting prison time. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Jews and their Jew Lawyers and Jew Judges:
The company’s website lists Singer as the “master coach and lead advisor” and includes a note from him saying he “made a mistake (and) took full responsibility.”
Federal prosecutors had “concerns” about Singer’s return to work in college admissions advising, given his criminal history in a case that also netted actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, they said in a filing of their own.
But Singer’s defense attorney argued his work in college admissions advising is “both lawful and entirely consistent with the conditions of his supervised release,” and asked the court to allow him to continue with his work.
“The purely theoretical risk of recidivism does not warrant a prophylactic field-of-employment restriction here,” attorney Aaron Katz said.
Fucking Palestinian Murderers and their Terms of Use:
In March 2019, Rick Singer pled guilty to federal charges-including racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and obstruction of justice-for his role in what was widely-publicized as the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scheme.
Specifically, Mr. Singer admitted to,among other things: bribing standardized test proctors and administrators to engage in cheating on college entrance exams (i.e., the SAT and ACT); falsifying students’ academic transcripts by paying third parties to take classes in their names; falsifying students’ college applications with fake awards, athletic activities, and fabricated essays; and bribing college athletic coaches and administrators, through purported donations to their programs and personal bribes, to designate students as athletic recruits based on falsified athletic credentials.
As part of the scheme, Mr. Singer took in more than $25 million from his clients, from which he made payments to co-conspirators totaling more than $7 million, and transferred, spent, or otherwise used more than $15 million for his own benefit. On January 4, 2023, a federal court in Boston sentenced Mr. Singer to 42 months in prison and three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay more than $10 million in restitution and to forfeit assets totaling more than $8.7 million.
The U.S. Department of Justices press release announcing Mr. Singers sentence can be found at:
Mr. Singer served his prison sentence and is currently on supervised release. The terms of Mr. Singer’s supervised release require him to provide this disclosure.
To the extent that either party sought other relief regarding this matter, such relief is denied. (LMH)
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“That is insane,” Brian Taylor, the managing partner of Ivy Coach, an elite college counseling firm, told CNN. “This is the equivalent of Bernie Madoff asking to manage your money from prison.”
On The Key website, it says that a decade ago Singer was “one of the nation’s top executives in the Call Center Industry.”
Singer also was a “senior executive” at The Money Store and First Union Bank, the website says. Singer was also the “CEO of one of India’s largest call center companies before selling it to ICICI Bank.”
Marlo Stingson is the sister of William “Rick” Singer who owns the college admissions consulting firm ID Future Stars.
Senator Robert Singer (R-30), former 10-year college board trustee, released the following statement regarding campus safety improvement legislation he is exploring:
“From the violent, anti-Semitic demonstrations, to the recent shooting at Brown University and the assassination of one of our nation’s most outspoken political commentators that spread fear throughout student communities, we’ve seen college campuses become a magnet for dangerous disruptions,” said Sen. Singer. “These institutions of higher education should be places of free expression and open dialogue, but that can only exist when students feel safe. That’s why I’m exploring legislation that would ensure the State, and any college receiving taxpayer funding, conducts meaningful risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities, improve preparedness, and do everything in our power to protect New Jersey’s students.”
JEWS. Current Focus: Rick Singer’s services involve consulting for students, parents, affinity groups, and institutions to assess campus climate, specifically evaluating environments that best support Jewish students. He also assists smaller schools with their Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) collectives, and Jews write up the book:
Whoops, another Singer: In the Jewish tradition, Singer is an occupational surname. The Cantor: It derives from the Yiddish word zinger (meaning “singer”). It was historically given to a cantor (the hazzan or meshorer in Hebrew) who led the musical prayers in the synagogue. History: The name became prominent among Ashkenazi Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe—especially in regions like Germany, Austria, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (such as Moravia and Bohemia).
Yes, New Jersey State Senator Robert (Bob) Singer is Jewish. He represents the state’s 30th Legislative District and has explicitly identified himself as Jewish, including noting that he previously served as the president of a Conservative Jewish synagogue for several years. [1]
Senator Singer is highly active in Jewish communal and legislative causes. Notable highlights of his work and background include: [1, 2, 3, 4]
Synagogue Leadership: He served as the president of a Conservative synagogue in New Jersey. [1]
Military Representation: He was designated as the National Legislative Officer for the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America. [1]
Legislative Advocacy: He introduced state legislation to formally adopt a New Jersey definition of antisemitism and recently sponsored a resolution recognizing Judea and Samaria as the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. [1, 2]
Diplomatic Outreaches: He frequently hosts and meets with Israeli political leaders, including welcoming a official delegation from the Israeli Knesset to the New Jersey State House. [1, 2, 3]
Netflix’s College Admissions Scandal Doc Starring Matthew Modine as Rick Singer to Debut in March . . . “Operation Varsity Blues” comes from “Fyre” director Chris Smith
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Do you see this, the cold dead fish eyes of the Jew, Singer, and his pride in getting one and two over on Goyim, and then a new life helping Jews with their Cry-baby Killer Culture? DO you get it yet, the books, the Netflix shit, and a Goy, Modine, playing the Jew?
Do you get it yet?
Second, third, 9 Lives of the killer Jew?
NO? Charles Kushner, father of Jared Kushner, received a full and unconditional pardon from President Donald Trump on December 23, 2020. [1]
The pardon wiped away his previous 2004 federal convictions for tax evasion, illegal campaign donations, and witness tampering, for which he had served a two-year prison sentence.
Albania’s tourism boom is a boon for Jared Kushner
For many locals it is straining water supplies
The Albanian government has approved Jared Kushner’s plans to turn the uninhabited island of Sazan into a luxury resort. EuroNatur fears considerable negative effects on the nature of the entire coastline.
Until now, only one-day tourists have been allowed to visit the island of Sazan; this will soon change…
If Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has his way, the abandoned island of Sazan off the southern Albanian coast is to be completely transformed into a luxury tourist destination. Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama recently gave green light for the nature-destroying plans. This development fits in with the tourism strategy of the government in Tirana to massively expand luxury tourism on Albania’s coasts with foreign investment.
Sazan was a naval base for a long time. Due to its military use, only soldiers were allowed to stay there; nature was able to develop largely undisturbed. The island is actually a national and international nature reserve. Together with the unspoiled stretch of beach at Zvërnec and the nearby Vjosa delta, this is one of the last unspoiled stretches of coastline in Albania.
Wherever the criminal Jews go, the rot is expedited:
Albania, a small Balkan nation on the Adriatic coast, seldom makes headlines. But protesters waving pink flamingo cutouts on an Albanian island the Trump family wants to turn into a resort have recently attracted international media attention.
The dispute, which largely focuses on the threat the resort would pose to local wildlife, reveals more than meets the eye. Under the surface is an intricate set of problems related to Jared Kushner — President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a close ally and confidante of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — and the presence in Albania of an Iranian exile group opposed to the current government in Tehran. All that comes on top of the news that the Albanian anti-corruption authorities have launched a probe into Kushner’s deal with Tirana, which poses a direct test also for the European Union which Albania seeks to join.
The Vjosa-Narta Delta — home to rare flamingos, pelicans, and turtle hatcheries — became Europe’s first Wild River National Park in 2023. But after Trump’s 2024 reelection, Kushner unveiled plans for a multibillion-dollar resort on the protected island. Prime Minister Edi Rama’s government granted “strategic investor status” to a Kushner-linked firm, reportedly waiving taxes and tenders and bypassing environmental reviews. When construction recently began, a “Flamingo Revolution” erupted.
What’s really important here is the possible geopolitical ramifications of this real estate project. During Trump’s first presidency, Kushner promoted the Abraham Accords – so-called normalization deals between Israel and Arab nations, including the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Netanyahu hailed those agreements as a great diplomatic triumph. Kushner and Netanyahu reportedly remain in close contact, even as Kushner negotiates with Iran on behalf of the Trump administration. Kushner’s investment firm, Affinity Partners, was explicitly created to deepen economic ties between Israel and the Arab world.
To understand the broader context, recall Israel’s classic “periphery strategy.” For decades, Tel Aviv has cultivated ties with non-Arab states on the edges of the Middle East — from the Caucasus to the Balkans to Africa — as a way to break its diplomatic isolation. Today, that strategy is alive and well. Israel has forged close relationships with Azerbaijan (a key energy partner and Israel’s intelligence foothold on Iran’s border), Serbia (which has significantly increased its arms imports from Tel Aviv), Romania (which announced it will move its embassy to Jerusalem), and now Albania.
Albania fits perfectly into this picture. Strategically located in the Balkans, it is a Muslim-majority but secular state, a staunchly pro-American NATO member, and an eager actor looking to prove its value to Western allies. Crucially, it is also a European Union candidate country. Having another friendly nation inside the EU — or at its doorstep — would be immensely helpful to Israel as public sentiment across Europe turns increasingly critical of Israeli policies.
With EU member states debating sanctions, the potential suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, or bans on trade with the Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, any sympathetic voice in the EU can be very helpful. Tirana is not yet a member, but its trajectory matters; and Prime Minister Rama has proved himself a strong ally.
One example after a million examples of this dirty cult, these fucking money changers and country killers. And it starts in the morning with a fucking LinkedIn solicitation and here it is, with the Killer Inside All Hasbara and those Big Lies:
“The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities…to mold the mind of the masses that they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction…this practice is inevitable…propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government,” Bernays wrote.
Bernays worked with the CPI in its Bureau of Latin-American Affairs and, after the war, parlayed his experience in changing people’s minds into the field of public relations, of which many consider him the “father.”
The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Bernays frequently cited Freud and other psychologists’ work in explaining how to use psychoanalysis and emotional techniques to control the human “herd.”
With language reminiscent of war, Bernays writes in Propaganda:
“The important thing is that [propaganda] is universal and continuous…its sum total regimenting the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers…small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please on a given subject.”
Bernays, who was born in Austria to Jewish parents, knew that his teachings on molding the public mind were formative for Nazi propaganda, even before WWII broke out. He was informed that Goebbels studied his book at a dinner party with foreign correspondent Kurt von Wiegand in 1933.
American WWI propaganda vs. Nazi WWII propaganda, which reads “The NSDAP protects the people. Your fellow comrades need your advice and help, so join the local party organization.”
But Bernays didn’t reveal this knowledge until writing his 1965 biography, saying that it “shocked” him,
“…but I knew any human activity can be used for social purposes or misued for antisocial ones. Obviously the attack on the Jews of Germany was no emotional outburst of the Nazis, but a deliberate, planned campaign.”
Two years after Bernays learned that Hitler was using his ideas on propaganda to build a cult of personality in Nazi Germany, Bernays continued to advocate for these exact methods when giving a speech to the Financial Advertisers Association in 1935, saying:
“[The world needs] an entire new set of outstanding human living symbols that will hold public confidence…Publicists, economists, leaders in research, the heads of great educational institutions can and should be made the human symbols to bring new faith and strength.”
Writes historian Larry Tye in The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & The Birth of Public Relations:
“Bernays was savvy enough not to retell the Goebbels tale in the 1930s and 1940s, when it could have tarnished his image, and to dwell instead on how his propaganda techniques had aided America in the two world wars.”
Bernays was more concerned with promoting his own brand and convincing big business of the usefulness of public relations for industry and commerce than the horrors that propaganda wrought.
And his retelling of how he learned that his ideas were being used to build the Nazi party, occupies only a page and a half of his 849 page biography, which focuses almost entirely of how he used propaganda to expand American capitalism.
(One of today’s top marketers, Russell Brunson, founder of the popular ClickFunnels software, isn’t as shy about connecting his brand to Hitler. Brunson wrote a whole book, Expert Secrets, about how he studied Nazi propaganda to learn how to build a cult movement of followers who will do anything you ask. Listen to Episode 11 for more on that.)
In his biography, Bernays describes the company:
“United Fruit was a way of life; the company was conducted like a private government. It had its own behavior patterns and loyalties. Individual lives were merged with the company’s life, for the company decided who was to live where, and how long. United Fruit employees in the tropics were thrown among other members of the company in all their activities. The company plantation in the jungle town was a settlement of American people, houses, and folkways…the native agricultural workers were treated as human machines rather than human beings and without regard to their folkways or culture patterns.”
Reading this horrifying description now, it’s hard to believe that Bernays thought this company deserved rescuing through public relations, but his book recounts how — despite seeing the ways United Fruit dehumanized its workers and bought up huge swathes of lands from farmers, forcing locals to become dependent on its corporate rule — he helped wage a decades-long war in Central America to secure United Fruit’s power and profits.
When Jacobo Árbenz took office, he began nationalizing the land controlled by United Fruit and returning it to the Guatemalan people. Bernays launched a public relations campaign to position Árbenz, not as a nationalist trying to secure his peoples’ ability to survive, but a communist under Soviet influence, who was working with the USSR to sabotage American capitalism and imperialism.
Thanks to Bernays’ relentless propaganda, he convinced President Dwight D. Eisenhower that Guatemala would soon fall to communist rule, which led to Operation PBSuccess. The CIA paid and trained Honduran militias to invade Guatemala and overthrow Árbenz.
The leader of the Honduran militia, Carlos Castillo Armas, replaced Árbenz and became the first in a series of military dictators that controlled Guatemala until the 1990s — all backed by the CIA. Armas returned the nationalized land to United Fruit and ensured that the American company received preferential treatment in Guatemalan commerce.
… human being willing to sacrifice life and limb to eradicate the bloody blood suckers under Yahweh’s Watchful 320 Jewish Billionaires’ Eyes in the Sky and inside the Bath/Bed Rooms
Donald Trump’s recent declaration at the G7 summit unmasks a dangerous shifting strategy by Washington and Tel Aviv, revealing a desperate blueprint to ignite a devastating sectarian war across the Middle East.
By openly stating that “if Israel can’t do the job without killing everyone else… Syria will do the job,” Trump delivered a glaring, inadvertent confession of monumental strategic failure. It is a direct admission that Israel’s army, the region’s most advanced conventional military machine, has completely failed to achieve its strategic objectives in Lebanon.
Having effectively lost the broader geopolitical war against Iran and realizing that direct military force cannot crush the resistance, the United States and Israel are pivoting from direct confrontation to a strategy of manufactured internal conflict.
The core of this strategy relies on weaponizing historical fractures to plunge Lebanon and the wider region into a bloody Sunni-Shia proxy war.
By publicly urging a newly reshaped Syrian leadership under Ahmed al-Sharaa to cross borders and “take care of” the resistance, Trump is trying to force Damascus into a destructive role as Washington’s local subcontractor. This is a calculated attempt to exploit regional wounds and drag neighboring states into a localized, grinding conflict.
The true objective of the Western alliance is no longer a clean military victory, which has proven impossible on the battlefield. Instead, the plan is to manufacture an endless cycle of civil strife, turning neighbors against one another to weaken the resistance from within.
Ultimately, Trump’s statements expose a policy built entirely on the deliberate instigation of regional chaos. Unable to secure their goals through outright warfare, the US and Israel are attempting to expand a sectarian fault line that starts in Lebanon and threatens to consume the entire Middle East.
As over 1.3 million Palestinians live in tents and makeshift shelters due to Israel’s mass bombings, destroying at least 92 percent of Gaza’s residential infrastructure, New York Democrats who voted to supply those same bombs smiled and waved down Fifth Avenue, with blue-and-white sashes around their torsos proclaiming them honorary grand marshals of the Israel Day Parade.
On Sunday, May 31, they marched in the largest annual display of US solidarity with the Israeli government alongside self-proclaimed fascists and architects of the genocide in Gaza. The politicians’ choice, amid expanding regional wars in Lebanon and Iran, highlights their disconnect from the American public who overwhelmingly oppose Israel’s war crimes.
Beforehand, Mayor Zohran Mamdani chose to act on his principles in boycotting the affair. In direct retaliation, the Israeli government sent the highest-ranking delegation since the parade’s inception in 1965.
Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana, who refused Palestinian prisoners vaccinations at the outbreak of the pandemic and espouses full Israeli annexation of the West Bank, led the parade. He was joined by Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, a self-described “fascist homophobe” who has bragged about presiding over a genocide, proclaiming “Gaza will be completely destroyed” and that it would be “moral” to starve Gaza’s citizens.
Not to be outdone, Gov. Kathy Hochul began the day of the parade signing legislation deliberately overriding Mamdani’s veto of the controversial “buffer zone” bill, which restricts protest outside houses of worship. The new statewide law will crack down on demonstrators who oppose illegal sales of land stolen from Palestinians in the West Bank happening in New York synagogues.
With the ink still wet on this attack on New Yorkers’ right to protest, she announced, “Today, we march in defiance.” Marching in defiance to injustice is a storied tradition, but this is not what the governor had in mind. She seemed to be referring instead to marching in defiance of the mayor’s act honoring the sanctity of Palestinian life, disregarded by those the governor chose to march alongside.
Top New York Democratic officials, including Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, Attorney General Letitia James, New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, New York City Comptroller Mark Levine, Representative Dan Goldman, and New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin joined Hochul in literally marching in lockstep with senior ultranationalist Israeli officials — including Smotrich, who allegedly has a warrant from the International Criminal Court for his arrest.
Those fucking Bandera Zio Nazi Ukrainian eyes.
[Smotrich was born in Haspin, a religious Israeli settlement in the Israeli-occupiedGolan Heights, and grew up in the Beit Elsettlement, deemed illegal under international law, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. His last name is derived from the Ukrainian town of Smotrych, where he says his ancestors lived.[7] His grandfather Yaakov immigrated to Mandatory Palestine before World War II, and subsequently lost his parents, who drowned on an Aliyah Bet ship trying to reach Palestine, while his grandmother Bruria survived the Holocaust before immigrating to Israel. His other grandfather Shimon was a 13th-generation native of Jerusalem, and his grandmother Sara was born in Metula to a family of Zionist pioneers.]
Knesset votes 71-13 for a non-binding motion calling to annex West Bank
Over the weekend, I saw the new documentary “American1 Doctor” which I highly recommend.
AMERICAN DOCTOR is a vérité non-fiction film following three prominent physicians–Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—friends who couldn’t be more different but are bound by their shared oath to save lives. Dr. Thaer Ahmad is measured and strategic, Dr. Mark Perlmutter is blunt and wears his heart on his sleeve, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is media-savvy and prolific. Filmed in unfolding, on-the-ground scenes, the story follows them from a Gazan hospital under siege, to the halls of Congress. Together, they fight to keep a promise to their Palestinian colleagues and patients, to continue the struggle where it matters most: the United States.
During the discussion period, a woman asked what people could do. The director, Poh Si Teng, said, ” Call your congressional representative,” which I found to be a frustratingly limited response. For one, the showing was in Washington, D.C. and people who live there don’t have real voting representation in Congress. What they do have is physical proximity to many of the people pulling the triggers for genocide — the subject of my piece “Protests beyond the Performative: Ideas for D.C.”
More broadly, a moving, challenging answer comes in the form of another documentary, which has largely been taken down last I checked — it’s illegal in Britain — but I posted here:
HOW THE FUCK is Iran getting stronger? Water, dudes, and thousands and tens of thousands of Mossad and Jew Loving citizens?
SUBSTACK hell!!!
What is the MoU about?
Ultimately, the US cannot afford to fight . There is economics to consider.
Not a “dismal science”
Not a science at all. Just dismal.
Iran continues to grow stronger and the US’s GCC allies are desperate for the war to end. The UAE has reportedly offered Iran a bribe of billions – which, of course, it denies — to negotiate. The rest of the GCC is willing to pay up too.
So there is talk that the while the US can’t afford to pay $300 billion of reconstruction, the GCC countries will. All good right?
Nope, if the US pays, markets crash. If the GCC divests their holdings to pay, the market crashes.
WAR CRIMES —
Four young people—Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Rajwani—were sentenced as terrorists this week for the crime of criminal damage. They broke into an Elbit Systems factory in Filton, near Bristol, and caused approximately £1.2 million worth of damage. They livestreamed the whole thing wearing their, now iconic, red jumpsuits and they acted in the open.
A jury of their peers, that is, Brits, convicted them of criminal damage. Not terrorism or any kind of violent disorder. Simple criminal damage.
But here is where the really nightmarish situation begins. The judge, Mr Justice Johnson, had already decided that he would add a ‘terrorist connection’ to their sentences. He did this secretly, before the verdict and the jury was never told this was being considered. The defence was never given the opportunity to address it. The conviction came down on criminal damage charges. And then the judge, alone, unilaterally, declared that these young people are terrorists.
Jew-Landia UnUnited Queer-ueen-Dumb will suck the life out of all heroes and revolutionaries.
This Cunt of a cUNtree..
Two days after the Filton Activists’ sentencing, the Court of Appeal delivered its verdict on the government’s appeal against the earlier High Court ruling that the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful. Five senior judges, led by Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr, overturned the High Court’s decision meaning the ban is now lawful.
The Lady Chief Justice said:
It is not a sustainable proposition to portray Palestine Action as a non-violent protest group. Palestine Action overly promotes unlawful violence that amounts to terrorism’
And then came the comparison that will define her legacy: she compared them unfavourably to the suffragettes.
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A scene on the frontiers as practiced by the “humane” British and their “worthy” allies
And if you shudder at the idea of taking good old machetes to these fucking cunts’ necks, and all the Jews in Britain, then you are sick sick sick!
Hero: As a British court convicts two men of beheading a British soldier, The Daily Beast catches up with the man most people are blaming for radicalizing the killers.
Correlated norms of racial qualities. Individuals who present an interrelation between the color of the hair and that of the eyes are considered typical representatives of their race. In the blond races, fair hair is generally accompanied by blue eyes; in brunette races, brown or black hair is generally accompanied by dark eyes. The former are considered anthropologically blond types; the latter, brunette types. Individuals who do not exhibit such an interrelation of the color of the hair and eyes, having dark hair with blue eyes and vice versa, are called mixed types. Owing to the preponderance of dark hair and eyes among the Jews (see Eye; Hair), anthropologists have counted them among the races of a brunette type.
From extensive investigations of the color of the hair and eyes of the school-children in Germany, Virchow has shown that the Jews have not maintained their type in as pure a state as has been generally supposed. Of 75,377 Jewish children examined, only 46.83 per cent were brunettes having both dark hair and dark eyes; 11.17 per cent were blonds having light hair and light-colored eyes; and 42 per cent were of the mixed type having either dark hair with fair eyes, or vice versa. In Austria, according to Schimmer, 32 to 47 per cent (according to the province) of the Jewish children are pure brunettes, and 8 to 14 per cent are pure blonds. In Bulgaria, Wateff has found that only 49.57 per cent of Jewish children are brunettes, while 8.71 per cent are blonds and 41.72 are of mixed type; and even in North Africa, where the dark type predominates among the Jews, 76.40 per cent are brunettes, 4.62 per cent are blonds, and 18.98 per cent are of mixed type.
THEY ARE THE LEVELERS, and we all Soylent Green for Data Centers!
In this episode of Fronts + Faultlines, hosts Jeanine and Nihal are joined by Hossam El-Hamalawy, journalist, scholar, and one of the organisers of the 2011 Egyptian uprising. His new book Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi’s New Republic, published by Verso this year, is a comprehensive account of how Egypt’s military, police and intelligence services forged an unprecedented alliance against the Egyptian people’s revolutionary aspirations, and built the system that governs Egypt today.
They discuss what Egypt lost in 1967 and what was foreclosed at Camp David; how the 2011 revolution and the 2013 coup connect to that longer history; how Egypt’s accommodation with Israel set the parameters for the entire region’s relationship to Palestinian liberation; and where there are still possibilities for positive change.
Rob Eshman repeats a litany of false Israeli claims combined with ad hominem attacks on people he dislikes. It’s odd that Eshman, presumably a US citizen, favors the claims made by a foreign country over the statements by American eye witnesses on board the ship. Here are the facts he ignores.
Read more The Forward, which claims to be “America’s leading voice in Jewish journalism,” has just published a hit piece on Congressman Thomas Massie, American veterans, and those who support them.
The article is entitled: ‘‘Remember the Liberty’ has become code for ‘Israel Is Evil,’’’ with the subhead: “Rep. Massie’s call for a new investigation of the tragic 1967 attack on a U.S. ship isn’t about the truth.”
In reality, the article by Forward columnist Rob Eshman repeats a litany of false Israeli claims combined with ad hominem attacks on people he dislikes.
“What is Jewish supremacy? Eighty years after the Holocaust, it’s Mein Kampf in reverse. The superior race is us,” said Moshe Ya’alon.
Off with cunt’s head:
Ya’alon spent decades in the Israeli military and is known to have taken part in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the violent suppression of the first and second Palestinian intifadas, and the 2014 war on Gaza.
In 2002, whilst serving as the army’s chief of staff, he said: “The Palestinian threat harbors cancer-like attributes that have to be severed and fought to the bitter end.”
And in 2015, he barred Breaking the Silence – an NGO of former Israeli soldiers who document army abuses – from engaging in activities with the military.
Since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Israeli society has shifted further toward the right. In this environment, cooperation between Jewish parties and Arab parties is no longer treated as a tactical option but as a political liability.
Despite this, both Netanyahu and his opponents continue to rely on Arab votes. The contradiction is now more exposed than ever, with Arab parties needed numerically, yet rejected politically.
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich captured this mood when he argued that including Arab parties in government would be worse than the failure to prevent the Hamas-led operation on 7 October 2023. His position reflects a wider consensus that cuts across both coalition and opposition lines.
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett has repeatedly ruled out any partnership with Arab parties, calling instead for a purely Zionist government. By contrast, Yair Golan of the left-leaning Democrats has suggested reaching an understanding with Abbas as a way to remove Netanyahu. The gap between these positions illustrates the limits of opposition coordination.
The first Native American to hear the phrase ‘the only good Indian is a dead Indian’ was this Comanche chief named Tosahwi. In 1869, he surrendered to a General and said, ‘Tosahwi, good Indian,’ to which the General replied, ‘the only good Indian I ever saw was dead.’
Ultra-nationalist Israelis chanted anti-Palestinian slogans such as “death to Arabs” and “may your villages burn” on Jerusalem Day, a national holiday marking the occupation of East Jerusalem by Israeli forces after the 1967 war. Meanwhile, the area was placed under near-total lockdown, with Palestinian-owned shops forced to close and residents barricading themselves indoors.
Israeli forces also forcibly blocked Palestinian Muslims from accessing the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday to accommodate the festival.
Manufacturing Dissent
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