The White House refuses to call its war in Iran a war, instead labeling it “major combat operations” — a maneuver to keep Congress out of the picture. And believe it or not, Congress is going along with it.
1946: Orwell,
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better. The debased language that I have been discussing is in some ways very convenient. Phrases like a not unjustifiable assumption, leaves much to be desired, would serve no good purpose, a consideration which we should do well to bear in mind, are a continuous temptation, a packet of aspirins always at one’s elbow. Look back through this essay, and for certain you will find that I have again and again committed the very faults I am protesting against. By this morning’s post I have received a pamphlet dealing with conditions in Germany. The author tells me that he ‘felt impelled’ to write it. I open it at random, and here is almost the first sentence that I see: ‘(The Allies) have an opportunity not only of achieving a radical transformation of Germany’s social and political structure in such a way as to avoid a nationalistic reaction in Germany itself, but at the same time of laying the foundations of a co-operative and unified Europe.’ You see, he ‘feels impelled’ to write – feels, presumably, that he has something new to say – and yet his words, like cavalry horses answering the bugle, group themselves automatically into the familiar dreary pattern. This invasion of one’s mind by ready-made phrases (lay the foundations, achieve a radical transformation) can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against them, and every such phrase anaesthetizes a portion of one’s brain.
Supplemental, uh? Is that SNAP, supplemental nutrition assistance?
Supplemental income for 70 year olds almost on the streets with their fucking meager chump chain social security?
Again, Republicans are fucking MAGA closet cunts, or already outted Semen Drip Rapist and Pedophile in Chief lovers.
Ahh, it looks like a supplemental housing unit in Iran, or is it supplemental missile proving grounds?
The unfolding war in the Middle East has ricocheted across the region, with nearly every country sustaining damage from missile hits or shrapnel, many reporting casualties, and key embassies, economic engines and passageways closing down.
Foreign governments are urging their citizens to leave on any available commercial flight as Gulf airspaces largely close, cruise ships can’t pass through the Strait of Hormuz, and major airlines cancel flights. The U.S. State Department says it has evacuated nonemergency personnel and families in six nations, adding the United Arab Emirates to its list on Tuesday. It also has advised citizens from 14 countries to leave. Governments from Russia to Germany and France also scrambled to run repatriation flights.
Ahh, a Rothschild looking like an Anne Rice character.
No war, right Linda Graham.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday ordered France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to move from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean to help protect allied assets during the war in the Middle East.
Macron said the Charles de Gaulle carrier will be escorted by frigates and its air wing. In a prerecorded speech on French TV, Macron added that Rafale fighter jets, air-defense systems and airborne radar systems have been deployed over the past few hours in the Middle East.
Fucknig Jews at every goddamned turn:
Tech companies and industrial agriculture are “playing with the food system” by using AI and algorithms to undermine farmers in choosing what the world eats, leading food security experts have warned.
Companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM and Alibaba are working with industrial agriculture firms to influence what crops are grown and how, according to a report by the thinktank International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food).
The result, the experts say, is a “top-down” approach to farming systems where large companies tell farmers what to grow, often focusing on the most productive and profitable crops.
“Companies are playing with the food system, and we can’t afford to have that played with,” said Pat Mooney, a Canadian author and expert on agriculture who contributed to the Head in the Cloud report, adding that these companies tend to focus only on five crops: corn, rice, wheat, soya beans and potatoes.
“Their advice is going to be: ‘Well, we don’t know about your using [the grain] teff in Ethiopia – we never heard about teff – but we do know about how to use corn in Ethiopia, so we’ll advise you on the ways you can use corn, and we know how to link corn to pesticides, because that’s our expertise’,” he said.
Jewish Tech:
More Jewish Mossad Unit 8200 FUN. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is losing another key leader who has played a critical role in spearheading government-wide cyber defenses.
Shelly Hartsook, acting associate director in CISA’s cybersecurity division, announced her resignation today, two sources confirmed to Federal News Network. The sources, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said Hartsook’s departure was voluntary, though it comes at an uncertain time for the cyber defense agency.
From fucking CNN:
Here’s the latest
• Strikes target leadership: US President Donald Trump said Iran’s air force and navy had been “knocked out” and that new strikes targeted Iranian leadership. Israel also struck a compound belonging to a group responsible for electing Iran’s next supreme leader, an Israeli source told CNN.
YOU do KNOW that fucking TRUMP is winning and the Jews are running the SHOW. Supplemental income, uh?
Interest on the $38.8 trillion national debt has tripled since 2020, and it already costs taxpayers more than defense and Medicaid
[ Trump in Corpus Christi, Texas, Feb. 27, 2026.]
Not a war, uh, Linda Graham? Hundreds of thousands of passengers remain stranded, with key air hubs in Middle East closed amid fallout from US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
THe other war against humanity: The AI boom is minting startup multimillionaires at an unprecedented speed.
Supplementing income: One of the wildest stories in tech right now is what’s happening at Anthropic. New data from Levels.fyi shows how some employees at this AI startup have effectively become multimillionaires about a year after joining.
One engineer who started in late 2024 got 60,000 stock options at a $13 strike price, when Anthropic was valued around $18 billion. At the time, the equity penciled out to roughly $200,000 a year on paper.
Fast forward to a recent share sale valuing Anthropic near $350 billion. Even after estimated dilution and other factors, this employee probably owns about $4 million to $5 million in vested stock now. The full equity grant, which typically vests in quarters over four years, is likely worth about $18 million to $20 million, according to Levels.fyi estimates.
Go UK UK UK:
A new three-part factual drama, Dirty Business, highlights the murky world of the English water industry. This Channel 4 docudrama follows the lives of two concerned citizens from Oxfordshire in south-east England: a retired police detective called Ash Smith and a retired university professor called Peter Hammond, who is an expert in deciphering patterns in big data sets. Together, they have been investigating sewage discharges into their local river for more than a decade.
The series spotlights their struggles to get information from their water company about releases of untreated sewage, and for the Environment Agency (EA) to take their concerns about pollution seriously. Interwoven with their accounts are tragic stories of several families whose lives have been turned upside down through exposure to contaminated water.
Many water companies have been fined millions of pounds for polluting discharges, failure to maintain infrastructure and withholding evidence from investigative authorities. However, critics have argued that these fines have been built into the business model, as dividends are not related to environmental performance. The water industry is also now lobbying government against further regulation and fines.
Chavez is DEAD: The U.S. oil major will work with the Venezuelan government and if the right investment terms are in place “we will be interested in going back,” Senior Vice President Jack Williams said during a Morgan Stanley conference.
U.S. President Donald Trump has urged oil firms to invest $100 billion in Venezuela and rebuild the energy sector after U.S. forces captured and removed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from office in January.
Born in 1965 in Amman, Jordan, to a family of Palestinian refugees, he rose to prominence as a world-leading chemist. In 2025, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs).
‘Reimagining matter’: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air. Omar Yaghi’s invention uses ambient thermal energy and can generate up to 1,000 litres of clean water every day
Atoco, a technology company that Yaghi founded, said its units, comparable in size to a 20ft shipping container and powered entirely by ultra-low-grade thermal energy, could be placed in local communities to generate up to 1,000 litres of clean water every day, even if centralised electricity and water sources were interrupted by drought or storm damage.
VERSUS this Jewish Fucking MONSTER:
OpenAI changes deal with US military after backlash
Jews lie: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman unveiled a reworked agreement with the Pentagon on Monday night governing the Defense Department’s use of its AI services, which he says provides stronger guarantees that the military won’t use OpenAI’s systems for domestic surveillance.
The new agreement states that “the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of U.S. persons and nationals,” according to a post on OpenAI’s website. OpenAI had faced some backlashas news of an initial agreement between the leading AI company and the Pentagon emerged Friday. Many observers claimed the original language shared on OpenAI’s website provided ample loopholes for the government to surveil Americans.
Many observers remained unswayed Tuesday, concerned that the snippets of OpenAI’s contract with the Pentagon published by the company remained purposefully vague and provided carve-outs for domestic surveillance by various intelligence agencies within the Defense Department. The full text of the contract has not been released publicly.
“OpenAI has said that the Department of War contractually agreed not to use ChatGPT in agencies that surveil American people,” said Brad Carson, a former congressman and general counsel of the Army who now leads the Washington, D.C., policy group Americans for Responsible Innovation. “They have been happy to show contract language when it benefited them, but they refuse to release to the public this contractual provision.”
“I’ve reluctantly come to the conclusion that this provision doesn’t really exist, and they are just trying to fake it,” Carson told NBC News. Carson recently founded an AI-focused super PAC that has received $20 million from OpenAI rival Anthropic.
“We still need to see the whole contract to say anything with a reasonable level of confidence,” said Brian McGrail, senior counsel at the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit research and advocacy group. “It’s definitely a step in the right direction, and I do want to give OpenAI some credit.”
Don’t You Want to Verify?: The architecture of total surveillance does not require a dictator. It only requires that no one says no while the pipes are being connected to . . .
Crossing Rubicon’s Warning: This article is about surveillance technologies developed by and for government agencies. Given what we know from this research, Substack is most likely recording your read, sharing your information, perhaps inadvertently, with government agencies and business affiliates chosen by Substack as the easy route to comply with laws. However, Substack has always kept track of every article, Note, podcast that you’ve read, and this information is readily available to authorities and tracking surveillance businesses. For writers, this was meant to evaluate the platform, which Substack continues to claim you own. But the reality is that there are NO safeguards or protections in place for subscriber lists and the data — including no way for the writer to keep encrypted lists and keep lists from being accessed. As of this time, we have been unable to ascertain whether Substack has complied with National Security Letters. But if you want to know what happens with every photo you upload into these systems and more, sit back, take a deep breath, and read carefully.
Yikes!
Nah, not that fucking neuroperverse religious cunt of a flag included?
Intelligence Gathering: Israeli intelligence agencies, like Mossad and the elite military signals intelligence Unit 8200, conduct extensive hacking operations to gather intelligence on adversaries. For example, they spent years hacking nearly every traffic camera in Tehran to monitor Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s movements, aiding in later military strikes.
National Security and Defense: Cyberattacks are used as a strategic tool to counter perceived threats, particularly from Iran and its proxies. This includes efforts to disrupt Iranian nuclear programs (e.g., the Stuxnet worm) and degrade command-and-control capabilities to prevent retaliatory strikes.
Disrupting Infrastructure: Israel has been linked to sophisticated cyberattacks on critical infrastructure in rival nations, such as the attack on an Iranian port facility that caused widespread disarray, reportedly in retaliation for an Iranian attempt to target Israeli water infrastructure.
Commercial Spyware Development: Israeli cybersecurity firms develop advanced, military-grade spyware like Pegasus, which can infiltrate mobile phones to extract data. These products have been sold to governments worldwide, though their use to target activists and journalists has drawn criticism and scrutiny.
Strategic Partnerships: The strong relationship with the United States, including intelligence sharing and advanced technological partnerships, enhances both countries’ cyber capabilities and provides a strategic advantage in the Middle East
Israeli spies spent years hacking every camera in Tehran to monitor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:
Israeli spies spent years hacking nearly every traffic camera in Tehran so they could monitor Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei before he was eventually wiped out, according to a report.
The cameras, including one directly pointed at Khamenei’s closely guarded compound, allowed Mossad to build highly specific intelligence files that aided Saturday’s deadly strikes, multiple sources told the Financial Times.
“We knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem,” an Israeli intelligence official claimed.
Some of the images obtained from the cameras allowed Mossad operatives to determine “a pattern of life” for Khamenei’s security guards — including exactly where they parked their cars, their addresses and whom they were tasked with protecting, the sources said.
Now now, so this Subterranean Stack is monitored? The email list and all these graphics and my anti-Trump, anti-Israel, anti-America, anti-Jew, anti-military, anti-capitalism words are fed into an algorithm?
Nah, really?
Yeah, well, Plato and Socrates? Nah . . . . Andrews speaks with passion, but also exasperation at the false promise of change in a world that he believes is structurally hostile to Black emancipation. Changes that come after moments of raising awareness, such as Black Lives Matter, are too often hollow diversity, he believes. They may make “the number of Black people in an institution rise”, but do nothing to make those organisations operate in a more equal way. “People ask me all the time: is it terrible that I’m one of just 140 Black professors in the UK? Certainly. But if there were 600 Black professors, would it change anything? No.” Real change, he believes, cannot come from elite, conservative white spaces, no matter how well populated with Black people, because such spaces are fundamentally antagonistic to change.
This also means that, no matter how high you climb, little changes. “You get into these places and it’s terrible. I’m a Black professor. Great. I’m still Black. The last three years of my career, outwardly, have been amazing. Internally, it’s been the worst three years of my life. Universities are some of the whitest institutions that exist and, the further up the hierarchy you go, the worse it gets.” He describes constant battles with management to effect change.
Yet he stresses that it is not just individuals or managers who are to blame. “The nature of these spaces means they can change us, creating toxic environments of competition that lead to the classic ‘barrel of crabs’ scenario, where we are struggling over each other to get to the top.”
His breath quickens. “The battles, the scars. I’ve just had to fight. I’m always fighting. I’ve probably done permanent damage to my mental and physical health establishing this Black studies course. Honestly, since launching the degree, learning to navigate through extreme levels of stress and bouts of depression has become part of the job description.” He believes it is not sustainable or, in the long run, useful. “I would think of it as a failure if, in the next five years, I haven’t left the university,” he says. “In five years, if you find me still here, tell me I’ve sold out.”
He wants to focus his energy on the grassroots, providing “an account of society from a Black radical perspective” – and to include his four children in his work. The first “celebrity” they could name was Malcom X; he takes them to his talks as often as possible and is working with them on a “Choose Your Liberation” children’s book, a choose-your-own-adventure story that explains Black politics. He laughs, remembering himself at that age. “I need to be careful that they don’t rebel against their father and end up joining the Tories!”
A national anti-poverty program offering to pay low-income residents of Lincoln County for information about their lives, is off to a slow start despite trying to recruit people since last fall.
The Family Independence Initiative is seeking 900 participants from Oregon’s Lincoln and Jefferson counties, the only two counties in the state picked for the pilot research program.
The two rural counties were chosen because they consistently fall in the lower third of Oregon counties for most measures of income, education and health.
Family Independence Initiative is an 18-year-old nationally-recognized non-profit based in Oakland, Calif. working to help keep low-income families from cycling in and out of poverty. The effort is supported by the Oregon Department of Human Services.
A representative of the nonprofit is holding meetings throughout Lincoln County, trying to recruit people who can receive $800 over one year if they submit monthly details about their income, housing, medical care and the like.
The goal is to have 450 families sign up in each county. But in Lincoln County just 50 have signed up so far with a goal of another 50 by the end of March, according to recruiter Paul Haeder of Waldport.
Understanding acronyms and skepticism
“Learn how to secure $800 for pilot project Lincoln County,” declared the recent post on the Waldport Library’s Facebook page.
The four adults who turned out for Haeder’s information session late last month were interested but skeptical. Their understanding may have been hampered by the esoteric terms and acronyms that peppered the presentation, like UCF (unlimited cash transfers) and “social capital”.
“What’s the catch?” asked one man.
Instead of the “top-down” approach to social services typically taken by state and federal agencies, the organization partners with families to “learn from them, connect families to each other and unlock dollars” to fund their goals, according to the group’s website.
Paul Haeder
Once enrolled, people get access to an Internet platform called UpTogether. That’s where they submit online journals once a month, and share information with others in their network, Haeder said.
That sharing is what FII means by “social capital” — basically, anything you can get for free from people you know, like a ride to your job, or help moving furniture.
Haeder said on the UpTogether website participants might solicit their network for advice on starting a business, or ride-sharing.
“The goal is to help families rise up,” he said, “to engage with people who go in and out of poverty and give them networking tools to end that cycle.”
“What FII wants is data and stories from the enrolled families or households,” he said. “From there, a hundred data points are recorded … so the heads of DHS can see what social services are missing and what families are really doing to rise out of poverty.”
Haeder says data security and privacy are key concerns he hears at his Lincoln County information sessions. He tries to allay that fear.
“When FII gets the data there are no names; when the state of Oregon gets the report from FII you’re a number, not a name,” he says.
A household can be comprised of a single person, a single parent, a couple with or without children, married or not. However, there are two conditions — enrollees must have an active email address and a banking account or debit card to accept the $800 in payments.
Haeder is conducting information sessions throughout the county. For details, he can be reached at 509-***-****, or paul@fii.org.
FII has established its networking communities in several major U.S. cities, including Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Austin, Albuquerque and Oakland. The group was founded by Mauricio Lim Miller, author of the book “The Alternative: Most of What You Believe About Poverty is Wrong.”
Stand Together is a major philanthropic community and non-profit, founded by Charles Koch in 2003, focused on tackling societal issues like education, poverty, and addiction. It acts as an umbrella organization for a right-leaning, libertarian-oriented network that supports nonprofits, provides fellowships, and funds policy research to foster a free society.
I would have never done this $35 an hour gig if it had been with the Koch Brothers. They got rid of me when the FII went to Koch’s Stand TOgether.
The Impact of the Ruling: The 2010 Citizens United decision removed restrictions on corporate “independent” spending, a key legal shift supported by Koch-backed groups like the Cato Institute and the Center for Competitive Politics.
Massive Political Spending: Following the ruling, the Koch network spent hundreds of millions of dollars to influence elections, including nearly $400 million in the 2012 election cycle alone.
Political Infrastructure: The Kochs built a extensive political and policy “one-stop shop” that included think tanks and non-profits (501(c)(4)s) to influence policy long-term, essentially functioning as a shadow Republican Party.
Focus on Issues and Candidates: Their efforts, primarily through AFP, focused on supporting conservative candidates, opposing environmental regulations, and fighting the Affordable Care Act.
Advocacy for Donor Privacy: The Koch network has been heavily involved in legal battles to protect the anonymity of donors to non-profit groups, arguing that donor disclosure violates First Amendment rights, a position that found success in the Supreme Court.
“First, offenders would be required to wear electronic ankle bracelets that monitor their location and ensure they do not move outside of the geographical areas to which they would be confined. Second, prisoners would be compelled to wear sensors so that unlawful or suspicious activity could be monitored remotely by computers. Third, conducted energy devices would be used remotely to immobilize prisoners who attempt to escape their areas of confinement or commit other crimes.”
The country’s 2nd largest teachers union heavily lobbied the CDC to not reopen schools. While they framed their efforts as health and safety focused, there is more than meets the eye to the union’s push for indefinite remote learning.
Have you ever heard of “Gigabit Society”? Well, fasten your seatbelts and be ready as you will be starting to experience it pretty soon.
Sci-fi had already kind of imagined it (it was back in 1982 with Blade Runner in cinemas – although already in the ‘50s you could read books and watch movies set in a sci-fi environment) but today it looks as if we are almost there: self-driving and driverless cars – almost ready to be released on markets – drones delivering our parcels, AI assistants, real time info sharing and VR surgery – just to mention a couple of examples.
Virtual Reality, for example, has already started to change our lives, completely. The domains in which it will be applied are going to be many and not just gaming. Think about automotive, manufacturing, education, communication and entertainment, design and tourism, sport, commerce and medicine, and many many more.
The experience sits right in the middle of the process, it’s completely immersive and it’s set in an entirely digital environment – created as if it was a real place on earth.
Nowadays, every single industry is involved (at least a tiny bit) with what is known as Digital Transformation: no one can exist or not consider implementing a fast-tracked digitalization process. It is traveling at light speed but it will only be successful if all countries can cope with how fast technologies are changing.
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Abstract
This article identifies adverse effects of non-ionizing non-visible radiation (hereafter called wireless radiation) reported in the premier biomedical literature. It emphasizes that most of the laboratory experiments conducted to date are not designed to identify the more severe adverse effects reflective of the real-life operating environment in which wireless radiation systems operate. Many experiments do not include pulsing and modulation of the carrier signal. The vast majority do not account for synergistic adverse effects of other toxic stimuli (such as chemical and biological) acting in concert with the wireless radiation. This article also presents evidence that the nascent 5G mobile networking technology will affect not only the skin and eyes, as commonly believed, but will have adverse systemic effects as well.
Yesterday, I mentioned almost getting into a fist fight at the cardio rehab at the hospital where I have been working out for two months. Fucking TYPICAL Americans — retired, dudes that are workers, loggers, fishermen, small business owners, and even executives — back our boys and girls in uniform.
So, if you doubt the fucking Pedophile and Rapist Bone Spurs in Chief, if you BACK a country’s right to shoot down F-15s and implode USA mercenary barracks, and if you DO NOT support aircraft carriers and the blathering of both generals and NCOs, the you are a target, unAmerican, suspect, on the list, the Secret Service, FBI, ICE, even the local sheriff department’s list.
Note: My neighbor, from England, a resident “alien,” is a master boat builder and electrician. The neighbor across the road, well, his dog attacked Bob and Lynn’s dog, and he reluctantly paid the $500 vet bill.
Flipping off Lynn while she walks the old dog. Well, well, the Secret Service and FBI visited the house, showed a handwritten letter, with Bob’s PO Box business as a return address, and the four sentences stated that “I am going to Washington and hunt down Trump and shoot him wherever he is not surrounded by his team.”
It was, of course, handwritten, and some of those letters look like the hateful wording on the check the guy gave Bob and Lynn for the vet bill.
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I will be targeted. The SS said they had been following Bob for a few weeks, and they cleared him of the death threats. They said SS and FBI look into 5,000 of these a week.
Former FBI Director James Comey has provoked an outcry from the Trump administration after he briefly posted a photo to Instagram that federal officials alleged was a call for violence against President Trump — a claim Comey pushed back on.
Here we go, the Heritage Foundation:
From Germany and Japan through South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Bosnia, and now Iraq, Americans have sacrificed blood, time, and treasure to resist tyranny, protect freedom, and spread prosperity. Under our security umbrella, several of those countries have become global economic juggernauts.
Our military fought to protect South Korea, and the outcome there highlights the importance of our troops. That country is an Asian tiger, with steadily expanding opportunities for its people. Meanwhile, satellite photos reveal a North Korea that’s literally stuck in the dark ages; while the southern half of the peninsula blazes with electricity every night, the northern half is almost completely dark.
Even when we lost the shooting war, Americans won the war of ideas. Vietnam, for instance, has liberalized its economy and wants to join the World Trade Organization.
In fact, the longer American troops are in a country, the better that country does. In a working paper, Dr. Garett Jones of Southern Illinois University and I found that the presence of 10,000 American troops over many decades leads to a major increase in economic growth every year – after other causal variables are considered.
FROM MERCENARY TO ACAB.
“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed” (1 Peter 2:24).
We celebrate our eternal reunion, forgiven and clean.
This story from The Christian Herald, 1961, precedes the famous 1970s song “Tie a yellow ribbon ’round the ole oak tree” about a similar story of a man returning home on a bus after three years imprisonment.
Ahh, the real story:
Tie a yellow ribbon ’round the ole oak tree
I’m comin’ home, I’ve done my time Now I’ve got to know what is and isn’t mine If you received my letter telling you I’d soon be free Then you’ll know just what to do If you still want me If you still want me
Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon ’round the ole oak tree It’s been three long years Do ya still want me (still want me) If I don’t see a ribbon ’round the ole oak tree I’ll stay on the bus Forget about us Put the blame on me If I don’t see a yellow ribbon ’round the ole oak tree
Bus driver, please look for me ’cause I couldn’t bear to see what I might see I’m really still in prison And my love, she holds the key A simple yellow ribbon’s what I need to set me free I wrote and told her please
Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon ’round the ole oak tree It’s been three long years Do ya still want me (still want me) If I don’t see a ribbon ’round the ole oak tree I’ll stay on the bus Forget about us Put the blame on me If I don’t see a yellow ribbon ’round the ole oak tree
Now the whole damned bus is cheerin’ And I can’t believe I see A hundred yellow ribbons ’round the ole oak tree
I’m comin’ home, mmm, mmm
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So, after the fistacuffs didn’t actually unfold, I ended up working out, and the proverbial TV was on, no sound, and the rock ‘n’roll was playing while these old fucks, including me, worked on rehabilitation. Unfortunately, the heart valve replacements, the by-passes, the open heart recovery and the huge $250,000 hospital bills (paid by Medicare, insurance advantage) seemed to not shake these people into rehabilitating their minds and learning that the Semen Drip and Racist and Rapist in Chief DOES NOT CARE about FLYOVER America.
Killing schoolgirls and civilians IS the tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree way of the country of MURDERERS.
Israel is jubilant as the Iranian schoolgirl death toll surpasses expectations, with over 148 “liberated.”
He kills, and then:
‘I picked those drapes in my first term. I always liked gold.’
He moves on to talk about Melania.
‘She said, “will the piledrivers ever stop? You know they go from six in the morning till 11.30 in the evening.” Can you imagine? To me that’s a beautiful sound. She doesn’t like it. I love it.’
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Play a stupid game, get a stupid prize. This is true in baseball as with many other contests. March and April have so far been one long, moronic bonanza. It begins with the boogeyman du jour, a once-nebulous acronym imbued with the weight of umpteen other soiled, abandoned words: DEI.
On the morning of March 19, those three letters were added to a URL for an article on the U.S. Department of Defense website about baseball icon Jackie Robinson—and that article was then surreptitiously taken offline. This was done as part of a government-wide purge on all things “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” related, orchestrated by the reinstalled Trump administration. The web post, with its references to the veteran Robinson’s “segregated Army cavalry unit”; his onetime refusal “to move to the back of the bus” while stationed at Fort Cavazos, Texas; and the “hatred” of “fans and other baseball players” during his career, was eventually restored later that day after a wave of criticism online. The department’s initial press response (“DEI is dead at the Defense Department”) softened into a vapid backstep (“Everyone at the Defense Department loves Jackie Robinson …”), followed by an attempt to somehow frame the life and legacy of the man who broke the nation’s most infamous color barrier outside of “the prism of immutable characteristics, such as race.”
TV and now MLB spring games? Another fucked up racist element on display.
The decline of Black baseball players in the MLB—from roughly 18-20% in the 1970s/80s to roughly 6-8% in recent years—is primarily driven by high costs of entry, the rise of, and increased investment in, other sports, and a decline in urban infrastructure. The shift to expensive travel/select teams has priced out many families, while basketball and football are often cheaper and offer faster paths to stardom.
Let it be known that I basically hate white “culture,” white everything, in this country of genocide and enslavement. I hate white movies, hate mostly white music, white banking, white tech, white education, white arts and culture, white thinking, white attitudes, white Chlamydia Capitalism.
Big paintbrush, sure, but come on, not 100 percent of the white hate goes out to all the whites and white things, you know that.
Just how bad it’s gotten was on full display during last year’s World Series when there wasn’t one American-born Black player on either the Astros’ or Phillies’ roster, marking the first time that had happened since 1950.
The question is why?
The reasons seem numerous as Black players from Hispanic nations have all but replaced African American players at the game’s highest level.
Cabell and Bishop James Dixon, who is the pastor of Community Faith Church and the chairman of the Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation, attribute the shrinking numbers to economics. To stay competitive at the Little League and youth baseball levels, families must have the financial ability to cover the costs of travel teams, expensive equipment, and specialized training.
Bats, for instance, can run hundreds of dollars, and most young players now have several bats at their personal disposal.
“When we played baseball, there were a few bats per team,” said Dixon, who was a star quarterback at Waltrip back in his day. “Now, every baseball player on the team has to have his own bats and a bag to put the bats in. And different kinds of shoes based on the ground and gloves for each position.
“So, it’s priced out. That’s the discrimination. It’s economics. Not just skin color. You can’t pay to play then you can’t make it happen.”
Even Astros manager Dusty Baker was surprised at the cost of being in the game when his son was growing up.
“My wife, I didn’t know what she was doing. I said, ‘Baby, what are you doing with all of that money? What do you need all that money for?’” Baker recalled. “She was spending $5,000 or $6,000 to play baseball. She was calling me from Phoenix, Cooperstown, Florida.
So here we go, Responsible Statecraft, that Jewish WAR:
And so each hour the dirty Semen Drip and Hegseth Department of War Crimes plays with death, the more Americans just accept that those boys and girls in uniform are better than sliced bread.
Again, it’s the toilets flushing right and the garbage picked up:
The first speaker, James Early, a cultural heritage policy consultant and former director at the Smithsonian Institution, said he has been traveling to Cuba for 50 years and went there in January in a trip sponsored by Busboys and Poets, a small restaurant chain based in the Washington, D.C., area that hosts community events for social justice groups.
Early said he has never seen Cuba in such dire straits as what he witnessed, with trash everywhere, people begging on the streets like never before, routine blackouts and other symptoms of economic breakdown.[1]
The curtailment of the oil supply from Venezuela, which supplies 20% of Cuban oil, since the U.S. kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, has been like a hammer blow to an already reeling country, whose economy contracted in 2024 and was described by President Miguel Díaz-Canel as a “war economy.”
You want to go to Havana? Fucking AmeriKKKa is a dirty dirty dirty concept, an idea made in the caldron of hell.
And here is the fucking Galand Nixon and Professor Wolff, just pontificating, prognosticating, and just fucking bullshit Americanizing.
This is the GAZAFICATION of the world, Jewish dude and African American dude. Have a llisten and the nonchalance of how these people talk. Economics?
Quoting: Living under a late-stage empire is like living in a twilight zone. The last few days have been especially trippy.
The US and Israel declared war on Iran with the full support of many European and regional leaders, and when Iran retaliated (as is their legal right under international law) the western political and media class wet the bed.
Every major Western leader, from Albanese, to Carney, to Starmer, Macron, and Merz, rather than condemn an illegal first-strike war, condemned Iran’s response.
The point must be reiterated:
Donald Trump stood in front of a camera, declared illegal war, without Congressional or UN approval, on a sovereign nation that had never attacked the US, and when that country fought back, they were framed by hysterical screeching Western elites as the aggressor.
Mourners dig graves on March 3, 2026, during the funeral for children killed in a reported strike on a primary school in Iran’s Hormozgan province in Minab
And we then go back into the theater of the absurd, American Press and Politics.
Hakeem Jeffries to whip Democratic votes against Iran war: House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) will whip votes in support of the War Powers Resolution this week, multiple Democratic sources told Drop Site News. The decision comes after a group of progressive Democrats urged leadership to break with their recent practice of allowing Democrats freely to back Trump administration policies, which began when 46 Democrats broke ranks to support the Laken Riley Act and set the stage for Trump’s mass deportation project.
Four Democrats openly oppose the WPR: Reps. Greg Landsman (Ohio), Tom Suozzi (N.Y.) Josh Gottheimer (N.J.), and Jared Moskowitz (Fl.), who received a combined $1.7 million in the last election cycle from American Israel Public Affairs Committee according to The Lever. The House is tentatively scheduled to begin debate on Wednesday and vote on Thursday.
Rep. Greg Landsman (OH-01): Jewish. He has frequently spoken about how his Jewish identity and the concept of tikkun olam (repairing the world) inform his work in Congress.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05): Jewish. He was raised in a Jewish family, was bar mitzvahed in both New Jersey and Israel, and is a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Jewish fraternity.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (FL-23): Jewish. He has identified as the youngest Jewish member of the 118th Congress and has been a vocal advocate against antisemitism.
Rep. Tom Suozzi (NY-03): Roman Catholic. While he represents a district with a large Jewish population and is a staunch supporter of Israel, he identifies as Catholic. He has previously referred to himself as one of the most reliable “non-Jewish Democratic votes” for Israel
she’s in/with good company but she wimped out years ago, apologizing to the fucking Vietnam War soldiers — those cocksuckers, those killers, those fucking psychos!
So, yep, TMI — At my three times a week cardio rehab, I get into it with regular people, you know, MAGA and others. Today, an old man in a wheelchair and his portly son wanted to throw down on me, at the hospital, outside the waiting room of Cardio Rehab, with 12 people (cardio patients, you know, triple bypass and the like) listening.
I heard Trump on their dumb phone, and then the fucking old cunt said, “He’s right. President Trump’s right. We have to take out the entire IRGC.”
I’m not expecting fucking Quasimodo brains to get smart, to be me, to go left of left, but I had to speak up:
“You want to take on the people of Iran? Murder people? Then get your fucking ass over there and see how you do. You fucking lover of this cunt Trump mass murderer.”
Of course, the wheelchair guy came at me, and the portly guy tried to block the hallway with his Dick Butkus stance.
“You fucking want to fight here at the hospital, you fat fuck.”
Then the fucking old man came at me in the wheelchair. “Listen up, punk, you don’t use that language around me.”
And so it goes . . . .
“Are you a fucking idiot? You want me to say things the nice way while you advocate murdering civilians and others? Kiss my ass, you cunt.”
“Well, you punk, I can say we need to go in there and take them all out.”
Yep, here we are, a place where Max and Aaron and Katie and John and Larry and The Judge and Ray and the list is long on Substack Patreon, YouTube, WHO NEVER go there from the safety of their computer screen and Poscast microphone. America is for this WAR, both sides of the dirty manure aisle.
“Fucking free speech, you fucking idiots, and that’s what it is calling you fucks fucking murdering cunts. You want Iranians dead, and boy, do I want Trump and Company and MAGA maggots like you dead. Dead.”
In the Middle Ages, when the feudal lords… concluded to enlarge their domains, to increase their power, their prestige, and their wealth, they declared war upon one another. But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street, go to war. — Eugene V. Debs in Canton, Ohio on June 16, 1918.
Eugene Debs made his famous anti-war speech protesting World War I, which was raging in Europe.
The working class has never yet had a voice in declaring war. If war is right, let it be declared by the people – you, who have your lives to lose.
For this speech, he was arrested and convicted in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio under the war-time espionage law.
Americans have consistently opposed anti-war movements throughout history, often driven by intense patriotism, fear of communism, or support for foreign policy, particularly during the World Wars and Vietnam. Counter-protests, government surveillance, and public hostility often target activists, aiming to uphold military efforts and punish dissenters seen as unpatriotic.
EVERY FUCKING WAR this Cunt-TREE has ginned up or proxied or launched, I have fought against.
There is a moral majority and a silent majority at every turn of the four-year cycle of voting for the head War Criminals in the White Man’s House:
World War I (1917–1918): Following entry into the war, the government and public intensely repressed anti-war sentiment. The Espionage and Sedition Acts were used to arrest socialists and labor activists who argued the war was for economic gain, marking a significant suppression of dissent.
World War II (1930s-1940s): While the America First Committee initially championed isolationism, the attack on Pearl Harbor created a strong national consensus, making open opposition to the war rare and socially marginalized.
Vietnam War (1960s-1970s): This era saw the most intense conflict between citizens. Pro-war groups, including some labor unions and conservative citizens, often clashed with demonstrators. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigated anti-war activists in 1966.
Modern Conflicts (Post-9/11): Following the 2003 Iraq invasion, while anti-war sentiment was high, supporters of the war often characterized protesters as harming troop morale.
The “Silent Majority”: In 1969, PresidentRichard Nixonpopularized the term “silent majority” to describe Americans who did not participate in anti-war demonstrations or counterculture. He framed these “forgotten Americans” as the patriotic core of the country to delegitimize the “vocal minority” of protesters.
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF): This conservative student organization actively advocated for the Vietnam War on campuses. They viewed themselves as a “besieged minority” and used inflammatory satire and physical confrontation to respond to the radicalism of the anti-war New Left.
Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Vietnam: Established in 1967, this group argued that premature U.S. withdrawal would have disastrous global consequences, claiming to represent a “silent center” of Americans.
The Hard Hat Riot is a pivotal example of this divide. Construction workers, many of whom were building the World Trade Center at the time, viewed student protesters as privileged “draft dodgers” who disparaged the country while the sons of the working class were doing the fighting. During the riot, workers used tools and hard hats as weapons, while police were criticized for doing little to stop the violence.
US Invasions Since The End of World War II
This topic of US Invasions spans hundreds of actions since 1945, and casualty figures often vary widely by source and methodology (combatants vs. civilians, direct vs. indirect deaths, time windows, and attribution). Below is a concise, good‑faith overview of major U.S. interventions and regime‑change operations post‑WWII, with dates and commonly cited casualty ranges. It’s not exhaustive. The U.S. has carried out nearly 400 foreign interventions between 1776 and 2023, with half since 1950 and over 25% after the Cold War.
Major wars and large-scale interventions
Korean War (Korea, 1950–1953): Civil war escalated into U.S.-led UN intervention against North Korea and China; armistice in 1953. The estimated total deaths often cited in the 2–3 million range (civilian and military, both sides). Sources note the scale of U.S. interventions post‑1950
Vietnam War (Vietnam, 1955–1975; major U.S. combat 1965–1973): U.S. bombing and ground war supporting South Vietnam against North Vietnam/Viet Cong; Saigon fell in 1975. Widely cited total war deaths 2–3+ million across Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (see bombing below). U.S. post‑1945 intervention context
Laos and Cambodia bombing (Laos, 1964–1973; Cambodia, 1969–1973): Extensive aerial campaigns (e.g., Operation Barrel Roll, Menu) tied to the Vietnam War; deaths include direct bombing casualties and unexploded ordnance aftermath. Often cited in the hundreds of thousands when combined with war‑related deaths.
Dominican Republic intervention (1965): U.S. troops intervened during the civil conflict; hundreds to thousands were killed in the broader crisis.
Lebanon (1958; 1982–1984): 1958 landing to stabilize government; 1983 Beirut barracks bombing killed 241 U.S. servicemembers; overall civilian/militia casualties varied across the conflict.
Grenada invasion (1983): Short operation to depose a military council; around 100–200 deaths overall.
Panama invasion (1989): Removal of Manuel Noriega; casualty estimates range from several hundred to a few thousand, with substantial debate.
Gulf War (Iraq/Kuwait, 1990–1991): U.S.-led coalition expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait; tens of thousands of Iraqi military casualties; civilian deaths include wartime and sanctions-era impacts.
Somalia intervention (1992–1993): Humanitarian mission turned into combat; several thousand Somalis died in associated fighting; 18 U.S. fatalities in the Battle of Mogadishu.
Bosnia (1995) and Kosovo (1999): NATO (including U.S.) air campaigns; casualties largely from broader wars, with airstrike deaths in the thousands in Kosovo; Bosnia war overall ~100,000 deaths before Dayton.
Afghanistan war (2001–2021): Overthrow of Taliban, prolonged insurgency; total deaths (all sides) in the hundreds of thousands, including civilians.
Iraq invasion and occupation (2003–2011; operations continued afterward): Regime change against Saddam Hussein; total deaths widely estimated in the hundreds of thousands, including civilians and combatants. Casualty framing by operation scale appears in public rankings.
Libya intervention (2011): NATO air war aiding anti-Gaddafi forces; thousands of combat and civilian deaths in the war period; subsequent instability caused additional fatalities.
Syria (from 2014): U.S.-led coalition airstrikes against ISIS and limited support to opposition forces; casualties from the broader civil war exceed hundreds of thousands; coalition strikes caused thousands of civilian deaths over the years.
Yemen (from 2015): U.S. support to Saudi-led coalition (arms, refueling early on, intelligence) and direct strikes against AQAP/ISIS; war-related deaths (direct and indirect) in the hundreds of thousands; airstrike civilian casualties in the tens of thousands.
Sources indicate the U.S. has undertaken numerous post‑Cold War interventions and large operations; casualty rankings by operation are commonly compiled, though methods differ.
Regime-change operations and covert interventions
Iran, 1953 (Operation Ajax): Overthrow of PM Mohammad Mossadegh; casualties during coup estimated in the hundreds; long‑term political repression followed.
Guatemala, 1954: CIA-backed coup ousted President Jacobo Árbenz; immediate deaths in the coup were limited relative to the subsequent decades of conflict, which resulted in over 100,000 deaths.
Congo (DRC), 1960–1961: Covert involvement following independence; Patrice Lumumba’s removal and assassination amid broader UN and regional conflict; casualty counts reflect wider war.
Brazil, 1964: Support for the military coup against President João Goulart; deaths relate to the ensuing dictatorship’s repression over the years.
Indonesia, 1965–1966: Support for anti‑communist forces; mass killings claimed hundreds of thousands to over a million; U.S. role remains debated.
Chile, 1973: Support for coup against President Salvador Allende; hundreds killed in the coup; thousands tortured/killed during the Pinochet era.
Argentina, 1976 (Operation Condor context): Coordination among dictatorships; widespread repression and deaths; U.S. knowledge/support debated.
Nicaragua, 1980s (Contras): Support for insurgency against Sandinistas; tens of thousands killed across the conflict.
El Salvador, 1980–1992: Support to government during civil war; ~75,000 deaths.
Honduras, 1980s: Base/support state for regional operations; casualties tied to broader conflicts.
Afghanistan, 1979–1989: Support to mujahideen post‑Soviet invasion; casualties in the war measured in the hundreds of thousands.
Haiti, 1994; 2004: 1994 intervention restored elected president; 2004 international involvement after Aristide’s ouster; casualties centered on civil conflict episodes.
Ukraine, various (since 2014): Support to government after annexation of Crimea and war in Donbas; casualties are primarily from the Russo‑Ukrainian conflict, not a U.S. regime change.
Broad catalogs document the scale and frequency of U.S. interventions, including covert and regime‑change operations, especially in Latin America during the Cold War
Selected bombing campaigns
Korea (1950–1953): Heavy air campaigns across North Korea; vast destruction; civilian deaths were significant.
Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia (1964–1973): Intensive bombing (Rolling Thunder, Linebacker; Barrel Roll; Menu). Civilian casualties from bombing and unexploded ordnance are substantial, adding to war totals.
Iraq (1991; 1998; 2003 onward): Air campaigns during the Gulf War, Desert Fox, and invasion/insurgency periods; thousands of civilian casualties across phases.
Yugoslavia (1999): NATO air war over Kosovo; civilian deaths from airstrikes in the hundreds to low thousands, amid larger conflict deaths.
Libya (2011): NATO air campaign; airstrike casualties in the hundreds to low thousands; broader war deaths higher.
Syria and Iraq (2014–present): Coalition airstrikes against ISIS; thousands of reported civilian deaths across both theaters.
Public sources compile “major operations since 1945” by casualty scale, covering many of these campaigns
Why casualty figures diverge
Definitions: Whether counting only direct violence or including indirect deaths (disease, displacement, famine).
Time windows: Immediate combat vs. years of aftermath.
Attribution: Multi‑actor conflicts make assigning responsibility complex.
Data quality: War zones impede consistent reporting; later estimates revise earlier counts.
The dudes in the cardio rehab gym laughed, said, “Man, you already got a workout. I thought for sure you were going to get into it.”
Ahh, I see these Americans, not just the MAGA deplorables, but the Democrat deplorables. They are all supporting these fucking mercenaries, these fucking self-drafting cunts in the various soldier of fortune outfits.
EVEN JANE, man:
Jane Fonda has once again expressed regret over the infamous ‘Hanoi Jane’ picture taken of her during the Vietnam War.
“It hurts me and it will to my grave that I made a huge, huge mistake that made a lot of people think I was against the soldiers,” she said at a personal speaking engagement in Frederick, Maryland. Protestors had massed outside the event with copies of the photo and signs reading “Forgive? Maybe. Forget? Never.”
The series of photos was taken during Fonda’s visit to Hanoi, where she met with North Vietnamese troops, and was pictured sitting on an anti-aircraft gun being used to target American planes. There was outrage at the pictures, and Fonda was branded a traitor, but she has frequently expressed regret for them.
One protestor told the Frederick News Post, “She got Americans killed … and she went to Vietnam to advance her husband’s career.” Fonda added that she understood this anger, and that she often met with veterans to discuss it: “I’m a lightning rod. This famous person goes and does something that looks like I’m against the troops, which wasn’t true, but it looked that way, and I’m a convenient target.”
Exhausted South Vietnamese soldiers sleep on a US Navy troop carrier taking them back to the provincial capital of Ca Mau in August 1962. The infantry unit had been on a four-day operation against the Viet Cong in swamplands at the southern tip of the country. Photograph: Horst Faas/AP
In the first of a series of fiery suicides by monks, Thich Quang Duc burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government on 11 June 1963. The photograph aroused worldwide outrage and hastened the end of the Diem government. With the photo on his Oval Office desk, President Kennedy reportedly remarked to his ambassador, ‘We’re going to have to do something about that regime. ’ Photograph: Malcom Browne/AP
Sunlight breaks through dense foliage around the town of Binh Gia as South Vietnamese troops, joined by US advisers, rest after a cold, damp, and tense night of waiting in an ambush position for a Viet Cong attack that did not come in January 1965. One hour later, the troops would move out for another long, hot day hunting the guerrillas in the jungles forty miles southeast of Saigon. Photograph: Horst Faas/AP
A US paratrooper wounded in the battle for Hamburger Hill grimaces in pain as he awaits medical evacuation at base camp near the Laotian border on 19 May 19 1969Photograph: Hugh Van Es/AP
An unidentified American soldier wears a hand-lettered slogan on his helmet in June 1965. The soldier was serving with the 173rd Airborne Brigade on defense duty at the Phuoc Vinh airfield. Photograph: Horst Faas/APView image in fullscreen
Women and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense Viet Cong fire on 1 January 1966. Paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade (background) escorted the civilians through a series of firefights during the US assault on a Viet Cong stronghold at Bao Trai, about twenty miles west of Saigon. Photograph: Horst Faas/AP
Caught in a sudden monsoon rain, part of a company of about 130 South Vietnamese soldiers moves downriver in sampans during a dawn attack on a Viet Cong camp on 10 January 1966. Several guerrillas were reported killed or wounded in the action thirteen miles northeast of Can Tho, in the flooded Mekong Delta. Photograph: Horst Faas/AP
Medic Thomas Cole looks up with his one unbandaged eye as he continues to treat wounded Staff Sergeant Harrison Pell during a firefight on 30 January 1966. The men belonged to the 1st Cavalry Division, which was engaged in a battle at An Thi, in the Central Highlands, against combined Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces. This photo appeared on the cover of Life magazine on 11 February 1966, and photographer Henri Huet’s coverage of An Thi received the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club. Photograph: Henri Huet/APThe body of a US paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near the Cambodian border is lifted up to an evacuation helicopter in War Zone C on 14 May 1966. The zone, encompassing the city of Tay Ninh and the surrounding area north of Saigon, was the site of the Viet Cong’s headquarters in South Vietnam. Photograph: Henri Huet/APView image in fullscreen
General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnamese chief of the national police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong official Nguyen Van Lem on a Saigon street early in the Tet Offensive on 1 February 1968. Photographer Eddie Adams reported that after the shooting, Loan approached him and said, ‘They killed many of my people, and yours too,’ then walked away. This photo won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. Photograph: Eddie Adams/AP
A woman mourns over the body of her husband after identifying him by his teeth and covering his head with her conical hat. The man’s body was found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue on 11 April 1969. The victims were believed killed during the insurgent occupation of Hue as part of the Tet Offensive. Photograph: Horst Faas/AP
Severely burned in an aerial napalm attack, children run screaming for help down Route 1 near Trang Bang, followed by soldiers of the South Vietnamese army’s 25th Division, on 8 June 8 1972. A South Vietnamese plane seeking Viet Cong hiding places accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on civilians and government troops instead. Nine-year-old Kim Phuc (centre) had ripped off her burning clothes while fleeing. The other children (from left) are her brothers Phan Thanh Tam, who lost an eye, and Phan Thanh Phouc, and her cousins Ho Van Bon and Ho Thi Ting. This photo won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. Photograph: Nick Ut/AP
Marines move through a landing zone, December 1969. Photograph: AP
A military source cited by Tasnim News Agency said the attack carried out earlier on Monday against Saudi Aramco oil facilities was conducted by Israel and constitutes a so-called “false flag” operation.
According to the source, the operation was intended to mislead regional countries and divert attention from Israel’s attacks on civilian locations inside Iran.
Iran Says Aramco Was Not Among Its Targets
The source noted that Iran has publicly and unequivocally stated it will target American and Israeli interests, facilities, and assets across the region, and that many such targets have already been struck.
However, the source stressed that Aramco facilities have not been among Iran’s targets to date, rejecting any linkage between Tehran and the attack.
Look at these people in their eyes:
Key factors contributing to this support include:
Media and Cultural Conditioning: Themes of patriotism and militarism are frequently embedded in public life, with media often presenting foreign interventions as necessary or heroic.
Fear and Security Concerns: The government often emphasizes imminent threats from foreign enemies, which rallies public opinion in favor of intervention.
Economic Interests: The military-industrial complex and major defense contractors benefit from ongoing conflicts, creating a financial incentive for sustained military presence.
Isolation from Costs: Because of the lack of a military draft and the use of drones or specialized forces, the general public often feels detached from the human, financial, and physical devastation caused by these wars.
Ideology: A belief in American exceptionalism and the duty to project power, often phrased as spreading democracy or fighting tyranny.
The “Enemy” Narrative: The perception of a “nasty” threat makes it easier for political leaders to gain support for using force
It’s always a psychological operation, with the power of the media, of The Press, or businesses, of Colleges and K12, football games, daily daily, daily, the fucking crocodile tears for the killers.
Three months ago: And of course, gets September 11 wrong, you know, “the terrorists.” Sure, not the Mossad and Neo-Cons.
Throughout its 250-year existence, the United States has almost always been at war. From its beginnings right through to the present day, the country’s armed forces have shaped both American identity and the political decisions of its leaders.
The United States of America has been at war throughout most of its 250-year existence. From the War of Independence right through to contemporary armed conflicts, the nation’s armed forces have not only shaped American identity but also influenced the political decisions of its leaders. The documentary takes a deep dive into this complex history and analyzes the “hot” and “cold” wars that have shaped US history to draw important lessons for the future.
The film explores how successive generations of US Americans viewed and experienced each conflict. It also examines the enduring impact of these wars on American society and reveals how military engagement was utilized to hone the image and the role of the US on the global stage. Around 30 high-profile experts, military personnel, and politicians examine the military history of the United States, explaining its successes and failures, as well as its impact on the world and the everyday lives of Americans.
The film looks to the past to gain a keener understanding of how today’s military decisions will affect tomorrow’s world — as well as their far-reaching impact on democracy and society. And with US President Donald Trump now in office for a second term, it asks what role the army plays in Trump’s worldview.
Above — fucking human stain, fake monarchs, Arab fucking ZIONISTS. Versus.
The day Notre Dame burned, a meme began to circulate. It had a picture of Quasimodo and said something like: investigators don’t know how the fire started, but I have my ideas. Besides being a joke that was too soon, the meme was grossly inaccurate. It implied that the titular hunchback from Victor Hugo’s classic Gothic novel would want the cathedral to burn. This is far from the reality of the character. Quasimodo would’ve been horrified by the fire. The cathedral was his home. He fought off a mob to protect it. The meme also showed how Quasimodo is viewed by the general public as a monster.
Of all the classic monsters I remember enjoying in my childhood, Quasimodo is the one that I was wrong about. Most people are wrong about him. We mistake his horrid appearance for his being a monstrous person. Even after reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame in high school, I missed how tragic the character actually is. Quasimodo is a victim of circumstance. He is a victim of how the nurturing we receive as children develops us into the adults we are.
Quasimodo never had a chance in life. His disfigured appearance caused people to recoil from him in horror. He was abandoned at the cathedral and raised by the priests. The only person he felt loved him was the real monster, who manipulated the hunchback to do horrible things for him. When Quasimodo fails to carry out one of Frollo’s plans, the hunchback’s only “loved one”, allows him to be punished for his failure.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame has been a cultural figure since Victor Hugo wrote the novel of the same name. But could he have existed in real life?
Memoirs uncovered by the Tate Archive in the U.K. may give clues to a real Quasimodo, the Telegraph reports. In his writings, sculptor Henry Sibson describes a stonemason working at Notre Dame who had a hunched back. Sibson worked at Notre Dame in the 19th century, around the same time Hugo wrote his novel. Researchers found records of men with similar names to those stated in Sibson’s accounts living in Paris at the time.
[In the English-speaking world, we like to call the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which is a marvelous title, given how marvelous is Quasimodo the Hunchback, born of a Jew and a sow (according to a nasty old lady in Book IV), who has got to be the most heartbreaking brokenhearted lover in the history of literature—Quasimodo, whose deformed and decayed skeleton turns up on the final page, entwined in posthumous and pathetic embrace around the skeleton of the hanged “Egyptian,” La Esmerelda, the “bohemian”]
The writing mentions a man with a hump on his back:
“Trajan, a most worthy, fatherly and amiable man as ever existed – he was the carver under the Government sculptor whose name I forget as I had no intercourse with him, all that I know is that he was humpbacked and he did not like to mix with carvers […] Mon Le Bossu (the Hunchback) a nickname given to him and I scarcely ever heard any other.”
Hugo had publicly opposed the way the cathedral was being designed, and the publishing of his book is said to have prompted its Gothic restoration in 1844. Whatever his inspiration, Hugo’s depiction of Quasimodo made him one of the most acclaimed authors in France.
So, no, the Jews of Israel are not Quasimodo, for sure . . . Just last year: Two years into the live-streamed Holocaust in Gaza, the Israelis are still escalating — and in ways that defy belief. Tel Aviv’s latest act of brazen criminality took place more than 2,000 kilometres away, in Doha, Qatar, where it attempted to assassinate the Hamas leadership, which had convened to discuss the latest Trump-backed proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The Israelis, however, failed in their criminal objective, as all the leaders of the Palestinian resistance movement survived the attack. In a statement, Hamas announced the martyrdom of five of its members, including the son of its chief, Khalil al-Hayya, as well as the director of his office. Three of his companions were also martyred. However, all the leaders came out of it alive.
The Israelis took full credit for their crimes. Netanyahu wrote on Twitter: “Today’s action against the top terrorist chieftains of Hamas was a wholly independent Israeli operation. Israel initiated it, Israel conducted it, and Israel takes full responsibility.”
Fucking Jews:
As of March 2, 2026, there are no widespread reports of Israelis protesting to stop the current military campaign against Iran. Instead, domestic public activity in Israel has largely focused on seeking safety from retaliatory strikes or supporting the downfall of the Iranian regime.
Current Context (March 2026)
Support for the Campaign: Many Israelis have historically viewed the Iranian government as an existential threat. Following the launch of “Operation Epic Fury” on February 28, 2026—which resulted in the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei—reports indicate that many Israelis would cheer the potential collapse of the Iranian clerical leadership.
Civilian Reaction: The immediate priority for many Israeli citizens has been seeking shelter as Iran launched retaliatory missile strikes against cities like Tel Aviv and Beit Shemesh.
Support for Iranian Protesters: In the weeks leading up to the current conflict, some Israelis held rallies in solidarity with internal Iranian protesters (e.g., in Tel Aviv in January 2026), framing their support as opposition to the Iranian regime rather than opposition to Israeli military action.
Months after proclaiming a ‘historic victory,’ Israel embarks on another offensive against Iran — and the ritual erasure of political dissent begins anew. by Orly Noy
The familiar chorus
But the rhetoric of solidarity dissolved almost as quickly as it appeared. Once reports began to emerge of civilian casualties — especially from the girls’ elementary school in Minab, where some 150 children were killed in an apparent Israeli airstrike — the supposed concern for the Iranian people revealed itself to be paper-thin.
Shocked, I shared the videos from the school on my Facebook page. I confess I did not expect the torrent of hatred that followed.
I already know that, aside from a very narrow fringe, one cannot expect empathetic reactions to the mass killing of Palestinians; that the overwhelming majority of the Jewish public in Israel not only does not mourn but openly rejoices at every Palestinian death, under any circumstances. But I did not imagine that similar bloodlust would accompany the bombing to death of little girls in school uniforms, particularly after somanyIsraelis rushed to declare that it wasn’t the Iranian people who are our enemy, but the regime.
Within five hours, my post had accumulated hundreds of hateful comments, and the usual wave of threats and abuse had started bombarding my inbox. Some denied the incident had taken place at all, or claimed that the Iranian regime bombed its own school. A larger portion rejoiced at the fate of the murdered girls.
“Too bad they don’t close schools on Shabbat!” someone wrote, adding five laughing emojis to underline his delight.
“Excellent, excellent, excellent, joyful and heartwarming. May there be many more cases like this, and soon among the leftists,” wrote another.
No less depressing and predictable, was how Jewish opposition leaders eagerly and reflexively rallied behind Netanyahu in support of the war. “I want to remind us all: The people of Israel are strong. The IDF and the Air Force are strong. The strongest power in the world stands with us,” tweeted Yair Lapid. “In moments like these we stand together — and we win together. There is no coalition and no opposition, only one people and one IDF, with all of us behind them.”
I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Me. . . . You shall be . . . a holy nation . We never considered ourselves simply a religious community. A Jew is a member of the Jewish people.
Yikes: Exodus 19:4-6 cited above. Now I will take a hot and disinfecting shower!
Here, comments I made on some dude’s Substack, but in a nutshell: My god, these people still cut comments on their fucking Substack if they smell a whiff of parsing out the reality that New York and New Jersey are states with most of the Jews in the USA, and that the NJ governor is certainly influenced by Jew York and Jew Jersey.
The Gov. did not even call Trump’s war a War (passive voice “attacks”). She did not name Iran (“Middle East”). It sounds like the Gov. is concerned about Iranian self-defense retaliation on their US attackers.
She did not mention the fact that the war is illegal and not authorized by Congress, ratified Treaty, or the UN/International Law, which are high crimes and grounds for impeachment.
The Gov. did not mention the fact that Trump attempted to justify this war based on BIG LIES, which she surely knows as a former member of the House Armed Services Committee, an experience Sherrill touts.
Sherrill also brags about her experience as “a former Naval officer”, so surely she knows that members of the military pledge an Oath to the Constitution and that members of the military have an affirmative duty to disobey illegal orders and can be prosecuted for murder and war crimes for following illegal orders that kill people.
The entire US military chain of command – from Hegseth down to the drone operators – are now war criminals.
Nor did she condemn Trump for waging an illegal and immoral, unprovoked war of choice.
Sherrill stated that there is no known threat to NJ? What about NJ’s enlisted folks in harm’s way?
So, my first comment was:
Oh, no, what is antisemitic?
The most significant attack — and one with far-reaching consequences — Feb. 28 was on Beit-e-Rahbari, the residence of Ayatollah Khamenei, in a decapitation strike. It was successful. The Judeo-American alliance killed Khamenei along with several of his family members, including his daughter and granddaughter. Regime change in Iran has been at the top of the Israeli-American agenda, and the possibility of killing Khamenei was openly floated by the aggressors during the June war as well. They went ahead with it this time and did finish off the head of the Iranian state.
As the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei was not just a political head of Iran, he was also the preeminent spiritual leader of Shia Muslims. Deriving their theology and culture heavily from the Prophet’s grandson Hussein’s last stand against a numerically much-superior army of the tyrant Yazid in the Battle of Karbala in 680, in which he ascended as a martyr, martyrdom is seen as the highest ideal in Shia Islam. For good reason, the news of Khamenei’s martyrdom has brought millions of Iranian Shias into the streets pledging their support for the Islamic Republic. This same sentiment has poured into the streets of other countries with Shia populations, from the neighbouring Iraq to the much farther Pakistan and even in the intensively-surveilled police state of the Indian occupied Kashmir.
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Dang . . . This is antisemitic?
My new comment.
When families were finally directed to a gathering point to receive the bodies of their children, he slowly moved forward. When asked if he needed help, he shook his head silently and waited for his daughter’s body to be brought out.
“I cannot understand how a place where innocent children learn can be bombed like this,” Shariatmadar told Drop Site. “We are talking about small children who knew nothing of politics or wars. And yet they are the ones paying the highest price.”
Some 170 students were inside the building attending morning classes when the missile struck. At least 108 people were killed, according to the public prosecutor’s office in Minab, many of them schoolgirls between seven and 12 years old.
It was unclear if it was a U.S. or Israeli strike. On Saturday, CENTCOM’s spokesperson said they were “looking into” the reports.
“My heart is broken,” Shariatmadar said. “For Sara and for all the children we lost today. I want the world to know that the children are the real victims. Every day that passes without a solution increases the pain and the suffering for the families and for the children alike.”
Minab sits far from Tehran, but the school was adjacent to a naval base belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Hormozgan province, where the small city of Minab is located, borders the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most strategically sensitive waterways.
A resident of Minab, who spoke to Drop Site on the condition of anonymity, said explosions shook the city Saturday morning, sending residents into an immediate panic. Then reports started emerging that the school had been hit.
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Oh, the power of an armchair and American exceptional BULLSHIT art.
Evil is a term better reserved for those who blockade entire countries even unto death; or for those who steal the wealth of formerly sovereign nations; or for those who call for a return to colonization of the global majority; or for those who aid and abet their allies’ genocides and their seizure of the territory of their victims; or for those who ass…
The former and recently assassinated Supreme Leader of Iran, Khomeini, was anything but an evil man.
Evil is a term better reserved for those who murder dozens and dozens of elementary schoolgirls, or who murder people in small boats without evidence and without any kind of due process.
Evil is a term better reserved for those who blockade entire countries even unto death; or for those who steal the wealth of formerly sovereign nations; or for those who call for a return to colonization of the global majority; or for those who aid and abet their allies’ genocides and their seizure of the territory of their victims; or for those who assassinate the leaders of other countries with whom they pretend to be negotiating; or those who would block evidence of crime and corruption on the part of elites; or for those who kill US citizens merely because they are protesting these and comparable evils.
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More:
New York and New Jersey hold the highest concentrations of Jewish people in the U.S. As of 2022–2024 data, New York State is home to approximately 1.67 million to 1.79 million Jews, while New Jersey has a population of roughly 581,000 to 626,000. Together, these states contain over 25% of the total U.S. Jewish population.
Yikes, that’s AI Google. Now, there are tons of Jewish organizations and obbying groups who are applauding the Murder Incorporated of the Jewish State of Murdering and Raping and Maiming and Starving Occupied Palestine.
I doubt your governor is going to be humane and justice-driven enough to speak out on that Trump Murder Boy and his Cap’n Crunch and his Department of War Crimes.
Please do not remove this comment. Israel is a terrorist state, called Nazis by Jews like Finkelstein and Pappe.
You seem to misunderstand what I wrote: (and Zionism is not the jewish religion – it is a racist imperial ideology)
“After years of US funding and support of an Israeli genocide in Gaza, I won’t even pretend that US government officials give a rats ass about the people of Iran and have any objections to US military murders of Iranian civilians, including women and children, and slaughtering Iranian troops (a la “turkey shoots” in Iraq).”
Crazy, after four college degrees and world travel and working in unions and as a real newspaper journalist to be now lectured on what real Judaism is and what it isn’t! Whew, I just turned 69 and now I see. Well, not really. 19 million Jews worldwide and hands down they go to synagogues and listen to rabbis and most believe in the apartheid State of Jewish Israel to have a right to exist. Oh, is that pre- 1969 nakba boundaries. Is that a better mowing of the lawn?
Gilad Atzmon, yep, listen to his jazz and his take on his former birthplace and religion.
Whatever, and in today’s world, yep, let’s look at what Christianity’s history is and Judaism’s history is. Let’s look at their books, the Torah and Old Testament.
MAGA? The average person in MAGA goes to the churches, dude, the tens of thousands of churches of many denominations, and alas, they are following the tenets of their religion, what their pastors and ministers spew out.
Religion is not in some silver-lined box. Religion is what it is as people practicing it see it, embrace it and “develop”/”Devolve” it.
Read, dude:
Judaism and Zionism Are Inseparable by Ammiel Hirsch
Judaism absent Jewish peoplehood is not Judaism; it is something else. Whenever Jews abandoned their ideological — or practical — commitment to Am Yisrael, they eventually drifted away. This was precisely the accusation leveled by Reform Zionist Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver toward his anti-Zionist colleagues in the pre-war years. By continuing to insist that the Jews are “no longer a nation, but a religious community” (Pittsburgh Platform, 1885), Reform rabbis were, Silver contended, reconstituting “Paul’s insistence upon a religious creed entirely divorced from nation and land.” In a scathing critique, he noted that this declaration of Reform rabbis “was the first of its kind ever made by an assembly of Jewish religious leaders,” implying that had the Reform movement continued down this path, we, too, like the early Christians, would have eventually drifted away from Jewish civilization.
These two foundational principles of Judaism — nationhood in the Land of Israel — accompanied us throughout the centuries of dispersion. Unlike every nation of antiquity that lived by our side, we did not disappear when our national sovereignty was dissolved. Miraculously and unprecedentedly, we learned to adapt and survive. But at no time was separation from the Land of Israel considered permanent. At no time did we abandon the dream of return. At no time did we consider dispersion to be a blessing. At no time did the rabbis sever Torah from Israel, or God from the people. At no time was tikkun olam — the universal demand to do what is just and right — ripped from the moorings of klal yisrael — the centrality of Jewish peoplehood. It was never one or the other. One without the other diminished both. It was all part of a unified whole. Loyalty to the Jewish people absent concern for all the families of the earth is a distortion of Judaism. And tikkun olam divorced from Jewish peoplehood is not Jewish universalism; it is just universalism. To contend that the Hebrew prophets cared only about repairing the world, and not about the well-being of the Jewish people as a people, is to misunderstand and disfigure the entire prophetic tradition.
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Your war mongering guv? Yep, another Jewish-influenced believer in genocide.
Mikie has spent her time in Congress voting to send billions of American taxpayer dollars overseas to fund Israeli war crimes and genocide. She even voted for AIPAC’s main censorship bill in an attempt to CRIMINALIZE criticism of the Israeli government!
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Oh, another Jewish rabbi quoted here:
Even as Jewish anti-Zionism seems to be intensifying, in particular among the younger generations in America, anti-Zionist Jews constitute a small minority of our people. On the Right, this minority is composed largely of Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jews, whose lifestyles and values are outside the mainstream of world Jewry. On the Left, they are largely so-called progressive Jews, who, whether by word or deed, are regurgitating the old, discarded Classical Reform rejection of Jewish peoplehood. In truth, Jewish anti-Zionism is an anachronism. The majority of the world’s Jews already — or will soon — live in Israel. With every passing year, Israel becomes stronger, and its influence on world Jewry increases. Israel is here to stay. Anti-Zionism is a luxury of secure Jews, those who do not feel threatened by widespread Jew-hatred. It is hard to find any anti-Zionist Ukrainian Jews. To the contrary, Israel is preparing to absorb tens of thousands of immigrants from Russia and Ukraine in years to come.
“Zionism is the return to Judaism even before the return to the Land of Israel,” Herzl said to the delegates of the First Zionist Congress. It was an astonishing insight, a prophecy we now know to be true: By reviving the Jewish nation, Zionism revived Judaism itself. It is impossible to envision Judaism today without the State of Israel. Zionism restored the Jewish people to history, propelling us back to the future.
On my first glance at the Tel Aviv skyline in final descent above Ben Gurion Airport, the white city slowly emerging from the azure sea, I often recite to myself these words from Amos 9:14:
I will restore My people, Israel. They shall rebuild ruined cities and inhabit them. They shall plant vineyards and drink their wine. They shall till gardens and eat their fruits. And I will plant them on their own soil, nevermore to be uprooted from the soil I have given them.
Ruined cities are rebuilt, the people restored, nevermore to be uprooted from the soil of the Promised Land.
Why have Western governments been waging an economic warfare against Iran for almost five decades?
The Islamic Republic of Iran was subject to a focused Mossad-inspired attack on the 8th and 9th of January.
The Islamic Republic has never wavered in its support for the Palestinian people’s struggle against Zionist oppression and has been a bulwark against the Greater Israel project.
That’s why Benjamin Netanyahu’s desperately trying to persuade the United States to mount a full-scale war against Iran.
So, in our first report, Latifa Abouchakra explains how the West’s economic warfare campaign provides a backdrop to the riots that have recently been in the news.
Our next report looks at why the United States pulled back from the brink of a full-scale war with Iran at the eleventh hour.
Joining us as our guest contributor today is the independent researcher and writer, Dr Phil Bevin, who publishes his material on a range of topics via his Patreon account and various other publications.
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In the Navy, I was on a mission to protect our country. Now, I’m announcing my candidacy for governor on a mission to get things done for New Jersey.
This will be a campaign we build together. We all have a place and a say in New Jersey’s future.
I’m Mikie Sherrill and I’m asking you to join us. New Jersey — let’s build something
Judaism and Zionism Are Inseparable by Ammiel Hirsch
The Jewish story begins in Genesis chapter 12:
And God said to Abram: “Go forth from your native land . . . to a land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation . . . and you shall be a blessing . . . and all the families of the earth shall bless themselves through you.” And Abram passed through the land . . . and God said, “I will assign this land to your offspring.”
From this point forward, and forevermore, the Torah establishes two foundational principles of what became Judaism:
Nationhood and national territory.
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The people of the world who are confused about ZIonism, Israel, Judaism, well, they ARE the enemy: Here, some good writing.
The West did not save Iranian women. It buried their daughters.
The United States and Israel keep inventing women they claim to save.
These women are always far away. Always flattened. Always spoken about, never listened to. They exist as justification, not as people.
Iranian women are the latest version.
We are told they are uniformly oppressed. Permanently silenced. Frozen in submission. The people telling this story have never walked Iranian streets. They have never sat in Iranian cafés. They are afraid to go. Fear does the work for them.
A friend of mine has just returned from Iran.
Women in crop tops and leggings. Women fully veiled. Women working. Women not.
It looked no different to Lebanon. Complexity. Contradiction. Choice mixed with constraint. Real life.
I have spoken to countless women myself. Muslim women. Hijab. No hijab. Across borders and contexts the West collapses into caricature. They argue politics. They work. They study. They love. They disagree with their governments and with each other. They defy the flat image painted for them by people who have never listened long enough to hear them speak.
That reality is inconvenient.
So Washington and Tel Aviv erase it. They reduce Iranian women to a single helpless image. A woman who needs saving. A woman who gives moral cover to pressure, sanctions, and war.
This is an old trick.
Afghanistan was bombed to save women. Then abandoned. Iraq was invaded to free women. Then left in ruin. Libya was destroyed in the name of protection. Syrian women became refugees in a proxy war sold as concern.
The script never changes.
Women are turned into symbols. Symbols are weaponised. Real women pay the price.
I have seen what this looks like on the ground.
In Tyre, Lebanon, I met a Shia woman. She did not ask to be saved. She spoke about women sending their sons to the front line. Not because they love war, but because they refuse a future lived in fear. She said they will keep sending them so the next generation does not grow up looking over their shoulders. So they can live with liberty on their own land.
This is what Israeli–US power leaves behind when it speaks the language of protection. Women are not rescued. They are left to carry the cost.
Then there was Iman. I met her in Egypt. A Palestinian in exile.
She did not ask to be saved either.
She holds a university degree. Another course is already lined up. She translated for me from Arabic to English with precision. Not serviceable. Perfect. She is opinionated. Clear. Unafraid of argument.
She does not need saving from her culture. She does not need saving from her people.
She only needs saving because the West destroyed the conditions of her life.
First, the empire invents the woman who needs saving. Then it destroys the women who do not.
Which brings us to Iran. And to a girls’ school.
You Do Not Save Women by Killing Girls
An Israeli–US bomb hit a girls’ elementary school in Iran.
Girls aged seven to twelve. In class. At their desks.
This is not rhetoric. It is fact.
The same United States and Israel that claim they must attack Iran to save women have killed girls in a school.
Read that again.
This is not a tragic contradiction. It is the truth breaking through the lie.
When Washington and Tel Aviv talk about women’s rights, this is what it produces. Not safety. Not futures. Rubble.
These girls were not threats. They were not symbols. They were children.
And they were expendable.
The response will be familiar. Investigations. Statements. Language designed to manage outrage rather than confront what happened.
But no statement resurrects a child.
You do not save women by killing girls. You do not liberate societies by bombing schools. You do not claim feminism while practising empire.
We have seen this ledger before.
Gaza. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya.
Iran is not an exception. It is confirmation.
The United States and Israel do not act to protect women. They act to preserve power. Women’s suffering is invoked when useful and discarded when inconvenient.
Iranian women do not need missiles. They do not need myths. They do not need empire speaking in their name.
The myth survives. The girls do not.
The West did not save Iranian women. It buried their daughters.
For the record, Liz
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I guarantee the above, written by Liz would not be allowed in MANY U$A colleges.
The policy, passed by the system’s Board of Regents in December, marked an expansion of a November rule that prohibited “advocacy” of the same subjects. It came as a “gut punch,” as one administrator described it to another in an email, to representatives of the university’s College of Arts and Sciences, who now had weeks to “mitigate” the relevant material in their syllabi and apply for limited exemptions, or face canceling classes students had already enrolled in.
While the policy was originally drafted to head off one academic-freedom controversy — in which an instructor was fired after a student secretly recorded her teaching about gender — it quickly sparked another. A philosophy professor, Martin Peterson, was told to remove readings from Plato from his syllabus, a move that drew criticism from across higher ed.
Back to the Navy Pilot Cunt: She even voted for AIPAC’s main censorship bill in an attempt to CRIMINALIZE criticism of the Israeli government!
Whoops, insert AOC for Mikie . . . . another fucking Talmudist Cunt: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezvoted for a resolution on Wednesday which endorses a bogus Israel lobby definition of anti-Semitism.
In backing the measure, she broke with several other members of the so-called Squad, the dwindling group of progressive Democrats in Congress, and sided with the Anti-Defamation League, a powerful Israel lobby group that welcomed the resolution’s passage.
Fucking Jews, dudes, these are JEWS pushing this, not some fucking fabricated rice paper shield called “zionist”:
In the United States, where the First Amendment protects free speech, criticism of Israel cannot be outlawed outright.
But the EU has called for the IHRA definition to be used by law enforcement agencies as a tool to “better recognize anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic crimes” and to “assess security threats.”
Israel and its lobby have also pushed for the IHRA definition to be adopted by private institutions, including schools and universities in the United States, where it has become increasingly common to use the pretext of combating anti-Semitism to crush student protests against institutional complicity in Israel’s genocide.
A number of college campuses across the US have already adopted the IHRA definition. Its further normalization and embrace by public officials, especially self-identified progressives such as Ocasio-Cortez, lends it further credence.
Even without it being codified as the law of the land, the IHRA definition is already a danger to free speech and advocacy for Palestinian rights, which is why Casca’s assurance that Ocasio-Cortez opposes its “codification” is a deflection.
They, the Jews and their Jew Wannabe Christian Zionists, are coming for us:
Does any discussion of white privilege violate policy, even if the instructor is explicit that the goal of discussing privilege is not to assign guilt or blame, or to tell any individual student that they are an ‘oppressor’?” Would a reading that describes a privilege walk “violate policy even if the reading is criticizing that approach?
Reflecting on the flooding of the timeline with Bafta’s N-word coverage Kehinde opens by saying that we’ve missed the point. We focus on the spectacle and not the real issue. Of course, the BBC shouldn’t have aired the N-word and the Bafta’s should have shown more care… but we expect too much from a racist system.
Speaking of a racist system, Kehinde addresses the Green Party’s win in the Gorton and Denton by election. Thankfully, Reform’s less than mediocre White male candidate Matthew Goodwin lost out but the far right party remains a threat, particularly if they make a coalition with the next Prime Minister of the UK….Kemi Badenoch
He is then joined by Dr. Wandia Njoya, a prominent Kenyan scholar, public intellectual, and social commentator known for her critical analysis of education, culture, and politics in Africa. She is an Associate Professor of Literature at Daystar University in Kenya, where she has also served as the Head of the Department of Language and Performing Arts. Wandia holds a PhD in French from Pennsylvania State University. Her scholarly work focuses on French and African literature, film, gender issues, and the interrogation of “what it means to be human” in the modern world.
Dr. Njoya is one of the most vocal critics of Kenya’s Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). She argues that the system prioritizes “practicality” and neoliberal productivity over genuine critical thinking and the arts. She frequently writes about decolonising the African mind and the academy, drawing inspiration from figures like Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Thomas Sankara, and Malcolm X. Her blog, Wandia Njoya, has won multiple awards from the Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) for its commentary on social issues. She is a regular contributor to The Elephant, where she publishes analyses on political elite culture, gender, and education.
Dozens of teenage girls were attending their regular training sessions of volleyball, basketball, and gymnastics in the main sports hall in Lamerd, a city near the Persian coast, when a missile slammed into the building at 5 p.m. on Saturday. Additional strikes hit two nearby residential areas and a hall adjacent to a school, as the U.S. and Israel pounded targets across Iran on the first day of what President Donald Trump declared as a regime change war. According to local officials cited in Iranian state media, the strikes on Lamerd killed at least 18 civilians and wounded scores more.
“Within seconds of the missile strike, the windows shattered into thousands of fragments. Sports equipment, balls, tables, and barriers flew through the air. Black smoke filled the space. The smell of gunpowder made breathing almost impossible. The screaming began immediately, layered with the sound of debris collapsing and concrete falling from the ceiling,” Mohammed Saed Khorshedy, a 29-year-old worker at the gym who witnessed the attack.
The bombing of the sports hall in Lamerd came hours after a strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, another small city on the Persian Gulf, further east near the Strait of Hormuz, that, according to the state-run IRNA news agency, killed 165 people, many of them schoolgirls. Neither the U.S. nor Israel claimed that strike. The Israeli military said it was not aware of strikes in the area of Minab; CENTCOM’s spokesperson said they were “looking into” reports. Another strike hit an adjacent IRGC naval base and the USS Abraham Lincoln is stationed nearby.
The governor of Lamerd said
“The United States and the Zionist regime fired missiles at the sports hall while female students were playing inside,” according to the Fars news agency.
As of Sunday morning, the Iranian Red Crescent and state-linked media have reported preliminary casualty figures of over 200 people killed and more than 740 injured across Iran. Iran launched retaliatory strikes across nine countries in the region: Israel, Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, with a total of 18 killed.
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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi condemns the targeted killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei, calling it a despicable act by So-called democratic powers.
She says such actions against a sovereign nation must be strongly denounced.
May these fucking Portlandians all be taken out in the woods, heads chopped off, and fed to slugs.
Hundreds of Iranian-Americans met at Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square on Sunday to celebrate this weekend’s military strikes against the Iranian government, which they say has been the source of brutal repression for decades.
For weeks, the group of Iranian Americans of Portland has gathered at Pioneer Courthouse Square to dance, sing, and ask for the federal government’s help in toppling the Iranian government headed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader for nearly 40 years.
They got their wish Saturday morning, when the U.S. and Israel fired missiles into Iran, killing Khamenei and many other senior Iranian officials.
And for Iranians protesting in Portland, it was a party atmosphere.
These people are so human stain, man, this is what AmeriKKKa is to these fascists.
Mir Dehdasht, an administrative officer at Azad university whose 15-year-old daughter Rabab Dehdasht was training at the sports hall, was at home when a neighbor knocked on his door to tell him the facility had been attacked.
“I ran immediately toward the place, and when I arrived, I found burning cars and rubble scattered everywhere,” Dehdasht told Drop Site. “The injured were bleeding heavily, some had lost consciousness on the ground, others were screaming without stopping. Their voices were deafening.”
He continued:
“Blood and dust covered everything, and the rubble blocked quick access to the building. Rescue teams were working with extreme care to bring out the injured athletes and the bodies of the victims. The screaming filled everything,” he said. “Robab did not survive the force of the explosion, while others survived but with life-threatening injuries. I felt complete helplessness.”
Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi, of the University of Tehran, noted that the people of Iran are united in the aftermath of the U.S.-Israeli murder of Iranian Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and that: “For Iranians, this is a war of survival. For Americans, this is a war of choice.”
“Miriam and Sheldon would come into the office. They’d call me, he’d call me. I think they had more trips to the White House than anybody else I can think of … she loves Israel. But she loves it, and they would come in, and her husband was a very aggressive man, but I loved him. He was a very aggressive, very supportive of me. And, he’d call up, ‘Can I come over and see you?’ I’d say, ‘Sheldon, I’m the President of the United States, it doesn’t work that way.’ He’d come in”.
Trump similarly boasted on the campaign trail in 2024 that,
“Miriam and Sheldon would come into the White House probably almost more than anybody outside of people that work there. And they were always after — and as soon as I’d give them something — always for Israel. As soon as I’d give them something, they’d want something else”, and last year boasted , “Sheldon was an amazing guy, and he’d come up to the office, and there was nobody more aggressive than Sheldon. he’d always say 10 minutes, it turned out to be about an hour-and-a-half, and what he did is he fought for Israel. He just wanted to take care of Israel”.
He boasted that Miriam and Sheldon Adelson were “responsible for so much” during his fist term including when he “terminated the disastrous Iran nuclear deal”, the deal negotiated in 2015 that limited Iran’s nuclear enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief, which Benjamin Netanyahu attempted to stop by giving a speech in front of the U.S. congress urging them to block the deal.
In 2017, after Trump “opted not to push for steps that could undo the nuclear agreement,” he added a line in his speech saying he “could still cancel the deal ‘at any time.’” Politico reported that, “The line was added to Trump’s speech after (John) Bolton, … reached the president by phone on Thursday afternoon from Las Vegas, where Bolton was visiting with Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson. Bolton urged Trump to include a line in his remarks noting that he reserved the right to scrap the agreement entirely”.
Bolton, an Iran hawk who later became Trump’s national security adviser in 2018, was also deeply connected to the Adelsons.
There were wild celebrations in bunkers across Tel Aviv—and even a Florida congressional office—as exciting news updates rolled in. The European colonisers stopped cowering for a moment as they heard the death toll of Iranian schoolgirls had risen to 148. Most of the victims were aged 7 to 12—a lucky few were pulled screaming from the rubble, but many more remain buried beneath.
“This is why we’re winning, baby!” one settler boasted on Larry Ellison’s TikTok. “They haven’t touched a single one of our schoolgirls. Fucking losers!”
Israel’s latest success came after a precision-guided missile struck a high-value military target: the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab. US Rep. Randy Fine set off seismometers as he jumped with joy, shrieking “Bombs away!”
Dirty fucking AmeriKKKans: Anousha Sedighi, a professor at Portland State University, said while she understands those concerns of further U.S. military involvement in the region, she would like other protesters to understand the experiences of Iranian people.
“We know you’re tired of the U.S. getting involved in other countries,” Sedighi said. “But there is nothing like the lived experience of a people. I hope you never know the sheer desperation of a people praying to be bombed only to be free.”
This is what these cunts in Portland LOVE: The Department of Education hung a banner of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk outside its headquarters as the country prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday.
New Threat to Power Grids: Data Centers Unplugging at Once
These are the Jews’ playground: Zuckerberg, Brin, Page, Kushner, Dell, Altman, Ackman, Karp, Fink, Schwartzman, et al.
Dozens of data centers abruptly dropped off the power grid in recent Virginia incidents, forcing operators to take emergency action
U.S. counterterrorism and intelligence teams are on high alert and law enforcement in major cities have bolstered security in the wake of this weekend’s strikes on Iran.
Done, done, gone when we support Iran:
I am half Romanian half French but first of all I’m an Orthodox Christian.
I stand with Iran against the Great Satan. Iran is a mostly muslim nation but a brave nation fighting a honourable war. God sees us all, because we ALL are His children, each will be judged and heard. Rhéa Maria
America: Oil futures surged in the first trades since the United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran over the weekend.
US crude rose about $5 a barrel, or 8%, to around $72 as futures trading opened Sunday evening. Brent crude, the international benchmark, initially rocketed more than 12% higher to about $82 a barrel but fell just below $80 a few minutes into trading. Brent settled at just over $73 a barrel on Friday.
Meanwhile, stock futures fell. Futures for the S&P 500, the Nasdaq and the Dow were all down about 1%. But futures for Exxon, Chevron and many other oil companies rose about 2% each. Defense stocks, like Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin, were up marginally.
Fucking VP of Venezuela.
The Foreign Affairs Ministry of Venezuela issued a statement Saturday condemning and deeply regretting that a “military route” was chosen through attacks against Iran, triggering a dangerous and unpredictable escalation. However, the communiqué surprisingly questioned Iran’s right to self-defense, drawing strong criticisms from the country’s Chavista base.
Venezuelan authorities described the military response by Iran against targets in various countries as “undue and condemnable,” questioning the right to self-defense, despite the fact that the Iranian response targeted US military assets throughout West Asia, not civilian installations.
Orinoco Tribune attempted to find the statement on Foreign Minister Yván Gil’s Instagram, Telegram, and Foreign accounts, but failed to do so as the previously uploaded posts appear to have been deleted. A digital screenshot of the document, however, was posted by Telesur English’s X account.
“The reports and images of attacks on civilian facilities within Iranian territory, which led to the innocent civilian casualties of young girls and other underage students at a primary school, caused deep dismay,” the communiqué reads. This is in reference to the joint Israeli-US missile strike on an all-girls school in Minab, Iran, killing more than 100 students.
The document concludes by reiterating “unwavering commitment to peace, peaceful settlement of disputes, and respect for sovereignty and international law,” meanwhile, urging the international community to return to negotiations.
According to analysts, the tone of the statement contradicts the strategic relationship built between Venezuela and Iran since the founding of the Bolivarian Revolution. Some suggest this may hint at Zionist influence within the Venezuelan government following the January 3 US military bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro. Many Venezuelans, however, made a distinction between Chavismo and the current government, arguing that Chavismo represents a movement larger than the current authorities.
María Corina Machado will return to Venezuela within a few weeks, she announced Sunday, as the Venezuelan opposition leader seeks a role in her country’s democratic transition.
Machado made her first public appearance in nearly a year in December, emerging from hiding to accept her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. She later presented President Donald Trump with the prize during a meeting at the White House in January as a token of her appreciation for his support, despite the Nobel committee saying the prize could not be transferred.
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This image, taken 35 years ago, shows Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader—two prominent symbols of resistance against colonialism, two great martyrs.
RICHARD MEDHURST, back, even though the law is still after him!
Ali Khamenei built his life resisting empire. As a young revolutionary, he was arrested multiple times and tortured by the Shah’s US-backed SAVAK police. He survived an assassination attempt, and spent the Iran-Iraq War on the front, fighting a then US-armed Saddam Hussein.
Under his leadership Iran became the backbone of resistance to Western dominance in West Asia. He was one of the most consistent global advocates & material supporters of the resistance in Palestine, crucially framing it not as a sectarian struggle, but as the epicenter of resistance against occupation and settler-colonialism. He extended solidarity to anti-apartheid movements in South Africa, liberation struggles in Latin America, and any nation fighting to break from the orbit of imperial control.
He championed an economics which pursued both the expansion of national wealth and the administration of social justice through a “Resistance Economy” designed to achieve self-sufficiency & break free from Western capitalist domination.
Those who wish to criticize him from the western secular left ought recognize that Khamenei’s authority was rooted in a lifetime of Islamic revolutionary scholarship, producing a vast theological corpus. Aside from his role as a state leader, he was above all a Marja Al-Taqlid (source of emulation), a high position of leadership in the Jafari/12er school of Shia Islam, and served hundreds of millions of followers. His conservative social positions were not arbitrary edicts, but rather deeply consistent with the mainstream interpretations and beliefs of his Shia tradition.
To frame Khamenei as anything but a hero in the history of anti-imperialist struggle is to do the enemy’s work.
Versus:
[A picture of Lindsey Graham with his secret gay boyfriend has just leaked online.]
Find them ALL:
A guy who dodged a war (with a fake injury) just started a war (from his country club) that he promised he’d never start (that his family will never have to fight) while wearing a golf hat. This guy is a greasy orange stain on our country.
Going to War, Again, for Israel
Chris Hedges
Once again, America is going to war for Israel. Once again, many will die for the Zionist state, including American service members. Once again, we will stumble blindly into a military fiasco. Once again, we will do the bidding of a foreign power whose interests are not our interests, but whose lobbyists have bought up our political class, including Donald Trump. Once again, we will violate the U.N. charter by attacking a country that does not pose an imminent threat.
This is not our war. This is part of Israel’s demented vision of Greater Israel, of dominating the Middle East. But Israel needs our military, our taxpayer dollars, our weapons to do it. And we have handed them the keys to our formidable arsenal.
The architects of the war with Iran, which the administration feels no need to justify to the American public or the international community, admit it will not be quick.
Sen. Tom Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CBS News on Saturday that the goal is not only to curb Iran’s nuclear program, but “dismantle their terror support network.”
“To do all that is going to take longer than the strikes on their nuclear program last summer,” Cotton said. “We’re probably looking at weeks, not days, of joint efforts by the United States, Israel and our Arab partners, who have also been attacked this morning.”
Israel’s lackeys in the political class, along with their courtiers in the media, including former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) employee Wolf Blitzer, as well as academia, are shining examples of Israel’s transparent and often illegal meddling in the American political system. Forget Russia. Forget China. No foreign government comes close to exerting Israel’s influence.
Democratic Party leaders are not opposed to attacking Iran — they are opposed to attacking Iran without being consulted. Two dozen Democrats lept to their feet and applauded every time Trump threatened Iran, or lauded Israel, in his State of the Union address. The Biden administration and Democratic Party leadership made no effort to reinstate Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear agreement. It focused instead on sustaining the genocide in Gaza. It cheered Israel’s decapitation of Iranian proxies in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. Kamala Harris in her feckless and tone deaf presidential campaign promised to continue funding the genocide, which alienated many voters, and labeled Iran our most dangerous enemy.
Endless war is a bipartisan project.
The flagrant interference by Israel in the American political system is documented in the Al-Jazeera four-part series “The Lobby,” which Israel and its supporters blocked from being broadcast. Pirated copies can be watched on the website Electronic Intifada. In the documentary, the leaders of the Israel lobby are captured on a reporter’s hidden camera explaining how, backed by the intelligence services in Israel, they discredit and silence American critics and use huge cash donations to control the American electoral process and political system.
Israel’s death grip on our political system is also documented in “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt.
“If you wander off the reservation and become critical of Israel, you not only will not get money, AIPAC will go to great lengths to find someone who will run against you,” Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, says in the documentary. “And they support that person very generously. The end result is you’re likely to lose your seat in Congress.”
Israel flies hundreds of members of Congress, often with their families, to Israel for lavish junkets at seaside resorts. These Congress members run up individual bills that frequently exceed $20,000. The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 attempted to restrict lobbyists from offering paid trips lasting more than one day to members of Congress. But AIPAC, which has never been forced to register as a foreign agent, used its clout to insert a clause in the act to exclude so-called educational trips organized by charities that do not hire lobbyists. The AIPAC-affiliated charity utilized to navigate this loophole is called the American Israel Education Foundation.
The investment by Israel is worth it. The United States Congress in 2016 authorized a $38 billion per year defense aid package from 2019-2028 for Israel. We squandered $ 4 to $ 6 trillion on the futile wars Israel and its lobby pushed for in the Middle East. Congress has, as well, authorized $ 21.7 billion in military aid to Israel to sustain the genocide.
God knows the cost of this war, but it will likely be in the billions of dollars.
We are back to where we were in 2003 with a war whose utopian goal is regime-change. It didn’t work then. It won’t work now.
The same fatuous lies have been dredged up to justify this war, with U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff telling Fox News that Iran is “probably a week away” from having the materials necessary to make a nuclear bomb.
This has been Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israel lobby’s mantra for three decades.
I’m not sure how we are supposed to swallow this after Trump announced last July, following U.S. air strikes, that “All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service…”
One lie supersedes the next.
Once again, we promise to bomb a country to liberate it, with Trump saying all he wants is “freedom for the people” of Iran.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s compound was bombed and, according to Israeli officials, he has been killed. Iran insists he remains alive.
The Israeli prime minister, like Trump, is calling on the Iranians to seize the “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to “take to the streets en masse, to complete the task of overthrowing the regime that is making your lives miserable.”
“This is your time to join forces to overthrow the regime, to secure your future,” Netanyahu said.
That every other attempt at regime-change in the Middle East resulted in disaster eludes them. This time, they promise, it will work.
We may not have assembled a ground force, as Bush did in 2003 for the Iraq war, but once you open the Pandora’s box of war, war controls you. You don’t control it.
American troops will likely be killed as Iran targets U.S. bases in the region. The Iranian navy has announced it is shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important oil chokepoint that facilitates the passage of 20 percent of the world’s oil supply. This will potentially double or triple the price of oil and devastate the global economy. Oil installations along with U.S. ships and military bases in the region will be hit.
Iran has already fired missiles at Al Udeid airbase in Qatar, Al-Salem airbase in Kuwait, Al-Dhafra airbase in the United Arab Emirates, the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain and U.S. bases in Jordan. Explosions have been reported in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Thousands of innocents will die. Israel hit an elementary girls’ school on Saturday in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran. Iran’s Tasnim News Agency cited the Judiciary of Minab as saying that the death toll had risen to 108.
The steady losses, and a huge spike in oil prices, will compound the frustrations of Trump and his Israeli allies. These frustrations, like those during the two decades of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, will ignite a protracted regional war.
Iran, under sustained attack, could eventually fragment and splinter, sending millions of refugees over its border and igniting the chaos we engineered in Libya. But Israel, whose goal is to degrade the military capabilities of its neighbors, will get what it wants.
We will be left with the mess.
Fucking Christians:
Listen to these fucking media cunts trying to take on Michael.
Evil is a term better reserved for those who murder dozens and dozens of elementary schoolgirls, or who murder people in small boats without evidence and without any kind of due process.
Evil is a term better reserved for those who blockade entire countries even unto death; or for those who steal the wealth of formerly sovereign nations; or for those who call for a return to colonization of the global majority; or for those who aid and abet their allies’ genocides and their seizure of the territory of their victims; or for those who assassinate the leaders of other countries with whom they pretend to be negotiating; or those who would block evidence of crime and corruption on the part of elites; or for those who kill US citizens merely because they are protesting these and comparable evils. — On the Nature of Evil
Hmm, very skewed:
J Street: Stated it was “appalled” by the decision to launch a “war of choice” and emphasized that diplomacy remains the most sustainable path to regional security.
Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA): While supporting the goal of a nuclear-free Iran, the group expressed concern over the lack of prior congressional approval and urged a return to an enforceable diplomatic agreement.
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP): Denounced the military action as an “immoral and illegal war” and expressed solidarity with the Iranian people against “warmongering”.
IfNotNow: Called the strikes a “reckless attack” motivated by political interests and warned of a broader regional conflict.
No, Khomeini was not evil. He was an extremely brave and moral man whose sense of morality wrongly if understandably led him to stand in the way of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon, which it is now bound to do. Although erudite and clever he also led a government that has exhibited signs of extreme incompetence – as in its failure to properly defend itself against the very surprise attacks that have annihilated much of its leadership and their families; its failure in a timely fashion to accept the support of Russia and China before the very last minute; or to resist the US 2025 sabotage of Iran’s economy by arranging prior financial defense; and both to weed out treasonous pro-Western intelligence collaborators while liberalizing the culture and putting yet more blue water between it and the US supported and created feudal monarchies and prison states of the Gulf and of the region generally.
Netanyahu’s son is living in a luxury apartment in Miami with $680,000/year in state-funded personal security.
Meanwhile, Americans are dying for Israel in the Middle East.
They told us in school when we were young that he was a geographical explorer.
The butcher Magellan
The butcher known as Explorer Magellan the Crusader, and on his way to India in 1502 AD, he stopped a ship carrying 700 Muslims—pilgrims on their way to Mecca in the Gulf of Oman to perform the Hajj rituals—so he burned them alive on board!!!! And he demolished nearly 300 mosques during one of his Crusader campaigns against Muslim East Africa.
When his fleet arrived in Mozambique, East Africa, he said:
“Now we have besieged the Muslims, and all that’s left is to tighten the noose around their necks.”
He encountered a ship returning with pilgrims from Mecca and looted all its goods, then crammed all the passengers—totalling 380—inside the ship and set it ablaze. Magellan reached the Indian city of Calicut and destroyed it with his cannons.
He staged a display of war prisoners in the middle of the city after their hands, noses, and ears were cut off, their teeth broken, they were tied inside a ship, and then it was burned.
They taught us that Magellan was an explorer
But they never told us he was a criminal butcher in every sense of the word, harboring hatred for Islam.
(Magellan) was killed at the hands of a man named “Lapulapu,” a Filipino Muslim hero, after he learned of what he had done to the Muslims, and not killed by savage tribes, as they claim.
And the Filipinos still consider Lapulapu a national hero. Unfortunately, a fabricated history written by the enemies of Islam, forcing Muslims to read it through the lens of the Western Crusader!!!!!!
The new crusades’ ships.
The boss:
Africa needs nuclear deterrence. NOW! The leaders of the AES need to get that red button by ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
Burkina announces the closure of the United States embassy and labels Israel and Washington as terrorist states. With the dispatch to Tehran of two infantry battalions.
Khamenei was a moderate and had a fatwa against nuclear weapons. The reckless, brainless Epstein regimes have no fucking idea what they’ve unleashed.
The BBC gives a leading headline to nine people killed in Israel, while the 148 children killed in Iran remain what they were yesterday, a second-order story lower down the page.
You fucking Goyim, in Occupied Palestine: Non-Israelis denied access to bomb shelters “for not being Jewish”.
“The shelters are for Jews & there is no space for foreigners”.
Countries under War! – Iran – US – Israel – Yeman – Bahrain – Pakistan – Afghanistan – Qatar – UAE – Kuwait
At 2:30 in the morning February 28, Washington time, a president who once promised to end the forever wars posted an eight-minute video to Truth Social and announced the beginning of a new one. Operation Epic Fury, they called it. Epic. Fury. The marketing department of imperial collapse has never worked harder.
B-2 bombers. Carrier-launched strikes. Explosions across Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, Karaj, Kermanshah, Tabriz. A girls’ school in southern Minab struck — the death toll now confirmed at eighty-five children and counting, their bodies still warm as the Pentagon prepared its briefings on strategic objectives. And the stated goal, delivered by the most powerful man on earth from behind a podium in a white USA baseball cap at Mar-a-Lago — regime change. “When we are finished, take over your government.” Spoken to ninety million Iranians as their cities burned, as though revolution can be airdropped like a leaflet.
Then, within hours, two things happened simultaneously that told you everything about what this day actually was.
Trump reportedly asked Iran for a ceasefire. The same man who promised to “destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground,” who told the IRGC to “lay down your weapons or face certain death,” who called this a “noble mission” — was reaching, through back channels, for an exit. Hours in. Not days. Hours. He has never looked weaker in his life, and given the competition, that is quite a statement.
And by evening, Netanyahu — the architect of this illegal and mad war, the man who called it Israel’s greatest existential opportunity, who on a Purim morning told the Israeli people that “the lion has roared, who will not fear” — boarded his official state aircraft, the Wing of Zion, which had spent four hours circling off the Israeli coast to avoid Iranian targeting, and flew west. Over Greece. On to Berlin. Away from the missiles he had launched. Away from the Israelis, he left to absorb the consequences.
Between those two datapoints — Trump’s panicked back-channel and Netanyahu’s flight to Germany — is the entire story of this war. One man ordered it from a resort in Florida. The other ordered it and then departed the country it was supposedly fought to protect. The Israelis sheltering in bomb shelters from Haifa to Tel Aviv, the enormous damage across both cities, the sirens, the predictable interceptor failures — they are the ones paying for a decision made between a man monitoring his social media metrics at Mar-a-Lago and a man indicted for corruption who needed a war to survive his own electorate.
Meanwhile, Iran announced it is preparing to deploy weapons “the world has never seen.” Trump announced — on Truth Social, naturally — that Khamenei is dead. For hours, Iran’s state media called him “steadfast and firm, commanding the field.” Then, by evening, Iranian state media confirmed it. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — Supreme Leader for thirty-five years, the man who outlasted eight American presidents, survived sanctions, assassinations, a brutal war with Saddam’s Iraq, the twelve-day war — is dead. The decapitation strike succeeded. Iran’s security council secretary promised an “unforgettable lesson.” Patriot systems failed to intercept the majority of the latest Iranian missile wave. China announced an immediate halt to all rare earth exports to the United States — triggered the moment the attack began. Beijing “closely monitoring.” The Iraqi resistance has officially entered the conflict. And the missiles kept flying.
What happened in the hours before the bombs fell will damn this administration in the judgment of history. The timing.
On February 26, in Geneva, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sat across from Oman’s mediators and reached what Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Al-Busaidi described publicly as a breakthrough. Iran had agreed to never stockpile enriched uranium above civilian levels. To full IAEA verification. To irreversibly downgrade its current stockpiles to “the lowest level possible.” Al-Busaidi said peace was “within reach.” These were not diplomatic pleasantries — these were the actual terms of an agreement taking shape in real time. What followed was aggression and perfidy in the technical sense of both words: attacking a country during active negotiations in which that country was demonstrably willing to make significant and lasting concessions.
Forty-eight hours later, the bombs fell.
And this is the second time. In June 2025, Operation Midnight Hammer struck three Iranian nuclear facilities — Natanz, Isfahan, Fordo — while negotiations were simultaneously underway. The sites were empty. Centrifuges relocated days earlier. The United States fired thirty Tomahawk cruise missiles at a mountain full of evacuated tunnels and declared it a strategic success. Trump announced he had obliterated Iran’s nuclear program. Then used that same obliterated nuclear program — the one he already destroyed — as the pretext for launching a larger war eight months later. An Israeli defence official confirmed to Reuters today that the date for today’s strikes was decided “weeks ago” — while those negotiations were still ongoing. The date was already circled on a calendar in Tel Aviv before the Geneva talks began.
You cannot make this up. You can only remember the day and wonder at the incompetence, the arrogance.
On the eve of Operation Epic Fury, Trump told reporters he was “not happy” with the negotiations. Iran wouldn’t “say the key words.” He was “not happy” — while Oman’s mediator was on television describing a breakthrough. While Araghchi was shaking hands. While technical committees were scheduling follow-on meetings.
Diplomacy, in the hands of this administration, is not a path to peace. It is reconnaissance and bad theater. A mechanism to identify what Iran values most, catalogue its concessions, then bomb the table while the ink is still wet. Twice. Same play, same script, same morning-after declaration of victory over rubble. If you needed proof that the goal was never nuclear disarmament, it arrived this morning in cruise missiles and burning schools and a ceasefire request that came before lunchtime.
Twenty-three years ago, a retired four-star NATO general named Wesley Clark walked into the Pentagon weeks after September 11th and was shown a classified memo from the Secretary of Defense’s office. Seven countries in five years, it said. Iraq. Syria. Lebanon. Libya. Somalia. Sudan. And finishing off — Iran. Clark went public in 2007. He was largely dismissed. Look at the scorecard now.
Iraq: shattered, the state dissolved, conditions created for ISIS that haunt the region still. Libya: warlord-fractured catastrophe. Syria: collapsed. Lebanon: gutted. Sudan: civil war. Somalia: perpetual catastrophe. And now, at the bottom of the list, exactly where it was always written — Iran.
The plan was never a response to September 11th. It predates it. Paul Wolfowitz told Clark in 1991 that the lesson of the Gulf War was blunt: the Soviets won’t stop us anymore. “We’ve got five, maybe ten years to clean up these old Soviet surrogate regimes.” Clean up. Like history is a mess to be tidied, and the tidying happens to require carriers and munitions priced at twelve million dollars each.
Iran was last on the list not because it was least threatening. Because it was most difficult. Because you needed the others dismantled first — Hezbollah degraded, Syria fallen, the regional architecture cleared — before striking the cornerstone. The cornerstone is now being struck, not because Iran built a nuclear weapon, not because Iran threatened the American homeland, but because the blueprint said so. And blueprints in Washington outlive every administration that claims to oppose them.
Trump didn’t write this plan. He signed it. The deep state doesn’t need loyalty. It just needs access to the launch codes and a puppet that is too incompetent, too weak to say no.
And then it truly went off
Iran launched dozens of ballistic missiles along with Shahed drones simultaneously at Israel and at US military bases across the Gulf — Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria. No warning. No choreography. The US Navy’s Fifth Fleet command centre in Bahrain was struck directly. Al-Udeid in Qatar — the same base Iran surgically grazed in June 2025 as polite face-saving theatre — hit again, without the politeness. Explosions in Dubai. Jebel Ali port — the largest port in the Middle East — struck by a missile. Eighteen explosions in the city by early evening, including debris from Iranian drones falling on the Burj Al Arab hotel. Long lines at petrol stations across Beirut within hours. Fourteen thousand flights cancelled. Etihad suspended all services in and out of Abu Dhabi.
Enormous damage in Haifa after two Iranian missiles. Thirty-five confirmed strikes on Israeli territory by evening, with Israeli emergency services reporting ninety-four wounded. The Iraqi resistance officially entered the conflict. The Houthis are resuming Red Sea operations. And Iran announcing weapons “the world has never seen” — brief, unspecified, delivered with the composure of a command that doesn’t need elaboration.
What made Iran’s current response different from June 2025 was not the scale. It was the discipline. Before bringing a single air defence battery online, Iran cleared its airspace of all civilian aircraft. Every commercial flight out. Then, and only then, did the military activate its integrated air defence network and begin the retaliatory launch sequence — roughly an hour after the first strikes landed. This detail, small and unreported in most Western outlets, says everything. Iran’s military took deliberate, methodical steps to ensure that would not happen again. This is not the behaviour of a regime in panic. This is the behaviour of a military that rehearsed this, lived through one version of it already, and came back eight months later with the lessons learned and the procedures corrected.
Now the man who started it and then fled.
Netanyahu addressed Israel this morning in full Purim biblical register — invoking Aman and Esther, the lion’s roar, the eternity of Israel. “The lot was cast,” he told his people. “We will stand as one person with one heart.” He told them there would be costs, “perhaps even heavy costs,” and that he knew they had the resilience to bear them.
Then he got on a plane.
The man who invoked Purim and the lion’s roar and the eternity of Israel was in Germany when the missiles hit Haifa. He will have his cowardly explanations — security protocols, command continuity, the Wing of Zion always evacuates during escalations. None of it changes what the image says about the distance between the man who asks his people for “heavy costs” and the man who decided not to be present for them.
Credible reporting suggests Trump was not so much the architect of this war as its willing dope of a hostage. The analysis holds that Netanyahu threatened to strike Iran unilaterally if Trump did not join him, making that threat precisely after Washington’s coercive task force was fully assembled in the Gulf — knowing the carriers and the munitions were in position, and that a unilateral Israeli strike would put American forces in the blast radius of Iranian retaliation regardless of whether Trump had ordered a shot.
The deepest irony: Israel is less safe than it was on Friday. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. Iranian missiles are hitting Haifa. Patriot batteries are being depleted. The Houthis have resumed Red Sea operations. The Iraqi resistance has entered. Iran has announced weapons nobody has seen.
How does this end? On whose terms?
Trump wants this short. He is watching the markets, the oil price, the approval numbers. Americans will not tolerate weeks of this with oil heading toward $150 a barrel, and Trump knows it. The back-channel ceasefire feelers before the first day was out confirm he knows it.
Iran was in Geneva on Thursday. The deal existed. The deal was bombed. And the terms available today — with the Strait closed, Patriot batteries depleted, Coalition sortie generation constrained by standoff distances and a Chinese rare earth embargo already running — are worse than the terms bombed forty-eight hours ago. The bargaining position has not improved. It has deteriorated. And a man is in Berlin.
The “protests” that preceded all this were marginally were manipulated theater. The economic collapse was genuine. The rial at 1.4 million to the dollar. Inflation at forty-two percent. Food prices up seventy-two percent. Visceral rage — all of it the consequence of sanctions designed in Washington to produce precisely this kind of social fracture. Let nobody diminish the legitimate fury of ordinary Iranians ground down by mismanagement and clerical arrogance and an economic siege that Western press invariably forgets to mention when discussing why Iranians are angry.
But into that genuine rage, other hands reached.
On December 29, (2025), as economic pain spread from Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, Mossad’s official Farsi X account posted: “Come out together into the streets. The time has come. We are with you. Not just from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field.” One point one five million views. Former CIA director Mike Pompeo responded: “Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them.” He said this publicly. The former head of American intelligence broadcast to the world that Israeli operatives were embedded in Iranian protests. Nobody in the Western media blinked.
Iranian security arrested a confirmed Mossad operative in Tehran in early January — filmed, confessing, detailing remote recruitment via social media, handlers in Germany, instructions to photograph targets, attend protests, relay footage abroad. Safe houses raided: weapons, ammunition, bomb-making materials. Israel’s Channel 13 had reported Mossad deployed approximately one hundred agents inside Iran before the June 2025 war to sabotage missile launchers and blind air defences. Electronic jamming equipment seized in Mashhad and Rasht, designed to hijack GPS signals on tactical drone systems. Israeli Unit 8200 hacked Iranian state television on June 18, 2025, cutting to footage of women’s rights protests with a direct Farsi instruction: “take to the streets and finish the job.”
This is not Iranian propaganda. The evidence is documented, much of it from Israeli sources who felt confident no consequence would follow. They were right. Until today, when all of it was confirmed dismembered. The network that was supposed to activate inside Iran during today’s strikes activated nothing — not because the agents lacked courage, but because they were identified, arrested, turned, or killed in the preceding nine months. Iran read the lesson of June 2025 and acted on it.
The 1953 CIA-backed overthrow of democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh — removed for nationalising Iranian oil — is not ancient history to Iranians. It is the operating framework through which every subsequent Western gesture toward Iranian dissent is correctly read. Pompeo confirmed the network was real on January 2, and too few filed it under evidence.
The regime change fantasy deserves not dismissal but demolition. Last night, history has provided the demolition in real time.
The Assembly of Experts convened within the hour after the Supreme Leader’s death. The command council activated. The IRGC issued a statement not of surrender but of escalation — “the martyrdom of the Supreme Leader obliges us to respond with maximum force.” The Basij mobilised. The judiciary, the parallel command structures, the bureaucracy — every instrument of state authority continued without interruption and, if anything, hardened in resolve. Iran’s constitution was written by people who survived the Shah, who understood what decapitation looks like, who engineered succession mechanisms for exactly this scenario. The successor process is now underway with the kind of orderliness that should terrify every architect of this operation. Not chaos. Definately not fracture. But procedure.
Khamenei’s death has done something the bombs couldn’t: it has handed every Iranian — religious or secular, reformist or hardliner, pro-government or not — a martyr. Not a politician. Not a general. The Supreme Leader himself. The emotional unifying power of that fact inside Iran tonight cannot be overstated and should not be underestimated. The demonstrations that have run through Tehran and Isfahan and Mashhad today were already pro-government. After last night’s confirmation they will be something else entirely. Something older. Something that doesn’t negotiate.
Washington’s theory of victory was always: kill the leadership, the population rises, the regime collapses, the MEK walks into the vacuum. What is unfolding tonight is the refutation of every part of that sentence simultaneously. The leadership has been killed. The population has unified. The regime has not collapsed. And the MEK — Washington’s preferred government-in-exile, the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, regarded inside Iran with the affection most populations reserve for collaborators — has no domestic base, no credibility, and no meaningful presence inside the country it claims to represent. A punchline with a Washington lobby budget.
Where this is heading…
The seismic implication of Khamenei’s confirmed death is not what Tel Aviv and Washington predicted. It is the opposite. The Islamic Republic has now demonstrated, in the most extreme test conceivable, that it can absorb the assassination of its supreme leader and continue fighting. Every movement in the Global South, every government that has quietly wondered whether resistance to American power is sustainable, every adversary calculating whether the United States can be deterred — they watched Iran’s command structure hold the line after its supreme leader was killed, watched the missiles keep flying, watched the succession activate without a single visible fracture. That demonstration, broadcast in real time, is worth more to the cause of multipolar resistance than any diplomatic communiques issued in the last decade.
Washington wanted to prove that American power can decapitate a government and trigger its collapse. It proved the opposite. And it did so in front of the entire world.
Even the Atlantic Council concluded this week that regime change from outside, without large-scale military intervention or internal elite rupture, “is not a credible near-term proposition.” They wrote that before the supreme leader was killed and the missiles kept flying. The architects know. They proceed anyway, because the goal was never the stated goal. It was the geography, the energy reserves, the dollar-bypassing trade flows, and the strategic buffer a sovereign Iran provides to the Eurasian architecture Washington finds intolerable.
Consider what this war costs America’s putative allies — the ones who privately begged Washington not to do this.
Trump’s May 2025 Riyadh trip produced two trillion dollars in investment commitments. The UAE has positioned itself as the global financial hub for capital flight from every uncertain corner of the world. Bahrain hosts the US Fifth Fleet. Qatar houses CENTCOM’s regional headquarters. All of them are under Iranian missile fire tonight. Kuwait condemned the attack on its soil as a “flagrant violation of sovereignty.” Oman’s Foreign Minister, who called the breakthrough forty-eight hours before the bombs fell, told Washington bluntly: “This is not your war.” Jebel Ali port — the economic engine of Dubai — hit by Iranian missiles this afternoon. Dubai International Airport concourse damaged. Residential areas struck. The US ambassador to Jerusalem today told American staff: if you want to leave Israel, “do so today.”
The Gulf monarchies understood though in the end still cowed, whatever their private feelings about Tehran, that a regional conflagration destroys the economic transformation projects that are their futures. NEOM. Dubai’s financial architecture. The post-oil diversification on which they’ve bet their national existence. All of it collateral in a war they did not vote for and cannot escape.
The Strait of Hormuz is closed. Confirmed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, confirmed by the UKMTO, confirmed by tanker tracking services. Twenty million barrels per day. Thirty-one percent of global seaborne crude. Twenty percent of global LNG. The sole export route for Qatar and the UAE’s gas to China, India, South Korea.
The dollar’s share of global foreign exchange reserves has fallen to 57.8% — a multi-decade low, down from 71% at the century’s turn. China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System handles trillions in daily settlement. The mBridge platform — a central bank digital currency corridor connecting China, Hong Kong, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Thailand — is fully operational. Iran has been selling its oil to China in yuan for years. Russia dumped its dollar holdings from 41% to under 10%. The architecture for post-dollar energy trade exists. It was built in anticipation of exactly this moment.
China has now announced an immediate halt to all rare earth exports to the United States and we’ll see how it plays out. China controls ninety percent of global refined rare earth output — the materials required for guidance systems, missile components, jet engine coatings, permanent magnets in every advanced weapons platform the US military operates. Yttrium prices were already sixty percent higher this week, seventy times their year-ago level. Two North American coating manufacturers had already paused production. Now the tap is entirely off. The United States is attempting to prosecute a multi-day air campaign against a country whose most powerful strategic partner has simultaneously cut off the material supply chain for the weapons future campaigns require.
A sustained Hormuz closure triggers a decision cascade in every energy-importing nation not already NATO-committed. Do you accumulate dollar reserves to buy oil no longer reliably flowing through dollar-denominated channels? Or do you accelerate into the parallel infrastructure Beijing has been laying since 2018? Saudi Arabia — Vision 2030 dependent on stability, largest trade partner already China — has been offered yuan settlement for years. The moment the Strait becomes a war zone under American management, Riyadh’s calculation changes. Directionally. Irreversibly.
The pattern is not subtle. Saddam priced oil in euros. He was removed and Iraqi oil reverted to dollars within months. Gaddafi proposed a gold dinar. He ended face-down in a ditch in 2011. Iran settled in yuan. It is being bombed today. Every finance ministry in the Global South is drawing the same conclusion: dollar dependency is a liability, and the infrastructure to reduce it now exists.
The petrodollar system — the arrangement by which global oil was priced in dollars, forcing every importing nation to accumulate dollars, recycling into US Treasuries, funding the carriers now launching strikes on Tehran — is not a law of physics. It is a political arrangement sustained by trust in American management of the global commons. Every time Washington bombs a country that was negotiating in good faith, every time a breakthrough is torched from the air, every time the dollar is weaponized and another finance ministry updates its exit spreadsheet — the trust erodes.
Israel is the only state in the Middle East with nuclear weapons. Dozens of them at the Negev Nuclear Research Centre near Dimona — never declared, never inspected, never subject to IAEA cameras, snapback mechanisms, maximum pressure campaigns, or Operation Epic Furies. The state whose nuclear secrecy is protected by an American UN veto stands as the co-architect of a war fought in the name of nuclear non-proliferation. Its defence minister called the June 2025 strikes the “promo.” Its prime minister launched the main event and flew to Berlin when the response arrived.
The nuclear program was never the point. It was always the pretext.
Araghchi named it: “Trump has turned ‘America First’ into ‘Israel First’ — which always means ‘America Last.’” You may dispute the framing. You cannot dispute the observable fact that American sailors are ducking Iranian missiles at Bahrain’s Fifth Fleet headquarters while one leader watches from Mar-a-Lago and another watches from Berlin.
MAGA voters who showed up because they were promised an end to forever wars were right that America had been betrayed by elites who put foreign (Israel’s) interests above theirs. They had the wrong villain.
Fifty-three percent of Trump voters, polled before June 2025, said the US should not get involved in the Iran-Israel conflict. Forty-five percent of all Americans opposed US military action against Iran. The war proceeded. The base was ignored. The uniparty consensus — forged in think tanks funded by defence contractors who profit from every sortie, guided by lobbying infrastructure ensuring no American politician rises without pledging fealty to Israeli security interests — delivered the war the electorate couldn’t vote against and will now pay for in blood, treasure, rare earth supply chains, and the monetary arrangement that has subsidised the American standard of living for fifty years.
Final thoughts
Bismarck described preventive war as committing suicide for fear of death. He was right then. He is right now.
History will note that a deal was on the table, that the strike date was set in Tel Aviv while the deal was being negotiated, that eighty-five children died in a school in Minab, that the Strait closed by afternoon, that the ceasefire request came by evening. It will note the man at Mar-a-Lago and the man in Berlin. It will note that the supreme leader was killed and the missiles kept flying. And it will note that China turned off the rare earth supply to the military prosecuting the war within hours of it starting.
The list is complete. The twenty-five-year project has reached its final entry, and in doing so may have written the epitaph not of the Iranian republic but of the American one. The petrodollar that funded the carriers. The carriers that launched the missiles. The missiles that closed the Strait. The Strait whose closure accelerates the de-dollarisation that makes the next war impossible to finance. The rare earth ban that grounds the planes before the next forever war can be carried out.
The empire is eating itself. And it called that epic fury.
Timing of US-Israel attack on Iran bears symbolic meaning in Judaism as Netanyahu references holiday of Purim: “Twenty five hundred years ago, in ancient Persia, a tyrant rose against us with the very same goal, to utterly destroy our people. Today as well, on Purim, the lot has fallen, and in the end this evil regime will fall too.” The passage from the book of Deuteronomy commands the ancient Israelites to remember an unprovoked attack by the nation of Amalek, and to eradicate the memory of Amalek once the Israelites are settled in their land (see commentary on this statement here).
Jews: Israelis unite across political divides in support of ‘justified’ war against Iran
Jews: Major American Jewish groups quickly backed the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran Saturday morning, while urging heightened security at Jewish institutions amid fears of retaliation.
The strikes, which were billed by both President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an effort to topple the Islamic Republic regime that has long targeted Israel, follow weeks of stalled diplomacy between the United States and Iran over its nuclear program that failed to produce an agreement.
The American Jewish Committee quickly threw its support behind the United States and Israel Saturday morning, writing in a statement that the “responsibility for this crisis lies entirely with Tehran.”
“The world will be a safer place when the threat of the Iranian regime’s illicit nuclear and missile programs, along with the IRGC, is dismantled once and for all,” the AJC said. “We hope today’s military action is a decisive step toward fulfilling that vital mission.”
In a post on X, the Anti-Defamation League wrote that it “stands with the United States, Israel and the Iranian people, who deserve dignity and freedom from a regime that murders its own citizens.”
Below is a commentary for the newspaper I have been publishing my “long-form” commentaries in on a monthly basis, and that newspaper, the Newport News Times, now the Lincoln County Leader, is on the proverbial chopping block.
Here, these people who are buying up what they call “struggling newspapers,” including the Leader:
Country Media, Inc., an Oregon-based company, has acquired numerous, often struggling, local newspapers, resulting in some closures and mergers. The firm, led by Steve and Carol Hungerford, has merged publications like The Chronicle and The Chief, while reducing print frequency for others, such as The World in Coos Bay, due to financial pressures.
Key Actions and Closures
The Umpqua Post: Ceased operations in June 2020 following its acquisition by Country Media.
Bandon Western World: Printed its final issue in July 2020.
The World (Coos Bay): Reduced print days from five to two in 2020.
Mergers:The Chronicle (St. Helens) and The Chief (Clatskanie) merged into The Columbia County Chronicle & Chief. The Lincoln City News Guard and Newport News-Times merged in January 2024.
I had a difficult time getting up the energy to go to this listening session and then the following film screening of the flick:
There were eight student journalists there to assist the listening session, students from the U of Oregon journalism program. I just can’t understand why their faculty mentor, Andrew DeVigal, could not start any session off with a moment of silence for fellow truth seekers:
“Israel has now killed more journalists than any other government since CPJ began collecting records in 1992,” it said in a statement.
It cautioned that the true number of journalists targeted and killed by Israel could be much higher because some of the killings could be potentially concealed by press restrictions and humanitarian difficulties that complicate conducting investigations during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
“With much contemporaneous evidence now destroyed, the true number of Palestinian journalists in Gaza who were deliberately targeted by Israel may never be known,” the CPJ said.
Here’s a small talk in Washington State around local journalism:
Local journalists and supporters of local news gathered at the Edmonds Theater in Edmonds, Wash., on Oct. 25, 2025, for a panel discussion and audience Q&A following the screening of the documentary “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink.” The screening was co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters Snohomish County and the My Neighborhood News Network, which includes My Edmonds News, MLTnews, and Lynnwood Today.
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You know, when it comes to “educated” people, those people in the League of Women Voters, and there were mostly retired folk at this Newport, Oregon event, and there were a few “city/county” officials, it’s if there is a bipolar collective psychosis going on. It was noon, Saturday, and I was the only fucker talking about the murdering spree by the Jews of Israel and the Jewish Kosher Nostra in the USA.
Mohammed Shariatmadar stood outside the wreckage of the Shajareh Tayyiba girls’ elementary school in Minab, in southern Iran on Saturday morning, unable to process what he was seeing. His six-year-old daughter, Sara, a second-grade student, was among dozens of girls killed when the school was bombed in the first few hours of the war launched by the U.S. and Israel against Iran.
In the immediate aftermath of the strike, he remained standing in the shade of a cracked wall, staring at the ground and ignoring the commotion around him. He didn’t approach the building, which had been sealed off, but he didn’t move away either. His hands knotted together, then separated, then knotted again, in a repeated motion. Every time a paramedic emerged or an ambulance moved, he quickly raised his head, then returned to staring at the ground. He asked no one a direct question. He was only waiting for his daughter’s name to be called.
When families were finally directed to a gathering point to receive the bodies of their children, he slowly moved forward. When asked if he needed help, he shook his head silently and waited for his daughter’s body to be brought out.
“I cannot unde, rstand how a place where innocent children learn can be bombed like this,” Shariatmadar told Drop Site. “We are talking about small children who knew nothing of politics or wars. And yet they are the ones paying the highest price.”
Some 170 students were inside the building, attending morning classes when the missile struck. At least 108 people were killed, according to the public prosecutor’s office in Minab, many of them schoolgirls between seven and 12 years old.
It was unclear if it was a U.S. or Israeli strike. On Saturday, CENTCOM’s spokesperson said they were “looking into” the reports.
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The students, college ones, mind you, were given a quick rundown of alternative (sic) sources of news:
Drop Site Newsl Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Monthly Review, Intercept, Palestine Chronicle, Electronic Intifada, Lowkey, Covert Action Magazine, Consortium News, Empire Files, Break Through News, and a few dozen more suggestions to get these J students out of the morass of legacy media, and the manure pile of traditional news gathering and reporting.
Never heard of Truthout, In These Times, The Nation, The Progressive, Mother Jones?
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They hadn’t been exposed to the Hulk Hogan-Peter Thiel-Adelson documentary:
It was diheartening, man, being around the middling crowd, the Democrats, man, so quick to attack Trump, but then, what about . . . .?
There currently exists one legislative vehicle in each chamber through which members can express their position. This month, six new Democratic House members have signed onto a War Powers Resolution aimed at constraining President Trump’s ability to deploy U.S. forces without congressional approval, bringing the total to 82. The legislation, led by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), was first introduced prior to the Trump administration’s unauthorized strikes against Iranian nuclear targets last June. The GOP appears to be largely unified behind a possible war, with Massie being the only Republican House member signed on to the House legislation. Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have introduced a similar effort in the Senate.
Yet despite the resolution’s growing support, Democratic leadership has not clearly rallied behind it. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has issued publicconcerns about Trump’s rush to war, but has not said whether or not he supports the Khanna-Massie bill.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y) statement did not oppose a war, but instead noted the “risks” involved and called for confronting Iran’s “ruthless campaign of terror, nuclear ambitions, regional aggression, and horrific oppression” with “strength, resolve, regional coordination, and strategic clarity” and urged the administration “to consult with Congress and explain to the American people the objectives and exactly why he is risking more American lives.” Following the Trump administration’s Tuesday briefing to the Gang of 8, Schumer added, “This is serious. The administration has to make its case to the American people,” fuelingcriticism that he was prepared to accept the president’s justifications.
“Leader Schumer’s statements are insufficient. Democratic voters want leadership that’s willing to take a clear stand and oppose the president on major issues like this,” Dylan Williams, Vice President for Government Affairs at the Center for International Policy, told RS.
Two recent reports suggest that this lack of pushback could be intentional. A Tuesday story from journalist Aida Chavez’s substack Capital and Empire says top Democrats have worked to block consideration of legislation that would force members to go on record regarding potential military action against Iran.
“The evidence, so far, is that leadership is trying to discourage that vote,” one activist and former congressional staffer familiar with dynamics on the Hill told RS. “And the primary people that serve are the few dozen Democrats whose donors are hawks, but whose voters don’t want regime change war. That’s who the party is trying to protect from having to take a vote, because it’s painful for those members to vote against their donors.”
Drop Site News reported last week that some Democrats on the Hill might support pursuing a military intervention in Iran but, understanding a war would likely be politically catastrophic, would rather not go on the record and instead let Trump and the Republicans bear the responsibility and the costs.
“Cynically, Schumer may also have the midterms in mind,” the Drop Site report says. “If Trump manages to topple the Iranian government, the ensuing chaos could prove a drag on Trump as the country heads into the November elections.”
As a result, party leaders may choose to stand by or tepidly oppose military action as opposed to forcefully weighing in one way or the other. (The Schumer aide who laid out this calculus in the Drop Site story said that the minority leader himself does not subscribe to that logic.)
Alternatives to the dying newspapers?
I’ll be interviewing John Washington on my radio show, and his pieces in Luminaria, well, way beyond what the U of O students are being exposed to:
This three-part series chronicles a Tucson family’s harrowing journey from Venezuela through the heart of the anti-immigrant policies of México and the U.S. The first chapter traces Yesenia’s journey with her kids from Venezuela to the United States and then back to México. The second chapter focuses on her husband Mariano’s escape from authorities. The third chapter focuses on the family’s desperate search for safety in México after being deported from Tucson.
The stories are based on more than a dozen hours of interviews by Arizona Luminaria and La Silla Rota reporters with Yesenia and Mariano in a town outside Mexico City, as well as interviews with their family and friends, public records, audio files and messages exchanged between Yesenia and Mariano over seven months.
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Here, the thousand-word commentary, a monthly far-from-rant from Haeder, the ranter: More specifically, Spiel, Catharsis, Vomitus, Spitting up the Phlegm of Capitalism, Hyperbole… tirade, diatribe, harangue, invective . . . screed, philippic, fulmination?
Everyone Likes to Complain about the Weather and the News
by Paul Haeder
This could be a requiem for this dwindling newspaper, owned now by Country Media. But the real big boys are called vulture capitalists, and at the end of February, eight U of O journalism students and their mentor, Andrew DeVigal, director of Agora Journalism Center, came to Newport to inculcate a listening and talking session at the Atonement Lutheran Church.
There were about 25 Lincoln County residents engaging in a mini-town hall on the future of local journalism, and the power of printed or digital news to embrace a community’s trust and envelop a deep understanding of the issues that make a city or county work or not work.
The famous Bill Moyers puts us at the 35,000-foot perspective:
“It’s up to you to tell the truth about what’s happening to this country we love. It’s up to you to tell the truth about the struggle of ordinary people. It’s up to you to remind us that democracy only works when citizens claim it as their own. It’s up to you to write the story of America that leaves no one out.”
DeVigal has had 30 years in the trenches at various newspapers like the Contra Costa Times, New York Times, and with the Poynter Institute. He’s now working with aspiring journalists, and these students, representing half his current class, Engaged Journalism, helped participants in facilitated conversations on just what makes a good and vibrant informed citizenry “engage” with news.
We are at a crisis point, that is, crises, in terms of education, participation in governance, political literacy, and finding the news that a community needs to become better citizens.
Andrew’s classes have learned the power of Generative Dialogue Framework – a tool that could “help reimagine the future of engaged journalism.”
We know about food deserts and healthcare deserts, but who reading this knows about news deserts? Go to the website, usnewsdeserts.com, and you will find more than 350 interactive maps allowing the user to drill down to the county level to understand the state of local media in communities throughout the United States.
The number of news desert counties rose to 213 in 2025. Research shows that 1,524 counties have one remaining news source. That’s more than 50 million Americans having limited to no access to local news. The rise in news deserts was accompanied by an increase in newspaper closures, which ticked up to 136 this past year, a rate of more than two per week.
Here’s a pivotal point Andrew made in a recent editorial:
“To do better, we must first understand journalism not simply as an industry, but as a form of civic infrastructure that helps communities navigate crises of misinformation, disinformation and democratic instability.”
This listening session stressed the need for businesses to up the ante to strengthen civic health. Holding institutions accountable is one pathway that an engaged citizenry can build trust in news and information ecosystems.
There are four pillars to assessing a community’s civic health, according to the Press Forward organization:
• News and Information: Availability and accessibility of local news outlets.
• Civic Participation Ecosystem: Metrics like volunteer rates and voter turnout.
• Equity and Justice: Structural determinants, including historical racial and economic discrimination.
• Health and Opportunity: Social determinants such as medical debt, housing insecurity, and health insurance coverage.
Andrew stresses that more actors in the business and non-profit communities “can co-invest in community information hubs, local media collaboratives, libraries, nonprofits and cultural organizations that gather, share and contextualize trusted news and expert resources for their communities. They can also sponsor coverage that meets public needs and partner with universities to grow a diverse pipeline of civic media makers and journalists.”
The three-hour event in the early afternoon was centered around a survey that went out to Lincoln County, the same survey that has been conducted in other Oregon communities: Harriston, Salem, Oakridge, La Pine, Rogue Valley and Florence.
The second part of Saturday’s civic engagement was a showing of a 2024 documentary, “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink.”
The film lays bare the crimes of hedge funds, those so-called vulture capitalists buying up newspapers for the real estate they encompass. There have been billions of dollars stripped from some of the more well-known newspapers. Alden is the second-largest newspaper owner in the United States, controlling approximately 200 newspapers through its subsidiaries, MediaNews Group (also known as Digital First Media) and Tribune Publishing.
Imagine 75 percent staff reductions, taking us into a new phase of the “ghost newspaper” – no regular beat reports, just papers running syndicated “news.”
Staffing Levels: An estimated 1,000 to 1,500 of the 7,200 newspapers in the U.S. have lost more than half of their newsroom staff since 2004.
Content Shift: A 2024 study of 500 papers owned by the largest chains found that over one-third of front-page content originated from non-local sources.
Ownership Trends: Many ghost papers are owned by large newspaper chains or hedge funds that implement aggressive cost-cutting measures to maintain profit margins.
Impact on Democracy: The loss of local “watchdog” reporting is linked to diminished voter engagement and higher local government costs due to a lack of oversight.
A third of the 1,800 papers – 600 – that were lost over the past decade slowly faded away. Most were suburban weeklies. Like the frog in slowly boiling water, few people in the community noticed anything different at first. There was no abrupt closure that grabbed headlines. Often, there was merely an announcement that the paper had been purchased by the owner of a nearby, larger daily.
Initially, the paper continued to be published under the same name, and the reporters who worked for the paper continued to aggressively cover local government. However, as circulation declined, the once stand-alone paper became a zoned edition of the larger paper. Over time, the building where the paper had been published for decades – often a landmark in the community – was sold and staffing was dramatically reduced. Increasingly, news coverage focused on noncontroversial topics – lifestyle features on people and events in the community. In the final stage, management at the larger daily paper announced that the zoned edition would become a weekly specialty publication, advertising supplement in the main paper or a TMC (total market coverage) product or shopper, distributed free to all residents in the community.
[Despite being published 20 miles apart, the front pages of Gannett’s papers in Scituate and Plymouth, Mass., are identical. These pages from Dec. 5 carry no stories local to the communities they serve.]
In 2024, Alden closed eight weekly newspapers in Minnesota, including the Shakopee Valley News (160 years old) and the Jordan Independent (140 years old).
When I started in the newspaper arena, first in college 1974-79, the writing was on the wall: “Don’t expect to get a full-time job with a daily that has a Sunday edition. You’ll have to go to small towns and work for a daily, twice-a-week, or weekly newspaper.” The loss of over 2,100 newspapers between 2004 and 2020 is one reason we have such an uninformed public.
The digital landscape is still evolving. We have the Lincoln Chronicle, a non-profit on-line news outlet. But my contention is we have to support as many hardcopy newspapers in a mid-to-large city. Newport needs at least two newspapers, and this once-a-week Leader just doesn’t cut it.
Cutting jobs, gutting newsrooms, and believing in this so-called creative destruction are the death knell of America.
“Whatever they say about us, they can’t control us. We’re out to serve the public. That’s a red-blooded, virile statement, and by God, it’s true,” stated Harry Grant, Milwaukee Journal, 1963
More wise proof from 238 years ago why newspapers count? “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1787
When the Epstein class isn’t sexually abusing girls, they are killing them. — Sam Husseini
US and Israeli attack on Iran: At least 85 girls killed in strike on school
Eyewitness tells MEE girls aged between seven and 12 seen lying dead across their school
And so, 300,000 murdered in Palestine since Oct. 7 2023, and now the next Muslims….
This is the faggotry of a lobotomized cunt=tree:
You want real news?
According to intelligence reports from the Peña Nieto administration obtained by El Universal, Israeli mafias had been active in Mexico since at least 2000, primarily involved in money laundering and the sale of high-powered weapons. Between 2000 and 2010, Israeli organized crime groups collaborated directly with the Beltrán Leyva Cartel, supplying the organization with weapons and laundering its money. Mexican authorities learned about the scope of Israeli mafia operations in the country by around 2013, primarily in Mexico City, though the Israeli individuals involved had entered the country legally. Separately, the now-defunct PGR (Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office) had intelligence on the presence of Israeli mafia members inside Los Zetas training camps in the states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Hidalgo. And since 2012, Mexican authorities had launched investigations into the smuggling and sale of weapons by former Mossad agents operating within the country.
[Founders of the Zetas drug gang learned special forces techniques at Ft. Bragg before waging a campaign of carnage.]
The connection between Israeli military expertise and Mexican cartel violence has roots that stretch back decades. Los Zetas, the cartel that terrorized Mexico throughout the 2000s and 2010s, were founded by more than 30 defectors from GAFE (Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales), Mexico’s most elite special forces unit. According to a 2010 Al Jazeera investigation, some of these soldiers had been trained in the early 1990s by America’s 7th Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Craig Deare, a former U.S. special operations commander who later became a professor at the National Defence University, confirmed to Al Jazeera that GAFE members “were given map reading courses, communications, standard special forces training, light to heavy weapons, machine guns and automatic weapons.”
Separately, the Foreign Policy Research Institute documented that “foreign specialists, including Americans, French, and Israelis, instructed members of this elite unit in rapid deployment, aerial assaults, marksmanship, ambushes, intelligence collection, counter-surveillance techniques, prisoner rescues, sophisticated communications, and the art of intimidation.” When these soldiers defected to the Gulf Cartel beginning in 1997 to form Los Zetas, they carried this expertise directly into cartel operations, building what analysts described as a paramilitary-grade criminal organization. The cartel also recruited Guatemalan Kaibiles (special forces) and corrupt police officers, compounding the foundational foreign military training.
Following El Mencho’s death in February 2026, renewed scrutiny fell on whether the CJNG had tapped into similar foreign training pipelines. A TRT World investigation cited a former DEA agent who reportedly described hearing about Israeli nationals meeting with CJNG members to provide sniper training and tactical instruction, noting methods that appeared “more technically advanced than typical Mexican cartel tactics.”
Oh, those rabbis and synagogues and Schumer’s.
Democratic leadership slow-walked the Iran war powers resolution long enough for Trump to start the war. Top Democrats support war with Iran – they just want Trump to be the one to absorb the political fallout
Ahh, when will the Muslims STAND UP?
May God curse you, you filthiest of God’s creation
You violator of young girls
You honorless wretch
Jewish Values: Washington’s pro-Israel think tanks, like the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, are pumping out articles groveling over the prospect of controlling the nation’s oil.
Not only is the pro-regime change Venezuelan opposition allied with the Israeli Likud Party, but toppling the government in Caracas directly serves Israel’s regional agenda. This is why pro-Israeli commentators are adamant that the US military intervene and put American lives on the line.
I stand in solidarity with my Iranian friends and people for this fascist aggression they are enduring
The Israeli-American state terrorism must be condemned
The rhetoric of the liberal order, also endorsed in this tragic moment by #CarlBildt the liberal and emblem of progressives, by the European socialists, by the Trumpian right-wing, according to which even if it is a violation of international law it is directed against an “indefensible regime,” must not be tolerated, must be attacked, disproven.
We defend the law, diplomacy, the prevention of conflicts.
The demonization of Russia, of China, of Iran or of Venezuela and Cuba is yet another manipulation of the new fascism in power
The victims are silenced everywhere. In Gaza, in #Cisgiordania, in Iran, in #Cuba. A narrow elite acts outside the law and is untouchable
The #Epstein files are the tip of an iceberg. The violence is public and private.
Let us demystify. Let us unite. The courage to bear witness is essential. Soon, we will no longer be able to do so
An appeal to possible patrons. An alternative communication medium that reaches large audiences can begin to make a difference
If we do not militate, the next victims will be us and our children. — Elena Basile
Iranian Revolutionary Guard: The American combat support ship MST was severely damaged due to missiles launched by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s naval force.
God is Great. It’s sinking
Started with the sound of sirens in Israel because of the possibility of a retaliatory attack by Iran. As if we are supposed to identify with the Israelis.
Talked about the “threat” to tens of thousands of U.S. military personnel in the region — as if they deserve our sympathy!
Had our PM Carney speaking lies about Iran being the source of terrorism in the Middle East after Israel has been committing blatant, livestreamed genocide. Broadcast the total delusion that a certain person in the U.S. is the “crown prince of Iran”.
Canada’s national broadcaster is shameful. Nothing but pure propaganda in this “news” segment. — Rabbi David Mivasair
They are ALL targets, these fucking psychotic WHITES:
Albanese’s backing of Israeli and US attacks on Iran shows that we are completely devoid of acting independently from Trump and Netanyahu.
There was a time when Labor pursued peace not war. That time is long gone.
Leadership needed not sycophantic capitulation to militarism.
For Gaddafi. For Bashar Al-Assad. For the Christians persecuted in the Holy Land. For the Shiite Muslims persecuted in the Holy Land. For Palestine.
This man today is the Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei. He puts his body on the line when he has to, and that’s what sets him apart from the Western pen-pushers. With a leadership capable of being in the trenches, a people becomes invincible; a grave, lamentable, and dangerous mistake by the West.
Circumcision at a post-adult age:
Translated from German
What hypocrisy! While Trump attacks Iran in the midst of ongoing negotiations, Merz, Macron, and#Starmer condemn the Iranian counterattacks but have not a word to say about the US bombardment that violates international law. Those who, like the Europeans, apply such double standards should not be surprised to find themselves playing no role internationally anymore and being seen merely as an appendage of US imperialism.
THEY ARE ALL TARGETS. Body bags are too good for these EuroTrashLandians!
At this moment, a Mexican Navy ship makes its entrance into Havana with aid from the government and the brotherly people of México for the people of #Cuba 🇨🇺. Thanks 🇲🇽
Gulf countries are paying the price of betrayal..
This image is from Abu Dhabi..the home of the betrayal from which conspiracies emerged that destroyed Yemen, Sudan, and Libya..the home of money laundering, Colombian mercenaries, and hordes of American forces..this is Abu Dhabi after it was pounded by Iranian Armed Forces..and it’s not alone..but Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain too..these countries together had all the necessary resources..they have oil and gas and sovereign funds whose combined wealth is estimated at five trillion dollars, and they didn’t have to side with the Americans and the occupation entity..but they rented out their lands to wipe out a neighboring country..the height of baseness..
This is the first time the Gulf countries have been subjected to such massive targeting..Dubai alone has witnessed six massive explosions just minutes ago..Ali Al-Salem base in Kuwait and the Jafra area in Bahrain..and imagine that the Arabs came out to condemn Iran, even though it was from their lands that missiles launched to pound the Iranian President, the Supreme Leader, the IRGC commander, and the Defense Minister..Kuwait’s skies have truly turned into an operations theater..a missile overhead every five minutes..The UAE’s buildings were pounded..and the Qatari Al Udeid base, from which planes have long taken off to bomb Iraq and Afghanistan, was also struck by Sejjil and Khorramshahr missiles..The countries built on suspicious wealth and money piled up on the shoulders of millions of laborers who get less than a quarter of what they deserve are receiving their punishment..and this is the least of what they deserve..
Try feeling what 51 Iranian children felt when they met their end in a girls’ school..Experience the meaning of the fear now striking the hearts of millions of Iranians, who have done nothing wrong in the world except that American and Zionist evil heads refuse to let them possess their weapons..Know, even if just once, the meaning of stagnation and recession, you who helped the Americans besiege a neighboring country for fifteen years, depriving it of oil revenues and pushing 80% of its people below the poverty line..
Betrayal after betrayal, we’ve paid the price for them over decades..and I hope you pay the price for them at the hands of the Iranians..Trillions you didn’t use to build armies that make you independent and free..Millions of barrels of oil daily, and you didn’t create science or build a civilization..We’ve seen nothing from you but betrayal..and now your flaming skies bear witness to the first of its prices..For the first time, you’re being struck by missiles all together, just as you betrayed your brothers all together..You wish Iran would be erased because if it survives, God willing, your thrones won’t survive after its steadfastness..And with God’s help, the Islamic Republic will triumph..and you will perish.
The brakes on his cab will be going out soon, thanks to Jews.
“If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when the people of the whole world will hang them. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.”
— Mao Zedong
Congratulations, MAGA. This is what happens when you elect a compromised, degenerate fucking pedophile, not once, but twice as your President. Your soldiers will die fighting a war on behalf of Israel, and none of you lifted a finger to stop it.
Good job, fucknuts,
Denmark officially bans all Israeli tourists from entering the country.
Anyone following the conflict from the start will find that Iranian technology has evolved significantly, and the targeting has become astonishingly precise—something I don’t think even the Americans and Zionists anticipated. The image shows an American AN/FPS-132 radar in Bahrain, costing over a billion dollars, completely destroyed by an Iranian drone right in the middle.
I don’t claim that Iran can withstand a raging torrent of American weaponry and international support, but what I admire is that dignity doesn’t keep score of power and doesn’t care for an arrogant, insolent braggart hiding behind Western hubris. We strike first with equal measure, then ask about the results afterward. O God, Arab dignity like Iranian dignity.
“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world. A nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts.” – Hunter S. Thompson
Here we are, the fucking trash of the world:
While Russia and Pakistan issued direct condemnations, China expressed concern, and European leaders urged restraint, Western allies such as Australia signaled support for the US-Israeli war.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also voiced support for the strikes, citing Iran’s military cooperation with Russia.
DON’T CALL this ZIONISM. It is Judaism, full stop!
And it’s hard not to conclude that a vast portion of British military activity is focused not so much on keeping the British people safe, but on defending big oil.
Ya gotta give it to the Mossd and Unit 8200 and…………….
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) recently underwent a major technological reorganization, consolidating and forming several high-level divisions to lead their cyber and artificial intelligence (AI) operations. These units are primarily housed within the C4I and Cyber Defense Directorate and the Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman).
C4I and Cyber Defense Directorate
This directorate is responsible for building and operating the IDF’s digital, multi-domain, and strategic capabilities.
Information and Artificial Intelligence Division (Bina): Formed in late 2024, this division (Hebrew for “intelligence”) consolidates nearly all existing AI units under a single command. It includes:
Mamram: The Center of Computing and Information Systems.
Shahar: The unit responsible for data science and software development.
Matzpen: A software unit focused on operational systems.
AI Center of Excellence: A hub for advanced algorithmic research.
Software and Information School: The training arm for these technical roles.
Cyber Defense Division: Led by a Brigadier General, this division is responsible for protecting IDF networks and maintaining cyber resilience.
Spectrum and Communications Division: A new division created to manage the electromagnetic spectrum and strategic communications, including satellite and space-based networking.
Digital Transformation Division: Formed in 2019 to integrate civilian tech innovation into military infrastructure.
AIDF (Artificial Intelligence Reserve Unit): A specialized reserve unit that recruits experts from Israel’s high-tech industry to assist in military decision-making.
AI has enabled the Israeli regime’s genocidal logic to be carried out with machine-driven efficiency—reducing Palestinians, their families, and their homes to what the military chillingly calls ‘garbage targets’
Military Intelligence Directorate (Aman)
Aman manages the “collection” and analysis of intelligence through several elite technical units.
Unit 8200: Israel’s primary signal intelligence (SIGINT) and cyber warfare unit, often compared to the U.S. NSA. It has been instrumental in developing AI-powered target recommendation systems like Lavender and The Gospel.
Unit 81: A secretive technological unit that develops advanced hardware and software for special operations.
Unit 9900: Focused on visual intelligence (VISINT), utilizing satellites and mapping technologies often enhanced by AI for terrain analysis.
Unit 504: The human intelligence (HUMINT) unit, which increasingly uses digital tools to manage field data.
Specialized & Joint Units
Unit 888 (Refaim): A multi-dimensional unit that integrates AI and advanced sensors directly into combat operations.
Cyber Innovation Unit: Focuses on developing new cyber tools in collaboration with the private sector.
Center for Consciousness Operations: A unit within the Operations Directorate that manages psychological warfare and information operations.
Last year, Meta, Apple, and other big tech platforms began mass removing content and apps related to ICE. They deleted Facebook groups whose members criticized ICE agents, and forced the removal of apps from the app store that allowed citizens to report ICE in their neighborhood. Overall, it’s becoming harder and harder to criticize ICE online.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), is suing the government to fight back against these efforts. Today, Colin McDonnell, an attorney at FIRE joins me to break down FIRE’s lawsuit representing a Chicago-based Facebook group owner and an anti-ICE app founder against the government.
DOJ and DHS officials, including Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem, successfully pressured Apple and Facebook to remove an ICE-tracking app and a Chicago-based Facebook group with nearly 100,000 members. Colin breaks down why FIRE is suing the government , whether recording law enforcement in public is protected speech or dangerous “doxing,” the threats of a secret ICE protester database, and more!!
Oh, the lies, the worthless polls and Jewish poles up our asses.
GALLUP POLL: Forty-one percent of Americans now say they sympathize more with the Palestinians in the Middle East situation, while 36% sympathize more with the Israelis. The five-percentage-point difference is not statistically significant, but it contrasts with a clear lead for the Israelis only a year ago (46% vs. 33%) and larger leads over the prior 24 years.¹
Joining me once again is Stephanie Seneff PhD, here today to discuss Donald Trump’s recent Executive Order regarding glyphosate. Stephanie is an expert on the topic of glyphosate and has been on the cutting edge of its research for well over a decade. Today we discuss the many and varied dangers that this chemical poses, the illusion of higher crop yiel…
That’s the mechanism for Roundup-induced cancer, including via tryptophan metabolism.
Glyphosate’s ominous mechanism of action is putting a monkey wrench into a weed’s ability to synthesize aromatic amino acids, most famously tryptophan.
This kills the plant.
Thwarted is the shikimate pathway, and may be considered one of the biggest “oops moments” in scientific history.
Monsanto and regulators were in complete disregard of gut microbial production of aromatic amino acids including tryptophan. It wasn’t known how crucial our microbiota are to health.
“Glyphosate may have an impact on half of the species in the core human gut microbiome.”
“Our findings show for the first time that glyphosate-mediated perturbation of the bee gut microbiota, especially the effects on Snodgrassella abundance, is dose dependent and that a similar pattern of perturbation occurs regardless of the age of the bee and duration of exposure.”
“Colonization by Snodgrassella and other species able to synthesize all amino acids may foster the establishment of Lactobacillus species from Firm-4 and Firm-5 clades, which cannot synthesize some essential amino acids (19). Thus, inhibition of the shikimate pathway may deplete essential nutrients required by the hindgut community as a whole, culminating in bacterial death.”
Indeed, the globe is suffering a Lactobacillus crisis, key players of tryptophan metabolism via AhR activation. We now have dying diabetic bees suffering dementia.
But this Jew stain is the news: What The Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Means For Larry Ellison’s Fortune
By Forbes estimates, the elder Ellison, who is also Oracle’s largest shareholder, doesn’t have enough cash on hand to fulfill his part of Paramount’s $111 billion offer for Warner Bros. Discovery. Here’s how it could play out.
[Paramount CEO David Ellison arrives with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., before President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026.]
Centuries-old wells restored to provide drinking water as parts of the country head towards “day zero” when no water will be available.
Aloud cheer and sounds of clapping reverberated around Bansilalpet, a neighbourhood in Hyderabad, when the first trickle of clean water dribbled out of the ground. After an 18-month effort to clear out 3,000 tonnes of rubbish and restore the stone walls and adjacent area, the 17th-century Bansilalpet stepwell had become a source of clean drinking water for the first time in four decades.
“It was such a joyous moment to see water collecting into the stepwell after clearing 40 years of garbage,” says Hajira Adeeb, a 45-year-old resident of Bansilalpet, who grew up seeing the well become transformed from the community’s water source to a dumping ground. “I visit almost every day. The area is clean and lit up in the evenings. I enjoy sitting there.”
India is famed for its stepwells – multi-storey structures built to provide access to groundwater, with steps and platforms descending to the water level. Thousands were built across the country near natural aquifers – underground porous rock saturated with water – mostly between the 11th and 18th centuries
Shit. If I just break ONE privacy rule as a volunteer at the Senior Center, I would be fucking sacked, but the IRS and rapists and pedophiles in charge? The IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential information to ICE 42,695 times, judge says.
Jews: How US envoy Kushner’s ‘incomprehension’ of diplomacy stunned France,
The Jews will create a workaround: Pentagon Standoff Is a Decisive Moment for How A.I. Will Be Used in War
The Pentagon’s contract dispute with Anthropic is part of a wider clash about the use of artificial intelligence for national security and who decides on any safeguards.
Cool Jew Zeldin: The Trump administration is slowly dismantling the federal disaster management system that protects the nation from chemical catastrophes, such as fires and explosions at high-risk facilities.
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s Response Management Program (RMP) requires more than 12,500 high-risk facilities to develop protocols to prevent catastrophes, or limit fallout, and was largely designed to protect workers, first responders, and fence-line communities.
Petro-MASCULINITY. Reconciliation bill subsidizes fossil fuels by $3.5B each year, Democratic report finds
Fucking Jew York City!!!! Mamdani’s meeting with Trump was a Trojan Horse triumph at the White House
Mamdani wooed the president with much property talk and showed the real ‘art of the deal’ might have been soft power via Photoshop
Jew Power, Zeldin:
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moved to fire 22 more of its staffers, a union representing agency employees said Thursday.
Justin Chen, president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Council 238, which represents EPA staff, said that the agency issued reduction in force (RIF) notices to 22 people who work on “environmental justice,” meaning they tackle pollution in overburdened or underserved communities.
“AFGE Council 238 is outraged by the EPA’s decision to issue RIF notices to 22 environmental justice employees whose work ensures that communities disproportionately burdened by environmental hazards receive the protections they are entitled to,” Chen said in a written statement.
“The gutting of our workforce, which has already been reduced by an estimated 30 percent, has stretched remaining staff to the breaking point and weakened our ability to respond to mounting environmental and public health threats. There is no justification for further cuts: funding levels have remained steady and these are needed, well qualified workers, and the agency should be strengthening our workforce, not shrinking it,” he added.
He urged the EPA to “immediately withdraw these notices.”
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Feb. 26 announced the Pentagon will conditionally continue to provide support to Scouting America following the youth organization’s “commitment to pull all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives from its program.”
Scouting America has signed a memorandum of understanding stating that it will comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump that aimed to bar DEI efforts in the public and private sectors, Hegseth said.
Changes include the removal of DEI-focused language from Scouting America’s programs and publications, and the elimination of a “citizenship in society” merit badge that required Scouts to “realize the benefits of diversity, equity, inclusion and ethical leadership.” A new military service merit badge will be introduced, according to the Pentagon.
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