[Approximately 800,000 to 900,000 Israelis, or about 10% of the population, hold dual citizenship.]
Yair Golan, a retired IDF deputy chief of staff and head of the newly formed political party The Democrats, accused Israel of “killing babies as a hobby.”
In a press conference, Golan lashed out at the Benjamin Netanyahu government’s actions in Gaza. “Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country,” he said.
“A sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not engage in mass population displacement,” Golan added. He accused the current leadership of being “full of vengeful types with no morals and no ability to run a country in a time of crisis. This endangers our existence.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back at Golan, calling his remarks “wild incitement” and a “blood libel.”
[Moshe Feiglin. His ancestors moved to Palestine from Imperial Russia.
The history of the US border is full of even more hypocritical
duplicity than the shifty Australian border. Even before the
United States came into being, its border had been invoked,
dismissed, drawn and redrawn for over a century: from the
hastily defined and competing imperial claims by the British,
French, and Spanish empires, the “wall” of the Appalachian
mountains, to the Proclamation Line of 1763, as set by King
George III when he declared that it was “essential to our
interest, and the security of our colonies, that the several
nations or tribes of Indian with whom we are connected, and
who live under our protection, should not be molested or
disturbed.” The proclamation set the then-westernmost border
of the colonies.
The king’s demarcation of the border was one of the principal
but often-overlooked sparks of the Revolutionary War: the
colonists’ desire—their “destiny”—to push west and fill the land
with white people (“populate or perish”)—their refusal to be
hemmed in, to be beholden to any border. Indeed, one of the
charges against the British in the Declaration of Independence
was that the king was restricting immigration: “He has
endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that
purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners;
refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither,
and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.”13
The colonists valued freedom (for some) over and against the
idea of borders and territorial limits.
Instead of respecting borders that they often themselves drew
and defended, the invaders released their invasive hogs into
Native hunting grounds, clear-cut forests, plied Natives with
liquor, tempted them with baubles, infected them with diseases,
and, when that wasn’t enough, formed mobs or militias and
went on the attack, always pushing beyond the
westward-creeping border—land-grabbing and resource-gobbling
as much as they could along the way. —
The Case for Open Borders, John Washingotn
Eight of the ten largest desalination plants on earth sit on the Arabian Peninsula coast. Together, the Gulf states account for roughly sixty percent of global desalination capacity. A hundred million people drink what these facilities manufacture from seawater every single day. Kuwait gets ninety percent of its drinking water from desalination. Oman eighty-six. Saudi Arabia seventy. Without these plants, the most powerful petroleum states on earth would become uninhabitable within days. Not weeks but days.
A leaked 2008 U.S. diplomatic cable concluded that Riyadh “would have to evacuate within a week” if the Jubail desalination plant or its associated infrastructure were seriously damaged. That was 2008. The population is larger now. The consumption is higher. The alternative freshwater sources remain exactly zero.
On March 2, Iranian strikes on Dubai’s Jebel Ali port landed roughly twelve miles from one of the world’s largest desalination complexes — a facility producing more than 160 billion gallons of the city’s water each year. The Fujairah power and water complex was damaged. Kuwait’s Doha West desalination plant was damaged. Neither was destroyed. Both appeared to be collateral — nearby port attacks, interceptor debris.
That distinction was the most important signal in this war. Emphasis on was.
Because Washington couldn’t leave well enough alone. On Friday, the United States destroyed a freshwater desalination plant on Iran’s Qeshm Island — reportedly with missiles launched from its Jufair base in Bahrain. Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi responded immediately: “The US committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. The water supply in 30 villages has been impacted. Attacking Iran’s infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The US set this precedent, not Iran.” Washington denied it. Of course, they did. U.S. Navy Captain Tim Hawkins called the claim false, calling Iran “the same terrorist regime that has attacked 12 different countries.” The plant on Qeshm Island, meanwhile, remained destroyed.
If you want Americans and Jews in Israel and dual citizen Israelis protected, then you are on fucking crack:
Videos shared by citizen journalists showed massive flames over the Tehran sky overnight and smoke still billowing over the oil storage facilities. As rain poured down on the city of 10 million people on Sunday morning, authorities warned of toxic acid rain and many residents woke up with pain in their throat and eyes burning.
Firefighters at the Shahran oil depot in Tehran after it was struck.
Strikes near the Azadi tower, close to Tehran’s Mehrabad International airport on Saturday night.
A fire after an airstrike on an oil storage facility in Tehran
How many Muslims? Two billion? How many majority-Muslim countries? Fifty-five?
The Persian Gulf’s ‘saltwater kingdoms’ rely so much on desalination that damage to the infrastructure could force evacuations
You lost, man, to point two percent, the .2 percent solution — Jews.
Everything, Arabs, or Muslims, everything. Vaseline? Bend over and think Sriracha liquid because the Jews are ready to bugger you and your children. U.S. considers the idea of a special operation to seize Iran’s uranium
There will be no resistance in the USA, just enlistment into the uniformed mercenary services: Gen Z graduates who majored in ‘AI-proof’ careers like pharmacy, biology, and education are making less than $50,000 after graduation
The Valley of the Giants, home to some of the largest and oldest trees on Oregon’s Coast Range, is renowned for the titanic Douglas firs and Western Hemlocks that compose its canopy. It was recognized as an Outstanding Natural Area and an Area of Critical Environmental Concern by the BLM in 1976.
U.S. military personnel with a round of white phosphorus in Afghanistan in 2011.Credit…Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
When President Trump issued an abrupt order last month compelling the production of glyphosate, the controversial weedkiller known as Roundup, he angered health activists who have long campaigned to ban the product for its links to cancer.
But largely overshadowed in the furor was the order’s mention of something contentious in another way: the manufacture of munitions used by the United States military.
Bayer, which makes glyphosate, is also the only company in the United States that manufactures a form of elemental phosphorus called white phosphorus, which it uses to make the weedkiller. That white phosphorus is also used to make munitions deployed as smoke screens and incendiary devices that can violently burn property or people.
Winning everywhich way, idiots who see Iran as a force to stop the Empire. FUCKS.
Trump calls for more aggressive responses to cyberattacks in long-awaited cyber strategy
The text includes lots of braggadocio — and little detail on actual plans to deter top cyber adversaries, including Russia and China.
Something about the cunt Pedophile and Rapist slowing down? FUCK: President Donald Trump is set to gather with Latin American leaders on Saturday at his Miami-area golf club as his administration looks to demonstrate it’s still committed to sharpening U.S. foreign policy focus on the Western Hemisphere even as it deals with five-alarm crises around the globe.
The gathering, dubbed the “Shield of the Americas” summit, comes just two months after Trump ordered an audacious U.S. military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and whisk him and his wife to the U.S. to face drug conspiracy charges.
Looming even larger is Trump’s decision to join with Israel to launch a war on Iran one week ago, a conflict that’s already left hundreds dead, convulsed global markets and unsettled the broader Middle East.
Trump’s time with the Latin American leaders will be limited: He is also set to fly to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, to be on hand for the dignified transfer of the six U.S. troops killed in a drone strike on a command center in Kuwait, one day after the U.S. and Israel launched their military campaign against Iran.
Winners and losers: ‘I am trying to live’: Haitians in Mexico seek community despite broken immigration systems,
As thousands of other Haitians continued to arrive in Tapachula, the main entry point for migrants traveling north through Central America, many have found themselves trapped in a tangle of hostile or dysfunctional immigration systems involving Mexico, the US and the UN. There are few smooth paths forward, whether they are aiming to settle there or head for central or northern Mexico, or the US.
[An asylum-seeking migrant from Haiti who did not give her name out of fear, cleans a kitchen at a shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico]
[A Mexican immigration official speaks to migrants as they line up for their appointment with US immigration officials to apply for asylum.]
The Nobodies
Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that one magical day good luck will suddenly rain down on them—will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down yesterday, today, tomorrow, or ever. Good luck doesn’t even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day with their right foot, or start the new year with a change of brooms.
The nobodies: nobody’s children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way.
Who are not, but could be. Who don’t speak languages, but dialects. Who don’t have religions, but superstitions. Who don’t create art, but handicrafts. Who don’t have culture, but folklore. Who are not human beings, but human resources. Who do not have faces, but arms. Who do not have names, but numbers. Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the police blotter of the local paper. The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them.”
― From Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Can we just fucking put these cunts out of their misery – John et al?
The University of Chicago has a superb extension program called the Graham School. On 3 March 2026, I did a lengthy interview with Jennifer Lind, who teaches at Graham. We talked about various big issues involving the past 250 year of US foreign Policy.
Note: This Jew is Jew advertising Goldman Sachs, crypto coins on the YouTUbe feed I have of Johnny boy.
[Migrants at a house funded by the Catholic Church in the neighborhood of Iztapalapa in Mexico City.]
Skipping Jews and Mossad and NeoCon Insider Jobbers and September 11 . . .
Since 9/11, virtually every American war in the Middle East, from Iraq to Libya to Syria to Yemen, has been the product of Israel in partnership with hardline Zionist neo-conservatives in the U.S. who desire to destroy states that get in the way of Israeli domination of the region.
Through a combination of the powerful Israel Lobby, ideologically committed Zionists in the U.S., and Neo-conservatives who believe an Israeli-dominated Middle East will allow the American foreign policy elite to project power over the region, all of these wars have had the same primary motive: to benefit Israel and make Israel the hegemon over the Middle East.
This undeniable fact for years, haa been taboo in the mainstream media ,and almost never discussed.
But the current war on Iran- and the fact that the Trump administration and Benjamin Netanyahu have not hidden that it is for Israel- has forced the mainstream media to acknowledge this fact.
Benjamin Netanyahu boasted at the beginning of the war that ,“This combined effort allows us to do what I have hoped to achieve for 40 years: to crush the regime of terror completely. That’s my promise, and this is what is going to happen”.
You think?
Mary Costello: ‘I write to become conscious.’
Author Mary Costello:
‘Gaza has disabled me. I think, how could I go into a room and make up stories?’
As her latest novel is published, the acclaimed Irish author has turned her attention to non-fiction, still writing ‘what obsesses, consumes and distresses’ her.
The writer Mary Costello is sitting in the plush lobby of a Galway city-centre hotel. She is diminutive in stature, smartly dressed, with impeccable long, blonde hair hanging neatly around her shoulders. She drinks mint tea as we discuss her new novel, A Beautiful Loan, an intimate portrait of one woman’s journey towards self-discovery.
“Like many authors, I draw on aspects of my own life, my reading, my passions”. Carl Jung “has been a pivotal influence,” she says, praising his “all-encompassing approach to the human psyche”, which incorporates science, philosophy, rational and irrational behaviour and all world cultures”. Joyce has long been an influence on Mary and the French-Algerian philosopher and novelist Albert Camus is another hero.
“He was flawed but had such a deep concern for the suffering of others.”
Mary, originally from Menlough, lived in Dublin for many years, settling in Kinvara with her husband Martin 10 years ago, where she continues her own journey of self-discovery.
“Becoming conscious is the most important thing we can do. The more conscious we get, the better it is for us. I write to become conscious.”
She’s lucky, she says. “I write in a warm room and there’s food in the fridge.” However, she hasn’t written a word of fiction since Israel’s invasion of Gaza in October 2023, having become “absolutely paralysed by the genocide”.
The “shameful behaviour” of western countries hasn’t helped.
“I had not expected that the West would tolerate such depravity from Israel. I thought ordinary people would be on the streets,” she says.
And while Irish people have been protesting, the country is as complicit as anywhere else, as we’ve let Shannon Airport be used as a “de facto military base. Innocent people in tents in Gaza have been hammered by bombs, have been vaporised so that there isn’t an atom left, and nobody is searching the planes going through Shannon”.
Does any of this shit matter? These two fuckng infants epitomize what dirty dirty AmeriKKKa is.
Nah, Jews are fucking born liars: Forwarded this email? More like 9.9 out of 10, and this 57 percent shit? Make that 8 out of 10.
Private First Class took over the world for a while:
Now?
Jerusalem Cross (Crusaders’ Cross)
The tattoo covering his chest dates back to 1099 and symbolises the Crusader kingdom in Jerusalem.
Hegseth was ordered to stand down from National Guard duty for Joe Biden’s inauguration over concerns raised by the Jerusalem cross tattoo.
The symbol, according to academics, has been popularised by the far-Right.
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Netflix is already casting Brad Cooper to play Admiral Cooper:
Hours after the first bombs dropped, CENTCOM, which oversees the military’s Middle East operations, said its Scorpion Strike task force had used one-way attack drones for the first time in combat.
[Cross with sword with Hebrew — The cross cum sword with Hebrew lettering beneath it on his right forearm was reportedly the first tattoo that Hegseth got while on holiday. The Hebrew lettering spells out Yeshuah, which can symbolise Jesus among Christian groups.]
The US military has employed several new weapons to carry out strikes against Iran.
These include short-range ballistic missiles and cheap attack drones.
Observers also spotted what may be a new ship-launched cruise missile variant.
The US military is launching new ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and attack drones at Iran, using the conflict to test experimental weapons in combat for the first time.
Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of US Central Command, confirmed on Tuesday that US Army units fired the Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM, at Iranian targets, calling it “a historic first” and “an unrivaled, deep-strike capability.”
How many times do you all have to hear this:
West Asia is the proving grounds for more and more weapons of slaughter, more and more weapons of fear, more and more weather manipulation tools, more and more economic hitmen running around in all sorts of disguises.
All these fucking people talking about “no exit plan”? Read military news . . . .
“The cost imbalance is shifting,” Patrycja Bazylczyk, an associate director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Missile Defense Project added. “The employment of LUCAS drones against Iran demonstrates that the US is willing to give Iran a taste of their own medicine.”
The LUCAS drones cost roughly $35,000 apiece.US Central Command photo
Dan Rice, a former US Army artillery officer who served as a special advisor to Ukraine’s military leadership, said that the PrSM and LUCAS were likely selected for their strikes based on “proper targeting,” rather than the US trying to show off its capabilities.
“Targets have been planned for a long time in most cases,” Rice told Business Insider, adding that a thorough planning process matches the right weapons with the desired combat effects. “These new weapons are part of our platform and are doing their role.”
Trump also expressed himself in a post on Truth Social how Americans will die against Iran, elaborating that “the lives of courageous American heroes may be lost” in what the Pentagon dubbed “Operation Epic Fury… We may have casualties.”
As Trump’s entire family has avoided military service, the ultimate price for his warmaking will consist of using other American families’ sons and daughters as cannon fodder and he may be preparing for a political backlash by demonstrating now how much he cares about the average Americans who will be impacted by his policies. Of course, he clearly does not care unless your name is Adelson or Netanyahu.
Trump’s memo authorizing this action seems designed to sidestep the Posse Comitatus Act, which normally bars federal armed forces from conducting domestic law enforcement. The apparent plan is to let the military act as a de facto border police force, with soldiers apprehending, searching, and detaining people who cross the border unlawfully.
It was October 2012. Roei Elkabetz, a brigadier general for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was explaining his country’s border policing strategies. In his PowerPoint presentation, a photo of the enclosure wall that isolates the Gaza Strip from Israel clicked onscreen. “We have learned lots from Gaza,” he told the audience. “It’s a great laboratory.”
Elkabetz was speaking at a border technology conference and fair surrounded by a dazzling display of technology—the components of his boundary-building lab. There were surveillance balloons with high-powered cameras floating over a desert-camouflaged armored vehicle made by Lockheed Martin. There were seismic sensor systems used to detect the movement of people and other wonders of the modern border-policing world. Around Elkabetz, you could see vivid examples of where the future of such policing was heading, as imagined not by a dystopian science fiction writer but by some of the top corporate techno-innovators on the planet.
Swimming in a sea of border security, the brigadier general was, however, not surrounded by the Mediterranean but by a parched West Texas landscape. He was in El Paso, a 10-minute walk from the wall that separates the United States from Mexico.
Just a few more minutes on foot and Elkabetz could have watched green-striped US Border Patrol vehicles inching along the trickling Rio Grande in front of Ciudad Juarez, one of Mexico’s largest cities filled with US factories and the dead of that country’s drug wars. The Border Patrol agents whom the general might have spotted were then being up-armored with a lethal combination of surveillance technologies, military hardware, assault rifles, helicopters, and drones. This once-peaceful place was being transformed into what Timothy Dunn, in his book The Militarization of the US Mexico Border, terms a state of “low-intensity warfare.”
You know the Trump-MAGA maggots and Republicans are winning: What Does War with Iran Have to Do with Elections?
More braying, man, braying: Trump’s Iran Strikes Are Unconstitutional. Congress must act.
Nah, Israel and its gangs are striking feat in the world. DOnroe Doctrine is also assisting:
Israel’s war on Iran reveals a deeper crisis: the collapse of a psychological doctrine built on fear and invincibility.
Key Takeaways
Israel’s military strategy has long relied on psychological dominance and deterrence built on overwhelming violence.
Massacres during the Nakba helped establish fear as a strategic tool to weaken Palestinian resistance.
Doctrines such as the Dahiya Doctrine and “mowing the grass” reinforced Israel’s image of invincibility.
The Gaza genocide and regional escalation have severely weakened Israel’s psychological deterrence.
The war on Iran may accelerate the collapse of Israel’s most important strategic asset: fear.
[Bharat Petroleum Corp. (BPCL) oil refineryin Mumbai. The US government has temporarily eased sanctions to allow India to buy Russian oil currently stranded at sea, amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. Nearly half of India’s crude oil imports pass through the Strait of Hormuz.]
Oh, that 1.3 billion person questions? Nah, Trump is WINNING:
A well-honed tool in the United States’ diplomatic box is to rub the noses of its vassal states in the dust occasionally to remind them they are a lower form of life, while also proclaiming to the world at large that once a vassal state, always a vassal state. The sabotage of Germany’s Nord Stream gas pipeline in September 2022 is a brazen example. More recently, India is also being subjected by the US to similar harsh treatments.
Exceptionally rude statements and remarks poured out of Trump administration officials demanding that India should fall in line with the American diktat to terminate its oil imports from Russia. The alibi was that India’s oil trade generated additional income for Russia, which helped finance the Kremlin’s ongoing war in Ukraine.
The Trump administration knew it to be a patently absurd argument, but the purposive decision had a three-fold objective: one, to reverse the rising curve of Russian-Indian trade and erode the relationship between the two countries at the present transformative period in international politics; two, replace Russian oil with US supplies (at much higher prices) in the lucrative Indian market that is expected to be a huge guzzler of energy for decades to come and, thereby, also gain control over India’s energy security, which of course has huge strategic implications; and, three, demonstrate that the present Indian ruling elites’ grandstanding flaunting an ultra-nationalist apparel and its self-proclamation of a civilisation state—“Vishwaguru” [world teacher] and all that, is bunkum to the core, and the strategic autonomy and independent foreign policies that the Indian government claims to have are, in reality, highfalutin jargon.
Simply put, the US exposed the present Indian ruling elite as frauds and comprador elements—basically, cowards and cynics. At one point, when Trump’s theatrics reached the high noon, he even boasted he could “end” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political career.
Like an obedient lion in the circus tent, at the sound of the whip cracking, we have been trained to perform. There seems to be no sense of shame on the part of our ruling elites that they are being treated so openly and brazenly in front of the world audience as the brokers of a vassal state that is at Washington’s bidding.
What would Gandhiji make out of all this? Is this the “tryst with destiny” that Nehru once dreamed about? For the sheer freedom to make salt, Gandhiji asserted his will in Dandi in the state of Gujarat.
India’s present-day rulers too should exercise their prerogative to take independent decisions. But, for that to happen, as Rabindranath Tagore wrote, the mind should first be without fear and the head held high.
“This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be”, Hegseth boasted.
He added with pride that the US and Israel are raining upon Iran “death and destruction from the sky, all day long”.
Hegseth noted that, in the first four days of the war on Iran (named Operation Epic Fury), the US military employed “twice the air power” that it had used in the “shock and awe” invasion of Iraq in 2003.
In another press briefing on March 2, the US secretary of war condemned international organizations like the United Nations and proclaimed, “America, regardless of what so-called international institutions say, is unleashing the most lethal and precise air power campaign in history”.
Hegseth bragged that the US is fighting with “no stupid rules of engagement”. By his admission, the Pentagon is purposefully targeting civilian areas, and does not care about the rules of war.
[Oh no, Ben is on the job. This guy has to shut up to. Yammering how Hegseth has no background as a military officer and was a host on Fox TV? What the fuck/]
Adolf Hitler served as an infantryman in the Bavarian (German) Army during World War I, enlisting in 1914 despite being an Austrian citizen. As a decorated volunteer in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment, he served primarily as a dispatch runner on the Western Front, winning the Iron Cross First Class. He was wounded in 1916 and temporarily blinded by gas in 1918, ending the war in a hospital.
Holocaust Encyclopedia +5
Key details of Hitler’s military background include:
WWI Service: He enthusiastically joined the German army in August 1914, serving as a Gefreiter (lance corporal).
Role: He was a message runner (dispatch runner) for his regiment, a position considered dangerous as it involved traveling between company headquarters and the front lines.
Combat Experience: He participated in major battles, including the First Battle of Ypres (1914) and the Battle of the Somme (1916).
Decorations: He was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class (1914) and the rare Iron Cross First Class (1918) for bravery.
Injuries: Hitler was wounded in the leg in 1916 and blinded by a British mustard gas attack near Ypres in October 1918.
Post-War: While recovering from the gas attack, he learned of Germany’s defeat, which, according to History.com, profoundly shaped his later political trajectory.
Although some contemporaries suggested he avoided the hardest combat, {Link: 12 Facts About Adolf Hitler – History Hit and the Holocaust Encyclopedia} verify his active service and injuries. In 1919, he briefly worked for the Bavarian military intelligence, focusing on political indoctrination.
[On the right, with the bigger moustache! Hitler’s highest rank in the Army? Gefreiter, roughly equivalent to a Lance Corporal or Private First Class.
Seems like a challenge? Not sure how Bradley Cooper and Delta Force will track down some 16-year-old in Mexico or in German or in India will actually get tracked down for tossing acid at some fucking fat American tourists or dousing them with a lit Molotov. Machetes? A hoodie and a carving knife?
You think Cap’n Crunch is coming in with Apaches?
Ya think it would be difficult kniving some of these turistas?
Oh, god, more Year of the Fire Horse declarations?
Yep! Jeremy Corbyn: “Look at the disgraceful way Francesca Albanese has been treated by the right in the United States and the right all over Europe. It is important to stand by people like her when they’re going through that sort of horror.”
What’s this cunt up to?
Barack Obama: a textbook Uncle Tom with a talent for public speaking whose actions from a position of privilege within the white man’s parasitic system wiped out entire generations of his fellow Africans.
A tale as old as colonialism itself.
Israeli army radio reports on Netanyahu:
“After the defeat of the Iranian regime, Israel will impose a ‘code of conduct’ on Arab Islamic countries regarding armament, security, and educational curricula.”
The most dangerous statement directed at the people since World War II, A constitution for Arab Islamic states written in Tel Aviv, not mentioning any intervention in Iran at all, the project targets Arab countries, and the Islamic religion, and it is bigger than the fall of the Iranian regime, which fights on behalf of the Arabs!!
Remember the good old war crimes days?
Fun and games outside Travis AF Base:
That’s about all they, the resistance, can muster.
Endless on Twitter!
Is this Beverly Hills?
From Twitter: The Gulfis are calling on the Americans and saying that they spread peace and democracy in the world. This picture is from an American invasion in 2003 of an Iraqi family’s home.
An ordinary family with no weapons or anything, sitting in their home like any normal people, and the Americans bursting in on them with rifles raised in the faces of the children and in their eyes, and in their eyes is terror and fear. Is this the peace and democracy you talk about, oh Gulfis? These are the ones you ally with and seek help from against the Muslims and defend—did this come to defend you and spread peace with bullets in the faces of children!
Anyone who slaughters and raises a weapon in the faces of children is a filthy terrorist and occupier, and all their tails and those who praise them are partners in this terrorism.
Last word?
“Our embassies and military bases are used for trafficking children. We breed children for pedophilia and child sacrifice.
The right of passage for our political leaders is to abuse children, engage in pedophilia and kill them.
Pedophilia is the induction glue. It is how the deep state recruits and control people….it is also the Achilles heel. I believe that once the public is fully aware that the government isn’t interested in protecting their children, everything about the government would be called into question.
I am on record as a former CIA operations officer saying, that our bases overseas are not there for national defence, they are there to serve as lily pads for the smuggling of guns, gold, cash, drugs and small children.”
Robert David Steele.
(1952-2021)
Former CIA case officer Cofounder: U.S Marine Corps Intelligence Activity. Pioneer: Open Source Intelligence. Board Member: International Tribunal for Natural Justice (ITNJ).
Mirror neurons are specialized brain cells that activate both when you perform an action and when you observe someone else doing the same action. Psychologists believe these neurons play a key role in emotional contagion, empathy, and social learning. When you spend time around others, your brain is constantly mirroring their facial expressions, tone of voice, body language, and emotional states without conscious effort.
This process explains why moods spread quickly in groups. If someone around you is anxious, calm, motivated, or joyful, your brain partially recreates that emotional state internally. Over time, repeated exposure strengthens these neural patterns, shaping behavior, attitudes, and even habits. This is why environments matter so much for mental health and personal growth.
Mirror neurons also help humans learn efficiently. Children acquire language, social norms, and emotional regulation largely through observation rather than instruction. Adults continue using the same system to adapt to social circles, workplaces, and relationships.
Psychology research links strong mirror neuron activity to higher empathy and social awareness. However, it also means prolonged exposure to negativity can increase stress and emotional fatigue. Being mindful of who you surround yourself with is not just advice; it is neuroscience. Your brain is wired to adapt, reflect, and align with the emotional world it experiences daily.
Amazon has withdrawn from the Paris book festival after a boycott by France’s booksellers’ association prompted a row over the company’s sponsorship of the event.
The festival, due to take place from 17 to 19 April, will now go ahead without the backing of the US retail company, after a mutual decision by organisers and Amazon to end their partnership.
The dispute started after the French booksellers’ association Syndicat de la Librairie Française (SLF) announced it would boycott the festival in protest at Amazon’s involvement.
The SLF has been sharply critical of Amazon, arguing that it destabilises the book trade. In a statement reported by the Bookseller, it accused the company of seeking “to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, [which are] promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [and rise] to the top of fake rankings”. It also criticised the publishers’ association and the festival organisers for what it described as an “irresponsible” decision to collaborate with Amazon, taken in the name of short-term financial interests.
2014?
Amazon.com is facing another PR backlash over its ongoing dispute with publisher Hachette as a group of more than 900 authors have signed a letter demanding that the Seattle online retailer resolve the fight, and live up to its corporate mantra of “Earth’s most customer-centric company.”
The group, operating under the name Author’s United, plans to reprint the letter in a full page ad in The New York Times this Sunday. The letter reprints the email address of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and asks readers to email him with their thoughts.
“It is not right for Amazon to single out a group of authors, who are not involved in the dispute, for selective retaliation,” the letter reads. “Moreover, by inconveniencing and misleading its own customers with unfair pricing and delayed delivery, Amazon is contradicting its own written promise to be “Earth’s most customer-centric company.”
Author Douglas Preston, who initially penned the letter and is published by Hachette, tells The New York Times that Amazon.com has “turned its back” on authors.
Amazon.com issued this statement to The New York Times about the latest salvo from the authors, many of whom are not published through Hachette.
“First, Hachette was willing to break the law to get higher e-book prices, and now they’re determined to keep their own authors in the line of fire in order to achieve that same end. Amazon has made three separate proposals to take authors out of the middle, all of which Hachette has quickly dismissed.”
Comedian Stephen Colbert— whose books are published through Hachette — blasted Amazon earlier this year. In the June episode, Colbert ripped Jeff Bezos — comparing him to Lord Voldermort, the villain in Harry Potter — and finished the piece by giving Amazon.com the middle finger through a packaging box. With both hands.
He has not signed the letter, but many other notable authors have joined fight, including Jon Krakauer, Sherman Alexie, Scott Turow, Nora Roberts and Malcolm Gladwell.
Yeah, the cocksuckers in the world are not protesting, man. No Kings Day plenty of Ukrainian flags and sunflowers while ZioNaziAzov Lensky is sending drones and soldier to Israel.
Trump’s demands for ending Iran war shift as US military works through its target list
Now what is this about Adolph Bibi and Pedop;hile and rapist Trump LOSING?
Cuba is going: There have been protests in darkness in Cuba, as thousands of people still remain without electricity after a huge blackout hit the western part of the island on Wednesday. Authorities blamed the outage on US sanctions and a lack of fuel for energy facilities.
Oh Iran: Global fertiliser supplies could be disrupted by Middle East conflict. Around a third of fertiliser raw materials pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route now affected by tensions.
Iran is winning? Iran’s air force was the most powerful in the Middle East in 1979, and nothing about it has changed since then. That’s a big problem for Tehran.
Operation Epic Fury has exposed the limitations of Iran’s aging air force. Within the first days of the campaign, US and Israeli forces achieved air superiority over Iranian air space—a contest during which Iranian fighters were largely absent from the skies.
The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) has sometimes been described as a “flying museum,” as much of it dates back to the pre-1979 era. Following the 1979 revolution, Western nations blocked Iran’s attempts to buy new aircraft, leaving the country reliant on 50-year-old American jets and a small number of Soviet aircraft. As a result, the IRIAF has struggled to match modern fifth-generation fighters such as the F-35 and the F-22.
Trump is losing the Donroe Doctrine? Trump vows to use US military force against cartels across Latin America
Seventeen countries signed onto a joint security declaration as Trump convened his closest hemispheric allies in Florida for an inaugural Shield of the Americas Summit.
Iranian drones strike Amazon data centres in Bahrain, UAE
Yeah? Are you sure they do anything? Iran has deployed a new missile variant called “Etemad” during the 25th wave of operations.
Missiles such as Kheibar Shekan and Fattah, which have been used in recent operations, generally have a range of about 1,400 to 1,450 kilometers.
An upgraded version of the Kheibar Shekan, known as Kheibar Shekan-2, has a range of up to 1,800 kilometers, although the images released so far mainly show the standard versions.
Yeah, you sure about that? Venezuela’s Humiliating Retreat May Be Temporary.
Happy? Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez and U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum stand together as they attend to deliver statements at Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela, March 4, 2026.
Since January 3, when the U.S. bombed Caracas, killed over 100 people, and kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, acting President Delcy Rodríguez has cordially hosted numerous U.S. officials in Caracas, and now fully restored diplomatic relations with Washington.
At gunpoint, the U.S. now decides who can receive Venezuelan oil and how much oil revenue Venezuela can receive. On Truth Social the other day, Trump essentially patted the acting president of Venezuela on the head telling her she was doing a fine job. Delcy (as everyone calls her) replied on X by thanking the genocidal monster, rapist and probable pedophile. It seems likely that Delcy will soon host Trump himself in the city where he very recently spilled Venezuelan and Cuban blood – perhaps without Trump even bothering to release Maduro and his wife from prison beforehand.
Going going GONE, Chavez.
Delcy’s foreign minister, Ivan Gil, made a disgraceful statement after the U.S. initiated a war of aggression against Iran on February 28. The statement – which was promptly deleted – failed to name the U.S. and “Israel” as aggressors, but criticized Iran for how it defended itself. The statement was essentially rebuked by elements of the Chavista movement (named after former President Hugo Chavez) that was President Maduro’s, and now Delcy’s, support base.
Iran’s government has been a courageous ally of Venezuela’s for many years. It has played a significant role in helping Venezuela survive the murderous sanctions the U.S. has imposed since 2017. In 2015, Obama imposed illegal economic sanctions that were damaging, but Trump made them truly lethal.
Yeah? News? The Brains of Ultra-Powerful People Experience an Altered State of Reality, Research Suggests
“The neuroscience is pretty uncomfortable. People in positions of power show reduced activity in mirror neuron systems, the circuitry responsible for empathy and perspective-taking.” –Shonna Waters, PhD
I had to say, Odabo (Oh-dah-boh) in Yoruba, Ka emesia (Kah-eh-meh-she-ah) or O ga adika in Igbo, and Bye-bye or We go see later in Nigerian Pidgin to an old old acquaintance
“Freedom … ? The land of the free! This the land of the free! Why, if I say anything that displeases them, the free mob will lynch me, and that’s my freedom. Free? Why, I have never been in any country where the individual has such an abject fear of his fellow countrymen. Because, as I say, they are free to lynch him the moment he shows he is not one of them.”
D.H. Lawrence (Studies in Classic American Literature)
A female Israeli soldier walks along the beach with her assault rifle
Sure, jerk off, Epstein-Eichmann class:
I had to say adios to a guy, Madu, from Nigeria, who I met in 1990 in El Paso, as he was making the rounds in our English department (UTEP) looking for new books to buy, from us poor ass adjunct who would request dozens of examiner and publisher’s copies, and then sell the fuckers for a few shekels to keep us in tequila and chile rellenos.
He fucking ran into me at Gonzaga fucking in 2002. Same solicitation for books.
He and I chatted it up, and he is diaspora in Houston, and he’s gotten rabid, gotten so anti-Muslim he is sucking the dick of Linda Graham, all republicans in Texas, and Trump and Company:
Fucking Facebook new profile photo!
He’s fucking trash, man, Nigerian Christian with the Rasta Fucking Fake TRASH:
I Don’t Care What Any Black Arab Or His Like Thinks Or Says About Me,…
“I Love The United States Under Donald Trump Because It Is Doing The Job That Useless African Union And United Nations Are Not Able To Do In Nigeria, No Matter How Badly It Is To Being Done By Those Who Truly Don’t Want The Good Of Nigeria And The Nigerian People”.
..Smart Madu Ajaja, Convener Of Open Nigeria And Africa United
Is this wrong to say sayanora with the fellow? Of course it is. What the fuck do we talk about, uh, then, with this sixth-grade knowledge of the USA and his Christian Missionary hate of Muslims? Celebrating bombing Iran illegally, no matter WHAT the fuck he thinks about them.
Ya think he would listen to this Arab?
Joint Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei, who famously rejected George Bush’s nuclear claims about Iraq, says history is repeating itself.
Very few people have the credibility to speak on Iran’s nuclear capabilities like Mohamed ElBaradei can. The former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1997 to 2009, and of the key figures who tried to prevent the illegal invasion of Iraq on spurious WMD grounds in 2003, ElBaradei joins Mehdi to discuss the biggest and most concerning aspects of the Israel-American war on Iran, the credibility of the nuclear justifications for the attack, and how this conflict will make countries more, not less, likely to obtain nuclear weapons.
“The message right now that we have countries, A, who are protected by nuclear weapons, or nuclear weapon umbrella. And new countries, B, who have to be left in the cold and fend for themselves,” says ElBaradei, warning that this will push more countries to seek nuclear deterrence. One country that already has that covered, however, is Israel, and ElBaradei is not blind to the irony of that.
“Israel, who is supposed to have, according to report, 90 nuclear weapons, Mehdi, is attacking Iran because Iran might develop nuclear weapons in the next 10, 20 years,” ElBaradei tells Mehdi, adding that the claims about Iran’s supposed nuclear weapons program are based on “bogus evidence.” “I go by what the IAEA says… there is no nuclear weapon program.”
This is the shit he runs (above and below) on his Fuck Muslims Book:
He and his dirty Houston Nigerian ilk are fine with this:
The U.S.under the titular leadership (sic) of Trump, just decided to attack Iran. Illegal on several fronts. But of course this has long been a wet dream of the Zionist fanatics and Bibi Netanyahu. This is the ‘Greater Israel’ project. And it includes elaborate covert ops and false flags (see Gulf monarchies). But never underestimate the labyrinthine mind of the Mossad. They may well have wanted the false flags recognized as such. But there are plenty of others writing about this illegal Imperialist war. I wanted to more look at the less discussed influences involved, and how culture and art have been changed.
And that the Evangelical Christians now in U.S. government present a problem. Not just their desire for the Second Coming, but the general provincialism and lack of education. Many were taught in Christian schools. Trump plays along. Maybe, though, he has come to believe it. Believe he is anointed by God. The messenger of Divine instruction.
As always, he does a great job of philosophizing and drilling in on some tethered ideas. I am sure he thinks I am antisemitic for calling the shots, blaming the Jews, the 130 Jewish billionaires and their mostly but not all Jewish Eichmann-Epstein class millionaires.
He gives us Joyce Carol Oates:
“American exceptionalism makes our imperialism altruistic, our plundering of the world’s resources a healthy exercise of capitalism and “free trade.” From childhood, we are indoctrinated with the propaganda that America is superior to other nations; that our way of life, a mass-market “democracy” manipulated by lobbyists, is superior to all other forms of government; that no matter how frivolous and debased, our American culture is the supreme culture, as our language is the supreme language; that our most blatantly imperialistic and cynical political goals are always idealistic, while the goals of other nations are transparently opportunistic. { } Perhaps the most pernicious of American ideas is the revered “My country, right or wrong,” with its thinly veiled threat of punishment for those who hesitate to participate in a criminal patriotism. “ — Joyce Carol Oats (The Human Idea, Atlantic 2007)
Now now, replace American with Jewish, or Israeli, and what do you get? Here, Gilad:
In my early days, I had many questions regarding the Holocaust, how it could happen, and more than just once? What led to it? Why didn’t the Jews run for their lives? Why didn’t they learn their lesson? Why did they follow their rabbis to face the bitter end?
Witnessing the fatal moral collapse of the Jewish ghetto in occupied Palestine, following the Israeli human sacrifice orgy in Gaza, examining the way in which Israel incites violence globally, the way it is spreading death and carnage, the way it attempts to normalise genocide, while, at the same time, the Israeli society express wall to wall enthusiasm about it all, I don’t have many unanswered questions left. I also don’t have the slightest hope for this situation to change and for the people ever to find a harmonious path to humanity.
We are dealing with a tragic lost case.
The fastest-growing religion in Latin America and Africa is Charismatic. The belief centers on a connection to the Holy Spirit which is found with the speaking in tongues, a belief in prophecy and in miracles, in healing, and accompanied by music and physical movement. One can see cross-over with earlier Southern Baptist revivals. Immigrant communities in the US tend to have charismatic churches, often just converted storefronts. This is a decidedly lower working-class movement.
I mention it because 62% of all charismatics voted for Trump. And this suggests resentment as a huge, huge factor in Trump’s win.
[Cadet Chapel, Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs. 1962 Walter Netsch, architect.]
Steppling always inserts great visuals:
The Evangelical today, so I have come to believe, actually has no mystical sense of God. They have only the performance of a God. And this is why an absurdity like Trump as a messenger of God has any traction at all. Trump has accrued all televangelists into one perfect orange/yellow sweep of hair. He is the first public figure to appear souless that I can think of. And this accounts for the appeal he holds within the Evangelical community. You cannot go from Jimmy Swaggert or Pat Robertson to Ho Chi Minh or Mao, or Sankara. The cultural background today has been gutted. It is denuded and barren. It is the neighborhood of the Giant, the monster at the top of the beanpole. That is the land of the Hungry Ghosts and Naifs (Sufi version of same).
The fanatics in Israel made Gaza into this landscape. The near sexual appeal of war to these people is obvious. Some, like Lindsay Graham or John Bolton are visibly aroused when discussing it. The Evangelicals surrounding Trump are believers in dispensationalism, and premillenialism — believe in ‘the Rapture’, and the Second Coming (again literalizing what should be symbolic). And hence the Evangelical attachment to Israel. Again, literalizing Biblical text. In one way, these beliefs are not that important (in spite of the Evangelicals themselves being fanatically attached to them).
Again, the children, the mothers, the girls, the kiddos, the grandparents, the sick and disabled:
Brotherhood: Executive Secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA-TCP, in Spanish) Rander Peña rejected hegemonic U.S. interference on Cuba this Friday, March 6, calling for equal standing among nations as the global order shifts toward multipolarity.
The official underscored the deep-rooted brotherhood between Cuba and Venezuela, pointing to the political legacy of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. He described their vision as a lasting fusion of ideals that transcends political circumstances—one that gave birth to the ALBA-TCP alliance 21 years ago and continues to guide its mission today.
How’s this going to play in the Texas Nigerian community?
March 6, 2026 – The Green Party of California rises in solidarity with the Iranian people with our respect for their sovereignty and their right to self determination and to be free of war, intervention and occupation by the U.S. or any other foreign government.
We categorically condemn the military attacks by Israel and the U.S. on Iran and the assassination of the Iranian religious leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
We demand the U.S. government immediately:
Implement a ceasefire and stop all military attacks in Iran that have already cost hundreds of civilian lives, including children.
Return to the existing diplomatic negotiations with Iran with the goal of long-term peace in the region.
Lift the 50-year economic warfare by sanctions on Iran that have devastated the country’s economy.
Respect the sovereignty of all nations according to the UN Charter and international law.
Abide by the War Powers Act that requires Congressional approval for the use of U.S. armed forces.
Comply with the Leahy Law and halt the illegal funding and shipments of all weapons to Israel, which have been used to attack Iran and neighboring countries.
The Green Party opposes ALL U.S. military and economically coercive actions that have destabilized countries across the world, subjecting millions of people to displacement, dispossession, injury, and death.
Iran has been no exception. Throughout its recent history, Iran has endured U.S. interventions by deposing leaders, manufactured coups, and brutal economic sanctions. The empire’s plan for Iran goes back 72 years when a CIA plot overthrew a democratically elected Iranian socialist leader who planned to nationalize Iran’s oil. Empire could not allow that!
The recent domestic unrest in Iran was sparked as a result of a 50-year economic warfare of sanctions that collapsed Iran’s economy in December of 2025 The people of Iran rightfully took to the streets in protest, demanding better living conditions, economic relief, and accountability from the Islamic Republic of Iran’s leadership.
As early as June 2025, an Israeli-funded propaganda campaign was at work manufacturing support for Reza Pahlavi, the son of the deposed Shah of Iran, a U.S. resident for 47 years, and a strong ally to Israel.
Reports of Mossad agents and agitators working in Iran during 2025 started surfacing in recent months and eventually BOTH Israeli Officials and former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have proudly admitted that Mossad agents were operating in Tehran and walking beside Iranians in the streets.
The U.S. CIA playbook is the same in many countries where indigenous people’s legitimate movements against their own governments are co-opted to destabilize, exploit, and fracture the country to profit the U.S. war machine and foreign interests.
First, the war and surveillance industrial complex rakes in billions of tax dollars for military operations, followed by Western vulture capitalists who come to plunder resources and reap the spoils of war.
The Green Party of California believes that:
– No U.S. government military intervention, orchestrated coups, or warfare has ever benefited the people.
– No democracy has ever been exported from the U.S. because the U.S. government has been suppressing democracy right here at home.
– No bombs destroying precious infrastructure and taking innocent lives have ever solved poverty and scarcity in countries whose resources have been plundered by multinational corporations.
Protests erupt in Nigeria over Trump’s military intervention threat
Houston boasts the largest Nigerian population in the United States, with estimates ranging from over 60,000 to nearly 200,000 residents and descendants, often earning it the title of the most “Nigerian” city in America. Centered in areas like Alief, Missouri City, and Sugar Land, the community is deeply rooted in the energy, healthcare, and education sectors.
Hakeem Tijani, a Richmond resident, said the reaction online reflects that feeling.
“If you check online, you see a lot of Nigerians saying, ‘thank you Trump! Thank you, U.S.!” Tijani said. “It’s not that everything is fixed, but it gives people hope.”
I guess that this is what israel doesn’t want you to see …
The cocksuckers won’t listen, for sure:
A fake, but oh, would it be so fucking COOL: Iran’s official Islamic Republic TV is showing photos of 180 American soldiers from Delta Force captured after they reportedly tried to carry out a landing operation inside Iranian territory.
March 1, 2026
The Butch Ware for Governor campaign unequivocally condemns the attacks on Iran led by the United States and Israel and calls for an immediate ceasefire.
We call for an immediate de-escalation and for the US to negotiate with Tehran in good faith.
We condemn the illegal attempts by the U.S. government to enact a regime change and denying the people of Iran the right to self-determination, sovereignty and autonomy.
We call upon the United Nations to hold the US and Israel accountable for violating Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, specifically their failure to settle “international disputes by peaceful means” and refrain from “threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.”
We extend our solidarity with the Iranian people who are rightfully protesting the failures of their government and are saddened by the loss of over 200 innocent lives in the attacks on Saturday, February 28th.
One might ask, how does the governor’s race in California have anything to do with Iran or politics in West Asia (or as Americans like to call the region, an outdated orientalist term, the Middle East)?
Some Americans may believe that local and state politics have nothing to do with foreign policy or global politics. In reality, that is far from the truth.
The California state government sends billions of tax dollars to Israel so it can continue to carry out its genocide in Palestine. Local ports such as the Port of Oakland are key in sending fighter jets to Israel, a key partner in the illegal attacks on Iran.
The bombs falling on Tehran are being paid for by the billions of tax dollars stolen from our communities here in California. While the Trump administration claims it has “no choice” but to strike abroad, it is making a very deliberate choice at home: to defund SNAP (food stamps), cut Medicaid and Medicare, and instead heavily fund and unleash ICE agents like a paramilitary force in our neighborhoods, America’s own brand of state-sponsored terror.
From the Central Valley to the Bay Area, we are seeing families torn apart by the same brutal military policies used to justify the invasion of sovereign nations. Whether it is a drone strike in West Asia or an ICE raid in East L.A., the message from Washington is clear: your life is disposable if it serves the interests of the U.S. empire.
Global politics are incredibly important in our race. Acknowledging this is not leftist purity testing or peddling to policy wonks. Rather, it’s a very clear litmus test that tells you whether your elected officials in California are willing to use YOUR tax dollars to starve, maim, displace, and murder innocent families abroad, while our families struggle to pay rent and make ends meet in California.
When Butch Ware is elected as Governor of California, he will completely divest the state of California from Israel and redirect those funds to Californians. We will:
Build affordable social housing
Fund a single-payer healthcare system (CalCare or Medicare for All in California)
Expand public transit
Make state and community colleges tuition-free
Abolish ICE in California by closing detention centers and outlawing local law enforcement cooperation with ICE, as New Mexico has
Fund worker-owned cooperatives and demand a living wage for all workers
Getting Dr. Ware elected doesn’t just mean a better life for Californians, but it means pulling back the unwarranted and illegal financial and political support for the brutal policies of U.S. empire in Iran and in all of western Asia.
One day, March 8, International Women’s Day just doesn’t do justice for most girls on planet earth in the global south who will not reach womanhood.
Example:
The Israeli-American strike on a school that killed at least 180 children, most of them girls aged between 7 and 12, on the first day of the illegal war on Iran was deliberate.
The Shajereh Tayyebeh (The Good Tree) school in the city of Minab, in Hormozgan province of Iran, near the Strait of Hormuz, started as an institution primarily to serve the children of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy personnel.
These children were killed in a “double tap” strike, with the second missile fired killing sheltering survivors, two first responders, and the parent of a child killed.
“When the first bomb hit the school, one of the teachers and the principal moved a group of students to the prayer hall to protect them,” a Red Crescent medic said. “The principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their children. But the second bomb hit that area as well. Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived.”
Do you want a new vocabulary dredged from the genocide in Gaza? “Educide” is the systematic destruction of education during genocide.
Planned bombing of not just colleges but primary and high schools by the Israeli apartheid state are designed to create a chilling reality: (1) disruption of schooling; (2) illiteracy and educational decline; (3) lack of resources for learning; (4) decline in academic motivation; (5) psychological and emotional impact; (6) makeshift learning attempts; (7) generational implications of lost education.
How about celebrating this powerful woman who stuck her neck out more than 100 years ago.
The founder of Save the Children, Eglantyne Jebb, understood that wars are wars against children . . . against motherhood . . . against sisterhood . . . against aunthood. In 1919, following the atrocities toward children in the First World War, she created Save the Children. Her aim was to recognize and protect the rights of all children worldwide. For her time, her views were far from mainstream.
Jebb also knew that children are significantly at risk during violent conflicts. She once said, “All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.”
In 1919, the 35-year-old Eglantyne Jebb began handing out leaflets in Trafalgar Square after seeing horrifying newspaper photos of starving children in Europe. Although a ceasefire was declared on November 11, 1918, Allied troops continued to impose a blockade against enemy ports, restricting their access to essential supplies. As a result, famine threatened more than three million children in Europe.
“The child must be the first to receive relief in times of distress.”
What do we get now in this upside-down world of the US arming and facilitating Israel in their carpet bombing of Tehran and in Gaza?
The Israeli general who headed military intelligence on October 7, 2023, said 50 Palestinians must die for every person killed that day, and “it does not matter now if they are children.” This is what Israelis hear broadcast by Israel’s Channel 12 TV station.
Aharon Haliva said the toll in Gaza, which he put at more than 70,000 dead, was “necessary” as a “message to future generations” of Palestinians.
“They need a Nakba every now and then to feel the price,” he added, referring to the mass expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands after the creation of Israel in 1948. Nakba means catastrophe in Arabic.
You want another word for your genocide crossword puzzle? Gaza is in ruins. So is its education system. Scholasticide. The Israeli Occupation Forces have destroyed or damaged all schools and education facilities in Gaza.
Today, instead of going back to school, like most children around the world, 660,000 girls and boys in Gaza will be sifting through the rubble, desperate, hungry, traumatized, and mostly bereaved.
As noted above, the longer they stay out of school with their trauma, the higher the risk they become a “lost generation,” sowing the seeds for more hatred and violence.
Even finding solace from religious leaders is impossible. Here, another word for this deadly crime of genocide: epistemicide. This is what I study and read: Epistemicide is being carried out on a vast scale, designed to erase all knowledge originating in Palestine or relating to it, any alternative knowledge to the official war narrative.
This term was coined by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, a Portuguese sociologist, as he focused on the annihilation of alternate knowledge forms by dominant, usually Western, paradigms. It is a tool of colonialism that erases culture and erodes the legitimacy of marginalized voices.
Modern science is based on a practice of professional and social technical division of labour and on the infinite technological development of the productive forces, of which capitalism is today the only example. Alternative social practices generate alternative forms of knowledge. Not to recognise these forms of knowledge implies delegitimising the social practices that support them and, in this sense, promoting the social exclusion of those who promote them. The genocide that so often characterises European expansion was also epistemicide: strange peoples were eliminated because they also had strange forms of knowledge, and these strange forms of knowledge were eliminated because they were based on strange social practices and strange peoples. But epistemicide has been much more widespread than genocide because it has always claimed to subalternise, subordinate, marginalise or illegalise social practices and groups that might pose a threat to capitalist expansion, or for much of our century to communist expansion (in this respect as modern as capitalism), and also because it happened in the peripheral and extra-North American space of the world system as well as in the central European and North American space, against workers, indigenous people, black people, women and minorities in general (ethnic, religious, sexual).
The new paradigm considers epistemicide as one of the great crimes against humanity.
Women heroes: League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is leading campaigns for an immediate ceasefire and a halt to military support for Israel, with a focus on documenting testimonies from Gaza.
Francesca Albanese is the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, who has consistently called for a “suspension of all ties with Israel” until the “Gaza genocide” ends. She has accused the UK and other Western nations of enabling the situation through military and diplomatic support.
This might not be pretty reading, but for the-now-past International Women’s Day, I encourage you all to study: “Femi-genocide,” which is what experts have highlighted based on reports of sexual assault and humiliation of Palestinian women in detention.
And, finally, we have “Reproductive Genocide”: Activists have drawn attention to the specific targeting of pregnant women, the destruction of hospitals, and the lack of access to medical care.
Mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, daughters, and BFF’s stand strong and join in teaching your boys and men in your lives to respect women, to learn about your contributions to humankind, and to respect your vitality as birth-givers. It is a matter of life and death for the planet.
This is what I get on the coast, art gallery, the lady upfront, wanting me to tell her why I rail and why if ACAB and FBI/SS are watching me I expect anyone to follow me, to fight on the streets!
Nah, interesting times? Any different than Hitler, than Bush, than LBJ, JFK, GWB, RR, Bubbha, Oh-Bomber, Genocide Joe, or Holocaust Congress/Senate?
Snake charmers and speaking in tongues, interesting times?
Why aren’t people on the streets, piling high pallets and old tires, dragging junkers into the road and firebombing the homes of the dirty snakes of America, one and all?
Cuz it’s on the Podcast, the answers to our frustrations:
Oh, time is on their side?
Is it time on their FUCKING SIDE?
The Israeli-American strike on a school that killed at least 165 children, most of them girls aged between 7 and 12, on the first day of the illegal war on Iran was deliberate, an investigation by Al Jazeera has revealed.
The Shajereh Tayyebeh (The Good Tree) school in the city of Minab, in Hormozgan province of Iran, near the Strait of Hormuz, started as an institution primarily to serve the children of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy personnel. It initially formed part of a larger military complex.
Here’s where all, or most, the hippies went:
In today’s world, culture is increasingly influenced by commercialization, visual noise, and consumerist behavior. We face a paradox: there has never been so much content, yet such a lack of meaning. In this context, the noospheric concept offers not only a philosophical reevaluation of culture but also a practical path toward its renewal.
The noosphere, as a space of collective intelligence, suggests that culture is not entertainment, but a means of shaping consciousness, transmitting meaning, and uniting humanity around shared values. In the noospheric paradigm, art, literature, music, and theatre are tools for human and societal development—not just commodities for the market.
This mindset also transforms the role of the artist. The creator is no longer simply a producer of “images,” but a guide of deeper ideas that resonate with collective ethics, planetary challenges, and the quest for harmony between technological progress and the human soul. Creativity in the noospheric dimension becomes a form of responsibility for the future.
The noospheric approach also reshapes cultural policy: instead of focusing on “mass appeal,” it emphasizes the support of meaningful, innovative, and integrative projects. Rather than isolated festivals or grants, it envisions the creation of sustainable cultural ecosystems where everyone can be a creator—not just a consumer.
Digital culture represents a particularly vital area of noospheric transformation. The internet is not just a technology—it is a new “noosphere,” a space where contemporary consciousness is formed. And it is here that the key question is being decided: will digital culture become a tool for development—or another instrument of manipulation?
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Ahh, those interesting times!
Yeah, fucking interesting game theorists giving us a fucking lesson with Chinese accent from his Canadian pedestal?
Faggotry: How Iran can CRIPPLE the West in One Move – Prof. Jiang Xueqin. So, he’s telling us with glee that food will triple and gasoline will be gone. Yeah, nobody in the streets, now those are interesting TIMES.
Real INTERESTING. Israel expands its war into Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iran reach an understanding, and Europe’s role grows as U.S. brutality clashes with Iranian mettle. Here’s a recap of the news from the last day.
Hillard writes that China is the final piece in the jigsaw puzzle of globalist control. [36]
He describes its notorious use of facial recognition technology linked to a social credit system, which rewards or punishes behaviour as the state sees fit.
“China is a dream model for the global oligarchy eager to roll out these methods across the planet… officially, for our security”. [37]
Just to ram home the real and serious role played by China in the globalists’ bid for worldwide tyranny, I would refer readers to a talk given in Beijing at the Chinese state’s Lanting Forum by foreign minister H.E. Wang Yi, who is a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee, on October 27, 2025.
Featured on the website of the CPIFA, China’s Chatham House, it is entitled “Implementing the Global Governance Initiative for a Community with a Shared Future for Humanity”.
Wang Yi claims that “over the past 80 years, the international system with the UN at its core has been standing as a bedrock of world peace and development”.
He says that in the face of obstacles, President Xi Jinping “solemnly put forth the Global Governance Initiative (GGI), offering the Chinese answer to this question of our times”.
This was obviously drawn up by the same networks that are behind similar efforts in “The West” because we hear all the same sickening language!
It is all about “international rule of law for a just and orderly global governance system”, “a people-centred approach for universally beneficial and inclusive outcomes of global governance” and “real results for a pragmatic and efficient global governance process”.
Lying through his teeth, Wang Yi declares: “The GGI responds to the needs of the world and wishes of the people.
“Together with the Global Development Initiative (GDI), the Global Security Initiative (GSI) and the Global Civilization Initiative (GCI), it promises much needed stability and provides certainty for this volatile world, and has received swift and clear support from more than 140 countries and international organizations”.
Here he is confusing the vile aims of globalist-controlled states and entities with “the needs of the world and wishes of the people”.
Iran’s Decentralized Mosaic Defense – the official denomination – keeps being tweaked 24/7: that’s the IRGC’s long-term strategy of a death by a thousand cuts designed to bleed the Empire of Chaos dry.
Let’s wade through the interconnected canals permeating the unconstitutional, unwinnable, strategically catastrophic Empire of Chaos-built swamp.
Iran’s mosaic resilience and long-term strategy; the temptation for that ghastly death cult in West Asia to go nuclear; the approaching, inexorable Interceptor Hell; China’s relentless drive to ditch the old order (hoarding gold, dumping dollars); the BRICS’s progress in creating a parallel financial system; the collapse of American vassals, in several latitudes: all that is accelerating a radical system reset.
And then, there’s Vladimir Putin, just casually, almost like an afterthought, annoncing there may not be any Russian gas to be sold to the EU after all:
“Maybe it would make more sense for us to stop supplying gas to the EU ourselves and move to those new markets, and establish ourselves there (…) Again, I want to stress: there’s no political motive here. But if they’re going to close the market to us in a month or two anyway, maybe it’s better to leave now and focus on countries that are reliable partners. That said, this isn’t a decision. I’m just thinking out loud. I’ll ask the government to look into it together with our companies.”
Nearly 90% of deaths from wars in the first decade of the 21st century included civilians, a significant number of whom were children.
Game Motherfuckng Theory MY ASS:
Up to 2016! NOW? Oh my fucking game theory living in interesting fucking TIMES.
Reem’s Story, 13-year-old Yemen.
“An airstrike hit my village when I was at home doing my homework. Suddenly part of the ceiling fell, and the bomb came through a hole in the ceiling and exploded in the room. I could not breathe because of gas and smoke. I was injured in my thigh, head and back, and most of my family members were injured too.
“I walked to the hospital while I was bleeding. The doctor gave me medicine for one month only, and asked us to go back home because there was no space. They asked us to pay money to provide us with a room in the hospital which we didn’t have. So, I left.
“When I arrived home I could not see any of the damage because of the darkness. I went to bed but I could not sleep because of the pain in my body. The next morning, I saw shrapnel everywhere in the walls and furniture.
“Since that airstrike, I don’t go to school and I feel worried about missing a year of education. Our life before was wonderful – but the war and airstrikes make me feel sad and scared. I still feel the pain in my thigh and back and I wish the war would stop.”
* Not her real name.
The Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC)26 database, which includes rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced sterilisation/abortion, sexual mutilation and sexual torture, shows that globally roughly 35 percent of conflicts involved some forms of sexual violence against children between 1989 and 2009 – but the real numbers are likely to be much higher.
They tied my mother to a tree and eventually shot her. When they had killed everyone else they told me to come with them.
HAD ENOUGH of game theory and these cunts on Podcasts, and the minute-by-minute war porn, another drone shot down, another building razed? Enough of these fucking COCKSUCKING interesting TIMES?
NO??????????????
[A view of destruction after the Israeli military launches airstrikes on the Dahiyeh district in Beirut, Lebanon on March 5, 2026.]
Paris of the Middle East?
Digging the fucking war PORN?
Attacks on Lebanon
Casualty counts: The death toll from Israel’s assault on Lebanon has risen to at least 217, with 798 wounded, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
Israeli strikes hit southern Lebanon and Beirut suburbs: Israeli warplanes bombed Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, on Friday, with the Israeli military saying it conducted 26 rounds of attack on the area. Israel also bombed towns in southern and eastern Lebanon, including the southern coastal city of Sidon where five people were killed and seven wounded, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. It marked the second day of heavy airstrikes on Dahiyeh, with strikes also reported in the towns of Ghobeiry and Haret Hreik on Thursday, according to Al Jazeera. Across Lebanon, at least 10 people were killed on Thursday, including a family of four in southern Lebanon and a village mayor and his wife.
Southern suburbs of Beirut forcibly evacuated as Israel threatens destruction: In the wake of intensifying strikes, and forced displacement orders issued by the Israeli military, residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs have begun to flee.This includes residents of the Dahiyeh area, home to roughly 400,000 people. Israel also issued an evacuation order for residents in the Baalbek region, which could affect up to 80,000 people. Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the far-right National Religious Party, said on Thursday that “Dahiyeh will look like Khan Younis,” the city in Gaza that Israel has burned to the ground. Yair Lapid, the centrist leader of the Israeli opposition, said that Israel should “depopulate and destroy every village in southern Lebanon, with the Yellow Line in Gaza as the model.” “It may not be pleasant,” he said, “to scrape off two or three Lebanese villages, but they brought this upon themselves.” For a sense of what Lebanese people are expecting, listen to a voice message sent to journalist Jeremy Loffredo in the Dahiyeh area, describing fears of imminent carpet-bombing.
ICRC: Hundreds of thousands displaced in Lebanon: Hundreds of thousands of people in Lebanon have been displaced since Monday, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said Hachem Osseiran, ICRC spokesperson for the Middle East, according to AP. “The intensification of hostilities, coupled with evacuation orders covering entire districts in Beirut, southern Lebanon, and the Bekaa Valley, has sown panic and confusion. Many people have fled, some on foot, with nothing but the clothes on their backs and no clear sense of where to go.”
BASMA’S STORY
Basma* is an 8-year-old girl from Syria:
“I am from a town near Damascus city; my home was there and my school too. I really loved my school back home, it was pretty, my teacher loved me and I had a lot of friends. I was in class when my school was hit. We ran out of the school right away and I went back home, but I later found out that many children had been injured. I have never seen my school or my friends again; I miss them a lot.
“We moved to different places and began to rent a house in a new town. I never once stopped going to school but in this new town my school was hit, and this time 20 children died.
“After this, my family decided to move further to the north because at the time it was safer. But the first school we went to was so bad, and the teachers used to hit us even for little things like if I forgot my homework. The teachers used to leave us most of the time alone in the class doing nothing. I hated it.
“Now I am in this new school and I feel much better. I love the drawings and the colours on the walls. I love the English teacher the most, he is so kind and he teaches us so well.”
U.S. and Israeli airstrikes pound Iran for a seventh day. Over 3,600 civilian sites damaged in U.S.-Israeli strikes. U.S. and Israeli officials hint at escalation in coming days. Evidence grows that the U.S. is responsible for deadly strike on elementary school. President Donald Trump demands Iran’s “unconditional surrender.” Iranian strikes hit Bahrain. Iran launches attacks on Kuwait, where U.S. suspends embassy operations. Fighter jet appears to crash in Iraq. U.S. and Qatar discuss acquiring Ukrainian interceptor drones. U.S. continues to eye Kurdistan for help in war on Iran. Israeli strikes hit Beirut suburbs as bombardment intensifies across Lebanon. Mass displacement in southern suburbs of Beirut as Israeli leadership threatens destruction. IDF says two soldiers wounded in fighting in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah deploys elite Radwan fighters to southern Lebanon. Trump again calls for a Netanyahu pardon. Trump dumps Noem. House blocks resolution that would have limited Trump’s war on Iran. Stephen Miller calls for military campaign against drug cartels. Trump says U.S. action against Cuba could follow Iran war. Afghans rally in border provinces as fighting with Pakistan displaces tens of thousands. Sudanese army retakes strategic city, shelling continues in Kordofan. Islamist militants kill at least 14 Nigerian soldiers in attacks on army bases. Landslide at Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Congo kills more than 200. Iran war postpones new round of Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
[Children, like this Rohingyagirl in Bangladesh, are incredibly resilient. With the right support they can recover from their experiences, but this becomes less likely when communities and services are crippled by conflict.]
– U.S. and Israeli airstrikes pound Iran for a seventh day: Intense U.S. and Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran and cities across Iran on Friday as the war entered its seventh day. Huge explosions were reported in residential areas of the capital and in the vicinity of Tehran University. Witnesses in Tehran told the AP the airstrikes were particularly intense, shaking homes in the area. Blasts were also reported in Shiraz, Qom, Isfahan, and Kermanshah. At least 20 civilians were killed and 30 injured after U.S.-Israeli strikes hit the Zibashahr residential district in the city of Shiraz, according to ISNA. Two paramedics are among the dead, according to the Tasnim news agency.
– Casualty counts: The death toll in Iran has reached at least 1,332, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society. Children account for about 30% of those killed in the U.S. and Israeli attacks, government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said.
– Over 3,600 civilian sites damaged in U.S.-Israeli strikes: The U.S.-Israeli attacks have damaged 3,643 civilian sites, including 3,090 homes, according to the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Pir Hossein Kolivand. In addition, 528 commercial and service centers, 14 medical or pharmaceutical facilities and nine Red Crescent facilities, have also been damaged.
– U.S. and Israeli officials hint at escalation in coming days: U.S. and Israeli officials both suggested on Thursday that strikes on Iran would escalate. War Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a press conference Thursday that “the amount of firepower over Iran and over Tehran is about to surge dramatically.” Meanwhile, Israeli army chief of staff Lt. Gen Eyal Zamir said the Israeli military “will intensify the strike on the foundations of the regime and its military capabilities.” The Israeli military also issued a displacement order for residents of an industrial area of Qom, a seminary city south of Tehran.
– Evidence grows that U.S. is responsible for deadly strike on elementary school that killed 180 children: There is growing evidence that the U.S. military carried out Saturday’s strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab that killed around 180 children, including 168 schoolgirls, the majority of them aged between 7 and 12. An investigation by The New York Times using satellite imagery, verified videos, and social media posts, found that U.S. forces were most likely to have carried out the strike as they were attacking Iranian naval targets near the Strait of Hormuz. In a separate report, Reuters, quoting U.S. officials, reported that U.S. military investigators believe it was likely that U.S. forces were responsible for the strike, but had not yet reached a final conclusion. War Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday acknowledged the US military was investigating the attacks, which ranks as one of the deadliest cases of children being killed in a single strike in memory.
– White House posts movie montage glorifying war: As the war continues to escalate, the White House posted a video on Wednesday evening under the words “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY” of what appeared to be footage of real military strikes and statements by War Secretary Pete Hegseth interspersed with a montage of famous movie clips including from including “Gladiator,” “Braveheart,” “Top Gun,” “Tron,” “John Wick,” “Superman,” “Transformers,” and “Deadpool.”
– Trump demands Iran’s “unconditional surrender”: President Donald Trump said on social media that there would be no deal with Iran without “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”
– Iranian strikes hit Bahrain: Iranian strikes hit state oil facilities in Bahrain, including Bapco Refining’s Sitra refinery, the country’s only refinery and a major regional energy hub, Bahrain’s Interior Ministry confirmed. Another strike hit a high-rise in Manama, the country’s capital, and appeared to be a precision strike, targeting a specific apartment in a luxury tower where expatriates and business travelers often stay.
– Iran launches attacks on Kuwait, where U.S. suspended embassy operations: Iran launched a new wave of missiles and drones toward Kuwait, with the Kuwaiti Army saying its air defenses were responding to hostile projectiles that breached the country’s airspace. Air raid sirens sounded and explosions were heard during interception attempts, while sources said the incoming weapons appeared to target U.S. military installations in the country, according to a statement on X. The U.S. State Department announced it had suspended operations at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait City and urged U.S. citizens to leave the country if possible or to shelter in place. Kuwait’s Defense Ministry said two Kuwaiti Army personnel have been killed in attacks and 67 people have been injured.
– Fighter jet appears to crash in Iraq: A fighter jet crashed in the southern Basra province of Iraq, according to local police, with the pilot ejecting before impact. Authorities say the pilot had not yet been located. Iranian outlet Fars News described the aircraft as an “aggressor fighter jet,” though it remains unclear whether it was American or Israeli. United States Central Command denied reports that a U.S. jet had been shot down over Basra, calling the claims “baseless and NOT TRUE.”
– IRGC says it has more weapons, U.S. targets missile launchers: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the country is prepared for a prolonged conflict and has not yet used many of its newest weapons systems, with IRGC spokesman Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini saying “the enemy should expect painful blows in every operational wave” and that “new innovations and weapons” have not been used on a wide scale. It was also reported Thursday that the U.S. and Israel are racing to destroy Iran’s missile launchers and drone systems before their own air-defense interceptor stockpiles dwindle, according to The Wall Street Journal. War Secretary Pete Hegseth described the approach as “shooting the archer instead of the arrows,” with U.S. and Israeli aircraft monitoring subterranean bases to strike mobile launchers as they emerge. U.S. Central Command reports that launches have fallen by 86 percent over the first four days of the conflict despite Iran’s use of dispersed “mosaic defense” tactics and modified trucks to conceal its missile launchers.
– U.S. and Qatar discuss acquiring Ukrainian interceptor drones: The United States and Qatar are in early discussions with Kyiv about acquiring Ukrainian interceptor drones to counter Iranian Shahed UAVs, according to Reuters. The talks are reportedly focused on Ukrainian technology capable of detecting incoming drones and disrupting their communications signals. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Washington had requested assistance in countering Shahed drones and said Kyiv would consider such cooperation only if it does not weaken Ukraine’s defenses against Russia.
– Araghchi discusses Iranian war aims: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi appeared on NBC News once again, where he discussed Iran’s war aims and outlook. He said, categorically, that Tehran is not seeking a ceasefire or talks with the U.S. Aragchi said that Iran sees no reason to negotiate after the second round of negotiations did not prevent an increase in American aggression. Araghchi said that Iran has no intention to strike the U.S. homeland, and is focusing its attacks on the extensive U.S. military presence in the region. He also said that Iran has no plans to close the Strait of Hormuz, which he insists remains open, but that “all scenarios” remain possible if the war continues. “This is not our war,” he emphasized. “This is a war of choice by the United States.”
– Trump touches on Iranian missiles, gas, and leadership: President Donald Trump echoed the claim of his military’s top leadership that the U.S.-Israeli campaign has rapidly degraded Iran’s military capabilities, claiming that “as soon as they set off a missile, within four minutes the launcher gets hit.” He claimed that roughly 60% of Iran’s missiles and 64% of its launchers have been eliminated. When asked about the effect of the war on the U.S. energy market, he told Reuters that he does not “have any concern about” rising gas prices. “They’ll drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise, but this is far more important than having gasoline prices go up a little bit.” In the same interview, Trump said the United States must be involved in selecting Iran’s next leader, saying Washington would “have to choose that person along with Iran.” Trump added that it was too early to determine who might lead Iran next, saying “everybody’s in the mix,” including exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. According to a report from The Washington Post, U.S. intelligence has seen “no signs of uprisings or defections” during the early days of the campaign.
– U.S. continues to eye Kurdistan for help in Iran war: Nearly half of documented U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran’s Kurdish regions have targeted Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities and police command centers, according to a strike map compiled by journalist Evan Hill. The sites are concentrated in West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and Ilam provinces. On the topic of the role of the Kurds in the conflict, Trump told Reuters on Thursday that it would be “wonderful” if Iranian Kurdish forces based in Iraq crossed into Iran to attack security forces there. When asked about the possibility of the U.S. providing air cover for Iranian Kurdish forces, Trump responded, “I can’t tell you that,” but added that the goal for the Kurds would be “to win.”
– War drives large-scale displacement across the region: The World Health Organization said the conflict is triggering mass displacement across multiple countries. Around 100,000 people have fled Iran since the fighting began, according to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who said that up to 1 million people in southern Lebanon could be forced to move after recent evacuation orders, with another 700,000 in Beirut’s southern suburbs facing possible displacement. The WHO also said it has verified 13 attacks on healthcare infrastructure in Iran since the start of the U.S.-Israeli military campaign, and has confirmed the deaths of 4 medics, along with injuries to 25 others.
OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla predicts today’s 5-year-olds won’t ever need to get jobs thanks to AI. . . Fucking lunatics are running the continuing criminal enterprise with Kosher Nostra at the helm!
Billionaire investor Vinod Khosla sees an AI-powered labor transformation so massive it will eliminate the need for today’s 5-year-olds to have jobs.
Ahh, those jobs the billionaires are saying will be gone for those 5-year-olds when they grow up/ The Miami real estate market can’t stop making headlines. Billinaires Bunkers.
A rush of tech billionaires and business titans has raised the bar for South Florida prices in only a handful of years. The most recent convert of the Sunshine State is Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who just shelled out $51 million for the Allison Island home of LVMH CEO Michael Burke, the Real Deal first reported.
The deal marks yet another high-profile, waterfront lot purchase within Miami’s ultra-exclusive communities, like Allison Island, Star Island and Indian Creek.
“What just happened was that there was a ringleader, Larry Page, who closed on his property the last days of December, and that sounded the alarm for the others,” Douglas Elliman agent Dina Goldentayer told Business Insider in February.
On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Zuckerberg paid a record-breaking $170 million for a single property on Indian Creek Island, joining a small community that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Ivanka Trump.
Danny Hertzberg of the Jills Zeder Group was the listing agent for one of the homes purchased by Page, as well as the $170 million property on Indian Creek Island. In January, he told Business Insider that the wave of Californians toward the end of 2025 and into 2026 was unanticipated, but as more people came started to make sense.
“People want to be around their colleagues,” he said. “They want to be around people in technology and finance. “
That’s according to a federal judge in Tallahassee, who issued an order lambasting DeSantis for “using an executive office to make a political statement at the expense of others’ constitutional rights.”
“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” wrote U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in a March 4 order granting the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) a preliminary injunction.
USA USA MAGA MAGA:
US and Ecuadorian forces have launched joint operations to combat drug trafficking, the US Southern Command said on Tuesday, but neither side gave more details.
Southern Command, which encompasses 31 countries through South and Central America and the Caribbean, said in a statement on X that the “decisive action” was aimed at combating illicit drug trafficking.
Ecuador’s defense ministry said details of the offensive operations were classified.
The announcement came a day after the South American country said Washington had joined a “new phase” in its so-called “war on drugs”.
Daniel Noboa, Ecuador’s president and a close ally of Donald Trump, said Washington was among “regional allies” taking part in the operation against drug cartels, which use ports to smuggle cocaine to international markets.
Circling the fucking pedophile and rapist wagons: House kills effort to release all congressional sexual misconduct and harassment reports
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., had forced the vote in light of allegations that her Republican colleague Tony Gonzales of Texas sent sexual text messages to a subordinate.
The sinking underscored the scope of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and its spread in the Middle East and beyond. It also ignited a debate in India about maritime security in the Indian Ocean — a region where New Delhi maintains a significant naval presence.
On Wednesday, Sri Lanka’s navy recovered 87 bodies and rescued 32 Iranian sailors from the IRIS Dena, which sank in international waters off the coast of the island nation — a rare instance of a submarine torpedoing a ship since World War II.
Sri Lanka’s navy said it had responded to a distress signal from the IRIS Dena, but by the time it reached the location, there was no sign of the ship, just patches of oil and sailors floating in the water. The rescued mariners were taken to a hospital in the town of Galle, on Sri Lanka’s southern coast.
World War II the most brutal war ever.
Photo above of a German submarine picking up British sailors after they torpedoed their warship. Today, the American submarine sailed away leaving any Iranian survivors to drown. Imagine having less moral standards than the Nazis…
White psychotic fucking “race.” Push to give English same status as Māori and NZ sign languages triggers backlash from opposition parties and linguistic experts
Push to give English same status as Māori and NZ sign languages triggers backlash from opposition parties and linguistic experts
Very few English-speaking countries had made English an official language, the officials said, and where they had, it generally coincided with protecting another language – for example in Canada, where law established both French and English are to be used official contexts.
The bill has prompted backlash from opposition parties and language experts.
“It is scaremongering, it is cynical, and frankly we can do without it in this country,” the Labour MP Kieran McAnulty said during the first reading.
The Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick noted English was “not under threat”. English was “literally beaten” into people, Swarbrick said, referring to the Native Schools Act 1867, which resulted in children being punished for speaking Māori.
“This is a bill which is an answer to a problem that does not exist,” she said. “In English, for all members of this government, this bill is bullshit, and you know it.”
Sharon Harvey, associate professor specialising in educational linguistics at the Auckland University of Technology, told the Guardian the bill was “vexatious” and “unnecessary”.
Goddamn faggotry: The Army hopes to lure civilian tech workers by letting some join as captains
“In this case, the direct commissioning program, we’re really focused on folks coming in at the lieutenant and the captain level to help us in the technical areas in our operational units.”
A face only a machete could LOVE>
Did another bitch/whore get sacked? Pam Bondi rescinds policy banning politically appointed DOJ employees from attending partisan events
No Vaseline, and they bend over easily, those fucking FROGS: France has authorized temporary presence of US aircraft on local bases, official says
“France demanded that the concerned resources not participate in any way in operations conducted by the United States in Iran,” a French official said.
More whores in Pedophile and Rapist in Chief’s working group: It’s all about the Benjamins . . . Susie Wiles sounds the alarm on gas prices
White House aides and Cabinet officials are coming under intense pressure to reverse the spike in energy prices caused by the start of the war in the Middle East.
Iran, send them home in body bags, please:
We pay for these fucking mercenaries, right, US taxpayer: Army launching new merit-based retention bonus program, emphasizing fitness and command evaluation.
Again, Trump and Company are WINNING: America’s new war machines showcased in Iran war,In less than one week, the Iran war has produced a remarkable string of combat firsts that pull back the curtain on an American military boosted by AI and stocked with upgraded weapons.
Why it matters: Some of America’s defense-tech advancements have been on full display during Operation Epic Fury. The Trump administration has been happy to confirm — and flex — the results.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at a Pentagon briefing Wednesday that Washington is “punching” Tehran while it’s down, “which is exactly how it should be.”
Everything MAGA MAGA MAGA gets their hands on is complete fucking fuckery. The new SNAP food restrictions aren’t just confusing — they’re illegal
Food restrictions do not improve how benefits are delivered. Rather, they change what the benefit is. That’s substantive program redesign, which requires congressional authorization.
Yet, Congress has repeatedly rejected food restriction proposals. In 1977, Congress specifically refused to eliminate foods with “negligible nutritional value,” calling it “a cure worse than the disease.”
Critics say administration has overstepped authority in using 1994 law to prosecute protesters and journalists,,,
When dozens of protesters interrupted a church service in St Paul, Minnesota, earlier this year, it revived a fierce yet enduring debate about whether places of worship are appropriate arenas for dissent.
In demanding the resignation of a pastor who leads a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office, demonstrators chanted “ICE out” and “Hands up, don’t shoot!” at Cities church on 18 January. Religious and political leaders condemned the action, fueled by the church’s statement that prote
When dozens of protesters interrupted a church service in St Paul, Minnesota, earlier this year, it revived a fierce yet enduring debate about whether places of worship are appropriate arenas for dissent.
In demanding the resignation of a pastor who leads a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office, demonstrators chanted “ICE out” and “Hands up, don’t shoot!” at Cities church on 18 January. Religious and political leaders condemned the action.
Money money money: My city was filling up with digital nomads, so I converted my family home into a business.
Dumb dumber dumbest: Professionals have taught for generations that succeeding in school and attending an elite university would guarantee a rewarding six-figure career. But within a matter of years, AI has disrupted the world of work, and it’s fast taking over the office roles humans were once promised. Now, venture capitalist Bill Gurley cautions workers against blindly following the career blueprint.
[While Gurley has worked closely with Jewish colleagues—such as former partner Michael Eisenberg, who is an observant Jew—there is no record of Gurley himself identifying with the faith. Similarly, while he was a major investor in Uber, whose co-founder Travis Kalanick has Jewish heritage on his mother’s side, Gurley’s own background does not appear to be Jewish.]
Eat your veggies and fruit, young girl: A sweeping new study reveals that what’s on your plate may directly shape the pesticides circulating in your body. Researchers found that people who eat more fruits and vegetables known to carry higher pesticide residues—such as strawberries, spinach, and bell peppers—also have significantly higher levels of those chemicals in their urine. While produce remains a cornerstone of a healthy diet, the findings highlight how everyday food choices can drive real-world exposure to substances linked to cancer, hormone disruption, and developmental harm.
So fucked up: The U.S. and Venezuela “have agreed to re-establish diplomatic and consular relations,” the State Department announced Thursday.
Why it matters: The historic deal with a former U.S. foe comes as President Trump pushes to apply his actions in Caracas that led to the capture of former leader Nicolás Maduro to Iran, telling Axios Thursday that he must be involved in picking a successor to assassinated Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Boom or bust. Oracle plans thousands of job cuts as data center costs rise, Bloomberg News reports
No, not that Bezos Business: Amazon cuts jobs in robotics unit as layoffs continue
Fucking Laplanders? Finland to lift full ban on hosting nuclear arms, government says
The proposed change will next go to parliament where the right-wing coalition government holds a majority.
Yep, you and I voted on thism right? The Data Centers Have Arrived at the Edge of the Arctic Circle
As AI labs gorge themselves on compute, data center operators have headed north in search of cheap and plentiful energy
Lawsuit after lawsuit! THe fucking MAGA MAGA MAGA way. Portland protester officially files lawsuit against DHS after video showed agent tackling him
Death death death is when gas gas gas goes up up up. The Treasury Department will announce measures to combat rising energy prices amid the U.S.-Israeli strikes against Iran as soon as Thursday, Reuters reported.
As the conflict in the Middle East nears the one-week mark, oil prices have risen and consumers are seeing an impact at the pump. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to the strikes, choking off a crucial shipping lane.
All smiles:
If you don’t hate AmeriKKKa then you are so lobotomized and so Nurse Ratched-ed up, you might as well be in a cage with rhesus monkeys for more cancer experimental drugs to be test to do humanity SOME good.
Come on now, some of you secretly want to do this to EVERY fucking Jew you meet, and it’s difficult to meet Jews since they are in synagogues getting advice on which security details/ex-Mossad choices to choose from, which military murder weapons stocks to invest in, and which countries to get their third and four passports from.
But then, it’s deeper than kinetic bombs, man, think Eddy Bernays and decades of psychological warfare brought to us by the Talmudists and their offshoots: Secular Jews
The United States dropped upwards of 2.7 million tons of bombs on Cambodia, exceeding the amount it had dropped on Japan during WWII (including Hiroshima and Nagasaki) by almost a million tons. During this time, about 30 per cent of the country’s population was internally displaced.
Result
Estimates vary widely on the number of civilian casualites inflicted by the campaign; however,as many as 500,000 people died as a direct result of the bombings while perhaps hundreds of thousands more died from the effects of displacement, disease or starvation during this period.
Global Research is telling like it is: The USA is winning, and that win is facilitated by decades of robotics Olympics and garage computing nerds and the giant sucking sound of servers and fans in Silicon Valley, Silicon Wadi (Tel Aviv) and in the Satan’s Workshop of Unit 8200 and its funny-looking Jews: Zuckerberg, Ellison, Altman, Dell, Karp, Ackman, Brin, Page . . .
My friend, Joe from Merced, California, sends me links and quips daily, and of course, I go to Global Research at the end of the week to get the wrap-up. But, here, again, more proof in the puddin’ head (supposedly) of demented (supposedly) Trump:
Joe: “Oh boy, I can hardly wait. The whole world will think as one. Everyone will be Trump.”
This is the mind is the battlefield, not just a la Eddy Bernays, but literally:
Documented adverse biological effects span:
Biochemical changes
Cell membrane disruption
Altered cell proliferation
Gene expression changes
Morphological effects
Immune function disruption
Brain and neuronal effects
Electrophysiological effects
Genotoxicity
Oxidative stress
Metabolic and enzyme alterations
Hematological effects
Reduced cell viability
Synergistic and combinative effects
Fertility effects
Behavioral effects
Cell signaling disruption
Apoptosis
Learning effects
Memory effects
Hypoalgesic effects
Tumor growth effects
Developmental effects
Endocrine effects
Neurotransmitter alterations
Hepatic effects
Ocular effects
Cardiovascular effects
Republican Montana Senator Tim Sheehy, a 2008 U.S. Naval Academy graduate and former SEAL commando, wrote an article aimed at addressing the weakened state of the U.S. Navy in a conjuncture where the United States attacked Iran with only 25 percent public support, in the destructive shadow of the Epstein files and under the influence of Israeli geopolitics.
Published in the February 2026 issue of the U.S. Naval Institute’s journal USNI Proceedings, his article titled “A New Framework for Navy Building for the 21st Century” proposes the privatization of the Navy. The main problem, according to Sheehy, is that the Navy is in an extremely disadvantageous quantitative position compared to its closest rival, China. Although the article may initially appear to be a discussion about increasing shipyard capacity, it in fact acknowledges the structural rupture in American naval power. Today, the United States does not possess sufficient shipbuilding, maintenance, and repair capacity for a possible protracted war with China. China’s overwhelming superiority in the shipbuilding sector creates serious fragility in the strategic balance to the detriment of the United States
On February 28, 2026, amidst peace negotiations, “Donald the Terrible” ordered a criminal bombing campaign against Iran largely focussing on the outright killing of civilians.
This Global Research video production was recorded on the day prior to the U.S-Israel bombing raids. (February 27, 2026).
“Donald the Terrible”: His Criminal Agenda is Global Warfare and the Killing of civilians including women and children.
According to President Trump:
“the Iranian regime is …“a vicious group of very hard, terrible people,” … [who] directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world.”
What is at stake Worldwide is The Hegemonic Battle for Energy, namely the Acquisition of Oil and Natural Gas Reserves Worldwide.
A War That Reveals the Structure of Global Power
Empires almost never collapse in a sudden crash. They begin by waging wars they present as necessary.
The war launched on February 28, 2026 against Iran by the United States and Israel may belong to that category of events which, at the moment they occur, appear to be merely another regional crisis — but which, in retrospect, reveal themselves as turning points in the architecture of the international system.
Oh, there he is, after banning me — over at Global Research: Emanuel Pastreich
Global Research, March 05, 2026. Yet another person, Pastreich, thinking this is the end, almost the end.
To say that the blitzkrieg attack on Iran has not been as successful as planned is an understatement. Compared with this catastrophe—which anyone could have foreseen, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 was strategic genius. Things will get worse for Washington and Jerusalem, and quite quickly, especially since much of the money in the American inflated military budget was not used to buy weapons at all, but rather as part of an elaborate money laundering scheme. That scam would have put everyone in jail if they did not all have top secret SCI clearance. So, Iran’s clouds of cheap drones and cheap missiles are forcing the United States and Israel to use up their expensive missiles and overpriced drones rapidly. In fact, the United States had to pretend that its fighter planes were downed by friendly fire. To say anything else would have completely undermined the global market for such American weapons.
I ask you, knowing that Netanyahu and his senile Trump the lap poodle (Ben and Don) are psychopaths with a loose grip on reality, men who stay in power by virtue of their will and their insanity, what do you think they are going to do when this whole thing falls apart?
Here ya go — The New Image on the Wheaties box:
Christ, Jonathan Cook, just more and more prognostication or flummoxed analysis:
Rubio stated: “The president made the very wise decision: We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.”
Rubio was using the term “preemptively” in a highly irregular and misleading way.
Cook:
In international law, aggression is an illegal application of force – the “supreme international crime”, according to the 1950 principles set out by the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal. But there is a potential mitigating factor if the attacking state can show it was acting pre-emptively: that is, it was acting to prevent a plausible, immediate, and severe threat of attack.
Rubio, however, was not suggesting that the US acted “preemptively” against a threat from Iran. He meant Washington had acted preemptively to stop its ally, Israel, from setting off a chain of military events that would lead to US soldiers being harmed.
Had the Trump administration really been acting preemptively in these circumstances, the US should have attacked Israel, not Iran.
But Rubio’s comment begged a further question: Why didn’t Washington simply tell Israel it was forbidden from starting a war against Iran without US approval?
After all, Israel would be incapable of mounting any kind of attack on Iran without the critical support provided by the US.
Israel has had to rely on help from US military bases dotted around the region, as well as the Arab states that host those bases.
The attack would have been quite inconceivable without the backup of a massive armada of US warships sent to the region by Trump.
Israel can withstand Iranian retaliation only because it gets a degree of protection from missile interception systems provided and funded by the US.
And on top of all that, Israel is a regional hegemon only because it gets massive subsidies from the US – worth many billions of dollars a year – to preserve it as one of the strongest militaries in the world.
In other words, Israel would have found it impossible to wage war on Iran alone. It is a paper tiger without the US.
Rubio’s comment suggested one of two possibilities: either that the US, with the strongest military in world history, is under the thumb of the tiny state of Israel, or that Trump has made his own military, the strongest-ever, servile to Israel.
Whichever it is, it is hard to square with Trump’s repeated assertion that he is putting America First.
This point is so glaringly obvious it is presumably the reason why Rubio was forced to walk back his comments the next day. Meanwhile, Trump hurriedly suggested it was he who had forced Israel’s hand to attack Iran, not the other way round.
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LOTS of fucking bullshit here, dude. The fucking Spy Cam tapes, suckers. Do you think tapes of Trump sticking his fingers into juvenile girls’ vaginas and getting blow jobs from captured girls and then the golden showers, do you think even MAGA would defend the pedophile with those being released worldwide? Duh, who has who, and who’s on first base? Who the fuck has the tapes? Abbott being the Jew!
Oh no, the videos are viral:
Again, finding these political cunts’ families and vacation spots and shopping hangouts, that’s how we asymetrically take on the MAGA cult, the monsters of the Reap-pubic-can camp.
Moment Marine veteran protesting Iran war suffers broken arm during struggle with GOP senator.
Montana Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy has defended himself after an anti-war protester he was helping remove from a Capitol Hill hearing was injured.
The incident unfolded when Sheehy came to the aid of Capitol Police as they struggled to remove the activist from a committee hearing on Wednesday.
Brian McGinnis, a Marine Corps veteran in dress uniform, disrupted a gathering of the Senate Armed Services Committee to denounce the joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran. He clashed with three officers attempting to remove him from the chamber and suffered a broken arm in the process, Reuters reports.
“No one wants to fight for Israel,” McGinnis yelled as the officers shoved him through the door, at which point the protester’s arm became wedged in the door frame.
When Sheehy joined the scrum, an audible snap could be heard and a member of the public, in attendance to witness the hearing, repeatedly cried out: “A sitting U.S. senator just broke the hand of a Marine.”
As Sheehy returned to his seat, the same man called him a “coward” and a “punk,” to which the Republican appeared to respond by saying: “Go f*** yourself.”
As he was finally led away from the scene, McGinnis continued to shout: “Free Palestine, from the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, Palestine will be free”, referring to the first line of the Marine Corps’ official song.
The senator, a former Navy SEAL, later responded to a video of the chaotic episode on X and said: “Capitol Police were attempting to remove an unhinged protester from the Armed Services hearing. He was fighting back. I decided to help out and de-escalate the situation.
“This gentleman came to the Capitol looking for a confrontation, and he got one. I hope he gets the help he needs without causing further violence.”
McGinnis — who, along with the officers, was treated for his injuries — was arrested and faces three counts each of assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and unlawful demonstration, according to Capitol Police.
They blamed McGinnis for the injury he sustained, saying in their statement that he “got his own arm stuck in a door to resist our officers and force his way back into the hearing room.”
Sheehy’s decision to involve himself in the scuffle also attracted strong criticism, however, with the campaign group Veterans for Responsible Leadership reacting to the senator’s account by saying: “Let’s hope he sues the s*** out of you.”
Paul Rieckhoff, a veterans’ rights activist and podcaster, said: “This is very, very ugly. And no U.S. senator needs to inject himself into this situation. For the safety of everyone, including himself. “Just unnecessary and terrible to watch. This is what an America falling apart looks like.”
A video posted on X earlier in the day appears to show McGinnis, described as a “Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate”, standing outside the Capitol.
He explained that he is “here in D.C. trying to speak out against the Senate and ask them why they’re going to send our men and women to harm’s way when our elected officials said that there would be no world war.”
“Anyone who feels disillusioned and betrayed by our government, you are not alone,” he says. “Join us in demanding accountability for this betrayal. Free Palestine. Free America.”
Paul Rieckhoff:
Another take. “This is the beginning of the beginning,” and of course, always baseball, mom, and apple pie: ‘spring training,” whoopee, MLB. And, what is deeply un-American? Paul is alluding to a good pro-American value system versus a bad one, un-American? Oxymoron. Shooting people on the streets of America, and kidnapping an elected president after killing 100 Venezuelans? That’s bad, but, history tells us . . .
She wants the troops to get everything they need to kill and murder children!
REALITY.
Two Jews in a pod . . . Podcast: What lies have their forefathers and rabbis told them?
Oh, god, more yammering:
Let’s meet on each other’s Podcasts. There you go Trump!
Iran’s Weapon Of Mass Economic Destruction: Hormuz
“We are fighting the Epstein class that either rapes little girls or bombs little girls.”
Oh no, Philip!
Iran is winning?
Again, follow them, on their breaks, with family, go to their daycares, etc.
That the war is taking place at all is due to Israel’s absolute control over America’s political class, a reality that Netanyahu and his predecessors in office have not been exactly shy about admitting.
The U.S. is a hapless giant that has been corrupted by Jewish billionaire money from within to be totally committed to the expansion of greater Israel, no matter how many have to die in the process.
Do the Israelis care what happens to the American people?
No.
The U.S. is a necessary resource, which they will squeeze dry of money and political support before being discarded like a used diaper.
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FUCKING WHITE MAN’S and WOMAN’s WORLD!
Oh, no, all the fucking Duck Dynasty rubbernecking of the Trump/Truman show? Let’s get a Back Man on . . . Gerald gets it wrong, too, about Iran’s mighty weapons. Dudes, the country is jam-packed with Mossad, honey traps, traitors, man. All pathways, tunnels, underground bunkers, and missile factories are noted.
When it was first displayed in Madrid in 1981, Picasso’s painting “Guernica” was protected by armed Civil Guard officers.
Army National Guard 1st Lt. Paul Rieckhoff discusses how the Bush administration has failed to adquately protect soldiers on the battlefield. Rieckhoff served in Iraq from April 2003 to February 2004. He is also the founder of the group Operation Truth. [includes rush transcript]
19 members of a U.S. Army Reserve platoon were placed under arrest last week for refusing to obey orders to go on what they considered a “suicide mission.”
Stationed at Tallil Air Base south of Nasiriyah, members of the 343rd Quartermaster Company were ordered to drive a fuel supply convoy up to Taji, north of Baghdad. The soldiers had previously only focused on local missions in safer parts of southern Iraq and had never driven through Baghdad more than 200 miles away, where U.S. forces regularly come under fire. One soldier later claimed that the chance of being attacked was “99 percent.”
On average, American soldiers were attacked 87 times a day in August. Over 1,100 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the war began.
The platoon refused the order considering their trucks to be extremely unsafe. They said the convoy tankers lacked bullet-resistant armor and were not able to travel faster than 40 miles an hour. Some of the supply trucks were in disrepair and prone to breakdown. And while the armed escort of Humvees and helicopters normally provided, was not available. One the soldiers later described the mission as a “death sentence.”
The platoon’s commanding general, Brig. Gen. James Chambers, admitted yesterday that the unit was one of those whose trucks are still unarmored. In addition, the Washington Post is now reporting that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, complained to the Pentagon last winter that the lack of key spare parts for gear vital to combat operations, was so poor that it threatened Army troops” ability to fight.
In addition to the high-risk nature of the mission, the objective itself has been called into question. The jet fuel that the platoon was ordered to transport may have been contaminated with diesel and wasn”t even usable–Some of the soldiers” claim the fuel had already been rejected by one base and would be rejected again at Taji.
After refusing the orders, the U.S. Army placed the men and women of the platoon under arrest. They were corralled in a tent and detained at gunpoint for nearly two days. During this time, some of them managed to phone their relatives back home. In Alabama, Teresa Hill woke-up to hear a recorded message on her answering machine from her daughter, Spc. Amber McClenny. On the tape McClenny says “I need you now, Mom. I need you so bad…please help me. They are holding us against our will. We are now prisoners.”
According to the father of one of the soldiers, five members of the platoon were told they would be punished with a general discharge. Chambers said all 18 soldiers have returned to duty. The Army has begun an inquiry, and the soldiers could face disciplinary measures, including possible courts-martial.
Paul Rieckhoff, Executive Director and Founder of * Operation Truth*, a nonprofit organization set up to give voice to troops who served in Iraq. He served a tour of duty in Iraq from April 2003 to February 2004, where he was stationed in central Baghdad.
Transcript
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
AMY GOODMAN: Paul Rieckhoff is our guest right now. He’s Executive Director and founder of “Operation Truth,” which is a non-profit set up to give voice to troops on the ground in Iraq. He served a tour of duty in Iraq from April 2003 to February of this year, stationed in central Baghdad. Welcome to Democracy Now!
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Thank you very much for having me today.
AMY GOODMAN: It’s great to have you with us. Can you respond to this latest story?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Absolutely. I think it’s a very critical story, and it should be getting the attention it has so far. Not only is it an issue because of the insubordination, but because of the larger problem. Right now, you are hearing about a National Guard unit or reserve unit that is complaining about their equipment. This is one incident that’s really showing how big this problem is throughout the country. I was there for a year. We did not have proper body armor. We did not have uparmored humvees. We did not have ammunition, critical communications equipment, it just wasn’t there. This war was really done on the cheap, and I think you’re starting to see that come out now more and more.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to go to an excerpt of a documentary that we played a year ago. It was — rather a month ago. It was called Off to War. It tells the story of the Arkansas National Guard’s deployment to Iraq. In April 2004, 57 soldiers from Clarksville, Arkansas, were sent to Iraq as members of the 239 Infantry of the Arkansas National Guard. Embedded with them were the brother filmmaking team Brent and Craig Renault. They’re continuing to make this series of documentaries. This is an excerpt of the documentary of the soldiers on their way into Iraq through Kuwait.
UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER: The convoy we’re getting ready to take to Camp Taji, north of Baghdad, is pretty serious. Some of the equipment is old, so we’re trying to make sure it doesn’t break down.
UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER: I cannot — I have no idea why — you know, the United States Army would make us deploy with this old crap, and I think they’re going to quickly understand that when half of it breaks down on the way to Taji, and it will, that it’s not a good idea to deploy National Guard units with old Vietnam-era equipment.
UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER: This is what an armored vehicle should look like. The vehicle is totally armored completely all the way around, even in the front, the windshield. This is the modern vehicle that the regular army has right now.
UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER: We were promised uparmored kits and we didn’t get them. So we’re going to go ahead and try to fabricate something.
UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER: Hey, sir, do you think we could use some of this stuff?
UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER: We’re trying to use as much of the metal as we can, but we only have a limited supply of it so, you know, we have to resort to these old bullet proof vests. Honestly, I don’t feel too comfortable with doing that, but we’ve got to use what we can.
UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER: The sandbags will act to deflect the blasts from the roadside bombs or deflect bullets if we’re shot at.
AMY GOODMAN: An excerpt of Off to War, which tells the story of the Arkansas National Guard’s deployment to Iraq. Part three of the series runs on Discovery Times on Saturday night. It’s by Brent and Craig Renault, our colleagues at Downtown Community Television, where we broadcast from. Well, it’s quite amazing to listen to this again, Paul Rieckhoff, because in fact they’re talking about having to go to Taji as well.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Right.
AMY GOODMAN: They’re talking about the difference between how the army is protected, and how National Guard soldiers are protected. Can you talk about that?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Let me give you an example. When I deployed through Ft. Stewart, Georgia, with my infantry platoon. You go through an area called the central issuance facility. It’s where you get all your equipment, your boots, your helmets, your flak jackets. And a transportation company from an active duty unit went ahead of us and got interceptor body armor, the ceramic plates, the top of the line body armor we’ve heard so much about recently in the presidential race. They got it, and as soon as my first guy came through the line, the guy said, “Oh, you guys are National Guard. I’m sorry. You can’t have that. Here’s the old stuff, the Vietnam flak jackets off the shelf.” And I said, “Sir, you’ve got to be kidding me. We are front line infantry units. We need the best stuff you’ve got.” He said, “I’m sorry. We don’t have enough to go around. You’re going to have to deal with what we’ve got.” And that was the inferior Vietnam-era flak jackets that stop next to nothing.
AMY GOODMAN: Right. Repeat the story, and tell us who gets it and who doesn’t.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: At the outset in the first invasion, active duty soldiers received priority on body armor, so my unit, 38 Infantry soldiers and 40,000 other troops went into Iraq without body armor, went into Iraq with the old Vietnam-era flak jackets, 40,000 people of the initial invasion.
AMY GOODMAN: Then we see in this clip, the soldiers are putting flak jackets on their trucks. They’re not wearing them, they’re putting them on the trucks to protect them.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Right. That’s exactly what we did. You have to do the old army adage: improvise, adapt and overcome. Soldiers quickly realize that they’re in this on their own, and they have got to try to come up with innovative ways to protect themselves. One of the things we did is exactly what they did: use sandbags in the floors of vehicles, take flak jackets and duct tape them to the sides of humvees and troop trucks. And that’s the way you protect yourself.
AMY GOODMAN: So what has been the response? And now you’re raising it in Iraq. You have come home to raise it on behalf of soldiers.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Well, you know, it’s been a constant battle. Somebody asked me on a radio show the other day if this was an urban myth. You’re seeing footage, you have heard the story. This is a fact. The soldiers have been sent into harm’s way with inferior equipment. It’s a fact. And the government has been very slow to respond to these charges and these issues, and it’s only started to respond because there’s been pressure from the press, pressures from the families back home. But it’s still not completely solved. There are reports of soldiers in Iraq without body armor. There are few now. But the armament of the vehicles, the proper firepower and the overall number of troops are a problem in Iraq. The administration right now is refusing to address them.
AMY GOODMAN: We have to break. When we come back, I want to ask you about this letter of Ricardo Sanchez saying last year that the troops were not properly equipped. I want to ask you about your ad, Operation Truth ad, that has just come out and about this letter from the head of the Republican National Committee, Ed Gillespie, threatening legal action against the group, Rock the Vote, for raising the issue of the draft. This is Democracy Now! [break]
AMY GOODMAN: We are continuing on the issue of the troops, 19 of them, held at gunpoint for refusing to go to Taji, saying that they were not protected. Our guest is Paul Rieckhoff. He served in Iraq for almost a year, came back home and set up an organization called Operation Truth. He joins us to talk about these issues. The letter from Ricardo Sanchez
PAUL RIECKHOFF: That’s just ridiculous. The draft is an issue that merits discussion. The letter from Ricardo Sanchez is critical because he’s telling you, he’s raising a flag saying, we don’t have enough of what we need. You’ve heard this time and time again. General Shinseki in the run up to war said that we would need several hundred thousand troops, and he was squashed by The Pentagon. Military leaders throughout the Army, throughout the military raised concerns at the out set and were crushed by people in the civilian administration who thought they knew better. And now these military leaders are proven to be right all along.
AMY GOODMAN: How open is the discussion in the military?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Among the junior soldiers its very open. I mean, we’re well aware of it. Its almost as if its become a consensus. I mean, we know that this situation, that we haven’t been properly equipped. There have been steps made to improve it, but is just an overall denial that the problem really existed and it really undermines the confidence of the soldiers on the ground. When you’re walking a patrol and you don’t have the adequate equipment, you don’t have the proper body armor, its a critical issue that makes you feel vulnerable, and its absolutely unnecessary that a country with this much money and this many resources can forget to take proper care of the boots on the ground, the soldiers in harms way.
AMY GOODMAN: The whole issue of Rock the Vote, of Ed Gillespie, the chair of the Republican National Committee, this has been reported almost nowhere, sending a letter to the organization Rock the Vote, saying they’d better cease and desist talking about the possibility of the draft.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Right. We’ll I’m expecting a letter from him anytime soon to because at Operation Truth, we’re talking about the draft. And it’s because we were there and we have an understanding of how over extended our military is right now. And the draft may not be a probability but it is a possibility. It’s a contingency that military planners have to consider. Any politician, any party that comes out and tells you, I guarantee there will not be a draft is lying. What do you do if Korea comes across the D.M.Z. tomorrow and Syria and Iran decide to get a cooperation invade Iraq. We’d need troops from somewhere and a draft is a contingency that we should plan for and we should as a country discuss.
AMY GOODMAN: I’m looking at this story in USA Today. Members of the military and their families say the Bush Administration underestimated the number of troops needed in Iraq, and put too much pressure on inadequately trained National Guard and Reserve forces. The Annenburg Election Survey found 62% in the military sample said that the administration didn’t send an adequate number of troops to Iraq.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Yeah. This is what we have been saying all along. The troops have been saying this all along. The hard part is getting the message out. One of the real downsides of the professional army is that when the soldiers are finished with the tours in Iraq, many of them don’t get out and cannot enter the public discourse. 55% of the troops in Iraq are there for a second time. That’s why it’s important we listen to the troops and amplify the voices of those who come back. That’s why we started the organization, Operation Truth. And our website is the optruth.org. You can find out the stories from the people on the ground who have been there. They have been stifled and have been repressed and really need to get out in order to educate the American Public about the most important issue that is facing our country in November and beyond.
AMY GOODMAN: What repercussions do the 19 soldiers face who said no to going to Taji, saying they were ill-equipped?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Very, very serious repercussions. They could be court-martialed or jailed. It all depends on what the Army wants to do. I think that the Army will probably make an example out of them and really come down on them with the hammer because they want to say that the insubordination is not tolerated.
AMY GOODMAN: Yet they’re back, supposedly we’re getting different reports, on the job.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: I mean, you’re not going to hear much support for them for refusing the direct order. Once you get a direct order in a combat zone, you are obligated to fulfill the direct order unless it’s unlawful. Now they may argue that they were under-equipped trying to take care of their soldiers. In the end they may be sacrificial lambs in this story and may wind up being martyrized by it, but I think that the soldiers were probably trying to do the best they can and trying to bring visibility to an issue that’s bothered us all throughout the military, especially National Guard and Reserve troops.
AMY GOODMAN: Paul Rieckhoff, as head of operation truth, this organization got a lot of attention last week with release of an ad, can you talk about this ad?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Sure, it’s a very powerful ad featuring specialist Robert Acosta. Robert’s 21 years old. He’s from Santa Ana, California, and he lost his right arm in a grenade attack in Baghdad last summer. The ad basically tells Robert’s story. It talks about how he feels about the war and tries to bring visibility to the fact there’s 7,700 casualties, wounded, who have not been heard on T.V., who you haven’t heard from. They have faces. They’re not just pieces on a chessboard or part of a videogame. They’re real people with real lives and real families. I think it’s a human cost of war that we have not seen so far. We are hoping it will wake the country up and provoke discussion and encourage people to check out more about our organization and have a discussion about the war.
AMY GOODMAN: Talk about the issue of the injured. We have been talking with Mark Benjamin at U.P.I. [United Press International], pretty mainstream news media outlet, that his reports hardly get any attention anywhere else, and though he gets awards from the American Legion, for continually covering the casualties of war, those who have died, but specifically those who have been injured. Saying that there were more than 11,000 medical airlifts of soldiers out of Iraq, for example. I’m sure the number is higher right now. This issue of casualties, of people who are wounded, what do you understand at this point? You’re saying now more than 7,000 what? What is the casualty?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: More than 7,000 troops have been wounded as a result of enemy contact. That means they got shot, hit with a mortar, or roadside bomb. And Mark Benjamin has really been at the tip of the spear trying to bring this to light. But there are tens of thousands of soldiers who have been injured not as a result of enemy contact. You fall off a truck. You get run over by a Humvee. There’s a helicopter accident. These are the types of injuries that are really not properly documented. They could be in the tens of thousands. They could be up to 30,000 right now. We don’t know. The Army is not really being honest with the American public about how many soldiers are being injured and wounded and they’re definitely not being publicized if you are not hearing from them. You’re not hearing about their issues. And your certainly not hearing about the V.A. and the under funding of the V.A., which is a critical issue right now facing the 33,000 troops who have come home from Iraq seeking care in the V.A. hospitals.
AMY GOODMAN: What about that?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Well right now it’s under funded. Principi himself who is the head of the V.A. publicly said, I have not had my budget met. I’ve called for a certain amount; the administration has under funded it. I think they’re going to cut $910 million from the 2006 V.A. budget. They’re cutting the budget and under funding it as tens of thousands of troops come home from Iraq and Afghanistan. This administration’s priorities are totally out of whack. And it’s really unconscionable to treat our returning veterans this way.
AMY GOODMAN: When you do an ad like you did where does it fit into the presidential campaign and election?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Well, I hope it causes America to focus on the human cost of war and understanding this is the most critical issue facing our country. It’s not some other pandering, its not the Vietnam War. it’s the Iraq war, its the war where soldiers are dying and fighting in the [jive] right now. We don’t endorse a candidate. We don’t want to endorse a candidate. We don’t even want to go down that route. We just want people to think about the war and educate themselves. Because after November 2nd, regardless of who wins, we’re still going to have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. We’re still going to have wounded people coming back every day and that needs to stay in the focus of people’s minds, and that attention, that initiative and that focus we have on November needs to carry past November to taking care of our troops and their families.
AMY GOODMAN: Paul Rieckhoff, you are a former Manhattan investment banking analyst. How did you end up in Iraq?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: I volunteered. After 9/11, I was on and off active duty with the National Guard and Reserves pretty much waiting for the call. When the run-up for Iraq came, I knew I would be going sooner or later and I figured I might as well go in the beginning and get it over with and be a part of the tip of the spear. After that initial year on the ground, I have come back and now I’m still in the National Guard in New York. But is was out of a duty to serve. I wanted to give something back to my country. I wanted to lead soldiers in combat and try to give something back and also make a positive impact on the ground in Iraq. I knew that my 38 men would be a reflection of America and I could help mold them and create a positive impression of our country to the civilians in Iraq and any other people we came in contact with.
AMY GOODMAN: The democrats featured you in their weekly radio address. How did that happen?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Well, I approached everybody when I came back, from radio stations to local politicians saying that they need to hear from people like me who had been on the ground in Iraq. You have heard from policy advisers and wonks from the think tanks. But you weren’t really hearing from the soldiers. And the Kerry campaign was one of the groups that took me up on the offer and gave me a national forum to talk about soldier’s issues. I pounced on it. I’m not even a Democrat. I’m an Independent. But I felt like this issue was critical and if they were going to give me a national platform to talk about soldier’s issues and the human cost of war I was going to take it. It really did start the ball rolling for this organization and helped me galvanize other soldiers around the cause and create Operation Truth.
AMY GOODMAN: So this aired, when, right after the — this was on the anniversary of mission accomplished.
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Exactly.
AMY GOODMAN: And for people who don’t know, the Democrats weekly radio address is the response to the President’s weekly radio address. So what did you say?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Well, I was challenging the President. It was a year later. And when he declared, mission accomplished, I was with my infantry platoon in Baghdad getting shot at and the mission was not accomplished. We were not done. And there was a human cost to this war that was not being given adequate attention. And our critical shortages we talked about this way back in May, we had not had enough water, we had not enough communications equipment. We didn’t have the body armor we needed. And this war was done on the cheap and it was unacceptable. It really disappointed me. I was disappointed in the President and the administration. I felt it was an issue that needed to have a greater visibility brought to it immediately. I wanted questions answered. And when he told me at that time that he couldn’t think of any mistakes he made I was outraged. I could think of 20 he had made since breakfast.
AMY GOODMAN: Paul Rieckhoff, you are an Amherst College graduate, your father an army veteran and your late grandfather served in World War II. Many people talk about those who go into the military today, since Ed Gillespie so insistent is saying there is not a draft, an economic draft. What did you find when you were there?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: Well, there is a socioeconomic divide in the military. The military is proportionately middle class and a lower class. Kids are not leaving Beverly Hills or places wherever Ed Gillespie lives joining the Marine Corps, joining the army. It’s folks from places like the south side of Chicago. And really — the weight is being disproportionately held by the lower and middle class. I think a draft is an interesting discussion and making people think about what is the cost of war and are you personally interested in sending your kid. I think creating that direct accountability, the visceral response among the public is important, because people need to think about when they support a war, would I send my kid, would I go myself. And there are people banging on the drum and hiding behind desk in Washington.
AMY GOODMAN: Paul Rieckhoff, I want to thank you for being with us, executive director and founder of Operation Truth. Do you have more ads planned?
PAUL RIECKHOFF: If we get more money. We are trying to raise money to air this one right now. People can help support us optruth.org. It’s been a real grassroots battle so far. We are trying to keep it going. We want to crank the conversation up and make people think.
AMY GOODMAN: Well I want to thank very much for being with us.
This is how a banana republic rolls — imagine, just imagine, the fun at $18 an hour, and the commute, since this is a rural coastal area. Imagine $19 to be a teacher. Imagine!
“Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.” —Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?” —Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“Dialogue requires an intense faith in humankind, faith in their power to make and remake, to create and re-create, faith in their vocation to be more fully human.” —Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“To speak a true word is to transform the world.” —Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Gaza had educational justice. Now the genocide has wiped that out, too.
For the first time in many years, education in Gaza is only accessible to the well-to-do.
Jews: Newly surfaced videos show Israeli forces carrying out heavy carpet bombing on Tehran, causing multiple powerful explosions across the Iranian capital.
Look at the fucking comments over at Texas Rachel’s Podcast. They are believing Iran is winning. Fucking A, and then I have a fucking Brit telling me to “sling my hook.” Fucking BRITS.
There is something very very wrong here with this Texas woman:
What a win: “Tehran an ‘apocalypse’ of hospitals in flames and children buried beneath rubble”.
“American and Israeli aircraft bombed hospitals, residential buildings and schools across Tehran on Tuesday in what residents described as ‘an apocalypse’” adding, “Millions of civilians are trapped under relentless bombardment as food and medical supplies dwindle and the death toll mounts.”
Jews are on the job: Goldman CEO Solomon says markets may take a ‘couple of weeks’ to digest Iran war impact
More of the Cuntology of Cunt-ree jumpers. Where was she fucking born?
U.S. first lady Melania Trump presided over a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday focusing on children in conflict, one of her signature issues, and acknowledged she was doing so in “challenging times” as the United States has joined Israel in attacking Iran.
“The U.S. stands with all of the children throughout the world,” she said, speaking generally and not specifically about the new war in the Middle East. “I hope soon peace will be yours.”
No no no, it can’t be, the first lady, a woman of the night, an escort, a prostitute?
Yeah, trying that when an ACAB comes to your house about a fucking car mirror you accidentally hit while bicycling, and well, just took off.
A face a mother opossum could love.
IRS leader Bisignano declines to answer questions over unlawful taxpayer data disclosures to ICE
Yeah, the end of dams for hydropower:
Studies warn that climate change could slash hydropower generation across the Amazon by up to 40%, with controversial Belo Monte among the most exposed plants in Brazil.
Researchers and regulators say relying on historical river flows is no longer viable as droughts intensify and rainfall patterns drop.
Belo Monte’s operator argues the plant remains strategic for Brazil’s energy security, despite growing climate risks.
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Brazil’s largest Amazon hydropower plants are becoming increasingly vulnerable to climate change, and Belo Monte may be the clearest warning sign yet. Built on the Xingu River after years of debate over its environmental impacts and the reliability of its energy output, the mega-dam is facing a problem its planners could not solve with engineering: less water.
You want fucking good news?
Sea levels around the world have been underestimated due to inaccurate modelling, with research suggesting ocean levels are far higher than previously understood.
The finding could significantly affect assessments of the future impacts of global heating and the effects on coastal settlements.
Globally, the research found ocean levels are an average of 30cm higher than previously believed, but in some areas of the global south, including south-east Asia and the Indo-Pacific, they may be 100-150cm higher than previously thought.
Rising sea levels are a major threat to coastal communities across the world, and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that by 2100, levels may rise by 28-100cm.
Now, where is it I can find stories about MAGA and Trump losing? Appeals Court Clears Path for Trump Administration to Cancel Federal Union Contracts; IRS, Fiscal Service Terminate NTEU Agreements = A federal appeals court cleared the way for the Trump Administration to cancel collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) across a broad segment of the federal government workforce.
Oh yeah, what’s that Rachel and Ritter et al about Russia winning?
The German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, in Washington for talks with Donald Trump, said he stressed that Ukraine should not have to accept further territorial concessions during his conversation with the US president. He said he also underscored the need for continued support for Ukraine, which last week marked the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion. “We all want to see this war coming to an end as soon as possible. But Ukraine has to preserve its territory and their security interests,” Merz said at the start of his third visit to the Oval Office. He told reporters he thought Trump had understood the point after he showed him a map of the war-torn country.
Trump ensured Merz that negotiating a deal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine remained “very high” on his priority list, and said he believed the US had plenty of munitions to fight Iran and sell them to Europe for use in Ukraine.
Merz also urged Trump to put pressure on Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine. “Russia is playing for time here, and in doing so is also acting against the will of the American president. In today’s talks, I called for increasing the pressure on Moscow,” the German chancellor told reporters. The US, Russia and Ukraine are taking part in trilateral talks aimed at securing a peace deal. Merz, however, said only a pact supported by Europe could be lasting. “We are not prepared to accept an agreement that is negotiated over our heads,” he said.
A suspected Russian “shadow fleet” oil tanker seized by Belgium is being held on a €10m ($12m) bond, after inspections revealed infractions, Brussels said on Tuesday. The Ethera, which Belgium alleges is part of a flotilla of ageing vessels Moscow uses to avoid western sanctions, was seized by Belgian special forces in the North Sea on Sunday. Investigations carried out after it was brought to the port of Zeebrugge confirmed it had been sailing under a false Guinean flag, the Belgian government said. In total inspectors found 45 infractions, including technical defects, leading to the ship being impounded, it added. The tanker’s Russian captain and its 20-strong crew were ordered to remain on board. “The ship will only leave the port once it is compliant and the deposit has been paid,” said Belgium’s mobility minister, Jean-Luc Crucke. Russia has previously described the seizure of its tankers and other vessels carrying its cargoes as acts of piracy.
The US has deployed a low-cost combat drone in Iran modelled on the Iranian Shahed, as it pushes to accelerate weapons programmes because the Ukraine war. The Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (Lucas) drone was deployed just eight months after its Pentagon unveiling. Defence officials said the compressed timeline reflected lessons learned from observing drone warfare in Ukraine, where both sides have employed thousands of low-cost unmanned systems.
The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, discussed the Druzhba pipeline, which is at the centre of a dispute with Hungary and Slovakia and has held up approval of a €90bn EU loan to Kyiv. A commission spokesperson said the two leaders had discussed the matter during a call but could not share any details of the conversation. Earlier von der Leyen said on X that they had discussed topics including the loan, sanctions on Russia and “the wider impact of the developments in the Middle East on energy prices, on energy security and on availability of badly needed defence materials”.
Looks like something Pedophile and Rapist in Chief is itching for: Myanmar’s junta announced the launch of a sweeping fuel rationing system for private vehicles on Wednesday, blaming disruptions to the global energy supply chain caused by escalating hostilities in the Middle East.
The country’s National Defence and Security Council (NDSC) said the new regulations, effective March 7, 2026, were a response to “global political situations” and armed conflicts in the Middle East, which have obstructed oil shipments.
Good old Norman Rockwell Days.
Or Happy Days:
Oh, this will work out for the banks, real estate companies and management firms: America has a housing affordability crisis. Building houses for rent can help.
About 7% of new single-family houses hitting the market are now for rent, not sale. More than 10 times as many “build-to-rent” homes were completed in the U.S. in 2024 as compared with a decade earlier.
Many of these are being constructed by firms that specialize in build-to-rent housing, like NexMetro, which develops and owns single-family rental homes in the Sun Belt, a hot market for these properties. That’s where populations are growing and there’s plenty of land. Ohio and Utah have also seen a boom.
When NexMetro CEO Josh Hartmann started building these houses in 2009, in the aftermath of the financial crisis, he expected to get homeowners who had faced foreclosure and could no longer afford owning but still wanted the same home lifestyle.
Instead, Hartmann said most of his residents have been young professionals, who were more likely to be pet owners than parents. Many wanted to live in a single-family home but either were not ready or were uninterested in homeownership.
Ahh, the brainwashing will be persistent: HBO Max and Paramount+ $79B Merger Could Reshape Streaming Wars. Jews Don’t Own the Press and Media and Hollywood.
We are working hard in America —
University of South Florida Optical Oceanography Lab’s Sargassum Watch System (SaWS) is reporting record high levels of sargassum across parts of the Caribbean. This includes areas in the western and eastern Caribbean as well as the western Atlantic and Gulf, including some Florida beaches.
Who needs data centers in space when they can float offshore? The power crunch for AI data centers has gotten so severe that people — not just Elon Musk — are talking about launching servers into space so they can access solar power 24/7.
One startup thinks the ocean is a better place for them. Offshore wind developer Aikido is planning to submerge a 100-kilowatt demonstration data center off the coast of Norway this year. The small unit will live in the submerged pods of a floating offshore wind turbine.
or hopeium, or rope-a-dopeium, or plain old “end of the world as we know it” sing song: No, Iran and Russia and China and Yemen and the rest of the world Are NOT winning: USA USA MAGA MAGA!
It’s so fucking pathetic how fucking wooden the thinking has been of China: Source.
If China it thinks that by “wooing” the business sector and the right-wing governments that hate them, it will gain ground in Latin America and the Caribbean, it confirms that it understands little to nothing about what is happening in the region and what the Monroe Doctrine and the Trump Corollary mean.
The process of containing China’s economic presence in Latin America and the Caribbean is already underway, both openly and more subtly. Beyond the outright rejection of Chinese companies in Venezuela following the armed incursion into that country on January 3rd, other manifestations point to a trend unfolding in the areas of trade, investment, technology, and security. While China has the capacity and is concerned with defending its interests in these spheres, the confrontation is also evident in the geopolitical arena, where Beijing has no intention whatsoever of challenging Washington. To paraphrase the old adage, China isn’t interested in having friends; its desire is to have good partners with whom to conduct—to use a redundant phrase—good business.
Forget about it Danny Haiphong and John Mearshimer and the lot of them!
MAGA MAGA MAGA, man, we are doing so well in this fucking Banana Republic: FLYOVER species, homo consumopethicus: Israel will fucking poison Iran’s water and the USA will bomb its dams.
Speaking of how fucked we are with the water dilemmas:
For decades, the seven Basin states have used more water than the river delivers by drawing their entitlements from surpluses banked in reservoirs during the wet 1980s and ’90s, chiefly in Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Never mind that those entitlements were based on an over-estimate of river flows in 1922, when the Colorado River Compact was established, rendering the “paper” water of the entitlements essentially a fiction, not to mention a source of continual conflict. That savings account has now been drained: Mead and Powell are each below 30% full, and the trend is steadily downward. Global warming has only accelerated the decline: So far this century, the river’s flow has fallen 20% from its long-term annual averages, and scientists forecast more of the same as the climate continues to heat up.
Show drought, snow apocalypse in reverse. You do get it, right, there is no Bruce Willis or Super Jew Man coming to the rescue:
See, we were attacked by Iran. Even more worrisome is what would happen next. At minimum power pool, the penstocks would have to be closed, and the only remaining way to pass water through the dam is the river outlet works, or ROWs: two intakes in the rear face of the dam leading to four 96-inch-diameter steel pipes with a combined maximum discharge capacity of 15,000 cubic feet per second. However, the ROWs, also known as bypass tubes, have a serious design flaw: They are unsafe to use for extended intervals, and start to erode when the reservoir is low.
Fucking PLYWOOD, man, that’s American ingenuity.
Meanwhile, the physical infrastructure that enables Colorado River water management is on the verge of its own real and potentially catastrophic crisis — and yet Reclamation has barely acknowledged this, with the exception of an oblique reference in an unposted technical memorandum from 2024. The falling reservoir levels reveal another, deeper set of problems inside Glen Canyon Dam, which holds back the Colorado and Lake Powell. The 710-foot-tall dam was designed for a Goldilocks world in which water levels would never be too high or too low, despite the well-known fact that the Colorado is by far the most variable river in North America, prone to prodigious floods and extended droughts. But the Bureau, bursting with Cold War confidence — or hubris — chose to downplay the threat. In the record-breaking El Niño winter of 1983, the Bureau almost lost the dam to overtopping, due to both its mismanagement and its design, because the dam lacks sufficient spillway capacity for big floods. Only sheets of plywood installed across its top and cooler temperatures that slowed the melting of that year’s snowpack saved Glen Canyon Dam.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s policy of personally reviewing expenditures of more than $100,000 has held up more than 1,000 contracts, grants and awards at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), according to a new report from Senate Democrats.
The report says that as of Sept. 8, Noem’s policy had delayed approval of or left approval pending for 1,034 contracts, grants or disaster assistance awards.
She sucks Trump and his dildo, and the Jews suck the war porn. Again, this is the Jew/American way — mowing of the grass, proving grounds, testing us, the crash test dummies. US launches Precision Strike Missile for the first time ever in a combat situation during the Iran operation
Additionally, CENTCOM announced that over 20 Iranian navy vessels have been struck or sunk as part of Operation Epic Fury, including a Soleimani-class vessel.
Are you cumming all over your boxers and panties and g-strings and XXL Depends?
Shit, where’s Judge Spumoni and RItter and the Larry Moe and Curly — and Ray McGOvern, and the Minyan of Finkelstein, Aaron, Katie, Illan, Max, Joe Shapiro, McGregor, the Duran, the lot of them when we need a little bit of bullshit about that old time religion how US is about to go belly up and the Jews of Palestine are almost done with Zionism?
We live in the first decade of the 21st century. It is a very exciting period in human history in many ways. Science and technology have advanced to unheard-of heights. Many of the most important advances have been made in the USA. And yet in other respects, human consciousness is lagging far behind the advances of the productive forces, science, and technique.
In the USA today most people believe in God and the devil. Millions are convinced that the first Book of Genesis – and the rest of the Bible – is literally true. They demand that children in American schools should be taught that God created the world in six days, and that the first woman was made out of Adam’s rib. The first American to circle the world in a spaceship, when asked to deliver a message to the people of the world, out of the whole of world literature, chose the Book of Genesis.
This contradiction between the colossal advances of science and the extreme backwardness of human consciousness is a dialectical contradiction. Nowhere is this contradiction so obvious as in the mentality of the right-wing Republican Neo-Conservative clique that is now firmly installed in the White House. If we were able to open the head of George Bush and look into the workings of his brain, we would see there all the accumulated rubbish, prejudices, and superstitions of the last thousand years.
[Pete Hegseth’s Crusade to Turn the Military into a Christian Weapon]
The mentality of those ladies and gentlemen who stand at the head of the world’s most powerful and advanced country is not fundamentally different to the primitive psychology of the Middle Ages. They are steeped in religion, in its crudest and most primitive forms. They talk about the world in terms that could easily have been used by the crusaders: the “axis of Evil” and so on. They betray all the psychological traits of religious fanatics like Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar. The only difference, as they will immediately protest, is that they are right, whereas those who hold contrary views are wrong (Bin Laden also thinks the same).
What? Are Jews losing? WTF? Isaac Herzog held a secret meeting with Asio boss during Australia trip, the intelligence agency confirms
Granting a foreign head of state, such as the Israeli president, access to a domestic intelligence agency is ‘unprecedented’, Senator David Pocock claims
Sure, those 14 eyes are all focused in with Mossad and Jewish Tech. DO NOT BE FOOLED by “this could be the end of zionism” fuckery.
Brown slime, a giant feces pile, this HOME:
Britain said on Tuesday the government would end study visas from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan, and work visas for Afghans, in a major crackdown as anti-immigration sentiment rises in the country.
“An ‘emergency brake’ on visas has been imposed for the first time on nationals from four countries following a surge in asylum claims from legal routes,” the Home Office said in a statement run by Britain’s Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood.
Yet the real shit of the InBred UnUnited Quee/ueer-Dumb is running like gangbusters: Thousands of pollution incidents in England downgraded without site visit, data suggests
Exclusive: Whistleblower figures show a large rise in ‘serious’ to ‘minor’ downgrades based on water company evidence.
Your/Our Shit Cup Runeth Over: Opponents blast CAFO’s plan to expand in Pierce County in contested case hearing
Fears mount over water contamination, but an attorney for Ridge Breeze Dairy says the farm’s owners care about water quality
How’s that war front going? Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Iran, Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Yemen, where else? Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan? China?
Oh, shit, that’s who is winning.
The U.S. has mobilized an extensive force comprising more than 50,000 troops, 200 fighter jets, two aircraft carriers and bombers, said Admiral Brad Cooper, Commander of U.S. Central Command.
Within the first 24 hours of the operation, the U.S. nearly doubled the scale of its “shock and awe” strikes from 2003, Cooper said. The U.S. is continuing its 24/7 strikes against Iran, and has hit nearly 2,000 targets within the first 100 hours of the operation.
“We have severely degraded Iran’s air defenses and destroyed hundreds of Iranian ballistic missiles, launchers and drones,” said Cooper. The U.S. also has a goal of sinking Iran’s “entire Navy,” he added. So far, the U.S. reports sinking 17 ships, including the most-operational Iranian submarine.
“Today, there is not a single Iranian ship underway in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz or Gulf of Oman,” he said. “We will continue to conduct dynamic targeting operations. We’re hunting Iran’s last remaining mobile ballistic missile launchers to eliminate, what I would characterize, as their lingering launch capability.”
The price the world pays for America’s RV-World, Disneyland, TV, Costco, EV cars, muscle automobiles, clothes, paved roads, shitty hospitals, colleges, just about everything we do and say and eat and fuck with or fuck around with, here, in this Chlamydia Capitalism, has been gathered because we have KILLED people, KILLED others’ ecosystems, KILLED cultures, KILLED generation after generation in other parts of the FUCKING World.
Cathie Wood, ARK Shift Defense Holdings
Elsewhere, Cathie Wood and her ARK Invest firm on Tuesday updated their defense and air taxi holdings.
ARK on Tuesday sold 44,655 shares of drone and hypersonics maker Kratos Defense (KTOS), worth $3.97 million based on KTOS stock’s closing price of 88.95.
Kratos Defense is the third-largest holding in the ARK Autonomous Technology & Robotics ETF (ARKQ), representing 7.66% of the fund as of Wednesday.
The firm purchased shares of missile producer AeroVironment (AVAV), as well as loaded up on air taxi manufacturers Archer Aviation (ACHR) and Joby Aviation (JOBY).
Wood purchased 11,205 shares of AeroVironment, worth $2.56 million based on its Tuesday close of 228.30.
ARK bought 720,841 shares of Archer, worth $4.84 million, based on ACHR’s 6.72 closing price Tuesday. The firm added $3.34 million worth of Joby stock, or 342,006 shares, based on its 9.76 closing price Tuesday.
AeroVironment is the eighth-largest ARKQ holding at 3.6% of the fund, while Archer ranks 10th at 3.46%. JOBY is ARKQ’s 25th largest holding at 1.48% of the ETF.
JOBY and ACHR stock rose about 1% Wednesday. Kratos ticked higher after an early retreat. AeroVironment shares eased less than 1%. Defense Stocks Rally
NO FUCKING HEADS are rolling: At least 111 substances of unknown safety have been added to foods, drinks, and supplements sold in the United States without alerting the US Food and Drug Administration, a new investigation found.
[Energy Secretary Chris Wright pumps gas in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday.Sheila Dang / Reuters]
Yeah, WE are winning, go USA USA USA: Iran strikes risk more voter frustration on the economy with rising gas prices
Democrats are already pointing to prices at the pump in hitting the administration for its decision to strike Iran
Republicans say they hope the spike will be short-lived.
Shit, man, America the shit concentrator — how many new Gestapo concentration camps for ICE coming online in the next 2 years? 16?
Amid swirling rumors that the federal government is eyeing a Salt Lake City west-side warehouse for an immigration detention center, Mayor Erin Mendenhall sent a letter to the building’s owner warning that it is not up to code to host such a facility. The warehouse in question is allegedly located near 1000 N. 6880 West, according to information shared by local immigration activist TJ Young, who organized a protest outside the building Friday morning. Salt Lake County property records and state business registration information show a Millcreek-based real estate development firm known as The Ritchie Group owns the property. In the letter sent Thursday night and obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune, Mendenhall told Ritchie Group co-founder Ryan Ritchie that the city had concerns that the property is not up to code to host a detention facility and that the municipality’s sewage and water pipes in the area would not be able to handle the rumoured detention facility.
God, more worthless Democrats on worthless Medhi’s fucking Zeteo:
Days after the Trump administration joined forces with Israel to launch an illegal attack on Iran, the White House’s messaging on why they had no choice but to wage this war continues to shift.
But Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, says there was one main reason Trump went to war with Iran – and it wasn’t because of an “imminent threat.”
“I have not seen any intelligence that would satisfy that kind of attack,” Carson tells Mehdi. “This was clearly an attack to distract us from the Epstein files.”
Carson says that not only is he deeply concerned about the safety of Americans abroad, but he’s also worried about the possibility of retaliation on US soil.
WTF???? This is how a fucking house negro democrat thinks after years of watching Amazon Prime and Denzel Washington’s “The Equalizer”:
“We could see attacks on our homeland by folks with terrorist organizations seeking to seize upon the moment, as it were, or sleeper cell operations as well,” he warns.
An odd scene was recorded in Bahrain over the weekend, as Bahraini civilians were seen cheering Iranian strikes on US facilities inside the Gulf Arab state. Why would they cheer this on? You’ve got to see this!
Right, a groundswell about to take over the monarchy!1
Paul Haeder, Author 