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…. sooooo, the Jewish Project of Stealing Land and Ethnically Cleansing Palestinians, way back then, and before, bombing hotels and assassinating thousands before 1948, never again…. really!!!!

Paulo Kirk

Jun 13, 2026

The day after last Christmas (on 26 December 2023), the National Public Radio (NPR) in the United States reported on the World Health Organization warning.

The transcript reads:

In Gaza, the World Health Organization warns that illness may ultimately kill more people than Israel’s offensive. Infectious diseases are “soaring,” says the WHO. Over 100,000 cases of diarrhoea have been reported, with rates among childlren 25 times higher than before the war.

War has shattered Gaza’s health-care system, including its disease surveillance capabilities.

No No No: Who the fuck cares what Norman, and Max, and Aaron, and Katie and . . . have to fuckding say?

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In one of her visits to the West Bank city of Hebron in the 1980’s, the American Jewish writer Ellen Cantarow recalled seeing graffiti on walls that proclaimed: “ARABS TO THE GAS CHAMBERS”. That was four decades ago. I shudder to think what Israelis demand and want today, given that even as staunch a Zionist as the famed New York Times editor Thomas Friedman is screaming foul of how far-right Israel governments of Netanyahu have moved to.

War and Irony in Hebron Hilltops | The Electronic Intifada

The Zionist state’s expansion of its “living space” in its race-world where the Jews are on top, and with Palestinians at the bottom via variously genocidal methods, has remained a constant theme in the development of the “only democracy” in the Middle East.

Hebron - Another dull day in fear | The Electronic Intifada
Boycott Israel News: Mercaz HaRav - a training centre for illegal  occupation, murder and 'Arabs to the Gas Chambers'

Gas the Arabs (2017) is a Spanish documentary film directed by Carles Bover Martínez and Julio Pérez del Campo. The 30-minute short film examines the daily human rights violations, blockades, and postwar hardships experienced by the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. [12]

Gas the Arabs - Película - 2018 - Crítica | Reparto | Estreno | Duración |  Sinopsis | Premios - decine21.com

What has changed in Israel now is that not only IDF soldiers but also an overwhelming majority of its settler-citizens have metamorphosed into “Judaeo-Nazis”, as forewarned by the renowned Israel public intellectual Yeshayahu Leibowitz, 40 years ago. Leibowitz was prophetic in his warning to fellow Israeli that if the occupation (of Palestine) continues, Israeli Jews are going to turn into what he called, ‘Judeo-Nazis’.

In his 13 December 2023 op-ed in Al Jazeera International, Rifat Audeh, Palestinian-Canadian human rights activist, award-winning filmmaker, and freelance journalist, wrote: “​(i)t’s not shocking to see Israeli children celebrate the Gaza genocide. Israel has long been indoctrinating its children to believe Palestinians are less than human, and thus not worthy of empathy or compassion”.

Another Jewish Voice: Book Review: The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces, by Seth Harp, 2025

Suspecting, even knowing, something is one thing; seeing it described in gory detail in terms of specific individuals is another.

My comments: Paul HaederTerminal Velocity: Man Lost of …10h

What? So all those schools of America’s cunts, Vietnam, ACAB, and alas, I have been around ex-military in police forces and on military bases. Are you kidding me?

They’d take out environmental activists wit zeal and gusto. Seth has a narrow scope. Not to pun that term. Be in an Occupy Seattle march or one for antiracist values? ICE? Christ, the bonus soldiers mowed down? You just aren’t tracking reality. I’m not going to one-up you here because it’s meaningless.

Ex-military in the pig forces? Black Wall Street? Cops with military history.

Most mercenaries going into the disservices are killers inside. Blood lust hunters, Eagle Scouts, ROTC … We are fucked as the tech fascists are now getting into disservices with LT. Colonel commissions.

Ya just get how vile the disservices are. Egalitarianism? These cunts love the rapist and brutalizers in the Jewish mob called the Israeli Occupation Fascist … Force. Uniforms, my ass.

Basically, responding to this doozy of a paragraph by Spritzler:

And yet, as I read the book I found no evidence that these severely psychologically damaged soldiers would necessarily obey orders to shoot American civilians in a sufficiently large and determined egalitarian revolutionary movement. In such a movement there would be people whom the soldiers knew were their own relatives, friends or neighbors from back home. Being ordered to kill Americans in this context is quite different from being ordered to kill a foreigner whom one is told is a terrorist enemy of the United States. — JohnSpritzer

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“For the past two decades, Delta Force has functioned as a high-tech death squad dedicated to covertly liquidating the male population base of recalcitrant ethnic and tribal groups that resist U.S. military occupation. That rogue members of such a monstrous institution might quietly put down one of their own, even on American soil, does not overly strain the imagination.”

— The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces by Seth Harp

Delta Force: History, Selection, Missions and How to Join

Reality, and caveat — the entire concept of a US Mercenary Force is based on the true people in the military: conservative, reactionary, crocodile tears and all, hateful of female presidents (possibilities of one), and hateful of me who would spit on their graves and spit on their fucking faces as they return in that War is a Racket fucking death squad brigade after brigade. They don’t have to be SEAL’s or Delta Force or . . .

020mag.com Airsoft Magazine: Delta Force: the U.S. Army unit that doesn't  exist (but everyone knows)

Tier 1 Special Mission Units (SMUs)

These are the most elite, highly classified units in the Department of Defense, primarily tasked with counterterrorism and high-value target extraction. [12]

  • Delta Force (1st SFOD-D): The Army’s premier counterterrorism unit. Modeled after the British SAS, it specializes in hostage rescue, direct action, and covert operations. [1]
  • DEVGRU (SEAL Team Six): The Navy’s equivalent to Delta Force. Originally an elite anti-terrorist SEAL team, they now handle highly classified global maritime and land-based special missions. [12345]
  • 24th Special Tactics Squadron (24th STS): The Air Force’s Tier 1 unit. Its operators embed with Delta Force and DEVGRU to provide specialized air traffic control, fire support, and helicopter insertions. [1234]
  • Intelligence Support Activity (ISA): The covert intelligence-gathering wing of the Army. They operate as spies in the field, conducting reconnaissance and tracking targets in preparation for operations by other SMUs.
  • Tier 2 Special Operations Forces (SOF)These units execute a massive variety of special missions ranging from foreign internal defense to deep reconnaissance and unconventional warfare. [12345]
    • Green Berets (Army Special Forces): Masters of unconventional warfare and guerrilla tactics. They excel at training and advising foreign military forces and conducting counter-insurgency. [123]
    • Navy SEALs: The Navy’s main special operations force. They conduct covert maritime, riverine, and land operations, including direct action and reconnaissance. [12345]
    • 75th Ranger Regiment: An elite light airborne infantry force. They act as a rapid-deployment strike force capable of seizing airfields and leading large-scale direct action missions. [1234]
    • 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Night Stalkers): The Army’s elite helicopter pilots. They provide highly specialized, low-level, nighttime transportation for other special operations units. [12]
    • Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC): The Marine Corps’ contribution to U.S. Special Operations Command. They specialize in direct action, special reconnaissance, and foreign training. [1]
    • Air Force Pararescue (PJs) & Combat Controllers: Airmen embedded in special operations zones. PJs specialize in combat search and rescue, while Combat Controllers manage battlefield air traffic control and fire support. [12345]

ACAB on may evels: Approximately 19% to 25% of law enforcement officers in the United States have prior military backgrounds. This is a disproportionately high representation considering that military veterans make up less than 6% of the general U.S. population.

Some other conclusions about veteran cops emerged more clearly:

Veterans who work as police are more vulnerable to self-destructive behavior — alcohol abuse, drugs, and, like William Thomas, attempted suicide.

Most law enforcement agencies, because of factors including a culture of machismo and a number of legal restraints, do little or no mental health screening for cops who return from military deployment, and provide little in the way of treatment.

Hiring preferences for former service members that tend to benefit whites disproportionately make it harder to build police forces that resemble and understand diverse communities.

I say, there is always something a bit off when Jews think, speak, Substack their ideas, interact with the fucking real world. ALWAYS, man, ALwAYS. Not that I necessarily want their voices silenced like they want OUR voices silenced, but alas, I have been in this journalism and academic and unionizing game for a very long time and to be truthful, I just do not resonate with Jews as a general perception, truly.

This fucking CRAP:

Your beef is with Netanyahu. He is in control. The majority of Jewish people around the world do not support him and half of Israel and their people do not support him so your beef is not with Israel. Your beef is with Netanyahu who is a corrupt criminal and your beef is also with Hamas who fundraises on the dead bodies of innocent civilians in Gaza. Netanyahu is a terrorist. Hamas are terrorists and your beef is with them but when you blanketly say, “it’s Israel”, then you’re blaming millions of people in Israel, who are not supportive of what is going on, did not vote for Netanyahu & do not support him or his corrupt criminal Regime but I’ll tell you we’re all taking heat around the world because you can’t differentiate between the people of Israel, and their corrupt criminal leader. So Jewish people regardless of where we live are taking heat in the form of increased antisemitism and racism around the world.

Absolutely! People confuse Zionism with Judaism. Zionist are a political group, not a religion. As many know and all should, there are Zionists across the world! Many here in the U.S. It is Netanyahu , Trump and those before him here that have allowed the Zionist in Israel to continue the genocide. Most of Israel wants peace with Lebanon and I know there is a large movement to vote out Netanyahu. When that happens I pray there will be peace between all…and when tRUMP is gone too! Most all here want peace as well with Iran and the genocide to end. Midterms are coming and with that the change will begin. 🙏🏼❤️

And, shite . . . Can’t look into the looking glass?

Quoting from a recent report . . . In the annals of history, few events cast such a long shadow as World War II and the crimes committed in it. This inquiry examines the narrative surrounding the Holocaust—a story embedded in global memory, law, and politics. What if the foundations of this narrative rest on exaggeration, fabrication, or outright myth? Based on demographic data, forensic reports and historical evidence, this work disputes Orthodoxy not out of contempt for the victims of war, but in search of the inviolable truth. Approach these pages with a skepticism about the world and a curiosity for the repressed; for history, like any human endeavor, requires relentless scrutiny.

Preface

In an age where researching certain chapters of history invites condemnation rather than discourse, this book appears as a clarion call to intellectual freedom. The compilation of evidence – from censuses to engineering analyzes – reflects the rigorous scrutiny once championed by figures like David Irving, whose *Hitler’s War* illuminated neglected perspectives of the Nazi regime. While mainstream historiography upholds the Holocaust as the systematic genocide of six million Jews, revisionists such as those cited here argue for a reassessment based on empirical discrepancies. This is not an endorsement of denial, but a plea for precision: atrocities happened, but their scale and intent demand debate unencumbered by taboo. Let this book provoke thought, encourage verification, and remind us that truth is incoherent.

As the compiler of this revised edition, I approach this subject with the seriousness it demands. The Holocaust narrative has profoundly influenced postwar reparations, international law, and the geopolitics of the Middle East, including the establishment of Israel. My journey began with an archival dive into Red Cross documents, census figures and technical reports, uncovering inconsistencies that mainstream reports often gloss over. This edition corrects grammatical errors, awkward phrasing, and factual errors from the original manuscript—likely artifacts of translation and hasty assembly—while preserving the basic arguments. Sources are cited where possible, although readers are encouraged to consult the originals for verification. This is a work of revisionism, not hatred; seeks to honor all victims of war by distinguishing fact from fiction. Proceed with an open mind, as the stakes of historical truth remain ever relevant.

1: Lie: During the Second World War: 6 million Jews were killed.

The biggest lie of the 20th and 21st century is the Holocaust. This fabrication has profoundly shaped today’s global events.

2. Truth: The Holocaust never happened.

A brutal lie: The main targets of the Nazis were the Jews. True, the primary goals of the Nazis were as follows: “Hitler had three main goals in his foreign policy:

– To unite all people who speak German.

– To achieve ‘Lebensraum’, which meant more living space for the German people. This was based on the racist policies of the Nazis, rooted in the idea that ‘Aryans’ were superior to Eastern Europeans.

– Destroy the Treaty of Versailles, the peace document signed in 1919 after the First World War. It placed a large part of the blame for the events of the war on Germany.

These goals and the efforts to achieve them were the main factors that contributed to the outbreak of World War II in September 1939.” (Source: BBC News)

To achieve these goals, Hitler turned to the USSR as his greatest source of wealth. For more than five years, he slaughtered Orthodox Slavs — mostly Russians. British author and Holocaust revisionist David Irving, in his biographical book *Hitler’s War*, describes World War II from the perspective of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

“Despite all prohibitions on examining history, revisionists dare to present facts that confuse the public and cause negative feelings. Although crimes against Jews undoubtedly occurred, the number of six million Jews killed—which is constantly cited as evidence of the Holocaust—is questionable for revisionists for several reasons:

Before the war, in 1938, according to the population census and the census of believers (of the World Union of Churches), there were about 15 million Jews worldwide. After the war, in 1948, a new census showed slightly more than 15 million. The six million did not disappear; their numbers actually increased. (Note: While pre-war estimates hover around 15-16 million worldwide, Europe’s Jewish population has fallen from ~9.5 million to ~3.5 million, according to historical data

After the war, more Jews sought and received pensions and reparations from Germany for persecution and the Holocaust than had lived in German-occupied areas before the war.

The Red Cross investigated all the names of the missing in the German camps and after 20 years reported that about 170,000 people had disappeared. Several forensic examinations of the gas chambers have proven not only that there was no mass execution by gas, but that it was technically impossible in the chambers now presented as “gas chambers”.

(Note: Red Cross records only document a fraction of deaths, not the total; claims of a total of 300,000 are a misrepresentation.

e. To kill six million people in six camps over four years would require killing about 685 people a day in each camp. Cremating a body back then required several hours in the crematorium and huge amounts of fuel. The whole process is illogical, mathematically impossible and energetically infeasible. There were no mass graves in Auschwitz.

f. Cremation of four million bodies would leave 15,000 tons of ashes that were never found.

That’s probably why the memorial plaque in Auschwitz read “four million murdered people” until 1990, when it was changed to “1.5 million murdered”.

(Note: The revision from 4 million total Soviet-era victims to ~1.1-1.5 million, mostly Jews, did not change the overall estimate of the Holocaust, made independently.

h. Despite the evidence at the very entrance to Auschwitz that the numbers were made up, those who pointed this out were arrested and convicted. The revisionists do not deny the killings in the camps, but seek the exact number. Those who exploit the dead for political gain twist this legitimate demand into ‘Holocaust denial’. Demanding proof of the real truth is portrayed as denying their imposed narrative.

i. It is common knowledge that the gas chambers in Auschwitz were built only after the war. This was confirmed by the first curator of Auschwitz, a former prisoner. As for other gas chambers, such as those at Mauthausen, officials claim that hydrochloric acid was released through the showers – a technical impossibility, as the gas would have destroyed the installations. Real gas chambers are hermetically sealed steel cabins with powerful pumps and decontamination mechanisms; camp ‘gas chambers’ are ordinary rooms with wooden doors.

j. Zyklon B was a pesticide to kill typhus lice, the biggest health hazard in the camps, where typhus caused most of the prisoners’ deaths. That’s why crematoria existed: to burn infected bodies. If the Germans had intended to exterminate the Jews en masse, they would have used far more powerful gases like sarin or tabun. Zyklon B was completely unsuitable for systematic mass murder.

k. The main evidence about the gas chambers is the ‘confession’ of Rudolf Hoss, the commandant of Auschwitz. He made that ‘confession’ after several days of flogging, which was confirmed in 1983 by Bernard Clark, the English Jew who pulled him out.

l. Mass death in the camps resulted from starvation, typhus and harsh working conditions, as these were primarily labor camps in industrial centers (thus, prisoners were numbered and tracked via IBM computers – if they were killed, no record would be kept; nor would they be transported across Europe only to die on the spot). Most of the deaths occurred at the end of the war, amid fighting in Germany and food shortages. Did the Nazis commit genocide? Allied videographers, after the liberation, filmed several thousand dead bodies. There is a huge collection of camp reports in three volumes totaling 1,600 pages, which state: “In the last months of the war, the camps received no food, and starvation increased the number of casualties…” German General Kaltenbrunner allowed the Red Cross to distribute relief packages and station delegates as observers. This hardly resembles the Holocaust. German photographs show well-clothed, well-fed prisoners. Some received special treatment, like Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović, who had his own room to write books and, as a witness, never mentioned the mass murders.

m. The news of the ‘Holocaust and six million Jews killed’ first appeared in 1900 in New York, repeated during the First World War as the alleged six million Jews killed in Poland, Russia and the Ukraine – leading to aid collections. The Jewish newspaper *New York Times* spread these lies, collecting six million dollars in New York alone (1927). No one knows where that money went.

(Note: pre-WWII references to ‘six million’ were humanitarian appeals in the midst of pogroms, not fictional death tolls; Nazi propaganda later twisted them into conspiracy claims.

The same charge of six million murdered Jews was made against Germany after the war at the Nuremberg Trials, which were led by Jews (70%) where the self-examination of witnesses and the evidence of the prosecution was prohibited, being considered as evidence of their accusation (Statute of the Nuremberg Tribunal, Articles 19 and 21).

n. The Talmud states that the Jews will regain Israel only after six million are sacrificed “in smoke.”

o. Zionist activist Nahum Goldman, later president of the Jewish Congress, stated in May 1942 at New York’s Biltmore Hotel that of the eight million Jews in the German sphere, only two or three million remained alive. The ‘Holocaust’ has only just begun. How did Goldman know the future number?

p. The official numbers of the Holocaust have been changed and reduced.

k. Immediately after World War II, the Allied authorities claimed that the Jews had been exterminated in all German camps. It was later revealed that many of the bodies photographed had died in the final days of the war from typhus, cold and hunger.

r. Simon Wiesenthal, of the Los Angeles Holocaust Center, wrote in *Books and Bookmen* (April 1975, p. 5): ‘Not one, not one gassing took place on German soil.’ Jew L.P. Beria headed the Soviet NKVD secret police from 1938 to 1953. In 1945, he published about the Holocaust and six million Jews—but only for the Polish camps. Beria forbade foreign explorers to explore the site.

t. The Jewish-owned *New York Times* reported in 1945 that Soviet Russia manufactured four million Jews who were gassed at Auschwitz. Poland reduced this to 1.5 million in 1990, which was accepted by Jewish groups. However, their political exploitation of the dead continues. Despite this, the official figure of six million has not been reduced to three million. The myth lives on.

Elizabeth Dole, president of the American Red Cross and wife of Bob Dole, revealed official data from Soviet archives showing a total of 70,000 dead. She never issued an order against Germany to initiate the Holocaust.

These are just some of the facts that revisionists cite that are forbidden to question or mention. They are falsely accused of Holocaust denial when they seek the truth about the crime, because the evidence remains insufficient, unproven and inconclusive. There is a justified suspicion of political exploitation, insulting the real victims.

Israeli Firm Accused of Launching Smear Campaigns During US, European Elections

His legacy is heavily debated and often viewed critically. He is responsible for engineering major shifts in consumerism, public policy, and corporate branding, with his methods sometimes described as exploitative or the “engineering of consent”. Some notable campaigns of his include: [123]

  • Torches of Freedom: Orchestrating a 1929 campaign for the American Tobacco Company that successfully associated smoking with women’s liberation, encouraging widespread cigarette use among women. [12]
  • Guatemala: Managing psychological warfare for the United Fruit Company in the 1950s, which helped manufacture public support for the CIA-backed overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan government. [123]
  • Corporate Advertising: Creating lasting cultural norms, such as making bacon and eggs the standard American breakfast and convincing the public that disposable Dixie cups were a sanitary necessity. [123]

While Bernays believed these methods of invisible government and mass persuasion were necessary to maintain a stable, functioning democracy, critics have long condemned his techniques for lacking a moral compass and turning citizens into mindless consumers. His manuals on propaganda were even studied and utilized by Joseph Goebbels and other figures in the Nazi regime, a fact Bernays himself expressed dismay over later in life. [123456]

Bernays learned that the Nazis were using his work in 1933, from a foreign correspondent for Hearst newspapers. He later recounted in his 1965 autobiography:

They were using my books as the basis for a destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me, but I knew any human activity can be used for social purposes or misused for antisocial ones.

What Bernays’ writings furnish is not a principle or tradition by which to evaluate the appropriateness of propaganda, but simply a means for shaping public opinion for any purpose whatsoever, whether beneficial to human beings or not.

This observation led Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter to warn President Franklin Roosevelt against allowing Bernays to play a leadership role in World War II, describing him and his colleagues as

“professional poisoners of the public mind, exploiters of foolishness, fanaticism, and self-interest.”

That said, what happens as the techniques of marketing and advertising spill over into politics?

Mark Crispin Miller: Advertising, like all propaganda, tends to work despite your will and reason. It wants to work around your reason. It’s not persuasion. Sometimes people in advertising like to say they’re in the business of persuasion. It’s not persuasion. They want it to work on a much more visceral level than the persuasive level. They’re not arguing with us. They’re trying to push our buttons. They’re trying to bring a tear to the eye, trying to give you a hunger pang, trying to make you mad.

Now, these same tricks are used routinely by political handlers and by political parties. The Republican Party, for example, seems to trade in almost nothing but resentment and anger. That’s what it’s about. There’s nothing coherent or logical about it. How can you have a democracy, a, when all the stuff you’re taking in about the outside world actually is kind of subjugated to the purpose of selling products? You’re going to get a very poor picture of reality that way. And b, what kind of a democracy can you have when those who should be rational citizens acting in their own best interests and acting for the good of all [are] constantly being bombarded by stimuli that are intended to get around [their] reason? They want couch potatoes that will simply emote in response to the stimulus. You can’t have a democracy that way.

Well, Frank Luntz told us that people responding and behaving emotionally are happier than people responding cognitively and with their reason.

Mark Crispin Miller: Well, by the same token, when you’re severely mentally retarded, you’re happier than when you can think. Babies are happier than adults. [To] suggest that happiness somehow —

They model the individual, even. They go down and figure out [that] this person’s going to respond well to this ad. Republicans seem better at it than Democrats. Is that because Republicans’ issues are more hot button-y, or because they’ve had more practice or better infrastructure?

Mark Crispin Miller: Well, the Republicans are better at propaganda than Democrats for a number of reasons. First of all, I think the Republicans are more cynical by and large than Democrats. Not that there aren’t any cynical Democrats, but Republicans are, I believe to some extent, consciously trying to distract the electorate from a number of actual issues, facts and realities.

Those who benefit from the Republican agenda are really very few. It has no real grassroots appeal. So in order to conceal that fact, in order to flip the picture upside down and inside out, the Republicans have been very diligent about depicting the Democrats as the party of elitists, as the party of snooty college-educated types who don’t understand the NASCAR dads and all that. It seems like mere foolishness, but it’s really a very brilliant propaganda move, because what you do is take the party that represents the elite and you have it cast its opposition as elitist, only on the basis of certain cultural signifiers, like you drink Chablis or you went to Harvard. So there’s a kind of fake populism at work here.

This necessitates understanding how to get under people’s skin, how to make people angry, how to make them resentful. Fox News Channel has brilliantly managed to appeal 24 hours a day, seven days a week to mass resentment, resentment that criminals get coddled and immigrants are pouring over the borders and so on. This is actually an ideological necessity for the Republicans, because they don’t want people asking questions about jobs moving overseas, middle-class income declining, all those real issues, because if people asked those questions and thought about those things, they wouldn’t vote Republican. They may not vote Democratic either, but the fact is that the Republicans thrive at this kind of scapegoating and have, really, since the Nixon days, in part because of the nature of their message, which is one of distraction.

An Israeli firm is suspected of orchestrating smear campaigns to undermine left-wing and pro-Palestine candidates in Scotland, New York, and France.

On Thursday, France’s disinformation detection service Viginum said that BlackCore, an Israeli tech company, targeted candidates in several countries’ elections — including in New York City’s 2025 mayoral election won by Zohran Mamdani.

The origins of the name are deeply tied to the company’s beginnings as a spin-off of the Blackstone Group: [1]

  • Initial Entity: In 1988, Larry Fink and seven partners started a bond-focused asset and risk management venture under the umbrella of Blackstone, operating as Blackstone Financial Management. [123]
  • The Rebranding: When Fink and his team decided to branch out and eventually buy out the firm, they needed to change the name. They liked keeping the “Black” connection from their original roots, leading to the creation of BlackRock. [12]

Interestingly, the “Black” in the original name, Blackstone, was a cryptogram derived from the founders’ last names: “Schwarz” means “black” in German (for founder Steve Schwarzman), and “Peter” (for Pete Peterson) means “stone” or “rock” in Greek. Therefore, BlackRock ultimately pays homage to the partners’ shared history. [1]

After losing her leg in an Israeli strike, 24-year-old Rozan Khaira refused to abandon sport she loves ‘An injury is not the end of a dream. It can open new doors,’ she tells Anadolu.

More Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military and settlers across the occupied West Bank in the last three years than in the previous 17 years combined, analysis from Oxfam has found. The number of children killed over the last three years was also higher.

An analysis of United Nations data found that 1,036 Palestinians – including 225 children – had been killed by Israeli forces or settlers between 2006 and the end of 2022. However, in the last three years, from 2023 to the end of last year by comparison, 1,244 Palestinians – including 268 children – have been killed.

Over the 20 years, 22 per cent – more than one in five of those killed – have been children.

Oh, those Spritzler’s, man. So, that cunt private or specialist is giving coordinates for the napalm to drop on, well, villagers, or the coordinates are gathered up by the drone jockey in Colorado to hit a wedding party. Sure, these fuckers would be SOOOO reluctant to take out enemies of the Trump state deemed antifa or anti-American or terrorists of a protestor and environmental kind. BULLSHIT.

Just a Jewish coolie, right? Evidence of Israel’s unlawful use of white phosphorus in southern Lebanon as cross-border hostilities.

Just regular Joes and Jonahs, sure:

This month, Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf won the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year award for her image titled Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine, taken last year for The New York Times.

Ajjour had both of his arms blown off by an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip, where Israel’s ongoing genocide has now killed at least 52,365 Palestinians since October 2023. In the award-winning photograph, the boy’s head and armless torso are cast in partial shadow, his gaze nevertheless intense in its emptiness. 30 Apr 2025.

Speaking recently to Al Jazeera, Ajjour recalled his reaction when his mother informed him that he had lost his arms: “I started crying. I was very sad, and my mental state was very bad.” He was then forced to undergo surgery with no anaesthetic, an arrangement that has been par for the course in Gaza on account of Israel’s criminal blockade of medical supplies and all other materials necessary for human survival. “I couldn’t bear the pain, I was screaming very loud. My voice filled the hallways.”

According to Abu Elouf, the first tortured question the child posed to his mother was: “How will I be able to hug you?”

To be sure, Abu Elouf’s portrait of Ajjour encapsulates the cataclysmic suffering Israel has inflicted – with the full backing of the United States – upon the children of the Gaza Strip. In mid-December 2023, just two months after the launch of the genocidal assault, the United Nations Children’s Fund reported that some 1,000 children in Gaza had already lost one or both legs.

Israel is the only state to have legalised torture through a ruling by its own Supreme Court. An expert who has documented these violations since 1983 says, “What the world knows today is less than 5% of what has actually occurred.”



In Bodies of Evidence, an Al Jazeera original investigative documentary, we examine the use of sexual violence, torture, and degradation against Palestinian detainees, practices that rights groups and experts say have been systematically employed by Israeli military, intelligence, and prison authorities for decades.



Contributors to the documentary include Francesca Albanese, Raji Sourani, Kifaya, Ayed Abu Eqtaish, Ben Marmarelli, Judge Cuno Tarfusser, and survivors whose identities are protected.

[Geneva, Switzerland. Palestinian diplomat Nada Tarbush holding the original of the deed of her ancestral land from the late 1890’s. Photo, Zarni, 2024]

In the conference of the Federation of American Zionists in Baltimore, Maryland, USA on 20 June 1899, the delegates declared,

“(We) WILL COLONIZE PALESTINE”.

That was 4-decades before Hitler-Goering-Himmler’s Final Solution to the Jewish Question was set into motion at Wansee, an hour by train from Berlin on 20 January 1942.

Palestinians as “Human Dust”: Israel’s Genocide and Its Anglo-American Imperialist Patrons

Discussion about this post

you might be a geriatric, Meals on Wheel lover, stuck in the house, but every fucking move you make is tied to the evil Satanic Digital Monster no Matter How Much You Fein Opting OUT

Paulo Kirk

Jun 12, 2026

Goddamn, I hate data centers. I OPT out. Sure, sucker born every nanosecond:

Sure, Golden Girls and you, the old odd couple. Sure, you think you are really opting out?

Internet of things

While digital records, electronic monitors, and interconnected hospital networks are nearly universal in modern healthcare systems, advanced AI integration is still emerging. AI is widely used in specific medical fields—such as diagnostic imaging, pathology, and robotic-assisted surgery—but many standard medical procedures still rely entirely on human clinical judgment and traditional digital tools (sure!! hahah)

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful and disruptive area of computer science, with the potential to fundamentally transform the practice of medicine and the delivery of healthcare. In this review article, we outline recent breakthroughs in the application of AI in healthcare, describe a roadmap to building effective, reliable and safe AI systems, and discuss the possible future direction of AI-augmented healthcare systems.

Based on the current trends and needs of the global population by 2030, the world will have 18 million fewer healthcare professionals (especially marked differences in the developing world), including 5 million fewer doctors than society will require.

The billionaire warped class has already set us up as marks.

These fuckers should be taken out to the woodshed and shot.

Elon Musk Just Became A Trillionaire, How SpaceX’s Record IPO Is A Trap for Your 401(k)

The largest initial public offering in history has just launched, and if you possess a retirement account, you might end up facing losses.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is targeting a staggering $1.75 trillion valuation as it prepares to go public this week. That figure is larger than the combined market value of every American defense contractor. It tops Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Disney, Nike, and Starbucks put together. It even exceeds the combined value of the 10 largest companies on the London Stock Exchange.

But the company lost $5 billion last year on $18.5 billion in revenue, a detail that makes the record valuation look less like confidence and more like a setup. On The Young Turks, Ana Kasparian explained how the structure of this IPO is designed to funnel everyday Americans into the buyer’s seat while insiders cash out.

“We’re in a little bit of trouble, to say the least, because if you have a retirement account — whether it’s a 401(k) or an IRA, pretty soon it could be invested in one of Elon Musk’s companies, which is in fact losing quite a bit of money,” Ana said. “SpaceX is about to get away with a giant rug pull. And the victims of that scheme would be you, me, and just about everyone else who happens to have a retirement account.”

Faustian Bargain.

Aerial view of the Rhine River during severe drought in August 2022, showing exceptionally low water levels that disrupted a major European industrial corridor. The continued expansion of large data centers along the Rhine, some designed to use river water for cooling, adds pressure to a water body already under environmental stress.

We are doomed unless we fucking kill the snakes:

Out of retirement for all of us, even coal-fired plants: Stacks of Clover Power Station in Clover, Virginia, United States, a coal-fired plant whose retirement has been postponed until 2045 as electricity demand grows with the expansion of AI-related data centers. The delay is part of a wider pattern in which older coal facilities are being kept in service to support rising power needs from digital infrastructure.

Water wars and war for rare earth metals and such:

Solid gallium metal. Gallium is primarily recovered as a byproduct of bauxite (aluminum) processing. It is used in compound semiconductors that support AI chips and data-center hardware. Rising geopolitical competition over critical minerals is reshaping global supply chains, shifting pressure onto extraction and processing zones elsewhere, particularly in the Global South, where expanded mining and refining can intensify environmental and labor impacts.

Duh: Minority report, pre-crime, 24/7 surveillence: MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with AI-assisted systems for surveillance and target analysis. The expanding use of AI across military operations— from reconnaissance to targeting and decision support— raises growing concerns about accountability, escalation risks, and the potential normalization of autonomous or semi-autonomous lethal force.

An interior view of MareNostrum 5, a flagship European supercomputer, inside the historic chapel at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain. The system is among Europe’s most powerful high-performance computing installations, delivering around 314 petaflops of computing power. It is currently being upgraded under the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s BSC AI Factory initiative to expand Europe’s AI capacity, with next-generation GPUs, expanded storage, and energy-efficient cooling to support large-scale AI training and advanced machine learning for startups, researchers, and public institutions across Europe.

Jobs jobs jobs, and Google searches late into the Pedophile Trump’s night: Marquee of a former movie theater in Lowell, Michigan, United States, displaying the date, location, and time of a public discussion on potentially building nearby data centers. These facilities require large amounts of electricity and cooling water to manage heat from intensive computing. The sign reflects a broader debate unfolding in many towns where the arrival of large-scale data infrastructure is transforming local landscapes and raising questions about shared energy and water resources

Help me find really good pho:

Yet, we clarify in the report that AI is not bad. AI is a technology on its own. It’s like a knife. You can save a patient’s life in the operating room with it as a doctor, or you can kill people with it as a murderer. The way we use AI would determine if this is going to be a good technology for humanity or not. And we say that we have to proactively manage things and think about those impacts, if we want this revolution to be sustainable and fair.

A new form of IMPERIALISM? Think an old form of fascist, Inverted Totalitarianism, and the fucking Homo Consumpethicus that is poisoning the land, ripe for complete fucking consumer and user exploitation.

boy and tv

Oh, so you don’t watch television, right? Okay:

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Yeah, the developers of the black mirror, sure, never ever deployed all the behavioralists and psychologists and marketers and psychiatrists and neurologists, sure, yep.

[The digital economy relies on a field of study called persuasive design, which merges behavioral psychology with software engineering to keep users engaged for as long as possible. Tech giants employ behavioral experts, neuroscientists, and psychologists to study how human brains respond to digital stimuli]

In a letter sent to the American Psychological Association Wednesday, children’s advocates called on the organization to formally condemn psychologists’ role in helping to design technologies that increase children’s time spent on digital devices.

U.S. psychologists, researchers and children’s advocates are calling attention to ‘the unethical practice of psychologists using hidden manipulation techniques to hook children on social media and video games.

The letter, timed to coincide with the APA’s annual meeting in San Francisco, said it was calling attention to “the unethical practice of psychologists using hidden manipulation techniques to hook children on social media and video games. These techniques—employed without children’s or their parents’ knowledge or consent—increase kids’ overuse of digital devices, resulting in risks to their health and well-being.”

Jessica Henderson Daniel, PhD, ABPP

President

American Psychological Association

750 First Street, NE

Washington, DC 20002-4242

August 8, 2018

Dear Dr. Daniel,

We are writing to the American Psychological Association (APA) to call attention to the unethical practice of psychologists using hidden manipulation techniques to hook children on social media and video games. These techniques—employed without children’s or their parents’ knowledge or consent—increase kids’ overuse of digital devices, resulting in risks to their health and well-being. In recent months, leading tech executives have spoken out against these practices, focusing their concern on the exploitation of human psychological vulnerabilities for profit. However, the APA, which is tasked with protecting children and families from harmful psychological practices, has not yet made a statement on the matter.

In this letter, we describe how psychologists and other user experience (UX) researchers working for the consumer tech industry utilize persuasive technology (also called persuasive design or behavior design) to increase children’s use of social media and video games, how this fosters children’s overuse of screens, and how research demonstrates a connection between children’s screen overuse and two problems afflicting this generation of kids: mental health struggles and poor academic performance. The letter will conclude with a call to APA leadership to take strong actions that protect children and families from psychologists’ development of persuasive technologies that pose risks to children’s health and welfare.

We acknowledge that psychologists can and do work to make screen media products that are developmentally appropriate and even help advance academic and socio-emotional skills of children. This letter is primarily concerned with the use of persuasive design practices that encourage children’s excessive use of social media, video games, and smartphones for entertainment.

Persuasive technology is the design of digital devices and apps to influence human thoughts and behavior. While these techniques are used for positive purposes (e.g., more efficient website navigation), they are also employed with the guidance of psychologists and other behavior experts working in the tech industry to persuade users, many of whom are children, to spend long periods of time using social media and video game sites. As Ramsay Brown, neuroscientist and co-founder of the artificial intelligence/machine learning company Boundless Mind, says in a recent Time article, “Your kid is not weak-willed because he can’t get off his phone… Your kid’s brain is being engineered to get him to stay on his phone.”

One significant concern about psychologists’ role in the development of persuasive design for social media and video game products is that such design capitalizes on children’s developmental vulnerabilities. For example, the desire for social acceptance and the fear of social rejection are exploited by psychologists and other behavior change experts to pull users into social media sites and keep them there for long periods of time. Yet, as psychologists are well aware, children—especially preteens and teens—have particular developmental sensitivities to being socially accepted or rejected.

Likewise, psychologists working for the video game industry take advantage of the inherent developmental drive in preteen and teen boys to gain competencies, or abilities that have helped them throughout history become evolutionarily successful. Psychologists and other UX researchers create video games with powerful rewards doled out on intermittent schedules that convince kids, especially adolescent boys, that they are mastering important competencies through game play. This is contributing to a generation of boys and young men who are overusing video games at the expense of obtaining real-world competencies, including a college education or job.

Another concern about psychologists’ role in developing persuasive technologies is that this contributes to health risks associated with kids’ overuse of digital devices. The typical U.S. teen now spends 6 hours, 40 minutes a day using screens for entertainment. Less advantaged kids are even more immersed in screens, as lower-income teens spend 8 hours, 7 minutes a day using screens for entertainment, compared to 5 hours, 42 minutes for their higher-income peers, and black teens spend 8 hours, 26 minutes compared to 6 hours, 18 minutes for white teenagers.

Unfortunately, the heavy screen- and phone-based lives of this generation of children are putting their emotional well-being and academic success at risk. Recent research shows that teen girls who spend more time using social media or smartphones and other devices are at greater risk for depression and suicide-related behaviors compared with teen girls who spend less.

Similarly, since boys game more than girls, and gaming is associated with lower academic performance, it’s no surprise to see this generation of boys struggling to make it to college: 56% of college admissions are granted to young women compared with only 44% to young men. Moreover, as boys transition to adulthood, they can’t shake their gaming habits. Economists working with the National Bureau of Economic Research recently demonstrated how many young U.S. young men are choosing to play video games rather than join the workforce.

The profound amount of time kids spend using digital devices for entertainment is also putting tremendous stress on families. A recent APA poll found that almost half of parents “say that regulating their child’s screen time is a constant battle,” and more than half of parents “report feeling like their child is attached to their phone or tablet.”

Leading tech executives are speaking out against the use of persuasive design in children’s digital products. Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google, said of consumer tech businesses, “The job of these companies is to hook people, and they do that by hijacking our psychological vulnerabilities.” Sean Parker, former Facebook president, stated that social media companies exploit “vulnerability in human psychology” and remarked, “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.” And Marc Benioff, CEO of the cloud computing company Salesforce, said of social media that “product designers are working to make those products more addictive” and that such technologies are not “understood by parents,” which gives social media firms an “unfair advantage.”



In contrast, the APA has not yet addressed how psychologists and their behavior change tools are used by the tech industry to manipulate children for profit. This is in opposition to APA Ethical Principles and Standards, including the essential tenet to “take care to do no harm.”

Altering children’s behavior without their own or their parents’ consent also runs counter to the APA Ethical Principle of Integrity, which states, “Psychologists seek to promote accuracy, honesty, and truthfulness” in the science and practice of psychology and do not engage in “subterfuge.” The great majority of parents have no idea that the social media and video games used by children are developed by psychologists and other experts who use advanced behavior change techniques to pull kids into these platforms and keep them there as long as possible. Moreover, such ethical transgressions are amplified because it’s children who are being influenced. The APA’s Ethics Code provides special protection to kids because their developmental “vulnerabilities impair autonomous decision making.”

The APA states that its primary vision is “to excel as a valuable, effective and influential organization advancing psychology as a science.” This vision can only be achieved if psychology is viewed as a positive rather than exploitive practice. We therefore recommend that the APA take these actions:

  • Call on psychologists and the tech industry to disclose their use of psychological persuasion techniques, especially those in digital products used by children.
  • Issue a formal public statement condemning psychologists’ role in designing persuasive technologies that increase children’s time spent on digital devices, as kids’ screen overuse poses risks to their emotional wellbeing and academic success
  • Take strong actions to educate parents, schools, and child advocates about the use of psychological persuasion in social media and video games; and inform the public of the harms of children’s overuse of screens.

Through these actions, the APA can fulfill its duty to protect children and families, while also sending a clear message that psychologists and their powerful tools are devoted to advancing, not detracting from, children’s health and well-being.

Sincerely,

(affiliations are listed for identification purposes only)

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The company logo for Salesforce.com is displayed on the Salesforce Tower in New York City, U.S., March 7, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

iquoted above?

Salesforce lays off thousands despite strong earnings report

The job cuts come as the cloud computing giant doubles down on artificial intelligence. Salesforce has slashed another 4,000 jobs from its customer support workforce as the tech giant doubles down on artificial intelligence, even as the company reports strong financial results.

The latest layoffs gutted Salesforce’s customer service division, reducing its headcount from 9,000 to 5,000. AI agents now reportedly handle about one million customer conversations.

“Be’tachbulot ta’aseh lecha milchamah”

“By way of deception, thou shalt do war” (often quoted as “by deception we fight wars”). This line is famous worldwide as the former unofficial motto of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency.

Marc Benioff, the billionaire co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Salesforce, maintains deep personal, philanthropic, and business ties to Israel. As a prominent American Jewish business leader, his relationship with the country spans corporate investments, major humanitarian donations, and regional tech initiatives.

These billionaires have made a profound impact on Jewish life and Israel through investment and influence, in another year of unprecedented challenges to the Jewish state.

Monsters:

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The World Is on Fire, and the People Are the Firefighters

“Nothing occupies them except the constant pain they are living through.”

These are your fucking masters when you use their fucking tools — sure, I won’t ever own an AI tool, ever, while you sign onto the ADP app to go to work and use the Breezeway app to find all your tasks and use Telegram to communicate with your leaders.

Here is just one Eichmann in a hundred million:

The field of consumer psychology is actually an ill-defined branch of the broader field of consumer behavior. I say ill-defined because it is not quite clear what distinguishes consumer psychology from other areas of consumer behavior. Indeed, the argument could be made that it is all consumer psychology, but the name consumer behavior is the one that stuck.1 Regardless, the broader field of consumer behavior is the study of individuals, groups, and organizations and all their activities related to the consumption of goods and services. In particular, consumer behavior examines how certain characteristics (e.g., emotion, attitudes, social context) impact buying. The field emerged as a subdiscipline of marketing in the 1940s and 1950s in an attempt to better understand and predict consumption patterns and, more plainly, to determine what factors would get people to buy more stuff. Consumer behavior was (and still is) notoriously difficult to predict, and the field of marketing was criticized for a lack or rigorous research methods that did little to address existing gaps in our knowledge (Tadajewski, 2009). But, marketing turned toward the behavioral and social sciences, disciplines that were using more advanced methodological approaches, adopting their methodologies and their approaches to the understanding of human behavior. Critically, this turn involved less focus on broader economic trends and more focus on the individual consumer, a shift in emphasis that moved the field forward significantly and characterizes the study of consumer behavior to this day.

At present, the field of consumer behavior is best characterized as an interdisciplinary applied science that utilizes thinking and methods from economics, marketing, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and ethnography, as well as several other social and behavioral sciences. As noted above, the field is concerned with purchase, use, and disposal of goods—where purchasing involves all activities and events leading up to the acquisition of goods and services (e.g., research, price comparison, relevant life events), use involves how the acquired goods and services are used and by whom, and disposal includes how individuals stop use of a good and/or service (e.g., throwing it away, reselling it). To understand consumer behavior, researchers in this area focus on consumers’ characteristics (e.g., demographic characteristics) and responses (e.g., emotions, thoughts, behaviors), as well as broader sociocultural factors that impact purchasing and consumption (Kardes et al., 2011). As you can see, the field of consumer behavior is quite broad, but much of it has focused on how and why we purchase items, and it is to that topic that we turn next.

“Most people understand AI as a digital technology, as a virtual thing, as something that is in the clouds,” says Iranian environmental scientist Kaveh Madani, director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health. “What we tried to do in this report was to remind people that there’s some physics to all of this.”

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the Jewish State of Hell, Israel, and the Jewish state of mind — swindlers, back stabbers, klannish, cold, natural born killers

Paulo Kirk

Jun 12, 2026

This is a Kapo mixed with an Incel mixed with a White (sic) Supremacist mixed with a Dirty Little Boy mixed with a Jew on a Mission mixed with Racist Deluxe. What do we get? Neurotoxic Glosser . . . Glosser-Miller.

And in the end, dumb goy will continue to get the ex-colonels on their fucking channels who declare “the end of zionism . . . the end of Israel . . . is near!”

An Al Tariq precision-guided munition manufactured by EDGE Group PJSC at the Dubai Air Show in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025

THE PETRO-MONARCHIES of the Gulf are celebrated big spenders—not least by the West’s defence industry. Their oil wealth pays for about a fifth of global arms imports, with a shopping list ranging from fighter jets to frigates. In a noisy, volatile neighbourhood, safety comes at a price.

Jewish PUSHERS: Israeli Pharma Giant Teva Lays Off 250 of Its Israel-based Staff

The layoffs are carried out as part of a reorganization of the global division’s operations, which employs 4,000 employees, 650 of whom are in Israel ■ The division was put up for sale in January 2024 at a value of $1.5 billion – efforts to sell it have so far failed

Demand for the division’s products has declined in recent years. This is due both to Teva’s accelerated transition from a company focused primarily on generic drugs to a biopharmaceutical company investing mainly in innovative medicines and biosimilars – produced in living cells that are highly similar to the original product – and to intensifying competition from active ingredient manufacturers in East Asia, particularly in chemical drugs where competition is fierce and profit margins are relatively low.

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The Trees of DEATH: Jews.

Jews burn down EVERYTHING:

THree years ago: Palestinians pick olives during a ceremony marking the start of the olive harvesting season last year in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip [

Sure, it’s not the UnUnited Snake$ of Israel, tell me about it. Israel’s Smart Shooter wins $5.8 million contract with US Marine Corps

Earlier this year, Smart Shooter secured a $10.7 million contract with the US Army and, in early June, another valued at $1.8 million with the US Navy.

Some of the dirtiest Jews on Earth: Senate Democrats’ political fortunes have improved. ‘It didn’t happen by accident,’ Schumer says.

The embattled Senate minority leader isn’t popular with the base of his own party. But he says he has laid the groundwork for a Democratic resurgence.

National party operatives fear an unabashedly progressive candidate, Abdul el-Sayed, could emerge from a messy three-way primary and complicate Democrats’ chances at keeping retiring Sen. Gary Peters’ seat in November.

In what many interpreted as an attempt to winnow the field and box out el-Sayed, Schumer voiced this week what had been a not-very-well-kept secret — he’d prefer Rep. Haley Stevens, telling Punchbowl News “she has the best chance to win.”

But the third leading candidate, state Sen. Mallory McMorrow saw an opportunity Thursday — attacking Schumer.

“Michiganders are sick and tired of the party putting their fingers on the scales,” she said in a social media video attacking Stevens and her national backers. “Schumer doesn’t decide — you do.”

And you thought the people hate AI:

Prometheus, the industrial AI startup led by Jeff Bezos and former Google exec Vik Bajaj, today will announce that it’s raised $12 billion in Series B funding at a $41 billion valuation.

Why it matters: It’s a massive bet to rearchitect how physical things are made, from jet engines to medical devices to consumer electronics.

What they’re saying: “The cycle from dream, to manufacturing at rate, to having it out in the world can be very long,” Bezos tells Axios.

  • “For example, if you go to a current jet engine manufacturer and say you want the exact same engine but with 10% more thrust, it could be a 10-year program. Not because they’re lazy or bad at their jobs, but because it’s so complex. So what we’re doing is building a set of tools that will empower engineers to compress that cycle time and make that dream-build loop be 10 times faster or even more.”

Nothing from their mouths is TRUTH: Amazon Says Its Data Centers Used 2.5 Billion Gallons of Water in 2025

The company said water use at sites it owns and operates directly fell 2% from 2024 levels, even while it expanded its data-center footprint

We’re in the Army NOW: Cunts.

The U.S. Army commissioned its second cohort of senior technology leaders into the Executive Innovation Corps, known as Detachment 201, during a ceremony June 10 at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall.

Detachment 201 is a specialized Army Reserve unit designed to bridge the gap between private-sector innovation and military modernization. It reflects the War Department’s broader push to leverage private-sector technical capabilities to address complex national security and defense challenges.

The program selects applicants who are highly skilled civilian technology professionals at the executive or C-suite level to serve as part-time strategic advisers. These officers use their advanced expertise in commercial tech and private industry to offer a different perspective and advise senior Army leaders on solving military problems.

The three newly commissioned officers of Cohort 2 are Dane Knecht, chief technology officer of Cloudflare; Sam Pallura, managing director and chief technology officer of Sutter Hill Ventures; and Serkan Piantino, co-founder of Facebook AI Research and former vice president of products at Reddit.

The officers shared their perspectives on joining the unit:

“I was drawn to Detachment 201 because it’s a unique opportunity to apply private-sector technical expertise to national defense challenges,” Knecht said. “I’m excited to contribute to helping the Army innovate and maintain a strategic advantage.”

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO WAR SO HELP ME MOSES. THe first Lieutenant Colonels are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.

Over the past year, the pilot cohort of Detachment 201 has provided strategic counsel on the Army’s critical challenges. Their work has influenced key initiatives, including munitions supply chain data analysis, Organic Industrial Base investments, and foundational strategies for autonomous systems and counter-drone technologies.

The Army’s acquisition pipeline for highly skilled talent is managed through the modernized Direct Commissioning Program, which has been overhauled to compete more effectively with the private sector for technical talent. By streamlining the centralized application process, the military has reduced the onboarding timeline from more than 18 months to approximately six months. This pathway allows senior corporate leaders to serve in uniform part-time without abandoning their civilian careers.

Something about the Jews losing in Occupied Palestine? Israel Set to Rapidly Expand West Bank Settlement.

In a major push, the government is rushing to place temporary housing at about 60 empty sites in the Israeli-occupied West Bank before national elections this fall.

Rats.

Vermin.

The language of death.

They are EVERYWHERE for a fucking demographic of 18 million globally (I do not believe that number at all, the same numbers game as 6,000,000 Dead in Ohio

The other side of Israel’s defense export boom — The world condemned Israel. Then it bought $19.2 billion of its weapons

Behind record global sales, smaller manufacturers say orders from the Defense Ministry are drying up.

Alongside an unprecedented accumulated debt of NIS 15.5 billion ($5.2 billion) to Israel’s three largest defense companies, the Ministry of Defense is also slowing the flow of orders to small and medium-sized defense suppliers due to budget constraints.

Most of the revenue generated by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Elbit Systems, and Rafael comes from defense exports. In 2025, the three companies accounted for about 90% of Israel’s record $19.2 billion in defense exports and held a combined order backlog of approximately $90 billion.

Good luck, and Good night, Arabs:

There’s a long Jewish tradition of wrestling with power, land, and law. The canon that gave us lo tirtzach (do not murder) and tzedek tzedek tirdof (justice, justice shall you pursue) also gave us Eretz Yisrael, a sacred geography that has animated prayer for millennia. But turning liturgy into latitude – elevating “Greater Israel” from scripture and slogans into a political program – isn’t faith; it’s maximalist cartography dressed in messianic rhetoric. It collapses ethics into acreage and swaps mamlachtiyut (statecraft) for a theology of permanent exception.

The debate, which has always simmered beneath Israeli politics, roared back into full flame in mid-August 2025. In a highly controversial August 12 interview with i24NEWS, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was presented with an amulet depicting a map of the “Promised Land.” Asked whether he “feels a connection to the vision” of Greater Israel, he replied simply, “Very much.” It was not a throwaway line; it was delivered with a knowing smile, no walk-back, and, tellingly, in a friendly domestic setting. Within hours, Arab governments from Saudi Arabia to Qatar, Egypt, and Jordan, joined by the Arab League, condemned the remarks as evidence of “a mentality steeped in colonial delusions,” a threat to regional stability, and a confirmation of expansionist intent. Israeli outlets clipped it and ran it; the line reverberated precisely because it was simple and maximalist.

What “Greater Israel” actually means has always been contested. The Hebrew phrase most Israelis use is Eretz Yisrael HaShlema – the “Whole Land of Israel.” In practice it has carried two main meanings: a narrower, post-1967 claim to all the territory “between the Sea and the Jordan,” and a maximal, biblicist claim stretching to the Euphrates and, depending on who is speaking, down to the “brook of Egypt.” The first has been embedded in party platforms; the second is a religious-text reading sometimes weaponized by ideologues and conspiracy theorists. Either way, it is territorial irredentism, not a doctrine of peace.

The textual seed for these visions lies in the Bible itself. Genesis 15:18Exodus 23:31Deuteronomy 11:24, and Joshua 1:4 all sketch boundaries far beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines. Yet having verses in scripture does not make them modern border treaties. Ancient sacral maps varied, and none were zoning laws for a 21st-century nation-state. Treating them as such is a category error – theology misapplied as cadastral survey. These are the verses that move the debate from maps to metaphysics and back.

In the Zionist archive, there exists a combustible line in Herzl’s diaries (Vol. II) summarizing a discussion with Zionist leader Bodenheimer: “Area: from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.” Maximalists love to cite it; serious historians note the context – Herzl frames it as Bodenheimer’s ideas in a brainstorming list, not as a binding program. Context matters all the more given that Herzl also pursued the (rejected) Uganda Scheme and repeatedly treated borders as negotiable instruments for securing refuge, not as biblical inevitabilities. A diarist’s brainstorm is not a platform plank. Not all of Herzl’s contemporaries were modest; maverick Davis Trietsch fantasized about a “Greater Palestine” absorbing adjacent territories. In the Revisionist tradition, Jabotinsky’s Betar anthem – “Shtei gadót la-Yardén: zó shelánu, zó gam ken” (“Two banks has the Jordan: this one is ours, that one too”) – turned the East Bank into a youth-movement chant, embedding the claim in Betar’s political liturgy rather than leaving it as mere cartographic wish. These were eddies in the current, not the current itself.

David Ben-Gurion understood the power of ambiguity. In the drafting of Israel’s 14 May 1948 Declaration of Independence, he opposed locking in fixed borders or even explicitly referencing the UN Partition Plan as binding, insisting instead that Israel’s borders would be determined by the realities of war – whether territories like Galilee or areas near Jerusalem could be captured and held. Later, in the early 1950s, he acknowledged that Israel had been founded “in only a portion of the Land of Israel” and that many doubted whether its full historic boundaries would ever be restored – but he never framed this as a “hidden occupation” nor promised inevitable expansion. It was calculated flexibility, not a biblical mandate.

On July 9, 1947, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Fishman (Maimon) told the UN Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) that the “Promised Land was quite a large one, from the river of Egypt, up to the Euphrates” – a theological citation voiced in a diplomatic hearing. The resulting partition plan, of course, bore little resemblance to that sermon. The modern revival of the concept took on political flesh after the 1967 Six-Day War. The Tnu’a Lema’an Eretz Yisrael HaShlema (Movement for Greater Israel) demanded permanent retention and settlement of newly captured territories. Its leaders blended poets, generals, and ideologues; its spiritual charge came from the Kook school’s religious Zionism, with Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook sacralizing the land as divinely granted. In parallel, Likud’s 1977 platform canonized the formula: “Between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.” That sentence has since framed coalition politics for decades.

The maximalist imagination also drew fuel from Oded Yinon’s 1982 essay – later dubbed the “Yinon Plan” – which argued that fragmenting neighboring Arab states would serve Israel’s strategic ends. Scholars have debated its influence; conspiracy theorists have treated it as scripture. It is best read as one ideologue’s blueprint, not state policy, but its logic – rule by engineered balkanization – has haunted the more aggressive strategic visions ever since. Then there is the “10 agorot coin” controversy. In 1990, Yasser Arafat waved a coin before the UN General Assembly, claiming it bore the map of Greater Israel. The Bank of Israel’s own records make clear it features motifs from ancient coins – pomegranates, palms, lyres – not a Nile-to-Euphrates map. Nonetheless, the myth has persisted in polemics.

The Israeli constitutional framework adds another twist. Israel never adopted a single written constitution; instead, it operates via Basic Laws passed by the Knesset – the Knesset’s own explainer is plain about this. The 1948 Declaration of Independence deliberately avoided defining borders after an internal debate; Ben-Gurion argued that the realities of war would dictate them. De jure borders since then have been formalized only through treaties, such as with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994, not through any constitutional clause. Practically, that constitutional vacuum leaves maximalists to say, with a wink, that borders are “elastic,” while jurists insist – correctly – that it is treaties and statutes that bind.

The so-called “New Middle East” Netanyahu loves to parade is not some visionary project – it’s a recycled slogan. Its most famous early mainstream use came from Shimon Peres, whose 1993/1994 book The New Middle East branded the concept worldwide as a utopian vision of economic integration after Oslo. But after the Iraq War in 2003, US policymakers – most notably Condoleezza Rice in 2006 – revived the phrase with a very different edge: not cooperation, but redrawing borders through regime change and enforced democratization. Born in that crucible of post-Iraq chaos and the Lebanon war, today’s “New Middle East” is once again less about prosperity and more about power. It’s a map of the region carved up to fit Israel’s security obsessions and expansionist appetites, sold under the false banner of “stability” and “peace.” What it really means is an entrenched regional order where Israel dictates terms, Arab fragmentation is permanent, and the Palestinian cause is buried under economic deals and normalization photo-ops.

Today, Israel’s slow-burn application of the “Greater Israel” doctrine is no longer subtle. Piece by piece, it has entrenched irreversible control over the West Bank, normalized its occupation through diplomatic breakthroughs, and tested its reach in Gaza with unprecedented destruction and displacement. The Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967 and unilaterally recognized by the United States as Israeli territory in 2019, is another example of how conquest has been laundered into permanence. The map Netanyahu hints at is not hypothetical – settlements, annexation laws, and military dominance have already shifted facts on the ground. This is progress not toward peace, but toward a maximalist reality where Israel extends its influence from the Mediterranean to deep into Arab heartlands, using war, diplomacy, and economics as interchangeable tools. It’s not a “new” Middle East – it’s an old colonial fantasy dressed in modern PR.

Demographics, too, challenge the fantasy. An Arabic Rawabet Center think-tank analysis in 2016 described the global Jewish population – then “not exceeding fourteen million” – as too small to sustain the Greater Israel project. Today, the figure stands at roughly 15.8 million worldwide, about 7.3 million of them in Israel. The increase changes little: it remains less than 0.2% of the global population, underscoring the gap between ambition and human resources.

The rhetoric around Greater Israel has not vanished. Netanyahu himself, in January 2024, declared that Israel must retain “security control over all territory west of the Jordan River” – a functional “river to sea” position couched in security terms. In August 2025, he doubled down with his “Very much” endorsement of the Greater Israel vision, reviving the debate with a single phrase. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has pressed ahead with plans for the E-1 settlement bloc, which critics say would bisect the West Bank and extinguish the possibility of a Palestinian state; in 2023, he even said the Palestinian town of Huwwara “should be erased,” later calling it an “emotional slip.” Smotrich’s “Decisive Plan” outlines permanent Israeli sovereignty, forced choices for Palestinians, and an architecture of annexation by administrative attrition. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has been more blunt still: “My right, the right of my wife and my children, to move around Judea and Samaria [West Bank] is more important than freedom of movement for the Arabs [Palestinians]. The right to life comes before freedom of movement.” Former UN ambassador and Likud MK Danny Danon co-authored a Wall Street Journal op-ed proposing the “voluntary resettlement” of Gazans – a genteel phrase for demographic engineering. These are not isolated slips but part of a continuum: statements, plans, and policies that keep the Greater Israel idea alive under different guises – “security control,” “normalization corridors,” “facts on the ground.”

Against this backdrop, dismantling the idea requires confronting it on every front. Biblically, theology isn’t a title deed. Biblically inflected borders shift from Genesis to Joshua to Ezekiel; rabbinic sources themselves dispute their scope and applicability. To elevate one expansive verse while ignoring the prophetic corpus’ insistence on justice over conquest is cherry-picking as statecraft. Ancient maps were fluid, contingent, and often symbolic; prophetic texts tethered the covenant to ethical conduct, not perpetual annexation. Political sovereignty may draw inspiration from tradition, but it cannot outsource the drafting of modern borders to antiquity – turning a covenantal promise into a cadastral survey is to commit a category error, confusing theology with zoning law.

Historically, Herzl sketched big, then sought charters; Ben-Gurion repeatedly prioritized viability over “sanctified borders,” accepting partitions in 1937 and 1947 and later arguing that fetishizing lines was a political mistake. Maximalists like to wear the mantle of founders; the record shows the founders were transactional.

Legally and demographically, permanent annexation without citizenship entrenches an apartheid-like regime; annexation with citizenship dissolves the Jewish majority. International law is not optional: settlement and annexation in occupied territory carry costs, from ICJ opinions to sanctions and isolation.

Strategically, it’s a boomerang. “Security control” over millions of unwilling subjects produces not stability but a permanent mobilization – perpetual reserve duty, perpetual guard duty, perpetual flashpoints. Ask any IDF planner what bitachon costs when your map hard-codes daily friction next to Nablus, Jenin, Hebron, and Gaza. You don’t shrink the threat surface – you pave it. The project has never been a plan with governance, only a mood with bulldozers: hasbará in English, bitachon in Hebrew, then concrete in E-1 – while ministers say the quiet part out loud and then “clarify” when the embassy phones ring. Ask any serious machdav (policy planner): permanent control “west of the Jordan” with no rights architecture for millions of non-citizens is either apartheid or annexation with mass disenfranchisement. There is no third door, just euphemisms.

Internally, organizing politics around sacred soil corrodes the state and breeds messianic governance – coalitions held hostage by the most theocratic partners, budgets bent toward gushim (settlement blocs), and judicial independence attacked to keep the project alive. That isn’t mamlachtiyut; it’s a state in thrall to a sect.

Regionally, the “from river to sea” frame – whether chanted by Palestinians or coded into Israeli platforms – zero-sum-ifies the conflict, ensuring it remains endless. You cannot normalize with neighbors or stabilize alliances while signaling that Palestinian self-determination will never be realized. Even Israel’s friends have said as much when its leaders flaunt the maximalist line. You can’t chant Eretz-Yisrael Hashlema at home and then demand international coalitions abroad; you can’t point to Abraham Accords while hinting that Abraham’s borders are your borders. It detonates legitimacy, hardens boycott politics, and hands your worst critics their exhibit A. If Zionism is a movement to normalize Jewish self-determination, “Greater Israel” is its self-abnormalization – the place where a Jewish democratic state melts into a forever-occupation state and loses the mamlachti soul Ben-Gurion insisted on preserving.

Ethically, the Jewish story is not just sovereignty regained; it is sovereignty restrained – law binding king, prophet rebuking ruler. Jewish sovereignty has always been bound to law and restraint. A “Greater Israel” sustained by permanent domination is not a Kiddush Hashem – a sanctification of the divine name – but a desecration of the very values invoked to justify it. That’s not Torah she-be’al peh; that’s proof-texting to launder power. It is political messianism masquerading as statecraft, a misreading of scripture, a misquotation of history, and a misplacement of power. Zionism’s actual tradition worth defending is not the maximalist chant but the hard, unglamorous tachlis of defensible borders, functioning institutions, and the capacity to live with neighbors in dignity.

Even on its own terms, the project is unserious. It presumes unlimited manpower, infinite resources, and zero diplomatic blowback. The IDF is over-tasked, reserves are exhausted, the economy absorbs political-risk shocks, and the Jewish people – 15-plus million worldwide – remain small in number and bound to higher principles than territorial hunger. The Jewish story doesn’t need an ever-widening border to be secure; it needs a border that is morally defensible and therefore politically sustainable. As the saying could go in Hebrew, ha-gdalat gvulim b’li mishpat hi k’tanut ruach – expanding borders without justice is small-souled. Zionism has endured because it could distinguish emet (truth) from myth and tachlis (practicality) from talk. Greater Israel collapses those distinctions. It turns a living people into an annexation project. It’s time to end the illusions. Savlanut, yes — but no more illusions.

Bottom line. “Greater Israel” is political messianism masquerading as strategy. It misreads scripture, misquotes history, and mistakes force for future. The actual Israeli tradition worth defending is not the maximalist chant but the hard, unglamorous tachlis of borders you can defend, institutions you can trust, and neighbors you can live with. That tradition – the one Ben-Gurion recognized and even Likud once hedged with diplomatic pragmatism – demands that Jews choose a state that is proportionate, law-bound, and livable over a map that is maximal, lawless, and unendingly violent. If the choice is between Eretz Yisrael HaShlema and a Jewish-democratic homeland that can look its own prophets in the eye, Jewish history has already told you which one survives.

About the Author

A Moroccan journalist with a Master’s degree in Media Studies from Qatar. I contribute about the Western Sahara dispute, Morocco-Israeli relations, and Jewish-Muslim coexistence in a country that was once home to around 250,000 Jews—the largest Jewish community in the region. I also run the Instagram account @murakuc.officiel, which now has over 300,000 followers and focuses on old photographs and archives of Morocco, including its deep Jewish roots that the country officially recognizes in its 2011 constitution as the Hebraic component

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But dumb as rocks goyim have bigger issues to deal with. Umbrella BANS!

Sardinian beach bans umbrellas for people aged 10 to 65

Incredulous Italians ask if they should bring grandparents to beach to stay safe, after unpopular move in Villasimìus

Umbrellas have been banned on a beach in Sardinia for anyone between the ages of 10 and 65 in the latest flashpoint in Italy’s long-running beach disputes.

The measure was among several imposed by local authorities at Punta Molentis beach in Villasimìus, on Sardinia’s south-east coast, as part of an initiative to protect its pristine environment.

On top of having to pay €10 to set foot on the public beach, only families with children under 10 are permitted to pitch an umbrella – just one, at that – and those over 65.

Aerial view of Punta Molentis beach in Sardinia.
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Punta Molentis is within a designated conservation area. Photograph: REDA/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

The measure has not gone down well with beachgoers, generating a mix of incredulity and bemusement online, as well as raising concerns about the risks of skin cancer or heatstroke.

“To put up an umbrella I have to rent a child??” asked a commenter beneath a post announcing the guidelines on the Facebook page of Villasimìus’s council. Another joked: “So to come to the beach with an umbrella I either bring my grandad or need to have a child between now and tomorrow?”

Some called for a boycott of Punta Molentis, while others said they would simply go to a beach where they could shield themselves safely from the sun.

Punta Molentis is reopening after being closed since last July after a devastating wildfire started by arsonists.

Villasimìus council said the fire and “exceptional marine weather events” had moved it to impose stricter rules in order to preserve the natural beauty of Punta Molentis, which is located within a designated conservation area.

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Some called for a boycott of Punta Molentis. Photograph: Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images

“For this reason it’s necessary to limit the [human] impact and ensure the protection of this heritage for future generations,” the council said in a notice on its website.

People are also banned from putting up gazebos, tents or other forms of shade providers. The rules will remain in place until the end of October.

Meanwhile, on Jesolo beach near Venice, authorities have reduced the number of lounger and umbrella spots by 20,000 in an attempt to create more space between visitors.

Italy’s public beaches often get crowded, especially owing to the rising cost of renting loungers at private beach clubs. According to recent figures from Italy’s largest consumer watchdog, Altroconsumo, the average cost of renting two loungers and an umbrella at a private concession has increased by 24% within the past five years, and 6% in the past year alone.

As a result, many Italians are snubbing beach clubs while protests calling for more free beaches have intensified in recent years.

A protest for free beaches in Pulcinella, Naples.

FUCKING PALESTINE, cunts, PALESTINE: The cost of going to a beach club has also increased. The daily price for two loungers and an umbrella averages €20-30, and reaches €75 in the more upmarket resorts.

CELDF has a new report out, and I got to talk with a friend of the show, Kai Huschke, about the autopsy of RoN — Airs July 1, KYAQ (dot) org: Finding Fringe

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Jun 11, 2026

That’s Kai thinking, in the background, not the one with the tomatoes — 2011. Now?

After 20 years of controversial and challenging work, the “rights of nature” movement, which aims to extend legal protections to the natural world, finds itself on shaky ground, facing counterattacks, outright bans, corruption, cooptation, and — in a few inspiring cases — victories.

A new report called the State of Rights of Nature explores these issues in detail based on the expertise of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), the organization responsible for the first modern “rights of nature” law in the world, which passed in 2006.

For thirty years, CELDF has worked with hundreds of communities across the U.S. and internationally on rights of nature, participated in numerous coalitions and conferences, and watched a spark turn into a global movement. But the growing popularity of rights of nature has also fueled a backlash which, in some cases, has led powerful forces to co-opt movement language and advocates to water down their rights of nature initiatives to the point of near irrelevance.

States like Ohio, Florida, Idaho, and Utah have enacted state legislation banning rights of nature, and more and more efforts using “rights of nature” language doesn’t achieve the fundamental goal of the movement: expanding legal protections.

“Over the past decade we’ve seen more and more cases of co-optation that, if left unchallenged, will work to dilute, neutralize, and defeat the goals this movement was founded on,” says Kai Huschke, Executive Director at CELDF. “Our report aims to combat this to ensure the integrity of our efforts.”

Ahh, Daniel Quinn:

During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet–or they’re not. Either way, it’s certainly going to be extraordinary. If they figure out how to live sustainably here, then humanity will be able to see something it can’t see right now: a future that extends into the indefinite future. If they don’t figure this out, then I’m afraid the human race is going to take its place among the species that we’re driving into extinction here every day–as many as 200–every day.

If there are still people here in 200 years, they won’t be living the way we do. I can make that prediction with confidence, because if people go on living the way we do, there won’t be any people here in 200 years.

I can make another prediction with confidence. If there are still people here in 200 years, they won’t be thinking the way we do. I can make that prediction with equal confidence, because if people go on thinking the way we do, then they’ll go on living the way we do–and there won’t be any people here in 200 years.

But what can we possibly change about the way we think? It seems so obvious that everything we think is just the way it must be thought.

It seemed exactly the same to the people of the Middle Ages.

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What we must have (and nothing less) is a whole world full of people with changed minds. Scientists with changed minds, industrialists with changed minds, school teachers with changed minds, politicians with changed minds–though they’ll be the last of course. Which is why we can’t wait for them or expect them to lead us into a new era. Their minds won’t change until the minds of their constituents change.

On the beach after interviewing Kai.

For years, CELDF has said the system is not broken; it is fixed. This isn’t our discovery; many have noted that our system of law, therefore the governance and economics shaped by those laws, is designed to function to advantage property and commerce over that of health, safety, and welfare. CELDF’s partner-advisor Camila Vergara wrote a book on this called Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic.

What must break is our allegiance to these fixed systems. Their time has passed. Our indoctrination must end. The question is how we go about creating the fracture points necessary to dismantle this system.

Community Rights Lane County, the people of Lane County, and communities everywhere face a choice: continue to show up inside the venues owned by a corrupt system, or tear that corrupt system down.


Kai Huschke is the Executive Director of CELDF, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.

Paper mill, or data center, that is the question?

Pacifism? These people are the heads of the snake, and alas, the last time I had to cut off a rattlesnake’s head, well, the snake’s body died, and I friend it up. That was fucking 50 years ago, yuck!

A record-shattering drought has racked much of the United States. But the artificial intelligence industry is pushing ahead regardless, with the majority of planned data centers set to be built in drought-ridden locations, a Guardian analysis has found.

About two-thirds of upcoming data centers, which typically require a large amount of water to operate, are set to be built in places that have been among the driest in the country over the past year.

Of 809 planned data centers, 517 are in locations that have been in drought conditions throughout the past year, according to data from Cleanview and the federal government, which grades drought across four levels of severity. A similar proportion of existing data centers are already situated in drought-affected areas.

More than 60 percent of the contiguous US is currently at varying stages of drought, the largest expanse for spring in modern records, with a particularly severe lack of rain and snow in the Southeast and West desiccating croplands and raising fears of a disastrous wildfire season.

“There isn’t enough water to go around. Now with this explosion of data centers, I think a crunch point is inevitable.”

We are fucking DOOMED — pray for rain, the governor of the Indian Murdering State Utah declares.

In Utah, the state’s governor, who last year asked residents to pray for rain amid a deep drought, has attempted to reassure voters that the enormous new Stratos data center will not endanger the Great Salt Lake, which was already shrinking due to water overuse and rising global temperatures. A group opposing the county approval of Stratos is aiming to overturn this decision via a public referendum.

Larry Ellison, the largest private funder of the Israel Defense Forces, is deeply tied to the Israeli national security state and counts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu among his closest friends.

For a deep dive into Oracle and its connections to both U.S. and Israeli power, read the MintPress News investigation, “Openly Pro-Israel Tech Group Now Has Control over UK’s Most Sensitive National Security Data.”

Pray for shekels! “Democracy is Dead. What’s Next? Half a million in corporate dark money propaganda buried Measure 20-373.”

Piro Inc Promotes Israel Government Ad Agency’s push to sway US Public Opinion: 2 Articles

CELDF and Center for Biological Diversity and other warriors are up against the bloody wall: Deploying these Hasbara and Eddy Bernays on steroids monsters to prop up the lies of nuclear energy, Round-up Ready, and of course, AI and Data Centers is a walk in the park compared to selling Israel as a humane, free, socially just nation of, well, former rapists, poisoners, starvation experts, mowers of the lawn, murderers and imprisoners.

Havas Media Germany has hired Piro Inc. to further the digital efforts of the Israel Government Advertising Agency to sway US public opinion.

Founded by Daniel Rosenberg and Tim Piper, New York-based Piro has produced branded entertainment for film, TV, and digital media.

Rosenberg has collaborated with actors such as Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts, Robert DeNiro, Steve Martin, Al Pacino, Kevin Bacon, and Jodie Foster.

Piper was called “one of the most influential people on the planet” by Time for his branded content work. He is the executive producer on “Odd Mom Out” for Bravo and “Farmed and Dangerous” on Hulu.

According to its June 2 Justice Dept. filing, Piro is engaged to provide digital content strategy, creative development, video production oversight, and campaign advisory services in connection with a pilot digital communications program.

Services include audience research, content architecture, scriptwriting, asset production, distribution planning, iterative performance analysis, and final program evaluation. All content is developed for distribution via digital and social media platforms in the US.

One day in 1987, Derrick Jensen was browsing the public library when he came across a book that changed everything.

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The Natural Alien by Neil Evernden exploded my worldview,” says Jensen, on the phone from his home on the Northern California coast, not far from the Oregon border. “There’s a great line in there where Evernden makes an impassioned defense of some creature and somebody says, Well what good is it? And Evernden says the only response you can give is, Well what good are you? Not to make them feel bad but to show them that if you judge something solely by its utility to you, you ignore most of its being.

“It was the first book I ever read that talked about the basic stupidity of the utilitarian worldview.”

In his 2006 book Endgame, Jensen argues that civilization—the utilitarian worldview put into practice—is not only stupid, it’s also terminal. All forms of human civilization have historically worked to steadily exhaust the planet’s non-renewable resources, he says; therefore, no amount of technological ingenuity, no amount of political reform, no amount of Al Gore documentaries or carpool lanes or farmers’ markets or solar credits or biodiesel vehicles or Daryl Hannah in a tree will ever adequately replace what civilization has consumed to sustain itself, much less invert its fundamental imperative to use up the planet.

Raytheon chooses Tucson for headquarters of combined missiles/defense unit

Jensen is an environmental activist and author who lives in Northern California. His thesis is that civilization—not just industrial civilization, but all civilization—has sustained itself through violence against humans and nonhumans alike, and that we now have reached a place where the damage is irreparable. Activists must try to protect those species still in existence while civilization comes crashing down around us—and try to help bring it down before it wipes out what life remains on the planet.

Extreme? Jensen’s exploration of the hatred and violence in the Western world is compelling. What elements are shared by the genocide against American Indians, by slavery and lynchings, the Holocaust in Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? What forces in society caused these horrors? What did people tell themselves to participate in them or allow them to happen?

“It is as easy as it is unwise to simply throw up our hands in the face of these acts, declare them incomprehensible, or, just as safely, having nothing whatsoever to do with any of us. I’ve never stuck anyone with a knife, nor even aimed a chainsaw at a human being. I just don’t understand how someone could do this. Maybe they’re just evil.” (p. x, Preface, The Culture of Make Believe.)

“Our products are in high demand, and we’re responding to the high demand of our customers from around the world,” CEO of Raytheon Tucson Taylor Lawrence said. “Our business is driven by threats in the world.”

Raytheon is expanding its operations in southern Arizona by adding nearly 2,000 jobs.

The jobs will be added to the Missile Systems business headquarters over a five-year period, according to a press release.

Raytheon will be hiring workers at all skill levels, with an emphasis in “engineering and other higher-wage, technical positions.”

This move is expected to result in billions of dollars of economic impact for Arizona over 10 years.

“These rewarding, high-technology jobs will support Raytheon’s growth and bring even more top talent to this region,” said Dr. Taylor W. Lawrence, Raytheon Missile Systems president in the press release. “The strong support we receive from state and local organizations is essential to our expansion plans, and will help provide Raytheon with the workforce and infrastructure to meet the growing demand we are seeing from our customers.”

President and CEO of Raytheon Tucson Taylor Lawrence agrees it was the announcement in 2006 that Raytheon was expanding to Huntsville, AL, that served as a wake-up call to southern Arizona leaders, and the ensuing actions of the city, county and state that led to Friday’s announcement.

Lawrence says the county’s decision to provide a half-mile buffer zone paved the way for this expansion. It will give Raytheon the space it needs to test new weapons systems, including larger missiles.

In a conference call to reporters, both Lawrence and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey praised the expansion and what it brings to Southern Arizona.

13,000 Kapos, Eichmanns, Fausts = just the employees for the war criminal company Raytheon in Tucson!

RoN recognizes and honors Nature’s inalienable rights. Nature is not property to be owned and exploited. Nature includes all ecosystems and living beings including watersheds, rivers, seas, mountains, flora and forests, animals, ecosystems, as well as humans, all inorganic habitats in which organic beings dwell, and the natural processes which contribute to the stability and furtherance of life on Earth. These legal rights are a prudent and necessary recognition that humans are only one species on Earth and that respecting RoN may restore the balance and interconnected health of Earth as first peoples largely understood. We call upon communities, peoples, organizations, and governments to enact, implement, enforce, and harmonize with RoN policies and laws that meet these criteria. Accordingly, to be considered legitimate, a purported RoN law must:

1. Recognize the inherent, inalienable, legal Rights of Nature and Nature’s constituent ecosystems, habitats, and natural communities to exist, flourish, self-organize, evolve, and regenerate, and to restoration, recovery, and preservation when harmed. And these rights must be interpreted in the manner most favorable to the protection of Nature and constituent ecosystems.

2. Define Nature and ecosystems so as to convey “a naturally occurring structural, functional, and organization unit, consisting of a community of organisms and the biotic and abiotic environmental variables that live and interact as a symbiotic whole in a given environment.”

3. Ensure that RoN are free from violation, regulation, and subordination to other laws, legal and financial liabilities, economic priorities, commodification, monetization, or classification by legal concepts such as “legal personhood” where financial liabilities or resource valuations are imposed on Nature.

4. Emancipate Nature, ecosystems, and living beings from the legal status of ‘property,’ which allows for the violation of Nature’s rights by giving deference to vested legal privileges.

5. Recognize that Nature includes human beings, and that the very existence of humanity is inevitably tied to that of Nature, and that RoN necessarily encompass the right of humanity to its existence as a species, and the right of Indigenous people and permanent residents to dwell unmolested in their natural habitat.

6. Guarantee ecosystems have legal standing to appear as the real party of interest in administrative proceedings and legal actions affecting its rights.

7. Authorize residents of communities to represent the ecosystems in which they physically dwell, and ensure that they do so in the name of that ecosystem, for the sole purpose of advancing its rights, recognizing that they are part of that ecosystem and have legal standing, in any and all legal proceedings, to do so.

8. Apply the precautionary principle and restrictive measures, including locally promulgated prohibition, for activities that may lead to the extinction of species, the destruction of ecosystems, or the permanent alteration of natural cycles.

9. Require that damages derived from administrative, legal, contractual, or other proceedings be used solely and exclusively to protect, repair, and restore Nature in the affected ecosystem to assist in bringing it to its prior natural state, as opposed to being used to fund “mitigation banks,” offset schemes, to subsidize energy production, or for other indirect and often greenwashed measures.

Inspired by Ishmael • Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn

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“[We] must deny life in order to study it.” It is like “apply[ing] the knife to the vocal cords…of life itself.” ~ Neil Evernden

Language and the Knife: Silencing Nature

by Gosia Bryja

Mar 31, 2023

After a prolonged winter hibernation, black bears are coming back to life. It’s also the time for hunters to find them and end their life. In British Columbia, the spring hunt begins in April and terminates in June, while the fall hunt starts in September and finishes in December. Hunters are getting ready. Their exchanges and discussions center on what weapons to use, with some switching from rifles to bows, or on seeking specific advice, such as the best brand of rabbit distress calls. Questions about the shooting technique also arise. Hunters share their experiences for the best shot placement, whether it should be the head, neck, or heart. Some suggest aiming at the shoulder. In this case, even if the bear survives, she won’t be able to escape.

Bears’ grogginess and hunger aid in the hunt. Four or five months of hibernation render them vulnerable, easy prey for hunters already geared up and primed for adrenaline-seeking rushes. BookYourHunt in BC is brimming with excitement: “Our spring bear hunts are very exciting with numerous sightings per day often in the double digits. … Bears will frequent the southern mountain slopes and newer logging cuts, feeding on the fresh grasses, clover and dandelions in the spring.”

Are we still talking about extinguishing life? How come we talk about killing sentient creatures as we talk about camping equipment or the best trails to enjoy nature?

Well, it is not an incidental occurrence but, instead, the result of a thought-out process. The answer lies in subtracting sentience, pain, suffering and the will to live from wild animals and turning them into resources to be numerically managed or objects to be chased and killed in thrill-seeking escapades. That’s the trick: detachment, indifference. The objectification of wildlife is more than the display of emotional deviance by a recreational hunter. No, it serves a practical purpose. It is an indispensable tool to make recreational hunting psychologically possible by removing it from the realm of morality and ethics and thus allowing the hunter to engage in a lethal endeavour while maintaining his emotional core intact.

Photo Credit: Sebastian Pociecha/Unsplash

​Both hunters and wildlife researchers rely on this tool. In my earlier essay, “Discarding Euphemism: the fate of animals deserves faithful words,” I explore how the use of agricultural metaphors shaped the field of wildlife management. Aldo Leopold, widely regarded as the founder of the scientific field of wildlife management, applied the principles of sustained yield forestry to promote the growth of sustainable “game” populations for hunting purposes. In his words, game management is “the art of making land produce sustained annual crops of wild game for recreational use.” Obviously, on the language level, it’s also the art of stripping wild animals of their cognitive and emotional domains.

In Leopold’s view, wild animals had value as a collective, not as individuals. What warranted protection was the notion of a healthy “biotic community” essential to ensure profitable hunting. Rather than intrinsic, instrumental worth defined animals whom Leopold didn’t consider co-participants in the “circuit” of life. … Instrumental worth, is this all, really? If so, then the mystery of nature vanishes. The spiritual communion with the wilderness that children intuitively experience and romantic poets cherished and eulogized gets degraded into a simple subject-object or user-used exchange devoid of a moral position.

The euphemistic language also makes the horrific enterprise more palatable for the public

Erasing animals’ individuality and detaching the human-wildlife relationship from moral considerations have had far-reaching implications. Once accomplished, such a falsification of sentience proved advantageous for both practicing wildlife management and selling it to the public. Practitioners — managers, researchers, and hunters — felt absolved from pangs of conscience and moral disquietude since they were no longer engaged in afflicting pain and suffering but were, instead, ensuring the sustainability of “harvestable crops.” The euphemistic language also makes the horrific enterprise more palatable for the public. Predictably so, for just as visceral descriptions of violence heighten public alertness, technocratic or abstract vocabulary lessens it.

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Leopold’s Game Management and his push for formulating science-based wildlife policies were pivotal to developing the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAM). Formally articulated in 2001, the NAM is promoted by hunters as “is the world’s most successful system of policies and laws to restore and safeguard fish and wildlife and their habitats through sound science and active management.” It sanctioned wildlife as “public trust resources” that are “renewable” if managed “wisely.”

Clearly, the euphemizing of language, initiated by Leopold, seems to proceed unabated. If anything, followers have outdone the pioneer. Hunting down wild animals has fully metamorphosed into the management of “surplus resources” or the pursuit of a supposedly “innocuous” recreational hobby that also happens to be conducive to predator control. Or into an alternative feeding opportunity where a wild creature is chased and valued as a source of protein. A superfluous source, unlike in the case of true indigenous subsistence hunters. The NAM and its variously motivated practitioners altered, therefore, the reality. A viewfinder of a camera and a viewfinder of a rifle walk in unison. Boundaries have blurred. From a moral or ethical standpoint, the difference between engaging in harmless outdoor activities and those camouflaged as harmless has become indistinguishable.

If “game” is “taken” or “harvested,” then both the subject of an action and the action itself lack feelings and emotions.

Blurring boundaries between outdoor activities and subtracting suffering from the slaughter through abstract, detached vocabulary have normalized hunting. This is a critical step to render engaging in it emotionally acceptable. To kill without guilt, a hunter must relegate wild animals to a much lower category of beings. This separates them even more from humans with whom we instinctively associate pain, especially emotional one. As Mallory writes, “a conclusion must be reached that the animal is somehow “lower” or “lesser” than oneself in order to justify sacrificing its (vital) needs to one’s own (nonvital) wants.” The language clearly helps. If “game” is “taken” or “harvested,” then both the subject of an action and the action itself lack feelings and emotions. A bear and a cougar resonate with us as creatures with emotions encoded in the nervous system, but does the same apply to “game?” Similarly, “killing” presupposes the existence of a sentient life, but “harvesting” not necessarily so. As a result, accountability, morality, and ethics no longer enter the equation.

There is, however, a contradiction at the core. The very determination to redefine wildlife as crops or inanimate objects betrays a suppressed belief that they are not so. It can’t be otherwise; it won’t work otherwise. An inner divergence threatens the psyche, and, to subdue surging uneasiness, technocratic vocabulary comes to aid. Basic psychology, indeed. Cognitive dissonance demands consistency, and since acknowledging the sentient life and killing it is bound to instigate an inner conflict, such an acknowledgment needs to be denied, disqualified, and erased to ease the anxious mind.

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Sadly, distorting reality with falsifying words is not the only way to nullify the suffering of nonhuman nature. In his book, “The Natural Alien: Humankind and Environment,” Neil Evernden discusses the work of Claude Bernard, the revered father of experimental medicine, who, in the name of science, had no qualms about listening to the screams of animals being ripped apart at the operating table. He “believed that his higher calling exempted him from such considerations.” Many of Bernard’s followers lacked, however, his perfect detachment and “adopted a routine precaution: at the outset of an experiment they would sever the vocal cords of the animal on the table, so that it could not bark or cry out during the operation.”

“Severing the vocal cords” of animals — whether literal, as in the case of vivisection, or metaphorical that “silences” the cruelty inflicted on them by depicting wildlife in euphemistic, technocratic terms — is an immoral act

The sight of a frantic animal with her mouth stretched but no sound coming out is easier to take and easier to reimagine as the reflection of Descartes’ mindless machine. After all, it’s often someone’s cry that evokes compassion, elicits empathy, awakens humanity in us. It separates sentient beings from inanimate objects or even plants. On the other hand, as Evernden rightly argues, isn’t cutting the cords to silence the piercing scream an act of emotional self-defense, an admission that this scream is indeed the sound of pain and suffering?

Yes, animals suffer; they experience emotional and physical anguish as we do. We know it, and deep down, hunters as well as wildlife managers and researchers know it, too. That’s why they need each other. A mutually beneficial symbiosis connects them. Hunters seek from wildlife managers and researchers a scientific rationalization for shooting wildlife, while wildlife managers and researchers who ascribe to the NAM see hunters as instrumental to “harvesting surplus resources.” A large “surplus resources” that is, because, in Canada, the “harvest” of wildlife is invariably plentiful. Each year, between 25,000 and 30,000 black bears are “harvested” as a part of predator management : young and old, male and female. All of them individual lives, all of them disposable.

“Severing the vocal cords” of animals — whether literal, as in the case of vivisection, or metaphorical that “silences” the cruelty inflicted on them by depicting wildlife in euphemistic, technocratic terms — is an immoral act. It degrades animals but also diminishes us, humans. That is why, one hopes, it is an ultimately futile endeavour. Most of us know that animals are more than a trophy, protein, or flesh to be riddled with bullets. They are not charts or numbers but individual, distinct creatures harbouring a beating heart. They have their lives to unfold on their own terms. They have their own stories.

Those who deny them this inalienable right cannot cut our vocal cords. It is up to us to speak, fight, and push against cruelty. Given the growing awareness of nonhuman sentience, prevailing might not even be that hard. As with other injustices that have plagued human history, what seems insurmountable is bound to crumble. Animals deserve a better fate. Let’s make granting it to them one of the missions of our time.

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Zionists love rape. They don’t have any concept that it is abuse, or if they do, they glory in their right to commit abuse. Even former President of “Israel, Moshe Katsav, has been convicted of rape!

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Tel Aviv is a leading global powerhouse in applied artificial intelligence. Often referred to as the heart of “Silicon Wadi”, it ranks among the top 4 global startup ecosystems, with artificial intelligence companies driving a massive portion of the nation’s tech funding.

Shifting Baseline Disorder is even Bigger than you CAN imagine: There is NOT an UPSIDE/Light Side of AI-VR-MR-AIG:

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I keep telling you, Watch Their/Our Jews: EPA won’t set nationwide standards for data centers.

“EPA is not the party that is negotiating and or mediating or refereeing that deal,” the EPA administrator said.

JUST 37 percent support them? That’s HUGE. They will want more of them:

Just 37 percent of Americans would support a data center being built in their area, according to a POLITICO poll earlier this year. There are myriad reasons cited by opponents, but water usage and air pollution are common complaints.

Tech giants are expected to spend a whopping $7 trillion on AI infrastructure by 2030, according to McKinsey (1). That’s more than the size of Germany and Spain’s GDP combined, per World Bank data (2).

If you’re wondering where all that money is coming from, the answer might surprise you: It’s your “savings accounts and pension accounts.” That’s according to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who made the prediction at the Texas State Technical College in Waco alongside Texas Governor Greg Abbott, according to 25 News KXXV.

Yeah, can American college students wear noose lapel pins over the faces of our favorite fascist neurotoxic depraved Jews?

Some Jewish State! Is it in the eyes? Only the nose knows? Fucking condom wearing cunts.

I can’t keep the fucking Jew News out of my Jew-oogle Box:

The Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid said he would not attend FID Marseille, an international film festival taking place in July, according to a report in Le Monde. Several directors who had planned to participate withdrew their films from the festival to protest the inclusion of Lapid, because they support a cultural boycott of Israel.

Lapid, 51, who has been living in France since 2021, was invited to serve on the festival jury. Tsveta Dobreva, director of the FID, told Le Monde: “We invited Nadav Lapid solely out of respect for his filmmaking. That is the only criterion at FID. Then I started receiving calls demanding that he be disinvited. At first, I didn’t respond because I fully accepted our decision. But the pressure continued and intensified.”

She said the festival considered alternate plans, such as that Lapid would present his first film, Policeman, at an event that would include a discussion and the launch of a book of interviews with Lapid published in French. But then activists called to boycott FID if Lapid were involved in the festival at all. “Selected filmmakers began withdrawing their films; in the end, about 10 of them did so,” she said.

And so the Jewish 972+ has to review one of their fellow Jew’s fucking dirty flicks: Noam Sheizaf is an independent journalist and editor. He was the founding executive director and editor-in-chief of +972 Magazine. Prior to joining +972, he worked for Tel Aviv’s Ha-ir local paper, Ynet, and the Maariv daily, where his last position was deputy editor of the weekend magazine. He is currently working on a number of documentary films.

[Aaron Mate? Ben Stiller? Adam Sandler? Fucking Inbred cunts!]

We get to see one of the most complete attempts to show the all-Israeli machismo at least since the 1970s. Israeli highbrow cinema tends to show different characters, none of whom smell the Naplam in the morning. This also relates to issues of responsibility and guilt: many critics see the new Israeli anti-hero as another attempt by the cultural elites to distance themselves from any responsibility for the wars and occupation. These are not anti-war films, but films which rationalize war for certain social groups.

In Israeli war films of the last decades, the heroes are usually powerless guys who are dragged into the war; a fact that reflects something deep in the psychology of an extremely powerful and potent society. But the policeman in Lapid’s film is more like the Israel who is idolized in the local news. Yaron is chauvinistic, militaristic, childish and rude, but also charismatic and even charming. I found him to be rather lovable – yet at the same time there is something disturbing about him, and the automatic nature in which he carries himself. Yiftach is like a machine, which only comes to a brief halt at the very last moment of the film.

This study of Israeli males and manhood continues with the portrait of the revolutionary group. Though I found this part of the film to be less interesting or compelling, there is a touching plot line about a one rebel who is raised by a single father, a political activist who gave it all up. The mother is absent – I don’t remember why – and there is some gentle hopelessness in both father and son. If Yaron runs on autopilot, these two simply lost their way. In both cases, the results are just as disastrous in both cases.

[No immunity for Jews? Right, Poisons!]

Over 57,000 pesticide products are currently registered for use in the United States, ranging from powerful chemicals used in conventional agriculture, to common insect repellents approved for use on children. Scientific evidence is accumulating that some of them are linked to illnesses ranging from cancer to Parkinson’s disease.

But beginning in 2024, a powerful coalition of chemical manufacturers and industry groups launched a coordinated national effort to pass “immunity laws,” bills designed to shield companies from potential legal claims tied to harms from their pesticide products. Over the past three years alone, industry lobbyists attempted to pass pesticide immunity legislation in 15 different states.

The Jews’ pedophile is hot, man, at the Knicks cuntology game: Trump floats the option of a nuclear strike to Iran.

Four months into a difficult air war with Iran, President Donald Trump’s popularity is sinking among American voters. I have been told that in a recent secret meeting in the White House, he began speculating, albeit vaguely, about a nuclear option that could perhaps bring a quicker end to the war.

It should be said immediately that it was just inside talk to senior staff by a frustrated president. On Monday night Trump was intensely booed at the NBA Finals game between the Knicks and the Spurs at Madison Square Garden in New York City, and polls have consistently indicated that the Democrats will return to a majority in the House this fall and might flip enough Republican seats to gain control of the Senate. — Sy Hersh, yet another fucking Jew Yorker!

By Craig Anderson* | May 29, 2026

President Donald Trump said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single voter. The press called it hyperbole. His opponents called it proof of insanity. His supporters called it Tuesday.

Everyone missed the point.

Oh, shit, more armchair Doctor Ruth shit:

Trump was not boasting. He was explaining his theory of power. The theory is simple: The rules do not apply to him because he has convinced everyone — allies and enemies alike — that he does not play by any rules at all.

He is not crazy. He is strategic. And the strategy is working.

The absurdity as armor

Trump says things that no normal politician would say because he understands something that normal politicians do not. Normal politicians are constrained by the fear of looking ridiculous. Trump is not. He has weaponized absurdity.

When he called for banning all Muslims from entering the country, the press was outraged. His opponents were horrified. His supporters shrugged. The policy was never implemented. It did not need to be. The goal was not to ban Muslims, but to demonstrate that he was willing to say what no one else would say. That demonstration was the message.

The message is always the same: I am not afraid. I do not care what you think. I will say anything. And you cannot stop me.

That is not craziness. That is a calculated display of fearlessness.

The contradiction as confusion

Trump contradicts himself constantly, sometimes in the same sentence. His opponents collect these contradictions like trophies and present them as evidence of incompetence. They are wrong.

Author Saeda Hamden is currently receiving treatment at Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City for kidney disease.[Courtesy of Saeda Hamdona]

Whatever. Real news:

I am one of 22,000 Gaza patients waiting in desperation for evacuation

Like thousands of other sick and wounded Palestinians, I am slowly dying, trapped between a devastated health system and a heavily restricted border.

[The author and her son, Zakaria, before the war [Courtesy of Saeda Hamdona]]

This is the double cruelty ill Palestinians face: We are denied access to adequate medical care in Gaza because hospitals were destroyed and then are told that connections – not medical necessity – determine whether we can seek care abroad, whether we live or die.

I do not have links to any international organisations or local authorities. I am merely a patient whose body is gradually failing.

I have no idea if I will be able to leave in time. Time is always a prerequisite for hope, and time is not on my side.

My son Zakaria is what keeps me going. I gave birth to him after a lengthy and difficult medical journey, knowing that I will never be able to bear another child because doing so would cost me my health.

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In Gaza, the human body is no longer a carrier of life and dreams but a record of survival. Doctors are no longer medical professionals but warriors fighting a battle with their bare hands. Hospitals are no longer places of healing but final lines of defence.

In this place of despair and agonising limbo, I hang on to the fleeting hope that the world will hear our cry for help.

Far-right Israeli settlements minister’s daughter accuses parents and brother of years-long sexual abuse.

But who is Orit Strook?

Orit Strook helped to spread the totally false fabricated claims that the Palestinian Resistance committed sexual assaults during Al-Aqsa Flood. She, of course, has stated there is ‘no such thing’ as a Palestinian people. Strook is part of the fascist Jewish Power party (led by Itamar Ben-Gvir) and sits in the Knesset as part of the National Religious Party–Religious Zionism.

In 2007, Orit Strook’s son, Zviki Strook and his friends had entered a Palestinian neighbourhood, captured a 15-year-old boy, handcuffed and beat him, stripped him, and allegedly hit him with an ATV (all-terrain vehicle) before leaving him tied up in a field. The victim escaped hours later, suffering from severe injuries.

Zviki was also reported to have killed a newborn goat at the scene by kicking it to death. He was convicted on charges related to the attack and served 30 months in an Israeli prison.

But the Strook family is not the only one in the Zionist colony seemingly addicted to abuse. And nor is abuse confined to the far right, the settler movement, or ultra-orthodox Haredi sects. There is a sickness which permeates the whole settler society.

Most Israeli men say forced sex with acquaintance is not rape, as reported in an academic survey. Six out of 10 men said forced sex was not rape – and so did four out of 10 women. The results illustrated, the author said, the Israeli public’s “tolerant attitude to rape by an acquaintance”.

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Fucking INFLATION, the cost of goods and services, has doubled (100 percent inflation ). Maths, cunts, math: If an item costs $10 and experiences 100% inflation, the price increases by the exact value of the original price $10 times 1.00 = $10). The new total is the original price plus the increase: $10 + $10 = $20, which is twice the initial cost.

Trump Proclaims ‘I Love the Inflation’ as His Approval Rating Plummets

Annual inflation just hit 4.2 percent. That’s the fastest year-over-year pace since early 2023, and it’s being driven largely by high oil prices from Donald Trump going to war with Iran.

The sickness of JEWS: Israel’s ethnic cleansing of West Bank Bedouin and herding communities

Huckabee, where thou art? Taybeh’s Christians see soaring rates of Israeli military-assisted settler violence; Christians in Lebanon’s ancient city of Tyre flee as Israeli bombs kill 8.

Pedophile producer and actor: Netanyahu Isn’t ‘Defying’ Trump Any More Than He Ever ‘Defied’ Biden,

Jews are the dirtiest, man, the dirtiest: Jewish State of Israel puts Palestinian paediatrician in solitary confinement after 17 months held without charge or time limit

First image of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya during his ongoing hearing before the Israeli Supreme Court in occupied Jerusalem.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, conveyed a message through his lawyer during today’s latest court session:

“I am a paediatrician who provides medical care to patients, the wounded, and the most vulnerable in the Strip. I carried out my work in accordance with international law and humanitarian standards. My detention is unjust and arbitrary, and I demand that the court release me immediately.”

Accordingly, his lawyers have asked the court to issue a decision, which may be delivered in the coming hours or days.

His son Elyas Abu Safiya, who is also a doctor, told The Guardian newspaper that his father required surgery to remove shrapnel that had become lodged in his left thigh when he was detained, and that he continued to suffer persistent pain and swelling at the site of the wound.

“What we know [about his time in detention] shows severe suffering,” Elyas said. “During the first months of his detention, he was not allowed to change his clothes, and he developed skin diseases without receiving proper treatment.

“We were told that he is [now being] held in an extremely small solitary cell, no larger than one metre by one metre, a space barely enough to move or sit properly,” he added.

According to Elyas, at the time of his detention his father was wearing a white medical coat that he had refused to wash since his son Ibrahim was killed by a drone strike at the hospital entrance in October 2024.

Abu Safiya had kept the hospital running through more than 80 days of siege and attacks by Israeli forces amid an intensive military operation in the surrounding refugee camp.

More than 525 days after his arrest, Israeli authorities have yet to bring any formal charges against him. He was classified as an “unlawful combatant”, along with more than 375 medical workers – a designation Israel has frequently used to justify prolonged detention without trial. Since his detention, the family has not been able to communicate with him directly.

“The only accusation is his refusal to obey the Israeli army’s orders to evacuate the hospital and leave the patients to their fate,” Elyas said.

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya has been arbitrarily detained by Israel for almost 18 months

Jews worldwide are disgusting, depraved, and perverse supporting this treatment.

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya has been arbitrarily detained by Israel for almost 18 months

Who are the 95 Palestinian healthcare workers held captive by Israel?

Israel continues to hold 80 Palestinian doctors and medical workers from Gaza and 15 from the occupied West Bank.

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Out of balance!! Fish farms, and they are afar, so county on father oil to bring them to your fucking table.

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WOW — 450 milion data workers around the world . . . They need microplastic-free protein. Millions of low-wage workers worldwide are busy feeding data to, and training, the algorithms for AI programs — often at the expense of their mental and emotional health. These workers, many of them young and living in the Global South, are exposed to all manner of harmful content to train AI models to detect such material.

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shall we find an Epstein Truck-load of polonium and turn their water into wine?

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Jun 10, 2026

There are approximately 2 billion Muslims worldwide, making Islam the second-largest and fastest-growing major religion globally. Muslims currently make up about 26% of the world’s total population, with their rapid growth driven by younger average ages and higher birth rates compared to other religious groups.

There are approximately 15.7 million Jewish people worldwide, making up less than 0.2% of the global population.

Do you all GET IT yet? “Stripping Jordan of Al-Aqsa custodianship would trigger ‘outbreak of violence’, expert says”

Israeli-American lawyer Daniel Seidemann confirms MEE report on how the US and Israel circulated a proposal to turn Al-Aqsa into a ‘multi-faith complex’

Jewish values are fascist values — transactional, culturally, and economically — educationally, media-wise, medical-wise, real estate-wise — AI-VR-MR — data is king, and rape and murder and sodomy and starvation are THEIR fucking values.

Try ground truthing, and alas, here I am, more real education than most Jews, and the Jews got me, got my $17 an hour laundry job. Welcome to the nut house…

I got more than a Thousand Pieces of Journalism and Essay Writing on Internet, but boy are they hard to find as Jew-oogle scrubs more and more stuff

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I got more than a Thousand Pieces of Journalism and Essay Writing on Internet, but boy are they hard to find as Jew-oogle scrubs more and more stuff

[Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story came out last fall in Seattle’s Real Change News, the country’s largest street newspaper, and subsequently was covered in The Seattle Times and Crosscut, a Northwest-based environmental blog. According to columnist Paul Haeder, this Food Forest project is receiving more and more attention, and is also bei…

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Just juxtaposing this below to that ratio — 2 billion Muslims and 18 million Jews ( 2 billion is about 111 times larger than 18 million))— is more than just a fireable offence. It’s treason and an open assassination ideation, so bye-bye thought experimentors….

The strongest naturally occurring poison known is Botulinum toxin, produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. It is incredibly potent, requiring only a microscopic amount to be fatal.

Maitotoxin: Produced by a type of marine plankton (Gambierdiscus toxicus), it is identified as a highly lethal non-protein substance. It disrupts cellular function, particularly impacting cardiac health.

Polypeptide Toxins: Such as Batrachotoxin (secreted by poison dart frogs) and plant-based toxins like Ricin and Abrin. These substances interfere with fundamental cellular processes, such as protein synthesis or the function of the nervous system.

The only synthetic compound in our top five, VX is a nerve agent with the consistency of engine oil. It emerged from ICI’s research into new insecticides in the early 1950s but proved too toxic to use in agriculture. VX kills by interfering with the transmission of nerve messages between cells; this requires a molecule called acetylcholine. After acetylcholine has passed on its message, it needs to be broken down (otherwise it will keep sending the message) by an enzyme catalyst called acetylcholinesterase. VX and other nerve agents stop this enzyme from working, so muscle contractions go out of control and you die of asphyxiation.

Batrachotoxin . . . We’ve all heard of South American Indians using venom-tipped blowpipes to hunt their prey. Curare is the best known, and comes from a plant. The most toxic, however, come from the skins of tiny frogs – and the deadliest of all is Batrachotoxin.

Native Indians in Western Colombia collect these frogs – golden Phyllobates terribilis and multicoloured Phyllobates bicolor – and sweat out the poison over a fire before putting it on their darts. The LD50 is around 2 micrograms per kg, meaning that an amount the size of two grains of table salt will kill you.

Batrachotoxin kills by interfering with sodium ion channels in the cells of muscles and nerves, jamming them open so that they do not close. The continued migration of results ultimately in heart failure.

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Oh, those Muslims — mostly dead in the water, wretched and poor and fighting just for a grain of sorghum and an ounce of clean water.

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There are approximately 2 billion Muslims worldwide, making Islam the second-largest and fastest-growing major religion globally. Muslims currently make up about 26% of the world’s total population, with their rapid growth driven by younger average ages and higher birth rates compared to other religious groups.

There are approximately 15.7 million Jewish people worldwide, making up less than 0.2% of the global population.

The radioisotope used to kill Alexander Litvinenko is extraordinarily toxic even in quantities less than a billionth of a gram. The LD50 of this compound is not a property of its chemistry. While other toxic metals such as mercury and arsenic kill through the interaction of the metal with the body, polonium kills by emitting radiation which shreds sensitive biomolecules, such as DNA, and kills cells. Its half-life – the time taken for half of the ingested material to decay – is about a month, leading to a slow death by radiation poisoning.

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Poison, the Jewish State of Rape and the Jewish State of MIND: On campuses far and wide!!!!!!!

Part-Time Faculty Compensation

Average pay for a standard three-credit course section was $4,093 in 2024–25 across 428 reporting institutions. The report’s expanded minimum-pay reporting adds more detail than previous reports: 556 institutions reported minimum pay per course section, the median minimum was $3,130, nearly one-fifth of institutions reported minimum pay above $5,000, and 70 percent reported minimum pay of $4,000 or less. Benefits for part-time faculty members paid per course section remained thin, with just 32.7 percent of institutions contributing toward retirement for some or all such faculty members and 30.6 percent contributing toward medical insurance premiums. The overall message is plain: Part-time faculty compensation remains low, fragmented, and insecure.

Median presidential salaries ranged from about $275,000 at public associate’s institutions without ranking systems to $850,000 at private-independent doctoral universities. Depending on sector and institutional type, presidential compensation ranged from roughly three times to more than five times the average salary of a full professor. That ratio remains one of the clearest illustrations of the widening gap between executive compensation and faculty pay.

Photo collage. U.S. soldiers and pilots walk towards a Pentagon building that is deconstructed into empty shapes and shapes filled with hundred dollar bills.

SWEMI-BAD ACCOUNTING: Think tens of trillions of dollars a year spent and lost and wasted and sucked out of communities, life on earth, education, all of us wretched of the earth, spent ON MILITARY, WAR, SEIGES, GENOCIDES, SANCTIONS, BLOCKADES, PR, LIES, PROPAGANDA — the world at war with nature, man, woman, child, animal, insect, fish, mammal, bird, tree, river, LIFE.

According to a new report from POGO, U.S. military spending is already $1.5 to $1.7 trillion per year, or — if you include (and why shouldn’t you?) interest on debt for past military spending, $1.7 to $2.3 trillion per year. The variations among the five different calculations featured in the report have a lot to do with the complexity and obscurity of the U.S. government, including the variety of sources of government data that can be used. It takes serious research to dig the militarism out, as it’s hidden everywhere. But the big-ticket items are things like “Homeland Security” and veterans’ benefits and debt interest.

The report gives us not the slightest hint at any reason to doubt the highest figure. If that $2.3 trillion per year is correct, and if Trump’s servants on Capitol Hill add another $0.5 trillion just for kicks plus another $0.2 trillion specifically for destroying Iran and rebuilding the bases that Iran destroyed — and the pending destruction of which was the immediate excuse for the war — then we’ll be at $3 trillion. . . and — barring the appearance of a spine in a significant number of members of Congress — another $3 trillion or more the next year and the next and the next.

Jew goy:

Kaja Kallas wants you to sacrifice. She is very clear about this. European workers should pay more tax. Estonian teachers should accept wage freezes. Ordinary citizens should absorb rising energy costs, shrinking benefits, and the general economic wreckage of a prolonged military confrontation , all in the name of a “rules-based order” that has, somehow, never seemed to cost the people running it very much at all.

Kallas is the EU’s current High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the bloc’s unelected foreign policy chief, and the West’s most reliable voice for military escalation at every turn.

She is also, by the record of her years governing Estonia, a textbook neoliberal: austerity for workers, flexibility for capital, and a foreign policy framework in which the security of global markets and Western military alliances is treated as synonymous with democracy itself.

The domestic unpopularity that plagued Kallas before her departure for Brussels was driven by a consistent pattern of aristocratic tone-deafness.

During the peak of Estonia’s inflationary crisis, when working-class households were choosing between heating and groceries due to skyrocketing energy costs, Kallas brushed off public anxieties during a live broadcast by stating that her own parents were pensioners and “they don’t complain.”

She omitted the vital context that her father, Siim Kallas, is a former Prime Minister, former European Commissioner, and one of the wealthiest institutional figures in modern Estonian history.

And who keeps saying the Jews of Israe are LOSING?

JEW JEW JEW: Kaja Kallas: Genocide Enabler, Anti-Communist, Corrupt Crony Capitalist, Neoliberal War Monger Openly Calling for War With China

You have to COUNT more than the fucking war material/materiel:

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… Thirteen years ago, ages ago, Spokane, WA …

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[Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story came out last fall in Seattle’s Real Change News, the country’s largest street newspaper, and subsequently was covered in The Seattle Times and Crosscut, a Northwest-based environmental blog. According to columnist Paul Haeder, this Food Forest project is receiving more and more attention, and is also being touted as the largest of its kind in the U.S., using public funds. The following is an extended version of the original story, especially for Down to EarthNW audiences.)

Sat., Oct. 13, 2012

Seattle Jefferson Park on Beacon Hill is on pace to be a Food Forest, a 7-acre spot where crops are grown and the community comes together.  (Paul Haeder / Down to EarthNW Correspondent)

Seattle Jefferson Park on Beacon Hill is on pace to be a Food Forest, a 7-acre spot where crops are grown and the community comes together. (Paul Haeder / Down to EarthNW Correspondent)

Christina Olson and Glenn Herlihy are two of the organizers behind the Beacon Hill Food Forest.  (Paul Haeder / Down to EarthNW Correspondent)

Christina Olson and Glenn Herlihy are two of the organizers behind the Beacon Hill Food Forest. (Paul Haeder / Down to EarthNW Correspondent)

We might not get to experience the fun and philosophy of mythical hobbits wandering through Seattle’s Beacon Hill Food Forest, but it isn’t beyond the realm of possibilities to see exotic produce from Southeast Asia, the Philippines, Somalia, and Central and South America growing just 2.5 miles from downtown Seattle.

Even more rare for the Beacon Hill Food Forest is that it involves public land – Jefferson Park – and strong support from a heavy hitter: Seattle Public Utilities. The 7-acre Food Forest has become much more than a community garden – what makes it different is a philosophy of permanence through permaculture, a food-growing system tied to strong ecological elements, such as creating food for pollinators like bees and hummingbirds, which is as important as growing native foods and herbs for people.

“This is new for SPU’s properties,” said Christina Olson, a lifelong resident of Beacon Hill and voice in the community group known as Friends of Beacon Food Forest. Olson, whose grandparents lived on Beacon Hill, is effusive about the fact that the P-Patch Program, Department of Neighborhoods, and City Council President Richard Conlin have put so much effort behind this project and the urban gardening movement.

The Beacon Food Forest is not about creating a park-like setting, nor is the design looking for traditional community garden overlays. It’s about bringing back trees, improving soil, and enhancing water. “We’ll keep some areas tidy,” said Glenn Herlihy, a 48-year-old garden designer, sculptor, and 16-year resident of Beacon Hill, who was one of three students in a 2009 permaculture class that had a stake in the Food Forest plan.

That’s the Inner Zone, where gardening needs are met. Then comes Zone 2, which is wilder, with berries and bee hives. Zone 3 is a web of fruit- and nut-bearing trees, the orchard. Zones 4 and 5 are wild areas, where native plant growing, harvesting, and wild crafting will take place.

The goal is centered around people with few economic means learning gardening, food storage, seed saving, and the holistic web of growing their own communities through food. The idea for transforming this park into a community-inspired, community-driven collective gardening arena came from a design class taken two years ago by Herlihy.

“We picked Jefferson Park and came up with a design to pass the class,” he said.

He also was involved in the Jefferson Park Alliance and Beacon Mountain Playground project. With the umbrella oversight of the Seattle P-Patch Program and Department of Neighborhoods, the Beacon Food Forest landed a $22,000 city grant to hire a consultant and pay for outreach and conceptual designs.

The June 7, 2011, meeting was attended by 60 people. The second meeting, a month later, garnered 70 people. Olson said mailings were sent to 7,000 households in five languages prior to the first meeting, including Somali, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Spanish.

The key to community gardening in a Food Forest, based on permaculture design elements, is neighborhood “buy-in,” with individuals and groups actively engaged in design oversight, management, and participation. Along with support and interest from individual residents, Olson and Herlihy said Mercer Middle School and Cleveland High School are interested in outdoor, experiential learning projects and community service learning classes at the Food Forest site, and Olson mentioned the Veterans Administration has been contacted to see if VA Hospital outpatient members with PTSD and other challenges might connect with gardening as a possible rehabilitation.

Jefferson Park was the City of Seattle’s reservoir and cemetery in 1898. It also housed the stockade, park nursery, and greenhouse. It was named in 1908 to honor Thomas Jefferson. The Olmsted Brothers designed the 18-hole golf course, which has been open since 1915. While the permaculture concept is thousands of years old, it takes education and practice to get the average modern gardener to approve.

“This project is still about food and nutrition,” Herlihy said. “There are a lot of hungry and out-of-work folk on Beacon Hill. Think of this as low-cost organic gardening.”

While the aesthetic of wild gardening will require education, signage, and workshops — part of the grant’s requirement — the bottom line is that organizations and community groups, like Seattle’s El Centro de la Raza, will take the lead in getting produce to food banks. With the City of Seattle already working on a Food Policy Action Plan and recently passing a Local Food Action Initiative, Beacon Food Forest was on the right track with a September 2011 meeting to show the community the Harrison Design Team’s plan for the food forest, after robust and impassioned input at previous meetings.

With 2010 proclaimed as Seattle’s Year of Urban Agriculture, Herlihy and Olson were confident the next phase involving over $100,000 in grants would carry forth. That money has been secured. They both see in two years a viable forest thriving on Beacon Hill. The dream of that enchanted forest entails $300,000 to $500,000, full city support in poor economic times, and the will and food growing knowledge, skills and labor from this neighborhood, one Olson characterizes as always changing demographically but one that is seated in hard work.

“What determines the size of the food forest is how many people will commit,” Glenn Herlihy said. For Olson, who worked for the Washington Department of Transportation, that won’t be difficult:

“There are no slackers living on Beacon Hill.” She has seen more and more immigrant neighbors move here, and she’s a proponent of diversity, both in the areas of race, culture, and traditions and biodiversity.

If Hobbits like mushrooms, then expect a whole variety of them in those wild zones when Beacon Hill Forest takes off. The volunteers and paid staff with Seattle P-Patch (BFF is a Seattle P-Patch) are now in negotiations with government agencies to find the correct connection point to city water.

The soil’s there, but water is key. The labor is also there: The BFF has many supporters in Seattle, especially Beacon Hill, and an up-and-coming old neighborhood that is new.

Then, “final drawings for construction will be delivered to the Conservation Corps, who will be doing the construction beginning, we hope, later this month (October),” Herlihy said.

And the good Americans say, “watch your mouth, watch your tone, watch your attitude, and you just need to pick up, pack up, and find a place that will hire you!!!!!!!!!”

Paulo Kirk

Jun 09, 2026

We shall see if this one gets into the newspaper:

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At-will Employment with those Short-term Rental Monoliths

By Paul Haeder

You may recall the animus:

Unleashed dog(s), dog poop, people unloading boxes of food, children, and bags. Clicking their car alarms, on and off, on and off. Then they use adjacent driveways: loading unused boxes of food, leaving trash to blow around, more dog poop, and loud parties.

“Bayshore Board and Committees ignore this and these situations of STRs. None will approach to fix, they ignore it as Full Time Residents deal with vulgar mouth STR transient tenants – disrespecting other people’s private property.”

Ahh, that’s Facebook, man, and alas, I just got sacked by one of those evil vacation home STRs, not for doing anything badly, but ironically, because a Bayshore Karen supposedly took a video of me making a California stop – rolling stop – at a stop sign.

I got zero recourse from the multimillionaires who own the STR outfit. There were no moving violations, and no second chance for me to, well, slow my roll and stop at stop signs.

This is a tale again of the haves and haves-not – and at $17 an hour, delivering clean laundry and supplies all over the county and picking up dirty towels and laundry, bags that can weigh eighty pounds, well, it is a mad dash to get to the rentals – dozens of them – before check in.

Most readers are Baby Boomers, and as many have noted, Newport and Waldport are like Sun City West, where retirement means entitlement.

Now, think of the optics – I was fired on hearsay, and if the video exists, it’s not evidence enough to have me sacked. But rich people breathe from a different atmosphere than the rest of us.

Mostly Mexican housekeepers rush to clean up the rentals, from bottom to top, with white-glove inspections required. It’s an endless battle with sand, dirty renters, and canine guests.

Three two- and three-story vacation homes in a day. Some of the Latinos have a hubby and a sister or daughter working the shift so they can “make bank” and get three done in a day.

And what a racket. Many of the homes have rickety, cracked wood stairs. Storm doors are unlatched. Basements are where linens and supplies sometimes go, and I have come across spider-infested ones, and I know my brown recluse and wolf spiders by sight.

Homes that are in disrepair, and many places I have been to have rat and mice traps set up all over the place, out of sight from guests, who pay, gulp, from $112 to over $600 per night, with larger beachfront properties pushing $1,000+. A cleaning fee is added on.

The Oregon coast short-term rental fight entered a new chapter three years ago with a state ruling by the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals overturning a citizen-approved ballot measure phasing out vacation rentals in unincorporated Lincoln County.

Remember? 15neighborhoods was the coalition of citizens who got more than 10,000 Lincoln County residents to vote to phase out STRs.

STRs create jobs, though, as this most recent bitter experience was ramified to me, a union organizer going way back. At $17 an hour, one laundry driver comes from Depoe Bay to Waldport to start her shift. Another worker lived in an RV and was forced to leave the county when rental slips doubled.

Oh, the tales from workers, including one woman who is a student and lives in a van, who was sacked because of her “poor tone.” Bad attitude is another way of putting it. This multimillion-dollar family-owned outfit has no second or third chances in its blood.

The outfit doesn’t just manage other people’s homes. They have purchased many properties, including single-family homes, condos, and other housing configurations.

Now, sure, I despise the person who turned me in with a supposed phone or Ring camera video. But others in this outfit – workers – have told me of their own travails with the rich company owners and their HR staff.

Back to the spiders. I studied arachnids in Arizona and then in Vietnam. Alas, brown recluse spiders, like most others, don’t go after humans, but they nest, and when someone rubs up against them, say in bed, the short fangs come out, and the venom is injected. Grabbing stored items—such as boxes in the attic, garden tools, or old gloves—where the spider has made a retreat.

Short-term rental cleaners are always grabbing things out of these spider-infested locations. One cleaner told me she got bit at one of the houses, and she went to the ER, and $1000 later, after they abraded the wound and drained it, and left a course of expensive antibiotics.

She failed to file a workman’s comp claim, received no assistance from her supervisor, and, alas, the millionaire owners allegedly told her she couldn’t prove she was bitten at one of their rentals, so no compensation for her ER and doctor’s bill.

Ahh, the stone hearts of small business owners.

I respectively wrote to both the husband and wife, asking for a second chance, a PIP (personal improvement plan). I got a boilerplate response back from the man. And this is a fellow who is fixing up a small conglomerate of single units. I met his construction honcho, a nice Spanish-speaking guy from out of state. I doubt he has an Oregon contractor’s license, yet he’s doing wiring, plumbing, and construction work for the owner.

Yeah, brown recluse spider bites can take a person down quickly, and while their venom is complex and can cause serious local tissue damage (necrosis), most bites like the one I got in Phoenix heal on their own. Complications occur with those with compromised immune systems, which currently is a hefty thirty percent of Americans.

No ER visit bill taken care of by the millionaires. Automatic terminations with no recourse. Constant recrimination if a floor has a bit of sand left on it. Chiding if the towels aren’t folded the right way.

Capitalism is vicious, and while people should reject this transactional, bloody economic system, we see none of that in our little town of Waldport’s SRT outfits.

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Oh, darn . . . name names?

Sweet Home Rentals | Yachats, OR

Nah, all cozy and shit:

Todd and Kate are the owners of Sweet Homes Vacation Getaways. After meeting online from two different cities, they had their first date here at the beach in 2007, fell in love, and soon after, bought their beach house, The Sand Castle. (It’s a good story – be sure to ask them about it when you meet them!) After renting their home through another local company for almost a year, they realized that it was often unoccupied and wasn’t bringing in nearly the income that they had anticipated. Todd & Kate concluded that their property wasn’t being managed to their high standards and attention to detail, so they decided to rent and manage it themselves.The result? They increased their bookings and income by 300%.

Speaking of family, Sweet Homes has long-term ties to Yachats. Though Todd was born and raised in Portland, he has spent much of his life in the area and still has family here. His local knowledge, combined with 25+ years of photography, film, directing, advertising, marketing and business experience gives him a unique skill set for Sweet Homes. Kate may be an East coaster by birth, but she’s a West coaster by choice. With a Ph.D. in Sociology, Kate is a professor and Dean at a major university and she has extensive operations, HR, and management experience.

Yachats Vacation Rental Management by Sweet Homes Vacation Rentals

Ahh, the money:

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The wife:

Kate Hausbeck Korgan has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University at Buffalo and has been a faculty member at UNLV since 1995. She is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology. Since 1998, Korgan has held a series of progressive leadership roles, including Sociology Graduate Coordinator; chair of several campus-wide committees; two-term chair of the Graduate Council; Associate and Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate College; Dean of the Graduate College and Vice Provost for Graduate Education; and currently, Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. She also served as Officer in Charge of the Executive Vice President and Provost’s Office during a period of campus leadership transition. In spring 2025, Korgan also served as Officer in Charge of the Executive Vice President and Provost’s Office during a period of campus leadership transition.

As a past president of the Western Association of Graduate Schools, regional representative to the Council of Graduate Schools, Chair of the WICHE Leadership Forum, and a three-time keynote speaker for Salesforce, Korgan is recognized as an experienced leader at UNLV and across the higher education sector.

As Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Korgan manages a leadership team that oversees areas such as Academic & Student Success; Academic Effectiveness (accreditation, assessment, campus surveys); Enrollment Management (Admissions; Recruitment; Financial Aid & Scholarships; Early Outreach; Campus Relations & Visitor Experience; Office of the Registrar; Orientation, Transition & Family Programming); Graduate College; Teaching & Learning Innovation (UNLV Online; Teaching & Learning Commons); Undergraduate Education & High Impact Practices (Career Services & Workforce Development); UNLV Global; UNLV Lifelong Learning; Academic Affairs Marketing & Communications; and more.

As a champion of diversity and equity, excellence and opportunity, and the powerful impact of interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and creative activity, Korgan is deeply committed to promoting student success and social mobility. She approaches her work through creative problem-solving, leading-edge programming, cross-department collaboration, digital innovation, and servant leadership. She works to provide outstanding service and support to the campus community in order to deliver transformative educational experiences, inside the classroom and out, that empower students to achieve academic and career success, and inspire faculty and staff to excellence.

Alongside her administrative responsibilities, Korgan continues to publish, present, and pursue research in the areas of leadership, higher education, gender and sexuality, technology, and policy. She has won multiple teaching awards, and she deeply values being an educator, mentor, and student advocate. In her free time, Korgan is an entrepreneur who co-founded and owns a hospitality and real estate business with her husband. She enjoys travel, photography, design, politics, writing, reading, cooking, entertaining, and relaxing with her family, friends, and fur babies: Elvis, a rockin’ English lab; Bowie, a huge goldendoodle; and Coco, a genteel and talkative blue point Siamese rescue cat.

Headshot of Kate Hausbeck Korgan

The provost put this on her FU Book:

And this:

And this:

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And this:

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And this:

I tried pleading my case:

Dear Todd and Kate Korgan:

I have never spoken to you, though I briefly met Todd at the Waldport Warehouse with no interaction. I have been a driver for a short time with Sweet Homes, starting 4/14/2026.

I was informed yesterday, June 8, that there were “three complaints about my driving.” I understand the nature of complaints and that Sweet Homes has a bottom line to follow, liabilities, etc. Now, today, June 9, I was terminated by Casey, as she said, because a video of my driving a Sweet Homes van running a stop sign was sent to her.

My bad, for sure, but I have a spotless driving record. The point of my writing to you is to plead my case for, well, to get some sort of mea culpa moment in person to explain that rushed behavior. I am easily taught to slow my roll, and I believe the nature of this termination is, well, unprofessional too, since I had to contact the Sweet Homes Telegram chat to see why I was not on today’s schedule.

Again, if I ran that stop sign per the person’s personal video that was sent to Sweet Homes, then my apologies are in order. I have been rushing much of the time, driving with Sweet Homes, following the hard deadlines of 5 pm for check-ins, sometimes with even earlier check-ins. I think I am fully adult enough to be warned and to adjust my driving. I have been a professional teacher, writer, journalist, case manager, and diver. I have not had a delivery job, though I did Meals on Wheels as a volunteer position, and that was not a job that required super rushing to each household.

So, there is no recourse here? I am a good employee, live in Waldport, and am always ready to throw in to help out. I believe some sort of PIP would be in order, and again, I do not break traffic laws throughout the day. I rushed over at Bay Shore, but to repeat, I CAN be admonished and retrained to slow my roll.

I know you have so many other duties as not have ’t have to worry about a $17 an hour employee, but I am reaching out to see if there is any chance of reconsidering this decision. I taught English composition and literature for decades at many colleges in several states. I appreciate the ability to give second chances to students. As a sociology professor, Kate, I hope you too have that in your heart and your willpower to give me a second chance.

Sincerely, Paul

Pretty measured, calm, and not in your fucking face, which in the end, that’s what these people NEED.

I didn’t get anything back from the UNLV provost, so-called queer and gender studies sociology professor:

But here, the party man, the guy who is in Oregon working on HIS properties, ta-da.

Hi Paul,



Thanks for reaching out and explaining your side. We take driving safety very seriously. We’ll review this internally and get back to you.


Best,

Todd

And, alas, here we go:

Thank you for your email and for taking the time to share your perspective. I also appreciate your acknowledgment of the driving incident and your willingness to accept responsibility for it. I
understand your position that additional coaching or a performance improvement plan may have been appropriate under different circumstances.

Unfortunately, because the incident involved the operation of a company vehicle, we were required to report it to our insurance carrier. Following their review, we were advised that you could not continue operating company vehicles under our insurance coverage.

Since driving is an essential function of the position, we are unable to continue employment in that role without the required insurance coverage. As a result, this is not a matter that can be resolved
through additional training, coaching, or a performance improvement plan.

At Sweet Homes, the safety of our employees, guests, homeowners, and the communities we serve is extremely important to us. While we understand that mistakes can happen, we must adhere to the
requirements of our insurance carrier and maintain strict safety standards for all employees operating company vehicles.

I am sorry that things didn’t work out this time around. We appreciate the effort you put into the position during your time with Sweet Homes, and we wish you the very best moving forward.

Take care, Paul.

Sincerely,



Sweet Homes Vacation Getaways
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Todd Korgan | Owner & CEO

Jesus fucking Christ, the same old spiel, and my response?

Well, Todd, it is indeed a real gem of a CYA piece of PR you’ve composed, though it sure is boilerplate.

To repeat what has already been repeated about Sweet Homes taking safety and driving seriously, oh, enough of that. However, common sense would posit that, a, it was a private citizen that reported this to Sweet Homes, and, b, there is no way she would know my name, and, c, how would she know what SH’s policy is about second chances, PIPs or what have you, and, d, how can this rise to the level of contacting your insurance carrier when there is no moving violation involved?

The measure of a company and its founders is, or should be, on how they treat their employees, not just the bottom line of profits and so-called appearances within a community. Indeed, if it was a resident of Bay Shore, a very proscribed and demographically odd community, that also needs addressing. In fact, part of the SH training I received included two trainers specifically saying that Bay Shore “is full of people who have lodged complaints to Sweet Homes about every manner of things, including our driving.”

Nah, I will not accept your rationale, and alas, the bitter taste in my mouth is pretty deep down. This is sort of foolish expounding of rhetorical mumbo jumbo and decrying me persona non grata for SW is indeed chutzpah; when as an employee, I have witnessed faulty stairs, rickety stairs, non-ADA compliant residences, hazardous storm doors, basements and garages with poor lighting, basements infested with spiders and rodents, and forget about the workers, the house cleaners. Damn, yo hablo Espanol y vivia en Mexico y otras paises in America del Sur, so, yep, some pretty compelling stories of stress — both mental and physical deployed by ASH. It’s a bit amazing you would send off a boilerplate response, which is faulty CYA writing.

You have the right to fire laws on your side, Todd, so the rich employer wins, no? Well, thank goodness I have worked as a union organizer in Washington State, Oregon, and even in DC. For SEIU. Thank goodness I have gotten in front of judges for my various clients — houseless veterans, families, even foster youth — and advocated for them to drop penalties and reverse eviction findings and much more to assist those people. Thank goodness I learned how to manipulate administrative systems at colleges and universities, advocating for students against the dictates of provosts and VP’s.

I wasn’t expecting much with your outfit, but I went to work, did an honest day’s job, and was forthright. Your response is empty at best, pure PR bull at worst.

You got me to almost bend my knee, stating what some of my former professor colleagues would say: Zay mir moykhl. I am not expecting that Jewish tradition of teshuvah from you, since you have already stated the obvious: Anyone in the entire world who has done a “California stop” or who has run a stop sign is unemployable, even when there is no DMV record of the high crime.

I wish I didn’t have to spend time responding, and alas, you have the last word because you sacked a 69-year-old highly educated man, and you have that final word as an employer.

All this is lost on you, I am sure, Todd: Rachmanas means empathy, compassion, understanding. Leo Rosten wrote, “This quintessential word lies at the heart of Jewish thought and feeling. All of Judaism’s philosophy, ethics, ethos, learning, education, and hierarchy of values are saturated with a sense of, and heightened sensitivity to, rakhmones.”

The root of rachmanas comes from the Hebrew word for “womb.” Rachmanas is our first home. Rachmanas is a parent’s love for a child. Rachmanas is foundational.

I’ve said enough. Zeh hu zeh.

Paul

Her fucking school:

Dr. Kate Hausbeck Korgan currently serves as UNLV’s Officer in Charge, Executive Vice President, and Provost. Her exact salary is not publicly available due to recent changes in personnel that shifted various executive pay rates, but predecessors and current interim executives in this exact role were approved for base salaries of $540,000.

For additional context on the university’s top administrative salaries:

  • Dr. Chris Heavey, who served as Provost before taking on the role of Interim President, is operating on a contract with a base annual salary of $540,000, plus an $18,000…

Say Amen (2005) is a personal documentary film by David Deri, an Orthodox Jew, who reveals his homosexuality to his parents and siblings.

Shit, I could have had great conversations with Kate:

Sweet Palestinian HOMES.

We could have talked about her religion:

Judaism’s Three Pillars and the Days of Awe

At sundown on Monday, Sept. 6, Rosh Hashanah 5782 begins. And, with the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, Jews all over the world will begin one of our faith’s most profound spiritual annual experiences – observance of Yamim Noraim, the Days of Awe.

These 10 days begin with Erev Rosh Hashanah and close at the end of Yom Kippur.

Rosh Hashanah, our faith’s New Year, marks the celebration of life itself. Judaism teaches that, as individuals and collectively in our communities, during the Days of Awe, we grapple with atoning for our transgressions and use the period as an opportunity to make peace with others we may have wronged.

At its core, the Days of Awe present us with an opportunity for teshuvah, to atone directly with those we have or may have wronged and ask for forgiveness. As we reach out to our brothers and sisters, we acknowledge our mortal frailties and go through the process of repentance. It is up to those from whom we seek forgiveness to either grant forgiveness or refuse to do so. Yet, if we ask with a pure heart, each of us takes a critical step in the process of atonement.

Pirkei Avot 1:2 teaches that the world stands on three pillars: Torah, work in the service of G-d and acts of human kindness. Mishna teaches that we are not alone in the world but must live and coexist with others. Thus, by studying Torah and gleaning its eternal lessons, we have an opportunity to become closer to G-d.

Studying Torah is a lifelong journey, that necessarily begins with a first step. As we celebrate Rosh Hashanah and begin experiencing the Days of Awe, we have a new opportunity to take a first step.

Each of us may use our lives in the service of G-d, and our opportunities are not delimited by our individual callings. Whether one is engaged in business, education, physical labor, a profession or any other undertaking, each day presents us with opportunities to perform work that is useful to other human beings. By remembering that we all are connected to each other as we undertake our daily tasks, we act in harmony with a greater purpose and are compelled to remember that none of us can survive alone.

The third pillar of Judaism sanctified in Pirkei Avot 1:2 is our responsibility to perform gemilut hasadim, literally “the giving of loving-kindness.” Carrying out acts of kindness toward others is a fundamental Jewish value. Such acts may be small and almost insignificant, such as opening a door for another. Or, an act of kindness may be visiting the sick or comforting the dying. One also may offer succor to those who are experiencing the harsh realities of life, the illness of a child or loved one, the pain of separation and divorce or the havoc of financial hardship.

Every act of kindness has the potential to ripple with larger meaning. For if each of us acts with kindness to others, still others may observe our actions and emulate them.

There are very special acts of kindness, known as showing rachmones, Yiddish for compassion. As Leo Rosten wrote in “The Joys of Yiddish”: “This quintessential word lies at the heart of Jewish thought and feeling. All of Judaism’s philosophy, ethics, ethos, learning, education and hierarchy of values are saturated with a sense of, and heightened sensitivity to rachmones.”

Rekhem, the root of the Hebrew word from which rachmones is derived, means “a mother’s womb.” The great rabbis taught that Jews should look upon other human beings with the same feelings a mother has for the unborn child she is carrying in her womb. That emotion clearly inspires awe.

Individual acts of compassion are treasures that we may bestow upon others.

Perhaps the ultimate act of rachmones is undertaken by the sacred souls of the Chevra Kadisha, who selflessly prepare the dead for burial. Their acts of kindness are profound – they keep company with the dead awaiting internment. Such acts are referred to as chesed shel emet or a good deed of truth.

The mitzvot of the Chevra Kadisha are august, as the recipient can never repay the benefactor.

Not every act of kindness can compare with the blessed work of the Chevra Kadisha. But, we can draw inspiration from such selflessness and learn from it as a touchstone to practice rachmones and other acts of loving kindness in our daily lives.

As each of us enters the Days of Awe, let us contemplate Judaism’s beautiful teaching that the world is anchored on three ideas: Torah, service to G-d and acts of human kindness. By renewing our commitment to the Pillars of Judaism, each of us may perform tikkun olam – repairing the world – in the New Year.

Shana Tovah.

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Oh fucking well. Some Jews, well, usury comes to mind!

There are other types of prison — debts, evictions, and never getting a chance at a job because of a previous conviction.

Parole (or Supervised Release): Roughly 680,000 to 700,000 individuals are on parole, which is the conditional release of prisoners after they have served a portion of their prison sentences.Probation: About 3 million individuals are on probation, which typically serves as an alternative to incarceration in jail or prison. Collectively, this means that approximately 1 in 70 adults in the United States is currently supervised in the community.

If you owe child support back payments, you lose your driver’s license, which is another type of prison —

Driver’s License Suspensions for Unpaid Debt: Punishing Poverty

Counterproductive laws that suspend driver’s licenses for unpaid fines and fees make it harder for millions to work and provide for their families.

Derrick Sprouse’s driver’s license was suspended in 1988—and it stayed that way for more than two decades.

Sprouse lives in Memphis, where the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOS) suspends licenses for outstanding criminal legal debt. If he’d had the financial means to pay off his fines and fees, he could have had his license reinstated. But Sprouse, like many others, didn’t have hundreds or thousands of dollars to cover them.

In Memphis and across Tennessee (and much of the country, for that matter), public transportation is lacking, often inaccessible or nonexistent. Driving is a necessity, and Sprouse had little choice but to drive on a suspended license. He received a few tickets for doing so—and accrued more fines. He even had a few cars towed when police took notice that he was driving on a suspended license. All the while, his unpaid fines and fees continued to snowball.

The situation made it difficult for Sprouse to keep a job and next to impossible for him to pay down the debt. He said his fines eventually totaled $8,900, plus a license reinstatement fee of $1,500.

“There’s nothing you can really do. They want you to pay it off, but how can you pay it off if you can’t work?” Sprouse said.

Derrick Sprouse’s Story

Nationally, an estimated 11 million people have a suspended driver’s license simply because they can’t afford to pay off criminal legal system fines and fees—like court debt. For two decades, Derrick Sprouse was one of them.

Sprouse’s question gets at the crux of the nonsensical, contradictory, and incredibly extractive nature of laws that suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew driver’s licenses for outstanding debt that stems from traffic fines, parking tickets, unpaid child support, court fees, and the like.

TDOS has suspended hundreds of thousands of drivers for some form of criminal legal debt. Many Tennesseans have reported taking out loans and working multiple jobs for many years to pay off that debt before they were able to have their driver’s licenses reinstated.

And Tennessee is far from unique. More than half of U.S. states—including Florida, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin—criminalize people who can’t pay up and punish them by taking away their driver’s licenses despite the fact that the ability to drive legally is a necessity in much of the country.

Nationally, an estimated 11 million people have a suspended driver’s license simply because they cannot afford to pay off their fines and fees. The ramifications are severe. A license suspension makes it difficult and sometimes impossible to get to work, school, doctor’s appointments, even the grocery store. People who drive on suspended licenses can end up serving jail time or probation. If that happens, they will almost certainly incur additional fines, fees, and court costs—and find themselves further entrapped in a criminal legal system that exploits people who simply do not have money.

Laws that suspend driver’s licenses for unpaid fines and fees criminalize people with low incomes and people experiencing poverty. These practices disproportionately harm Black people, who, because of the systemic racial bias baked into the criminal legal system, are consistently stopped, searched, arrested, and incarcerated at higher rates than white people.

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Here, a comment to me from Susan Cartwright over at the Wilkerson interview, responding to my comments,

America has the largest prison population in the world. The US = 4.2% of the global population but 20% of the incarcerated.

With the new Alligator Auschwitz and immigrant detention centres, the % is likely much higher.

FOR PROFIT PRISONS. No oversight. People die. Not reported. No one cares. Prisons. Bad for the nation but easy money for the rich.

Of course, I respect people’s time put into comments, so here’s mine!

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There are other types of prison — debts, evictions, and never getting a chance at a job because of a previous conviction.

Parole (or Supervised Release): Roughly 680,000 to 700,000 individuals are on parole, which is the conditional release of prisoners after they have served a portion of their prison sentences.Probation: About 3 million individuals are on probation, which typically serves as an alternative to incarceration in jail or prison. Collectively, this means that approximately 1 in 70 adults in the United States is currently supervised in the community.

If you owe child support back payments, you lose your driver’s license, which is another type of prison —

Driver’s License Suspensions for Unpaid Debt: Punishing Poverty

Counterproductive laws that suspend driver’s licenses for unpaid fines and fees make it harder for millions to work and provide for their families.

Derrick Sprouse’s driver’s license was suspended in 1988—and it stayed that way for more than two decades.

Sprouse lives in Memphis, where the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOS) suspends licenses for outstanding criminal legal debt. If he’d had the financial means to pay off his fines and fees, he could have had his license reinstated. But Sprouse, like many others, didn’t have hundreds or thousands of dollars to cover them.

In Memphis and across Tennessee (and much of the country, for that matter), public transportation is lacking, often inaccessible or nonexistent. Driving is a necessity, and Sprouse had little choice but to drive on a suspended license. He received a few tickets for doing so—and accrued more fines. He even had a few cars towed when police took notice that he was driving on a suspended license. All the while, his unpaid fines and fees continued to snowball.

The situation made it difficult for Sprouse to keep a job and next to impossible for him to pay down the debt. He said his fines eventually totaled $8,900, plus a license reinstatement fee of $1,500.

“There’s nothing you can really do. They want you to pay it off, but how can you pay it off if you can’t work?” Sprouse said.

Derrick Sprouse’s Story

Nationally, an estimated 11 million people have a suspended driver’s license simply because they can’t afford to pay off criminal legal system fines and fees—like court debt. For two decades, Derrick Sprouse was one of them.

Sprouse’s question gets at the crux of the nonsensical, contradictory, and incredibly extractive nature of laws that suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew driver’s licenses for outstanding debt that stems from traffic fines, parking tickets, unpaid child support, court fees, and the like.

TDOS has suspended hundreds of thousands of drivers for some form of criminal legal debt. Many Tennesseans have reported taking out loans and working multiple jobs for many years to pay off that debt before they were able to have their driver’s licenses reinstated.

And Tennessee is far from unique. More than half of U.S. states—including Florida, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin—criminalize people who can’t pay up and punish them by taking away their driver’s licenses despite the fact that the ability to drive legally is a necessity in much of the country.

Nationally, an estimated 11 million people have a suspended driver’s license simply because they cannot afford to pay off their fines and fees. The ramifications are severe. A license suspension makes it difficult and sometimes impossible to get to work, school, doctor’s appointments, even the grocery store. People who drive on suspended licenses can end up serving jail time or probation. If that happens, they will almost certainly incur additional fines, fees, and court costs—and find themselves further entrapped in a criminal legal system that exploits people who simply do not have money.

Laws that suspend driver’s licenses for unpaid fines and fees criminalize people with low incomes and people experiencing poverty. These practices disproportionately harm Black people, who, because of the systemic racial bias baked into the criminal legal system, are consistently stopped, searched, arrested, and incarcerated at higher rates than white people.

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AND IT IS WORSE THAN THAT. Fucking capitalism, casino, corrupt, penury. destructive, inverted totalitarian CAPITALISM.

The Criminalization of Poverty in Tennessee

Good ol’ Kate, Todd, and I could have had quite the conversation. Sociologist, my ass:

People who have been directly impacted by criminalization have firsthand knowledge of both the harms of incarceration and the needs of the most vulnerable members of their communities. Integrating data analysis, ethnography, and survey data, this report highlights how incarceration and criminalization affect communities across urban and rural Tennessee.

Sweet Homes has 55-60 employees, most of them employed year-round, says Todd Korgan, and manages 125 houses along the coast for their owners. That’s 30-40 more properties under their portfolio following the height of the coastal vacation rental conflicts from 2019-23, and as national companies downsize many of their more far-flung operations.

“There’s a fair amount of folks who don’t like us or what we’re doing,” Todd Korgan says of the vacation rental business. “But like it or not, tourism is the base of the economy on the Oregon coast.”

But the Korgans are done with arguing with people about vacation rentals. They believe their company’s standards and local operations help prevent many of the problems that beset companies with remote operations or far-flung call centers.

They have also purchased two buildings in downtown Waldport that have six apartments for employees working at their large operations center in Waldport or others in the industry. It has rental offices in Yachats and Newport.

“We agree there needs to be affordable housing …” Todd Korgan says.

Todd Korgan comes from a family of entrepreneurs. His parents, Mike and Carol Korgan owned a popular restaurant and real estate in Portland, and his father was a well-known Portland radio personality and who later gained fame as producer of The Kingsmen’s Louie Louie. Mike Korgan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018 and died in January at the age of 85.

None of this at the professor’s “school,” I BET.

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Hebrew Interpol, that Uncle Tom Talmud Sucking Oreo Cookie, man, South Africa!

Paulo Kirk

Jun 07, 2026

This piece of crap globalist puppet just used immigration problems to pass Digital ID’s in South Africa. These “digital” identifications (DNA markers, entire school, banking, housing, purchasing, hospital, social media commentary history) will be in the dirtiest of the dirty Jews’ hands — Larry Fucking Ellison, the largest home invasion on planet earth — Hebrew Interpol!

Shoot the dead dogs: Apartheid, uh?

South Africa’s flow of coal exports to Israel has continued in record numbers amid the Gaza war, despite South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice. The coal helps fuel Israel’s AI operations to identify and eliminate Hamas militants in Gaza, including in the community of Jabaliya, above. Although Israel claims success with each bombing of the area, it returns repeatedly with greater force to conduct the same mission. CREATIVE COMMONS

South Africa has kept up its steady exporting of coal to Israel despite its strong rhetoric against the war in Gaza in the United Nations and elsewhere, as well as the genocide case it filed against Tel Aviv at the International Court of Justice, or ICJ.

As of January 2025, coal remained one of South Africa’s top exports to Israel. South Africa’s coal shipments to Israel grew 17 percent, compared with January 2024. The total export value of coal and other products also grew 22.9 percent, compared with the previous year, representing about $28 million.

Over the past five years, trade between the two countries has only increased, with South Africa reaping an average rise of 20.6 percent, according to data from the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC), an open-source platform.

Hypocrite? House Negro.

Patrick Bond, a professor at the University of Johannesburg, told PassBlue that South Africa’s trade profile with Israel contradicts its public position on the military operation in Gaza. “If South Africa, which led the call in the ICJ, the UN’s main court, to declare Israel genocidal, still sends coal to Israel, it makes them look like a foolish hypocrite,” he said.

Israeli officials and multiple media reports say that the Israel Defense Forces rely on webs of sophisticated AI tools and machine-learning systems to identify Hamas militants in Gaza. These systems sort through troves of communications — text messages, emails, chats and phone conversations – of Palestinians in the enclave to find patterns that suggest nefarious activities. The data are even used to rate every Gazan by a number relating to the likelihood of the person being a Hamas member.

This high-tech operation requires a steady electrical flow for Israel generated partly from tons of coal imported from South Africa — a UN member state and Africa’s biggest economic powerhouse — which has also taken Israel to the UN’s highest international court for committing alleged war crimes in Gaza.

EuroTrash and InBred Queendumb:

The UK Foreign Office and a group of Western countries are due to announce a package of sanctions against Israel this week designed to deter companies from becoming involved in a proposed West Bank settlement that would split the territory in two and render the concept of a two-state solution near impossible.

Nine countries, including France, the UK, and Australia have warned that settlement violence must stop and no company should be involved in what is known as the E1 development.

SHOOT the FUCKING JEWS. Home Invaders: All 50 states have a form of Castle Doctrine to protect people in their homes from intruders

It’s been said that “a man’s home is his castle,” and that is the thinking behind the Castle Doctrine that says a lawful occupant of a home or residence can use deadly force against an intruder or attacker.

All 50 states have some form of this law, and it can be used as a criminal defense in court.

“You can use deadly force if you have reasonable apprehension that person may kill or inflict serious bodily injury on you,” Putnam County prosecutor Mark Sorsaia said, describing the Castle Doctrine as its applied in West Virginia.

The law is designed to protect people in their homes, but in some cases Sorsaia said the interpretation of the circumstances surrounding a Castle Doctrine claim may be subjective.

“My gut feeling, personal belief as a prosecutor is if someone has the guts and the nerve to break into your home, there’s a very good argument to be made that if you have the nerve to do that they have the nerve to kill you,” Sorsaia said.

Shoot all sorts of home, land, valley, mountain, desert, forest, lake, neighborhood invaders! I’ll list a few in this screed!!!

Google’s Unique Approach to Getting Data Centers Built. Each and every data center and their funders and operators, SHOOT to kill, on the spot.

Plus, a DIY solar hack to save on electric bills, a country fights teen brain rot with free ChatGPT and Apple’s plans for a Siri-led AI comeback.

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You fucking got invaded, Normandy. Shoot the fucking invader: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday marked the 82nd anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings with a visit to Normandy, but did not attend the international ceremony hosted in Langrune-sur-Mer. Residents said his “warlike views” were unwelcome in their village and questioned his commitment to “democratic values”.

A message on the association’s website called for Hegseth’s visit to be cancelled on the grounds that the Pentagon chief “espouses values contrary to democracy, human rights and peace” and had made “numerous anti-European remarks”, “warlike statements” and “American supremacist pronouncements”.

“The honor of Langrune, that of France, and the memory of the young Allied soldiers – American, British, Canadian – who died on our beaches in the name of democracy would dictate canceling this individual’s visit,” the statement concluded.

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The Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, were the largest amphibious operation in history.

An armada of 6,939 ships and 132,700 British, Canadian, American, Belgian, Norwegian, and Polish troops stormed 80 kilometres (50 miles) of beaches in northern France.

The operation contributed decisively to the Allied victory over Nazi Germany, which was also being squeezed by the USSR forces to the east.

This Jew has invaded our land — shoot the dirty dawg:

“We need him to now embrace fighting for other environmental and public health issues, such as continuing to fight for safe, clean drinking water, stop PFAS contamination,” said Adrienne Esposito, with Citizens Campaign for the Environment.

When he was nominated by Trump to be EPA administrator, the League of Conservation Voters sent a letter to members of the Senate signed by the Washington-based organization’s president, Gene Karpinski, saying Zeldin’s “abysmal 14% lifetime score on LCV’s National Environmental Scorecard, long history in Congress and the NY state legislature opposing environmental and public health safeguards for our communities, and little environmental experience render him unqualified for the role.” It called for a rejection of Zeldin’s nomination.

The New Republic ran a piece headed: “Trump Picks New EPA Head Guaranteed to Destroy the Environment.” The subhead on its article: “This will be a disaster.”

Environmental organizations are enormously critical of Zeldin as EPA administrator. “A Year of Betrayal: EPA Under Lee Zeldin,” was the heading of a posting this January by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

“The air we breathe, the water we drink…are not abstract concepts: they shape our health, our livelihoods, and our quality of life,” it said. “Under Lee Zeldin, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made its sharpest turn in decades away from that core mission. Instead of doing its job to keep people safe, the agency is systematically dismantling protections for the environment and human health: weakening safeguards around clean air and clean water; leaving rural and urban communities alike more exposed to pollution from toxic chemicals; and undermining our ability to fight climate change the most existential threat we face today.”

The New Republic published a piece in March that reported on Zeldin giving the “keynote address…at a Heartland Institute conference of anti-environmental, pro-polluter lobbyists and activists who have been working for years to dismantle climate regulations.”

Zeldin was “greeted like a K-pop star at the climate deniers conference because he has delivered for them beyond their wildest dreams,” it said. “He has cut billions of dollars from climate grants the Biden administration has awarded, eviscerated pollution rules and enforcement capacity, and perhaps most significantly wiped out the legal basis of much climate regulation….At the Heartland gathering, a leading anti-climate activist [Marc Morano] called Zeldin ‘the most consequential EPA chief in the agency’s history.’”

Zeldin has been reported to be a leading candidate to replace Pam Bondi, dismissed by Trump as attorney general. But, the journal Politico, referring to that Heartland conference, ran an article headlined: “At climate contrarian gathering, allies urge Trump to keep Zeldin at EPA.”

It began: “There was one overarching message from a large group of climate contrarians gathered…at a hotel near the White House: please keep Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin in place.” It quoted Heartland President James Taylor saying: “Lee Zeldin has been unbelievable as EPA administrator. So selfishly, I would love to see him stay at EPA…This is the first time we have a true champion and cheerleader as head of EPA or this high up in the administration. These are great days.”

Over the past 56 years, curbs on air and water pollution have delivered unprecedented health and economic benefits to our nation. Our rivers don’t catch on fire; our cities’ air isn’t choked in soot and smog. These improvements seem inevitable to us now, but they weren’t.

It is the result of decades of progress made under Republican and Democratic administrations alike, as well as through bipartisan congressional consensus and compromise, with industrial polluters fighting this progress every step of the way.

Now comes Zeldin to do their bidding in-house, not on behalf of the American people but for the sake of short-term profits and ill-gotten gains for the industries that have the most to win from the loss of responsible public oversight.



Voters didn’t ask for Zeldin’s reckless attacks, but we will all be paying the price for them. Generations to come, deaths on arrival.

ALL chemical CEO’s need the Mangione treatment:

Leading neurologists say Australia’s chemical regulator has not engaged with expert submissions raising concerns about paraquat’s links to Parkinson’s disease.

The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) maintains that health and safety are its central consideration.

Shoot the fucking body snatchers and hospital invaders.

Where is the outcry among Democratic politicians to reverse completely the corporate takeover of Medicare?

By Ralph Nader

Do you remember the promises made by the Democratic Party’s presidential and Congressional candidates on universal health insurance? You can forget their pledges and somber convictions now that your votes put the Democrats in charge of the House and the Senate. The Democrats’ leaders are abandoning their promises and retreating into a cowardly corporatist future.

Here is the present scene. Leading Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, have decided to spend tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize the giant health insurance companies like Aetna and United Healthcare to “cover recently laid-off workers and those who purchase their own coverage,” as The New York Times reported. There are no price restraints on the gouging insurance premiums or loophole-ridden policies. That is why giant corporate socialist insurers love the “American Rescue Plan,” which gives them socialist cash on the barrelhead. The law lets insurers decide how and whether they pay healthcare bills with co-pays, deductibles, or grant waivers. All these anti-consumer details are buried in the endless and inscrutable fine print.

Whatever happened to the Democrats’ (Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pramila Jayapal, etc.) demand for single-payer – everybody in, nobody out – with free choice of doctors and hospitals instead of the existing cruel, and profiteering industry for which enough is never enough? Senator Sanders often mentioned a Yale study, published on February 15, 2020, that found:

“Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million more have inadequate access to care. Efforts are ongoing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which would exacerbate health-care inequities. By contrast, a universal system, such as that proposed in the Medicare for All Act, has the potential to transform the availability and efficiency of American health-care services. Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion and the savings that would be achieved through the Medicare for All Act, we calculate that a single-payer, universal health-care system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national health-care expenditure, equivalent to more than $450 billion annually….” (See the study: Improving the Prognosis of Health Care in the USA, February 15, 2020).

Well, House Speaker Pelosi is discouraging House Democrats from supporting Representative Pramila Jayapal’s H.R. 1384, Medicare for All Act of 2019, the gold standard for single-payer. News reports indicate that Representative Jayapal (D-WA) and Representative. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) will reintroduce their Medicare for All bill next week. Speaker Pelosi is telling Democrats in the House to focus instead on the modest expansion of Obamacare with its corporate welfare, utter complexity and seriously inadequate coverage. Almost eighty million Americans are presently uninsured or underinsured – a level that will not be significantly reduced for deprived workers by tweaking Obamacare during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A modified Obamacare, with no price ceilings, will hardly reduce the tens of thousands of American deaths every year because people cannot afford health insurance to get diagnosed and treated in time to prevent fatalities. The Yale study also found that: “ensuring health-care access for all Americans would save more than 68,000 lives and 1.73 million life-years every year compared with the status quo.” Tweaking Obamacare does little to stem the relentless surge in healthcare prices and profits in our country, which is unique for not placing billing ceilings on medical procedures and drugs. This “get whatever you can” behavior by the vendors is so uncontrolled that healthcare billing fraud and abuse is costing people one billion dollars A DAY! Malcolm Sparrow, who is an applied mathematician at Harvard, estimates medical billing fraud amounts to at least ten percent of all healthcare expenses each year.

Obamacare does nothing to limit the perverse incentives of a fee-for-service system that includes unnecessary operations, over-diagnosis, and over-prescribing, all of which increase the risks of preventable casualties. A Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine peer-reviewed study in 2016 estimates that close to 5000 lives are lost weekly due to such “preventable problems” just in hospitals (see: Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S., May 3, 2016).

It gets worse. Year after year, the corporate Democrats, along with the Republicans, are facilitating expanding corporate takeovers of Medicare and Medicaid. The giant and widening attack on Medicare is called “Medicare Advantage,” which more accurately should be called “Medicare [Dis]advantage.” Our corporatized government, under both Parties, has been allowing deceptive promotional seductions of elderly people to take Medicare [Dis]advantage – now fully 40% of all Medicare beneficiaries – which is just a corporate insurance plan with multiple undisclosed tripwires.

Former President Trump worsened what he inherited from the Democrats in outsourcing Medicare. He launched something called “direct contracting” that, “could fully turn Medicare over to private health insurers” declared Diane Archer, former chair of Consumer Reports, in her article on March 8, 2021. Medicare Advantage premiums can be pricey. According to Kay Tillow, Executive Director of the Nurses Professional Organization, “The Medicare Advantage Plans are smiling all the way to the bank. In 2019 each Medicare Advantage beneficiary cost taxpayers $11,822 while those in original Medicare cost $10,813 each – that’s over $1,000 more and over 9% more per person for the for-profit insurers!”

Where is the outcry among Democratic politicians to reverse the corporate takeover of Medicare completely? Last year, many Democratic candidates pontificated about the need for single-payer health insurance, but now in Congress, we are scarcely hearing a peep about this vital human right. Their campaign rhetoric is just distant memory. Tragically, it is now harder than ever for the elderly to get out of Medicare [Dis]advantage and go back to traditional Medicare.

Millions of elderly people are deceived by televised marketing lies and slick brochures. The hapless Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should investigate and end the deceptions. Congressional investigations and hearings are long overdue. As the authoritative Dr. Fred Hyde says about the so-called Medicare Advantage: “It’s not what you pay, it’s what you get.” That is, the corporate health plan works until they get sick, until “they want their doctor and their hospital.” Dr. Hyde was referring to the narrow networks where these companies park their beneficiaries.

More astonishing in this story of the rapacious corporate takeover of Medicare is that AARP promotes these flawed plans to their members, takes paid ads by big insurers in AARP publications, and derives income from this collaboration.

Imagine, over 50,000 SEIU retirees are automatically placed by their unions in these Medicare [Dis]advantage traps without first being allowed to choose traditional Medicare.

This whole sordid sabotage of the nineteen sixties Democrats’ dream, under President Lyndon Johnson, of taking the first step toward universal healthcare coverage for everyone, begs for more exposes. It begs for more clamor by the progressive Democrats in Congress who are strangely passive so far. I’m speaking of Representatives Jayapal, Raskin, Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), and the receding “Squad,” as well as Senators Warren and Sanders. If we can’t expect these stalwarts to start the counterattack that will save lives, save trillions of dollars over the years, focus on prevention not just treatment, and diminish the anxiety, dread, and fear, that the citizens of Canada and other western nations do not experience because they are insured from birth on, who is left to defend the American people against the arrogant health insurance corporate barons?

I’m sending this column to these self-styled progressive Democrats along with a two-page specific critique of corporate Medicare from the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) website. PNHP’s membership counts over 15,000 pro-single-payer physicians. In a comment on the PNHP site, Don McCanne, M.D., says, “Remember, the mission of private, for-profit Medicare Advantage insurers is to make money, whereas the mission of our traditional Medicare program is to provide health care. We are supporting a program that deferentially caters to the private insurers and their interests when we should be supporting a program that is designed to take care of patients. Those being deceived by the private Medicare Advantage marketing materials really do not realize the bad deal they may be getting until they face the private insurer barriers to needed care. Silver Sneakers won’t take care of that.” (See: https://pnhp.org/news/russell-mokhiber-explains-why-private-medicare-advantage-plans-are-a-bad-deal/)

If you care about this issue, tell your Members of Congress it is time to pass Medicare for All, represented by H.R. 1384.

The Core Claims: He noted that Americans pay the highest healthcare expenses globally but rank far lower in life expectancy.

The “Parasites” Quote: In an apparent confession, he wrote: “I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.”

The “Honesty” Quote: He added, “Evidently, I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”

Prison Statement Thanking Supporters (February 2025)In February 2025, Mangione broke his silence by releasing an official public statement through a newly launched defense website:

The Quote: “I am overwhelmed by – and grateful for – everyone who has written me to share their stories and express their support. Powerfully, this support has transcended political, racial, and even class divisions…”

The Purpose: The statement was issued around the time he accepted roughly $300,000 in crowdfunded donations for his legal defense.

Outburst in Court (February 2026)During a February 2026 hearing in New York where a judge set his state murder trial for June 8, 2026, Mangione vocally protested being escorted out in handcuffs:

The Quote: “Same trial twice. 1 + 1 is two. Double jeopardy by any commonsense definition.”

The Context: His attorneys were objecting to facing a state criminal trial immediately before a scheduled federal trial, arguing it disrupted their defense preparation.

Shoot them all, these fucking soil and water INVAQDERS:

An Open Letter from America was sent on 11 November 2014, warning countries in Europe and EU regulators not to authorize GM crops because of the devastating effects on human health and the environment. David Cameron ignored that advice on behalf of England. He and Defra concealed the letter from the British public. The European Commission and the European Food Safety Authority ignored it as well and have continued to approve GM Crops for growing and for food and feed in the EU. Defra dismissed the complaints of Crop-sprayed rural residents in the UK of ill health: cancers, neurological conditions, allergies etc. just as the Argentinian

Government dismissed the health complaints of rural communities in

Crop-sprayed towns.

In their re-assessment, the RMS, EFSA, and the European Glyphosate Task Force excluded papers from Latin America where cancers, birth defects, infertility, and DNA changes were shown. Exposure of the brains of unborn and young children in the UK to chemicals is reflected in OECD PISA figures for declining educational achievement in 2013.

A 2016 study also shows that in England, the young have lower basic skills than their counterparts in Europe. The global élite may be able to survive by eating organic food, but not by the pollution of water, soil, and air by genotoxic and teratogenic herbicides, insecticides, and other industrial chemicals. Governments and Regulators only measure a small fraction of them. The chemical industry has created a toxic environment from which none can escape.

The devastating effects of these silent killers in our environment do not distinguish between farmers or city dwellers, the wealthy or the poor, between media moguls, editors or their reporters, Monsanto or Syngenta Executives, Prime Ministers or Presidents. Many people in the UK are no longer reaching the biblical age of three-score-years-and ten because they are dying of cancers.

Invasion of the Body and Mind Snatchers, true home invasion monsters/ Mangione x 1,000?

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Our bodies, our castles, so shoot these fucking cunts in the head:

“Why is it such a mess?” he asked an attorney for the pharmaceutical company Amgen.

That question is what inspired Colorado lawmakers and Gov. Jared Polis in 2021 to create the Colorado Prescription Drug Affordability Board, or PDAB. The board, made up of members appointed by the governor, reviews the costs of certain prescription drugs one by one and then decides whether to declare the drug unaffordable. If it does, it can then move on and set a cap on what patients or insurance companies are required to pay for the drug in the state.

Last year, after years of setting up the board, gathering data and conducting analysis, the PDAB voted to cap the price of the prescription drug Enbrel, which treats rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases and which last year brought in more than $2.2 billion worldwide for Amgen. While other states have also established PDABs, Colorado became the first state in the country to impose a cap on the price of a specific prescription drug.

Amgen sued to overturn the cap — which is set to go into effect next year — and Thursday’s hearing was to debate whether Domenico should issue a temporary injunction blocking the pricing measure while the lawsuit is pending. At the conclusion of the hearing, Domenico said he would issue a written ruling soon.

Our Vote is Our Castle — shoot the cunts:

The vast majority—about 80%—of Amgen’s shares are held by large institutional investors, such as mutual funds, pension funds, and asset management firms. According to recent financial filings, the top institutional shareholders include:

  • The Vanguard Group, Inc.: The largest shareholder, holding roughly 10% of the company’s stock.
  • BlackRock, Inc.: The second-largest shareholder, owning roughly 6% to 8.5% of available shares.
  • State Street Corporation: Another major passive management firm holding roughly 5.4%.
  • Capital Research & Management (via Capital World and International Investors).

Our skies, their invasion. Shoot these fuckers. Corporations splurge on top execs while skimping on rank and file.

Companies are spending more on executive perks such as luxury relocations and private jets, underscoring a widening divide between the rewards offered to corporate leaders and the more modest pay gains available to much of the workforce.

Data from relocation services firm CapRelo shows the average cost of relocating a C-suite executive more than doubled between 2021 and 2025, rising to as much as $187,000 per move among its Fortune 500 and mid-market clients. By contrast, relocation costs for staff stayed largely flat at between $21,000 and $25,000 in the same period.

Firms catering to elite workers, notably senior executives and employees with artificial intelligence expertise, have seen a clear pickup.

Shoot him down like a rabid dog: What stripping civil service protections for thousands of federal workers will mean for HHS

‘Schedule F’ designation makes it easier to fire some grant reviewers, epidemiologists, and policy advisers

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks alongside President Donald Trump during an Oval Office event to unveil the ‘Schedule F’ executive order this week.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Thousands of Health and Human Services Department staff who shape policy, including on public health, federal health insurance programs, and health data privacy, have had their employment status changed to a designation that makes it easier for them to be fired, and thus makes them more vulnerable to political pressure from the White House.

The reclassification of roughly 8,000 employees across the federal government, outlined in an executive order President Trump issued late Wednesday, also impacts some National Institutes of Health workers who oversee grant funding.

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On the whole, health policy experts said, the shift toward a more politicized workforce is part of a broader goal of the Trump administration to shift power away from Congress and toward the executive branch. The policy, known as “Schedule F,” dates back to Trump’s first administration and would create a new class of federal employees that are not political appointees but could be fired at will.

Our White Man’s House, more home invasions, shoot to kill:

Could UFC Freedom 250 be in jeopardy a week out? Not likely, given the current administration. But a lawsuit will try to stop it, anyway.

lawsuit has been filed by, in part, a military veteran from Virginia that says the UFC’s show at the White House is “deeply corrupt,” in part because Donald Trump is giving his friend, UFC CEO Dana White, and the UFC “unfettered access to the White House and Lincoln Memorial to stage a private, for-profit sports event, with all the promotional and branding opportunities that accompany such access.”

In essence, the UFC and White, along with its Paramount broadcast partner, are likely to experience an influx of revenue from the event — an illegality given the event is being staged on federal land and laws are in place to prevent such things from happening unless run by the government. But the event is being put on by the UFC.

Our outer space, so these fucking Jews, home/space invaders. Shoot to kill.

“Israel could be a spacetech empire, but it’s hard to raise money in the industry”

A new interactive database of Israel’s space ecosystem highlights dozens of companies and organizations, underscoring both the industry’s growth and its funding challenges.

“We have a lot of talent in Israel, a lot of knowledge, but it’s hard to raise money today in the Israeli space industry.”

Dickless fucking Holly-Dirt, and that’s entertainment, and that’s what the fucking killer inside them all Americanos want on their fucking TV:

The Junk-i-fication of the AmeriKKKan mind:

Every thriller or drama that Taylor Sheridan has produced since his breakout hit Yellowstone has been a hit with audiences, and more often than not with critics too. While Yellowstone revitalized the neo-Western genre and has spawned its own universe of prequels, sequels, and spinoffs, crime dramas like Tulsa King and Mayor of Kingstown have organically generated their own passionate fanbases. Standing thematically apart from the rest is his thriller series Lioness, sometimes referred to as Special Ops: Lioness.

Starring Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman at the head of a loaded cast (as Sheridan shows typically boast), Lioness is a legitimate modern spy thriller. Clandestine tactics and espionage are balanced with pulse-pounding action to deliver a finished product distinctly different from Sheridan’s other shows. With two seasons already released, an ever-expanding audience has been ravenously waiting for a third season of the acclaimed show, and we finally have an answer about when we can expect it to be available for streaming on Paramount+.

DEI, this fucking violent, talentless cuntology! Inavidng out goddamn living rooms — shoot all these producers, directors, thespians on sight.

Back to the body snatchers, one and all, need to be headless in a grave:

Parkinson’s Disease Is Consistently Linked to Pesticide Exposure. Farmworkers — and Nearby Communities — Are at Risk in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley.

[A small study by neuroscientist Kelsey Baker, an associate professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, revealed that people who have been repeatedly exposed to pesticides have more brain abnormalities than those who haven’t. Baker has begun a larger study that she will use to develop tools that make it easier for doctors to diagnose Parkinson’s disease and treat their patients.]

There is no cure for Parkinson’s. As the disease progresses, its most common symptoms — tremor, slow movement, stiffness and unsteadiness — can be accompanied by depression, difficulty concentrating and bowel and urinary problems. The disease is the world’s fastest growing neurological disorder, with more than 25 million people likely to be affected by 2050.

A biomedical engineer by training, Baker started poring over maps of the Valley and found something striking. Homes and schools were often boxed in on all sides by crops, something she hadn’t seen in farming areas in other parts of the country where she had lived. Farmworkers are at special risk for Parkinson’s, because the fields where they work are frequently doused with pesticides. But people like Baker, who simply live near farms, are also in danger.

MANGIONE MANGIONE, where art thou?

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This Jew has several addresses, and Texas and Argentina and Israel are just three of them.

Google’s Cofounder Uses the Game of Go to Explain the Future of Work

We just love these invaders, stealing from other countries, so, shoot to kill, LGBTQA or whatever:

The Treasury Department will use Iranian assets to help U.S. Gulf allies recover from damage caused by Tehran’s regime during the Iran war, a source familiar with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s thinking told CBS News Saturday.

The source said the Treasury intends to utilize all available authorities to make Iranian assets accessible for rebuilding and repair efforts related to any future damage inflicted by Iran.

Bessent has also directed the Treasury to seek comprehensive estimates from Gulf allies of the costs associated with repairing damage caused by Iran since the conflict began, the source said.

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Come on LGBTQA Mangiones, where art thou?

Scott Bessent, the first out gay Secretary of the Treasury, may have broken a personal lavender ceiling — but his silence in the face of a federal administration intentionally targeting the LGBTQ+ community is as disappointing as it is dangerous.



Now, under his leadership, the Treasury Department is preparing to dismantle nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ employees. This is a stark reminder that throughout history, some members of marginalized communities have chosen collaboration with oppression over solidarity — chasing the illusion of safety through proximity to power.



Our present reality is no different. We must call this out.

‘Illegal and unconstitutional’: Mass. congresspeople decry attack on Iran

We are all part of the global home invasion, and Iran, Venezuela, et al, have the right to protect their castles, so, bye bye, fucking dirty Americanos!

Rep. Bill Keating decried what he described as Trump’s flippancy in starting a war with Iran.

“In the president’s own words, this is a ‘massive’ — his word — attack,” Keating said. “And it’s something that, in his words, may endanger the lives of our men and women in the military. And he said it so casually in his address.”

“Listen, I come from a Gold Star family myself. The most solemn obligation we have is to make a critical decision that could endanger the lives of our men and women in the military. That was not done in this instance,” Keating said.

He also warned that, in addition to jeopardizing members of the military, the attack could also have profound effects on civilians in the U.S.

“[Iran] could shut off the Strait of Hormuz,” he said, referring to the waterway through which a sizable portion of the world’s oil shipments pass. “That’ll effect every consumer … [War] also risks a cyberattack here at home that could be paralyzing and shut down parts of our country, which they have certain capabilities to do. And it also could inspire terrorist activities, not only in the [Persian] Gulf but here at home.”

Rep. Jim McGovern also accused Trump of taking a troublingly cavalier approach to military matters.

“This is a dangerous escalation,” McGovern said. “This president behaves like we can do whatever the hell we want, we can invade any country we want, we can bomb any country we want. I mean, today it’s Iran. Yesterday he’s talking about a friendly takeover of Cuba. He bombed Venezuela without congressional authorization.

“He ran for office and said ‘No more wars,’” McGovern added. “I don’t know what changed his mind. But … if you’re going to go to war, you need to get congressional authorization. This needs to be well thought-out, there needs to be a plan, there needs to be a clearly defined mission. And I see none of that.”

Rep. Stephen Lynch said that while a recent U.S. military buildup suggested that some form of military action might occur, no one in Congress outside the so-called “Gang of Eight” — a bipartisan group of high-ranking lawmakers — and possibly House Speaker Mike Johnson was actually briefed before the attacks.

“We had no communications from the president,” Lynch said. “And I’m one of the senior members of the military and foreign affairs subcommittee [of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform], and generally we have a little bit of a heads up on some of this stuff. But there was radio silence from the administration until 3 o’clock this morning, when the word went out.”

“We had the right to be informed,” Lynch added. “None of that happened.”

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey called the attack “illegal and unconstitutional.”

“It was not approved by Congress and holds dangers for all Americans,” Markey said in a statement. “Trump’s illegal actions raise the threat of escalation into a wider regional war with grave risks for U.S. troops and civilians in the region.”

Markey also noted that today’s attacks call into question the Trump Administration’s claims the Iran’s nuclear capabilities were “obliterated” in a prior attack last year, a point also made by McGovern and Rep. Lori Trahan.

“I’m praying for the safety of our servicemembers in the region who have been placed in harm’s way yet again and for their families who have already borne enormous sacrifice,” Trahan said in a statement.

“Like all Americans, they were told just 10 months ago — when Trump ordered strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites — that Iran’s nuclear capability was set back years as a result. Now, we’re being told something altogether different: that those strikes failed, and that Iran may be more dangerous than ever.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who sits on the Senate Armed Services committee, called for the Senate to come back into session immediately to vote on a war powers resolution that could bar the continuing use of force against Iran absent congressional approval. She, too, said Trump is making an end run around the Constitution.

“Donald Trump’s single-handedly starting another war with Iran is dangerous and illegal,” Warren said in a statement. “‘America first’ doesn’t mean dragging the United States into another forever war built on lies while ignoring the needs of Americans here at home. The Constitution is clear: Only Congress can declare war.”

Rep. Seth Moulton, who served with the Marines during the United States’ second war in Iraq, drew a parallel between that conflict and today’s attacks.

“The two basic problems with [President George W.] Bush’s War in Iraq were that it was based on a lie and there was no plan for what comes next,” Moulton said in a statement. “It’s hard to argue both are not true today.

“[Weapons of mass destruction] in Iraq was a lie. ‘Obliterating’ Iran’s nuclear facilities was a lie. The troops have to be wondering today, ‘What lies are we being told now?’ When you’re asked to risk your life for something, the most fundamental thing you want is the truth.”

Rep. Katherine Clark, the second-highest ranking Democrat in the House, called the president’s decision to attack Iran radically out of step with the needs of the American people.

The scheme would work only if Israel could destroy all evidence of its own guilt. USS Liberty June 8 1967

by Paul Haeder / June 7th, 2026

NOTE: I was part of the racket. The academic racket, though I was a freeway flyer, precarious, adjunct, road scholar, who fought like hell against exploitation of adjunct faculty, who fought like hell for students to be free and critical thinking students (not customers) and who fought like hell give some micro-shade of radical thinking and radical action in the midst of those Upton Sinclair folk — It’s difficutl to get a man or woman to know or see the truth when he or she depend on not knowing the truth for their pieces of eight, their mortgage, rent, utility bill, car payment, disposable income, even for disposable faculty.

That racket also posited that we teaching writing, lit and journalism keep that false balance, equivocation, and absolute foolish “say the right things correctly” credo in our briefcases. You know, there is the language of the professional-professional, versus that of the street, that crude discourse, all that mean and over-the-top polemical stuff which shall be verboten.

It’s not ironic that that shifting baseline disorder (accepting hybrid and then Zoom and then fully remote classes; accepting Chat GPT in English classes, accepting the protest zone permission slips, and of course, accepting the Jewish State of Rape and Murder and Deception and Theft’s version of their depravity vis-a-vis language and law and dictates and legislation) has brought those chickens home to roost, or some of them at least.

So forget about the nanny-ing of language, and forget about attacking those of us who use the term “Jews” or “The Jews” as descriptors of a fake nation and those almost hands down Jews who support the Nakba, i.e., Jewish Fake Homeland.

ANTISEMITISM? Everything is now, according to the chosen people. Entire armies of blood and bones people attacking people like me, but they now have satellites, exploding pagers, applications that scan all data on Dissident Voice or Substack, and alas, we all are ANTISEMITES in their book of blood libels.

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Let it rip, DV. All thoughts, punctuation marks, sentence structures, word usages, paragraphing, sentiments, ideas, expressions, all of it is not necessarily those of the editors of DV, or its readers!

Ahhh. The Jews running Camera will tell you what you see and what you feel when the bombs go off, and torpedoes hit you was just in your fucking mind:

CAMERA on Campus
Increasingly, campuses have been the scene of propagandistic assaults on Israel. Distorted literature, extreme speakers, and false, inflammatory images are all too common, creating harmful misperceptions of Israel. This hostile environment can be intimidating to students seeking fair and objective information on Middle East issues.

CAMERA’s campus website, Camera on Campus, and its affiliated blog, give students access to specialized information useful in countering misinformation. CAMERA also provides one-on-one assistance to students who encounter Middle East distortions in campus publications, flyers, rallies, and classroom teaching.

K-12 Education

Anti-Israel activists have increasingly turned to K-12 schools to target students with slanted accounts of the Middle East. CAMERA is confronting the problem with its K-12 work.

A History Channel program to be broadcast on the evening of August 9 will reportedly charge that the US and Israel have covered up the facts behind the attack by Israeli jets and torpedo boats on a US intelligence-gathering ship during the 1967 Six Day War. The USS Liberty was steaming more than 10 miles off the coast of El Arish on June 8, 1967 when Israeli jets, responding to reports of shelling from the sea, attacked the ship with cannon and napalm. Soon afterwards Israeli torpedo boats arrived at the scene and also attacked after first being fired upon by the Liberty. The Israeli seamen later explained they mistook the Liberty for an Egyptian ship, the El Quesir, but when they realized their target was a US ship, they ceased fire and offered assistance. Tragically, thirty-four US personnel were killed in the attack, and another 171 were wounded.

The cover-up —

At the height of the six-day war in 1967, Israel attacked a US spy ship, killing 34 men and injuring many more. The Israelis claimed it was an accident; the Americans backed them up. But, as James Bamford reveals in his new book, both governments concealed the horrific truth

Jews are the worst kind of deceivers, and they have a long line of monsters, from Oppen-Monster-Heimer to Roy Cohn to Blinken to Fink to Eddy Bernays to Schumer to Dershowitz to Bill Mahr to Leibowitz to Kusner to Zuckerberg to Altman to Ackman to Karp to Ellison to Weiss, and that list, man, is long when you count the deceivers in lower and higher ed:

Extracted from Body of Secrets by James Bamford, published by Century at £20 © 2001 James Bamford

At that moment in Washington, President Johnson was at his desk, on the phone, alternately shouting at congressional leaders and coaxing them to support his position on several pieces of pending legislation. But four minutes later, he was interrupted by Walt Rostow, national security adviser, on the other line. “The Liberty has been torpedoed in the Mediterranean,” Rostow told Johnson excitedly.

The NSA’s worst fears had come true. “After considerations of personnel safety,” said deputy director Tordella, “one of my immediate concerns, considering the depth of the water and the distance of the ship off shore, had to do with the classified materials on board.” Tordella got on the phone to the Joint Reconnaissance Centre (JCS) and spoke to the deputy director, a Navy captain named Vineyard. “I expressed my concern that the written material be burned if at all possible, and that the electronic equipment be salvaged if that were possible,” he said.

But Tordella was not prepared for what he heard. According to NSA documents – classified top secret- he was told that some senior officials in Washington wanted above all to protect Israel from embarrassment. “Captain Vineyard had mentioned during this conversation,” wrote Tordella, “that consideration was then being given by some unnamed Washington authorities to sink[ing] the Liberty in order that newspaper men would be unable to photograph her and thus inflame public opinion against the Israelis. I made an impolite comment about the idea.” Almost immediately, Tordella wrote a memorandum for the record, describing the conversation, and then locked it away.

A cover story for the Liberty was then quickly devised. “She was a communications research ship that was diverted from her research assignment,” it said, “to provide improved communication-relay links with the several US embassies around the entire Mediterranean during the current troubles.”

On the Liberty, black smoke was still escaping through more than 800 holes in the hull, and the effort to hush up the incident had already begun. Within hours of the attack, which left 34 men dead and two-thirds of the rest of the crew wounded, Israel asked President Johnson to quietly bury the incident. “Embassy Tel Aviv,” said a highly secret, very limited distribution message to the state department, “urged de-emphasis on publicity since proximity of vessel to scene of conflict was fuel for Arab suspicions that the US was aiding Israel.” Shortly thereafter, a total news ban was ordered by the Pentagon. No one in the field was allowed to say anything about the attack. All information was to come only from a few senior Washington officials.

Later that morning, Johnson took the unusual step of ordering the JCS to recall its fighters while the Liberty still lay smouldering, sinking, fearful of another attack and with its decks covered with the dead, dying and wounded. On board the flagship of the Sixth Fleet, Rear Admiral Lawrence R Geis, who commanded the carrier force in the Mediterranean, was angry and puzzled at the recall and protested to the Secretary of Defence, Robert S McNamara.

Geis was shocked by what he heard next. “President Lyndon Johnson came on with a comment that he didn’t care if the ship sunk, he would not embarrass his allies.” Geis told Lieutenant Commander David Lewis, head of the NSA group on the Liberty, about the comment but asked him to keep it secret until after Geis died. It was a promise that Lewis kept.

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“AN ISRAEL-CENTRIC FOREIGN POLICY”

Twenty-five years ago, Condoleezza Rice, now President George W. Bush’s secretary of state and then his national security adviser, unwittingly explained in a remarkable burst of candor: “We have an Israel-centric foreign policy.” Rice’s statement was profound and accurate. Although she spoke nearly four decades after the assault on the Liberty, her words explain why the cover-up began and why it continues to this day.

Since 1967, many people in and out of government have learned the truth about the cover-up. Why were they silent? Why did reporters ignore tips that would surely lead to top news stories?

The sad and simple truth is that most Americans, especially those in public office and even those in the presidency, have a deadly fear of being labeled anti-Semitic. No matter how well documented the charges, they will neither utter nor write anything critical of Israel, for fear it will draw that unwarranted and unwelcome charge. Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. George W. Ball once stated that the most powerful instrument of intimidation employed by Israel’s U.S. lobby is the “reckless charge of anti-Semitism.”

The fear is endemic, but rarely mentioned. It reaches all government offices and intimidates all levels and sections of our society—business, education, academia, preachers, publishing and other media.

Israel attacks USS Liberty

8 June 1967

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USS Liberty, listing after the attack, a helicopter takes killed and wounded people from the vessel

Credit: National Archives and Records Administration

On 8 June 1967, Israeli forces attacked the US Navy research ship, USS Liberty, killing 34 and injuring 171 people.

The Liberty was off the coast of El Arish, Egypt, operated by the National Security Agency. It was tasked with monitoring communications during the Six-Day War between Israel and the Arab states, including Syria, Egypt, and Jordan.

First, the ship was attacked by air, then by torpedoes and artillery. Badly damaged, the crew launched three lifeboats but these were also attacked, which is considered a war crime under international law.

While official investigations by the US and Israel concluded that the attack was accidental, as Israeli forces believed the ship to be Egyptian, others disagree. Journalist James Bamford in his book Body of Secrets argued that the Liberty’s ability to intercept Israel’s communications could have been the motivation for the attack, in order to cover up war crimes such as the massacre of unarmed Egyptian prisoners in El Arish.

NSA Deputy Director, Louis Tordella, described the preliminary inquiry by the Israeli military as “a nice whitewash”, and US Secretary of State Dean Rusk stated: I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation… I didn’t believe them then, and I don’t believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous.”

The US inquiry into the incident was held in secret, and survivors were issued gag orders banning them from ever speaking about what occurred. Despite the gag orders, survivors of the attack, who set up the Liberty Veterans Association, continue to demand a transparent investigation into the incident.

The president of the organisation told The Intercept:

“We now know that the Navy Court of Inquiry was merely for show, as the officers were told to come to the conclusion the Liberty did [its] job and the attack was accidental.”

Some survivors of the attack were accused of antisemitism for talking about their experiences.

At the time of writing (2024), the NSA still keeps its files on the attack secret.

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“It is a reasonable conclusion that the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2021 was an inside job arranged by the highly placed neoconservatives led by vice president Dick Cheney. The purpose of the attack was to produce the “New Pearl Harbor” that the Zionists said was necessary to deceive the American people into a quarter century of war destroying the Arab countries in the way of Greater Israel.” – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

Oh, all those Jewish college professors, and lawyers and Ellison Clansmen and Weiss Clanswomen:! Does it never shock them about the optics here?

Photo: Palestinian refugees fleeing villages captured in the Latrun area. The IDF expelled them, and the JNF built Canada Park over the ruins. Credit: Benia Ben-Nun

“At first I wasn’t prepared to execute Arabs who weren’t resisting. Then we reached the conclusion that we had to kill them. We went through a process of stopping seeing them as human beings.” — First soldier

“In Gaza, human life had no value. You could kill, and there was no law. No one would say a single word to you, but it’s a bad feeling. It kills your humanity.” — Second soldier

“We carried out punitive raids in small villages in the Gaza Strip, not once or twice. We would round up the men, line them up, and liquidate them. Looking at it now, it seems like murder.” — Third soldier

“We roamed refugee camps in Gaza and carried out cleansing operations. Every man we saw we considered a fighter. There’s no way to prove it. Maybe the dead were prisoners or civilians. Every soldier there established something like a ‘detention camp’ that he ran, and they didn’t hesitate to kill anyone who caused the slightest disturbance.” — Fourth soldier

“Trying to distinguish between ‘the desire to kill and the desire for entertainment’ — that’s a philosophical debate.” — Fifth soldier

Nah, Oct. 7 wasn’t a righteous prison break!

In the weeks following the war, thousands of Palestinian refugees attempted to return to the West Bank after fleeing east across the Jordan River. But the Israeli army ambushed the returnees and massacred them. These killings were not widely publicized, but they reached the ears of Knesset Member Uri Avnery. A shocked soldier he encountered told him that he and his comrades had been ordered to shoot even at women and children. After collecting a second soldier’s testimony, Avnery asked IDF Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin to open an investigation and issue an order to stop the killings.

Avnery did not publish the details in his newspaper Haolam Hazeh, nor did he speak about them from the Knesset podium. Like others, he maintained silence and waited five decades before giving his testimony in his autobiography:

“Every night, Arabs attempted to cross the Jordan River from the east bank to the west bank. We blocked these crossings and received orders to shoot to kill, without warning. And indeed, shots were fired every night at men, women, and children — even on moonlit nights where it was possible to distinguish between men, women, and children. In the morning, we went out to survey the area, and by explicit order of the officer present, we killed those who were still alive, including those hiding and the wounded. After the killing was over, we buried the bodies with earth until the bulldozers arrived.”

Another soldier testified:

“They explained to us that if convoys of returning refugees from Jordan to the West Bank passed before us, we were to shoot them. I asked the officer: And if I hear children crying, do I shoot them too? The answer was: Don’t be like a girl.”

Some claim that many Jews are the pathogen of the globe:

In late April, a federal judge in São Paulo sentenced Zé Maria to two years in open prison for a speech in which he called for the liberation of Palestine. Zé Maria is a 69-year-old metalworker and union activist who was imprisoned under Brazil’s military dictatorship alongside Lula. The lawsuit was filed by the Israeli Confederation of Brazil using the IHRA definition of antisemitism, and his case is not isolated. Blanca Missé documents how the IHRA definition is being deployed in a coordinated offensive across Latin America to criminalize Palestine solidarity, with its primary targets drawn from the backbone of the region’s social movements.

This is what Israel Day represents motherfuckers: Among the participants was Israel’s far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, heritage minister Amichai Eliyahu and Knesset member Yitzhak Wasserlauf, who was recording calling on Israeli soldiers to “dash” Palestinian babies “against the rocks”.

Israel has been withholding Palestinian customs revenues indefinitely, and the effect on the West Bank’s public health system is now showing up in hospitals. Public hospitals have slashed workers’ salaries, cut their hours, and left patients navigating a system running on interns and labs operating at half-capacity. Healthcare workers have gone on strike. Qassam Muaddi reports from inside the Ramallah Medical Complex on what Israel’s financial siege is doing to Palestinian healthcare in the West Bank.

On May 31, the director of al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in Deir al-Balah announced that the facility was once again on the verge of closing after its fourth generator failed. Half a million people depend on it for medical care. Gaza’s electrical grid was destroyed in October 2023, and the generators that replaced it have been running continuously for over three years. Health officials say Israel has calibrated its restrictions on fuel and supplies deliberately, allowing just enough in to prevent total collapse while ensuring hospitals cannot recover. Tareq S. Hajjaj reports on what staff and officials describe as a deliberate effort to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system through the calibrated denial of fuel and supplies.

Ahh, those pedophile FILES: Cold Case, Case Closed? The Legal Loopholes That Let Epstein, Maxwell, and Many Others Traffic Children in New Mexico For Decades Were Deliberately Awful & Specific to This State

For the first twelve years Epstein operated at Zorro Ranch — from 1993 through July 2008 — New Mexico had no human trafficking statute. Zero. Zip. Zilch. The law that finally criminalized trafficking in New Mexico took effect the same month Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida, almost like New Mexico didn’t need it anymore since its favorite kidfucker was in jail. Even after he got out of prison in Florida, that new law was never used against him, because if it had been then how would Gary King have gotten those big fat donations from Epstein in his run for governor, huh?

When Epstein came back to New Mexico after 2008, as a convicted sex offender, New Mexico’s creepy piece of shit pedophile registration law — written in 1995 with gaps wide enough to fly a private plane through — did not require him to register. Everywhere else did. We did not. Epstein’s lawyers used New Mexico’s tolerance for child-fuckers as evidence that Jeffrey wasn’t all that dangerous, in other places: “What he did wasn’t that bad. Look. If it were, would New Mexico be, all, ‘hey, dude, no need to register. We gotchu.’?”

Darren Indyke, […has strong professional and transactional connections to various Jewish organizations and philanthropies through his decades of work managing Epstein’s financial network. While public biographical records do not explicitly detail his personal religious upbringing or identity, his career frequently placed him at the center of prominent Jewish institutions] who worked as Epstein’s attorney for roughly two decades, told the House Oversight Committee in his opening statement that he “had no knowledge whatsoever” of Epstein’s abuse and would have quit working for him if he had known he was trafficking women and underage girls.

Other associates of Epstein, including his former accountant Richard Kahn, one of his largest clients, Les Wexner, and former President Bill Clinton, have also told the committee in sworn depositions that they didn’t know about Epstein’s abuse.

[Richard Kahn, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime accountant and co-executor of his estate, has a Jewish background. Public records and his professional circle confirm his Jewish heritage, which has occasionally been noted in discussions surrounding Epstein’s close network of associates]

Democrats on the committee aired their frustration during a break from Indyke’s deposition, saying that the lawyer had taken a “defensive” posture in the face of questioning.

Indyke, along with Kahn, is an executor of Epstein’s estate, and lawmakers had hoped they would provide details about Epstein’s abuse that would bring accountability. So far, though, lawmakers have struggled to uncover substantive details about the associates of Epstein, who died in 2019 in a New York jail cell while he faced charges for sex trafficking.

The bumblers: Ambassador Chas Freeman discusses how Greater Israel is coming to an end. Ambassador Freeman was a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centred post-Cold War European security system and in reestablishing defence and military relations with China. He served as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Sure, real proper men, Ambassador, Professor? What  losers:

Shortly before they reached their family home in Hebron, they encountered Israeli troops in Wadi al-Hariya area near Tel Rumeida. Fahd immediately stopped the car, but that did not stop the Israelis from opening fire at them.

“The soldier signaled me to stop, I stopped the car completely and raised my hands on the steering wheel. Immediately afterwards, fire opened at the car,” Fahd told Haaretz.

The terrorist Israeli army claimed that a soldier felt threatened by the car that prompted the shooting. However, Fahd father rejected the claim. “The soldier was about ten meters away from me. He saw me, he saw my wife and the children. The car windows were not dark, it was daylight and everything was clear. You can’t say he didn’t see that it was a family.”

The Jews have had Cuba and want it back, too:

So is Trump, America’s least popular president in his second term since G.W.Bush, going to invade Cuba? With Trump it’s hard to know, but his recent actions and threats are ominous. First, to provide a pretext for his threatened assault and kidnapping in Cuba, he has had his ever-compliant Department of “Justice” indict 94-year-old Raúl Castro, the frail and ailing younger bother of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel. Raúl was vice president 2008 when Fidel stepped down as Cuba’s president for health reasons. Raúl became acting president and then president until stepping down himself in 2018.

The US indictment lodged against Raúl, who is no longer a Cuban leader, is based upon the dubious allegation that as Minister of Cuba’s armed forces he “gave the orders” to two Cuban Air Force MiG fighter jets to down two civilian US Cessna aircraft violating Cuban airspace, killing all four men in the downed planes from an organization called “Brothers to the Rescue.” (One of the pilots who died, murder José Basulto, a right-wing Cuban exile who co-founded “Brothers to the Rescue,” owner of the planes and one of the downed pilots who died, was known by Havana to have been trained and slipped onto the island ahead of ther Bay of Pigs invasion, tasked with committing acts of sabotage to draw away Cuban defenders from the planned invasion landing area. Later, in 1962 he took a speedboat to the island and fired a cannon at a beach hotel, the Paquita de Hornedo, known to be frequented by foreign technicians, mostly from the Soviet Union and some Warsaw Pact countries. He gave a press conference about his action on his return to the U.S.)

[Some of the crew of the sunken Dena being prepared in Iran for a mass public funeral.]

Some might use this comparison, that of a disease: The first Jewish presence dates back to 1492 with Luis de Torres, a Jewish interpreter who accompanied Christopher Columbus. The community grew following the Spanish-American War in 1898 and expanded significantly in the 1920s when U.S. immigration quotas stranded European refugees on the island.

  • Community Life: Prior to 1959, Cuban Jews were largely merchants and peddlers who established a successful middle class, built multiple synagogues, and opened kosher establishments in Havana.

U.S. mobster’s heirs to Cuba: “You owe us – so pay up”

For Meyer Lansky, a mobster and casino impresario known for his business savvy, Cuba was the worst bet of his life.

In the 1950s, Havana was America’s favorite playground. Gambling, sex shows, and rum were plentiful. Lansky’s hotel, the Riviera, was one of Havana’s swankiest.

[Trafficking in lies, deception, and lawyered up upside and down their Jewish Chosen Bodies?]

“I mean it was a great spot,” Lansky’s grandson Gary Rapoport told CNN of the Riviera. “Any businessman would be terribly crushed if someone just came along and took it.”

That “someone” was Fidel Castro. After taking power, the Cuban revolutionary took away all Americans’ property, targeting with particular vehemence the mafiosos who paid off Cuban officials to flout the law and turn the country into a den of vice for foreigners.

When the Mob Owned Cuba

[When the Mob Owned Cuba — Best-selling author T.J. English discusses the Mob’s profound influence on Cuban culture and politics in the 1950s]

Old Ben NEVER EVER calls it Jewish Threat!

Go ask Jew-oogle: “all the laws that unfairly call people antisemitic” — Vomit bag necessary!

No laws explicitly penalize individuals by name for being “antisemitic.” However, there is an intense legal and political debate surrounding legislation that adopts specific definitions of antisemitism. Critics argue these laws create a “chilling effect” that unfairly labels legitimate political criticism of the Israeli government as antisemitic. Proponents assert these measures are necessary to identify and combat rising discrimination against Jewish people.

Accordingly, the Center for Security, Race and Rights offers two policy recommendations:

  1. Reject codification into law or policy of the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism.

The IHRA working definition of antisemitism has no place in law. The analysis presented here makes clear that the IHRA definition reproduces anti-Palestinian racism, exacerbates antisemitism, and serves as a tool of censorship of political speech, academic work, and civic engagement on matters of public importance, including criticism of Israel. A recent letter, organized by the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and signed by more than 1100 scholars – working in all fields, from doctoral students to senior professors, in universities large and small, public and private, around the world – calls for the rejection of the IHRA definition in law or policy. Furthermore, the original IHRA document explicitly notes it is a “non-legally binding” definition. That the IHRA definition has nevertheless been weaponized through legislation caused Kenneth Stern, a lead drafter of the text of the definition, to repudiate ongoing legislative efforts to codify it into law.

Existing anti-discrimination laws already protect Jewish people, as well as other minority groups, from discrimination. For that reason, there is no equivalent definition for anti-Muslim racism, anti-Black racism or racism against Indigenous people (to note just a few examples) in any state or federal law. Singling out antisemitism as the only form of racism deserving of a separate definition is not only unnecessary to protect Jews from discrimination, but also may give rise to antisemitic conspiracies about Jews controlling the government.

  1. State legislatures and the U.S. Congress should rely on existing anti-discrimination laws to combat antisemitism, anti-Palestinian racism, and Islamophobia; and adhere to constitutional prohibitions against viewpoint-based regulation of speech.

State legislatures and the U.S. Congress should reject pending or future legislation that codify the IHRA definition of antisemitism into law. Existing statutes that adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism should be amended to remove the definition in adherence to the constitutional prohibition of regulation of speech and expressive conduct based purely on content or viewpoint.

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government or public institutions from regulating speech based on content or viewpoint, unless a legally specified exception applies. Three legally prescribed exceptions include 1) speech or expressive conduct that pose a clear and present danger, 2) regulations of speech or expressive conduct that are content and viewpoint neutral, and 3) restrictions on the time, place and manner of the expression of speech or expressive conduct that are viewpoint and content neutral. None of these exceptions protect the laws codifying the IHRA definition from meritorious constitutional challenges.

The federal Antisemitism Awareness Act as well as state laws that adopt the IHRA definition are unconstitutionally prohibiting viewpoints whether explicitly in the law, in its “design” or by “operation,” because these laws favor pro-Israeli points of views while disfavoring views critical or opposed to Israel. That is, these laws intentionally regulate speech or expressive conduct based on the speaker’s content. The U.S. Supreme Court makes it clear that even valid justifications, such as combating antisemitism, cannot save a law “that is in fact based on the desire to suppress a particular point of view.”

The IHRA definition of antisemitism, if codified into law or enforced as policy by state actors, violates these constitutional prohibitions by imposing a legal penalty for speech and expressive conduct based on viewpoints that are critical of Israel in specific ways and the political ideology of Zionism. Attempts to codify it into law or policy should be rejected. Existing anti-discrimination law is sufficient to allow for the fact-specific and context-based analysis necessary to effectively combat hateful acts.

Read the Issue Brief Threats to Free Speech and Palestinian Civil Rights: The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism here.

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