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The barbarity and perversity of the Jews just can never be topped — every fucking Jew supporting that neurotoxic fake country, Israel, is a valid target…..

Paulo Kirk

May 04, 2026

Gaza Flotilla Participant Details “Cruelty” of Israeli Abduction at Sea; Two Activists Still Detained

Sally Issa. She’s in Barcelona, Spain. Keshek is both a Spanish and a Swedish citizen.

SALLY ISSA: So, my name is Sally. I am Saif Abukeshek’s wife. Saif Abukeshek was on board the Global Sumud Flotilla, who is a mission with the aim to break the illegal siege on the Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian aid to the people in Gaza.

The Israeli military marine attacked the flotilla outside of the Greek island Crete in international water, and they kidnapped 100 — more than 175 activists, civilians, with nationalities from all over the world, and they kept them hostages and then later freed them to the Greek police. They held, on the other hand, my husband Saif and his comrade Thiago as hostages, and later they took them to Israel against their will.

We have got many testimonies about the interception and how it went. We have got to hear that it was very violent, and the activists were not treated very well. We could see images and pictures from the activists who were freed in Greece, where they had broken noses and broken ribs, and more than 30 people had to go to seek medical help.

They also told us how it went to my husband Saif when they were kidnapped on the flotilla. So, it has been very violent, and Saif was put in a isolated cell on the boat. He started a hunger strike, and he was treated very bad, so bad that all the activists on the boat could hear him screaming during the ride to Greece. Now my husband is in Israel. They are questioning him and Thiago. Yesterday, they went to the court, and they got an extension of two days’ interrogation.

And yeah, we are demanding all the governments around the world to interfere and free both Saif and Thiago and to put then a stop on the ongoing genocide and blockade, illegal blockade, of the Gaza Strip.

HANNAH SMITH: So, we were completely shocked by this. On Thursday night, our communications went down. We lost internet. Most of us thought it was just a technical issue. But soon we were surrounded by speedboats, with their turning their lights on and off. We were very confused. We didn’t know if people were just messing with us. Then we were approached by one of these boats, and they self-identified as Israeli Navy. They pointed guns at us. They had lasers pointed at us. We had our hands in the air. They threatened lethal force, and they told us to get to the front of the boat. They left us for a few hours, and then they came back, and they boarded the boat.

They took us very aggressively to an Israeli naval vessel, where they held us for nearly two days. We were held in a makeshift prison with shipping containers and barbed wire. Many people were subject to aggressive physical force. We were denied access to adequate water. We were denied access to sanitary supplies. We were also — the day after our interception, Saif was taken into solitary confinement, something that we were all very concerned would happen. We anticipated that this genocidal regime would target him because he’s Palestinian. And we were held there.

The nights were extremely cold. People’s jackets were stolen. When I advocated for one of the participants, who’s a doctor, who was pacing for two hours trying to stay warm — she had a short-sleeve shirt in like 50-degree weather that was cold and damp. When I advocated for blankets, they flooded the sleeping area. And then we had a dozen people pacing, trying to stay warm, trying not to get hypothermia.

The cruelty increased when we started to mobilize for the release of six people who were in solitary confinement. Saif was one of these people. We mobilized, and then — we mobilized in the sense that we refused to leave the vessel without them. We started to bang on the walls and say, “Free our comrades.” You know, we were so concerned about their safety. When we were told that we were going to be transported to another vessel, we weren’t told what vessels they were going to be, but we knew that we didn’t want to leave without them. And so, when we said, “We’re not going to leave without them,” when we nonviolently resisted, many people were beat. Many people were dragged. I was held in a stress position for many hours. I refused to be on the first boat. I negotiated to get back on the Israeli vessel from the Greek Coast Guard boat. And I heard people being beat. I heard people screaming. I heard people being dragged around. And it was absolutely horrifying.

We know that this cruelty that is directed at us is because of the hatred that they have for the Palestinian people. We also know that this flagrant violation of international law that happened over 600 nautical miles from Gaza, it has happened because we have allowed so many violations to happen in Gaza, because we have allowed the genocide to continue. So, what we experienced was very cruel, but it was a fraction of what Palestinians in Gaza experience.

Then, at the end of this, I was on the last boat to disembark, and we realized that Thiago was also still on board and that they had not released Saif. We negotiated with the Greek Coast Guard. We tried to get them and urged them to intervene, to do anything to stop that vessel from leaving Greek territorial waters. These people were kidnapped, brought into Greek territorial waters. The Greek government had an obligation to intervene, but they did not.

And then we were brought to the Greek port, where many people awaited hospitalization and medical treatment. Several people broke ribs. Two people were beat unconscious. Many people had concussions. People were aggressively kicked in the genitals. We saw a level of violence that I genuinely didn’t anticipate.

Many of us were not even planning to go all the way to Gaza on this flotilla. We had other stops along the way. So this was an utter shock, a complete violation of international law, and something that I think we should all not only condemn, but do concrete actions to stop and to hold the government, the Israeli occupation government, and all of its enablers accountable.

Rabbis must be shot down like rabid dogs:

Recently, the South American investigative outlet Canal RED published leaked recordings which showed that when Donald Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras and convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández, it was part of an Israeli-backed plot to have Juan Orlando Hernández return to power to further U.S./Israeli interests in Honduras.

“The pardon money … came out of a council of rabbis, and of a people who supported Israel” Juan Orlando Hernández is heard boasting in leaked audio later adding, “The Prime Minister of Israel is going to give us support. We are very grateful to him, they had a lot to do with them. They had everything to do, in fact, they with my departure and negotiation”.

The audio recordings confirm that Trump and Netanyahu are seeking millions in compensation in exchange for presidential nominations. The negotiations at the Florida residence included the expansion of Special Economic Development Zones (ZEDEs), the construction of a new military base, a free trade agreement, and a law to incentivize investment in Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contracts reportedly being awarded directly to private American companies such as General Electric.

The ZEDEs , known as “private states” or “model cities”, have been criticized for allowing autonomous courts and foreign legal systems on national territory, which civil organizations denounce as a surrender of sovereignty.

Voice note from Nasry Asfura to Juan Orlando Hernández

“ Mr. President, it ’s a pleasure to greet you. We already had a private session with investment groups, and they are very positive about the expansion of the ZEDE in Roatán and in Comayagua, as well as Palmerola . We’re going to move another Palmerola project specifically to Roatán , where it’s thriving. A base, uh, we’ve already negotiated that. Also, the interoceanic highway . We ’re going to hand it over to General Electric.”

Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in 1958, Nasry Asfura is the son of Christian Palestinian migrants who emigrated from Bethlehem. Despite his heritage, Asfura is known for his staunchly pro-Israel stance and has actively worked to deepen diplomatic and strategic ties between Honduras and Israel since assuming the presidency on January 27, 2026.

Broke Back Mountain Pedophile Trump and his No Country for Old Men Mind (sic).

Trump shredded for not understanding the rules of UNO in fresh AI slop meme: ‘I have all the cards’

Social media users went all out, making fun of the president for clearly not understanding the card game’s rules.

A man in a brown suit with an American flag behind him, standing at a lectern labeled “The White House.” His eyes are open extra wide.

Ahh, Jew York City and Jew York Lorne Michaels, now we are safe from the Israeli Samson Option

‘S.N.L.’ Recruits Aziz Ansari to Play F.B.I. Director Kash Patel

Ansari, the “Parks and Recreation” alum, made his first appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in nearly a decade, portraying Patel in an episode hosted by Olivia Rodrigo.

Lorne Michaels, the Jewish Canadian creator and executive producer of Saturday Night Live, has not publicly made a definitive, personal statement declaring his support for or against Israel, and he generally keeps his personal political views private. [1, 2]

While he has not spoken publicly on the matter, he has faced pressure and scrutiny regarding the show’s content:

  • ADL Outreach: In 2021, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League reached out to Michaels following a “Weekend Update” joke by Michael Che that was criticized as antisemitic and inaccurate regarding Israel’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts.
  • Show Content: SNL has, under his leadership, both satirized Israeli policies and, following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, featured a somber opening segment from Pete Davidson addressing the violence.
  • Background: Born Lorne Lipowitz in 1944 to a Jewish family in Toronto, Michaels is sometimes the subject of misconceptions, including a false rumor that he was born on an Israeli kibbutz.
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Fucking bizarre LA Times story: At L.A. County General, a salvage operation for the bicycles patients leave behind – Los Angeles Times

Bicycles accumulated in the basement of L.A. County General Hospital after being left behind by patients, many of whom were unhoused and used the bikes as primary transportation. Discovered during a, renovation project, approximately 280 abandoned bikes were recently salvaged, with some restored for the local community.

Fucking Jews: Exclusive: Zuckerberg-backed Biohub bets $500M on AI biology

It will always go wrong:

It is called the fucking Jew Jab. Heavy but not that difficult to understand.

But those fucking wacko Christians, man: Evangelicals in America are divided over immigration enforcement. So who gets to claim the side of God?

Just what we need, fucking Imperial Japan: Japan is deploying ultra-cheap cardboard drones built for swarm warfare and expendable combat missions — $2,000 expendable combat drones cost less than some gaming PCs

  • During her visit to America, PM Takaichi had dinner with
  • MIRIAM ADELSON
  • Blackrock CEO LARRY FINK
  • Palantir CEO ALEX KARP and more

Why is she suddenly meeting with the worst people on earth imaginable?

Major Causes of Death

  • Forced Labor: Out of approximately 5.4 million to 8.4 million Koreans conscripted for labor, it is estimated that 270,000 to 810,000 died due to brutal working conditions, malnutrition, and disease in mines and factories across the empire. [1]
  • Military Service: Over 240,000 Koreans were drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army. Official records indicate at least 22,182 of these soldiers died in combat or from war-related causes during World War II. [1]
  • Massacres and Repression:
  • Famine and Neglect: Famines between 1943 and 1945, exacerbated by Japanese grain seizures for the war effort, are estimated to have caused over 100,000 deaths.
  • “Comfort Women”: While the total number of women forced into sexual slavery is estimated between 20,000 and 410,000 (a majority being Korean), the mortality rate was extremely high due to violence, disease, and suicide.

This is MAGA’s and Trump’s Banana Republic:

These Portland-area schools districts won’t get funding to provide summer learning programs.

A total of 106 school districts from across Oregon got word this week that they’d made the cut for a share of $35 million in state funding for summer learning programs.

Among districts who learned they would be receiving the funds: Portland Public Schools, the Beaverton School District and the Hillsboro School District, all of which got the maximum state grant of $1 million.

Among those that did not: the Reynolds, Parkrose and Gresham-Barlow school districts, which collectively serve 24,000 students in east Portland and eastern Multnomah County, including very high percentages of students from low-income families and students who are learning to speak English.

What the End of Saudi Arabia’s Big-Spending Era Means for the Kingdom and Beyond

The kingdom is pulling back from a costly and high-profile golf venture amid mounting financial concerns, raising questions about its plans.

Golf versus Gazans.

Bombs bombs Trumps Trumps.

From rising fuel prices to the frequency of public transport and the cost of popular foods like tortillas, Latin American households say they feel strained by a war they’re not involved in.

Even if the conflict in the Middle East were to end soon, it would continue to affect Latin American economies for a long time, analysts say.

Trump hates public golf courses: A preservation watchdog group asked a federal judge Sunday to block the Trump administration from going ahead with reported plans to close East Potomac Golf Links for renovations.

NOTUS reported Friday that landscaping, deferred maintenance and tree-clearing work would begin on Monday at the course, located on Hains Point in Washington, D.C. The course will be renovated at a later date, with architect Tom Fazio expected to lead the project, the outlet reported.

The DC Preservation League and two residents initially filed suit against the administration in February. The group’s latest filing asks U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, an appointee of former President Biden, to block the administration from dumping dirt, debris or refuse from the White House East Wing construction project at the course and from taking other steps to renovate it.

Construction crews have for months dumped debris from the East Wing demolition on East Potomac’s white course, with the orange pile sitting in the middle of the layout.

The Washington Post also reported Saturday that a top fundraiser for President Trump is seeking donations for a new nonprofit to fund the renovations at East Potomac, with renderings displaying a redesigned course.

“Despite attestations to the court, the Trump-Vance administration appears to be moving forward aggressively to shut down DC’s largest public golf course to explore another of the president’s pet projects to benefit himself,” Skye Perryman, the president and CEO of Democracy Forward, said in a Sunday release.

Jews: ‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’: my soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference

‘I’m the new Oppenheimer!’: my soul-destroying day at Palantir’s first-ever AI warfare conference

America’s military-industrial complex took center stage at AI Expo for National Competitiveness, where a fire-breathing panel set the tone

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  • Musk alleges OpenAI prioritized profit over AI safety
  • OpenAI counters saying Musk seeks control
  • OpenAI says Musk is motivated by his own AI ambitions
  • Musk queried about past openness to for-profit model

20 Super Fun Facts About Our Greatest Ally, Israel:



1. Lehi (Stern Gang) Truman Assassination Attempt (1947): Militant Zionist group mailed a letter bomb to President Truman. Fortunately, the plan was foiled when White House staff defused it.





2. Operation Cast Thy Bread (1948): Israeli forces poisoned wells in Gaza and Palestinian villages to prevent Arab return.



3. Lavon Affair False Flag (1954): Israel recruited agents to bomb cinemas, libraries, and Western sites in Egypt, aiming to blame Egyptians and the Muslim Brotherhood.



4. CIA JFK Files Redaction Request (1998/2025): CIA requested removal of all mentions of Israel from JFK assassination files. The full unredacted documents released in 2025 confirmed it.



5. Pro-Israel PAC Funding of Congress: Over 83% of US Congress members receive major donations from Pro-Israel PACs. Many sitting members even list them as their top contributor.



6. Record Pro-Israel Donations to Trump (2024): Pro-Israel donors gave over $230 million (largest single contribution in history), including $100M+ from Miriam Adelson.



7. USS Liberty Attack (1967): Israeli jets and torpedo boats deliberately struck the unarmed US Navy ship in international waters for over an hour, killing 34 Americans and wounding 171.



8. NUMEC Uranium Diversion (1960s): Hundreds of pounds of highly enriched uranium vanished from a Pennsylvania plant and was diverted to Israel’s Dimona reactor via Zionist-linked insiders.



9. Project Pinto Nuclear Smuggling: Israel used Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan (with Netanyahu at the front company) to smuggle 800 nuclear bomb triggers out of the US.



10. Ehud Barak Epstein Meetings: Former Israeli Prime Minister met with Jeffrey Epstein between 20 – 60+ times.

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11. Epstein Rothschild Ties: Jeffrey Epstein admitted ties to the Rothschild family, including close business dealings and a $25M consulting agreement with Ariane de Rothschild and Edmond de Rothschild bank.



12. Netanyahu Iraq WMD Claims: Current Prime Minister pushed false claims about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction to justify war.



13. Israel Nuclear Ambiguity: The only nuclear-armed nation that never signed the NPT and has never allowed a single IAEA inspection of Dimona.



14. Pro-Israel Attacks on Critics: Groups spend millions on ads to defeat US politicians who criticize Israel (example: the attacks against Rep. Thomas Massie).



15. Unconditional US Aid: Israel has received over $300 billion in American foreign aid. This is more than any country in history and with virtually no conditions on Israel’s end.



16. Israel-Requested Iran Conflict: According to the US State Department website, the recent Iran war was launched at Israel’s request.



17. JFK Dimona Inspection Demand (1963): President Kennedy demanded US inspections of Israel’s secret Dimona nuclear reactor and was assassinated shortly afterward.



18. Samson Option Nuclear Doctrine: Israel’s official policy threatens to launch nuclear strikes across the Middle East (and potentially beyond) if the state faces an existential threat.



19. Ben Shapiro Israeli Intelligence Tasking: Former colleague publicly stated he witnessed Ben Shapiro receiving direct “tasking” from Israeli intelligence linked to Netanyahu and called for FARA registration as a foreign agent.



20. Maldives Israel Entry Ban Backlash (2024-2025): Maldives banned Israeli citizens in solidarity with Palestine; the country immediately began receiving threats of terrorist attacks.

Every Jew supporting Judaism or Zionism or Israel, well well, needs to be x-ed:

Israel carried out an act of sabotage against the airplane of the President of the Spanish Government, Sánchez. The airplane made an emergency landing. Sánchez spent the night in Ankara.



It’s about time the whole world sees Israel’s true face.



In my opinion, this is a warning. Just like they did to Trump on numerous occasions.

Every JEW: The last photo of the criminal tasked with demolishing the homes of southern citizens in southern Lebanon, captured by the explosive drone…



And now his family is digging his grave, off to Hell—and what a wretched fate.

Israel Has Kidnapped Two of Our Most Important Pro-Palestine Activists

Chris Hedges

All Jews are worthless monsters? They use their old Nazi brownshirts for their torture chamber prisoners!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing illustrates the inversion of the international and moral order more than the genocide in Gaza and the shipment of tens of billions of dollars of weapons to Israel by Western nations, especially the United States, to sustain it. Part of this inversion is the unrelenting persecution of those who denounce the genocide — especially those who risk their lives to halt it and demand the rule of law.

But the rule of law, it appears, is buried under the rubble in Gaza.

And because of that Israel is able, with barely a word of protest by Western nations – Spain being one of the few exceptions – to abduct 175 activists aboard Sumud Flotilla 500 nautical miles from Gaza and 80 nautical miles west of the Greek island of Crete.

This violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea was accompanied by the usual Israeli brutality. Flotilla members from the 22 vessels that were intercepted and then transferred to the Israeli vessel NAHSHON were denied food, forced to sleep on the floor as it was flooded “repeatedly” with water, punched, kicked, dragged across decks with their hands tied and shot at with rubber bullets and live ammunition. Eventually, all but two flotilla members were transferred to Crete, with 36 requiring medical attention.

Two of the leading activists on the flotilla, the Brazilian organizer of the flotilla, Thiago Avila, and the Spaniard Saif Abu Keshek, who is of Palestinian descent and who has organized Palestinian solidarity movements across Europe for over two decades, were not allowed to disembark when the vessel reached Ierapetra Port in southern Crete, although the ship was in Greek territorial waters.

They were kidnapped and taken to Israel.

“Participant eyewitnesses provided harrowing testimony of Abukeshek’s screams echoing throughout the ship as he was subjected to systematic torture, after being separated from the others,” read a communique issued by The Global Sumud Flotilla.

Abu Keshek was blindfolded, forced to lie on his stomach “since the moment of his seizure until this morning” which resulted in “bruising to his face and hands.” Thiago was “dragged face-down across the floor” and beaten so severely that he passed out twice.

When the two activists appeared in an Israeli court there were visible bruises on their faces. Thiago had trouble lifting his right hand.

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then again, are you a Homo Consumopethicus or Homo Sapiens Bellum or Infantilized Amnesia Patient of the Fourth Reich, AKA, Digital Gulag?

Paulo Kirk

May 03, 2026

Oh, I talked about other sorts of addicts yesterday, but we have others: A “Born-Again” Baptist: As a third-generation Baptist and self-described “born-again” Christian, Carter made his faith central to his identity. He became the first president to openly use this phrase, which helped attract evangelical voters in the 1976 election.

Here you go, full-throated addicts of the Inside Job and Hedge Fund and kind:

Ya like these fucking odds up against the addicts of coal and oil? In Coal Country, Black Lung Surges as Federal Protections Stall

In the last two decades, U.S. coal production has fallen precipitously. It peaked in 2008 at more than 1,170 million tons, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration; in 2023, production was 578 million tons, a drop of more than 50 percent.

To feed data centers, Pennsylvania faces a new fracking surge. Read more.

But in Pennsylvania, says Istik, “this is not a dead industry. We’re still cutting coal.” A 2024 report by the Pennsylvania Coal Alliance counted more than 5,000 mining jobs generating some $2.2 billion in economic output. Nationwide, there are still close to 40,000 coal workers.

Black lung diagnoses continue to mount. Doctors and miner advocates say the condition is underdiagnosed, as many miners are reluctant to undergo testing for fear of losing their jobs should their employer find out. “I think there’s always going to be that fear of retribution,” said Istik. But eventually, she added, the symptoms become debilitating. Smarsh, a patient of Lungs at Work, didn’t see a doctor about his labored breathing until his wife, Alicia, insisted he had no choice.

The richest person in West Virginia, who is also the state’s governor, owns coal companies that routinely violate environmental laws. Latest filings say the companies owe over $3 million for not complying with a major water pollution settlement.

Shit, leaving on a jet plane: Some jews leaving the stolen “promissory note land.” Dual and triple passports.

Addicts of the made up history of the Jewish State of Rape Murder Theft Starvation!

There are moments when the lofty notion of Jewish history ceases to feel abstract and instead hits us with a powerful immediacy as the saga of our people forcefully unfolds before our very eyes.

The aliyah of hundreds of members of the Bnei Menashe community from northeastern India in recent days was one such moment, as a long and meandering journey that began nearly 2,700 years ago is now, in our time, heading toward completion.

The Bnei Menashe are descendants of the Tribe of Manasseh, one of the Ten Lost Tribes exiled by the Assyrian Empire during the First Temple period. Cast out from the Land of Israel, they were scattered in an eastward direction across distant lands, their fate seemingly sealed in obscurity. However, over centuries of wandering, they carried with them something that refused to disappear: a memory of who they were, a connection to the people of Israel, and a dream of returning to Zion.

Addicted to the fucking rape and murder and theft? After leaving Amish roots in Kentucky, Brianna Leapley built a Jewish life in Jerusalem.

Raised without phones or internet, Brianna Leapley left Amish life, converted to Judaism, and moved to Jerusalem.

Fucking lobotomized Amish Handmaid wants to be this:

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Addicted to rape and masturbation: IDF launches recruitment push for ultra-Orthodox military tracks

The units being recruited for, Hetz Company, Netzah Yehuda Battalion, and Hasmonaim Brigade, have all operated across multiple fronts throughout the ongoing war.

Addicted to dick pics. Come back Mitzvah’s: Before Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution scandal, before Anthony Weiner’s ill-fated selfies, New York’s notorious politicians included “Boss” Tweed, whose image is most notable remembered wearing 19th century prison pinstripes and David Matthews, a Tory mayor of New York who was arrested for plotting to kidnap then-Gen. George Washington in 1776.

Historically, New York politics is a cavalcade of scandals.

As disgraced former officeholders Weiner and Spitzer campaign for their return to political office, the NewsHour sifted through New York’s distant past for some state officeholders who got a “second chance” (with varying degrees of success).

Addicted to grooming, that first black president, Clinton, and Jew girl addicted to power!

The characterization of Bill Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky has evolved significantly since the 1990s, with many modern commentators and Lewinsky herself now describing it as a “gross abuse of power” due to the extreme disparity in age and status.

While Lewinsky has maintained that the relationship was consensual rather than sexual assault, she has recently used the term “groomed” to describe how powerful men manipulate younger individuals, specifically in reflections on the broader culture of exploitation.

Addicts of war and murder so cold and clean: Pentagon clears 8 tech firms to deploy their AI on its classified networks

An initial press release sent out this morning listed seven firms: Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, SpaceX, NVIDIA and Reflection, a newer startup backed by NVIDIA. Later today, the Pentagon CTO’s office posted on X that “Oracle has officially agreed to join the list of AI companies deploying frontier capabilities on the Department’s classified networks.”

Some of the companies are already on contract, a Pentagon spokesperson told Breaking Defense, while others are still finalizing the details.

“These agreements accelerate the transformation toward establishing the United States military as an AI-first fighting force and will strengthen our warfighters’ ability to maintain decision superiority across all domains of warfare,” the initial announcement says.

  • Deal worth tens of billions of dollars to boost air superiority
  • Plan is part of long-term force buildup
  • US ties, Iran war show need for advanced air power, Israel says

Addicts all around, loving the raping and destruction of cities!

Israel approves plan to buy F-35 and F-15IA fighter jets from Lockheed, Boeing

As of the end of the 2025 fiscal year, Boeing and Lockheed Martin reported the following total employee counts:

  • Boeing: approximately 182,000 employees.
  • Lockheed Martin: approximately 123,000 employees.

While Boeing employs ~182,000 directly, they work with over 20,000 suppliers and partners globally, which supports a much larger, indirect workforce.

Addicts: The reality: a startup, not a society

Here’s the first crack in the narrative: Próspera isn’t a city. It’s an early-stage startup with better branding.

Around 200 residents. A few hundred registered companies. A handful of buildings aligned along a single road. A coworking space with slogans like “Make Death Optional” and “Tax is Theft.” A construction site with ambition far ahead of execution.

This is not urbanism. It’s a pitch deck you can walk through.

And like many pitch decks, it quietly skips over the boring but essential layers that make places livable: infrastructure resilience, public accountability, social cohesion, long-term governance.

Electricity? Unstable.



Internet? Surprisingly fragile (hello, Starlink dish).



Legal status? Actively contested—Honduras repealed the framework that allowed Próspera to exist in the first place.

You can disrupt a market. You can’t beta-test a society in the same way.

Próspera sells itself as a haven for builders. And to be fair, it is—if you’re the kind of builder who is constrained elsewhere.

Biotech startups testing gene therapies on healthy humans.



Crypto firms operating in regulatory grey zones.



Biohackers implanting chips and magnets into their bodies.

This is not accidental. It’s the core value proposition: come here to do what you can’t do elsewhere.

And that’s exactly where the unease starts.

Because when you strip away regulation, you’re not just removing inefficiency. You’re also removing safeguards. The same system that allows faster innovation also enables higher risk—sometimes existential risk.

The Próspera logic is brutally consistent: if an insurer is willing to underwrite it, it’s acceptable. Ethics becomes actuarial.

That might work for a niche group of highly informed, well-capitalized individuals. It’s less convincing as a model for broader society.

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We are so fucked because of all those fucking addicts of coke, guns, banking, finance, depravity, power, cuntology: Mexico City is sinking so fast that the subsidence can be spotted from space. Mexico City is one of the world’s fastest-sinking metropolitan areas

A bird's eye view of the Zocalo and a sinking Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City, June 21, 2005. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

“It damages part of the critical infrastructure of Mexico City, such as the subway, the drainage system, the water, the potable water system, housing and streets,” said Enrique Cabral, a researcher studying geophysics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. “It’s a very big problem.”

Mexico City is sinking so fast that the subsidence can be spotted from space.

Fucking addicts: Oracle may be facing a bank-debt “problem” due to its deal with the maker of ChatGPT, OpenAI. This comes as American banks struggle to absorb the scale of financing tied to Oracle’s data centre expansion plans. According to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal, the issue stems from a $300 billion agreement between Oracle and the Sam Altman-led OpenAI, which requires massive borrowing to fund data centres in Texas and Wisconsin. JPMorgan Chase and other US banks have reportedly found it difficult to distribute these loans due to exposure limits linked to a single borrower.

Last month, Oracle’s leadership sent an email at 6AM to inform its employees about its plans to cut tens of thousands of jobs. Reports suggest that around 10,000 employees have already been affected, based on internal tracking of staff activity. Estimates from TD Cowen indicate the total number of layoffs could reach between 20,000 and 30,000, which would account for a notable share of Oracle’s workforce of about 162,000 employees.

What pressure banks are facing from large Oracle-linked loans

The WSJ report cited people familiar with the matter to claim that lenders spent months trying to spread the risk of billions of dollars in loans tied to Oracle-backed data centre projects.

Many financial institutions have internal limits on how much exposure they can take to one company, and the scale of Oracle-related borrowing has pushed those limits.

As a result, some bank balance sheets became constrained, affecting their ability to finance additional projects linked to Oracle and OpenAI. In one example, lenders were hesitant to back an expansion of a data centre complex in Abilene, Texas, if Oracle was the tenant. The company that built the data centre, Crusoe, eventually leased the facility to Microsoft.

The financing challenges highlight broader risks in the growing data centre sector, where demand for AI infrastructure is increasing while access to capital remains uneven.

The report claims that Oracle has attempted to address concerns by outlining plans to raise around $50 billion through stock and bond offerings to support its 2026 funding needs. The company said, “We are proud of the rapid progress that’s been made both in financing and developing our data centers,” adding that its partners have diversified funding sources.

However, analysts at Morgan Stanley estimate that Oracle could require an additional $100 billion or more through 2027 and early 2028. “We’ve pondered how [Oracle’s] considerable funding needs over the next three years may test the depths of different fixed-income markets,” analysts noted.

Addicts, man, fucking addicts of water waste: California, Arizona and Nevada announce new water-saving plan for dwindling Colorado River.

And these addicts of the Dwindling, Dimwitted, No Kings Day Cunt of a “Second” Party: When the Bernie Sanders-aligned Our Revolution endorsed Tom Steyer in the unwieldy California governor’s race, the irony of a progressive group founded on an anti-billionaire ethos backing a multibillionaire wasn’t lost on its leader.

[Billionaire activist Tom Steyer has spent more than $120 million on his gubernatorial campaign.]

“If you had asked me a year ago, ‘Oh, are you going to endorse a billionaire for anything? I think that would have been highly unlikely,” Joseph Geevarghese, Our Revolution’s executive director, said in an interview.

[Farallon Capital Management, founded by Steyer, bought over 2 million shares in Corrections Corp. of America, which operates private prisons and ICE detention centers.]

Tom Steyer keeps whispering in my ear that he can “beat Donald Trump on the economy.” Unlike Trump the real estate tycoon, Steyer the hedge fund tycoon wants us all to know he earned his money and will use it for a righteous cause.

“I didn’t inherit a dime from my parents,” Steyer intones in my headphones.

Nevermind Steyer’s posh Upper East Side upbringing and his summering in Nantucket; nevermind that he attended Phillips Exeter and Yale. Nevermind that capitalists survive by extracting the surplus value of workers’ labor. Steyer, with his net worth of $1.6 billion, assures me he’s one of the good billionaires. An underdog, even.

No, I don’t have a daily chat with Steyer, but I might as well in this final week leading up to South Carolina’s Feb. 29 Democratic primary. As a South Carolinian who has voted in Democratic primaries before, I stand in the diarrheic blast radius of Steyer’s ad campaign. Every day I am bombarded by Spotify ads, radio commercials, and billboards. I can’t watch a YouTube video without seeing his grinning mug and plaid necktie. I can’t check my mailbox without finding him there, nestled among the bills, promising to make the Bad Orange Man go away.

Please ignore Tom Steyer

Tom Steyer does not “live rent-free in my head,” as the saying goes. He pays an obscene amount of money to live there.

Tuesday’s Democratic debate in Charleston was an important one for Steyer, who was polling at third place in South Carolina after dumping a fraction of his own fortune into advertising here. He polls at 2% nationally and 15% in South Carolina.

Watching Steyer’s debate performance while working on some arts and crafts on my living room floor (see my final product above), I promised myself I’d calculate how much this man spent per second of speaking time.

Steyer has spent about $18.7 million on ads targeting voters in South Carolina. By CNN’s count, he got 429 seconds of speaking time during the debate. So for every second he was allowed to use a microphone, he spent $43,590 on targeted advertising to get his polling up to a viable threshold.

Addicted to deportation, Kapo- Gestapo Glosser-Miller:

Listen up, little doggie:

Addicted to Mitvah fucking Eddy Bernays LIES: Jews do not have a right to exist if this is their pathway, their support.

They’re calling it a “ceasefire” in Lebanon, but on the ground, it looks nothing like one.



In just the first week, Israel violated the ceasefire nearly 500 times, killing dozens of people, continuing airstrikes, issuing displacement orders, and wiping out entire families in their homes. Villages are still being destroyed, and journalists are being targeted — at least nine killed so far this year, including two during the so-called ceasefire. Since March 2, the death toll has surpassed 2,500.



So what is this “ceasefire,” really?



In this segment, Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra speak with Steve Sweeney, Lebanon bureau chief for RT, who recently survived an Israeli strike, about what he’s witnessing on the ground.

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for an investigation into the apparent targeting of Steve Sweeney, a British correspondent for Russia Today, and his camera operator Ali Rida Sbeity, who were injured when an Israeli air strike hit just feet away from where they were filming while wearing clearly marked press gear and with their equipment clearly visible in southern Lebanon.

The journalists, who were covering Israel’s renewed attacks after the break out of the Iran war from the Qasmiyeh bridge, north of the city of Tyre, were taken to a nearby hospital and treated for shrapnel wounds. Sbeity later told an RT anchor live on air that he believes they had been targeted, as they were standing in plain sight and their vehicle was marked as press.

Fucking addicts, man, to Altman and company: Britain’s “invention agency” has pledged £50m of UK taxpayer money to US tech companies and venture capital projects.

Dreamed up by Dominic Cummings to fund “crazy” ideas, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria) is meant to “restore Britain’s place as a scientific superpower”.

But a joint investigation by the Guardian and Democracy for Sale, an investigative website, has established that more than an eighth of the agency’s £400m in research and development funding over the past two years has gone to 14 US tech companies and venture capital groups, in some cases, with no clear return for the UK or Aria.

One of these companies, Rain Neuromorphics, is also backed by the OpenAI chief executive, Sam Altman, and was reported to be near collapse last year, shortly after winning Aria money. It did not respond to a request for comment; two of its founders appear to have left the company. The Guardian understands it is still delivering a project for Aria.

Heroes, addicted to truth and justice and anti-imperialism.

“Our work generates the entire economy of the country. We drive the country’s economy,” he said.

Pedro Luis López Manzano, an engineer and the director of maintenance at the Cienfuegos refinery, said in the video that crews had to take several steps to ensure operability because the refinery was shut down for four months.

“It’s a challenge, but we always thought it was possible,” he said.

Meanwhile, Gustavo Rodríguez Cordero, an engineer and a director general at Cuba’s Petroleum Union in Villa Clara, criticized the U.S. energy blockade in a video posted by his company.

“No one has the international right to oppress a people in this manner,” he said.

After the oil was refined, de la O Levy said the government chose to prioritize vital sectors including agriculture and food production.

“This enabled the irrigation of tobacco, corn and soybeans,” he said. “There were more hours of power outages than anticipated because we diverted a portion of the energy supply toward production; we could not allow factories to remain idle.”

He said some of the petroleum was converted into approximately 6,000 tons of diesel and fuel oil that was used to power hospitals, generators and transportation.

Finally, sit down and read this backgrounder on just how Terrible Jews are:

Science, revolution and the globalist agenda

Posted on April 15, 2026

by Paul Cudenec, who reads the article here

Last summer I wrote about the origins of the Royal Society in London and in particular about its precursor organisation The Invisible College, also known as the Hartlib Circle after Polish-born Samuel Hartlib (1600-1662). [1]

I drew on the work of Professor Yosef Kaplan of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who writes of “the connections that Hartlib and his partners formed with Jews from Holland and other places”. [2]

The significance of this connection is that the Jewish merchants in Amsterdam had identified England as the ideal new base for their worldwide commercial imperialism – what we today call “globalism”.

But in order for the country to serve this function, the obstacle of traditional ways of thinking and behaving – in what was still very much a rural society – had to be swept away.

An attachment to old customs, a widespread belief that nature was sacred and a moral aversion to usury and profiteering had to be replaced by a new outlook better aligned with industrial imperialism.

Hence, explains Kaplan, efforts were launched “to help people become more rational” as well as to convince them that “the revelation of the true worship and religion was transmitted to humanity by means of Judaism”. [3]

The Invisible College was formed in 1630, 12 years before the start of the English Civil War that led to the beheading of King Charles I in 1649, while the Royal Society was established in 1660, six months after the subsequent restoration of the monarchy.

The latter still exists today, of course, and Wikipedia states: “The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, recognising excellence in science, supporting outstanding science, providing scientific advice for policy, education and public engagement and fostering international and global co-operation”. [4]

Similar bodies were established across the Channel in France when it was still a monarchy.

In 1666 the Académie royale des sciences was founded – it continues to function today, albeit without the “royale” in the title – and says on its website that it “contributes to the internationalization of science” to meet “challenges, most of which are global in scope”. [5]

Members of this Académie were involved in the creation of L’Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Nancy in Lorraine, eastern France, in 1751.

This was at the initiative of Stanislas Leszczynski, Duke of Lorraine and the exiled King of Poland, whose daughter Marie became Queen of France by marrying King Louis XV and was the grandmother of Louis XVI, who was to be beheaded in 1793. [6]

And in 1757, in the other big city in Lorraine, a Société royale des sciences et des arts de Metz was established. [7]

Among its members and indeed lauréats (prize winners) was Maximilien de Robespierre (pictured), a leading figure in the revolutionary Reign of Terror in which at least 15,000 “enemies of the revolution” were guillotined, and who himself ended up meeting the same fate in 1794. [8]

The reason why this body came to my attention is that it is mentioned in Pierre Hillard’s highly informative Archives du mondialisme (‘Globalist archives’).

This is in the context of his account of how, in France, the Enlightenment was used to promote not only “scientific” and “rational” thinking but also the standing of Jewish people and their religion – the same combination as Hartlib’s Invisible College in England.

Hillard says that, even before the 1789 revolution, traditional French society was gradually being brought closer to “the Judaic and talmudo-kabbalistic world”. [9]

As an example of this process, he describes how in 1788 the Société royale des sciences et des arts de Metz awarded its prize to Henri Grégoire, a revolutionary priest. [10]

This was for a work entitled Essai sur la régénération physique, morale et politique des juifs (‘Essay on the physical, moral and political regeneration of the Jews’).

Here, says Hillard, he “heralded the victorious return of the Sanhedrin” [11] – this being the Jewish legislative and judicial assembly which judeo-supremacists believe has global jurisdiction and can impose their appallingly racist Noahide Laws on non-Jews everywhere, with decapitation the punishment for non-compliance. [12]

As we saw with the peace treaties of 1919, the admirable idea of universal rights for everyone, including Jews, can be deliberately misused as a Trojan Horse for Jewish privilege. [13]

From the Jewish supremacist perspective, which asserts that Jews are God’s chosen people, there can in fact be no such thing as universal rights – those of the Jewish people are necessarily more important because of their special existential status.

So the process of combatting prejudice against Jews can in practice amount to a step towards enabling the “God-given” Jewish right to lead humanity and make sure we all think and behave in approved ways – that we “follow the science” of Jewish rationality.

Hillard’s account shows how French clergy, aristocracy and royalty, under the influence of freemasonry, set in motion the transition to a “modern” society which was then dramatically accelerated by the revolution.

He explains how Grégoire, the Société royale des sciences et des arts de Metz prize-winner, wrote to a Jewish friend Isaïe Bing, in Metz, in February 1789, a few months before the revolution, saying: “Tell me, my dear Bing, as the Estates General [former national assembly] is about to meet, should you not get together with other members of your nation to claim civic rights and benefits? More than ever, this is the moment…” [14]

A month after the famous storming of the Bastille in Paris, the new republic issued its Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen (‘Declaration of the rights of the man and the citizen’) under the stated auspices of the “Supreme Being”, which Hillard explains is not just the freemasonic deity but also “the En Sof of the Kabbala”. [15]

He adds: “This Declaration of the rights of man was not drawn up a few days before the date of the proclamation. It was the typical fruit of the reflections of those who, in their lodges, fashioned the words and phrases constituting the new metaphysics ruling France from 1789 onwards”. [16]

Grégoire (pictured) continued his efforts to push the issue of Jewish rights in the new National Assembly, though it took longer than he would have liked.

In October 1789 he succeeded in having a Jewish delegation address this parliament [17] and a subsequent message from the lobby stressed the role of Jews in bringing about the revolution and said they should be able to “enjoy the benefits of their own handiwork… in the name of humanity and the nation”. [18]

Hillard comments that this wording is “typical of the humanitarian religion of the Noahide rights of man”. [19]

Jewish people were finally granted citizenship in September 1791, which, on the surface, seems only fair enough. But there was something else going on, as reflected in the words of the revolutionary Anacharsis Cloots (1755-1794), a Prussian aristocrat, of Dutch ancestry, granted French citizenship in February 1792. [20]

In his book La République Universelle he expounded his idea of “Philadelphia”, which Hillard describes as “an esoteric term for global governance”. [21]

Cloots (pictured) wrote: “Europe, and Africa, and Asia, and America will take each other by the hand in the vast and happy city of Philadelphia.

“I have shown geographically, politically, physically and morally that the commune of Paris will be the meeting point, the central beacon of the universal community… We will find powerful auxiliaries, fervent apostles in the Judaic tribes who regard France as a second Palestine. Our circumcised fellow citizens are blessing us in all the synagogues of their exile.

“The Jew, degraded across the world, has become a French citizen, a world citizen, thanks to our philosophical decrees. This fraternisation is alarming many a German prince; all the more so in that wars in Germany could neither begin nor endure without the activity, intelligence, organisation and money of the Jews. The armouries and munitions of all kind are supplied by Hebrew capitalists and all the junior supply agents are from the same nation”. [22]

Cloots, by the way, was guillotined in 1794. Heads were certainly rolling in Paris at that time!

Hillard sees the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte in France from 1804 as being the next step on the path to the universal global republic, referring to “the emergence of a new world, of a financial power, whose birth Napoleon facilitated”. [23]

For one thing the emperor established the Consistoire central israélite de France to represent and administer the Jewish community in France. [24]

And, for another, his wars of conquest across Europe, in particular in Frankfurt, and his eventual defeat at Waterloo, played a key role in bringing about the modern society we know and love today.

Hillard writes: “The great movement established by the revolution of 1789 and its apostle Napoleon allowed the shift from one world to another, perfectly symbolised by the emergence of a family called upon to govern the future of the goyim: the Rothschilds”. [25]

If you are not familiar with those enemies of the people and their corrupt global empire, then I have a bit of back-reading lined up for you… [26]

Addicted to self, addicted to hubris, addicted to power, addicted to the perks, addicted to room temperature IQ’s, addicted to theft, robbery, murder, kidnapping, poisoning, etc.

Paulo Kirk

May 02, 2026

Fucking crossdressing queen Charles can’t look a dark man in the eyes.

In a way, it must be tough being king. One day, you’re lauded by the US president, applauded by Congress and served spring-herbed ravioli and parmesan emulsion on a golden plate.

The next, you’re essentially snubbed by the mayor of New York City, who makes it clear that a) he does not want to meet you, and b) you should return a diamond that your ancestors took from a 10-year-old Indian boy.

That’s the situation King Charles III faced in the US’s largest city on Wednesday, as the monarch arrived to attend a wreath-laying ceremony to honor 9/11 victims. The trip came a day after Charles received plaudits for his turn in Washington DC, his easy rapport with Donald Trump and well-pitched speech to Congress seen as a step towards repairing the UK-US relationship.

In a letter Tuesday urging the Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for health and human services secretary, Caroline Kennedy referred to her cousin as a “predator.”

“His basement, his garage and his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks,” Caroline Kennedy said. “It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.”

RFK Jr., whose father was a senator when he was assassinated while he was running for president in 1968, ran for president himself as a Democrat and then as an independent, but he suspended his campaign over the summer. Shortly after, he endorsed Donald Trump and joined his transition team. In November, Trump said he was going to nominate RFK Jr. for HHS secretary.

Caroline Kennedy said she had refrained from speaking publicly about her cousin over the past year due to her role as a former ambassador and a desire not to comment on family members. However, she said in the letter that her father and other family members would be “disgusted” by her cousin’s actions.

“Bobby expropriated my father’s image and distorted President Kennedy’s legacy to advance his own failed presidential campaign, and then groveled to Donald Trump for a job.

“Bobby continues to grandstand off my father’s assassination and that of his own father,” she added. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone who is willing to exploit their own painful family tragedies for publicity would be put in charge of America’s life and death situations.”

Caroline Kennedy, a former U.S. ambassador to Australia and the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, said RFK Jr. was unqualified to lead HHS, which oversees 13 federal agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Among her many criticisms in the letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Kennedy said that “siblings and cousins who Bobby encouraged down the path of substance abuse suffered addiction, illness and death.”

She also accused her cousin of lacking any relevant experience for the role and said he holds “dangerous and willfully misinformed” views on vaccines. She read the letter aloud in a video posted on X by her son, Jack Schlossberg.

“Bobby is addicted to attention and power,” Caroline Kennedy said, using her cousin’s nickname. “Bobby preys on the desperation of parents of sick children — vaccinating his own kids while building a following by hypocritically discouraging other parents from vaccinating theirs.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not respond to shouted questions from reporters Tuesday about the letter or his confirmation hearing this week. A spokesperson told NBC News he would not be commenting.

Are your friends and relatives dying of mRNA-induced turbo cancer? Are they developing very baffling, disabling autoimmune conditions? Strokes? Or some raging Alzheimer’s at a young age?

Mine are.

Not to worry, the HHS with RFK Jr in charge will ignore these tragic statistics and continue to extend the ironclad liability shield for pharmas and hospitals via the PREP Act declarations for fake emergencies. Don’t call me a blackpiller and a movement divider, there is good news reported by Financial Times – RFK’s son Finn will profit from your dying and disabled family members in a “MAHA-maxxing” way! [MAHAMAXXING is a new term, coined by RFK Jr according to Fox News].

Another MAHA “win”: RFK Jr’s son Finn raises $100M capitalizing on daddy’s position of power.

As reported by FT:Another MAHA “win”: RFK Jr’s son Finn raises $100M capitalizing on daddy’s position of power.

RFK Jr’s son Finn is launching a fund to invest in healthcare companies, touting his ties to his father’s “make America healthy again” movement (MAHA) and backing groups that could benefit from it.



William Finbar “Finn” Kennedy is seeking to raise $100mn for the fund, Victura Ventures, targeting early-stage growth companies involved in healthcare AI, consumer health and other health technologies, according to the fund offering documents. The fund already has about $70mn in commitments. “Healthcare is entering a rare convergence,” it said. “Victura is built to capture this moment.”

Barbarians at the Gate is the definitive account of the 1988 leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco, widely considered the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history.

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“Barbarians at the gate” originates from the Roman Empire’s perspective of foreign tribes (Visigoths, Vandals, Huns) attacking their borders, symbolizing an impending threat from outsiders.

As of April/May 2026, Hunter Biden is living abroad (splitting time with Cape Town, South Africa) following his father’s 2024 pardon, which covered federal gun and tax convictions. He is currently facing civil litigation over unpaid legal fees, has surrendered his law license, and recently challenged Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump to a “cage match” via a video appearance.

HUNTER BIDEN: Yeah. I spent more time on my hands and knees picking through rugs – smoking anything that re– even closely– even remotely resembled crack cocaine. I– I– I probably smoked more Parmesan cheese than … anyone that you know, I’ m sure.

Cocaine Allegations

  • Denials and Evasions: When asked in 1999 if he could pass a background check for federal employees, Bush denied using illegal drugs in the previous 15 years (back to 1974), but refused to discuss his behavior prior to that, calling it “the politics of personal destruction”. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  • Unsubstantiated Allegations: Author Kitty Kelley alleged in 2004 that Bush used cocaine at Camp David while his father was president, a claim that was not substantiated. [1, 2]
  • Refusal to Formally Deny: Bush generally refused to give a “yes or no” answer regarding whether he had ever used cocaine in his life, focusing instead on his post-1974 life. [1, 2, 3]

AWOL Allegations (National Guard Service) [1]

  • The Controversy: During the 2000 and 2004 campaigns, critics alleged that Bush was AWOL (Absent Without Leave) from his duties in the Texas Air National Guard in 1972 and 1973. [1, 2, 3]

October 11, 2019, High Plains Grifter: the Life and Crimes of George W. Bush, Jeffrey St. Clair

In his teens, this man-child was shoved into a distant boarding school. It must have been a relief for him. The squirrely adolescent with the pointy ears did just enough to get by. At Andover, they called him “Bushtail.” Ambition wasn’t his thing. And he didn’t have the athletic talent or thespian skills to do much more than play the role of class goof. So he went on to an undistinguished academic career, highlighted only by his ebullient performances as a cheerleader and a reputation for selling fake IDs. Even in his youth, he was adept at forgery.

George the Younger snuck into Yale on a legacy admission, a courtesy to his father and grandfather. He was a remedial student at best, awarded a bevy of Cs, the lowest score possible for the legacy cohort. Repositories like Andover and Yale know what to do with the dim children of the elite. George nestled in his niche. No demands were made of him. He spent much of his time acquainting himself with a menu of designer inebriants. He was arrested twice. Once for petty theft. Once for public drunkenness. No one cared.

When Vietnam loomed, Lil’ George fled to New Haven for Houston and the safe harbor of the Texas Air National Guard, then jokingly known as Air Canada–a domestic safe-haven for the combat-averse children of the political elite. It was a deftly executed dodge. His father pulled some strings. Escape hatches opened. The scions of the ruling class, even the half-wits, weren’t meant to be eviscerated in the rice paddies of the Mekong–that’s why they freed the slaves.

But soon George grew bored of the weekend warrior routine. And who among us wouldn’t? He slunk off to Alabama and promptly went AWOL for a year and a half. Nobody seemed to miss him. He wasn’t a crucial cog in anyone’s machine. George? George Bush??

How did the president-in-training fritter away those idle days? Supposedly, he was lending his expertise to the congressional campaign of Winton “Red” Blount. But he apparently soon went AWOL from this assignment as well. Other campaign staffers recall young George ambling into the campaign office in the late afternoon, propping his cowboy-booted heels on a desk and recounting his nocturnal revels in the bars, strip joints and waterbeds of Montgomery. The other staffers took to calling him the “Texas Soufflé.”. As one recalled, “Bush was all puffed up and full of hot air.”

Donald Trump Accusers: Women Who Alleged Sexual Misconduct

These Are the Women Who Have Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct

And you fucking think there aren’t 13-year-old sex slave girls in the Donald’s bed, and you think not that there are not golden shower tapes by Mossad and Company? You are fucking MAGA muts then.

Why Donald Trump's defeat in court matters

Do you not TIRE of Jews Jews Jews lecturing us, writing streaming video scripts, writing the news, publishing books, setting forth the curriculum of death via 319 Jewish Billionaires and their millions of Eichmann Jewish millionaires?

Is it antisemitic to point this out? I was out at Goodwill and St. Vincent’s thrift stores. This is the job offer of a Goyim’s nightmare, or dream?

Gotta be Jews running Oregon?

You know, the mayor of Newport and Yachats, and then GOmberg and Wyden, Oregon’s politicos, Jews?

Oregon has a significant history of Jewish representation in public office, ranging from early pioneers and mayors to prominent modern federal and state leaders. [1, 2, 3]

Key Historical and Notable Jewish Mayors in Oregon:

  • Portland: Bernard Goldsmith (1869–1871), Philip Wasserman (1871–1873), Joseph Simon (acting 1877, 1909–1911), and Vera Katz (1993–2005). [1, 2, 3]
  • Eugene: Samson H. Friendly served as mayor from 1893–1895. [1]
  • Astoria: Isaac Bergman (1898–1902) and Herman Wise (1906–1910). [1]
  • Burns: Julius Durkheimer served from 1895–1896. [1]
  • Pendleton: Reuben Alexander (1892–1894). [1]
  • Other Cities: Henry Blackman (Heppner, 1887–1890), William Wurzweiler (Prineville, 1904–1906), Aaron Fox (Troutdale, 1907–1909), and William Galvani (Seaside, c. 1928). [1]
Newport appoints new mayor | News | newportnewstimes.com

Jan Kaplan is the current mayor of Newport, Oregon, appointed in August 2023. He was appointed following the resignation of Dean Sawyer and his term expires in January 2027.

Yachats mayor disputes comments by Waldport city manager on how countywide  water alliance is functioning • Lincoln Chronicle

As of May 2026, the current mayor of Yachats, Oregon, is Craig Berdie.

Gomberg among those on Israel-sponsored trip as country invades Gaza City –

I checked out the St. Vinnie’s books section, and the newish guy, former Barner and Noble dude, is spreading books around in a thematic sort of way, but boy do I tire of Jews:

This Jew is writing about fucking Blacks and Race?

The book is a contemporary coming-of-age story set in a fictional town in upstate New York. It explores heavy themes of racism, class, and family loyalty through the eyes of a 17-year-old high school football star, Jessup, whose stepfather is a prominent white supremacist.

Key Details about the Author and Novel

  • Personal Connection: Zentner has stated that the novel was influenced by a traumatic incident from his youth when his mother’s office in Kitchener-Waterloo was allegedly firebombed by a neo-Nazi group. [1]
  • Dual Identity: Alexi Zentner is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. [1, 2]
  • Pseudonym: In addition to literary fiction, he writes popular horror and thriller novels under the pen name Ezekiel Boone, most notably The Hatching series. [1, 2]
  • Literary Recognition: His other acclaimed works include The Lobster Kings and Touch.

Jews and their spreadsheets and accounting: ‘Everyone’s a Line On a Spreadsheet:’ Inside Oracle’s Mass Layoffs and the Workers Fighting Back

Why not as Jews write novels about these fucking monsters, the Barbarian Jews?

On March 31, a longtime Oracle employee named Jill drove to the hospital for a very overdue back surgery when she received a call from her manager. Jill had worked at Oracle as a technical writer and instructor across three decades, teaching customers around the world about the company’s products. Last year, Oracle had asked her and others on her team to document some of their workflows in order to train the company’s AI systems.

Now, her manager told her over the phone that she had been laid off. The sudden firing imperiled not only her ability to pay for post-surgery prescriptions, but her entire retirement plan. For years, she had received high performance scores from her managers and was rewarded with restricted stock (RSUs) in lieu of bonuses. But those RSUs were tied to a vesting schedule, meaning when she was fired, $300,000 worth vanished overnight.

Judaism historically emphasizes numbers for spiritual, mystical, and practical reasons rather than a literal “obsession.” Key aspects include gematria (assigning numerical value to letters) for interpreting texts, the, symbolic significance of numbers in, creation, and, the structural, importance, of, numbers, in, Jewish law,. [1, 2, 3]

  • Gematria & Mysticism: Hebrew letters represent numbers, allowing for the discovery of hidden meanings and connections between words. For instance, a Hebrew phrase can have a specific value that connects it to other concepts. [1, 2, 3]
  • Symbolic Numbers: Numbers carry specific, consistent meanings in Jewish thought, such as 1 representing unity, 4 representing the cardinal directions, and 7 representing the spiritual and natural worlds,. [1, 2]
  • The Paradox of Counting: While numbers are significant, directly counting Jews is often discouraged or forbidden in Jewish tradition to avoid the “evil eye” and to prevent reducing individuals to mere statistics,. [1, 2]
  • Biblical Census: The Book of Numbers (Bamidbar) contains census data to determine military strength, but this is viewed as an act of Divine love rather than a mere statistical exercise,. [1, 2]
  • Practical Usage: Numbers are used for practical applications like keeping track of the 613 commandments (mitzvot) or setting up, a minyan (a, quorum of 10 for prayer),. [1, 2]

Monsters inside the fucking gate.

The United States has “a tight time window to adapt” to the “civilizational” challenge of AI, according to a former senior Pentagon thinker who’s joining Anthropic as a “strategist-in-residence.”

James Baker led the Defense Department’s Office of Net Assessment—often referred to as the “Pentagon’s Think Tank”—from 2015 to 2025, when it was temporarily closed by the Trump administration. At Anthropic—the AI company now amid a six-month withdrawal from federal service, as ordered by President Trump—Baker will to lead analysis of how AI is affecting U.S. institutions and competition with China, the company announced Friday.

As ONA director, Baker advised defense secretaries and national security advisors on the long-term effects of emerging technology on national security; he had earlier served on the Joint Staff and in other advisory roles.

For decades, ONA helped the U.S. military adapt to social, economic, environmental, and technological trends. The office was established in 1973 by Andrew Marshall, a policy strategist in the Nixon administration. Using a data-driven, “system-of-systems” approach, it sought to predict the interrelation and effects of trends from tech development to military affairs to labor. The office forecast how information technology would greatly increase the speed of warfare and the availability and precision of new weapons, including cyber and electromagnetic effects. These ideas prompted rethinking of force structure and underscored the need to accelerate acquisition reform.

The monsters are neurotoxins throughout the world:

Israel’s largest defense firm, Elbit Systems, on Monday inaugurated a new drone facility in Romania for the production of advanced unmanned aerial systems platforms as the defense tech giant seeks to expand its footprint in Europe.

The new site in Chitila is Elbit’s seventh production facility in Romania, which the company said cements its long‑term commitment to local industrial cooperation, technological development, and European defense capabilities. Elbit has been active in Romania for the past three decades, and employs more than 1,000 workers in the country.

Barbarians, indeed!!!!!!!!!!!

Elbit, led by CEO Bezhalel Machlis, is an arms manufacturer and supplier specializing in the development of a broad spectrum of defense, homeland security and commercial systems that are marketed worldwide.

Amid Israel’s multifront war with Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies, and with the war between Russia and Ukraine, European countries have been showing growing interest in buying Israeli defense technology due to heightened regional security concerns.

Elbit opens new drone production plant in Romania to expand presence in  Europe | The Times of Israel

The Watchkeeper XR, a derivative of Elbit Systems’ Hermes 450 UAV, is tailored for intelligence gathering, surveillance, and target acquisition. Back in December 2022, Elbit inked a five-year deal to sell Romania, a NATO member, seven Watchkeeper unmanned aerial vehicle systems for more than $400 million. Deliveries were due to start in 2025.

Dieudonné Boutrin, Jean-Marc Ayrault and Georges Emmanuel stand beside base of mast with clasped hand symbol and inscription beneath in French

Don’t count on it, Africans. The Jews are the money changers.

‘Such huge consequences’: pressure mounts on France to act on enslavement reparatory justice

Craig, hands together as if in prayer, with people either side.

As a Mast of Fraternity and Memory is unveiled in Nantes, calls are growing for Macron to announce a framework for discussions

Fucking House Negroes.

UK firm aims to build ‘data centre’ using 50,000 lampposts in Nigeria

There have been many attempts to put data centres in unusual places over the years – Microsoft put a data centre under the sea, Elon Musk has suggested putting them in space.

Now a UK firm is betting on data centres using thousands of connected smart lampposts, and has signed a formal agreement with a Nigerian state to deploy 50,000 of them.

Warwickshire-based Conflow Power Group Limited (CPG) says networked together its solar-powered iLamp units “double as a revenue-generating distributed AI data centre”.

Jews in the Room:

Trump says he’ll review new plan from Iran as US fast-tracks $8B in arms sales to Mideast allies

Iran submitted a 14-point response to a US proposal, state media reports, amid ongoing tensions over the Strait of Hormuz and stalled talks.

[A man holds an Iranian flag near an anti-US billboard depicting US President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz, in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday.]

Right, more Time or Newsweek culture shit to attack the latest adult generation, not part of the fucking Greatest Fucking Liars of Past Generations:

Quiet quitting. Silent walking. Rawdogging commutes. While you may not have heard these exact terms before, you definitely know the actions.

Slacking at work, going for a walk without any technology, or traveling without using your phone, reading a book or listening to music.

Some of the most everyday, mundane actions have been repackaged by Gen Z with a catchy title and presented via viral videos and posts as though they’re a brand-new thing.

[“The funniest thing about Gen Z isn’t what they don’t know. It’s the confidence with which they don’t know it,” Blair Channing Rae said.]

And people are noticing.

Urban Dictionary describes the Columbus generation as the “official unofficial generation nickname for Gen Z,” using the example: “I just discovered Quiet Walks! It’s where you take a walk without your technology with you!”—otherwise known as “just walking.”

The name comes from explorer Christopher Columbus, known as the man who “discovered” America—leading to its European colonization—despite long-established communities and indigenous people already living there.

The terms “Christopher Columbus generation” and “Columbusing” have seen spikes in searches in the past year. Gen Z’s new nickname comes after a series of high-profile viral moments in which influencers and content creators appeared to have discovered something for the first time, not realizing that it has been around for years—and in some cases, decades.

Searches for “quiet quitting,” “silent walking” and “Coke float” experienced major spikes on Google Trends when the terms—even if not the actions—first entered the zeitgeist over the past few years.

Ahh, more Jews telling Goyim and Gen Z what’s up:

Yaron Litwin, a cultural expert and CMO of the Canopy Parental Control App, thinks the label is “funny, but a little bit unfair to Gen Z,” who are subject to mockery by both older and younger generations.

“Every generation is guilty of ‘rediscovering’ old trends and ideas, but it seems that Gen Z stands out as the first ones to instantly rebrand them en masse via social media,” Yaron told Newsweek. “Platforms have created endless pressure to turn normal life into content, and Gen Z will often give in to that pressure, creating an assembly line of new-old ideas like rawdogging and bare minimum Mondays.”

While Gen Z makes up 27 percent of the United States’ social media audience, compared to 36 percent millennials and 29 percent Generation X, according to data from Statista, the way Gen Z approaches and is influenced by social media is unique.

Andrew Selepak, a media professor at the University of Florida, points out that Gen Z is the first generation that is “both influenced by social media and more aware of the downside of social media and modern life.”

Reports surrounding Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Secretary of War as of January 2025, indicate allegations of a “drinking problem,” with colleagues alleging he was “absolutely wasted” at times, smelled of alcohol at work, and exhibited disruptive behavior.

Ahh, payoffs for the uniformed mercenaries. FUCK this cuntry:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has thrown his support behind proposed legislation that would give combat-wounded service members who are medically retired from the U.S. military their full retirement pay and Veterans Affairs disability compensation.

During a hearing Thursday on the Defense Department’s $1.5 trillion fiscal 2027 budget request, Hegseth said he supports the Maj. Richard Star Act — a bill that would give roughly 54,000 veterans their retirement pay and VA disability concurrently.

“As I have said in the past to other organizations, we support the Richard Star Act,” Hegseth said during questioning by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.

Blumenthal is a lead sponsor of the bill who repeatedly has tried to pass the legislation, most recently, calling in March for a Senate vote. The legislation has the support of 79 Senators and 323 House members.

But it has been blocked by some Republicans over concerns of funding. In March, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., objected to Blumenthal’s call for a floor vote, saying the legislation would cost more than $70 billion over the first 10 years of enactment.

These fuckers should be shot!

When more than 165,000 millionaires are projected to relocate in a single year, it isn’t a lifestyle trend. It’s a market signal.​

This prediction, based on recent global migration data from Henley & Partners’ Private “Wealth Migration Report“ points to something structural: Mobility is emerging as a core wealth strategy. For the first time in modern history, the ability to live somewhere else is being treated with the same seriousness as asset allocation, estate planning or portfolio diversification.​

FUCKING heroes: Saif Abukeshek, a Palestinian-Spanish activist, left, and Thiago Ávila, a Brazilian activist, and members of the Global Sumud Flotilla’s steering committee, aboard the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise, which joined a Gaza-bound flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea on April 18.

Jews, man, live by their own perverse codes. Israeli authorities taking 2 activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla to Israel for questioning

The governments of Spain and Brazil accused Israel of “kidnapping” its citizens after their Gaza-bound boats were intercepted near Greece, hundreds of miles away from Israel.

The fucking exploited employees need to be hacking these Amazon cloud servers into oblivion.

Amazon’s cloud customers will need to wait several more months before the US tech company can repair war-damaged data centers and restore normal operations in the Middle East. The announcement comes two months after Iranian drone strikes targeted three Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain—meaning that full recovery from the cloud disruption could take nearly half a year in all.

Hero of all heroes!

A roughly 14-foot-tall bronze statue of the United States’ most famous abolitionist, Harriet Tubman, will become a permanent fixture outside Philadelphia’s City Hall later this year. It will be the first statue of a Black female historical figure in the city’s public art collection.

Black and white portrait of Black woman in 19th-century dress
Harriet Tubman as photographed by Harvey B. Lindsley, circa 1871-1876. Library of Congress

As scholars of African American studies, Africology and geography at Temple University in Philadelphia, we believe the statue’s completion is an opportune time to think about Philadelphia’s central role in African American history, including as a key destination point for those who escaped slavery along the Underground Railroad.

Philadelphia’s free Black community

After Pennsylvania passed the Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery on March 1, 1780, Philadelphia’s Black population grew rapidly. By 1790 there were about 2,000 free Black residents in the city. Among them were doctors, teachers, merchants, clergymen, sailors and skilled artisans.

In 1787, the same year the nation’s founders met in Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall, to ratify the U.S. Constitution, Black clergymen Absalom Jones and Richard Allen established the Free African Society in Philadelphia. The FAS was America’s first Black mutual aid association, and it provided financial aid to poor and elderly, unemployed and sick individuals, as well as orphans and widows. Jones later formed the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, and Allen founded the Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, both in 1794.

Beginning in earnest around 1830, Philadelphia’s vibrant free Black community, led by successful Black industrialists and merchants such as James Forten and Robert Purvis, collaborated with local white abolitionists, including Quakers such as Thomas Garrett, to fund and arrange people’s escapes from slavery on the Underground Railroad.

How Harriet Tubman and Philadelphia abolitionists coordinated dangerous journeys to freedom

Yellow page of text titled 'The Underground Rail Road: A Record'

Barbarians, the fucking French: Mali was rocked by a massive, coordinated assault last weekend — and according to investigative journalist David Hundeyin, it wasn’t just terrorism, but one of the biggest ever attempted coups.



He explains how rival “suspiciously well-armed and well-resourced” groups, united for a sophisticated operation aimed at “decapitating the Malian government,” pointing to clear hallmarks of a foreign-backed destabilization campaign.



As Mali and the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) fight to assert their sovereignty, Hundeyin warns that this attack represents a dangerous new phase of escalation.

absolute dissociative behavior in a land of rapists, pedophiles, laughing tech hyenas, and still those 319 (or is it now 390) billionaire Jews, steely eyed and soulless, running the show.

Paulo Kirk

May 02, 2026

One of three hundred and nineteen surely part of the plan to get Goy-Turned-Jew Trump to keep frothing at the mouth on his dementia minstrial show.

Losing is winning: Meta wants to spend more even after it lost $80 billion on the Metaverse and over 20 million users.

AP Explains: Racist history of blackface began in the 1830s
Trump walks around in blackface and nothing.

I fucking worked on May Day, the fucking commie working for $17 an hour, schlepping laundry and supplies for a multi-million dollar vacation home venture.

And at the store, the guy, young, says, “Man, it’s a glorious day.” And the older man, me, says, “Not for half the world we are bombing and sanctioning, and not especially for Gazans, Lebanese and Iranians.” To which the young guy said, “I’m just going to thank the heavens we have sun and I work for Trader Joe’s. I can’t think about all that negativity.”

KUBUKI theater.

A society with no LAWS — light anti-tank weapons or TOWS in circulation? That’s the pedophile in that fucking helicopter above. What a day that would be, a real assassination with fireworks to boot!

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In early 1963, the M72 LAW was adopted by the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps as their primary individual infantry anti-tank weapon, replacing the M31 HEAT rifle grenade and the M20A1 “Super Bazooka” in the U.S. Army. It was subsequently adopted by the U.S. Air Force to serve in an anti-emplacement and anti-armor role in airbase defense.[

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Billionaires are a perversion of you fucking Bibles and Talmuds and Qurans, fuckers. An eye for our several billion eyes, motherfuckers.

Contradiction in flags. Resist? That fucking stars and bars red white blue is the flag of piracy gunboat diplomacy land theft pollution sanctions death!

There is fluoride and lithium in the water. That’s a fucking protest sign?

Not: Students learn how to hack the billionaires’ systems of fascism? Not: Students learn how to slice off the heads of your local billionaire and familia?

San Francisco airport 2026 …

The Lost Poetry of the Angel Island Detention Center | The New Yorker
The Chinese Exclusion Act reshaped America in 1882. And it's still echoing  today | CNN

TRUMP and Glosser-Miller Gestapo Kapo’s world:


A political cartoon from 1882, showing a Chinese man being barred entry to the

Fucking daft:

ACAB any which way you see them!

Across the United States, communities are rethinking their use of Flock cameras and other automated license plate reader (ALPR) systems, and in many cases ending them completely. Concerns about privacy, security, and always-on government surveillance are driving these changes, especially as new police technologies test the limits of the Fourth Amendment.

The proliferation of police surveillance has led to repeated abuse. One shockingly common form: police officers using ALPR camera networks to keep tabs on their romantic interests, including current partners, exes, and even strangers who unwittingly caught their eye in public.

An Institute for Justice review of media reports has identified at least 14 cases nationwide of officers allegedly abusing ALPR data this way, with the bulk of those incidents happening since 2024. Nearly all of these officers were criminally charged and lost their jobs, either by resigning or getting fired.

List of known ALPR romantic stalking cases

  • Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, 2021: Officer Michael McSherry pleaded guilty to stalking charges after using readers to track his estranged wife and other family members.
  • Kechi, Kansas, 2023: Kechi Lieutenant Victor Heiar pleaded guilty to computer crime and stalking after using Flock cameras to track his estranged wife.
  • Sedgwick, Kansas, 2023: Police Chief Lee Nygaard resigned after using Flock cameras to track his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend more than 200 times over several months.
  • Costa Mesa, California, 2023: Officer Robert Josett used a Flock camera system to track his mistress and her other romantic interests. Josett pleaded guilty to multiple criminal charges in April 2026.
  • Riverside County, California, 2024: After being arrested for kidnapping his ex-fiancée, Deputy Alexander Vanny allegedly used the department’s Flock system to track one of her friends. In December 2025 he was convicted of multiple charges in a jury trial.
  • Orange City, Florida, 2024: Officer Jarmarus Brown allegedly used ALPRs to stalk his girlfriend and her family members more than 100 times over seven months. Brown was arrested and charged in 2025.
  • Shelby County, Tennessee, 2024: Deputy Thadius Gordon was relieved of duty after allegedly using an ALPR database to track his ex-wife’s location more than 100 times.
  • Louisville, Kentucky, 2025: Officer Roberto Cedeno was charged with multiple felonies after allegedly using the city’s ALPR system to track an ex-partner and her friends hundreds of times over two months.
  • Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2025: Officer Josue Ayala allegedly used the department’s network of Flock ALPRs to track a woman he was dating and her ex-partner nearly 180 times over a two-month period. Ayala resigned in 2026 after being charged with misconduct in public office.
  • Jerome County, Idaho, 2025: Sheriff George Oppedyk used a Flock system to search for his wife’s vehicle hundreds of times. Idaho’s Attorney General concluded that no crime was committed, but Oppedyk retired in April 2026, two years before his term of office ended.
  • Kenosha County, Wisconsin, 2025: Sheriff’s Deputy Frank McGrath resigned with severance pay after internal investigators found he used the department’s Flock system to keep tabs on another deputy with whom he was romantically involved.
  • Menasha, Wisconsin, 2025: Officer Cristian Morales was placed on leave and charged with misconduct in office after his ex-girlfriend filed a complaint alleging that he used a Flock system to track her.
  • Bonner Springs, Kansas, 2025: Detective Kyle Rector allegedly used license plate readers to track his estranged wife and two men he suspected were her new romantic partners. He was charged with multiple crimes in March 2026.
  • Monroe County, Florida, 2026: Sheriff’s Deputy Lamar Roman allegedly used an ALPR system to track and eventually pull over a woman he had met while providing security on a TV set. Roman was arrested and charged with accessing a computer or electronic device without authorization.

A win: The Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital Rights Conference Canceled

Access Now, the group that organizes RightsCon, says Zambian officials asked it to exclude Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.

China will scrap tariffs for all African countries from Friday – except Eswatini, which maintains ties with Taiwan.

As of December 2024, China had already implemented a duty-free policy for 33 least-developed African nations. The policy now covers 53 countries, and will be in place until 30 April 2028. It is unclear what will happen after that.

“China is positioning itself as the trade liberaliser and Africa-friendly economic partner, in contrast to Donald Trump and the US,” says Lauren Johnston, a senior research fellow at the AustChina Institute.

The US had hit some African nations with tariffs of up to 30% in August, although most are now subject to a 10% tariff, after the US Supreme Court struck down many of the duties.

The expansion of China’s zero-tariff regime could increase African agricultural exports, which will “help to elevate rural incomes, improve rural productivity, and ultimately to reduce hunger and poverty”, Johnston says.

But Sino-African trade is marked by a growing imbalance in China’s favour, which means Chinese exports to Africa far exceed African exports to China, and that difference is widening.

Last year, Africa’s trade deficit with China rose by 65% to about $102bn.

Ford F-150 Recall: Injured in a Crash? Know Your Rights

Back with the Banana Republic Auto Show: Ford Motor Company is recalling more than 179,000 vehicles due to a defect involving the front seat frame that could increase the risk of injury in a crash.

The recall affects 62,255 2024–2026 Ford Bronco SUVs and 117,443 2024-2026 Ford Ranger pickup trucks, according to an April 28 notice published on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s website.

Ford Recalls 179,000-Plus Broncos, Rangers for Front-Seat Issue | Cars.com

Gazans? Syrtian? Sudanese? Iranians? Palestinians? Hmmm. Pussy fucking AmeriKKKans!

The bad weather on Thursday caused Jazz Fest to shorten its schedule, with plans to end today’s performances around 5 p.m.

But the approach of a strong thunderstorm cell hastened those plans, and the Fairgrounds shut down around 3:30 p.m., according to NOLA.com.

The fest is still on for Friday, but with more rain in the forecast, people with plans to attend Jazz Fest should stay up to date in case any changes are announced.

Kleinmann served for 12 years as Managing Director of SAP Labs Israel, doubling the location size, building and transforming SAP in Israel from a regional development center into a global AI innovation hub through 11 acquisitions and a shift toward AI-native engineering.

Krauts and their continual fucking Judaification of their fucking DNA:

German software giant SAP has appointed Orna Kleinmann, head of the company’s development center in Israel, as global senior vice president responsible for AI activities on its cloud platform.

Following the appointment, Kleinmann will step down from her role leading the local development center, and the company is expected to announce her replacement in the near future. She will become the most senior Israeli executive at SAP.

In a powerful floor vote today, the House STRIPPED the controversial pesticide language from the 2026 Farm Bill by a resounding 280-142 margin.

This dangerous provision would have shielded pesticide manufacturers from accountability in lawsuits over cancer-linked chemicals like Roundup, while stripping states of their ability to issue stronger health protections for families.

MAHA warriors, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and bipartisan allies refused to back down.

Their relentless pressure forced the change and delivered a critical win against corporate overreach.

The Senate version still lies ahead, and the fight continues.

Books: TikTok

The Allegations: Addiction by Design a la Talmud and TOrah and Edward Bernays and old fucking Freud

Lawsuits allege that these companies intentionally embedded psychological triggers into their platforms—borrowing techniques from slot machines and the tobacco industry—to override a young person’s ability to self-regulate. The allegations:

  • Intermittent Rewards: Like a slot machine, these apps are alleged to withhold and release “likes” and notifications at specific times to maximize excitement. This keeps kids checking their phones constantly, seeking the next digital reward.
  • The “Flow State”: Features like “infinite scroll” and “autoplay” are designed to induce a hypnotic state. This makes it nearly impossible for a developing brain, which lacks fully formed impulse control, to look away.
  • Toxic Social Comparison: Algorithms push unrealistic beauty standards and “filters” that warp self-image. This drives severe anxiety, depression, and body dysmorphia, particularly in teenagers.
  • The “Rabbit Hole”: Recommendation engines aggressively feed vulnerable users increasingly extreme content—promoting self-harm, suicide ideation, and eating disorders—to keep them watching at all costs.

The Cost to Children

The alleged result has been a catastrophic youth mental health crisis. Suicide rates, emergency room visits for anxiety, and hospitalizations for eating disorders have skyrocketed. These aren’t accidents; they are the foreseeable consequences of profit-driven design choices.

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Happy fucking 250 Years of Racism, Exclusion, Lock-ups, SLavery:

A longtime Texas court interpreter and mother of four who was arrested in March by federal immigration officers, was released Thursday, her attorney confirmed.

“We are overjoyed. It’s been a long six to seven weeks,” Meenu Batra’s attorney, Deepak Ahluwalia, said. “We knew that this moment would come. We were hoping it wouldn’t take as long.”

Batra, whose four adult children are U.S. citizens, was arrested March 17 by federal immigration officers at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas, while on her way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on a work trip.

Ahluwalia said that a federal district judge on Thursday ordered Batra’s immediate release. According to Ahluwalia, the judge stated that Batra’s due process rights were violated because she was arrested without prior notice, interview or a formal process

Ahluwalia said they are working on getting Batra a green card through her youngest son, Jasper, who is enlisted in the U.S. Army. Ahluwalia said they’ll ask to expedite the application and hope to get approved in the next four to six months.

“The fight is not over. We’ve gotten Meenu out, but now it’s a matter of keeping her here, making sure that all forms of relief that she is eligible for are adjudicated while she’s sitting here and fighting any attempt to send her to a third country that she has no previous relationship or no association with, and we will fight to the end to that.”

Happy Fucking Gestapo 319 Jews Running the Scam Birthday!!!

[Israel Makoka, 18, left, stands with his host mother, Gail Baptiste, and his brother, Max Makoka, 15. Both teens were released from federal immigration custody after being arrested for visa violations.]

Two high school basketball players released after being detained by ICE

The teens from the Republic of Congo did not know their visas had been canceled when they switched schools. Their neighbors in Mississippi rallied around them.

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Cancelled, Condemned, Criminalized, Cracked — the four “c’s” of our latest and some of us with arrested development! Scarlet Letters for Almost Anything tied to revolutionary anti-authoritarianism !

Paulo Kirk

Apr 30, 2026

Note: Just out in the Lincoln County Leader, AKA Newport News Times. Read the article with enhanced images below.

Second note: I have been cancelled here, from teaching at the college (community) and from substituting at the K12 District.

My crimes? I was teaching years ago, subbing for high schoolers (I wrote about that here at DV). The sick English teacher was on the phone, and he was fine with me teaching Animal Farm and Of Mice and Men, since that IS my specialty — college-level writing and literature classes.

Subs with some flair, me, get asked, “What did you do before you came here?” So, social services case manager for adults with developmental disabilities worked with houseless veterans; worked with houseless ex-convicts, worked with foster youth, worked with drug and substance abuse clients; worked with clients with felonies and those with sexual offences on their rap sheet.

Of Mice and Men - Wikipedia

The experiment was to see how many people judged the character in Of Mice and Men:

In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the main character killed at the end of the novella is Lennie Small. George Milton shoots Lennie in the back of the head to spare him from a brutal lynching by an angry mob led by Curley, after Lennie accidentally kills Curley’s wife.

  • Lennie Small: Shot by George in the final scene to protect him from a worse fate.
  • Curley’s Wife: Accidentally killed by Lennie, who breaks her neck while trying to silence her.
  • Candy’s Dog: Shot by Carlson earlier in the book, foreshadowing Lennie’s death.
  • A Puppy: Accidentally killed by Lennie before the death of Curley’s wife.

I talked about how some people in their own county, their own town, have confronted me with some of my clients, whispering in my ear that “give me your guy there, and I’ll take him crabbing. I’ll bring a few cinder blocks. And, once he has his fun, I’ll just tie him up and throw him overboard. Two for one: He’s out of his fucking miserable life, with that Down Syndrome, and, two, we get to feed the crabs.”

MADI's Blog - Of Mice & Men

Now, that triggered some student who kept going out of the class and coming back in: a high school senior, a young woman, with a friend, and alas, guess what? She lied to her mother, who is on the school board, making calls in the main office, telling her that I was saying that all the people in Waldport want kiddos killed, those who have autism or Down syndrome.

Of Mice and Men | P4T

Ahh, then the next period, the same kiddos, and we were talking about Animal Farm. We talked about why addiction is a big thing in small towns, and some relayed deaths they knew about in their circles. I heard one say, “We’d never get into drugs.”

I did a thought experiment: “Okay, so, statistically, not literally, at least 6 out of you 20 will struggle with addiction. Maybe even more will struggle with depression. And, alas, some in that group might become homeless.”

Alas, the half-brain empty set of girls went out again, and the next thing, halfway through 3rd period, the bulldog of a vice principal opened the door, and asked me to leave: “Mister Haeder, can you collect your bag and come with me?”

No recourse, no defending my teaching to anyone, no mitigation with the misinformed and certainly pathological kiddos who lied about my teaching. I was banned from the high school, then the elementary school, and then, bam, from all 11 schools in Lincoln County.

Imagine that, just like that, end of $150 a day, and alas, the fucking school system is hurting for subs, bus drivers, custodial, food preppers, and, drumroll, full-time teachers.

Okay, then, we’ll see how this plays this week:

McCarthyite Mischievousness even in Podunk Towns

“Tenured Jewish Faculty Axed for Supporting Palestinian Causes.”

Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal | California | The Guardian

“Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests.”

Berkeley Suspends Lecturer for Pro-Palestinian Comments

“Berkeley Suspends Lecturer for Pro-Palestinian Comments.”

Pro-Palestinian protesters say charges are 'politicized,' demand AG drop them • Michigan Advance

“University of Washington professor fired from director job after Iran war criticism.”

University of Washington fires Middle East Center director after he criticized US-Israeli war on Iran | April 22-28, 2026 | Real Change

Even in the Jewish State: “Israeli teachers are losing their jobs for criticizing the war.”

Israeli teachers are losing their jobs for criticizing the war– The Forward

From the River to the Sea, Palestine Shall be Free: Maura Finkelstein from Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7, 2023, to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements.

Collective memory in the United States of Amnesia (Gore Vidal’s tag) is powerful, and for most Lincoln County residents, they forget that in the months after the onset of Israel’s genocidal campaign, hundreds of thousands of people mobilized in the streets, at their workplaces, and on campuses across the country in support of Palestinian liberation and to demand a permanent ceasefire and an end to US support for Israel.

This scared the hell out of the Zionists and the Jewish State of Israel supporters in both US parties. There was a drastic shift in the popular narrative on Palestinian rights and freedom, as people increasingly affirmed the right of Palestinians and their allies to oppose Zionist settler colonialism.

There has been historically repeated pushback to this upsurge of mobilization: state and institutional actors launched an unprecedented McCarthyite campaign of anti-Palestinian repression targeting the solidarity movement in the US in an attempt to criminalize dissent and censor pro-Palestine speech and advocacy.

I could bet a few thousand dollars that at the Newport OCCC campus, if students and faculty launched a protest on one of the school’s strips of lawn, one where they had posters of Netanyahu, Trump and Biden burning in effigy and hanged by the neck, we would see the County Sheriff called out.

It is racism and dehumanization that have made possible Israel’s killing of at least 85,000 Palestinians and counting; the displacement and starvation of nearly the whole population of over 2 million people in Gaza; and the complete devastation of its infrastructure. It has also enabled the US’s continuing complicity in these crimes and the 78 years of oppression that preceded them.

There have been dozens of Israel advocacy groups—including the racist Anti-Defamation League (ADL)— resorting to smear tactics in an attempt to discredit pro-Palestine advocacy. I have been accused of supporting terrorism through my advocacy of Palestinian self-determination and my many references to resistance to Israel’s 78-year colonization and occupation of Palestine.

Swiftly, on October 11, the ADL and other Israel advocacy groups wrote to universities, baselessly claiming that Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters at their universities may be engaging in “material support for terrorism,” and calling on them to investigate and withdraw recognition and funding for SJP, an action that would violate students’ constitutional rights

Despite the swift debunking of this threat by civil rights and liberties groups, in the months that followed, multiple universities gave in to these demands and sought to suspend or block recognition of SJP and other pro-Palestine clubs on their campuses.

There’s an old saying I have always used in my college classes as a teacher (1983 to 2023): “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it” by Upton Sinclair (The Jungle).

I was an adjunct faculty organizer on several campuses, finally with SEIU, the big union which hired me on in Seattle to organize part-time faculty. Time and time again, even at Georgetown and George Washington universities where I also organized, faculty were always in support of a part-time union, but also afraid of retribution by the administration and admonishments by the full-time faculty.

We are called precarious faculty, and we are now the new majority, many of whom make less than $20,000 teaching college classes. Precarity has infected the land since my early days at the University of Texas in 1983. Exponentially, most all jobs are now on the chopping block, and it’s as if every aspect of American life has turned into a constant emotional, economic and existential T-bone crash to the gut.

I was at the Flamy Grant concert in Yachats, and several people I know mentioned the last commentary I wrote for this newspaper – “Poetry in a Time of Genocide.” They thanked me, and one woman was shocked that I would be cancelled from teaching community ed classes. She asked why, then said, “Was it antisemitism?”

MAGA Preacher Condemned a Drag Queen Who Sings Christian Music

[A MAGA Preacher Condemned a Drag Queen. Then Her Album Topped the Christian Charts

Flamy Grant’s “Good Day,” and her LP Bible Belt Baby, briefly hit Number One on Apple Music after she was called out by Sean Feucht]

The irony at the concert, with opener Heather Mae, was that Heather got arrested in the Tennessee state capitol for “singing.” She was there with others protesting HB754, a bill forcing medical providers to report private information about transgender patients to the state — creating a publicly accessible database and putting lives at risk.

Mae Hansley Protest | TikTok

Six state troopers roughed her up, and she’s now got a court case for “singing in the rotunda of the people’s capitol in Tennessee.”

The term “McCarthyism” is used today as a noun for political witch hunts or unfounded accusations. For my generation, people often know the “ism” without necessarily studying the specific senator from Wisconsin.

A mentor in shamelessness: the man who taught Trump the power of publicity | Donald Trump | The Guardian
A mentor in shamelessness: the man who taught Trump the power of publicity | Donald Trump | The Guardian

Gen Z? They now have other causes – ICE out of our Town, From the River to the Sea, and, of course, in general, advocating for climate change action, racial equity, LGBTQ+ rights, and gender equality.

Ipsos Media Summit – Archive V3

Leave it to the older generation to label Gen Z as “the intolerant ones.” What a bloody smear is that. Well, maybe not: Not tolerating racism, gender discrimination, rampant pollution and climate change capitalism, and being for the rights of all humanity to be free of war, of sanctions, and of economic hijacking?

What Do Judges Need to Know About Generation Z?

Bring it on, Z.

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“Gen Z is not wrong to feel uneasy about the future they are inheriting. In many ways, they are simply acknowledging a reality that the rest of us would prefer not to confront.”

No Media for Raped and Murdered and Maimed Gazans, but . . . Timmy the whale’s ordeal sparked a media frenzy — with non-stop coverage from TV channels, online outlets and social media influencers

Paulo Kirk

Apr 30, 2026

Here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

While Tesla paid nothing into the system, the system was paying Tesla. The federal government (funded by your paycheck) has been shoveling contracts and incentives toward Musk’s companies for years. We’re talking billions in Department of Defense contracts, NASA deals, and federal fleet partnerships. Programs that exist because taxpayers like you fund them every single April.

U.S. billionaires saw their collective wealth surge by approximately $1.5 trillion in 2025, a 22% increase to a total of $8.2 trillion. While top billionaires gained billions individually, the average U.S. household struggled with a $83,730 annual income.

So let’s be precise about what happened here:

You paid taxes.

Tesla didn’t.

The government took your money and gave some of it to Tesla.

Tesla kept their profits and sent Washington a bill for $0.

That’s not capitalism. That’s a shakedown.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Pedophile Digital Surveillance Capitalism:

Residents of an Atlanta suburb have been rocked by the revelation that sales employees at Flock have been accessing sensitive cameras in the town to demonstrate the company’s surveillance technology to police departments around the country. The cameras accessed have included surveillance tech in a children’s gymnastics room, a playground, a school, a Jewish community center, and a pool.

Flock has taken issue with the way that residents and activists have characterized the access but confirmed that the camera access did happen as part of its sales demonstrations. A blog post by Jason Hunyar, a Dunwoody, Georgia resident who learned about Flock accessing the city’s cameras by obtaining Flock access logs via a public records request is called “Why Are Flock Employees Watching Our Children?”

DUHHHHH.

No really! DUHHHHH.

A new analysis indicates that the National Institutes of Health’s grant terminations in 2025 disproportionately hurt scientists who identify as people of color and LGBTQ.

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Fucking creeps shooting themselves in the foot and head, with Zoom, no less!

With the use of generative AI becoming more mainstream, faculty members are continuing to consider how the technology can support their teaching — and how it can’t. Discover the trends from recent surveys totaling more than 1,400 instructors in this infographic. With support from Zoom. Download now.

US supreme court sides with anti-abortion centers in New Jersey case

Justices in unanimous decision revive federal suit brought by anti-abortion ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ in the state.

[a mouth ready for Trump LLC!!!!!!!!!]

Penury and Usury and Repo Capitalism: collections on defaulted federal student loans will resume after years of pauses, affecting millions of borrowers.

A new income-driven repayment plan, the Repayment Assistance Plan, will launch July 1.

The Department of Education said it plans to prioritize voluntary repayment methods before garnishing wages.

Mossad works in mysterious ways!

Oh, that Gestapo ICE never bends, never bends: wo brothers who attend Hancock High School were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers while waiting for their school bus in Diamondhead, according to reporting from WLOX and the Mississippi Free Press.

Israel Makoka, 18, and Max Makoka, 15, are from the Republic of the Congo and had been living in the United States on F-1 student visas, according to the Mississippi Free Press. The brothers are also basketball players at Hancock High School.

Epstein’s new UnUnited InBred Queendumb: Trump Claims King ‘Agrees’ Iran Shouldn’t Have Nuclear Weapon. Here’s Buckingham Palace’s Response.

The remark risked drawing the King into the political row over the Iran war—the fallout of which has already notably splintered relations between Washington and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

The ‌King ⁠is not a spokesperson for the British government. As the U.K. head of state, he largely remains politically neutral.

When approached for comment Wednesday morning, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson said of Trump’s remark: “The King is naturally mindful of his Government’s long-standing and well-known position on the prevention of nuclear proliferation.”

Charles made no direct mention of the Iran war during his own speech at the state banquet.

“In the U.K., there is an expectation that private conversations with the King or another member of the royal family are kept private,” Dr. Craig Prescott, a University of London lecturer who studies the constitutional and political role of the monarchy, tells TIME. “The reason for this is that you don’t want to bring the monarchy into politics or matters that are politically controversial.”

Fucking LGBTQA neurotoxic Jews get the last word before being committed:

[Barney Frank is a prominent Jewish American politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 2013. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in American political history, often noted for his “left-handed, gay, and Jewish” identity—a description used as the subtitle of his authorized biography]

Barney Frank

Barney Frank, 86, has entered hospice care at his home in Ogunquit, Maine, due to congestive heart failure, though he says he feels “very good” and is in no pain. As he prepares to release a new book, the former Democratic congressman is using his final public chapter to issue a stark warning to his party about the electoral risks of embracing far-left policies. His comments come after decades as a leading liberal voice in Congress, making his critique a rare and notable rebuke from within the party’s own ranks. LGBTQ Nation + 3

“For a lot of my colleagues, the argument has been, ‘well, we don’t support defund the police or open borders, and we don’t say we do,’ but my point is, no, it’s not enough… to be silent. We have to explicitly repudiate it.”

Fucking Nazis feed the death machines in Ukraine and Gaza, but they are all cuddly with cetaceans? FUCK. Stranded whale ferried out of German waters in barge.

Wildlife groups are far from optimistic about the whale’s future once it is eventually released into the North Sea.

Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) was especially downbeat, warning that the whale had no long-term chance of survival. It is known to have suffered skin damage because of the lack of salinity in the waters along Germany’s Baltic Sea coast and WDC said its skin would need to fully recover and it would need to start finding food independently for any rescue to be considered a success.

Back to Chlamydia and Crusades and COrrupt Capitalism under the eye of Cap’n Crunch Pete: US defence secretary quizzed on Iran war and says budget request shows ‘urgency of moment’

He should be under lock and key with a big ass guard with a sharp machete!

Summary

Back to Grifter and Scammer Nation, the Cuntry of Rigged EVERYTHING: During the ongoing 11th Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Monday local time, a US delegate challenged the treaty’s funding-sharing mechanism. In response, Chinese delegate Sun Xiaobo, director-general of the Department of Arms Control of the Foreign Ministry of China, urged the US to fulfill its international obligations and promptly settle the outstanding contributions owed for the current review conference, the CCTV News reported on Tuesday.

Glosser-Miller Killer Gestapo Jew has other plans for those remittances: House Adopts Budget to Unlock $70 Billion for Immigration Enforcement

The measure will allow the G.O.P. to begin working on a filibuster-proof bill to fund ICE and C.B.P., part of their plan to reopen the long-shuttered Department of Homeland Security.

We’re getting even a bigger and more ornate one, for sure:

Seig Heil !!!!!!

Fucking smart ass Chinese!! The U.S. Wants to Ban China’s High-Tech Cars, but They’re Already Here in El Paso

Mexican dealers are selling cutting-edge Chinese cars that U.S. consumers can’t buy. Americans are warming to the idea of them.

But, yep, Trump LLC and the Giga Gulag Guys and Gals and Big Oil, well, sorry, they are winning.

The world is threatened by a “suicidal” model of capitalism that is leading to war, fascism and the potential extinction of humanity, Colombia’s president has said, as he convened 57 governments to address the climate crisis.

Gustavo Petro blamed fossil fuel interests for taking ever more desperate measures to prevent a transition to green energy. “There is inertia in the power and the economy of this archaic form of energy – fossil fuels – that lead to death. Undoubtedly, that form of capital can commit suicide, taking with it humanity and [other] life,” he said. “The question that needs to be asked is whether capitalism can truly adapt to a non-fossil energy model.”

Colombians will head to the polls next month to elect a new leader, with Petro, who was elected the country’s first leftist president in 2022, barred by the constitution from seeking a second consecutive term. The former economist and guerrilla member said the world was in a perilous position: “We are heading towards barbarism. And barbarism is the prelude to, or the very essence of, fascism.”

[Australian mining companies??????? Fuck: Unloading iron ore at the port of Qingdao, China.]

A win? Hmmm. China’s drive to de-dollarize its trade with the rest of the world by replacing the U.S. dollar with its currency, the renminbi, has spread from into a commodity long dominated by the dollar, iron ore.

The win for China came after a bruising seven-month dispute with the world’s biggest mining company, Australia-based BHP.

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Shoot ‘em up corrupt criminal capitalists: Trump Administration Announces Moves to Sharply Curtail Gun Regulations

The changes are in keeping with the administration’s pledge to cut back on gun restrictions.

Justice Department officials moved Wednesday to roll back and modify a  slate of gun regulations in a dramatic shift in firearm policy pushed by  Second Amendment supporters in President Donald Trump's base.

Jews in White Man’s Minyan only loyal to 319 Jewish Billionaires: Environmental Protection Agency boss backs big budget cuts but Congress will get the final say.

Those Jewish schools, rabbis, and synagogues, and East Coast Poison Ivy schools, and all that Holocaust Industry chattering at the fucking table while Goyim watches TiTok videos and gets navel piercings and preps for 5 days of drink and drown for Cinco de Mayo:

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s appearance before the Senate environment committee was his last of three budget hearings this week where he argued for sharply reduced funding for the agency, which already has seen its staffing reduced to its lowest level in decades under his leadership. During much of the week, the former Republican congressman from New York took an aggressive approach, responding to Democrats in the House and Senate with his own questions and at times accusing them of being unprepared or failing to care about the EPA’s track record.

Zeldin has eliminated major climate change programs, promoted deregulatory efforts he calls the biggest in American history and canceled billions of dollars in Biden-era environmental justice grants to halt what he calls “EPA’s radical diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.”

[Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management (left), and Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, at the NBIM annual investment conference in Oslo, April 28, 2026.]

And so they, those STD producing economists and bankers SPEAK: Jamie Dimon gets candid about national debt: ‘There will be a bond crisis, and then we’ll have to deal with it’

[A tractor spreads treated sewage sludge, known as biosolids, across farmland — a common practice in North Carolina now under scrutiny after a state study found PFAS “forever chemicals” in soil and sludge.]

East fucking PFAS’s with your shit, don’t ya know. A state study found PFAS in sewage sludge, soil and water across North Carolina. Despite widespread use on farmland, there are no limits or required testing for the chemicals.

YOU CAN’T make this up without being accused of fucking fabulous-izing drama. This is it for the supposed socialist? FUCK.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday he would urge King Charles III to return a massive crown jewel to India if the two were to speak privately — a comment marking the first tinge of animosity in an otherwise warm stateside royal visit.

Mamdani is set to cross paths with Charles on Wednesday afternoon at a wreath laying ceremony in lower Manhattan.

Always a Jew involved in 9/11!!! BLoomberg. Yep.

Where’s Rudy and George when we need them?

“Here on Earth, in the United States, there is also ‘regulatory dark matter’ that is hard to detect, much less measure.”

Paulo Kirk

Apr 28, 2026

“Astrophysicists have concluded that ordinary visible matter — the Sun, the Moon, the planets, the Milky Way, the multitude of galaxies beyond our own … make up only a tiny fraction of the universe, less than 5 percent. Dark matter and dark energy make up the rest.”

Quote of the day by Immanuel Kant: ‘If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right just for the reward…’ – Why morality should not depend on rewards or fear, explained by the German philosopher.

But Brin’s blackmailed cunt of a Jew Buddy, Donald J. Trump, is turning the USA into Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany with a whole lotta Sodomite Talmudism Thrown in: Trump fires all 24 members of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s governing body

Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as the latest move to erase NSF’s independence. Goju’s analogy: “It’s like firing the entire C-suite of a company and expecting it to keep running.”

Cunts of tech, old Nazi Jew Trump, this is what the tech fascists want?

The Trump administration’s decision to fire the entire board that oversees the National Science Foundation is another blow to American science that threatens the country’s global leadership, multiple higher ed and research advocacy groups warned, as did ousted board members.

They added that the move could further destabilize the agency, which is a major university research funding agency, and could give the White House more control over NSF.

The White House didn’t initially tell board members or the public why it gutted the board, but in an email Monday to Inside Higher Ed, the White House pointed to a 2021 Supreme Court decision. The court’s reasoning in U.S. v. Arthrex “raised constitutional questions about whether non-Senate confirmed appointees can exercise the authorities that Congress gave the National Science Board.” The board’s members—it has 25 at full capacity, and 22 were listed online at the time of the terminations—are appointed by the president, but not confirmed by the Senate.

“We look forward to working with the Hill to update the statute and ensure the NSB can perform its duties as Congress intended,” the email said. The White House didn’t respond to a follow-up question about whether this means it won’t appoint new NSB members until Congress changes the law.

The Trump administration had already upended NSF. After the inauguration, it quickly moved to cancel a slew of NSF and National Institutes of Health grants, including on transgender individuals’ health care, vaccine hesitancy, misinformation and diversity, equity and inclusion—but also on non–politically contentious topics, such as cancer research. In August, through executive order, the president ordered “senior appointees” to take charge of awarding, or denying, new federal grants.

In February, NSF’s chief management officer said the agency’s staff was down about 35 percent from the same time last year, and the agency was planning to “consolidate” solicitations for grant awards to half, or fewer, of the usual number of these funding opportunities.

Google Billionaire Sergey Brin Compares California Wealth Tax To Soviet Union Socialism.

[Sergey Brin and his girlfriend Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto, a Trump-supporting influencer, at the 12th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar on April 18, 2026.]

Fucking InBred UnUnited Queen-dumb back here in Hillybilly Wife Beater Cap’n Crunch Pete and Schizoid Patel Cuntry: Five takeaways from the King’s historic address to Congress

The King of the United Kingdom spoke today in Congress. His words do not matter; his presence itself speaks volumes. It is an affront to democracy to invite a monarch, much less one of the Windsor clan, who belongs to one of Europe’s oldest monarchies, to speak in the People’s assembly chamber (the House of Representatives). While the eponymous Charles is not the first monarch to dirty the chamber with his antidemocratic presence, he should be the last.

Yes, America was founded to protect the elite class of domestic merchant interests versus the distant, far-off British monarchy and Parliament (with their own distinct elite merchant class), not out of a prime pro-democratic sentiment. Our domestic political system being in thrall of merchant interests of course continue to this day, and keep our democracy stuck in infancy and stillbirthness. But we are blessed that we do not also have the baggage of thousands of years of the divine right to rule over property (which included a majority of human persons in Europe via serfdom up until the early modern era). Yes, we kept many people in bondage and genocide, but that was a blip, a blink, compared to the generations upon generations in Europe.

Something about the Jews are losing? Mossad chief says agency demonstrated ‘groundbreaking operational capabilities’ in Iran, Lebanon

Barnea credits the intelligence agency with ‘breaking through borders’ and expanding Israel’s strategic alliances.

Fucking Murdering Cartel Awards Ceremony!?@?#?$

Mossad Director David Barnea said the agency had demonstrated “new and groundbreaking operational capabilities in target countries” and implemented a “covert political campaign that is of critical importance for creating regional alliances,” speaking Monday at the Mossad’s 2025 Awards Ceremony at agency headquarters.

The ceremony honored ten operations and projects that the Mossad said made an exceptional contribution to Israel’s security. Attendees included senior Mossad command, IDF representatives, and officials from partner security and intelligence agencies.

Andy Serkis explains why he changed Orwell’s iconic ‘Animal Farm’ ending for new movie

[Andy Serkis is not Jewish; he was raised in the Catholic faith and has identified as an atheist since his teenage years.

While he is not Jewish, some confusion may arise due to his involvement with the Jewish community and film projects:

Jewish Community Engagement: He has participated in events at the South Hampstead Synagogue, such as being interviewed by Rabbi Shlomo Levin.

Ancestry: Serkis is of Armenian-Iraqi descent on his father’s side; the family’s original surname was “Serkissian”.

Brin’s fucking Gestapo, man:

Tucked away in rural western Maryland, past a dead-end road cut off by railroad tracks, a stream runs cool and clear over a ledge dotted with snails.

About the size of a flake of black pepper, one particular species of snail believed to live at this waterfall is playing a part in the legal battle over a massive immigration detention center planned for about 700 yards upstream in Williamsport, Maryland.

The fight between the state of Maryland and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could easily have been about federalism, due process, or human rights as ICE moved to house hundreds of people inside a windowless warehouse with little notice to the surrounding community.

Instead, it has proven to be about Appalachian springsnails—and a few other rare or endangered species, including freshwater mussels, fish, and crustaceans. These creatures may be surprisingly key to stopping a massive ICE detention warehouse from operating here in Maryland.

As ICE began buying up warehouses earlier this year as part of a $38 billion plan to expand its detention footprint, communities across the country have found varying ways to push back. In Social Circle, Georgia, the city manager shut off water to a warehouse ICE had purchased amid concerns about strains on local resources. In Hanover County, Virginia, the owner of a warehouse that ICE planned to buy backed out of the deal after local leaders and protesters opposed the plan.

Maryland didn’t have much chance to intervene before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security quietly bought an 825,000-square-foot warehouse in the state’s conservative western panhandle. State government also had little power to stop ICE from converting the warehouse into a detention and processing center: Local leaders came out in support of the project, and immigration matters fall squarely within the federal government’s authority.

With few cards available to play and grassroots opposition to the detention center growing, the Maryland Attorney General’s Office took a cue from the environmental justice movement, which has for decades used federal environmental laws to protect vulnerable communities from the unequal effects of pollution and development.

“Federal immigration authorities are barreling past their legal obligations in an effort to build an immigration detention facility as quickly as they can,” Attorney General Anthony Brown said when he announced a state lawsuit against the facility on the grounds that the federal government had violated its own environmental standards with the project. “Once construction begins, the damage to Maryland’s waterways, protected species, and communities cannot be undone.”

The lawsuit is an example of a state using environmental laws to protect itself from the federal government because there are few other legal options available, said Camille Pannu, the director of the Environmental and Climate Justice Clinic at Columbia Law School. In the context of the Trump administration’s vast new overreaches, these avenues have become increasingly important.

“We would call this an environmental justice strategy,” Pannu said; “the use of environmental law for an issue related to human inequality.”

Orwell is often lauded as prophetic because his 1940s dystopian novels ring true with readers today. The theme of last year’s Banned Books Week was “Censorship Is So 1984.” When he wrote “Animal Farm,” he intended it as an allegory for the Russian Revolution and rise of Stalinism. Barnyard animals overthrow their farmer to build a utopia but by the end of the novel have devolved into a corrupt power structure where “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

Serkis approached the adaptation by asking himself what Orwell would write about if he wrote “Animal Farm” today. He didn’t want it to be a story about Stalinist Russia. Instead, he gravitated toward themes of capitalism, wealth and overconsumption. The billionaire antagonist, Pilkington (Glenn Close), drives what closely resembles a Cybertruck.

[The ‘Ulm Five’ pictured from left to right: Daniel Tatlow-Devally, Zo Hailu, Crow Tricks, Vi Kovarbasic and Leandra Rollo]

Heroes: Activists accused of raiding Israeli weapons factory face trial in Germany

Five European nationals known as the ‘Ulm Five’ are said to have targeted a site linked to Elbit, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.

The lawyers for the activists contend the alleged incident was “an act of civil disobedience” aimed at stopping actions that violate international law.

“No one was injured,” they said in a recent statement. “None of the defendants has a prior criminal record. None used violence against any person.”

Matthias Schuster, lawyer for Vi Kovarbasic, one of the activists, told Al Jazeera that all the accused were involved in pro-Gaza protests and had “witnessed the unsuccessful attempt to hold the Israeli and German governments accountable for their role in the genocide by both international and German law”.

Fucking Animal of another Jewish Kind:

Larry Ellison is one of the world’s richest people. He may also be one of the world’s most indebted men—even before he guaranteed more than $40 billion for the Warner Bros. deal.

He has borrowed heavily against his stake in Oracle ORCL -4.05%decrease; red down pointing triangle, the software company he co-founded almost 50 years ago, to fund a lifestyle that includes superyachts, 98% of a Hawaiian island and his son’s foray into Hollywood.

In the borough of Archbald, Pennsylvania, incoming developers have threatened to erect six separate data center campuses to power the tech industry’s insatiable demand for AI computing power, the Washington Post reports.

Fucking Brin’s Gestapo Nation: A Tiny Town Is Building So Many Data Centers That There’ll Be Almost Nothing Else Left

“THE PUBLIC TRUST HAS BEEN VIOLATED.”

Gestapo WWF style: In a fiery hearing Tuesday, U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon defended her work dismantling the very department she leads, with Senate Democrats saying the results have made life harder for parents and students. McMahon’s first appearance on Capitol Hill in nearly a year was intended to unpack the White House proposal on education spending for the 2027 fiscal year — and gave senators a chance to take stock of McMahon’s actions.

Some Republicans, including Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy, cheered McMahon’s changes, like her push for expanding school choice, while many shared the concerns of their Democratic counterparts about proposed cuts to TRIO, a group of federal programs that help disadvantaged students get into and through college.

That’s right, Brin’s Inverted Totalitarianism: This should be the FUCKING LAW of the land — no=profits for health care!

A closely watched legal fight over who controls emergency room care in Lane County is shaping up to be the first major test of the nation’s toughest law limiting corporate influence in medicine — and the stakes are high for patients and the future of physician staffing across Oregon.

In federal court in Eugene on Monday, lawyers squared off over PeaceHealth’s plan to overhaul emergency services at its Lane County hospitals.

The change would replace Eugene Emergency Physicians — a local group that has staffed PeaceHealth’s three Oregon ERs for over 35 years — with a new setup involving out-of-state ApolloMD. The move has drawn pushback from many of the hospital’s current doctors, lawmakers and others in the community.

Pretty fucking amazing.

Chinguetti, Mauritania – Bookkeeper Muhammad Gholam el-Habot gently pulled a pair of white gloves onto his slender hands and set about his routine in his high-ceilinged, cool library lined with steel bookshelves.

He opened a thick manuscript printed in Arabic. After leafing through its brown and frail pages, looking for damage, el-Habot closed the book with a satisfied thud, rubbed his fingers over the wrinkled leather cover, and carefully placed it in a white cardboard box.

“These books are very important to my family and me,” the librarian said, as the midday sunlight spilled in through open wooden doors. He spoke in Hassaniya Arabic, the dialect spoken in Mauritania, his voice low, his sentences halting and poetic. Fat flies buzzed around his long oval face as he worked.

“My relationship with them is like that of a father and his son,” he continued. “We must protect them until God takes the land and all the people who are on the land.”

The el-Habot family library is only one of a handful of its kind still operating in Chinguetti, a medieval fortress town or ksar in Mauritania’s northern Adrar region. Once a centre of commerce and Islamic learning between the 13th and 17th centuries, it is now largely abandoned as, over the decades, locals have sought opportunities in bigger cities.

Then you have the fucking Sodomites: Smashed pipes, blocked off wells: Taps run dry in the West Bank as Israeli settlers target Palestinians’ water

Brin’s fucking psychpathic people:

Jews are the sickest cunt on the planet:

And all criminal injustice systems, almost all DAs, almost all judges, and a whole shit load of lawyers, are scoundrels and worthless eaters and breathers.

“It really makes you angry. This wasn’t me. I didn’t do it,” said Jenkins. “But all I could do was just wait for an attorney.”

An attorney shortage has left thousands trapped in criminal cases without lawyers. One wrongfully accused woman had no choice but to wait

Corshelle Jenkins was charged with a crime she didn’t commit – and now, there was a warrant for her arrest.

In May 2025, the 36-year-old Portland resident received a letter saying she had been arrested for theft, and after failing to appear in court, police were instructed to take her to jail. The mother of six was stunned. She had never been arrested for stealing. She assumed a visit to court would prove it was a case of mistaken identity.

But in court, a judge told her the state had no lawyers available to represent her. She would have to keep returning for appearances until one freed up. That day, roughly 1,280 other defendants in her county were also waiting for attorneys. Some had gone months – or more than a year – without representation.

[Grant Hartley, the Multnomah county director of Metropolitan Public Defender, in a meeting with Jessica Snyder and Nadia Dahab of the law firm Sugarman Dahab.]

NOTHING works in AmeriKKKa for us, the 80 Percent:

ONE PEDOPHILE SPEAKING TO ANOTHER PEDOPHILE…BOTH IN THE EPSTEIN-TRUMP BABY RAPING FILES…

Genius Trump!

“This is not only bad for NSF, it is bad for American scientific leadership as the U.S. is being challenged by China and other nations,” Owens said.

Keivan Stassun, who had served on the board since 2023, said the firings allow the Trump administration, through the White House Office of Management and Budget, to exert “direct control of the nation’s primary investment in basic scientific research and technology by, in effect, removing the governance layer.” The board sets the NSF’s policies and approves major expenditures.

Over the weekend, new FEC filings revealed a billionaire-backed super PAC supporting Republican Sen. Susan Collins has started running attack ads against Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner. Pine Tree Results is being funded by a litany of ultrawealthy donors, including Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman ($2 million); Elliott Management CEO Paul Singer ($1 million); Reyes Holdings executives ($1 million); and Palantir CEO Alex Karp ($100,000).

Platner responded, in part, by noting that Collins’s billionaire-backers are all coming from out of state, with no local interest in Maine. That’s mostly true. On June 27, 2025, Blackstone’s Schwarzman gave $2 million to the Pine Tree Super PAC. The next day, Collins cast a critical vote to move Trump’s “Big Beautiful” tax bill forward in the Senate, a bill that was packed with giveaways to the private equity industry. (She eventually voted against final passage, as she often does when there are enough Republican votes to pass legislation without her.)

[Apollo Global Management bankrupted two of Maine’s largest paper mills, selling them for scraps and wiping out more than 1,000 jobs. Now the CEO is cutting checks to keep Susan Collins in office.]

Billionaire Bankrolling Anti-Platner PAC Gutted Maine Mill Towns

Apollo Global Management bankrupted two of Maine’s largest paper mills, selling them for scraps and wiping out more than 1,000 jobs. Now the CEO is cutting checks to keep Susan Collins in office.

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Ryan Pickoski walks toward the Verso paper mill in Bucksport on Thursday, December 4, 2014, the day before the number 1 paper machine was scheduled to make its last run. Photo by Gabe Souza/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images.

Over the weekend, new FEC filings revealed a billionaire-backed super PAC supporting Republican Sen. Susan Collins has started running attack ads against Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner. Pine Tree Results is being funded by a litany of ultrawealthy donors, including Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman ($2 million); Elliott Management CEO Paul Singer ($1 million); Reyes Holdings executives ($1 million); and Palantir CEO Alex Karp ($100,000).

Platner responded, in part, by noting that Collins’s billionaire-backers are all coming from out of state, with no local interest in Maine. That’s mostly true. On June 27, 2025, Blackstone’s Schwarzman gave $2 million to the Pine Tree Super PAC. The next day, Collins cast a critical vote to move Trump’s “Big Beautiful” tax bill forward in the Senate, a bill that was packed with giveaways to the private equity industry. (She eventually voted against final passage, as she often does when there are enough Republican votes to pass legislation without her.)

One benefactor does have a Maine connection—though it’s a sordid one. That donor is Apollo Global Management’s billionaire CEO and founder Marc Rowan, a giant in the world of private equity who has faced scrutiny for his links to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Rowan contributed $50,000 so far of the $2 million already dedicated to the anti-Platner campaign, and has been a major backer of AIPAC in recent years.

From 2006 to 2020, Apollo Management ran two of Maine’s largest paper mills into the ground, bankrupting them both, selling off their carcasses for scraps, and eliminating more than 1,000 jobs in Bucksport and Jay. That wasn’t a failure on the part of the private equity firm, which is able to profit by extracting wealth from healthy businesses through a process of stacking them with debt, filing for bankruptcy, and looting their assets, including pensions promised to workers.

In the case of the paper mills, they were the flagship properties of International Paper, which Apollo took over and redubbed Verso Paper. Apollo forced the new company it owned to take out $250 million in debt and hand the money over to Apollo, making sure its own investment was covered, in the form of a dividend, and proceeded to slowly bankrupt the company—what the mafia refers to as a “bustout.” The Star Tribune singled out the financial maneuver as “how Apollo got almost all of its money out of Verso.”

The shuttered paper mill in Jay is now the proposed site of a $550 million AI data center project.

Gov. Janet Mills, who is flailing in her campaign against Platner in the Democratic primary, recently used her veto to effectively protect the data center project, nixing a statewide moratorium on data centers that passed with bipartisan support. The bill was approved with 82-62 vote in the Maine House and 21-14 vote in the state Senate. It goes back to the State Legislature on April 29, where it would require a two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate to override Mills’s veto.

Sen. Collins is one of the private equity industry’s strongest allies. In 2017, she drafted an amendment to close the carried-interest loophole, the tax break that funnels billions to private equity executives, then dropped it hours before the vote on Trump’s tax bill. In the following cycle, ProPublica found Collins was the largest Senate recipient of private equity money.

Susan Collins Raked in Wall Street Cash Before Advancing Trump Tax Bill

Collins has benefited from her advocacy for AI. She has taken $105,350 in donations from Palantir, the data analytics technology company founded by billionaire Peter Thiel. According to Palantir Purge, a website dedicated to monitoring Palantir’s activities, Collins ranks fifth among recipients of contributions from Palantir executives since 2006. The sum includes donations from CEO Karp, and contributions to her campaign committees, leadership committees, and Collins-affiliated super PACs. Since 2009, Palantir has received more than $2.5 billion in taxpayer-funded federal contracts for their services, including powering the mass surveillance apparatus used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Donald Trump’s uncle was a scientist. He didn’t talk to his uncle about climate change but he knows what scientists think. Because he has a natural instinct for science.

Genius using the Jew Neuroperverse Dark Matter . . .

Israel has created nine English-language websites explicitly aimed at manipulating AI platforms like Claude and ChatGPT. Its vehicle for maintaining these websites is Clock Tower X, a company founded by Brad Parscale, the former manager of President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign. Now a federally registered foreign agent, Parscale is the point man on a gargantuan contract aimed at reversing Israel’s public relations crisis by flooding online media with anti-Palestinian propaganda.

Among the new websites registered by Israel and maintained by Clock Tower X is a portal dedicated to “prov[ing] that Hamas’s terrorist designation reflects global consensus, and undeniable evidence of violence, not conspiracy.” Called Factsignal.org, the site has distributed materials attempting to cast doubt on an incident that has become a symbol of the crimes committed by the Israeli army against the civilian population of Gaza.

According to materials distributed by Clock Tower X and the government of Israel through Factsignal.org, the Israeli army did not kill the six-year-old Hind Rajab and her family by firing 335 rounds on their car while they attempted to flee Gaza City. Instead, according to the site, the Rajab family was likely killed by Palestinian resistance fighters, who “were active in the same area at the time, raising alternative explanations.”

Factsignal.org offers an array of baseless theories to explain the killing of Rajab and her family, positing that “vehicles could have been hit in crossfire” by Palestinian fighters operating in the area, or by “mortar fire or small arms from Palestinian groups.” It also speculates that “the scene could have been altered after the fact.”

FROM THE JEWZONE, err, Grayzone:

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It took a Jew, really, to write Nickel and Dimed? Ain’t seeing any Jew doing house cleaning or schlepping laundry and supplies for these vacation rentals, but am sure Jews own a shitload of them!

Paulo Kirk

Apr 27, 2026

Barbara Ehrenreich was a middle-class journalist with a PhD who went “undercover” to investigate low-wage work for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. While she didn’t face permanent poverty, she intentionally lived on minimum wage ($6–$7/hr) to experience the survival strategies of the working poor.

A JEW. Not middle class, whatever that is. Money and more money.

  • As a researcher with financial backing, she was able to pay for upfront costs like security deposits for housing, which many genuinely poor workers cannot afford, note discussions on Reddit/r/povertyfinance.
  • The “Poverty Tourist” Critique: Some readers consider her a “poverty tourist” who could not fully grasp the long-term mental and physical toll of poverty because she had a safety net to return to her upper-middle-class life.
  • Safety Net & Starting Wealth: Ehrenreich began her experiment with “money already in her pocket” and a car, which many of her subjects lacked. She also had the ultimate safety net: she could choose to end the experiment and return to her middle-class life at any time.
  • Education & Perspective: Her advanced education and professional status gave her a different mental perspective than those who have known only low-wage labor. Critics have described her project as “radical ethnography” or “slumming,” noting she took liberties —such as having a bank account or professional connections—that real low-wage workers do not have.
  • Earnings Disparity: At least one critic noted that during her experiment, Ehrenreich’s earnings actually placed her at roughly 170% of the federal poverty line for a single person at the time ($8,700/year in 1999), meaning she was statistically not “poor” by government standards.

Oregon Housekeeping Market Averages (2026)

Housekeeping wages in Oregon are generally higher than the national average due to local market demands:

  • Statewide Average: ~$18.56 per hour.
  • Entry-Level: Typically starts around $13.46 to $15.00 per hour.
  • Senior/Top-Level: Can reach $18.32 to $20.30 per hour.

Highest Paying Cities in Oregon

If you are looking for higher-than-average rates in the state, consider these locations:

  • Sunriver: ~$23.66/hr
  • Waldport: ~$21.63/hr
  • Oceanside: ~$21.42/hr
  • Portland: ~$18.56/hr

So, looking at the Substacks and other fuckin headlines coming in while I put in an 8-hour day at age 69, 17 dollars an hour delivering laundry and supplies and hauling dirty laundry back, well, well.

These fucking Chlamydia Whores, making the news? Do we care while we’re hustling to get the supplies and clean towels and laundry and dirty one out before check-in: 5 pm. Fucking Cunt Weiss? Who the fuck CARES?

This fucking pedophile, this hater of his version of deplorables?

This Jew, in my Substack feed, this Trumpian Aaron Parnas, asking for shekels?

I also need to address something deeply concerning that unfolded overnight. I woke up to a flood of messages and videos asking about a claim that the suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting was a former employee of mine. That is completely untrue. These claims appear to be driven by AI-generated content that originated on Facebook and is now spreading across platforms by bad actors. This is not just misinformation. It is dangerous, and if the wrong person believes it, it could lead to serious threats to my family and me.

Look up this fucker on Substack, and his old man. He is a Trump supporter:

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Parnas was born in Boca Raton, Florida, to businessman Lev Parnas and Barbara Ison. He is of Jewish-Ukrainian descent.[2] He graduated from Florida Atlantic University High School and simultaneously earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science and criminal justice at the age of 18.[5]

He received his J.D. with honors from George Washington University Law School in 2020 at the age of 21.[6] While in law school, Parnas received awards for oral advocacy, including the Cohen & Cohen Mock Trial Award and the Graduation Award for Excellence in Pre-Trial and Trial Advocacy.[7] He later clerked for Judge Sheri Polster Chappell of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.[8]

Parnas has cited watching the televised Casey Anthony trial at age 12 as a formative moment that sparked his interest in law and public defense.[1]

Legal career

In 2019, Parnas interned at Greenberg Traurig, the former law firm of Rudy Giuliani.[9] Following law school, he worked at Bell Rosquete Reyes Esteban PLLC and served on the board of the Florida Justice Center.[10] He later joined the securities litigation team at Levi & Korsinsky LLP in Washington, D.C.[8]

Political evolution

Parnas initially identified as a Republican and supported Donald Trump in the 2016 election.[11] After his father’s involvement in the Trump–Ukraine scandal, Parnas left the Republican Party and registered as a Democrat. He voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 election and served as press secretary for the Miami-Dade Democratic Party in 2021.[2]

While his father’s legal scandal played a role in his political realignment, Parnas has also cited a personal health scare and visits to underfunded classrooms as pivotal in forming his progressive views. He has said these experiences highlighted the importance of access to healthcare and equitable education, issues that pushed him toward Democratic politics.[1]

His fucking daddy Jew interviewed by another daddy Jew, Maddow: On January 15 and 16, 2020 MSNBC aired segments of an interview of Parnas conducted by Rachel Maddow.[49][27] This was Parnas’s first television interview regarding his involvement in the Trump-Ukraine scandal.[50] Some of Parnas’s claims were supported by documentary evidence released by the House that same week.[51][52] Elements of the interview including timelines that were cross-checked by some news organizations against event records such as the date Pence announced he would not be going to Ukraine.[53] White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, Pence spokesman Marc Short, and a Justice Department spokesman stressed the fact that Parnas was under indictment and therefore was not credible.[54] Trump repeated the claims he did not know Parnas, and denied he was aware of a letter by Giuliani to the Ukrainian president wherein Giuliani claimed that he was acting on the behalf of Trump.

I paid motherfucking federal and state taxes, that is my wife and I did. A lot!!! And do we fucking care if the entire maure pile gets blown up at the correspondents’ ball?

  • The White House is urging Congress to quickly fund the Department of Homeland Security, calling the situation a “national emergency” after the recent attempted assassination at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. President Trump is pushing Republicans to unite and pass a budget plan to fund immigration enforcement agencies by June 1, while warning of growing security risks as DHS faces a prolonged funding shortfall. Officials say the agency could soon run out of money to pay employees, adding urgency to the standoff with Democrats over immigration policy conditions. The incident has intensified concerns about security preparedness for upcoming major events and increased pressure on lawmakers to act.
  • Karoline Leavitt blamed critics of Trump for contributing to the shooting, arguing that rhetoric labeling him a fascist or threat to democracy fuels political violence. She said such comparisons, including to Hitler, encourage hostility and claimed a broader “left-wing” climate of hatred has led to people being harmed.
  • Todd Blanche criticized media coverage of the president, arguing that harsh and unsubstantiated criticism contributes to a climate of hostile rhetoric. He said journalists who frequently use negative labels are “just as guilty” as online commentators, adding,

“Many people in this room have done it as well. They’re just as guilty as a lot of people on X. When you have reporters, when you have media just being overly critical and calling the president horrible names for no reason and without evidence, it shouldn’t surprise us that this type of rhetoric takes place.”

Todd Blanche wants to be attorney general – and he’s going all in on Trump’s retaliation agenda to prove it

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‘He’s attempting to show that with Pam Bondi gone, things are going to start happening.’Illustration: Guardian Design/Photo by Tom Williams/Getty Images

Trump’s former personal attorney has left little doubt to how he’d further politicize the justice department if his status becomes permanent.

Can you imagine how fucking MEANINGLESS all of this gibberish and this fawning and fucking liberal cocksucking hits the average person doing these bullshit jobs with bullshit tasks and bullshit managers and bullshit owners?

Stephen Glosser Miller, yep:

On Inauguration Day 2025, Trump signed a presidential proclamation declaring that migration at the southern border constituted an “invasion” of the United States. The proclamation — issued under 8 U.S.C. 1182(f), a provision allowing the president to suspend entry of certain noncitizens — purported to halt not just the physical entry of migrants crossing between ports of entry, but their statutory right to apply for asylum altogether.

DHS and DOJ followed with implementing guidance that created ultra-expedited removal procedures: rushed screenings, often by phone, often without a lawyer, often without a meaningful right to appeal — even for people claiming torture or persecution.

It was Miller’s legal handiwork made operational. And Thursday, the D.C. Circuit called it illegal.

Writing for the majority, Judge J. Michelle Childs, joined by Judge Cornelia Pillard, held that the INA’s “text, structure, and history” make clear that Congress never intended the president’s 1182(f) suspension power to authorize a wholesale rewrite of removal procedures — or the elimination of asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture protections that Congress itself encoded into law.

The court was direct: the proclamation and its implementing guidance are unlawful “to the extent that they circumvent the INA’s removal procedures and cast aside federal laws affording individuals the right to apply and be considered for asylum or withholding of removal protections.”

More fucking Jew talk?

In my youth, I was induced, and there was not a countervailing assertion proffered, that Zionism was both a citadel of mind and of landscape, that as a Jew Israel was my true place of sanctuary in a world that might tolerate me on sight one moment and shove me into a deathcamp-bound cattle car next, and this homicidal intent was partly true of Arabs, and the closer the proximity of said Arab — i.e., Palestinians — the greater the degree of homicidal intent.

Israel's Ben-Gvir defends settler violence in West Bank

Then these cocksucker stories?

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Not my writing, but from X: Cole Allen charged a Secret Service checkpoint with a shotgun, willing to die for a shot at the President.

Caltech graduate. Master’s in computer science.

From what looks like a good family.

His archived tweets tell the story of how he got there. What radicalized him weren’t fringe accounts. They were the same talking points repeated every day on the left.

May America and Israel perish.

Residents walk past colorful wall paintings as daily life continues under the shadow of destruction following the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Tehran, Iran, on April 5, 2026.

Israel escalates in Gaza: killing, torture, hunger –

Israel escalates in Gaza: killing, torture, hunger – Daily Update

Do I have a RIGHT to complain? Fuck, this is a carnival, a back alley abortion, a snake oil salesman on steroids selling more crypto and shares in the Military Killing Machine.

The capacity for people working labor-stressed jobs, cleaning toilets and setting up vacation homes that go for $400 a night, well, are they tied to the fact we ALL are Gazans and we ALL are on Reservations.

And the younger folk I work with have three kids, the first one at age 18, and they are 33 or 35 working three jobs, man, and so we are here, then, huge divides, yet we are in the same fucking boat, no, 69 or 33, working for $17 an hour? Do I do a GoFundMe, or do I harp on you kind readers to throw in shekels to keep the bottle of tequila once a month in the cupboard?

There are Mexicans and Guatemalans working this job, and a few Ukrainians, and of course, 75-year-old women, white, working these jobs, we deplorables in the eyes of Hillbilly VD Vance and Hillary Cunt Epstein and Trump Rapist Bibi.

Many Ukrainian men have risked their lives to flee Zelensky’s military recruitment camps, which resemble concentration camps.

In the second half of April, the terror unleashed by military recruiters across Ukraine has intensified sharply, alarming even some lawmakers from the party and governing regime of the unelected ‘president’ Volodymyr Zelensky. The daily war by the regime against Ukrainians is growing increasingly brutal with each passing month.

In light of this, there has been talk in Ukraine of ‘reforming’ the regime’s military recruitment offices. But judging by the published drafts of such reforms, the talk amounts to nothing more than a rebranding, while the practice of forcibly rounding up defiant men of military age from the country’s streets and neighbourhoods remains unchanged.

Due to several recent killings of some military recruiters and frequent cases of resistance to their forcible detentions, recruiters are now conducting their manhunts in large, armed groups, concealing their faces in order to avoid subsequent retaliations. After all, the recruiters live, shop, and send their children to school or shelters like everyone else.

There are tons of Ukraine signs along the route where these homes are in Lincoln County, you know liberals and No Kings Day adherents.

Do we need the Jew Blumenthal?

Here we go, more Jews:

Now how do we frame this, no, with our bullshit jobs, the $17 an hour, no benefits, no medical health care, all of that, how do they, we, really drill down into these headlines?

Fucking JEWS:

Do these cleaners and washwomen and delivery jockeys care about this?

Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández interviews British economist Emily Morris, who has specialized in studying the Cuban economy since the early 1990s. Emily compares the current crisis with the hardships of the Special Period, and explains the impact of U.S. policy.



Morris breaks down how Cuba’s economy functions — its dependence on foreign exchange, the role of tourism and remittances and the growing weight of the informal sector. She argues that while internal problems matter, external pressures have significantly shaped the country’s limited recovery.



At the center of the discussion is a broader question: what happens when a small economy is cut off from global finance, trade networks and investment flows in an increasingly interconnected world?

Recently, there has been a major backlash to the disturbing manifesto put out by the AI surveillance company founded by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, Palantir.

Much of the manifesto signalled Palantir’s desire to support U.S. wars abroad, writing,

-The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation

– Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

-If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.

-American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace.

The manifesto even calls for the return of the draft, writing, “National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.”

Do we working-class deplorables have time to know, hear, read, discuss, critique and CARE?

GAZA…IT WON’T STOP UNTIL NETANYAHU & THE IDF ARE WIPED OUT…

A battle is shaping up on the Colorado Plateau between its Native inhabitants and capitalist natural resource plunderers. The government and the speculators will pose the question in terms of property rights. But Diné activists, with more than adequate data, pose the issue in terms of their health, the health of miners who died of cancers and lung disease, and even of unborn children exposed to radioactive waste around abandoned uranium-mine tailings.

April 27, 2026 Return of the Yellow Monster of the Diné: Uranium Mining on the Big Rez Bill Hatch

We have no time collectively to spend on these stories.

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night was supposed to be a masterclass in selective memory. Instead, it became a masterclass in timing. Bad timing, cinematic timing. The kind that makes reality feel like it hired a screenwriter who forgot the genre.

Roughly 2,600 people gathered under chandeliers to celebrate “press freedom.” This year, the administration skipped the comedian. No sharp jokes, no roasting the powerful, just a mentalist, because nothing says fearless journalism like a carefully neutral magic trick. And then, before the illusion could settle, gunfire.

The Epstein Class Celebrates “Press Freedom” in DC While Israel Executes Journalists in Lebanon and Palestine

Amal Khalil was killed three meters from her colleague. The double-tap method is documented. The footage does not forget.

Do we have the time and wherewithal to see this level of pain and poverty and impoverishment?

the past month has been the bloodiest in Palestine since the ‘ceasefire’ began.

Israel has committed 2,400 violations of the ceasefire agreement and thousands of Palestinians are dead. The international community has issued statements of concern. The bombs have not stopped

DEATH somewhere else, not on our coast, where gasoline is $4.80 a gallon and many goods have gone up 75 percent to 150 percent. So what do we blue-collar fuckers do?

Do they have time to read this?

Jewish exceptionalism in the Palestinian solidarity movement

It would seem that to Jewish “anti Zionists” Jews from infancy to death, are and can only be victims, victims of not knowing, of being brainwashed into thinking they are victims of the people they oppress, of being forever unlearned in the humanity of anyone but themselves. All this, seemingly awful to most people, is absolutely lost on most “anti Zionist” Jews. But to make things worse, the Palestinian solidarity movement too consumed by Judeophilia (Jew worship) will forever welcome and accommodate these same Jews listed in what is frankly an incomplete, growing list of Jews who declare themselves anti Zionist. As if they have any right at all to define themselves as the saviors of Palestinians, unvetted by anyone but their own Jew worshipping echo chambers.

In any awakening to moral injustice around oneself, there are two defining stages. The first is recognizing wrong done and one’s own complicity. The second, and most logical reaction in a fair just world, would be an initiative to fight those structures of injustice however that is possible, no matter the discomfort. Yet anti Zionist Jews (the few not named here I would even consider anti-Zionist) have only reached level one. Level two remains as fantastical as a dream for almost all “serious” anti-Zionist Jews, who seek solely to show themselves as separate from their Judeo Nazi counterparts but never actively name Judaism and Jews, by and large, who are at every level of Zionism. The inability to name Jewish/Jews/Judaism is a mockery of a past and current reality in which Palestinians are being genocided by Jews, for Jews, by a Jewish state, under the banner of Jewish symbols.

Palestinians are silenced for even naming Jews in their own genocide. Palestinians must eternally nuance Jews and European historical white supremacy, while Jews with machine guns wearing kippahs break down the doors of their homes, speaking in Hebrew.

At its core, this is a struggle over language: who is allowed to name power, and who is required to obscure it. When those most affected, Palestinians, are denied the ability to describe their own reality plainly, while Jews, are rewarded for euphemism, the result is not nuance but distortion.

a man in a jumpsuit is smashing the glass of a black car door

Or this? Do we have time to read this and discuss it? It’s time to break these glass ceilings of Jewish feelings

What ultimately stands revealed is not merely a failure of discourse, but a failure of political courage. A solidarity movement that allows its language, leadership, and limits to be shaped by proximity to power cannot hope to dismantle that power. When authority is laundered, speech is contained, and enforcement is outsourced to Jews and their multiplying Jew worshiping gatekeepers, Palestinian liberation is transformed from an urgent material demand into a managed ethical posture: solidarity as administration. If Palestinian lives are to matter beyond symbolic acknowledgment, then the movement must be willing to forgo respectability, abandon the comfort of sanctioned critique, and name the structures responsible for destruction without deference or fear. Anything less ensures that genocide is endlessly debated, carefully worded, and politely condemned, while continuing, uninterrupted, in plain sight.

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Ahh, Japan, USA, Israel — Their war chants: “Kill All, Burn All, Loot All”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paulo Kirk

Apr 26, 2026

Killing with impunity. Settler violence is out of control in the occupied West Bank, yet it’s extremely rare that settlers are held accountable. In fact, it’s often Palestinians who are detained during attacks, even though they were the ones terrorized by Israeli settlers.

Just this week, settlers beat an elderly woman, killed three Palestinians in separate attacks, including one on a school, and re-established an illegal settlement that was dismantled more than 20 years ago. And that’s just a small glimpse of Israeli violence against Palestinians this week. We documented more below, and we bring you the latest out of Gaza, where Israeli “ceasefire” violations continue on a daily basis.

Sure, but . . . Talk, man, talk shows, man, ain’t gunna do it:

“In this episode of Frontline Conversations, Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, discusses the ongoing crisis in Gaza, the global response to the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the role of international institutions in addressing alleged war crimes and human rights violations. Drawing on her reports, field insights, and legal analysis, she explains why she believes the situation in Gaza meets the definition of genocide under international law.

It’s not just fucking Trump the Pedophile/Rapist. 319 Jewish Billionaires LLC:

Self defense is, well, taking a machete, Molotov, Mac10, mines, metal to ALL of them wherever they sleep-dine-fornicate-work-drive-shit!

Trump’s Rubicon moments might reasonably be seen as his declarations that he can “do whatever he wants” without any consequences and does not respect international or generally accepted law, instead relying on his own instincts and “feelings” in terms of what he should do in any given situation.

This disregard for rules and law includes a willingness to ignore the Constitution of the United States when it comes to rights of citizens, international relations and going to war.

When attempting to judge just how far Trump might be willing to go in terms of his feelings, not to mention his subservience to foreign nations like Israel and its Jewish billionaire lobbyists, it is sometimes the small developments and blurted-out admissions by the president and his band of sycophants that are most revealing.

Israel escalates killings of Palestinian children in the West Bank - Palestine Will Be Free

One murder at a time, all of them, Trump-Ellison-Kushner-Witkoff LLC, all 319 Jewish Billionaires and their families anf friends and minions and minyans.

Having slaughtered more than 21,000 children in the Gaza Strip since the start of its genocidal assault on the besieged enclave in October 2023, Israel has accelerated the killing of Palestinian children in the West Bank. Just this week, the Israelis killed two children, while a new report has revealed that at least 27 children have been killed in the West Bank in 2026 alone, describing the killings as “not isolated incidents, but rather part of a broader policy and practice of excessive use of force, rooted in unlawful rules of engagement that seek to cement Israel’s settler colonial apartheid regime as it pursues its genocide against the Palestinian people.”

Violence by settlers, who act under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, has continued to escalate throughout the West Bank as the Israeli state swallows vast swathes of Palestinian land. Dispossession and murder have continued apace.

And we give a shit about the Jew Produced-Directed-Acted in fake gunman at the presstitutes’ Epstein Ball?

And so the world is now the anus stains of the Empire of Hate-Chaos-Disneyland.

More than 130 prominent scholars, writers and artists, including Greta Thunberg, Sally Rooney and Brian Eno, have publicly challenged the UK’s ban on Palestine Action by submitting a letter to the Court of Appeal ahead of a key hearing on the group’s proscription.

The letter, consisting of seven words, “We oppose genocide, we support Palestine Action”, marks a rare collective stance against the ban, despite the legal risks attached to publicly expressing support.

The Epstein Class Celebrates “Press Freedom” in DC While Israel Executes Journalists in Lebanon and Palestine

Amal Khalil was killed three meters from her colleague. The double-tap method is documented. The footage does not forget.

SICK SICK SICK AmeriKKKa.

Roughly 2,600 people gathered under chandeliers to celebrate “press freedom.” This year, the administration skipped the comedian. No sharp jokes, no roasting the powerful, just a mentalist, because nothing says fearless journalism like a carefully neutral magic trick. And then, before the illusion could settle, gunfire.

Fucking upside down dirty world of Capitalists and Westerners. Every fucking one of them is INSANE:

Political spectacles and mainstream media do not cause these strikes, but they shield them. While attention fixes on a disrupted dinner, the system that enables repeated war crimes keeps running. Weapon supply chains move on schedule. Diplomatic cover is renewed. Media language flattens sequences into manageable terms: “clashes,” “tensions,” “unrest.” Neutral words for outcomes that are not neutral.

That is how impunity survives, not with a bang, but with a statement we are expected to digest.

As living proof, just last month, José Andrés’ organization, which bled under Israeli strikes, supplied meals to armed settlers in the West Bank. The photos were captioned with a story about a building hit by Iran: no one killed, no one injured, yet the World Central Kitchen still moved to aid the settlers. That is what impunity does to a system. It rearranges who is fed, who is seen, and who is left out.

This is how fucking INSANE USA deals with their psychic pain? Faculty Actually Are Trying to Flee Red States

Following a year of anecdotes about professors uprooting themselves from Republican-controlled states over academic freedom concerns, a new survey provides evidence that their experiences reflect a broader trend.

This is AmeriKKKa under the feces bag of mixed shit from Democrats and Republicans: $844 million Pentagon contracts went to 3 firms

RTX Corp (Raytheon), Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman

The lie that has always been the lie of this settler-genocide state: The Justice Department is targeting at least 300 foreign-born Americans to possibly revoke their citizenship as part of the Trump administration’s effort to ramp up denaturalization, according to a person familiar with the investigations.

The New Colossus

By Emma Lazarus, 1883

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Ship him out: Hung Cao said the military should be filled with ‘alpha males and alpha females.’ Now he’s Trump’s acting Navy secretary

Fucking trash:

  • Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, in 1971, Cao escaped with his family in 1975 right before the fall of Saigon.
  • Family Background: His father, Quan Cao, worked in South Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture, served as an assistant to the deputy prime minister, and was a Ph.D. graduate of Cornell University.
  • Early Life & Education:He lived in Niger, West Africa, as a child while his father worked as an agricultural specialist for USAID. He returned to Virginia at age 12 and graduated in the inaugural class of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, VA.
  • Military Career: He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1996 with a degree in ocean engineering. He served 25 years as a special operations officer, specializing in bomb disposal and deep-sea diving, with deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia.

[Simulated because the real press is not ALLOWED. And look at those bi-POC, the BIPOC fuckers carrying and the white trash officer on the right. Says it all, Lazurus. Marines carry a simulated casualty during a tactical competition at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California]

Insanity, man, a country of meth users, broken hips, diabetes, old fucks like me still working, housing shortages, high high 400 percent inflation on MOST fucking things, and we get this bang/blood for our buck:

DARPA says its powdered blood for future warfare works in animals. Now comes the hard part.

Something about Africa liberating itself from the white psychotics?

Turkey and Israel are intensifying competition in the Horn of Africa, with Somalia and Somaliland emerging as key battlegrounds for oil, military influence and control of vital Red Sea trade routes.

An aside. Look at these fucking InBred UnUnited Queen-Dumbers, man, and Kehinde is goldern even with two whores and other whores in the audience whipping out their racist dicks.

Kehinde Andrews speaks as the Third Opposition on the motion, at 8pm in the Debating Chamber.



On Thursday 12th February at 8pm, The Cambridge Union hosted our fourth debate of term on the motion: ‘This House Believes in the Right to Offend’. Kehinde is professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, and led the establishment of the first Black Studies programme in Europe. He is chair of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity, and editor in chief of Make it Plain. He is the author of ‘The Psychosis of Whiteness’ and ‘The New Age of Empire’.

These people are fucking monsters, Dystopian funny fucks, and all smirks and smiles shall be carved away with, acid, Epstein ACID? From Fascist Forbes rag-o-zine, and they never fucking bring on the true opposing sides to this fucking way of Gestopo-ing.

Nvidia CEO says that AI agents will make workers busier than ever—they’ll ‘harass’ and ‘micromanage’ you, instead of take your job

Laugh laugh laugh: Billionaires, Eichmanns, Faustians!

Deloitte is planning to reduce several employee benefits for a section of its US workforce starting January 1, 2027, according to a Business Insider report. According to internal documents cited in the report, paid family leave, including parental leave, will be reduced from 16 weeks to eight weeks for affected employees. In addition, annual paid time off (PTO) will also be reduced by 5 to 10 days for many employees, depending on their role and tenure. Deloitte employs about 181,000 people in the United States, though it is not clear how many will be impacted by these changes. The move, the company says is aimed to tailor benefits to better align with the marketplace.

Ain’t no laws of the jungle: Two US officials who died after Mexico drug raid reported to be CIA agents. Mexico to investigate possible breach of its constitution and assess US’s role in anti-drug operation near Chihuahua.

Even lawlessness on the US-Mexico Border Jungle: Texas Can Arrest People Who Illegally Cross at Mexico Border, Court Says. The court had paused a 2023 law allowing state and local police officers to arrest migrants.

The full court ruled in a 10-7 decision on April 24, 2026, to lift a previous injunction that had blocked the law’s enforcement for years. The majority opinion found that the plaintiffs—which included El Paso County and immigrant rights groups—lacked the legal standing to challenge the law. Notably, the court reached this decision on procedural grounds and did not rule on whether the law itself is constitutional.

This entire Klan Cuntry, all of us are deputized, militarized, CI-ized (confidential informant), snitchified, all of us duck and cover, active Pedophile in Chief with Minyans in and out of the White Man’s House ready to kill.

Jewified, the other way around. Zeldin on firm ground as Cabinet ousters continue

There might just be a simple reason the EPA administrator is more secure in his job than his Cabinet colleagues: He’s good at doing what Trump wants.

It was a great honor to get to light the menorah at the White House this week.



“He is seriously Jewish!” —President Trump

An initial reorganization proposal document, obtained by OPB, identified a dozen degree programs as potential candidates for either elimination or consolidation. The programs facing potential cuts included music, theater, philosophy, chemistry, creative writing and literature and international relations.

Linfield College (Oregon) student Ali Shelton, who is graduating with an international relations major this year, said she can’t imagine the university without these degrees.

“We would not be a diverse community like we are now. There would not be different opinions,” Shelton said about paring down programs. “There would be less clubs. There would be less color to the cultural landscape of Linfield.”

Shelton was one of over 100 students who signed a petition that expressed their dissatisfaction with the university’s budget cut process. The petition, which was presented to Linfield administrators at a university town hall earlier this month, noted that cuts would impact the institution’s mission rooted in liberal arts education.

Jews: Some faculty and students are concerned proposed cuts will threaten Linfield’s liberal arts education mission.

Key Leaders of The Pico Group (Pico Far East Holdings Limited):

Lawrence Chia Song Huat: Chairman and CEO, responsible for driving the group’s international growth and digital transformation.

James Chia: Group President.

Key Background: Originally a Singapore-based firm, the company is now a major public corporation specializing in events, brand experiences, and venue management.

James Chia Song Heng and Lawrence Chia Song Huat are brothers.

They are key figures in the Pico Group, a global total brand activation company founded by their eldest brother, Chia Siong Lim

As always, drops in the murderous bucket of blood: China’s Commerce Ministry said on Friday it ​was banning exports of dual-use items to seven European entities over arms sales to Taiwan, placing them ‌immediately on its export control list, in a rare case of Europe-targeted, Taiwan-related sanctions.

Taiwan, which China views as its own territory, gets most of its weapons from the U.S. Europe has not sold any big-ticket items like fighter jets to Taipei for around three decades, fearful of raising ​the ire of Beijing.

High-Tech Components and Materials

  • Rare Earth Elements: Specific elements essential for the manufacture of semiconductor chips and drones.
  • Advanced Electronics: High-performance electronic components, including sensors and communication systems.
  • Aerospace Technology: Technologies used in satellite intelligence, aircraft research, and drone components.

Strategic Chemicals and Industrial Goods

  • Radioactive Isotopes: Items requiring specialized environmental and trade permits.
  • Ozone-Depleting Substances: Chemicals regulated under international non-proliferation and environmental protocols.
  • Military-Grade Materials: Synthetic materials and components that can be used in the production of firearms, armored vehicles, or aerospace hardware.

Prohibited Actions

  • Direct Exports: Chinese exporters are strictly prohibited from shipping any listed dual-use goods to the seven designated European firms.
  • Third-Party Transfers: Overseas organizations and individuals are barred from transferring or supplying China-origin dual-use items to these entities.
  • Cease and Desist: All ongoing activities related to the supply of these items were ordered to stop immediately as of April 24, 2026.

REMEMBER?

But, forgotten by most of the history books, let it be known that the Chinese suffered much more in numbers than did even the Jews. Most of us don’t think of the Chinese when we think of WWII. We think foremost of Germany, then Japan, Russia, Italy, France, England, and virtually all of Europe. Historically we don’t hear much in this country about the invasion of China by a highly imperialistic Japan in 1937. Germany didn’t officially start their assault on the world until September of 1939. Human rights atrocities were taking shape in Germany before 1939 but there were no actual attacks…not so in China. Japan wanted China’s vast land mass, and Japan was much more militaristic and provocative so, why not a little genocide?

Of all the countries engaged in WWII, Russia had the most casualties…estimated at between 23 million and 28 million, but not far behind is China. China lost the second most of any country involved in WWII….a breathtaking 20 million….virtually all were killed by the Japanese. During a six-week period, the Japanese military killed thousands and thousands of unarmed civilians, and tortured up to 80,000 more in a vile manner. Additionally, General Yasuji Okamura implemented his Three Alls Policy (Kill All, Burn All, Loot All) which was responsible for around 3 million deaths in of itself. Due to the Japanese, 80% of Chinese who died during World War II were civilians. Wrap your head around that for a second. Of the 20 million Chinese who died in WWII, 16 million were civilians.

General Yasuji Okamura,also known as Neiji, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japan China Expeditionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, participated in several high-profile ceremonies at the end of World War II. He is known for signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender in Nanjing on September 9, 1945. He was documented for showing a gesture of respect toward fallen Chinese soldiers. Shortly after the formal surrender, Okamura visited the Tomb of Unknown Chinese Soldiers (specifically associated with the 1937 Battle of Nanjing).

This act was viewed as a rare show of military “bushido” or respect for a defeated foe. However, many historians also interpret it as a calculated political move to appease the Nationalist (Kuomintang) government under Chiang Kai-shek.Okamura’s cooperation with the Nationalists eventually led to him being found not guilty of war crimes by the Shanghai War Crimes Tribunal in 1949. Instead of being executed, he was retained as a military advisor to help the Nationalist forces fight the Chinese Communist Party. He was responsible for the “Three Alls Policy” (Kill all, burn all, loot all) in North China, which resulted in massive civilian and military casualties. After serving as an advisor in China, he returned to Japan in 1949 and later helped establish the Japan Self-Defense Forces. General Okamura was born on May 15, 1884 in Kyoto Prefecture.He passed away on September 2, 1966 in Tokyo,Japan of stomach cancer. He was 82 years old.

Kill All, Burn All, Loot All

Okamura Yasuji

The fate of Okamura is now explained in light of the Stilwell Papers , published in 1948 by the widow of Jiang Jieshi ‘s former chief of staff . Accused of having conserved his forces against Japan during the war in order to better fight the Communists, Jiang is now accused of clemency towards “ Number One Criminal “ Okamura, because he considers him useful in the pursuit of his anti-Red crusade, all at the expense of the American taxpayer. The National Government finally resolved to try Okamura, even though his main task—managing the repatriation of Japanese troops present in China at the time of the surrender—was completed in April 1948. On July 7, Okamura was notified of his summons to appear before the Military Tribunal of the Ministry of Defense for the Trial of War Criminals ( guofangbu shenpan zhanfan junshi fating ). According to some sources in the People’s Republic of China, cited by Barak Kushner in his study of the trial, he was informed by an emissary of He Yingqin , Brigadier General Cao Shicheng, that the commander-in-chief was very satisfied with the assistance Okamura had provided since August 1945, and that the upcoming trial would be a mere formality. However, this was not the opinion of a large part of the Chinese ruling class: at a preparatory meeting for the trial, which brought together representatives from the Ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs as well as the military, all agreed that he should be sentenced to life imprisonment, with the exception of Cao Shicheng, according to the latter’s testimony. When delivering their verdict on January 26, 1949, the judges reached the same conclusion: Okamura was indeed guilty. The presiding judge, Shi Meiyu (1908-1992), then showed them two telegrams sent respectively by Li Zongren (1891-1969), who had replaced Jiang Zemin as President of the Republic of China a few days earlier, and by General Tang Enbo (1899-1954). Both emphasize Okamura’s contribution to the goals of the Nationalist regime and conclude with this unequivocal order: “ Prisoner Okamura Yasuji is useful to us. Please declare him not guilty .” As a precaution, the letter is accompanied by the expected verdict, which the Minister of Defense, Xu Yongchang (1893-1959), has already sealed. The verdictHe himself exonerated Okamura on the grounds that the main war crimes perpetrated by the Chinese Expeditionary Army had been committed before he took office and that Chinese courts had already convicted Japanese officers for these crimes. On January 30, Okamura and 260 other Japanese military personnel tried in China discreetly boarded an American ship in Shanghai bound for Japan. Suffering from tuberculosis, Okamura was hospitalized upon arrival in Tokyo, while his companions completed their sentences in Sugamo Prison. Okamura’s acquittal did not go unnoticed. That same day, radio messages broadcast by the CCP from North Shanxi called on the National Government to arrest Okamura again and hand him over to the communist authorities. The verdict was denounced as part of a scheme to redeploy “ Japanese reactionaries “ to “ fight against the Chinese people .” Nanking sought to disguise this as a ploy through “ hypocritical peace negotiations .” At the same time, Mao Zedong was determined to thwart the peace talks initiated by Li Zongren , who, the day after the verdict, accepted Mao’s “ Eight Points ” as the basis for further negotiations. These negotiations placed Okamura’s fate at the forefront, as the first of these eight points concerned Japanese war criminals. The text on which the negotiations, held in Beijing between April 1st and 20th, stalled, stipulated that “ the case of the war criminal Okamura Yasuji and the 260 other war criminals must remain open to be dealt with ultimately by the New Democracy coalition government .”

In June 1949, Okamura received a visit at the hospital from a delegation of Chinese military personnel led by Cao Shicheng, who presented him with a letter signed by Jiang Jieshi requesting assistance against the Communists. Okamura appealed to Sumita Raishirō (1890-1979) and Sogawa Jirō (1890-1963), both brigadier generals who had served under him at the end of the war, as well as to Ogasawara Kiyoshi, who had served on the staff of the China Expeditionary Army and continued to assist Okamura after the war. Although only a lieutenant colonel, Ogasawara was an expert in counterinsurgency strategies, having contributed to the design of the Rural Pacification Campaign alongside Haruke Yoshitane in 1941. As Jiang Jieshi was already preparing his retreat to the Taiwanese stronghold, they agreed to form a group of Japanese advisors to help the National Army reconquer the mainland. Thus, in October 1949, the “White Group” ( baituan白團) was formed, named after one of its first leaders, General Tomita Naosuke 富田直亮 (1899-1979), who adopted the Chinese pseudonym Bai Hongliang 白鴻亮, but also, adds Barak Kushner, because “white” was the opposite of the “red” of the communists. The officers comprising the group traveled clandestinely to avoid attracting the attention of the American occupiers, whose intelligence services, however, quickly noticed these suspicious movements. In March 1950, General MacArthur reportedly warned Okamura that if his services discovered he had gone to Taiwan to help the Nationalists fight the communists, they would take action against him. In reality, the United States turned a blind eye, especially after the outbreak of hostilities in Korea in the summer of 1950, which led to the rehabilitation of former leaders purged for their involvement in the war. Okamura’s primary motivation does not appear to have been financial but rather ideological. Sometimes compared to a military monk detached from material concerns, he was happy to feel useful by continuing his fight against communism during the Cold War. On September 9, 1945, the day of the surrender ceremony, he reflected in his personal diary on his long career in service to his country, before questioning his future: “ What should I do with the rest of my life? I have no other skills [besides those of a soldier]?” While he was one of the principal architects of the White Group, Okamura was too weakened by illness to travel to Taiwan in person, except for a public visit in 1961. Disbanded in February 1969, the White Group saw more than 80 Japanese officers pass through its ranks and trained between 10,000 and 20,000 Nationalist soldiers.

Until the end of his life, Okamura remained active in veterans’ associations. As the last commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Army, he was present on August 5, 1952, at the gates of Sugamo Prison to welcome the release of his men who had finished serving their sentences handed down by Chinese courts. At his initiative, they all went to express their gratitude to the special envoy of the Republic of China, General Zhang Qun (1899-1990). Okamura was also concerned about the fate of former Chinese collaborators who had taken refuge in the archipelago; in the aftermath of the defeat, he had planned their exfiltration, though this project never materialized. In July 1953, he co-signed a petition with Colonel Yamagata Hatsuo (1873-1871) – a Shinatsu involved in the failed Miao Bin peace operation of January 1945 – addressed to Foreign Minister Okazaki Katsuo (1897-1965). Their petition denounced the precarious legal and financial conditions in which those “ called traitors to the Han by both the CCP and the Jiang regime, whose property has been confiscated and whose very lives are in danger, ” were living. They concluded that it was the duty of the Japanese government to come to their aid. His involvement in circles stemming from the Japanese occupation state in China led Okamura to participate in the creation, in October 1953, of the Association for the Revival of Chinese Residents in Japan ( zainichi Chūgokujin kōseikai在日中国人更生会) with Wachi Takaji and Huang Nanpeng 黃南鵬 (1902-?), a former commander of the Chinese-speaking kenpeitai in Beijing. Funded by “friends of China,” this organization, which aimed to develop trade with the mainland by relying on “Chinese exiles,” was quickly dissolved due to a dispute among its founders. These various initiatives culminated in June 1959 with the formation of the Good Neighbor Association (z enrin yūgi-kai善隣友誼会), spearheaded by two China specialists from the Gaimushō , Shimizu Tōzō and Iwai Eiichi . Okamura agreed to serve on its board of directors, alongside, among others, his former right-hand man, Imai Takeo . The association provided financial assistance to some twenty former colleagues who had sought refuge in Japan. Four years after Okamura’s death in 1966, a collection of his personal archives was published by Lieutenant Colonel Inabata Masao 稲葉正夫 (1908–1973), as part of a series by the Defense Agency’s Bureau of Military History ( bōeichō senshishitsu) .(防衛庁戦史室). Okamura explains in the preface that he repeatedly declined offers from publishing houses hoping to publish his memoirs. He, who worked early in his career in the army’s documentation services, agreed, however, to provide his personal diary kept in 1945-1946, as well as an account of his role during the war written between 1963 and 1965 with the help of Imai Takeo and Ogasawara Kiyoshi. Passing on his battlefield experience, he writes, is a duty to his country.

Kill All, Burn All, Loot All

“Those who can burn the olive groves of Palestinians can burn everything.”



Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expresses outrage over ongoing settler violence in the occupied West Bank, calling it “totally unacceptable, intolerable and unforgivable… done with the tacit cooperation… of the Israeli police and a gross indifference by the Israeli military in the area. And it is time to stop it.”

An Israeli 155mm artillery projectile containing white phosphorus being airburst low over al-Bustan, a village in Lebanon near the border with Israel

Lebanon: Israeli military’s deliberate destruction of civilian property and land ‘must be investigated as war crimes’

  • Homes and buildings destroyed by explosives and bulldozers
  • More than 10,000 structures heavily damaged or destroyed, even after ceasefire declared

“Israeli troops deliberately left a trail of devastation as they moved through the region” – Erika Guevara Rosas

Discussion about this post

Land use — rural, neighborhood, transportation, scenic by-ways, tribal, parks and bikes, new urbanism, smart growth wise use, conciliatory, radical, historic neighborhoods . . . .

Paulo Kirk

Apr 25, 2026

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.


— T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”

LISTEN HERE, the show, May. 20, but here early. Thanks to Dissident Voice’s platform.

I met him a few months ago at a Midcoast Watershed Council presentation where he was the presenter. Onno Husing, and get that pronounced correctly: Ahh-no, he repeated on my radio show. Institutional memory and that role as elder in the community of planners.

For fifteen years he’s been the land use planner for Lincoln County. His talk was very focused:

About the presentation:

Approximately twenty years ago, the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners, in conjunction with county staff, elected to obligate most of its remaining Title III (old Title III) funds to create the Lincoln Land Legacy Program, which facilitates the development of conservation easements on scenic and ecologically important lands in the county. In recent years, Lincoln County staff has worked with partners to preserve several iconic properties in Lincoln County. One of these special places is the south side of Cape Foulweather. The compelling story of how these properties were saved from development will be shared, and thoughts about how to build upon these successes will be explored.

About the speaker:

Onno Husing has been the Director of the Lincoln County Planning & Development Department since 2012. Before that, he served for sixteen years as the Director of the Oregon Coastal Zone Management Association, as well as a self-employed land consultant specializing in wetlands (based in Lincoln County). Husing moved to Oregon in 1985 to attend law school at the U of Oregon. He also holds a master’s degree in Anthropology from the U. of New Brunswick, in addition to a master’s degree in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has previously served as a Congressional staffer (a Sea Grant Fellow working for a Congressional Committee) and a researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). He began his career in marine policy during the summers of 1976/77 when he worked full-time as a crewmember aboard a commercial fishing vessel based out of Provincetown, MA.

Our tribe even got in on the conservation work Onno and his team worked on:

Robert Kentta, a member of the Siletz Tribal Council, emphasized the significance of this project in reconnecting Siletz people with their heritage:

“Before settlement, this land was home to our families, who fished from the rocks and canoes in the ocean, and gathered mussels from the rocky shore. Now, we will have the opportunity to reinvigorate our connections to traditional lifeways.”

Irony, no?

In a historic land transaction, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians regained ownership of 27 acres of their ancestral homelands at Cape Foulweather on the central Oregon coast. This significant land purchase capstones a multi-year collaboration to protect the land’s ecological, cultural and scenic values.

Funded by a $2.01 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Tribe completed the purchase from McKenzie River Trust in October 2024. In 2022, McKenzie River Trust acquired the land from an out-of-state developer, serving as a bridge owner until the Tribe secured funding.

The area has long been a conservation priority. A coalition of partners – including the Tribe, Lincoln County, The Nature Conservancy in Oregon, the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, and McKenzie River Trust – came together to secure the property, obtain funding and return the land to Tribal ownership.

Losing the Land

“We want to hold this land. . . . I will not leave.”

In the early years of the reservation, Siletz people struggled to adapt to a new land, the aggressive federal overseer, forced farming, the government school, church proselytizing, and tenancy in common with other tribes. Concurrently, they had to contend with familiar outside forces—the ones that the remoteness of the reservation was supposed to protect against. On the one hand, the westward movement had its high ideals. Americans now had an unparalleled opportunity as the government adopted homesteading policies that guaranteed free land across the American West. But westward expansion had its ugly side, and it was not just the miners at Jacksonville and the other camps. There were many other people and reasons to settle the Pacific Coast, Indian reservation or no.

Yaquina Bay began attracting the attention of shipping and Willamette Valley agricultural and recreational interests in the early 1860s. After the shipwreck at the shallow mouth of the Siletz in 1856, the BIA brought shipments into Yaquina harbor and then six miles upriver, to Depot Slough, which served as the unloading site for the reservation. Word of the Yaquina spread. It had a tricky, shifting channel, but was the only usable harbor on the central Oregon Coast. Enthusiasm spiked in 1863 with the Americans’ realization of what the Alsea Tribe had always known: Yaquina Bay held excellent beds of oysters—small, but “thickly clustered” and “finely flavored.” Then an alert went out that the Yaquina sands held paying quantities of beach gold.

Illegal encroachment on Indian reservations plagued Indian tribes throughout the nineteenth century.

We talked about urbanism, our Coastal Arena, and what makes sound planning. We did not get into these books: Essential land use planning books, often regarded as foundational reading by professionals, include The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup, and Cities of Tomorrow by Peter Hall. These texts focus on urban design, zoning reform, transit, and community-centric development.

We did not get into New York City much:

We just marked the 52th anniversary of the publication of The Power Broker, the epic urbanist history that has helped generations of New Yorkers understand the warring visions of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs.

And now it’s time to shut up about Moses vs. Jacobs.

Let me explain.

Both Moses, the “master builder” of the urban renewal era, and Jacobs, the grassroots champion of small-scale urbanism, have left deep and lasting imprints on our city. But today, the debate over their visions is a diversion from broader truths about New York City’s history and present-day challenges.

Why? The Moses-Jacobs clash occurred during the only period in history—going back centuries!—when New York City’s population was not growing. From 1940 through 1970, while these titans clashed over Washington Square Park and the Lower Manhattan Expressway, the number of people living in New York City remained essentially unchanged. In the 1970s, the city’s population plummeted. But since 1980 the number of New Yorkers has been steadily climbing, setting records in every Census since 2000.

Many consequential decisions about New York City were made through the lens of this uniquely stagnant mid-century period. Moses and Jacobs sparred over how to provide for a city that they figured was pretty much done growing. The authors of the city’s Zoning Resolution, adopted in 1961, agreed—it was the shape of the city, not its size, that they wanted to change. The suburbs were the center of growth and business investment. Thinkers saw the city as something that needed to be either reinvented or salvaged.

So they advocated approaches that modernized or preserved, but didn’t actually make room for more people. Moses could embrace demolishing as much housing as was built to remake neighborhoods; Jacobs could advocate for small-scale changes and rehabilitating existing buildings without mobilizing the massive resources needed to build much more.

New Yorkers have drawn many lessons from the Moses-Jacobs debate. We have discarded the savage urban renewal of the Moses era and the notion of replacing our historic fabric with new “towers in the park.” We have stitched together the holes gouged into neighborhoods through the disinvestment of the 1970s.

But economic success and the addition of nearly a million more New Yorkers has changed our reality and burst the seams of that fabric. Our city, always a magnet for opportunity-seekers from around the globe, has never been more unaffordable for people seeking to move or to remain here.

We talked about land use history, here in Oregon, a progressive state to come with integrated comprehensive plans and ways to move “growth” along, which of course includes RULES.

But the students at more insightful and radically centered city and town and rural and regional planning programs are skeptical of what the “old planners” are thinking about growth:

Without clear definitions, data center projects can be delayed by uncertainty or misclassification. As Alan Hall, zoning expert with LightBox PZR, noted, “When data centers came on the scene in the early 1990s, many municipalities were unfamiliar with the term ‘server farm’ and assumed the property had some type of agricultural use. We’ve helped countless data center developers and owners navigate the many complexities of these unique properties.”

Utilities, Infrastructure, and Environmental Impacts

Data centers place a unique strain on local utilities. They consume massive amounts of electricity and, in some designs, water for cooling. Zoning and land use reviews must account for whether the local grid and water systems can support the facility—particularly in areas with limited infrastructure.

Environmental considerations also come into play. Cooling systems and diesel backup generators can create air quality and noise concerns. Some municipalities may require public hearings, environmental impact studies, or operational limits to ensure compliance with sustainability goals.

Location Strategy: Industrial Corridors, Tech Parks, and Renewable Hubs

Ideally, data centers are located in industrial or heavy commercial zones with existing infrastructure and sufficient buffer from residential areas. Tech parks and purpose-built data campuses offer the space, connectivity, and access to utilities that these facilities need.

In some regions, proximity to renewable energy sources like wind and solar farms is a strategic advantage.

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Data center regulations are a hot topic at all levels of government right now. One idea gaining traction is requiring data centers to generate their own power. Across the country, some companies are already building private power plants or large solar farms to support their operations. However, we need to carefully consider the long-term implications of this route.

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Many of the recent noise and air pollution complaints tied to xAI data centers in Memphis, Tennessee, and Southaven, Mississippi, are not actually about the data centers themselves. The concerns are largely about the mobile gas turbines being used to generate private power for those facilities.

Other companies are taking a different approach. The Apple data center in Maiden, North Carolina uses a large solar farm to partially power its facility and reduce strain on the local grid. However, projects like this also require significantly more land, often doubling or tripling the footprint.

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If private companies begin operating their own power plants, several important questions arise. Who regulates them and provides oversight? What happens to these facilities if a data center closes, downsizes, or relocates? And what happens if additional capacity or major maintenance is required?

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Private power generation may offer short-term advantages, but the long-term risks deserve careful consideration before we rush into new regulations.

We didn’t talk about this movement: “Community Benefit Agreements” (CBAs): Because data centers generate few permanent jobs, radical planning requires developers to provide community benefits, such as investing in infrastructure, in exchange for development rights.

Fuck, we have many loci for CBA’s, and in a time of outright and overt and clownish and mean-spirited racism, this work is lambasted by not just Trump Rape-Pedophilia-Israel/First LLC, but so so many AmeriKKKans.

Holding Banks Accountable to Communities: A breakdown of Community Benefit Agreements

Like in the San Fernando Valley, every major city and level of government throughout the United States actively excluded communities of color from homeownership through redlining and restricted participation in wealth-building programs (e.g. higher education opportunities under the GI Bill). These policies denied communities access to loans and services based on race. Bank and government-led disinvestment created a legacy of poor infrastructure, fueling the racial wealth gap, and leaving communities of color particularly vulnerable to climate impacts.

Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act in 1977 as a solution to redlining. The CRA obligates banks to serve the needs of low and moderate income communities. Although the civil-rights era legislation fails to explicitly require lending to people of color, it obligates banks to reinvest in the communities they operate in due to their role in widening the racial wealth gap and perpetuating ongoing segregation in our economy. Community benefit agreements are one way banks can fulfill CRA obligations.

What is a Community Benefit Agreement?

A CBA is an agreement negotiated between community members and banks, that ensures banks are held accountable to community development, reinvestment, and fair lending where they operate.

The Greenlining Institute and organizations like the California Reinvestment Coalition support CBA negotiations by engaging banks during mergers and acquisitions. During this process, federal regulators request public comments on how banks can fulfill CRA obligations with strong, forward-looking commitments.

Our process for securing CBAs is based on the Six Standards for Equitable Community Investment, as outlined with more detail in the Greenlined Economy Guidebook. These standards include:

  1. Emphasize Race-Conscious Solutions
  2. Prioritize Multi-Sector Approaches
  3. Deliver Intentional Benefits
  4. Build Community Capacity
  5. Be Community-Driven at Every Stage
  6. Establish Paths Toward Wealth-Building

These standards ensure that CBA goals prioritize racial equity, community, and fair economic opportunity in their business practices, without reinforcing the structures that caused problems in the first place. In partnership with community members, we call on banks to make commitments and establish goals that go beyond CRA obligations, including (but not limited to):

  1. Community investments and lending in affordable housing, economic development and climate resiliency;
  2. More small business lending to smaller businesses;
  3. Mortgages and housing counseling to BIPOC borrowers;
  4. Special purpose credit programs;
  5. Developing policies around mitigating the risks of displacement and climate change;
  6. Philanthropy to BIPOC-led and serving organizations;
  7. Supplier diversity goals; and
  8. Increasing board diversity.

Well, let’s get real about the 319 Jewish Billionaires and millions of Jewish millionaires invested in the surveillance and social control capitalism, which is fascism on steroids.

Though data centers have been a necessary digital infrastructure, the recent surge is propelled by Big Tech companies who will use the data center largely as capacity for the infrastructure of the so-called ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution‘ that focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Big Data, and other “advancements” in digital technologies. Also cashing in on this trend are investment and asset managers (like banks, hedge funds and private equity companies), utility companies and energy providers, and construction firms and real estate developers – most of whom are also dedicated to the continuation of a destructive fossil fuel-driven economy and energy system. Aggressive estimates expect investment in global data center construction to be as high as between $3 trillion and $6.7 trillion over the next five years (Moody’s, McKinsey).

The battle around accelerating data center construction and similar large-scale projects revolves not around municipal codes but the long-unresolved land question. A.I. and hyperscale data centers, as well as quantum computing centers and similar mega-project developments, have been proposed across the country and featured as key fissures in some of 2025’s state and local elections, most prominently in Virginia’s race for governor. These projects typically take away hundreds of acres that could be used for growing food, building housing, developing local environmental resilience, or other socially beneficial activities, with little to no benefit for the local communities. They also require massive water and electricity inputs, produce limited numbers of permanent jobs (normally less than 200-250, and even fewer ‘good jobs’), and contribute to air, noise, and light pollution. This is a part of a relatively consistent pattern of large-scale capital-intensive projects being forced or coerced onto communities based on the interests of monopoly capital. This process is not new or unique to data centers, but rather the status quo of “economic development” across the nation, particularly in municipalities outside of the largest, wealthiest metropolises that are told they must compete for the possibility to escape economic stagnation. These are neocolonial patterns of domestic occupation, extraction, and divide-and-rule.

When communities do fight against such developments, they are inevitably encouraged to seek zoning reforms that can deny industrial projects in certain areas, create “community benefits” agreements that extract concessions from corporate actors, or push local governments to veto individual projects. The current local and national pushback against such megaprojects is well-meaning but ultimately unsustainable against the force of monopoly capital. We already see certain corporate actors trying to maintain their ability to construct data centers as they see fit, with Microsoft recently releasing a “Community-First” AI plan that co-opts social justice language and makes data center construction seem inevitable.

Make no mistake, this is no more than an attempt to cheaply buy off communities and organizers. Microsoft is not incorrect in naming that data centers are a fundamental infrastructure required for the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”, but given the conditions of the U.S., that “revolution” is set to almost exclusively benefit the class of already wealthy and powerful corporate, political, and military elites. This is the story of most corporate economic development and accompanying “benefit” promises. Microsoft is not the first and will not be the last — we need only remember the frenzy around Amazon HQ 2.0 that became a race to the bottom for competing municipalities and further entrenched Amazon’s growing monopoly power. What makes this repeated pattern possible is a complete lack of democratic community control of land and resources, a denial of our rights to collective self-determination that is baked into local, state, and national economic and environmental policymaking in the U.S..

The connection between data center construction and territorial sovereignty also extends globally. In Latin America, such construction is increasing rapidly, deepening existing patterns of displacement, resource scarcity, and corporate capture of politics. In Ethiopia, the newly inaugurated “Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam” directs much of its energy production toward cryptocurrency mining and other computing processes, instead of community needs. And in Greenland, the Trump administration and Big Tech corporate vultures have set their sights on the territory to build data centers and create a libertarian “AI hub”.

Such land grabs and corporate subversion are possible because of an uninterrupted history of “Western” capitalist ruling class occupation and control of land and resources. Thus, understanding the data center boom and the struggles against it as inherently a result of the unresolved land question in the U.S. and ongoing global (neo)colonialism allows us to see that our movements and policy fights must center around struggling for urban and rural land reform, community control over economic development and land use, and climate and environmental liberation. All of this must be part of a broader social revolution and radical reconstruction.

[Coke plant in Birmingham, Alabama. This and other plants have been poisoning and killing Black/African and working class people in Birmingham’s “Mini-Cancer Alley” for over a century. Taken in 2023].

Headquarters of PANIC, which fights air, land, and water contamination by industrial facilities in Birmingham, AL. Taken in 2023.

This is the basic milquetoast but worthy steps of planning I was taught in my MURP program at Eastern Washington U.

The urban planning process is a systematic, multi-stage approach to developing land use, infrastructure, and built environments to improve community quality of life, sustainability, and economic growth. It typically involves analyzing existing conditions, engaging stakeholders for input, drafting plans, implementing regulations like zoning, and continuous monitoring.

Key Phases of the Urban Planning Process

The process is generally iterative, shifting from research to action:

  • Preparation and Research: Initial identification of problems, data collection on land use, population trends, and existing infrastructure.
  • Analysis and Forecasting: Evaluating the gathered data to understand constraints and create future projections.
  • Goal Formulation: Defining a community vision, setting goals, and establishing measurable objectives.
  • Development of Alternatives/Plan Creation: Designing scenarios and drafting the formal plan (e.g., comprehensive plan, master plan).
  • Implementation: Using tools such as zoning, land-use regulations, and public investment to turn the plan into reality.
  • Monitoring and Review: Evaluating the effectiveness of the plan and making adjustments as needed.

I did bring up an article from a planning professor at Onno’s alma mater.” Jane Jacobs and the Death and Life of American Planning by Thomas Campanella, April 2011

The second legacy of the Jacobsian revolution is related to the first: Privileging the grassroots over plannerly authority and expertise meant a loss of professional agency. In rejecting the muscular interventionism of the Burnham-Moses sort, planners in the 1960s identified instead with the victims of urban renewal. New mechanisms were devised to empower ordinary citizens to guide the planning process. This was an extraordinary act of altruism on our part; I can think of no other profession that has done anything like it. Imagine economists at the Federal Reserve holding community meetings to decide the direction of fiscal policy. Imagine public health officials giving equal weight to the nutritional wisdom of teenagers — they are stakeholders, after all! Granted, powering up the grassroots was necessary in the 1970s to stop expressway and renewal schemes that had run amok. But it was power that could not easily be switched off. Tools and processes introduced to ensure popular participation ended up reducing the planner’s role to that of umpire or schoolyard monitor. Instead of setting the terms of debate or charting a course of action, planners now seemed content to be facilitators — “mere absorbers of public opinion,” as Alex Krieger put it, “waiting for consensus to build.” 9

The fatal flaw of such populism is that no single group of citizens — mainstream or marginalized, affluent or impoverished — can be trusted to have the best interests of society or the environment in mind when they evaluate a proposal. The literature on grassroots planning tends to assume a citizenry of Gandhian humanists. In fact, most people are not motivated by altruism but by self-interest. Preservation and enhancement of that self-interest — which usually orbits about the axes of rising crime rates and falling property values — are the real drivers of community activism. This is why it’s a fool’s errand to rely upon citizens to guide the planning process. Forget for a moment that most folks lack the knowledge to make intelligent decisions about the future of our cities. Most people are simply too busy, too apathetic, or too focused on their jobs or kids to be moved to action over issues unless those issues are at their doorstep. And once an issue is at the doorstep, fear sets in and reason flies out the window. So the very citizens least able to make objective decisions end up dominating the process, often wielding near-veto power over proposals.

To be fair, passionate citizen activism has helped put an end to some very bad projects, private as well as public. And sometimes citizen self-interest and the greater good do overlap. In Orange County, part of the Research Triangle and home to Chapel Hill, grassroots activism stopped a proposed asphalt plant as well as a six-lane bypass that would have ruined a pristine forest. But the same community activism has at times devolved into NIMBYism, causing several infill projects to be halted and helping drive development to greenfield sites. (Cows are slow to organize.) It’s made the local homeless shelter homeless itself, almost ended a Habitat for Humanity complex in Chapel Hill, and generated opposition to a much-needed transit-oriented development in the county seat of Hillsborough (more on this in a moment). And for what it’s worth, the shrillest opposition came not from rednecks or Tea Party activists but from highly educated “creative class” progressives who effectively weaponized Jane Jacobs to oppose anything they perceived as threatening the status quo — including projects that would reduce our carbon footprint, create more affordable housing and shelter the homeless. NIMBYism, it turns out, is the snake in the grassroots.

NIMBYism has been described as “the bitter fruit of a pluralistic democracy in which all views carry equal weight.” 10 And that, sadly, includes the voice of the planner. In the face of an angry public, plannerly wisdom and expertise have no more clout than the ranting of the loudest activist; and this is a hazard to our collective future. For who, if not the planner, will advocate on behalf of society at large? All planning may be local, but the sum of the local is national and eventually global. If we put parochial interests ahead of broader needs, it will be impossible to build the infrastructure essential to the long-range economic viability of the United States — the commuter and high-speed rail lines; the dense, walkable, public-transit-focused communities; the solar and wind farms and geothermal plants; perhaps even the nuclear power stations.

The third legacy of the Jacobsian turn is perhaps most troubling of all: the seeming paucity among American planners today of the speculative courage and vision that once distinguished this profession. I’ll ease into this subject by way of a story — one that will appear to contradict some of what I just wrote about citizen-led planning. I have served for several years now on the planning board of Hillsborough, North Carolina, where my wife and I have lived since 2004. Hillsborough, founded 1754, is a charming town some 10 miles north of Chapel Hill. It’s always reminded me of a grittier, less precious version of Concord, Massachusetts. It has a long and rich history, progressive leadership, and a thriving arts and culture scene. It is also blessed with a palpable genius loci: “If there are hot spots on the globe, as the ancients believed,” writes resident Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun, “Hillsborough must be one of them.” 11 The town is also located on one of the region’s main rail arteries, and has been since the Civil War. Every day several Amtrak trains — including the Carolinian, the fastest-growing U.S. passenger line — speed through on their way to Charlotte and Raleigh, Washington and New York. But a passenger train hasn’t made a scheduled stop in Hillsborough since March 1964, when Southern Railway ended service due to declining ridership. After a century of connectivity, Hillsborough and Orange County were cut loose from the nation’s rail grid.

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We didn’t get into this: The Warehouse, in Plain Sight

That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture — of markets, workers, and, now, people detained by immigration agents. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.

Charmaine Chua

April 2026

The warehouse is a place where placelessness is produced. … A concealed infrastructure created by capitalists, adapted by fascists.

At the turn of the 20th century, the American warehouse was a civic monument, assuring the middle classes that their city was wired into the circuits of capital.

During a recent retreat here at Chapel Hill, planning faculty conducted a brainstorming session in which each professor — including me — was asked to list, anonymously, some of the major issues and concerns facing the profession today. These lists were then collected and transcribed on the whiteboard. All the expected themes were there — sustainability and global warming, equity and justice, peak oil, immigration, urban sprawl and public health, retrofitting suburbia, and so on. But also on the board appeared, like a sacrilegious graffito, the words “Trivial Profession.” 1 When we voted to rank the listed items in order of importance, “Trivial Profession” was placed — lo and behold — close to the top. This surprised and alarmed a number of us. Here were members of one of the finest planning faculties in America, at one of the most respected programs in the world, suggesting that their chosen field was minor and irrelevant.

Ten urbanist video games that aren’t Sim City

Sim City may have inspired an entire generation of urban planners — but these games have perfected the art of city-building simulation.

Planning students today need a more robust suite of skills and expertise than we are currently providing — and than may even be possible in the framework of the two-year graduate curriculum. 15 Planners today need not a close-up lens or a wide-angle lens but a wide-angle zoom lens. They need to be able to see the big picture as well as the parts close up; and even if not trained to design the parts themselves, they need to know how all those parts fit together. They need, as Jerold Kayden has put it, to “understand, analyze, and influence the variety of forces — social, economic, cultural, legal, political, ecological, technological, aesthetic, and so forth — shaping the built environment.” 16 This means that in addition to being taught courses in economics and law and governance, students should be trained to be keen observers of the urban landscapes about them, to be able to decipher the riddles of architectural style and substance, to have a working knowledge of the historical development of places and patterns on the land. They should understand how the physical infrastructure of a city works — the mechanics of transportation and utility systems, sewerage and water supply. They should know the fundamentals of ecology and the natural systems of a place, be able to read a site and its landform and vegetation, know that a great spreading maple in the middle of a stand of pines once stood alone in an open pasture. They need to know the basics of impact analysis and be able to assess the implications of a proposed development on traffic, water quality and a city’s carbon footprint. And while they cannot master all of site engineering, they should be competent site analysts and — more important — be fluent in assessing the site plans of others. Such training would place competency in the shaping and stewardship of the built environment at the very center of the planning-education solar system. And about that good sun a multitude of bodies — planning specialties as we have long had them — could happily orbit.

We are far from this ideal today. Thomas Campanella, April 2011

Here’s some of the stuff I studied in a graduate program:

And the dichotomy?

The survey asked respondents three questions on how they viewed trade-offs related to dense development.

It also asked a few questions that he used as a proxy for the foundations of moral intuitionism. For instance, it asked whether respondents felt a strong sense of “national belonging,” which he used as a stand-in for how much they identified with feelings of in-group loyalty, which moral intuitionism identifies with conservatism. He used questions on religious identification and anti-immigrant sentiment similarly.

Lewis found that individuals who said they don’t really feel a sense of national pride were much more likely to say they’d like living in a small house with a small yard if it meant having a shorter commute. They likewise preferred mixed-use neighborhoods where they can walk to stores.

People who weren’t particularly religious, meanwhile, were more likely to favor small houses and yards, mixed-use neighborhoods, and “high-density” living.

And people who say they’d happily pay more for groceries if it meant keeping immigrants out of the country were significantly more likely to want to have big yards and houses, and they weren’t as interested as others in living in mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods.

In all, he ran nine regressions on the relationship between individual preferences on development and the proxies for moral intuitions, and seven of them supported his hypothesis that people with conservative moral impulses are more likely to dislike the idea of urban living.

Ultimately, his study suggests some preliminary support for his idea that residents’ views on land use and development patterns aren’t ideological, they’re emotional.

And it could help explain why, despite the seemingly centrist appeal of smart growth – for liberals, social equity and environmental sustainability, for conservatives, economic opportunity and a less intrusive government – the urbanist movement has been disproportionately embraced by liberals.

So LISTEN to our talk, which covered many interesting and philosophically grounded concepts and ideas.

Continuing that old-time religion of “planning, land use planning, to remove all evidence of Indians.”

Our ancestors brought with them deep connections to more than 20 million acres of ancestral territory combined, including all of Western Oregon from the summit of the Cascade mountains to the Pacific and extending into what’s now SW Washington State and northern California. Our ancestors signed many treaties with the United States. We were promised the 1.1 million acres Siletz Reservation as our permanent home, but following massive reservation reductions Congress passed the Western Oregon Termination Act in 1954 (took effect in 1956), and our federally recognized status as a tribe was also taken. In 1977 our lobbying of Congress to repeal our Termination was successful, and we became the second formerly Terminated Tribe to regain federal recognition as a Tribe.

[The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians currently manage over 16,000 acres of land, with reports varying between 15,615 and 16,655 acres in the Oregon Coast Range. This includes approximately 3,600 to 4,010 acres of reservation land in Lincoln County and thousands of acres of timberland. The tribe also recently purchased over 2,000 acres near Medford in early 2025.]

The End of Wars & Removal

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The action of the President in creating the Coast (Siletz) Reservation did nothing to quell those in the mining camps and settlements screaming for the complete “extermination” of our people. In fact, the last portion of the Rogue River Wars was started by a totally unjustified and very bloody attack on one of our villages in the Rogue Valley, just prior to the creation of the Coast (Siletz) Reservation. As word came to our people on the Table Rock Reservation about the attack, a portion of our people went to Fort Lane, and pled for protection from the Army. The majority however, fled down-river into the Rogue Canyon, attacking the settlers who were not friendly to our people along the way. Open warfare then raged through the end of 1855 and into the first half of 1856.

In the actual state of emergency that existed when word came that the Coast Reservation had been established, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Joel Palmer knew there had to be some quick action. With that in mind, Palmer designated a temporary camp to be established on the south fork of the Yamhill River (Grand Ronde). He believed that removal to the Coast Reservation before the Siletz Agency buildings had been established and fields fenced & plowed, would be a complete disaster. There was also a good deal of uncertainty about the best way to get supplies to the future Siletz Agency. In preparation for arrival of much of the native population of western Oregon, the United States bought the improvements on lands occupied by a couple of settlers on the South Yamhill River.

In January 1856, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Joel Palmer organized a removal of the Umpquas, Kalapuyas and Molallas to the temporary camp on the south fork of the Yamhill River. In late February 1856, the coastal tribes on and near the Rogue River rallied with the inland tribes to chase the miners into their fortified positions at Gold Beach, Port Orford and other locations. However, the re-taking of the coast would be short lived.

At about the same time as the attack on Gold Beach, Palmer organized the removal of our people who had been staying at Fort Lane since the attack in October 1855. As the group was moving out to head north over the snowy passes, a miner came riding up and shot one of our men in the back, killing him. This nearly ended any hopes of an orderly removal, especially with open threats being issued by settlers along the travel route, that they would kill any Indians passing on their way to the reservation, along with any white men that were with them.

It was apparent by this point, that it would be impossible for the US Army even to control the more reckless elements in the miner and settler populations. This is when Palmer wrote the letter mentioned in the last article which stated that the Table Rock Reservation could not be considered for a permanent reservation, that the miners would never leave our people alone there and that the Rogue Valley Tribes would have to remove to Siletz also. Several times it was declared that the warfare could have ended in early 1855, but for the interference and actions of the “volunteers” (miners/wannabe soldiers) which were calculated to prolong the war. The war was clearly thought of as a monetary boon by many which made it even easier to promote “clearing the country of Indians”.

The correspondence between Superintendent Joel Palmer and General Wool, Commander of the Pacific Division during this period is full of disgust for the volunteers. Neither Palmer nor Wool had any respect for the motives or methods of the volunteers. The volunteers constantly foiled any chance for peace talks. As our people were coming in for the peace talks at Big Bend, the volunteers were busy ambushing as many of us as they could. It was their meddling that made our people afraid that the peace talks were going to be one big ambush, and swung the vote towards a battle instead.

At the end of the Battle at Big Bend, the majority of the people were willing to give up resisting removal. Tyee John’s Band along with the Pistol Rivers and Chetco people were among the last to surrender. Tyee John finally gave up at the end of June 1856, on the headwaters of Rinehart Creek, having been chased many miles from his home country. Many small groups and individuals hid out as long as they could, but many were hunted down and shot as “hostiles”.

In the Summer months of 1856, two groups of approximately 600 700 each were loaded on the deck of the steam ship “Columbia” at port Orford and taken up the coast to the Columbia River. From there the ship went up the Columbia to Portland. The rest of the trip up the Willamette & Yamhill Rivers to the temporary camp at Grand Ronde was on other boats & barges, and by foot. All of the people removed after these two ship loads were marched up the coast. Many being taken directly to Yaquina Bay (where the Army built a blockhouse), to Salmon River or the Siletz Valley (as a blockhouse and other Siletz Agency facilities were built).

The way that the Siletz Agency buildings were established, give a person the idea that there was confusion from the start and no wonder that the history of the reservation and its status as a permanent reservation came into question. Of course there is all of the confusion about establishing a temporary camp, & by this time Palmer was actually promoting the idea that the Coast Reservation be extended to include the temporary camp. The first building at the new Siletz Agency was the requisite Army blockhouse. It was first constructed in 1856 above (what’s now) Logsden on a low hill near Mill Creek. Soon it was found not to be the most ideal location and the logs were dismantled and floated down to Siletz and somehow dragged up to what we now lovingly refer to as Government Hill. Phil Sheridan and his crew built a “road” from Ft. Hoskins to the Agency and actually brought a wagon over it, but the wagon wasn’t worth much by the time it arrived on this end. The first shipment of supplies to the reservation included the year’s supply of flour and other staples. It wrecked on Siletz Bay and virtually the whole cargo was lost & the government had no other funds to purchase more supplies with. In May of 1857 nearly all of the coastal people and two thirds of the Rogue Rivers and Cow Creek people were brought to Siletz Agency from the temporary camp at Grand Ronde. Approximately a month later, an Executive Order was signed by President James Buchanon that instead of permanently attaching the temporary camp to the Coast (Siletz) Reservation, established the Grand Ronde Reservation as a separate (but bordering) reservation.

Many of our ancestors decided to return to their old homes where they knew they could find acorns and other foods not found at Siletz. Usually those ones were doomed to make the long walk again back to Siletz and sometimes several times they made the same walk, as the soldiers made their periodic sweeps through SW Oregon, looking for runaways. One group of about 75 people who hid out and didn’t come to the reservation at first was forced by starvation out of the hills down-river from Grants Pass in spring of 1857. The settlers supposedly thinking them still “hostile” went out and shot all the men (about 10) & penned up the surviving women and children until the Agent could send the soldiers down to march them to Siletz.

Yes those early reservation days were full of hard times, but our people were strong enough that some survived so that we could be here today.

Ahh, so much potential, so much lack of collective enlightenment.

cradle to cradle remaking the way we make things is a transformative concept that is reshaping industries, influencing design philosophies, and inspiring a shift toward sustainability in manufacturing and consumption. At its core, this approach challenges traditional linear models of production—where resources are extracted, used, and discarded—by advocating for a regenerative cycle that mimics nature’s own processes. The cradle to cradle (C2C) philosophy promotes the idea that products should be designed with their entire lifecycle in mind, ensuring that materials can be perpetually reused, repurposed, or safely returned to the environment. As the urgency to address environmental issues grows, the cradle to cradle framework serves as a blueprint for creating a circular economy that benefits both society and the planet.

A pause here with Derrick Jensen: Death and Rebirth (p. 324)

From chapter “A Time of Sleeping”

I don’t believe it would have been possible for me to undergo a meaningful death and rebirth had I been working a wage job. There would not have been time. No one expects a caterpillar to spin a cocoon, pop in for ten minutes, then emerge a butterfly, and at least my mother understood it would take me months or years to recover even physically from my episode of Crohn’s disease, yet not many of us are willing or able to make the time necessary to begin asking the right questions about who we are, what we love, what we fear, and what we’re doing to each other, much less answering these questions, and much much less living them.

I don’t always know what the right questions are; I only know that they reside in my body, and that in order to discover them—or better, remember—I need to be still. In that sense the disease did me an immense favor; had I at any time been tempted by poverty, rampant deficit spending, and social pressure to get a job, my body would have killed me.

At the time, through my twenties, I did not know what was right, only what was wrong, and I didn’t know what I wanted, only what I didn’t want. I didn’t know how to live, only how not to live. I knew a job wasn’t what I wanted or needed.

We did not evolve working for others forty hours or more per week. We evolved, and one need only look at nonhumans or at remaining indigenous peoples to see this is so, spending a great deal of time doing not much of anything (or once again in the lingo of bee research, “loafing”). As the Dane Frederick Andersen Bolling said of the Khoikhoi of South Africa, “They find it strange that we, the Christians, work, and they say, that we are all mortal, that we gain nothing from our toil, but at the end are thrown underground, so that all we have done is in vain.” Another colonist noted of these same people that “their contempt for riches is in reality nothing but their hatred of work,” and a third remarked that “the principle work of the men is to laze about.”

Had I encountered these comments in my twenties, they would have encouraged me by helping to blunt the voice inside: What’s the matter? Lazy?Looking back, I can put a positive spin on my activities—or lack thereof—of those years by calling it a period of pupation, or saying I was undergoing a death and rebirth, or calling it my own forty days in the wilderness.

But the truth is that for the next few years, living first in Nevada and later in Idaho, I didn’t actually do much of anything. I felt guilty about this, but I couldn’t find anything to do that interested me more than nothing. I certainly wasn’t going to go back to physics, or to any other means of selling my hours. I called myself a writer, but didn’t write much: what was I going to write? I didn’t have anything to say, because I didn’t know who I was. To discover that takes long, slow, uninterrupted time. Time enough to get bored, and then to move beyond boredom, which is really just another screen to deflect our attention away from the arduous yet delightful, joyous though painful process of allowing ourselves the stillness to remember what we feel and to begin assuming responsibility for our lives.

Nearly every day I walked the railroad tracks to the Humboldt River, then climbed down to the concrete footing of a bridge. There I sat in the sunlight and read, or more often just watched the river. I walked the banks, and in spring saw a mother bird feign a broken wing to distract me from her nest. I saw beetles crawling in and out of a beaver dead on the tracks, and I saw the beaver’s teeth, orange as carrots. I saw plenty of trains.

Albert Einstein once observed that “the significant problems of the world cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness at which they were created.” I think he’s right. I believe Carl Jung was onto much the same thing when he wrote, “All the greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally insoluble. . . . They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This ‘outgrowing’ proved on further investigation to require a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest appeared on the patient’s horizon, and through this broadening of his or her outlook the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms but faded when confronted with a new and stronger life urge.”

The first statement points out to me why there must always be a death for there to be a meaningful transition—one that sticks. We do not easily give up our acquired ways of being, even when they’re killing us. Although when I sat on the couch as a child, or lay in bed feeling my father’s flesh against mine, it had been unspeakably crucial for me to control my emotions and body, I could not later quit manifesting that same control until it had very nearly killed me. That level of consciousness had to play itself out to the end, or rather to an end. Only when that mindset had, like a plant in a too-small pot, exhausted its own possibilities did I begin casting about for another way to be; only when I no longer had any real choice, far past the time when what little choice there was—death or change—had become all-too-painfully obvious, did I begin to reject the earlier mindset. This is why I don’t think our culture will stop before the world has been impoverished beyond our most horrifying imaginations.

The second statement reveals to me why the period of hibernation takes so long. We do not stand in front of a tree, shouting, “Grow, damn you, grow!” and we recognize the futility of wishing a broken foot to heal in a day. But in myself and in so many of my friends I’ve encountered an unwillingness to acknowledge that even having sloughed off an old level of consciousness, it takes a long time to grow a new one.

It could be argued that my own railing against the culture exhibits the same blindness to process as that of a person yelling at a broken foot: the culture is broken, and shouting ain’t gonna fix it. But there are two differences.

The first is that if a person continues to pretend against all evidence that his foot is not broken, he may re-break it, as I did high jumping. Had I allowed my foot to heal through the fall during my last year jumping, I could have jumped in the spring. I may even have fulfilled my potential as a jumper. I will never know. It might have been appropriate for my coach just that once to yell at me. Not at my foot, but at me for not listening to my foot.

The second difference is that there is a distinction to be made between shouting from frustration, and shouting because a house is being destroyed and no one is paying attention. Another way to say this is that given enough time—perhaps ten thousand years—even my father could probably heal, but what about the people whose souls he murders in the meantime? And what about the secondary damage caused by those whose own destructiveness had its genesis in the violence he did to them: my siblings, for example, when they pass on damage to their children. In contrast to the Buddhists on the panel who blew the question about compassion, my loyalty lies with the innocent, and I need to do whatever I can to stop the damage.

It’s a fine line to walk, that of waiting for the arrival of understanding—for kairos—and the need for action. I am active now. In my twenties I was not. I believe my present level of energy is a result of having fallen deeply into my lethargy then. Had there been no time of sleep, there could not now be this time of awakening, but instead I would still be as I was before, turning most of my energy inward to maintain the imprisonment of my own emotions.

I need to now step away from much of what I’ve just been saying. To believe for a moment that what I was doing in Nevada and after constituted “lazing about,” or “inaction,” makes plain another form of silencing, once again of the unseen. Hidden here is the absurd presumption that to flip burgers or repair televisions is more important and difficult than to shake off the effects of a coercive upbringing and education, and insofar as possible to vomit out the internalized voices of a coercive and deeply violent culture. This is but one more way we value production over life.

Why not, Ishmael, listen to Derrick:

“What if the point of life has nothing to do with the creation of an ever-expanding region of control? What if the point is not to keep at bay all those people, beings, objects and emotions that we so needlessly fear? What if the point instead is to let go of that control? What if the point of life, the primary reason for existence, is to lie naked with your lover in a shady grove of trees? What if the point is to taste each other’s sweat and feel the delicate pressure of finger on chest, thigh on thigh, lip on cheek? What if the point is to stop, then, in your slow movements together, and listen to the birdsong, to watch the dragonflies hover, to look at your lover’s face, then up at the undersides of leaves moving together in the breeze? What if the point is to invite these others into your movement, to bring trees, wind, grass, dragonflies into your family and in so doing abandon any attempt to control them? What if the point all along has been to get along, to relate, to experience things on their own terms? What if the point is to feel joy when joyous, love when loving, anger when angry, thoughtful when full of thought? What if the point from the beginning has been to simply be?”

― Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words

“Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don’t, people with guns come and force us to pay. That’s violent.”

― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

“Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.”

― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

“To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There’s no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there’s a sense in which it doesn’t matter that these people’s dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I — or does anyone else — have to destroy them.



At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?”

― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

“It’s no wonder we don’t defend the land where we live. We don’t live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.”

― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance

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