Stupor Bowl: $1.7 billion to $1.76 billion is expected to be legally wagered in the US, according to estimates from the American Gaming Association and industry reports.
Robert Kraft New England Patriots Owner since 1994; known for his extensive support of Israel and combatting antisemitism.
Arthur BlankAtlanta Falcons Co-founder of Home Depot and a prominent philanthropist in the Atlanta Jewish community.
Jeffrey LuriePhiladelphia Eagles Purchased the team in 1994; focuses on community outreach and inclusivity.
Stephen RossMiami Dolphins Acquired control in 2008; real estate developer and founder of the Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality (RISE).
Zygi Wilf & FamilyMinnesota Vikings Principal owner since 2005; the son of Holocaust survivors, the family is active in Holocaust education.
Josh HarrisWashington Commanders Led the group that purchased the team in 2023; also owns the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers.
Steve TischNew York Giants Co-owner and Chairman; his family has held a stake in the Giants since 1991.
Mark DavisLas Vegas Raiders Son of legendary owner Al Davis; his family has owned the team for decades.
David TepperCarolina Panthers Purchased the team in 2018; founder of the hedge fund Appaloosa Management.
Glazer FamilyTampa Bay Buccaneers The family, led by Avram and Joel Glazer, has owned the team since 1995.
THEY STICK together!
THEY being . . . .
The Atlantic – which has spent two years justifying the genocide of Palestinians, claiming children are legitimate targets, demonizing anti-genocide protestors – is owned by Ghislaine ‘Rid the world of Arabs’ Maxwell’s associate Laurene Powell Jobs (Steve Job’s widow) and its EIC is former IDF prison guard Jeffrey Goldberg. Got it.
“Palestinians are presented as barbarian and as primitive and as people who do not understand the laws of war, people that do not make distinctions between civilians and combatants, and so forth, and therefore they are immoral, while Israel claims that it tries to protect civilians.”
[Neve Gordon, a member of the Faculty of Law at Queen Mary University in London, who is of Israeli descent, told Anadolu that Israel is working hard to legitimize the war crimes it commits.]
‘Legitimizing’ war crimes
Statements like Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant saying, “We are fighting against animals” are clear examples of the strategy to try to legitimize war crimes, said Gordon.
Comparisons of Palestinians to “rats or snakes” on Israeli social media accounts are an effort to “dehumanize” them and “legitimize civilian deaths.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that Gaza is a “city of evil,” he said, adding: “When Israel tells 1.1 million Palestinians to move south, and then claims that any Palestinian civilian that stayed there is involved in the conflict, and therefore, a legitimate target, is a way of manipulating the laws of war.”
I know! let’s read the Talmud instead. QUOTES FROM THE JEWISH TALMUD:
1. Sanhedrin 59a: “Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal.”
2. Abodah Zara 26b: “Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed.”
3. Sanhedrin 59a: “A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death.” to
4. Libbre David 37: “To communicate anything to a Goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all Jews, for if the Goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly.”
5. Libbre David 37: “If a Jew be called upon to explain any part of the rabbinic books, he ought to give only a false explanation. Whoever will violate this order shall be put to death.”
6. Yebhamoth 11b: “Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age.”
7. Schabouth Hag. 6d: “Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording.”
8. Hilkkoth Akum X1: “Do not save Goyim in danger of death.”
9. Hilkkoth Akum X1: “Show no mercy to the Goyim.”
10. Choschen Harmm 388, 15: “If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth.”
11. Choschen Hamm 266,1: “A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people.”
12. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dla 17: “A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them.”
13. Baba Necia 114, 6: “The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts.”
14. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: “When the Messiah comes, every Jew will have 2800 slaves.”
15. Nidrasch Talploth, p. 225-L: “Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night.”
16. Aboda Sarah 37a: “A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated.”
17. Gad. Shas. 2:2: “A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl.”
18. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: “If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible.”
19. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: “It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. is permitted to kill him even before he denounces.”
20. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: “All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples.”
Billionaire pedophile child traffickers would not be able to get away with their crimes if it weren’t for the medical doctors who took an oath – but chose to not intervene.
Despite this, Dr. Jess Ting was very much engaged with Jeffrey Epstein – he went out of his way to advocate for the convicted pedophile many times to Mount Sinai staff, he alerted them of Epstein’s VIP status, gushed to Epstein’s associate Lesley Groff about how he’d do “anything” for Epstein and was at Epstein’s beck and call.
Ting was at Epstein’s service not only for the “pedophile financier” but also for whoever he sent him – presumably his victims.
Ting appeared to be ordered around by Eva Dubin – she told Epstein that Ting would see his victims if she told him to. She seems to direct Ting to be on call to receive a blunt force trauma victim Epstein flew in from “the island.” It also appears that she directed Ting to be the one who got his “hands dirty” in providing clandestine care – 36 stitches in the forehead of a female, possibly minor victim flown into NYC on a private jet from over four hours away by a convicted child trafficking billionaire.
Weekend at Noam’s
Machetes?
The accusers say the massages involved nudity, sex acts and sex toys, and at times underage girls. Richardson was named in the documents as having received a massage, although it did not go into any other detail.
“Bill Richardson was one of our most prominent politicians here in New Mexico,” said KOAT political expert Brian Sanderoff. “And so, it was disappointing to see that his name has been associated with the Jeff Epstein scandal.”
After the Miami Herald’s bombshell investigation detailed Epstein’s sex trafficking network, Epstein wrote to Chomsky seeking advice on handling his “putrid press.” Chomsky responded sympathetically the same day, urging Epstein to ignore the news and avoid media “vultures.” He wrote that he was pained by “the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public.”
“What the vultures dearly want is a public response, which then provides a public opening for an onslaught of venomous attacks, many from just publicity seekers or cranks of all sorts,” Chomsky advised. He added that “even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder” in the context of what he called “the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women.”
Colonialism was the original system of non-consent. Now, they want to delete the receipts. Don’t let it happen
We didn’t want anybody telling us anything about Africa, much less calling us Africans. In hating Africa and hating the Africans, we ended up hating ourselves without even realizing it. – Malcolm X
Nariman Nuhad Khurshid was a Palestinian fighter and aviator born in 1927 in Jaffa, Palestine
She was a co-founder of the women’s organization Zahrat al-Uqhuwan (The Chrysanthemum Flower). Alongside twelve women from Jaffa, Nariman helped build the organization in its early phase, which initially focused on social support and assistance to poor students before shifting decisively toward armed resistance against Zionist militias.
Within Zahrat al-Uqhuwan, Nariman played an active operational role. The organization trained its members, women and later men and foreign volunteers, in the use of firearms and machine guns, undertook nursing and medical support work, gathered intelligence, and raised funds to procure weapons.
Nariman herself, together with her sister, participated in several armed engagements with Haganah forces in and around Jaffa during the period leading up to and including the Nakba of 1948.
She remained a symbol of women’s direct participation in armed resistance until her death in Cairo on 18 February 2014.
Fannie Lou Hamer was fired and evicted in 1962 after trying to register to vote in Mississippi, despite 18 years working on the plantation as a sharecropper and timekeeper. Yet, she refused to be silenced. Her courage helped launch the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and push forward the Voting Rights Act. Hamer’s sacrifice reminds us: the fight for equality has ALWAYS come at a cost. She risked everything so future generations could have a voice!
Religion:
They killed the prophets. They sacrificed their children to Moloch. They made the star of Renfan their banner. They crucified the Messiah and expelled the Apostles from their synagogue. And wherever they go, they subvert Christian values, enslave the Gentiles through abusive credit practices, and blackmail politicians through extortion and seduction traps.
Satanists rule the world. Who are they? Jesus told us:
“You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45 But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me” (John 8:44-45).
“They will create the virus themselves and sell you the antidotes. Thereafter, they will pretend to take time to find the solution when they already have it.”
Muammar Gaddafi (2009 United Nations Assembly)
Icemen Cometh!
When winter gripped the Eastern Front in 1941, German soldiers learned there was something more terrifying than frostbite: the men who thrived in it. From the frozen reaches of Central Asia and the Far East came the Siberian divisions of the Red Army—warriors forged by isolation, hunger, and ice. They weren’t just soldiers. They were the embodiment of winter itself.
For months, Hitler was convinced Moscow would fall before the snow. But Stalin held back a secret weapon: tens of thousands of troops stationed near Japan. Only when Soviet intelligence confirmed Tokyo wouldn’t strike from the east did Stalin unleash his frozen battalions. Trains thundered across 9,000 kilometers, carrying men, horses, and white camouflage designed for snow-covered warfare.
By the time they arrived, the German army was broken—starved, frozen, and stretched thin. The Siberians, however, were in their element. They moved like phantoms, gliding on skis through forests, vanishing into blizzards, striking with ruthless precision. One German soldier wrote, “They’re like ghosts of ice.” It wasn’t just a counterattack—it was nature weaponized.
In December 1941, those divisions drove the Nazis 200 kilometers west of Moscow. For the first time, Hitler’s advance was halted. The myth of German invincibility shattered, and the legend of the Russian winter—along with its icemen—was born.
Black Panthers and a Palestinian delegation at the Pan-African Cultural Festival. Algeria, 1969.
In 1915, at just 23, Black American chemist Alice Ball created the 1st effective cure for leprosy. It was used globally until the 1940s. After passing suddenly at 24, her advisor stole the credit for her breakthrough. Decades later, she was rightfully credited.
On June 16, 1944, George Stinney Jr., a 90-pound Black 14-year-old boy, was executed in the electric chair in Columbia, South Carolina. Three months earlier, on March 24, George and his sister were playing in their yard when two young white girls briefly approached and asked where they could find flowers. Hours later, the girls failed to return home, and a search party was organized to find them. George joined the search party and casually mentioned to a bystander that he had seen the girls earlier. The following morning, their dead bodies were found in a shallow ditch.
On April 24, George Stinney faced a sham trial virtually alone. No African Americans were allowed inside the courthouse, and his court-appointed attorney, a tax lawyer with political aspirations, failed to call a single witness. The prosecution presented the sheriff’s testimony regarding George’s alleged confession as the only evidence of his guilt. An all-white jury deliberated for 10 minutes before convicting George Stinney of murder, and the judge promptly sentenced the 14-year-old to death. Despite appeals from Black advocacy groups, Governor Olin Johnston refused to intervene. George Stinney remains the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the 20th century.
Seventy years later, a South Carolina judge held a two-day hearing, which included testimony from three of George’s surviving siblings, members of the search party, and several experts. The state argued at the hearing that—despite all the unfairness in this case—George’s conviction should stand. The trial court disagreed and vacated the conviction, finding that George Stinney was fundamentally deprived of due process throughout the proceedings against him, that the alleged confession “simply cannot be said to be known and voluntary,” that the court-appointed attorney “did little to nothing” to defend George, and that his representation was “the essence of being ineffective.” The judge concluded: “I can think of no greater injustice.”
Today, Sandra Bland would have been 39 years old.
Sandra was a civil rights activist who used her platform “Sandy Speaks” to speak truth about police violence and systemic injustice. She had just been hired as a community outreach coordinator at Prairie View A&M University, ready to serve her community and make a difference.
On July 10, 2015, Sandra was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in Prairie View, Texas. During that traffic stop, Texas state trooper Brian Encinia escalated the encounter, forcibly removed her from her vehicle, and arrested her. He claimed she assaulted him. She was charged with felony assault on a public servant and taken to Waller County jail.
Three days later, she was found dead in her jail cell. Officials ruled her death a suicide, but her family knew Sandra. They knew her spirit, her strength, and her future. They rejected that ruling. What happened to her was murder.
Sandra’s death ignited the #SayHerName movement and forced Texas to pass the Sandra Bland Act, mandating police de-escalation training and mental health protections in jails. Her name became a rallying cry for accountability.
We remember Sandra today, not as a statistic, but as a sister, an activist, and a fighter whose voice demanded justice. Her legacy lives in every protest, every reform, and every person who refuses to stay silent.
Say her name. Sandra Bland.
Rest in power
Three Russian ringleaders of a sexual abuse network:
They tell you that the “Satanists” rule the world. And they’re right. But no, Satanists aren’t ghosts or incorporeal spirits, nor do they have tails or horns. They’re flesh-and-blood people, like you and like me.
Who are they? Well, if I told you directly, they’d call me “antisemitic.” So let’s just say they’re “Russians.”
In an interview on Iranian TV, Aisha Muammar Gaddafi, daughter of the late Libyan leader, delivers a clear message to the Iranian people.
“Negotiating with the wolf does not save the lamb, it only delays the hour of its next meal”
Aisha Gaddafi lived through this traumatic experience in her own flesh.
IDF soldiers wear the clothes of dead women they murdered. These rats are sick in the head.
The new official White House portrait!
“Sin is beginning to reproach America today and we want what is rightfully ours. And it’s no need of running and…saying, “Honey, I’m not going to get in the mess.” Because if you were born in America with a Black face, you were born in the mess.” – Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
Fusako Shigenobu. Founder and leader of the Japanese Red Army, a Maoist armed organization, which among other things organized the attack on Lydd Airport, with the Palestinian PFLP.
Captured in Lebanon in 2000, she served 22 years in prison in Japan before being released in 2022.
Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind
“Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you — and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Just reminding you where trillions of dollars go . . . Dirty Dirty Talmudists
Remember those states’ rights over the jack-booted feds?
For decades, section 401 has granted states and tribes the authority to approve, impose conditions on, or reject, federal permits for projects that they determine will pollute or damage local waterways.
Now, the Trump administration aims to scale back that authority in order to expedite projects and “unleash energy dominance,” said Jess Kramer, EPA assistant administrator for water, in a press briefing. “This proposed rule is the next step in ensuring that states and tribes only utilize section 401 for its statutory purpose to protect water quality and not as a weapon to shut down projects.”
No more states’ rights under Chabad-Lubavitch drenched United Snakes of Israel:
A declassified FBI memo released on 30 January states that US President Donald Trump was “compromised by Israel,” that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent, and that a Jewish religious movement, Chabad Lubavitch, had coopted Trump’s presidency.
Jamelle Bouie: Trump keeps saying they have to nationalize the elections, they have to federalize the elections, and this just depends on Congress at this point. The relevant part of the Constitution says that states shall handle elections, unless Congress decides they want to step in and do something.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is Congress saying, “We want to do something.” So, Congress has that authority. Unless Congress decides to lay down some standards, unless Congress decides that for whatever reason it wants to nationalize election administration, then I’m not sure that there is anything to worry about in that regard.
Otherwise, election administration in this country is extremely decentralized. It’s not even the case that it’s centralized in each individual state. It’s centralized in each individual precinct.
Setting aside the fact that the executive — or the president, specifically — really has no legal authority here, I want to be very clear about what I’m saying here. I’m not doing the thing where I say, “Well, we can’t do that. It’s illegal.”
[Scrubbing scrubbing shagging shagging.]
But Trump’s second-term messaging strategy has been defined by a mindset that social media content is governing and that governing is also achieved through content creation.
The Department of Homeland Security, the Labor Department and other federal government accounts have shared posts that contain white supremacist rhetoric and nods to conspiracy theories like QAnon. And Trump administration staffers frequently use X to spar with critics and post memes that support the president.
On Friday, Trump faced uncharacteristic pushback from some fellow Republicans after sharing a video on his social media site that contained false claims of election fraud — and a short snippet of an unrelated video that contained a racist depiction of former President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as apes.
That post was deleted, after the White House initially defended it as an “internet meme.”
Bannon is saying, “Get ICE all around polling precincts”; Trump is waiting for that phone call from Tulsi Gabbard; Tommy Tuberville is saying, “Get rid of voting machines” — you’ve got this environment where MAGA is very focused on the midterms because they’ve been governing like they’re never going to lose power.
Jews: UN peacekeepers in Lebanon say Israeli forces are increasingly harassing them
U.N. peacekeepers patrolling southern Lebanon have faced a dramatic surge of “aggressive behavior” by Israeli forces over the last year, including drone-dropped grenades and machine-gun fire, according to an internal report seen by The Associated Press.
The report by one of the 48 nations that together have more than 7,500 peacekeepers in southern Lebanon says the number of incidents jumped from just one in January to 27 in December. The hilly frontier zone where the UNIFIL force patrols has seen decades of cross-border violence. Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants fought a full-scale war in 2024.
The targeting of peacekeepers appears aimed at undermining the international force and strengthening Israel’s military footprint along the U.N.-drawn border with Lebanon, known as the Blue Line, the report alleges. It was shared with AP on condition that the news organization not identify the countr
All Jews are game, man, anywhere they lather up with their CopperTone
From destroying calories to ‘re-engineering’ society, data and experts reveal how the hunger in Gaza was not a byproduct of war, but a calculated strategy that reached its deadliest peak in 2025.
JEWS:
The Calorie Collapse: Before the war, 500 trucks sustained Gaza daily. During the conflict, this dropped to an average of 19 trucks a day – a 96 percent reduction.
The Thirst War: Water availability plummeted from 84 litres per person to just 3 litres during the siege.
Scorched Earth: Israel systematically destroyed infrastructure for agricultural production. By August 2025, 90 percent of agricultural land was razed, 2,500 chicken farms were destroyed (killing 36 million birds), and the fishing port was obliterated.
“If Israel wanted to do it, every child in Gaza could have breakfast tomorrow,” de Waal observed. “All they need to do is to open the gates”.
Feces sticking together:
Neither Bill Clinton nor Hillary Clinton has been accused of wrongdoing and both deny having any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes. No Epstein survivor or associate has ever made a public allegation of wrongdoing or inappropriate behavior by the former president or his wife in connection with his prior relationship with Epstein.
President Donald Trump has said he thinks it’s a “shame” that the Clintons are being called by lawmakers to testify.
“It bothers me that somebody is going after Bill Clinton. See, I like Bill Clinton. I still like Bill Clinton,” Trump told NBC News in a wide-ranging interview
The group is the fourth artist to pull out of the festival, following Ludacris and country artists Morgan Wade and Carter Faith.
“Shinedown is everyone’s band,” the group wrote. “We feel that we have been given a platform to bring all people together through the power of music and song,” the message began. “We have one BOSS, and it is everyone in the audience. Our band’s purpose is to unite, not divide. With that in mind, we have made the decision that we will not be playing the Rock the Country Festival.
Jack-booted feds, uh?
The Trump administration was dealt another setback Thursday in its effort to use taxpayer information to track down undocumented immigrants, as a second federal judge ordered the IRS to stop sharing residential addresses with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said the information sharing potentially violated taxpayer privacy rights. She blocked the agencies from sharing the data until the court can review the case further and barred ICE from using information already provided by the IRS.
Our research focuses on glyphosate’s impacts on AZA’s relationships with the land along with the forestry companies and provincial government that use and regulate the herbicide on their territory. Through our work with 14 First Nations that are part of the Understanding Our Food Systems project, several communities expressed great concern about environmental contaminants on their territories.
Members of the AZA have been particularly distressed about the impacts of glyphosate on their traditional food systems, the land and watershed, and the community’s health for several years. People who live and work on the land have noticed many changes and called for research and action to address these concerns.
In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans” based on “limited” evidence it causes cancer in people and “sufficient” evidence it causes cancer in animals.
This has been of particular concern for many Indigenous communities in terms of the impact of glyphosate being sprayed on the berries, animals, medicines and fish that make up their traditional food systems.
While several health-related issues have been connected to glyphosate use, such as destruction of cells, inflammation that can damage healthy tissue and weakening of the immune system’s ability to defend the body against infections and disease, there is no clear consensus on what level is considered safe.
Department of War Crimes:
President Donald Trump’s administration blasted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday for issuing an executive order reaffirming the city’s sanctuary laws, contending the directive will make the city “less safe.”
Mamdani’s order instructs all municipal agencies to ensure compliance with existing sanctuary laws, which bar city employees from assisting federal authorities in most forms of immigration enforcement. The order also directed certain public-facing agencies, including the NYPD, to have their employees undergo new training on sanctuary restrictions. The executive action did not otherwise enact any new restrictions.
“These are policies that keep New Yorkers safe,” Mamdani said of his executive order. “These are policies that are motivated by delivering public safety, not in spite of public safety.”
In Insect Biodiversity, Geoffrey G. E. Scudder writes that, “In terms of biomass and their interactions with other terrestrial organisms, insects are the most important group of terrestrial animals – so important that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.”
Afterall, insects are the biological foundation of all terrestrial ecosystems due to their primary role in cycling nutrients, pollinating plants, dispersing seeds, maintaining soil structure and fertility, controlling other organisms’ populations, and acting as a food source for other creatures. To put a number to the benefits we receive from insects, the service of insects pollinating about 75% of of our food crops is worth around $500 billion every year, without even taking into account the 80% of wild flowering plants they pollinate, which serve as the foundation for so much of the life on Earth.
Ecological harm from pesticides is growing globally, a study has found, with bugs, fish, pollinators and land-based plants among six species groups hit hardest.
Insects suffered the greatest increase in harm from synthetic farm chemicals between 2013 and 2019, the study shows, with “applied” toxicity rising by 42.9%, followed by soil organisms, which faced an increase of 30.8%.
Aquatic plants and land-based vertebrates were the only two groups for which the danger fell.
The global rise in applied toxicities of pesticides for most species groups suggested that ecosystems had become “increasingly impaired” by pesticides. “[This] directly counteracts the risk reduction target set out by the UN’s Global Biodiversity Framework.”
The 15th United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) obligates all countries to reduce pesticide risks by 50% by 2030. In this study, we derived the trends of total applied toxicity (TAT) globally between 2013 and 2019, weighting applied masses by ecotoxicity, of 625 pesticides for eight species groups to assess pathways toward this reduction goal. We found that the TAT of most species groups has increased; that only 20 ± 14 pesticides per group define >90% of the TAT nationally; that fruits, vegetables, maize, soybean, rice, and other cereals contribute 76 to 83% of the global TAT; and that China, Brazil, the United States, and India contribute 53 to 68% of the global TAT. Our target achievement categorization shows that substantial actions, combining shifts to less-toxic pesticides, increased adoption of organic agriculture, and also provision of national pesticide use data, will be required globally to approach the United Nations’ target.
Writing 10 years after the war, Bernays noted that World War One had, ‘opened the eyes of the intelligent few in all departments of life to the possibilities of regimenting the public mind.’
“Comrade, I did not want to kill you… But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response. It was that abstraction I stabbed. But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony — Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy? . . . Take twenty years of my life, comrade . . . for I do not know what I can even attempt to do with it now.” — Remarque
The Monster:
[In this Sept. 26, 1918 photo, a U.S .Army 37mm gun crew man their position during the World War One Meuse-Argonne Allied offensive in France. The CPI’s Division of Advertising churned out propaganda to bolster the support of Americans at home for the war effort.]
Corporations spend billions each year trying to influence how people think, act and spend. But the fields of modern public relations and product marketing really aren’t all that new – they got their big start in a broken campaign promise made nearly 100 years ago.
And as broken campaign promises go, this was one of the biggest.
In April 1917, the First World War had been raging for almost three years, but the United States had remained outside the fray. Although supportive of the Allied Powers, President Woodrow Wilson urged Americans to be neutral in thought and action. Public opinion in the U.S. was solidly behind him – Wilson had been re-elected in November 1916 on the slogan “he kept us out of war.”
Five months later, the president had a change of heart.
Germany was continuing to harass American shipping, and there were real concerns in Washington that the war would be lost. So on April 6, Wilson was able to persuade Congress to declare war on the Central Powers.
Persuading Americans to support the war would be a more challenging task.
Committee on Public Information
Within days of the declaration, the president authorized the creation of the Committee on Public Information.
Under the leadership of George Creel, a former muckraking journalist, the CPI was tasked with winning the war at home by firing up a reluctant American population into what Creel called “the white hot mass of patriotism,” and spreading the good news about America and its democratic values throughout the world.
The famous World War One “Uncle Sam” recruitment poster was painted by James Montgomery Flagg for the Committee on Public Information. (Reuters)
The CPI brought together many of the brightest minds in advertising, journalism, graphic design, academia, and a relatively new industry called public relations.
By the end of the war, more than 100,000 Americans had contributed to the CPI’s efforts. They created Uncle Sam and other iconic recruiting images. They churned out millions of press releases, bulletins, photographs and posters, and produced silent movies with names like Pershing’s Crusaders and America’s Answer.
And 75,000 local notables, known as Four Minute Men, signed up to deliver carefully crafted four-minute inspirational orations in church halls, movie theatres, and anywhere else that Americans gathered.
It all worked spectacularly well.
Within months, Americans had shed their initial war reluctance. Young men were flocking to recruiting offices, and millions were giving money to support the “Liberty Loan” program to help finance the war effort.
The success of the CPI opened the eyes of many of its publicists to new techniques of mass persuasion, and brought the fledgling public relations industry from the fringes of American commerce into the mainstream.
Heart vs. head
“Our effort was educational and informative throughout,” George Creel insisted after the war.
In fact, it was anything but.
The CPI was the largest propaganda machine the world had ever seen. And while its title stressed “information,” the Committee’s publicists understood that electrifying American public opinion would take an appeal to the emotions, not the intellect.
The CPI’s Division of Advertising churned out posters and ads that depicted German atrocities that never happened, played up threats to American homes and families that were wildly exaggerated, and generally appealed to the fears and anxieties that lurked beneath the surface of public consciousness.
All of this was observed with great interest by a young member of the CPI team named Edward Bernays.
In this Sept. 26, 1918 photo, a U.S .Army 37mm gun crew man their position during the World War One Meuse-Argonne Allied offensive in France. The CPI’s Division of Advertising churned out propaganda to bolster the support of Americans at home for the war effort. (The Associated Press)
When the war broke out, Bernays was hired to write propaganda for the CPI’s Latin American section. He was a 26-year-old publicist based in New York City, and he had very big ambitions.
Bernays was the nephew of Sigmund Freud and he shared his uncle’s fascination with the unconscious mind. But while Freud sought to liberate people from their subconscious drives and desires, Bernays wanted to harness those passions for commercial ends.
His work with the CPI had convinced him that if you could sell war by appealing to images and symbols, then you could do the same thing to sell just about anything.
“I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace,” he told a BBC interviewer in the early 1990s.
Bernays had concluded that public opinion was fundamentally irrational, and irrationality was now the filter through which human nature could best be understood. Symbols, not facts, would be the primary tool of persuasion. Public opinion was to be manufactured and managed through communications strategies that aimed for the gut rather than the brain.
Saying that “war is hell,” the Pentagon spokesman confirmed Thursday that many Iraqi troops were buried alive in trenches by U.S. tanks armed with plowblades in an assault during the gulf war. But spokesman Pete Williams would not go beyond his estimate of “many” Iraqis buried by the tanks, declining to confirm or deny published reports that it could have ranged from hundreds to thousands.
“I don’t mean to be flippant, but there’s no nice way to kill somebody in a war,” Williams said. “There is no provision in the Geneva Convention that would prohibit this operation.”
Four Basic Principles of The Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) ….respect for and protection of the civilian population and civilian objects, the Parties to the conflict shall at all times distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives and accordingly shall direct their operations only against military objectives.” [Additional Protocol 1, Article 48]
Continuing their ritualistic humiliation of Palestinians in life and death, the Israelis sent the mutilated bodies of 54 martyrs into the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Of these bodies, only about a dozen were intact. Along with the bodies came 66 boxes containing unidentified human remains. Photos published by the Gaza Health Ministry showed morbid images of human body parts, including skulls and other bones.
Dr. Muneer al-Boursh, the Director-General of the Gaza Health Ministry, termed the ongoing macabre Israeli practice a “humiliation inflicted on both the dead and the living.”
Dr. al-Boursh revealed that the bodies bore marks of inhuman torture, which was also the case with around 360 bodies that the Israelis sent into Gaza last year. Some of the bodies of Palestinian martyrs sent last year were still in blindfolds, had missing fingers, and bore marks of all kinds of horrific torture.
Families with missing relatives had to sit through painful photos of mutilated and mangled bodies in order to identify them. It led to excruciatingly painful journeys for many in search of closure, compounding their heartbreak and loss.
“What’s noticeable is that all the bodies had their fingers amputated,” he said. “This is a deliberate attempt to erase identity, to erase memory, to humiliate the living before the dead. When a person receives a bag of body parts, how will they identify them?
“Even during wars this is not a proper procedure. This is a complete moral and humanitarian crime in all aspects.”
Dr. al-Boursh revealed that the bodies of Palestinians had been medically dissected to harvest organs and were subsequently stuffed with gauze and cotton.
What do their synagogues promote?
In 1996, Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh, the influential leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect boasted about the “infinite value” of a Jewish life over a non-Jewish one, which justified stealing the goyim’s organ for the benefit of the Jew.
“If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him?” he asked rhetorically before answering: “The Torah would probably permit that, Jewish life has an infinite value.”
Dr. al-Boursh — whose cousin, Dr. Adnan al-Boursh, a beloved and renowned orthopaedic surgeon in the Gaza Strip, was abducted in the early days of the genocide and subsequently raped and tortured to death in their rape-and-torture dungeons, with his body withheld to this day — wrote a moving post capturing the pain of Palestinians as they are denied dignity by their genocidal occupiers even in death:
Gaza Receives the Remains of Its Sons and Daughters… and the World Remains Silent
This is not an ordinary image, nor a fleeting moment in a news cycle. These are the remains of human beings.
Separated bones. Limbs without names.
Bodies that did not return as they left their homes, but as violence intended — to erase them.
A while ago, fifty-four bodies arrived at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, accompanied by sixty-six boxes containing human remains, released through the Red Cross.
But what is truly being handed over? Bodies? Or what remains of human dignity?
Today, we stand before sealed boxes, searching inside them for the faces of our sons and daughters, with no forensic tools, no DNA testing, and no minimum medical or investigative capacity to identify or document them with dignity.
How do we restore names to bodies reduced to numbers on bags and containers? How do families receive their loved ones when identity is erased, bones are shattered, and the body is violated even after death?
This is not ordinary death. It is a violation beyond death — an assault on human dignity, an attempt to erase memory, and a humiliation inflicted on both the dead and the living.
Returning human remains in this condition is not a wartime circumstance, nor a military procedure. It is a moral and humanitarian crime, and a blatant violation of international law meant to protect human dignity in life and in death.
We are not asking for the impossible. We are not seeking privilege. We are demanding a fundamental human right: That a human being be returned as a human being, that the body be preserved, that identity be respected, and that dignity be upheld.
When the world remains silent before such a scene, it is not Gaza alone that is humiliated — silence itself becomes complicit in the crime.
What do their synagogues promote?
“Thanks to the terrible power of our International Banks, we have forced the Christians into wars without number. Wars have a special value for Jews, since Christians massacre each other and make more room for us Jews. Wars are the Jews’ Harvest: The Jew banks grow fat on Christian wars. Over 100-million Christians have been swept off the face of the earth by wars, and the end is not yet.”
— Rabbi Reichorn, speaking at the funeral of Grand Rabbi Simeon Ben-Iudah, 1869
“I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race, and we are a race.”
-– Rabbi Stephen Wise, N.Y. Herald-Tribune, June 13, 1938.
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“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel,. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.”
–Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, head of Shas Council of Torah Sages during a sermon delivered Oct. 2010 in Jerusalem
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“One of the finest things ever done by the mob was the Crucifixion of Christ. Intellectually, it was a splendid gesture. But trust the mob to bungle the job. If I’d had charge of executing Christ, I’d have handled it differently. You see, what I’d have done was had him shipped to Rome and fed him to the lions. They could never have made a savior out of mincement!”
-– Rabbi Ben Hecht
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“I don’t believe in western morality, i.e. don’t kill civilians or children, don’t destroy holy sites, don’t fight during holiday seasons, don’t bomb cemeteries, don’t shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).”
— Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Manis Friedman in Moment Magazine (May/June 2009) in “Ask The Rabbi”
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“…If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value. There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life…If a Jew needs a kidney, is it allowed, in order to save his life, to take the kidney from a Goy (non-Jew), passing by, even if he is not guilty of anything? In my opinion, Torah allows it. The life of a Jew is priceless.”
— Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg in “Jewish Week,” the largest Jewish publication in the United States, April 26, 1996.
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“If you saw two people drowning, a Jew and a non-Jew, the Torah says you save the Jewish life first.”
“We’ve never seen this much surveillance,” said John White who was asked to remove words such as “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion” and “culture” from his syllabus.
A new book examines how trailer parks trap their residents in a cycle of deprivation.
Corporate owners, for instance, tend to increase rental rates. The national monthly average to rent a space in a trailer park is around $250, so a 10 percent surge means an additional $25 every 30 days. “This may seem minor to someone from the middle or upper class,” says MacTavish, “but that’s a really big deal for low-income families.”
When such price hikes make staying in a park untenable, it’s then hard for residents to move their homes: Despite their name, most mobile homes are fairly stationary and difficult to transport. MacTavish notes that many states prohibit hauling older homes on the highway. “We often heard about people leaving their mobile homes behind and losing them for this reason,” she says. And even when a resident is able to move their home, they may not be able to find a spot in another park, since overall numbers have declined.
As real estate prices have risen, owners of parks located near small or large cities are often tempted to sell the land to developers who will pay well to build condos, office buildings, and the like on the land, displacing residents. This was common before the 2008 recession, and is on the rise again.
The world’s most expensive private residence in the world, Antilia is owned by Mukesh Ambani, the richest person in India, and is named after a mythical island in the Atlantic. This 400,000-square-foot building sits in the most prestigious postcode of India and reaches 27 floors, with each double-height ceiling counting as two floors. But, despite its huge height, it’s designed to withstand huge earthquakes.
These homes, whether single or double wide, provide low-cost housing for 20 million Americans, giving shelter and stability to those who might otherwise be on the streets or moving from place to place. “That’s the positive around the role mobile homes can play,” says Katherine MacTavish, a professor at Oregon State University and co-author of the recent book, Singlewide: Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park. Such stability can even help kids growing up in parks succeed in school and move up the social and economic ladder
.The most expensive private residence in Europe, Villa Leopolda sits between two of the most prestigious parts of the world: Monaco and Nice. Sumptuous and stylish, it’s a luxury property in the French Riviera with a regal past and first belonged to King Leopold II of Belgium (hence the name). Since then, it’s passed through the hands of many elite owners and has also been used as a film set for Alfred Hitchcock’s “La Main Au Collet” (To Catch a Thief).
Nestled in the heart of Regent’s Park, London, The Holme is a magnificent mansion previously owned by members of the Saudi royal family. However, this grand estate has recently come into receivership following the expiration of a £150 million loan.
Estimated to be worth around £250 million (approximately $320 million), The Holme is one of England’s most prestigious properties. Covering an expansive area, the Gatsby-esque mansion features more than 40 rooms, including lavish bedrooms, opulent reception areas, and a grand ballroom.
Yet in interviewing 240 residents of trailer parks across the country, MacTavish and her co-author, Sonya Salamon of the University of Illinois, found that such success stories are rare. Moreover, their research revealed that residents of trailer parks are largely unable to parlay their mobile homes into the American dream of conventional home ownership—though most of them saw their mobile home purchase as a path toward just that.
Trump Just Gave Us the Worst January Since the Great Recession
Layoffs have surged to a nearly 20-year high, as job openings plummet.
Two companies are responsible for 40 percent of these job losses: Amazon, which cut 16,000 jobs, and UPS, which cut 30,000 jobs. The cuts are even related: UPS’s cuts are connected to how it is winding down a delivery agreement with Amazon.
The most layoffs were seen in five industries: transportation, technology, health care, chemical manufacturing, and financial.
“Generally, we see a high number of job cuts in the first quarter, but this is a high total for January,” said Andy Challenger, the firm’s chief revenue officer, in a statement. “It means most of these plans were set at the end of 2025, signaling employers are less than optimistic about the outlook for 2026.”
Everything is being rewritten since Americans are not taking to the streets and piling tires on roads with a little love from gasoline:
In 1963, NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was gunned down outside of his own Mississippi home by Byron De La Beckwith, a Ku Klux Klan member. Now the Trump administration wants the National Park Service to stop calling Beckwith a racist.
Anonymous Park Service officials told Mississippi Today that they were being ordered to make ahistorical and incredibly political omissions to the brochure that accompanies the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument.
[Myrlie Evers-Williams pauses during an interview alongside a bullet hole in the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 1, 2023.[
The original brochure stated that Beckwith was part of “the racist and segregationist White Citizens’ Council,” but it has now been removed from the monument.
If shooting Evers wasn’t evidence enough for Beckwith’s deep racism, his past interviews certainly are. An interview he did in 1990—four years before he was actually convicted for his 1963 murder—sees him calling the racist White Citizens’ Council “the first ray of light Dixie had seen since we fought through Reconstruction and captured the right to vote, the right of white people to run the South.”
“N—s are beasts. It says so here in the book of Adam,” he said in the same interview. Beckwith, who also belonged to the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, still called Evers a “mongrel” over 30 years after killing him, adding that “God hates mongrels.”
Pets trained to bite, hold and release on command are growing ever more popular in the UK. But why – and at what cost to the animals and their owners?
While most of his clients are wealthy or in the public eye, Bly says he has seen growing interest from people who aren’t obviously either, wanting “to make an investment in security”. K9 Protector breeds and trains its own dogs, selling between 40 and 60 animals each year. Most are German or Belgian shepherds, or Bly’s own “chimera” hybrid: a “very specific genetic combination” he developed for higher-risk environments. Pricing depends on the dog’s level of training and the buyer’s threat profile, but chimeras start at £32,000.
Cane corsos have become a popular status dog. Photograph: Antons Aleksenko/Getty Images
He believes it is “just a matter of time” before one is injured or killed in an altercation. “Ultimately, they are being bought with the viewpoint that they may have to place themselves in harm’s way.” At the same time, Bly downplays the risks they pose outside that worst case scenario. The training they receive to bite, hold and release on command is “more of an obedience exercise”, like recall, than it is “forward aggression”, he says.
Slaver in Chief: “Not an Angel”: Trump Defends Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good Deaths
JD Vance Delivers Sick Message to Alex Pretti’s Family
The vice president was asked if he’d like to apologize for his comments to Alex Pretti’s family. He had a disgusting response.
“Have you apologized, did you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti?” The Daily Mail’s Philip Nieto asked Vance.
“For what?”
“For, you know, labeling him an assassin with ill intent.”
Yeagh, those brown kiddos, show us their papers or else?
An Argentine judge on Wednesday requested the extradition from the United States of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by the U.S. military last month and now faces federal charges of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine in New York.
The inquest from Argentina, whose judges have aggressively pursued human rights abuse cases beyond its borders, accuses Maduro of having committed crimes against humanity in overseeing a harsh crackdown on protesters and political opponents as president.
“The urgent translation of the international request and the documentation attached thereto is hereby ordered,” said the warrant, which was signed by Argentine federal judge Sebastián Ramos and seen by The Associated Press
“On the other side,” he added, “are those accomplices of a narco-terrorist and bloody dictatorship that has been a cancer for our region.”
Argentina has long taken pride in its European heritage. The mass migration of 7 million Europeans, mostly Spanish and Italian, between 1850 and 1950, created a racial profile many Argentinians feel distinguishes their country from the rest of Latin America even today.
“Mexicans descend from the Aztecs, Peruvians from the Incas – but Argentinians descend from the ships,” goes an old saying that encapsulates Argentina’s perception of itself as a nation of transplanted white Europeans.
Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain.
Child abuse, peodophilia, brownshirt academy. The Department of War announced Monday evening Scouting America may be on a path to get rid of “DEI” in the organization.
“From Day One at the War Department, we have made it very clear: No more DEI at DoW. Zero tolerance,” Sean Parnell, the senior Advisor to the war secretary wrote on X.
The Chlamydia Capitalism on Steroids: The Washington Post leadership announced a massive round of layoffs after years of staff turmoil and as the newsroom struggles financially, as its billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos—once a very public Post cheerleader— maintains a silence about the organization’s fate that has stretched to nearly a year.
The power of Chlamydia Capitalism:
The Trump administration has secretly deported Palestinian men arrested by ICE to the occupied West Bank by private jet in coordination with Israeli authorities on at least two occasions, according to investigations by The Guardian and +972 Magazine. The detainees were flown in shackles to Tel Aviv and later released at an Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank. According to the report, the flights took place on a luxury jet chartered by ICE that is owned by Florida developer Gil Deze, a Trump donor, friend of Donald Trump Jr., and a member of the Miami branch of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces.
Baby Blood, Semen, Body Snatching, Feces Eating, Organ Thieving, Sex Trafficking, Sodomy, Snuff Movies — Rich People Want Us to Go Go Go, or Soylent Green.
Roger Peet is an artist, printmaker, muralist, and writer living in Portland, Oregon. His visual work focuses on civilized bad ideas, predator-prey relationships, and the contemporary crises of biodiversity and capitalism, as well as on what can and can’t be done about them. His writing addresses the politics and history of social relationships with the natural world. He is a founding member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and helps to run the cooperative Flight 64 print studio in Portland. He collaborates with artists, activists, and scientists, locally and globally, in service of a more generous and wilder world.
Ray Acheson (they/them) is Director of Reaching Critical Will, a project working for disarmament and demilitarization. They provide analysis and advocacy at the United Nations on nuclear weapons, autonomous weapons and the militarization of AI, the arms trade, military spending, and more. Ray served on the steering group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work to ban nuclear weapons, and is a member of the Stop Killer Robots campaign. They also work locally with coalitions that oppose state violence and build community solidarity. They are the author of Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy and Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages, and write a column at CounterPunch called Abolition Everywhere.
M.V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of Nuclear is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change (Verso 2024) and The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India (Penguin Books, 2012). Ramana is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, the Canadian Pugwash Group, the International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group, and the team that produces the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Leo Szilard Award from the American Physical Society.
Joshua Frank is co-editor of CounterPunch and co-host of CounterPunch Radio. He is the author of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America, and the forthcoming, Bad Energy: The AI Hucksters, Rogue Lithium Extractors, and Wind Industrialists Who are Selling Off Our Future, both with Haymarket Books.
Why all the release of millions of Epstein files (still four million NOT released). And, how many does Unit 8200 and Mossad have?
We are the fucking proving grounds of the most perverse actions in history, recent history, that is, so why NOW?
Kelly — Because they want to desensitize people against crimes against children, people, women. What happens to a father when he finds out that has happened to his daughter. It’s got to break his heart. The result, there is no action. Heads should roll, and people should be arrested and and Maxwell is a minimum security facility. The rich can do whatever they want.
I remember, the guy with Gerald Horne, Wilbert, come up with words for Trump, he came up with vulgar and crass.
This revelation was brought to light in Epstein Files release EFTA00165118. In an email written between correspondents whose identities were redacted by the DOJ, the sender references an article published on the UK news outlet The Sun covering the suicide of Sabrina Bittencourt. Bittencourt, a victim of the Brazilian celebrity cult leader John of God (legal name João Teixeira de Faria), made famous by US talk show host Oprah Winfrey, alleged that the cult leader held young girls captive to breed them in order to sell their newborns on the black market before murdering the mothers. “Hundreds of girls were enslaved over years, lived on farms in Goias, and served as wombs to get pregnant for their babies to be sold,” Bittencourt alleged. These same allegations were made against Epstein by the sender in the email disclosed in the latest batch of the Epstein Files, who wrote, “[REDACTED] spoke of this going on at Zorro Ranch. She has said on record that Epstein offered her money to do this. Birth babies for black market use.”
While Little Saint James Island, infamously known as Pedophile, Rape, and Epstein Island, has received the bulk of attention in the fallout from the cover-up of Epstein’s crimes, his Zorro Ranch property is another centerpiece of the crimes committed by his criminal network. Located in the high desert north of the Estancia Basin of central New Mexico, where Epstein was not required to register as a sex offender following his 2008 plea deal in Florida, the sprawling 7,600-acre ranch hosted numerous parties implicated in Epstein’s crimes. Epstein reportedly organized the ranch as the headquarters for his eugenic plot to “seed the human race with his DNA” by impregnating countless women and underaged victims on the property. Victim Annie Farmer, alleges that Epstein and his prime accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, sexually abused her at the ranch when she was just 16-years-old.
According to housekeepers and other staff interviewed as witnesses, Epstein hosted Prince Andrew, formerly the Duke of York; former congressman and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson; and Woody Allen alongside his adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, whom Allen married in 1997 after years of allegations that he abused her as a child during his marriage to his ex-wife, actress Mia Farrow, at his New Mexico property. Despite their notoriety, those figures were far from the most high profile visitors alleged to have been hosted by Epstein at the Zorro Ranch.
Stress positions, USA:
Americans have not heart, because they have no country to fight for because it’s land . . . . They know that deep in their heart.
Zebras: Experience intense, short-term physical stress (e.g., being chased by a lion). Once the threat passes, their bodies return to a state of calm, and the stress response shuts off.
Humans: Experience chronic psychological stress (e.g., bills, traffic, deadlines). We activate the same “fight-or-flight” physiological response, but we keep it turned on for months or years, which causes long-term damage.
We are the crash test dummies, the white mice, for . . . slow-moving “diseases of lifestyle” exacerbated by stress.
The “Russian Spy” accusation is based on vapors. It is a narrative with no tangible proof, designed to pander to the Russo-phobic hysteria that has gripped the West since 2016.
Compare this to the mountain of hard evidence regarding Mandelson’s other allegiance: the Epstein-Israel axis.
Court documents, FBI files, and investigative reports have long suggested that Jeffrey Epstein was not merely a financier, but an intelligence asset—specifically, a Mossad cut-out running a “honey trap” operation to compromise Western politicians and businessmen for Israeli leverage.
Mandelson is listed in Epstein’s black book. He flew on his planes. He visited his homes. He is a close friend of Nat Rothschild, the scion of the banking dynasty that sits atop the financial pyramid.
Cancer: Various types caused by toxic exposure (e.g., benzene, arsenic).
One month after the US attack on Venezuela, dozens of Italian cities once again took to the streets in support of the Bolivarian process, demanding the release of President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores. Organized under the international slogan “Bring them home!”, the decentralized actions represent a stepping stone toward a national assembly in Rome on Sunday, 8 February, as well as permanent mobilization against war and rearmament.
Students and youth made up a significant portion of participants in Tuesday’s demonstrations. “In response to the United States’ military action, a clear expression of its desire to reassert control over the continent, we once again stand alongside the Bolivarian Revolution […] against US imperialism and to demand the immediate release of Maduro and Flores,” the organizations Cambiare Rotta and OSA wrote on the day.
Blood-Harvesting Conspiracy.
According to a study by CEIDAS (the Center for Studies and Research in Development and Social Assistance) in Mexico, the southern border state of Chiapas is particularly susceptible to human trafficking. Irregular migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua are frequently exploited in bars and brothels. Migrants are even more at risk in Guatemala, where young girls are frequently abducted and trafficked. The NGO Casa Alianza found that at least 15,000 children had been trafficked in Guatemala for sexual exploitation; in Guatemala City alone, the NGO identified over 2,000 children who were being sexually exploited in bars and massage parlors. 89 percent were migrants from the nearby countries of El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Children between the ages of eight and 14 were bought and sold in Guatemala, for as little as 100 US dollars.7
In 2018, the Public Prosecutor’s office in Guatemala identified 478 possible victims of human trafficking. 132 of them, 28 percent of the total, were children and adolescents.8 During a UN ceremony commemorating the World Day against Trafficking in Persons in 2013, Honduran spokesman Jorge Ramos announced that 55 percent of Central America’s human trafficking victims were underage girls. Between 2018 and 2019, over 330 people were rescued from human traffickers in Honduras.9 In 2011, the CINDE Foundation and UNICEF conducted an expansive study of missing children in Central America. They announced that a severe problem of child trafficking existed in the region, particularly in “blind points” along border regions.10 Residents of the “Northern Triangle” countries—Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras—are particularly vulnerable to organized crime. These countries are among the poorest in the Americas, with a per capita income less than a third of Mexico’s.
Mexico’s National Institute for Women (INMUJERES) estimates that 25,000 underage girls are subjected to prostitution in the Dominican Republic, trafficked within the country. An increase in sex tourism in the region has led to higher levels of human trafficking, with women, girls, and boys brought to countries like Costa Rica from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and the Philippines.11 And Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission issued a report last year on children and adolescents who are victims of organized crime. The report states that, according to the Secretariat of Tourism, roughly 21,000 legal minors are trafficked in Mexico every year for the purpose of sexual exploitation. The border state of Baja California is cited as one of the five Mexican states with the highest rates of human trafficking.12
Another crisis of child abductions has been ongoing in Latin America for decades—poor families whose infants are kidnapped for illegal international adoption. The Guatemalan news website Radio Ocote reported on the extensive abduction and trafficking of children for foreign adoption, from the 1980s to the early 2000s.13 Many cases have been reported in Peru as well. As far back as the 1980s, journalist Ismael León participated in an investigation for the Peruvian newspaper La República,which discovered a child trafficking network. Children were stolen from their biological parents in poor and indigenous communities and sold for irregular adoption by foreign couples. This real-life story inspired director Melina León’s 2019 film Canción sin nombre (Song without a Name), which made its international debut at a film festival in Mexico City last year.
And while many of the foreigners who paid for irregular adoptions came from the United States, that is just the tip of the iceberg. The widespread crisis of human trafficking and abduction in Latin America is no accident—it is the direct result of a century of US policies in the region.
In Mexico, the issue of human trafficking cannot be disconnected from the crisis of violence against women: abductions, gender-based murders, and disappearances. The city most famous for rampant femicides—gender-based murder of women—is Juárez, a border city intricately linked to global capital and free trade. Many of the women and girls abducted and murdered in Juárez were recent migrants, having moved north to work in the maquiladoras,assembly-line factories. Foreign capital needed cheap labor to work the assembly lines, and a whole generation of newly-mobile, single females moved north. Organized crime took advantage of this vulnerable population. The number of women and girls who were abducted, disappeared, and murdered began to rise in 1993. This was shortly before the signing of NAFTA, as foreign companies built numerous maquiladora factories along the border. By 2005, the number of femicides in Juárez since 1993 had shot up to 370. This gender-based violence, kidnapping, and human trafficking affects underage girls at an alarming rate.
Growing protests have erupted across the country, calling for justice for their fallen sisters. Ni una menos (“We will not suffer one more missing woman”), Nos están matando (“They’re killing us”). On March 8 of this year—International Women’s Day—millions of women marched across the country.14 More recently, this September, a group of activists broke into the offices of the National Human Rights Commission to protest the Commission’s lack of action on this issue. They were joined by family members of women and girls who had been abducted and disappeared.
The human trafficking rings that have abducted thousands of women, teenagers, and children in Mexico and Central America are controlled by criminal organizations. Many of these, including the fearsome Mara Salvatrucha gang, are themselves the product of US foreign policy. The Mara emerged in the power vacuum that followed the Central American civil wars of the 1980s. As the US fought to keep socialism out of the region, Washington funded brutal paramilitary thugs in Central American nations. Through the US State Department, the CIA, and the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, the US taught these paramilitaries how to torture, intimidate, and subjugate the civilian population. After the USSR fell and the civil wars subsided, those paramilitary forces remained. They melded with a new group in Central America: recent deportees from the United States who, while in detention, had adopted the culture of US street gangs. They were sent back to El Salvador and Guatemala, and the two forces—gang culture and paramilitary violence—fused together.
US policy has consistently aimed at keeping the region within the US sphere of influence, by any means necessary. This interventionism has continued well into the 21st century, long after the Berlin Wall fell. In 2006, when Honduras elected progressive president Manuel Zelaya, who sought to redistribute land and tax US fruit companies, the US supported a military coup against him. Hillary Clinton may not be part of a Satanic sex cabal, but she did help to plunge Honduras into violence. As Secretary of State under the Obama administration, she gave legitimacy to the putschist military government in Honduras, even as most Latin American regions called for a return to democracy. Honduras is now one of the deadliest countries in the world, with an average of 13 people murdered every day. It is one of the most dangerous countries for journalists, with at least 40 reporters murdered in the last decade, according to Europa Press.15
Neocolonial interventions have defined US policies toward Latin America for over 100 years. Central America has been kept in a constant state of underdevelopment and poverty, held back from anything resembling self-determination. The end result is obvious: millions have been forced to migrate. As people fled the Northern Triangle countries in recent years, gangs quickly took control of the migration routes, abducting adults and children alike. So the migrants sought protection in one another—they joined together and migrated in large caravans, seeking safety in numbers. They began trekking together shortly before the Christmas season. Catholic and Evangelical organizations provided humanitarian support, seeing the migrants’ journey as a modern-day manifestation of the Holy Family seeking shelter.16
But when they reached the US, the migrants found a closed door. As early as 2017, the Washington Post reported on the new (unofficial) tendency of turning away asylum-seekers at the border.17 When one caravan reached the US border in 2018, most migrants were not given the opportunity to apply for asylum—rather, US agents fired tear gas into the crowd. The “Remain in Mexico” policy became the norm. As they languished in tent cities along the border, migrants became even more vulnerable to human traffickers and organized crime. More children went missing.
While criminals took advantage of this population, another child crisis enfolded along the border: migrant children were abducted by the US government itself. In June 2018, the DHS publicly admitted to a policy of family separation. The practice had been in place since the previous year; almost 2,000 children were separated from their parents in April and May 2018 alone. While the official number was 2,737, the government admitted in early 2019 that the actual figure may be much higher. This practice was a natural outgrowth of the Trump administration’s decision to criminally prosecute any adult crossing the border without papers. Once charges were brought against the adults, their children were declared “unaccompanied,” and fell under the supervision of the US Department of Health and Human Services. Children were ripped from their parents arms, with no regard for age. CNN reported a story of a Honduran woman whose infant daughter was taken from her while breastfeeding.18 Some evidence suggests that parents were tricked into releasing their children—perhaps forever. Defense attorneys reported that their clients had been told that Border Patrol agents were only taking their children away for questioning, or to be given a bath.
Many international media have decried the conditions in these migrant detention facilities. Children sleep on cold concrete floors, eating meager rations and washing without soap.19 A facility in Clint, Texas housed 250 children, including several toddlers younger than four. Three-year-old children have been forced to appear in immigration court on their own.20Members of the administration, however, attempted to justify the policy. White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly explained that the policy was “a tough deterrent,” insisting that it was not cruel or inhumane. “The children will be taken care of,” he insisted, “put into foster care or whatever.”21 Attorney General Jeff Sessions callously announced, “If people don’t want to be separated from their children, they should not bring them with them.”22 The policy contained no measures for reuniting families. Although the policy was officially canceled in the summer of 2018, many are still separated. According to the New York Times, the parents of 545 of the children have not yet been located. Around 60 of these children were younger than five years old when they were taken away from their parents.23
Ask AI?
The framing of the Epstein file release as a “test” of American tolerance stems from the deep skepticism surrounding the government’s handling of the documents and the potential for selective accountability.
As of early 2026, several factors contribute to this sentiment:
1. Perceived Institutional Failure
A January 2026 CNN poll found that 67% of Americans believe the government is intentionally holding back information that should be public. For many, the “test” is whether the public will accept what they perceive as a managed or sanitized version of the truth.
2. Selective Accountability and Politicization
Analysts argue the release has become a “partisan weapon”.
Institutional Distrust: There is a widespread belief that the legal system provides immunity for elite criminal networks while “normal people” face immediate consequences.
Politically Charged Redactions: While the Department of Justice (DOJ) maintains redactions are necessary to protect victims, many viewers see them as a way to shield powerful figures.
3. The “Haphazard” Release Process
The most recent tranche of 3.5 million pages released by the DOJ in early 2026 has been criticized for being unorganized and containing critical errors:
Failed Redactions: High-profile leaks included uncensored nude photos and the names of victims, which some victims have called “life-threatening”.
Sensitive Data Leaks: Redaction failures also exposed the banking information of victims and sensitive credentials for accounts like Gmail and LinkedIn.
4. Public Apathy vs. Outrage
Despite the high-profile nature of the case, a PRRI survey found only 19% of Americans view the controversy as a “critical issue”. This disconnect is sometimes described as a test of whether the public has become desensitized to allegations of elite corruption.
For individuals observing the events from a distance, the mental effects can include:
Vicarious and Secondary Trauma: Regularly seeing disturbing and violent content, such as images of mutilated bodies and destruction, can lead to vicarious trauma, where individuals experience symptoms similar to direct trauma victims. The mind struggles to process the immense scale of the suffering, which can cause a psychological “shut down”.
Anxiety, Depression, and Grief: Observers report overwhelming feelings of depression, anxiety, uncontrollable sobbing, and deep grief. There is a constant sense of dread and worry about the next atrocity, making daily functioning difficult.
Helplessness and Powerlessness: The ability to witness the destruction without being able to stop it creates intense feelings of helplessness and powerlessness.
Existential and Moral Crises: Constant exposure can lead to deeper metaphysical and existential questions about “good” and “evil,” “right” or “wrong,” and a general disillusionment with humanity and established systems.
Moral Injury: Witnesses may feel a form of moral injury from being part of a society that is perceived as complicit or inactive in preventing the atrocities.
Physical Symptoms: The psychological stress can manifest physically, including memory loss, sleep issues, and a prolonged state of heightened stress that can impact the nervous system.
Impacts on Those Directly Affected
For Palestinians in Gaza, the impacts are direct, severe, and compounded:
Compounded Trauma: The current trauma of the war aggravates the inherited, historical trauma and psychological vulnerability of a population, many of whom are already refugees from past displacements.
Extreme Stress and Fear: The daily struggle for survival amid bombing, displacement, and a lack of basic needs creates an adrenalized, high-stress state.
Loss of Future and Sense of Time: Victims report that time no longer has meaning and they no longer think of the future, instead tracking their lives by “massacres”.
Psychological Harm and Destruction of Society: The deliberate infliction of conditions of life calculated to bring about destruction is seen as causing “severe psychological harm on all Palestinians” and aims to destroy the remnants of a distinct society. The mind is focused on a daily fight for physical survival, which handicaps thinking in both general and national terms.
The unprecedented nature of a “live-streamed” genocide, where the victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real-time, has ensured widespread awareness of the brutality, making it impossible for a “healthy conscience” to ignore and forcing a global reckoning with the mental and ethical toll.
Epstein’s status as an Israeli intelligence operative—now beyond reasonable doubt—and ties to his “closest friend” Trump provide a likely means of ‘kompromat’ allegedly making Trump a tool of Israel. The report comes hot on the heels of other released documents detailing witness testimony accusing Trump of raping and beating children provided to him by Epstein. Dershowitz is also accused in the same files of at least being present during the rape—and in at least one case murder—of children.
A former Justice Department attorney, “Nearly 80% of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficked underage girls came from the Balkans.” Epstein’s still-censored travel log shows over a dozen flights to the region in the mid to late 90s. This is the time period when Epstein and his Israeli partners began cultivating pedophilia and sex-trafficking-based relationships with key UN insiders. Over the following years, members of Epstein’s network took positions within the highest echelons of the United Nations.”
Gilad Atzmon
What do we get of the Jewish State?
Epstein files
Genocides
Constant global conflicts (Ukraine included)
Financial turmoil
Energy crisis
Constant interference in global affairs and nations’ politics by means of Lobbying, Think Tanks, media control and various methods of blackmail.
If at one point Israel was regarded as an instant of ‘Western stability’ in the ‘volatile’ Middle East, by now this violent Ghetto on the Mediterranean seashore is by far the greatest danger to human survival on this planet.
The big challenge, accordingly, is to dismantle this wound in an harmonious and peaceful manner. This I believe, is the Iranian/dissident’s doctrine. It is moderate, skillful, and careful. It is there to deliver a message to the Israelis: ‘your time in our region has come to an end’!
It is the success of the Iranian deterrence doctrine that made it a necessity for the Jewish State and its lapdog the USA to destroy Iran.
Yet, for humanity to prevail or even just survive. Iran victory is a must!
These are the Israeli ‘demands’ from Iran as they were delivered to Witkoff a few minutes ago:
1: Iran must pass its enriched uranium to a third party state.
2. No further enrichment
3. The Ballistic missile production must come to an end
4. Iran’s support of regional proxies must also come to an end.
From the demands we learn that Israel acknowledges that it didn’t fulfil a single military objective during the 12 days war. If anything it learned to admit to itself that it is actually the Iranian ballistics , rather than nukes, that can turn Tel Aviv into dust .. the truth of the matter is that neither the USA nor the Jewish State posses the means to encounter Iran’s military technology. Israel knows it, the USA military knows it, Iranians know it and even I know it…
In 1993 journalist and writer Michael Collins Piper published his contentious book Final Judgement.
Pooling a large amount of circumstantial evidence, Collins Piper’s premise was that the hidden author of the assassination was, in fact, the security services of the state of Israel. The bastard cousin of all JFK assassination conspiracy books, Final Judgement was notable both for the silence it generated (to this day, almost all serious JFK researchers fail to acknowledge it even exists) and the reported fact that it sold around 100,000 copies through mail order, ‘under the counter’ and other alternate means.
Gilad: And while we are at it, the Sodomites just continued their human sacrifice orgy in Gaza. What stops the Ginger Caligula from deploying his ‘armada’ west of Tel Aviv?
In a 1948 letter to Zionist leaders, Albert Einstein raged that they were ‘terrorists and criminals’, and predicted that colonising Palestine would set up what he called ‘a final catastrophe’ for the Jews.
Last week, an Israeli soldier posted a ‘sunset’ photograph from Rafah on his Instagram. This is what they are proud of. This is what we paid for. This is what support for Israel means. This is Zionism.
Yahu vs. Xstein
Yesterday’s feud between Israeli PM and Biden top adviser exposes the level of Israel’s control over America and the level of American complicity in the worst documented genocide in human history.
In a press conference yesterday Netanyahu accused Biden of IDF fatalities during the Israeli human sacrifice orgy in Gaza. He said IDF ‘didn’t have enough ammunition,’ due to ’embargo’.
However, Amos Hochstein, one of Biden’s Witkoffs in duty insisted that Netanyahu was lying.
“Netanyahu is both not telling the truth and ungrateful to a president that literally saved Israel at its most vulnerable moment.” In further remarks on X, Hochstein wrote that “After more than $20 Billion military support, largest in Israel[i] history, two aircraft carriers rushed to the region, deterring a massive regional war, defeating Iran missile and drone attack twice, defending Israel at most vulnerable moments, after SAVING countless lives of Israelis – only acceptable response to US president Biden and American people is THANK YOU.”
This is pretty much everything you need to know. America is Israel’s most subservient colony. When its youngsters don’t die for Israel its tax payers’ money funds the Israeli genocidal crimes. If Netanyahu is expected to thanks “Biden and the American People” as Hochstein suggests, it only means that in Hochstein’s mind the American people are partners in the Israeli crime against humanity. I am sure that many Americans are upset by the idea and it is down to them to emancipate themselves of their Middle Eastern Mother State.
The Jewish state is beyond a doubt a disaster but the USA being the No 1 most subservient Israeli colony facilitates this disaster.
PS here is the Early Life Wikipedia section about Biden’s Top Adviser Amos Hochstein: Hochstein was born in Jerusalem, the child of American Jewish immigrants to Israel. He studied at Yeshivat Netiv Meir High School and the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces and served in Armored Corps. Following his service, he left Israel and moved to New York City to work at Bankers Trust. While Hochstein’s immediate family continue to live in Israel, he does not maintain dual citizenship, having renounced his Israeli citizenship.
This photographic sculpture was featured in an exhibition in Spain.
A Muslim Arab complained, and when asked why, he replied, “Because it’s scandalous.”
A white Christian complained, and when asked why, he replied, “Because I mustn’t be considered inferior to the Jew.”
A white Jew also complained, and when asked why, he replied, “Because if the Arab rises up, we all fall.”
This is a fascinating, thoughtful Lorenzo Galbiati ‘s interview with Hanna Hoffman. Rarely in your life you will come across a genuine Jewish dissenting voice brave enough to look at the J word and its meaning, let alone admitting the depth of theological morbidity that made the Jewish state into what it is. In fact the entire mission of the Jewish solidarity movement is to divert attention from the J word. Hoffman is different. She isn’t shy of the question.
Hoffman defines herself as Trans Zionist, her rational is fascinating . And I wonder is she a trans Zionist or maybe a trans Jew. I wonder , in the light of Hoffman’s elaboration, whether I myself am an ex Jew, a trans Jew, a proud self hater or a lamb of Christ. I wonder because I have never managed to emancipate myself of the battle with the tribe: its ideology, culture and politics. In that sense, I of course failed as a Christian.
INTERVIEW with Hanna Hoffman (Second Part – the First Part was published on January 14th)
1. Do [Did] you consider yourself an anti-Zionist Jew? And if so, what do you mean by anti-Zionism?
– I consider myself a “Trans-Zionist”, a term I coined. In other words, I was raised a zionist by definition, since I grew up in Israel and for the early 3 or so decades of my conscious life I accepted the absolute righteousness of israel’s existence – despite its somewhat checkered history. Said acceptance incalcated as part of my identity, almost as a god given right, never mind I did not believe in said god.
For me, as an Israeli and for quite a while after I left, this was something not even worth questioning. Mind you, as Israelis we did not refer to ourselves as zionists but as Israelis, which to us meant that this country, with whatever borders it had, even if drawn by outright conquest, was OUR country by divine right, much as France belonged to the French. None of the Israelis I knew and still know to this day, even accepts that israel as founded was an obvious colonialist-settler enterprise.
I was personally surprised by the debates about “zionism” raging in the US when I first arrived and used to vehemently defend israel against all critiques, since as I said, that was an embedded part of my very identity. It took more than a decade and considerable exposure to other thoughts and numerous literary works and historical works that were new to me, before I woke up one day and seemingly out of the blue no longer felt that “zionism thing” to be an inseparable part of my identity. I could for example see the both the first and second Intifada as natural forms of resistance by an occupied, much oppressed people, rather than something absolutely criminal as most Israelis viewed those and still do to this day.
I should add that among israelis and ex-Israelis this state of “transcending” zionism as I refer to it, is considered the worst kind of betrayal since it implies a radical departure from the tribal gestalt. In certain ways to be “trans” is worse than being “anti” as it implies losing the “love” of Israel and indeed the “love” of Jews and Jewishness in general. In a deep sense such an attitude represents an irrevocable parting of the ways from the tribal identity with its built-in belonging to a chosen and superior people at its core, an outright declaration of “not being there” any longer. To put it more simply as one ex-Israeli who long ago left that country and is genrally liberal on most issues said “Israel is in her blood” which is why she felt obliged to sever our 50 year friendship. Basically, once they believe you are truly a “trans-zionist” it is viewed as a step every bit as radical as eg not just identifying with the opposite gender – but excising one’s own biological gender altogether, meaning a deliberate altering of something that is profoundly fundamental to one’s nature.
By contrast, an “anti zionist” may be harshly critical of Israel’s actions and indeed go as far as to deny that Jewish people have exclusive right to that land, but still they retain a love of the IDEA of Jewishness as a state of being and/or maintain belief in Judaism as a supreme value that can justify separateness from classes of non-Jews (like Arabs? Or muslims in general?). An anti-zionist for example may advocate a “2 state” or even a “1 state solution” yet deep at heart they still believe that those Palestinians, and indeed most Arabs, will rise to kill the Jews of israel, if given half a a chance.
In other words, some so-called anti-zionists are just zionist-light, ie, they’d rather Israel behaved much better and was a lot less crudely and visibly violent than it is not so much because they really stand in solidarity with the Palestinians quest for justice and freedom, but because “it’d be good for the Jews”. Other self-described anti-zionists may go much further and proclaim that Israel absolutely does not represent Jews or Jewish values and has no right to call itself THE Jewish State (even as it may remain A STATE for Jews). And still others, who perhaps thought much more deeply about the underlying national, ethnical and religious issues advocate severing any overt connection between Jews at large and Israel. This last class of anti-zionists is probably closer to my concept of trans-zionist as they are willingly “othering” themselves from both Israel and Jewishness as a tribal state.
2. What do you think of Zionism? How do you explain the fact that it historically became established to the point of becoming hegemonic in the Jewish world?
– Answering this querstion would take far longer than the time I have available but I can refer to some of the excellent books I mostly agree with (and have benefitted from in forming my own views).
Books such as “The General’sSson” by Miko Peled which closely reflects my own views, “Being in Time” by Gilad Atzmon (who is even more trans zionist than I am), “The Invention of the Land of Israel” by Shlomo Sand, “The Tragedy of Zionism” by Bernard Avishai, “The Israelis” by Amos Elon, and “Beyond Tribal Loyalties” a collection of essays edited by Avigail Abarbanel who also has a personal essay in the book explaining why she left both Israel as well as Zionism and Jewish tribalism behind (themes that rather resonate with me). Note that all these books are by Israelis and/or Ex-Israelis, the part of the larger community I am most familiar with.
3. Israel is the Jewish state, recognized as such by most Jews around the world. Amos Goldberg has stated that the genocide in Gaza will remain an indelible stain in the history of the Jewish people. What do you think of this statement?
– I would agree with that statement up to a point as I have issues with the concept of collective guilt. In particular, the Jewish establishment, as we refer to it, the one that felt and continues to feel obliged to defend Israel no matter what, does bear quite a bit of responsibility for what happened in Gaza as well as for the dreary blockade and siege of Gaza over the 2 decades that led up to the Oct 7 events. The Gaza genode may well serve as a punctuation mark on the many decades of criminal oppression, persecution and expulsion of Palestinians from their native land, a history that, taken as a whole, will indeed leave a huge stain upon any claim Jewish people – in general – have upon that “high moral ground” their culture and religion were presumed to bestow upon them.
Of course, most of the Israelis I know orwhose comments I read, do not even acknowledge that a genocide was committed in the first place, something they can do given the their lingusitic insulation from the accounts seen by the rest of the world, as well as the wall-to-wall censorship in Israel, both self-imposed and dictated by the government. With Israel comprising one half of the total Jewish population in the world, to which we should add the many diaspora co-religionists who lend their support despite overwhelming evidence of crimes against humanity, I’d say that it will be difficult for Jewish people of the future to wash their hands off the guilt and responsibility for the horrific massacres and mayhem unleashed upon the people of Gaza, as well as many residents of the West Bank.
I’d go even further and maintain that the studied apathy of most Israelis towards the killing of so many men, women and children in gaza – has all but soiled the religion of Judaism itself, in all its forms – from orthodox to reform. It will be difficult, if not impossible to remove this particular stain when, say, defending or advocating Judaism as a religion that has built-in caring and universal ethical concern for human welfare. Sadly, Gaza may well mark the end point of that lovely Tikun Olam movement to which most liberally minded Jewish people in the US subscribe.
4. Alon Mizrahi, an Israeli anti-Zionist Jew, believes that, given the close ties between Israel and the Diaspora, political responsibility for the crimes of Zionism, and therefore also for the genocide in Gaza, should be collectively assumed by the international Jewish community. What do you think of this idea?
– I think the answer is similar to what was given for #9 just above. Unfortunately, one can advocate for such responsibility but that doesn’t mean that the ones who shirked it in the first place (I am refering again to the well-endowed Jewish “establishment” as well as to movements like Chabad that have grown increasingly more extreme in their views) will ever accept it.
5. Antisemitism is the only form of racism theorized in various declarations (for example the IHRA and the Jerusalem Declaration) that encompass numerous behaviors—explicit, implicit, cryptic, and so on. People often also speak of unconscious or unintentional antisemitism. Mere doubt about the legitimacy of a Jewish state in Palestine is often considered antisemitic. But even talking about the many positions of power held by Jews in finance, the media, etc., leads directly to accusations of antisemitism. Do you consider this fair? What is antisemitism for you, in concrete terms? Shouldn’t antisemitism be called “anti-Jewish hatred” and placed on the same level as all other forms of racism?
– I have written a long essay about this very subject, built upon the thesis that, according to my own reading and personal experience with other Jews and Israelis, anti-semitism is something nearly ALL Israelis and a majority of Jews consider as something universal, ubiquitous and unending. They all seem to share a deep belief that one can never exorcise the anti-semitism from the gentile, even if said gentile never as much as met a Jew or even heard of one in their life (like an isolated tribe in the Amazons?).
It is somehow assumed to be effectively an inborn trait of all humans. Sounds silly? Not to most Jews, who seem to live in a state of perpetual fear that Nazis are just around the corner. I claim that in part, this is less of a tacit accusation and more of a projection of their own psyche. Something that is obvious now more than ever before, as the bad behavior of israel appears all but determined to invite the very rebukes and opprobrium they have been dreading all this time.
Of course the cultured Jews of the Anglo countries will not admit to such projections though even they, at least among themselves, may carry – and even profess – such beliefs to various degrees. The difference from the more toxic carrying on about anti-semitism we see coming from various official and unofficial corners such as the ADL, etc, is that these more “cultured” and of course “liberal” Jews do allow for exceptions to that universal principle of never-ending antipathy towards “The Jews” (exceptions, say for Asians? Or Eskimos? Or a non-Jewish spouse?).
6. Do you think there exists a form of racism rooted in Jewish culture? Or one rooted in Jewish Zionism?
– Absolutely. I already elaborated in my response to #4 that traditional Judaism includes within its very core a form of sanctioned racism towards non-Jews (cf goys or gentiles) which in many ways is similar to the caste like system of India, with its many gradations. Indeed, overt racism exists even among Jewish people, certainly so in Israel where Ashkenazi Jews look down on Mizrahi ones (who hail from Arabic countries whose culture – and language – are regarded as inferior), who in turn are generally angry and feel insecure in Israel (ingesting something of a Stockholm syndrome, no doubt). Naturally the Mizrahis as a class then look down on Arabs as a still lower class, effectively relegating them to the status of “untouchables”. Not only that, but Israelis look down upon black people in general and openly claim them as intellectually inferior. So a new class of immigrants to israel, such as the Ethiopians, will occupy a rang somewhere between the lower branches of the Mizrahis and Arabs (a caste which is, in turn, further divided into sub-castes such as Druz, Chrisian Palestinian cand the lowest of the low – “the Muslim Arabs”).
This deep core of racism, which is a direct result of the choseness complex (as some of us call it) is not something many of the more cultured Jews outside israel will admit openly, except strictly among themselves, and only under duress. Of course some otherwise well educated Jewish people may proclaim their tribal superiority quite openly – witness certain columns written in the past by the likes of eminent commentators such as David Brooks and Thomas Friedman who merrily cited Jewish economic clout and historical accomplishments in the past century or so (especially in the US) as decisive evidence for innate intellectual prowness. Naturally, Reform and Conservative denominations of Judaism in the US will fiercely disclaim such racist views, as best exemplified by enlightened, highly erudite individuals such as Peter Beinart. But deep deep at heart, they all know even if they’ll never admit to knowing, much less feeling.
Gilad: Finkelstein exposes the reality of the “Jewish” White Supremacist State over in the Middle east + a few other all too real elephants in the room. The truth of such deeply held supremacist attitudes (not just among Israelis either) are not news to me of course (I mean, as a “tribal” insider I’ve known the score for a long time) but many, way too many are still in denial.
The part Finkelstein does not go into in this interview is the really dangerous part — the one about the infectious toxicity of this supremacist virus gnawing at the heart of the American Empire, now led by a Caligula-like, Might makes Right clown who adores himself above all else (so much so he neglects to see the deep shadows walking right alongside him, whispering sweet nothings in his ear).
In the past political commentators used to analyse USA foreign policies taking into consideration American national interests, geopolitical complexities, American economy, USA defence needs etc.
No one is doing that anymore. All we see instead is acceptance that the ginger Caligula at the helm is a malignant narcissist, a pathological case who is also subject to blackmail by his Jerusalem puppeteer. Accordingly, not one commenter is even trying to identify a rational in American current politics and actions
We must never forget the Palestinians have always been test subjects for western weapons of war and that the drone tech tested in Gaza is now surveilling us in our towns and cities.
We must never forget ICE and US Border Control agents now visiting terror on US cities are trained by the IDF.
We must never forget that there is no talk whatsoever of justice, no talk of holding Israel to any kind of account, no discussion of rebuilding Gaza beyond the criminal Trump mafia racket known as the Board of Peace.
We must never forget that France, the UK, Canada and other western states recognised a Palestinian state not out of a genuine belief in Palestinian statehood or because they consider the Palestinians to be people worthy of a state, but to try and silence critics of their pro-Israel, pro-genocide policies.
Israeli strikes kill over 20 Palestinians in Gaza, including five children. Children die from lack of medical care as medical evacuations through Rafah remain at a trickle. UN says Rafah reopening far from sufficient in daily briefing. Israel imposes strict limits on Gaza returnees at crossing, as one returnee describes abuse at Rafah crossing. Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian man in Jericho. Israeli troops arrest over two dozen Palestinians in West Bank raids. European diplomats urge EU action against Israel. UAE denies plans to administer Gaza’s civil society.
HRW director resigns after report on right of return shelved: Human Rights Watch’s Israel-Palestine Director Omar Shakir resigned Monday after leadership halted publication of a vetted report characterizing Israel’s decades-long denial of Palestinian refugees’ right of return as a crime against humanity. The decision was made by incoming Executive Director Philippe Bolopion two weeks before release, and the intervention bypassed the organization’s established legal review process, Shakir said, and reflected what critics called an “Israel exception.” Senior figures, including former HRW Chief Ken Roth, defended blocking the report, while dozens of staff protested internally.
“Israel/Palestine has been the litmus test for every major institution,” Shakir wrote in his resignation email, warning that “Palestine exceptionalism often opens the door to other unprincipled compromises.”
Shakir and Milena Ansari, who contributed major research to the report, submitted their resignations on January 15.
“Throughout my tenure, the review process ensured we published the facts as we documented them and the findings that derived from our principled and consistent application of the law,” Shakir wrote in the email sent to Middle East and North Africa (MENA) leadership and human resources. “I can no longer say that.”
Over much of the past year, the consortium of journalists — with support from FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative and the AP’s Local Investigative Reporting Program — reviewed thousands of pages of documents and court depositions and interviewed former regulators and industry insiders, as well as doctors, scientists and people who have the kinds of illnesses that researchers have linked to PFAS contamination. The carpet industry has long insisted it’s not to blame for PFAS getting into the environment and noted that chemical companies obscured the risks and assured them the products they were supplying were safe. But the recently reviewed records also show that executives from two of the largest carpet companies received warnings dating back decades about potential harms of some types of PFAS.
What the team found unfolds in full in Contaminated and related reporting from our partners, illuminating how carpet mills contaminated Southern communities with PFAS that take decades or more to break down.
Jolly polluted England, too: Environmental campaigners have criticised a “crushingly disappointing” UK government plan to tackle “forever chemicals”, which they warn risks locking in decades of avoidable harm to people and the environment.
The government said its Pfas action plan set out a “clear framework” of “coordinated action … to understand where these chemicals are coming from, how they spread and how to reduce public and environmental exposure”.
But campaigners described the plan as “incredibly weak” and criticised its failure to match tough action taken in Europe, where national governments are already banning chemicals on the grounds of public safety before EU-wide action.
Already thought to be in the blood of every person on the planet, man-made per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (Pfas) – a family of thousands of chemicals – are used in a huge range of consumer products, from waterproof clothing to electronics.
Brazilian large companies withdraw from the ‘Soybean Moratorium.’
On Monday, international environmental organizations warned that the withdrawal of major soybean traders from the Soy Moratorium could lead to the deforestation of up to 9.2 million hectares in the Brazilian Amazon.
EPA? Under Jew Zeldin?? EDA. Not Epstein Dysfunction Affliction. Environmental Destruction AGENCY.?
Lee Zeldin seems confused. Recently, he decided that the mission of EPA was to: “lower the cost of buying a car, heating a home, and running a business.” That is not EPA’s mission, that is the job of the Commerce Department and several other federal agencies. Here in New York City, the Fire Department puts out fires, the Police Department arrests criminals, and the Sanitation Department picks up garbage. All have different uniforms, different organizational capabilities, and different functions. Each department focuses on their assigned mission. It’s easy to understand. I guess we should be grateful that Zeldin isn’t New York City’s Mayor. The EPA’s job is to protect the environment. It is not trying to raise the cost of living and does not really do that. If you look at all EPA’s programs, the financial benefits are far greater than the costs. It does you little good to buy a car that costs $1,000 less if poisons from environmental pollution keep you out of work or put you in a hospital where your co-pay can be far greater than the cost of a car. Lee Zeldin and the Trump administration apparently do not understand the financial value of a clean environment. If one of President Trump’s golf courses had to close for a week due to the type of air pollution we used to see in China, perhaps he’d better understand the economic value of clean air. There are plenty of agencies involved in promoting the economy, EPA’s job is to protect the environment. In the New York Times on March 13, Lisa Friedman and Hiroko Tabuchi reported that:
“In a barrage of pronouncements on Wednesday the Trump administration said it would repeal dozens of the nation’s most significant environmental regulations, including limits on pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks, protections for wetlands, and the legal basis that allows it to regulate the greenhouse gases that are heating the planet. But beyond that, Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, reframed the purpose of the E.P.A. In a two-minute-and-18-second video posted to X, Mr. Zeldin boasted about the changes… Nowhere in the video did he refer to protecting the environment or public health, twin tenets that have guided the agency since its founding in 1970.”
Fucking NEWS? Donald Trump told the New York Post last month that he isn’t planning to attend this Sunday’s Super Bowl in the Bay Area because it is “just too far away.” It was a transparently flimsy, fake-sounding excuse given that planes exist, he frequently travels long distances, and he went to last year’s Super Bowl.
What the president didn’t say in his Post interview is that some of his administration officials and advisers had privately assessed that if Trump were to attend Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, California, the crowd at the stadium would likely aggressively boo him.
Fucking stop calling it ZIONISM. 19 million Jews, dude: From Jabotinsky to Epstein: Zionism and the Cult of Cruelty. Israel now admits Gaza’s death toll—but only after years of denial. Mouin Rabbani joins to explore what this shift means, and how media and political elites helped enable genocide. We look at US complicity, the BBC’s Gaza coverage collapse, and the ideology of Jewish supremacy inside Israel’s government. Plus: the Epstein files, vice as political currency, and Arab states scrambling to prevent war with Iran.
JUDAISM!
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp defended the firm’s surveillance technology as it reported a big jump in sales on Monday, saying it has safeguards to prevent government overreach, without mentioning US immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota that have drawn widespread protests.
The data analytics company said revenue derived from the US government spiked 66 per cent in the fourth quarter from the year-ago period to US$570 million. Total sales of US$1.41 billion exceeded analysts’ estimates and the firm anticipates a big jump in sales, in part due to government contracts in 2026.
Companies working with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are attracting more scrutiny as Americans have turned solidly against ICE’s aggressive tactics following the fatal shootings of two US citizens in separate incidents in January. The company won a contract last year with ICE to develop surveillance systems for immigration enforcement.
If only we could execute 130 Jewish Billionaires and . . .
China has executed four people found guilty of causing six Chinese citizens’ deaths and running scam and gambling operations out of Myanmar worth more than $4bn.
The Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court in southern China announced the executions on Monday morning in a statement. However, the timing of the executions was not clear.
[People from China, Vietnam and Ethiopia, believed to have been trafficked and forced to work in scam centers, sit with their faces masked while in detention after being released from the centers in Myawaddy district in eastern Myanmar]
The executions of 11 other people convicted of running scam centres in Myanmar had been announced last week.
The Shenzhen court sentenced five people accused of running a network of scam centres and casinos to death in November. One of the defendants, group leader Bai Suocheng, died of illness before the sentence was carried out.
The group had established industrial parks in Myanmar’s Kokang region bordering China, from where they allegedly ran gambling and telecom scam operations involving abductions, extortion, forced prostitution, and drug manufacturing and trafficking.
They defrauded victims of more than 29 billion yuan ($4.2bn) and caused the deaths of six Chinese citizens and injuries to others, the court said.
Their crimes “were exceptionally heinous, with particularly serious circumstances and consequences, posing a tremendous threat to society”, the court’s statement said.
The defendants appealed the verdict, but the Guangdong Provincial High People’s Court dismissed their applications, it added.
FUCKING CLOWNS.
What started as a meeting between frequent foes ended with Petro walking out of the Oval Office with a MAGA hat, altered with a pen to say “Make Americas Great Again.”
Trump hosted Petro, a former Marxist revolutionary, at the White House for the first in-person meeting between the two leaders. It was also Trump’s first sit-down with a head of state from the region after the U.S. captured then-President Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela exactly one month ago.
The bilateral meeting ended in an unexpectedly positive tone, with both leaders saying afterward that it went smoothly. Ahead of the meeting, former Colombian and U.S. officials had expressed apprehension, citing both Trump’s and Petro’s unpredictable and fiery tempers.
“We got along very well,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon. “He and I weren’t exactly the best of friends, but I wasn’t insulted, because I’d never met him. I didn’t know him at all. And we got along very well.”
From Marxist to MAGA, what a fucking brain dead fucking Tio Taco. Has he been talking to Jason Hinkle?
In the last few years, a self-styled political movement that sounds like a contradiction in terms has gained ground online: “Maga communism”.
Promoted by its two most prominent spokespeople, Haz Al-Din, 27, and Jackson Hinkle, 24, Maga communism comprises a grab bag of ideas that can seem lacking in coherence – ranging from a belief in the power of Donald Trump’s followers to wrest power from “global elites” to an emphasis on masculine “honor”, admiration for Vladimir Putin and support for Palestinian liberation.
Hinkle frequently distorts Marxist theory, claiming that Mao Zedong encouraged people in Japan and the United States to be patriotic[1] (when in fact Mao condemned the patriotism of Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany),[6] that communists do not support the abolition of private property, and that Communism/Marxism has always been conservative and supported patriotic education. The goal of Communists, according to Hinkle, is more Capitalist enterprises.[7] Hinkle has also engaged in slavery apologia.[8] In an interview with Alex Jones, Hinkle denounced the pro-Palestinian student protestors as “extremists” and admitted that he had friends among the anti-Palestinian reactionaries.
“And now we have ‘all white people are bad and they owe me money, based upon something I have no knowledge about’ and I must have missed in that song — I didn’t hear them talking about how, you know, when we brought the slaves over here, there was [sic] active slave trades in Africa that we actually purchased them from, but… maybe that’s the next episode.”
Black History Month! Don Lemon says agents sent to arrest him despite offer to turn himself in
Former CNN anchor faces charges over coverage of an anti-ICE protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service.
Don Lemon says about a dozen federal agents came to his Los Angeles hotel to arrest him overnight on 30 January, even though the former CNN anchor’s attorney had told authorities he would turn himself in to face federal civil rights charges over his coverage of an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service.
Lemon on Monday told the ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel that sending the agents was a waste of resources because law enforcement would not have had to dispatch agents to follow him if he had been allowed to turn himself in.
In the wake of his executive order, the Defense Department issued guidance declaring “identity months dead” and said that working hours would no longer be used to mark cultural awareness months such as Black History Month, Women’s History Month and National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
That seemed to clash with a National Black History Month proclamation signed the same day by Trump, which called for “public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.”
While the White House has issued its position, agencies of the government have discretion on whether to continue to recognize Black History Month, according to the official.
On February 1, the first day of Black History Month, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that his department “will no longer participate in celebrations based on immutable traits or any other identity-based observances.” And in a diplomatic cable, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the agency’s removal of DEI policies would dovetail with “eliminating our focus on political and cultural causes that are divisive at home and deeply unpopular abroad.”
The administration has issued a deadline to schools and universities to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money. Major corporations have backtracked on DEI policies in hiring, promotion and workplace culture in recent months, with many citing potential legal challenges from the administration.
Meanwhile, multiple artists have canceled scheduled performances at the center since Trump’s takeover. Maria Shriver, a niece of the former president, theorized those cancellations were the reason for the pending renovation project.
“Translation: It has been brought to my attention that due to the name change (but nobody’s telling me it’s due to the name change), but it’s been brought to my attention that entertainers are canceling left and right, and I have determined that since the name change no one wants to perform there any longer,” Shriver wrote on X of the president’s announcement.
“I’ve determined that due to this change in schedule, it’s best for me to close this center down and rebuild a new center that will bear my name, which will surely get everybody to stop talking about the fact that everybody’s canceling… right?”
New documents and emails to and from the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein detail his connections to some professors, putting pressure on those named to explain their communications.
The Department of Justice released more than 3 million documents and thousands of videos and images Friday in its latest, largest and reportedly last release of the so-called Epstein Files, a trove of information related to Epstein, who pled guilty to solicitation of prostitution with a minor in 2008 and was sentenced to 18 months in a minimum-security prison. As was true in previous file drops, prominent higher education figures are named in the files as Epstein’s correspondents, friends and colleagues.
The new documents have prompted action in the higher ed space; the US-Ireland Alliance announced Sunday that its George J. Mitchell Scholarship will no longer bear Mitchell’s name. The former senator from Maine appears to have met frequently with Epstein, according to the latest files.
The 68th Grammy Awards last night, which comedian Trevor Noah helmed for the sixth and final time, was filled with firsts — and proved to be a political hot spot.
Bad Bunny made history when “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” was crowned album of the year, the first time an all-Spanish-language album won the coveted category. The Puerto Rican artist also made perhaps the biggest statement of the evening against the Trump administration’s immigration operations across the country.
“Before I say thanks to God, I gotta say: ICE Out,” he said during one of his acceptance speeches. “We’re not savage. We’re not animals. We’re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.”
It’s all about rootedlessness in America, and cheap lattes and 3,000-square-foot homes.
Move over, Florida and Texas. The United States has new hot spots for growth, and they both have Carolina in their name.
North Carolina last year attracted more new residents, 84,000 people, from other parts of the country than any other state, a title held by Texas in 2024 and Florida in the two years before that. South Carolina had the highest overall growth rate last year at 1.5%, a distinction among states held by Florida in 2024, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released this past week.
Domestic migration, or people moving within the U.S., slowed in Texas. The 67,300 domestic migrants heading to the second most populous state year over year barely squeaked by South Carolina, which had the third highest number of domestic migrants at 66,600.
The appeal of Florida, the nation’s third most populous state, dimmed. It dropped to No. 8 for state-to-state migration, as more U.S. residents preferred to move elsewhere, including Alabama.
Sabrina Morley and Steven Devereaux sold their Tampa-area house last year, moved out of Florida and landed outside Valencia, Spain. Growing up in the 1990s, they both enjoyed Florida’s diversity and being able to run around freely outdoors. But in recent years, as they planned to have children, they had grown wary of the state’s costs, regular threats of mass shootings at schools, the quality of education and political divisiveness. They are expecting a daughter in the spring.
“I had a pretty good childhood, but I don’t think we’d be able to give our child the same quality of life because of the cost of living, food quality, and guns have become more prevalent,” Devereaux said. “We think where we are now, it’s the best decision we could make to give any future children the best quality of life.”
North Carolina state demographer Michael Cline credited the state’s growth to high-paying jobs in banking and tech, the topographical diversity and having smaller big-cities than Florida and Texas.
“North Carolina is attracting younger folks because we have so many nice areas in North Carolina — the mountains and beaches and lakes in between — that we’re benefiting from younger people who decided they can work from anywhere and would rather be in a nice area,” Cline said. “One of the things about North Carolina, our cities are not huge, and that may be attractive to folks, too.”
Dirty dirty three-faced Republicans!
But audience questions quickly turned to recent events in Minneapolis and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s tactics.
Just days before, Rep. Mike Lawler had published a guest essay in The New York Times saying that the country’s current immigration policy is not working and calledfor a “a common-sense bipartisan solution.”
“I think what happened in Minneapolis is tragic,” Lawler said Sunday. “I believe it was entirely preventable.”
Lawler told the town hall audience that he supports certainreforms of ICE tactics and immigration policy. He said he supports equipping ICE agents with body cameras and a ban on masks. The congressman said he also wants to create a path to legal status for immigrants who’ve worked in the U.S., pay taxes and have no criminal record.
“ That does not mean citizenship, but it does mean that they come out of the shadows and that they can participate in our economy and in our community without fear of being deported,” Lawler said.
While Lawler called for a thorough federal investigation into the shootings of Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minnesota, he faced jeers and insults from many in the room.
“What is the line that you won’t cross?” one audience member could be heard asking at a microphone set up for constituents. “What can Trump do that you’ll say that’s wrong?”
Many people in the audience also demanded that Lawler be more forceful in his response to the recent fatal shootings in Minneapolis and immigration enforcement tactics in general.
Oh shit, the Jerusalem Post calls them Jews: From Gaza to Iran, Israel readies space ‘surprises’ for next conflicts – exclusive
Israel’s space capabilities play a key role in the Jewish state’s strategic military capabilities, and now the space industry is moving toward dual-use and commercial roles as well.
Research of David McGowan, author of the 2004 crime book Programmed to Kill, becomes essential to understanding how our political order works. Going off of information that’s already public, McGowan discusses how U.S. State Department officials are supplied with a consistent stream of underage sexual slaves—not because all of the officials who pass through this system personally participate in crimes against children, but because just by putting them into contact with this abuse system the war machine is able to render its ranks compromised. Being complicit in child sexual assault is a requirement for being a member of the U.S. empire’s top leadership. With this context about the fundamental workings of American foreign policy, every other pedophilic crime that the foreign policy infrastructure produces makes total sense.
Yikes: Cardio Rehab three times a week, TV sound off, Friends reruns on, and the illustrative lobotomy session, just 1 hour, of that Holly-Dirt and Chosen People’s Power of Persuasion/Brain Harvesting
A bit too daft British Sweet: Bernays was more than a MONSTER.
Makes me want to vomit and then get the machetes out and chop chop chop this Jewish fucking TV Qualudes!
Creators: Marta Kauffman, who was raised in a Conservative Jewish household, and David Crane were the main creators, writers, and executive producers.
Production: The show was produced through Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions.
Jewish Elements: While not heavily focused on religion, the show featured notable moments like the “Holiday Armadillo” (Ross teaching his son about Hanukkah) and the Geller family, with actress Christina Pickles (Judy Geller) and Elliott Gould (Jack Geller) playing Jewish parents.
Cultural Context: The show is often analyzed as a reflection of the “Jewish American dream” and assimilation during the 1990s.
Who’s Jewish on “Friends” by Nora Lee Mandel
So, nu? Which “Friend” do you think is Jewish? My unscientific, all-ages sampling of the huge audience for “Friends” uniformly responded this way: “Well, Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) is definitely Jewish, so that would make his sister Monica (Courtney Cox) Jewish.” Then what about Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston), Monica’s best friend from a Long Island childhood and Ross’s long-sought objet d’amour? Uniform confusion was the response. This isn’t just a stab at Jewish geography or tribal conspiracy theory. If both Ross and Rachel are Jewish (and, more importantly, perceived as Jewish), for as long as their TV relationship lasts they will, therefore, be the first young, sizzling Jewish couple on television. An impressive first, let alone on such a popular sitcom, where the demographics include the impressionable 12-15 set.
[Julianna Margulies, David Schwimmer and Over 260 More Implore Academy to Include Jews in Inclusion Standards | Exclusive]
[“Jewish people being excluded from the Motion Picture Academy’s Representation and Inclusion Standards is discriminating against a protected class by invalidating their historic and genetic identity,” the letter read. “This must be addressed immediately by including Jews in these standards.”
Other notable signees on the letter’s growing list of supporters are Ginnifer Goodwin, Tiffany Haddish, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Brett Gelman, Michael Rapaport, Iliza Schlesinger, Nancy Spielberg and “Friends” cocreator Marta Kauffman and producer Kevin Bright.]
Like so many other Jewish sitcom writers, creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman, buddies from their Brandeis days, backpedal from having their characters perceived as too Jewish. Crane was recently quoted in the Boston newspaper The Phoenix as rationalizing the confused perceptions, “In our minds, the back story is that Ross is half-Jewish because Elliott Gould (as Ross’s father) is, and Christina Pickles (as Ross’s mother) sure isn’t. So he and Monica are half-Jewish. And I suppose Rachel is Jewish, though that’s not an aspect we’ve done much with. Now her mom’s Maria Thomas. We’ll see who we end up casting as her dad, and that will give us a better clue.” Ron Leibman was cast as her dad. Dr. Leonard Green, seeming to clarify that Rachel too is “half-Jewish,” though, like the Geller siblings, she yearns to celebrate a traditional family Christmas. The ambiguous entrails of the show can be further picked apart for contrary indications: wasn’t that a mezuzah at Ross’s parents’ front door? Virtually half of all TV watchers in the country are glued to NBC watching “Friends” every Thursday night. Could it be something other than Monica and Rachel’s possibly non-Jewish mothers that keeps viewers from perceiving them as Jewish women? Are these women too thin, too sexy, and too struggling in their nondescript professions to be considered Jewish? Quick, how many actresses playing Jewish women can you name who’ve posed nude on the cover of Rolling Stone as Aniston did?
At a time when more and more women writers/producers—particularly Jewish women—are getting a chance to show how successful they can be, we are barely creeping closer to breaching the last taboo on television—an appealing Jewish couple who are more than just “Friends.”
Doing an hour of cardio workouts while endless Friends reruns play, and the endless artery-clogging foods of AmeriKKKa are hawked on TV. . . . Oh, the fucking Pizza Hut shit, all the Chipotle, all the Princess Cruises line promos, all the fucking pet foods and allergy meds, all of the antidepressant fucking crap, Lazy Boys and at-home hospital beds:
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) legalized drug commercials on TV in the mid-1980s, and pharmaceutical companies view them as an increasingly effective way to reach viewers, especially older Americans, who often need long-term or life-saving treatments.
Common Categories of Daytime Ads
Health and Wellness: A high volume of ads for pharmaceuticals, weight-loss brands like GOLO and WW, and over-the-counter medications.
Legal and Financial Services: Frequent “call now” spots for personal injury lawyers, J.G. Wentworth (structured settlements), and debt relief services.
Household Products: Commercials for cleaning supplies (detergents, dish soap), kitchen gadgets (as seen on TV), and grocery delivery services like Instacart.
Insurance: Heavy rotation of car and life insurance ads, often featuring recognizable mascots like the GEICO Gecko.
Educational Services: Advertisements for online colleges and vocational training programs
And they have the most fucked up mixed marriage-relationship actors EVER:
Skyrizi (Risankizumab-rzaa): Used for Crohn’s disease and psoriatic arthritis.
Dupixent (Dupilumab): Used for eczema, asthma, and eosinophilic esophagitis.
Rinvoq (Upadacitinib): Used for rheumatoid arthritis, eczema, and Crohn’s.
Keytruda (Pembrolizumab): A major cancer immunotherapy.
Mounjaro (Tirzepatide): Used for Type 2 diabetes and weight management.
Vraylar (Cariprazine): Used for bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder.
Eliquis (Apixaban): Used for blood clots and stroke prevention.
Sotyktu (Deucravacitinib): Used for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis.
Jardiance (Empagliflozin): Used for Type 2 diabetes and heart failure.
Biktarvy (Bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir): Used for HIV treatment.
Death or Major Cardiovascular Events: Some drugs, particularly those for dementia in the elderly or specific diabetes medications, have warnings for increased risk of death, stroke, or heart attack.
Severe Infections and Immune System Issues: Drugs targeting autoimmune conditions (like arthritis or psoriasis) often warn of serious infections, tuberculosis, fungal infections, and cancer (lymphoma).
Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors: Many antidepressants and treatments for chronic conditions (e.g., Lyrica, Chantix) include warnings about new or worsening depression and suicidal ideation.
Severe Skin Reactions: Some medications can cause rare but fatal skin conditions, such as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), which involves blistering, peeling, and shedding of the skin.
Severe Allergic Reactions: Anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reaction, is a commonly listed risk.
Compulsive Behaviors: Certain dopamine agonists used for Parkinson’s or restless legs syndrome (e.g., Requip, Mirapex) can cause intense, uncontrollable urges to gamble, binge eat, or spend money.
Internal Organ Damage: Potential risks include liver failure (hepatotoxicity), kidney failure, severe gastrointestinal issues, or pancreatic damage.
Severe Neurological or Movement Disorders: Some medications, such as antipsychotics (e.g., Abilify), can cause uncontrollable movements, such as tardive dyskinesia.
Nah, just more rumors:
The Dark Ages were rife with plague, fanaticism, and accusations that Jews secretly fed off the blood of children. In 2020, we too are beset with plague, rampant medical misinformation, and a persistent rumor that “global elites” torture children to harvest the chemical adrenochrome from their blood, which they then inject in order to stay healthy and young.
Chuck Schumer (D-New York) said on Sunday that one of his most important jobs as Senate minority leader is to “fight for aid to Israel,” as the Trump administration’s masked federal agents continue their deadly raids of the U.S. with little to no pushback from Democrats.
In remarks at a breakfast gathering of Jewish leaders in New York City, Schumer said, “I have many jobs as leader … and one is to fight for aid to Israel, all the aid that Israel needs.” Part of the remarks at the UJA-Federation of New York gathering were posted online by The Forward reporter Jacob Kornbluh. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) also spoke at the event.
Schumer went on to brag that the U.S. has sent Israel more military funding under his leadership “than ever, ever before,” referring to “many” threats that Israel faces in the region that Schumer does not specify.
More Jewish Criminals: The philanthropic organization, formed by Meta cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, is cutting about 70 jobs, or roughly 8% of its workforce, a CZI spokesperson confirmed to Fortune. The layoffs happened primarily at the organization’s Redwood City headquarters in San Mateo, Calif.
Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are raising their children in the Jewish faith. Despite Chan having a Buddhist background, the couple holds weekly Shabbat dinners and incorporates Jewish traditions, including having Zuckerberg recite prayers in Mandarin to their daughters.
French tech giant Capgemini to sell US subsidiary working for ICE
The next frontier of work is here, where AI agents are the new coworkers and algorithms operate as office assistants. The advanced tech is already causing a wave of layoffs, resulting in more than 54,000 announced job cuts last year alone. Now, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser is joining the list of bosses who are stepping in to make sure their staffers can weather the storm.
The power of the fucking billionaires: As AI wipes out desk jobs, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser says the company is training 175,000 employees to ‘reinvent themselves’ before their roles change forever
Mor white trash: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department’s release of more than 3 million pages from the department’s files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as survivors and lawmakers criticize the disclosure as insufficient and filled with redaction errors.
A group of Epstein survivors issued a statement Friday slamming the latest release, and demanding accountability for others they say either enabled Epstein or have been accused of abuse by victims as well.
A cunt and her Semen Drip: The propaganda film is eager to present the First Lady as a benevolent political force, and pretend she isn’t part of her husband’s racist, authoritarian project. It fails at both.
Newly released documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files include an email summarising a complaint alleging that child “auctions” were held at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home – accusations denied by the White House.
Donald Trump has been told to pay the six-figure legal costs of a company he sued over claims of “perverted” sex acts and bribes to Russian officials.
Mrs Justice Steyn threw out the case against Orbis Business Intelligence, a consultancy founded by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, last month.
She found that Mr Trump’s compensation claim was “bound to fail”.
In a new ruling she also ordered Mr Trump to pay Orbis’s costs “of the entire claim”.
The order, obtained by the PA news agency on Thursday, also said Mr Trump has made no attempt to bring an appeal.
Mr Steele, who previously ran the Secret Intelligence Service’s Russia desk, was the author of the so-called Steele dossier.
This included uncorroborated intelligence claims, denied by Mr Trump, that the former US president had been “compromised” by the Russian security service, the FSB.
Earlier this month (2021), Donald Trumpannounced to a room full of Republican donors that his sexual kinks do not involve being peed upon. Why did he do this? Had someone in the audience raised their hand during a Q&A session and asked, “I was just wondering, do you enjoy having women pee on you?” According to a report from The Washington Post, the ex-president offered the information totally unprompted, which, it has to be said, is a very odd thing to do if you’re trying to assure people you don’t enjoy being treated like a toilet.
Church mother fucking freedom? Fuck the cunt churches far and wide:
Don Lemon’s arrest balances freedom of religion vs. freedom of the press, Todd Blanche says. Cunt White SLavers.
‘[ under the Trump administration, these guidelines were rescinded, allowing ICE to enter churches with a proper warrant ]
ICE officials lacked a search warrant. Community activists took Aguirre to Augustana Lutheran Church in Northeast Portland, which gave him refuge. He spent his first few nights sleeping under the altar. Church leaders had to get him a portable shower so he could bathe.
“Living for 81 days in the church, it’s not easy,” Aguirre said. “You can’t sleep. You always think that anytime they can break in and take you.”
The Rev. W. J. Mark Knutson of Augustana Lutheran Church on Jan. 26, 2025. The pastor says it’s a key tenet of the church’s philosophy of social justice to provide sanctuary to undocumented immigrants who seek refuge
.The memo suggests the rules are designed to give ICE greater flexibility to quickly arrest unauthorized immigrants who are not the original targets of an operation but are nonetheless encountered and found to have violated U.S. immigration law. Those detentions are known as “collateral arrests,” and typically involve immigrants accused of civil immigration violations but who lack serious criminal histories or any at all.
The memo was issued by acting ICE director Todd Lyons on Wednesday and submitted to a federal court in Minnesota on Friday. Its contents were first reported by The New York Times.
From Bone Spurs, Pussy Grabbing, Pedophile, Rapist and Thief Semen Drip Trump. MAGA MAGA MAGGOTS:
‘We heard the call, we came running’: Trump’s NATO troop remarks have shaken allied veterans
President Donald Trump partially walked back his claim that NATO troops in Afghanistan stayed “off the front lines,” but veterans aren’t likely to forget the remarks.
But then his memory of that day in May 2011 fractures. One moment he was walking through an unsecured compound with his patrol, the next he was on his back, staring into swirling dust and black smoke, his body unresponsive. He had been hit by a blast from an improvised explosive device that had been buried underground for months.
“I felt like I had dust from my tonsils to my prostate,” Little, 44, told NBC News this week in Peterborough, a cathedral city 75 miles north of London. As a trained medic, Little pressed a fellow Royal Marines commando to be honest about the damage to his right leg. Eventually, he received the reply: “It’s gone.”
The same explosion killed two of Little’s friends and an interpreter as their patrol pushed into a hostile area not yet controlled by NATO — part of the same allied mission that President Donald Trump denigrated last week.
“They’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan, and they did,” Trump said. “They stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.”
Taking long pauses as he spoke and appearing to rein in his frustration, Little responded to Trump’s comments that cast doubt on whether NATO allies would be there for America “if we ever needed them.”
“When I was hit, I was so far in front of the front line that I couldn’t see the front line in my rearview mirror,” he said.
Trump’s assertions about NATO forces not coming to the United States’ defense are incorrect: More than 1,000 NATO troops from over 25 countries, including 457 British service personnel, died in Afghanistan. Double that number were seriously wounded. Around 2,400 U.S. service members died in the conflict between 2001 and 2021.
Many Haitians may soon not be able to work in the US. That will make caring for the elderly much harder
Fred Trump III calls uncle Donald Trump ‘atomic crazy,’ says he used racial slur decades ago
“I was in the Oval Office 12 times about. And that was our mission: to advocate for people with complex disabilities,” Fred Trump III said.
He added, “It culminated in May of 2020 in the Oval Office. Donald was there, and he was very gracious. Several other folks were there, including the group that we brought down. We dispersed. I was asked to go back and see Donald. He greeted me with his familiar, ‘Hey, pal. How’s it going?’”
He says he “sat down for a bit” with his uncle.
“And he just came out with, ‘These people, all the expenses. They should just die,’” Fred Trump recalled. “He’s talking about human beings who have complex issues, and the first thing he could say was they should just die.”
Send ICE home in body bags.
ANd these people? Hunt them down, hunt their friends and family down, save the world:
Buried within the Epstein Files is the partial guest list of , the “Dialog” conference in 2014, a secretive meeting run by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel and SafeGraph CEO Auren Hoffman- a self-described, “two-day bipartisan retreat discussing how to change the world.”
Axios, reporting on this secretive retreat reported in 2025, “Dialog, often compared to a tech-era Bilderberg, has quietly become one of the most elite, and mysterious, gatherings for CEOs, elected officials, and intellectual heavyweights.”
Axios noted that, “Dialog has no public-facing website and avoids media coverage — it has never publicly shared a list of participants” and added “Past Dialog participants, who cut across a wide swath of elite influencers, include Elon Musk, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Larry Summers, Chamath Palihapitiya, Henry Kravis, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D), Eric Schmidt, Grover Norquist, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Robert Hur and Sophia Bush. Also, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Jared Kushner, Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Reema Al-Saud, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, European Commission Vice Chair Kaja Kallas, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, chess champ and activist Garry Kasparov, pastor and author Rick Warren and CFR president emeritus Richard Haass.”
But now, thanks to the DOJ released Epstein Files, a partial list of participants in the 2014 “Dialog” meeting has now been revealed , through multiple emails within the files where participants Ian Osborne and Lisa Randall shared their invitation to the conference and a partial list of attendees.
High-profile attendees of the 2014 retreat at Sundance Resort, designed to “help implement the plans we develop,” include:
-Jason Bordoff: the Senior Advisor for Energy and Environmental Policy to U.S. President Obama.
-Stephen Cohen: another Palantir co-founder
-Adam D’Angelo: the CEO of Quora and former Facebook CEO
-Lanny Davis: the former Special Counsel to the President (under Clinton)
-Jeff Epstein (not to be confused with Jeffrey Epstein)- the former CEO of Oracle.
-Niall Ferguson: the British neoconservative historian and now CBS News contributor.
-Richard Haass: the president of the Neo-Con Council on Foreign Relations.
-Reid Hoffman: the co-founder of LinkedIn.
-Garry Kasparov: the former World Chess Champion turned Neo-con activist.
-Joe Lonsdale: Another Palantir co-founder.
-General Stan McChrystal: a retired 4-star U.S. General.
-Wes Moore: the former Special Assistant to Secretary of State Susan Rice.
-Bret Stephens: the Neo-con Zionist mainstream media writer.
The full list of attendees of the Dialog conference in 2014 listed in the innovation are:
Susan Athey – Professor of Economics, Harvard University. Chief Economist, Microsoft. 2007 Winner of John Bates Clark medal.
Byron Auguste.– Director and Head of Social Sector Office, McKinsey & Co. Chm, Hope Street Group.Boards: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Pacific Council on International Policy; Center for American Progress.
David Barron. — Professor, Harvard Law School. Fmr Acting AsstU.S. Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel.
Kirsten Bartok.– CEO, AirFinance. Fmr CFO of XOJet. Fmr GP at Alpine Investors.
Evan Bayh— Sr Advisor, Apollo Management. Partner, McGuireWoods. Fmr U.S. Senator (D-IN) (1999-2011). Fmr Governor of Indiana (1989-1997). Author, /From Father to Son/.
Tom Bedecarre— CEO, AKQA.
Nick Beim.— GP, Matrix. Boards: Gilt Groupe, TheLadders, Care.com, Conductor, Intent Media, BuyWithMe.
Nicolas ’Berggruen— President, Berggruen Holdings.
Charles Bests—CEO, DononrsChoose.
Elizabeth Blackburn.— Prof of Biology and Physiology, UCSF. 2009 Winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine. President, American Association of Cancer Research.
David Bonderman. — Founding Partner, Texas Pacific Group (TPG). Founding Partner, Newbridge Capital. Boards: Continental Airlines, Bowe Bell & Howell, Ducati Motorcycles, Credicom Asia, National Education Corp, Beringer Wine, Carr Reality, Virgin Cinemas, CoStar Group, GemAlto, RyanAir Holdings, Wilderness Society, World Wildlife Fund.
Jason Bordoff.— Senior Advisor for Energy and Environmental Policy to U.S. President Obama.
Erik Brynjolfsson— Prof of Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management. Director, MIT Center for Digital Business. Chair, /MIT Sloan Management Review. / Author, /Race Against the Machine/.
John Burbank—CEO, Passport Capital.
John Burbank. — President, Nielsen Strategic Initiatives. Fmr CEO of Online, Nielsen. Fmr CMO, Nielsen. Fmr CMO, AOL.
Mark Colodny.— Managing Director, Warburg Pincus. Boards: CAMP Systems, GlobalSpec, MLM Information, i Paradigms, Multi View, A Place for Mom, EVIDON, eCert, Spigit, OnTargetJobs.
Boykin Curry. — Managing Director, Eagle Capital. Creator of Playa Grande. Cofndr, Girls Prep. Boards: Alliance for School Choice, Democrats for Education Reform.
Adam D’Angelo— CEO, Quora. Fmr CTO, Facebook.
Mitch Daniels — President, Purdue University. Governor, State of Indiana (2005-2013). Fmr Director, Office of Management and Budget (2001-2003). *
Lanny Davis.– FmrSpecial Counsel to the President (under Clinton).Author of Scandal and The Emerging Democratic Majority.
Ken Denman.— CEO, Machine Perception Technologies. Fmr CEO of Openwave. Fmr CEO of iPass (IPAS). Fmr CEO, AuraSery Communications. Fmr SVP MediaOne. National Markets.
Marc Ecko—Chief Creative Officer, Marc Ecko Enterprises. Award-winning artist.
RP Eddy -CEO, Ergo. Fmr Director, White House National Security Council. Fmr Chief of Staff to U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Sr Fellow, Manhattan Institute.
Juan Enriquez.— CEO, Biotechonomy. Founding Director of the Life Sciences Project, Harvard Business School. Boards: Cabot Corp, Craig Venter Institute. Fmr CEO, Mexico City ‘s Urban Development Corporation.
Jeff Epstein. — fmr CFO, Oracle. Fmr CFO, DoubleClick. Fmr CFO, King World Productions. Boards: Priceline.com, Stanford University Hospital.
Niall Ferguson.— Prof History, Harvard. Author of /The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild/,/The Cash Nexus/,/Empire, Colossus/,/The War of the World, The Ascent of Money/, and others.
Brad Garlinghouse.— CEO, YouSendlt.
Julius Genachowski— Chairman, Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Jared Genser. — MD, Persesus Strategies. Founder, Freedom Now. International lawyer for Aung San Suu Kyi.
Jeff George— Global Head, Sandoz. Member of Exec Committee, Novartis.
Dave Goldberg. — CEO, SurveyMonkey.
Tom Goldstein.— Partner, Goldstein & Howe. Fmr Partner and head of Supreme Court practice, Akin Gump. Has argued over 20 cases before Supreme Court. CEO, SCOTUSbIog.
Richard Haass.— President, Council on Foreign Relations. Fmr Director of Policy Planning, U.S. State Department. Fmr U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland.
Victor Halberstadt’— Prof of Economics, Leiden University (Netherlands). Fmr President, International Institute of Public Finance. Mbr, Investment Committee, ABP Pension Fund. Boards: RHJ Internationall.
Janet Hanson’— CEO, 8SBroads.
‘Hollie Moore Haynes.— MD, Silver Lake Partners.
Bob Hertzberg. — Chairman, G24 Innovations. Partner, Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw. Fmr Speaker, California State Assembly (200O-2002). Fmr Regent, University of California. Fmr Chm, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa transition team. Board: Solar Integrated Technologies (Chm), California Historical Society, MALDEF, Town Hall Los Angeles, Century Housing.
Jim Himes’— U.S. Congressman (D-CT).
‘Auren Hoffman’– CEO of LiveRamp. Chm, Rapleaf. Curator, Dialog Retreat. Board: Retargeter.
Daisuke Iwase— cofounder and COO, Lifenet Insurance (top life insurance company in Japan).
Christian Johansson’— Secretary of Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED), State of Maryland. Fmr CEO, Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore.
David Kamenetzky.— Group Head, Mars & Co.
PV Kannan— CEO, 24/7 Customer.
Andy Karsner— CEO, Manifest Energy. Fmr U.S. Asst Sec of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (2005.2009). Fmr Managing Director, Enercorp. Boards: Applied Materials, Conservation International.
Garry Kasporovs— Fmr World Chess Champion. Chm, United Civil Front of Russia.
Neal Katyal— Partner, Hogan Lovells. Fmr Acting Solicitor General for the United States (2010-2011). Professor of Law, Georgetown U. Lead counsel for the plaintiff in Supreme Court case Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld. Terry Kawaja CEO, Luma Partners.
Juliette Kayyem— Foreign Affairs Columnist, Boston Globe. Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard. Asst Sec. for Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security.
Jeff Kearl.— Chm, SkullCandy.
Peter Kellner— MD, Richmond Management. Cofounder, Endeavor. Fmr partner, VectisGroup.
Chris Kelly— Fmr Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Global Public Policy at Facebook . Fmr Chief Privacy Office, Excite@Home.
Pradeep Khosla— Chancellor, UC San Diego. Fmr Dean of College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon.Boards: Quantpoint, BioMatricore, BitArmor, Children’s Institute, IIT Foundation, Mellon-Pitt Corp.
Charlie Kim— CEO, NextJump.
David Kirkpatrick— Author, /The Facebook Effect/. Fmr head technology writer, FORTUNE.
Henry Kravis— Co-CEO of KKR. Chm, First Data. Boards: Claremont McKenna College, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Council on Foreign Relations, Columbia Business School, Rockefeller University, others. Fmr Chair, Partnership for New York City.
Marie-Josee Kravis— Boards: Publicis, LVMH. Boards: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Robin Hood Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, Qatar Museum Authority. President, Museum of Modern Art board of directors. Fmr Board: Ford, IAC, CIBC.
Laura and Gary Lauder— General Partners, Lauder Partners. Cofndrs, Socrates Society.
Jenna Lee. — Anchor, Fox News. Host, /Happening Now/ on Fox News.
Jorge Lemann— Fmr Owner, Am Bev (largest brewery in Latin America) and now one of the largest shareholders in Anheuser-Busch InBev. Boards: Lojas Americanas, Gillette, Swiss Re, Burger King.
Max Leychin. — fmr CEO, Slide. Fmr co-founder, PayPal.
Jonathan Levin. — Prof and Chair of Dept of Economics, Stanford. 2011 Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.
Ann Lewis — President, NoLimits. Fmr Director of Communications to the U.S. President (1997-2000).
Rob LoCasio.— CEO, LivePerson (NASDAQ: LSPN).
Jeremy Liew.— GP, LightSpeed Venture Partners. Investor in: Bonobos, CarDomain, Flixster, Focus, Kixeye, Kongregate, LivingSocial, Playdom, RockYou, ShoeDazzle, and others.
Joe Lonsdale— CEO, Adepar. cofounder, Palantir.
Doreen Lorenzo — President, Frog Design.
Bob Luskin— Partner and Co-Chair of Litigation Dept, Patton Boggs.Attorney to Karl Rove and Lance Armstrong. Fmr Chief Counsel to the Organized Crime & Racketeering Section of DOJ
Jorn Lyseggen.— CEO of Meltwater.
John Maeda— President, Rhode Island School of Design. Author, /Laws of Simplicity./
Divesh Makan.— CEO, Iconiq Capital.
Meyer Malka— co-CEO, Lemon.’
Andy McAfee— Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Digital Business, MIT. Author of /Race Against the Machine. /
General Stan McChrystal.— Ret. 4-star U.S. General. Led all U.S. forces in Afghanistan. *Fmr Commander, Joint Special Operations Command.*Current Principal, *McChrystal*Group. Sr. Fellow, Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.*
Andrew McLaughlin’ s— Fmr VP, Tumblr. Fmr Deputy CTO of the United States, White House. Fmr Dir of Public Policy, Google. Boards: Public Knowledge, Code for America. •
Dmitri Mehlhorn**— COO, *StudentsFirst..*
Lenny Mendonca— Director, McKinsey. Head of McKinsey’s strategy practice. Chm, McKinsey Global Institute. Chm, Bay Area Council. Board: McKinsey & Co, Economic Institute of the Bay Area, Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium, The New America Foundation, Common Cause, Committee for Economic Development, ChildrenNow, and DonorsChoose.
Eugene Meyer.— President, Federalist Society.
Chris Michel’— GP, Nautilus Ventures. Award-winning photographer. FmrCEO, Affinity Labs. •Fmr CEO, Military.com. Boards: International Data Group, Dale Carnegie, Kixeye, Castlight’Health, USO, Marine Corps University Foundation.
Katie Mitic — Fmr Head of Platform Marketing, Facebook. Fmr SVP, Palm. Fmr VP Product Strategy, Yahoo! Fmr Fndr and CEO, Fourll. Boards: eBay, Special Olympics International. *
Wes Moore’– Author, “The Other Wes Moore”. Fmr. Special Assistant to Secretary of State Rice. Fmr Director of Information Operations, 82nd Airborne Division, US Army, Afghanistan 2005-2006.
Nader Mousavizadeh— CEO of Oxford Analytica.
Luke Muehlhauser’— Exec Director, Singularity University.
‘Matt Mullenweg — Founder, WordPress.
Roger Myerson’— Prof of Economics, U of Chicago. 2007 winner of Nobel Prize in Economics.
‘Scott Nathan’— Partner, Baupost Group.
Meghan O’Sullivan’– Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Govt. Fmr Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, President George W. Bush. Mbr, Trilateral Commission.
Chamath “Palihapitiya— CEO, Social+Capital. fmr VP Growth, Mobile, and International at Facebook. Fmr GM of AIM at AOL. Boards: SecondMarket, FixYa, Lemon, Integrated Plasmonics. Co-Owner, Golden State Warriors.
‘Eli Pariser—Fmr President, MoveOn.Cofndr, Avaaz.org. Boards: MoveOn, Avaaz, New Organizing Institute and Simon’s Rock College.
‘Mark Penn’— Corp VP of Strategic Projects (reports to the CEO), Microsoft. Fmr CEO, Burson-Marsteller. President, of polling firm Penn, Schoen and BerlandAssociates. Fmr Chief Strategist, Hillary Clinton for President 2008. Author, Microtrends. Fmr pollster to President Clinton. Fmr pollster to Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Lois Quam’— Executive Director, Global Health Initiative — part of the State Department and she reports directly to Secretary Clinton. Fmr CEO of Public and Senior Markets, UnitedHealth Group ($30 billion division).
‘Robert Rubin’—Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations. Fmr U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1995.1999). Fmr Director, National Economic Council (1993.1995). Chm, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). Fmr Co-Chairman, Goldman Sachs.
‘Sal Russo’— Founder, Tea Party Express. Partner, Russo Marsh.
‘Ken Sawyer’– CEO, Saints Ventures (manages over $1 billion in capital). Selected to Forbes Midas List. Boards: Continuous Computing, HK Systems, Cleargauge, Travel Intelligence, Envivio, Alliance Consulting, Acsis and Laureate Pharmaceuticals.
Barry Silbert ‘1— CEO of SecondMarket.
Josh Silverman’— President of US Consumer Services, American Express. Fmr CEO, Skype. Fmr CEO, Shopping.com. Fmr CEO and Fndr, eVite.
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy— Chm, JOYUS. Fmr CEO, Polyvore. Fmr President of Asia Pacific and Latin America, Google. Boards: TripAdvisor (TRIP) and Formspring.
Megan Smith— VP Business Development, Google. Fmr CEO, PlanetOut.
Charles Songhurst-– GM and Head of Strategy and M&A, Microsoft. MD, Katana Capital.
Angelo Sotiras— CEO, DeviantArt.
Bret Stephens’– Member of Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal. Main Foreign Affairs Columnist, Wall Street Journal. Fmr Editor-in-Chief, Jerusalem Post.
Simon Stevens— EVP, UnitedHealth Group. Fmr CEO, Ovations (revenues of $31 billion). Fmr Health Policy Director to British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Henry Sweica’— CEO, Talpion Fund Management. Fmr co-founder, Highbridge Capital Management.
Alexander Tamas– Partner, DST. Boards: Forticom, mail.ru
Peter Thiel.– CEO of Thiel Capital. Managing Director, Founders Fund.Fmr founder and CEO of PayPal. Boards: Facebook and Palantir.
Steve Wayne’— CEO, Jensen Group.
Will Wechsler— Deputy Asst. Sec of Defense for Counternarcotics and Global Threats.
Adam Weiss’‘—co-CEO, Scout Capital. *
Katharine Weymouth”— Publisher, Washington Post.*
Michael Wolf’—CEO, Activate. fmr President and COO, MN Networks. Fmr Prtnr, McKinsey. Former Senior Partner, Booz Allen & Hamilton.
Paul Wolpes— Director, Center of Ethics. Prof of Bioethics, Emory. Sr Bioethicist, NASA. Co-Editor, American Journal of Bioethics.
Jed York’— CEO of San Francisco 49ers.
Lauren Zalaznick’— Chairman, Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media, NBCUniversal. She oversees Bravo, Oxygen Media, Style, PBS Sprout, Telemundo, iVillage, Swirl, Daily Candy, and Fandango.
Eric Zinterhofer — co-CEO, Searchlight Capital. Chm, Charter Communications. Fmr Sr Partner, Apollo Management. Boards: Central European Media Enterprises, Dish TV India.
‘Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg’— fmr Minister of Defense, Germany. Fmr Minister of Economics and Technology, Germany.
You can watch this video on YouTube here.
The world still looks American.
But power no longer moves the way it used to.
Empires rule through armies, territory, and conquest.
Today, Israel rules through leverage, institutions, surveillance, and proxy control.
This video explores the idea of Pax Judaica — not as a slogan, but as a framework for understanding how power now operates in the modern world. Why Israel’s influence appears disproportionate to its size. Why regional actors court Jerusalem before Washington. Why resistance hasn’t disappeared — but no longer has a path to victory.
From historical Pax systems to proxy rule, from geopolitical judo to surveillance and artificial intelligence, this is a breakdown of how dominance is enforced without occupation — and why the next phase of empire won’t announce itself.
Whether you see this as analysis, warning, or speculation, one thing is clear:
Power has changed.
And most people are still looking in the wrong place.
Why so many Jews involved with Epstein?
George finally asks. Don’t expect Aaron, Katie, Max, Norman, Glen, et al to ask that question.
“Almost 40 years later, members of the Jewish establishment in France (on the right and left), still consider that it is not good to describe the misdeeds of these elite figures under the Nazi occupation.
‘Professional’ Jews were the most vehement in denouncing the publication of this book, judging that this could only do harm to the Jewish community as a whole, at a time when anti-semitic activities are sometimes regaining a certain vigour”.
The French state is apparently very keen to ensure accurate memories of traumatic historical events – since 1990 “the denial of the existence of crimes against humanity”, such as the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War, has been a criminal offence.
But, for reasons which are perhaps best explained by Jacob Cohen in his 2010 book Le Printemps des Sayanim or by Jean Bouvier in his 1983 tome Les Rothschild, ] this same rigorous commitment to truth sometimes seems to waver, depending on the identity of those regarded as having committed such crimes.
A new law on the way through – known as the Loi Yadan because it is being pushed by Zio-Macronist government minister Caroline Yadan – sets out to criminalise criticism of Israel and Zionism.
Based on the absurd IHRA expansion of the definition of “anti-semitism,” it aims in particular to penalise any suggestion that Israel’s actions are similar to those of Nazi Germany. [5]
This therefore, seems like an appropriate moment to write about a 1980 book by Maurice Rajsfus on elite Jewish collaboration in the WW2 deaths of what he estimates at 75,000 Jews living in the country.
A shudder of recognition ran down my spine when I read the account of how, in July 1944, Brünner, commandant of the Drancy camp, refused to spare Jewish children’s lives because “these children were future terrorists”.
Well, the Christ thing, and what will you say to god thing, but this is the Marvel Comics books about it ALL.
The Central Intelligence Agency reportedly hadcredible evidence that at least 10 members of its staff, some of whom were contracted employees, committed sex crimes involving children, but only one individual was ever charged.
Senior investigative reporter Jason Leopold and investigative reporter Anthony Cormier with Buzzfeed News detailed their findings in an article after combing through hundreds of internal agency reports they obtained throughFreedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits.
Leopold and Cormier say the declassified reports “show a pattern of abuse and a repeated decision by federal prosecutors not to hold agency personnel accountable.”
The featured reports detail 14 years of accusations against several CIA employees and contracted employees.
One employee was accused of having sexual contact with both a 2-year-old and a 6-year-old before he was fired. Another employee resigned after being accused of purchasing sexually explicit videos of “young girls” filmed by their mothers. A contractor had his contract revoked after allegedly arranging to have sex with an undercover FBI agent who was posing as a child.
Sexual crimes involving children, including the viewing of images of abuse, have been uncovered at other agencies that handle sensitive information. In a November 2009 report, the Department of Defense acknowledged that dozens of Pentagon staff members or contractors had such images. In 2014, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community found that two officials from the National Reconnaissance Office, which oversees America’s spy satellites, acknowledged viewing images of child sexual abuse during polygraph examinations.
At a symposium in 2016, Daniel Payne, a top Pentagon security official, said that when workers’ computers were examined, “the amount of child porn I see is just unbelievable.”
Bernays, where oh where are you?
Three U.S. Olympic winter sport national governing bodies have changed the name of their Milan hospitality space over concerns about ICE protests in Italy during the Olympics, a person with direct knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY Sports on Sunday afternoon. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
U.S. Figure Skating, USA Hockey and U.S. Speedskating decided to change the name of The Ice House to The Winter House.
An Italian volunteer restorer has been accused of painting PM Giorgia Meloni’s face into angel on church fresco.
Authorities are investigating whether the fresco was faithfully restored, as restorer denies the likeness.
Amid public and political outcry, Meloni has also denied the comparison.
While GAZA burns, this shit: This investigation will enable it “to determine not so much who the restoration resembles, but whether any changes have been made, because the restorer would have had to follow the original lines,” a spokesperson explained.
If the authority finds that Valentinetti has altered the image, hiding a portrait of Meloni in the fresco, the artwork will be returned to its original composition. Those judged responsible may also receive a penalty.
Valentinetti has claimed that the original fresco is too contemporary to be protected by heritage law. He claimed in La Stampathat the Soprintendenza had approved his work on the fresco after the parish shared his qualifications.
The Gaza Genocide, West Bank, and Israel
Casualty counts: At least five Palestinians were killed and four injured in Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 71,800 killed, with 171,55 injured.Since October 11, the first full day of the ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 526 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 1,447, while 717 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, according to the Ministry of Health.
Israeli attacks on Gaza continue Monday after bloody weekend: At least three Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to Al Jazeera, including a three-year-old child in Al-Mawasi, who was killed by machine gun fire from an Israeli gunboat, as well as Israeli attacks in Khan Younis and Jabaliya.
Rafah crossing opens to extremely limited numbers: The Rafah border crossing with Egypt opened on Monday for limited traffic in what some have described as a largely symbolic development. The crossing will reportedly only operate for six hours a day and the numbers allowed to cross will be limited to 50 medical evacuees per day permitted to leave Gaza, accompanied by two people escorting them, while 50 Palestinians can return to Gaza per day, according to the AP citing Israeli and Egyptian officials. The Gaza Health Ministry has said around 20,000 sick and wounded Palestinians need treatment abroad. Health authorities have said at least 1,268 Palestinians have died in Gaza while waiting for medical transfer after Rafah was closed by Israel in 2024. Before the war, Rafah was Gaza’s only gateway to the outside world not controlled by Israel and it was the main crossing for Palestinians moving in and out of the enclave.
Deadly night of Israeli attacks across Gaza: At least 32 Palestinians were killed on Saturday as Israeli forces carried out sustained airstrikes and artillery fire across Gaza, and 30 more were wounded, according to Gaza’s Civil Defense. The attacks included a strike on a family tent west of Khan Younis and a bombing of an apartment near the Abbas intersection in Gaza City, while additional strikes hit eastern Al-Bureij and areas near Jabaliya. Women and children were included among the dead.
Israel strikes Gaza police station: Another Israeli airstrike on Saturday hit the Sheikh Radwan police station in western Gaza City, killing about 13 people, including six Palestinian police officers—four of them women—according to Palestinian media and Drop Site reporting. Gaza’s Interior Ministry said at least 15 police personnel were wounded and others are believed missing under the rubble, while detainees and civilians present at the station were also among the casualties. Drop Site correspondent Abdel Qader Sabbah provided footage of the attack and its aftermath, available here.
Mladenov adopts Israeli narrative on killings in Gaza: Nickolay Mladenov, the Director-General of Trump’s “Board of Peace,” said he is deeply concerned by reports that Hamas fighters emerged from a tunnel in Rafah, which he implied were responsible for the subsequent Israeli strikes which killed civilians, warning both events could undermine the ceasefire’s progress. Senior Hamas official Basem Naim rejected Mladenov’s framing, saying Israel has rejected a negotiated exit for the trapped fighters, and used their sightings as pretext to launch strikes on company targets across rest of Gaza.
Egypt, Qatar, and league of Muslim and Arab states condemn Israeli ceasefire violations: Egypt condemned repeated Israeli ceasefire violations after strikes killed at least 32 people across Gaza, warning the attacks risk inflaming the situation and undermining efforts to restore stability, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. Qatar also condemned Israel’s repeated ceasefire violations on January 31, saying the attacks constitute a “dangerous escalation” that undermines mediation efforts. And later, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, and Saudi Arabia issued a joint statement to the same effect, which also noted the need to respect Palestinian self-determination and statehood. All statements urged adherence to the ceasefire agreement.
Hamas warns ceasefire cannot hold: Hamas said it held intensive discussions with mediators and international parties to condemn Israel’s continued ceasefire violations and attacks across Gaza, warning the agreement cannot hold unless Israel is compelled to comply, with Khalil al-Hayya, head of Hamas in Gaza, stressing that “the resistance’s commitment to and respect for the agreement requires obligating the occupation to abide by it and preventing it from continuing its crimes.”
UAE in talks to run Gaza civilian administration: The United Arab Emirates is holding advanced talks with Israel and the United States on a proposal for Phase 2 of the so-called ceasefire, with Abu Dhabi offering billions in investment in exchange for control over the Strip’s civilian infrastructure, according to Israel’s Channel 12. The proposal would place markets, trade, aid distribution, and logistics under Emirati management using Israeli suppliers and contractors, backed by Emirati armed forces and U.S. private security firms.Israeli officials say the government supports the move, describing the UAE as Gaza’s future “civilian patron” and that the plan would impose a foreign-run civilian system that sidelines Palestinian authority, with daily life, trade, and security, all managed by outside states and private forces.
Epstein advised Barak on Palantir, audio reveals: Drop Site’s Ryan Grim shared newly released U.S. Justice Department audio, which shows that as Ehud Barak was leaving Israeli government service, he sought guidance from Jeffrey Epstein, who pointed him toward Palantir, a data company founded byPeter Thiel. Listen to the audio here.
In February 2024, just over three months into Israel’s war on Gaza, U.S. ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, and his deputy, Stephanie Hallett, blocked an internal cable intended for wider distribution among senior officials in the Biden administration that warned northern Gaza had turned into an “apocalyptic wasteland,” according to Reuters. Lew and Hallett reportedly blocked the cable, which described the consequences of Israel’s assault in harrowing detail, because they believed it lacked balance.
Edward Bernays was Freud‘s nephew, born in Vienna in 1891. His father, Freud’s wife’s Martha’s brother and his mother was Freud’s sister. The Bernays emigrated to America, and returned to have holidays in the Alps with the Freuds, which they had done before.
Freud sent his nephew his Introductory lectures as a gift, in return for the gift of Havanna cigars his nephew had sent him. Ernest Bernays used his understanding of Freud’s unconscious as a foundation for his 1928 book Propaganda, on how to manipulate people’s behaviors, without them realising it. Bernays saw that linking products with emotions could cause people to behave irrationally.
The president of a tobacco company asked him how he could increase his sale by getting women to smoke. It was taboo for them to do so at that time. Bernays consulted AA Brill a NY psychoanalyst. Brill told him that cigarettes were a symbol of male power. Freud had said women wanted a penis and felt the lack. This led to a campaign by Bernays, which he called ”Torches of Freedom” He got debutantes to walk down 5th Avenue at the Easter parade with this banner and at a given time they took, hidden under their skirts, the cigarettes and lit up. Press was there and it was the beginning of women smoking in public and it increased sales. It was sold as a symbol of liberty.
This was a time when America produced more than they could sell. Bernays was instrumental is changing how the public bought, from needs to desire. The consumer became vital, not just the worker.
The next change was to increase bacon sales for Beechnut company. Americans should eat hearty breakfasts. Freudian group psychology to repeat a stimulus and create a habit, inundate the consumer with advertisements and follow up with more ads and discounts and rewards. Film stars were used to sell cars, symbolizing, sexuality, power,fashion.
President Coolidge asked for Bernays’s help with his image, as he was seen as dull. Bernays arranged for him to be visited by 34 film stars and it was in all the newspapers that the president entertained actors & his image changed.
Edward Bernays was rich and famous.
How much Freud was aware of his nephew’s use of his psychoanalytic ideas we do not know. He responded to his nephew sending him his book ”Crystalising Public Opinion 1923. “ I have received your book” as a truly American production it interested me.” Freud asked his nephew for help when facing financial ruin in Vienna. His nephew arranged to have his uncle’s work published in America, so Freud could get American dollars. Freud was appalled by his nephew’s proposal that Freud write popular articles for the Cosmopolitan. Freud disliked America.
Here are some quotes from Bernays:
“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.”
“Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government, which is the true ruling power of our country.”
The engineering of consensus is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.”
“We are dominated by the relatively small numbers of persons who understand the mental processes of social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the moves which control the public mind.”
“Small groups of persons can and do make the rest of us think what they please about any given subject.
“Propaganda will never die out.”
Edward Bernays’ influence to make people want things they did and do not need to satisfy a desire to be happy, dominates much of the world today.
These quotes are sobering, as their implementation are alive with us even more now.
Vamik Volkan quoted the Turkish saying” the fish that lives in water does not know what water is.” We are in danger of not being aware of our own embededness in the social climate.
The war in 1914 Freud saw his theory of aggressive instincts confirmed, he disliked America and was depressed at the state of the world and group behaviour. He saw more dangerous forces that were submerged being unleashed. These needed to be controlled. Bernays thought there was a need for an elite to manage social control of these animal drives. Edward Bernays had developed techniques to manage crowds the masses, by “engineering for consent”, enlightened despotism tapping in to fears and desires.”
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Edward Bernays was involved with setting up a Committee of Public Information when America joined the war and went to the peace conference in Paris with Woodrow Wilson. He saw how Wilson was received and how propaganda could and would be used to sway the masses in peace. He set up The Council of Public Relations instead of using the word propaganda.
By 1928 it was seen that Bernays had created consumerism as a mainstay of American life and a key to economic progress. There was a constant stimulation of the irrational self, with desire to have things to make him-her happy & to feel good.
Edward Bernays dominated politics and was among the rich and famous, like a magician who made things happen. His view of those around him and the masses was that they were stupid. His children spoke of how he told them they were stupid,
The financial crash in 1929 affected the boom time, not only in America, also in Europe.
Freud’s Civilisation and its Discontents saw individual freedom as impossible, he was pessimistic. The Nazis were coming to power, chaos and instability of the market. Goebels , Minister of Propaganda, was interested in Edward Bernays work and used it.
I hope to say something about leadership, before we stop, as how they are able to use their influence for good or ill is crucial. The use of scapegoats in group behaviour comes into this, too. This may be developed in our discussion
In 1932, there was a new president in America, who had a new way of dealing with the masses. Roosevelt wanted what was good for the whole country, the people, not just big business. His new deal, was created. He called in George Gallup to arrange small groups to gauge what people wanted, trade unions were set up. Roosevelt believed people could be talked to and could be trusted and could know what they wanted.
This was different to Bernays’ view and all he and big business stood for and feared to lose. He and big business were opposed to Roseveldt and fought back with ideological warfare against the new deal. Bernays believed people were stupid and irrational and should be manipulated.
The National Association of Manufacturers’ campaign was launched. Bernay’s campaign behind the scenes, corrupting and deceiving the public, was no match for the government.
Goebels was impressed and saw this as the way the government should take on the problem. He learnt from Bernays propaganda ideas and implementation.
1939 Bernays was behind the creation a world fair in NY, Democracy and American Business a large white dome created by general motors. Capitalism was seen as capable of doing anything with a vision of successful passive consumerism capturing desires. Bernays believed people were not capable of decision-making power and just should be controlled.
This was different from Roosevelt, who set up trade unions and had a different view.
The 2nd world war confirmed Freud’s view even more, with an increased pessimism and hatred of the crowd.
A Hobbsian view, man’s lust for power & self interest.
Bernays then worked for the CIA to manage the masses and control the minds of the people. To suppress the savage barbarism that lurked under the surface.
Politics turned to these consumer rules, responsive to whims of market, as business sold products, politicians can do the same, understand uncs.. ads on tv target worries of swing voters, ultimate goal to be elected.
It was the end of Roosevelt’s view of social beings with concern for welfare systems, rather a pandering to desires. New left used what worked for business, ‘96 Clinton got in Blair followed these ways and also got in ‘97, copying America.There was no protection from greed of business. A way of controlling not liberating, initiated & developed by Edward Bernays using Freud’s ideas of the unconscious. In 1953, there was added fear of the bomb and heightened Cold War. Bernays, working for the CIA, & consultant to President Eisenhower, ramped up the fear and propaganda against Russia in the Cold War.
The way Bernays used power to get what businesses wanted had no scruples. It was clear the ends defeated the means.
United Fruits had banana plantations in Guatemala. A new president saw all the profits going to them in America and not to his people and the workers and wanted to change this. He wanted the land to belong to them. Bernays, came in on behalf of United Fruits & made it seem like an attack on American democracy. It was said Abends the president was a Communist threat. Bernays organized the campaign.(They were nothing to do with Russia at all.) CIA organised a coup and it was said they had toppled a Marxist regime. Nixon was shown Marxist literature planted there in the president’s palace. The CIA took his work much further and we know of various coups, in South America, I remember Chile, & over the world, including Ukraine, 2014, organized by them for their interest.
Leadership externally and internally needs to be more than this.
JFK was assassinated when he wanted to change the banking system. Vamik Vlokan reminded us of an example of collapsed time, of how Slobodan Milosovic reactivated a chosen trauma in the history of Serbia in the 1389 Battle of Kosovo & on 600th anniversary of this battle, exhumed the remains of Prince Lazar killed in that battle and took it round the country for a year. He had been killed by Ottoman Muslims. Bosnian and Albanian Muslims became to be seen as extensions of those Muslims in 1389 and created an opportunity for revenge for humiliation 600 years previously, Serbs felt entitled to rape and kill Muslims. In Yugoslavia before, they had all lived peacefully together. We can think of other examples. Ireland and over the world where the feelings of the past become condensed in the present, often at times of uncertainties, economic and political anxieties creating scapegoats.
(The story of the destruction of use of hemp products an example of vested interest.)
Gathering this & aware of what has transpired socially over the last 2 years, I thought of Eric Fromm & his book Fear of Freedom published in 1941, at the time of totalitarianism in Europe. I think it is relevant now. The propaganda , lies and censorship has penetrated through technocracy and our digital world. The information and advertisements flood our consciousness more than newspapers and radio of the time of Eric Fromm.
He saw our dependency and lack of security within and need to belong to the group, as a vulnerability in our fear of not being safe and in danger. This is when a ”strong” authoritarian outside leader & system can be adhered to. The sado- masochistic vertex relationship feels safer than being alone, without protection, powerless & actually in danger from the totalitarian state.
Fromm believed we need to understand the context of the culture the individual was molded by.
(Once again, the fish does not know what water is that he is swimming in.)
There has been a history of compliance in religions. Luther and Calvin saw man as evil, needing submission to god. Escaping from freedom, we fuse with the outside, belong and feel safe. Danger of what happens to those who do not conform, in any group is real.
To quote Fromm, “Modern man lives with the illusion he has what he wants, while actually wants what he is supposed to want.”
Exactly what Edward Bernays has created in our social sphere.
I had a neighbour here who was part of Mussolini’s Black Shirt youth when young. He said it was the best time of his life, belonging and being part of something he felt proud of and larger than his puny little self. I had a similar conversation with a German man who was in the Hitler Youth. He said he was stronger than my mother. His father had been damaged in the First World War and a passive figure. That was a relief to be away and part of a group, singing songs, being in the countryside. Ayan Hirsi Ali described her relief in being part of the Muslim Brotherhood, also as an adolescent. Feeling protected, also by being covered totally, being protected from an arranged marriage and one’s own feelings, to be part of an ideology bigger than yourself that you could aspire to.
A patient who was distressed when they heard news of a dictator being ousted and actually stumbled & fell, also adhered to this strong authority inwardly, as she felt weak and powerless.
Another patient was paralyzed with fear in the face of strict inner elders of her religious upbringing. How to reach the imprisoned self?
A child patient told me when I asked why she could not tell me news, that we both knew, said, “You would be upset and run out of the room and leave me alone with the monsters.”
I think we can all think of examples in our daily work. How can we be perceived as strong enough to protect the vulnerable self who is in the thrall of a different kind of protection.
I brought Edward Bernays today as his legacy has multiplied massively in our technocratic age. There is a danger we lose our minds and capacity to discern how polluted the water we are swimming in is.
When we are aware of how the masses have been duped, we will be needed to help with the grief that emerges.
I heard Sherri Mitchell, a North American Indigenous elder, tell of the myth of the cannibal giant who ate and destroyed everything. Hannah Arendt wrote that the next totalitarian state will be led by bureaucrats & that the totalitarian state is a monster that devours her children. The cannibal giant maybe more alive among us than we can admit.
Edward Bernays, using Freud’s work, sowed social seeds beyond “The Hidden Persuaders”, Vance Packard and “Amusing Ourselves to Death”, Neil Postman, creating a way of life that is to be pursued at all costs. This has relevance to our practice and bringing this awarenesss today I hope to trigger further thought and discoveries.
GREED.
Money for Gestapo. Brownshirts, Uniformed Paid Mercenary Services, the BIllionaires, but . . . . . A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells
The Ahlstrom paper mill in Rhinelander, Wis. Rhinelander’s water utility first tested for PFAS in 2013 to comply with federal rules. By 2019, the city shut down two utility-owned public wells to protect customers.
Tom LaDue baits a hook with his grandkids in 2022 before PFAS contamination was discovered in Snowden Lake in Stella, Wis.
The Cape Fear River flows over Lock and Dam No. 1 at Riegelwood, N.C., on Jan. 18, 2025.
Faye Jackson gets her blood tested at a medical clinic in Calhoun, Ga., on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, as her daughter Marie waits outside for her turn. Their blood tests revealed they have PFAS levels above the safety threshold outlined by national health experts.
Construction is underway on a reverse osmosis treatment facility which is designed to filter out PFAS from local drinking water in Gadsden, Ala., on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025.
Snowden Lake in Stella, Wis., seen on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, is contaminated by PFAS and officials say the fish is no longer safe to eat.
Associated Press writers Todd Richmond in Madison, Wis., Jason Dearen in Los Angeles and M.K. Wildeman in Hartford, Conn., contributed. Dylan Jackson and Justin Price of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution contributed from Atlanta.
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Allegations of mistreating employees (such as low wages and poor benefits).
Driving small businesses out of business.
Contributing to environmental degradation.
Accusations of contributing to increased local crime rates due to store policies that require frequent police calls for petty incidents.
His body became so bloated that on one occasion he tried riding on a cart through a gate, and being too large to fit through, he hit the gate, his body exploded, and maggots spewed all over the wall
Here, some interesting news from Minn. … Somewhere between 50,000-100,000 people participated in a general strike and marched the streets in Minneapolis for the second week in a row.
We have had large-scale protests for 25 days straight here in Minnesota.
These are just a few things that may not be making the national or international news.
a beloved local donut shop Glam Doll Donuts across the street from where Alex Pretti died turned into a warming house and medic center for protestors building and maintaining the memorial site.
a 70yo independent bookstore owner DreamHaven Books down the street expressed his pain on camera, walked through a tear gas cloud, and his website crashed less than 24 hours later from too much business and donations.
the day after tear gas bombs destroyed a N-Mpls neighborhood sending a 6mo old baby to the hospital, at daybreak, a small church community cleaned up the mess of pepper balls, tear gas containers and trash so the neighbors didn’t have to wake up to the memories.
a local independent journalist Mercado Media pounding the streets everyday reporting things from the ground had a testicle removed and showed up two days later to walk with 75,000+ community members to walk the streets in -20 degree weather.
a local sex-positive adult-store The Smitten Kitten has completely transformed into a donation and distribution center.
a local pizza place Wrecktangle Pizza raised over $83K in less than a few days to support families that are sheltering in place.
tow-truck companies are donating their services to clean up the accidents and abandoned vehicles left by ICE and the city is waiving impound fees.
local multi-faith spiritual leaders are spearheading sit-ins at corporate headquarters such as Target and USBank to have deeper conversations with CEOs and boards of directors about community relief.
social workers are taking in children who came home from school with both their parents “disappeared.”
animal shelters and pet-fostering agencies are rescuing pets left alone for days or weeks after their humans were detained.
every restaurant, church, karate dojo, dance studio, school, barber shop, and other small business has created their own underground grassroots supportive network to protect their neighbors, get people to and from work, and raise funds to pay everyday bills.
women who are moms and work full-time jobs are donning reflective vests in shifts to stand watch at bus stops, city parks, and grocery store parking lots ini sub-zero temps to bear witness before going home to tuck their babies in at night.
the MN National Guard offered donuts, coffee, and hot cocoa to peaceful protesters the day after Alex Pretti died, reminding community that we are all in this together and they are here to keep the peace.
These are just a few examples. Stories like this are happening in the hundreds here, every single day!
Community is EVERYTHING!
This Substack community and the MN-Strong resistance has saved my mental health these last weeks.
Thank you for reading.
Thank you for giving a shit.
I love you.
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The fucking perverted billionaires, the power to buy or not to buy, or to sell or not to sell . . .
Canadian Tycoon Nixes Plan to Sell Warehouse for Use as ICE Jail . . . but only with a THREAT of boycott.
The threat of a boycott was also percolating; the leader of the Green Party in Pattison’s home province of British Columbia said before the sale was abandoned that she hoped consumers would spurn other businesses owned by the 97-year-old billionaire, which include grocers and automotive dealers.
Pattison’s is now the third company to say it won’t sell a property to DHS, which intends to turn them into Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers. The warehouses under consideration are in 23 different municipalities around the country, and many of them were originally designed or marketed for e-commerce distribution.
ALTMAN, man, Jew all the way through to his fucking anus: Josh Altman sounds alarm on California wealth tax, says workers would pay the price
Josh Altman tells FOX Business that hundreds of thousands of workers could suffer from ‘trickle-down’ effect [ Josh Altman was born to a Jewish family on March 10, 1979, in Newton, Massachusetts. He had a Bar Mitzvah in both the US and in Israel. He has a brother, Matt Altman. ]
“You know what a billionaire said to me once? He said, ‘You know what the difference is between 100 million and a billion? Nothing.’ They’ll be fine. It’s people that need them that are not, and we’re running them out of California.”
Altmans? All Judas’s
Oh, those House Negroes: Blood and Genocidal MONEY, those Obamas!
Alongside Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky [ Brian Chesky, the CEO and co-founder of Airbnb, is of Jewish-American descent.], the Obamas have established the Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship program for second-year undergraduate students and community college transfer students who are entering their junior year in the fall. The program will provide scholarship winners with real work experiences rooted in “understanding, empathy, and cooperation,” with hopes of establishing long-lasting change, according to a statement shared from the Obama Foundation on LinkedIn.
“We are looking for young people from every corner of this country who share a curiosity about the world and the conviction to want to make positive change within it—just like the scholarship’s founders. Students should have a passion for helping others, experience serving in or building community, and an expansive view of what’s possible through public service,” a statement on the scholarship program’s website reads.
It is a two-year leadership development and scholarship program that will provide students with access to powerful leaders and mentors, as well as global travel to engage with new communities. Students can receive up to $50,000 for their junior and senior years, per the scholarship’s website.
Furthermore, participants will be awarded a $10,000 stipend and free Airbnb housing for work-related travel during the summer between their junior and senior years. Students can curate this summer voyage to gain exposure to specific communities or build experience in their chosen field. There is also an optional in-person convening where students can connect with others in the program, build leadership skills, and gain access to expanded learning opportunities with leaders in public service, notes the scholarship website.
Beyond the program, students will join the Obama Foundation’s global community and also receive a $2,000 Airbnb travel credit each year for 10 years after graduation.
[Now it’s 5,000 years, and, what, 6 million Jews Dead in Germany, Poland, Ukraine?]
Settlement Listings: Al-Haq reported that in 2019, Chesky did not reply to requests to remove listings in illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
Policy Reversal: After initially announcing the removal of West Bank settlement listings in 2018, Airbnb reversed this decision in 2019 due to lawsuits from hosts. As part of a settlement, Airbnb agreed to donate proceeds from these listings to humanitarian causes.
Legal/Ethical Criticism: Human rights groups and organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace have criticized the company for enabling the “dispossession” of Palestinian land.
Continued Activism: As of 2025, campaigns continue to demand the removal of listings in Israeli settlements, with advocates calling the ongoing presence of these listings in violation of international law.
Stop the Genocide is Antisemitic, don’t ya know.
Members of Italy’s right-wing League party, part of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government, have criticised the choice of Ghali to perform at the event in the San Siro stadium on February 6.
What is Ghali criticised for saying about Israel?
Ghali was at the centre of a political spat two years ago during the popular Sanremo song contest, when he called for a “stop to the genocide” in reference to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
A League party source called Ghali a “pro-Palestinian fanatic” who hated Israel and the centre-right, in comments to the Italian media.
Aya Nakamura hits back in new single at racist abuse over Olympics rumour
Ghali, who has not commented on the dispute, is likely to appeal to a younger audience more than other performers at the opening ceremony, who will include tenor Andrea Bocelli and US pop singer Mariah Carey.
Franco-Malian pop star Aya Nakamura was the target of racist abuse online when it emerged that she would sing at the opening of the Summer Olympics in Paris in 2024.
New track features lyrics ‘It’s them that don’t like me’ after far-right backlash against the idea she could cover Édith Piaf song
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Blood on her fucking Hispanic HANDS . . . U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez denied a request from Minnesota officials for a temporary restraining order, despite acknowledging what she described as “profound and even heart breaking” consequences for communities in the state.
She said “those are not the only harms to be considered,” however.
“The Eighth Circuit has recently reiterated that entry or injunction barring the federal government from enforcing federal law imposes significant harm on the government,” the judge wrote.
Why it matters: The decision is a win for the Trump administration, which has argued that “Operation Metro Surge“ has “succeeded” with thousands of arrests.
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Shoot — Gasoline, a la Molotovs. Spray them evenly, and then just a match, or a celebratory bottle rocket.
Age 76, Bruce, age 73, Lucinda!
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Press freedom groups are warning that the arrests of two independent journalists, including the veteran former CNN anchor Don Lemon, signal a chilling new crackdown on US media by the Trump administration.
Lemon was taken into custody on Thursday night by federal agents in Los Angeles, despite a magistrate judge declining to sign off on charges against him a week ago in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church against violent government immigration enforcement actions.
Georgia Fort, another reporter who covered the 18 January protest at the Cities church in Saint Paul, posted a live stream of her arrest early on Friday on Facebook.
“The justice department’s arrest of journalists reporting on anti-ICE protests is extremely alarming, especially given that multiple judges refused to approve arrest warrants just last week,” Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said.
“Reporting on protests isn’t a crime – it’s protected by the first amendment. We are especially concerned about these arrests because they take place against the background of a broader effort by the Trump administration to tighten the vise around press freedom.”
Scott Griffen, executive director of the International Press Institute (IPI), echoed a similar fear in a statement that called for the release of Lemon and Fort.
“The arrests of two independent journalists doing their jobs is a shocking and disturbing escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign against the free press in America. This is an unequivocal attack on the first amendment and the American people’s right to know,” he said.
“The outcome of this case will have direct consequences for the future of free media and free information in America. IPI condemns the Trump administration’s attempts to criminalize journalism and calls for the immediate release of both journalists with all charges dropped.”
Nearly 300 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza in 26 months of genocidal war – or about 12 journalists every month – according to a tally by Shireen.ps, a monitoring website named after Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in 2022.
Jew Jew Jew:
It accused Seidman of launching “insulting attacks” against South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on social media as well as “a deliberate failure” to inform the ministry “of purported visits by senior Israeli officials”.
“Such actions represent a gross abuse of diplomatic privilege and a fundamental breach of the Vienna Convention. They have systematically undermined the trust and protocols essential for bilateral relations,” the department said in a statement.
“We urge the Israeli Government to ensure its future diplomatic conduct demonstrates respect for the Republic and the established principles of international engagement.”
The Fucking Nazi White Face EYES. Look at their EYES.
Elon Musk had more extensive – and more friendly – communications with the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein than previously publicly known, according to documents released on Friday by the Department of Justice. Emails in the files appear to show the two cordially messaging each other on two separate occasions to make plans for Musk to visit Epstein’s island.
The documents include Musk and Epstein emailing in both 2012 and 2013 to determine when Musk should make the trip to Little St James. Neither exchanges appear to have resulted in Musk visiting the island, due to logistical issues.
“Will be in the BVI/St Bart’s area over the holidays. Is there a good time to visit?” Musk states on 13 December 2013.
And this abomination?
SpaceX seeks federal approval to launch 1 million solar-powered satellite data centers
SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a constellation of up to 1 million solar-powered satellites that it said will serve as data centers for artificial intelligence.
The company’s filing lays out a grandiose vision, not just describing these planned satellites as “the most efficient way to meet the accelerating demand for AI computing power” but also framing them as “a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization — one that can harness the Sun’s full power” while also “ensuring humanity’s multi-planetary future amongst the stars.”
a member of a caste of sexually underdeveloped female ants or termites specialized, as with powerful jaws, to defend the colony from invaders.
a similar member of a caste of worker bees, specialized to protect the hive.
a brick laid vertically with the narrower long face out.
Informal. a person who avoids work or pretends to work; loafer; malingerer.
Uniformed Soldiers of Fucking Dirty Murderous FORTUNE:
Congress has authorized an increase of more than 30,000 active-duty service members across the force, with the largest gains concentrated in the Army and Navy. The move coincides with the Pentagon’s newly released 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS), which calls for sharper priorities: defending the homeland first, deterring China in the Indo-Pacific, pressing allies to shoulder more responsibility, and accelerating the defense industrial base.
On paper, growth looks simple. Add people. Add capability.
In practice, expanding end strength stresses nearly every system that turns a recruit into a mission-ready service member: recruiting pipelines, training seats, schools, housing, childcare, medical readiness, maintenance, and, critically, unit leadership. The real question facing the force isn’t whether it can recruit more people. It’s whether the system can absorb them without hollowing itself out.
Niggerized fucking female whores. No health care for US, no secure housing for US, but plenty of perks for the mercenaries.
Air Force Gen. Adrian L. Spain, left, commander, Air Combat Command, and Air Force Staff Sgt. Tory Steen, a loadmaster assigned to the 418th Test and Evaluation Squadron, observe the landscape in the western region while seated on the ramp of an HC-130J Combat King II at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Jan. 10, 2026
Airmen assigned to Flights 081-097 march in the 737th Training Group’s graduation parade, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, January 8, 2026. The 37th Training Wing, known as “Gateway to the Air Force,” is home to BMT.
The 2026 end-strength increases are targeted, not uniform:
Army: 454,000 active-duty (+11,700)
Navy: 334,600 (+12,300)
Air Force: 320,000 (+1,500)
Space Force: 10,400 (+600)
Coast Guard: 50,000 (up from 44,500)
Marine Corps: 172,300 (no change)
Ignorant, Costco-ized, Infantilized, Wannabe Killers, one and all:
[Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, at a media briefing in July.]
Pentagon Defends Restrictions on Media Outlets
The purpose of the new rules is to “stop activity that could compromise national security,” the Defense Department said in response to a New York Times lawsuit.
The masters of the Department of War Crimes:
I don’t think that the national brand is transforming itself into ‘Resilience’ and I don’t think that it should be our guiding star in 2026 and onward,” says Avi Feldman, Managing Partner at Mobilion Ventures. “2025 shows that eventually resilience is a supportive stratum for our main brand of innovation and scale despite obstacles.” According to Feldman, the term should not be the primary draw for investment, but rather an “insurance certificate” for the Israeli tech ecosystem proving that even in bad times, the sector can still perform well.
Following the turbulence of recent years and the stabilization of 2025, the Israeli tech ecosystem is entering a new era: The Next Leap. Feldman joined CTech to share insights for its VC Survey 2026, which invites prominent investors to discuss the topics, trends, and “leaps” expected in the year ahead.
Back to Charlie Kirk and Semen Drip Trumplandia — look at this fucking white ghoul’s fucking face. Lipless cunt.
The necessary terms include:
Issue a public statement to the SJSU community that SJSU will adopt biology-based definitions of the words ‘male’ and ‘female’ and acknowledge that the sex of a human – male or female – is unchangeable;
Specify that SJSU will follow Title IX by separating sports and intimate facilities based on biological sex;
State that SJSU will not delegate its obligation to comply with Title IX to any external association or entity and will not contract with any entity that discriminates on the basis of sex;
Restore to individual female athletes all individual athletic records and titles misappropriated by male athletes competing in women’s categories, and issue a personalized letter of apology on behalf of SJSU to each female athlete for allowing her participation in athletics to be marred by sex discrimination; and
Send a personalized apology to every woman who played in SJSU’s women’s indoor volleyball (2022–2024), 2023 beach volleyball, and to any woman on a team that forfeited rather than compete against SJSU while a male student was on the roster—expressing sincere regret for placing female athletes in that position.
Batie-Smoose says that, to her, those terms are “the bare minimum.”
“It’s a starting point,” Batie-Smoose said. “They still have to pay a big price for what they’ve done.”
Hero: San José State women’s volleyball player Blaire Fleming was named an All-Mountain West Conference honorable mention Tuesday despite an ongoing lawsuit about her participation on the team.
Fleming is the focus of a lawsuit filed earlier this month by seven women’s volleyball players, including one of Fleming’s teammates, who compete in the Mountain West Conference. The players asked a federal judge to block Fleming, a transgender woman, from participating in women’s volleyball in the conference, alleging her participation is a violation of Title IX and the U.S. Constitution.
The lawsuit also asked for adjustments to the Mountain West Conference’s Transgender Participation Policy and how the 2024 conference standings are calculated.
JewLandia, a la Unit 8200/Mossad/Epstein: They will receive ALL gifts from Jew Trump. Why do they/Jews need LTV’s in their small occupied Palestine? Greater Israel, man, blood libel.
US approves more than $6.5 billion in potential military sales to Israel, Pentagon says
The U.S. State Department approved a potential sale of Joint Light Tactical Vehicle and related equipment for an estimated cost of $1.98 billion, and another sale of AH-64E Apache Helicopters for $3.8 billion, the Pentagon said in separate statements.
MONEY. Oh, that fucking lackey: U.N. Says It’s in Danger of Financial Collapse Because of Unpaid Dues
The world body warned it would run out of money by July and have to close its New York headquarters if countries, namely the United States, did not pay annual dues that amount to billions of dollars.
Shut this fascist state DOWN.
From Fucking BLow Jobs for Semen Drip Trump and Gestapo in our Land Fox Un-News: Lawmakers in the Senate struck a deal on Friday to advance funding for the departments of Defense, Education, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services while passing a short-term extension for the Department of Homeland Security, the piece of the puzzle holding up funding for 2026.
Always fucking Jews in the mix of this fucking country’s downfall: Noodles, including the niggerized dude in the background:
Rep. Nicholas Begich, R-Alaska, right, pictured next to the Anchorage airport.
Back to the Jew News:
People who are exposed to certain forever chemicals may be at greater risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to new research.
No one knows why that is, but it could help explain why, over the past 30 years, the prevalence of MS has increased by an average of 26 percent globally. In some nations, cases have more than doubled since 1990.
MS is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system with no known singular cause and no known cure.
This new study from Sweden suggests that forever chemicals may be an overlooked contributing factor.
A Year of Betrayal: EPA Under Lee Zeldin
Administrator Zeldin has put the agency to work for polluters, putting our health and that of our children at risk.
{The Israeli and the Heroin Addict . . . A Love Story.]
So the story goes, from the beginning: AD 30 or AD
Betrayal: Judas identified Jesus to authorities in the Garden of Gethsemane by kissing him, allowing them to arrest him.
Identity: He was one of the Twelve Apostles, serving as their treasurer. The name “Iscariot” may indicate he was from Kerioth in Judea, or potentially connected to the Sicarii, a group of radical Jewish nationalists opposed to Roman rule.
Motivation: Theories vary, ranging from greed (thirty pieces of silver) to disillusionment that Jesus was not the warrior-king Messiah who would overthrow Roman rule. Some interpretations suggest he was trying to force Jesus to act, while others, based on the Gospels of Luke and John, suggest possession by Satan.
Death: Following the betrayal, Judas felt immense remorse, attempted to return the money, and subsequently died by suicide, either by hanging or by falling in a field he bought.
THE EYES, MAN.
The nose, MAN.
The Gospel of Mark gives no motive for Judas’s betrayal but does present Jesus’s predicting it at the Last Supper, an event also described in all the other gospels. The Gospel of Matthew 26:15 states that Judas committed the betrayal in exchange for thirty pieces of silver. The Gospel of Luke 22:3 and the Gospel of John 13:2 and 13:27 suggest that he was possessed by Satan. According to Matthew 27:1–10, after learning that Jesus was to be crucified, Judas attempted to return the money he had been paid for his betrayal to the chief priests and hanged himself.[2] The priests used the money to buy a field to bury strangers in, which was called the “Field of Blood” because it had been bought with blood money. Acts of the Apostles 1:18 quotes Peter as saying that Judas used the money to buy the field himself, and he “[fell] headlong … burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.” His place among the Twelve Apostles was later filled by Matthias.
Judas Iscariot, who betrayed the Son of God with a kiss, has become the most despised person in the annals of human history. His personality is the darkest in the chronicles of the world, and the name Judas itself bears a stigma, reflecting the scorn for him that burns within us. The New Testament writers disdain Judas to such a degree that in every list of the disciples given in the Gospels, Judas is listed last, with a note of contempt after his name.
Hatred for Judas was so deep in the years following the closing of the New Testament that several incredible legends about him evolved. They describe bizarre occurrences, characterizing Judas as ugly, evil, and totally repugnant. One, in the apocryphal Coptic Narrative, said that Judas, having betrayed Christ, was infested with maggots. Consequently, his body became so bloated that on one occasion he was trying to ride on a cart through a gate, and being too large to fit through it, he hit the gate, his body exploded, and maggots spewed all over the wall. Obviously, that story is not true, but it shows the high level of contempt for Judas in the early centuries.
When I was in seminary, I wrote my dissertation on Judas Iscariot. During the year that I spent working on it, and since then, I have found it extremely difficult to write or speak on. Sin is never more grotesque than it is in the life of Judas. When we study Judas and his motivations, we are prying very close to the activity of Satan. But there are valuable reasons for examining Judas and his sin. For one thing, to understand Jesus’ love in its fullness, it helps to look at the life of Judas, because despite the awfulness of Judas’ sin, Jesus reached out to him in love.
Jesus and Judas
In John 13:17-30, Jesus and Judas come head to head. We see clearly at this point the evil of Judas contrasted with the absolute purity of Jesus Christ. The diabolical deed that had been festering in the heart of Judas—the treachery he had already begun to perpetrate—was pushed to its climax, and Judas was unmasked as the betrayer.
Jesus speaks at the beginning of this powerful passage:
“If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’ From now on I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am He. Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”
When Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit, and testified and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, that one of you will betray Me.” The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking. There was reclining on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. So Simon Peter gestured to him, and said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking.” He, leaning back thus on Jesus’ bosom, said to Him, “Lord, who is it?”
Jesus then answered, “That is the one for whom I shall dip the morsel and give it to him.” So when He had dipped the morsel, He took and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
After the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
Now no one of those reclining at the table knew for what purpose He had said this to him. For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, “Buy the things we have need of for the feast”; or else, that he should give something to the poor.
So after receiving the morsel he went out immediately; and it was night.
There we see Jesus and Judas—the epitome of opposites: the Perfect One and the absolutely wretched; the best and the worst. The purity of Jesus and the vileness of Judas, by contrast, became very obvious.
Judas was an ultimate tragedy—probably the greatest tragedy that ever lived. He is the perfect and prime example of what it means to have opportunity and then lose it. He becomes all the more terrible because of the glorious beginnings he had. Judas followed the same Christ as the others. For three years, day in and day out, he occupied himself with Jesus Christ. He saw the same miracles; heard the same words; performed some of the same ministries; was esteemed in the same way the other disciples were—yet he did not become what the others became. In fact, he became the very opposite. While they were growing into true apostles and saints of God, he was progressively forming into a vile, calculating tool of Satan.
For three years, he moved and walked with Jesus. Initially, he must have shared the same hope of the Kingdom that the other disciples had. He likely believed that Jesus was the Messiah. He too, had left all and followed Jesus. Certainly he became greedy, but it is doubtful that he joined the apostles for what money he could get, because they never really had anything. Perhaps his motive at the outset was just to get in on this Kingdom that Jesus would bring.
Whatever his character at the beginning, he gradually became the treacherous man that betrayed Christ, a man who had no thought for anyone but himself, a man who finally wanted only to get as much money as he could and get out.
Greed, ambition, and worldliness had crept into his heart, and avarice had become his besetting sin. Perhaps he was disappointed because of unfulfilled expectations of an earthly Kingdom. Maybe he was tormented by the unbearable rebuke of the presence of Christ. Surely it created a great tension in his heart to be constantly in the presence of sinless purity, and yet be so infested with vileness. Perhaps, too, he began to sense that the eye of the Master could see who he was and what he was. Or it may be that all those things had begun to eat at him.
Whatever the reasons, he ended in absolute disaster, the greatest example of lost opportunity the world has ever seen. On the night he betrayed Jesus, he was so prepared to do Satan’s bidding that Satan was able to enter him and take complete control of him. A few days before this in Bethany, he had met with the leaders of Israel and bargained for thirty pieces of silver, the price of a slave—about twenty to twenty-five dollars. Now his evil deed comes to full fruition on the eve of the crucifixion.
Jesus and his disciples (including Judas) were in the upper room. The vile traitor was sitting there, having already made his bargain to betray Jesus for money. He had already initiated the plan, and now he had returned to spend these moments with the disciples, looking for the right moment to betray Jesus’ presence to the Jewish leaders.
Jesus had revealed in verse 10 that He knew Judas’s heart, saying, “’You are clean, but not all of you.’ For He knew the one who was betraying Him” (vv. 10-11). Judas had been sitting there all through Jesus’ wonderful lesson on humility and washing of the disciples’ feet. Jesus had even washed his feet. He sat there, the wretched hypocrite, letting the blessed Lord wash his feet, while in his head he was plotting the betrayal of Jesus, hardly able to wait until he could get his hands on the thirty coins.
Even though Jesus knew what Judas was about to do, He washed his feet. It was only one example of the marvelous love of Jesus Christ and the way He reached out to Judas. The measures He took to win Judas even at this late hour made His love all the more wonderful. One would think the experience of having Jesus wash his feet would be enough to break any man’s heart. But not Judas’s, so cold was he. He was determined to sell the Master to the executioners.
New testimonies detail torture and abuse of Gazan detainees in Israeli jails, detention centres.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. —Emiliano Zapata
The installation of the floating barrier is in clear violation of the U.S.-Mexico water treaty, which requires both countries to agree to any structure that can potentially divert the course of the river. For years, Mexico has filed diplomatic protests regarding violations of the U.S.-Mexico binational treaty as more wall barriers, shipping containers and other construction has taken place in the river’s floodplain.
In 2023, the Biden administration sued Texas after it installed a different chain-like type of buoy barrier near Eagle Pass, claiming among other violations in the lawsuit, that the installation had damaged diplomatic relations with Mexico.
Last week, The Border Chronicle requested access from DHS to fly a drone to film the installation from the US-side of the Rio Grande and was denied by the agency, which said it was placing “a media hold” on requests. The entire section of the river was placed under a National Defense Area designation, and military control in September 2025. The only way to document the U.S. government’s actions on the binational river was from Mexico. Several stories were published yesterday and today in the Mexican media about the installation of the barriers.
[Burning coffee sacks in Chiapas: Desperate farmers protest against Nestlé’s low purchase prices]
The nurse reportedly suggested medical providers carry syringes with an anesthetic in them to cause short-acting muscle paralysis in ICE agents. She also reportedly suggested putting poison ivy in a squirt gun to aim at ICE agents, among other things, she called “sabotage tactics.”
Common “Accidental” Scenarios
Accidental toxin production typically happens when people unknowingly create an “anaerobic” (oxygen-free) environment for low-acid foods:
Improper Home Canning: Using a boiling water bath instead of a pressure canner for low-acid vegetables like green beans, asparagus, or potatoes.
Infused Oils: Storing homemade garlic-in-oil or herb-infused oils at room temperature for more than a few days.
Foil-Wrapped Potatoes: Leaving baked potatoes wrapped in aluminum foil at room temperature for several days; the foil creates an oxygen-free seal around the potato.
Traditional Fermentation: Specific cultural practices involving fermented fish or marine mammal meat (common in Alaska).
My friend, Tassos, where I learned how to cook Greek food and where one of my marriages hosted a wedding dinner.
EL PASO, Texas, April 12, 1994 — Fourteen people who ate a garlic and potato-based dip at a Greek restaurant remained hospitalized Tuesday in what officials said may be the worst outbreak of botulism in Texas history.
The 14 were among 30 people who ate the dip at Tassos Greek Cuisine and Seafood Restaurant, said El Paso city-county Health and Environmental District director Dr. Laurance Nickey.
Four of the victims are in serious condition and breathing with the aid of ventilators, hospital officials said.
The outbreak was believed to involve more people than any single food-borne botulism episode in state history, said Dr. L. Bruce Elliott, director of microbiology services at the Texas Department of Health.
Food-borne botulism stems from toxins in food that is inadquately cooked or improperly stored. The undercooked foods become toxic after they are canned or placed in another type of oxygen-free environment.
Even though all the victims said they ate the dip, several other dishes served at the restaurant containing various ingredients are also being tested, Elliott said.
Bob Howard, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, said ‘We would classify this as a major or unusual outbreak’ due to the unusually high number of victims.
The CDC sent a representative to El Paso to join local experts and Texas Department of Health experts in the investigation, officials said.
Skordalia, a dip consisting of potatoes, garlic, cucumbers and sometimes yogurt, was served Friday and Saturday at the restaurant, which voluntarily closed pending the completion of an investigation.
Symptoms of botulism include blurred or double vision, headache, difficulty swallowing or talking, fatigue and respiratory difficulty. The fatality rate is 10 to 20 percent, the CDC said.NEWLN: (Written by Dick Kelsey in Dallas; edited by Phil Magers in Dallas)
The nurse reportedly said her ideas were not meant to kill or seriously harm anyone, but she wanted to “make their lives miserable.”
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Make a Homemade Stink Bomb
A stink bomb is a device usually used as a practical joke that produces a highly unpleasant odor.
Leonardo da Vinci invented a stink bomb that could be delivered to enemies using arrows.
Most stink bombs contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Compounds that contain sulfur (such as thiols) are particularly effective.
Homemade Stink Bomb Ingredients
You’ll only need three materials for this project. The smell in the stink bomb comes from the reaction between the chemicals in the matches and the ammonia. While any container that can be sealed will work, a plastic bottle is recommended because it won’t break. However, another option is to use a plastic zip-top baggie.
Use scissors or a knife to cut the heads off of a book of matches. Be careful not to cut yourself.
Place the match heads inside the empty 20-ounce bottle. Add about 2 tablespoons of household ammonia.
Seal the bottle and swirl the contents around.
Wait three to four days before uncapping the bottle to give the chemical reaction enough time to take place. After 72 to 96 hours, your stink bomb will be ready.
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Jew Jabs, Jew Stink: It’s called Skunk, a type of “malodorant,” or in plainer language, a foul-smelling liquid. Technically nontoxic but incredibly disgusting, it has been described as a cross between “dead animal and human excrement.” Untreated, the smell lingers for weeks.
The Israeli Defense Forces developed Skunk in 2008 as a crowd-control weapon for use against Palestinians. Now Mistral, a company out of Bethesda, Md., says they are providing it to police departments in the United States.
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The Israelis first used it in 2008 to disperse Palestinians protesting in the West Bank. A BBC video shows its first use in action, sprayed by a hose, a system that has come to be known as the “crap cannon.”
Mistral reps say Skunk, once deployed, can be “neutralized” with a special soap and only with that soap. In another BBC video, an IDF spokesman describes how any attempt to wash it via regular means only exacerbates its effects. Six weeks after IDF forces used it against Palestinians at a security barrier, it still lingered in the air.
The urban environment offers a multitude of large objects that allow defending forces the ability to create obstacles both inside and outside of buildings. Vehicles can be repositioned to block streets, furniture can be thrown into staircases, and concertina wire and remotely detonated explosive devices can be added to hinder easy movement between floors and into entryways of buildings. Concrete barriers, cars, buses, construction vehicles, dumpsters, furniture, and tires can be moved into streets and flipped over to channel, divert, or halt enemy armored fighting vehicles or dismounted personnel.
Sorry, more house negroes:
At Georgetown, a senior administrator reported, “The freshmen are much more radical than the seniors, and I’m told the high school students coming up are even more so.” Though the underground paper The Berkeley Barbput it more colorfully: “Che Guevara is thirteen years old, and he is not doing his homework.”
Operational Counter-Tactics Tactics used to counter militarized police operations in urban areas include:
Documentation and Monitoring: Utilizing cameras and apps to record police actions, especially concerning the deployment of armored vehicles, drones, and riot gear, to ensure accountability.
Creating Safe Zones: Establishing community areas designated as safe from police intervention to foster community support and resilience.
Recruiting Local Informants: Sociology Professor Julian Go notes that tactics similar to “search and destroy” used against indigenous populations in the 1800s, including surveillance and informant recruitment, have been adapted in modern urban policing.
Utilizing Concrete Barriers: Existing concrete barriers in cities, such as those used for infrastructure protection, can serve as defensive fortifications. Steel-reinforced concrete is a significant obstacle, as demonstrated by the defense of Mosul.
Fortifying Buildings: Reinforcing existing robust structures like government buildings or apartment complexes can create strongpoints. These fortified buildings act as mini-fortresses and can be further strengthened with materials and obstacles like sandbags, wire, and mines to hinder attackers. Historical examples, such as “Pavlov’s House” in the Battle of Stalingrad, show the effectiveness of using fortified buildings with good lines of sight and obstacles to hold off attacks.
Creating Rubble Barriers: Intentionally destroying buildings or using existing rubble to block streets and create obstacles can channel attacking forces into disadvantageous areas and impede their movement and the use of supporting vehicles. German forces used this tactic extensively during the Battle of Ortona to restrict Canadian movement.
Placing Heavy Weapons in Buildings: Positioning disassembled heavy weapons on higher floors of buildings provides superior firing angles and protection, creating formidable defensive positions. Examples include the Japanese using naval guns in Manila buildings and German forces using antitank guns in Ortona.
Using Concealment: Simple materials like wood, tin, tarpaulins, or cloth sheets can be used to create cover from aerial surveillance, hiding obstacles and personnel in urban environments. This has been observed in cities like Aleppo.
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You’re alive right now because of 90 seconds in 1962 when one man said “No”—and saved 7 billion people who hadn’t even been born yet.
October 27, 1962. Black Saturday. The day the world came within a heartbeat of ending.
Deep beneath the Caribbean, invisible to the world above, Soviet submarine B-59 had become a steel coffin. The air conditioning had failed days earlier. Internal temperature: 122°F. Men were collapsing from heatstroke, one after another, “falling like dominoes.” Carbon dioxide levels had reached the point where breathing felt like suffocation. The crew hadn’t heard from Moscow in nearly a week. For all they knew, World War III had already started.
Then the explosions began.
Eleven US Navy destroyers had surrounded their position. They started dropping depth charges directly overhead—practice charges meant as warning signals to force the submarine to surface. But the Soviets had no way of knowing that.
To the crew of B-59, trapped in darkness and unbearable heat, each blast sounded like death arriving. The metal hull screamed. Equipment shook loose. Vadim Orlov, a crew member, later described it: “It felt like you were sitting in a metal barrel, which somebody is constantly blasting with a sledgehammer.”
Captain Valentin Savitsky snapped.
Oxygen-deprived, heat-exhausted, convinced war had begun, he started screaming orders: “Maybe the war has already started up there, while we are doing somersaults here! We’re going to blast them now! We will die, but we will sink them all—we will not disgrace our Navy!”
He ordered his crew to arm the Special Weapon.
A nuclear torpedo. Fifteen kilotons. Roughly the power of the Hiroshima bomb. Enough to vaporize the American fleet overhead instantly. And if that weapon launched, the United States would assume nuclear war had begun. Moscow would be struck within hours. The Soviets would retaliate. London. Paris. New York. Hundreds of millions dead in the first day. Billions more in the aftermath.
But there was a technicality. A bureaucratic detail that saved the world.
Soviet protocol required unanimous consent from all three senior officers aboard to launch a nuclear weapon. On other submarines, only two signatures were needed. But B-59 was the flagship. It had three command officers.
Captain Savitsky screamed his approval.
The Political Officer, Ivan Maslennikov, gave his.
Two votes for annihilation.
They turned to the third man.
Vasili Arkhipov. Age 34. Flotilla Commander. The man who had survived the K-19 submarine disaster a year earlier—a near-nuclear meltdown that killed eight crewmates and left him with radiation poisoning. The man who understood, perhaps better than anyone else aboard, what nuclear weapons actually did.
Every fiber of logic and instinct pointed toward yes. The explosions were real. The threat felt immediate. His captain was ordering him. His crew was watching. His country seemed under attack.
Arkhipov looked at the faces around him. He heard the explosions. He felt the crushing heat.
And then he said one word:
“No.”
His voice, impossibly calm in the chaos. “These are not attacks. These are signals. Warnings to surface. If we launch this weapon, we end the world. We cannot know if war has started. We must surface and confirm.”
Captain Savitsky exploded. A screaming match erupted in the suffocating control room. Officers argued. Men shouted. The pressure was crushing. Minutes felt like hours.
But Arkhipov would not move. He would not turn his key. He would not give his vote.
Without unanimous approval, the launch was impossible.
Gradually, impossibly, Arkhipov convinced Savitsky to reconsider. They would surface. They would make contact. They would find out the truth before ending civilization.
The submarine rose through the dark water and broke the surface. American destroyers surrounded them. Tense moments passed as searchlights blazed. One destroyer even had a jazz band playing on deck—a surreal detail that probably saved even more lives by easing the tension.
But there were no missiles. No attacks. No war.
B-59 was escorted away. The crew went home. The world continued turning, completely unaware of how close it had come to ending.
When B-59 returned to Soviet waters, they faced disgrace. They had been detected. Forced to surface by Americans. In the Soviet military hierarchy, this was failure. Arkhipov spent the rest of his career in obscurity. He never sought recognition. He died quietly in 1998 at age 72, from radiation exposure suffered during the K-19 accident.
The world had no idea what he had done.
Not until 2002—40 years later—when Soviet files were declassified and a conference was held in Havana. For the first time, the full story emerged. American officials sat in stunned silence as they learned how close they’d come. Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara admitted: “We came very, very close to nuclear war, closer than we knew at the time.”
Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, spoke the words that would define Arkhipov’s legacy:
“The guy called Vasili Arkhipov saved the world.”
Think about that for a moment.
One man. One word. One decision made under unimaginable pressure, in unbearable heat, surrounded by chaos.
He didn’t save a city. He didn’t save a nation. He saved every person born after October 27, 1962. Every child who grew up in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s. Every baby born this year. Every dream realized. Every love story. Every scientific discovery. Every sunrise.
All of it exists because a man nobody had heard of chose reason over panic.
In 2017, the Future of Life Institute finally honored Arkhipov posthumously with the first Future of Life Award, presenting it to his daughter Elena and grandson Sergei. The award recognizes “exceptional measures, often performed despite personal risk and without obvious reward, to safeguard the collective future of humanity.”
Vasili Arkhipov proved something profound about human nature. That true courage isn’t about how quickly you can pull a trigger—it’s about the strength to keep your hand steady when everything around you is screaming for action. It’s about choosing reason when panic feels justified. It’s about understanding that some decisions are too important to make in rage.
Every breath you’ve ever taken. Every person you’ve ever loved. Every moment you’ve experienced. Every tomorrow you’ll wake up to.
All of it exists because on one suffocating afternoon in October 1962, beneath the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, a soft-spoken Soviet officer decided that humanity deserved one more chance.
Street tactics are used to fight the enemy in the streets, utilizing the participation of the population against him.
In 1968, the Brazilian students used excellent street tactics against police troops, such as marching down streets against traffic and using slingshots and marbles against mounted police. Other street tactics consist of constructing barricades; pulling up paving blocks and hurling them at the police; throwing bottles, bricks, paperweights and other projectiles at the police from the top of office and apartment buildings; using buildings and other structures for escape, for hiding and for supporting surprise attacks. It is equally necessary to know how to respond to enemy tactics. When the police troops come wearing helmets to protect them against flying objects, we have to divide ourselves into two teams—one to attack the enemy from the front, the other to attack him in the rear—withdrawing one as the other goes into action to prevent the first from being struck by projectiles hurled by the second. By the same token, it is important to know how to respond to the police net. When the police designate certain of their men to go into the crowd and arrest a demonstrator, a larger group of urban guerrillas must surround the police group, disarming and beating them and at the same time allowing the prisoner to escape. This urban guerrilla operation is called “the net within a net”.
When the police net is formed at a school building, a factory, a place where demonstrators gather, or some other point, the urban guerrilla must not give up or allow himself to be taken by surprise. To make his net effective, the enemy is obliged to transport his troops in vehicles and special cars to occupy strategic points in the streets, in order to invade the building or chosen locale. The urban guerrilla, for his part, must never clear a building or an area and meet in it without first knowing its exits, the way to break an encirclement, the strategic points that the police must occupy, and the roads that inevitably lead into the net, and he must hold other strategic points from which to strike at the enemy. The roads followed by police vehicles must be mined at key points along the way and at forced roadblocks. When the mines explode, the vehicles will be knocked into the air. The police will be caught in the trap and will suffer losses and be victims of an ambush. The net must be broken by escape routes which are unknown to the police. The rigorous planning of a withdrawal is the best way to frustrate any encircling effort on the part of the enemy. When there is no possibility of an escape plan, the urban guerrilla must not hold meetings, gatherings or do anything, since to do so will prevent him from breaking through the net which the enemy will surely try to throw around him.
Street tactics have revealed a new type of urban guerrilla who participates in mass protests. This is the type we designate as the “urban guerrilla demonstrator”, who joins the crowds and participates in marches with specific and definate aims in mind. The urban guerrilla demonstrator must initiate the “net within the net”, ransacking government vehicles, official cars and police vehicles before turning them over or setting fire to them, to see if any of them have money or weapons.
Snipers are very good for mass demonstrations, and along with the urban guerrilla demonstrator can play a valuable role. Hidden at strategic points, the snipers have complete success using s
Does American law enforcement treat The Anarchist Cookbook as “contraband”? One definition of contraband is an item that is not permitted in prison. It seems that the book is generally not permitted in American prisons, judging by cases in which individual prisoners unsuccessfully litigated their right to possess the book in their cells. Another common definition of contraband is something that has been imported or exported illegally. If, as Grimm suggests, border officials can be expected to seize the book during searches, The Anarchist Cookbook might qualify.
It is not illegal for Americans who are not incarcerated to possess the book, nor to buy it or download it. It might not be “contraband” in this sense. However, if you are suspected of being involved in some crime involving guns or explosives or drugs, it is very dangerous to have a copy of The Anarchist Cookbook at your house or on your computer. If you do, it could well be seized by law enforcement and used against you in your criminal trial. In this sense, literate criminals are prosecuted in part for their particular reading habits, if those habits include this particular book.
Indeed, not a single American court opinion has taken issue with law enforcement’s seizure of The Anarchist Cookbook during a raid, even when judges are reluctant to ultimately admit the book into evidence. Courts have consistently blessed the practice of seizing this book during an investigation, almost as if The Anarchist Cookbook qualified as contraband.
Books as Contraband: The Strange Case of ‘The Anarchist Cookbook’ — Another shitty school and another shitty course: Jeff Breinholt is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School, where he teaches a course on trying terrorists. The views in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Justice.
“I won’t give you my name but put that I am Maniguas so that “El Chayo” sees where I am and how I will receive him when he comes looking for me,” this vigilante tells EL PAÍS.
The peasant rebels took up arms in 1994, and now number 300,000 in centres with their own doctors, teachers and currency, but rarely answer questions – until now
The following excerpt is from the introduction to Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories:
After visiting us several times, they began to explain the struggle: what they were fighting for and whom they were fighting against. They told us there was a word we could use to show our respect for each other, and that word was compañeros or compañeras. Saying it meant that we were going to struggle together for our freedom. —ARACELI and MARIBEL, Zapatista women from the La Realidad region
In the 1980s, outsiders dressed as doctors or teachers arrived in Araceli and Maribel’s jungle community and began asking the peasants why they were paid such low prices when they sold their coffee or corn. These outsiders talked about the fundamental injustices between rich and poor, and about the mistreatment their indigenous community had endured for more than five hundred years. They said that women had rights too. Villagers like Araceli and Maribel took a risk and joined “the organization.” They attended secret meetings at night and recruited their neighbors. Some left home to live in the mountains and become insurgents – joining a scrappy indigenous army that was growing in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.
On January 1, 1994, the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN) captured the world’s imagination when it rose up to demand justice and democracy – taking on the Mexican government and global capitalism itself. The EZLN is named after Emiliano Zapata, a hero of the Mexican Revolution, and it took up his rallying cry of tierra y libertad (land and freedom). From its formation in 1983 until the 1994 uprising, the EZLN was a clandestine organization. Since that brief armed insurrection, the EZLN has become known primarily for its peaceful mobilizations, dialogue with civil society, and structures of political, economic, and cultural autonomy. During the decade leading up to and the decade after the uprising, women from the indigenous Mayan villages that belong to the EZLN experienced dramatic transformations in their lives, their communities, and their level of political participation and leadership.
(Image: Seven Stories Press)People around the world have been inspired by images of Zapatista women: Major Ana María wearing a black ski mask and brown uniform, leading indigenous troops during the uprising; Comandanta Ramona standing next to Subcomandante Marcos during peace negotiations with the Mexican government, the top of her head barely reaching his shoulder; Comandanta Ester, draped in a white shawl with embroidered flowers, addressing the Mexican Congress to demand respect for indigenous rights and culture. The dignity with which these women carried themselves, set against a backdrop of centuries of racism and exploitation, embodies what the Zapatista movement has come to represent – the resistance of the marginalized and the forgotten against the powerful. Peasants turned warriors, mothers turned revolutionary leaders – dozens, hundreds, thousands of Zapatista women gather, tiny and dark-skinned, with red bandannas covering their faces and masking their individual identities, long black braids hanging down their backs, their fists in the air. They have marched, they have organized, and they have planted seeds – both real and symbolic. They have stood up to the Mexican army and to their own husbands. They have changed their own lives and they have changed the world around them.
From the civil rights movement in the United States to the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, from the campaign against apartheid in South Africa to the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East, women have fought side by side with men for their people’s freedom. Women have been important actors and made invaluable contributions to grassroots social movements and national liberation struggles all over the world. Many of these, while not women’s movements per se, have created new opportunities for women and catalyzed changes in their lives. At the same time, women almost invariably face discrimination within their own organizations, and have often had to fight for women’s rights to be included in the vision of a just society. This dual and interdependent relationship between women’s liberation and social revolution illustrates that popular struggles cannot achieve collective liberation for all people without addressing patriarchy and, likewise, women’s freedom cannot be disentangled from racial, economic, and social justice.
The indigenous communities that make up the EZLN have historically confronted extreme inequality: economic, because of the legacy of colonialism and the concentration of land and wealth in Chiapas; political, because of their exclusion from state, national, and local decision making; and social, because of racism against indigenous people and the lack of basic services such as health care, education, electricity, and potable water. Women have also faced gender-based discrimination. In the words of Comandanta Ester, from a speech she gave in Mexico City’s central plaza in 2001, “We are oppressed three times over, because we are poor, because we are indigenous, and because we are women.” This history of marginalization serves as a backdrop for the striking changes that have taken place in Zapatista territory.
Today, the Zapatista movement has a presence throughout eastern Chiapas, with most of the EZLN’s support base living in rural indigenous villages. The Zapatista support base refers to the civilians – individuals and communities – who belong to the EZLN. The Mexican newspaper El Universal reports the Zapatista support base to be approximately 250,000 people, representing about 22 percent of the indigenous population of Chiapas.
Zapatista territory is not “liberated territory” in the traditional sense that a guerrilla army has complete control over a certain area. The Mexican military has an intense presence throughout the region, and within Zapatista territory there are Zapatista and non-Zapatista villages, and some that are divided between the two. There are clear boundaries of Zapatista territory, however, and this is meaningful because in this small corner of the world, the Zapatistas are experimenting with self-government that functions independently from the existing state and federal system, alternative education and health care infrastructure, and an economic system based on cooperation, solidarity, and relationships of equality.
A small Zapatista village might have a dozen families, whereas larger villages have a hundred families or more. Zapatista communities are organized into autonomous municipalities, which function as something like counties. Each autonomous municipality is made up of anywhere from a dozen to a hundred villages. The EZLN has drawn its own geographical lines, corresponding to where its support base resides and often defined by geography: all the villages along a particular canyon, for example.
The EZLN’s approximately forty autonomous municipalities are organized into five regions, which the Zapatistas call “zones.” Each region or zone is commonly referred to by the name of the five villages that house the Caracoles (previously called Aguascalientes), the seat of each regional autonomous government. Morelia, La Garrucha, and La Realidad are in the canyons that run eastward to the Lacandon Jungle, and correspond roughly to the official municipalities of Altamirano, Ocosingo, and Las Margaritas, respectively. Oventic is in the central highlands of Chiapas, near the colonial city of San Cristóbal de las Casas, and Roberto Barrios is in the northern zone, near the Mayan ruins of Palenque.
January 2014 marked the twentieth anniversary of the Zapatista uprising and thirty years since the EZLN’s formation as an underground organization. Over the past three decades, the impact of the Zapatista movement can be seen at the local, national, and international level. Land takeovers carried out after the 1994 uprising – where large ranches were occupied by the Zapatistas and reapportioned to landless peasants – impacted the distribution of wealth in eastern Chiapas and continue to affect living conditions for those Zapatista communities farming on reclaimed land. Most Zapatista villages are still poor, but have experienced some concrete material improvements. The Zapatista construction of indigenous autonomy has meant that rural villages in Chiapas have gained access to rudimentary health care and education, which they were previously denied. They exercise self-determination through autonomous village and regional governments, and generate resources back into their communities through economic cooperatives that organize the production of goods.
At the national level, the EZLN signed the San Andrés Accords with the Mexican government in 1996, which recognized indigenous rights and promised indigenous autonomy. The Zapatista movement arguably helped bring an end to seventy years of one-party rule in Mexico when the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI), which had monopolized state power since the Mexican Revolution, lost the presidential elections in 2000. And, through its national mobilizations and dialogue with other sectors of the population, the EZLN is also credited with the strengthening of Mexican civil society.
Around the world, the Zapatistas catalyzed a wave of solidarity that inspired a generation of young activists to organize for social justice in their own contexts. The repercussions of the Zapatista movement at the international level may be difficult to measure, but should not be underestimated. International gatherings organized by the EZLN fostered the burgeoning global justice movement. Events inspired or influenced by the Zapatistas include the World Social Forum, an annual global forum for grassroots activists and organizations, and demonstrations against global capitalism, such as the protests in Seattle in 1999 against the World Trade Organization. Evo Morales, a Socialist and the first indigenous president of Bolivia, has often referred to the Zapatistas in his speeches and writings. Antiwar activists in San Francisco, trying to stop the second Gulf War in 2003, cited the Zapatistas as an inspiration. With its ideological critique of neoliberalism and its internal emphasis on participatory democracy, the EZLN was also a precursor to the Occupy and “We Are the 99 Percent” movements that emerged almost two decades after the Zapatista uprising. Perhaps most importantly, the EZLN offered one answer to the question of what the next wave of liberation struggles might look like after the end of the Cold War.
While the EZLN is rightfully known for these contributions, there is another, often less celebrated piece of the story. Women’s leadership within the organization is one of the most compelling aspects of the Zapatista movement. Zapatista women have served as insurgents, political leaders, healers, educators, and key agents in autonomous economic development. Women’s participation in the EZLN has helped shape the Zapatista movement which has, in turn, opened new spaces for women and led to dramatic changes in their lives. A woman who was abused as a teenager at the hands of a husband chosen by her father would later join a caravan of thousands of Zapatistas marching on Mexico City to demand indigenous rights. Along the way, she would meet with other Mexican women and urge them to fight for their liberation as she had. Compañeras documents these changes through the voices of women who lived them.
Copyright (2015) by Hilary Klein. Not to be reprinted without permission of the publisher, Seven Stories Press.
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