. . . while children are gutted by Jewish-American missiles . . .

Paulo Kirk

Mar 01, 2026

Below is a commentary for the newspaper I have been publishing my “long-form” commentaries in on a monthly basis, and that newspaper, the Newport News Times, now the Lincoln County Leader, is on the proverbial chopping block.

Here, these people who are buying up what they call “struggling newspapers,” including the Leader:

Country Media, Inc., an Oregon-based company, has acquired numerous, often struggling, local newspapers, resulting in some closures and mergers. The firm, led by Steve and Carol Hungerford, has merged publications like The Chronicle and The Chief, while reducing print frequency for others, such as The World in Coos Bay, due to financial pressures.

Key Actions and Closures

• The Umpqua Post: Ceased operations in June 2020 following its acquisition by Country Media.
• Bandon Western World: Printed its final issue in July 2020.
• The World (Coos Bay): Reduced print days from five to two in 2020.
• Mergers: The Chronicle (St. Helens) and The Chief (Clatskanie) merged into The Columbia County Chronicle & Chief. The Lincoln City News Guard and Newport News-Times merged in January 2024.

I had a difficult time getting up the energy to go to this listening session and then the following film screening of the flick:

There were eight student journalists there to assist the listening session, students from the U of Oregon journalism program. I just can’t understand why their faculty mentor, Andrew DeVigal, could not start any session off with a moment of silence for fellow truth seekers:

“Israel has now killed more journalists than any other government since CPJ began collecting records in 1992,” it said in a statement.

It cautioned that the true number of journalists targeted and killed by Israel could be much higher because some of the killings could be potentially concealed by press restrictions and humanitarian difficulties that complicate conducting investigations during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

“With much contemporaneous evidence now destroyed, the true number of Palestinian journalists in Gaza who were deliberately targeted by Israel may never be known,” the CPJ said.

Here’s a small talk in Washington State around local journalism:

Local journalists and supporters of local news gathered at the Edmonds Theater in Edmonds, Wash., on Oct. 25, 2025, for a panel discussion and audience Q&A following the screening of the documentary “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink.” The screening was co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters Snohomish County and the My Neighborhood News Network, which includes My Edmonds News, MLTnews, and Lynnwood Today.

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You know, when it comes to “educated” people, those people in the League of Women Voters, and there were mostly retired folk at this Newport, Oregon event, and there were a few “city/county” officials, it’s if there is a bipolar collective psychosis going on. It was noon, Saturday, and I was the only fucker talking about the murdering spree by the Jews of Israel and the Jewish Kosher Nostra in the USA.

Mohammed Shariatmadar stood outside the wreckage of the Shajareh Tayyiba girls’ elementary school in Minab, in southern Iran on Saturday morning, unable to process what he was seeing. His six-year-old daughter, Sara, a second-grade student, was among dozens of girls killed when the school was bombed in the first few hours of the war launched by the U.S. and Israel against Iran.

In the immediate aftermath of the strike, he remained standing in the shade of a cracked wall, staring at the ground and ignoring the commotion around him. He didn’t approach the building, which had been sealed off, but he didn’t move away either. His hands knotted together, then separated, then knotted again, in a repeated motion. Every time a paramedic emerged or an ambulance moved, he quickly raised his head, then returned to staring at the ground. He asked no one a direct question. He was only waiting for his daughter’s name to be called.

When families were finally directed to a gathering point to receive the bodies of their children, he slowly moved forward. When asked if he needed help, he shook his head silently and waited for his daughter’s body to be brought out.

“I cannot unde, rstand how a place where innocent children learn can be bombed like this,” Shariatmadar told Drop Site. “We are talking about small children who knew nothing of politics or wars. And yet they are the ones paying the highest price.”

Some 170 students were inside the building, attending morning classes when the missile struck. At least 108 people were killed, according to the public prosecutor’s office in Minab, many of them schoolgirls between seven and 12 years old.

It was unclear if it was a U.S. or Israeli strike. On Saturday, CENTCOM’s spokesperson said they were “looking into” the reports.

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The students, college ones, mind you, were given a quick rundown of alternative (sic) sources of news:

Drop Site Newsl Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Monthly Review, Intercept, Palestine Chronicle, Electronic Intifada, Lowkey, Covert Action Magazine, Consortium News, Empire Files, Break Through News, and a few dozen more suggestions to get these J students out of the morass of legacy media, and the manure pile of traditional news gathering and reporting.

Never heard of Truthout, In These Times, The Nation, The Progressive, Mother Jones?

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They hadn’t been exposed to the Hulk Hogan-Peter Thiel-Adelson documentary:

It was diheartening, man, being around the middling crowd, the Democrats, man, so quick to attack Trump, but then, what about . . . .?

There currently exists one legislative vehicle in each chamber through which members can express their position. This month, six new Democratic House members have signed onto a War Powers Resolution aimed at constraining President Trump’s ability to deploy U.S. forces without congressional approval, bringing the total to 82. The legislation, led by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), was first introduced prior to the Trump administration’s unauthorized strikes against Iranian nuclear targets last June. The GOP appears to be largely unified behind a possible war, with Massie being the only Republican House member signed on to the House legislation. Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have introduced a similar effort in the Senate.

Yet despite the resolution’s growing support, Democratic leadership has not clearly rallied behind it. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has issued public concerns about Trump’s rush to war, but has not said whether or not he supports the Khanna-Massie bill.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y) statement did not oppose a war, but instead noted the “risks” involved and called for confronting Iran’s “ruthless campaign of terror, nuclear ambitions, regional aggression, and horrific oppression” with “strength, resolve, regional coordination, and strategic clarity” and urged the administration “to consult with Congress and explain to the American people the objectives and exactly why he is risking more American lives.” Following the Trump administration’s Tuesday briefing to the Gang of 8, Schumer added, “This is serious. The administration has to make its case to the American people,” fueling criticism that he was prepared to accept the president’s justifications.

“Leader Schumer’s statements are insufficient. Democratic voters want leadership that’s willing to take a clear stand and oppose the president on major issues like this,” Dylan Williams, Vice President for Government Affairs at the Center for International Policy, told RS.

Two recent reports suggest that this lack of pushback could be intentional. A Tuesday story from journalist Aida Chavez’s substack Capital and Empire says top Democrats have worked to block consideration of legislation that would force members to go on record regarding potential military action against Iran.

“The evidence, so far, is that leadership is trying to discourage that vote,” one activist and former congressional staffer familiar with dynamics on the Hill told RS. “And the primary people that serve are the few dozen Democrats whose donors are hawks, but whose voters don’t want regime change war. That’s who the party is trying to protect from having to take a vote, because it’s painful for those members to vote against their donors.”

Drop Site News reported last week that some Democrats on the Hill might support pursuing a military intervention in Iran but, understanding a war would likely be politically catastrophic, would rather not go on the record and instead let Trump and the Republicans bear the responsibility and the costs.

“Cynically, Schumer may also have the midterms in mind,” the Drop Site report says. “If Trump manages to topple the Iranian government, the ensuing chaos could prove a drag on Trump as the country heads into the November elections.”

As a result, party leaders may choose to stand by or tepidly oppose military action as opposed to forcefully weighing in one way or the other. (The Schumer aide who laid out this calculus in the Drop Site story said that the minority leader himself does not subscribe to that logic.)

Alternatives to the dying newspapers?

I’ll be interviewing John Washington on my radio show, and his pieces in Luminaria, well, way beyond what the U of O students are being exposed to:

This three-part series chronicles a Tucson family’s harrowing journey from Venezuela through the heart of the anti-immigrant policies of México and the U.S. The first chapter traces Yesenia’s journey with her kids from Venezuela to the United States and then back to México. The second chapter focuses on her husband Mariano’s escape from authorities. The third chapter focuses on the family’s desperate search for safety in México after being deported from Tucson.

The stories are based on more than a dozen hours of interviews by Arizona Luminaria and La Silla Rota reporters with Yesenia and Mariano in a town outside Mexico City, as well as interviews with their family and friends, public records, audio files and messages exchanged between Yesenia and Mariano over seven months.

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Here, the thousand-word commentary, a monthly far-from-rant from Haeder, the ranter: More specifically, Spiel, Catharsis, Vomitus, Spitting up the Phlegm of Capitalism, Hyperbole… tirade, diatribe, harangue, invective . . . screed, philippic, fulmination?

Everyone Likes to Complain about the Weather and the News

by Paul Haeder

This could be a requiem for this dwindling newspaper, owned now by Country Media. But the real big boys are called vulture capitalists, and at the end of February, eight U of O journalism students and their mentor, Andrew DeVigal, director of Agora Journalism Center, came to Newport to inculcate a listening and talking session at the Atonement Lutheran Church.

There were about 25 Lincoln County residents engaging in a mini-town hall on the future of local journalism, and the power of printed or digital news to embrace a community’s trust and envelop a deep understanding of the issues that make a city or county work or not work.

The famous Bill Moyers puts us at the 35,000-foot perspective:

“It’s up to you to tell the truth about what’s happening to this country we love. It’s up to you to tell the truth about the struggle of ordinary people. It’s up to you to remind us that democracy only works when citizens claim it as their own. It’s up to you to write the story of America that leaves no one out.”

DeVigal has had 30 years in the trenches at various newspapers like the Contra Costa Times, New York Times, and with the Poynter Institute. He’s now working with aspiring journalists, and these students, representing half his current class, Engaged Journalism, helped participants in facilitated conversations on just what makes a good and vibrant informed citizenry “engage” with news.

We are at a crisis point, that is, crises, in terms of education, participation in governance, political literacy, and finding the news that a community needs to become better citizens.

Andrew’s classes have learned the power of Generative Dialogue Framework – a tool that could “help reimagine the future of engaged journalism.”

We know about food deserts and healthcare deserts, but who reading this knows about news deserts? Go to the website, usnewsdeserts.com, and you will find more than 350 interactive maps allowing the user to drill down to the county level to understand the state of local media in communities throughout the United States.

The number of news desert counties rose to 213 in 2025. Research shows that 1,524 counties have one remaining news source. That’s more than 50 million Americans having limited to no access to local news. The rise in news deserts was accompanied by an increase in newspaper closures, which ticked up to 136 this past year, a rate of more than two per week.

Here’s a pivotal point Andrew made in a recent editorial:

“To do better, we must first understand journalism not simply as an industry, but as a form of civic infrastructure that helps communities navigate crises of misinformation, disinformation and democratic instability.”

This listening session stressed the need for businesses to up the ante to strengthen civic health. Holding institutions accountable is one pathway that an engaged citizenry can build trust in news and information ecosystems.

There are four pillars to assessing a community’s civic health, according to the Press Forward organization:

• News and Information: Availability and accessibility of local news outlets.

• Civic Participation Ecosystem: Metrics like volunteer rates and voter turnout.

• Equity and Justice: Structural determinants, including historical racial and economic discrimination.

• Health and Opportunity: Social determinants such as medical debt, housing insecurity, and health insurance coverage.

Andrew stresses that more actors in the business and non-profit communities “can co-invest in community information hubs, local media collaboratives, libraries, nonprofits and cultural organizations that gather, share and contextualize trusted news and expert resources for their communities. They can also sponsor coverage that meets public needs and partner with universities to grow a diverse pipeline of civic media makers and journalists.”

The three-hour event in the early afternoon was centered around a survey that went out to Lincoln County, the same survey that has been conducted in other Oregon communities: Harriston, Salem, Oakridge, La Pine, Rogue Valley and Florence.

The second part of Saturday’s civic engagement was a showing of a 2024 documentary, “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink.”

The film lays bare the crimes of hedge funds, those so-called vulture capitalists buying up newspapers for the real estate they encompass. There have been billions of dollars stripped from some of the more well-known newspapers. Alden is the second-largest newspaper owner in the United States, controlling approximately 200 newspapers through its subsidiaries, MediaNews Group (also known as Digital First Media) and Tribune Publishing.

Imagine 75 percent staff reductions, taking us into a new phase of the “ghost newspaper” – no regular beat reports, just papers running syndicated “news.”

• Staffing Levels: An estimated 1,000 to 1,500 of the 7,200 newspapers in the U.S. have lost more than half of their newsroom staff since 2004.
• Content Shift: A 2024 study of 500 papers owned by the largest chains found that over one-third of front-page content originated from non-local sources.
• Ownership Trends: Many ghost papers are owned by large newspaper chains or hedge funds that implement aggressive cost-cutting measures to maintain profit margins.
• Impact on Democracy: The loss of local “watchdog” reporting is linked to diminished voter engagement and higher local government costs due to a lack of oversight.

A third of the 1,800 papers – 600 – that were lost over the past decade slowly faded away. Most were suburban weeklies. Like the frog in slowly boiling water, few people in the community noticed anything different at first. There was no abrupt closure that grabbed headlines. Often, there was merely an announcement that the paper had been purchased by the owner of a nearby, larger daily.

Initially, the paper continued to be published under the same name, and the reporters who worked for the paper continued to aggressively cover local government. However, as circulation declined, the once stand-alone paper became a zoned edition of the larger paper. Over time, the building where the paper had been published for decades – often a landmark in the community – was sold and staffing was dramatically reduced. Increasingly, news coverage focused on noncontroversial topics – lifestyle features on people and events in the community. In the final stage, management at the larger daily paper announced that the zoned edition would become a weekly specialty publication, advertising supplement in the main paper or a TMC (total market coverage) product or shopper, distributed free to all residents in the community.

[Despite being published 20 miles apart, the front pages of Gannett’s papers in Scituate and Plymouth, Mass., are identical. These pages from Dec. 5 carry no stories local to the communities they serve.]

RE: Haunted By Ghost Papers — Can Massachusetts hyperlocal startups reconnect communities to the news–and each other?

In 2024, Alden closed eight weekly newspapers in Minnesota, including the Shakopee Valley News (160 years old) and the Jordan Independent (140 years old).

When I started in the newspaper arena, first in college 1974-79, the writing was on the wall: “Don’t expect to get a full-time job with a daily that has a Sunday edition. You’ll have to go to small towns and work for a daily, twice-a-week, or weekly newspaper.” The loss of over 2,100 newspapers between 2004 and 2020 is one reason we have such an uninformed public.

The digital landscape is still evolving. We have the Lincoln Chronicle, a non-profit on-line news outlet. But my contention is we have to support as many hardcopy newspapers in a mid-to-large city. Newport needs at least two newspapers, and this once-a-week Leader just doesn’t cut it.

Cutting jobs, gutting newsrooms, and believing in this so-called creative destruction are the death knell of America.

“Whatever they say about us, they can’t control us. We’re out to serve the public. That’s a red-blooded, virile statement, and by God, it’s true,” stated Harry Grant, Milwaukee Journal, 1963

More wise proof from 238 years ago why newspapers count? “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1787

And it’s hard not to conclude that a vast portion of British military activity is focused not so much on keeping the British people safe, but on defending big oil.

Paulo Kirk

Feb 27, 2026

Ya gotta give it to the Mossd and Unit 8200 and…………….

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) recently underwent a major technological reorganization, consolidating and forming several high-level divisions to lead their cyber and artificial intelligence (AI) operations. These units are primarily housed within the C4I and Cyber Defense Directorate and the Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman).

C4I and Cyber Defense Directorate

This directorate is responsible for building and operating the IDF’s digital, multi-domain, and strategic capabilities.

• Information and Artificial Intelligence Division (Bina): Formed in late 2024, this division (Hebrew for “intelligence”) consolidates nearly all existing AI units under a single command. It includes:
  • Mamram: The Center of Computing and Information Systems.
  • Shahar: The unit responsible for data science and software development.
  • Matzpen: A software unit focused on operational systems.
  • AI Center of Excellence: A hub for advanced algorithmic research.
  • Software and Information School: The training arm for these technical roles.
• Cyber Defense Division: Led by a Brigadier General, this division is responsible for protecting IDF networks and maintaining cyber resilience.
• Spectrum and Communications Division: A new division created to manage the electromagnetic spectrum and strategic communications, including satellite and space-based networking.
• Digital Transformation Division: Formed in 2019 to integrate civilian tech innovation into military infrastructure.
• AIDF (Artificial Intelligence Reserve Unit): A specialized reserve unit that recruits experts from Israel’s high-tech industry to assist in military decision-making.

AI has enabled the Israeli regime’s genocidal logic to be carried out with machine-driven efficiency—reducing Palestinians, their families, and their homes to what the military chillingly calls ‘garbage targets’

Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman)

Aman manages the “collection” and analysis of intelligence through several elite technical units.

• Unit 8200: Israel’s primary signal intelligence (SIGINT) and cyber warfare unit, often compared to the U.S. NSA. It has been instrumental in developing AI-powered target recommendation systems like Lavender and The Gospel.
• Unit 81: A secretive technological unit that develops advanced hardware and software for special operations.
• Unit 9900: Focused on visual intelligence (VISINT), utilizing satellites and mapping technologies often enhanced by AI for terrain analysis.
• Unit 504: The human intelligence (HUMINT) unit, which increasingly uses digital tools to manage field data.

Specialized & Joint Units

• Unit 888 (Refaim): A multi-dimensional unit that integrates AI and advanced sensors directly into combat operations.
• Cyber Innovation Unit: Focuses on developing new cyber tools in collaboration with the private sector.
• Center for Consciousness Operations: A unit within the Operations Directorate that manages psychological warfare and information operations.

Last year, Meta, Apple, and other big tech platforms began mass removing content and apps related to ICE. They deleted Facebook groups whose members criticized ICE agents, and forced the removal of apps from the app store that allowed citizens to report ICE in their neighborhood. Overall, it’s becoming harder and harder to criticize ICE online.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), is suing the government to fight back against these efforts. Today, Colin McDonnell, an attorney at FIRE joins me to break down FIRE’s lawsuit representing a Chicago-based Facebook group owner and an anti-ICE app founder against the government.

DOJ and DHS officials, including Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem, successfully pressured Apple and Facebook to remove an ICE-tracking app and a Chicago-based Facebook group with nearly 100,000 members. Colin breaks down why FIRE is suing the government , whether recording law enforcement in public is protected speech or dangerous “doxing,” the threats of a secret ICE protester database, and more!!

Oh, the lies, the worthless polls and Jewish poles up our asses.

GALLUP POLL: Forty-one percent of Americans now say they sympathize more with the Palestinians in the Middle East situation, while 36% sympathize more with the Israelis. The five-percentage-point difference is not statistically significant, but it contrasts with a clear lead for the Israelis only a year ago (46% vs. 33%) and larger leads over the prior 24 years.¹

Tee Ashby

“Epstein’s Sugar Daddy Is Way Sicker Than We Thought.”

Petro-Glyphosate Masculinity:

The Last American Vagabond Substack

Stephanie Seneff PhD Interview – Glyphosate & The Engineered Sick Care System

Joining me once again is Stephanie Seneff PhD, here today to discuss Donald Trump’s recent Executive Order regarding glyphosate. Stephanie is an expert on the topic of glyphosate and has been on the cutting edge of its research for well over a decade. Today we discuss the many and varied dangers that this chemical poses, the illusion of higher crop yiel…

Have you heard the term ‘Cancer Microbiome’?

That’s the mechanism for Roundup-induced cancer, including via tryptophan metabolism.

Glyphosate’s ominous mechanism of action is putting a monkey wrench into a weed’s ability to synthesize aromatic amino acids, most famously tryptophan.

This kills the plant.

Thwarted is the shikimate pathway, and may be considered one of the biggest “oops moments” in scientific history.

Monsanto and regulators were in complete disregard of gut microbial production of aromatic amino acids including tryptophan. It wasn’t known how crucial our microbiota are to health.

“Glyphosate may have an impact on half of the species in the core human gut microbiome.”

‘Classification of the glyphosate target enzyme (5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase) for assessing sensitivity of organisms to the herbicide’ (2021)

“Our findings show for the first time that glyphosate-mediated perturbation of the bee gut microbiota, especially the effects on Snodgrassella abundance, is dose dependent and that a similar pattern of perturbation occurs regardless of the age of the bee and duration of exposure.”

“Colonization by Snodgrassella and other species able to synthesize all amino acids may foster the establishment of Lactobacillus species from Firm-4 and Firm-5 clades, which cannot synthesize some essential amino acids (19). Thus, inhibition of the shikimate pathway may deplete essential nutrients required by the hindgut community as a whole, culminating in bacterial death.”

Indeed, the globe is suffering a Lactobacillus crisis, key players of tryptophan metabolism via AhR activation. We now have dying diabetic bees suffering dementia.

But this Jew stain is the news: What The Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Means For Larry Ellison’s Fortune

By Forbes estimates, the elder Ellison, who is also Oracle’s largest shareholder, doesn’t have enough cash on hand to fulfill his part of Paramount’s $111 billion offer for Warner Bros. Discovery. Here’s how it could play out.

[Paramount CEO David Ellison arrives with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., before President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026.]

Centuries-old wells restored to provide drinking water as parts of the country head towards “day zero” when no water will be available.

Aloud cheer and sounds of clapping reverberated around Bansilalpet, a neighbourhood in Hyderabad, when the first trickle of clean water dribbled out of the ground. After an 18-month effort to clear out 3,000 tonnes of rubbish and restore the stone walls and adjacent area, the 17th-century Bansilalpet stepwell had become a source of clean drinking water for the first time in four decades.

“It was such a joyous moment to see water collecting into the stepwell after clearing 40 years of garbage,” says Hajira Adeeb, a 45-year-old resident of Bansilalpet, who grew up seeing the well become transformed from the community’s water source to a dumping ground. “I visit almost every day. The area is clean and lit up in the evenings. I enjoy sitting there.”

India is famed for its stepwells – multi-storey structures built to provide access to groundwater, with steps and platforms descending to the water level. Thousands were built across the country near natural aquifers – underground porous rock saturated with water – mostly between the 11th and 18th centuries

Shit. If I just break ONE privacy rule as a volunteer at the Senior Center, I would be fucking sacked, but the IRS and rapists and pedophiles in charge? The IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential information to ICE 42,695 times, judge says.

Jews: How US envoy Kushner’s ‘incomprehension’ of diplomacy stunned France,

The Jews will create a workaround: Pentagon Standoff Is a Decisive Moment for How A.I. Will Be Used in War

The Pentagon’s contract dispute with Anthropic is part of a wider clash about the use of artificial intelligence for national security and who decides on any safeguards.

Cool Jew Zeldin: The Trump administration is slowly dismantling the federal disaster management system that protects the nation from chemical catastrophes, such as fires and explosions at high-risk facilities.

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s Response Management Program (RMP) requires more than 12,500 high-risk facilities to develop protocols to prevent catastrophes, or limit fallout, and was largely designed to protect workers, first responders, and fence-line communities.

Petro-MASCULINITY. Reconciliation bill subsidizes fossil fuels by $3.5B each year, Democratic report finds

Fucking Jew York City!!!! Mamdani’s meeting with Trump was a Trojan Horse triumph at the White House

Mamdani wooed the president with much property talk and showed the real ‘art of the deal’ might have been soft power via Photoshop

Jew Power, Zeldin:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moved to fire 22 more of its staffers, a union representing agency employees said Thursday.

Justin Chen, president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Council 238, which represents EPA staff, said that the agency issued reduction in force (RIF) notices to 22 people who work on “environmental justice,” meaning they tackle pollution in overburdened or underserved communities.

“AFGE Council 238 is outraged by the EPA’s decision to issue RIF notices to 22 environmental justice employees whose work ensures that communities disproportionately burdened by environmental hazards receive the protections they are entitled to,” Chen said in a written statement.

“The gutting of our workforce, which has already been reduced by an estimated 30 percent, has stretched remaining staff to the breaking point and weakened our ability to respond to mounting environmental and public health threats. There is no justification for further cuts: funding levels have remained steady and these are needed, well qualified workers, and the agency should be strengthening our workforce, not shrinking it,” he added.

He urged the EPA to “immediately withdraw these notices.”

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Feb. 26 announced the Pentagon will conditionally continue to provide support to Scouting America following the youth organization’s “commitment to pull all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives from its program.”

In a video, Hegseth said he had been weighing ending “all support” of Scouting America, the nonprofit formerly called the Boy Scouts of America, after “DEI crept in.”

Scouting America has signed a memorandum of understanding stating that it will comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump that aimed to bar DEI efforts in the public and private sectors, Hegseth said.

Changes include the removal of DEI-focused language from Scouting America’s programs and publications, and the elimination of a “citizenship in society” merit badge that required Scouts to “realize the benefits of diversity, equity, inclusion and ethical leadership.” A new military service merit badge will be introduced, according to the Pentagon.

…Variation on that theme: Join the US Mercenary Disservices to Help a Nation of Organ Thieves, Rapists and Neuroperverse Misanthrope!!!

Paulo Kirk

Feb 27, 2026

**Read the Jerking Off Lauding of these fucking Death Machines at the end of this screed.

This photo has EVERYTHING: Drunks, psychos, ex-WWE boss, puppy killer, Jeffery Epstein’s pals, a representative from the Kremlin, people who snort cocaine off of toilet seats, sexual predators, sober rapists, drunk rapists, a Whoville tax accountant and pedophile protectors.

Capitalism was so good that Women started selling their babies to feed due to extreme poverty in Chicago 1948.

Inside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas, the only detention facility in the United States for immigrant families, children have been having their crayons, colored pencils, and drawings confiscated by guards.

Former detainees, lawyers, and advocates describe a pattern of escalating restrictions that began in late January, after children inside Dilley started writing letters and drawing pictures about their experiences.

The crackdown intensified. Former detainees describe room searches carried out by eight to ten guards at a time. Drawings were taken off walls. Art supplies were placed in plastic bags and removed. One mother described watching through a window as guards swept her children’s room, taking colored pencils the family had purchased themselves at the commissary.

After the search, she said, the children just “cried and cried and cried.”

Among the letters that made it out: “I’m writing this letter so that you can hear my story. I need you to help us. I cry a lot. I want to get out of here and go back to my school.” That was written by a 7-year-old.

One woman, detained for four months with her 13-year-old son, smuggled the letters out by hiding them inside her jacket on cool days. She walked out of Dilley carrying 34 pages of drawings and letters. Stick figures behind wire fences. A pet cat named Willi. Faces, mostly frowning.

Approximately 800 to 1,000 captive-bred Lions are killed in canned hunts in South Africa every year. This equates to roughly two to three lions being shot every day.

The majority of these hunters are from the United States, paying thousands of dollars to shoot Lions in enclosed areas where they have no chance of escape.

This is barbaric and must end.

Utah hunting guide faces felony charge for Donald Trump Jr.’s big game hunt

Oh, but the Jews: Israeli Film Community Throws Support Behind Tricia Tuttle, Hailing Berlinale as Space for ‘Open Debate’ and ‘Non-Censorship’

Yoav Abramovich – CEO – Rabinovich foundation – Israel Cinema project
Limor Aharonovich – festival director, Michal Weitz – artistic director Docaviv festival
Oshrit Bitton, Daniel Gat – co-managers – Tel-Aviv International Students film festival
Ruth Diskin – CEO and Artistic Director – Gesher Multicultural Film Fund
Amit Goren – CEO and Artistic Director – Makor Foundation
Pnina Halfon-Lang, artistic director – Co-Pro Foundation
Roni Mahadav-Levin – Executive director – Jerusalem Film Festival, Jerusalem Cinematheque
Dr. Noa Regev – CEO – Israel film fund
Yaron Shamir – Manager – Haifa Film Festival, Haifa Cinematheque
Eyal Shirai – Manager – Arava Film Festival
Orel Turner – CEO – The New Fund for Cinema and Television

Mark Ruffalo, Javier Bardem, Tilda Swinton Among 104 Names to Sign Open Letter Criticizing Berlin Film Festival for ‘Silence’ on Gaza: ‘We Are Dismayed’

Union leaders in recent days have urged Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to end their support for Gov. Janet Mills in Maine’s Senate primary, pointing to what they see as her weaker record with labor.

[Unions are weighing in to boost Graham Platner in his bid for the U.S. Senate in Maine.]

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain had a conversation with Schumer this month to discuss the race, among other topics, two people familiar with the call told NBC News. The UAW is supporting Mills’ opponent, Democrat Graham Platner, while Schumer and the DSCC are supporting Mills.

“These are horrible people,” Trump says. “After Midnight Hammer” (the illegal operation in which the US and Israel attacked Iran in the middle of peace negotiations, “they were warned to make no future attempt to rebuild their weapons program,” which, according to the Trump administration’s own report, they haven’t, “and are at this moment again pursuing their sinister ambitions.” Not true.

He continues with the lie: “We haven’t heard those secret words that we will never again pursue a nuclear weapon.”

And she’s up! Not protesting or booing but applauding, a standing ovation from the Massachusetts senator, alongside other Democrats Chuck Schumer, Amy Klobuchar, Chris Coons, John Fetterman, and more.

Jews: Federal immigration agents arrested 261 beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, during the first 10 months of the second Trump administration, according to official U.S. government statistics that were shared with Congress and obtained by CBS News.

Fucking Rape Culture as it always has been:

House Ethics Committee Chair Michael Guest (R-Miss.) is opposing Rep. Nancy Mace’s (R-S.C.) resolution to publicly release the panel’s reports on congressional sexual harassment investigations, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: Mace’s push comes as Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) is facing mounting backlash over allegations that he had an affair with a former staffer before she died by suicide. Gonzales has denied having the affair.

Jews and Jew Street!

Goldman Sachs’ top DEI executive exits for rival as Wall Street retreats from diversity under the Trump administration

Epstein Epstein Epstein: Jamie Dimon says society should start preparing for AI job displacement: ‘Now’s the time to start thinking about’ it

The current political rhetoric, characterized by the most aggressive immigration enforcement in modern history, is forcing many U.S. citizen Latinos to question whether they belong.

De Hoyos Comstock, 80, says that she’s been thinking for a while about how and whether Hispanics fit into the country’s fabric.

As the U.S. celebrates its 250th birthday, many Latinos question whether they belong

[Clockwise from top left: Las Comadres Para Las Americas founder Nora de Hoyos Comstock; military veterans Benny Aleman; Frank Maldonado and Chris Sanchez.]

This fucking Cunt-ree will be litigating the Semen Drip Trump’s legacy years after he is rotting in his fucking feces-filled Depends.

“Francesca’s expression of her views about the facts as she has found them in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and about the work of the ICC is core First Amendment activity,” the lawsuit says, referring to the International Criminal Court. That tribunal has issued arrest warrants against Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over allegations of war crimes.

“At its heart, this case concerns whether Defendants can sanction a person — ruining their life and the lives of their loved ones, including their citizen daughter — because Defendants disagree with their recommendations or fear their persuasiveness,” according to the filing.

[Palestinians gather for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026.]

List is here.

“My daughter is American. I’ve been living in the U.S. and I have some assets there. So of course, it’s going to harm me,” Albanese said last summer. “What can I do? I did everything I did in good faith, and knowing that, my commitment to justice is more important than personal interests.”

But the sanctions have not dissuaded Albanese from her work or her viewpoints. She has continued to issue scathing reports about Israel’s activity, including one focused on what she said was the country’s “genocidal economy” in Palestinian territories.

Kansas invalidates the driver’s licenses and birth certificates of over 1,000 transgender residents.

The year of the Fire Horse: Federal judge rules Trump admin may not remove people to third countries without due process

The judge wrote that people must receive meaningful notice and the chance to challenge their deportations.

Stool pigeons: Former Rep. Katie Porter, Rep. Eric Swalwell, and megadonor Tom Steyer are effectively tied atop the teeming Democratic field in the race for governor, according to a new Public Policy Institute of California poll.

The contest to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom has been unusually muddled without a decisive frontrunner after potentially commanding candidates like Sen. Alex Padilla and former Vice President Kamala Harris decided against running. That has created the most open-ended campaign in memory for the state’s top job.

Versus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And Sawant on this show . . . Bad/Good FAITH?

**The USS Gerald R. Ford is not parked near Iran. It is parked off Israel. And nobody is asking the only question that matters: why.

The $13.3 billion crown jewel of the US Navy, the largest warship ever constructed, just positioned itself off Haifa. Not in the Arabian Sea where the Lincoln sits 850 kilometers from Iranian shores loaded for offensive operations. Not in the Gulf where strike range is optimal. Off Israel. Defending Israel.

This is not redundancy. This is architecture.

Two carriers. Two missions. Two entirely different strategic functions. The Lincoln is the sword, positioned to launch strike packages into Iranian airspace within hours of an order. The Ford is the shield, its Aegis missile defense systems creating an umbrella over Israeli population centers against the retaliation that follows the first Tomahawk.

America just split its carrier doctrine into offense and defense simultaneously. That has not happened since the Pacific theater in 1945.

But the positioning reveals something deeper than tactics. When Iran retaliates, and every wargame says Iran retaliates, its missiles and drones fly toward Israel. They will fly through the same airspace where a US carrier strike group is now stationed. Every Iranian missile aimed at Tel Aviv or Haifa must traverse the Ford’s defensive envelope. Shooting at Israel means shooting at, around, and through an American carrier group.

Iran cannot retaliate against Israel without engaging American naval assets. The Ford’s position makes that physically impossible. The carrier is not defending Israel as a favor. It is positioned so that any Iranian response to American strikes automatically becomes an attack on American forces, triggering the full unrestrained weight of US military response without a single additional political decision required.

This is escalation insurance written in steel and seawater. If the campaign goes longer than planned, if munitions run thin in 7 to 10 days, if allies hesitate, the Ford’s position ensures that Iranian retaliation does the political work Washington cannot do alone: it transforms a limited American strike into an act of self-defense that no ally can refuse to support.

You do not park a $13.3 billion carrier where the enemy’s return fire will hit it unless you want the enemy’s return fire to hit it.

The Ford is not there to prevent escalation. The Ford is there to guarantee that if escalation comes, it comes on terms that make American restraint politically impossible and allied participation politically unavoidable.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Urgent warning to holders of Israeli citizenship:

Your time in West Asia is over.
No city here is safe for you.
If you value your safety, LEAVE the region immediately.
Don’t miss your last cha

. . . what more do you want from me: screed, philippic, fulmination?

Paulo Kirk

Feb 26, 2026

Do not be confused by these Substacks — mine or anyone else’s. I am ranting, scrolling through the Syphillitic “news” and sometimes just cutting and pasting (with a whole lotta cool images) just to find my own proof of life.

Funny thing is, I am almost 100 percent RIGHT, 100 percent of the time, that is, for me, that is, and alas, if you see rant and antisemitism as somehow part and parcel of the undertones here or in any of these Substacks, then, well, look at yourself in the fucking mirror . . . then you need to fucking go to Palestine, to Tel Aviv, or NYC, and talk to Jews, man, rabbis or another other type.

Elitist, supremacist, transactional, patronizing, domineering, unfeeling, soulless? This might not be right for you, but it is for ME.

Do you see the hasbara and reverse ju jitsu here? The “Two Minutes Hate” in George Orwell’s 1984 is a daily, mandatory ritual where Party members watch propaganda films of Emmanuel Goldstein and enemy soldiers, prompting frenzied shouting and rage. It serves to unify citizens through fear, divert frustration away from the Party, and reinforce loyalty to Big Brother.

You haven’t seen this from Jews in New York (Jew York) City, or with cunts like Lindsey Graham or Huckabee? NO?

It was a Klan meeting with the Semen Drip Pedophile and Rapist Trump. Pure fucking Klan meeting:

Oh those ACLU Jews:

Yesterday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Cape Girardeau on behalf of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (TAK). TAK members had planned to place handbills on the windshields of parked cars on Sept. 28, until they discovered this is considered a crime by the City of Cape Girardeau.

“Our clients describe themselves as “a White Patriotic Christian organization’ that ‘believes in the preservation of the White race and the United States Constitution as it was originally written’,” says Tony Rothert, legal director of the ACLU-EM. “They’ve found that distributing leaflets is an effective way to recruit new members.”

“Defending the rights of groups that the government tries to censor because of their viewpoints is at the heart of what the First Amendment and the ACLU stand for, even when the viewpoints are not popular,” says Brenda L. Jones, executive director of the ACLU-EM. “If we don’t protect the free speech rights of all, we risk having the government arbitrarily decide what is, or is not, acceptable speech.”

In 1977 the American Civil Liberties Union defended the “right” of neo-nazis to intimidate Holocaust survivors in Skokie, IL. In response, the community established the Illinois Holocaust musuem & education center.

Fucking fifty years ago, and here we are:

Yeah, GLosser-Miller, Jew:

How far could I get walking these signs in front of a fucking synagogue?

I will be having on John Washington and Russ McSpadden, and others. I fucking read my tail off for one hour radio interviews. You think I want to write a fucking graduate-level research fucking paper on Subterranean Stack?

I AM ALLOWED TO FUCKING RANT without fucking footnotes or fucking decorous language or false balance or all the other shit of the academic and journalistic false equivalency.

Russ brings in this psychosis of looking at the wall. He looked at the fucking Carter-Ford-Reagan-Clinuton, Bush BUSH Trump Obama TRUMP wall.

“Wall disease” (Mauerkrankheit) was a 1970s diagnosis for severe psychological distress—including psychosis, depression, and rage—experienced by East Berliners living immediately adjacent to the Berlin Wall. Psychiatrist Dietfried Müller-Hegemann observed that the forced isolation, confinement, and constant surveillance caused patients to exhibit paranoia, delusions of persecution, and suicidal tendencies.

Guess what kind and unpaying (most of you) readers? I am not going to get pegged with or drained by the mauerkrankheit, man, not fucking trumpkrankheit or fucking talmudkrankheit and usakrankheit.

No sirree.

You want verifiable, substantiated factoids, rationalizations, or plain old reporting here? Fuck that shit. I don’t need no chinga press badges or academic badges or fucking New York Publishing House BADGES.

Yeah, how fucking long has the Talmud and Torah and Iberian Catholics and the hundreds of fucking religions had their dick-centric fucking sick elite lording over women, trafficked children, the poor, and the wretched of the earth?

[little Saint James, Epstein Mossad Incubator.]

The Epstein files reveal not only sexual crimes but also a tightly interconnected social world where capital, prestige, influence and dependency circulate freely.

The idea of the “Epstein class” can make this social structure visible, but it also risks personalizing the problem, reducing it to the story of a single manipulative individual. This carries a significant analytical risk: it obscures the deeper structural dynamics of class power. The Epstein case is not about an unusual individual; it is about the normalization of a social order where extreme wealth and male dominance are closely linked.

In my book La société de provocation: essai sur l’obscénité des riches (The Society of Provocation: An Essay on the Obscenity of the Rich), I argue that this social order is anchored in a long-lasting alliance between economic and political elites, whose interests converge around the preservation of their privileges.

This alliance manifests in an economy of excess and overabundance — the so-called “wealthporn” or “pornopulence” — created for the ostentatious enjoyment of a small, protected elite. The Epstein case is only the tip of the iceberg. It reveals a global system that treats bodies, land and resources as things to exploit and discard for profit.

Oh, darn, no epsteinMauerkrankheit for me, motherfuckers. In Tense Deposition, Hillary Clinton Denies Knowing Epstein or His Crimes

After resisting testifying for months, the former secretary of state entered the session defiant, and grew irate after a Republican leaked a photo from inside the room.

Now now, here it is — Jews are LIARS, period. Look at this fucking headline: Education Ministry to cancel school if Iran attacks, transition later to remote learning

Knesset members raised concerns about the pedagogical effectiveness of distance learning and the fact that many students lack reliable access to computers at home.

Everything, I mean EVERYTHING , is so fucked up and perverse about that Star of David.

The patient: A 64-year-old woman in New South Wales, Australia

The symptoms: The woman was admitted to the hospital after experiencing abdominal pain and diarrhea for three weeks. She also had a persistent dry cough and night sweats.

A CT scan of her lungs showed opaque areas where the tissue had thickened, likely due to inflammation or an infection that caused the air spaces in the lungs to fill with fluid, pus or a buildup of white blood cells. The woman also had lesions, or areas of damaged tissue, in her liver and spleen.

A red, parasitic worm turned out to be behind the woman’s wide array of symptoms.

Now now now, you do not think DARPA and Plum Island and the bioweapons labs in Ukraine and Georgia and elsewhere, especially Tel Aviv, are not working on this worm to weaponize it for hmm Africa, China?

So, the news is on the Klan Meeting with the State of the Confederacy with Trump, and we have this?

Severe winter storms in California have crippled Tuolumne County’s primary water supply, leaving tens of thousands of residents at risk of running out of drinking water if timely repairs aren’t made.

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) Main Tuolumne Canal—responsible for supplying 95 percent of the Tuolumne Utilities District’s (TUD) drinking water—sustained catastrophic damage after more than 200 trees collapsed onto the 14‑mile system, destroying multiple wooden flumes and forcing officials to halt the canal’s flow. The damage occurred during a series of significant winter storms that lashed the Golden State earlier this month, dumping as much as 8 feet of snow in some high-elevation areas.

Oh, it is a Cunt-Tree: Maduro’s lawyer says US is blocking Venezuela government from paying deposed leader’s drug defense.

The Trump administration is blocking Venezuela’s government from paying for the cost of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s defense against drug trafficking charges in New York, a move that potentially interferes with his constitutional right to counsel, his lawyer says.

Attorney Barry Pollack told a Manhattan federal judge in an email last week that the U.S. Treasury Department had blocked the authorization of legal fees that the government of Venezuela is required to pay for Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores under its law and custom. The email was entered into the public court record on Wednesday.

Maduro and his wife have been jailed in New York without bail since they were seized from their Venezuelan home Jan. 3 in a stealth nighttime raid by U.S. military forces. They have both pleaded not guilty.

The stunning capture following a monthslong military buildup in the Caribbean has paved the way for the Trump administration to assert enormous influence over Maduro’s replacement, his vice president and now acting President Delcy Rodriguez. Under pressure from the U.S., Rodriguez has moved swiftly to open up Venezuela’s oil industry to American investment, free political prisoners and reestablish direct communications with Washington — something unseen since the first Trump administration shuttered the U.S. embassy in Caracas in 2019.

So much wrong with this photo: Can you see it? FUcking fiber loose masks (SARS-CoC2?) and the British fucking panty shield uniforms? Nazi Ukraine flag in the upper left?

Gates should be shackled, covered in NW honey, put into a six-foot hole, and then covered in fucking ants.

More fucking ant=people: Anthropic rejects Pentagon terms for lethal use of its chatbot Claude

CEO Dario Amodei said Anthropic could not permit its technology to be applied to domestic mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.

The Pentagon says it has never considered autonomous weapons or mass surveillance in the scope of its use of artificial intelligence, but it has not been willing to prohibit them in its contract with Anthropic. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Anthropic said late Thursday that it will not concede to the Pentagon’s ultimatum for full access to its artificial intelligence tool Claude, saying it cannot loosen its restrictions against use in fully autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance. Anthropic’s announcement comes hours before a Pentagon-imposed Friday deadline to comply — setting the stage for the AI firm to either win a last-minute concession by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth or face the possibility of being cut from future military work.

Scaphism is known as one of the most disturbing ancient torture methods ever devised. The intended victim was strapped inside a boat and covered with milk and honey to attract insects. After a few days, worms and maggots would devour their body as they decayed alive.

Petromasculinity: Petro-masculinity, coined by Dr. Cara Daggett in 2018, describes the close link between fossil fuel consumption, climate change denial, and the reinforcement of patriarchal gender roles. It posits that fossil fuel use (e.g., driving large trucks) is used as a symbolic, sometimes violent, assertion of masculine power and identity, often in response to perceived threats to traditional gender hierarchies.

A North Dakota judge has said he will order Greenpeace to pay damages expected to total $345m in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline from nearly a decade ago, a figure the environmental group contends it cannot pay.

In court papers filed on Tuesday, Judge James Gion said he would sign an order requiring several Greenpeace entities to pay the judgment to pipeline company Energy Transfer. He set that amount at $345m last year in a decision that reduced a jury’s damages by about half, but his latest filing did not specify a final amount.

The long-awaited order is expected to launch an appeal process in the North Dakota supreme court from both sides.

Last year, a nine-person jury found Netherlands-based Greenpeace International, Greenpeace USA and funding arm Greenpeace Fund Inc liable for defamation and other claims brought by Dallas-based Energy Transfer and subsidiary Dakota Access.

The jury found Greenpeace USA liable on all counts, including conspiracy, trespass, nuisance and tortious interference. The other two entities were found liable for some of the claims.

The lawsuit stems from the pipeline protests in 2016 and 2017, when thousands of people demonstrated and camped near the project’s Missouri River crossing upstream of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reservation. The tribe has long opposed the pipeline as a threat to its water supply.

Zero fucking battery engineers and AI cunts and Military Madmen and BUsiness Men, all of them, have zero respect for real science: Forests are great and all, but in one way, they don’t come close to the raw power of peatlands. Sprawling in the Arctic and elsewhere, like tropical regions, these soils are loaded with plant matter that’s resisting decay, turning into ultra-concentrated carbon. Though they comprise just 3 percent of Earth’s area, peatlands store 600 billion metric tons of the stuff — more than all the planet’s forests combined — making them critical tools for preventing even more global warming.

On the face of it, then, we might welcome the findings of a new study that shows these carbon sinks are indeed expanding in the Arctic, as scientists have suspected. The region is warming four times faster than the rest of the planet, encouraging the growth of plants, just as precipitation up there is also increasing, creating waterlogged conditions that slow decomposition. But the carbon stored in all that new vegetation could still one day return to the atmosphere as a sort of carbon burp, and the degradation of peatlands threatens to release loads of planet-warming gas sooner than that.

Just as the Arctic and boreal regions are warming, extreme heat is periodically drying them out. That’s driving massive wildfires that are chewing through shrubs and trees, but also burning up dried peat. These extraordinarily persistent fires smolder for weeks or even months, releasing carbon all the while. They’re so relentless, in fact, that they’ll burn underground as snow covers them through the winter, only to pop up again in the spring. Hence their nickname “zombie fires.”

We’ve got an elemental tug of war, then: As the far north rapidly and radically changes, how much carbon will these expanding peatlands sequester in the Earth, but how quickly will that carbon return to the atmosphere if these new peatlands dry out and catch fire? Only time — and scientists traipsing through the Arctic — will tell.

Nazis: Germany’s coalition government has been accused of abandoning its climate targets after agreeing to scrap parts of a contentious heating law mandating the use of renewables in favour of a draft law allowing homeowners to rely on fossil fuels.

While the previous law required most newly installed heating systems to use at least 65% renewable energy, often with a heat pump, the amended legislation will allow households to keep using oil and gas.

It also removes a mandate for expert consultation when installing a new heating system.

The previous legislation, drawn up by the Greens and passed in 2023, was seen as one of the party’s boldest policy goals in the previous centre-left-led government under Olaf Scholz.

More fucking ant torture for MAGA maggots:

In a rare meeting amid a partial government shutdown affecting her agency, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem met with Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., on Wednesday afternoon as the Chicago congresswoman pushed for a shift in tactics from immigration agents, according to Ramirez’s office.

Federal immigration authorities arrested a Columbia University student early Thursday, triggering protests on campus and allegations that agents gained entry to the university-owned residence by posing as police officers searching for a missing child.

Just hours after detaining student Ellie Aghayeva, though, the federal government abruptly reversed course, permitting her to walk free after an apparent intervention by President Donald Trump.

In a social media post Thursday afternoon, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he expressed concerns about the arrest during an unrelated meeting with Trump, who then agreed to release her immediately.

“I am safe and okay,” Aghayeva wrote on Instagram, minutes after Mamdani’s post, adding she was in “complete shock” from the experience.

All MAGA, man, this sort of treatment the Aussie got?

A QUEENSLAND man was locked in an Esky [ice box] and had honey poured on his genitals to attract ants before he died, a Brisbane court has heard.

The remains of Shaun Barker, 33, were found in Toolara State Forest near Gympie five months after he was allegedly tortured for days in December 2013.

Police have charged Matthew Leslie Armitage, 23, his 46-year-old father Stephen John Armitage and William Francis Dean, 38 — all of whom who had a drug connection to Mr Barker — with murder, torture, deprivation of liberty and interfering with a corpse.

Police believe the motive for the murder was drug-related and it has emerged the key witness in the murder case was high on ice when the alleged crime occurred.

The US has been accused of “shameless exploitation” over a health financing agreement with Zambia worth more than $1bn (£740m), amid warnings that the country is getting a raw deal from the Trump administration.

A leaked draft of a five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the two countries, seen by the Guardian, reveals that Zambia may accept terms worse than health financing agreements the US has reached with 16 other African countries.

Yeah, ants and honey smeared on the shaved head while being buried in sand is too much for these cunts? Then you are lobotomized.

“There are already hundreds of thousands of people who have been laid off across the country, mainly as a result of this government’s economic policy, a government that is totally aligned with the Trump administration in the United States, with the policies of financial capital, the IMF, etc.”

We gotta be back into smash and grabs, kidnapping, and out and out street assassinations. You think these other fuckers care about fucking signs and protests on the streets? Javier Milei Is Set to Roll Back Argentina’s Historically Strong Labor Rights

Always has been.

This photo is the PERFECT definition of a “narco government”:

Elite gringo soldiers guarding the poppy fields in Afghanistan in 2012, right at the peak of opioid production backed by the puppet government of Hamid Karzai, installed by Washington.

Karzai was a CIA agent, like all the big drug traffickers, and under his government (that is, during the occupation) Afghanistan produced more heroin than the entire planet could consume.

54 years ago, in February 1972, the imperialist U.S. army assaulted the village of Bac Lieu, searching for members of the Vietnamese resistance.

In the village they found Nguyen Thi Tu, wife of a Vietnamese leader; they tortured her but she refused to reveal her husband’s whereabouts, so the Yankee genocidaires decided to shoot her and mutilate her ears.

Nguyen nursed her 10-month-old baby for the last time and then the Yankees shot her in the back; this photo was captured just before she was executed.

This is the true face of the USA, the imperialist genocidaires who portray themselves as saviors in their Hollywood movies.

On January 12, 1962, the U.S. military began its 11-year chemical warfare campaign against the people of Vietnam and Laos, dropping 19 million gallons harmful Chemicals on 20% of both countries, poisoning more than 3 million people n causing over 1 million birth defects.

RFK Junior’s heroin and sex addict’s wet dream:

RFK Jr. says we need more herbicide production, stunning his followers

Supporters of the health secretary’s Make America Healthy Again movement are worried Kennedy is selling out.

Ants and honey and a six-foot columnar hole.

JAPAN?

When the Japanese Army passed through the gates of Nanking in December 1937, the world did not hear gunshots: it heard a city scream.

For about six weeks, the then capital of China became a place where humanity collapsed.

Soldiers flooded the streets like a tide of steel, and what came after was not just war…
but something much darker.

In a matter of days, thousands of civilians were forcibly gathered.

Many men were taken to the riverbanks, lined up and executed, until the bodies piled up.

Others were systematically killed in groups so large that the horror seemed endless.

And the slaughter did not stop.

The cruelty did not pause.

And for the women—for mothers, daughters, sisters—the nightmare had no words strong enough to contain it.

It is estimated that between 20,000 and 80,000 women and girls were raped.

Many were tortured.

Many were killed afterward.

Entire families vanished in minutes.

Homes looted, businesses destroyed, entire neighborhoods burned.

When the smoke cleared, between 200,000 and 300,000 lives had been extinguished.

This was not a battle.

It was brutality, unleashed on a scale the world could scarcely comprehend.

For decades, the Nanking Massacre—the so-called Rape of Nanking—was shrouded in a painful silence.

Some denied it.

Others tried to erase it.

But the survivors remembered everything:
the faces.
the flames.
the footsteps in the night.
the families that never returned.

Today, the massacre is recognized as one of the most horrific atrocities of the 20th century: a wound that still aches in China’s memory, and a shadow that still strains its relationship with Japan.

But remembering is not just history.

It is a warning.

Because what happened in Nanking was not inevitable.

It was the result of power without restraint.
of violence without check.
of hatred without limit.

And when those forces go unanswered,
entire cities can vanish.

The Nanking Massacre is more than a chapter in a book.

It is a plea written in blood:
let us not forget what human beings are capable of…
so that it may never happen again.

Source: Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanking Massacre (“History of the Nanking Massacre,” date unavailable)…

Yeah, weird indeed: Y’all Saw Those Black Jesus Paintings from the 1400s Russia Released ?

MAGA MAGA MAGA: KKK lynches Union Army vet who started school for Black students in NC.

#OnThisDay

In 1870, Wyatt Outlaw, a Union veteran and the first Black town commissioner of Graham, North Carolina, was seized from his home and lynched by members of the Ku Klux Klan known as the White Brotherhood, which controlled the county.

Outlaw served as president of the Alamance County Union League of America, which opposed the White Brotherhood and had advocated establishing a school for Black students — something Klansmen had vowed to burn down.

When the Klan tried to terrorize the town’s Black citizens, Outlaw and two other Black constables opened fire on the hooded men. Sometime later, more than 60 hooded Klansmen invaded his home with torches, swords and pistols. They beat down Outlaw’s door with axes.

When his 73-year-old mother confronted them, they knocked her down and kicked and stomped her. As the mob dragged Outlaw away, his 6-year-old son screamed, “Oh, Daddy! Oh, Daddy!”

The Klansmen walked Outlaw bare-chested and barefoot to the Alamance County Courthouse, where they lynched him and placed a note on his chest: “Beware! Ye guilty parties — both white and black.”

Eighteen Klansmen were indicted for Outlaw’s murder, but charges were later dropped. Other Klan violence led to other deaths and injuries. Outlaw’s lynching, followed by the assassination of state Sen. John W. Stephens at the Caswell County Courthouse, prompted Gov. William Woods Holden to declare martial law in the area. As a result of his stand, the governor was impeached.

Decades later, in 1914, officials gathered to commemorate a new Confederate monument. Jacob Long, a longtime lawmaker, praised “the achievements of the great and good of our own race and blood” just steps from where he and other Klansmen reportedly lynched Outlaw. The monument still stands.

There is no monument to honor Outlaw. A play telling his story debuted in nearby Burlington in 2016.

Nah, the Western Mind is one fucking maze of walled-in repression, walled-in humanity, walled-in empathy, walled-in being with earth, walled-in love:

Sure enough, in 1990, another East German psychotherapist named Hans Joachim Maaz described the “emotional liberation” felt on the November night the Wall finally fell. Thousands of jubilant Germans climbed the Wall, wept, and embraced each other atop the concrete, and proceeded to tear the Wall down with joyful abandon. “The wall’s fall was the emotional climax of the unloading, the cathartic breaking-through of the unconscious,” Maaz wrote. “The emotional blockage unclogged, the repressed came to the surface, and the parts that had been split apart, united.”

The ‘Berlin strain’ of the Wall disease may have been cured 25 years ago, but as I describe in Walls: Travels Along the Barricades, wall-disease remains a global pandemic. I witnessed the sufferers of the disease in Palestine, Cyprus, Belfast, and along the US-Mexico border. Our contemporary walls and barriers continue to inflict psychic pain on those who live in their shadows. They still await their own emotional liberation and cathartic breaking through. As we celebrate the anniversary of Berlin’s cure, let us also remember those who remain afflicted.

JOBS JOBS JOBS: Oregon old-growth logging: Trump plan could clear 3 sq. miles a week, critics warn

Paulo Kirk

Feb 23, 2026

My latest fucking statement: “You may notice an increase in your insurance premium. PEMCO has had to raise rates to cover the costs of claims. These costs include increases due to inflation, supply chain disruption, medical treatment, and labor expenses. “

I just couldn’t afford it”: Driving uninsured

Zoe, a pastry chef in Pennsylvania, understands the importance of car insurance better than most. A few years ago, she had only the bare minimum insurance on her Toyota when an accident financially devastated her. Without insurance that would replace her undrivable vehicle, she was left carless, with an hourlong commute. Her savings were entirely wiped out.

When she was able to replace her vehicle, she made sure to get full-coverage insurance at $230 a month. But it was a tight squeeze to cover it, and then her rent increased by $400.

We’re only using Zoe’s first name because, for a short time after that, she became one of those people driving without insurance. “I fully didn’t pay my car insurance bill for about four weeks just because I couldn’t afford it,” Zoe says. “We have to eat every week. You have to pay the power and the water bill and the rent, and the rent keeps going higher, and milk’s $4 a gallon.”

Zoe was acutely aware of the risks she was taking if she were to get in a crash or pulled over. “I slow down at every single intersection, regardless of whether the light was green or not,” she recalls with a heavy sigh. “I’m careful at every turn. I get worried.”

On average, premiums are up 55% since February 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Almost all of that increase came between 2022 and 2024.)

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But the wars and military hardware and the fucking Jewish Fucking Inflation on the World have nothing to do with the price of bread or bombs?

“It would be fine if Israel took it all.”

— Mike Huckabee, US Ambassador to Israel

By “all”, he means all the currencies, banks, AI, education, medicine, the lot of it, not just the Middle “Oil” East.

That wasn’t a fringe extremist preacher on a late-night cable show. That was the official representative of the United States to Israel – a man whose job is to shape and articulate American policy towards a state which depends on the United States for weapons, diplomatic cover, and political backing.

Seven Years Ago:

“Tucker Carlson’s latest rant on Rep. Ilhan Omar is a dangerous escalation of his anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric. These remarks are part of a clear pattern of racism, sexism and white nationalism that Carlson has long championed.

On his show, Carlson repeated one false, anti-Muslim trope after another about Omar, saying that she ‘hates’ America multiple times and invoking ‘dangerous’ immigration from places ‘whose values are simply antithetical to ours.’ This is not a critique of Omar’s ideas or politics. This is hate speech directed at her as a Muslim and as an immigrant.

Attacks on mosques and hate crimes against Muslims have skyrocketed in recent years and these bigoted tropes contribute to a toxic culture where divisiveness and racism trump American values of religious freedom for all people. This is not the first time Carlson has shown such naked bigotry on his show and it won’t be the last as long as Fox gives him a platform.

Fox News should fire Tucker Carlson and advertisers should stop funding this bigotry immediately.”

Fuck these cunts. The lot of them with Podcasts and Alt Media presence! Reality hurts!

11 Years ago, boy have things changed…. Commentary

The high costs of being poor in America: Stress, pain, and worry

My father, a pediatrician at Johns Hopkins, published an article in 1974 entitled “The High Cost of Being Poor,” showing that poor urban Peruvians paid more for water and electricity than the rich. The poor paid roughly 15 times more per unit cost, even though the services were of much lower quality. Unlike the affluent, who had water and electricity piped into their homes, they had to buy their water from trucks, and often had to substitute candles and kerosene for electricity. Small wonder the lower-income children had worse health and poorer nutrition.

Today, those same urban slums where he (and later I) conducted research have water, electricity, paved streets, and a growing middle class population; infant malnutrition is virtually non-existent (if anything, obesity incidence is becoming a concern). But here in the United States, poverty is exacting a high cost—not in terms of water and power, but in terms of stress, unhappiness, and pain.

Peru’s capital city Lima is home to more than 10 million people, which is almost a third of the 33 million people who live in the country. Meanwhile, the second largest city in Peru, Arequipa, has just one-tenth of the population size of Lima, highlighting disproportionate overpopulation in the capital. The fact that such a large proportion of the country lives in the capital city has exacerbated inequality in Peru, as rural areas mostly miss out on government programs that aim to boost development. Also, the focus remains on the urban hotspot because governments view this as the best way for the country to improve its economic status through trade and other economic activities.

In the 20^th century, the population of Lima exploded, particularly after the Second World War when inward migration to the city picked up as people searched for better opportunities and living conditions. Reports suggest that Lima’s population will continue to grow to almost 13 million by 2035.

Rising Inequality in Peru

Whilst there has been a reduction of poverty overall in Peru, with poverty rates falling from 59% to 20% between 2004 and 2019. In addition, the majority of this development took place in the urban areas of Peru, especially Lima, allowing rural areas to fall behind and inequality levels to grow. In 2022, the poverty rate in Peru was 25%, as a result of a rise from the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, in 2021, more than half of the country’s population was living in moderate food insecurity where the available food lacked all the necessary nutrients for a healthy life. This resulted in increasing cases of health conditions such as anemia.

Rural areas remain the home of the poorest regions in Peru, where there is a lack of opportunities to help civilians rise out of poverty. Inequality in Peru is evident through the level of schooling in years, which in Lima is double compared to the level in the country’s most deprived rural areas.

In recent decades, the world has seen rising inequality, with 2023 being labeled by the World Bank as “the year of inequality.” An increasing share of income and wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few, leaving a shrinking portion for the majority, which includes a massive pocket of poverty. According to the United Nations, “More than two thirds of the world’s population today live in countries where inequality has grown.” Yet, beyond the data, how do those affected actually experience this inequality? A recent survey by the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and OXFAM sought answers from Peruvians, collecting responses from a nationwide sample of 1,508 interviews.

Peru ranks as the fourth most unequal country globally, according to available analyses. The IEP-OXFAM survey found that half of respondents (51%) perceived the country as highly economically unequal. Meanwhile, a quarter (27%) believed it was “not very unequal,” and 7% astonishingly claimed it was “not unequal at all”—with this latter view most common among the poorest respondents.

Resignation appears to hold sway among the poor, who seem to blame themselves for their circumstances, believing they remain in poverty due to a lack of effort. This perspective stands far from creating an environment ripe for revolution or even social upheaval. The focus on “entrepreneurship” seems to have defused the threat to social order that poverty once posed.

This apparent acceptance of inequality, labeled in the survey as “tolerance of inequality,” became evident when respondents were asked, “To what extent is inequality acceptable in Peru?” Half (51%) found it “unacceptable,” while 30% considered it “acceptable,” with the rest choosing neither option. Inequality rejection was higher among the upper strata (61%) and lower among the poor (48%).

Interestingly, this “tolerance” does not overlook power disparities. Two-thirds (67%) agreed that “The rich have too much influence over decisions affecting the country,” and 90% believed that “The country is governed by a few powerful groups for their own benefit.” As for potential solutions, 31% said that to achieve “a more equal country,” Peru needs “a fairer State.” Other answers garnered lower support. Additionally, respondents suggested that increased tax revenue should primarily fund education (32%) and healthcare (28%).

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Hero, Manfred!

Versus:

In 2023, the latest Peruvian fuck told a congressional debate about ending child marriage that “early sexual relations aid a woman’s psychological future.”

Peru that year passed a legal reform to ban marriage for anyone under 18. Previously, teenagers could get married with their parents’ consent.

The CNDDHH rights coalition expressed concern Thursday at the appointment “of an authority figure with a controversial public record and statements that justify sexual violence against girls.”

The Flora Tristan Peruvian Women’s Center, for its part, said the choice was emblematic of a “profound ethical and democratic crisis” in Peru — where more than half of women reported being a victim of psychological, physical or sexual abuse by a partner, according to government statistics.

“Anyone who minimizes violence against women and girls is not voicing an isolated opinion, but revealing a complacent attitude toward abuse,” the center said in a statement.

83-year-old Jose Maria Balcazar as Peru’s stand-in president . . . Prosecutors in Peru are investigating a sex-for-votes scandal in the country’s Congress after uncovering an alleged prostitution ring inside the widely-loathed chamber.

The investigation began after hired killers fired more than 40 rounds into a taxi carrying Andrea Vidal, a 27-year-old lawyer who worked in Congress, earlier this month in Lima. She died of her injuries in an intensive care ward on Tuesday. The taxi driver was also killed in the attack.

The public prosecutor’s office subsequently opened an investigation into Vidal’s former boss, Congress’s former lead legal and constitutional adviser, Jorge Torres Saravia, who is accused of sexual exploitation for allegedly running a prostitution ring that hired young women to have sex with lawmakers in exchange for votes. Torres has denied any wrongdoing.

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Back to the requim of an American Dream (every Third World Country’s nightmare) \

The American Dream is Now a Repossessed Asset by Tee Ashby

Let me walk you through what this actually looks like.

It’s 11 at night. A woman in her 50s is sitting in a Honda Civic outside a 24-hour grocery store. Engine off. Windows cracked. She’s just hoping tonight isn’t the night security knocks. This isn’t someone who gave up. This is someone who worked for 40 years and discovered that doing everything right was a lie. Because here’s the truth nobody wants to admit: most people living in vehicles aren’t there because they screwed up. They’re there because the math—rigged by policy choices in Washington—stopped adding up.

And before you smugly tell yourself it could never happen to you, let’s walk through what actually changed.

There’s a convenient fairy tale that people in vehicles are lazy, that they made bad choices. Let’s kill that lie right now. Americans didn’t suddenly get lazy. What happened is far simpler and far more terrifying: there are no affordable places to live anymore. In big cities, the rental vacancy rate has plummeted to 2.8%. Imagine a parking garage with 100 spots. Only three are open. That’s the American rental market. And when supply is choked off—a direct result of prioritizing corporate investment over human shelter—prices only go one way. Between 2020 and 2025, rent exploded by 31%. A basic one-bedroom—four walls and a door that locks—now costs $1,800 to $2,400 a month.

When those numbers exceed what millions of people actually earn, what do you think happens next? The poor fall first. Then working families. Then the middle class who just hit one bump in the road: a lost job, a medical bill, a divorce, a broken car. If there were any apartments, you’d stumble, dust yourself off, and recover. There’d be room to breathe. But when there’s nothing, you fall straight through. No safety net. No second chance. The system made sure of that.

And that’s when a car stops being transportation and becomes a coffin-sized shelter. Not because anyone wants to, but because every other door was deliberately slammed shut.

America doesn’t have a compassion problem. America has a housing problem—a direct result of a government that spends trillions on war and Wall Street while letting the basic infrastructure of life rot. We want to believe homelessness is a moral failing. But what we’re watching is basic economics, deliberately distorted by bad policy, breaking down. By 2026, people aren’t just getting forced onto the streets; they’re getting forced into their cars.

Now, you might think, “At least living in a car is cheaper.” Wrong. Living in a vehicle isn’t free; it’s just a different kind of financial torture. And by 2026, those costs have been jacked up too. A propane canister for heat used to cost $18. Now it’s $35. And you’re refilling it every few days. People aren’t paying rent; they’re paying to not freeze to death. Gas prices soar, turning your shelter into a meter that’s constantly running. Every mile you drive to avoid a ticket is money disappearing. And then the vehicle breaks down—because they always do when you live in them 24/7. A $2,500 repair bill on a car that’s also your home is a death sentence. So you see vehicles just sitting there, not moving. It’s not because the people are lazy. It’s because they literally cannot afford to fix the one thing keeping them alive.

Here’s the brutal truth: even being homeless got more expensive. Everything costs more. What you bring in stays the same. And when winter shows up, you’re not asking how cold it will get. You’re asking, “Am I going to survive this?”

But even if you somehow manage the costs, the cities themselves have become the enemy.

One thing that the historical record makes obviously clear is that Adam Smith and his laissez-faire buddies were a bunch of closet-case statists, who needed brutal government policies to whip the English peasantry into a good capitalistic workforce willing to accept wage slavery.

Francis Hutcheson, from whom Adam Smith learned all about the virtue of natural liberty, wrote:

”it is the one great design of civil laws to strengthen by political sanctions the several laws of nature. … The populace needs to be taught, and engaged by laws, into the best methods of managing their own affairs and exercising mechanic art.”

You want more? Adam Smith’s proto-capitalist colleagues were complaining and whining about how peasants are too independent and comfortable to be properly exploited, and trying to figure out how to force them to accept a life of wage slavery.

This pamphlet from the time captures the general attitude towards successful, self-sufficient peasant farmers:

The possession of a cow or two, with a hog, and a few geese, naturally exalts the peasant. . . . In sauntering after his cattle, he acquires a habit of indolence. Quarter, half, and occasionally whole days, are imperceptibly lost. Day labour becomes disgusting; the aversion in- creases by indulgence. And at length the sale of a half-fed calf, or hog, furnishes the means of adding intemperance to idleness.

While another pamphleteer wrote:

Nor can I conceive a greater curse upon a body of people, than to be thrown upon a spot of land, where the productions for subsistence and food were, in great measure, spontaneous, and the climate required or admitted little care for raiment or covering.

John Bellers, a Quaker “philanthropist” and economic thinker, saw independent peasants as a hindrance to his plan of forcing poor people into prison-factories, where they would live, wor,k and produce a profit of 45% for aristocratic owners:

“Our Forests and great Commons (make the Poor that are upon them too much like the Indians) being a hindrance to Industry, and are Nurseries of Idleness and Insolence.”

Daniel Defoe, the novelist and trader, noted that in the Scottish Highlands, “people were extremely well furnished with provisions. … venison exceedingly plentiful, and at all seasons, young or old, which they kill with their guns whenever they find it.’’

To Thomas Pennant, a botanist, this self-sufficiency was ruining a perfectly good peasant population:

“The manners of the native Highlanders may be expressed in these words: indolent to a high degree, unless roused to war, or any animating amusement.”

If having a full belly and productive land was the problem, then the solution to whipping these lazy bums into shape was obvious: kick ‘em off the land and let ‘em starve.

Arthur Young, a popular writer and economic thinker respected by John Stuart Mill, wrote in 1771: “Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.” Sir William Temple, a politician and Jonathan Swift’s boss, agreed, and suggested that food be taxed as much as possible to prevent the working class from a life of “sloth and debauchery.”

Temple also advocated putting four-year-old kids to work in the factories, writing ‘‘for by these means, we hope that the rising generation will be so habituated to constant employment that it would at length prove agreeable and entertaining to them.’’ Some thought that four was already too old.

“John Locke, often seen as a philosopher of liberty, called for the commencement of work at the ripe age of three.”

Child labor also excited Defoe, who was joyed at the prospect that “children after four or five years of age…could every one earn their own bread.’’ But that’s getting off topic…

Even David Hume, that great humanist, hailed poverty and hunger as positive experiences for the lower classes, and even blamed the “poverty” of France on its good weather and fertile soil:

“‘Tis always observed, in years of scarcity, if it be not extreme, that the poor labour more, and really live better.”

Reverend Joseph Townsend believed that restricting food was the way to go:

“[Direct] legal constraint [to labor] . . . is attended with too much trouble, violence, and noise, . . . whereas hunger is not only a peaceable, silent, unremitted pressure, but as the most natural motive to industry, it calls forth the most powerful exertions. . . . Hunger will tame the fiercest animals, it will teach decency and civility, obedience and subjugation to the most brutish, the most obstinate, and the most perverse.”

Patrick Colquhoun, a merchant who set up England’s first private “preventative police“ force to prevent dock workers from supplementing their meager wages with stolen goods, provided what may be the most lucid explanation of how hunger and poverty correlate to productivity and wealth creation:

Poverty is that state and condition in society where the individual has no surplus labour in store, or, in other words, no property or means of subsistence but what is derived from the constant exercise of industry in the various occupations of life. Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilization. It is the lot of man. It is the source of wealth, since without poverty, there could be no labour; there could be no riches, no refinement, no comfort, and no benefit to those who may be possessed of wealth.

Colquhoun’s summary is so on the money, it has to be repeated. Because what was true for English peasants is still just as true for us:

“Poverty is therefore a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society…It is the source of wealth, since without poverty, there could be no labour; there could be no riches, no refinement, no comfort, and no benefit to those who may be possessed of wealth.”

RE: Recovered Economic History

And do the masses rise up and fucking take off these people’s fucking heads? Nah, cuz there’s jobs in changing the fucking Depends of the Demented Richlike Semen Drip Pedophile Trump.

With marble showers and plush suites, the $300 million Boeing 747 gifted by Qatar will definitely be the most luxurious jet to fly the American leader. But in its rushed conversion, it will lose its critical ability to refuel mid-air, a feature that gave Air Force One unlimited range

And the obscene becomes the NORM: A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling.’

Get a fucking job with the uniformed mercenary crusades . . .

According to the Army’s own ceremonial and musical support page on its website, the sidebar includes a drop-down menu titled “What We Cannot Support,” with two bullet points iterating the following:

• Support for or during a religious service (although on-post chaplaincy mission is supported).
• Events that would be detrimental to the interests or values of the armed forces.

JOBS JOBS JOBS:

The color guard’s appearance came two days after the Pentagon received scrutiny for platforming controversial pastor Doug Wilson during its monthly Christian prayer service.

Wilson, who shared a podium with Hegseth, in the past has made questionable remarks about discouraging women to vote, whether slavery was justified, and that he would “be more than happy to work with” the label as a Christian nationalist.

The White House defended Wilson’s appearance after the fact, as did Hegseth himself in social media posts. Also on Thursday, Hegseth defended the prayer service as a whole, saying the “left wing shrieks, which means we’re right over the target.”

CUT CUT CUT ^{. . .} JOB JOBS JOBS: The Trump administration is proposing to log millions of acres of timber in Western Oregon, and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public input.

As part of an effort to expand domestic timber production and reduce reliance on foreign imports, the BLM is inviting comments on new Trump administration plans to log 2.5 million acres of what it describes as highly productive timberlands in Western Oregon. NBC5’s Craig Smullin spoke with people both for and against the proposal.

This is a Huckabee’s bro’ — TV journalist Zvi Yehezkeli (pictured) is due to appear at two events in Sydney and Melbourne in March, but could be denied a visa for entering Australia.

Tony Burke says he is still considering whether to deny visa application from TV journalist Zvi Yehezkeli

An Israeli journalist who once said 100,000 Gazans should have been killed after Hamas’ 7 October attack could be stopped from entering Australia ahead of a fundraising event next month.

Jews, man, fucking JEWS: The OpenAI boss, Sam Altman, has tried to ease concerns about how much power is used by artificial intelligence models by comparing it to the amount of energy required by human development.

“People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model – but it also takes a lot of energy to train a human,” Altman told the Indian Express recently while in India for the AI Impact summit. “It takes about 20 years of life – and all the food you consume during that time – before you become smart.”

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You can’t write a novel with this amount of shit in it — Forget about the slavery, the Indian killing, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Internment, the the the . . .

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is urging broadcasters to air more “patriotic, pro-America” content in honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

In a statement issued on Friday, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr described the “Pledge America Campaign” as a way for broadcasters to align themselves with the Salute to America 250 Task Force, the group created by President Trump to oversee the 250th anniversary celebrations at the federal level.

Carr said the country’s broadcasters should use their national reach and ability to inform and entertain audiences by upping programming that “celebrates the American journey and inspires its citizens by highlighting the historic accomplishments of this great nation from our founding through the Trump Administration today.”

Bears repeating:

From David Vine’s The United States at War:

A list of wars (italic) and of military combat that for some reason isn’t called a war (non-italic) that does not attempt to include every war and combat against Native Americans:

1774-1883 Shawnee, Delaware
1776 Cherokee
1777-1781 Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee)
1780-1794 Chickamauga
1790-1795 Miami Confederacy
1792-1793 Muskogee (Creek)
1798-1801 France
1801-1805 Tripoli
1806 Mexico
1806-1810 Spanish, French privateers
1810 Spanish West Florida
1810-1813 Shawnee Confederacy
1812 Spanish Florida
1812-1815 Canada (Great Britain)
1812-1815 Dakota Sioux
1812-1815 Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee)
1813 Spanish West Florida
1813-1814 Marquesas Islands
1813-1814 Muskogee (Creek) Confederacy
1814 Spanish Florida
1814-1825 Pirates
1815 Algiers
1815 Tripoli
1816 Spanish Florida
1817 Spanish Florida
1817-1819 Seminole
1818 Oregon (Russia, Spain)
1820-1861 African Slave Trade Patrol
1822-1825 Cuba (Spain
1824 Puerto Rico (Spain)
1827 Greece
1831-1832 Falkland Islands
1832 Sauk
1832 Sumatra
1833 Argentina
1835-1836 Peru
1835-1842 Seminole
1836 Mexico
1836-1837 Muskogee (Creek)
1838-1839 Sumatra
1840 Fiji Islands
1841 Samoa
1841 Tabiteuea
1842 Mexico
1843 China
1844 Mexico
1846-1848 Mexico
1847-1850 Cayuse
1849 Turkey
1850-1886 Apache
1851 Johanna Island
1851 Turkey
1852-1853 Argentina
1853-1854 Japan
1853-1854 Nicaragua
1853-1854 Ryukyu, Ogasawara islands
1854-1856 China
1855 Fiji Islands
1855 Uruguay
1855-1856 Rogue River Indigenous Peoples
1855-1856 Yakima, Walla Walla, Cayuse
1855-1858 Seminole
1856 Panama (Colombia)
1856-1857 Cheyenne
1857 Nicaragua
1858 Coeur d’Alene Alliance
1858 Fiji Islands
1858 Uruguay
1858-1859 Turkey
1859 China
1859 Mexico
1859 Paraguay
1860 Angola
1860 Colombia
1862 Sioux
1863-1864 Japan
1864 Cheyenne
1865 Panama (Colombia)
1866 China
1866 Mexico
1866-1868 Lakota Siouw, Northern Cheyenne, Northern Arapaho
1867 Formosa (Taiwan)
1867 Nicaragua
1867-1875 Comanche
1868 Colombia
1868 Japan
1868 Uruguay
1870 Hawaii
1871 Korea
1872-1873 Modoc
1873 Colombia (Panama)
1873-1896 Mexico
1874 Hawaii
1874-1875 Comanche, Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Kiowa
1876-1877 Sioux
1877 Nez Perce
1878 Bannock (Banna’kwut)
1878-1879 Cheyenne
1879-1880 Utes
1882 Egypt
1885 Panama (Colombia)
1888 Haiti
1888 Korea
1888-1889 Samoa
1889 Hawaii
1890 Argentina
1890 Lakota Sioux
1891 Bering Straight
1891 Chile
1891 Haiti
1893 Hawaii
1894 Brazil
1894 Nicaragua
1894-1895 China
1894-1896 Korea
1895 Panama (Colombia)
1896 Nicaragua
1898 Cuba (Spain)
1898 Nicaragua
1898 Philippines (Spain)
1898 Puerto Rico (Spain)
1898-1899 China
1899 Nicaragua
1899 Samoa
1899-1913 Philippines
1900 China
1901-1902 Colombia
1903 Dominican Republic
1903 Honduras
1903 Syria
1903-1904 Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1903-1914 Panama
1904 Dominican Republic
1904 Tangier
1904-1905 Korea
1906-1909 Cuba
1907 Honduras
1909-1910 Nicaragua
1911-1912 Honduras
1911-1914 China
1912 Cuba
1912 Turkey
1912-1933 Nicaragua
1914 Dominican Republic
1914 Haiti
1914-1919 Mexico
1915-1934 Haiti
1916-1924 Dominican Republic
1917-1918 World War I (Europe)
1917-1922 Cuba
1918-1920 Russia
1918-1921 Panama
1919 Dalmatia
1919 Turkey
1919-1920 Honduras
1925 Panama
1932 El Salvador
1941-1945 World War II (Europe, North Africa, Asia/Pacific)
1946 Trieste
1947-1949 Greece
1948-1949 Berlin, Germany
1950 Formosa (Taiwan)
1950-1953 Korea
1953-1954 Formosa (Taiwan)
1955-1975 Vietnam
1956 Egypt
1958 Lebanon
1962 Cuba
1962 Thailand
1962-1975 Laos
1964 Congo (Zaire)
1965 Dominican Republic
1965-1973 Cambodia
1967 Congo (Zaire)
1976 Korea
1978 Congo (Zaire)
1980 Iran
1981 El Salvador
1981 Libya
1981-1989 Nicaragua
1982-1983 Egypt
1982-1983 Lebanon
1983 Chad
1983 Grenada
1986 Bolivia
1986 Libya
1987-1988 Iran
1988 Panama
1989 Bolivia
1989 Colombia
1989 Libya
1989 Peru
1989 Philippines
1989-1990 Panama
1990 Saudi Arabia
1991 Congo (Zaire)
1991-1992 Kuwait
1991-1993 Iraq
1992-1994 Somalia
1993-1994 Macedonia
1993-1996 Haiti
1993-2005 Bosnia
1995 Serbia
1996 Liberia
1996 Rwanda
1997-2003 Iraq
1998 Afghanistan
1998 Sudan
1999-2000 Kosovo
1999-2000 Montenegro
1999-2000 Serbia
2000 Yemen
2000-2002 East Timor
2000-2016 Colombia
2001 – Afghanistan
2001- Pakistan
2001- Somalia
2002-2015 Philippines
2002- Yemen
2003-2011 Iraq
2004 Haiti
c2004- Kenya
2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo
2011-2017 Uganda
2011- Libya
c2012- Central African Republic
c2012- Mali
c2013-2016 South Sudan
c2013- Burkina Faso
c2013- Chad
c2013- Mauritania
c2013- Niger
c2013- Nigeria
2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo
2014- Iraq
2014- Syria
2015 Democratic Republic of the Congo
c2015- Cameroon
2016 Democratic Republic of the Congo
2017- Saudi Arabia
c2017 Tunisia
2019- Philippines

Here is Blum’s list of U.S. attempts to overthrow governments (* indicates success):

• China 1949 to early 1960s
• Albania 1949-53
• East Germany 1950s
• Iran 1953 *
• Guatemala 1954 *
• Costa Rica mid-1950s
• Syria 1956-7
• Egypt 1957
• Indonesia 1957-8
• British Guiana 1953-64 *
• Iraq 1963 *
• North Vietnam 1945-73
• Cambodia 1955-70 *
• Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
• Ecuador 1960-63 *
• Congo 1960 *
• France 1965
• Brazil 1962-64 *
• Dominican Republic 1963 *
• Cuba 1959 to present
• Bolivia 1964 *
• Indonesia 1965 *
• Ghana 1966 *
• Chile 1964-73 *
• Greece 1967 *
• Costa Rica 1970-71
• Bolivia 1971 *
• Australia 1973-75 *
• Angola 1975, 1980s
• Zaire 1975
• Portugal 1974-76 *
• Jamaica 1976-80 *
• Seychelles 1979-81
• Chad 1981-82 *
• Grenada 1983 *
• South Yemen 1982-84
• Suriname 1982-84
• Fiji 1987 *
• Libya 1980s
• Nicaragua 1981-90 *
• Panama 1989 *
• Bulgaria 1990 *
• Albania 1991 *
• Iraq 1991
• Afghanistan 1980s *
• Somalia 1993
• Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
• Ecuador 2000 *
• Afghanistan 2001 *
• Venezuela 2002 *
• Iraq 2003 *
• Haiti 2004 *
• Somalia 2007 to present
• Honduras 2009
• Libya 2011 *
• Syria 2012
• Ukraine 2014 *
  [arguably, Syria 1949 needs to be added to this list. –DS]

Stress positions and stress tests and crash test dummies in ALL sectors and all the fabric of this fucked up society.

Be all you can’t be:

Track your kiddos!!!

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